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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-29

before the pennant was cinched. OF
the last ten games played in 1914 be-
tween the Athletics and Boston, the
Red Sox won nine, making it seem
that some clubs surely do have the
goat of other aggregations
In the National League the Boston
club has been an equally hard prob
lem for the st. Louis Cardinals to
solve. OF the last eleren games
played between the two teams the
Boston National Leaguers won nine,
lost one and tied one after twelve
innings of play. On the seasons play
the Boston club won sixteen from the
Cardinals and lost only five Three
times the Cardinals met the Braves
in crucial series. in which the win
ming of the majority of the games
would have made them strong pen
nant contenders. but each time the
one considers the small margin that
separated the Cardinals from first
place, it is easy to imagine what
merely an even break would have
ton.
Maps Easy for Washington.
For years the Washington club has
been thorn in the side of Cleve-.
land. Always when the Maps had
chance. Washington, regardless of the
strength of its club, would come along
and put Cleveland out of the running.
In 1908, when Cleveland lost the pen
nant by a half-game margin, Wash
ington, a team that finished seventh
in the race, was able to win fourteen
out of the twenty-five games played
between the two clubs. In 1913, when
the Maps were a strong contender.
Washington scored hfteen wins out ol
,rentv-two meetings 1t is easy to
azure what might have happened had
the Maps merely broke even in those hose
TWO campaigns At one stage. just
when Cleveland was in the thick OF
the fight. it came to washington io'
a flve-game series. ~,
Il suppose the Nationals Will pro
Good TO nut US out of the running,
now that we have a chance remarked
one of the Maps prior to the start VI
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Many Shifts for Shean.

This Dave Shean just mentioned was
used as a shuttlecock since first he was
heard of in base ball. Leaving Ford
ham College, he joined the Athletics.
who shifted him to Montreal and later
Phillies, who, in 1909, gave him to the
Braves, along with Louis Richie and
Buster Brown, for Johnny Bates and
Charley Starr In 1911 Chicago got him
in trade, as noted, and in 1912 sent him
to Louisville. He objected to becoming
a Colonel, and Boston again took him
in, and released him to Providence,
where he is still playing ball.
Lundgren dropped out of the game as
suddenly as he entered it, For eight
years he was valuable man for the
Cubs In May of 1909 he was released
to Brooklyn, which club Immediately
turned him over to Toronto.
Jake Stahl, who signs himself ]. Gar
land Stahl, in June, 1903, went direct
from school to the Boston American
catcher In 1904 Washington obtained
him and he was placed on first base.
In 1905 he was made manager OF the
Nationals. For two years he held the
Joe Cantillon. He quit the Washing
tons in 1907 and managed a team in
the Chicago City League: In 1908 he
began by playing with the New york
Americans, but during the season was
transferred to Boston, his original
team. With Boston he played first
base, and in 1912 and 1913 was manager
of the team. On account of a sore foot
he was compelled to relinquish his
position. and in July. 1913. was sue
ceeded by Bill Carrigan. who is still
at the head of the Red Sox. Stahl is
now assistant cashier in bank at
Coleridge, Neb.
Reulbach, after he became a Cub. in
1905, was not called upon to work until
the season was more than month old.
He pitched his first National League
game May IS. at New York. and the
Giants, with Leon Ames on the rubber,
shut him out, 4 to 0. 1t was the third
shut-out in succession for the Cubs
by the Giants. The Cubs got only two
hits of Ames. and the Giants only i've
off Reulbach, but the latter was wild,
which proved a big factor in settling
New York's total. John King caught
Reulbach, and Ames was caught by
Roger Bresnahan. The Giants were
then in first place, position they gain
ed April % and never lost it to the
an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-29

1t was Capt. George Mcbride of the Washington
Club doing the talking. We discussing
Walter Johnsons chances better his record OF
sixteen straight victories. The St Louis Club was
just finishing its fielding practice. 1t was sew
enth place aggregation, and looked none too for
midable, yet the Washington team feared the COM
ing meeting when " alter Johnson did the pitch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-29
BY JOHN H. GRUBER.

