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Evening star., 1909-05-16
Gamblers and Base Ball.

1Aou the fTeSS.
A newspaper in the state Of Ohio, recog-
nized for years as one Of the best sporting
organs In the country, has recently been
devoting considerable space to items such
as this: John Blank has informed this
paper that he has $500 to bet against 5000
that Cincinnati does not finish in the first
division. He has also 500 to bet even
that Pittsburg beats out the Reds. The
money has been placed In the hands Of
the sporting editor Of this paper. and can
De covered at any time by any fan who
wishes to take a chance
This looks like step backward. 1t
may prove an entering wedge which will
eventually put the gamblers in the posi-
ton they have been seeking SO long and
unsuccessfully to gain in the realm Of
base ball. Gamblers have no place in the
national game. They have ruined horse
racing, and if they gain foothold in the
base ball world they will ruin the greatest
game ever played. Pittsburgers know this
well. They are cogniZant of the deter
mined fight which President Barney Drey-
fuss and his colleagues were compelled to
make in this city to oust the cheap tin
horn sports from Exposition Park. They
remember well the rumors which spread
here but few years ago about the alleged
tampering with Pitcher Jack Taylor by
North Side crooks.
Nor are they likely to forget the awful
falsehoods spread here but last week by
men of the same stripe-men who have
absolutely no principle or sense of shame
concerning a local ball player.
Give the gamblers an inch, and they will
take a mile. Give them the slightest
chance, and they will soon lower the
national game from it's present high plane,
drive away from the parks the best class
Of patrons. and make them unsafe for
women, who are now attending and en-
joying the base ball games just as much
and az extensively as the Representatives
of the sterner sex. Keep the gamblers
out
Evening star., 1909-05-16
NEW YORK'S BIG
BOWLING TOURNEY

NEW YORK. May 15.-The national
bowling championship tournament in
Madison Square Garden will open May
"a. Secretary Wyman and his aids are
busy on the schedule, which will be given
out next week.
Quite few special matches have been
arranged, the latest being a two-man
contest between Joe and Tony Schwoe-
gler OF Madison. Wis, champions of the
A. B. c. tournament. and John McGuirk
and John Grady Of Paterson, N. j., hold
ers OF the worlds two-man record and
present national champions. The two
pairs will clash on the alleys in the gar
den. The date has not yet been fixed
schedule of days. subject to minor
changes or additions. The list is as fol-
lows:
May Aopening day. Special features
OF all kinds
May 25-28-special matches.
May 27.-Base ball day. The bowlers
will attend the game between the Chi
cago Cubs, world champions, and the
Superbas at Washington Park. Brooklyn,
the proceeds going to the fund for the
entertainment Of the visiting bowlers.
May 2S-Buffalo day.
May 29-National convention day. Con-
vention called for 10 am. in Madison
Square Garden Concert Hall.
MAY oV-NA0ctlHS VI tHo N. b. n. eA6CU.
tive committee.
May 3l-Baltimore day.
June Especial matches.
June 2Philadelphia day.
June 3-Connecticut day.
June patterson day.
June 5-8-Special matches.
June 0-12-Tournament for the frater-
nal. commercial and similar organization
teams.
The cream Of the bowlers Of the nation
have entered and the outlook is for
record-breaking tournament.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
become national agreement player un-

become national agreement player un-
less such player shall have first applied
to the commission for reinstatement, and
in such cases the commission shall have
the right to impose proper fines upon
such players before such reinstatement.
That Is no new rule, but an old one that
has been on the books for some seasons.
1t never has happened that two such IL
lustrious examples as Walsh and Evers
have brought the rule into the limelight
of Chicago fandom. There are no ifs or
exceptions The player who does not join
his team by the first of the championship
season, no matter how good his excuse,
cannot thereafter play with that team un-
til he has explained to the satisfaction Of
the national commission why he did not
report. 1t makes no difference if he has
the consent of his club owner, and the
rule makes 1t plain that 1t is not neces-
sary for the club owner to make any
complaint against the player. His alb
sence has only to come Ito the knowledge
of the commission" and the commission
ers are regular readers of newspapers.
1t is not matter between club owner
and player. but between player and COM
mission, and the club owner has abso-
lutely nothing to say about 1t. This is so
not because the commission cares when
player does or does not report, but be-
cause the club owners want 1t to be So
Their skirts are clear Of blame and the
commission stands the gaff'
Evening star., 1909-05-16
get sympathy for theirs, there being no
other prizes.
Standing Of teams, to include Thursday
night o0lv.
National Balloon Contest.

