Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1921, Page 20

SPORTS. ‘World Champions Are Here for Hot Series : Former White Sox Players Legally Cleared GRIFFMEN HAVE CHANCE Keeping Cleveland in Front. » : " TO OUST THE LEADERS| Johnson Today Will Face Coveleskie, Star of Speaker’s Staff, in Effort to Run Nationals’ String of Wins to Nine. g BY DENMAN Today's game between Washington and Cleveland was called off on ..,account of rain at a late hour. There will be a double-header tomorrow, , »starting at 2 o'clock. P * remainder of the week. ;.1 Should the Griffmen cause Cleveland to lose its place in the sun it will *occasion little surprise, as the locals for vears have enjoyed more than an Tverage amount of success in frus- ‘grating tge aspirations of pennant » contenders, and particularly entries “o¥rom Ohio. To date thsi season the ‘fave split even with the Tribe in 27twelve games, and if past perform- “ances of 1921 count for anything the Speakerites will quit the capital Sat- “6urday evening in second place, for *they are less than one full game avahead of the Yankees. The Hugmen have been beaten but once this vear %y the Bengals. who have absorbed "o less than cleven setbacks at the *hands of Babe Ruth et al. Griffs Have Every Incentive. The Nationals have every incentive to fight with the last ounce of their energy against the invaders now in "their midst. They naturally are anx- fous to run their string of consecu- _tive victories as far as possible, and. in addition, have had revived in some easure hopes of finishing higher “Yhan third place. They now are nine and a half games back of their an- tagonists of today and one game less ~removed from the New Yorkers. nly one-third of the season remain- ng, this is too formidable a margin to reasonably hope to overcome, but the Nationals and their supporters alike know the truth of the adage that nothing can be taken for grant- ed in base ball and will continue to put forth their best efforts to make third place secure. if nothing else. To achieve their ninth win in a row today the Griffmen are confronted with an unusually tough task in that thev probably will have to face Stanley Coveleskie, one of the most formidable hurlers in the circuit. They are by no means conceding defeat in advance. however. Covey has beaten them on all of the three occasions be has faced them this vear, but Urban Faber. an equally powerful fiinger, also had their number until the recent visit here of the White Sox. when they polished him off in an artistic manner. : Much of the burden today of repulsing the champions. led by their spitball star, will devolve unon Walter Johnson. The Kansan recently has given indica- tions of a return to the form which made him the most feared of all hurlers, and with a_team back of him fighting as are the Nationals, a bitter scrap may be expected. Black Sox Still Black. The whitewashing given by the jury to the former Chicago players accused of betraying their employer and the public. in plotting to sell out in the world series of 1919, will have no effect on their status in the eyes of either the American League or pa- trons of the sport. Regardless of the fallure of the prosecution t oconvince a jury that these traducers of the national pastime - violated any law. the fans have their number. There is no place in organized base ball for them, and it is assured none of them ever again will be seen in a park over Caught on the Fly — xperiencing a return of the dizzy spells resulting from his injury last week, GGeorge McBride was unable to return to duty vesterday and may not be in uniform again for several days. In the meantime Zeb Milan is prov- ing an unqualified success as acting manager. Rice picked a most fortunate time to emerge from the batting slump he had floundered in. His single in the eighth was the timeliest sort of a blow. but its value was dependent Jargely on the tripie by Milan which preceded it. Bill Dineen back of the bal had a tough time of it . heing razzed through- out the game by the fans. in addi- tion to getting several earsful of atter from the plavers who took tion to his de s umpire-in-chief Dineen had the | perience of being reversed | sistant on the bases in the | novel by hi ninth inning, hounded over the end of hoxes in right field. Dineen waved Shorten home with what would have h!