Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1925, Page 22

SPORTS. 929 Johnson Shines in A DOWNS CLUB THAT BEAT HIM IN HIS DEBUT IN 1907 Holds Tygers to Two Singles in Winning 5 to 1 to Get Revenge for 3-t0-2 Defeat in Big League tart—Griffs Now Game Behind A’s. his first N August 2, 1907, a 19-year-old-boy, fresh from a horse-and-buggy league in Idaho, ascended the mound in the ball park at Seventh street Florida avenue to toil against a Detroit club. It was appearance and he was charged with the loss of the | wpressive was his performance that The Star of the fol- and big lea contest, but lowing day pronounced the recruit as “the find of the year” and a pitcher | likely to be heard from in many Eighteen years later, to the day :La mound for the Nationals, ag emonstrated in no uncertain ma was right. That ncarly two Nationals—have, taken little t son was proved conc Iy his game to Athictics In the place on the League champion innings that day hits to a LZgres sluggers, en with the sc to 1 igainst him ave way to pinch. batter. Long Tom Hughes succeeded Walter and the Detroit club went on | to win, 3 to scasons to come yesterday—the same pitcher ascended | 1 facing a representative of Detroit, and that what was sail ot him i 1907 ecades of major league pitching—aii with the from the mighty arm of Walter John- when ke held the Tygers to two hits, won siv e his biz league for a_last against a team almost | becoming American | He hurled eight inting only six of powertul inson pitched ANCTHER FOR AGE . R. H. o 0 o 0 0 0 0 o 1 o o o 0 o verge DETROIT. 't 3 b. 0 o 0 o ables on Cobb. a member of had a share in the young pitcher vears erday Walter took his the famous Tyrus it bat. The fully Bobby led in and again in the issued but two them w ranted Turns T Ty Cobb, Detroit_clu feat of the ago, but yes revenge. He hitless in_three only member of the veteran's was Bobby Jones the fifth seventh passes intentionally George Dauss opposed Johnson at the outset of hostilities, but he made way for a pinch-batter in the eighth, and Ed Wells, hpaw, finished on | the hill for the Tygzers. Dauss was nicked six safeties, including triples ickey Harris and Joe Judge, and walked one batter. Wells, the old times the vi delivery succe Peckinpaugh, ss Ruel, Johnson. v. sir Totals Detroit Wasl 0o Three-buse hits—. Harris. Judge. | base—>eNeely. Sacrifices—Ruel. N. Harris | Double plays—Duuss to Blue, o Rigney. Left on hases— Washington. 2. Bases on balls— | off Wells, 1; off Joh Wells, by Johnson. . 6 in 7 innings; off Wells, Losing pitelier—Dauss, | Moriurty, Hildebrand and gume—i hour und 38 nd one of ton. Stolen in one round of toil, vielded only hit and a pass, but was vietim some loose support The champs lost little time getting on the right side of the ledger, scor- ing in the initial inning. Stan Harris sent a mighty drive to right center for three bases and continued home when Burke relayed Heilmann's return past Bassler at the plat of H. SB. RBL Pct. 316 Ruether Ric Goslin MeNeely Judge Gmaaxses Clinch Game in Fifth. In went the fifth up for Judge gone, Bluege bunt _sward third and throw by a couple of steps tinued the good work with a ripping single to left on the hitand-run sign and Bluege, trying for home, landed there safely when Wingo made a bad throw to the plate. Peck reached third on the heave. Muddy Ruel then came through with a pretty squeeze play bunt and while Jones was toss ing him out Rajah ambléd over the | rubber. Another pair of runs went up for| the Nationals in the elghth. Johnson | led off with a clean single into center and McNeely negotiated a pass to | first. Manager Harris sent them along with a neat sacrifice toward | third. Rice followed with a fly to : Cobb and Walter got home, Cobb's )s 5 3 i bum wing permitting him score| | SEOIT,.. S 53 with ease, while McNeely thijd /" MoERe 19 £ third “Record while Wells had taken Dauss' eighth, the result of a batting for the veteran twirler, and when the big southpaw took his time winding up, McNeely dashed for home and completed the brilliant idea by sliding under Bassler the ball came in waist high E Lets Tygers