Arizona republican., 1912-08-15


 ncy for the Boston Braves. Brooklyn has released Pitcher Kent to the Toronto club of the Inter 1 national league. Chief Bender has pitched the Ath- letics to victory twice in four days. Nc signs of being all in" to that stunt Edward Oefty) Onslow, brother of the Detroit catcher and first base man of the Lansing club of the South Michigan league has been bought by Detroit for $25O0.
 George Whitted third baseman of the Jacksonville club of the South Atlantic league, has been sold to the St Louis Cardinals for $3000. He will report at the end of the season
 Ted EasterIy. the Cleveland catcher has been sold to the Chicago White Sox. He joined the Maps in 1909, coming from the Pacific Coast league.
 Chicago is going to send a strong delegation of fifteen archers to try for honors at the coming national archery tournament beginning in the Harvard Stadium next Tuesday.
 The closed circuit Gordon Bennett
 Ay-i ation championship to be held ct Clearing, III. September ,, will be the last of it's kind. Hereafter the race will be contested over a straight course, in order to lessen the danger.
 Miss Margaret LaWler. IS years old, won the 150-mle endurance con test of the KenOsha Motorcycle club in that city Tuesday Although the only woman entered. she carried off all of the honors against a field of twenty-One men.
 Larry Mclean, the giant backstOp cf the Cincinnati Reds, has aspira- tions as a prizefighter and he says that after the major league season is over he is going to train and try to arrange a bout with Al Palzer. Mclean is in good condition now at 237 pounds.
 Manager Clarke Griffith of the Washington Climbers, has selected Frank Dillon of Los Angeles as coast lookout for the Nationals. Dillon is d cousin of Clarke, but the Washing ton boss says it has nothing to do with the appointment The scout will watch the coast colleges for promis- ing material and will sign both di- rectly and in the minors for the Capi- tai city club
 There is a surprise package in store for Mel Sheppard, the greal middle distance runner, when he steps off the steamer from England few days hence as he is to be dis charged from the Fourteenth Regi- ment, New York, for illegal enlist ment. This will mean that the dis honorable discharge that he received from the Twenty second Engineers will very likely hold good. The blow was withheld just long enough to al itN lllill U NClllPtNI tAS d iliCAiDNA VI the American team at Stockholm.
 Officials of the Mineral Springs Jockey club which contemplates a fifteen day race meeting near Porter, Ind, next month, have closed con- tracts for the erection of stands and stables at the new track. The pro. moters hope to start the first meet ing Labor day. Then after a lapse of thirty days it will be possible under the Sellers law to hold another meet ing of fifteen days before cold weather.
 Horace c. Gamble, professional al the golf grounds of the Athletic cluf of Philadelphia may lose his eye sight as the result of the explosion of a golf ball with which he wa experimenting The ball is of Englisf manufacture and was sent to hin to try out. It was plain that it wa: much more lively than balls uses here and Gamble started to investi gate the reason He placed it in ( wise and then hammered it, the bal exploding and the acid, with Whicl it was filled to make it lively, splash ing into his eyes.
 Says Charley COmiskey: q hav' often thought that the Detroit tean was slugging team because O Cobbs presence on it. And there ar moments when l believe that the won derful hitting of Iris Speaker is re sponsible in a way for the hitting Q some of the fellows on the Bostol club.
 These fellows act as pace mak CTS, Cobb goes out there and smack the ball He received the cheers an' the plaudits of the fans The othe fellows on the team see and hear this Whats the first question? Well. he can do that why can't I?' That what your good ball player asks him self. The question is remarkabl one It's a fact in every other busi ness so why not in baseball?"
 Three western gOvernors-Governo Stubbs of Kansas, Governor Carey O Wyoming and Governor ShaffrOth o CoIorado-will receive the riders il the 1912 tour of the Short Gras Kansas Motorcycle club, which leaves