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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-05

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-05

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-05

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-05

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-05

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-05

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-05

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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-04-05
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New Britain herald., 1916-09-02

no question as to "Who's Who in Lo- cal PooldOm."
 The games will be of fifty points, with all players starting from scratch. When a player is defeated he drops out of the tournament. The contest ing players on the opening night will be decided by drawing lots from hat. Two matches will be played every week, on Tuesday and Saturday evenings.
 The following players will partici- pate in the coming tournament: Thomas Crean, regarded as one of the cleVerest cue manipulatOrs in the city, 'Tommy' has represented the Tabs and other teams at various times, and has been noted for his cOOlness and ability to control the cue ball. Andrew Basso, another of the Lafayette street society's artists, is among the en- tries.
 SOuthington Is but a small hamlet but it has given to sportdom some noted athletes, notably a local physi- clan whose fame as a "baH player" tennis star and an espirant for golf honors, is well known. But on the green baized table George Hallaby reigned supreme in that "burg' for many years. When 'Jim' Rooney, Mat" Horan, Walter Johnson and Frank Dee were at their best, Hallaby was able to put across victory after victory over the three above players, which speaks for itself.
 Coming down across the railroad track some of the local cracks can be found every evening displaying their wares in the Elmore billiard rooms in Lees block. Among the best of these players is "Puss'' Cronin, who has sent in his entry to the coming tour ney
 Marty Walsh, jr., has acquired the reputation of doing his best to win 5 in everything he enters, being one Of the crack baseball players in the city, besides boasting of some "rep'' as a pool player. There is enc thing cer- tain, that if efforts count for any thing, "Marty" will be up there among the money getters at the close of the tourney.
 Back in the halcyon days of Walter 1 Johnson, former state champion, l little fellow who was hardly able to | each the top of the table but filled with determination to master the game of pool, began to learn under l the tutelage Of Mr. Johnson, and as a l result he is today considered one of the stars of the city. This fellow is
 none other than Johnny Loomis,
 whose entry has been handed to ] Messrs. Walsh & HOllfelder. 1 Up in the Tabs rooms, where so
 many stars on the pool Armament are l to be found, there is one young man
 who by his wonderful form displayed 1 last winter in the inter-society 1 matches, is entitled to be accredited
 with being one of the cracks of the
 organization. He is George Freder- l icks and his ''brOthers' are boosting
 his chances of bringing home that
 $1O prize for first place for all they
 are worth. James Pratt completes
 the list of entries for the tourney.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
COBB CRAWLS UP
 ON TRIS SPEAKER
Georgia Peach Within Nine Points Of American League Leadership

Chicago, Sept. 2.-Ty Cobb is mak- ing a gallant spurt to win the years batting championship in the Ameri- can league. Averages printed here today show the Detroit player has in creased h1s percentage by five points, while Speaker, still leading the league, lost nine in the last week, so that Cobb is now only nine points be- hind. Cobb has taken the lead in runs scored with SS, and holds the base stealing lead with 4S. Jackson is in front in total bases with 243; Weaver, Chicago, and Chapman, Cleveland, in sacrifice hits, with 34 each; Pipp, New York, in home runs With nine, and Detroit in team hit ting with .26O. The five leading bat ters are:
 Speaker, Cleveland, .377; Cobb, Detroit, .36S; Jackson, Chicago, $50; Strunk, Philadelphia, 1908; Gardner, Boston, .306.
 Daubert holes the lead in the Ma tional; Carey, Pittsburgh, is still in front in stolen bases with 45, Flack, Chicago, in sacrifice hits with 34 Williams, Chicago, in home runs with | 10; Wheat, Brooklyn, in total bases
 scored, with v; and Brooklyn in club
 batting with .261. The five leading batters are:
 l Daubert, Brooklyn, 1925; Wagner, 1 Pittsburgh, .31S; Hornsby, St. Louis .317; Robertson, New York, .316;
 Wheat, Brooklyn, .314
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
Giants Drop Another.

