Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-05
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frankie Burns will probably NEE
either Banty Lewis or Jimmy McVeigl
at the Eleventh Ward A. c. Tune Is.
Billy Gibson. of the Garden A. G.. in
tended to use Young Kurtz In one of the
three ten. bouts at his club Mon
day, but on account of Kurtz's bad eye,
received In his bout with Ernie Zanders,
ii was decided not to put on the New
arker for a couple of weeks.
Billy could make a whole lot worse
matches than one between Kurtz and
Johnny Howard.
Roger Salmon pitched his fourth game
Ms a member of the Wilmington Club. of
the Tri-State League, yesterday against
Altoona and won, Z to !. Rogers's excel
lent slab work was practically respoi-
sible for his teams victory. lie allowed
seven hits. all of which were well scat.
tered. lie famed fiye battcrs and al
lowed but two passes. lie had five
chances in the field and gobbled all per
fectly. BESIDES, he made a hit. Yestcr-
days victory makes his record TO date
read three wins and one defeat.
The law against betting at horse races
which passed the Louisiana Legislature
n couple Of years ago has all but killed
the sport in that State. Consequently,
a bill was recently introduced in the
Louisiana lower house to leave the ques-
ton of again permitting bets to be
made ut the races to a vote of the peo-
pie. The bill provides for a State racing
commission and the Paris mutual system
of betting.
Joan, 2:0iA. the pride of the famous
Shaw racing stable and the fastest
record mare now In active training, will
be retired from the turf and reserved
for breeding purposes unless her owner
changes his mind within the next few
days. Already arrangements have been
made to mate Joan with one of the most
highly touted Of the Younger sircs.
The reason Captain Shaw has praeti-
cally decided to withdraw loan from
active racing is because he has, in
Grace, 2;05h, a mare that he believes
will be able to hold her own with any
of the fast ones in training and be-
lieves that 1t would be foolishness to
keep both mares In training when 1t Is
possible to only start one In each race.
Manager McGraw, of the New York
nationals, Is ambitious for his team to
make n new record this year in the
number of games won. The record is
now held by tho Chicago Nationals, who
in 1906 won 116 games.
The Boston Nationals were the first
to win more than 100 championship
games when they captured 102 In 1892.
They repeated the trick with the same
number of wins in 1898. The Brooklyns
won 101 in 1898. and the Pittsburghs 1903
in 1902. The New York team had l06
victories in 1904 and t05 iu 1905. The
Chicago Cubs after their notwithstanding
performance in 1906, won 1917 in 1907 and
1914 In 1910. The Pittsburghs took ITO
games in 1909.
The Philadelphians are the only Amer
lean League champions to surpass the
century mark. They won 1O2 games In
1910 and 101 last year. The New York
Nationals finished their 1911 season with
80 victories.
Tom O'Rourke, the veteran prlzerfight
manag and manager of AL Palzer. the
white hope, admits that he and Palzer
aren't tho dear good friends they might
be. O'Rourke's contract with Palzer as