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Sporting Ne.Us
Sporting Notes.

Jack coombs is Suited to pitch this
week in st. Louis.
Joe jackson still leads Ty Cobb in
batting, the marks being .39l and .3S5. +
Briggs, the former Bellows Falls
player. got two hits for New London
yesterday.
The Giants have taken the season 5
series from the Cubs for the first time
since 1905. The Cubs, whether strong
or weak, are always terrors for John
Metiraw 5 club.
The Chicago Nationals refused to
play if the Rutland Tri-State league
team pitched Wickware, coIored
twirler, yesterday at Schenectady 1t
would be tough to lose against a gen
temen of color.
\ "sun fly" into the territory OF
right fielder Bodic ct the Chicago team
Yesterday gave Walter johnson his
l4th straight victory. Luck is for
those with ability.
johnson and BoehIing have peen
4roomed especially for the Chicago
10 squeeze close to the Athletics He
figures Washington must clean up the
White Sox.
a recruit pitcher, Moseley, and Ga
| dv, Who since the world : series last
season has done little backstopping
| for the Red Sox. were the battery in
! a winning game against Detroit yes
| tcrday. Cadv is slated for q shift. it
| is said.
Since Williams, the IIighlanders re
cruit first basemau who created a sen
-ation in his first few games in the big
| league has smashed Il finger Knight,
who is worked at any old place in the
iutield and expected TO play the posi-
tion like a regular, is holding down
first.
Months ago it was predicted in this
column that neither Of last season 5
worlds series teams would compete in
that interesting series this fail. This
prediction is ROW revised to read:
= Oplv one OF the teams in last year :
series viii compete this fan in the
next world 5 series
Paddy" Green pitched d ono-hit
game for Mcrden against the Dublins
in an Inter City league yesterday NJ
Mcridcn. The lone hit was made with
two out ina the ninth and two strikes
on the batsman who chopped Il ball
sust over first base into short right
field. Green struck ont every man OF
the opposing team and rang mp in all
II Strikeouts.
If nothing happens John Henry viii
have the biggest year of his career in
the present season. Henry has caught
aS many games, if not more, than any
catcher in either Of the major leagues,
| ANA he is hv no means showing any
| signs of growing stale. For months
Henry has done all the catching in
/ games that Johnson has not pitched
and that program viii he continued
unless something happens which would
, force Ainsmith or Williams TO do his
work, Henry has prospered under the
strenuous duties he has had to per
! form and he is in better fettle now
than he has ever been before. 1t is
, questionable If, when all things are
| considered there IS a catcher in the
! league who compares with the former
> Amherst man Henry has developed
J | wonderfully in few years and i
: now believed to have as much judg
: mcnt in handling pitchers as any OF
. his brainy rivals-Wa shington Eve
: ming Star.
Wallace T. Johnson and r. Norri
: Williams, 81, won their way into th'
. semi-fnals round Of the all-comers
!. singles championship at Newport, /
. L.. Saturday, defeating J. r. Straeha'
: and w NJ Washburn, respectively
: in the sixth days play of the annua
; tournament Of the United States ma
: tiouaI lawn tennis association. John
: son defeated Strachan, 60, g
: g. Cd, and Williams eliminate
: WaShbnrn. G-1. ., 6-3, and j
: both eases the scores indicated clearl
: the superiority of the victors over tn
vanquishcd As a result Of these W
=. tories Williams plays Nat Niles an
johnson faces Champion Maurice |
: McI.oughlin today. The winners,
: turn, viii play for the national single
. Tuesday, weather permitting As tn
: field stands at present, Mclaughlin
: opposed to three eastern racquet star
. but after his wonderful demonstratlo
: Of tennis against Clothier he is a
? overwhelming favorite to win tt