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UP TO DATE THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, MAY 32, 1908, SPORTING NEWS AND COMMENT roserr'rderen OXING i parred in New Tork.' Well, what of it? Those Who are fond of the strenuows ghme can ‘and dasededl games. > Really, when the’ Gtants and, Pirates D) | mapet these days it looks Liles « line-up en our old friends Kbropetkia My Oyama, instead of a etruggle be- ) Rweent two exponente of ‘the national | Gaturdiny % looked itke oe at the: | cy pemeage even before ‘empire play. MoGraw started it With- ' @ut the mlighest cxouse so far as OM ; ound th sw datosrecaly nd ihe "Pivetes’ Demise, the,| misplaced celebritt OW would you Ike to be # race-’ traok owner? O: maybe you) ‘Would like to be anbookmeadoen, or & vace-track visitor. “ Come to think it over caretully, one IY would cast his vote in favor Bie’ f taking on the character of the track ny or the bookmaker. They are the Muhly onea who are going to At in thig Controversy between ‘the ook: Makers (the M. T, A.) and whe track Owners, ‘Lhe si, 1. A, has been wiped wut of existence, it is true, tut the Wiping-out process has netted each and eyrety one of tho members at iwaat $i day, The track owners have won a victory, over the bookies, and by so doing have lost a revenue of about $5,000 a day. To offset this they have, or will, in * eresee, their receipts about $7,000 a day, ail this will come out of’ the pock- @ts of the racing public, J gap other words, the bookmakars, whtie faving their association recognised, Anh have eal thei oe privileges and at { the sume ‘time will exve about $5,000 a » day; tho track owners will lose $6,000 a ) day 'from the boolkmaxens, but will gain from racegoers, And the tace- Well, they will continue to bo puilied and browoeaten, be allowed to elt money to the ‘gentlemanly (2) hookles, and will i the privilegy, 1 Dey 0m & day tor Who wouldn't be a racegoor? Sangree Explains Something in Con- nection with It and Answers Letter from a Fan, Y bh “Rie BY ALLEN SANGRERF. What Is this—a baseball feud for blood and bones between the two lead- ing teams of the National Lesgue? j wy looks Iie It. And that, tao, 5y Hackenschmidt !n Europe andj Jettries i gone to hunt bears tn the Rocky Moun 4 tains, Umpire Johnstone made the rounds of every life insurance, offee iNew York to-day and wae wu By all, Lloyd's refused to ui him, though they took a ec! 4 Rojestvensky. He has demanded a Pollee protection foy this after a ned down. lerwrite , ame, and the privilege y can, To such aad pase has our 4 @ame arrived! This feud is no now th It has heen a brewing for several ye It began Ly Pittsburg's per: It has been Intens:tic success, but especially by pwriters, who take ple ing not only the G other visitins team, y Hard on Players, Judging by the leite this office In the jas fi Yorkers do not seem toa it means to sa thes, stoned 4 foreign field re a pretty callous Do you suppose an act the theatrical business two mor ‘one night he were exsed, the next applauded? Beareel: y New York's the Pittsburg sure in slander- ants, but ¢' recelved a New wd But a ballplayer must stand anything | Qiid everything, Bven an urnpire haya | MoGraw, Megann NO years uld; Donilit Follows Instructions. Great Interest has been taken in Nel- Mirly tough time of | Hurst's [Hers Ag tar as dite 108 Donn to-day would be batting more|son since he came here, although the Weir sll rises when b Sofie big | cumcerne 10 han his per age up to Satur-| Western boy has somewhat chilled ,en+ negro who chased him c q itn scythe? ’ Now, the mildest man in