The evening world. Newspaper, August 10, 1912, Page 7

THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1912. 7 JEANETTE IS FAR EDITED BY JRANETTE TSF 4® |] NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT [ ccoe e222 en REAL FACTORS IN THE PENNANT RACES OF BOTH MAJOR LEAGUES Trio That Keeps Cubs in National Arwyieee Lena Bemas Oe Men Who Are Helping Red Sox Race and the Giants’ “Old Reliable”| Onganieation, With Red Sox And Senators in American Race qo ee : and Senators, Two Dark Horses, Struggling for the Honors— Athletics Are a Big Disappointment. . DY ALEX SULLIVAN. HIB season's race for the pen- I nant in the American League {s by long odds the most re. ™arkable in the history of tho Cubs Appear Dangerous in National League Race, De- apite Fact. They're Seven anda Half Games Behind, Because of Manner in Which They've Cut Down Giants’ Lead During Last Thirty Games. {RANDOM SHOTS AT) A ND LL THE GINK—Well, I see they haven't got the rest of the gun-men who put the pills into Herman Rosenthal and croaked him. THE GOOK—You're on, It's @ mighty funny mix that has worked out of that Most menacing of tragedies, In all of tts phases tt is @ case that has more” sinister suggestion than any of which I have read or heard this many's the long day, You'd think that it ourht to have been cleaned up two weeks ago and the bunch of killers now well on thelr way to the death house in Sing Bing, but in- ! stead of that offictaidom seome to be gibvering itsclf silly making fool noleew 4 and twiddling thumbs, THE GINK—Why don't they go out and get the canister men? What's de- taining them? THE GOOK—Wind 1s against them, Everybody in the mixup Is shooting @ut JOG WOOD, RED Sox BY BOZEMAN BULGER. N the closing dash for the Na I tional League pennant the most important individual factors just Now are Mathewson, Marquard and younger major league organization. hot air, Never was such a wind storm, The Rev, Mr. This and the Rev. Mr. Meyers of the Giants; Tinker, Evers, QE TintreR, | Not that the struggle for first place That; Judge So-and-#o and Judge You Know and Magistrate Brown and Magie-, Archer and Lavender of the Cubs, ~ Cuss °| 1s any closer than some that have trate Jones and the District-Attarney and the Police Commissioner are all whaling j ' @a4 Wagner, O'Toole and Hendrix for ; ‘ gone detore—for it's not by & jugtul Away at exch other, telling how much they know about «raft and how well they | the Pirates, ‘ oH because the two teams con- have aided the cause of justice, They have made me weary over it all They | s-Among those deeply interested in the nding for the honors didn’t have have all lost sight of that horrid spectacle on the sidewalk in front of the Metro- tem ta b : & lookin when the experts were fig- pole—the murdered body of Herman Rosenthal with « tablecloth thrown ever PUA Vadite, Ata ah AMALly ARAL Me yt ag uring out the probable winners the face at wittch even an ordinartly callous Tenderloin crowa gazes in fearsome tated tiene ad oboe cone - sround the brightly burning logs in awe, The murder seema to have been sidetracked In the effort to prove thas @ Gea tes in serseennaden “thal th tachi the headquarters of the Winter few police officials are grafters, an old, and alsa, a sorry tale. ; Se GRR TTOEMLITTaHEZcaat|| (OTR AA THE GINK—Wouldn't tt be a good thing for all hands to concentrate on deven and one-half games behind and| MATHEWSON, It has only been during the past two the killing of ible State's witness as Rosenthal was and take up the graft he season is two-thirds gone. Still.) GIANTS or three seasons that the Bostone have players are mindful of the fact been making any kind of a showing, as ‘hat during the last thirty games the directly after they won the pennant in yubs have cut the Giants’ lead from 194 they went on a long slump and teen games to seven and a helt, never really recovered from it until 1 Other words, Chicago