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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
PRAISE
FOR YANKEES
English Writer Comments on
Great Strength of American
Team, Which Is Sweeping
Olympic Fields at This Time
in Sweden.

NEW YORK, July 10.-The high re-
gard in which foreign athletic experts
hold the American Olympic team is
shown in a review published last
week in the London Times. and just
received here. From Stockholm, one
of the papers staff writes.
The fact which stands out promi-
nently Is the great strength of the
American team. 1t is generally
recognized to be by far the strong
est, not merely in point Of numbers,
but also in all-around ability. When
one learns that there are among the
Americans six men who can run the
400 meters under 40 seconds, six who
can run the 800 meters under l min
ute and 81 seconds, as well as ten
hrst-class hurdlers. n feels thai
they might be justified in their boast
that they could send over three
teams, In one of which would sweep
the board In the Stadium.
"A finer lot of men was probably
never got together. The average
height is nearly six feet, and not
even the Swedish gymnasts are more
symmetrically built. The English
athletes, on the other hand. and es-
pecially the distance are
built on a small scale. One fears
once again that we shall have to
recognize that "a good big one al
ways beat "a good little one.'
Whoever is to bear the Americans
this year must not only be a great
athlete, but must undergo a thorough
and scientific course of training. and
in this Americans are. of course, pre-
eminent. Not even the Swedes, and
they have an American trainer, have
anything like the al lavished fon
them that has been spent on the
Americans.
Partly it is, of course, the result
of the American genius for specialize
ing and concentration on whatever
may be the immediate thing in hand.
whether In sports or in business.
Partly. and by no means the least, it
is a question of dollars. How much
in the aggregate the United States
will spend in bringing its athletes to
the post we are not privileged to
know. In any case the contrast with
the ineffectiveness of the British
Olympic Council is almost ludicrous.'
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Need Next Two Games
to Win Jersey City Series

Tigers must take two straight to
yin this series.
The Intercity series now stands 9
ames to 5 in Jul favor.
The Tigers perform at West Side
lark today and tomorrow.
Can't agree that Bobby Wells is
be best catcher in the league, though
Re like his style very much. We
hsist that Captain Harry Smith, of
he Tigers, has a shade on all of
hem for headwork and all-around
bility when it to handling a
ttcher's slants and Harry is in
hape.
Swacina gathered in three runs,
NO hits and thirteen assorted put
nts in the field. A nice days work.
Bill Collins says that his home
tate, Indiana, produces more ball
layers of calibre than any State in
he Union. It's nice to be loyal. but
HIS argument seems to hold water.
lie says the reason so many good
iamond stars come from the Hoosier
tate is that the geological conditions
re so well fitted for the national
astime. you can throw a couple of
tones down on fiat surface almost
nywhere in Indiana or Ohio and map
ut a diamond. The kids with these
atural advantages T at it from
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M'CINNITY'S STEVE BRODIE'
SURELY GAME A CROPPER'
Tiger Leader Sends Back Wyatt Lee in "Iron-Man' Stunt
Against the Skeeters, but Southpaw Fails to Hold the
schlafIyites-BengaIs Play Uphill Ball, Finishing Just
One Run Shy of Pests Big Lead.

