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And the reel is revolving at high speed. A very few more revolutions like chose of yesterday, and we will be flying off at the old familiar tan gent While collecting the fragments and collecting our breath between whiles, we assimilate the cold fact that Mo bile is exactly seven and one-half full games ahead of the Crackers. • • • T HERE Is a certain amount of mel ancholy satisfaction In the thought that at least our brave la-a-ads did not go to their doom un warned. We recall distinctly predicting that old Pepper Sauce would 9hake the ginger In this series. He did It. For the Infernal details, see a couple of box scores elsewhere on exhibition. • • • I T will be noted that the regular game finished on a 2 to 1 basis and bore other earmarks of an actual struggle. It was excessively tire some, but fairly well played. Som mers pitched airtight ball up to the ninth Inning, and came near unset tling the historic fame of Cuppy as the slowest pitcher, barring Rame- ses II, The ninth Inning produced the most promising situation of the day, so far as the Crackers were concerned. But the promise was not fulfilled. Needing two runs to tie, Blsland singled and Holland lived on an er ror. Calvo’s grounder forced Bts- !and at third and Dunn struck out terrifically. John D. Rockefeller Voss was summoned to debut in the pinch, and h1s sharp single to center scored Holland. Agler walked, and the as sembly succumbed to hysterics in platoons. Then Mannsh, subbing for Tommy Dong, hit to Graff near third and Voss was forced when Graff slid headfirst to the sack. • • • C*LLIOTT DENT was dented only once In the matter of runs, but he wasn’t up to his usual form, at that. He was hit rather freely, gave three bases on balls, and was saved | a number of times by brisk fielding g and some luck. Love pitched th® I Hghth and ninth innings and yielded 1 the other half of the Lookouts’ score I without giving them a hit. The other feature of the opening | game were the customary visit of J. ■i Pluvlus, who dropped in for a ten- f minute call, and the canning of Mr. E Elberfeld. Norman said nothing about calling the game until it had traveled five Innings. Then he became suddenly impressed with the cruelty of expos ing eighteen honest and hard-work ing hall players to the fury of the elements. '.'Mr. Elberfeld’s hands were in the ( ead at that time, which may have sSnulated his righteous fury. SLnvway, he made a speech to Umps Flfleld and was thrown out, after Which Mr. Flfleld called "time." But Mr. Elberfeld was not permitted to take any further active part in the proceedings. H AVING stalled as long as pos sible. it now becomes necessary to refer to the aftermath, which may be done quite comfortably by hold ing the camphor bottle in one hand - and operating the typewriter with the other. * • • A FTER the first inning, when Gil Price had all his luck and the big Pole all his trouble, the af fair was a besotted fizzle, from a local viewpoint. Two bases on balls and a sacri fice were wasted by the Lookouts, and then, with two out and Welchonce on second by a walk and a steal, Smith tripled and Bisland doubled. That made all the runs and two- thirds of the hits off the Giant-Killer w'ho was tighter than a No. 9 shoe on a No. 11 foot the rest of the way. * • * T HE rest of the way extended only to include the fifth inning, but that was where the trouble came in. The game didn’t get started until 5:07 o’clock—too late, by the way— when the sun made a dying kick and illumined the scene of the prospective slaughter for a few minutes before retiring. There was plenty of light for Mr. Price to be neatly slaughtered by, after which Mr. Voss came In for his, all the trouble in both innings oc curring after two were out. * * • F OUR runs to the Fritz, the Crack ers gave up trying to split the Pole and began pulling down the shades of night. The Chattanooga idea was to get five innings played before dark. The Cracker idea was diametrically opposite. The result was a ghastly farce. Elberfeld’s hands tried to get them selves put out in their half of the fifth, and they had an awful job. One sample will be enough. With one dead, Street bunted care fully