NEW YORK, May 15.-Entries were
closed recently for the first national bal
loon contest, to be held at Indianapolis
June at $50 o'clock. when the contest
ants will compete for the championship
cup offered by the Aero Club of America.
The entries include A. Holland Forbes,
pilot. with Clifford B. Harmon as aid,
balloon New York; A. IA. Morgan, pilot,
with J. III. Wade. jr.. as aid, balloon
Cleveland: Carl G. Fisher, pilot. with G..
I. Bumbaugh as aid, balloon Indiana; A.
B. Lambert, pilot, with H E. Honeywell
as aid. balloon st. Louis; Charles Walsh,
pilot, with aid unnamed: John L. Berry,
pilot, aid unnamed.
The race will be particularly notable
for the reason that the six ballons en-
tered are of the limit size-2,2OO cubic
meters-and when inflated one of these
balloons stands in height equal to a nine
or ten story building.
The pilots In the race will compete for
the Lain cup and for a special trophy of
fered by Carl G. Fisher to the contestant
remaining In the air the greatest length
Of time. Each pilot and aid will receive
commemorative medal from the Aero
Club Of America.
The race will be conducted from the
Motor Speedway Park. with grounds of
800 acres. A special grandstand for the
accommodation Of $1,000 persons is being
erected.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
PLAYERS REPORT TO
BIG COMMISSION

There has been a great deal of misun-
derstanding and misstatement in regard
to the formalities through which it was
necessary for Walsh of the White Sox
and Evers of the Cubs to go before they
were In good standing in organized base
ball because they were not in uniform on
or before the opening of the champion
ship season. Several years ago, at the
request Of the club owners of both major
leagues, the national commission adopted
rule designed to discourage the habits
Of ball players who delayed reporting to
their clubs for divers and various reasons
Some players were in the habit of hold
ing out for larger salaries until after the
season opened, others asked to be allowed
to remain at home for business or family
reasons, and the result was that the club
owner had to offend the player and look
badly to his public or start a champion
ship season without the full strength of
his team. The national commission, be-
Ing thick-skinned and the scapegoat for
all things unpleasant was asked to re-
lieve the club owners OF the obliquity of
dealing with that sort Of cases. Conse-
quently the commissioners framed and
adopted the following: Whenever a plays
er fails to report to or leaves a major
league club having claim to his services.
under reservation, draft or purchase, and
the same has come to the knowledge of
the commission, the player cannot again
Evening star., 1909-05-16
GEORGE BROWNE A
BIG FAVORITE HERE

IL George Browne keeps up his fine
work with the Nationals on the present
trip there is no telling what the good
fans living west OF Rock creek will do
when the team returns to its heath at the
head of 7th street. Browne made his
youthful record as a ball player on the
lots of old Georgetown. playing on such
teams as the Trinitys, Harlems and
Potomacs, until he attracted attention OF
some of the minor league offlcials. which
was his stepping stone into major league
company. His playing has always been
followed by the classy ball tossers VINO
belong TO the parish of Holy Trinity IN
Georgetown. where Browne was Iesu
lar communicant, and his coming nome
is a great source of pleasure to those
ardent rooters of the Nationals. Why,
that debut of Browne "Wednesday, Wneh
he made three hits. was pie and cream
to the Georgetown rooters for they see
great things ahead, not only for Brownie
but more especially for the team
He is a great jollier, full of life ana
spirit. and his disposition Will ln1use
plenty OF ginger in the rest OF the team.
This Is the way the kids dope out the
good Browne will do the team. True ne
is only $50 hitter. but he reaches hrst
base more times than the 800 hitter, as
the record of runs made attests, and hence
he Is more valuable than hitters ike Deie-
hanty. Latoie ct al.
Some years ago Browne used to put In
all OF his spare time training with the
Georgetown College candidates In tne
early spring. and In this way fell In win
Arthur Duffy, the greatest sprinter Ior
short distances this country ever pio-
duced Duffy and Browne used to sprint
together almost every day, and 1t was
this association that taught him the Vaiue
of speed, and which has stood him TO the
good in his playing. He is considered .ne
fa stest man In base ball in getting down
the first-base alley. a contention some OF
Ty Cobbs friends dispute. and 1t Is not
unlikely that q race may take place
But Browne Is a big gun across ROCK
creek, and Cantillon made a ten strike
in getting him, according to the residents
of that sleepy hollow portion Of our city.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
HARVARD ROWERS
VERY Confident

