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SARATOGA RACES.
Molly Brant Won Champlain Handicap
With Ease.

| John Sanford's Molly Brant won the
| Champlain handicap, for three-year-olds
and upward, at a mile and an eighth, at
| Saratoga yesterday afternoon, without
| being extended. She picked up 122
pounds, concedng all the way from seven
to twenty pounds by the scale to
her company, and, after running second
to Dolly Spanker for mile, she drew
away and came home with three lengths
to spare in 1.56 20. The Clifford mare
was made odds-on favorite, a flood of
coin filling the books at the last moment.
Her race showed that she is one of the
best mares in training, and her owner
was warmly congratulated on the result.
Dolly Spanker was length and half
before Claude, who beat DaleSman head.
Toscan, to favorite, made all the rum
ming in the first race, at six furlongs, and
had three lengths to spare at the end. He
was well handled by Fuller. James V.
and Marjoram were the contenders to the
head of the stretch, where both began to
weaken, and Proper, with 125 pounds
his back, finished strongly under hard
drive, got up in time to beat Marjoram a
head for the place. The time was 1.15 2-5.
Fuller rode another winner in the sixth
race, at a mile and an eighth on the turf,
when he got Homestead an to l shot
home a head in front of Keynote, 4 to 5
favorite. A furlong from the wire it look
ed as If Keynote would be an easy win
drive that followed. Keynote, in turn
finished a head in front of Flexion, who
was backed from 100 to l down to 60. The
time was 157 1-5.
Shorthose was the class of the handicap
at a mile and was a heavily backed favor
lite at to 5. Odom, who had the leg up
took things easy. and when the right time
came he went to the front with the Athe-
ing colt who won, eased up, by two
lengths in 1.43 3-5; Thistle Heather 6 to
l, after decisive duel in the stretch with
Cottage Maid. to l, took place money
from the latter by length and a half
Prince Ching, II to ) second choice was
riden in fair style by H. Cochran.
Lochinvar, running in the coIors of
Charles Reed, was heavily supported at
to l to win the third event, for two
year-olds, in spite of the fact that Work.
man, with Hildebrand up, was a hot IA
Vorlte at to D. Incense, a go to 1 shot
showed the way to the last furlOng pole
with Workman second. but Shaw put up a
fine finish on Lochinvar, and he won by a
length and half in Ito 2-5 Workman
was three lengths in front of Incense
Katie Carney, an even money fayorite
made every post winning one in the fifth
race, for maiden two-year-old fiIlies and .
won in a gallop by three lengths The
place went to Fair Reveller, a 100 to |
shot, who beat Charadella. to s. a head !
with Merces and Rose Mary Kane less
than half length back
Mr.. Story's Headmaster easily captured
the special steeplechase from SeaguII
over short course. The latter was the
choice at to 8, with Headmaster at
evens. The time was Ala. Four favorites
and two second choices made the day !
profitable for the followers of form
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EASY FOR FOURTHS.
Sixth Presbyterians Outbatted and
Outfielded.

The exhibition of base ball the Sixth
Presbyterian team put up against the lead
ers, the Fourth Presbyterian team, on the
Mount Pleasant grounds yesterday after
noon was not up to the standard the fans
expected, and although fairly good crowd
turned out a good many were filled with
disappointment. The Fourths had an easy
time with their opponents, winning by the
score Of IA to 4.
Exceptionally good ball players who play
good ball games is what can be said about
the Fourths, who have been in the game
from the start of the season. and the three
games which they have lost have been at
times when they had off days. They play
ed the same kind of ball yesterday which
they have been playing, with the exception
of one point, that in center field. where
Magoffin, who played with the team last
year, dropped two easy flies. both of which
should have stuck to his gloves.
The Sixth team has been putting up
fine game of ball on the grass diamond of
the White Lot; in fact three-quarterS OF
the games they have played this season
have been played on these grounds. and
the change from the grass diamond to the
one of Mount Pleasant, which is pretty
rough, did not seem to be beneficial to
them, for at several stages of the game
there was a ragged edge which they did
not succeed in hiding up.
Hits for every player with the exception
of the shortstop and the two pitchers were
credited up to the Fourths. One of these
a home run drive, by Rhodes. helped to
make the score as large as it is. Score
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Standing of American League Clubs

