Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-21

may be an entirely different breed of
warriors and they may be able to
hold their own when the going is the
hardest. In that event, and in that
event only, will they make 1t interest
ing for McGraw and his men.
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As far as popularity is concerned,
Stallings and his Braves are favored
for the championship. The Giants, at
best. are not popular. although New
Workers are proud of the team that
has won the pennant so often for
them. They like to talk about their
Giants" and boast of their prowess,
but the players, as whole. are not
very close to the citizens in their own
town, and they are not popular at all
on the outside. Any team that is
able to beat the Giants will meet with
high favor, and this occasion is the
greatest opportunity in Stallings's
life In beating the Giants Stallings
will have to go some. for Matty and
Marquard and Tesreau still have
their health and strength.
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Not only are the fans roofing for
Boston victory, but it seems to be
the belief that the Braves will have a
better chance to defeat the Philadel-
phia Athletics, sure American League
winners, than would the Giants. The
Athletics. it seems, have the Giants
number and feel certain that they
can beat them, while Boston would
come into the field a brand-new
proposition, and would keep the Ath-
letics guessing. That's the trend of
the conversation these days. and the
Braves viii have a big following if
they can only win the pennant
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Francis Ouimet is showing fine form
in the big open golf tourney at Chi
cago. He finished third in the first
days play with only three strokes
behind the leader. who is a profess
sional. Ouimet is the only amateur
to get in the first ten, Chick Evans of
Chicago, being twelfth, with $50, five
strokes back of Ouimet. Joe Mitchell,
the Upper Montclair pro, golfed well
and is fourth, one stroke behind
Ouimet, and Louis Teller, the
Frenchman, who is now at Canoe
Brook, is sixth, with 147. Mitchell
and Teller are the only two Jersey
golfers who are displaying any real
form.
Little Johnny Poe, who became IA
nous on the gridiron while at Prince
ton, is going to seek more glory on
foreign battlefields. where the war Of
the nations is now on. While at col
lege Poe was the star of the football
team. All recall that memorable day
of his memorable long run, which
brought victory to Princeton and de-
feat to hated rival Yale. Poe was
always a fighter and it is nothing
surprising among his friends that he
is going to war. The announcement
that Poe was going to war has
brought up some very interesting
"reminiscences of the Poe family. All
the boys went to Princeton and all
| figured more or less in Princeton
football history. In all there were
six of the Poes, Edgar Allan, John
son, Johnny, Nelson, Arthur and
Gresham, all sons of the late John
P Poe, attorney general for Mary
land. Edgar Allan Poe is now attor-
ney- general of Maryland, but Johnny
Is one of the fast vanishing race Of
true soldiers of fortune. who seek adj
venture for adventures sake. That is
the story told by one who knows the
Poe family well.
Johnny Poe is, like his father be-
! fore him and all of his brothers,
short, thick-set and abnormally quick
and strong. In the glad days, when
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