‘ov\ the tying run. but sent him back to third, when Evans directed his at- tention to the fact that the ground rules provided for only two bases on balls knocked into or over any part of the ands. although three bases would ve been allowed had the ball passed the end of the pavillion on fair territory and then settled in its ultimate resting ‘nlace between the e and the seats 5 o Caens clout over the right fleld wall in the fourth was his sixteenth homer of the season and ties the rec- DOVaf his teammate Harry Hellmann. The latter again was restricted in his batting. getting onl _one hit in five attempts. For his s_o_mutn in the capital the league's Jeading hitter has ‘but three hits in sixteen times at bat to show for his efforts. i rl ility as a base runner e o to be. desired. . He made ‘effort to get bevond the initial sta- :.ir:)n‘ifl the fifth until his attention Was directed to what was going on, and after he did reach third, thanks to Milan's clever dodging. he fell victim to the moss-covered hldd.e_n ball _(rlc!( perpetrated by Jones. Nick Altrock, who was coaching at the far corner at the time, looked mighty sheepish as he walked off the field. e T Cardinals Buy Outfielder. - ST 1OUS Clarenc f fre Siracuse club of the International has been announced by the Louis Natlonals. Pitcher Marvin ioodwin hes been released to. Hous- ton of the Texas League. —_— AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. st. Paul, 15: Louisville, 9. Milwaukee, 12: Cotumbus, Other games postponed; ra when Veach's safety G. AB. H.SB.RBILPct. Shaw. p. 113 6 384 { Courtney, p.... 28 41 14 341 ! Gharrity. c. 88 272 91 Torres. ¢ $ 530t Shanks, 3b.... 104 379 119 E Milan, If €4 207 63 106 418 127 108 480 126 104 396 114 19 2 8 28332 e PERHEEETETETH 53 ..._ IR P FE Y 1 cowsankESE: cconnnoiedEaatSEE otn., pos-i-1 1L 1 L LEVELAND'S Indians, with their war paint somewhat faded and their tomahawks rather dulled, but still a jump ahead of the Yankees in their scramble for the world series wampum, will be the attraction at Mr. Griffith’s stadium this afternoon and for the Having achieved an overwhelmirig victory in what was extensively “billed as a battle for third place with the Tygers, but which proved *ta complete rout for the Cobbmen, Washington's fast-traveling repre- 2 sentatives now will dovte their attention to_ their old, familiar task of ~,upsetting the ambitions of the leaders while the Jungaleers essay a asimilar role with the runners-up in Gotham. the field | August 3.—The purchase j Mueller, outflelder. from<} THOMPSON. which Kenesaw Mountain Landis has any jurisdiction—and that includes all of them where the discredited athletes could hope to perform with profit GRIFFS RUN STRING OF WINS TOEIGHT Milan and Rice Produce Run Which Defeats. the Tygers, 5 to 4. BY DENMAN THOMPSON. OING into the eighth inning G of their final clash with the Tygers with the count dead- locked at 4 all and Howard Ehmke hurling gilt-edge ball after a poor start, J. C. Milan whacked a triple to the scoreboard and tallied when E. C. Rice promptly slashed a single to right, giving the Nationals a clean sweep of the series with the Bengals, an even break in the six- teen games played between the two clubs this season and boosted Washington’s string of consecutive victories to eight. Except for the comparatively low grade of work by the Gi thian pitchers. of whom three saw service, the wind-up contest was a repetition % T of the other recent serformances of the Nationals, with their fight- ng spirit the out- standing feature. Although outbat- ted, the local ar- cay made the most of their hits >y concentrating them, only two of their