Score. Barney turned the Tygers back in order. in the first four innings. then affairs looked bad in the fifth, but ynly for a minute or two. With one gone, Sam Rice made an inglorious muff of Hefimann's easy fly. Blue lofted to Goslin for the second out but Jones’ hard single to right Heilmann to the hot corner. An ir tentional base on Dballs Bassier filled the sacks, but the se under Dauss’ fly for the third ind the crowd heaved a sigh of relief In the seventh, though, the Tygers offset a Griff rally. Cobb was given a free passage to first, but Heilmann skied to Rice. Blue then forced Tyrus at second, Peck to Harr Jones fol lowed with a single to center, and when McNeely's perfect throw to Bluege took a bad bound and rolled into the Tyger dugout, Blue continued | home. | HORNSBY GETS 27TH HOME RUN OF YEAR wciated Press stanza the Ha two more runs rismen. With t a perfect t Dauss Peck con sei Leibold Gregx Adams ©502-0m3-2 Coveleskie Innings pitched. Coveleskie Marberry Johnson Ruether Exos surted. -] 223 gumes. 258 = Complete ; to taoed ationals. place in the pinch-hitter his OUNG Stadium. | Y America will have the Washington club has designated voungsters up to the ne of the series betwee se of first come, first served. The boys will enter the park | at the Fifth street gate that will be pened for them at noon. After 10,000 | h: filed in, the free list will be| suspended. As an added attraction | there will be a game between the Auth Midgets and Corinthian Midgets, start- | ing promptly at 1 o’clock. The big| leaguers are to take the field as usual it 3:30. sent to vard, and to the final g 1t Zot will be a ont ve For the third game of the set with the Tygers Boss Harris was expected \Lto send Jez Zachary to the hill this [afternoon. Manager Cobb had his prize southpaw, Earl Whitehill, ready for fans who were positive was resting on account of a arm instead of bad tonsils, wert given a shock when the big bo |1owed the Tygers only two hits. Wal- New | ter worked in a manner that indicated renewed | he was not.in the best shape, as he put on | refused to smile throughout the game, | with | hut he certainly had lots of speed and | {good control. | By CHIC. Angust York Giants, nerved by buzzing of the pennant + revival of home-run h during the last week the momentum of the effort first place for one day, displacing the Pittsburgh Pirates, who connected for only one four-hagger. Yesterday, however, Rogers of the Louis Cardinals runned them right back into place in. He exploded his ty-seventh of the against Giants with two men on the ) The the bee, and on rode into seven | Other than Johnson's wonderful 93-‘; hibition, McNeeley’s steal home in the eighth was the feature of the game. | | Al Schacht, coaching at third, was | | noticed speaking to Mac and the latter | shook his head in the negative. But Wells' slow movement, With his back | to third, was too much for the speedy | | center fielder and he dashed for the All told, the National Leaguers col- | blate. The move was a big surprise to | Jected 22 home runs in the week, | everybody on the field and off, and as | while the batters of the junior circuit | Mac fairly flew over thg ground, the | hecked in with an even dozen ! result of a good/start, the steal proved Babe Ruth of the Yankees hit one |2 clean-cut affafr more for a season’s total of 1| (qph, seen just before donning his : S e i 24, | uniform, said he was not feeling well | T e dland that he was playing on his| aone, Philadel {“nerve.” Out on the field Tyrus dis-| Naiioaal Fornsby missed all his ills and fielded in his| Hos triett. (Gifickgo, 24 usual form, making one catch off | L s |Goslin in the third that gained him | to get the ball. But he went aw. on in the first, playing | shor sult that the young IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES:U,M o NEW YORK, August 3 (®).