The University of Illinois has sent
forth number of ball players who be
came stars in the big leagues. one OF
them is Edward NJ. Reuibach, who
gained the distinction Of leading the
National League pitchers three years
in succession in the matter of per
centage of games won.- In 1906, 1870.
and 1903 he was the boss tWirler in the
parent base ball oreaniza ton. Among
other students who gained fame after
leaving the Illinois institution were
Carl Lundgren. Frank Pfetfer and Jake
Stahl All of them, except Stahl, were
at some time in their lives members of
the Chicago Cub team. This quartet.
without straining \ point. can be class
ed among the successful players of the
twentieth century, although Reulbach
is the only one still i'll action.
Reulbach was born December II, 1882,
in Detroit. However. nearly every
sketch of his life assigns him a
different birthplace. one claims he was
born in st. Louis. and another is posi-
tive that in 1905 he was the only Chi
cago-born player on the Cub team
While at the university he mixed his
studies with ball playing, and when
he joined the Sedalia team of the Mis-
souri, Valley League, hc played under
the name of Bob Lawson, very likely
to hide his identity and thus preserve
his amateur standing He was highly
recommended to Frank Selee, manager
of the Chicago National League team,
and became a Cub in 1905.
Lundgren was then already cub.
having been obtained by Selee in 1902
direct from the university. He no
doubt was responsible for the acqui-
sition by Chicago of Reulbach and
also Pfetfer, who joined the team with
Big Ed.
Pfeffer remained only one year with
Chicago In 1906 he, with Catcher
John O'NeiI, was traded to the Boston
National League club for Pat Moran.
He played three years with the Braves,
who sent him to Toronto in 1909. In
1910 he was back with the Cubs, who
got him from the Canadian city. In
1911, for the second time, he figured in
deal between Chicago and Boston.
he and Scotty Ingerton being traded
for Infielder Dave Shean. His stay at
Boston this time lasted only one sea-
son. In 1912 he dropped out of the
game, being Internationally released
by BOSTON
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BLACK.
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Browns Always Worry.

II is indeed strange how certain teams
appear TO have the goat" of other clubs
The st. Louis team, no matter how low
it was in the race. has always been able
to come to life and make trouble for
Walter Johnson. 1t was the Browns who
stopped Johnson, after he had gone sc 1-3
innings without allowing the opposition
run. Most any time he faces the
Mound City boys he is sure of battle.
The Boston Red SoX have always
been mighty troublesome for the Ath-
letics. If the six other teams in the
American League were as easy for
Boston as the Athletics, that team
would always be most dangerous
contender. Last season no club in the
American League was easier for Bos-
ton than Connie Mack's sterling aggre-
CATION. Near the close of the season
the Athletics were scheduled to play
a four-game series in Boston. At the
time the Philadelphia team had a
twelve game lead. No one would have
thought Macks boys felt any concern
over the series with Boston, since the
season had only about u month to run,
yet the Athletics were giving it lot
of consideration.
worked the series in Philadelphia,
| just prior to the coming clash i'll Bos-
| ton. Several times i heard the play
ers discussing the games on the bench.
Prior to one of the contests l heard
Ira Thomas remark:
Now all we need is to take two of
| these four games and we won't have
| to worry any more about Boston. Car
rigan is probably figuring on that
series to put his boys back in the run
| ming. He will try his best to take
| the series. Plank and Bressler have
! had a good rest, and our two left
| handlers ought to take a game apiece"
Boston Won Four Straight.
| That the Athletics had grounds for
| fearing the ,Bostonians was proved by
! the outcome of that four-game series.
The Red Sox took four straight games
| in most decisive fashion, threw a big
scare into the Mackmen and made
1 them fight almost to the very finish
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Crimson Eleven Teaches Many
Lessons by Its Attack
Against Yale.
OFFENSE is BEST FORM
OF DEFENSE DEVELOPED
Team Strong in That Respect Pre-
vents Opponent Keeping
the Ball.
BY WALTER CAMP.

In the game against Yale Harvard
opened the eyes of the foot ball public
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In the special twenty-one-yard event
George A. Emmons was first, with
seventeen broken saucerS to his credit
out of twenty-five, while Miles Taylor
got sixteen F. w. Ford won top hon
ors in the doubles, with sixteen broken
out of twenty-four.
The official scores:
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EVERY TEAM HAS A HOODOO;
ATHLETICS EASY FOR BOSTON
Bill Carrigans Team Would Have Had Easy
Sailing Last Season IF Other Clubs We're No
More Troublesome Than the Mackmen.
BY BILLY EVANS.