bingles not Jroving factors in “un-getting, while :he enemy wasted CLYDE MILAN much of its am- nunition. A massing of four hits in the sec- ond inning netted as many runs for the Griffs and offset the steady, bat- tering tactics of the visitors, who gradually pulled up to even terms, but found a barrier in the person of Jezebel Tecumseh Zachary in the later innings that they were unable to surmount. Miller opened the profitable session with a single to center, took second on Harris' jolt bunt, which caught the right-hand side of the visitors’ infield off .guard, and reached third ahead of Ehmke's toss of Shanks' bunt. With the corners crowded Gharrity rammed a single to right which produced two runs, and after O'Rourke whiffed, Courtney helped his own cause along with a safety to center that produced another pair of_tallies. ‘This gave the Griffs a three-run margin over the Jungaleers, who had tallied once in the first half of the session on singles by Flagstead and Jones and Woodal's sacrifice fly. Courtney Is Injured. In the third Courteny, who started) on the mound for the locals, was the victim of an accident which undoubt- edly accounted for the fact that he later was bombed off the hill. With one out he had walked Bush. when Shorten blistered a drive to the box which struck Harry in his midsection and felled him. He gamely retrieved | the ball and tossed out Shorten, then collapsed. He recovered in a short time and. after wild-pitching Bush to third, made Heilmann pop to Ghar- rity. The effects to Courtney of the blow he received were apparent in the fourth, when Veach lifted a ball over the right-field wall and the pitcher wabbled in his control, and in the fifth he was withdrawn after Bush's dou- ble and singles by Heilmann and Veach produced another run and left Tygers on third and first. Acosta was in- serted here and yielded a hit to Flag- stead, which accounts for another tally, although Milan's peg to Shanks nipped Veach sliding into third. Jones was purposely passed, and the rally ended when Woodall rolled O'Rourke. Acosta Is Derricked. With one out in the sixth, Blue singled and was safe at second when Acosta was late in ferrying Bush's tap there. Both advanced a notch n Jose uncorked a wild pitch. h the clouds starting to leak, and dful that another tally might prove fatal, Substitute Pilot Milan held up proceedings at this juncture by yank- !&g the Cuban in favor of Zachary. Shorten’s bounder to Harris resulted in the death of Blue at the plate, and the menace ended when Rice got under Heilmann's long drive. Rice was left at the far corner, which he reached in round three through his Texas League double and Miller's sacrifice. In the fourth O'Rourke was stranded at the mid- way, which he pilfered after being winged, and Milan was run down be- tween third and home in the follow- ing frame following his single, an out and a_ wild pitch, when Miller rapped to Jones. Zeb jockeyed long enough to let Miller ~reach third. ‘Then Bing' was victimized by the hid- Gden ball trick. Milan and Rice Do It. Unable to make any headway against Ehmke in the sixth and seventh, Milan concluded it was time to take matters {nto his own hands in round eight and poled a three-bagger, which was converted into the winning tally when "Rice delivered in the pinch with a single, ‘The Tygers came within a narrow margin of tying it up in the final frame when Shorten got a single to Harris over second and Veach, with two down, doubled to right. but Zach was there in the pinch and made Flagstead lift an easy fly to end it. —_——— AUGUSTA, Ga., August 3.—Ty Cobb, who is here on a visit to his family, says he expects to make Augusta the training quarters of the Detroit team next spring. if better facilities are installed at the local clubhouse. to AB. R. H. PO. A. E. 56 32 81 0 $ 111380 B g e T O TR S S Flagstead, se. col B Lg SN N e Jones. 