the game. wen Dave at times, for your professiona whatever else he may with an almost Insane desire {te win, youse him more quickly than any Jn Wt from the stand, ‘This, however must joarn to grin and bear, Con Sy) trod of temper ie the best thing a man na in baseball. ut there are sina in the game th: HO player can Y Mo: rowing is one; another knocking, @@ third, trouble making, ‘Me pres-|proseated every opportunity for an. oc: Pittsburg-New York feud, which |ourrence such as w charged to them | promines to causo a ruction in th ‘get all they want at wrestling matches! tanders’ sick list. The reognt acauist- , GIANT-PIRATE FEUD NOT LIKELY TO __ BENEFIT THE GAME OF BASEBALL the | New ¥, S@t. Loulr field with a knife-or Was | more American Nultz, 1# apt to lose hty "A rank decision, therefore, will |any. the HIGHLANDERS ADD TO (OARSMEN ON OPEN BETTING RING WILL BE A THEIR LIST OF INJURED | ANNUAL ee BENEFIT TO OWNERS OF RACE TRACKS Tt was a grest day for oarsmen on the jarlom River yesterday, Tt was . casion of ann pargde, and aa, STANDING OF THE CLUBS, Uy 15,000 persona lined the Syecdway 7 " ey the quoting of such prices as will insure/ Associations, These figures apply NATIONAL LEAGUE. AMERICAN LMAaum. ing overs other point of vantage to BY FRANE W. THORP. | certain percentage profit on overy AEE Vd ATR OCI EE At clue, my BE Cub. WE. Be BG | ub WW ied ee LeU Sar AANA) tA ctl slo gatcalh HONS) rate: [igus Fnac nme: eH nore err uniare vue Bey oe BS teas Part Bhnsenncu hy, Bunepon Ae | having been suddenly stricken with a Many “Meta” Are Broke. cnd meeting to the end of the Aqueduot Shicaee 5 Pifa‘pta’! 1k 1218 Aid sense of wrongdoing in accepting con: Meeting and the close of the seaton, Pilla phta.. 1613 a IMT (Detroie 13 1110 [ant tributions from bookmakers 1s so ab-| If the Mets are syndicate bookmakers, | Under tie system that has prevailed RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES, surd as to bo immensely amusing to| why I# It that 110 of them ara bank-| Bulg’ ph expected trom. the ring. Dh Chiengo, 11; Brooklyn, 2 | Boston, 8) St. Louis, 2 ‘ny one who will calmly review the|rupt and out of business? One has| is a total of $755,000, Of these Ibi day Chtowgo, 2: Washington, 1. GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY, events of the past few weeka and then | only to figure over the records and| 3 are Saturdays, when the average read between tho lines, Would this| figure the prices and the percentage atenaance (at a low estimate) Pittabure a Ney Fork New ¥ at Detroit. suddon and overwhelming tide of mo-| to give the lie to such rot as that re- Increase In Revenue, Bae eR ekaphia, . rallty have inundated the susceptible | lating to syndicate booking, It the price ot admission ta raised $1, onsclences of race-track owners if] ‘The plain truth of the matter J that] tiis meals 4 revenue for the Saturdays $280,000, ‘There seven bi there had continued in ane at Belmont | bovkmaking 1s decidedly a bad game| ilone o DFR, With a little tuck the patched-up club ty mr " ¢ 2 Satur \BY BOZEMAN BULGER sould win hue ot i parched-up cli Park one hundred Metropolitan Turt | these days, ‘he people who go tw iicul Ays TO of these ate Saturdays ang (Special to The Byening World) esks Joart Association members and halt a hun-| tracks are wiee bettors, Lhey do not) are Brooklyn Handicap, Suourban atrike ¢ 4 of the baciliners? play every horse in a race, It is a|Handicap, Decoration Day, Brighton DEPROTT, Mich, May 22.