The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-06-22
SPORTING COMMENTS.

! SPORTING COMMENTS.
Yesterdays shutouts swelled the total
in the National League to forty-three
and in the American League TO thirty
eight.
| Keller. Conroy twice, Fultz. Elber-
! field. and Unglaub. that is the list Of
| disabled men that Griffith has had to
contend with this season. Yet the New
York Americans are second, and no team
| in the country is playing better ball
| Chesbro is either the best pitcher in
the country or close whereabouts. He
has won fifteen games this season and
/ lost three Only Philadelphia and Cleve-
| land have beaten him. and ne has trim
med them all. The hits off him aver
age lois a game
OF their thirty-five victories the New
York Nationals have won twenty-four
/ from Brooklyn. Boston and Philadel-
/ phia- They have won eleven games from
/ the four Western teams and lost thir-
! teen 10 them. The rear end three are
a feeble group for a major league.
! Football scrimmages are responsible
/ for one baseball wreck. Davy Fultz has
| reached the sere and yellow long before
his time, simply because he worshiped
/ at a pigslrin shrine on the gridiron.-Cin-
| cinnati Enquirer. F1lltz hurt his leg in
| spring practice a year ago on the dia-
! mond, not on the gridiron
A funny mistake occurred in the game
last Monday in Elmira between the Bos-
] ton Americans and the Father Mathew
| Temperance Society team. The Boston
| Globe" tells Of it as follows: AT the
beginning Of the ninth Collins inquired
! what the score was and was told to 4
in his favor. The game continued until
the eleventh. with the champions try
ing their best, but being unable to score
! In the last OF the eleventh a double by
! Rutherford and single by Birmingham
! brought in a run and apparently won
4 the game. Later ID was discovered that
| Boston had made four runs I'm the
! fourth, instead Of the three ere 1ited by
! the scorer who gave Collins the informa-
| ton as to how the game stood. and
! that In reality the game should have
] ended at the close Of the ninth with the
| score 70 8 in favor of Boston. The
umpire decided that Father Mathew had
| won fairly, as both teams had willingly
/ played the eleven innings"
Joe Walcott and Nike Donovan viii
box fifteen rounds at Baltimore on Fr.-
DAY.
enter Its senior four in the Peoples Re
gatta.
Louie Long and Kid Krant are match
ed 20 tight twenty rounds in Ballard.
! Wash, June 80.
Denver Ed Martin is in Los Angeles
and wants to fight Jack Johnson. who
defeated him about year aSo.
George Gardner is to fight John Willie
at Chicago on July l. and II he wins he
has been promised return match with
Jack Root
Jimmy Britt is in St. Louis and he has
expressed a Willingness 70 fight Young
Corbctt ir that city before the Worlds
Fair closes.
Eddie HanIon is willing 10 fight Bat
ting Nelson at 10 pounds next month at
San Francisco. II Nelson does not get
this match he will fight Herrera at Salt
Lake City on July l.
Jack Root. the Chicago middloweight,
has been offered $25OO-win. lose or draw
for tcn-round bout with Joe Choy;i-
ski. OF California. ct Dawson city. dur
ing the latter part Of July. Root has
accepted the clubs offer
Bob Long. the Chicago coIored middle
weight is getting rusty for a fight lie
has been training for some time and his
/ manager. Denny Murray wants 10
1 match him against George Cole. Jack
I Williams. oc Jack O'3rien-
Kid Nichols is as steady as ever. He
I pitched ten games without making an
error
wolverton. who hit well early in tho
season. has taken a bad slump since
/ Memorial Day having made but four
aits this month.
Barry has not done much since his
return to the game on May q In four
teen games he made only ten singles.
Lush made thirteen hits in the nrst
seven games he played at first base for
the Phillies-
Tenney is Boston's most consistent
hitter In fourteen games he failed IN
but two u locate the ball.
Gilbert OF New York had but one hit
IN seven games. June TO 10. inclusive.
Bresnahan's two "homers" on June G
are the only four-sackers he has had
this season.
Should Cans and Jabez White be
matched the mill will create no end Of
g. terest IN England. That Il will be "A
big betting event is assured for White
Is held in high esteem by the British
sports Cans SAYS that he can fight at
49, pounds at ringside. but prefers TO
meet White at l35 pounds. weigh I'm at ,
. clock on the afternoon OF the encOun-
ter which t. the custom in England
Al Herford, his manager, adds that they
VIII cover any amount on the side that
" hitc's hackers viii put up, but de-
lC'arcs that the purse offered by the
| English club must be an entiCing one.
He also wants 500 for expenses, the
sum the club offered 10 Terry McGOYern
10 meet Ben Jordan during the corona
ton ceremonies three years ago.