Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-08
Sporting Gossip.

The burden certainly is on Mordecai
Brown.
st. Paul is only a little more than 100
points behind seventh team. That's com
ing.
That man Matticks must like to make
home runs. He's averaging about one 10
every other game.
Big Pat Dougherty of the Sox leads the
American league base RUNNERS. Fielder
Jones tops the run-getters and Sam Craw-
ford comes second.
Guess who leads the American league In
team batting? Boston, with an average OF
2s9. st. Louis comes second and the Ath-
ietics are last. Chicago leads in fielding.
It's adding insult to injury for the Troll
ley Dodgers ito to E follow Never SRS FiT @ie5. IN fb tdaps
got "a be a day of reckoning for all this.
The Chicago Cubs are being greatly
missed from the National league these
viii be gratifled when they get Jack into
the game.
RuIo Jarrott is pitching Central City into
several victories. II Jarrott could nave
pitched against all teams as he could
against Omaha he never would have left
the Western league.
Doll OF Denver has hit a new tack in
making a triple play. he catches the ball
the ball first. How simple. Now, most
men would ave run instead Of rolled TO
second.
lust four Of the regulars, Sheckard, Stein
feidt, Tinker and the pitcher, were all
cubs in the lineup Sunday and Monday,
The substitutes are doing fairly well to
stay anywhere near the top. Manager
Chance, Evers, Schultz. Slagle and King
and Overall and Pfeister Will be welcomed
back to form, doubtless, when they get
there.
stone is lust barely in the 800 class. He
closed last week with an average at the
bat OF exactly 800. Counting lrresulars,
there he sG are sIa Ggt F TRe first A@eT fi1e bSttsrs@on ~
regulars considered-are Mcconnell, Cobb.
Delehanty, Rossman, Stone. Larry .Lajoie.
Rating .27s and Wee While Keller is hit
/ ting at 30. Jimmy Collins is hitting under
800, Harry Niles, 200; Sam Crawford, .26l
| All the Detroit sluggers are low
Some TAN pitching is being done this year,
ana old Cy Young, Mordecai Brown and
Wutse OF New York are leaders IN the
fray. Young has won ten out OF fifteen
6roWn has won ten out of eleven games,
/ and Wiltse has MADE a worlds record by
pitching a no-hit no-run ten-innlng game,
Inc greatest. When a man with such a
team as the Boston Americans back OF
Rim can win ten out OF nfteen games ne
10 The time Young did this. had only won
thirty games, 80 that one-third or these
xictories were achieved with the 4l-year-
old pitcher in the box. Dineen Of ST. Louis
has pitched and won seven games, Wild
Bin bonavon six. while Walsh of the Sox
has won fourteen out OF Eighteen and Addie
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teen.
The Post-IntelligenceE IN a most enter
tanning story of the Gotch-Roller match,
saws that al one time GOtch picked Roller
M. held him above his head and was Just
IN the act OF hurting him TO the mat, when
the referee reminded the wrestler they
we're off the mat. A right" calmly re-
piled Gotch. and instead OF letting Roller
down 10 walk to the middle Of the arena
and there resume their holds, the Humboldt
giant lightly tripped 10 the center OF the
mat with his huge burden at arms lengths
over his shoulders and there flung him q
the mat with a force that seemed suf-
ficlent 10 break him in two. IL was JUS
this thing that did break in two the power
and spirit OF the Wanted Hackenschmid
and impelled him TO surrender and crown
Gotch the worlds champion. But Roller
did not quit. His American spirit did not
break. For an instant his massive form lay
mOtionless on the mat. and IN another In
slant he vas up and Juggling away at hiI
heroulean antagonist. The intelligence
saws Seattle never saw such marvellous
strength and skill a. that displayed By
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