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—___ | CORRECT AVERAGES, AVERAGES, \OF MAJOR LEAG UES| _ THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 32, NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT EA |! - OST en PATIL GARE PEED OR Pa RR SN OI RL Pa mm 1911. FLOOEY ; YOU THINK AXEL OLD al B PRUNE | Gor YoU AFIONT | \ | A Yyms SAM LANGFORD 1M | NSON SQUARE GARDEN ~ aoe, WE'LL CLEAN UP / AWFUL wad On THIS DORS- wren Is tT A GOOD |_) National Lea: Rec of all players, with average of .%0 or over, who have played im ten or more games up to and includ. tag those played on Wed! ae) ane. by Sa? Sa eRSBSE Ress san ee: BERENSLSSEELEBSE a $823 10S Pee PIES a BE LTTTTS SB esctish = = Sees S383, 23 aSeees Philtcelphta eg, Pittsburgh: ssi A BBIEE = S nakene a BR: 3 -88SE: sBRerese. adel pita pee Nore ans Niectarah * nat Boston ‘ Ten Leading Base a Clubs, Games, Recher ocinasth 14 Devore, New Yo 3 103, 18 ne Ns 2100 Mt 100 113 Cibo sen ock | Bitanoreh | chia HH Records of pitchers, including all gangs up to Aug. 30 Ga. W. i i et ee | a oe i, $ Pplladelp hie % # | FE | Mi ire i) 1s ie eran ipa a a : Py a1 Loute, : 19 ire {hice i} Niles tiucunatds: 358 ¥ 14 i i? 3 o Bt iis i 200 yo ee ee 1 t 4 $64 5 Bt 8 14 } 7 8 it ; 3 1 11 14 308 sty it me & 0 us BOR iw 6 I BM lat 5 0 125 {4h hows dh Bigton ie i ‘Brown, Boston. $33 he in “hs Woy ot 2 ree Cae | o4 wo ‘THING “TO LOSE YOUR ’ ° TEMPER 2, anD —_ — MAJOR LEAGUE RECORDS Compiled by Expert George L. Moreland. Batting Average.; American League Batting Average. patting | Records of all players, with @ batting average of .260 or over, who have played in ten or more ing those played on Wednesday, Aus. 30 ipeaker, Boston Me Tntyre, Fewer” y eesecan Perimeter rite Teri ty 423 2Boh aSSEBSISS wi BSETSSZE= St, Loula Ten Leal oder, Clute, HW, Lond, Chicago Tackson,” Cleveland Chawtord ‘Ten Leading Players, Clubs Nek ers Athetles a0. Washi Cree New Chicngo + of pitch Hiender, Athletics Hera. 'New York Falkenber Jeliwo, i Wile Retro Garden Donn Srott Leonard ae Ketietl, Dh shslon,’ Wash i tea Athi ‘Colt Hoston» Weatker, 'Wastington | hc SSIESSELBS=TES: BEEBE: games up to Aug. 30: Bot hte BEPONRERSUS SE oNSELESER Eee otiS® Nore WIPE- LOOK AT THe COIN WE Gor FOR BEATING THE WADDING OUT OF SAM LANGFORD! ~~ EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN BY VIC TALKING FIGHT 1 YOUR SLEEP. EN? wave UP, You LTTLe RoNT! Ze Ay) |", vphr sea in - ‘up to and includ. Get Going Right Until Wilbur wesher seeder tessee- had been delivered for $11,000, SeSatss! Fo FNAZSELo Fs VaBIATTGPs eo hota SITS EBS I coe ecco 5 ad Tez BSS3REi reer Sree SpEERESS: etc Sect ESBS 2E5' The R ube twirled his S32z2: a S ssazaxte eo] second —one- S hit game in a 5228, row at Philly yesterday, It is easily one of the great- est stunts in eee 3 n= sgiaie i 136 Ren Get 3 = zeaehe Feesezesse é cbatly nave beer eked out, bs Gan pitching an- Af, Whtle Mariuard has not earned @ great [Lele pido Hae bis ges yep ri : i deal of money like some of the older payers, hpigelie 122 pounds | j and mother are both dead and he has no aN Tail phy at the Broadway 7 broth His parents left him a ¢, on Jan mt, and knocked out s Wi A in J a 4 two balls and large farm at New Brunswick, 0., twenty-two the famous “Mary Ann” fighter in atx HY itwo. strikes miles from Cleveland, and that furnishes him a very comfortable} OUnd® the re the ih Es Rats income and enables him to wear silk socks whenever he fesia lke | 'WONIY TORT Araw 8 hn Away vida 4 on the only Mt, which {s to say all the time. As @ dresser tt is Rube's ambi+| \)\whes adopted the tactics used Bo Rice 1 Hrummell look ike a scarecrow eastully by Whi n fr the: man who got ‘When the elder Richard de Marquis, @ soldier of France, came| Ceteary wit ue ane it ne a buy 5 to America and became Engineer for the city of Cleveland he did On colored boy to first base. hat i ncle Sem. ale ; . not realize that in his son he was giving to Unclo Sam alx feet 4 hi 1p from Erne, or more of revolutionary spirit. The rebellious spirit of the Fre ffalo nd the title a was inherited by the aon, nowever, and it had its outlet In his antipat for the discipline of the pub ws than four monthe, This fight ers, including all | ‘2@ arly age of fifteen he got the call to the diamond, and from that day his troubles with the schools I 4 twenty-five rounds atter day he would play heokey #0 a8 tp take part in amateur gamos, and soon he left the temple of | Hen Jordan, the featherweight cham a Ww nits, gy,| Pedagogy had to pursue ite weary way without De Marquis the younger, pion of England at pounds, then ie % we sie In the meantime Rube had lost his parents, and, with ail| #ame out at Marlin one spring and proved that he was am-| came over to America and was uo3 oH HIB) restraint removed, he never wont ty echool again. He $8] hilextrous, though none of the players would dare tell him| to fight Dixon for the cham $ $00! free to admit that tt was the biggest “bone” he ever pulled|t0 his face the world at that weleht, ; i he fis | in his ite. | While playing on this tee cream team Marquard met | irk Place Mefore tha Tones A. A on 4 H 3 Young De Marquis also played football while at school, rile Carr, the manager of Indianapolis. Carr immedi: | oy etree gave the decis : 1 AB | and it was while taking part in a struggle on the gridiron | ately ofte him a Job and offered to pay hin $1,900 the! yoraan, § is ay | that he received the Injury which gives him that peculiar f jason, Tefore Marquard had signed nix contract with)” pixon's (frat fight In 190 took place if 99 he | twist of the neck that ts so often commented upon by the Carr he received a card from Secretary Hernard of the; on Jan. 17, when he defeated Fdluto, } ie fat | fans. In a scrimmage ho was thrown under a heap of Cleveland team, assing for his terms. ‘The young De Mar-/a colored featherweight from Australia 5 i rit struggling boys and the tendon in his neck was badly Wis, being a foxy boy, refused to sign Cle 4 for in ten rd nde, batare é e ian om A.C. i BB | eersined The doctore were never able 'te wet it back to its les# than $2,400, and as Bernard couldn't ove that, he Joineq| This wae at 122 pounds Bo badly 4 4 ik +e" | normal position, and the great pitcher wil always have to Indianapolis fata down in tie tenth round and ele Bi Fi | carry his nead ax if he had a “wry nook.” Tr eives nin no Baseball His Only Hobby. dicated that he had enous 438 38 i BB) inconvenience, heweyer, other than the annoyance caused — puring the spring practice season the Cleveland Chuo Title Returns to Dixon. 3 ‘ by remarks from the fans, played se exhibition gi pa wit ’ i . tf 8 in) pas ° plo Mbition games with In p and Mar-| “nixon came back to ¢ ; 4 4 in ie Walle pring c Ls amateur Noam At Cleveland Mare quard beat them twice {n succession, Cleveland then offered iy Me. 122-1 i ty A} #84) quard got a job as pitcher for the Telling’s Ice Cream Manager Carr 1,00 for Marquard’s release, but tt 9 ltime by i 3 ia #31 toam, which played on Saturdays and Sundays tn the towns “used. ‘They could have got hlin & fos Pee raemeate (heal wan t { 494-48 | ground Cleveland. He got 82 for pitching, and om Sunday 310) @ year without having to pay anything down, on Jordan a 8 1 2 M | he would get $10 as a retaining fee. If it became necessary qt was in Indianapolis that De M Poe tener hates » lasted wix n t +88 | for nim to go in and pitch after another pitcher had been S Marauardt She wat hed o Ripper oncanea thy ve York 1 H knocked out then he would get the full $25, In that 4) pyench to the eeorers got it mixed Sthe al and me Rey ane ¥ hh it he was earning $0 a week and all the ie cream he could that it was “Marquard.” They attached name of “Rube vi ae i? 1} eat AW a alxteen-year-old boy, which is not su bad when We and ther haa Anite rh Aaa iH ‘ft i come to think of It Marq 1 ‘polis was tar tifterent from rounda of figh axa draw 888 Can Pitch With Either Hand. ils Aan In wea tle eeaue Out th Fgeven On Ort. ithe champion fousiit a ste ray Marquard as a youngster was always in the limelight games, and at the end of the season record of 9) round, no-de uta y i q t 8 Aiphta with ‘Tim Callahan, and Re : | from the fact that he could pitch with ¢ hand, To this won and 1 lost hem abe ul Le 1 tsi f 1S Gat AMA] day he could go in and twirl a very good game with his — Rube candidly adinits that he never earned a nickel $9 pattie, th ean waite, Mell, Gupta & 3 boo Gah iwht nang if it were ne ry. He did tt in @ practice, hie life except in baseball and that he never expects ta. latest featherweight champion of Kx Marquard’s Own Story of How He Failed To Live Up to $11,000 Reputation at Start Giants’ Great Southpaw Pitcher Worried Because He Couldn't Deliver All at Once and Didn't F ail the diamond heroes whose faces hi pages of the great American dailies Rube Marquard, or, more properly epeaking, Richard de Marquis, got the soft was ever skidded into the big league. “Ané I don't mind telling you,’ on that check did more to keep New York from winning the pennant three years ago than any one featuye of the fight. southpaw, “if I had been able to win as many games that year as I have this there would have been no question about the result.” In making that remark Monsieur de Marquis had no thought of egotism. was more of an admi players know that it is true Robinson Began Coaching Him. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. stared at us from the sporting t start of any athlete that Rube'e fight for life came after he at the Polo Grounds on the hoof in exchange for a check aid Marquard last night, “that the big figures In other word: explained the janky It jon of his own weakness. Moreover, McGraw and the “I thought everybody tn the world was expecting me to deliver $11,000 worth of goods the firat day out,” said Mar- quaed, “and it got on my nerves so that I didn't know what I wae doing. 1 was completely in the air, and es my first ettempt was a fathire, I got woree and worse. If I had ‘been lipped into New York and nobody had ever heard of me 1 believe I would have pitched as good ball two years ago es I am getting away with to-de; “Robbie” Tipped Him Right. ‘To get right down to cases, Marquard says that he wa: almost pantc-stricken over the thought of becom! every time he went in the box. As a consequence he would is wild | take no chances on a curve or speed, but would put the ball the plate as straight as to eave him. . ‘Wilbert Robinson got after me last epring, Rude, “and tipped me right. He told me to cut loose the Dall no matter where it went. to,’ he sald, ‘but put something on the ball all the time.’ Inside theRing Dixon Won and Lost His Title Several Times During the Hor- ton Law Days, and After His Defeat by McGovern Hit the Downward Path, Finally Dying of Consumptioh, a Poor Man. Coprright, EORGE DIXON'S firat fight in 1996 wae with Pedlar Palmer, the “Box of Trick: of England. G champ probably the c | sports George 1911, (The New Yo jon here were string and trust to the flelders | piimmer's cleverness, by The Pree Pu Dixon. ork World). Oo, bantamweight Palmer was erest man that Eng- land had ever sent to America, The amazed by Billy|to the «i ‘and when Palmer | Broadway A.C. Th | defeated Piimmer for the nenitose 6uAms a the plonshtp of England, they wer to understand how such @ cle ‘Hit the batters if you want could have been beaten, explained when Palmer appeared here,’| But it was man all ‘Taking that advice I soon lost my worry and found myself Dixon and Palmer boxed at Madison | able to get the ball over just the same as I had tn Indian-/ polis, I hope In the next four or five years to make good | to MoGraw for the seasons in which I was a filvver, You know he was very patient with me and I want to do eome-| thing to show him that I appreciate it.’ Marquard is still under twenty-two years of age, and) teen he was yanked from the town lots of Cleveland and taken to Indianapolis in the American Association, In one year he cleaned up the league and that fall wae sold to New York. Not an ob- atacle stood in his way to glory until that $11,000 check hit him in the face and put him down for a two y eaunt, Square Garden on Jan, 30 for six rounds, | wonderful Judgment of distance, science and ducking had never Such auch been were 8 effo! rts ras Dixon was, he appeared like @ novice in com- caus! of Palmer his rige to the top has been meteoric. At the age of seven- | parison with the little Englishman, Be-| poor condition, due to lack of time to ge@t into proper shape, the rounds were limited to two min- utes ea Dixon w first fo advantage and practically In a long distance fight Dixon The decision Moore was the the bout. would probably have won. Maxey was a referee. ch. ur rounds, draw. ty When Erne Beat Dixon. On N title to Frank Erne at the 1e outpointed Dixon and earned ision from Referee Austin. | Dixon did most of th but Aid m to be his old Up to the honors were v after