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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-29
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IVNN SPORTINGNEwS& yRA
/ /ZgA% From Everywhere.
ILDON BY~cLUon
SIOUX TOOK LAST
Grover Was Right and Held
Sayages to Five Hits.
Bill BurWeH Pitched Good
Game Despite His Defeat.

- Bugs Grover, former Savage
Finger had his hour and forty-five
minutes of sweet satisfaction Friday
afternoon in the final game of the
Sioux City series. He won 3 to 2.
Not only did Bugs" turn on his
former teammates with a flash of his
oldtime stuff and make them eat out
of his hand for nine innings, but he
went as far as pitcher could go and
accomplished the ultimate when in the
seventh inning he delivered the safe
blow that scored the winning run.
The old hook, the slow ball and the
confidence that made His Bugship
one of the most formidable mound
artists in the league last season SEEM
ed to be his again Friday. From the
Z first inning to the last he was master
E of the situation, and only in the sec
ond inning when he permitted a sin
gle. a walk, a sacrifice and a double
was the home guard able to break
through to the scoreboard. Previous
thereto and forever thereafter he
ruled the situation without trouble.
One Other Weak Spot.
y Only at one other time did he allow
. the Savages to advance theft attack
+. as far as third base and then he pulled
out by tanning Goodwin and Engle
two of the best hitters facing him, and
made SchWeItZer foul out.
Burwell, the youngster from Good
land. pitched very creditabIe ball, al
lowing but eight scattered hits, and
the defeat cannot by any stretch of the
imagination be attributed to him. He
displayed stuff and a cool head and
= 1lelded his position to perfection, but
the Engleites did not hit behind him
and therefore he lost.
The ttrst Sioux run was made in the
openlng inning and was any thing but
+ legitimately earned. Gilmore beat out
an infield hit and went to second when
toss at first. Watson singled and
Il Papa" H3nchman famed Metz
walked and drew throw to second
trying to steal and kept Goodwin and
Agler chasing him with the ball un-
Ill after Gilmore had scored.
Our Only Scores.
With Engle and Schweitzer on the
Epaths and two out in the second. Allen
connected with n two-bagge- that
scored both. Then there was no more
scoring until the seventh when Gro
) yer drove il the winning run for the
Indians.
The Savages hit the ball hard in the
last few innings but the wonderful
fielding of Gilmore robbed them out
-of at least two hits and they went
edown 1928 from the fifth inning to
athe last.
When the Savages kicked on a put
out at second base in the last of the
sixth inning Eddie Monroe was or
dered &c the club house by Umpire
Carney and the one show of fight
mat the ErSle men made was njpped
in the bud
Tho victory gave the Indians three
et,ut Of four on the series and showed
-the locals up to anything but good ad-
vantage. However. with Des Moines
-tCr opposition for the next three DAYS
and doTbleheader Sunday, it is
hoped that a reversal Of form will be
shown.
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END PLAY TODAY
Finals of Mixed Doubles Sched-
uled This Afternoon.
Sixteen Year-Old Girl PhenOm
and Partner Defeated.

That tennis is on its feet and step
ping lively in Topeka is shown by the
interest that has been taken in the
first mixed doubles tourney, both as
to entries and the good sized galleries
thet attended the match. The CALLER
les have averaged better than $50 and
there has been general interest TAX
en- in the progress of the tourney
That tennis is commencing to rub
its eyes and sit up is due entirely to
the efforts of the Y. NJ. C. A. which
has promoted all of the tournaments
this year and has been consistently on
the job maintaining interest in the net
game.
Third and Semi Finals.
The third and semi-finals of the
tourney were completed Friday after
noon. Miss Lucille Smith, the young
Potwin phenom whose speedy game
has been a sensation, went down to
defeat with her partner Doctor Paine
in straight sets before the play of Don
Heath and Miss Bertha Kitchell. Miss
Smith and Doctor Paine were a little
off their game and their play was not
as good as the night before.
Bob Shoemaker and Miss Edna
Hopkins put out Frank Myers and
Miss Virginia Smith by score of 81,
6-3. The best match of the evening
was that between Charles NetteIs and
Weiskirch and Miss Elsie Cuthbert.
The match went three rounds before
Nettels and Miss Shakeshaft won out
All four played good tennis and the
margin of superiority was scant.
Today marks the finish of the
mixed doubles. At 4:3O Charles Net
tells and Miss Gwenn Shakeshaft will
play Don Heath and Miss Bertha
Kitchell. At 6 the winner will play
Bob Shoemaker and Miss Edna Hop
kInS.
Cup Not Here.
The cup emblematic of the mixed
doubles championship OF Topeka,
which has been given by Fullerton
Brothers, has not arrived yet bu. will
be On exhibition next week in the
show windows of the Fullerton Broth
ers before it is presented to the win
ners.
Following are Fridays results:
Don Heath, Miss Bertha Kitchen de-
feated DR.. Paine and Miss Lucille
Smith, Ga, 6-1; Charles Nettels and
Miss Gwenn Shakeshaft defeated
Armin Weiskirch and Miss Elsie Cuth
bert, rs, 3-6. So; Bob Shoemaker and
Miss Edna Hopkins defeated Frank
Myers and Miss Virginia Smith, 6-1,
6-3.
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SCOREBOARD FLASHES