8b. S ol a0 Woodall, ¢ 13 0038320 Ehmke, p. 130 0.0 3 0 Totals ...... .3 411 212 0 WASHINGTON. AB. R. H. PO. A. E. Judge, 1b. . g 901 @ ¢ . Y U N R R I R S S| A0 NN W R TR et o 0 Tdd b Gharrity, ¢ 0'Rourke. ss. 2 3 :) ‘l, ’2‘ g C 5 2 3 Eenial 0o 0o 0 0 o0 o 1000 2 0 .31 5 8 ;W 12 0 012000 04 ‘Washington . 04000001 x5 Two-base hits—Rice, Bush, Veach. Three- base hit—Mil ach. Stolen base—0"Bourke. ‘Woodall Left on bases—Detroit, 11: Washinj ton, 4. Bases on balls—Of Courtney. 2; off Acosta, 1; off Zachary. 1. Hite—Off Courtney, 7in 413 innings; off Acosta, 21 1 inning; Off Zachary, 2 in 8 23 innings. ~ hit by pitcher— By Courtoey (Jones); by Ehmke (0'Rourke). Struck_out—By Courtmey, 1; by Ebmke, 4. Wild_pitches—Ehmke (2), Courtney. Acosta. Winning pitcher—Zachary. Umpires—Mesers. Dineen and Evans. Time of game—2 hours and 10 minutes. RUTH NEEDS HOME RUN Must Get One Today to Remain Ahead of Mark Set in 1820. Browns Take Two. Babe Ruth must make a home run today, or he will fall a day behind his 1920 program for the first time this season. On August 2, 1920, he made his thirty-eighth home run, and this year he equaled that total on August 1. Yesterday, he could not try to add another, for rain prevent- ed the fourth game of the series be- tween the Yankees and Indians. Ruth has great hopes of increasing his total in the Tiger serles, which starts today. The Cobbmen have ‘not won a game in New York this year, and their pitchers have been quite generous to the Babe. Most of his homers have been made off them. His record against_each team is as follows: Tigers, 9;: Red Sox, Na- tionals, 6; Athletics, Indians and Browns, each 5, and White Sox, 1. The Browns again are threatening to break into the first division in the American League. Yesterday, they grabbed both ends of a double-header from the Red Sox, and now are but one percentage point behind the fourth-place Tigers. Three pitchers were needed to hold the Red Sox to five hits before the Browns could win, 8 to 5, in the open- er. In the second game the Browns got busy early and won, 6 to 2. Wil- lams of the winners did well at bat. He got four hits {n as many times up in the first encounter, and two in three trials in the second. Miller. Tony The Barber. “Collide Milan.” |_|nr ED CALLOW. *| 01d Collide Milan’ is vera great mai He shaka da foot—he shaka da ha He have beega da head cram fulla da brain. We'en he grabba da bat da pitch hava pain. Collide Milan’ no spitta da bat-—he no spitta da ball. He justa cracka da pill to smasha da wall. He no tak’ signel from Clarka Da He use his own bean to maka da biff. He run in da feel lika ds wild gras: a-hop— Justa lika da boota-leg run away from da cop. He pincha da hit—he pincha da run, An’ alla time laugh like he hava some fun. ‘W'en he stan’ at da plate he is fulla ambish To breenga run right over da dish. W'en{ he chasa da fly with quicka da eet Da fans clapps da han' an' shout, “Vera neat.” He steala da base coupla time evra week. He mak’ homa run from Treesa Da Speak’. He mak’ Ty Cobb feela so sore He no coma to Washington deesa year any more. Doan you theenk, my frand, it's leetla too soon To geeva him tick’ to Old Man's Home? You bat your sweeta life, we keepa deesa boy To ';ln basa ball game an’ geeva da oy. Now geeva t'ree-a cheer an’ ey clappa For da basa ball king—Old Collide Milan. ® Pronounced Mi-lan. ——— His Mashie Shot Enough. ATLANTA, Ga., August 3.—CIlift three No. 7 green in a match game, Special Snap Them Up! 812 14th St., 4 Doors North of H St. TInstalled Taranto & Wasman Wheatley, local fer, onn“wig :o;-: ‘I: :;otm’c::d tg: tp:: t Pledm ; ::x:w ont Park public links CHAS. E. MILLER, Inc. Formerly Miller Bros.’ Auto 8upply House. e Y"l. ‘Wait. . T New York Ave. B.Ws i INDIANS HAVE PROVED l fALS MARVEL OF STEADINESS BY JOHN B. FOSTER. Until the records of June and July are perused and the top of the American League race is analyzed no one will realize that it has been closer than the top of Maine to the boundary line of Canada. course of the Cleveland club during that period has been as true to the compass as the prow of an ocean liner. On June 30 they were .638. On July 15 they were .639 and on July 31 they were .639. had a percentage of .625. What May Happen in Base Ball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE. 5 3 Win Lose. Cleveland 636 ew York . 