Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-07-15
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The Olympic games serve many
good purposes. but not the least OF
them is that they compel our friends
across the water to admit that
Americans can and do excel in at
east one field of endeavor. 1t must
aurt them to have to admit this, but
there seems to be no way around II;
he records can't be disputed. 1t
oeing impossible to disprove the
orowess of our athletes, our foreign
,ritics are accepting the situation as
PEACEFULLY as they can.
Thus leading English sport ex-
pert declares in a recent issue of the
London Times: ''The fact which
stands out prominently is the great
strength of the American team. II
s generally recognized to be by
sar the strongest, not merely IN
point of numbers, but also in all
round ability A finer lot of men
probably never got together"
Sounds like fine praise, and, of
course, it is. But this Englisnman
was trying to console lot of fei-
low Englishmen who saw the yam
KEGS getting five points to their one.
Had he termed the American poor
sticks" what term. then, would ap-
propriately describe the defeated
Britishers?
A twirler by the name of Douglas,
who is playing on the Des MONIES
tIa.) team, Is the sensation OF the
Western League this season he
bids fair to eclipse the great record
made by Buck O'Brien, the Boston
Red Sox finger in the western
League last year. Douglas will join
the Chicago White Sox when the
Western League season closes this
fall.
This boiling weather seems TO De
having very good erect on MT.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, of the De-
troit Tigers Until recently his work
was below his usual standard in
speed and daring. But the higher
the mercury has gone the faster Iy
has played, with the result that he
has furnished the American League
baseball spectators of late with
many high-class thrills. Ty is now
hitting a little over 400
WHY do so many of the best out
nelders in the big league hail from
the South? Cobb, of Detroit, and
jackson, of Cleveland, who are the
best hitters in the American League,
hall from Dixie. Iris Speaker, OF
Boston, who is some hitter as we'll
as outfielder. is a product of Texas.
Clyde Milan, who is ranked just be-
low these three men, comes from
Tennessee. There may be no major
league teons below the Mason and
Dixon line, but we notice that the
big leagues are, nevertheless, mighty
glad to draw material from that Sec
ton.
Johnny Kilbane. featherweight
champaion, says it's too hot to box
and willswait until fall. A New York
club made him an offer to box in New
York in August, but he declined with
thanks.
Brooklyn will have to worry along
for a time without Moran. the speedy
centrefielder. He twisted his ankle
sliding into second at Cincinnati.
Athletics is paying proposition at
Yale. The various teams cleared S15,-
ns4 for the athletic association during
the last year. The rowing and track
teams were losers as usual, the for
mer going behind $16,S10 and the lat
ter about $4,000. Baseball cost $780,
B11, 1t cost S45,751 to run the foot
hall team, and it earned $66,1s6. The
total receipts for the year were
s11s,147.
Football at Yale. as we'll as at
every other university, is the thing
That prevents a yearly deficit. Had it
not been for football at old Eli this
year there would have been a deficit
pf over S., 900 instead of good round
surplus.
Joe Jeannette and Jack johnson
have fought seven times, the bouts
varying from six to twenty rounds.
All the Western newspapers report
ing the Wolga st-Rivers fight agree
that the champion is losing his speed
and is not as good a man as when he
beat Battling Nelson.
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