—Two more nae AMEN Win ‘ot wet his | Handicap, Labor Day, July'4 Dr rueaikean Kian’ (6 (esi Hisin Siuart bookinaxer wao does not gel his HD or Day, duly 4 and: Fue souk “dutened mere Umes tui ne Jay's Not at ail re would have been y thousand 1: no chan The Mets would Boy have | suis his percentage on tae gu blue. FOURS bee ailed at as monope Sand syn | if booxim@king Were such an eas; Crs by fon to tbe maimed te ara Uitusokmaners wat the. prices lesa were ab avery @ {OAL OF aiba60, OF the, res xa" Conray and John Kielnow, : that In the fifteen years of | Mush on the Mayndivate” order, wid | Rhee asould res 00, Ol a total une ieeitanie ¢ fave the is dovkinaneis Who vpened | dor increased adiiskon of $i, ft ie likely the latter may be able to the existence of the Metropolttan Turf] at Beimont Park Arun to leew than uahes @ grand total of $140 4 get ; bandage up hie battered digits an; Association no one has ever discovered | halt that. number mahi, nd ] fn the game. Both were injured Satur- eee eetan that the Mews are mone| , rhe Tea) uth of all this hubbub be- | gus mn which wen edineciie theres ws | pefore to-~dny’ that the Mets are mon) wean tie Md a. uid tie tace-trace | Ale from the cine making « balance t ‘ |opolists and taat they lay sy! owners is that the rave-track owners | fyVor of an increased admission fee Davy Fults _dacluaselcdnenn dais ee | vrices. And now every’ one pats with | have become dissatianied with the tyves | pout | will take centre Whi : Sater eden tho that 1 furnished by the ring, That nv will go into the treasuries of Toon eethe RAR OUnNE NEI Mager dont when they demande | Various meing associations. ‘This not Include the {ncrvase ; oO Add ‘Anderson tor the present will go to right | field. Wille Keeler will go to third base and Joe Yeager will play short, new order of things better prices will | prevail and that there will be more competition, What rot to ask a members of the Mets sil Baume every day. jen outatders were taken from the back line aad pluced with the Mets. while is sur balance ma , anything trickle . Peake Le ohne brain to the ef: of sane mind to believe! As if tWe! All or which provoked wide publicity | attend. the rac the monopos that "Wee Wiyum" can't oavort | honebayment of $1 per day were going | and furnivhed 9 gna of taik, and ail | iste pet ULL hela ase i pro. | Of whieh was leading up to ‘the |through the ‘courtesy of ’ race-tra pent to Inerease prices OF an open FING PPO”) When tha proeetrack owners Could make | neaare a tite Lice 440. to) f ‘sack. It was in that around the third mote pricea! their tinal yiny And every one hg — he Grat came into fame while \ i t " position xs, binevacnton (NY T))| The ring has always been “o} swallowed, hie bait, hook, line and ¥ Ly of the Bastern League, He played at Ae prion Bie conned... The (es of the. thing and. tne good that it i Club, aS phe reaty gta that one gr two men opened the prices | +) come of it. . ha the New Yorke "got away with all five HSMBNHioe tholatiataar eevee ald Bal More Money for Tracks. Time Saved ot those games. Wille knows the job cate the extstence of a syndicate, Ther: {he good taat Ja to come of It is th! ‘and is willing to work at ft, GriMth will was never any agreement among b0ok- | rie racetrack “owners wilh, e they le money earned. jon, make more nakers to keep prices down, Syndicate | -alse the price of adi i ASEERI chia: eans| Noney than they have ever made un- voking 19a suresthing game, It means} LiMey {iinet fevorame days. of book: — making. It Js asserted that there will be a decrease In the attendance. Is it wt t Ble that at Sa pOge. less e }3 admission is charged, there ave heen larger attendances since the ra. iness-day Wf you n price than ever