Honors were easy yesterday in the
double-header between the Washington and
Detroit clubs, the first game being won
by the locals through the errors of the
visitors, TO Q while the second went to
the Tigers on their good batting and the
errors of the Senators, to ..
Hughes and Mulin were the opposing
pitchers in the first contest. and both
twirlers did good work. The Senators
found it very difficult to locate Mullin
safely until the sixth inning when they
mixed four hits with four errors of their
opponents and scored enough runs to
easily win the game. The Tigers were the
first to score, getting one run over the
plate In the fourth inning after two were
out on Cassidys error and three singles.
This run looked very big until after the
Senators finished up the sixth inning
When the locals then went to the bat
ONeil led off with single to center Hill
tried to sacrifice. but Drill hit him with the
bal and he kept on to second. Cassidy
also tried to sacrifice but Mullin made A
pad throw to Hickman, and Dwell raced
home Huelsman finally sacrificed and Hill
ana cassidy were moved up a base. Nc
Cormick hit toward left. O'Leary gathered
In the ball. but Coughlin muffed the throw
Hill scoring. Donovan sent roller to-
ward right and Lowe fumbled, Cassidy
scoring Clarke got base on balls, but
mick. Hughes followed with a single over
second and Donovan and Clarke raced
home. O'Nei came up for -he second
time and his single to left scored Her
ring. Hill then ficd out to Barrett and
Cassidy forced O'Neil a second on his
erounder to O'Leary. bringing the sensa-
tiOnal inning to an end.
In the seventh, the Detroits got their
second and last rum the result of Hck-
mans double to right and singles by Drill
and O'Leary.
The features of the first game were the
batting of ONeil the EXPLOSION man. get
ting five singles in as many turns at the
bat. and a splendid pick up and throw to
first by Hill.
In the eighth inning. while Hill was on
first. Mullin tried to catch him mapping
by quick throw to first The pitcher
had gripped the ball to pitch to the bat
ter but turning quickly threw with great
force to Hickman. The ball was high and
full of twist and when it struck Hickman's
glove it glanced off and struck him in the
mouth. knocking him down and out. Both
of Hickman's lips were cut and bruised
badly and he had to retire from the game.
He went to the Freedman's Hospital and
when he returned to the Detroit's bench
on hour later his cuts were held together
by several strips of court plaster. He will
probably be able to resume playing to-
morrow. Beville took his place at first and
did very well. The score.
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hero and base ball idiot is very, very mar

hero and a base ball idiot is very, very mar
row." unused Frank Bancroft when some
one in the Red crowd referred to Tom Cor
coTans mad dash to destruction In one OF
the New York games The Red captain was
on third base and Steinfeldt at first with
nobody gone and the score tie. In the
usual run of luck and fair play his chance
for scoring was as good as Major Delmar
to beat a goat at the Empire track. When
he saw Bill Dahlen roll the ball to Luther
Taylor, instead of making a throw Cor
coran conceived the idea that he could
score, and tried it. Some of the Reds be-
ieved he got there by the length of snail
horns, but Judge Emslie called him out.
Now, if COrcoran had made that play
he would have been lauded for his daring"
declared Colonel Bancroft. L recall an IN
cident of my career while managing the
Athletics in the old American Association.
We were playing Brooklyn, and had see
sawed all through the game. Eddy Seward,
pitching for US, complained of lame wing,
but in those days you couldnt land pltch-
er whenever you felt SO disposed. 1t came
down to the ninth, and had a run TO
spare, but Brooklyn had Dave Orr. the old
time leather murderer, to start OIL with. l
was desperately in earnest to win, ana SAID
to Louie Bierbauer: DO you think you
could put the ball over the plate" He was
willing to try it, and he went to the box,
while Seward relieved him at second To
make a long story short, Bierbauer famed
out Orr and the next two died on hles Lew
Simmons one of the Athletic triumvlr,
came rushing to US after it was all over
with his face wreathej in smiles. Old
man., said he, L want to congratulate you
on your good Judgment. 1t saved the game
for u.s. Judgment? l retorted. That may
do to tell, but the truth is took fools
dying chance and got away with it! "
Thus do lunacy and heroism often appear
in diamond turns together, and it takes but
the turn of the wheel. like a game OF rou-
lette, to decide which is which-red or
black, hero or ninny-just as the fans fig
ure it out
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BUREAUS ON TOP.
Kismets Defeated for the First Time
This Season.

