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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-30
WIN TENNIS TITLE
Eastern Doubles Championship
Goes to Church and Davis.
BEAT WILLIAMS AND PELL
Gain Right to Compete in National
Preliminary Tournament at
Chicago.
BEAT WILLIAMS AND PELL

Special Dispatch to The Star.
= BOSTON, July 29.-George NJ. Church
of Tenafiy. N. J., and Willis E. Davis.
the coast bullet. won the eastern tennis
doubles championship this afternoon
at the Longwood Cricket Club by defeat
ing R. Norris Williams, I'd. Of Phila-
delphia, and Theodore Roosevelt Pell
of New York, in five close sets. By
their victory Church and Davis won the
right to compete in the national pre-
liminary doubles at Chicago. the winner
of which challenges Johnston and Crit
fin, the title holders.
The close score, IL, GO, 6-S. 6-3
and 6-4, was about the only redeem
ing feature of match in which all the
players, with the possible exception OF
tn hard working church, were decided
ly below form. Barring occasional rail-
lies, the tennis was very much to the
pingping and the pongpong, the com
petitors appearing too nervous to hit
with their characteristic speed. The
only man in good form was the vet
eran Fred Mansfield, the umpire. whose
quavering deuce" provokes laughs
every year at oFrest Hills.
Playing only half seriously, 1chiya
Kumagae, the Japanese southpaw, ad-
vanced to the semi-final round of the
Longwood singles, where he is now
paired with Joseph J. Armstrong of
Philadelphia, who defeated Clarence j.
Griffin yesterday. The swarthy, springy
little oriental easily eliminated seven
teen-year-old Charles S. Garland of
Pittsburgh, 6-1, g. 2-6 and 6-1.
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RETAINS HIS TITLE
Carter Beats Capers in South
Atlantic Tennis.
CONTEST is HARD FOUGHT
Carter and Orr Win Doubles Cham.
pionship for Third Con-
secutive Time.
CONTEST is HARD FOUGHT

AUGUSTA, Ca, July 29.-E. V. Carter
jr., of Atlanta retained his title in
mems singles by defeating today in
the challenge round Rutledge Capers
the seventeen-year- old Augusta school
boy, 6-1, 2-6, 6-3, 81. Capers in
the morning won. in the finals. over
p H Winston of Chapel Hill. N. C.
6-3, 3-6, e., 6-3.
The Carter-Capers match was one OF
the hardest fought in the history of
the South Atlantic tournament. The
young Augustan was nervous in the
first set, Carter winning with ease. He
braced after this. and, playing a net
game almost exclusively. rushed the
champion off his feet in the second
set. In the third set. with the score
all, Carter won his own serve. broke
into Capers and followed by winning
his own again. Capers led in the final
set, "a, but the strain began to tell
on him and, though he kept up game
fight, he lost after the set had gone
to sixteen games.
Miss Margaret Loyless of Augusta, in
the finals in ladies' singles, defeated
Miss Clarence Carpenter of Augusta,
Ga, If, 6-3.
The consolation cup was won by
Levers Brown of Augusta, who had
little trouble in winning from J. NJ.
Hatch of Augusta. Go. 60.
Carter and his partner. j. X. Orr, jr..
of Atlanta, won the doubles champion
ship here yesterday for the third con-
secutive time.
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CATCHER IS TRADED
Pirates Give Wilson to Cubs
for Two Players.
ANOTHER DEAL is PENDING
Pittsburgh Expects to Get More New
Men-Have Fisher and
Schultz.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
PITTSBURGH, July o9-The Pitts
burgh base ball club today announced
that Catcher Arthur Wilson had been
traded to the Chicago Cubs for
Catcher Bill Fisher and Cutfielder
Frank Schultz. The deal is said to
have been under way for several days,
but was not closed until late this aft
ernoon.
Wilson. who came to the Pirates
from the Cubs, has been playing
splendid ball for the local team. He
was rated the best backstop on the
team.
Word reached here early today from
New York. where the Pirates were
playing double header with the
Giants. that a deal which would bring
two new players to the local team
was under way and probably would
he closed some time this evening.
Outside Of the names of the players
figuring in the trade the Pirate man
agement had no statement to make.
Manager Callahan has been angling
to get Fisher and Schultz for some
time. Fisher is relied on to hold up
the end of the backstop work hereto
fore delegated to Wilson. while Schultz
will give the Pirates another seasoned
outfelder to help Carey and Hinchman,
where the Pirates have been handi-
capped all season
Dreyfuss purchased Wilson from the
Cubs last winter. He was a prime IA
vorite here.
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JUMPS INTO MAJORS
Craft Only a Short While Out
of High School.
PLAYS TWO POSITIONS
Nationals New Man Seems to Have
Attributes of Capable
Performer.
PLAYS TWO POSITIONS

