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The Washington herald., 1909-08-15

Left on basel-Gaithersb-rg. 6: Germantown. ?
Three base hits-Warthen. Diamoud- TwO-hase hits
-KrJuse Griffith MCaghur sanders Murphy.
Struck 0ut--By Sanders. Z BY Nluth. G. Bases on
balls-Od NIuth. J. Stolen bascs-A Murphy
Meagher o. UnDires-Alcssrs. Ross and Brcome.
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WaIcott Wanted O'Brien to
Scatter His Punches In
stead of Landing Them
on His Nose.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin
! An American crowd Is insta infamous
in grasping humor. and from the tiers
to the topmost gallery a flash OF laughter
| follows when the situation presents any
thing comieaL The American prize-ring
has furnished incidents as humorous 10
the fourth wall" as has the stage. which
is set 10 produce that agreeable enjoy
ment
philadelphia Jack" O'Brien once was
driving Joe WalcOtt's head almost on
those thick ebony shoulders with 8
lightning left jab on the nose. Round
after round did OBrien batter Walcott's
nose until the BLACK Demon" stepped
away from his phantom-like opponent
and said: Look heah, Jack, yuh got
tub scatter dem punches" And a pack
ed house. approaching Walcott's plight,
I shouted with glee at his apt remark
A colored fighter appeared at the en-
trance OF a club with four seconds. and
as the rule called for but two handlers.
he was refused admittance until he had
sorted out the men he desired TO take
I
ping work. Finally the manager, fear
ing to lose him, went 10 the door. and
after impressing him with the fact
that he could take IN only two. asked
his reason for desiring the admittance
OF four handlers.
Il got NAH reasons. OATS a tough
| fellow I fights. and ! wants nah sec
ODds, all fob in de club"
We'll" said the club representative.
give me a logical reason and will
pass them in"
IBIS heah gentleman done iced me
chicken all week 70 make me fast" said
the fighter
well. all right 7 Will pass three:
let the other fellow pay or stay outside -
mo. sir I won't fight less he comes
in: he is de most important second I
got. I amt goin' to fight less he come
In de club"
Most important? What do you mean?
They are all alike?"
mo. suh dis gentleman amt no riff
raft. He knows his business"
The club magnate was beginning 70
worry and came to the door and asked
what the row was about. and the sit
uation was explained 10 him
What IS this fellow 10 do that he IS
so Important"
Dis gentleman is goln' 20 frow Up de
sponge" said the colored boxer.
When Joe Walcott first broke i3to the
game he was not acquainted with fig
ures, though he learned with wonderful
rapidity and seldom failed to tguess
promoter on what the match proposed
would draw. During his early career he
became a phenom and was big attrac-
ton. A promoter met Welcott one day
and said: ice. win givstyou $500 to
fight Billy Smith"
Hide. man. hide. I ain't hghtin' for
no $l5eO Why. dat Smith he de toughest
thing I ever looked at. Fifteen rounds
wifi him is like hghtln' a runaway rail-
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OF THE BOXING RING

road engine. You give me 81. 900 and III
hsht him any time" The match was
made then and there.
Scratch" Brennan. an Irish light
weight. who did not take the best OF care
OF himself. but possessed a terrific punch
in either hand had just ended n long.
lanky coon with a smash 70 the body.
short, cob-like second. OF an anthracite
hue calle1 through the ropes. Get up.
George Washington, dat Irishman am all
in. But George Washington did not
move. Il just wish I could get some soft
fight like dat" sighed this second.
The crowd applauded this remark and
Jack Michigan. who refereed the bout,
said: VIII you meet him"
His hair will be kinlcy like mine II I
ever lands on his. III get ready now"
Retiring 20 a dressing-rcom, ne donned
the toga OF the lately beaten George
Washington and met the same fate IN a
few seconds
oh shouted a Third second. Muffin
ever comes easy 10 me like that"
AS quick as a fash the referee had In
vited this second to have a muss. with
Brennan. and he agreed. and. like the
other two. he went TO sleep.
The last second. a fat. good-natured
coon. yelled: IT'S awful; II was in dat
fight I win in a wink" The referee
thought that Brennan might as well
make cleanup. so he Invited the last
one 10 don the gloves
The apparently well-fed coon looked at
George Washington. who now had ven
tured up 20 the ringside. He slowly
gazed at the other two beaten seconds.
and. grinning from ear to ear. said. II
am barber. I amt no butcher. and I
just guess III stick to my profession
A blow TO the body seldom renders a
fighter helpless. but it does give him q
sensation. II it alights on the proper spot
thrice the agony Of seasickncss. A clever
boxer had cut a fighter Of the bulldog
type 10 ribbons ore night but the sIugger
was game and kept hlnging his blows
into the air while the shifty boxer wheel
ed Sideways. pulled away and blocked and
evaded the heavy hitter's blows.
In the fifth round the police had come
10 the ringside 20 interfere IL the slugger
was worsted much more Suddenly the
slugger drove a wicked left-hand swing
into the clever boxers wing. All OF tho
clever boxers strength and speed de-
parted. and as he saw the slugger pre-
pairing TO deal him another such blow he
turned 10 the referee and said: stop Il:
it's getting brutal"
The Washington herald., 1909-08-15