Tucked OUT was the impression OF the
couple of thousand spectators who saw the
Bureau team administer the first dose OF
defeat the kismets have had in Washing
ton last evening at I'd and r streets by the
score OF to 3. The Kismets started Off
with rush. Williams got free pass to
first, Sprigman singled and Fitzpatrick
scored them both with his pretty triple to
deep right. A moment later he scored on
Powers single. Venable got his base on
fielder's choice. both men being safe. The
next two were on infield flies. Therea fter
they did not score, although Clark got as
far as second in the fifth on Mathews err
ror Luck figured in the scoring of the Bu-
reaus In the fourth and fifth innings. In
the fourth Riston singled. as did Rapp;
French hit to Powers who threw Rapp
out at second. and Venable, in the attempt
to double threw over Sprigman's head into
the crowd. Riston scoring and French going
to third Fillius hit for two sacks but was
put out at third on the attempt to make
that sack. In the fifth. with two out, Tay-
Tor singled to left, Mullin cleared the bases
with home run to right, and Newman.
who replaced Riston at first, after two
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Direct View in straight heats. and JOY
maker. the choice of the talent for the 2. Ii
trot, was defeated by Kent.
The best time of the day was made by
Morning Star in the second heat of the
Norfolk. when the gelding paced the mile
in 2.04A, the best time of the year All but
one of the four heats in this event were
paced in better than 200, the record made
in 1902 by Direct Hal. Knox's Gelatine
King by winning the first heat of the pa
trot in 2.O9A. established himself the
champion pace and trot horse of the world.
When this animal was racing under the
name of Anaconda he paced a mile in
201A.
In the first heat of the Norfolk, Gordon
Prince led the four other starters around
the track but Morning Star made great
try at the wire and was only a head be-
hind Morning Star took the lead in the
second heat soon after the word Geers
sent Baron Grattan fast on the stretch
but the geldng could not get to the leader.
The third heat was won by Morning Star
from Angus Pointer in a driving finish.
but in the final heat Morning Star had 1t
all his own way around the track
The racing between Direct View and
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The board of directors of the Sunday
School League held a meeting last even
ing, at the home of President Provost. 1t
was decided that all dates on which there
were games to be played by the Wilson
team would be thrown out, and these dates
would be used to play off the few remain
ing games. The first Of these dates, which
Is today. will game on the Mount
Pleasant grounds. 1t was too short no.
tice to get team from one of the other
churches on the field. Friday. August 20.
will be filled in by the Mount Pleasant
Methodists and Fourths.
The schedule, which was to close on the
White Lot grounds on the 18th instant. will
be continued one day. so as to play Off a
game that was postponed between the St
Stephens and Sixth.
The last matter disposed of by the board
was the FoundryGurley game. which was
played the Mount Pleasant grounds
with no umpire present. 1t was requested
by the management of both teams that
this game be played over again. which
will be done next week. and also one be-
tween Foundry and Gurley. on which 3
protest of the schedule was sustained.
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bingIes and the local players errors to-


gether.
The feature of the second game was a
remarkable one-handed catch by McCor-
mick in the second inning. Beville was
on third and Drill on first when O'Leary
hit line fly toward center. Barry ran
over, jumped high in the air and pulled
the ball down with his ungloved hand.
Beville was quite distance off third. and
threw to Hill, but In his hurry the threw
was bad. the ball rolling to the 50-cent
stand and the big catcher scored 1t was
a beautiful play and the pity Of 1t all was
that Barry had to MARI it with pad
throw.
Neither side scored in the first inning.
Jacobsen starting off we'll by striking out
Barrett and Mcintyre. In the second the
Crawford led Off with a ripping single over
second and Beville singled to right. Lowe
sacrificed moving both men along, and
Drills single to left was too hot for HILL
and Crawford scored Then came McCor-
mcks great catch and bad throw and
Beville scored.
The Senators got one of these runs back
in the same inning on McCormicks SIN
gle. Donovans sacrifice, Herrings out at
first and OLeary's tumble Of kittredge's
roller
In the fifth the Detroits drew still further
away. scoring two more runs. Mcintyre
reached first as Herring dropped McCor-
mick's throw, the batter taking second
Coughlln got in a nice bunt and reachcd
first in safety. Crawford then sent nigh
foul to Herring, which the latter jug
gled and finally dropped. "Wahoo Sam
was delighted over his good luck and re-
sponded with a sizzling single into right
scoring Mcintyre and COughlin taking
third. Beville then hit to Cassidy ana
Coughin beat the throw home. fine slide
to the plate landing him safely. A dou-
BILE by Barrett and McIntyres single to
right in the sixth scored the Detroits' fifth
and last
The Senator's made gallant effort to
catch up in the ninth, but had to be COLI
tent with one run, the result of base on
balls to Donovan and singles by Herring
and Kittredge
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strikes were called on him. walked into one
Of Clark's slow ones. Rapp, the next man
up. hit to Clark. but he could not throw
his man out at mrs. as there was no one to
cover the sack French was also hit and
Mathews scored Newman by his single
Fillius ended the agony by going out, Clark
to sprigman: The game was called at the
end of the sixth mining. Venable made an
excellent stop and throw Of French's siz-
zler In the second inning. while Joe Much
covered lot of territory In left, making a
beautiful running catch Of Mullins long
hit. which had all the earmarlss Of a home
run. These two teams meet again tomorrow
at the Kismet grounds. 14th and A streets
northeast The score:
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OTHER AMERICAN GAMES.
Cleveland, 4; Athletics, 8.