—The| st week’s major league record of nd opponents’ runs, including games urday, follows NATIONAL LEAGUE. Horns: home. second twen the by St season Sim St. Louis, 2 Bottomley, York, 16 An easy double play bobbed up in | the third for the Tygers. With one | {gone, Johnson singled to right. Mc-| | Neelv. trying to bunt, popped a sharp | | fiy to Dauss and, as Barney had start- ed for second, a toss to Blue ended| the round. y applause, as he had to come in close | RECORD FOR PAST WEEK |leader slammed one over his head for " mes won and iost, runs, hits, erro L The Tygers' other dual killing came | in the sixth stanza and made the! champs 100k somewhat small. J“d‘ei TODAY BASE BALL ;3% AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK Washington vs. Detroit Tickets on Sale Base Ball Park at 9 AM. Daily Jrookly New York. .. sburgh . ladelphis St. Louls. Boston . Chicago . AMERICAN LEAGUE, Chieago . 3 Clevelund New York. .. Philudeiphia Washington St. Louis. Detroit . Boston . i | HARPERS va., Au- Complying with the policy Johnson, president of the American League, President Griffith of number 'NINES TO FOR 3D CORPS HONORS| gust 8.—The Potomac - River .clear and Shenandoah cloudy Worning. was this North 2707—North 2708 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO! D. C., MONDAY, A Just by way of afferding diversion for the more than 20,000 fans on hand yesterday to see Johnson record his | fourteenth victory of the campaign as the middle pasture executed a clever theft of home in the eighth inning. Earl eluding the effort of Catcher Bassler to tag him as Goslin, who was fanned by Wells on this play, do h champions’ fleet guardian of the shows backing up to give Mac room t SHAMROCKS SCORE AGAIN; RACE IS A THRILLER | BEARCATS sandlotseries for the unlimit terday by trouncing the fast C game, while the Chevy Chase Bearcats also moved into the 1,000 class by | trimming the Aloysius Club, 5 BIG LEAGUE STATISTICS | AMERICAN LEAGUE. ¥ — Win. Lose. 856 813 Philadelphia Washington Chicago . Detroit St. Louis Clevelund ew York Boston TOMORROW. . Detroit at Wush, York. Cleve. ut New Vork. St St. Louls at Boston. Chiicigo at Phil. GAMES TODAY. GAMES Chicago ut Philu. DAY'S RESULTS, Detroit, 1. New York, YEST Washingtor Clevelund NATIONAL LEAGUE. | Rittsburen New York | Cheinnati GAMES TOMOR Brooklyn at Ch Y. at Nt Louis. Phila. at Piits. GAMES TODAY Brooklyn at Chicago. N. V. at St. Louis. hita. at Pift Boston at Cin YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Brookiyn. Cineinn St Louls, cinnati. ton, 5-5. 8; New York, 1. 106,000 Boys to Get Free View Of Big League Game Tomorrow Griffith Ban tomorrow at Clark recently put forth by innings at Tuesday as “boys’ day” at the ball of 10,000 be admitted free n Nationals and Tygers. had opened with a ringing triple to the right field corner. Blueg then walked. In trying for bunt Peck fouled to Biue Ruel then rolled to Jones and Judge was caught and run down by Jones and B: ler, Joe Slip- ping to the ground ‘he out came too quick, as Bassler straightened un and pegged to Rigney, who had cov ered third, flagging Bluege, who was dashing for that base. 0 STiART PLAY wiil CAMP MEADE, Md., August 3.— The lid will be pried off in the 3d Corps Area championship series here today with the Tank School meeting the 6th Field Artillery in the open- ing game at 1:15 o'clock. At the close of the first tilt the 12th Infantry will oppose Camp Hola- bird. Two games are listed for each day this week, excluding Saturday Monday will witness the ending of the series. AKRON, Ohio, August (). — required the Pittsburgh Pirates innings to defeat the General 3 It 11 held the Pi s for the first five innings. tes hitle: MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS TIONAL Rochester, 5: Syracuse. 4: Reading. 10: Jersey INTERN/ LEAGU Buffalo, 7-2: Toronto. 4 Providence, Baltimore, AMERICAN Louisville, 5- Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, 6 ASSOCIATION. Columbus, 2.6 Toledo, 0-5 Milwaukee, SOUTHERN ASSOCIATIO Chattanooga, 6-4; New Orleans, Mobile. 4: Little’ Rock. 1. M Birmingham, 1-0 shville, 4 NOTICE! T. J. Camfield service manager of . R. Motor. Co., has taken over their shop-at 22nd and M Sts., and is fully pre- pared for service and repair of all makes of cars. Gardner Service a Specialty —formerl, the B. HAMPION Shamrocks registered their third straight to 1, in their initial start in the flag race. | Tires, 7 to 3, yesterday. Jim Vaughan | Nationals scored their second consecutive victory over the Tyu-rt,_r'ih't’ his stuff. START WELL! IN SOUTHERN LEAGUE | BY JOHN B. FOSTER. NEW YORK, August 8.