Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-04

the one best bet in the league sweep.
stakes.
The team will soon be home for a
long stay and the opportunity to size
things up more thoroughly will be
available. The Tigers will come
trooping back to town next Sunday
and the feeling is general that they
will be in the lead. If so, and no
matter, anyway the fans are certain
to turn out in large numbers and give
the boys a tremendous welcome.
They have done well on the road and
their extended home stay should help
them add to their honors. President
Solomon. from all reports, is very
much pleased over the way the team
Is going, and if the Tigers should
come home in front there is no telling
how magnanimous he will be. For
ought we know, he may blow" the
boys to a latest style chapeau. 1t
would be just like the genial presi-
dent, and, besides, the bill could be
charged against profits and losses"
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Again John J. McGraw, of the
Giants, goes to Cincinnati, for help,
and again he returns with the goods,
apparently. After making deal with
the Reds that doesn't look as propi-
tious now as it did beforehand, Nc
Graw has purchased out-an-out the
once great infielder, Eddie Grant. This
new acquisition, for whom McGraw
will not say how much he paid, will
be used as utility infielder, the story
goes, but maybe he will be traded
over to the Boston Braves in dlcker
that may bring Bill Sweeney, the
crack second baseman, to the Giants.
Whatever the reason for Grant as a
Giant, the fact Is boldly apparent that
there is more than a friendly feeling
between the New York and the Gin
cinnati baseball clubs.
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So far, the dealings McGraw has
had with Cincinnati seem to be thor
oughly satisfactory to Redland Leor
Ames, the eX-Giant pitcher, is
twirling like a new champion and
has won both of the games in which
he has worked. Josh Devore, an
other former Giant, is playing the
game of his life, is hitting in the
neighborhood of 400 and made the
only and the winning run in the
contest against Brooklyn yesterday.
Heinie Groh is going great guns, and
all in all, the Reds are showing
signs of life for the first time this
season.
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Big talk of big trades in baseball
are going the rounds, but ever,
scrap of news in regard to the likeli-
hood of any changes in the various
teams under discussion is denied
with a positiveness that is suspicious
McGraw, of the Giants, and George
Stallings, of the Braves, are report
ed to have been dickering for an ex-
change of players. Both declare there
is not a word of truth in the rumors
We heard those same strenuous de
malls when the word leaked out tina
Hal Chase was to be traded, yet tt
those in the know, it was "open anC
shut" that Chase was almost a drui
on the baseball market. He was of
fered here and there, but nobod
for one thing, came high, and hi
methods, for another thing, We're no
alluring. A spoiled child from tn,
| very beginning of mis- New Yorl
career, prince Hal never got owe
| his baby days" He is still at hi
pranks and hasn't reported to Chi
cago yet, although he was supposed
to play in the game with the Whit
Sox at Boston yesterday.
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! But no matter what anybody says
McGraw, Stallings, Jake Stahl o
the Boston Red Sox, or Joe Tinker
of the Cincinnati Reds, big swaps ar
in the air and the purchase of Gran
| is almost sure to result in the cul
mination of another deal. Franz
! Chance, of the Yankees, is now GU
in the open, admitting he has a weal
team and declaring he is MAXIM
every effort to strengthen it, an
the fans are likely to see before YER
long some startling moves on tn
baseball checker board.
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AS anticipated, the estate of Luthe
McCarty, the dead fighter, ha
! dwindled from the sum of 100000, a
first reported, to about $4,000, whicl
is something like it, 1t could hardl
be believed that McCarty in his fey
short years in the arena could amas
| such an enormous sum as at frs
stated His big fights were few an
he wasn't any too well rewarded
His first money maker was the bou
in which he defeated AL Palzer an
he was well paid for his contest wit
Jim Flynn in Philadelphia and Fran
Moran in New York. His earning
on the stage were not as large a
are generally given out by the astut
press agent, and for McCarty to saw
even $4,000 shows that he was nc
the spendthrift reported. He left n
will and his belongings will go to hi
widow and his little daughter, who
not yet years old.
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OF Mccarty, it might have bee
! said that he came like the man {