Smith, batting for Dent, started the
rally with a clean double to centre,
and In a moment Kirkpatrick cleaned
Higgins, who had walked, as well as
Smith. Larry Schlafy promptly
yanked Frill and put in McHale. Col
Inns lined, to Barrows, scoring Kirk
patrick, and that ended it. With the
score 8 to Z in his favor. McHale shut
out the Tigers in the mex two rounds.
The Tigers. too, had been in third
place all by their lonesome because
Baltimore had won a protest filed
against Toronto, and a win was taken
away from the Kelley clan. leaving
the Tigers in sole possession of the
third rung. Today Toronto, by win
ming, holds third place and the
Skeeters are tied with the Tigers.
However, Newark has a chance of
getting back on that rung, but a
clean sweep In this series was what
we needed to fortify for the long
swing around the circuit.
Some of the Tigers are predicting
that they will crimp the Hustlers and
that 1t is up to Newark to do the
white hope" stunt in stopping the
Jack Johnsons of the Barrow League.
In a way the schedule of the Inter-
national League is all In favor of the
upper teams. They play their first
two series in the East before the
season is half over. Then they can
go home in the thickest of the fight,
and, IL they have a chance for the
pennant, it is doubly enhanced by
the fact that two-thirds of their re-
naming games will be played at
home.
Rochester Up Yet.
Nothing butlthis fact beat out the
Tigers in 1909 and 1910, when Roches-
ter nosed out the Bengals. OF course,
If Joe McGinnity and Wyatt Lee had
not worked their arms off earlier in
the season and gone stale in 1910,
there might have been al different
story, but the fact remains that
everything favored the Hustlers.
They have held their lead now, after
making two invasions of the East,
and unless they are tagged soon it
will look very much like four PEN
nants for Rochester. And the fans
of Rochester are beginning to tire OF
pennant winners.
The attendance is falling off and
the newspaper men a that the
home papers have a bigger circula-
ton when the team is losing now
adays than when 1t is on a trium-
plant march.
Indeed, things had reached such a
stage on the last trip made by the
Hustlers that the electric scoreboard,
showing the Champions games
abroad. was no longer an attraction
and had to be cut out.
Proof Of Squsreness Of Game.
Ball players like to win and SO dc
managers, and therefore, though the
box office may suffer. the team con-
tinues to win games. which is a
sterling proof that the game is on
the level.
The Tigers are a great attraction
the best in the league. at Rochester
because they used to wallop the
Champs" regularly in 1908, 1909 and
1910. This ear the BengaIs have
dropped several games they should
have won from the Hustlers, but
they believe that they will beat the
Champs" on the seasons series
Let's hope SO, anyhow.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-10
Heat Causes Tennis Stars
to Stop Play at Sedbrighf

SEA BRIGHT, July 10.-The over
powering heat played havoc with the
lawn tennis tournament here yester-
day on the turf courts of the Sea-
bright Lawn Tennis and Cricket
Club. r.. d. Little, the inter-
nationalist and shareholder in the
national doubles, retired from the
singles and doubles, in the latter
event taking with him his national
partner, G. S. Touchard,
Then R. N. Williams, recent winner
of the national clay court title and
the Pennsylvania State champion
ship, failed to take the court with
E. p. Larned. The match was post
poned in the expectation that today
might be cooler.
Beals c. Wight did not appear for
the doubles, so Karl H. Behr switched
to Frederick c. Inman as a partner
The two defeated William ]. Clothier,
Of Philadelphia, and George p. Gard
ner. jr., a Harvard pair, in the Tea
ture match of the day. at s-3. 6--s.
Clothier had previously defeated IL.
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A. Piummer, the old Yale captain,
in the singles. at 6-S. 81. He was
worn down when he attempted to
play in the doubles. His strokes were
poor as to length and direction ana
he barely upheld his end ON the
court. F.
H. II. Hackett and L. E. Mahon
retired from the doubles, so their
bracket was filled by W. NJ. Mace
and C. NJ. Church, jr., a Princeton
pair. The Princeton players faced N.
w. Niles and A. S. Dabney the Bos-
tonians. the latter winning at 60,
Ga. Edgar W. Leonard tooh on Rob
ert LIE Roy as 9 partner and the two
advanced by the default of Littl.
and G. F. Touchard, the national
champions.
Behr won his place N the semi-final
of the singles by defeating L. e. Ma
han. at 6-2. SIS. Behr worked his
short game effectively. easily pass
ins Mahan at every stage. Dabney
also gained the semi-finals iy the de-
fault Of Little.
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ENGLISH DECLARE FOR.
THE AMERICAN METHODS

LONDON. July Accommodating on
the poo showing of the British ath-
letes at Stockholm, a local paper this
morning says that the Americans are
controlled absolutely by the trainer,
while Britishers may be seer loung-
ing in cafes up to midnight and later.
If Great Britain is to do herself credis
at the Olympic games in Berlin four
years hence she must send her best
trainer to America for a year to learn
his business.
Another paper in mourning over the
bad showing of the British athletes
says the English take sport in a more
light-hearted fashion than Ameri-
cans, who make athletics the business
of their lives. The characteristically
English touch is added that it must
be remembered, however. hat the
United States is represented by
negroes and Indians and even a
Hawaiian, as well as by pure Ameri-
cans.
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Should Increase
Lead for Title Tonight

