Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-30

enter the big blue rock shoot at Mon
terey, Salinas and Santa Cruz early
I'm August.
A single shell match race for the
Southern California amateur champion
ship will be rowed at San Diego Sep
tember 9.
Joe Thomas and Honey Melody will
probably be offered a match in Los An
gees for an August date. Both are
welters and are the classiest fighters
in their division.
The title of the unluckiest racer can
be handed to Dandelion. He has fin
ished second in the Metropolitan,
Brooklyn handicap and the Suburban,
and he fell in the Commonwealth when
he looked to have royal chance to win.
Manager Ferris has signed "sky"
williams, the brilliant little Palouse
second baseman, who takes Felix Mar
tinkes place in left field. Williams is
not an amateur or novice. He was
with Portland in 1903 and only fell
down in hitting.
Mike and Jack Sullivan, the twin
Sullivans of New England, have found
a new field for the game in Alaska, and
say they are going there to get some
of the fat purses. They may not ex-
pect to be heard of very often in the
states. but they plan to get plenty OF
money and fights.
Terry McGovern may either have to-
change his figure or drop the idea OF
meeting Jimmy Britt at Frisco. Cof-
froth says he will give go per cent of
the gross receipts. Humphreys asks
$4,000 guarantee, win, lose or draw:
But the California matchmaker is said
to have quit giving guarantees.
Catcher Charles Schmidt of the De-
troit Americans is hero. Rather than
put his team in the hole he Is playing
the game with a broken ankle, which
he sustained last year. He first thought
he had sustained a sprain, but 1t has
developed that the bones have been
broken, and an operation will be recess
sary. Ie will not submit to the opera
ton at this time, as it would put him
out of the game for the season.
In long distance slugging Lumley is
leading the National league, with Hans
Wagner close second. The former Sc
attic player has six two-basger and
seven home runs to his credit, making
a total of seventy three bases. Wagner
has nineteen two-baggers, nine three
baggers and only one home run. Thus
1t will be seen that while Lumley falls
behind Wagner in two baggerS, he out
points him in three-baggers and home
runs.
Cy Seymour is now Giant. McGraw.
the manager of the New York Nation
ais, has long wanted Seymour on his
team, and the deal was consummated
a few days ago by President Brush of
the Giants and President Hermann of
the Reds, who met in Cincinnati. Sey-
mour was sold outright. The price paid
has not been made public, but 1t is
said to be one of the biggest ever paid
for the release of a ball player.
The Spokane Indians have signed a
new twirler Lee Samuels, who learned
to play ball with the Spokane high
school. He was tried out against the
Tigers Sunday, and kept the hits we'll
scattered. Lynch and Hutchinson, Ia
coma's heavy hitters, failed to get even
a single.
President McCabe of the Amateur
Athletic Union has at last found a flaw
in the record made in Spokane recently
by Dan Kelly of Portland when he ran
100'yards in 9 3-5 seconds. McCabe says
that the only point against it's accept
ance by the Union is that the lanes in
which the race was made were marked
with white lines instead of with string
as is prescribed by the rules. Kelly's
friends in the northwest are betting
that there will be some reason ad-
vanced for not placing the time on the
books of the Union as a record. -
The way Mike Lynch talks to his
players is certainly entertaining to the
spectators in the grand stand. Watch
him during just one game and 1t is
easy to understand why the Tigers
are at the head of the list Lynch,
at one time the hardest man John
McCloskey had to keep in line, is after
his men all the time, but he stops
just at the right place. They don't
get Sulky on him as q ru1e