—What a ed base ball title of the District yes- | fight it is for the pennant in the Pullman nine, 10 to 5, in a section A |Southern Association! It has been the boast of the American Association | that it could furnish the best ! 5 .. | season contests in base ball, hut the | . Georgetown Knickerbockers got back | ymerican has nothing on the Southern. {into the win column again with an | “"myeCUe Bt T A E S N Orieans S-to-4 triumph over the Holy Comfort- | the high fteam, less than 90 points | ers in Section B, and the rk:mlnlchn‘hpller off than the tail-enders, Bir- Lyceum combination scored & shutout | mingham, the entire first division over Buck Grier's Petworth team.|rating better than .500, with the leader 3 to 0. | only 547 The Chevy Chase team's start in| The Western League has had its the series was an auspicious one. with | share of competition this vear, but it Oscar Claude besting I3d Nihiser, has not been able to maintain it as University of Maryland star fiinger, | the Southern has. Denver has a grip in a mound battle. The Aloy batters |on the situation now, and while Des were able to collect only three bingles. | Moines is giving battle to the leaders, win in the mid- | they will have to go some to. over.| Gates, the losing pitcher, also pitched | after Maryland Athlet Club, Mount Rainier and Maryland Park got off on | the right foot in the opening clashes of the newly organized Prince Georges County locp. Maryland Athletic Club | had a tough time with the Pierce |it is not very easy to see how it can nine of Hyattsville, but managed to |be beaten for the pennant.” They have come out on the long end of a 5-to-3 | the players, and a fighting spirit that count. With Wachtel on the mound, | no other team in the league seems to Mount Rainier took Seat Pleasant to | possess excepting possibly camp, 6 to 3, and Maryland Park shut | City. out Kenilworth, 6 to 0. Waterbury was leading the I - League at the week end, but ford has climbed to the top now bany, the pacemaker for a lon is in_third place. come Denver. The Louisville club is running aw | with the American Association race. San Francisco has not the lead it had in the Pacifi ast League, but ¥ tern Hart In the Arlington County League Cherrydale put the skids under Addi son, 7 to 3, and Arlington disposed of Clarendon, 6 to 1. The Addison toss- ers gave the Cherries a stiff battle, but the superb hurling of Clatterbuc was too much for them. Johnny Lay- pitched for Arlington. g time, This Hartford team to prove bard to dislodge. Toronto is giving Baltimore a battle for the leadership in the International, and that has helped make the fight {full of zip, but apparently Toronto cannot deal the Orioles a blow that Lieut. Mike Ready's Police Depart | will knock them off their pins. ment nine was handed its first set- back vesterday when the strong Sea- brook team earned a elose decision, SECTION B HONORS five runs in the first inning of their zame with Eastport at Annapolis yes- terday and copped the victory, 6 to 4 Warwicks came from behind In the| southend sixth to defeat the Linworths, 5 to 4. - 4 ext Sunday the Linworths meet the | CAmpionship Crescents in the first clash of a three- | junior division of the Washington game series for the District senior|Base Ball and Athleti tion championship. | vesterday by defeating St. Mary's, 4 | to 2, while the Cardinals were ing ‘the lead in Section D with two victories over the Federal Juniors by scores of § to 0 and 23 to 6. Juniors of Section clinched B of the Assoc Heavy was a Dread the Fort Hitting hitting by Mickey Kell big factor in the Alexandria | ights’ Sund riumph over | Huhphreys nine, 7. safely in three of his ous| _ The Clovers stayed out In front In trips to the bat, Kelliher two runs and dented the drove ”l‘Sp('livlnl b; lln‘n|n)lv back the Arrows, plate: for | 4 to 2. and the Meridians Kept to the ihe. winntae el | fore in Section A when the Congres- sionals forfeited the second game of a double bill after winning the opener, 9 to 8. The Peerless nine took both ends of a double-header in Section A from the Atlantics, 10 to 0, and 10 8. Other junior clashes resulted in a National Circle tossers, who have | double win for the Swanee Preps over been hitting the bumps in the un.