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1 irsssteur OBsisebaSS JL -JLa- il jLJsi-Hjr Hi JLV JL JL JL JL Sport News Is Always To Up FouimI in THE DAILY AM) SUNDAY PRESS Got It Kvcry Da. The One Big Classified Ad Medium in Pittsburg Managers Are Invited to Use the Columns of Till-; PRESS at AH Times. PITTSBURG. SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1913 TWELVE PAGES 'nnAfp nan Finn ron tpw mmmMmm iffmmmx1 i i r5 Lnj rr it it llc i n) cj lj si uy uj lj uu lji lj Adolf Confesses Himself to Be a "Dead One11 PRfNTED WHY DOT MEANS 1 AM OUT OP VOftK, 7 DO- ODDER WORTS. DOT I AW VCuL, VOT (TS Jsa resting.

do vou tjink (v IpTr -of card v) WWM AIR THF PIRMW kiUAx, mm ls UUSIili ZULU Hit. 1 IHHI-LO BM0ucn WINNING STREAK CAUSES COMMENTS GALORE, AND MANY THEORIES ARE ADVANCED BY LOYAL SUPPORTERS OF THE BOLD BUCCANEERS AS TO THE REASONS FOR THE SPURT WHICH HAS PUT THEM IN THIRD PLACE III I MB II 7i viiiwaii-a KIK! BHWR the only team that can beat New York. So he gave each Pittsburg player a check for $50,000. and told them to be sure and grab the laurels away from the Giants. Murphy docss little things like that about every three days." "Oh.

no, you're wrong," chimed in the man who hasn't missed a game in Pittsburg since the year of the big fire. 'E got this straight from a brother of a man who once lived next door to a fellow who was acquainted with Fred Clarke when he was just breaking into the game, and I think I've got t.e dope right. The Pirates were fighting among themselves awhile back, but they were all such fine athletes that no one could WORDS BY SCHAEFER. MUSIC BY MACDONALD. Red Twirler Fined and Suspended Without Pay for Deserting Team in Time of Need Philadelphia.

July 10. Manaper Tinker of the Reds, has fined Rube Fpnton and suspended him indefinitely without pay on account of the; Rube's disappearance from New York. Penton left word with John Kling that bis sirtter was at the point of death at his home in Clinton. N. C.

and that he simply had to take the first train. He didn't lfav a note for Tinker, who was at tile hotel at the time, and Joe dd not know that he had gone until the hotel clerk him about it. Manager Tinker, thinking that the story sounded rather fishy, wired to Clinton snd received a stating that Benton's sister is in perfect health. Yesterday came a wire from Rube's father Faying that the W-ft-hander will report here today. As soon as th Red leader found that Rube's si.te was not really ill he announced the fine and of Benton for absence from the club without permission.

Joe went slowly in the matter, because he dd not wish to take any action if It wai true thst the sister was Feriously sick. If Rube comes back today he wiil that he has lost several days' pay as well as a hundred-dollar bill, and these fines are not remitted by Manager Tinker, as they have often been by lo mer Red leaders. Joe is very sore about the matter, "it is a shame," hn said, "for Rube to act in this way. He has beer, pitching very feir ball latr-ly and knows that we need him for at least one pa me here, but he disappears without f-iiyinir a word" or sending me any notice of his departure. The day for tbat sort of stuff has passed on this ball club.

There not an alibi that Benton can present that will excuse him with me. He is fined and and suspended without pay and it will go. It will be an e-pensive vacation but not so expensive as it is to the ball club to have players acting in tha-way." YANKEE TEA! IN FIN ALS FOB THEDAVIS COP Win Right to Play England for Famous Trophy by Defeating Canadians in Doubles Today London. July 19. The American team will fight it out with the lit defenders in the challenge round for the international tennis trophy.

