Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-25

Roger Salmon, the local pitcher, now
with the Wilmington Tri-State League
Club, came back" yesterday and
trimmed the York team, IL to l. II was
the third game Roger had pitched for the
Hilniingtons, having taken the first by a
shut-out, 10 to 0, losing the second and
winning yesterdays by an overwhelming
score.
He allowed the PennsylVanians but
four scattered hits and flannel -four bat
tors, besides accepting three chances in
the field perfectly.
snlmon's delivery yesterday had the
York batters puzzled all the way, and he
would have scored a shut-out bad not
Catcher Kerr left the home plate I'M
covered to go after a ball thrown wild to
first base. 1t was Rogers second four
hit game.
That Princeton meet Is on this AFTER
noon. The best New Jersey schools. high
md prep, will compete for honors In the
fourteen events carded.
Harry T~rendaii, St Louis ~favorite
pugilist, wants to fight AID Wolgast and
COP the welterweight championship. Il
expeot to arrange a match with VOL
enst after the champion has finished
with Joe Rivers July T." Trendal1 said
recently. ~ think I can beat the title
holder In a twenty-ive-round contest
900
Jack McDermott, American golf cham
rion. has gone to England. where on
June q. %, "a and Is he will contest
with our British cousins for the open
championship of Great Britain. The Brit
fishers are said to be frightened over
The possibility of the American carry
ing away the honors.
600
Charley White, of Chicago, whose
real name by the way isn't White at
all. but Anchowitz, is a membe of a
Hebt1ng family which is making pugil-
istic history. His brother Jack recent
" stacked up against that doughty lit
lie Mexican. Joe Rivers, and received
the most humiliating setback OF his
career. Then there is another brother
who is some shucks in the game. That
Ia Biilv. who fights under the name of
Pnly Wagner.
Charley likes to fight and admits IL.
fIe also likes fighters. That's why he
snys he is going to vote for the colonel
when he casts his first ballot next fall.
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We respectfully suggest to Ban john
son that he make n trip over to Syria
himself next winter. when he isn't
busy at anything else. He might dig
M a tablet that would tell him how
the ancient SYRIAN baseball presidents
made honorable peace with belllcose
baseball players when he latter went
on strike.
lin Flynn Is said to be very confident
that he'll beat Jack johnson on July
4. II he is, he's probably the only mar
that's up on the fight game who clings
10 that opinion. Johnson has no equal
IS a ring general. He's cool and crafty.
TTe feints and sidesteps TO perfection.
Hs has an awful punch. And besides he
las a big advantage Owe Flynn both
In height and in weight.
-OCO-
y n player who gets little press
notice this Fitzpatrick is n clever boy.
Hes been with Toronto a long time
and has generally been utility man.
hut he's always there when called
npon, and he is n dangerous man with
the stick. He played great ball at short
Yesterday. q.
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Somehow the Tigers nearly always
put one or two over In the ninth. 1t
shows the spirit is there.
900
Young Kurtz will meet Joe Stein, of
new York, In the star bout of ten
rounds at Browns next Tuesday night.
900
The first man to play a deep first
ease was Charley Comiskey, when he
was leading his st. Louis Browns to
four remnants In the old American
Association of the SOS. Commy was
the original discoverer of the fact that
the first baseman could help his team
on the dnfense In some other way than
simply by handling the easiest kind of
throws. He saw the possibilities of
pround covering on that side of the in