Boston, Mass, Sept. 2.-The New Fork Giants, who, on the occasion of heir last visit here won four straight James from the Braves, were unable To keep up their pace yesterday after bcon and drew the small end of 8 To 1 score. Yesterdays victory, how Eyer, was an important one for the Braves because the Robins lost twice, md the margin between the two leaders was radically diminished. A wild throw by Fletcher gave the Braves an easy run in the first in- hing, this being the only point until Anderson wabbled badly in the eighth,
 when three hits, a pass, a wild pitch, snd two very bungling plays on in field bounders by the New York pitcher presented the Boston conten Gers with two runs. It furthermore look away completely the value of Kauff's tardy home run drive con- tributed in the ninth to prevent a Fhut-out score. The score:
 Boston ....... 1O00O0O2*-3 8 New York ..... 0000OOO01-1 g 2
 Batteries-Ragan, Hughes and
 Cowdy; Anderson and Rariden and McCarty.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
CRACKS TO COMPETE
Tourney for City Pool Championship to Open at Walsh & HolIfelder's on
 Sept. 12-Fine Entry List Received.

In every game in which there are a number of first class players in a city, there arises from time to time the question, "WhO is the cham pion?" In New Britain there is a plenty of sports, but one game above all f1ourishes every day, pool, and with the large number of crack play CTS, the question of supremacy arises frequently. Walsh & Hollfelder, the hustling proprietors of the sporting goods store and pool room on Main street, in the Sweeney block, have ar ranged a tournament which will open Tuesday evening, September 12, which will bring together the cream of cue wielders in the city, and at the conclusion of the games there will be
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
"COMET" OUT OF IT
Mclaughlin Like Jeffries and "Semky" Waltz, Fails to Come Back and is Beaten by Church in Three Sets.

Beaten by Church in Three Sets.
 Forest Hills L. l., Sept 2.-Maurice F. Mclaughlin, hero of so many fa- nous battles of the tennis courts, made the supreme effort yesterday to recov- CT his one time greatness and, as has been the case of hundreds of others in every branch of sport, he failed. But though fortune did not smile upon him as of old, the likable, rud- dy-haired comet from the coast went down to defeat only after one of the most glorious struggles of his career, a contest that thrilled 10, 900 spectators at the West Side Tennis club grounds at Forest Hills, of whom many a one felt a lump rise in his throat as the player from the Golden Gate bowed, with the fine spirit that is his before defeat.
 To George M. Church goes thet honor of victory, but to Mclaughlin went the major share of the plaudits. The majority had come to see Mc- Loughlin re-establish himself some of them hoping against hope and not convinced that it was impossible un- til their own eyes had given evidence of the fact. At times they saw re- pliCa of the man who, just two short years ago, was the premier player of the world; they saw the flash of such tennis as made Red Mac supreme in , tho famous Davis Cup matches of 1914, and for every instant of the time he was on the court they wit messed a contest that will be remen1- 1 bered as one of the notable achieve monts of his career, even though, in stead of victory, there was the duller hue of defeat Mclaughlin was pitted against a man younger by several years than himself-one who is reach | ing the crest of his wave of success, while the Comets is receding. Church gained the victory by play 1 ing the best tennis that he has ever
 achieved. He reached supreme heights ] to vanquish Mclaughlin, for, even
 though the Californian is not as strong
 as of old he was still a more for
 midable antagonist than had been be- , leved. Defeat came to him in a.
 fOur-set contest by the score of 5-7, ! 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, but mere figures can never begin to tell the story of the
 fercely contested struggle in which
 nearly every point produced a bit of
 play that reused the gallery to pitch
 of enthusiasm seldom seen in tennis
 tournament
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
TANKS FIND RED SOX
 ID THEIR LIKING
Once Again DonoVan's Hired Men
 WaII0p Leaders