By the Canadian today 'n doubles, the Americans won the having taken the first two singles i h-es. The Americans won today in r.si:s;ht sets, but the Canadians fought in the third set which went to deuct. and gave up only after an exhibition of gamer.ess. and lla.kU represented America. Powell and Srhv.

fag ers played for Canada. The score was as follows: 6-rt; 6-3; 12-K). The American team, compo.e.-J of Maurice E. McLoughlin, Haroid H. Hackett and R.

Norris William-, now have won their way through the preliminaries and gained the ritf. to mert the British holders of which represents supremacy in the tennis world. The contest 'vitii Canada was for three out of Ave mtitehes. The Anwricars took te lirst three. Two more singles are scheduled for Hondav and will probably be played, though they wll! have no effect on the ot; Th? arrangements for the challenge round have not been made, but 't proVa'lv will be played at the je courts.

TRISTATE LEAGUE. TESTKF.DT'. RESfLTS. Allennsrn 7 Harrisuur- 4 Atlanta fin- York 3 Flourten innings. STAVDIVG OP TH" CI-KB? i vi fct.

vv. I ilrr rln S4 lienon r. Har-I'ljijilf Tort. i' I Trenton 3i 3 Atlan. 25 4 nn Not Satisfied With Third Place, Buccaneers Now Plan Assault on Position Held by Quakers Brooklyn.

July 19. Manager of the Pirates, planned to send Georse McQuillan to the firing line this afternoon In the third same of tne series with the Superbas at Kbbets Fiel.l, in the hope of making it thre-j ot-aight against the Dahlen crew. It seemed probable that either Eddie Stack or Allen would oppose the Climbers, although Nap Rucker may break in at any time. Jt developed, however, that the great southpaw has been suffering from a sora shoulder, and has been having some trouMe ir. rounding into form.

The Pirates were glad to receive word lodav from Marty O'Toole fiat he had left the hospital, and is again on the road to recovery, The players all send best wishes to their clubmate at home. Manager Clarke and his family will spend Sunday at Atlantic City. They will leave here tonight, and Fred will return llendav morning. Well, the Pirates are in third place, and still going. They won ihtir twelfth victory yesterday out of the last 13 games played, making a record so far on eastern trip of nine games won to one lost.

It certainly is a great record for a team to make under any circumstances, but when one takes into consideration that ail these 13 games, but one, have been played on foreign grounds, the work of the flying Pirates becomes all the more remarkable. Nothing illustrates better the terrific clip the Corsairs have been going than the fact that from a poor fifth when they started on the eastern trip, scarcely 10 days ago, they have beaten the Brooklyn Superbas out of fourth place, and yesterday tied the Cubs for third place, and at that, if the pirates were in a quibbling they might even show that they hold third place all alonet as a carrying out of the fractions in figuring the averages gives them a shade on the Chicagoans. ALU EVES ON NEW YORK. However, the Buccaneers are not in a quibbling mood, as they have their minds on bigger things now, and already have their eyes set on New York and Philadelphia, the only clubs still ahead of them in the race for the pennant. Another half game was picked vp by the Corsairs yesterday on the slackening Giants, and a full game on the Philadelphians, all of which is a verj- encouraging day's mork, considering the hot pace nof being set in the National league race.

Philadelphia is but five games ahead now, and the Pirates are bent on holding or lessening this distance if possible before they return home next week, as on next Friday they iiook up in a four-game series with the Quakers at Forbes Field, and they figure that if they are anywhere near striking distance of Dooin's team at that time they will have a great chance of closing in on them and passing them in the race. With the encouragement from the home fans that they feel they will get when they return to their- own stamping grounds, they are hopeful of continuing a pace that will quicklv enable them to overtake the Phillies. That the home fans are fully awake to the great work the team is doing, and are not feoing to be remiss in showing their appreciation or 13 evidenced by a letter received today from Assistant Secretary AVatters, who advises that the mall order sale for th pomina- i Philadelphia series is as large as any the club has ever had for a series not containing a regular holiday. The usual advance sale, he states, will open at all the clubs branch offices on Monday July 121. HARD GAMES BEST SAYS SIMON Some of he Pirates this morning were hoping they would be fortunate enough to win another game such as the one of yesterday, as it was the first game thev have had on the trip in which they se- curea a ieaa large enough in the early part or the contest to be practically relieved from anxiety as to the probable result, but Mike Simon quicklv put a damper on such desires.