second. third OF fourth money. A
quarter-mile race is a very short race.
but there are any number of angles
that may arise in the championship
tonight to bring about the defeat of
the champion.
The three semi-finals and the
repechage heat of the grand prize of
July will furnish four good events
that will feature tonight's card. With
three riders and the best in the East
in each of these heats there will be
some heartbreaking struggles to
make the final of this ace and get a
chance at the big money next Sunday.
In every semi-final there are two
riders who r in the all-star class,
and one of them must be shut out for
1t is only winners that will qualify.
Kramer will be pitted against a good
man, Grenda will have a hard man
to beat and Dupuy will be stacked up
against at least one star rider. Each
semi will be as good as a special
match race of the three-cornered
variety.
Menus Bedell and George Wiley,
who meet in a ive-mile best two
heats out of three match race, paced
by motors. should furnish the most
interesting paced race of the season.
A week ago these riders put up a
neck and neck struggle in a ten-mile
race, and a f1ve-mile affair will be
even closer and also much faster.
There will be a great battle for the
lead in this ace for the rider who
gets off in front will have a big ad-
vantage.
Owing to the length of the card, for
the first time this season, the profess
SIGNALS will not have a handicap race
In which to compete. The other
events on the card are a two-mile
invitation for the pros and a fve-mile
open and a one-mile handicap for the
amateurs.
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TRAVERS AND SMITH
ARE WINNERS AT RYE

RYE, N. Y. July 1O.-Ip the an
nual four-ball match of amateurs and
professionals, which always serves as
a curtain-raistr for the Metropoli
tan open golf championship, jerome
Travers and Alex Smith were yes
terday the winners at the Apawamis
Club. Their score, for which the best
ball only counted, was ga strokes.
Gilbert Nichois, of Wilmington, haG
an individual card of 70, which tied
that of Alex Smith, but because Os
valid Kirkby, New Jersey champion,
did not render him very effective as
sistance, their Test ball was 6S, which
took second prize.
There was much interest yer the
showing of Smith and Nichols since
the Apawamis course has been thor
ougnly revised of late. Nicholls's
card. if three or four of the holes
were transposed. would be identica
with Smiths.
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T%oUcHARDs WIN THEIR
CANES; MISS SUTTON, roo

LOUISVILLE. Ky, July ie.-Nif
teen matches weie won and RS. in ne
second day of play of the Bi-Sfats
tennis tournament Oh the 1ouyts OF
the Louisville Country Club y~ester-
day. Gustave Touehard. flesh tom
winning the Tri-State Championship
in cincinnati. won both his matches
with Louisville lei With Al.er An
drews the score was Sc, 81 atei
with Craig Cuibertson So. Go Mrs.
Touchard also won matches from Miss
Elsie Scholtz, 81, 6-2-
Miss May Sutton, Los Angeles. drS
500 spectators to her court in i'ef
match with Miss Madelle Il as.
LouIsvir., holder OF the FAILS Czzles
championship. whom Miss Sutton de-
felied. 81. 60.
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~outpointed Johnny Dundee. and IN
that bout showed strength and box
ing ability that startled the fans
With Kline he will have to have
everything. because Patsy is very
rough in a battle. Patsy can hit
better and harder than any other in
his class, and it behooves Wagner
to keep an eye out for the wallop
while in the business of piling up
points for himself.
As fast as this bout promises TO
be, no less in point of contest should
be the ten-rounder between Eddie
O'Keefe and Packey Hommey.
Packey is coming fast now He is
growing and learning much of the
game. In another veal he will prob
ably be in the ranks of the light
weights, and in that class he will be
a bear with a capital B. OKeefe,
besides being a walloper. is clever,
but he had better have a care for
his youthful opponent or he will be
badly mussed up when the thing is
over. It's a battle between the east
and west sides. O'Keef having
made the west side of the city his
home of late.
Young Reilly. the boy with the baby
face and the arms of a young giant,
will battle Tommy Houck, and right
here is where another slashing mil
is looked for. If the st. Nicholas
Rink is not packed with this show.
there is nothing that can be arranged
which will fill the arena.
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NEW Works. oLYMPIANS
WON'T LOSE THEIR PAY

NEW YORK. July 1O.-New York
city employees who are members of
the American team competing in the
Olympic games will not have to sac
rihce their salaries by reason of their
absence abroad. The Board of Al
dermen yesterday by resolution
awarded the athletes on the city pay
rolls their usual pay while away with
the team, for a period not exceeding
two months.
The athletes thus favored are Pat
rick Mcdonald, Mathew McGrath.
Egan Erickson. John j. Eller. 1r.,
and Simon ellis. of the police de-
partment; George v. Bonhag. OF the
department of water supply, and
John Dietz, employed in the Seventy
first Regiment Armory.
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CANADIAN ~cRIcKETERS
ARE FAR IN THE REAR

