Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-30
Sporting :.
z.., !;ss Gossip

EDeyguhere


Bobby Wallace. ex-manager OF the
st. Louis Browns. may soon have &c
step down and out of the major
leagues. He has been a long time
with the majors-about seventeen
years-but he has evidently about Gut
lived his usefulness.
Manager Stovall intimates Wallace
may be let go to a minor league team
but the old veteran says he will never
20 back to the minors. The chief OBJ
lection to wallace is that his salary
il too high for the class of work that
he is able to do.
Ty Cobb, of the Detroit Tigers, mas
struck a fast pace, and this season
his batting average is the best ever
1872. Cobb's grand average since he
entered the American League IN lSVo
has been 1855 1-6. For Ave successive
seasc<s has his name graced the Top
Of American League averages, Cooo
seems to be- getting better every sea.
son. It begins to look as If he VIII
urpas all the records established
BY sue old masters of the bat as
pop Arson, Ed Delehanty Hans
Wagner and Larry Lajoie.
Billy Papke and Eddie McGoortY
will try conclusions in a ten-round
go at Kenosha, Wis, on Labor Day
David Bruce-Brown, twice winner
of the American grand prize, ana
prominent contender for first honors
In the recent French classics, is the
5rst star driver to file an entry in
the Elgin, Ill.,, road races to be run
August 3o-s1 by the Chicago Automo-
bile Club and the Elgin Road Race
Association. He probably will pilot
. high-powered foreign machine.
Two other drivers that have prom
ised to compete are Ralph milford
and Erwin Bergdoll. They are both
autoists of experience.
Hardin, secured from Providence, of
the International League, by Fort
Wayne, is leading the twirlers of the
Central League. The young HEAVIER
has an average of 1915, which, of
course, means that he has won almost
every game.
The Olympic Athletes are expected
to arrive in New York tomorrow
morning. Arrangements are under
way for a demonstration when the
ship docks at the foot of Twenty
first street, New York.
Another foreign fighter. has reached
our shores with the avowed inten-
ton of carrying off some American
scalps. Bill Bennett is his name, and
he halls from Dublin. He is the
lightweight champion of Ireland, and
looks as If he might make trouble
for someone in America. He says
his best fighting weight is 1913 pounds.
: Claiming to be the worlds cham
p4on hiker w. H. Chapman, a lusty
6s-year-old ranchman of Wyoming,
has reached New Orleans. Chapman
says he left Denver May 81, 1911,
with seven other contestants, went
to Chicago, thence along the Great
Lakes to the northeastern extremity
Of the United States, down the At
coast to Florida, and west
ward. to Mobile and New Orleans.
He says by doing this he has hiked
i2.64S miles. and also won a purse of
~, SIS. offered by the Stockmen's AS
recitation of Colorado.
Amateur athletics will soon lose
two of the best long distance run
ners who ever competed in organized
sport, according to a recent report
Stockholm. They are A. Koleh-
mainen. of Finland, who won the
1000 and 10, 000-metre events and the
c-ross-country race at the Olympic
games, and Jean Bouin, the French
man. Both men are soon to come
10 this country to compete against
professionals.
Kolehmainen was one of the heroes
1t Stockholm. Bouin is acknowledged
to be one of the greatest living cross
runners. He made a clean
sweep of c-ross-country runs in Eng
and France during the winter
anu SpilnS.
No n will blame Backstop Wells,
the Jersey City club, in the Inter-
national League, if he gets a bad
of the swell head. Big league
have been after him all sum-
mer, and now Jimmy Callahan, of
the Chicago White Sox, has paid
5000 for him. -Four years ago Wells,
then a kid of 10 years, received a
trial with the st. Louis Browns. Be
cause Of %greenness he failed to make
good. This year he has surprised
The fans of the International League
his great playing. Wells viii
to Chicago at the close of the
International League season.