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Union station ---.--.-. ? 0 o o. o.
Len on beses- southern g. Unicn Station & First
base on balls-Of Hughes ], OF Lerge. 4; OF
Young. Innings pitched-By HuShes g; BIZ
Young. 3: By Beggs. Il Tmes az bat by GRO
nents-Ag8iust Hughes. s.. against Young H. Hits
made-Od Hughes. II; OF Lcgge. L. struck cut
By Hughes 5; by Young. !; By Legge. Two
base hits-Walker. Risden. Sacrifice hiis-Aloriss.
Lessee. Stolen hases-Quinn Buckler, senseney.
Handy. TayloT Double pays-Risden 20 BuckleF;
Hughes 70 BucSlcr 20 Senseney. hit by pitcher
b Leggc. 2; b. Hughes. l. Wild pitch-Lsege
Paseed hell-Senseney. Umrire-Nfr. Stewart Tine
Of sszae-2 hours and s. Minutes
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.

AZ 81 Paul-Iudanapolis. s; st. Paul. 2
At Nlilwaukee-Tolodo 6: Milwaukee l.
A. Kansas City-kansas City. Z; Columbus, 5
At capolis-LoIisville 2: Minneapolis 1 Sec
ond game Minneapolis. 2: Louisville. 0.
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4O-TO-1 SHOT WINNER
Rocky 0'Brier Wins Wins Hopeful
Stakes az Saratoga.
RESULT PROVES BIG SURPRISE

Experts Figured Race Was Between
J. r.. Keene's sweep and GraSmere
and wOOdfOrd CIay's Ocean hound.
BRrIeythOrDe Leads Until the Last
FurIOng Pole, When He weaISens.
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Another Tariff Suggestion.

And the fans. too. want to see more
upward revision In the Nationals per
centage column.
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MANY MEN TO ENTER
Close Races Are Promised at
Washington Grove Meet.
CROSS COUNTRY CLUB FAvORITE

WeH-knOvvn Organization from MOn-
umentaI City Picked TO Win Ma
iOrity Of Events-SIany baltimore
Clubs WIN Be ReDresented-Y. NJ.
c. A. 90 send over Fast squad.
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NAME THE OFFICIALS.
Competent Men to Run Sun
day School Games.
SUCCESS OF MEET IS ASSURED

Many Churches VIII Enter Athletes
I'm Games Under Auspices of the
Young Mems Glass of First Pres
byterian Church-The Relay Races
should Prove Intervening.
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windsor.

Apprentices allowance
fAlsO eligible.
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have made regulations as gOal-tosSers
while members of club or prep school
quintS. Capt. Kingsley and Cogan, two
old prep stars, loom up as likely to make
the forward positions, while Vlyman and
Wymard, who played regularly on the
foot ball eleven, are struggling for the
center position. The other men out were
Walsh, the old ROxbury High player;
O'Connor and O'Brien two members of
prep class teams of past seasons, and
Sitterding and Daley. who also We're
number will be augmented today by the
presence of some of last winters varsity
and prep candidates.
The work yesterday consisted mostly in
practice game, in which all the men
showed UP to good advantage. Team
work was, OF course, lacking. but it will
probably be acquired with the training
that will be done before Christmas. 1t is
the intention of the management to hold
number of practice games against local
club teams during the next two weeks,
while in January and February contests
will take place against the best scholastic
and smaller college teams in this section
of the country.
in preparation for it's first big game
against Columbia in New York Deem
Der 8. Tonight practice will be held at
Carroll Institute, while Sunday morning
a stiff contest has been arranged to take
place in Ryan gymnasium. in which the
Blue and Gray will be matched against
five all-star men of the city. Last year
practically the same team played against
the Hilltoppers on a number of different
occasions and the excitement that pre-
vailed was always of a heated order.
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TEAMS IN SIX-DAY RACE.
Seventeen Pairs to Compete in Cycle
Grind at Garden.