Into Voss’ honds and trotted slowly to first. Voss stuttered with his mitts until the pill finally stuck to him and he had to do something with it. So he threw it to Agler, who was strolling casually over to ward the slab to see what was the matter. Street stopped a couple of yards off first and dared Agler to tag him. Agler got into an argument with Voss and couldn’t hear Gabby. Umpire Hart waved Street to the base and he had a hit forced upon him—technically he had beat it out. * * * T HAT was the sort of stuff that' incited the big crowd to shower cushions knee deep on the field and make noises like the angry mob off stage. }lr. Elberfeld booted himself out of he game for the second time in the afternoon, and Hart would have been justified In forfeiting the same to the visitors at any time after the fourth inTiing He would have been justified In invoking baseball's most horrid penalties on both clubs, for that mat ter, w-hile the disorderly spectators who took part In the cushion shower ought at least to be made to witness a game like the afterpiece every day for a week. That would be punishment enough. * • * S eriously, though, the cushion episode was a raw and unsports manlike exhibition. The Lookouts fairly earned the victory while it was still a ball game; they were doing their honest duty in trying to whip the Crackers, which Is the very thing that makes baseball worth while. And no matter what they may cost us in the way of pennants, it is up to this town to give every visiting club the treatment due an honest opponent in any sport. Let us say it once more—if we can’t whip them fighting we don't deserve to whip them at all. There are bigger things than cham pionships' in baseball. T SportsandSuch FAMOUS IN SPORT.—VI. The America Cup. SINCE IT IS WORTH ONLY about $100 and is a half-century old we can not give much space to this junk; for this is a live, up-to- date column. Briefly, the America Cup was won by the yacht America and has since been successfully de fended by the ablest body of in- tsrnational law experts in this country. As even under the Deed of Gift (see below) it is faintly possible that a challenger might accidentally get a look-in,’ it is the duty of these experts f Q make water contests Impossible. Designed to foster interest in yachting, the America Cup has thus promoted some of the noblest contests in word-twisting, haggling and skullduggery of which any rec ord is preserved. It also keeps the New York Yacht Club on the map of international sport, which is. however, a service of doubtful value. The America Cup, furthermore, gives wealthy Britons something to think about. On half a dozen occasions they have had legal talent enough to force the shifting of the contest from the postoffice to the ocean. On such occasions it has sometimes been the custom of the American boat to sneak off in the night and make beneficial changes, thus causing Englishmen to rage, at which every true pa triot should always exult. The chief defense of the Cup is. however, the Deed of Gift, herein before mentioned. When this docu ment is well oiled and in its best form anv Englishman who could lift the Cup in a year would make light of lifting the crown jewels any afternoon off. If any reader contemplates stak ing us to a bank roll, we earnest ly request that he will hand us a Deed of Gift along with it. as we would then cease to feel nervous about our old age. (It’s your own fault if you miss the n©xt one—“The Fight Man ager.”) / • * • AFTER LISTENING TO HOR- ace Fogel talk for several days the president of the Federal League has resigned his Job because of overwork. MR. EBBETS SAYS THAT HE is going to spend $60,000 for ball players. We should love to hear his remarks at the dedication of that bank roll. • • • ANOTHER “QUEER RIDE” AT Saratoga. Since there are no book makers to pay for such services, we can only assume that the jockeys this year must have a lot of “personal friends.” • • • CHAMPION KILBANE PRE fers the broadening influence of travel to the flattening influence of a right swing. • * • WALTER JOHNSON IS MAK- ing a game fight for second place in the American League, although badly handicapped by the Wash ington team. • * • A MAN WITH HAL CHASE’S