PHILADELPHIA. July l0.-Ill luc
beiell the Rosedale cricket eleven oil
Toronto, Canada. yesterday. at Man
helm, when Captain H. g.. WookeS
lost the toss The Germantown
Cricket Club team, their first op
ponents, seized the opportunity to run
up a score of 5s6 runs before tie last
wicket fell.
ragged out by the intense heat.
which is not often experienced in the
northern cline. especially on the home
grounds. which are constantly swept
by the cooling breezes of Lake On
tario, the visitors could do little at
the bat. When stumps wee drawn
for the day they had SIS runs with
The loss of six wickets to their crcdi
AS the score stands. they will have
to do some phenomenal batting today
to avoid an inning defeat
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sunrise to sunset. At least I was,
and so were a lot of other fellows
now in the big show" say Bill.
1t looks just a little bit as though
Collins is ambitious to get back into
the big show. If he continues to
play the brand of baseball he has
been showing of late there is a very
good chance that he'll be drafted or
sold this fall. Bill is probably the
fastest man in the league. and if he
were a left-hander would peal out
many more hits than he does.
Catcher Wells, of the Jersey City
team, might have spoiled Kirkpat-
rick's good looks and put Enos on
the hospital list, If he were not a
clean ball player yesterday in the
first round. With Kirkpatrick on
third. Seymour hit to PurteIl, who
made a shy heave to Wells, trying
to get Kirk. Enos slid to avoid a
collision. Wells had to leap three
feet in the air for the throw and the
members of the fair sex screamed.
for Kinks head was right under
Wells's feet. But as he came down,
Wells. with lightning calculation,
saw Kinks danger, and spread his
legs, straddling Kinks head and
Enos came up unscratched. It
looked like a miracle that Kirk was
not hurt.
Reynold Storck, a right-handed
finger from the Three Eye League, is
on trial with the McGinnityites.
While pitching before yesterdays
game to the Tigers in practise. with
McCarty behind the bat, a foul tip
hit Mac and he was down and out
for several minutes. Storck gave the
Tigers a choice brand of shoots to
hit against.
The whole Newark infield put up a
brilliant defense again yesterday and
cut down several hits, especially in
the ninth, when Purtell and Rondeau
were deprived of hits by Kirkpatrick
and Vaughn.
Roy Rock has Joined the Wilkes
barre team.
Dolan had another homer yester-
day and three other hits besides in a
double-header between Rochester and
Buffalo. Guess cozey will about lead
the league in homers at his present
rate.
OF the four pitchers used in yes
terday's game. Gaskell looked the
best. He famed two and made an
other Skeeter pop up in the one round
he worked.
Drucke gave nine passes. but won
his game for Toronto at Montreal
yesterday.
BY scoring four runs in the ninth
the Grsys narrowly missed tieing the
Orioles and were nosed out, s-s.
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YOUNGKURTZ
WHIPS LEWIS
Billy, However, Is Game All the
Way and Puts Up a Good
Fight Against the Local
Ghetto Boy.