Ii Walter get through this without being
he is liable break the worlds record. I'm afraid this St
Louis bunch though for plenty
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Pitched Extra Innings.

Included in Reulbachs number of
eight victories in a row was one of
eighteen innings over the Cardinals at
st. Louis. 1t was played June "a, and
resulted in a score of TO in his favor.
The opposing pitcher was Jack Taylor.
This was the longest game in the Ma
tional League, barring one, which was
also of eighteen innings, since June p,
1902, when the Cubs beat the Pirates in
nineteen innings. to =. Strange to
say, Taylor also pitched that game, be-
ing opposed by Philippe.
Exactly two months after his feat at
st. Louis Reulbach pitched 4 game that
in length equaled the record in the Ma
tional League. At Philadelphia. Au-
gust "a, he defeated the Phillies in
twenty innings by a score of 2 to /,
pitching against Frank Sparks, both
twenty-inning contest of June 30. 1892,
at Cincinnati. when the Reds and the
Cubs battled for two score rounds with
out a decisive result. the score ending
in tie. Z to I. This record of TWEEN
ty fnings stood until July last, when
the Giants defeated the Pirates at Pitts
burgh in twenty-one innings by u score
of to l, Marquard and Adams being
the respective pitchers.
+, Reulbach remained nine years with
the Cubs. during which time they won
the National League championship four
times and the world championship
Twice II is II lact tiidt III All the Worid
championship games in which the Cubs
played Reulbach pitched only one full
game. In 1906 the Cubs took two games
from the White SoX, and Reulbach won
one of them. the score being 7 to l.
The American League team got only
one hit off him.
In 1909 Reulbach placed his name per-
manently among the star pitchers by
winning fourteen games in succession.
August 5, 1913, John Evers then be-
ing the manager of the Cubs, Reulbach
was traded to the Brooklyn club for
Pitcher William Stack and is still a
member of the team from the City of
Churches. Stack, in 1913, pitched only
three complete games for the Cubs, and
won all of them. He was with them
last year, and June 16 last made the
unique record of giving three bases on
balls and striking out three men in the
only inning he pitched. One hit was
made off him and this resulted in a run
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The entire Washington team was lots
more worried about the approaching
games than Johnson, the player most
concerned. While critics figured st.
Louis and New York would be easy for
Johnson, his teammates did not regard
the outcome in the same light. 1t was
this fear that caused Capt. Mcbride TO
express the hope that Johnson would be
able to go through the series with the
Browns without having his record spoiled.
Another thing that made the series all
the more critical was the fact that the
Washington team still had a good look
in for the pennant. and naturally the
players were anxious to take advantage
of every opportunity
No soft spots were picked for Johnson
in piling up his victories, or he would
never have been forced to face the stu
alton that confronted him in the game
OF August 26. In the seventh inning
with the score a tie. = to ., one down
and runners on first and second Johnson
was sent to the rescue of Tom Hughes.
A wild pitch moved the runners up a
base the next batter famed, and with
two strikes on him. Pete Compton came
through with a short single that scored
two runs, ultimately winning the game.
to 3. 1t was contended that the de-
feat should be charged TO Hughes, but
President Johnson ruled otherwise. Two
days later just to show there was no
fiuke about the other victory, st Louis
beat johnson to l in a game in which
he worked the entire route. The fears
of Capt. Mcbride, expressed prior to the
series, had been realized.
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Ed FORD ONCE AGAIN
LEADS 7RAPSHOOTERS