"An easy game or two. when a club is going fast. is all right for a short spell, he proclaimed, "but the tight ones are better as a rule, for they keep you your toes and equal to any strain while when they come easy too often' you are likely to get overconfident and careless," All of which shows that Mike not onlv has an iron heart and is wiliiig to tal his chances fighting for every inch, but that he also is somewhat of a student of human nature. His pupils were quick to grasp the point and assured Mike that a "soft" game now and then would be sufficient. ADAMS IS SOME HITTER "Babe" Adams certainly had one large day yesterday.

Besides pitching a game that would have netted him a shutout but for a ball slipping through Wilson's lags, the Mount Moriah athlete hammered out four hits, one of which caught the big "bull" sign on the right field fence, entitling him to $50. Today "Babe-is strutting around insisting that he ought to be played every day on account of his hitting ability, but the other players declare that it is only a subterfuge on his part to get more chances at the bull sign. A deversion was furnished by a musical fan at the game yesterday, who sang out in an excellent tener the various changes announced in the Brooklyn line-up. The strain on his vocal chorus was too great however, in that fifth inning, when the Pirates knocked out one pitcher after another, and he subsided forthwith. New Variety of Fan.

Pittsfield, July 19. A story of a wood-chuck that is a baseball fan comes from the Pittstield Boys' camp at Richmond Liike. The report is that everv afternoon a big woodchuck on the "edge of the outer Held watched the bays at 'play, one of the boys made a long drive to tenter field, where the woodchuck picked up the ball and scampered away for his hole. After the game the boys began digging in the burrow, and after an hour's effort rtujf up a bad'y chewed baseball- Golfer P.lay Lose Sight. Greenwich.

July 10. it is feared that A. Weisgarten, the Philadelphia broker, who was struck in the eye by a golf ball on the links at the Country club here yesterday, will lose the sight of the eye. First. Last and AH the time the quality of "MANILA STICKS" are always of the finest.

Advertisement- (fii to Air As an Actor, Transfer of Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker Being Talked Of. Detroit Demands Big Bonus Detroit. July 19. A bigger sensation than that caused by the discharge or! Jaice Stahl and the appointment of Bili Carrigan as manager of the Red Sox is about to be sprung. President McAleer, of the Boston Red Sox has privately offered to trade Tris Speaker, the great center fielder of the Red Sox, for Ty Cobb, the greatest stir in baseball President Xavin, of Detroit, is willing to make the trade and has so informed McAleer.

but he insists on a cash consideration reported at McAleer has so far refused to give up any cash with Speaker ami declares he will trade only on an even basis. It is not thought this will prove a serious hitch, and it looks as though the trade will go through. This trade is the real reason why McAleer is now in Detroit with the team. In the minds of both magnates the time has come when the teams wrill be bettered by the departure of these stars. President Navin and the Detroit fans are of the opinion that Cobb has outlived his usefulness in Detroit.

Presir dent McAleer undoubtedly has arrived at the conclusion that without the presence of Tris Speaker in the lineup the Red Sox fold will work in complete harmony. Although Cobb rates as the greatest man in the American league, and his salary is something like per season greater than that paid to the Texan, it is felt that McAleer would be only tooJ glad to assume the payment of the Georgia Peach's remuneration. As a drawing card Cobb would bring his salary in many times at the gate. THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. FRIDAY'S RESULTS.

12 Uruoklyn 5 Philadelphia 4 New York 5 rit. IjOuis Chicago-liosion P.aln. Pittsburg Cinc'nnati St. Louis New York 1 STANDING TODAY AND W. L.

Pc-u A YEAR AGO. vv. New York I'tiiladelphia Pittst.uig fii 'M 44 4) 7 41 4i 34 61 33 .51 .474 .400 .407 .675 .582 -4US .427 .7471 5 .51 3 .2 2 7 .277 .412 1 Viiivn I Hoston' Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati 4 Thfe flgnres Iow what prrcrnt- nKfi will be tonight if teams win or lose today. NO GAMES SUNDAY.