BOSTON. Mass. May 15.-With the
memories of the six-length victory over
Columbia's eight in the recent two-mlle
race on the Charles river, Harvard
sweep swingers are bending to their
work, hoping to overthrow CornelPs var
sity in a like manner. The defeat OF the
Light Blue and White showed Harvard
undergraduates that they have boat
every whit as powerful as the one that
trounced Yale SO severely on the Thames
last summer The work in the Columbia
race demonstrated beyond doubt that
the Crimson watermen are steel-nerved
veterans and powerful athletes the
false start did not unnerve the Harvard
craft. and when the nervous Morning
siders padded back to the starting line
the Cambridge men awaited the pistol
shot with supreme Indifference.
But 1t will be different proposition
May 81 when Coach Wray's men journey
up to Ithaca for a two-mile race on Lake
is issuing the usual fine line Of bear
stories from the Cornell camp, but Har-
ward is not to be caught mapping, and
will enter the contest keyed to the high
men ran away from the 1thacans in a
two-mile race on the Charles, and Coach
Wray is extremely anxious to repeat. AS
for Courtney, he Is lying low, doing
out tdleS OF nara luck, yet WltHai Oc-
fermined to score victory over the
Crimson eight with his Red and White.
Harvard is preparing for the race in
earnest. After having rested the week
following the Columbia contest the oars
men resumed practice and hard and pro-
lonEed work has characterized every drill
The varsity is rowing with the same
smooth recovery and powerful leg drive
THAT was shown in the Columbia race, and
. is rapidly rounding into excellent form.
This year the crew appears to be rowing
with shorter and snappier stroke than
It did in 1905 1t is question whether 1t
Is safe to follow this apparent policy of
developing a two-mile stroke for pre-
liminary contests, when the Yale race.
the big event of the season. Is four miles.
Wray is confident however, that he has
a versatile boat and that no evil results
will occur from preparing his men so
particularly for the early-season short
distance rows. In any event. it will be
a powerful crew that will face the Cor
nellians May 81 and the race bids fair
to go down In college athletic annals
as one OF the best that has been con-
tested between the two universities.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
Ketchel to Box McGann.

PITTSBURG, May 15.-That Pittsburg
is developing into a real fight center
was shown when the announcement was
made by the National Athletic Club that
Stanley ketchel had been matched to
fight six rounds with Hugh McGann Of
Kansas City here the night of May Is.
The National is authority for the state
ment that Ketchel has been guaranteed
s., 600 as his share of the money. This
means that the biggest fight in the his
tory of Pittsburg is to be pulled off.
The famous Dusquene Garden has been
fitted up with a twenty-four-foot ring
in the center-a ring which can be easily
taken down and folded away when So
ciety wants an inning, such as the horse
show Of this week.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
CORNELL MAKING
GOOD ON THE TRACK