Four events featured the program
yesterday afternoon of the trapshoot-
ing tournament of the Analostan Gun
Club, held on the Eastern branch range
near Benning bridge. Twelve mem
bers participated in the singles targets
while nine shot in the spoon shoot.
E W. Ford won first prize in class A
of the spoon event. as he broke forty
seven targets out of fifty. Ford started
off with fifteen straight, and in the
second frame lost but one flyer out OF
fifteen, while he killed eighteen birds
out of twenty in the third event
Dr. j. C. Wynkoop was best in class
B. as he got forty-one out of fifty,
while w NJ. Willis and George A. En-
mons tied for honors in the G class
with thirty-six down. Willis Won the
shoot-off at fifteen targets, with thlr-
teen dead ones to his credit against
Emmons' ten Miles Taylor captured
first prize in class D. having shot TWEEN
ty nine pigeons out of fifty.
Dr. ]. c. Wynkoop also led in the
singles. as he killed eighty-one birds
out of 100. while DIR. f. 5. Ford finished
second with seventy-tive down. DR..
Wynkoop smashed twelve saucers in
each of the first two events and got
seventeen out of twenty in the third
frame DIR. Ford made a perfect score
of fifteen targets in the second event.
The scores:
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lnquisitive Fans.

Sporting Editor Star:
viii you please print in your pink
sporting sheet Sunday. November %,
1914, which is the faster, roller or ice
skates; also, if practicable. give the
records for 4 mile.
Thanking you IN advance. ] am,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-29

The fastest mile on ice skates was
made by Norval Baptic at Minneapolis.
January II, 1903. Time, EOS. with the
wind.
Rodney Peters of Pittsburgh holds
the roller skating record for a mile.
FAC 20
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Sporting Editor Sta:
Can you oblige me by printing IN
YOUR Sunday pink sheet the correct
winter addresses OF Kid Eiberfeld and
Tom Hughes? TOM A. SlkES.
Write Brooklyn ball club, National
League. with reference to Elberfeld
Tom Hughes is out in Los Angeles
Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly decide this question by answer
in the pink sporting page of The sun
day Star. a, b and C are playing
auction pitch. They agree on an order
of preference of high, low, jack and
game A needs two points to go out
and 3 needs one. c makes a bid, but
fails to make necessary points. A
makes two points-low and game. b
makes one point jack. Who wins the
game A or B" 5. L. H.
B goes out.
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REULBACH HAS EARNED PLACE
IN BASE BALLS HALL OF FAME
Leads National League Pitchers for Three
Years-Numbered Among Several Stars
From University of Illinois.

Harry Lumley. batting for Jones,
smashed the ball to the right field
fence. scoring two runs, all that were
needed to win. This victory kept the
brooklyns from dropping to the bot
tom Two days later they sank to last
place, where they remained to the close
OF the race. SO it came to pass that
Ruelbach. in his first efforts in the Ma
tlonal League, was beaten within
week by the champions and by the tail
enders of 1905.
Ills third game was at Philadelphia
May %. when he relieved Lundgren
after the first inning, and held the
Pnlliies TO no run in eight innings The
euns won by scoring five runs in the
hrst inning. the final score being . to
4. Frank Corridor and Frank Sparks
We're the Philadelphia pitchers
Five days later Ruelbach pitched his
fourth game and earned his first VIC
tory. 1t occurred in the morning of
Decoration day. Ruelbach. pitching
against Tom Walker. shut out the Reds
by score of / to 0. He allowed the
Reds only five hits. and the Cubs got
seven off Walker. John ONeil caught
Ruelbach, and George Schlei handled
the delivery of Walker, who broke into
fast company with the Athletics in
1902, was with Louisville in 1903, from
which team Cincinnati obtained him in
1904. and dropped out of the big ring
in 1908. 1t was the only game won by
the Cubs from the Reds in a series of
four.
1t is a singular fact that Reulbach's
first defeat, we'll as his first victory.
was shutout. The triumph over the
Reds was the beginning of grand
stretch of victories for Reulbach, which
drew upon him the eyes of the country
and made him one of the most con-
spicuous figures in the game. He sup
plemented his feat at Cincinnati by
shutting out the Pirates, to 0. in his
very next game, and did not then cease
winning until he had gathered a string
of eight victories in Succession. He
did not lost I game during the month
of June, but July his march was given
n check by the Pirates. who, with Dea-
con Philippe pitching, beat him at
Chicago, to >.
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PROBLEM By A. T.. STr ID.
BLACK.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-29

When Illinois defeated wisconsin, II
yave Illinois a clear title to the mid
lie west championship. while second
place must be given Minnesota for the
triumph over Chicago Lehigh gained
the victory this year over her old-time
rival. Lafayette. which was expected,
though Lafayette put up a game fight.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-08-07
Penns Grove Wharf Completed

