Evening journal., 1913-08-27
Day Plans CompeC Need Game Win PennanSpor
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip.

DnOEDHEE l.
Diamond News and Gossip.
Another one to win
The Chicks goat goes to Allentown
In The closing days.
Yorks defeat means their finish.
Should they drop another one It will
be day day.
Three games are on the Chicks
schedule before pennant raising day,
Saturday. The necessary victory
ought to be up before that time.
Everything is in readiness for
Boosters Day. The fireworks go off
tonight and the echo will be heard
at the ball park tomorrow. Bert
Conn's Tigers will be the meat.
The Chicks come back stuff again
failed. Extra base wallops put the
boys IN bad.
Danny Tobin tried hard 20 cinch.
In the fifth lining while the sacks
we're crowded he walked Cannell,
then breezed Taylor.
Harry Fritz put the first one over
IN the hrst round for three bases.
Jimmy jackson made a splendid
catch of Girard's fly.
While the gloom was heaviest in
the sixth. Tony Marhefka came
across with a phenomenal stop that
brought cheer.
The crack Of bats in the Inter
national League yesterday might
have been heard throughout the
country had anyone stopped to listen.
Although three games were played,
the teams scored more runs than
we're tailed in both the American
and National Leagues The total was
sixty-seven runs-fifty for the win
ners and seventeen for the losers.
Buffalo topped the list, scoring
twenty runs against Baltimore.
Chief Johnson. of Cincinnati, pro-
badly thinks he picked up Leon
Ames jinx agains the Giants. He held
New York to two hits. against eight
allowed by Mathewson and then lost
his game. Merkle tripled and scored
the Giants only run on sacrifice
/ fly.
Dode Paskert jumped into the
Philly-Cardinal game in time to hush
his team mates moving out on the
long end of the score. Batting for
Luderus in the eighth Paskert hit a
/ homer and broke up the game in the
ninth with double. scoring two
runs.
| Babe Adams was at his best and
: held the Boston Braves to three hits
Having been told that he was fred
Monday. Pitcher Walker of Brooklyn,
worked against the Cubs for FIVE in
nings, allowing but one hit and strik-
ing out seven. He may get his job
back.
With the shut-out handed them by
the Maps yesterday. the Yankees
scored but two runs in q innings in
Cleveland.
Mr. Linn scroggins. a recruit pitch
er, was introduced by the White Sox.
but was very much in doubt as TO the
location of the plate on big league
ball fields. Cicotte relieved him, but
the game had flown.
Hughey Jennings also trotted out
a new one I'm Comstock, a $4,000
article and Detroit lost Comstock
struck out eight men. however.
The Athletics made a clean sweap
of the ST. Louis series. Brown kept
seven hits well scattered through the
game and shut stovall's men out.
Josh" Billings. catcher for the
Quincy Three-l Club. received in
strucuons from the Cleveland Ameri-
Ican League Club management 10 re-
port at Detroit, on September g. Bill
lings, who belonged TO Topeka, in the
Western League, was recently sold TO
Omaha and goes to Cleveland from
that city
Pitcher George Davis, Of the Ro-
chester. n. Y. team. of the Interna-
ltional League. has been purchased by
the Boston Nationals. Davis formerly
WAS with the New York Americans
and was also for time on the pitch
ing stan Of the Jersey City team, OF
the International League.
William McCabe, one OF the fastest
lsemi-professional players in Chicago
has been signed by the Washington
Americans. McCabe is at home on
/ second third and shortstop. He is %
years old
In addition TO securing new players
70 bolster up his team and keep tn,
Phillies I'm second place in tbs
! championship race. Manager DOOR
! has already started his plans fol
j Strengthening the club for next sea
I son. Yesterday he went 10 New Yorl
/. and closed a deal with the owners
of the Montreal Club. Of the Inter
! national League, for Catcher Burns.
Having given Walter johnson a bis
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