The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-27
NATIONAL LEAGUE RAG WINNER TO HAVE
 LOW PERCENTAGE
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troversy as to whether the use of the Mud Ball' should be allowed In the hurling repertoire of the far coast twlrl- CTS. According to those familiar with this form of delivery, 1t Is the most dan gerous pitch yet discovered to baffle the batsman. 1t Is easier to control than either the emery or spit ball and can be thrown with much greater velocity. Ow- ing to the speed and break of the ball it is said that this delivery endangers tho batter to an extent that makes ti imperative that the pitchers be prohibited from using 1t.
 Official returns made to the New York state boxing commission by the pro- motors of the Gibbons-McF'arland boxing contest credit 26,09S persons with paying admission 'to the arena to witness the bout The gross receipts were given as s5s,06s an average of trife more than s2 each. While the attendance figures are undoubtedly the largest for a bout of this type the receipts fall consider ably below the amount taken in at sew eral championship battles.
 The Johnson-Jeffries bout set a record in this respect when more than $270,000 was collected at the gates and New York fans have contributed amounts in ex- cess of S5S.000 on one occasion at least for the Jeffres-Sharkey battle brought more than s6s,ooo to the promoters. Cans and Nelson fighting at Goldfeld. New, attracted $69.000 gate and Corbett and Jeffries drew $63000 at San Francisco. The receipts of the Gibbons-McFarland bout stand as a record. however, when it Is considered that no title was at stake and the boxers met at an odd weight in a no-declsion contest of but 10 rounds.
 August was a month of extra inning baseball games The Chicago White Sox established a record of 89 innings in eight games, in three of which tho Wash- ington club figured as opponents. Evil dently peeved that they should be used for such record making purposes by the Chicago American leaguers tho Washing ton player proceeded to go the White Sox one better by continuing that extra ses- sion games at St. Louis and New York until they had amassed record of 102 innings in nine games.
 The coming Saturday will witness sew eral football games in the east with possibilities of upsets. Princeton will play Rutgers, and Coach Rush of the Tigers and Coach Sanford of Rutgers both realize that the game is hardly the early season training contest usually scheduled for the first week of October. Yale will have the University of Vir- ginia as an opponent and the southern CTS with the memory for that 2l to 0 defeat of year ago hope to slip over something in the way of a surprise, de- spite the fact that Yale this season ape pears to be much stronger than in 1914. Georgetown with an unusually heavy eleven is expected to give the Middies plenty of opposition at Annapolis.
 Recently compiled records show that Pop Geers, the veteran grand circuit driver, has won more than $1.000.000 in purses since he began to handle tho reins back in 1S90 The best season was in 1902. when he totaled t116370 Ty Cobb, Packy Mcfarland and other finan- cial stars of sport will have to keep going at top speed if they hope to equal the record made by the. wizard of the reins.