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stopped a ball with his head and was and Agler out of practice. April—Charles Becker, instead of rounding into form, sprung an attack of general debility and was finally put on ineligible list. April—Some of the players started joy-riding and went to pieces in con sequence. April 26—Harry 3ai|ey sprained foot severely and will be out of game for two weeks or so. April 27—Wally Smith sprained b ;k so severely that fielding is diffi- c .it. * * • THERE isn’t time or space to con- L elder the ill-luck that has hap pened in the games themselves—the bad breaks that have made all but impossible for the Crackers to win. At least three games the locals los* to Nashville, t wo there and one here, were unlucky ones. One lucky break for the Vols gave then) the game. * * • Y\7F talked it over with Bill Smith vv before he left. “If we can stay up around the top with the luck breaking against us what do you suppose we’ll do when it turns?” he asked. We told him. “Sure we will,” rejoined Bill, “anti we'll win it easy. But you better believe that any club that wins a pennant in this league is going to need a lot of luck. There was never one won without it.” * * * THE fans mignt as well harden * themselves for a slump in the Crackers’ standing during the tough three weeks that lie ahead. Any time a team ventures southward for nine teen games it can count on losing a dozen or fifteen of them. This year Mobile and Montgomery are calculated to furnish trouble for any ball club. New Orleans looks weak but it always took a miracle for one of Bill Smith’s teams to win in Pelicanville. The only real pie appears to be Memphis. The Crackers are lucky in getting at Birmingham now instead of later. Bob Baugh. President of the Baron 1 Hub. has gone to Chicago and when he comes back lie is pretty likely to bring some ball players with iiim. Two weeks from now will find the Barons a vastly more dangerous club than they are now. At that the < 'rackers are likely to find Moles- worth’s men troublesome enough be fore the series ends. * * * THE Crackers’ sally southward x would be troublesome enough un der any circumstances but with Har ry Bailey out of it, and the pitching staff extremely uncertain and ineffi cient it looks particularly tough. The absence of a hitter like Bailey is likely to cost the club three or four games in the course of a 19-game trip. Then Smith must try out his wab bling hurlers—Weaver and Bau.se- wein, in order to arrive at a decision about them. Soon he must know whether he will keep them or fire them. And any time you try out a sore-armed pitcher you are taking a chance. * * * 'THE Crackers can lose 15 out of the 1 next 19 games without doing any irreparable damage. The season is young yet. Any team that has Ag ler. Alperman and Smith in the in- ' eld and Bailey, Welchonce and Long . . the outfield is going to make con- fcidt ruble fuss in the Southern League —especially if Bill Smith manages it. Billy Smith Shifts Batting Order o © © o o o © Wally Smith May Go to Shortstop Empire State League Opens Season To-day Six Teams to Get Into Action—Great Interest Centers in Attend ance Trophy. Tilt Empire State League, organ ized at Waycross last Nov*-**iber, opens its season this afternoon. Advance dope from the six cities reports great enthusiasm, and there will be record-breaking crowds in the three cities whore games are sched uled. Clear, warm weather is prom ised for the opening. Great interest centers in the race for the attendance trophy of the No effort wii! be spared by any of the cities to land the trophy for its team. The three visiting cities in to-day's opening will be the home towns May 5. The season will close August 12. The schedule is so arranged that every city will have a game on the Fourth of July, the operation of some special trains making it possible for the teams to play in one city in the morning and another in the afternoon. The schedule for to-day: Waycross at Brunswick. Amerlcus at Cordele. Thomasville at Valdosta. WHITE . A SELL MOGRIDGE. CHICAGO, May 1 -“Lefty” Mug- ridge yesterday was sold to the Min neapolis club of the American Asso- . t jon by th.