ITHACA. n. T., May 15.-Cornell has
done SO well in track athletics, in the
past three or four years particularly, that
there seems to be an impression that
Moakley can turn out a track team from
almost nothing at all, and that all that
needs to be done is to sit around and
watch him do 1t. AS one man phrased
IT. there is an impression at Cornell that
Cook and Talbot can win the intercol-
legiates.
Any such idea on the part of the Ithaca
students as that is based on false pre-
misses. because Cornell has won the cham
pionship in years past by means of we'll
balanced teams scoring in events right
through the list instead of having just
few men concentrated in two or three of
the competitions. In years past Corneils
greatest scoring strength has been in the
distance events. This year it is expected
that there will not be so pronounced
superiority of the Ithacans in these events.
The other colleges have men who have
improved considerably. and those will be
sure to make trouble for the Comedians.
For sprinters Boakley will have Nc
Arthur. Tewksbury and Heath. Near
thur is better in the furlong than he is in
the 1OO-yard race. as he has done about
22 1-5 seconds for the longer sprint
Tewksbury in the meet with the Pennsyl-
vanla freshmen two years ago won the
J0O-yard race and was out of college for
year. 1t Is hardly likely that any of
these three men will do any better than
101-5 seconds in the 1OO-yard run, IL as
well. so that I'm the sprints Cornell Is not
particularly well provided. The situation
Is a little better in the 44O-yard run. where
Moakley has Hurlburt. Hitchcock and
Swinton. Hitchcock. who competed In the
indoor season OF 1907-OS with some sue
cess, had a bad ankle and this winter did
not work very much. He Is a good man
at the quarter, but Is an uneven per-
former.
There is chance. however. that II
other plans do not work out well enough
Moakley will take Hitchcock and put him
In the half mile. returning French to the
quarter mile. Hitchcock did two minutes
one second for the half mile two years
ago. In the half, In any event, will be
French Jones. Ebersole and Bogert Eber-
sole was the best man on the relay team
during the winter and Is expected to do
better than two minutes anyhow. In the
one-mile run Grant. Jones, Taylor and
Bean are on the list. Bean and Jones
being sure to take part In this event
Taylor. of whom much has been said
as miller. may. after all. get into the
two-mile race, because IL is understood
that he Is better man at the longer
distance. 1t is declared by those who
know that in spite of all reports there Is
no man at Cornell running the mile who
Is anywhere near the class of Halstead.
In his two-mle squad Moakley will have
Long. the cross-country man. and De
Golyer Berna, a good two-miler. is on
probation and will not be able to run.
Moakley was very much disappointed
with the work of his men in the winter
season I'm the relay races. because the
runners did not all develop. and 1t made
things rather discouraging for him.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
PENN DEFEATS NAVY.
In Dual Track Meet Quakers Score
70 1.2 to Middies' 81 IL.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, May 15.-Navy was
decisively defeated in the dual track meet
held here this afternoon with the fast
bunch from the University of Pennsyl-
vania. The score was 1914 to 37,9 points.
The half point was made when the two
institutions tied for third place In the
pole vault, Navy having one man at third
place and the Quakers two. Four acad-
emy records were smashed. the honor
OF bettering them going to the visitors.
The track was in better condition than
in the Columbia meet last week, and about
it was grouped the largest crowd that
has attended this branch of sport at the
academy this year. With Carey, the fast
Marylander, entered the sailors easily ex-
celled in the dashes, but when the endur-
ance tests came over greater lengths
Pennsylvania began to take her lead.
The principal record broken was the
two-mile run, which PAUL. Of Pennsyl-
yania did in minutes 55 LIS seconds.
against the record of 10 minutes 2-5 Sec
onds. In this event and also in the mile
run PAUL displayed fine form. He led
his competitors all the way. and In the
two-mile run he made a mighty squirt to-
ward the end that put him nifty yards
ahead of the next nearest man. BECK OF
Pennsylvania broke the half-n1ile record.
going the distance in minute. 81 2-5 Sec
onds. nearly 4 seconds better than the
Navy record The academy record for
the hammer throw is 121 feet 3 inches,
but Colman Of the Quaker team threw
the weight 13O feet IN inches. In the
pole vault event Parker. Pennsylvania.
yaulted 10 feet 10 inches. l inch better
than the record Of the Middies. Carey took
first place in the 100 and 22Oyard dashes
with comparative ease. Minds. the Quaker
crack, was looked upon by his teammates
as an easy winner in these events. but
Carey passed him down the line The 40
yard dash developed into one OF the pret-
test contests seen here this season. Smith
of Navy won out by a mighty burst OF
speed in the last few yards Of the stretch
For Pennsylvania, PAUL, who took the
mile and two-mile runs. was the bright
particular star.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
American Show Horses for London.

NEW YORK. May 15.-The best repre-
sentation for the show horses of the
United States and Canada that Ameri-
cans have ever sent abroad will go on ex-
hibition when the International horse
show opens in the Olympic ring. London.
England. June ).
Judge w. H. Moore will send over forty
or fifty horses, with carriages of every
description. G.. w. Watson will send
fourteen to compete in all the heavy har-
ness classes, and +. T. Statesbury of
Philadelphia will be represented by six
roadsters, the best >he Winoga stock
farm has ever sent into the show ring.
Dick" Donnelly will take over for the
Elmwood farm the good horse Initial.
Crow & Murray OF Toronto and Capt
Evans of Montreal are to send six hunt
ers, among them The Wasp, Melba and
Confidence. These horses should give
good account of themselves in the hunter
and high-jumping contests. The Cana
dian military officers are going over with
the pick of their horses to try and cap
ture the Connaught gold challenge cup.
the King Edward VII gold cup and other
trophies, and have a good chance OF
some of them home.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
Ohio Needed Millions.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. May 15.-Nearly all
the University of Michigan stars. with
the exception of the relay team. con-
tested in the track meet with the Ohio
State University today. There was great
interest in the appearance of Dull and
Nav, two of the crack intercollegiate
lon9-distance runners. Ohio was handi-
capped in the short dashes by the absence
of Millions, who is laid up with a Grip
pied ankle.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
Wheeling From New York to Frisco.