NEW YORK, December 3.-Three inn
portant moves were made yesterday in
conjunction with the siX-day internation-
al bicycle race, which starts at Madison
Square Garden Sunday at one minute
past midnight. Big Tim Sullivan con-
scented to fire the gun which starts the
contestants away OH the week-long grind,
a big force of carpenters started to work
building the famous saucer track and the
entries for the race were finally closed.
The field is as follows:
French team-Leon Georget and Emil
Georget.
Italian team-Giavonni CuniolO and
Emilia CarapeZzi.
British-French team-Reginald Shirley,
London, England, and Achille Germain,
France.
Boston, Buffalo team-Patrick Logan
dreland). Boston, and Walter Bardgett.
Buffalo, n. Y.
Danish-Italian team-NOrman Anderson,
Copenhagen, and Carlo Vanoni, Italy.
Mormon team-Iver Lawson and Walter
De Mara.
Irish American team-Frank Calvin,
New York city, and Patrick keegan,
Lowell, Mass.
Native Son. teani-Alfred Halstead
and Percy o. Lawrence. San Francisco,
Cal.
Farmer team-W f. Mitten, Davenport,
Iowa, and Fred G. West. San Francisco,
Cal.
Little Old New York team-Dddie
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VANDERBILT'S BIG WINNINGS.
American Leads French Turtles
With a Total of $3.50. $50.

W. *. Vanderbilt heads the list of win
ming owners on the French turf with a
grand total of $23O,65O and this Is more
than has been credited to any winning
owner in Europe. 1t is $4,000 more than
the sum won by Mr.. Taine, who heads
the English list. Baron NJ. de Rothschild
Is second to Vanderbilt with 1852. 100
Among the winning horses Verdun is on
top with $4,000 and this is several
thousand dollars ahead of the figures
won by Bayardo. The leading French
sire is Radicals, with total of 500, $50
the dead Childwick being a good second
with $135.2OO, SO to judge by all the re-
turns in France the turf had a prosper
GUS season there.
Just now steeplechasing holds the
boards, there being a number of first
class fixtures, but the cross-country sport
is scheduled to close on the 10Th of the
present month. From that date until
February Is next there will be nothing
but trotting matches under the patronage
of the government. 1t is unknown what
the French will have in the Grand Ma
tional next spring. but Parfrement, who
rode Lutteur to victory at Liverpool last
year, has had some engagements of late
There Is no talk of sending Lutteur to
Aintree again, but in all likelihood he
will try his luck there.
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AFTER F0GEL.
Phillies' President Must Name His
Backers.

NEW YORK, December 3.-When Hor-
ace Fogel, representing the Philadelphia
club, comes to the National League meet
ing here it is said that the magnates will
try to compel him to disprove the widely
circulated statement that c. w. Murphy
and Charles P. Taft are the real owners
of the club. Murphy and Taft have posi-
lively refused to answer all questions
about the recent deal, which naturally
has strengthened the belief that Fogel is
merely a dummy president Murphy is
said to be favoring the election of Joseph
D. O'Brien to the presidency of the Ma
uonal League instead Of John NJ. Ward,
but 1t may be accepted as a fact that if
the Chicago magnate withdraws his sup
port from Ward, John T. Brush will come
out in favor of Heydler, which means The
latter's election. Men in close touch with
the affairs of the Giants said yesterday
that Brush is working earnestly for the
election Of Ward and is receiving encOur-
aging reports from the various club own
erS supposed to be on the fence. Mu-
tual friends of Brush and Ward say that
Ban Johnson cannot dictate who shall sit
with him In the national commission, and
that If Johnson does not care to act
with Ward he can resign from the SUI
preme court of base ball Johnson is fair
minded and broad in his views, as rule
and nobody believes that he would carry
out his published threats If Ward should
be elected. Heydler refuses to talk base
ball in any way, but it Is known that he
is not worrying about his chances for re-
election.
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the chess match there will be whist en-