All teams in the east. THE AMERICAN LEAGUE. FRIDAY'S RKSTJLTS. Philadelphia 4 Chicago Kew York 5 Cleveiana Detroit L-tostow Washington rft. Louis Twelve innings.

STANDING TODAY AND W. 1. Pet. A YEAR AGO. Y.

L. ,3912. Philadelphia Cleveland Washington Chicago lioston Detroit St. Lnuis fiO 25 .701 .51 36 40 37 4 4t -B44 40 42 36 55 3d 56 .301 .575 .549 .402 .333 .56.1 -53S -4S2 .311 .387 .321 .5713 5 .6052 4 I 6 .3057 .282 New York 27 56 .323 These ligiirra on what percent ages will be tonight if tennis wla or lose today. GAMES SUNDAY.

Washington at Chicasfo. Philadelphia at St. New York 8t Detroit. Boaton at Cleveland. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Toronto 3 Rochester Newark 8 Providence Other names postponed. STANDING OF THE CLUBP. W. L.

Pet. I W. L. Pet. Newark 6S 30 41 47 .466 Rochester 4'.

.557 Jersev City. 40 47 Buffalo 45 44 Toronto .443 Baltimore 41 55 .477 Montreal 25 42 .373 AMATEUR BASEBALL. St. Marys would like to arrange games with all 12-year-old teams. Any team? in this rlis? desirine ean.es write Raymond Maloy, 212 Penn ae.

Th. Geardie A. C. dpfeated the Whitesox by a score of 4 to 3 The, Geardie A. C.

would liKe to arraase frames with all 9-year-old tfams. AVrite to Jacob Marx, 431 North ave. Millvale. Any nxst-class team wishing the Allegheny Collegians as an attraction for Saturday, July 19, write S. Mclntj-re.

1424.Bovle or call Cetiar 6S90 any evening between 6:30 and o'clock. W. G. Kelnemans Juniors have organised and would like to hear from all l-year-old teams. Writs W.

a. Helnenun, Br. "Walter St. Wood row Wilson club Is in the field again All teams desiring games. Write J.

2035 Wylie ave. Fair Haven M. have open dates In August for alt 13-year-old teams. Writs J. jQeorge Lintner, Fair Haven.

SEE ADOLF, I RAF HAD CAf5 FCR ME- ALL ACTORS -ryzZZl STr TRADE OF works were somewhat out of plrTmb. Their confidence bogged down and they lost heart. Figuratively they were in the hospital, and the worst of it was they thought so. Now when a man imagines he's an invalid almost anyone can ewarm all over him and he doesn't, feel able to resist. That's the way the Pirates felt and they had about as much ginger as a croquet player.

"But they took a turn for the better, got the kinks out of their limbs and began to take some real exercise. When a fellow gets out of the hospital he Is a different man. He thinks he is bet ter than ever, and he wants to take a. whack at some of the feats of his youth. Now that was the -way with these Pirate folks, who had been indisposed.

Their vagrant fancy them back to boyhood's happy hours and they felt like a gang of colts. That was what the big league sluggers went up against and they couldn't help getting their hair singed. "All the ihoys begin to recover about the same time and the Pirate massacre with spectatcular effects is on. Home-Run Wilson sashays up to the plate one day and when he sends the hall on a long distance journey he begins to feel his health improving. He stops at first long enough to shed a crutch, the other Is discarded at second and by the time he gets to third he is digging up the dust with his thoughtful brow and feeling as happy as a kitten.

Simon gets In the game and Is leisurely getting over the ground, at-about 20 feet to the jump. Hendrix becomes imbued with hostili ties for the enenly, forgets all about that bank stock of his and makes the batters look like children. Jack Miller, the arch enemy of the Jersey mosquito. Imagines he Is fighting his i hated foe. but In the absence of 'skf-eters' he is killing the runners at first.

