New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-24
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT
Nh Division of Grandstand for
the Saratoga Meeting.
TIT FOR TAT IN BASEBALL
One Washington Man Thinks
Senators Sure to Play in
Worlds Series.

The Saratoga Racing Association will
not follow the lead at Belmont Park and
Iorsica i'm closing up the field stands and
s,,iding off the main inclosure with a
,-ire fence so that those who wish To see
GOOD days racing at a cost not to on
coed 81 can be accommodated.
Andrew Miller said yesterday that the
ssme conditions would obtain at sara
,,os SPRINGS for the midsummer meet
ing in August as OF old. pointing out that
me same problems did not confront the
association up the state as in the metro
potan district
For one thing. the grandstand is not
so commodous and the space could i'll he
sna-e6. while the old free field" So
called. was never overrun as so often
times was the case here. and simply
served as a place FOR those who did not
care 10 pay the regular price of admis-
sion to the main inclosure.
August Belmont. chairman of the Jock
~ club. received word yesterday from mis-
Nursery stud, in Kentucky. that Teas
over. dam Of the speedy Ort Wells. which
held the worlds record for one mile sew
sral years ago. had dropped a chestnut
colt by Rock sand on Monday The mes
sage added that the colt was sturdy
little fellow. with all the earmarks Of a
great horse.
The weights for the Galloway Handicap
and the steeplechase for the Cedarhurst
Two Of
the Rockaway Hunting Club at Hewlett.
Long Island. on Saturday. were an
nounced yesterday as follows:
Galloway Handicap. about five furlongs.
Jack Cade. 49, Pete. 1H; Live Wire,
lg; Petits Chevaux. l55; The Thief. $50;
Buttons. 40. and Undertook, 1l2.
The Cedarhurst Cup. steeplechase:
about two miles-Country Guy. 15S; Prac-
teal, AS: Gautemotzin. 13s; The Elephant,
rs; Faultless. 155: Hampton Roads, 1l5,
and Adventures. 136.
On Tuesday the Pirates beat the -.
Louis Cardinals by a score OF l 10 or
only two hits off Permits delivery. and,
Just TO even things up, the Cardinals
turned the tables yesterday, beating the
Pirates by a score of 8 10 l on only two
hits off Hendricks delivery.
Giants won, Yankees won. Superbas
won Surely April % was day of re-
joicing for the fans"
The National Baseball Commission re-
versed a finding of the national board on
an appeal by the Indianapolis club from
the decision OF the latter body yesterday
disalowing it's claim against Omar Hard
grove for money advanced 10 him.
The commission found that Hardgrove
owed the indianapolis club Sl56 66, but also
found his counter claim for a weeks
salary 10 be valid. AMI instructed the BIZ
mincham club. Of which he is now men,
Der to withhold the difference, 1914 SO, and
forward it to the indianapolis club.
Amos Strunk. the fast outflelder OF the
Philadelphia Athletics. who sprained his
ankle in a game with the Red Sox on
Tuesday. probably will be off the diamond
for month. Strunk had been playing
the best ba of his career and his alb
sence will y FELT. Pete Daley the widely
heralded re,ru;t from the Coast Is ming
IN at strunk's place.
Firmly believing that the Washington
club will win the American League pen
nant. and anticipating an Overwhelming
demand for tickets 10 see the "orlo
championship games. Paul G. Brock
resident OF the capital, has sent cheek
10 Garry Hermann, chairman Of the Ma
tional Commission, at Cincinnati with
the request that two tickets be reserved
to- him Surely some fans" are bugs"
The BOSTON Braves played like the best
team IN the world on April 10, when they
hunbled the Giants and spoiled the open
ing dav for New York. Since then they
have nor won a game Such IS baseball
Word comes from Pittsburgh that 1lo-
sons injury is more serious than thousht
a. fret and that the clever catcher or the
Pirates Will be out OF the game Tor
month. II is said that a small bone IN MS
ankle is broken.
An injury 20 Captain Thorsen. or the
Northwestern University four-mile relay
team. which is entered in the PennsyIVa-
MA relay carnival in Philadelphia on sat
urday, may prevent that university peihs
represented. He stepped on spiked shoe
and will be unable 10 run for two or three
weeks.