Evening star., 1909-05-09
Snowstorm of Votes in Stars Great Base
Ball Popularity Contest.
Some Changes in the List This Week and Lots
of New Names Appear on the Rolls keep
Hustling for Your Favorite and Remem-
Der the Winner Won't Be Labeled Until
the Last Ballot Is In - Last
Coupon Appears August IS.

In the language of Hughey Jennings,
"Ee-yah!"
That's what The Stars contest editor
has been saying for one solid week-ever
since the triple dose of ginger that the
fans injected into the base ball popular
lty contest began to take effect. That
announcement last week certainly did get
everybody UP on their toes ready for
triple steal Charley Street got big
lead, and he's still heading the profess
sionals with a band wagon full of votes
20 spare Charley has just 26.534 votes to
his credit at the end of the second week.
Then comes Unglaub behind him, with
1878 popularity pills. and Long Tom
Hughes has L. 7OS.
Johnson was in the running last week,
but he slipped somewhere-not enough to
hurt him, though-and a few drops from
the ginger bottle may land him In the
leading trio next Sunday morning.
See 'Em Shift!
AS for the amateurs. McDonough stole
a march while nobody was looking and
landed in third place. just barely ousting
j. Kerr. Mac has 6,2J2 votes. CantWeil
still has 'em all buffaloed with bale OF
votes which tally up to 12,24O, ana ms
side partner in this affair. Quantrell, was
not forgotten. for he had his name on an
even $500.
But don't be discouraged II you hap
pen not to be one Of the three. Remem-
her that this thing is not over until the
last vote is in. Ever see game won In
the last half of the ninth? OF course.
Well, this is going to be nine-inning
game and no rain checks-because no
Ill, tyr1fi q
last man Is home.
and as hot as that fight Is among tne
men in uniform. what do you think about
the fans? Look at EN-. Oswald ONeiii,
who last week was running neck and
neck for third place. shoots up into
first this morning with pretty batch
of 6,1Uo votes. Thomas Campbell didn t
loaf during the week. He was not men
toned last Sunday, but just to show the
ups and downs of this kind of thing.
here he is second. with 5,143 And J.
F. Marsden shows the remarkable ad-
vance from I,21i to 1866, which puts
him third. If you will look over the
list of fans you will see what a red
hot scrap il is going TO be and what
an even chance there Is. Don't be dis
outraged. but remember what the Con-
test Editor says: Keep digging"
Some Exciting. WhatP
Lots of new names this week. keep
IL UP. because it makes 1t all the more
exciting. Everybody has a chance, and
the contest is going to be long enough
for every one to even up.
= Here's a little scolding from the Con-
test Editor. He says that lot of ex-
pred coupons came in this week. and
he had TO throw them out Please be
careful about this. because 1t is no cinch
tcounting this snowstorm of votes. and
every expired ballot makes extra work.
6 Remember. the last coupon will be
printed August IL. You have lots of
time between now and then to pile up
trainload of votes for your favorites
and fix yourself for one of those summer
resort trips that The Star is going to
give. in addition.
4 The votes stood this way last night: