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ie sana PRA (GIANTS MAKE Bl HIT IN WASHINGTON, Manager atte Thinks New York Will Again Win Na- tional League Pennant. (Bpecial to The Evening Wortd), WASHINGTON, D. C., April we had Walter Johnson of the Sonators Pitching for our ¢lub we would be #0 far ahead of the other National League teams by the Fourth of July that the pennant race would be over,” sald Big Chiet Movers at the breantast tabte this morning. Parisiane Will Be Delighted If} white tne Giants touched Johnson for half @ Gosen hits, it was evident that Carpenter nos Out Lew tou te MoGraw's men, and when he mixed up ‘& few curves with his speed Johnson's @ffectivences was apparent, for in the Afth inning Snodgrass, Murray and Geert, 1013. Yo The Pree NNN OV terklo atruck out in succession. SLLIZ LEWIS is in great tuck to) Washington fans were much {m- Get a chance to gather $3,000|preased with the Giants. It is seldom for merely taking another beat-|a National Teague club plays in the * teovght ‘Willie's earning days} capital, and an immense crowd, turned out despite the threatening weather. Manager Clark Griffith of tha Sen- ants to win the but thinks thoy w 8 fight for it as wal ‘case inst season, as the fellow who! «McGraw's youngsters,” aald GriMth, ones and knocked them | “should be 2 per cent. better than last in Now York we know Willle| year, and they will pull him through. who used to have a lot of | Mathewson and Marquard are sure te be the winning pitchers, and barring thing is that even sf| accidents I look for the Glante to Iand Carpentier in the firet|/ On top af ail unitkety—ne won't|FANS DISAPPOINTED BY MATTY Glsappointment or dleplesse NOT PITCHING. Im fact the Parisians would] All was not quiet along the Potomac with such @ conmuma-| yesterday, as the er ie the enthroned| fans when they pitch ag a the D at Clarke Grimth Ah shingtun newspapers that Johnaon. hewson would oppose each and he evidently | ji teegi: ¥E i ayttty Sn tener ir t is; iit a E #2 Washington are Catcher | Ed Sweeney Won’t Play For the Highlanders This Season 4 +a M to beat Wells t! yx in shape 1 lent have , some | Worked him, but that's up to’ me, ‘The Clants Beat the Senators easily by A woore of $ mm as the Prench- ate day's came chances that |ewiring for the Giants, Pai He Big Gackstop and Manager > from | CAsbian and Dixle Walker, | on , , ‘Ag'gompared with the Senators, tne) Wolverton Fail to Come in much better physi co! erybody is in good spirit to an Agreement. ; gad | Edi gy! the end of the long}, < \ home. A Gosen op more of the ‘@ chance to| players have never been in the Na- ebrinks efor (Special to The Evening Ward). Honaa Rd peat | the Indjanapolis, April 3 jared that if he/¢T 1s extremely doubtful If Ci ai Kd Sweeney will play this Laan ta ry and caley with the Highlanders, at may be, of course, that he| morning taking In the sights, ne Irown from the top of the Washingt: heavyweight] Monument, duplicating Gaby. Bt inet been able to come te terme with much of @ joke/feat of M the | the renege his home wn to the Comat to fight’ ‘have a chance pic hy jw, when to crt tty round rst. Billiard Tournament at Paris ; I H} F ties, smoking ‘he ‘tn a | Poggenburg, American Cham- SR ee — TOURNEY. she wants ta" not to menion| pion, Finishes Eighth, Only pve effecta i hes wc yeranan Winning Three Games. Lene aed to think that Brown HE International 183 balkiine I amateur dilliard = tournament, which has been going on in Paris for nearly two we a Advantage in the New York wout, he never had Woilgast in trouble, H the champion was anything but Peaneee im elther fight. hae chown his ability in many| ‘Hef: tue billiard champion of France, who won by defeating Darantlere In 0, 8 He is tough as atecl. He eee! 20, The hee i be faen will make the final game by a score of 0 to 16, a reigns Mortier completing his steimg in uldn’t be a plenie| 'eMth inning, Mortler made /an ay Mandy: little Erevan’ | axe of #, the highest ever made, 10 « sournement in Europe, and besides only Jost one game out of the nine whieh he took part in, J. Ferdi: the American champlo Maw of Rickard in California he 10 petivo: net inclined to Blas Bim ct medal as a souvenir, Np him along jomething, ho chance of jo: Motice any burning anxiety : to let his big ris, The reason is . he's just the sort of a to give Palser an awful fight, ! ig wide open, not a fast thinke And Morris would put up a rare O'Rourke match Palzer | dum Stewart, The tattor haa Feputation a few months mat it Up on top of the “white hope’) might beat Stewart, but! ure, $17.00, Easter delivery guaranteed. Send for samples and Portfolio of Fashion. 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Coat and trousers to meas- TAR. CARNEGIE WE'RE THe Committ Fron New Yorn To AW ‘fou WiLL ‘You BUND A BIG LIBRARY, WH A FLAT Ror - OVERLOOKING THE GROUNDS ? le You Dow? aive Ao OS CENTS Te BUY A New SPRING HAT Tite G0 Riaht Hone Te moter! 4IGHLANDERS’ NEW SLAB ARTIST BEARS OMINOUS NAME OF CANN. INDIANAPOLIS, April 3.