ability for underground work is lost in baseball when thfero are so many subways to be dug • • • PRESIDENT EBBETS SAYS there is no truth in the report that the name of his new ball park Is to be changed to Dedication Field, as it is his intention to ar range some ball games to be played when there are no dedication ceremonies on. ET m FUST LUKE 1 -s HE qualifying round in the golf tournament for the Lane Tro phy is to be played this after noon at East Lake, when about 60 members of the Atlanta Athletic Club will make the circuit. Play in the qualifying round is at scratch, but the following match play will be witn handicaps. Another departure from usual cus tom in this tourney Is to be the flight divisions. Instead of the customary sixteen players, each flight will con tain eight, which, of course, will make the competitive play more open and uncertain than under the usual rut- ing. The finals in this tourney are to ha played by next Thursday, the final round being of 18 holes. HIGHBROWS FAVOR SLANG IN BASEBALL WRITE-UPS CHICAGO. Aug 1*>.—Charles A. Co- miskey, owner of the Chicago Ameri cans. likes baseball reports best when they are written in plain English, while professors at the University of Chicago deplore the possibility of the elimina tion of slang from the accounts of games. These unexpected attitudes were learned to-day in a vote being taken by a local daily to determine just how the followers of the national pas time want the games described “I am In favor of a clean, plain Eng lish story of a baseball game," said Co- mlskey, who has just returned from the woods of Northern Wisconsin. “What readers want to know is who won the eame and how it was won. When those facts are covered up with a lot of use less words the reader Is apt to grow tired." “I think it would be pretty tame to report baseball in plain, ordinary Eng lish," said Professor Nathaniel Butler. "There is a species of humor on the sporting page which Is enjoyable. We want the picturesque in the reports, but the writer shows a defect when it is Impossible for the layman to understand him." Several other professors at the uni versity declared their preference for stories sprinkled with slang. Sporting Food -•y QBORQI B. PHAIR— KENOSHA WANTS C. WHITE TO BOX EDDIE MURPHY CHICAGO, ILL.. Aug 16—If Eddie Murphy, Boston lightweight, can be in duced to come on here for August 22 he can secure a match at Kenosha with Charlie White, local 126-pounder The club matchmaker to-day closed terms with Nate Lewis, White’s pilot, Nate agreeing to allow Murphy to come Into the ring at 133 pounds at 6 o’clock. This means a 19-pound handicap for White. As an Inducement, the club wlty pit Jack Britton against the winner, a chance both White and Murphy should welcome. This will be Kenosha’s first show under the Heddlng law NO GAME—NO KALE. The baseball magnate wept, IIis soul was sad and sore; While breezes through the turnstile] crept, And nothing more. His jog in life had fled, IIis hope had flown away. The baseball sched. that morning read: “.Vo game to-day When we reflect on the fact that the | gents who framed up the schedules lef* Chicago without a game for three days, we have a hunch that Ivory Is not con fined exclusively to the ball yard. .. Charles Lobert, an Inmate of St. Louis, ran a marathon race wearing two left shoes. Charles Is now recognized as the world’s champion sou t hpaw run ner. BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENT. Frank Newhouse. the umpire who smote Fred Merkle over the head with his mask, announces that he has pur chased a new mask. Napoleon Lajoie has been playing baseball seventeen years. If he plays baseball seventeen years more, some of the fans may learn how to pronounce his name. The fan In Louisville who attempted to assault an umpire with a hammer was merely trying to Imitate the base ball scribes. THOU’RT A DROLL WAG! Hon. Sir: When Foote Prince won the 2:07 pace at Kalamazoo did he leave Foote Prince on the sands of time? STEVE. It Is said that George Stovall will not manage the Browns next year. Evident ly the Governor has handed him a re prieve. It Is further claimed that George has filed charges against Silk O’Loughlln, an alleged umpire. George has either