- White Sox. President ctnvskev announced the sale just 1(e f,, re game time and Mogridge w : »; „. lV p for Indianapolis to-night to jor.i Millers. The good showing »t G Russel!, southpaw, was r»- . v he departure of Mog- By Joe Agler. M anager smith will choose Bauswein or Weaver to hurl to-day’s game. Granam will catch. For the Barons I look for "Big Bill" Prougli on the mound and Dilger behind the bat. We expect to have Bisland in the game to-day. Bill Smith will use him at short or third. He hasn't decided which. There is a chance that he will shift Wally Smith over to short and use Bisland at third. It seems likely that Williams will be benched. Smith Makes Switch. Bill Smith has resorted to his old tactics and. as usual when the club is losing, he has changed the batting or der. He will lead off now with Tommy Long. I'll hit second. Alperman third, Smith fourth and Welchonce fifth. The rest of the line-up will be unchanged until Bailey gets back In the game. We certainly miss Bailey. We need his hitting and we are all pulling for him to get back in the line-up The team Isn’t a bit discouraged. We all figure that luck will begin breaking for us instead of against us pretty soon. It Is sure tough for the team* to go bad on hitting the same time the pitch ers take A slump. By and by the luck will break for us. Then watch us grow. Muster Has Bad Inning. Musser hurled a great game of ball yesterday, except in one inning. In the fourth he was hit hard, and this, com bined with his error, put us.to the bad. Foxen twirled a great game against us and we couldn’t begin to solve his delivery. Watch out for us to-day. We are go ing to try to get the jinx on the run. CHRISTY MATHEWSOYS! BIG llj LEAGUE GOSSIP N EW YORK, Wednesday, May 1.—“There's one club we’ll beat out anyway—the Cubs.” So "Joe” Tinker declared himself before the season opened, when he assumed charge of the Cincinnati team. The Intense rivalry existing between Messrs. Evers and Tinker, now National Eeague managers, is not altogether unknown to the public. When “Joe” jumped into the chair at Cincinnati recently, he had just one thing in mind, and that was to beat out Evers. So far in the race, the Cubs have been the big surprise to both the players and the fans j of the country. It was generally figured the Chicago <'1111) would be much weaker than it was last year, tie- cause most observers did not believe Evers, with his excitable temperament, would hold up as a manager and ; because it was not thought lie had any pitching staff. “Johnny” 1ms done a lot to correct these impressions since the National league race opened. The Cubs DIXIE CLEAN-UP MEN MOSTLY OUTFIELDERS U PSETTING precedent and stand ing the alleged logic of the situation on its bally head the Southern League clubs of 1913 boast six lead-off men who are infielders and only two who are outfielders. In the major leagues what is re garded as the normal situation ex ists. Thirteen out of sixteen lead-off men are outfielders. But not so wli.li the Southern. It’s all infielders In the Dixie circuit. Three of the South ern lead-off men are second base men, two are first basemen. The two exceptions to the rule in t’ne Southern are Daley, of the Vois, and Bagby, of Montgomery. Here is the list in the Southern. Club. Lead-off Man. Position Atlanta Agler first base Nashville Daley left field Montgomery . . . .Bagby. . center fiRd New' Orleans ...Clancy., second base Mobile Stock shortstop Memphis .. . . Shanley. . second base Birmingham . .Marcan.. second base Chattanooga ...Coyle.... first base The clean-up men of the Southern include three infielders and five out fielders. Here is the list: Atlanta. Bailey; Nashville, Perry; Montgom ery, Elwert; New Orleans, Green; Mobile. Jacobson: Memphis. Schweit zer; Chattanooga. Elberfeld; Birm ingham, McBride. Here is the list of clean-up men in the big leagues: Pittsburg, Wagner; Cincinnati, Hoblitzell; Chicago. Zimmerman; S f Louis, Konetchy; Brooklyn, Wheat; New York, Doyle; Philadelphia, Lud- erus; Boston. Sweeney. American League. Cleveland, Jackson; Chicago, Collins; Boston. Lewis; Athletics. Baker; Washington, Gandil; New York, Chance or Cree; St. Louit, Pratt; Detroit, Crawford. have been playing tough teams—the | Pirates being one of the best clubs in the league—yet “Johnny” has crowded his team right up to the top in the standing. It is my opinion that the Cubs are going to l>e strong contenders for the National League pennant this season, and, if Wagner fails to come around into form so that he is fit for action, the Chicago club will be the one for the Giants to beat instead of Pitts burg. This prediction may Ix» rather pre mature, because of the extreme youth of the season, but, from looking at the box scores, it is evident Evers is having better luck with his pitchers than was expected. Cheney has been whirling along, and has dropped indications he will enjoy a good year. Lavender will not be a top-notclier, but he should win a whole lot of games for the club. Evers also seems to have a pretty good man in Humph ries, who set the Pirates down the other day, working against Camnitz,. rated as one of the best among the Pittsburg pitchers. • * * O N the other hand. Tinker lias failed to spurt ns he intended. On paper, his pitching staff looks to lie stronger than Evers’, with two headliners like Benton and Suggs, but they have failed to get away. Tinker does not appear to have his team working smoothly, while Evers, who WHITE AND MURPHY MAY CLASH IN GOTHAM RING CHICAGO, May 1.