the chess match there will be a whist en-
gagement with eight players side.
The Franklins have proved themselves
to be as strong a chess club as any in
the country. In a recent engagement
they succeeded in drawing with the we'll
known Manhattan Chess Club of New
York. considered the premier club of the
United States.
Secretary Driver of the Philadelphians
has announced his chess lineup for the
match as follows: 8. w. hampton. l.. s.
Bonsall, p. 3. Driver, w. J. Ferris, l.
Hoffer, w. II. Hughes. J. S. Mcconnell,
s. MlotkowSki. S. r.. Thorp. w. P. Ship
ley, S. l.. Stadleman, D. Stuart. III. Voigt.
M. 7. Whitaker and ]. w. Young. Many
of these are names to conjure with in the
chess world. The list includes champions
of several kinds. and some have taken
part in the international cable matches
against Great Britain.
Fully realizing the Importance OF this
match. the selection committee OF the
local club has been very busy getting
together team that should be worthy OF
the occasion. Fortunately they found
they had at their disposal quite formid-
able array of talent. both chess and
whist The local experts are so highly
thought of. in fact that their friends
think there is no need to fear the issue.
even against such redoubtable opponents
as the visitors are known to be.
The Washington chess representatives
will be selected from among the follow
ing: Victor Sournin. District champion;
A. w. Fox, eX-champion Manhattan e.
c.; F. B. Walker eX-Distrlct champion;
]. B. Norman. club champion; w. H.
Smith, ex club champion: 4. E. Landry.
Rice ambit champion; f. b. Adams, ex-
club champion: L. B. Napoleon, ex-tri-
state champion; l.. r. Sze n. B. Webster,
F. NJ Halstead, c. l.. Smell. w. r. Pratt,
f. f, Mitchell. r. Lavender, j. L. Nc
Cormick, F. Huntington, Fl. w. Graham
and j. Lowell, besides some other strong
players whose ability to participate is not
yet known.
Secretary Lavender Of the local club
extends a cordial invitation to all chess
lovers in the city to witness the games.
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SAYS HEYDLER SURE.
Garry Hermann Confident He Will
Be Reelected President.

CINCINNATI, December 81 am con-
fident John Heydler will be elected presi-
dent of the National League said Presi-
dent Hermann of the national commits
sion last night. "a short time ago 1
feared Charley Murphy had US on the
run, but conditions have changed, and l
am certain We will not have to make
much of a fight to win out.
Murphy was as silent as a clam re-
garding the Ward and the Philadelphia
club deals when he and Joe O'Brien were
mere. He would not discuss either mat
ter and l didn't ask any questions
Hermann will be on the scene of the
big scrap that is expected to take place
In New York the week of December i
good and early. He will leave for Gotham
next Wednesday and meet President Bar
ney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburg. club. who
will help Hermann gather votes for the
present head of the league. Hermann
and Dreyfuss will not give President
Charley Ebbets of the Brooklyn club a
moments peace until the election Is over
unless he consents to vote for Heydler.
and as Ebbets was won over by Murphy
through promise to give the Brooklyn
club some good base ball talent, which
promise Murphy now seems to be unable
to keep, the task does not appear to be
difficult.
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BOWLING BATTLES.

The series of games between the Ma
tionals and the Immaculates of the Ma
tional Capital Duckpin League last night
furnished some of the best little PIN
bowling ever witnessed in match game
in this city. The totals of the winners
were not as large as have been rolled in
single games, but the consistently high
average maintained by them, and some
excellent individual rolling, coupled with
the scores the losers totaled, made the
three games of great interest to the duck
pin fraternity in this city. Slattery of
the Nationals was the high individual for
the evening, with l37, but Mendell. also
of the Nationals. had an average of 122
Warren of the ImnaculateS averaged 119,
and every man on his team had an aver
age better than 100, except Fraber. and
his was 81. The team total for the Ma
tionals was 537, their games being 537,
536 and 53S, while the Immaculates roll
ed 6O7, 500 and 532.
The scores follow:
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TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT.
Jefries to Show Off at Convention
Hall.

