The evening world. Newspaper, September 2, 1904, Page 10

we Boe 4 HE P « ‘Does Not See Any P Coveted t BY JOHN J. M’GRAW. "It “oeem’t seem probable that there @hp be @ Daseball enthusiast anywhere f the country who thinks any team wa “grad the Giants for first place fe have mot the flag just as 4 Beir ‘as if it was nafled onto the pole) Grounds this very minute SRarly in the season when we were games right along from the teams the Western clubs set the pennant war York, and that and Philadelphia throwing games to us New Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburg imed that they had the strongest fine fn the league and t the < ht to be fighting among themselves 4 the pennant, Well, they are fighting among them ves, but it Is fay second place Western Teams Strong Tt is true that the Western teams are Grong—stronger than the Fastern feams, with one exception, which mod- “a @ty prevents me from mentioning »To their charge that the East was “throwing” « here is the answer: ‘Phe Giants have just finished forty @iraight came with the Western clibs ittedly the strongest in the ee with the e exception which 1 Again refrain from mentioning. : of those forty gaines we won Ghirty-three. Looks like the West was ~ throwing, eh? Some More Figures, ‘Yow, here's something | more. ——— doing @ We NING WORLD ENNANT NOW IS OURS,” DECLARES MANAGER M'GRAW ed Giants to Be Beaten for the I, t wi son there ‘trips them | e SURE ossible Way for the} Honor. he has 5 a very 4 ft nad more experience i t rue byt bad bad support fe necessary for me t of Matty, Me tt are" Everybady. knows at they lay the boye ar \ T was elu \ v A rest, and many of them have the ws. All will b a 1 to-morgow, however, and ready 0. play As to what will he done after the seas is nothing just now to say. wen talked of sev series lane SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2—Cham pion James J. Jeffries is not going to Walt for fighters to challenge him. In- arn body. twill world In opin Second Baseman Gilbert. \"KID. YANGER” THE WORLD: M'GRAW NOW OF PENNANT, IN TRAIN Ww as dh + welght, is t Ryan and Points A. ¢ with A SPORTS EDITED BY NG. Jrew Can: | Catcher Frank Bowerman, BASEBALL Cl CHAT FOR FANS Hang that old pe on the Pols, Uke the Beowdway brand when you! Walls, the ery b here he Gin WaRt to get somew come Two umpires were worked at Ameri * “ var erday 0 Low a Twelve games out of fourteen in a tok care ul thet and Connolly of- foreign ficlited ov the bases, Connolly, by. the | Way, luoks like the letter X when stand- Bad, very bad, isn’t it? ing tn the Infield And MeGraw? Johnny i9 lke the ite _,"Widdy" Conroy has « pix farm oute tle boy who pulled down the apples and ; : " away somewhere in the lower sald nothing Jersey, ‘Connie chases "the ' —- t in great practic Why should he he declares. to make @ fellow ‘sure ol Leor ts no longer In the kine | 8round hits. 7 dermorten clans jBrooklyn has twenty-three players on Oe le eae the reserve list for hext season, This Monte Beville, the De catcher. | jy the wreatest number In either league. prewnts a rear view closely resembilng’ Hanlon evidently intends to do some- the back of a hack And he moves much vt ' Timmy Kelly added another scalp to vis belt last night. Jim Sullivan was | the victim and he was put away in spectators gave up the coin to see the hi first two rounds, but the New York hoy kept boring in and at the end of the third royn he had the fight clinched, FRIDAY: seein, SEPTEMBER 2, 194. | HIGHLANDERS CRAWLING UP. KELLY KNOCKS. OUT SULLIVAN h fourth session The fight took place in Westchester and was held In a barn. Two hundred t. illivan showed a lot of speed in the Utility Man Mike Donlin, WOULD FIGHT CORBETT, SHARKEY AND FITZ stead the big fellow has come out with « def to an meet any the same three men tn pring the same ni the rin jat ten rounds each and agree to stop jit any one body and every- | any old time, but who Is there left that can tackle me Tout le what Jeffries says now, and| “MY proposition to meet three men of the three hests him he/in one night Is no joke, Who the men will meet him in @ longer fight for the | are that are selected to meet me I care title \not, I think the best men that could be "T don’t know anybody to fight,” sayy | got will be none too good, What's the Jeff. “T_am willing to go into the ring |matter with