—Charlie White, the local whirlwind, who recently stopped Joe Thomas at New Orleans in eight rounds, will probably meet Harlem Tommy Murphy in a 10- round bout at New York. Bill Gibson, matchmaker of th 1 ; Garden Athletic Club, New York, yes terday wired Nate Lewis, manager of White, offering him the match and Lewis lost no time in Accepting. It is likely that the match will be closed to-morrow. VANDY VS. MERCER. MACON, GA.. May 1.—Vand^bitt and Mercer clas'h here to-day v; the first of a two-game series. The two teams meet again to-morrow. This is the first time the Vanderbilt team has been seen here in several seasons. SMITH HANDS KERNAN UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE BIRMINGHAM, ALA., May 1.—With the arrival of Bisland, Jack Kernan. the Chicago youngster, was given his unconditional release by Bill Smith yes terday and sent back to Atlanta, This cuts the Atlanta Club down to fourteen men. Harry Bailey, who is injured, be ing left in Atlanta. WELLS AND CARPENTER SIGN FOR 20-ROUND BOUT PARIS. May 1.—Bombardier Wells, the English heavyweight, and George Carpentier, the French cham pion. yesterday signed articles fo; a 20-round contest in this city on June 28. The contest takes place on the eve of the Grand Prlx races, and is substituted for the Al Palzer-Jack Johnson match, which was called off a few weeks ago because Johnson failed to post a forfeit. No Hit Games In The Major Leagues NATIONAL LEAGUE. 1876. July 15—Bradley: St. Louis vs. Hartford. 1*80. July 12 ‘Richmond; Worcester vs. Cleveland. July 17 ‘Ward: Providence vs. Buffalo. August 19—Corcoran: Chicago vs. Buffalo. August 20--Galvin; Buffalo va. Worcester. 1882. September 20—Corcoran: Chicago vs. Worcester 1SH3. July 25—Radboume: Providence vs Cleveland. September 13 Dailey; Cleveland vs. Phila delphia. 1884. June 27—Corcoran; Chicago va. Providence. August 4—Galvin; Buffalo V9. Detroit. 1885. July 27—Clarkson; Chicago vs. Providence. August 29—Ferguson; Philadelphia vs. Provi dence. 1891. June 22- Lovett; Brooklyn vs. New York. July 31 Rusle: New York vs. Brooklyn. 1892. Aug.ist 8- Htivctts; Boston v*. Brooklyn. August 22 Sanders; IiouisvUle vs. Baltimore. V'jgust 15—Jones; Cincinnati vs. Pittsburg. 1893. August 16 Hawke: Baltimore vs. Washington. 1897 September 18 Young; Cleveland vs. Cincinnati. 1893. April 22- -Hughes; Baltimore Vs. Boston. April 22- Breitenstein; Cincinnati vs. Pittsburg -lulj 8—Donahue: Philadelphia Vs. Boston. \ugust 21 Thornton: Chicago vs. Brooklyn. 1899. Ala -5 Pbllltpe: Louisville vs. New Toih. Xuzust 6—Willis; Boston vk. Washington. 190u. July 12 Hahn; Cincinnati rs. 1‘ldladelphla. ** N' j man reached first base. I9vl July 15— Mathewson; New York vs. St. Louis. 1903. September 18—Frazer; Philadelphia va. Chicago. 190G. May 1—Luah: Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn .Toly 20- Eason; Brooklyn vs. St. I-ouls. May 8—Pfeffer; Boston vs. Cincinnati. 1907. September 20 Maddox; Pittsburg vs. Brooklyn. 1908. July 4 (A. M.) -Wilts*; New York vs. Phila delphia (10 Innings). September 5—Rucker; Brooklyn vs. Boston. 1912. September 6—Tesreau; New York vs. Philadel phia. AMERICAN LEAGUE. 1902. September 20—Callahan; Chicago vs. Detroit. 1904. May -*Young; Boston vs. Philadelphia. August 17 TannehlH: Boston vs. Chicago. 1905. July 22 Henley; Athletics vs. St. I.ouia September 6—K. Smith; Chicago vs. Detroit. September 27- Dlnten: Boston vs. Chicago. 1908. June 30 Young; Boston vs. New York. September 18 Hlmadt*; Cleveland vs. Boston. September 20 F. Smith; Chicago vs. Athletics. October 2- *Joas; Cleveland vs. Chicago. 1910. April 2d- Joss; Cleveland vs. Chicago. Ala - , 12— Bender: Philadelphia v*. Cleveland. 