Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-06

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WIGHT experts who have Just Joined
Jim Jeffries's training camp are
rav1ng over the physical fitness
of the retired champion. Jim Corbett
declares that he Is more like a young
man just breaking into the game than
a man who Is trying to come back.
Bob Edgren states that Jeffries has
never appeared to him to be in such
excellent form since he first came East
to fight Fitzsimmons. If that be the
case Jeff's job In handling johnson will
not be SO hard as most followers of
the game figure It will be.
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Brooklyi S remarkable showing since
returning from the Western trip has set
the whole baseball world attacking.
The Dodgers certainly appear to be a
vast Improvement over last years ag-
gregation. Ebbetts's team has now won
seven straight games, including three
in a row from P%ittsburg. If Larry SUIT
tongetsa couple moro good men Brook
iynswiilsbe q great team.
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RHlr1n Stroud, the Jersey boy, blanked
tho Athletics at Detroit yesterday and
showed the Mack men out of first place.
Stroud FIRST began to attract big atten-
ton which pitching for the Pastimes of
Morr1stown. Later he was a star In the
LacJzawanna League. The Newark
Club piolned him up last year. but VOL
verton passed him on to the Tri-State
Leagueswhare Detroit nailed him.
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WiIdtfhrows were primarily RESPONSE
Bile for sPrnceton's defeat at the hands
of the Eli baseball nine at New Haven
onsEat1rday. The Tigers, however, are
unAismayed by the loss OF the first
game, and count on winning the next
gafneszLP rtnc-ton and then coping the
deciding contest. Last year the Tigers
lost the first contest to the Bulldog
team. butscame out on top In the second
and. thirdsencounters.
For the next set of bouts at the
Municipal A. c. Benny Miller has
closed with Patsy Kline and Young
Pierce. These boys have met before.
Patsy 1nsa fight against the negro dis
located q bone In his arm in the third
round, but finished 1t out In great pain.
Ek6IC6 IS DhCh lIOI1 El6ldilQ ODly ~
few months, where he beat Digger
Stanley, the British bantam cham.
pion, though he. like Packey Nc
Farland. only got a draw. These boys
should put up a great fight. Young
Guarini, to whom Patsy gave a hard
beating, win 60 on in the second six
round bout with Alec Dunserth, while
BILLY Lewisand Nat Erich will furnish
49, Q,rx1nrlra in tha fbfrH NIfl1nv &c
busy on the other bouts now.
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According to stories that emanate
from the coast, Johnson thinks that
Jeffries will be a 10-7 choice over him
at the ringside.
The coming back Of Mel Sheppard
is the talk of the athletic world. As
far as Sheppard has advanced Gissing
has apparently gone back.
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To the Sporting Editor of the Evening Star:
/ sent a query to a local evening
paper one day last week as to the most
convenient way to get to the Brooklyn
National League grounds. The an
swer given me I followed and got lost
I was told to take a car from the
Brooklyn bridge n get off at Thirty
second street and walk to grounds, two
bloclz from the station.
A LOYAL FAN.
Tatre an "L. train at the Brooklyn
brtdke and get off at Third street
Th1n walk one block west and you are
1.-THE grounds.-Ed.
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4 To the Sporting EDITOR of The Star:
VIII you kindly oblige some Of your
constant readers by letting us know In
what State Sullivan and Kilrain
fought? 1t will settle quite a heated
Argument. Thanking you in advance,
I remain, x. X. SMITH.
we presume 1t is the great draw be-
tween the two you mean. 1t was fought
at Richburg. Miss. July 8. 1889,
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TO The Sporting Editor of the Evening Star:
A. says tina wyatt Lee, the Tiger
pitcher, has some Indian blood In his
veins. B says that isn't so.
A AND B.
Wyatt Lee is said to have the blood
of the Usage tribe of Indians running
through his veins. out is not a full
FLOODED aborigine, of course.-Ed
M. ,bs sporttns Editor Of the Evening Star:
When a pitcher relieves another with
.a ana o. on the batter, as happened
the other day in Providence, and the
halter is passed, what pitcher has the
base on balls chalked against him.
F. A. DILLY.
The pitcher who passed him.-Ed.
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ro the Sporting Editor of the Evening Star:
A bets that the string of twenty VIC
tories made by Providence is the great
est of league baseball. B claims that
lancaster In the old Atlantic League,
about 1898, had twenty-one. winch
as e. riphtp G. r.
r is. Lancaster won twenty-one
rames. not in 1898, but during 1ss7.-Ed-
- D.
,o the Sporting Editor Of the Evening Star;
Is Tommy O'Toole the right name 81
0the Philadelphia featherweight?
X b. L. D.
kso. His first name is Frank, but his
w name is right.-Ed,
kn WANT ADS HIRING RESULTS.