Fridays hero Casey Stengel. Casey
went to bat n pinch hitter in the eighth
inning of the Robins Cardinal game and
damned out a triple with two on. He
then scored on a long fly and Daubert
came across a pair of hits putting the
game in the refrigerator.
Eddie Hahn, of Des Moines. was labelled
a has been In recent issue of Sporting
News. But he's pretty live dead one.
He only got three hits out of four times
at bat in the final game at st. Joe.
Eddie Rousch ran a mile and n yard to
make a flying catch of Hans Lokert's long
drive in the second inning. Hans just
couldn't believe the fly caught and ran
on around.
Bob Shawkey pitched a no-hit game for
seven innings, then let up a little but
cane home with the bacon.
Pitcher Dubue, of Detroit. gets credit
for three of the four Tiger wins over
Washington. He pitched a shut-out Fri
day. went into one game with the score
tied and into another with Jennings men
one run behind.
SILK O'Loughlir has won his battle with
the bands. Pan johnson forbidding music
while play is going on.
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JACK JOHNSON ON
FINANCIAL ROCKS.
CAN'T QUIT SPAIN

Madrid, Spain, July 29.-That only
the diamonds of his white wife stand
between Jack johnson and poverty is
the impression of Americans who have
observed the former champion pugi-
list in his desperate efforts to make
money in Spain.
Some months ago Johnson turned
up in Spain with his wife, an English
boxing trainer and a negro boxer and
took a suite of rooms at a palatial
hotel. He attempted to book passa ge
for Brazil, but learned that he was
not permitted to leave Spain without
a passport.
johnson went to Barcelona and
staged a prize fight between himself
and another negro. The 1000 John
son earned soon ran out and he is
trying to coax the promoters to stage
another affair. He told friends that
unless he can start a boxing school
here he will have hard shedding.
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BY HIS LONESOME
Engle Remains Only 800 Bat
ter on the Topeka Team.
Savages Are Again Leading
League in Club Fielding.

Although Manager E.ngle continues
to have the honor of being the only
Savage with batting per cent above
200. Cochran and Goodwin are press
ing closer to the mark, the latter be-
ing at the .299 mark in tais weeks
official averages and Goodwin being
at BIT. The Savages are again lead
ing the league in club fielding, having
stepped ahead of Sioux City by one
point.
Johnson, of Lincoln, has again
batted his way to the top of the hit
column and is leading the league this
week with an average of .349. Cakes
is second and Gilmore, the Sioux City
left fielder, has dropped to third place.
kelleher. of Denver, continues to lead
the league in total bases; Dyer holds
the, home run honors with 10: and
Watson, of Sioux City, is leading in
stolen bases with %. The averages
follow:
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BASEBALL TODAY.
Western League.

Western League.
Sioux City at ST. Joe. clear, 3:15
p. m.
Des Moines at Topeka, clear. 3:15
p. m.
Lincoln at Wichita, clear, 3:15 p. II.
Omaha at Denver. clear. 3:15 p. m.
National League.
St. Louis at Boston, cloudy 2. first
1880 p. m
Chicago at Philadelphia, clear. 9.
first 1880 p. m.
Pittsburg at New York, clear, 2
first 1:45 p. m.
Cincinnati at Blooklyn, clear, 2,
first 1880 p. m.
American League.
Philadelphia at Chicago, clear, 2,
first 1870 p. m.
Washington at Cleveland, clear, 3:t5
p. m.
Boston at Detroit clear, 3:15 p. m.
New York at st. Louis, clear, .,
first p. m.
American Association.
Minneapolis at Kansas City, clear
3:15 p. m.
Toledo at Columbus, clear, p. m.
Louisville at Indianapolis, clear
$3.50 p. m.
St. Paul at Milwaukee, clear, p. n
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A BIG SPORT EVENT
BERKSHIRE Hunters Will Try to Cap
ture Wild Cat Tonight.