Billy .Lewis's showing against
Young Kurtz at the Eleventh Ward
Athletic Club in Morris Park last
night entities him to further con-
sideration. Lewis fought the best
battle against the heavy-slugginz
Ghetto boy since he first put on box
ing toys.
He was game from the start to the
final bell, and. although smothered
during the final sessions. was at IL
all the way. Then. too. Kurtz never
fought harder than last night. His
new manager. Danny Morgan, also
chief adviser to Knockout Brown.
was on hand. and for the first time
saw the local Ghetto boxer work out.
His showing was an impressive one.
although he had his troubles.
Lewis's chief fault was holding, but
his other work grasses any criticism
On that point Both came from their
corners savagely in the first round.
but holding On the part of Lewis
caused Kurtz to stop fighting. and
the round ended on pretty even terms.
1t was Kurtz's round in the second,
the Morgan man landing some telling
rights and lefts to Lewis's jaw.
In the third Lewis evened up mat
tiers by administering to Kurtz -
volley of rights and lefts to the face
that seemed to hurt the latter mora
than a little. After thai it was an
Kurtz, and in tbs sixth round the
Silver Lake lad received such a de-
cisive beating that he left the ring
r~skI. 1911 --~~I-- -
tically closed and his lips twice theif
natural size.
Both lads brought with them a big
following. and as a result the Iarsesf
crowd of the season was ON hand -
Other Bouts.
Young Hicks n Young Lennox
battled in the semi-final, and after
four exciting and hard-hittip8
rounds the former was recorded Tho
victor by a shade. Lennox has 3
wallop. but no science. Hicks was
no better. but his luck multiplied
Lennox's ten times. and he got il
some funny ones hat counted. The
bout had the crowd on its feet all
the way.
Young Stock. the Central HIeh
School pupil, was given a thorough
lesson in "pugilistics" in his bout
last night. for Tommy Allen. as the
teacher. smashed lefts and rights to
the body and jaw that had the
schoolboy in a bad state. Stock
took the beating without a CULVER.
however.
Joe Boyd, of Jersey City. lasted
three rounds with Young Victor. OF
Garfield. the latter planting a right
on the point of the jaw in the third
session that made Boyd take to the
boards.
Harry Crimes, another Skeeter lad.
won a sensational ~four-round 90
from Ben Horn, of this city Horn
sent Crimes to the mat foul times
in the first session. but the l~atter's
work in the next three sessions uax
such an advantage hat he was en-
titled to the verdict. Neither knew
much in science, but both had wal
lops. and that pleased the fans alone.
Happy Davis. of Orange. lasted
three rounds with Kid Gross. Of
Philadelphia. Gross sent his man
down in the first session, but the lat
ter's pluckfness enabled him to stand
more innings.
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AL KAUFMAN AND
MILLER MATCHED

SAN FRANCISCO, July io.-Eddie
Graney ANNOUNCED yesterday that
final arrangements mad been made
Tor a twenty-round contest between
Charley Miller and AL Kaufman,
heavyweights, before his club on the
evening of July 26 or 3D.
The matching of the big fellows was
brought about by a recent f.ur-rouni
so in which Miller was given the de
cision. Miller's ring work 'lso called
attention to his possibilities. When
he beat Soldier Elder and followed II
Up b? winning from Kaufman it made
local fight fans sit up and take notice
Spider Kelly ever went SO far as TO
say that Miller would have had a
chance with Jack johnson on the
Fourth of July last.
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PATSY KLINE
IN HARDBOUT
Newarker Should Have No Easy
Time with Young Wagner in
St. Nicholas Ring Tonight.

The fcatherweighls, who have IN
the past stirred the enthusiasm CT
the fight fans. will be Gu. loose in
the ring of the ST Nicholas A. C..
tonight The McM5hon boys, who
run the club, have switched their
show nights. taking Wednesdays in
stead of Tuesdays. But the class of
bouts will remain at the same old
standard, which is par excellence.
Patsy Kline, who has been knock
ing out all he has met in the last
half dozen fights, will meet Young
Wagner in what will probably be fhe
main attraction. Wagner recently
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FOUR CANDIDATES FOR
REFEREE AT MoTORDROME

The names of Claude Il Hci@ar"
f. W. Stevens, Roy S. Fascail and
George E. Post were selected by the
members of the New Jersey Mottr
oycle Club to be sent to Or. ]. z.
Thornley,, chairman OF the Il
ton committee of the F. A. NJ. rec
onrnending any of Them to act as
referee for the races at the new
S.adium-Motnrarome.
For the first meet John }. OCon-
nrr, of New York, had been sent hefe
by The chairman. but tine local or
s~anization is IN hopes that a local
man can obtain the position Or.
1honley. it is hoped. will make j def
ME selection for the next EJECT.
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TRENTON WILL NOT
THROW UP SPONGE

YORK, July 10.-Manager G. w.
Heckert, Of the Trenton Tri-State
Club. yesterday in this city, denied
the story emanating from Harris
burg that arrangement had been
made with President Carpenter to
have the Trenton team Unanswered
to another city for the remainder of
the season. Heckert says that despite
the poor attendance at the games
that the schedule will be completed
as announced at the beginning of the
8 Heckert expects his team to
soon regain its old-time stride and
become firmly entrenched at the top
in the pennant race.
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RloLER is NAMED

NEW YORK. July 1~0.-President
of the National League, has
made a thorough investigation of the
between three Cnlcago players
and some spectators at a game in
last Tuesday, and places
the blame on the Cub players. He
Umpire Rigler for not expeli-
ing the players from the game. Pres
Lynch witnessed the game and
all the trouble.