The Washington herald., 1910-07-01
BENEFIT CONTESTS
DRAW THOUSANDS
Defeat Combination
Bali Team by 4 TO 3.
70 ~ wa.hington HeraIa.

Special to The Washington Herald
Philadelphia. June So.-In the most re-
FiaarkabIe tribute ever paid to the MEM
orv OF professional ball player, more
than 1z.0O0 persons gathered in Shibe
PARK this afternoon 10 show their re-
spect for the late Doc Powers, the IA
nous catcher Of the Athletics, who helped
them win the pennant. The Athletics
won the ball game. 1 10 3. against
combination team
The first OF the athletic events was
bunting and running to first base. the
entries were Rath, Eddie Collins, Coombs,
and Baker. Athletics; Schaefer, Wash
ington; Austin, Chase, and Sweeney, New
York Highlanders, Hooper, Lord, Gard
ner. and Speaker. Boston Red Sox.
In the first trials Lord won first prize
by covering the distance in Oh 10. equal
ing the record for field day events made
by Jack Thoney, Of Boston, at Cincin-
natl Collins. Baker, Chase and Speaker
tied for second, in O:32-5. In the second
trials Collins. Speaker. and Chase tied
In 0:9 2-5. and the three drew numbers,
Chase being the lucky man.
Pat Donohue, the new catcher OF the
Athletics. captured the cup for throwing
accurately A target was placed at sec
ond base and each man was allowed
three throws. Donohue hit the target on
his second throw. The only other man TO
nit was Germany" Schaefer, Of Wash
ington and he won second prize.
Eddie Collins captured the first cup for
encircling the bases. and he tied the rec
ord OF Il Is seconds held by Wallace
Clement, of Jersey City, made at Ctncin-
natl. The runners touched every base.
Austin, of New York. and Speaker, of
Boston. tied for second, time Il S-5, and
the Highlander called the toss Of the
coin for the second cup.
Hooper wins LOng-distance Throw.
Baker. Davis. and Dygert. Athletics;
Austin, Laporte. and Foster, New York;
Speaker. Hooper. and Stahl. Boston, COM
peted in the throwing for distance event
and the honors went to Boston. Hooper
winning with throw of S5S feet 1 inches.
Speaker was second. with 345 feet rs
inches; Dygert. third. with SS5 feet III
! inches and Lewis, fourth, with 3S1
inches The Official record is 800 10ls
/ inches, made by Sheldon LeJeune, of
Springfield, III. John Hatfield is credited
with throwing ball 400 feet ~ inches
| back In 1872
| field Of flyers met IN the 100-ysrd
1 QdSH, SLTciSHldWdS On tne IuEAs ram diiu
Oldring. Athletics; Austin and Sweeney,
New York, and Hooper and Stahl, Bos-
ton. Austin was the winner by two feet
| in 10 3-5 seconds. with Hooper second, g
yard in front of Rath.
The 100-yard event for heavy-weights
brought Stahl, Ford. Laporte. Heitmul-
| Ter. Houser. and Thomas to the scratch,
and the time for the ''burlies" was an
nounced as 0:10 AS. Stahl won by yard
| from Ford. with LapOrte third.
| The next event was a trial for line
throwing, the contestants standing at the
home plate and throwing under a bar
six feet high, the ball 10 go over second
base. Barry, Dygert. Lapp. McInnis
Rath, Baker, Austin. and Laporte were
the entries, and Austin won his second
first prize.
There were a dozen entries in the fungc
hitting event, which was won by Jimmy
Dygert, of the Athletics. Hughes, of New
| York. was second, and Johnson, OF
Washington, third. No distance was an
nounced.
The team relay race proved the feature
| of the field events. and resulted in q
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