New York, Sept. 2.-There is one club in the American League which cannot scare the Yankees worth cent. If the Tanks could take all the other clubs into camp as easily as they beat the Boston Red Sox the pennant would be floating over tho Polo Grounds next summer. Mild Bill Donovan's lads gave the SoX a fine trimming yesterday by a score of to 3.
 In performing the trick the Tanks knocked Carl Mays out of the box in the face of a furious batting rally Walter Pipp added another home run to his long string, wallopinG a drive to the deepest corner of right field and sending Peckinpaugh home ahead of him. Peck was sOjOurning on third at the time, having reached that perch by virtue of a lusty blew which made a deep dent in the right field wall.
 Urban Shocker started tho game for the Yanks but he had to be shelved in the fourth inning, when he got wilder than a Fiji Islander. Shocker was so bad that he scattered bases on balls to the four winds. Aft CT loading the bases to suffocation he peeled off another pass and forced Clarence Walker in with a run.
 Ray Fisher relieved Shocker, and Ray retired in the fifth when Frank Baker appeared in the role of a pinch hitter His long rest on the hospital list has left him badly out of prac- tice, and the 0n1y thing he could do was to pop a high one to Hoblitzel. Ollie Chill, the baby grand umpire, made his first appearance here this season. Ollie has been working at games in the west nearly all season. and this is the first time that he has hit Manhattan. Chill is the smallest umpire in captivity, but what he lacks in size he makes up for in nerve. Manager Bill Carrigan ordered him 1 self into the game in the ninth in ming and he hit into a double play Joe Gedeon making a wonderful etor at second. After Fisher retired Nick Cullop took up the fiji Lging and held the Rod Sox at bay for the remainder of the pastime. The score:
 New York OOOO23G2x-7 Boston ........ .O003O0OOO-3 g 2
 Batteries: Shocker, Fisher, Gull Top and Alexander; Mays, Shore and Thomas and Cady.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
MAY NOT PLAY REST OF YEAR.

Pittsburgh, Sept. 2.-Honus Wag- ner, veteran shortstop of the Pitts burgh Nationals, will probably not be able to play again this season ow- Ing to a series of injuries received during the last month. He was out ten days as a result of a badly injured thumb and lacerated finger, and when these wounds had healed he twisted a ngament in his leg. This injury was improving slowly when on Wednesday, in the first game with Boston, Wag- ner went in as a pinch hitter and again hurt his leg.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
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Dear Sir: You spread loud applause over stunts
 of McGraw's And the marvellous doings of Ty; You laud the attack that once lodged
 with C. Mack And for glories of Chance often sigh; And big Robbie, too, reaps full need
 from you, You load him with praise till he
 grOans; But, while I'm not kicking, methinks
 you'd be picking The homely cogN Omen of Jones, old
 top, The homely cogNOmen of Jones. Out in Saint Looey, so steamy and
 gooey; They dwelt for long years in despair; Wild fandom there scowling, rampant
 and yip-yowling, Chased managers into their lair; They spurned McAleer with a curse
 and a. jeer, Bawled others in thunderous tones, But now each fanatic cheers wildly,
 ecstatic, The homely cogNOmen of Jones, The homely cogNOmen of Jones.
 P. A. c. (NeWport)
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
EIGHTEEN ZEROS
 IS ROBINS' PORTION
King" Alexander Sets New
 leCOrd for Successive ShutOutS

N Philadelphia, Sept 2.-Tn the face #hilies' two favorite pitchers, Alex nder and Rixey, Robinsons league sbading Dodgers went down to two 8coreless defeats on the opening day &f q critical series in the pennant race. crowd that filled every seat long &efore game time witnessed the ouble defeat handed Brooklyn yes- &erday afternoon, and when the first lame started it was necessary to close &he gates. The scores were to 0 and to 0. Tn registering his shutout In 2he first game Alexander broke the worlds record for shutout games in he season with fourteen. One of the unique parts of this Record Is that 1t was made while 8itching against the man who had &eld 1t until the Phillies' great hurler Rhattered it here yesterday. Jack Eoombs, set the mark in 1910, and al- Though Alexander threatened it last lear, it was not until he blanked the Robins that he was able to lay claim p the unulSputed possession or the |ecord.
 The Dodgers lead was reduced to he full game over Boston asd three James over the Phi1lies. Robinson lent two of his reliable twirlers to the ront in an effort to turn back the Phillies, but against the wonderful york of Alexander who was in great |orm yesterday, especially in the |inches, and the clever pitching of Rixey, it seemed impossible for the badgers to do any damage. The |cores:
 First Game.
 r. h. e. Philadelphia =. 1o010001*-3 g 8 Brooklyn ..... O0000o0O0-O 8 3 teries-Alexande and Killifer; Foombs, Marquard and Miller
 Second Game.
 r. h. e. .... O1O1O202*-6 IS il brooklyn ...... OOO00O0OO-O O| Batteries-Rfxey and Killifer; Preffer, Dell and Meyers.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
Senator's in Even Break.