In a ten-inning game, the most exciting
contest seen on the Philadelphia grounds
this season, Cleveland yesterday took the
last of the series. The Athletics tied the
score in the ninth. With the bases full
Donohue forced in a run, a single sending
the second man across the plate. Mullin
batted for Waddell and Bender went to the
rubber in the tenth. A base on balls. sin
gle and a triple won the game for Cleve-
land. Bradley was benched by the umpire.
Attendance 10 626. Score:
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AMERICANS WON,
Melrose A. c. Defeated in Light Hit.
ting Game.

The American A. c. yesterday shut out
the Melrose A. c. In a game full of many
exciting and fast plays, the feature of the
game being the batting and fielding Of
Buck Collins at third base, who accept
ed all of his twelve chances without an
error and was the only man on either side
to secure more than one hit. Brown had
the best of the argument from beginning
to end, as only twice did the players back
of him slip up. The Americans secured
their first run in the third when King
doubled and scored a moment later on
Phillips error. The second run came in
the eighth. when with two out, Collins
sent a terrific linen over Evard's head for
four bases The Americans will next play
the Shamrocks of Baltimore at the monu-
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st. Stephens Had Easy Time With
Library Bows

The Library and st. Stephen teams of the
Capital City League clashed last evening
in a seven-innng game, and the latter had
an easy time, winning by the score of 10
to ,. ST. Stephens hit the ball hard and
fielded nicely, while The Library boys could
get but four hits off Gleason and Handiboe
all their runs being scored in the first
inning on the formers wildness. The feat
ure of the game was the batting of Hughes,
the stout little second baseman getting five
hits to his credit The score:
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Turner's Beat GonZaga.

The Turner's and the Gonzaga teams OF
the Capital City League had hne nine
inning contest last evening. the former get
ting the decision by the score OF I TO 4.
The victors outbatted and outheldeo the
defeated team. Fulcher's pitching being too
much for the GonZaga boys to overcome.
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New York, l; Chicago, o.

1t took the New York Americans some
time to get the only run made in yester-
days clash with the White Sox but they
were batting better than the Chicagos and
finally worked a man all the way around.
1t was one error that enabled the games
sole scorer to go three-fourths of the dis
lance. but it was clean hit that sent him
the final and vital fourth. DR.. White made
the error, which was rather rough him
after doing herculean work with men
bases, but the Doc was outpitched never
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GRAND CIRCUIT TRoTs.
Exceptionally Fine Racing at Readville
Track

Yesterdays racing in the grand circuit
meeting at Readville was some of the best
ever witnessed at that track The weather
was perfect, and the track was even faster
than Monday. But two of the favorites
won in the four events on the card. Morn
ing Star took the big race of the day, the
Norfolk. and Knox's Gelatine King won
the 2.24 trot in fast time Oracle Kellar
the favorite IN the 2.11 trot, was beaten BY
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Championship of Brookland.

Yesterday afternoon, on st. Austin Field
Brookland. the first of a series Of three
games to decide which was the better team,
Brookland or ST. Anthony, was played
The former was victorious through heavier
batting and better fielding. St Anthony $
made but two hits. and this scarcity of
bingles. coupled with eleven errors, eX-
plains the one-sided game. Simons pitch
ing, batting and base stealing were the
features. The score:
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BETTING ON BIG FIGHT.
Munroe People Want Better Odds Be.
fore Placing Money.