has played Jake Stahl was installed as manager. &@ clip of .700 during that perlod, The Chicago banker and player rested fle the Giants are just one game : last year because he preferred handling Over an even break. somebody else's yellow and green backs If Mathewson and Marquard continue to his own, but this season he Is back at to pitch as they have and Meyers is f his old job, covering first, and if his able to stand up under the continuous " club captures the world's championship strain of catching all the games, the y —which {8 not unlikely: 1 have a Giants ought to win hands down. ‘Their food chance to count quite a large sized recent slump does not necessarily mean bankroll of his own. @ ‘that they have fallen to thelr natural The Senators have been the joke of question late: THE GOOK—Yes—the graft matter would keep, sure enough. We seem ¢o be condemned to servitude under its Insidious reign. But there are too many but- ters-in In this present situation. Too many cooks spoll the beef stew, you know, The result ts that there i# @ lot of miss-firing and the nolee is making everybody tired. THE GINK—Well, the Mayor has stopped writing letters about {t, hasn't Re? THE GOOK—Yes, and the Aldermen have decided to hold a graft investign> tion, Let's go out and have a rickey, alking around tn circles, sends| bass there. He has been after it for me this soul-racking communt-| lo, those many years, but teh best he cation Kets 1s mudeens—and they're not fish. “It ie said that all wines bring 9 . that whiskey destroys RE'B A CHAP who has spread A MAN WHO WRITES that he Is) Dick sweare there is a small mouth ™ stride. For awhile all the breaks of . xg the American League from time imm that beer produces himself fn an effort to get me luck were against them and the fleld- 4 In fact, Washington as a big Brigh\ Gisease; that brandy busy: ing was very ragged as compared with league factor has always been negative, weakens the heart, and absinthe WURRA WURRA: i the brilliant work during the early and it wasn't until the much abused Geatroys the brain. ‘The medical What amount of energy would be faculty has proven that typhoid Necessary to roll a sphere of lead ( ‘part of the year. The Champs realise Curse CHAS, whe has been knocked , @nat they have a fight on their hands around from pillar to post, took cha: weighing 500,000 ibe, also @ sphere ¥ ‘and with that to spur them on things this spring that Washington finally gave of lead weighing 1,000,000 ibs, if it : | ought to break botter. It all depends the Ile to S well worn epigram, "First wae desired to roll them In a cirale } on the pitching, Marquard went in on pea Take rar and last tn the bush is a man going to Grink?” cpogens ores! ing two revolu- } eh “4 It’ cu tty true, alas, ? fabihe tas rides this seibcny while Jimmy : 5 Path When the Senators eventually lost a ne answer to xive. to the despairing D. W. JAURISKI, . { Tha wabela Wark’ had ‘eed: UALENFE ENDER, Al] \douvie header to the Athletica after query at the end of the note, I have No. 42 Mott avenue, The Bronz. ’ Saved |) ON 3 thelr record string of victories of the never tried to find a way out. Tan't that like what one would expect wood. Matty has suffered several de- cuss dae severtgsaiie wad HenaENPA ebicte f Bh ee icaunt Gaara m4 feats, but he is enough of a veteran re i virvigg cf ar OLD PAls BATTERY DICK saz. |'0 St from the Bronat Where, cig a8 marie let that bother Aim Ogre 2 eben aiker wulae the band Sant LOY, 1s atill hopeful {f somewhat dis-|time to ive up to @ ball of lead weigh- y * 7 can't find fish ? { MUST KEEP MEYERS IN GOOD adelphia the Washingtonians went back eae fi tae ar ay oo oe bat ere? poun|s? Why not make SHAPE. OHNNY _ EVE! to thelr old tricks of winning games| wasnw6Ton bh - beach Chief Meyers, one of the batting cvuBr ” and they have been the most consistent M HERE WILL BE A TURRIBLE TIME, so there will, to-night, when