"And that is the way with the w-hole Pirate crew. As soon as they got the invalid idea out of their heads and became inspired with th spirit of youth, nothing could stop them. "That is the popular solution." concluded thj fan. "but I have the real dope. I thought it out last night when I went home from the game and was shaking the peanut shells out of mr socks.

The reason the Pirates are winning is because they came to the concul-sion that they needed more gmes." THE STORY OF A CHARM. A story which has gained more or less widespread circulation is to the effect that a negro who "rubbed" Hans Wagner during the Pirates' stay at Hot Springs sent the "Flying Dutchman" the left hind foot of a dark-blue jackrabbit, the aforesaid omen of good luck reaching the famous slugger on July 6. Accompanying th rabbit's foot was a note written in the blood of an angle worm, saying that if the foot was rubbed three times across the right ear and left thumb of each player, they would be sure winners. Honus followed directions, and th results speak for themselves. "I believe Charley Murphy, owner of the Chicago Cubs, is responsible for the Pirates' winning streak," said a former resident of the Windy City.

"You see. Murphy doesn't like John McGraw, and he doesn't want to see him win another pennant. Murphy knew the Cubs couldn't win, and figured out that the Pirates are COMISKEY IS PLEASED WITH LARRY CHAPPELLE. Chicago, July 19. Larrv Chap-pelle failed to get a hit in his four times "Why are the Pirates Tvlnning?" That J3 the question heard on every hand today.

Followers of the national game have been converted into a human interrogation point, for no matter whether they be on the cactus-studded prairie or mingling in the busy marts of commerce, they seek information as to why the Pirates are winning. What a change has been wrought within a short time. It seems only a few days since the Pirates were wallowing in a streak of bad luck; every club they met blithely kicked them all over thu lot in the presence of the perspiring populace: Ignominious defeat -camped on their trail and, absorbed in a gob of gloom, they sneaked home under cover of the night. Fans who had once given them an honored piaee on the tablets of their consideration withered in their seats In a fit, of 'agony as they saw them defeated time and again. After extracting splinters and chair rungs from their anatomy they arose and, shaking their Hats at their former idols, cordially and enthusiastically called them an aggregation of high-class cripples and begged them to retire to the peace and solemn hush of the old gentlemen's home.

The ravings o- the fans -made them eligible to the best padded cell in the House of Bugs. To friends they met they had but the one question: "Why are the Pirates losing?" OH, WHAT A CHANGE! But what a change in a few weeks! The Pirates have struck a winning streak end are mowing down the enemy daily. -II nllAn.lnn- tha ne game uiu ia.ua iuiiuni6 game, but they have undergone a change of sentiment. Those whom they condemned are again their Idols. But they cannot understand the metamorphosis in the playing of their favorites, and hence the burning question: "Why are the Pirates winning?" The metaphysician, the logician or the dopester could no, have been asked to answer a more mystifying question.

It remained for an old fan to solve the problem. He is tanned with the sun of many summers which he spent on the bleachers. His reputation as a rooter for the Pirates will go rumbling down the corrugated corldors of Time. His voice seems to well up from the soles of his boots and from constant use Its sound reminds one of the dulcet melody of a buzzsaw eating its way through a log. He was one of the fans who referred to the Pirates as cripples.

He admits it. The veteran fan still speaks of the players as cripples, probably with a view of being consistent with some of his villifying remarks about the team when It was in hard luck. "Yes," he said, reminiscently, "the cripple's were decidedly off their feed for quite a spell, and appeared to be feeling mighty puny. Some folks intimated that they were senile in their conduct. Js'ow they say the boys are in the fluff and bloom of 1 second childhood.

They are certainly frolicsome youngsters. CRIPPLKS IMPROVING. "It must be admitted that the cripples have taken a cum for the foetter. and. judging from the way they maltreated the Superbas yesterday, the doctor would call them convalescing.