1911. July 29—Wood: Boston v«. S'. L- al?. August 27—Walsh: Chicago vs. Bo’.t'.i 1912. Ju'.j 7 Mullen; Dtlroi? vs. S'. Louis. August Sit-—Hamilton; Louis v. : . Detroit. xvas supposed to encounter consider able irritation, lias ills club going along very nicely. The secret of this Chicago success came to me from a player iu the Na tional League the other day. All the Cubs honestly believe they can grab the world’s series money ibis year, and every man on the team is pulling hard and doing his best. There is also a report that bonuses were plentifully attached to the con tracts on file Chicago club last win ter, because Charles W. Murphy real ized lie was fighting for Ids baseball life in Chicago after encountering all adverse criticism he met when lie let Chance go. Bonus clauses are great inspirers. Bresnahnn is helping Evers in handling the twirlers. and it is to his coaching that many attribute the good showing of the pitching staff to date. The infield is naturally strong, with ltridwell plugging up comfortably the hole that it was thought Tinker would leave at short stop. .Safer is a little better this season than he was last, although he was a very good fielding first basemuu then. Ilis hitting has im proved. So far, the duties of managing have not hurt Evers’ individual play. He is booming along in grand style at second. Zimmerman is bound to is- a hard-hitter, but the chances are lie will not bat as freely tills year as lie did last, because he went through an unusually good season and a lucky one, when his hitting is considered. * • • T HE outfield bus developed a world of strength. Mitchell, who acted last year in Cincinnati as if lie had begun to fade, seems to have improved with the change of atmosphere, as players frequently do, and is pounding the pill up with the best of them. Schulte has already established himself among National league pitchers ns a hitter, and Clymer, who is no spring chicken so far as age goes, is smashing the hall hard. The apparent weak department of the Cub team was the pitching staff, and that has developed unexpected strength. How long these twirlers will continue in top form is proble matical, of course; but I look on the Cubs as a strong pennant possibility in the National League. If Evers can keep the team going along in pretty good shape, the play ers will stick together and the fans stick by it. If the club cracks wide open and the players will get fighting and bickering among themselves the team will Ik- gone as a champion ship contender. Base ball followers love a winner, and, in spite of the feeling in Chicago over the Chance incident, they will stick as long as Evers keeps winning. And there is no reason why he should not make a good showing. (Copyright, -ISIS, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip The Memphis papers are telling Presi dent Coleman to get a ball club or close the park. To date he has done neither. • • * Jacksonville recently made 18 hits in one game, eight of them for extra bases, and yet lost. * • * In this famous contest, Melchoir, the Jacksonville first baseman, made six hits for seven bases and scored three runs. • • • Phil Wells succeeded Harry Kunkle as manager at Albany. * • • In answer to the Boston Globe’s pertinent question, “Where does a noise go?’’ we submit that Buck Weaver, who was a Very Loud Noise a month ago has gone on the blink—which accounts lor one at least. * * * Everybody is falling over each other to deny that any money has been raised to finance a St. Louis club in the Federal League. They have a franchise and an option on a park. They are now await ing the organization of a league. * • • Ed Koney has made one error out of 135 chances since the season started. That gives him an average of .993. • * * Koney’s mark is pretty good. But Harry Bussey in 1902 went a whole sea son as first baseman of the Nashville club with a higher average and only 16 errors for the season. * * • Jimmy Lavender is still suffering with a hard’ cold, and can’t seem to get right. . . . Cincinnati folks sav that next year the box scores will be reading. "Um pires. O’Day and Tinker." • * • If all ball clubs are losing money, as Locke says, why the dickens do they keep sticking at it? • * * Howard Shanks was nearly turned loose by the Senators in the spring, i Now he Is hitting like a lunatic. • • . Walter Johnson got through a recent ball game with 88 thrown balls. • * * The American League pitchers face j the worst two-gun combinations that i baseball ever saw Jackson L&joie, | Cobb-Crawfurd and Collins-Baker. * * * i If they only played ball twice a week j in the American League. «’Iark Grif- Jliih ami Walter Johnson would win 1 c t’ery pennant. RINGSIDE NEWS Scotty Montieth, manager of