Denis mainstays of the team, has shown re- ERIGTY MATHEWSON is the Gi “ winners of any club since, FIOMER WALTER JONNSON and Outnelder Clyde Milan are the |” I Vivhuckley, ‘ith Sullivan and Matt Brassell engage in a three-cornered com cently that he is overworked, Of late ( box. Rube Measyuare ae Merericdlt ioe eee atta keesgen Even In defeat the Senators are great, two maim factors in the Senators’ grand fight to bent ont the Red tert forthe champlonship title at Gaelic dancing at the Kerrymen's plonie McGraw has been relieving him when- Six” the fans look when the going and if they carry off the supreme title Box for the American League flag. Tho Washington twirler ts in Sulzer's Harlem River Park. Believe rough. It was he that kept the Giants from failing misorably on their last Western trip, as he won & game in each city of the four visited. Lavender, a youngster, is the Cubs’ star twirler and « thorn in the side of the Giants, while Tinker and Evers, the veteran infielders, are playing as well ever. ever posible by running in Wilson. Without the Chief in tiptop form the Giants would be in a bad way. A noticeable cause of the slump, however, has been the falling off in batting of tho outfielders, Murray is the only one of the trio who has been hitting the bali and fielding accurately. The recent success of the Cubs has ‘been due almost entirely to the pitching of Lavender and the Tinker-Evers com- Yination around second base. The catching of Archer (s an important] National League Batting Average. factor, but he is always good. If any- thing should happen to him the Cubs would quickly begin to drop. Pidbers and Clute, When Johnny Evers was away from | Burns, New York 1 | the team the Cubs could not get their i oi4 machine working, It looked as if they were done for. No one could work ; With Tinker as Evers did. After a long] Sovetely, St. Louis rest Johnny recovered his health and] Lobert, ‘Philadelphia hig return to the game and to top form Te es ) has boosted the chances of Chicago] Kelly, Vitsbureh 1 until the Cubs have come to be looked | Qaubert: ,Broklya upon as a dangerous factor. The work of Evers and Tinker around second did mueoh to beat the Glants in the recent Evers 1s one of those rare ‘ers who have the faculty of le to think and act stmultan- He and Tinker know each other so well that they do not need signals as to covering the bag. Put any of the baseball world this season it will| considered the most valuable boxman in the game to-day, while Milan go down as the greatest form reversal in| is @ hard hitter and the country’s best base runner. Joe Wood, another diamond history. The Senators had be-| speedster, hae carried the Mostons to the front, while Tris Speaker's come so used to seventh and eighth| ontfielding and timely hitting have won many a game for the Hub places in the annual struggles that it almost seems that it is @ typographical error when they are placed second. floor welting. Notwithstanding the great all-around | Buckley and Sullivan have met before, playing of both the Red Sox and tha} . 1 ’ 2 and it's about an even break, though Senators up to date, they would prob- | ¥ i 4 Buckley is very heavily handicapped ably drop with a smash ff anything : with excess baggage. Still, Denis has it | happened to elther of two stars that | J Pittaburgh 2) Brooklyn , 4 Gn all comers th tho. amateur sues i Phila'phia 48° 48/500) Boston. 