Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-19


unexpectedly good showing tina
there is no telling whether they re
ally mean it or are only throwing {
scare into the talent" As far al
Brooklyn is concerned, there appear!
to be considerable stability to the
team and it is possible that the Eb
bets clan will continue to show class
and win ball games. But we have
seen the Phillies up there before and
they have come back without caus.
ing much of sensation. Baseball
men seem to think that New YORK
has the most durable team and thai
McGraw will win out in the end
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Arthur Shafer is back with The
| Giants, repentant and sorry that he
ever left the ship. He was panned
to fare the-well when he jumped
! the team, and now that he is back
he is getting it in another way. Why
he quit the team seemed to be dark
secret at the time, but now the
story is said to be out About a
week ago, it seems, Captain Larry
Doyle upbraided Shafer for a bone
head play. There was a tilt, and
from all appearances the captain lost
"Who are you, anyway" asked
Doyle during the argument. Didn't
you come here under contract to play
third base?"
Yes, [ did," shafer replied with
much feeling, land if il had been
second base you wouldn't be here
now
Fisticuffs were threatened, but
other players interfered. Shafer then
the coast. But he is back and all
is forgiven. Even Doyle is happy.
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Detroit may not be doing herself
proud these days, but Ty Cobb, her
able statesman, is, as usual, right up
to the standard. Tyrus, back off the
| strike, is leading the American
League with an average of more than
400 tackled on to his name; and, too,
the same old gang is up among the
300 hitters. Joe Jackson and Iris
Speaker and Nap Lajoie all familiar
faces, are there, but a few good
ones of last year, including Chic
Gandel, of Washington, haven't got
into the charmed circle as yet. The
National League is about $3.50, with
Hans Wagner close to the leading
batter. Other stars in this circuit
seem to be holding their own, but in
the main, Cobb is showing the great
est stick-work and he will likely. as
in the past few years. be the leading
oatsman in the country when the
1913 season is over.
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With Jack Johnson in durance vile
and his prospects of freedom for a
while at least about as dubious as a
SNOWFALL in July. reign ut terror
is now going on in the white hope
ranks At least four aspirants for
championship honors are clamoring
title.
Each and every one declares in the
same positive manner that he is the
only person in the world worthy to
wear the crown. But the fighters will
have little to say about the title.
They can claim the championship and
be hanged, but the patrons of the
game will eventually select the boxer
most fitted for the honor.
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Just at present, Jess Willard seems
to bask in the sunlight. He is some
what of mystery, but he has done
good work in the ring. He has beaten
Luther McCarty, who is perhaps the
best man after all, and he has not
been defeated, at least lately, that
we know of. Gunboat Smith, by his
victory over Bombardier Wells, is en-
titled to consideration. and then there
is Tommy Burns, the former cham
pion, who promises to come back
but who hasn't much hope, and Jim
Flynn is still in the ring All seem
TO have passing claim on the cham
pionship. with, in my opinion, Nc
Carly much the best of the lot
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Poor Johnson, proud and full OF
fight three years ago, is now in d
very bad way. Physically he is out
of condition and could not prepare
himself properly for a real hard fight
Mentally he is downcast and under q
"all in" according to his own state.
ment. And this is to be the end of 6
champion-a champion who might
have been popular in a way, for he
possessed a most pleasing manner
but who decreed to live a wild
boisterous life-and vicious one be
sides. There is little sympathy fol
johnson, for Johnson had little re
gard for himself.
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coincidence is the mother of pros
perity," we are told, and If confidenc
and the lightweight championship
are akin at all, Bud Anderson, tn,
Western sensation, is likely to becom
the holder of the much-coveted It'll
In the fast-occurring future. Ander
son, in his own words, declares h
will be In possession of the crow
"in a hop, step and jump" Firs
of all, he has three very propitiou
matches in the making, and to reac
the championship goal he must need
be victorious in all of them. OF sue
accomplishment he makes sma
bones, although he will find the vas