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The San Francisco call., 1913-09-13

Hhlladeiphld, When CamnitZ and
Byrne came to the Quakers for Do
Ian, which did not look like a very
fair balance, and il was further stiff
fened by Rixey and Chalmers sud-
denly recovering their form. II this
Improvement had occurred a month
ago the Phillies would have given the
Giants an awful battle for the flag.
AS it is, the race is no cinch.
The whole trouble came UP as sud-
denly as a squall. Two weeks ago
last Saturday the Pirates took a
double header from the Quakers, and
1t looked then as if Dooin's team was
through This double victory put the
Giants IL games In front, with less
than so remaining to be played. The
New York players began to look on
the rest of the race as romp, and
there was too much taking it for
granted. The result was that Phila-
delphia suddenly showed u big brace
while the New York players dropped
into the slump. which pretty nearly
cut this 12 game margin in half in
two weeks time.
McGraw began to ride the New York
club last week as only he can when
his team strikes a slump. The club
has fallen off badly in both batting
and fielding. Only a short time ago
there were Ave 800 hitters on the
team. Now there is not a single one
Demaree is the only pitcher who has
been showing consistent form for the
last month. Right here let me rise to
remark that without Demaree the
Giants would be lucky to be in the
pennant race at all this season at
this writing. After we had lost two
gameseto Boston last week, McGraw
ordered ell the players to listen to
him for instructions.
There will be morning batting
practice for everybody he began.
"and any player who Is not on hand
by 10 o'clock in the morning will find
his pay envelope 500 short. We're
going to win that pennant Aside
from any other reason, we could not
let Philadelphia beat us now, after
all the rows we have had in that town
this year
All the boys have been on hand
working ever since. The pitchers are
also taking better care of themselves
and Improving. Tesreau turned In a
good game the other day Marquard
has been in fair shape. and. after
couple of bad starts. I feel In better
condition myself. But I do not be-
lieve 1t will be any canter to the wire
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SEALS AND BEAVERS HAVE
GIVEN BASEBALL FANS
REAL THRILLS IN GAME
Present Series Has Resulted in Some of the
Best Ball Playing Seen on the Local Grounds
This Season and Seals Have Been Heroes
of the Interesting Struggle Up to Present Date
BY JOE MURPHY

The the Seals
of the best ball playing that has been the local
this In only of the FIVE
hadi and that the Oakland
last Tuesday morning when the Seals
easy victory.
All the other have been cking
doubt the The caiber OF ball
high standard the fielding of both being brilliant
have been playing exceedingly tight ball
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sionals would be allowed to particle
pate in the games. This the associa-
tion claims has not been lived up to
by the Rugb yunion
The men under suspension or black
listed follow:
Olympic club--Comstock. Han1ey,
Best. Sharpe, Kern, Won Mandershied,
Lunt. Stoltz. Ramage, 8. Forbes, Park
er. Cass. Arroll, Miller Mckenzie. Cor
bett, Noonan. Guerin, Skov, Haley.
Doran and Schwartz.
Barbarians-Check. Couch. Wors-
wick. Sherman. Perkins. Reimers. Co.
hen, Curry, Donald, Miller. Smith.
Slater. Lazar, NJ Forbes. Tohin, Nom
son. Upchurch. Harkins. Carlton. Le-
roux. Haines. Lopez, Reed. Livingston
and Gibson.
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vAEoouvER 0. PORTLAND /
CALIFORNIA LEAGUE
STOCKTON Z. SAN JOSE .
PLAYERS STAND PAT

Persistent reports that the Base
ball Players Fraternity was about to
become allied with the Federal league
David l.. Fultz. president of the fra
ternity, in which Fultz declares
that his organization would make no
alliance with any faction whatever in
the baseball world.
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1s RUNS IN 1877 INNINGS