|the Yorkes, 18 to 4 and 6 to 0: a |limited series games, took the meas.| Freer victory over Bloomingdale. 7 |ure of the White Haven Club, 6 to 1.{t0 5. and two triumphs for the Cres- | Huft worked on the mound for the|cents over the Renrocs by scores of s 9to1and 5 to 1. Four midget nines register ble victories in the series games Brown and Owens pitched for Brad- bury Heights when City Post Office | and Riverdale were defeated in a dou- | ble bill by scores of 14 to 2 and 16| to 2 Lroids d dou | With Ellis Goodman in the box, {the Rialto Club nine triumphed over |played terday. Kearney was the the Black and White Taxi team, 3|star of the Winsalles' two wins over {to 1, in 12-inning battle. Wine-| the Randles, 10 to 6 and 10 to 0. garden, the Taximen's diminutive|while Hurler Hutchinson was credited flinger, was master of the situation|with a pair of triumphs when the until the ninth, when bingles by Sau-| Dreamland tossers handed setbacks to ber, Rosenblatt and Mensh shoved a |the Smithfields, 13 to 10 and 6 to 2. run across the knot the count. Texan Midgets copped from the Orfentals, 11 to 0 and 7 ito 1, while the Seminoles trounced the Terminals, 20 to 2 and 4 to 2. YANKEES BUY LAZARRE. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, August 3 of the sale of a | Fort Myer dropped a T-inning con- test with the Earle Theater team, 3 to 1, Camburn pitching for the winners. | Omey’s winning streak was broken in a game with Walter Reed Hospital, | | the soldiers running up a 9-to-1 score. | ALT LAKE CIT Errors at critical points of the game | Tony Lazarre. Salt Lake shortstop, to {caused the downfall of the West End|the New York Americans has been | Athletic Club in a meeting with the | made by H. W. Lane, president of | Sanitary Red Sox of Alexandria. The |the local club of the Pacific Coast 00d 9 to 8 for the Sox. League. A sum of money, the amount of which was nat given out, and five players are to be turned over to Salt Lake in exchange. PRI 5 HITS THREE HOME RUNS. WHEELING, W. Va. August 3 ().—Pete Monohan, first baseman for the Fairmont team, in the Middle Atlantic League, defeated Wheeling single-handed yesterday, when he knocked three home runs over the right fleld fence. The score was 3 to 2. Monohan also got a trple. Alexandria Cardinals, who bowed to Mohawks esterday Davis connected for a homer when the Lafayettes trimmed Bladensburg, i1 to 7. Hess Seniors won from Ballston, 6 to Yankee Juniors trounced the Oriole Seniors, 11 to 5. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! All NEW and USED CARS Will Be Sacrificed at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES GARDNER AGENCY B. C. R. Motors, Inc. 22nd and M Sts. N.W. West 2006-2007 OPEN EVENINGS Salt Lake | is a fighting outfit and they are likely | the | um- | GUST 3, 1925 PIRATES AGAIN LEAD AS M'GRAWMEN LOSE Pittsburgh Pirates sat with folded hands and permitted the St. Louis Cardinals to hoist them back into first place in the National League by trouncing the New York Giants, 8 to 1.| Four New York pitchers were lib- eral in their hit allowances, while Mails scattered seven bingles by the visitors through the nine frames. Hornsby led the St. Louis assault with a tripple and a home run. The return of Pittsburgh to the peak marked the tenth change in the National League leadership since the first week in July. Cincinnati Reds, after winning 10 straight games, broke their streak by tossing the second game of a double- header to the Boston Braves. Nine teen men were hurled into the breach to stem the tide for the Reds after they had gathered in the first game 8 to 5, but errors by Wingo and Cav- eney to 3. Dick Cox's homer, his second in as | many day gave the Robins a 4-to-2 triumph over the Cubs in the League melee. Cox delivered his cir cuit smash with two on base in the opening