2 Washington Detroit .. 480 St. Louis L4580 Boston . ‘449 Chicago 443 (449 Philadelphia 871 377 . GA! TOMORROW. Cleveiand d at Wash. Detroit a v Detroit N. Y 8t. Louis at Phila St. Louis at Phil Chicago at Boston. Chicago at Boston. Results of Yesterday’'s Games. Washington. 5; Detroit, 4 St. Louis. -5 Boston, 5-2 Cleveland at New York (rain), Chicago at Philadelphia (rain). NATIONAL LEAGUE. Pet. 435 16 Win.Lose. b A28 810 370 500 Pittsburgh, . Louis Rt Chicago 1 423 Cincinnati . 57 418 414 Philadelphia 30 65 816 323 313 GAMES TOMORROW. Hoston at Chicago. N. Y. at St. Louis, GAMES TODAY. Boaton at Chicago. 3 t St. Louis. Brook'n at Cincinnati. at_Cincinni Phila. at Pittsburgh. Phils. at Pittsburgh. Results of Yesterday’s Games. 3 Brooklyn, 4; Cincinnati, 8t. Louis, 6 : New York, 4. Other ~game: (rain). GIANTS SLIP IN' CHASE Game and a Half Behind Pirates After Loss to Cards—Rally Helps Dodgers Win. While the Pirates were idle vester- day, due to rain, the Giants were wal- loped by the Cardinals, the New Yorkers falling back a game and a half behind the Pittsburgh club, leader in the National League pennant race. The only other game played in the circuit resulted in a ninth-inning vie- tory for the Dodgers over the Reds. When Barnes weakened in the seventh, the Cards got four runs on a double, ‘a triple, two singles, a pass and a sacrifice fly, beating the Giants, 6 to 4. The Glants knocked Pfeffer out of the box in the first inning, when they got three tallies, but could do little against Bailey and Walker. Nel batting for Cadore after two were out in the ninth, drove in the tying and winning runs in the game that the Dodgers won from the Reds, 4 to 3. - Three singles had preceded Nels’ pinch hit. Luque was the victim of the attack. Cadore hurled good ball except in the sixth and seventh innings. —_— SOUTHERN ASSOCIATIO! Memphis, 3. 7; Little Rock, 2. 3; Mobile, 2. FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE. Jacksonville, 6; Tampa, 5. Orlando, 9: St. Petersburg, 2. Daytons, 3; Lakeland, 2. MORE POWER MORE OBTAINABLE Records have been examined for a long time back and nothing exactly like such uniformity has been dis- covered. It is a marvel of itself that on the 15th and the last day of any playing month a team should have percentage figures exactly identical. It shows the Smoothness of a team's play even if {t doesn't show lnyl The On June 15 the Clevelands aggressiveness which perhaps would ;’: more to the liking of the Cleveland n: Tribe Did Not Slip. Between June 15 and July 31 the Clevelands did not go back as some thought haa been the case. On the contrary, they really gained fourteen points in standing, not much, it is ;‘ro\.lle, )l:ut hudhl‘y;le‘eded in view of the chase which is bein, ive by New York. B During the perfod in which Cleve- land played with such uniformity the Yankees always were the contenders. On June 15 the Yanks had a percent age of .600, which is not particularly excellent for a team that aspires to pennants. In the last fifteen days of Lfiix"ifi?{&éh’r Y;nkn actually went o 10 594 0n June 30, . 1 nev dropped Since then they have brace and on July 15 were on the last day of the month they had lifted themselves to .824. Be- tween June 15 and July 31 the New York team picked up 24 points in percentage standing. Within the same period the Clevelands gained 14. That was a net gain of 10 points on the part of the Yankees in six weeks, and quite all of it was due to the first good western trip made in their history under Huggins. = Hot Fight in Prospeet. wenty-five points sepa: Clevelands and the Ylnk‘e’e:..;:gle llhle. and 15 points were between them July 31. If at the end of August the Yankees have made another net &ain of 10 points the American League race will be fought with more in- tensity