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ee ee Ve A Low: VibiLITY Cam, You Wu Tae Ave Wer AT Testo oF TG MOTOR OFCL Lape, Z ALWAYS CARRY A SACK FULL oF Wooven Money -+- Tus 190 a Wien Toure Lay out: your. ( aad oe louTeS ALL. DOWN WILA - This awe Nou The Lavan On ‘Te Gatoune MonoPoy Big Task Set for Roamer In Empire City Handicap Yonkers's Opening Feature Has Pine Field of 11 Starters. Vincent Treanor. HIS afternoon at James Butler's | wa: a Yonkers track the speed and atamina of Andrew Millera Roamer, generally regarded as the dest race boree in America, will be put to a severe test. The little geld- ing fe echeduled to start in the Em- greater giant break their tecoras “in ego ti venh rerelstay tape tee Dave been abe |[ EMPIRE CITY HANDICAP Carroll, the of the ordinary ones he had to beat, coming from an outside post position, running around his field and roliing home, Matntenant didn't have much to beat, but he did it in impressive style. He ran behind Wenonah and Sir William Johnson so long that backere of the other two w the Cale- an ‘shell: Mound wot ] ated vate reoones Ja many vi events that mal prosent y ‘The first ovent he Mm. een j a ere were giants in the old days. Two thousand years & Greek ace! | fFom Croton covered 66 in three about rey on sandy ground, without the } le walked away from piked hoes. oa of Croton,| pire City Handiqap, the opening| began to celebrate in ad' the rides. For | The same Phalos of Croton | day's feature, and carry 129 pounds defeat of the “good thing.” Johany the start e a sew gery! discus used in those in paralysed silence. en ya eo mi further than any Of. it all sunk In, and | Greek ever throw it that they put up roared in laughter,;@ Shaft of white Pentalic marble to around the track @| mark his throw and preservé his and then ran for|name for athletes in thousands of McTaggart, however, never let him well into the atretch. Then he quickly overhauled the other two and breezed. It remaina to be seen how good this pair will prove when they meet Detter company. over a mile and an eighth against one of the best fields of the year. ‘The result of the race will prove whether or not Roamer has eeen his best days. other down until years to come. Unfortunately, his- Both are good lookers, especial! stayed there, He| tory and legend have no more to eay| UP to date the Miller gelding| Maintenant. iJ to throw tee weights, = about Tene cc Crow Bereans Be haen't won a race this season. His oF fm any or was @ giant among men o performances, however, have been etrensth day, and tons Greek iJ Johnny MoT rode the last etreneth and | Gay and aa the skeletons of Greek |unttormly good, but the finishes have| three winners of the mectings-Pen: always found him lacking-in that something which carries victory with been lit, That Roamer has all hie wonder- ful speed cannot be doubted. He showed this in the recent Queens County handicap when he eet a tor- rifc pace, only to weaken at the end and let Short Grass up to get the credit of creating a new track record of 1862-5, Roamer shouldered 139 fenate that day as he will to-d mouse, Sortie and Maintenant. He had_to overcome several diMoulties on Fenmouse, and the way the race was run indicates that this Belmont cast-off wns very much better than anything else in the race to win in 1.88 thereafter. Federds. A few years after, while on|in the battlefield of Marathon eo stormy winter area of them to have exceeded monta, and that | 6 inches in height, he must sa finish. put Joe into an | SOME giant. 4 little monoy for his‘great fight- foot six-inch coffin, and the J ing. His threo latest rin, engine company carried him ef the world that laughed at his bulk. tles—when the Levinaky bout is over will have natted him $10,000, This we : neat. sum, but {magine Dillon ; receiving $10,000 for three fighta, and show 6 feet ACK DILLON has begun to get would have throws @ eizteen- ‘The eteeplechase was one of the beat of the season. In the final eighth Footlights, Vifir, Brotherstone and Chivalry were almost abreast, with their jockeys whipping and riding for a poor showing while the fight lasted, This shows how far Welsh has dropped back from championship class, A number of fair second-réters have trimmed Wolgast during the Moran getting $20,000 for one! ut he stopped at @ mile, and to-da: Gear life. It waa anybody's race at feet with one mane, rite handicap iv an sighth furor. 