frame, Osborne and Ehrhardt between them making the lead safe by limiting the Chicago team to four hits. In the junior circuit, the Cleveland Indians shattered a four-game winning streak of the Yankees, 3 to 2 Speaker, held hitless by Shawkey, nevertheless was able to supply winning clout of the game—a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning after Jamie- son had doubled and moved to third |on an infield out. ARCADE-SUNéHINEV NINE Base ballers of the Arcade-Sunshine Club opened their campaign by defeat- {ing the Takoma Park unlimited nine, 8 to 5. Finnicon fanned 12 of the | batters who opposed him | The Arcade-Sunshine team is booked | to meet the Lafayette Club next Sun " day at the Monument Grounds. Clubs wishing to arrange games should com lymmi(-nw with Manager Paul Wells at Columbia 8010. 17 FANNED BY KREMB | AS LIBERTYS SCORE | nullified the rescue attempt, 5| produced the runs that | only other National | the | DEFEATS TAKOMA PARK |“<:su | | | | | SPORTS nniversary Contest : Majors Turn to Colleges for Talent PRICES ASKED BY MINORS DEVELOPING NEW MARKET Varsity Team Training Probably Not as Useful and Helpful as Work in Small Leagues, But Fits Material for Advanced Association. By the Associated Press EW YORK, August 3—Gradual replacement of the minor leagues by the college diamond as the hope of the major leagues for re building their teams is seen as one of the outstanding develop- ments of the 1925 season by President John A. Heydler of the Nationa! League. “It has come to the point where the price of a minor league star is just about prohibitive, while the price of a minor league player of more than average ability is so high that a major league magnate must gamble on this player and his possible benefit to his team,” says Heydler. “So the major league magnate is now more frequently turning to the college ranks A college player has four years of training. It is not as strenuot and probably not as useful and helpful as four years of minor league training, but on the other hand, it is reasonable to assume that the col lege player will come to the majors with his mind better trained and hi mental faculties better developed to acquire big league education. ‘They are playing faster ball in the Barnes of Boston, and Willlams of olleges now than they did 5 or 6| Philadelphia are a few of the veterans vears ago. They now employ a larger | who come in for National League me number of ex-big league players as|tion coaches and their training period iS| Collins, Speaker, Cobb, Johnson and longer, while the schedules are filled | Coveleskie in the American. receive with hard contests | praise from the National president. Heydler also calls attention to the| Imperative need for club rese act that players who have been in |strength, in order to survive the test harness 10 .years or more are setting | of a keen race, has been proven, #ays the pace for the youngsters this sea- | Heydler. He points to the fact the son, not only in the majors, but in the | the Giants have had to revamp the American Association, International | entire infield ; he ue and Southern Association other clubs have ected by ir Meadows and Morrison of the | juries to stars Pirates, Snyder and Gowdy,of the| “At this time,’ Giants, Rixey, Luque and Roush of [is not a ‘soft’ spot the Reds; Stock, Wheat and Fournier | This means that a of the Robins; Alexander of the Cubs; | keep at top speed al been a he observes, “there in our league contender m the time.” THE CALL OF THE OUTDOORS ! BY WILL H. DILG, President Izaak Walton League of America. P in the wilds of northern Canada men who are four cabins with their minds wandering, or who come ments with their dazed Any r lone settl 9 called eyes and their tongues i under coh the rent, a “bushed.” man whose mind has crum | £ Fanning 15 batters in the regula. | loneliness is called “bushed tion nine innings and adding two | more to his total in an extra session, | Sunny Kremb of Liberty Athletic | Club “registered his outstanding vic | tory of the season by nosing out the | Georgetown Seniors, 4 to 3. Johnny | areat "bal The Liberty Club's came in the