Corbett, Fitusimmons and them all." 1 (Special to The Rvenine World.) lew 413 HORSES WORKED T0- DAY ——————— SHBBPSHEAD BAY, N. ¥., Sept. t=) stop at a mile t Moist, cloudy weather, that threatened | Milnge this tr part of his nropantt rain, and & track that waa sound and for the Annual Champion at ty ust wore the training conditions at tte| Miles and a quarter’ Frank We Bay this morning. |DALESMAN-—A half-mile tn 0f4 brees | The most noted workouts were the! ine: J Odom, tratner dlowing HURST PARK-—Four furlongs tn 0M. | UORALAA—Pive furtongs In 1081-4, arte J Odom, trainer handily, A. J, Joyner, trainer. he \E (Four furlongs in 062, hand RALBERT~Five fur rigs in 1.08, bres: | cy ob Campbell. trainer, r ra LOSSALSTheee-cimrters ‘in 1184 ‘4 S teronee te bh end oulled up very lame; J. Hyne ‘breesing; A. J. Joyner, trainer, GLAD 8MILE n TONGORDER—Wive furionge in 1082-4 |— handed” Srumeyer eninge Ly, go iyhealng, A, J. doyaer, trainer RATLIN—Five furlongs In Lib have been away from town Just thie-| "9 tg preening: A. J, Joyner, trainee, SFive-eththa tn 18 aa a teen days. One day was spent in |ISHLANA—One mile in 15% galloping; J amith rainer, » on ‘ ‘Wavelling, one day was Sunday in a Enoch Wishard, trainer ralic NE-—Five-elwhths im 06, | fown where there was no Sunday ball, | MBERIA~Three furlongs in 0.40, hand. aera’ Smith trainer, > Teaving eleven playing days, yet in]. Hy; Enoch Wishard, trainer, Wy Niiltinee quartera tn, 12 t time we played fourteen games heLe Toa th IL LIPO ree furlongs In 0, ith the hardest teams in the league ; mgs, 1m 1,00 1-417 ani 3. Doggett, train "if to beat and won twelve of them. . trainer Ry handity nw, “ne-eiRhth mites We played four double-headers— LA ‘i longs in| RY, ' i K "OE M urley, trainer nee, | 4 ARTE 8 ‘i three of them in succession—got an} yy, Ani yoann’ H Hur} 9 eg Th roa ditty handles Ginris eae - aomensanene 1.041 Ang with Yorkshire Ea ay Six furlongs in 1b 1-8, easily NTATOne mile in L4 1k handily:| p Vee. trainer B trainer’ “ TI-Six furlongs th 1.19 84, gal- BUI RNT. Hints furlongs in 0.8} q)°R'"&, E. Graves, trainer breesing; H. E er, trainer ED pot three-quarters. in 1.19, CABCENE~Six longs in 1.18 1-2, handily; W. Timmons, trainer. handily; C. T. Patterson, trainer.‘ |TOSCAN—Three-quarters ‘in 1.18, easily; REY ANE-Three furlongs tn 04, broes-| William Brown, trainer ing: Matt Byrnes, trainer, OnneoM One mile tt 1.4, galloping STALWART—Saven furlongs in 1.9} : ‘ handily, J. W. Rogers, trainer Mrwopl Ra! ‘i furt in rand ily Catcher Jack Warn ven break in one and took the others. No Eastern or Western club has ever Gone as weil We went away with a lead of nine wames and came back with sixteen to the gvod. Accidents have happened in baseball ‘Teams have taken terrible slumps, but ‘here is no chance of it happening with us. We arr too wel prepared for any emergency. Proof of the Pudding. ‘The frat game of the double-header fm Cincinnati showed that. At a most gritied! stage of the game, with the star jwirler in the box, two of @tants’ most Important men—Dah- Yen and McGann—were put out of the park, and ao minute later Bowerman ‘was sent along. he with an army as @m escort, by the way. stooked Mike a big handicap, didn't it?) ‘Well, we went on for eleven innings beat them out, while the umplge Se hater ao ao giving uw all Worst of it. ‘This younk man Wiltse, by the way going to break a pitching record. Hi ot lost a game so far. He in a} » He has been pitching only; Jong intervals, yet he works 1s | ily as & man who goes in the box third day. Pitchers All Good. too, will make a «reat twirler MAmb for Armless Siceve. Duffy, who says he lives Fulton street, Brooklyn, was Dooley yesterday in the Court on a charge of va- Qs & one-armed man whow he appealed a b etson ior SHOT—S8ix furlongs in 1.16, hand. H GRAV 1, The ESEND, N. Y., Sept: “ing MAJOR Jot this ei | ingured Piteher Christy Mathews: training conditions were perfect at the course this morning. The weather was a bit ety and times threatened rain track was lightning fast M Were shown to @xen the mo notable of which were the following: CAV. HUGH BRADLEY: Bix furion in 1.21, breeaing; W ° er. COMMON BIRD waswit i r in aT bef. hand F jAw Ake NING F handily, W ralner OSGOOD- Eive-right ’ ing; Wifiam Barrick, WORK MAN-—T hreeoetnna rt joer Messick, who A Missing arm wes sent found breeaing 8. Billings, trainer GAY LOTHARIO-One and 4 quarter miles in 215, handily: FP. Wetp, trainer, wo, and one-quarter ‘ U 1.