Evening star., 1901-07-26
Another Victory for Wright.

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Another victory for Wright.
The heavy rain of the early morning put
off until the afternoon the matches in the
tennis tournament of the Longwood Club
at Longwood, Mass. yesterday. In the
afternoon Wright defeated Davis in four
hard sets and wilt meet Ware In the semi
finals tomorrow.
In the doubles Ware and Wright mad
lead Of two sets to one when darkness
made 1t Impossible to finish. The matcn
will he completed today. Fuller and Perry
scored an unexpected victory over Read
and Horton. Summary:
omen singles-Thfrd round-B. c. Wright
beat D. F. Davis. f6-4, Ga. 40. 6-2 L. +.
Eastern championship double-First round
A F. Fuller and L. Perry beat J. 3.
Read and X. Horton, ID, 6-2, A, %. L.
E. Ware and B. C. Wright lead H. l. ros-
ter and r. H. Carleton (unnnisneo)' o-o'
4-8, 6-3.
The Liverpool Cup.
/ LONDON. July 26.-P. P. Gilpin's Mount
Prospect (Maher) won the Liverpool cup at
the second day of the Liverpool July meet
ing. E. Corrigan's Semper Vigilans cIhorpe)
was second and E. Bonner's Light COMEDY
was third.
One-MiIe Bicycle Record.
SALT Lake. Utah. July 26-rhe one
mile unpaced bicycle record, which stood
for three years, was broken on the SAT-
Palace saucer track last night by w. r..
Samuelson Of Provo, Utah. Samueison rode
the distance on an eight-lap track In
L. 53 2-5 under rather unfavorable condi-
tions. He clipped two seconds on the
worlds half-mile record of 90 seconds, pue
this record will not stand.
All-Washfngton Won.
The Washington Base Ball Club de-
feated the Leesburg, Va, Base Ball Club
at the latter place yesterday by to 5.
The features Of the game were the grand
battery work of Barr and Huddleson, the
outfielding of Lay, the first base play OF
Moriart5 and Burns home-run hit, the
longest ever made at the Leesburg
grounds.
Carter of the University OF Virginia was
In the box for I.eesburg, and they fully
expected to defeat the Advantageous In
consequence.
Base Ball Notes.
The Senator'S at Chicago again today.
Gear will probably pitch
Clarke Griffith will probably pitch In to-
days game and the Senators have to >
chance.
Manager Manning is slated to leave his
club and come east tonight on hunt for
players. If one or possibly two 800 hit
ters can be secured 1t would be great
thing for the team.
Manager McGraw is trying to make
trade with Cleveland for First Baseman
George Lachance, who held down the fnt-
tial bag for the Orioles several years ago.
McGraw thinks Laehance will make val
liable man for Baltimore.
Catcher Joe Connor, released Dy MlWau-
kee Wednesday, has accepted terms with
the Cleveland club. Manning was also al
ter him.
Catcher Criger of the Boston club. who
the head. tried to- tIay in Milwaukee yes
terday, but had TO retire He nearly
tainted. s19s4 VI
At the conclusion, oftyesterday's Albany
Rome State League game In Albany, N. Y,
Umpire Murphy OF Medina. who has served
for two weeks, was m6bbed by crowd of
500 persons. He was struck In the back OF
the neck with club and was roughly ham
died by the crowd. Half dozen policemen
and the Albany players surrounded the
umpire and beat back the crowd, thus saw
ing Murphy from serious injury The blue
coats drew their revolvers and threatened
to use them II further violence was at
tempted. 49,
Fred Ely, the veteran shortstop, who has
been member Of the Pfttsburg team since
1895. received his unconditional release last
The reason given BY the management for
letting the former star go is that Leach.
who Is now playing short. is as good a
fielder and better batsnan and base rum
ner than Ely. The Pittsburg club last
night signed Pitcher Doheny, recently re-
leased by New York, and ordered him to
report at once.
Frank Kitson OF the Brooklyns. shut out
the New Yorks yesterday. allowing only
one scratch hit Matthewson pitched a
good game after the first inning. misplays
being responsible for four OF the Brooklyn's
runs.
The Pittsburg BAH club. by defeating Gin
cinnati yesterday. succeeded In taking
series from that club for the irst time
Cincinnatis was largely responsible.
The Athletics are getting closer and
closer.
Ban Johnson's warning: Don't monkey
with the buxx saw"
II Is more than an even bet that Manager
Manning wasn't on the bench when Mon
days game was forfeited.
Joe Qufnn's arm has been troubling him
all season and Il is now believed the vet