than ever and a hairline will separate the leaders. There may be changes in the lead during the in- terim. Shifting positions do not count g0 much, except to add variety to the race. It's the percentage that tells. The Yankees must overome the percentage lead of Cleveland and hold it permanently, not for the minute, it they expect to win. v nother fact that must not be over- looked is that Cleveland has Dll;:!l this smooth, even game with a pitch- ing staff which is not of standard trength for a championship team. The question arises as to what chance the Yankees would have if the L:,eovellnd pitchers could be depended upon. taken a 617 and —_— INTERNATINOAL LEAGUE. Rochester. 4; Toronto, 2. Other games postponed: rain. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Charleston, 8-0; Charlotte, 2-6. Greenville, 8-4; Columbus, 74. Spartanburg, 4; Augusta, 1. PIEDMONT LEAGUE. Durham, 8; Raleigh, 7. High Point, 10; Danville, 3. Greensboro, 13; Winston-Salem, 12. APPALACHIAN LEAGUE. Johnson City, 2: Knoxville, 1. Kingsport, 8; Greenville, 3. Cleveland, 3; Bristol, 1. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Richmond, 7; Tarboro, 8. - Rocky Mount, 3; Norfolk, 0. Portsmouth, 10; Suffolk, 10 (nine imnings, darkness). Wilson, 7; Newport News, 4. MISSISSIPPI STATE LEAGUE. Jackeon, 6; Meridia: Greenwood, 3; Clar} MOTOR FUE MILES LESS CARBON AT LEADING FILLING STATIONS COLUMBIA OIL CO. ROSSLYN, VA. WEST 1012 —By Ripley. Coveesk) —'NUFR Acquitted Players Have Dinner With the Jurors CHICAGO, August 3—In a lit- tle Italian restauramt om Chi- cago’s West Side the former White Sox thdicted in the base scandal early to- day. accidentally met the twelve them mot gullty of brought by the state, and the twelve judges of fact in the case joined with the men whose fate had been their hands for five eksn which did mot e rise. The jurors went to the rant for a farewell dinn fore returning to their homes. The players and their attorneys went for the same purpose. The | two parties soon discovered each other in adjoining rooms, the doors were thrown open, and the parties became onme. TWO TO YANK MIDGETS Point Way to Roanoke Athletic Club and Tornadoes in Double-Header. Yankee Athletic Club now has won five straight games. Its latest vic- tories were scored over Roanoke Ath- letic Club and the Tornadoes in a double engagement. The Roanokes took the short end of a 9-to-0 count and the Tornadoes were subdued. 10 to 4, In_ seven innings. Pitching against the Roanokes, Rock retired ten batters with strike-outs. The Yank Midgets are on the trail of the twelve-thirteen-year cham- pionship and will meet all comers in that class. For games, telephone A. L. Goldberg, Lincoln 3741-J. Amacestia Eagles beat the Bradbury eHights team, 20 to 3. and desire more action in the sixteen-vear di- vision. Challenges will be received by ailnlxer P. Myers, 1357 Good Hope road. Emerald Athletic Club will play the Randles Sunday at Twining City flats. The following Emerald players are to report at 2218 Pennsylvania avenue at 1:30 o'clock the day of the game: Mansfield, Haslup, Robertson. Burke, Costello, McMahon, Colbert, Sherwood, Callan, Farrell, Stearns, Sullivan, Walsh, Lusby, Goucher. Miles, Ready and Cole. Peerless Athletic Club wants a Sun- day game. Teams interested may tele- phone Manager George A. Simpson. Franklin 2379-J, after 6 p.m. The Peerless nine is scheduled to play Mount_Vernon Athletic Club tomor- row, Southern Rallway Friday and Washington Barracks Saturday. Epailon Athletiec Club is casting about for a Sunday morning engage- ment with some eighteen-twenty-year team on Monument lot diamond No. 1. For a contest telephone M. D. Kor- man, North 9332. —_— YANKEE YAGHTS AGAIN DEFEATED BY BRITONS By the Avsociated Press. COWES, Isle of Wight, August 3—Great Britain won the third of the series of international races for six meter yachts, sailed here today. The British yachts scored twenty- one points as against fifteen points for their American competitors. .. VERDICT IS JUST ONE, JUDGE TE LLS JURORS Yelling and Whistling Mark Acquittal—Cases Against Others Indicted Will Be Per- mitted to Lapse. CHICAGO, August 3.