Dundee, has already started after a return match for his protege. Montieth says Dundee Is sure to heat Kilbane if they ever meet again, as the added experl ence his boy gained by fighting the champion a draw is bound to help him in a return contest. • • • In the meantime, Montieth will beat it back to New York to gather some of the easy dough for ten-round fights. * • • Leo Houck's first battle under Jack McGulgan's management will be against George "Knockout" Brown or Frank Klaus. Houck is confident he can beat Engle’s champion or the Greek demon. * • • We have discovered the reason for Knockout Brown’s defeat at the hands of Bud Anderson on the coast. It was due to the climate, and it must be, for Dumb Dan, his manager, says so. • # « Eddie McGoorty and Jimmy Clabby have completed training for their ten round scrap at Denver to-morrow night. Denver promoters are billing the bout as a championship affair. How about Frank Klaus and Jack Dillon? • * • Gus Christie, the Milwaukee middle weight, will take on Walter Monahan in a six-round bout at Pittsburg on May 8. Christie was to have met George Chip, but Monahan was substituted The winner of this bout will meet Chip at some later date. * • ,• Martin Burns and Ted Carpenter will swing the padded mitts in a scheduled ten-round fray at Burlington, Wis., to night. Both are burly white hopes. • • * Butte. Mont., is after Art Stewart, the tough Hammond. Ind . lightweight, to meet either Ray Temple or Jimmy Duffy. Larney Lichtenstein, manager of Stewart, expects to close the match any day. * • • Jimmy Grant, Meyer Pries. Kid Young. Spider Britt and George Mason are simply crying for a chance to get into action. Grant is the Chicago boy. who recently stopped Britt and held Young to a draw. He is one of the most promising bantams seen around here in some time. George Gaelelies is backing Grant. * * * Several good bouts are billed for to night: Kid Williams vs. Charley Ledoux. ten rounds, New York; Arthur Pelky vs Carl Morris, fifteen rounds. Calgary, Albert.t: Patsy Drouillard vs. .lark White, fifteen rounds, Calgary, Alberta. Mike Gibbons vs. Lave Kafro, ter. rounds. Eau Claire, Wis. * * * Matty McCuc, the Racine sensation. Is being called a second Terry McGov ern by Chicago fight critics. Ten straight knockouts look pretty good for the Racine boy. • * • Phil Brock and Milburn Saylor are down to hard work for their ten-round tussle at Cincinnati Monday. • * * Charlie White is a much sought aftef boxer these days. New York wants White to box Murphy; Milwaukee is after a McCue-White bout, while New Orleans wants Charlie to meet Freddie Welsh. • * * Tom Carey has simply eliminated Ad Wolgast from a title match. McOarey is now looking forward t<> a Ritchie- Rlvers go July 4. with a chance of Leach Cross or Tommy Murphy slipping in at the last minute. * • • Nothing has been heard of lately from Packey McFarland. The Chicago boy is probably enjoying the big purses he received for boxing Jack Britton, Matt Wells and Eddie Murphy. * * * Coast fans are now looking forward to the Mandot-Anderson tilt May 30. This will be Mandot’s last chance to prove whether he is still there or has gone back. • • • Abe Attell is still traveling over the country nicking up purses here and there. The former featherweight king won a decision at Baltimore Tuesday night over a youngster named Cheney. Baseball Catches On In Paris AUSTRALIAN NET STARS LEAVE FOR NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. -Hora.-e Rice and A. B. Jones, members of th * Australian Davis cup tennis team left for New York yesterday. Whateevr the outcome of the Da vis cup contests in New York, th men w’ill go on to England to com pete in the British championship tourneys at Wimbledon. They will return home by way of the Suez Ca nal. In practice play here the Austra lians have won the admiration of lo cal experts by their accurate placing. They have not taken kindly, however, to asphalt courts. Opium. Whiskey and Drug Habit* treated at Home or at Sanitarium. Book on subject Free. DR B. M. WOOLLEY, 24*N, Vlctoa Sanitarium, Atlanta, Georgia. © © Q © @ 0 O Tod Sloan Is Coaching a Team Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. P ARIS. FRANCE, May 1.