The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-29

world, according to officers of the liner
| Chiyo Maru, which arrived recently
| in San Francisco from the orient. The
Sea Queen, Capt. Henry Voss, left
| Yokohama the middle of July and was
sighted by the Chiyo Maru several
hundred miles out
If the Boston Red Sox win the
| American league pennant this year,
| and it now looks as if they would,
their success will not be due to
fiashy run at some stage of the race,
but to a steady interminable grind.
| They started out well, and kept up
their hard pace, and today they're at
the head of the league. The Red Sox
| make up a finely balanced, practical
baseball machine. The team has been
gradually rounding into form for sew
eral years, and this season, it is fig
ured, is just about due"
Ted Meredith, the Mercerburg Acad-
envy youngster, who won the 400 and
| 500 meter races at the Olympic games,
says that he felt "all in" before he won
| the longer race. 'T was a mighty lucky
| fellow to get away with the S00-meter
| race" he recently declared, land I am
proud of that performance as can be-
| for the reason that beat Sheppard
and Braun, the best half -milers that
| ever ran.
| Promoter Tom McCarey, of Los An
| geles, is sure he will furnish a great
fight on Labor Day. Joe Rivers and
Joe Mandot will furnish the excite
ment, and the battle will last 20
rounds.
"Of all the fights held in Los An
geles none will beat this one for even
ly matched men," says McCarey.
Rivers and Mandot are finished box
ers. and they're sluggers to boot"
Boston will win the pennant," de-
clares Manager Davis Of the Cleveland
| Maps. Il thought a month ago the
Athletics would come strong, but my
| old clubs pitching staff failed to hold
up. Comics team will give the Red
| Sox a tussle the last few weeks. but
they're too far behind to have
| chance"
| A baseball college will be estab-
Iished somewhere in the south next
winter with a major league star at
the head of every department. Charlie
l.
| Tigers and now manager Of the Kan
sas City team in the American Asso-
| citation. will be the proprietor. He
| went to Detroit recently and got the
| backing Of President Navin on the
proposition, which is enough in itself
to make it a go. The idea is to elimi-
nate a large part Of the expense of the
spring training trips.
August 26 has been designated by
| the national baseball commission as
| the date of each year on which be-
| comes effective the prohibition Of the
sale or the release Of a player by a
minor league club to a major or minor
| league club within twenty days, or
| during the drafting period"
The national track and field cham
pionships of the amateur athletic
union of the United States will be held
again in Pittsburg this year. The
| dates set are Friday and Saturday,
September 20 and Fl.
|
| Henry Gehring, middleweight cham
| pion of the world, says Chris Jordan
| is the biggest buffer that ever hap
| pened, and he, Gehring, can prove 1t.
Jordon has been saying the champion
was afraid to meet him TIL wrestle
Jordan at any time OF place before
| the club offering the largest purse or
in private" says Gehring. but Jor-
| dan must post a side bet Of $1,000"
|
The Philadelphia Nationals have
purchased Pitcher Walter Manning
from Allentown for $4,000. Manning
was formerly with the New York
! Americans.
Reinforced concrete bats are coming
| Second growth ash and hickory are
| getting so scarce that it will become
| necessary to find some other material
for bats before long. Experts in the
use of concrete declare 1t has some
thing akin to the resiliency or
bounce" Of wood, that il will not
break even under the manipulation of
a Lajoie or a Crawford. They say,
should further bounce" be required,
| it is susceptible to the introduction OF
rubber into the bats composition.
Baseball players do not take very
| kindly tn the idea of giving I'D the old