The extensive Improvements to Penns
Grove wharf which has been under con-
struction for three months is completed.
Penns Grove now has the best wharf and
ferry service in New Jersey south of
Gloucester City, all owing to the ener
getic and business foresight of Capt.
Horace Wilson of Wilmington, who pur-
chased the New Jersey and Wilmington
Ferry three years ago.
Last year 200 feet of wharf Is feet
wide OH steel girders resting on concrete
buttments we're constructed extending
from the shore end which is filled in
between granite walls with cement tops,
for the distance of l75 feet.
The new extension this year is 43
feet wide and $50 feet long. An addi-
ton at the up-river % by 40 feet was
added, making the wharf 10 feet longer
and 80 feet wider at the end than former
ly. On the up-river end is a new freight
house 80 by 80 feet. The new ferry slip,
which can be lowered to suit the tides, is
IL by SO feet, strong and substantial.
10 the upper side an addition has been
| erected IL feet wide for foot passengers,
so the large and increasing automobile
traffic can have the 16-foot ~passageway.
That constructed this year is on pine
piiing. 1t is expected to enclose them in
concrete butments in the future.
The improved ferry service which
| Capt. Wilson has given is not only
great accommodation to Penns Grove farm
ers who now haul produce to Whining
ton market with their own teams, but
also to the thousands of auto travellers
from all over the nation who go to and
from Jerseys seashore.
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-08-07

About 1870 persons went OH the Sunday
School excursion to Willow Grove last
Tuesday.
Mayhem Dolbow has broken ground OH
Beach Avenue for a new house.
Isaac H. Bacon, of Salem, has an
nounced his candidacy for the Republi-
can nomination for sheriff.
Salem County Changers will. hold a
picnic at Riverview Beach, Pennsville,
on Wednesday August 18th.
The 500 increase in salary for increas-
ed BUSINESS, which began July /, was
given rural mail carrier John b.. Layton
and not postmaster, L. E. Hunt.
The first M. P. Church OF Wilmington.
had an excursion to Penns Grove Oh
Thursday. Many took dinner at Bethel
Harvest Home. More than 6OO took
dinner there.
One of the most brilliant electrical
storms prevailed last Monday night. The
lightning was vivid for some hours. No
rain fell at fenns Grove. The storm was
severe from the lower end of Salem couu-
ty to the sea shore.
The Bethlehem Steel Company have a
plant OH dupont land at Carney's Point
where steel shells of their manufacture
are filed with powder also sent there.
Several new men have been employed
there the past few weeks Foreign wars
promise to make more business.
Belford G. Wood and party had a mar
row escape last Sunday night at 10
O'Clock when his automobile was turned
over by a road scorcher who took the
wrong side above Penns Grove and never
stopped to see the damage done. The
top of the automobile was broken and
the occupants escaped with several bruis-
es not serious. The others were Mrs.
Wood, Misses Lottie Sparks, Lizzie Mum
yam and Arthur Bowen.
George Strengthen began digging sweet
potatoes August 9th. The crop was nice,
the variety pink and the fertilizer used
was Scott's. adv. 81, 3m
The Penn's Grove record., 1914-08-07
A Home Wedding.

A quiet wedding took place last Friday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John C.
Simkins when their daughter Eleanor
L. and Mr.. Virgil Wiley, OF Trenton, were
united in wedlock, by his grand father,
Rev. }. E. Wiley, of Trenton. His parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Wiley also the
brothers and sisters OF the bride and groom
comprised the company who witnessed
the ceremony.
After dinner Mr.. and Mrs. Wiley left
in his automobile for Atlantic City. When
near Walnut Grove school in Upper Pitts
grove, where she taught in 1907, the au-
tomobile broke down. Her friends took
them in and they had a j~ollier time than
if they had reached their destination.
After a few days at Atlantic City they
will 90 10 their furnished lhome in
Trenton.
Rev. j. E. Wiley was pastor of the
Emmanuel Church in 1867, when Vir-
gil a lad visited his grand father and met
his future wife. OF recent years she
taught school in Trenton.