tenth clean single, stole second, went to | third on a wild throw and came home | when Lewis Barnes tapped an easy one to the infield Pop Kremb, Liberty manager, is anxious to sign up a good catcher land an infielder. Candidates are re winning margin | quested to report at the team'’s meet- | perienced in the wilds ing tonight at 718 Taylor street [ Moose Midgets took both ends of a | double-header, winning from the East Midgets,' § to 4, and | the Natfonals, 11 to | ern Meridian nines split even first went to and the New second, 6 to 5 and New Haven in two games. The the Meridians, 5 to 1, Havens copped in the | Circle and Peerless midget | engaged in a 15-inning | cles winning out, 3 to battle, | Southern tossers Olivets, 16 to 7 trimmed | Rex Peewees are out for blood | wish to connect in their class North 3833 and up with other teams Call Billy Berkley 'FRENCH SPEEDBOAT IN GOLD CUP RACE the ated Press DETROIT, August 3 cable fr T. A. Clarke, lenger for the British internatio (Harmsworth) trophy by the Y ¢ s Association of America, stating that he will ship his boat on the French liner Savoie from Le Havre | August the gold committee |of the foreign entry | There had been some skepticism re- {marked among officials and follov ers of motor hoat racing as to the genuineness of the challenge to enter in the ninth annual regatta on the Detroit River September 5-7. Little is known here of the boat or its possibilities, and its name has not been announced. It is powered with two 16-cylinder Broguet engines, and its hull is the Thornydroft type of hydroplane. Mr. Cla |man who lives in | will be French | The American team to date includes | Commodore Gar Wood, who brought | the trophy to this country in 1920 and {captured 1t again in 1921: his son, | Garfield A. Wood, jr., and the Yankee | Doodle, owned by H. Alex Johnson of New York | By Receipt of a French chal- crew RegularGasolinc Call for, when Taylor hit | tion, extreme trouncing | close to nature that lonel | +| talking teams | celves the | 1}y at | il hts- | | men midget | still in his eyes. afflicted on Sometimes these men only temporarily. It may pass a: as they have reached companions and comfort. Again, it may last. One phase of it affects the victim eve time he goes into the woods there- though he may be perfectly sane in civilization. Although loneli ness is the chief cause of this condi suffering from hunger or through some harrowing experience may act the same way. There are cases on record of men who have gone through all the rest of their ye: carefully hiding away bits of food, for fear of going through another starva tion period such as they may have ex are 'BIKEMEN WILL TAKE TESTS NEXT SUNDAY and e Was championship Lou Mo. 3 be held Field next Winne senior Sund; in the 't national meet the cy will with al Loneliness is terrific when it 1 ex a good start. Man evidently was made to be solitary, H. to the contrary. It's when is until the and teur eligible to handsome prizes beir St. Louis Cycle Club. Amo niors alrea for the local elimination Bobby Connor, Edward Pet M Paul Messien ank Tolsor Charles h Re the j who havoe with him. There are very who live by themselve in woods that do not talk to themselves Even as you read this there are men, sitting in front of their little cabin in the depth of the forest, sn pipes or washing the to themselves—telling many things, laughing to the rising moon A few years ago a man entered the Canyon to trap during h He was a young fellow, per- 35 years of age. He entered the . Lig canyon with a saddle horse and a | P® had f pack horse and a complete outfit stree Nothing more was heard of him un- | one day in the early Spring he came out. He was leading one horse. He had eaten the other. His hair was as white as pure snow. His feature were drawn, and the great fear was His outfit was stil in the canyon. He went through the little town and was never seen agair They found hi outfit and the re mains of the horse in the canyon five vears later. The lure of the outdoors is terrifl It grips even its casual visitors with mighty fingers. 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