The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-31
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bascbalrs contracts. And in the mean
while the Gilmore outfit is playing
baseball and saving wood.
Tho surprise OF both big leagues
is the success OF Buck Herzog and his
Reds. Tho collapse of tho Cincinnati
team. so confidently predicted by tho
Projectors at large, has not arrived.
and hero It is juno 1. with tho season
moro than q month and q half old.
Yesterday in Pittsburgh tho Reds wal.
loped the hide off Fred Clarke's men,
both morning and afternoon. HerzogH
pitching Is of tho best; his team is hit
ting and is runnig the bases with dar-
ing coupled with Judgment. That kind
OF team is no flash In the pan. and
any club that can take the measure
OF Pittsburgh as easily as Cincinnati
has done must be put down In tho
reckoning book
At the tag end OF tho year It 10
going to be tho Athletics and WASH
ington. Detroit may be up there fight
ing, but 1t is Mt best questionable
Like all youngsters those that Jon.
nings has are apt to slow up as tho
season advances Indeed. they have
already slowed up appreciably. Wash
ington Is going to be hard to beat, for
| that bunch doesn't believe that Il can
be licked. Even the young pitchers,
such as Englc. Shaw. BoehIing and
Ayers. are choclt full OF confidence
and have no moro fear OF tho Mack
men than they have OF tho lowly Maps
or tho equally lowly st Louis aggre-
cation. Such spirit can take a loe
of beating before 1t is down and out
Place II, Athletics nrst with tho Sen.
ators again runners-up and you'll como
pretty near to having It right
American built cars scored sorry
failure in tho 5o0-mile sweepstakes
at indianapolis yesterday. Just ono
American car finished inside tho money,
and Barney Oldncld. veteran of many
races, was tho lucky pilot OF the lucky
Stutz. Rene Thomas. who won tho
race. while unknown on this side OF
tho Atlantic. has won many valuable
prizes abroad He showed a wonder-
full burst of speed. and his record for
tho course will stand for somo years.
Franci. ouimet went to England
and was licked. Then he went over to
France and won handily over tho same
men before whom he bowed on tho
island. Fato was ever flcklo.
Cornell won well-deserved victory
In the intercollegiate games held al
Harvard yesterday. The Now Workers.
showed n far greater degree of pro-
paredness than any other college rep
resented, and the easo with which they
took the leading events speaks we'll
for tho course OF training pursued at
Ithaca
Wonder II all the clubs in the vlr-
ginia League have reduced to tho
quite n few yellow slips wcre found
beneath the supper plates last night
when the fellows got back home or 10
their hotels
There are wrestling matches and
wrestling matches. The climax should
come Tuesday night. when Roller
Zbyszko to win. though our sympathies
will all be with the doctor. He will
put UP n game fight. we know, but we
fear that II will be losing fight
Tho Pole Is too big and too strong for
tho lighter man, and his bigness and
what We predict will be tho fercest
wrestling match ever staged.
come from Richmond College to the
effect that Frank Dobson has been Sc.
cured as head Of athletics at that In
stitution for a period OF two years,
Dobson is the ideal coach. He has
the confidence and respect OF his men
and he knows what he IS teaching. In
a few weeks he will go to Harvard to
take up his last work before securing
his degree. When he returns he win
bo ready to give of his knowledge to
the greater school that he will be called
upon to lead in athletics.
Almost az cheering Is the positive
announcement that the Southern in.
tercollegiate games will be held In the
new stadium of the college. 1t will
be a fitting inaugural for tho now
athletic grounds. Athletes represents
ing every college in this section will
be here. and the selection OF Richmond
as the battle ground Is just recogni-
ton OF the newer and greater Rich-
nond, College.
Marriage Licenses.
Tho following marriage licenses were
Issued yesterday by Deputy Clerk William
Breeden in the Hastings Court: william
Henley Wade and Bonnie Caldwell Reamos,
Fred c. Williams and Lucille g. Pickett.
Eddie NJ. Burnett and AEiio McGhee.