@& handily and > to be bald. f irlongs in DAI ERPIBID_One m T Walsh, trainer -— — Sept B.C. ix ty. while driving in the rw the Broome County fair at Whitney's Py | waa thrown from that he cannot recover hia sulky and ao iret Hoseman MeGann, ly; B. Madden, trainer. MAR iu Four ASTARITA—Four furlongs ta ¢.52,| ) 0.3%, handily: W. Clay breeaing; J. Dwyer, trainer COLONSAY —One mile hd = ». Carter tratner Be cer KING PEPPER--A quarter in o.21,| breging: F. Welr, trainer | OXFORD—S@x furlonge tn Lat t-%, & handily; J. MeLaughiin, tratner DARK PLANBT-One mile in 14s, a ney hand ly, J. MeLaughitn, trainer DUNNE furlongs in 1.06, easily (Spectal tor The Evening World) Harry trainer 1%, te in FALL FROM SULKY FATAL. BINGHAMTON, owne, ~ at u batiy TO PARADE IN COSTUME, COHN Te GRAM fete ty FATE « “NEIL ISN'T WONDER | AT FIGHTING GAME Eastern : ell bored In. ll aid not show a nplonship je of fighting. In the t place he @ reckless lad, who really believes no |fenter living can beat him. dently thinks that all he has tc to wade In. hi talrly \ which he ¢ in Callforria, Neli's showing | t Murphy waa poor for a obam- plon, and if Mugphy was able to deliver a harder blow he migut-bave been the | champion to-day Nell ts a fi or that is Mable to be “ nines contin He very seldom put out by even a third-rater, He | it tied a hae te Walks right up to hts opponent with his |bisw he lands does not nt face and body exposed and lets fly «| forceful | would It is the opinion of experts that if for the stomach or @ Frankie 3 the champion bantam: for the jaw. ca oienct Ach. any GAVE GEA ngs were the ones whtoh 4id tn hie six-round bout wich Tommy [enabled Murphy to do his best work. | Murphy in Poiladeiphia on Wednesday | Whenever they got to mixing Murphy | Bett hee Mill hin ttle to eome {Would shoot his right acrose to Net's bantam before he returns to \J®¥ Of Wpperout him on the chin as Sharkey? That's a pretty husky bunch of knuckle Austers, and if wey were to meet me in a fight such as I plan the: be an enormous house and we | Would al! have sandwich money when | the coonsking were divided But I want {t understood that no negro la to be among the trio. I have no desire to see a colored man even get a chanes to win E rants 6 champlonedp, and I will "Tf this mateh te made I think I A win as easily as I always have. course, It would be a hard fight for ma but T am jn such shape now my would he able to stand the game 2 with: out weakening. “Rily Delanoy thinks T could win a bout of this kind, and I guess that is food enough | for the sil Bo sdb fans,” MMEEKIN DROPS DEAD ON TRACK While Exercising with Sun Gold at Gravesend This Morning He Suddenly Falls to Ground —Sun Gold Goes Lame (Special to The Bventng World.) GRAV ND, Y,, Sept, 2—Me- Meekin, bay horse, seven years old, by Fonso—Dalsy Rose, while at exercise thts morning dropped dead from some unknown cass between the eighth and quarter poles on the Gravesend race tack. The old horse had just finished 1 mile workout with his stable com- panion, Sun Gold. They had galloped the distance tn 145, MoMeekin show- ing much the better of the pair, finish- ing tn the lead of Se running mate by three lengths. Owner and Trainer William Barrick, who was present when the accident happened, stated that “Old Mac,” as he affectionately termed him, appeared bets to SERVICE G |\Some of the Boys Al Please, While Othe oe oo {TRACK MESSENGER ETS WORSE © lowed to Do as They rs Are Disciplined for the Slightest Offense. Seymour Butler, who is in charge ot the Pinkerton forces at the race| track, called the grand stand mes- Sengers before him a few days ago and delivered himself of the follow-| ing oration: “You men are cautioned against) holding bets, You must take your tae ring and get your cus- tomer the dest price you can, ..ny one caught holding bets will be sus- pended. You are not to go between| (he seats; you must etand in the alsle! and a whole lot more on the same order, These may not have been his exact words, but they are the consensus of what he sald Now, of course, grand stand mes- engers are not on the stand for thelr) health, nor do they rum off in trips down to the betting ring and back for the purpose of obliging the females who visit the course