Evening journal., 1916-07-19

fore fall, it's going to be a tough
> season on Kelly pool.
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Ball players may be absent-minded
and forget to touch a base. but they
never forget to touch the magnate.
Up TO the hour Of going to press the
Boston Red Sox seem 10 have carried
New England. with six States still TO
be heard from.
That Mt. Salem club doesn't need
a manager. Just now they need
pulmoter.
Although the days Of the Spanish
inquisition are over, the managership
of the Edge Moor club continues the
same.
stirlith says its so hot in Newport
that the hens out there lay hard
boiled eggs.
The Edenites are travelling fast but
so does a squirrel on a treadmill.
Some of those Middletown ball
players can't go to the Zoo without
the squirrels thinking of feeding
time.
Penlyn spotted the dorsal Finn Of
a shark that had gotten inland as far
as Middletown on Saturday and the
boys haven't recovered vet
Today the sport dopster is wear
ing a mask and breast protector
while on the inside job Harry
Bradford, Of whom many compli-
mentary things have been said in
this column, dropped in yesterday
with his fellow gangsters Mousley
and Pat Taggart and showed his ap-
probation Of us by slamming us in
the guzzler. II Brad and Grow Proud
are really training for a fight, we will
stick a piece Of cheese on top OF the
Water Tower and let 'em go to IL.
II was the hardest slam the sport
dopster ever inherited. and, believe
ms he has had some slamful career
since he got mixed up with Kid
Reeves. Mousley and Terry Carvin.
After all. they are Chinese fighters
yellow.
If there is a league in the country
that can mix 'em up any better than
this we would like TO meet the boss
guy: Rainey. Flood Forrest, Chase
Winters. Cole Glenn. Proud. Clay
Crooks, Coffin. Dunn.
Yesterdays hero: Wild Bill Dono-
van. When the Yankees dropped a
notch 10 their most dangerous rivals
and Nick Cullop fell unconscious with
a torn Hgament and Ray Caldwell
limped from the field witt
an injured knee cap. Bill pulled the
old Donovan smile that won't admit
defeat.
( Davy Robertson caught one on th'
nose at St Louis. which would b'
! going yet if there hadn't been fence
/ some 400 feet away. II was a rec
ord homer for the Mound City
, wallie Schang. the Athletics pluck,
catcher. crashed into the grandstan'
in pursuit OF a foul ny and fractures
his jaw and probably his skull.
over in Boston. Hank Severoid, o
the ST. Louis Browns collided witt
Babe Ruth at the plate and wa
knocked out while the last batter.
man to suffer was Jimmy Archer o
the Cubs. smashed a finger in stop
ping a foul tip.
The Dodgers opened up an eve
wider gap on the struggling Nationa
League field, when they were pre-
sented their game with Chicago 9 {
o. Joe Tinker started row whic
wound up in the game being forfeite
TO Brooklyn and the Cubs fine
$1,000
The Yankees. reeling under the las
two blows Of their ink. suceumbe
to the twirling of Willie Mitchell G
the Tigers, and let the Red and Whit
Sox creep closed TO the leadership.
Donovan's team must face tn
strong western clubs within a weel
minus their three best pitchers, thei
two hardest hitting infielders and 9
least one of their star outfelders
Playing better ball than they hay
displayed all season the world
champion Red Sox are climhin
steadily toward the top as they swim
past the halfway mark. while Detro
and Chicago are in a position to mal
/ things unpleasant for any club ahea
of them.