87° | this ntage. Footlights got the verdict taking a turn, He a) at HILE Wolgas* lost to Weish| In his previous start, the Brook. |!n the last fow strides, ut training, when he knew by fouling, Welsh mad lyn Handicap, Roamer was “welght- . about the game. Of course even a Willard—could have up againsi him in a boxing ne for ae te, of the ‘urks woul ve been in hie hands, pyre ed with" as an experiment under 131 pounda, but again he weakened when the real issue came, Lefore that un- der 133 pounds in the Kings County Handicap he wasn't persevered with At any stage of the race, Gecond was The many falls at the fret hedgo, which have marred the ‘chases at Aqueduct, have led many to the be- lef that the obstacle comes too soon after the start. Some of the horses are hardly in their strides when asked to lift and clear tt, Thies hedge might be placed further back or re- rule these freaks of nature| past year or two. the best he could du when he went to and nerve dri ‘Woigast will find it hard to get any | Kentucky, Ed. Crump beating him. ee power. pot always. Willard, | more first-class bouts. Hoe has lost| Roamer has been given a moved entirely, epectal Preparation for this race and he may redeem himself. He has been worked 4 mile in 1.40, and has been at the Yonkers track since Sunday. That Roamer will have his work cut out to win is shown by a glance at the other entries, There ts Strom. boll, his closest rival of last season, in with 122 pounds, Short Grass with 137, Trial by Jury, a good horse, with 128, his Kentucky conqueror, Ed, Crump, with 123, Slumber II. with 110, and Gainer with 108. Then there are four two- olds named, Friar Rock with 11 ur with 105, Colandria with 97, and Sharre West- ern etar, Dick Williams, with 107, On paper the Empire City Handic: » like a real horse race. aad loo! Two good foot ie fast in proports Seale bule'as a lightwelghe ore” Some day & man seven or eight feet tall and naturally athletic will several, in tho past iy months, by e shte striking foul blows. no use for @ foul wins or loses, oeare bes Daffy Bastly Defeats Palmer. Jimmy Duffy, the orack west side boxer, edaily defeated Bud Palmer, the Connecticut lightweight, In the feature bout of ten rounds at the Harlem Sporting Club of Hamme!'s last night. Dufty administered terrife punishment to his opponent and it was Palme: great gameness and ability to take a punch that enabled him to go the limit. Duffy's boxing made @ great hit with the fane at the Rockaway resort, as he never stopped tearing in from start to things of the couldn't he COMO. Hrwaten tha. Ot NN a MieTION. ‘ne rn 8 oo nile, 16a 1 ND, thive quarters, 120 2 Nr Rie eighithe. 1 ts ADIVAINUS. fivecuhtia, 1 06 PLY, ‘tniie, tah OCKER | threo-eighiths, mile, 1.40, five-wigikthe, Gore, fi quarters, owe 81, 104 2.5, 1.19 26, PES BVEHING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN wwe nm NEW YORK HOW TO BE ECONOMICAL ALTHOUGH AN AUTO OWNER — oeing Co (The New Tore Brentng Word) Cansvee Dror Soonee , AND We Pomey WT THe VAG & 12 Poul neves- ite G0 To THe Pera 19 MONEY. ) |Yanks Would Have Made Clean-Up Against Indians Had Gilhooley Opportunity Knocked Often at Door in Second Game, but Found “Nobody Home.” surrounding them to-day there ts still @ chance for the Yanks to put an extra rivet in their hold on first place, but, as they #0 into battle, these league leaders @re still haunted with che @host of Opportunities that have come their way only to be spurned and tossed aside. The wasting of euch opportunities as loomed up before Bill Donovan and his tribe te the thing that per- mits @ pennant to filter into nothing, And, as fate would will it, the ignor- ing of these chances was due almost entirely to the lack of speed that a man like our injured Gilhooley could have shown when pinched. fast Op- Had Githooley or any other man been on the job when Mr, portunity rapped at the door the tale might have mn diffe: rent, even | thi » We might as well be eatisfed ith the even break and let tt go at that. The Yanks declare they do not fear these Indians from Cleveland, but that confidence does not extend in its en- tirety to the press box. The way those birds go after that baseball fight their way out of bad holes not strike an old-timer as offering any large amount of nourishment to @ pennant aspirant. Donovan and hig men may say what they please about the Red Sox, the White Sox and the Tigers, but the Cleveland Club has shown the best baseball that we have round these parts all season, They are fighters and they are con- sistent—almost as consistent es are our own Yanks. They do not quit. Even when the pitchers are bad the batters make up for the lack of de. fenstve strength. But, returning to the lnck of speed —had Rube Oldring, Frits Mateel or Githooley headed the batting order as the ninth inning of the second game came around things might have been different, Roy Hartzell, valiant old warhorse that he is—God bless him! —did not have that extra ounce of speed that would have turned a slow hit into a aingle, The fact that he did not probably cost us a final chance at vic , What was an out for him would have been a@ hit for NGapt Huston and Col, Ruppert rt, ‘with thie faot that they immediately went into confer. were eo impressed MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS National League Games Now York o:Cincianen, Clabes, W.L. PC, Gabe W.L. Clube. W.L. PC, Glebe. W.L. PO. 