The. boys' bad streak was due to not being fit; they were physically wrong and their mental ou and two on-bases at the time. Gagnler maanged to pick up the ball and toss it to Getz, retiring the side, and collapsed. After the -players found they could not revive him doctors were called from the stand. The doctors claimed it was a solar plexus blow that laid Cagnier low.

Joe Peploski. who captained the Seton hall varsity and joined the Detroit American leaguers after graduation is now playing with the Lincoln. Neh. team of the Western learue havtr.g been loaned to the team by-Bresident of Detroit. Peploski will be re'urned to-the In tbe sorine.

Peploski is now covering third base and batting heavily. Peploski will come east at tne conclusion or the basball season and take a post-graduatu cou.se of study at Columbia university. BATTING AVERAGES OF THE BUCCANEERS. DOERS AND ROBINSON TO BOXTONIGHT Local Ring Rivals in Splendid Trim for Six-Round Battle at Old City Hall The Red Robinson-Mickey Rogers fight tonight at Old City hall opens up the fistic game here after a layoff of a couple of months, and doubtless a large house will greet the contestants when they enter the ring. Both lighters are in the best of shape.

Robinson looked and felt so well yesterday that he did not don the gloves, but jvst did a little light gymnasium work to keep himself on edge for tonight, and if he loses he says it will not be condition, but a better, man thai caused his defeat. Red will be handled arid looked after by his manager. Red Mason, and Rodgers will be also looked after by his manager, Billy Corcoran. Kodgers is down to hla best fighting weight, and says he is going to be returned the winner. Ho has stated that he will tear In in his usual way, never stepping from the time the bell sends them otf.

In Robinson Kodgers will meet a bov who looks more likely to give him just the kind of a fight the fans want than any of the eastern boyjj that came here to meet him. Both fighters work on the same lines, boring in al! the time and paying little attention to defense. This is the style of battlers that those who pav their cash like to see at the present time. Old City Hall is an ideal SDot for a fistic go at this time of the year. Three fine preliminaries are on the card and they will be staged in quick order.

BASEBALL NOTES. Third placers. Still climbing. The Pirates will rest tomorrow. At Brooklyn today and Monday.

A fraction of a point ahead of the Cubs. Good morning, how do you like our style? Washington is only 1 points behind the Naps now. Chief Wilson was the only Pirate who went hltiess through the swattest. Detroit was the only western club to win in the American league yesterday. Twelve out of 13 games for the Pirates, and nine out of 10 on the eastern trip.

The Pirates scored more runs yesterday than did all tbe losing teams in the league. Twenty -seven out ot 3iT New York mayors, with Gov. Sulzer, favor Sunday baseball. The Giants are still eight games ahead of the Phillies, and 13 games ahead of Pittsburg. Adams and Carey hit the "bull" sign at TCbbets park yesterday, and each ls J5o richer for ioing it.

Tbe enforcement of tbe Sunday blue laws In Wisconsin is causing the club owners ot the Wisconsin-Illinois league a whole lot or worry. Pitcher Jasper of the Dubuque club, purchased by the White box, will report to Manager Jimmy Callahan the latter part of this month. You will notice that Christy Mathewson i still pitching a bit for the Cnants. Five hits off his delivery, and no runs, for the Cardinals yesterday. Down at Louisville they have it that Shortstop tleumiller of the Colonels will go to the tliants in the fail.

In exchange for players rather than for a cash consideration. Manager Stovall seems to have two of the best young southpaw heavers in the league in Hamilton and Leverenz. Uoth of them have ber-n pitching wonderful hall lately. Sheiton, Benson and Perring of the Columbus team of the American association recently imil ofT a triple steal at the expense of Catcher Keveroid of the Louisvilie Colonels. Chick Gandil is still up in the select class of stickers.

The rangy, llrst sacker of the Senators is batting for an overage of .303. and leads the Washington squad with the willow. Kobertson of the Faiannxh team of the South Atlantic league is certainly some pitcher. record reads something like 22 win-s in 24 starts. The scouts (should watch this one.