—Paris has a half dozne baseball team 1 ? now playing the American na tional game and a league will be or ganized this summer. The game is spreading like wildfire through Fra nee. A couple of Americans, T. E Roosevelt and VV. H. Burgess really started the game, translating simple rules Into French and coaching the boys. Then other Americans volun teered their services as coaches. Tod Sloan, the famous jockey, organized a team at the Malson-Lafitte training stables, the members of his team be ing a mixture of French, English and American stable boys. Valentine Flood, formerly a Princeton Univer sity coach, has staked off a ball ground on the racing club’s grounds at Colombes and is giving his ser vices to teams playing there. The aristocratic Polo Club in the Bois has permitted another ball park to be laid out on the polo field, and it looks ms if Paris is to have a "polo grounds’’ as well as New York. American ar tists are mixing in and the Latin Quarter Is wearing a deserted look these spring days. Cafe proprietors are beginning to be alarmed lest the sport of sitting on their terraces and drinking queer drinks be forsaken for impromptu baseball parties. First Attempts Are Funny. It is amusing to watch the French boys throw from the outfield anl pitch. They can bat astonishingly well, but they throw 1 like girls. Tt requires the center fielder, shortstop, second baseman and pitcher to get :\ long drive to center back home. And when a pitches hits a batter, thv game stops for a time while apolo gies are made. Then, too, a Frenchman does so hate and i>erfectly loathe to soil h's clothing or even to disarrange it. A iso, the average Frenchman, though famous for his bravery when facing- cannon or musketry fire, is—well, he shrinks from taking a chance on barking his shin, scratching his hand or turning a Charley horse, and it can be imagined how ludicrous would be a game of baseball in which thought of these minor matters was put ahead of thoughts of the long end of a score. Such conditions do not make well for speed, and in several games played about Paris the ball had to be knocked a mile for a man to beat even the frenzied throw of the Par isian infielder or short fielder to the bag. Are Afraid to Slide. And it Is totally impossible to get it into their heads that sliding to bases is an important adjunct of tha game. A few days ago when Tod Sloan was drilling his team, he was impressing on the Frenchmen the im portance of getting to first and of stealing bases. Tod then went to bat, and with a final admonition t.» his pupils to learn speed in reaching bases by watching him closely he swatted the ball out and made for first. As luck would have it, the bail was quickly fielded and Tod slid into first. Instantly the tame broke ul. every player abandoning his post anl running to the prostrate former jock ey to pick him up and excitedly asked how he came to fall, and if he was much injured. j GIANTS' TOUR ROUND WORLD ALLARRANGED By Allen Sangree. N EW YORK, May 1.—The big stuff to-day is as follows: McGraw will play at Athens. No, friend fan. It will not be Ath ens, Ga., but Athens, Greece. And this* Giant-Athens game transpires on Christmas Day, according to the pub licity friend, who is arranging the big round-the-world tour for the Giants and White Sox after this season is over. They’re ail fanning about this round-the-world trip that has ju^t been arranged between McGraw and Comiskey. It is a grand thought. Doc Sargent, of Harvard, says that baseball will die a sudden death, be cause it jabs the soul of us mortal folks, and after a thrilling game no body knows what they are doing. More of this round-the-world trip, anon. If not, just fancy how the simple Hindoos and Greeks are going to be surprised. Yes. they will be surprised. Those guys were wise to baseball long before Toto, the champion monkey toseer in the Simian League, made trouble with One Eye Connolly. Now, while McGraw is busy fix ing up this orb circuit, let us get down to the facts directly ahead and see what Frank Chance can do this af ternoon by way of erecting a—and you want to pipe this term—chevaux de frise. /i WALSH HAS THE GRIPPE; MAY BE OUT UNTIL JUNE CHICAGO, May 1.—Bix Ed Walsh, prize twirler of the White Sox, whose condition thus far this season has been far from satisfactory to Mana ger Callahan, is ill of grippe. There is a possibility that the big fellow may be unable to get into the game before the first of June. MATHEWS GETS BIG OFFER FROM LYNCHBURG CLUB NEW ORLEANS. May 1.—Harry Matthews, former Pelican backstop, sent to the Beaumont Texas League • •lub several weeks ago by Manager Frank, but turned back because of a hitch in the optional agreement clause, has a splendid offer from the Lynchburg Federal League club, and in all probability will accept. 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