speo- ulatively inclined. They want to make money. of course, But, if they fol- low Mr, Butler's injunction not to hold bets, they have only one alter native, and that fe t rob thelr cus- tomers. ‘They must that are swalier in the ring, stealing. Of course, grand stand are young men up im the who have been they are never nor trated to 14 But there are others who give good prices to their customers, who do not cheat and rob them, and they are frequently suspended, It woul seem as if, when mee sengers can be obtained who are per fectly trustworthy and reliable, who do not rob and cheat their women patrons by false prices or other petit larceny methods, that {t would be to the interest of mot only the Pink- erton officials but to the racing «sso etations as wall to retain them Pinkerton Should Investigate. That does not seem the alm of Mr, kerton’s Heutenants, — however, is a constant, and one might endless chain of suspenatons ments, which tend to service, Mr. Pink- erton cught to personally Investigate this grand stand messenger service. He might work reform and order out of what la now chaos, learn why certain me: T say an and petty punt disorganize the in his usual healthy state, and in fact! |i condition of his feed-box would tn- dicate a clean bill of health, not a par- ee of his morning meal remaining MeMeekin in his thrd, fourth and fifth years was one of the stars of the hand!- cap division, meeting all comers at dif- ferent welghts and defeating some of the best which were racing at that Ume on the metropolitan tracks. ‘Jockey Happy Gordon.” who was in the saddle when the old horse collapsed agains! the track rail, Jumped off and was in no way Injured. Sun Gold, who vat working With MoMeekin, pulled up very lame and to all appearances broke lown irreparably. Left-Ftelder Merten, TENNIS FINALS REACHED. A. D. Betts, palred with Ross Bur- chard, won fn the double final in the nnis Association on the courts of the Inglewood Weld Club at Englewood yesterday, The singles reached the inal round, — Deschall, To-Dayy4 P. Ma Amartean Beckiea BH Cointine Pai ~ ONE cee | 694 a ais Sa et > Weert oe Piteher Luther Taylor, ePORTING. mann nnn RA CONBY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB, RACING AT heen BaY fie P waiandl nd and 8 undipturbed, while others are ¢tm stantly tradied and annoyed, Of course, no one belleves that the “favorites” only work for the ure of carrying women'a bev. a tainly not. They wie the ay however, they. are K-19 discovered he act ol ng a be better if the po Svohons took hold of this stand mee rely, ‘The ag of wom erin, ig eg yo over prices, agreeable features of LE-%, lo a be ag 2 rie woman, and #0 betting ring, ee lay ‘against Strange It would, as matt Senger service and wiped it out @a- is wling cepts ¢ ° f of admission J ws ae, ee refuse her th Should hi yy Boys. in bonding The messen| rem les om be that an orderly perfectly bie force can Palntaied. Then messengers not be subjected to the ee likes and petty annoys which je. from they not near the price that Bag quoted Pca in the That hinble mesa put an end Hae of | pinkerige yet a of aro the A clos game {is expected Bunday when the Murray Hills and the Royed Giants, the strong colored team, come together at Olympic Field. In their previous ne te the Roya) Giants wom by @ score of btot Third Haseman Devlin, FUN AT THIS BALL GAME, . There will be plenty ot tupiand ete elte itable when the three colored teams and the Central Isiips meet. home team will tackle the famous cdlored Glanta, “King known ecuntry the peer of a'l colored coachers. will bs on the line to spur on the colored boys, ‘The colored termi from the Plerce A. C. and the Ansonia) will meet in a preliminary gam Men Cured by Me. My Ww years perience as a ent as By Ke as * certain t your aftiietion ‘Te | cured by ma, permanently vie L a Tae 1,09, ‘party H a0 fn, NY Mi D minites, Brook itn minutes by t, All Brookiy: %o “rack A.M. and pectin at Mth st Brooklyn Reo! Fran .| CHICAGO HANDICAPPER Wilson's, Dt v te Col, MIs, Dea tournament of the Hudson River Lawn] q, New York's Master Specialist. about De LR. Williams, '® “OLD DR, GRINDLE, 4,8 apeciallat in the diseased of im Dr. tindie’s seclentifie treat: 1 and skin discase, pains In tones, and mouth, u! ladder complaints By Urder bi ROBERT EDGREN . - / Park Sunday; | throughout thé 4 Ieers, | {