For a yduth playing bis first year in the majors. Sam Apnew of the Erowns ranks w-ith the leading catchers. Agnew made good from the very start and was made first catcher by Manager Stovall. The Hi inc is- Missouri league has slipped down from a six to a four club circuit. Canton and Pekin couldn't pay' salaries and the players of two clubs have been declared free agents.

Add to list of sluggers "P.abe" Adams. "Babe" made a double anil three singles yesterday, rcored two runs and drove in four others. Jiesldes he had a putoiit and two assists, as well as three strikeouts. The Yankees set a new record for themselves by beating Cleveland, rounding out for the first time a string of three consecutive victories. The Naps made fixe errors and Joe Jackson contributed three of them.

Baumgardner held Washington at bav for 11 innings, but cracked in the twelfth and four 'were driven in. It took both Groom and Johnson to beat htm. Johnson did not allow a hit In the four inr.ir.ss he pitched. George Crowther, the frreat Brown University football arid baseball player, has been benched by the New Haven team which he joined at the close or the college seascn. He was unable tr replace Pepe at shortstop.

Chick Gandil says he can't hit very often unless he Is real grouchy. To get my couple of blows a day," raid Chick, "I've got to have a grouch." Uandll wants Manager Griffith to hire a mean guy to keep him bad tempered George Burns la playing the best left field that has been seen at the Pclo grounds fo-niany years. He ls very fast, covers an acre of ground, is a sure catch on a flv ball and is quick in slopping hits and holding runners Bender struct cut $19,000 worth of baseball playing material twice in the Athletic-White Sox game. Larry Chappelle Com-istey's prize recruit, to frvt a hit in fou-oppearances against the Chief, and whiiied twice. Ralph, Pitman, who formerly twirled for the Boise team in the Western "Tri-State league, was elected mayor of a town up In Alaska when ha beat the town's most hated rival in a baseball game.

Pitman twirled for Tread-well against Juneau, snd not only did he defeat the latter team but held them scoreless The citizens promptly held a mass meeting and showed Pitman how highly they regarue his twirling by electing hin mayor of Treadwell. Eddie Gagnler. shortstop of the Newark team was knocked unconscious in the ninth Inning of the game with Providence Thursday by a hot liner from En's bat. There were two Wise Sayings of Men Wise and Otherwise. H.

EBBETS The question i3 I I not "To dedicate or not to I I dedicate," but "What to KKiVV" 1 dedicate." yPil W- MURPHY An ump! An ump! My kingdom for an ump to thump! JOE TINKER 'Tis sad indeed to be last at first, but sadder far to be last at last. CHRISTY MATHEWSON From plagiarism, kind devil, deliver me. BARNEY DREY FUSS Wait till next year. JAKE STAHL The glory of this world Is a fleeting thing. Besides, I always did like banking better tihan baseball.

BILL, CARRIGAN Uneasy lies the head that bosses the ball team. BY THE WAY, what has become of the slump which was to attack the Athletics not later than July OUR IDEA of nothing to worry about a feud between pugilists or pugilistic managers. HERE'S A dandy received today: "We have an amateur league out our way, in which we play only twilght games. As some of the boys don't get home till late, de don't get our games started till about a quarter to seven. Sometimes we can't play more than three innings.

Don't you think it would be all right to call three innings a game? It's as fair for one side as the other? GO TO it. kict if It means fun for you. The baseball rules are a wee bit elastic, anyway. IT IS reported that Bill Brennan will be National league, umpire with, the Giants and Whitesox on their tour around the world next winter. That would be great news, i he were only furnished with a ticket half-way round the globe.

TOM LYNCH passed up the dedication of Ebbets' new park to make a speech at the raising- of the pennant at the Polo grounds. Now, if you were a betting man. how would you wager on the chances of Lynch getting New York's vote at the next National league election WE ARE going to send our staff photographer to get a life-size picture of Artie Hof man collecting that $3,000, for which he has sued the owner of the Cubs. THEY HAVE Sunday baseball in St Louis, but they don't play much at it. BILL PHELAN, Cincinnati scribe arises to ask why it is that the Reds! better in every department than last year, have won fewer games than at the same time, in 1912.