Washington, Sept 2.-Washington and Philadelphia split a double-head- CT yesterday, the locals winning the first game by the score of to 1, and losing the second, 4 to 1.
 Walter Johnson held the visitors safe at all stages in the opening con- test. In the second Myers, though he gave eight bases on balls, hit a man and made a wild pitch, allowed only two hits, neither of which figured in the runs scored:
 Craft, a Washington recruit pitcher, made his major league debut in the second game. The score:
 (FirSt game)
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
PECK TO LEAD PANTHERS.

Pittsburgh, Sept. 2.-BOb Peck, All- American center for 1915 and Cap tain of this years University of Pitts burgh football team, has removed the conditions which threatened to pre- vent his participation in the gridiron sport during the coming season, and has brought joy to the hearts of root CTS who feared that the Panther ma chine might lack the services of it's powerful leader.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
Reds Defeat the Pirates.

Pittsburgh, Sept. 2.-Cncinnatt won from Pittsburgh here yesterday hv a score of 6 to 3. Warmers home run and the batting of Chase, who made four hits, were features. Um- p.re Harrison put Manager Callahan eff the field and Pitcher Jacobs and First Baseman Johnston out of the game for objecting to decisions. The score:
 r. h. e. Cincinnati ..... OO112o1o1-6 12 0 Pittsburgh .... O2O01OOO0-3 Il Batteries-Toney and Clarke and Wfngo Kantlehner, Jacobs, Miller end Fischer.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
MORAN FIGHT POSTPONED.
Promoters Call Off Holiday Bout With
 Carl Morris at Tulsa, Okla.

Tusla,, Okla, Sept. 2.-Carl Morris and Frank Moran will not fight in Tulsa on Labor Day. The promoters last night definitely called off the match
 The date will be postponed two weeks and the fight will be staged either in Denver or Kansas City, with the indications favoring the latter place.
 The promoters paid Frank Moran his forfeit last evening. Morris re- CeiVed no guarantee.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02

We have an ingrowing hunch that when St. Louis and Detroit get back home with a chance to finish first they are not going to be any harder to throttle than a cross between a Numidian lion and a Bengal tiger. And when these two clubs meet, look out for the smoke and the fur. Jones and Jennings had their last melee back in 1908, when the issue went to the final game. Jones sent Ed Walsh after the Tigers, but Jennings cou1- tered with Smiling Bill Donovan, and Smiling Bill reported with the mer- chandise.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02

come right back in their half of the fifth and dented the scoring column three times Portland by it's victory failed to gain on the league leaders, however, as Bridgeport fell down in a desperate effort to beat New Lon- don. The score
 r. h. e. Portland ...... ooOO300OO-3 New Haven ... OOO2OO0OO-2 ' f Batteries: Tuckey and Sweatt; Woodward and Devine.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02
Pace Setting.

You hear a lot about the fine nerve shown in coming from behind. But the greatest nerve there is required for the front runner to hold his lead The incessant thud of an opponent in ones immediate wake is the greatest soul disturber in the game
 It is this matter of setting pace that al last has begun to get on the nerves o1 Brooklyn in the National and Bos- ton in the American. They have felt the warm and WoOlly breath of their opponents upon their necks for some time now, and the strain is beginning to tell.
 The Red Sox, nearly always strosg at home, haven't done as we'll this time on home soil as they did out West, where they won twelve out of eighteen games. Tn place of getting a big jump still further to the good they lost ground to the leading western contenders, and now face long September road trip with the odds badly chopped. We have figured right along that the Red Sox would need a four or five game margin when they started West in order to win. If their margin is cut below this in the next few days the best inside tip available is that a western club will come through.
New Britain herald., 1916-09-02

will Cobb catch Speaker?" queries a reader. We put this same query to Ty day or two ago, and even he was forced to admit the complex nature of any reply. He was merely hoping, he said, with no ideea of giving up 1Ee fight until a decisive issue had been reached.