The adherents of Jim Jeffries. the big
California boilermaker. on whose Shout
ders rests the responsibility of restoring
the heavyweight championship to the
white race, will be given the opportunity
of looking him over tonight and deciding
in their own minds what they think of
his chances of rising to the great emer-
gency.
The big fighter and Frank Gotch will
get into Washington late this afternoon
and tonight at Convention Hall will step
on the stage with their combination of
athletes.
jeff of course, will be the cynosure of
all eyes. and he will give those who take
advantage of the opportunity of seeing
him in sufficient action to get a real idea
of what he will be able to do to Johnson
when the two meet.
I'm the Gymnasium sketch that
serves to show the big fellow in all the
stunts he uses in preparing for a big bat
tie. will be gone through by the eX-
champion. He Jumps the rope, goes
through the tedious chair exercises. works
the pulley, punches the bag, gives illus
trations of blows and many other things
that he does in getting ready to enter the
24-foot arena
Frank Gotch and the other athletes are
record that he can look back to with
pride, and, like jeff, has spent many an
idle day for the lack of opponents that
could give him sufficient battle. He is
willing to turn over a neat sum to any
aspiring wrestler who thinks he can pre-
vent him from getting decision In fiji
teen minutes.
Jack Hermanson, a master of the bag
punching art and an acrObatic troupe are
with the company, and these are further
added to by local talent Joe Turner and
Tom Williams will grapple for twenty
minutes and Jack Spalding and Nick Ross
will tussle for falls for fifteen minutes.
Dick Cox will give, ten-minute exhibit
ton of club swinging,
The show starts at $50. and that big
crowd will be on hand is evidenced by the
way tickets have been going at T. Ar
thur Smiths ticket bureau, where they
have been on sale since Wednesday.
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RESERVES START PRACTICE.
Outlook Good Among Georgetown
Collegian Goal Tossers.

Nine candidates reported yesterday for
the Reserve basket ball auint which is
being developed at Georgetown this year
for the purpose Of training material to
fill the gaps which will be made on the
varsity another season by reason of the
large number of graduations. Coach
Joyce was very much pleased by the
yhowing on the first day, and he ex-
pressed confidence that with months
consistent training the second quint will
be of sufficient caliber to hold its own
with Capt. Collfower's stars.
Those who reported yesterday comprised
many gridiron devotees besides those who
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-03
BALL PLAYERS OFF FOR CUBA
Seven Stars of the Big Leagues
Leave Chicago.

CHICAGO. December 3.-Seven major
league base ball players left here last
night on their way to Cuba to play with
an American team in a series Of games
with the teams around Havana.
In the group of players were Mordecai
Brown, pitcher Chicago Nationals; Addie
Joss, pitcher Cleveland Americans; James
Archer, catcher Chicago Nationals, Sher-
wood Magee. outfielder Philadelphia Ma
tionals; Fred Merkle, first baseman, New
York Nationals; J. Lelivet, outfield,
Washington Americans; Herman Schaefer,
second baseman, Washington Americans.
The remainder of the team will be picked
up on the trip south.
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McIntosh's Bid Too Late.

SYDNEY, n. 8. W., December D.
Hugh Mcintosh today cabled his repre-
sentative at New York to bid maximum
of 100000 for the Jeffries-Johnson
fight Mcintosh says that he has made
a deposit with New York paper.
Bids for the Jeffries-JOhnson fight
closed December 1, and the award to
TEX" Richard and Jack Gleason was
made yesterday. The news of the award
was sent promptly to Australia, but the
cable does not indicate whether it had
reached Mcintosh. The latter had made
earlier bids for the contest, but they were
rejected by the nSiA>At
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Root. New York city, and Joe Fogler,
RraaklYn

Root, New York city. and Joe Fogler,
Brooklyn.
German-Holland teann-Walter Rutt,
Germany. and Johan Stol, Holland.
International team-Floyd MacFarland,
San Jose, Cal, and Jack Clark, Mel
bourne, Australia.
Dxie-Yankee team-Bobby Walthour,
Atlanta, Ca, and Elmer Collins, Boston,
Mass.
Australian team-E. A. Pye, Australia,
and Patrick O'Sullivan, Hehir, New Zea-
land.
Boston Brooklyn team-Fred Hill. Bos-
ton, Mass, and Charles Stein, Brooklyn
n. Y.
New York-New Jersey team-George
Cameron, New York city, and Floyd
krebs, Newark. n. j.
) messenger Boy team-George Wiley,
Syracuse, N. Y, and Peter Drobach,
Boston, Mass
The card Of short-distance races Wh1ch
will be put on tomorrow night includes,
in addition to two amateur events, two
worlds championships.
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BIG CHESS MATCH.
Franklin Chess Club of Philadelphia
to Engage Local Experts.

The most important club chess engage
ment that has ever been arranged for
this city is scheduled for Saturday even
ing next at the rooms of the Chess Club.
614 10Th street northwest. This will
be an intercity match between Philadel-
phia and Washington, the contestants be-
ing the famous Franklin Chess Club Of
the former city and our own Washington
Chess Club. 1t Is planned to have fifteen
boards in operation, and In addition to