Denver. July 29.-Attorney General
Farrar of Colorado has announced
gest sporting events ever held III the
Berkshires for tonight at Interlaken
farm, where hunters with packs of
dogs will attempt to take the wildcat
in Bishops wood which has been loot
ing his memories.
Hunters are coming to Lenox from
the widest parts of Berkshire, intent
on winning the $50 reward for the
killing of the cat. The hunters have
notified Mr.. Bishop their raccoon dogs
will track the cat and tree it and the
rest will be easy. Mr. Bishop will en-
terrain the hunters after the event.
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HOW OLD ROMAN
BROKE ISBELL OF
GRANDSTAND WAYS

Charley Comiskey. the White Sox
-owner. hates your grand stand play
ers. Whenever he sees a player in
lclined to pull any sort of fancy stuff
-he reproves him in firm way. When
Frank Isbell. now Des Moines man
ager. was in his prime Commy was
annoyed to see that Frank was stop
ping lots of fast ones with one mitt
and being too nifty for any use. IF 1
want a glove to play first" says Com
my, I'll go downtown and buy me a
glove. Frank. But we should use two
hands at stopping them at first and
not try to make the hard plays look
easy. What l want. Frank. is to see
you make the ensv ones look hard"
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SCOUTS. RUSHING WEST
Many Big League Clubs in Scramble
for Portland's First Baseman.

Many big League CluDS In Scramble
for Portland's First Baseman
Portland. Ore, July 2s- With
Louie Guisto as the principal magnet,
n whole flock of big league scouts arc
headed for Portland to give the sensa-
tional first oaseman the up and down.
Billy Sullivan of the Detroit Amer
leans is already on the job and Ira
Thomas of the Philadelphia Athletics
is within easy stages.
Judge McCreddie, owner of the
Portland club, has received word from
Owner Dunn of Cleveland not to sell
Guisto until Scout Barney Barnard has
had chance to look him over. Also
the same message came from Charley
Weeghman of the Chicago Cubs. who
will have Scout O'Hara here in few
days.
Billy Neill. who bought Dave Ban
croft from Portland for the Philadel-
phia Nationals, is now pussyfooting
for the PittsburG clup, which is look
ing for a first sacker to replace Doc
Johnston. The buccaneers are ex-
pected to bid high for the big Italian.
McCreddie has also been advised By
several other clubs that they will have
representatives here to scan Louie.
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A BIG RIFLE SHOOT
Topeka Club Stages Handicap Match
This Afternoon.

The Topeka Rifle club. a branch of
the National Rifle club association
is holding a big shoot at the state rifle
range at the reform school this after
noon. Shooting started at p. m.
Prizes will be given to the man
making the best scores during the aft
ernoon. inexperienced riflemen will
be given a handicap by the expert
shooters.
The shooting is all done with the
Crsg-Jorgenson army rifles and the
Springfield rifles.
There arc some very good marks
men in the club and some good scores
are expected to be registered at Wash
ingtor these scores are sent to the
war department.
The shooting Will be done at dis
lance of 500 yards. 500 yards and at
500 yards.
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cobb IS CLIMBING
Speaker Just 80 Points Ahead
of Georgia Peach Now.
Robertson Remains King Slug
ger of National League.

Chicago. I'LL, July 29.-While Dave
Robertson still holds the lead among
the National league batters and JSke
Daubert retains second place. this
weeks averages show changes in the
ermaining places among the leading
hitters. Carey. Pittsburg. is ahead in
stolen bases with 81; Flack, Chicago.
in sacrifice hits with 2S; Williams.
Chicago, in home runs, with 10; and IN
total bases, with 14S. and Burns. New
York, in runs scored with So. Gin
cinnati leads in club batting with .25f.
The leading batters who have played
in half or more of their teams games
Robertson, New York, $40; Dau-
bert. Brooklyn. 800; Wagner, Pitts
burg, .317; Chase, Cincinnati, .3I4;
Zimmerman, Chicago, 800; Hornshy.
ST. Louis, .306: Long. St. Louis. .3O6;
Hinchman, Pittsburg, .304; Wheat,
Brooklyn, 1903; Schultz, Chicago, .393;
Whitfield. Philadelphia, 303.
Leading pitchers for sixteen or moro
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ST. LOUIS REGATTA ON.