—Whett~ er or not the quality is there rer matns to be seen, but, it's a cinch chat Highlander pitching stati Another twirler and according to rts heard about bem shoukt make ‘a bla bid for @ position ov -b¢ firing line, The newcomer Is Mike Can, He is a loft-handed® om At. Mary's College of The players had a@ lot of fun the new arrival last night, and were asking among themselves, “Can Cann make good or will he have a oan ted to him?” fs anxtous to get in harness again, but doesn't feol as though it would be just to hunself to play for leas than he thinks he is worth. He believes that his work of last season and previous | seit seasons entities him to @ salary of|¥! $4,000, and as Manager Wolverton isn't inclined to grant {t Sweeney says he won't play this year, from his home in the Windy Qity. As soon as he arrived he went into private a uniform and went out to the ball park and worked out with his old battery mate, Russell Ford. Every ono took it as te: disappointed look, on ht le Borw 444444444 Sweeney Goes Back to His Auto Business After Futile Conference. |and then went around and bede goodby and rent Jack to everybody. sald was, “We can’t come to enh and then he was off for home ager Wolverton and Catcher Sweeney to come to an agreement. They . ‘The team is well fortified with backstops, now that Catcher Gabby Street is a member of the club, and Sweeney has a business which is earn- ing him good money. That is why both parties ate 90 independent. . Core EE EWE i He noua ietiene Sweoney came here yesterday morning | ain consyitation with Boss Wolverton, In| iim the afternoon the big backstop donned fee Hard and iow pitches “iy Ae mrere batt align that he had at last come to ha season nd ant Ri eat cite ater Hy the tajom, 7, O'Toole, who “coat the Piraten $22,000, rat in he! & Ai umes ther had a, May at the borings cup “uni oF ‘When the players finished their atter- '|noon's work and went back to their| i hotel and changed to thelr oltiten's :Jolothes for dinner Sweeney and Wol- ‘Iverton had another talk. After this second conference Sweeney in ]came out into the hotel lobby with a He wave. stor 10 ca one of the bellvoy#h 2 Be for hiv grip | ttttttettereeeterty + Men and Religion To Readers of the Sporting Page +]; Sport is pleasure— butitis notpleasure enough for a well- rounded man. ® “Man has a body; he is a living spirit.” MW you want to know mare about the Men snd Relision Movement, sel the editor of the nearest clergyman, BASEBALL IS THE REAL SPRING FEVER. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), |Murphy and ‘Cross Sign Weu, now CANT STOP You? You Rnow au Tve Gor 18 THe c a SEASON TaxeT » FLYNN BOUT IS Failure of Promoter Curl Keep Appointment C Negro Uneasiness. (Special to The Evening World), Chicago, Apt HE falluro of Jack Curley I moter of the Jack John Flynn heavyweight chat ship match, to keep an appoint with the champion leads Johnson lieve tho fight will never be Ty could ve staged. these Johnson selected tewn for the battle. The negro ts be ting a lot of “easy money” his fingers, so When. Tor For 10-Round Bout Here '#'*#:% 3 is: They Will Meet on April 17 at 135 Pounds Ringside for $6,000 Purse. BY JOHN POLLOCK. sponsible for a match being clinched to-day between Tommy A N offer of a 9,000 purse wae re- Murphy and Leach Cross, the fighting dentist. They will come together in @ ten round bout at 135 pounds, welgh in| '? Reet, at the ringside at a local club on the night of April 17. The promoter who ts staging this bout had previously plan- ned to put on Matt Wells and Murphy, but when he received word that the proposed battle between Cross and Joc Mandet, which was slated for April 16, had been declared off, he immediately offereg Croas @ guaranteo of $3,000 to fight Murphy and Leach accepted it in @ hurry. {hla Slate, sage that the Stare Athlete Commision referees to the different clube ant That the eusigumeote, should’ not be made, public ‘Until the referee steps isto the ging, He further states Wat the commialon shoud alto pase @ rule he power to fine a fighter $50 ving the referee ¢ Sr 6100 if he should breek the rules hy holding ot wrestling, aad if be continues these tricks to dis. j duality him and send him away without any pay, Frank Moras, the sigerzmeiaht KY pitbare, laa decided to pompone his tri be with Gunboat Mmith, the California heavy: | evening, April Knockout Brown will take part in five fig in twenty-four days, On Saturday night he fiz! Grover Hayes at the National A, C, of Phil Ketehell ten rounds at Twa city A. C., South Norwalk, Coon, a new club holdiag boxing Square Garden, a fresh report wi {0 the offect that the club bae been organize, ¥e| corporated, the necessary bond of $10,000 ay, Known ae the Gard: ton for @ license t ee ‘ie Clrane. de Var oA the bout was postpon jeanette. the clever h other colored scrap) Eve, BOD. 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We erene "See" We ean thie pure’ in (os more fights tn this country, His fire battle will te with Billy Ryan of ge Qe Kagow, Pa., on April. 16, while his second will, I have the ad- weight, for CT ah at'e local club on Monday | 2. phia six rounde; April 12 he will take on Young! MeDonough for twelve rounds at Manchester, | N. H,; April 19 he goes against Young Erne at) . local club; April 22 he meets Packey Mommey | ‘8 Brooklyn club, and on April 20 he fights Al ‘Auboug dheze have been aumerous denials sbost UR CHURCH and that the owners of the club, which will be . C., will, make applica eee ere wards. Word was received here to-day from Paris by round Yor t the ii ry were fought a few weeks ago, but on account f he cath of & boxer a! one of the clubs over ah. and Bleek tebe r Mats, Tostay & & to meet two or three of BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. })ore" hac been “swarabe At National Sporting Club—Bob Moha of Milwaukee vs. Jim Smith of Westchester, ten rounds, toh. At Long Acre A. 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