run short of saliva or has become a gol darn dude. AT LEAST, WE HOPE SO. Who'll cure Ed Walsh t “J” said Bonesetter. “I'll make him better— I'll cure Ed Walsh." We note by the papers that the Cubs have taken seven pitchers on their I Eastern trip. As we understand it, the I pitchers are Cheney, Cheney. Cheney, Cheney, Cheney, Cheney and Cheney. Rarer than a day In June is one of those days wherein neither J. Sheckard nor J. Devore moves to a new team. STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE. (By John P. Brady.) Mary had a little yacht. Its sails were white as *now. She sailed it down the other side of the /. C. station. And you ought to see those dog gone sails now. BT FOOL BITS ATHLETICS BUY ADAMS. SAVANNAH, Au, g 16- Pitche -It was an- of the Savannah South Atlantic League club, had been sold to the Philadelphia Americans, to join the Athletics in the fall The price was not given out. SOX TO GET MAGGERT. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16 —President Comiskey. of the Chicago Americans, has exercised hi?* option on Maggert, center fielder of the local club, who has been leading the Coast league in batting and who has been second in stolen bases. ROSTON GETS PITCHER. BOSTON. Aug. 16—The Boston Americans added another pitcher to tf'.eir roster when rank Kelly was pur chased from the Seattle club. CHARLEY MURPHY ‘JOLLIES’ HARGROVE, NEW CATCHER TERRE HAUTE. IND . Aug 18 — Eugene “Dubbles" Hargrove, the young catcher of the Terre Haute club, bought by the Cubs, has received a letter from Owner Charles W. Murphy, who tells him that he and Manager Evers watch ed him at Fort Wayne last week and that “both believe that you are to go higher In the profeseion." The magnate says he is sorry’ he did not have a chance to talk with the player, but that Owner Wagner of the Terre Haute club told him that Har grove was a boy of good habits and does not intoxicating liquors." By Sam Crane. N EW YORK. Aug. 16.—During the recent series of games the Yankees played against their Western rivals at the Polo Grounds, I noticed that it was the invariable custom of the Yankees in particular, and also with some of the Western teams, for the man at bat. whether the runner on first got a good lead or not, to foul off the ball even If ho had to throw his bat at the horsa- hide. Giants Use Other Tactics. Sweeney never once that I can re member failed to foul the ball or to try to do so, whenever a runner, no matter who It was, dashed off on a pilfer occasion. The system seemed to be so gener ally prevalent among American League teams that I begun to think that it was an established rule by all the club managers. With the Giants*. Manager McGraw foHows an exactly opposite plan and as a result the National League champions have In nearly every year McGraw has had them in charge led all their rivals In team base running. It i« -‘opsible that Manager Chance, knowing that he has npt a fast lot of players, has ordered his batters to save his base runners at every opportunity, but at that the plan looks very cheesy and surelv tends to eliminate more or less one of tho prettiest points of baseball. It look. 5 * ridiculous to see a good base runner, after getting a big lead, to have his good Judgment and commendable am bition squashed by some “bonehead” at bat purposely fouling off the ball. Kills Chance of Runner. What possible chance has a speedy man on the bases to show results if he is constantly made to come back to first, winded and chagrined? Not a chance on earth. And still the Yanks followed what appeared to me asinine methods con tinuously. The Clevelands, too. followed that scheme little less frequently than the Yanks, the veteran Lajoie being foremost in doing it. Naps Waste Many Runs. When Clark Griffith was manager of the Yankees he often said to me. "The Clevelands waste more oppor tunities to make runs than any oth^r team in the business, and they have one of the best batting teams in the country, and more Nape reach first base than any other team in the American League." Now. why was that? Nothing can be plainer. They sim ply prevented their runners from stealing bases, and Instead of playing for the “hit and run” and hitting be hind the runner and doing