A special from San Francisco says that
Jim Jeffries yesterday strongly advised
against betting on rounds. He says there
is no telling how long the fight will last
Icannot impress upon my friends too
strongly the inadvisabilty of betting on the
number of rounds said Jeff. 1t may be
that will finish Munroe In the first round:
it may be that l will finish him In the
third or fourth round or tenth round or IL
may be that the fight will go the limit.
want 1t understood that l shall fight tho
most careful battle of my life and that
will take no chances at all In order to
continual ON tenth naGAl
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THSt DISC Dy errOrs-St Stephen =. 3; Librury 2
Left on bases-St: Stephens. 5: Library T. First
base on balls-OG Handiboe. 2; of Webster s.
Struck out-By Hsldiboe, o. by Webster .
Three-base hits-Fitzgerald q, and Frye. Saeri
nee hit,Carr Stolen bases-Leecb Linthlcum
piay-McDerInott TO Mccormick. Wild pitches
r ron ana Webster Umpre-Mr. Handiboe.
lime OF game-l hour and 20 minutes
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First base on balls-Of Brown 2; OF Taylor, 2
Struck out-By Brown. /; by Taylor: A. Two
rifce hit-Evard. Stolen bases-Murray Collins,
Phillips. Taylor and Darnay. Double plays-Col-
Inns to Anderson to Murray; Brown to Collins to
King; Darlington unassisted). Umpire-Mr Knox.
Time of game-1 hour and 35 minutes.
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Boston, IA; st. Louis, /.

The champions fairly smothered the
Browns at Boston yesterday In the fourth
inning the Bostons fell on Sudhoff and bat
ted out six runs. Hynes then went into the
box and was effective except in the sixth
inning, when Boston had another batting
bee. The Browns played a ragged game
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Totals,


Philadelphia. ........ 0 0 o 0 o 0 Ia
Cleveland. .......... o o 0 0 0 0 "a
Earned runs-Cleveland. /: Philadelphia. 2 Two
base hits-Hartsel and Seybold. Three base hits
Flick and Davis. Sacrifice hit-Lush. Stolen
bases-L. Cross, Flick and Lajoie. Double play
Bay to Turner to Lajoie. Left on bases-Cleve-
land. g. Philadelphia 10. First base balls-Or
Donohue. 81 of Waddell. 3; off Bender. l. Hit by
pitched bal-By Waddell, /. Struck out-By Don
ohue. /; by Waddell, 10; by Bender, 2 Hts-On
Waddell, In nine innings: OF Bender. 2 In
inning. Umpire-Mr. Sheridan. Time of game-2
hours and minutes.
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First base by errors-Detrot, 2; Washington. 2
Left on bases-Detrot, 3; Washington 8. First
base balls-Of Donovan, 3. Struck out-By
Donovan, 6: by Jacobsen 8. Threebase hit-IIill
Two-base hits-O'Neill and Barrett Sacrifice hits
p Donovan and Lowe. Double plays-Drill to
Lowe; Beville to OLeary. Umpires-Messrs. Con-
molly and King. Time of game-1 hour and As
minutes.
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Two-base hits-Fultz and White. Sacrifice hit
Dundon Double plays-Elberfeld to Anderson:
Tannehill TO Dundon 1sbell. Stolen bases-t;an-
eel 2. Left bases-New York. IL; Chicago 2
First base balls-Of White 4. First base on
errors-New York. l. Struck out-By CHESHIRE q:
by White 6. Passed ball-Suliivan Umpfre-Nr
Dwyer. Time of game hour and 40 minutes
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Second Game.

Jacobsen and Donovan were the opposing
twirers in the second game and the lat
ter had easily the best of the battle. keep
ing the Senators hits well scattered, while
the Tigers were fortunate in getting their
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CAPITAL CITY LEAGUE.
Standing Of the CLUBS.
Today's Game.

Woodward & Lothrop st. Stephens Institute
Game called al $40.
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Oracle Kellar was very exciting. and the
former only won the heats by bare mar
gins Kent and Joymaker made the 2 Ii
trot exciting and interesting event and
the 2.24 trOt was also hair-raising event