During Pitcher Walter Johnson's
long run of IA successive victories
and including the game with Boston,
which interrupted the run, he pitched
127 innings, in which only Is runs
were made against him. and 80 hits
He had rs strikeouts and gave is bases
on balls. In 10 of the 15 games he
pitched the full nine innings or more
In one Of them he pitched 15 innings
in two. H. and in one. TO-
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Chappie Charles booted that game
away on him last Thursday after
noon he quickly realized that the
chain Is longer than he believed.
X X y
TTAPPY HOGAN Is one ball
magnate who manages to
mako his noise count. He is
always talking and hollering and
putting on a lot of 80 called fool
ish prattle. but incidentally. that
old ball club of his is generally
right UP there and lighting 1t out
for the one, two. three place. The
others say lot but they don't
come through with the action.
TIM GRIFFIN starts for New
II York on little jaunt about
the first of the week, and it is
likely that the Gotham promoters
will insist upon him as referee
for few of their bouts. Jim's
fame is known all over the coun-
try. but they never have seen him
in action in any of the eastern
rings. The red man ought to be
just as big hit back there as he
is in San Francisco, for none of
them know any more about the
game than he does.
x
DACKEY MCFARLAND has at
last got busy and is now en-
gagged in hurting challenges at
Willie Ritchie. Perhaps Packey
ho1 90 Il
finds that he is able to make 1875
pounds ringside, although all Of
those who know him we'll have
their serious doubts.
X
IT'S about time for some Of those
sbig league club managers to be
claiming the 1914 pennant. The
month of September is generally
the open season for baseball
bosses to put in their claims for
the following year. 1t does not
make any difference to them
whether they ever have had any
experience with pennants or not
Right now 1t certainly does look
as though the Giants and the Ath-
letics may repeat II Baker,
Mathewson. Bender, Collins, Mer-
kle and few others do not break
their legs.
X X
r EFT us hope that the invading
Yankee athletes make as
good in the land Of the kan
garoo as some of the old time
Australian fighters did in the land
of the stars and stripes. The fame
of Peter Jackson. Bob Fitzsim-
mons, Young Critic and George
Dawson still lives.
X X y
NOBODY seems to be chasing
VI Arthur Pelkey around the
country. offering him any
matches. even though he has al
ready styled himself the heavy
weight champion of all the world
Perhaps Arthur sprung that little
story up In Portland the other
day just to grab off some pub
licity. What he needs is good
press agent. Billy Nolan would
be the right sort of a chap for
the Canadian TO hook up with
now.
vl1HAT has happened to Fred
wv die Welsh since the little
setto up in Vancouver?
Where is he going to get off. and
what Is he going to do? Surely.
he ought to keep dogging the
footsteps of the champion, for,
goodness knows, he may never
get golden opportunity like this
again.
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for the Giants. as we expected two
weeks ago. The PhilIies won't crack
again, as they have twice before this
season. They have too many pitchers
| delivering regularly now. When all
the work was up to Seatoon and Alex
ander, these two had to be rested
every so often. and then the club in
dulged in slump. The team has
been hitting hard enough all year. II
1t had received consistent pitching. to
have kept it right up neck and neck
with the Giants.
Both clubs face practically the same
schedule to the finish of the race now.
Each swings through the west, and
the chances are that both clubs Will
have good trips. The PhIllies are
moving we'll at present, and it is UP
to the Giants to hold their own on
this road run. Whenever we have
been cornered before this, the New
York players have shown plenty of
fight The Giants close their season
with five games against Philadelphia.
to be played at the Polo grounds. If
the race should narrow down to
neck and neck finish, and all should
depend upon this final series | be-
lieve we would win in the drive The
Philltes are more Inclined to crack.
under pressure than the Giants. Then
Tire view 4 AVIh team mas MCCraW to
lead it, and he would be a great force
in a short series with everything de-
pending on It, He would show the
folks lot of baseball. Another thing
Is that the Giants have been able to
win majority of their games from
the Phillies on the Polo grounds ALI
this season. while the Quakers bava
had it on us at home This psvcho
logical element would enter into the
thing and have decided bearing on
the result of the Polo grounds series
The Philadelphia players would have
it in mind all the time. There is no
honest doubt In my mind that the
Giants will pull through. eventua1lv
but there may be battle yet before
we do IT..
The Athletics got pretty lucky
break on their season, too. Thev have
blown up almost as completely as the
Giants have in the last month hrt
Cleveland has obliged by blowing
too. Just the wearing out of PLANK
and Bender under the big strain was
responsible for the Philadelnbfu
slump. I tell you any team which
has been out In front there through
most of the race begins to feel the
strain of the finish about this time.
Neither the Giants nor the Athletics
are IHe representative teams of their
league at this writing. should say:
but they should both come back pretty
strong before the big games. Tha
interest will eventually center in the
Giants and Athletics. There Is no rea-
son why / should not continue my
series of comparisons So far we Navo
taken up the catckers. and Plank
Marquard. Bender. CoonbS. Tesrcn,I
and myself of the pitchers Coombs
is out OF 1t for good no1v. having
been forced to so back TO bes after
trying for nonth 10 Get Into sl.aps.
Before considering an. more Of thai
pitchers. LEI US have lock at the
first basemcn.
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AND ATHLETICS
H E PLAYED POOR BALL
WITHIN LAST MON TH
Mack's Men Are in Comparatively Safe Posi-
ton in the Pennant Race Because There Has
Been No Team to Press Them, While the
Giants Are Not Quite So Fortunately Situated,
By CHRISTY MATHEWSON
New York Giant Twrer Who Writing Series of Articles
for
for The Call.