before? Is jt not f fact that since the price of admission conduct more a was raised on the Eastern track: at- | tendances have eteadily Increased? Has your business a dollar any value In the eyes of a man golng to the race-track to bet, Telephone You will husband pitch for this patched-rp collection of to-@ay, and says you may watch out for something to happen. Griff got another heavy jolt lest night when, after he had announced that Bl- berfeld would play short to-day, he re- Hcetved a telegram from the little short- stop, who is at Hot Springs, Va., saying that he was in no shape to work, and {t | would de imponsible for ‘him to join th club within five days, "I will writ sald Elberfeld at the end of tho tele- @ram; so he evidently i» not figuring | on an early departure. Not a pit. There will not be a 10 per cunt. decreage in tho grand-stand | Patronage, and if there Is that per- | centage of decrease it will be mado | up by an Increase In the cheaper fleld, | ‘Take a few figures on this thing and see what It actually means to racing ok BATTING AVERAGE 1903-4, MIKE ‘The only ray of sunshine to fall into ; i Games,A,B. oR, Hy .H, S.B. P.C, | GRRE een RI NTP) oene. A tie Mabe *Konnedy, Pittsburg 1858 7 uh 0 | of a letter from Jack Chesbro, in which Wagner, Pittsturg A you 512 7 182 46 BURGE TAN The Eevee ease ther ace Doniin, ‘Cincinnati. .ccccccccs 14 496-110 ATA BBE B26 ' up and fight it out. I will join the club “Kennedy participating in only eighteen games, Wagner was reckoned in five or six days, and I believe I will champion. . m Re be in shape to win my first three BATTING AVERAGE 19045. i orm Games. A.B, R. H. T.B.2B.3BHRSHS.BP.C, ' | Grifth had not expected anything of Chevbro for a month, and this news fave the whole club a new lease on 182 490 97 171 255 44 14 4 5 53 B49 | 96 868 69 121 168 18 10 8 7 22 Wagner . Bp Donlin, Cincinnar! and To sum up the work of the Highland: Grimth has just three men who are playing up to form, ‘These men are Keeler, Williams and Chase, Keli ee cs was playing well until injured, Raa | Eedteeeeeseens Mr. Webster said: the Owl is a bird, | Jected to the “roast” on Pittsburg. But|a certain New York player, With re they say Shakespeare was quite a while | #pect, I remain, very truly yours, | | making good, 3. M, LOD No, 412 Park Place, ieiyn, N,N, We may as well insert here the most | Now ‘about that shigheacrang, tember: even-miided of those eplstics, which | ament’ of Clarke's, “Mie change against SHORT SKETCH r ; him is that he misquoted. Bowerman wane on ‘Ecliowes theaving “that te Bowerman, could So it is—it is also a cigar. An Even-Minded Letter, catch better than Warner, He wae not | OF MIKB | Sigh strung’ at the time, but alttin Dear Bir: Permit me to chronicle anon ‘a lowly stool, hin musoles. ralix ’ AREE e A objection to some ef the remarks made |and a siphon of vichy near by, Bower. D . raiton t r s ‘ * tein an , ¥ in your article regarding the Pittsburg /at' the time, but, that. was nobody's °o m team in Tho Evening World of last | business oulside of the team, Thuraday, While it may be true some |, Warner repented what Clarke stated ne overheard from Bowerman, The lat- of the players are of an aggressive | ter indignantly denied It, | “Is. this ‘There a good reason for the fans to plead for a hit when Mike Donlin comes i temperament, I do not think the vitu- | true?’ he asked Warner, ‘Ing two seasone—10-4 and peralio 4 y(UAsk Clarke.’ aald Jack, and Bow- to) bet Ene acta end eed nie Warranted by | undid. ‘The Pittaburw captain, ac: $01-5—he haa lost the championship belt OWL CIGAR is its name. facts and ciroumatances, Se aes Noweemene aol The Clarke-Bowerman controversy 1s rent reply, and wa's kne n open for question, as Mr, Clarke, as [Clarke has never given his version of manager of the club, Is restrained to | te,,frcas. #0, 1t, foes that he "tried \ large extent from the practives moat | Regarding the personnel of the Pitts- players are in the habit of doing soma- | burg tearm, 1 made it a point to say Umes, and if he refrained from stri- | {ie e'Who thas, been In three fehis ing back at Bowerman when attuicked ar. Mr, Dreyfuss paid ple fi in the New York club-house his mo- o Hans Wegner by @ narrow margin. In the one year he was only four points vehind, while last season he dropped wenty points, this belng due to hir trouble Ln Cincinnati and eventual trade to New York. He took part in only Inety-six games, he figures alone, however, toll half the truth of @ batter’ do not useful: last one, and in spite of Pr Pulliam's action, taken after dua Hea esa int probaoility other then Songultation with the umpires, he tn. cus, Fielder Jones, for example, who a rd, whieh is the meaning | sists t b Ano. ank " ind ne, aly t ” umped from Brooklyn along with: gle) ‘om’ your statement, Injustice ; ) arth Any cl ; de Khould z and he h ler, reel - one: ‘ar Neue (RIB HAA let ale else Bhotd and ae I f, reckons that little ol y cigar dealer will n as the greatest batsman our game as ever known, y ment is at Ume high strung, give you one for ot sed, not mores nat of any or Ld arr aa pea oon pathy may be able to hit the all harder and ve cents, p As you ru alr Ol! erefore get \t safe oftener than Keeler, We distensions in New York 4 SOM TR, OIUD al Ana aries ipeoueNe, Tee ARNG | Ned. Hbenion Inathioted RNS Me alae gation ana ABUULTOY Chactormiok Mawr eoER oRten onsler to rese iret aston n the right place and doing the mos emarks Orat sss ind ; ner to cut them down at. the s remark TP wat id ag M mer to od with it, Keeler never had an equa Graw saw tt vo pail with the Be never will have one. man at the close uf tie Must have been some grou H ‘This means, which 4» the truth, tha: desiving Warn " the existing syst averages helps wu m of making out year. ltule in appreelat. ing a playar's real yalue, Bor instance, “BELMONT PARK ENTRIES. [rie ony tent or emectve ait’ at ene |BATTLING NELSON ng & po. | ty | Jawing” | bat is the data of baae-runners forward. | {sp ick be nit rn hay f ed by base luts. But the averages make MEETS ATTELL. ht amplon that excels in the number » dnd Me GEORGE L. STORM & Co, hits, regardless of how much he 7 Distributors, elped other men to get around and thus} piyy,ADRLPAITA, May 22.—The long- 24 and 26 Murray St., from Auk win Bamos, ‘Tho one ta mere record Bats ooted-for appearance of Hattling Nel- New York, Tr brawl? ting, while the other ts a criterion Of | won tn the Hast will take place to-night, eam work at the bat'—-the aome of] when the Dane will box Abe Attell, w York « scien tifa: batting, fcather-welght champion ul he not followed the manager's | thusiasm by his refusal to meet Willin (ions to sacrifice, At thie ge in| Lewis, of New York, unless the latter aay ’ got down to 190 pounds at 6 o'olock the i; proficient than Wagner, who is 80) night of the bout, while he would not SPORTING, to break the ball th he can ill) have to weigh in. Be enna nt himself with bunting though} In view of Nelson's announcement’ Belmont Park Races 10 day, instru mort Shave SPORTING. A SURE SYSTEM Jeavored In such Pty break down. the 43 suVveral me 1 tions to \ of ut | AT GAELIC GAMES wot ‘ | ane € oscasion demands, Dontin also| {hat he Is -n