52 510) both have in their lineup. | iy Jigs, reels and bornpipes. He has aa RESU ESTER MES p' je has Sigged Tt has been Walter Johnson's great BYSIOR YESTERDAY EOS his way into fame through the medium layers who have played in fife ts vashi is, 4; New Y. ‘ F York, 1. i se diiaredin fifteen | pitching that has kept the Washingtona . ; ° Blackbird,” the “Top o' Cork ssid ade bre: edneedy, | 50, the front, ably seconded by Out- ive |felder Clyde Milan's all-around” play Divvil Shtick ¢he Minister’ and the “Humots Nchicon ik mew pitoh the acoed o' Glyn.” He dances them in all four times, viz, slip jig, season of a three. contract, double Jlg, reel and hornpipe, which ts going some. What? which calls for $7,000 a season—one of tho Hivabray “ae ito Brassoll 1s mote on the modern school of dancing. He best contracts ever awarded a pitcher. | | Gincinuati at Pilladelpbia, Two games, favors clok work, which {a effective for stage stuff, but. Cant ante ise Ge ee pal — lacks the glamour that goes with the old Gaelic product. Wood in the box and of Tris Speaker in very Kerryman in town {s boiling over with the expecta- the outfield, | Ww tion of this cont No White Hope contest can appreash - It for excitement, as far an the men from the “Little if Just think if either the Senators or ; the Red Sox met with any of the hard Kingdom” are concerned, and, glory be, I'll have to be en me, when those chaps begin to foot it to the variations of “The Blackbird” esd to shake out ‘the pigeon's wing,” the and “the back "there will be something doing in the IIne of graceful and adroit MAJOR LEAGUE RECORDS Compiled by Expert George L. Moreland. nave plased. jucluding W AB. R, é and Clubs, Gg, Detroit Sp ath at Clete 2.1 Aeiteuce, Sng 08 yatiletton 2102 Sty Collie Mthletis. | (ttaburgh at Brooklya, ft, Henle York. | bo nator,» 1036 64s, “Clevela Was. ra o Is Featherweight nMoTHyY Ween "ating the whiten urea in| Champion of Ireland? 3tXw Ss *err mine t, where would they be? Just supposing ¢ both clubs were | \ robbed of their stars—Johnson threw) | his arm out, Milan broke his lee and} K, ©, Jack O’Donnell De-) Wood and Speier were incapacitated— | i whore would they be? They would) clares Irish Paddy Has No probably go tumbling down the per- ’ i MR H.C, HEPBURN, elghty-) Why did a man with such versetilty O five years old, secured a gunner’s| move to Long Island license at the City Hall the other sugh to bring down me pipet TEMP ere ies, 80a , © againal negro being engaged In « ] sald the old sport) igus baseball team. bd | BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. At Falrmont A, C.Johnny Walte va, Pightlag Kennedy At Brown A. A. Joe West va, Lee a am apry the game this fall, as he paid his dollar, He lives at Baby Ke, Agi Phelps, Brog Chiheago Wingo. st. Lous, |: Bh. “Tous centage column. Right to Title. Meyer Jon, He shoots yellow legs, partridge,| GyM BAGLEY 1 st Lote St. Louis : i . evens, 0 ¢ . L.—Jol other player in there at sccond and the 7, Ginge. ¢ tuna q ‘ Plelehaings, | Detroit When the American Leugue race At Gowanus A, CJack Williams } quail and ducks from Babylon to Mon-| did not fight Peter Jocusca” Waa ol&@ machine begina to creak and 80] yingling, Broo! ; § opened this season most fans picked va. Butoh Ross, } aqua a! % ich is |tauk Point, When he was a boy helwhy John never was champion of the Philadel the Athletics to repeat because of their wrong. At Bt. Nicholas A. C=¥ou ' ; b. ZIMMERMAN'S BATTING 18 A wreat playing. in. the world's werles, BY JOHN POLT,OCR, ary va Young le Yount #] Vana to play marbles in Clty Hall park, | world, ant GREAT HELP. | Waders Bs whan tee Gateaied the: Giants. rather P" YBAWLY the most peeved boxar N ONSERVANT READER of this column sends me the following extraer- din ' in this elty is okout ol the, pavender came to the Cubs as a Waring, ,Athiet hird, and have shown little beara oe free eye 15g 6 sure of beating again, sou the A dinary communteation te, # that made them invincible led | up and w WURRA WURKA md. They were in dire need of @ jiaine, Washington 4 pitcher to help them out of thetr of Vaieticuities and he landed just at the because of @ statement in this column | during the past two seasons, pat recently referring to Irivh Paddy as Joe Wood iw virtually the lea ‘The following 14 @ translation of an article appearing the other day Marry Travey, the It in the Itallan newspaper 11 Progresso-Italo- Americano: . d 3 Wo the American I Hs erweight champion of Ireland. PORTER otent Reuitach’ avo came to ane, t Farle dntoe fhe American Leswos pitchers with |Cvt Jona anpatihere ie nly gue feathers THR PUGILISTIC CAMPION, ABD ATTELL, FAILS TO OVERCOME ife at the last minute and is now one + hen York 3 an, (Cleveland Although Johnson hasn't as high a per-| Weight champion of Ireland and he ‘THE ITALIAN, TO! MUBPRY. . fe twirle ious ath, Chica A J n't an high a pers ‘ Deed SHURE ADA DOH, Tela tee can rook cal centage, during the past month or so he Ia It, Read what he saya —_—___— SAW FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 3.—A very interesting boxing match big eying were Meee ce a ‘ i he has been doing tho best. twirlin amatory lette occurred between the great champion, Abe Attell, and our fellow country- |! “ruly sald that the backbone of the aggerts A dior ube ts made up of Tinker, Evers an@ n Waice 2 OR of any slab artist, ae he not only haw In regants to what 1 saw S nday Baseball man, well known im the sporting world by the elias of Tommy Murphy. | Goat n » Ey a falker, Washingioa 4 won eleven straight games, but he has! A i eee allem ort tus oltre are eo, CH reacued a few battles. The Washing: | rate gich Wiceesrs hi A tely necessary to the working of lel geet ag rad yelp Mead iy in oe oie a fore. ‘This constitutes » great victory for our fellow countryman, because | the. machine. having been marked against him early ahaa irk" wit, | Abe Attell 1s champion of the world at the Ughtweignt. 278 } ‘Fhe Pirates is not a machine-like or- } nization. Clarke depends on {ndl- % '4@ual effort for his victories, The hit- 0 vag and fielding of Hans Wagner is his in the season when he wasn't in the awue Pitchers’ Records, | best of condition re who have pitched in games| Speaker t# the second of the Amert-| k’cout. [know that . H, ay, CaM League batters, being next to Cobb! ip Hatt Ag)! with @ mark of .304, including yester-| ip st th 9 i000) day's game. He Is the ieading run-|, ring and ba id Ketter and sta thind in slugmin ye } Although Milan fan't a demon hit only batting .206, when he gets on he's bear for he haw stolen just sixty bases, | score more than any’ player In either | In it possible? Wurrasthru! Then why not let it be Tomm! Mora? scibvita ella Why conceal the great honor which he reflects upon his grand mation beneath a pseudonimo Trlandese? ‘Tis @ hellava nerv! spectfully GUGLIELMO OLIVIERO, It's an awful blow to Harlem and to Flatbush, both of which localities; have shared in the glory gleaned by Tommy's hardy mitts. Sad Indeed it ts to think a Ch 1 like Tommy should be mistaken for a Garibaldian, He'll’ ‘and by main asset, while O'Toole and Hendrix peed are doing yeoman service in the box. | Mike Donlin has helped out wonderful with his batting and peppery spirit afte Mike lends a lot of color to any team “that has him for a member. The one smart trick turned by Clarke hy ave only lost decisions, Lo was over in ‘manage 1 wi let Trish 1 us ‘ 5 i v Cle 7 feathermetght i RP 1G BOOST Bro: ‘“P/thia season was the placing of Miller at league, It is his base-stealing that has rn in Carrick-on-Hain, (minty Tip» HERFS A BIG BOOST tn the Brownsville section of Brooklyn favoring storfiret instead of second, Miller was ranked Milan as a wonderful man,| fetp. lcland, ant wil ey Aleck Drescher for Congress He should win, It was he who fougnt 1 ember 1 have. \d baseman, but he ts or } he Aldermanic ring and sw fed | ti j eenever a good second while his ability to cover lota of ground| (mainee har ihe pat © n establishing the municipal baths et a ae eee, Perey at Grel, Hie woe: 14 dag Pade i 3/In felding hax helped to make inlman| se thoelot woulen i Coney Island, which have been w tremendous hit with the tollers. He te ene hes gerien with the Gianta beat New’ York | Must" muti Ne aneet | KNOCKOUT TACK W DONNELM he men favoring “uplift movements