y nd
PITTSBURG Pa, 12Both the Athletics
been playing ball within the month Connie Ma
club is comparatively safe position because there
other the American with class Athletics
they totterng
The Phe showing class right than they have all
The trip which both clubs making
one
Two factors have resulted in the Ph showing
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SUMMARY

stolen bases-Clemens. Moran. Five runs, 8
hits OF ATunseli In innings: runs & bifs m
Fruit in 2-3 innings; taken out with 2 men
out Gredlt victory to Pruitt; charge defeat
hits-Rohrer. Prutt. Struck out-gy Prultt
:, by Munsell 1. First base on called balls
on Pruitt B. OF Munsell g. of Williams |
Mha pitches -Pruitt, Munseil (2). Hit BY
pitched ball-Van Buren, and Moran by Pruitt
Double play-Munsel to Kenworthy Iyeft on
bases-Oakland 8. Sacramento T. Earned runr
-Oakland l. Time Of game-f hour and 80
minutes. Umpires-Held and Mccarthy.
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SUMMARY

Stolen bases--Maggart. Krueger Three bs So
hit-Page. Two base hits-Page. Litschi Sac
rihce hits-EIis. Brashear- First base on
Struck out-By Hardness A. by Gregory ..
Double plays-0 Rourke to Brashear TO Nc
DonneH. Moore unassisted: Kruger to Moore.
Wild pitch-Harkness. Hit by pitched ball
Maggart. Time Of game hours and 10 min
utes. umpires-Bush and Guthrie
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CHANCE AT CHESS TITLE

1t Is probable that DR. Z. Lasker,
worlds chess champion, and A. X.
Rubinstein. Russian champion, will be
soon matched TO play for the title as
they recently posted forfeits.
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HoNUs' BASKET BALL TEAM

Honus Wagner's Carnegie basket
ball team will hold franchise in the
West Pennsylvania league of Pitts
burg.
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F FOOTBALL TEAMS
ARE bLACKL|STED

| The full Olympic and Barbarian
football teams have been profession
allied by the registration COMMITTEES
of the Pacific association.
| The announcement was made last
night. after tn committee had met
and fully discussed the situation.
| While the Pacific association has no
jurisdiction over football. ii holds
sway over those members Of the team
who participate in sports under its
jurisdiction, and 1t is these men who
nave been professionalized. and the
balance OF the teams have been nlaced
on the blacklist. which will effectuaJ-
~ prevent any men who played in the
games last Saturday from obtaining
amateur registration in the future.
The trouble has been caused by the
two club teams using professional
coacnes and professional footballer
| In their teams.
The Pacific association claims that
Won Mandersheid. Glascock, Phinister
and Boulware of the Barbarian team
and Fletcher fthe Olympic club are
all professionals by virtue Of their
having coached teams and received
pay for their. services, while Rruz-
zone. 1t is claimed. has taken money
for playing with the Original Ameri-
can code football team
SIMILAR CAMPAIGN
A similar campaign was started
last year by the association, when 10
men were disqualified for a few
weeks. The men last year were reg
| istered athletes with the associat ton.
and they were given light sentence
q a tvio
head chopping will not be treated as
| lightly as last year, and it is possible
| that many of the men will be put out
| OF the amateur ranks for life Not
| only that, but those men who are not
registered with the association will
| find it impossible to get into the ranks
! OF the amateurs In the future if they
| so desire.
PROMINENT SUFFERERS
Many men prominent in varsity cir
cles are included in the suspended list.
| Bill Donald, graduate manager of the
| University of California, Is an inno-
cent sufferer by the head chopping
He filled In at a moments notice last
Saturday for the Barbarian second
| team. not realizing that he was play
| ing on the same team with profess
| sionals.
Louis Cass last years Stanford cap
| tain, Gene Kern. Stubby Stoltz. the
oxford Rhodes scholar. who has Just
returned: Captain Skov of the Olyn-
pics. Commissioner Haley of the same
team and many other well known men
| are on the list.
! The professionalization will not
! hurt the varsity or freshman teams
| that competed against the clubmen.
With one professional playing on
| team that professionalizes every man
playing on that team, but she opposi-
| tion teams are immune from punish-
ment. 1t Is a law of the a. A. Y. OF
| the United States that team of<sm-
! ateurs can compete against team
| OF professionals without losing their
amateur status.
The Pacific association claims that
| the California Rugby union has aot
kept faith with them on the question
| of playing coaches. Last year the
| then president of the Rugby union.
Milton Farmer, appeared before the
association at the time of the last
suspensions and stated that in the
| future a registration committee
| would be formed In the ranks OF the
| Rugby union. and that no profess
The San Francisco call., 1913-09-13
SUMMARY