Nghior pure and simple” QUEENS, Lf, | celtic Park wus the Mecea of every n “ f Handionp! one strike out tesa frequently than Wag: | 14 matter with suspicion,” Attell, | BY Weekday, Hall or Shine, Until May | to win at, the, pace FALRD, by addressing } lover of Gasile. footiall . yesterdey, nv, ‘The latter has been fanned In this| Who will. micet™ Nelson to-night, is & to the game, x i . HOW TO Ri i THE TRACK: 7 Publ Ansocld MARE) Near er ing y ¥ ; ; mal La ee 3 represented | n ’ + Donlin not once, It ta a falr) Ma to Tommy Murphy—make him look Phe, Eh: fallook'a. full \ Beall = |Win the “exception “of ALE” Heur 3 , ne will hold. the record | eneaty ee [Bln AU. A Meadidoit Raitt att ale Iitrimation” ii (0 bavataill, and. he personiliy nurered |. 1 contests, for (his at tho season's end, On Friday night Peter Maher will box | Hrapiyn, ‘at 19.20, 1840, 1908, 1.90 "and 48 00h. 88 road wi move than all in the loas of pluyers, | Ot ‘ght and many | Jow Joannette, of New York, and on | Vis tenm alag caine to the front In, | oi sa leon r ny Donlin the Better Man, Baturdey Retee Mowatt, of Chicago, roads for ng aipomobttpa | FANG oleA CaoNeHiO RAMS REV EAT Hacorae| h’ between the |f WV one-mRnt 4 aes Will make his Arat appenrance inthe ett PPA caren and Riasad te OE and Corkmen was an imitas r | Mike Is therefore a better man than| Past against Jack O'Neill, of this olty, fine tan wets fercres and the Wyill $, which) thelr ‘successors fused | Wo, nual “contest betwen aaa * pereentuge shows, since he can drive) It hag been annouinred that the winner Vines’ via’ Jamaioa connect with : te ree) theng amy In the old county.) tent oval Varound (he bases either with along | Of the Iatter bout will meet Nelson in ; 0 EM etrtert hy eae at oe at. | Waterford defeated Monaghan by one} — [Ua% DU Ain anand Orit Hate, Reserv in and boxen dort and | una, Kame at Washington Paik Sat- | goal and eight points 10 one point, while | sient sae Mit or short one. Although In only | MY AMrOnd Denk Nene. Attell's ohlet, Fifth Avenue Hotels, and nulls | 2 HA pai erase } rs ‘ the Ke washed the Cork: | 92) ety ace ninety-six games last year, he made | second { WRIT RACE ATOM F4. ; cf trom bi on PN tcore of one wonl and nine 1 only one less home tun than Wagner, —— | apeotal car wid We tenet ved on! ihe, 12, 0 1fP OT ekpertence Tioyes eee mit |The summary of the athletic events : In all my experience T neyo: maw! more Fialf Club each day of ¢ Me ty amon Samara ot he a] TOMBS'S GOOD SHOWING. dena seeming Fa and igh tig reeds i a steal Matt tesa a ERA m gtr fationa) soya ‘Peau gid } Fepslemanly conduct prevall on any batt {7 h—Won by John McMahon, ne slugeer et Mid Mit eclentibe tap- Tombe took a big Jump forward in the! mont Parks ints to Fred Clarke, backed oy Bar. 1d. , Kerry, second: time. 2dr A ver, his especial value lying in bis abil-| ise competition of the Bhetpahead Bay A. \ e.revfuss. The. writer intimated PL Hc wot; Awan hs John line, Mavs: She’ “dat one ty to hit the ball In some shape or |BMTescentay with @ weary im bust tA . E fll the olkior day In an article sprinkled | fred iW that lipnte as T’know fou unalne iiee M. Murete: 20 got one Pe Rudsvurd handicay, e th wom ely, He ts sure fa, gut, on in aie ay; doin ete second: M4 of anpty, ET Wg | hot get a ented 99 often, particularily in rete) Vion, sten and Jumpe-Won by John. sulll. A lead Doniin in hod * ene t fo the Keone untorunate tiv: eter. And Tump-—Won by Zohn gultt- it es: Ag oiy ‘ Nolan, Kerry, 3 Hit not eontel iT ‘Bele | Hs # ia Palladeipnis, incon retion with | atviancs, te ee ‘Ys wecond 120 aoe Ytaoatheh mi A ; '