Southwestern Rowing Association
Starts Annual Races Today.
ST. Louis, Mo-, July 29.-The an
nual regatta of the Southwestern
Rowing association began at Creve
Occur lake, near here, today and will
continue through Sunday.
Five Junior events were on the pro-
gram today and six senior events are
scheduled for Sunday. The junior
events on the program are races in
pairs, doubles, tours, barges and
Fights. The senior events are similar
and in addition there is a singles race
for seniors.
Most of the clubs that have en-
tered crews for the regatta are from
ST. Louis and Chicago.
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Wreck of Athletics.

No team ever was wrecked more
completely than the 1914 champion
Athletics. When the great Mackian
machine swept through the American
league like a hurricane two seasons
ago, it was figured that Connie Mack
would keep that grand collection in
tact for many years.
But the Athletics of 1914-that al
most peerless team-has been scat
tered to the four winds in the two
brief seasons that have come and gone
since then. OF the twenty-four Roll
of Honor" men on the Athletic roster
in 1914 only seven are still in the reg
ular lineup.
Here are the names of the 1914
Athletics. together with the positions
they played in 1914 and also. on the
right hand side, is shown the present
whereabo of all the 1914 Philadel-
Dhia satellites
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WILSON'S GOLF ALIBI IS
BETTER Than MANY GOLFERS HAVE

fan. "for a team to make three triples,
a single and get two bases on balls in
one inning and then fail to score a
Not only is it possible but such an
incident actually happened back in
1892.
The Pirates were playing the Cubs
in Pittsburg. with Pittsburg at bat
The first three Pirates tripled. Two
died trying to stretch their drives to
homers. Then came the two passes,
filling the bases. The next batter
drove the ball along the third base
line. 1t hit the Pirate runner COM
ing in and he was out under the hit
by-batted-bal1" rule. The batter,
however, officially was credited with
a single.
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TITLE GOES To MONET
Kansas State Tennis Championship
Won by Oklahoma Player.

independence, Kan. July 29.-The
Kansas state tennis tournament closed
here with Eugene Monet, Norman,
Okla, winning the singles title over
Gordon Campbell of Little Rock. Ark.
So, GA, 6-1. The final round in
doubles was captured by Monet and
Kenneth Uhls of Kansas City from
Hammond and Motz of Parsons, Kan.
6-1, Ga. GO.
The tournament drew more than a
hundred players from Kansas, Mis-
souri, Okla hnTna and Arltansas
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Wilson's Unique Allbi.

President Woodrow Wilson's alibi
for his greatest golfing fault-lack of
full concentration on the drive-is
unique.
The chief executive candidly de-
clares that he learned the link game
during his early days as a university
professor-"when 1 was not SO suffi-
GENTLY equipped with funds as to al
ways afford the luxury of a caddie."
Upon the caddie-less golfer devolves
the task of watching where his drive
lands. To do this the golfer must look
up and out immediately after he fin
ished his swing This practice usu-
ally results in a driver keeping track
of his ball-but it ruins his game
Nowadays the president finds him.
self sufficiently wealthy to hire Il fleet
of caddies to look out for his drives
but despite this he still persists in as
sisting the lookout. He hasn't been
able to rid himself of the habit ac-
quired in his less prosperous days.
And golfing experts declare that the
little trick of the presidents has hurt
MS game to great extent, that it has
made him only an ordinary driver
whereas, under normal circumstances.
he should be a long, straight shoot
err
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FIRST AID TO UMPIRES
Spalding Issues Another Edition OF
Technical Rules of the Game.

Despite the intimate knowledge of
the rules that many players of base
ball possess, it is astonishing how
many intricate points arise III the
game that admit of seemingly contrary
interpretation.
In Spalding's "How to Umpire"
book, a reprint of which has just been
issued, number of "knotty prob
LENS are given that already have
been published in the Guide, with
others from various sources. These
questions and answers will not only
help smooth the way for many
harassed umpires but will also furnish
interesting reading, for numerous fol-
lowers of the game.
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PLAN ANOTHER RACE MEET.