37 016 | Pitts’gh...84 87 .477/| N York,..44 20 506 | Waoh..,,,80 35 527 00 565 | Clenge...36 40 .474|| Clovel’é....43 82 578 080 8F BLD 0 545 | Ot. Loute..04 49 Beoten....41 84 547 | Ot. Lomts.,83 68 437 00 408 | Chnetn’d, .81 44 414|| Chicage...60 84 541 | Phile,,,,.00 61 203 Resutts of Games Yesterday. New Tork, 8; Cincianedl, 6 (10 tunings). jext, 8, Cleveland, 3 (1st game). Been Playing enoe, and long distance messages were flying between them and Rube Oldring, has gone down to Phil- ade to have a talk with Connie Ma ‘There is no doubt thet Old- ring will be with us before the end of @ fortnight, but the Cap and the Colonel want him now. Money will probably make him come, 4s a pinch Ritter the palm must go to Caldwell, our pitching slugemith. Called upon in the first game, he smacked the ball againat the right fleld wall, scoring two men in a pinch. In the second he was called to the rescue again and delivered a Texas leaguer that scored one man. That, to our way of think- ing, ie pinch hitting as she should be done to win pennants, The only thing to be feared now te that Oaldwell might be with drawn as a regular pitcher to be used ae a regular pinch hitter, He ts pretty good at etther job. young pitcher of Des as ny yr eld the Cleveland Club, t# one of the best football players that the University of Minnesota has ever had. He also went to the Orient as a pitcher for University of Chicago and has istinction of having shut out the Japanese cohees, team without a hit, As yet thie brilliant young fellow has had little chance of mowiag. what he could do for the Indians, He will, though, Though hi ard an was hammered times in eerious id wes of Saninitasion Niok save his r gone through the season with a clean slate. He gets oredit for the victory, thanks to the five rune which were started across jate by Caldwell as pinch The Yanks were in the f 3 to 2 when out to let Cald- records he |i titled ee anes ein that half of the In: ning. Therefore gete oredit for the Nietory despite the beau- tiful work of Rus There ie still a debate among the fans back of third base to whether Home-Run Baker or Tria Speaker is the more valuable to a team, Yesterday's results made it difficult to deck Baker Brastionly won the first one with 4 but he was limp in the second. Speaker, on the er hand, was held im check in the first game only to break loose with three clean wal in the with well second, which had much ta ho the Cleveland victory, AND STANDING OF CLUBS American League Cleveland, 4; New York, 2 (34 game). To-Day Cleveland at Now York (3 games). Chicage 1 Boston. ‘Detweli at Weshlagtes. 04, Louie ot Philedeiphis. ome run, ) —————_.. Manager Makes an Addi tion to His Team and Finds it Was Substraction.” Athletes won another bail game, Weil, va. riety te the spice of lite, Don « sport shirt before swimming and @ man-eating shark will bese you up Teen tee crsight oreetion ot) (hrm oo other down on if they don't win the pennant can Shony Hede should inherit the earth. They are meeker and lowltei than anybody we are hep to. aoLcur. ‘ order be @ good aolfer vou pave te hi the tall, But thie can be garters. Bome golfore hit the ball ebeut one hundred times too muon, | o The Argentine climate te just | climate oan be healthy in fam Langtord's Fight | flat. | sata lal at ea rests at mn Bot ot nothing foie | ‘The umpire who blew the Potdmas | League to eniiat for Mexican service | evidently figured It was a short atep | from bottles to battles, | the mt Philadelphia Jack O'Brien = an-| nounces he ts going to do an Enoch Arden and ‘s locking for an oppon- ent, With about six monthe of re- hearesals the bout should go bis. {litary fever is spreading aa om ome of the ballplayers are soldivring on the bases, oT Rhitsalisctat ty etansrone Atsete time Jimmy Dime'e fighters want’ to make a change they should look up the two Nickalle, As econ as he mets used to high altitude Rube Oldring should be a valuable eddition to the Yanks, ANSWERS TO QUEERIES. Gootus—A Quaker believes in turn- ing the other cheek, which is the rea- non all their lightweights have cault- flower ears, Ar Wakk—They cut open a shark and found « fiivver. eee Wimper—Somebody is spoofing you. Connie Mack's rookies won't be mere boys for a few yeare yet. Splurge—Try Woolworth's or Tif- fany’s. The twelfth annual metropolitan golf championship begins to-morrow at Garden City, which will be a big boost to Uncle Sam's internal rev- enues. ‘Woompue—Why kick about’ the team? The boys are getting the fresh air, ain't they?, wip—About tho best golf cub would bo a combination axe and lad! No regular uniform ts required for a golf team. Spiked shoes are bad. They cut up the greens and scrateh the bar. aii Brooklyn and Cleveland in the World Beries? Fine. Doesn't rhyme, but sentiment ts excellent. : WAN Bottled by-E.&J.Burke SPORTING. 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