around these parte that are om the ——— Bids rack sem: | Joyel out of at least two games, Chica { ro | ‘ 4 saw Trrunwe | bf? Same, well clash \ her — toed { LAST NIGHT’S BOUTS. | Pia) canons WOW GE the New ete ee cas, CSATHICAdCa awh Recah And they need a lot of uplifting in Brooklyn abe nau, Lhfadelpila, 3 ; -—-- fetta Petar Pot Hele peut | an a°k" Metrowaiitans - : a Ciacinnatt f will take place next Monday night whe i non wii ALAR ERIOAT CIEE ‘ | x | Miller of the Dodgers tinier, Cincinoat ‘The final event at the AY Nicholas A. 6. lOwney Langdon, the hard = hittin TA TITTLE DIGRESSION Intoy BOXIANA BRADY—Gunboat Smith te! F ; vat. Brookt sehedkited for ten ro ante lem melowney lanqdan, a A card lant Beth bantchins =, | Best Throwing Catcher in ma, maid al 2m, Mus steele of Behimnora, feaihorwelBit cham WEREA WRK eee ata acaeeee, MEME * he ine nd after a slow. 0} | ore, feat he cham wo ~ League, Says Bresnahan | ° semion Marshall brought over two straight righta| pion of the South, in he star bout of \ little game of draw T open F, CLOOS, No, 148 Seventy-seventh Fart” Soore tothe Jaw Witch ended the event, ‘The fit blow | ten rounds on 8 The dealer boosts, and} street. Brooklyn—A player tn pineehi | Harmon, i feat Manon” ie floor forthe count at alae! | L i : a A call out after taking home ene 5 pucke after reaal vet and real i as i t ' roralses [ stay ail out after taki BY ROGER BRESNAHAN. riage Cine | pacttom ie Tininedlcveir"eruht eat woot and |» JHll7, Neumann. the former onavager of ve I hold pat, dealer discards |everal tricks, It is not neceseney te (Manager of Cardinals.) Me Hrown. Chicago | Yoo the full count with Rest right emeeh, : affairs ing Brown, th aif then drops the deck without | take a trick after caliing out If he has | Otto Miller of the Dodgers is Fromme, inciopatt | Carey Phelan fought « r ten-roend draw | bOHer, has returned with lis charg . he ant looks expectant, Next | ough points home to make good, | the greatest, thrownix catcher in , 400) with “Young Sevpard, the, recomnlged champion jae, Bed My an picks Wp and shulties Geek, thon | ear ae ! cept Archer, Doan. Gibson, Mey- | eral times, Meteree Lionel wearaed the. bare far | eA Ma, Be Dat gone, very scale from coustaor miter f . vr ly T how! A. B,C, D and & playing fve-hand- ers, Wingo or McLean, Me h aTe | ¢ rough tactic, Shay wos warned for \eyl y ne of them at weight four cards. He | ed euch 1 J to the fourth and founda, while in| Yh h n R ed euchre call on an ace, A make: @ wonderful whip and can throw th Phelan was ¢ pane " ' and 1 not wishing t9 | olubs trumps and calls on to wecond base, no inatter wha dhs '¢ Gn wand Sie sere te ts rag, sport and take advantage | \o0 ety gon grins a Bnet ee itcher delivers. fohnay Doan no gored @ decisire (three tunea at home aod ‘ af ality, relinquish the pot : * for a partnei ads rt, | 4 len ver Joe Marto at the ¢. on then ana 4 i ‘ a Cp : s | a 1eior, tree foe Mars Queenan A a Young Cohen apa sid Bitia, ny main hae “ Ghoul T save catharea’i int | Plays another and D, who holds | ind a left handed vatsman and qanighet’ Afar evecelr, Mario was be Rerean ec Maker wit aie el ath oe JACK, | the ace and King, plays the king. Ie | nail the runner by a yard or py sae sll baa al ei aS Fugitshman, | ferners to Finish Strong. He can't draw after he makes @ bet.) D compelled to play the ace as long | Picinon, vage and Kennedy at the Garden, |, deck Ourie 7 ri ta (ania end the'da Tanta Glenie| ¥OU yupathetlo foy poker, You! as he holds another heart? Gene. More Cincinnati Cinciaratt ee ee New York Pilladelshia 1 St la York, Pe eee? Sine, | No. 00 West One Hundred and Seve 6 to bo a handy walioper to get away entysseventh street, with it Ina game where I would be The custom ts to play the acq eulted " playing. “pon. ; every day at keep track his work and sve if Im not right in this ypinon, i Newark «mim if Qa ead ae sald got re trbscica |