Fall Card VIII Be Offered at IIaw-
thornc. Promoters Announce.
Chicago, July 29.-Horse racing fol-
lowers were optimistic here today
over future prospects for the staging
of the sport in Illinois as the thirteen
days racing meet at Hawthorne track
prepared to stage its last races for the
meet today.
Today was getaway day at the track
and officials of the Illinois Jockey
club declared that the success OF the
socalled "betless'' racing has encour-
aged them to hold another meet this
fall
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American League
In the American league, Cobb took
second place in batting, adding four
points to his average over that of last
week, while Jackson fell off. Speaker
still holds the lead. Weaver, Chicago.
took the lead in sacrifice hits with 81;
Cobb remained in front in stolen
bases. with SO, no gain over last week;
Bakers eight still is the topmost fig
ure in home runs: while Speaker
leads in total bases with 173 and in
runs scored with So. Detroit is ahead
in team hitting with .256.
Leading batters: Speaker, Cleve-
land, .391; Cobb, Detroit, 1851; Jack
son. Chicago, SAT; SEVERED, St.
Louis. .303; Burns, Detroit, .SO1; Sis
Ter, st. Louis, .291; Nunamaker, New
York, .2SS; Hoblitzel, Boston, .2S7;
Smith, Cleveland, .2S7; Shotton ST.
Louis, .2S6; High, New York, 1856.
Leading pitchers:
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American Association.

Aner1Can ASSOCintfOn,
Larry Chappelle, Columbus, main
tains his lead in theAmerican associa-
ton, though his average fell off IA
points. Thorpe, Milwaukee holds the
lead in base stealing with "a. Holland,
Minneapolis, and Bradley, Columbus,
in sacrifice hits with "a; Becker Kan
sas City, in home runs, with eight;
Demmitt, Columbus. In total bases
with 142; Dolan, Indianapolis, in runs
scored with SIS, and Indiana polls and
Kansas City are tied for the lead in
club batting with .264. Leading bat
terS:
Chappelle. Columbus, .33@; StovaIl
Toledo. 1924; Becker. Kansas City
1924; Bell, Milwaukee. .3I1; Smith,
st. Paul, .311; Daniels. Louisville,
.309; Cruise, St. Paul. .30S; Hard
grave, Kansas City. .305; Deal. KAN
sas City, .301; Evans. Toledo, .299.
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BY FRANK G. MENKE.

Over in Philadelphia, the fans
Join Patricius Moran in chanting:
'Ludy, where is your clubbing orb
Ludy why don't you hit?
Ludy, just swat that ball again
Then onward we will fit
The failure of Luderus to hit within
so points of his mark of a year ago
is one of the reasons assigned by Pat
Moran, ct al. for the comparatively
low percentage of the champions of
1915.
IF Ludy begins to smash 'em like
he did last summer. just watch US CO."
asserts Moran.
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FOOD FOR FANS
(BY GEORGE T.. PHAIR1
Copyright

Have Heart, John.
/ know you would not pick upon cripple
Nor black his eyes nor tread upon his
toes.
Why do you pick on Rollie Zeider's
nose?
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eve been wondering" said the medita-
tive fan, when one of the big lea que
clubs will scoop down and take this Good
win lad away from us. l hope they let
him stay until the end of the season any
way"
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Refuses $4,000 for Horse.

John Sanford recently refused an
offer of $50, 000-real money-for his
great horse Nassorian, which finished
third in the 1916 English Derby and
later won the $4,000 Princess of
Wales stakes. John E. Madden made
sNsN1
The Sanford horse is by William
the Third, out of Veneration II. bv
Galimule. He represents one strain
OF the greatest racing blood III the
world. Madden wants the horse for
breeding purposes.
Does This Get Pile?
rs 1t possible" asks a Joliet. Ill
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Goodwin undoubtedly Is going at big
league pace right now but the fact that
he did not find himself until after the
season was well under way Is more than
likely to handicap him in his climb up
wald
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| Freddie Welsh. having agreed to meet
| Charley White in n twenty round conflict
| all that is needed is a traction engine TO
| get him into the ring
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The complete reversal of form Goodwin
has shown in the last month Is bigger
mystery than the delayed sailing of the
Deutschland diver. Some argue that he
was unable to do his best under the man
agement of baltimore and that 1t took
manager like Engle to bring him out
Others contend that he is a natural born
keystoner and that he would have been
going great all along if he had been in his
natural position.
But the cause of his early season slump
and the conditions that converted him into
a star are immateridi- 1t is sufficient
that he is playing n great game in the field
and at bat now and that he is proving one
of the most valuable members of Enele's
squad.
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The Horrors of Baseball
III you chance to see cripple whose
anatomy is sore
He is not. perforce, n soldier who WAS
wounded in the war
He is not. perforce. a captain or a private
in the ranks
For the chances are that he is inst
member of the Yanks.