New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-06
TIMELY BITS Of SPORT
To Lay Cornerstone To-day for
New Home of the SuperbaS.
PROMISE OF GOOD RACING
Another Big Crowd Sure to Turn
Out for the Meeting at
Elkwood Park.


Elkwood Park.
The dreams of Charles II. Ebbets. pres'.
dent and chief owner Of the Brooklyn Base
ball Club, viii he realized this morping,
when the cornerstone is laid for the new
home Of the Superbas in the Flatbush sec-
ton. Hundreds If letters have been re.
coiyed by tho club IN the last few DAYS Of
foring congra tulations and wishing all luck
to Mr. Ebbets and his team. These viii b.
deposited in the stone, together with tho
newspapers of the day and Of those in which
the first announcement was made carry laSI
January that the club would move from
Washington Park 10 ono Of the most CONF
plete and finished homes in the country
some time this year.
The cornerstone will be laid at 1880
O'Clock this morning. and addresses will he
made by a number Of persons, including tho
Rev James NJ. Farrar Monsgnor Edward
w. McCarty. who has followed the fortunes
Of the Superbas for thirty years, and Raoht
Nathan krass.
Following this Mr. Ebbots will ne thu
host at a luncheon to newspaper men AMI
number Of invited guests. That over, ad-
,ournment will he taken to Washingtolt
Park. whore the Giants and Superbas VIII
meet for the last time before starting on
their second Western trip
Among those who have been invited ar9
President Taft. Governor Wilson OF Ne"
Jersey. Governor Dix and Mayor Gaynors
Bernard ]. York will preside, and the OPEN
ing remarks, will he made by Borough Presi"
dent steers Of Brooklyn. After the vsrt"
ors articles have been deposited in the stons
Mr.. Ebbets will seal II ND.
With the keen racing Of Thursday in mind
II is hardly necessary TO predict more Sood
snort this afternoon for the second day %
he Elkwood Park Steeplechase Association
meeting. near Long Branch. The enthusl-
astIc crowd on the Fourth attested IN ny
nonrIIarltv Of racing. and with another soot
card offered the same big crowd IS sure ~
De I'm attendance.
Six races will be decided. three on th'
fat and three over the Jumps. and about thh
same horses will go TO the post as weri
seen on Thursday. Chief interest perhaps
centres I'm the Archdale Steeplechase. a.
about three miles. in which Essex b, Tyosa'
Garterette and Donier are named. ainon-
others The West End Steeplechsse als'
promises well. as among those entered afA
Mrs PAYNE Whitneys Webb Garter, hing
Plate. parson Kelly and Supplement
Word comes from Boston that Hub
perdue, the clever pitcher, who left ina
Braves I'm a huff several days ago, had hah
q change of heart With the differences
PATCHED up. he will rejoin the team at once.
George Edward Waddel. better known
as "Rube" Waddell. who has had varied
career as baseball pitcher and who az
ono time was ranked with the best, IS said
,o he seriously i'll at his home In Mnne-
anolis suffering from acute Indigestion
and gall stones Waddell earned his great-
ost fame as pitcher for the Philadelphs
Athletics but even Connie Mack could noe
control his eccentrlcties and after other
managers tried in vain TO keep him NJ T"
hts work he drfted to the minors, and a.
the present time is member OF the M'h-
,oanolis club OF the American Associations
over at his training quarters In J"rs''
CIV Yesterday Fred Storbeck, the Sou'h
African heavyweight. who meets JIM
Stewart in the Garden ON Monday hlgn''
wont through course Of sprouts UNDER
tho yyatchfuI eve Of his manager Tom
O'Rourke. When asked 20 tell something
about his career in the ring, Storbeck sald
that ne won the amateur championship
of the Trausvaal three years ago and then
visited England, where he boxed Bom-
harder Wells. He was trained by tho
pixie Kid" who taught him the Jeftric'
crouch. which, I'm Storheck's opinion WAS
a handicap. not a benefit, and was tho
cause OF his defeat In eleven rounds. Stor-
beck later boxed a draw with Frank
Moran. Of Pittsburgh. and was having the
better of return bout. when spectators
who had bet on Moran broke into the ring.
Stewart viii have about fifteen pounds on
Storbeck, but the South African says hs
will win.
Young Jack OBrien and Young Brown,
who clash i'm another ten-rOund bout on
Monday at the Garden, will finish work
to-day. OBriou Is training under the d.
rection OF his brother. who Is confident ot
victory. Brown is preparing at a local
gymnasium. and is impatient for the bout
to begin. johnny Mario and Kid Burns,
who will meet i'm the third ten-round bout.
were practically down to weight yesterday
-lSS pounds, ringside-and Will case up to-.
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