The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-16

chances of injury. There are three /
open dates later in the season at Wash /
ington and the game will be transfer
red. Walsh will probably be in the I
box today and Long Tom Hughes will +
hurl the sphere for Washington The /
Boston team arrives at Chicago for |
four games Friday and the Sox man
ager is a bit leary Of the bean eaters. |
They have a corp of pitchers that are
always dangerous and when going
right, Dineen, Cy Young. Winter Tan
nehiu and Glaze are strong men.
JON Croffroth has postponed the fight
between Burns and Bill Squires for a
month, on the grounds that he wants
to give the latter a chance to get
acclimated. The fact of the matter is,
that he is waiting for the scandal at
tached to the last fight to blow over,
before he attempts to put this bout on
The sporting public soon forget past
performances, and will probably be
just as keen for this fight before July 4
McGraw showed that he has not lost
all hopes of landing the pennant this
year, as his actions yesterday GER
tainly pointed to cold feet. During
the game with Cincinnati when the lat
ter team had a chance of winning, he
protested the action of Umpire Roger in
changing a wet ball for dry one He
lodged a protest then and there, but
when his team finally won out he
laughed.
Sam Langford. the colored welter,
who recently defeated Tiger Smith in
four rounds in England, has another
match on his hands before the National
club. He is matched to meet jeff
Thorne, a second or third rater and it
will be easy money for the big coon.
Langford had better stay in England
as the welters of this country do not
want any part of his game.
Cyclone Thompson is after Packey
McFarlond and is trying his best to
make match with the Chicago boxer
He will have to wait however, as
Packey's hands are in bad shape and
will take some time to heal before he
can hit very hard blow. Packey will
meet the Cyclone just as soon as they
are in shape. as he never side steps a
| match.
The Western Golf association yes
|
teur championships to the Chicago clubs
and the Marshall field team trophy
competition to the Midlothian club,
from the Homewood Golf club, after
the recent fire at the club house. The
original dates of August and 10 will
be retained.
It looks as If there would be no Van
or 7 lei Il
this year as it will be impossible to
complete the parkway in time. The
committee are not in favor of holding
the race over the public highways I'M
less the militia could be called out to
keep the course clear.
Go Between and Tokalon. former
winners of the Suburban and Brook
Ign handicaps, had fine race yes
terday at Belmont Park and the former
came home a winner. Both are en-
tered in the Brooklyn handicap which
takes place on Monday. and will com.
pete against the best horses in the
country.
Abe Ottenheimer and W. ]. McAlee1
met yesterday in Hammond and ar
ranged for base ball game between
the East Chicago Elks and the Ham
mond Elks. to take place some Sunda,
in East Chicago.
Charles Gates has decided to buy
racing string and put them on tn
truf in France. Boots DurnelI, one o
the best managers in the game, ha
been engaged to look after the string.
Yale and Brown universities had
great game yesterday which went thir
teen innings to tie. The score was
to ? and both got seven hits each.
Mollie Montrose was beaten for tn
first time in a long while yesterda
afternoon at Louisville. Ancient wa
the winner.
Notre Dame continued its shut GU
record by trimming OberHn yesterda
I by a score Of to 0.
A Truism Gone Wrong.
Birds of a feather flock together
unless they get on high hats. Their
OF course, they are scattered all owe
the theater,
Injustice Reacts.
He who commits an injustice is eve
made more wretched than he who su
fers it.-Plato.
Hopeiessly Pessimistlc.
'T don't believe, b. jinks!" sal
Uncle Josh this morning. that thi
r here worldl ever be truly happy ont
II ev'ry man in it kin make everybody
ez he'd like I hev EN- do."-Judge.
Selecting Apples.
Always choose apples according I
. their weight. Heavy apples are q
: ways better. especially when, uPo
being pressed with the thumb, the
yield with slight cracking noise.