—The seven former Chicago White Sox players and two alleged gamblers brought to trial in_the base ball scandal case today stood legally cleared of any connection with the alleged con- spiracy for the White Sox to throw the 1919 world’s series to Cin- cinnati, a jury last night having found them not guilty on the first ballot. The verdict, frecing Buck Weaver, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, Joe Jackson, Claude Williams and Eddie Cicotte—the former players—and Carl Zork of St. Louis and David Z elcer of Des Moines, was returned shortly before midnight, amidst a scene of wild cheering, whistling and yelling from 500 spectators which w. the bleachers of a base ball park t Judge Hugo Friend. Judge Friend's bailiffs vainly tried to establish order out of the pande- monium which broke loose despite the judge’s previous request. The judge finally motioned to let the demonstra- tion go and joined in by congratulat- ing the defendants and telling the| jury it had returned a just verdict. Other Cases to Lapse. While only nine of the eighteen per- sons indicted in the base ball inves- tigation were defendants when the STILL BLACK SOX 10 JUDGE LANDIS Comiskey Also Declares That Players’ Status Is Un- changed. CHICAGO. August 3—None of the American League players who were acquitted last night of an alleged criminal conspiracy to throw the 1919 world series has any immediate prospects of being restored to or- ganized base ball, according to a statement issued today by Judge K. M. Landis, national base ball com- missioner. “Regardless of the verdict of juries,” said the statement, “no player that throws a ball game, no player that en- tertains proposals or promises to throw a game, no player that sits in a confer- ence with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing games are discussed, and does not promptiy tell ‘his club about it, will ever play professional base ball. +Of course, I do not know that any of these men will apply for reinstatement, but if they do, the above are at least a few of the rules that will be enforced. “Just keep it in mind that, regardiess of the verdict of juries, base ball is en- tirely competent to protect itself against :Tm crooks, both inside and outside the Points to Confession. Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, declared that the verdict freeing his former players did not change his stand, and that until they cleared themselves” to his satisfaction he would have nothing to do with them. Cicotte confessed he was guilty and implicated others,” Comiskey said today. “We had three confessions, and the; have not been accounted for. They im- ggg:led (;Idemlth'ee. and until they can a good excuse we will hav i to do with them.” e noting papoknson In Disappolated ilure to obtain convictions of t former White Sox players was gisap. pointing to President Ban Johnson of the American League. ‘The trial of the indicted plavers and gamblers uncovered the greatest crime it was possible to commit in base ball” President Johnson said. “The fact that the outfit was freed by a jury does not alter the conditions one jota or minimize the magnitude of the offense. “The players are as odious to a clean and right-thinking public as the crooks and thieves they dealt with.” Gleason Scores Them. BOSTON, August 3.—*Kid” Gleason, pilot of the Chicago White Sox, said to day that none of the players in- volved in the world series scandal ever would play with any club of which he was manager. Gleason w violent in his denunciation of the men. “I don't think they’ll ever play in organized base ball again,” he said. —_— Cup Race to Sloop Carolina. NEWPORT. R. L, August 3.—The sloop Carolina, owned by Rear Com- modore George hols, won the race of the New York Yacht Club fleet for the King's cup, over a triangular course, off Newport yesterday. Her corrected time was 8.05.38. Atlanta Suspends Player. ATLANTA, Ga., August 3.