that George grew weak ne was able to continue for many | ov a twenty-r In a finish Broad ound bout. 1 fight Dixon we totally outclassed for the ‘Then he gained the up 27 Dixon lost his 122-pound ay re knockout nor any knockdowns, 14 Ors land. ‘This match was for the world's title at 122 pounds, The. referee was Johnny White, although George Siler had been announced as the third man to be in the ring. In the firat fow rounds Curley outpointed Dixan, but his blows had no steam, and as nm had sized his Mt tied up ahead very In the bel! From that time on It was a cer. tainty that Dixon would win, and f thirteen more rounds he handed out a dig dose of punishment to the English- man ard won the decision. Dixon's Inst battle of the year 1999 was with Eddie Lenny, a terrific little scrapper from Cheater, Pi he won in twenty-five rounds at the Broadway A. C..on Nov. $1. Lenny hi the making of a champion tn him, but tied by contract to a manager who would not let him fight outside of Phila- deiphia, except on very rare occasions, ‘The year that marked the beginning he lost his featherweight iinelbnee Terry McGovern at the jotatls of the Aight | will be given in Terry's career. A month later Dixon was given a benefit at the | Broadway A. C. and boxed three rounds | with Mc@pvern, who presented the Iittle | colored nin the ring with $500, an act of appreciation ¢ made little fil with tears and ret | dered Dixon fought in Jahan and with Renny a draw with tho latter tn Chi June 2% he tried conclusions again with MeGovern in Chicago, but met defeat [in the sixth round. He was going back fast now, and on July 31 lost to Dave Sullivan at the Coney Island A. C. [nlx rounds. Dixon was so badly pun- lahed that O'Rourke refused to let him come out for the seventh round, t ttle colored boy laid off f, 1901, when he fought @ nd draw with Harry Lyon 8, before the Eu une with TH Yanger, getting go, On A.C. In Bal On Aug. 16 he to Yu t in ten round: ver. Aur. Abe Attell before the s ver, Dixon then came ti and fought with Benny Yanger, in fifteen rounds, On Oct. 9 he fou another draw with Attell, twenty rounds this time, at Cripple Creek, Col. This AMUSEMENTS. | DONAL. EMPIRE | || JOHN DREW THE HARRIS j!)!\7 i ROSE STAHL Charles Klein's FOLIES:; ‘WelNTYRE Sawa CRITERION §30):8 4895, 44 83 JOUN UV AMS, ot ‘a lklae in THE 424i M: WEW AMSTERDAM }\ Klew de Brlanger’s Musical t ONA In THE S!RING MA on) HEATING Way deh st ie Ue Rad E ME “EXCUSE M JARDIN de PARIS gion. isi ZIEGFELD FOLLIES reshments. 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Poor little George had long defore parted from O'Rourl he now went over to England tn the hope of getting some good fights, Lack ie his fi ir of apace prevents eivin there. ¥ ° During the two years that there, Dixon fought with Pe jer, Will Curley, Harry Ware, Fred Delaney, Jack Pearson, Ben Jordan, Billy Barratt, Digger Stanley, Cookney Cohen, Dal Morgan, Harry Mansfield and Spike Robson, sometimes win- ning, but generally losing. He re- turned to America tn 191, a doomed man and absolutely penniless. A prom!- nent New Yorker paid George's sage back to New York and supported he once wonderful littie Aghter for a while. Dixon Almost a Wreck. pt. 0 Dixon was knocked out aha Philadelphia by Tommy Murphy jo rounds. On Jan. 4, 1998, he won hae rounds at he Pro ights, poor a mere shell of his former self, and it was a burning shame to a get him into the ring atest little fighter that the wort as ever known succumbed to dread consumption in 197. His body wes interred in Boston, and his grave {se now marked by a beautiful monu- | ment, placed there by the generosity | of men whose wonderful little prompted their actions, while dozens of those to whom little George was 80 lavishly generous have forgotten the manly, clean, honorable “ Little Choce- late"—than whom no better oan ever be found, it Stake, at the United Spanish plenic and games at Uimer Park to-day will be the base ball contest to decide the Catholie | championship of Brooklyn between St. Patrloh's Catholic Club and the Bt. John's Collegians of Brooklyn. [HAMMERSTEIN'S| ‘i A oT | Ar} | In dees fice | 7? H e., Bert acre | Riven 8 SHOW ON EARTH, {LYRIC {," : Lf, | Eveeevowan Will Re-Open Labor Day Mat. mall Wal. Bat. & Labor D. 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