The one best bet In the way or an answer is because the teams the Reds have' played have won more. PERCY SIVF.RT was beaten at ten-nis yesterday by Man, of Yale. Must be "some man." i of the disgraceful scenes at Philaoelphia yesterday, it is reliably reported that Mr. Lynch is still satisfied with his umpires. iJHE STAXDlXfTof the National leatrue clubs today presents a peculiarity The Pirates and Cubs are tied for third place, with a mark of .524.

ltt, if both teams win todav. the Chicagoans will be one point belrnd the Pirates tonight, while if both lose -they will remain tied. The discrepancy comes about, because the teams have not played the sam timber of games. As a matter of -t the teams are not tied right now, th' Urates being: a fraction of a po'nt nal" -IfNrarrd out five places, it will be found that the Pirates' stand- Sfb-KSSr and that of ii- RITCHIE AND WELSH MAY BOX IN NEW YORK RING. New York.

July lt. Willie tchi- pprance tbe rin-; mav be in iladrson Square (Jarderi earlv ths fall to meet Freddie Welsh, the British title holder. Word reached here today that KUchie was willing to box the and are bout stase a FEDERAL LEAGUE. rTJDAY' KE3TTLTS. 2 Pittsburg indtanapcis --t.

Louis 1 Jhk.ag STANDING OF THE CLUBS Pet! ii- rft 40 2S Kansas Cleveland ..85 8.. Cfclcaa, .....32 33 t. Louia. .33 31 Jit, Plttstmrg Vsaff ti3 X.he 3 that make the Nickle ramouj "MANILA STICKS." zi-uar-schmidt Cigar gain much of an advantage. One day i they held a meeting, and decided the best way to settle their differences would be to wait till fall, first w'in the pennant and the world's series, then hold a grand free-for-all fist fight, and the last surviving player is to get the entire team's share of the world's series spoils." A well known politician haJ what he considered an even better reason for the spurt.

He says a ball player is like any other person he can't have his mind on two things at the same time and make a success of either. "While the state legislature was in session, the Pirates were all busy reading the political news, and arguing about what the solons at Harrisburg were doing. Now that the lawmakers have taken a vacation, the Pirates have been thinking a little about baseball, and they're making good." THE SCORE BOY'S THEORY. "I'll tell you what ails 'em," said Mickey, the scoreboard boy at Forbes Field, who was one of the first and most famous individuals encountered by THE PRESS investigator. "Them fellers fer a long time wuzn't hittin' a lick, and Fred Clarke sez to me one day, 'Mickey, do you know what would make my men "Sure, I does.

Cap, I told hirn. He sez fer me to fire away, and I told him the trouble with the men wuz that they didn't look right when they went to bat. There's somethln' peculiar about a curve ball, and It'll fool you unless you know' how to look at it. If you always wink three times wid th' left eye just before th ball comes up to you, you can't miss it. Fred told me he had known of that, but he'd forgotten it.

He said he'd try it next day. It was on July fift' we had that there talk, and the bunch has been goin' great since." A fan who refused to give his name says the Pirates have been winning because the teams they have played have not been able to get as many runs as they were annexing a month ago. Another one says it's because Jack Miller has been crawling out of the right side of his bed In the mornings, instead of the left side, as he was doing some time ago. An Oakland "bug" says he is certain Joe Tinker. Charley Dooin.

George Stal-lings- and Bill Dahlen simply took pits-en poor Fred Clarke and decided to let the Pirates get revenge for the manhandling they had received at the hands of the teams presided over by these worthies earlier in the, season. One reason for the winning etrcak probably a bit too insignificant lo advance is that the Buccaneers have beei playing good ball. up. Owner Comiskey of the White Sos today said he was well pleased at the showing made by his $18,000 recruit In his first game. Larry smashed out two long drives that were raptured, fanned twice, and cut off a daring Athletic runner by a long peg from deep center.

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