Two base hit-0verall. Sacrifice ht--Krause
First base on called balls-0n Overall 3.
Struck out-By Overall s. by James Q. Hit
by pitched ball--Derriek. Double plays-Downs
TO Corhan to McArdle; McArdie to Downs;
Schmidt 10 McArdle. Stolen hase-Derrick
Passed ball-Schmdt. Earned run-San Fran
cisco 1. Left bases-Porfand 6. San Fran
cisco T. Time OF game hour and 35 min
utes Umpires-Finney and Phyle.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
NoRTHwEsTERN LEAGUE
AMERICAN LEAGUE

At Philadelphia II. III. e.
Chicago ..2OIO0O O20O--5 IL 1
Philadelphia % O 10000 OF o
Batterfes-Benz, Russell and Schalk,
EasterIy; Plank, Houck, Pennock and
Thomas.
washington 6, Cleveland
At Nashfngton-- II. III. e.
Cleveland 900 L o o 90 o OIL L
Washington ..OI03O10 @---6 IL 3
Bafteries-BIanding, James and
O'NciI; johnson and Ainsmith.
New York 10, ST. Louis
At New York II. II. f.
ST. Louis III 000100 B.
New York ...1O 0104O4 %--1O
Bntferies-BaumEard and meal
listers Caldwell and Sweeny.
Boston rs, Detroit
At BOSTON R. III. E.
Detroit % o o O0031- ) 13 L
Boston 2 500 0IO4 lis FL 3
Batterfes--Comstock, Grover. Lorenz
and Mckee; Leonard and Carrigan.
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AT SACRAMENTO
oakland 5. sacramento
Total. 4 527 4

shinn batted for Reitmeycr in the seventh.
Wolyerton batted for Munsell in the seventh.
IAYe.y batted for Williams In the ninth.
Young ran for Lively.
RUNS AND HITS BY INNINGS
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vi HAT has happened to Fred
wv die Welsh since the little

setto up in Vancouver?
Where is he going to get off. and
what Is he going to do? Surely.
he ought to keep dogging the
footsteps of the champion, for.
goodness knows. he may never
get golden opportunity like this
again.
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AT Los ANGELES

Total. 4 I % 10 o. Total :. 1 80
Byrnes out, hit by batted ball.
RUNS AND HITS BY INNINGS
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YESTERDAYS RESULTS
AT SAN FRANCISCO
San francisco /, Portland .

Total o "a o
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Page 6. September 10
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-23
.C0NGRESSMEN HAD
 NO ROW IN CAUCUS
Investigation of Story of Donogan and Ragsdale
 Brings True Facts
Members Had Debate But No Feeling Was Shown
 Donovan Lauds Glass
(By Our Staff Cores. )

