Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-09
G FOR FUTURE, REGARDLESS OF RESULT OF
EAST SOON WILL START DRIVE
no RECOVER ONE OF 8 TITLES
WREN NCHED AWAY BY THE WEST
With Williams in the Singles ana Church and
Williams in the Doubles, Atlantlc coast Has
Fine Chance to Reclaim Crowns
pv CRANTLAND RICE

Wen, tueil :" the Judge said, CASING o"
Across the courtroomS Sohej
$50. ladv. you todnt your release
From this benighted boneE
ON ,chot grounds do you seek to Jump
The contract that you'vo signed"
Whcreut the lady countored qWch'
And hdrshly she optned;
CHORUS.
"vbsu this ouv came TO me he said ne hdd
q big league job;
He s,gors scribes had labeled him 'dnother
Turus COBB; - -,
Bat as a player he has shotun OUT one o'V"
There ai,vt a t. nobody rutn' tho, can drive him
from the plate
The yudoe looked on the bHOhted toretch
with murder IN his eye!
$50 potpre the old 500 Kid
From soup across to pier
This lady here gets her decree,
And for deeper hurt
/ sentence you SiT years to eat
Bread pudding for dessert"
How About the East?
VT1tTHIN the next two weeks or so the
w East begins its drive to try and re.
cover at least one championship which the
West has wrenched away. There are three
main championships in golf and tennis, the
open and the amateur championships IN
golf, the national championship In tennis
These three titles are all held In the West
the tennis title by Johnston, Californian
the two golf titles by Evans and Gardner.
eminent citizens of Cook County, Ill
The first drive by Eastern troopers comes
at Forest Hills. where the California con-
tIngent will be intrenched to meet the
charge of Norris williams, Karl Behr,
George Church and others.
And as the California contingent Will
have Mclaughlin, Johnston, Murray, Grif-
fin and aids In charge Of the main batteries,
the East can appreciate the task IL has to
regain the trophy which Johnston wrested
from Williams last year.
Two Records
This has been freak year In baseball
beyond all parallel And the freakiest
part, which doesn't mean the flukiest, has
been in the straight win recordmaking.
In the National League the record for
consecutive wins, II in row, was made
by tail.end club starting with percent
age Of .143. where every game was won on
alien sod
In the American League the record was
made by club deeply imbedded in seventh
place.
The Giants and the Browns are the lead
ing heroes mentioned In the most unusual
episode baseball has known for more than
a decade.
When n club at the bottom and one in
seventh place can smash the seasons mark
for consecutive victories and extend this
mark out to lengthy proportions the alb
normal elasticity of the Grandolddope fair
ly we'll can be appreciated.
Revised
"Leut By Leaf the roses Jdlp';
Hair by hair guy turns gray:
But three by three beyond recall
The tOounded Yankees fdde dtOdv.
Batting Eyes and Climate
The Batting Eye apparently reaches its
greatest efficiency when produced and nur-
tured In warmer climates.
AS proof of this statement we offer the
names Of iris Speaker, Of Texas; Ty Cobb,
OF Georgia; Dave Robertson, of Virginia,
and Joe Jackson, of South Carolina, the
only four In the major leagues who have
passed $50. How about Hans Wagner and
Nap Lajoie? Well. their ancestors must