The Washington times., 1910-06-28
Morning Game at 10 O'clock
and Afternoon at /, Prob
able Schedule.
SHERIDAN'S ACTION
CAUSES REGRETS
Old Umpire a Credit to National
Game for Many
Years.
By THOMAS S. RICE.

While it has not yet been settled
definitely, it is practically certain that
the morning ball game here on July
4 between Washington and Boston win
begin at 10 O'Clock and the afternoon
game at 1 o'clock
There has arisen an insIstent demand
among the rooters that they be allowed
an opportunity to see the afternoon
game and also have a chance TO get
down town for the full returns at The
Times office Of the Jenries and John
son fight in Reno, New.
The fight is scheduled to start at I:S0
in Reno, which is 40 in this benighted
city. whore the populace is all net UP
over tho fight and refuses to be reprov-
ed by the reformers. If the afternoon
ball game is started at / p. m. here it
should be over by Pas under ordinary
circumstances, which viii allow the
bioodthirsty and unregenerate who
think there is no particular harm in two
thoroughly trained athletes pummeling
each other with gloves in a padded
arena, plenty Of time TO get 70 the dis
tributing points for information and
hear all the preliminary details
If the game is started at p. m. the
attendance win undoubtedly suffer, for
there are seventy-seven ball games
on he Washington home schedule
this season and only one fight for
the worlds heavyweight champion
ship in six years CT so, and the
gentle gazelle spirit does not seem TO
be abroad in the land sufficiently to
warrant the belief that even q fan with
pass would attend a baseball contest
If he could come 70 TIE Times office
and hear free Of cost all about the big
battle from the first movement toward
the ring to the final decision.
II is probable that a lunch will be
served 10 the two teams in the wash
mgton clubhouse between games so that
the athletes viii not have to bother
about donning their street toys. only 10
DON the same in q few brief moments.
It Will probably pain Andrew Car
negie deeply TO see the number of peo-
PIE on the streets awaiting return, from
the fight.
Jack Sheridan has quit me umpirinr,
business. What a hole that makes in
the ranks of star arbitrators! Jack has
peen an umpire Of repUJe and nerve
ever sine the average ran was i'm shorf
pants, and IL is hard to conceive of fbe
same getting along without him He
IelegTaphed mis- resignation TO prfsi-
oehI Johnson OF the American League
ldSt hlS4J ana enJralned for Reno
where ne VIII mingle with his old col
Iege chuTl, James ). JedrieS, giving the
white man aid and comfort i'm preUara-
llon lot the big DIcker on July l. Jack
mas resigned several times, but now he
seems bound 20 make il stick, for here
JO1Ore he has not been in the habit Of
Jumping Lue Jop IN mia season when re-
signing He has been a credit to the
national paSume and TO himself His
excellent common sense, his thorough
knowledge Ct the game, and his aD-
probation of the temptations and tribu-
lauons OF player have enabled him TO
rule his games with tirm discipline with
out assuming the air Of a martinez
There Is PROBABLY not a worker IN MS
difficult specially today who has so
many warm admirers and SO few enc
mics among the fuli-blooded ath-
leteS whose actions on the field ne has
dominated for so many years and with
sucn a strict hand. May he flourish like
rest.
Don't let the fight keep you away from
the municipal field ana track games On
the Monument Lot on July l.
Walter Johnson, oil Washington: Ford,
Of New York; ana Cicotte, Of Boston,
viii pitch against the Athletics in Phila-
OClpII4d AOAt AHt'l 'ooy a. tAC DcLC-i !
game for the WIDOW and children Of
Doe Powers, the Athletics catcher, who
died as a result of injuries received in
a game last summer. Several other
Washington players viii be on the pick
ed nine which is "a. be composed OF the
following Lord, Boston, third base;
Gessler. Washington. right field. Hemp
hill, New York, center field, Speaker,
Boston, left field; Stahl, Boston, first
base. Gardner, New York, second base,
Mcbride, Washington right field, Street.
Wa shingtOn: CarrIgan, Boston; Sweeney,