Washington, Aug. Marlborough in vestfgation of the reported row be- tween Congressmen Donovan of Con necticut and Ragsdale of South Caro- lima in the Democratic caucus has shown that it originated, probably from sources hostile to Donovan, and with no foundation in fact. That the congressman were on the verge of a fist fight is scoffed at by the members of the caucus who say that they were not closer than 40 feet at any stage of the debate.
 There was a warm debate between the two members, but at no time did it partake of the nature of personal antago gonism. Donovan spoke for the administration features of the cur rency bill and Ragsda1e for the ''corn tasseP' faction which wants ware house receipts for national bank loans on demand of the agriculturists.
 MT. Donovan, when asked about the stories of the near fight said: .tWe cannot talk very well about some thing that did not happen. But if you want to write som ething, why not tell your readers that the currency discussion has brought another great man into the arena of American poli- tics-Mr. Carter Glass of Virginia His strength is his knowledge and he is surely a true Democrat. His views on the currency have stood the test of fire and the progressive conserva- tives have stood with him against the extremists who had some decidedly advanced ideas upon currency '1egisla- tion."
 MT. Glass whom MT. Donovan halls as conner is a newspaperman from Lynchburg, Va. He is the author of the Glass currency bill and for the best part of two weeks he has an- swered all kinds of questions about banking and money from over 250 Congressmen in his own party to say nothing of the questions propounded on the outside by Wall street interests and Republican standpatters Not once has he failed to answer and all through the long hours of caucus dis cussion he has held two-thirds or more of the Democrats to his way o1 thinking.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-23
BURGLARS TOOK NAP IN BED
 OF CLERGY MAN

Detectives today working upon a series of burglaries committed during the past week, are greatly handicap per in their efforts to locate the burglars by the apparent apathetic attitude of those robbed. It is assert ed by those engaged in the pursuit that lists of the stolen property are not being turned in as promised in one instance over a week having elapsed and no schedule or description of property received.
 It was learned that in the Rev. D. J. Nordling robbery at 1516 Park ave nue day before yesterday the burglars were so bold as to calmly go to bed in the house where they apparently slept during the night. Besides a handsome gold chain, gold heart with two opa1s, little of value was taken from that residence, though as in other eases the thieves. left behind hundreds of dollars worth of silver ware. Their search seems to have been for money only.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-23
''FRAUD AND FAKIR" ENDEARING TERMS
 APPLIED TO SULZER
Judicial Visitor to Bridge port So Refers to Clover
 nor of Empire State

Mortimer c. O'Brien, member of the New York State Assembly Judiciary Comimttee now investigating charges of bribery alleged to have been made by Governor Su1zer in his recent i'm peachment, as well as former associate of counsel for Harry K. Thaw, was in this city today.
 In an interview with a Farmer re- porter MT. O'Brien said the tnpeach- ment proceedings against Sulzer would be pushed to the limit.
 Tn my opinion, z said Assemblyman OfBrien. t+S1lzer is a fraud and a fa- kir''
 Tn the case of Harry Thaw, he said. 'In my opinion, Thaw will never be brought back He significantly pointed to his former association with Thaw counsel, and the fact that he was present when Justice Joseph Nor schauser, a supreme court judge in New York state signed the warrants to arrest Thaw and his associates who aided in the escape.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-23
Bankers Won't Fight
 Currency Legislation

Chicago, Aug. 23.-A policy of concilia- ton and cooperation has been adopted by the resolutions committee of the American Bankers Confer ence here which was called to crystalize objec- tions to currency legislation pending in Congress There will be no effort by the bankers to prevent currency legislation at the present session of Congress as advocated in resolutions offered by James B. Forgan of Chi cago. Instead. they will present a friendly criticism of. the administra- tton's bill with a willingness to com promise on those questions which are in debate.
 This was decided by the resolutions committee which took a recess at nid- night Tn assuming this attitude the committee followed the advice of George M. Reynolds of Chicago, who on Thursday conferred with Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-23
.HUERTA BACKDOWN
 CAUSES CHANGE IN
 WILSON'S MESSAGE

Washington, Aug. 23.-Foreign gov ernments some of which have recog- nized the Huerta government in Mex leo, are exerting such pressure upon Huerta to yield to the demands of the United States that developments may cause President Wilson to defer the reading of his message which Con- gress expected to hear on Tuesday.
 Admins tration officials took that view today Despatches from John Lind declared a more conciliatory dis position on the part of the Huerta, off, cia1s as a result of the Senate debate here Thursday in which President will son was almost unanimously endor sed in his efforts to bring about peace.
 President Wilson, meanwhile, practf- caI1y completed his message to Con- gress and read it over to Secretary Bryan late today.