other in side batting, they kept “fouling’ em off” with the ridiculous idea imbed ded in their noddles to “save” the base stealers at all hazards. And Lajoie has never played on a cham pionship club. The batter wastes a strike everv tlme he makes an intentional foul, and there are not so very many bat ters in the business who do not re quire all the swipes that are coming to them Why, it is Just a pitcher’s “pie” to nave any batter throw away a strike or two. Three-Cornered Race To-night +•+ +•+ +»+ +•+ +•+ Graves, Swartz, Lockner Clash J ACK PRINCE’S Motordrome was not open last night. It was Fri day, it was the scheduled thir teenth meet, and goodness knows that Jup Pluv couldn’t overlook that chance. And he didn’t. It rained hard late in the afternoon and the track was pronounced unsafe. So the meet was put over until to night. The same excellent card that was arranged for last night will be run to-night. It looks to be the best bal anced bunch of events that have yet been run at the Saucer. A three-cornered match race be tween Graves, Lockner and Swartz, best two out of three, heats, two heats 2 miles and the third 3 miles, is the feature. A point system of scoring in the sweepstakes, which will be run in M’GRATH LOSES SIGHT OF ONE EYE IN FIGHT NEW YORK. Aug. 16.—Matty Mc Grath, the noted American athlete, has lost the sight of one eye. Pending the court’s determination of his status as a policeman, McGrath has been floor man ager of the Jardin DeDanse, on the New York theater roof. In a fight in the lobby yesterday, a man polled the point of his cane in his eye. Dr. Pryon, of the Polytechnic Hospital, who took twelve stitches in McGrath’s face, said that the pupil of the eye htui been destroyed and that the hammer thrower would be blind in that •ye CLOTHIER WILL BATTLE 'T0UCHARD IN FINALS SOUTHAMPTON, N. Y.. Aug. 16.— William J. Clothier, of Philadelphia, and Gustav F. Touchard, of New York, will meet In the final round of the men’s singles In the Meadow Club invitation tournament here this afternoon J. S. Strachan and C. J Griffin, hold ers of the Western doubles champion ship, will play Thomas C. Bundy and William Johnson, the other California pair. In the semi-final rounds of the doubles this afternoon The winners will then oppose W. F Larned and W. J. Clothier in the finals PHILLIES SECURE INDIAN. SHERMAN. TEXAS, Aug 16 —An nouncement was made by the manage ment of the Sherman < Texas-Oklahoma) League that Ben Tincup, a pitcher, has been sold to the Philadelphia Nationals for $1,500 Tincup. who is an Indian, will report to the Philadelphia club Au gust 20. LEOPARDS WIN POLO MATCH. NARRAGANSETT PIER. R. I , Aug. 16.—Cooperstown and the Leopards will meet Sunday in the final round for the Atlantic polo cup The Leopards yes terday defeated the Army polo team in a hard-fought 10V4 goals to 8V£. T OUHVUV iimui I easily In 3 day*, im pro*e your health, prolong your Ilfs. No more stomach trouble, do foul breath, do heart (?eak- Dam Regain manly vlgar, calm nerves, elear eyes end euperlor mental strength. Whether you ch*”w or amoke pipe, cigarettes, r'.gars, eet my interesting Tobacco Book Worth Its weight In goid Mailed frae. C. J. WOODS- 534 Sixth Ave.. 74t M.. Maw York. N. V. three heats, 3, 5 and 7 miles, with Richards, Renel, Glenn, Luther ajid Lewis participating In the three heat* will also be interesting. Here is the complete program; MOTORDROME PURSE. (One Mile to Qualify; 2-Mile Final. Two Men in Each Heat to Qualify for Final.) First Heat—Swart*. Graves, Rich ards and Glenn. Second Heat—Lewis, Luther, Renel and Lockner. SPECIAL MATCH RACE. (One, Two and Three Mile .Heata Best Two Out of Three Heats.) First Heat—Swart*. Lockner and Graves. Final of Motordrome Purse—Two miles. VELEDROME DE BUFFALO SWEEPSTAKES. (French Point System. Ten Point* for First, 6 for-Second and 3 for Third. Distance, 3, 5 and 7 Mile*.) First Heat, Three Miles—Kicharda, Renel, Glenn, Luther and Lewis. Second Heat of Special Match Race Two Miles—Swart*, Lockner and Graves. Second Heat of Sweepstakea Ftv# Miles—Richards, Renel, Glenn, Luther and Lewis. Third Heat of Special Match Rae*. Three Miles—Swart*. Lockner and Graves. 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