NEW YORK. May 15.-Ernest Hig
gins and Walter Wiley. both members
of Company c OF the 18th Regiment,
started from City Hall here today on
their bicycles to San Francisco. The
men are racing to the Golden Gate, and
expect to make the trip in fifty-three
days. They are amateurs. and are not
competing for any prize money. They
carried the necessary luggage for the
first weeks OF the trip, soldier fashion,
on their backs.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
To Play Polo in England.

NEW YORK, May HILARY Payne
Whitney and ]. NJ. Waterbury. members
OF the American polo team that will play
the international match against the Hur-
Iingham Club Of England. sailed recently
on the Mauretania. Before the big Gu
harder pulled out they sent a cable to
the Hurlingham Club suggesting June p
as the date of the match. This will prob
ably suit the Engishmen. as they sent
dispatch accepting the challenge OF the
Americans and intimating that any date
around the end Of June or July would be
suitable.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
Philadelphia Girl Wins Cup.

and enthusiastic crowd this afternoon
witnessed the sixteenth annual race for
the Maryland Hunt cup. which was won
bv Sacandada, owned by Miss Frances
Fell OF Philadelphia and ridden by AL
fred Devereaux OF the same city.
Gronoe, owned by Thomas DeFord and
ridden by Sidney Waters. was second.
and Tom Bone. owned by R. N. Sloan
and ridden by r. NJ. Taylor, third. No
time was taken. Eleven horses started
and seven finished. The race. a fashion
able event, was run at Brooklandville
Baltimore county. over four miles OF
rough country abounding in fences,
bitches and plowed ground.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
Yale Beats 7th at Tennis.

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,. May 15.-The
Yale tennis team defeated the 7th Regi-
men, New York city. in a match at the
New Haven Lawn Club this afternoon
Yale won seven out of eight singles and
four out of eight doubles.
Evening star., 1909-05-16
HOPKINS Loses Lacrosse Game.

BALTIMORE. Md. May 15.-The
Mount Washington A. c. lacrosse team
today defeated that OF the Johns Hop
kins University goals TO 5.
Evening star., 1909-05-16


With 50 many matches on the tapis,
Henry Copperthite has caught the fever.
While he comedies that l.. ]. K. IS a
dangerous proposition. he thinks his mare,
Ada D., 2.15A, can trim him in mile
heats. three in five. and will take the
white-legged gelding on, If his owner is
willing. some time in July. With the
pair In condition, the race would be one
worth going nAles to witness. Both
horses can score at q runaway clip.
Goodacre's May Qeen, now at Burke, is a
much changed mare from last season.
when she acted as II she had been given
q trif1e too much Of 1t. She Is big and
strong, as smooth as oil in her work
and acts as II she would like her head
when brought out on the track
Ed Hall likes the way his new PAGER,
Venus. 2.18, is taking her work at Burke.
She looks to him q sure 2.15 or better
PAGER this season, and equally as good a
racing prospect as her half brother in
blood. Skiddoo, that Doc. Smith Of Fred
erick campaigned in 1907. Carlos De
Garmendia Of Tuscarora, Md, writes that
he has a bunch Of other Monocacies in
his stables. that. II they fall into the
right hands. will prove as good racing
prospects as Venus and SkiddOo. Just
why Monocacy. which is q square trotter
and never ambled, should get 80 many
PAGERS Mr.. De Garmendia does not ex-
plain.
Evening star., 1909-05-16

In spite Of his small stature, little Whit
marsh. the center gardener of the Busi-
ness nine. Is playing good game for the
Stenographers. He Is about the smallest
and Youngest player in the league. but
ha ndies himself like a ball player. His
strong point is getting on by working the
pitcher, but he can also line them out
when they come over.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-27
cHickENp~~ EPIDEMIC

The last case sarlet fever vas yesterday declared fully cured by Dr Hagen and the home of Mir. and Mrs Crowley, on Cherry Hill. near ths soda works was left free from guard There are now no infectious danger ous diseases to either children or old CT persons in the district, so far as is known.
 An epidemic of chickenDox has broken cut within the last week and many children in the Tombstone Can yon and Quality H,T and Clawson Hill districts are reDortedt to be it's victirns. This mild disease is aHDear ng in rather light form. however. and there is little danger to any of the patients.