—Bobby Stow, shortstop, was suspended for ten days on a charge of indifferent playing by the Atlanta club. ould have seemed more natural in han in the dignified courtroom of case ended. it is believed that the base ball scandal has been forever swept from the boards so far as the courts of Cook county aure concerned. Bill Burns' case was dismissed in return for his evidence for the state, and dur- ing the trial the cases of Ben and Louis Levi of Kokomo, Ind, were dropped. Abe Attell. Hal Chase, Fred McMul- lin. Rachel Brown of New York, J. J. Suilivan of Boston and Ben Franklin of St. Louis still 4 der indictment, but it was repo the state’s at- torney’s office today that their cases would be allowed to iapse The attorneys for th day had little to say of the the defense pointed to the that only one ballot was take by the jury as an absolute vindication of the de- fendants Surprised at Time Taken. Today the jurors expressed surprise that the case had been allowed to drag through five wecks ery ju- ror declared that the defense would have received the same verdict had it sent the case 1o the jury without presenting any witnesses We thought the state had pre- sented a weak c d one juror “It depended entirely on Bill Burns, and Burns did not make a favorable impression with any of us The jurors refused to say reaching their verdict they were of the opinion that was no attempt to throw games 19 world series or whether it was the conten tion that the stat ~d to prov its charge that th fraud the public a through the throw Of the players acquitted last night only “Buck” Weaver, former thind baseman of the Chicago White Sox, and “Swede” Risberg. former shortstop, in- dicated an immedi rtention to appiy for reinstatemen: Joe Jackson, slugging outfielder, said he was through with base ball and woule devote his time 10 a store he has opened here. “Chick™ Gandil, first sacker, bad. adieu to the American League in a p {turesque and forceful fa I 1o Ban Johnson, preside: of the organization Lefty” \Williams, pitcher, said he would fi-professional ball. Edd Cicotte, famous “shine ball” hurler, sa he had talked once in the ecriminal courts building would not dare do so again, and “Hap" sch, cente fielder, reiterated his innocence, but an nounced no plans. Weaver's attorney nounced he was going to *'p back in organized ba ball. berg indicated a desire to major league diamonds, but said b would “leave his fut in_ organized base ball in the hands of the official VAUGHN NOW SEMI-PRO Former Cub Star to Make His Debut in New Role in Chi- cago Today. CHICAGO, August 3—James “Hippo™ Vaughn, former premier twirler of the Chicago Cubs. will make his debut as a semi-professional pitcher h. today on the mound for the Fai banks-Morse team of Beloi Wis ¥1ts opponents will be the Pyotts of Chicago, in one of the twilight games, starting at 6:15, now in vogue in the Middle West League. a group of industral teams. Vaughn was suspended by Manager Evers for deserting the Cubs in New York, after being hit for home rur by Pitcher Douglas and Catcher Spy der in one inning on July 18. Vaughn has been playing leagua base ball for sixteen seasons. He is reported to have a contract with the Cubs calling for $9.000 a season. OARSMEN GETTI.N_(:‘TREADY_ FOR NATIONAL REGATTA TORONTO. August 3.—Oarsmen and scullers representing the University of Toronto and the Argonaut and Don rowing clubs will compete in t} American national regatta at Buffal N. Y., Friday and Saturday. PHILADELPHIA, August 3.—More than thirty Philadelphia oarsmen have left for Buffalo to attend the national regatta Friday and Satur- day. The Vesper, Undine and Majta clubs sent delezations. ST. CATHERINES. On —Hilton A. Belyea, Canadian national single sculls championship, is practicing daily for the international championship event at Buffalo Saturday. whether in rdividuals r of the series. Thomas Nash, an- t Weaver and Ris- return t August 3 who won the