NORFOLK, Va, July 29.-Maurice NJ
Craft. recently purchased from the Nor
folk club of the Virginia League by
thing that but few ball players can boast
of. Out of high school less than two
years, he has stepped from a class c
league to the majors with only one years
experience in professional base ball; and
those who have watched him recently ex-
press confidence in his ability to stick.
Maurice Craft, or Molly" as he is
called in. the Virginia League, was born
in Portsmouth twenty years ago. He
first attracted attention as a pitcher for
the Portsmouth High School team, win
ming eighteen and losing three games in
the three years he was a member of that
organization. Last season he was signed
by the Portsmouth club of the Virginia
League and showed ability from the
start, but was later turned over to the
Norfolk club of the Virginia League be-
cause of the abundance of pitching ma
terial on the Portsmouth pay roll
Craft was reserved by Norfolk at the
end of 1915 and while that club was
hanging around last place during the
nrSt half OF the present campaign, Graft
was worked regularly in the box and has
won eight and lost two games. On ac-
count of his hitting proclivities he has
been played in the outfield and has
broken up many a game for the Norfolk
club. He also played second base for
two weeks and his work in that position
was decidedly satisfactory.
Molly Craft is more than six feet tall
and is a splendid athlete. He likes base
ball and is anxious to learn the game and
make good. While he is modest young
fellow. with a splendid disposition, he is
confident he will Stick in the big league.
When Nick Altrock was in Portsmouth
Saturday a week ago looking over Cueto,
the Cuban outfielder of the Truckers
Craft happened to be working for Norfolk
against Portsmouth. Before three innings
were over "Nick'' became interested in
! the young hurler and watched him close
| ly throughout the remainder of the game
which Norfolk won by a score of 3 to l.
| Craft not only had the opposing batters
well in hand from start to finish, but his
| home run over the left field fence aided
materially in the result.
THAT young fellow looks mighty good
| to me-" said Nick. HE is ready to 90
up right now. He has everything that
| any other pitcher has and he uses his
, head pretty we'll"
| Nick was informed that the Chicago
| Americans already had purchased Craft,
| but he got busy afterward and found
| that the deal had not been closed. Craft
was purchased by Washington Tuesday
night and left Wednesday joining the
| team in Detroit Friday morning.
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DIVIDE TWO GAMES
Cincinnati Wins First, 6 to i;
Brooklyn Second, 3 to 2.
SCHNEIDER ALLOWS 3 HITS
Big Crowd Welcomes Manager
Mathewson and His Team to
Ebbets Field.

BROOKLYN, July 29.-Approximately
10000 Brooklyn fans welcomed Manager
Christy Mathewson and his Cincinnati
team to Ebbets Field today and saw the
Reds break even with the Superbas, the
visitors winning the first game, 6 to /. and
losing the second, 8 to 2. Schneider, in
the opening game, held the National
League leaders to three hits, two of which
were punched in the second inning for
their lone run. Marquard was batted out
of the box in five innings.
In the second game Pfeffer held the
Reds to four scattered hits in six innings.
Then he winged Groh, Griffith followed
with double and Neale singled; two runs
counted. Brooklyn punched six of its hits
in the fifth and sixth innings. Emmer's
fielding at short in both games and
Olson's work in the second featured
Griffith and Chase each had triple and a
double in the opener while Daubert led
in the second with three hits. The scores
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CAPTURE POLO TITLE.
Great Neck Team Defeats Meadow.
brook for American Championship

NARRAGANSETT PIER, r. l., July
29-The American senior polo cham
pionship was won today by the Great
Neck team. which defeated Meadow
brook on to IN. Meadowbrook riders
were kept ont the defensive by the
dashing play of their opponents until
the sixth period, when they rallied and
moro than held their own under the
leadership of Capt. Harry Payne Whit
ney for the rest of the game, For
Great Neck, the brilliant driving of
Thomas Hitchcock, who made two SEN
sational goals from midfield. and the
game of Louis S. Stoddard at back We're
features.
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MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS.

SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Mobile. s; Birmingham, 2.
Little Rock, 10; Chattanooga, 4.
Little Rock, 0; Chattanooga, 0.
Atlanta, 2; New Orleans, 0.
Nashville. 4; Memphis, 0.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Baltimore. 2: Newark, l.
Baltimore, 6; Newark, T.
Montreal. 8; Rochester, 2.
Richmond. 5; Providence, l.
Providence. 4; Richmond, 2.
Buffalo. 4; Toronto. 0.
Toronto, IL; Buffalo, I.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Louisville. 2; Indianapolis, 0.
Milwaukee, s: st. Paul, l.
st. Paul, s; Milwaukee, Z.
Columbus, 5: Toledo, 8.
Kansas City, Is; Minneapolis, 5.
VIRGINIA LEAGUE.
Norfolk, 8: Newport News. /.
Newport News. IA; Norfolk, 1.
Petersburg, 4: Portsmouth, 8.
Portsmouth. A: Petersburg, 0.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Fort Worth, 0; Beaumont, 2.
Dallas. 3; San Antonio, /.
Shreveport, 4: Houston, o.
Waco, 3; Galveston. H.
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Either Harper or Johnson will be
pitted against the Indians tomorrow,
and Klepfer probably will be the selec-
ton of Manager Foil to face the Griff-
men. 1t seems to make little difference
which Of the pitchers is used, for as
yet none of them has been successful
on the trip.
Clyde Milan is not hitting at all The
veteran centerfelder has had trouble
with his eyes. and it seems that he
still is suffering with them, for he is
almost helpless at the bat. 1t might
be a good idea to let Milan take a
weeks rest; he might come gack to form
if he were given a little vacation.
Shanks may come back to his batting
form, though he has not done much
with the stick since the team left
home; he was benched for that reason.
Chic Gandil has not been doing much
with the bat for the Indians, and there
is considerable complaint about him
from the fans. Today, however, Gandil
made "a double in Che seventh inning
which scored Roth and Speaker. That
was the first hit he has made to pro-
duce run since July 81, when he got
hit in Philadelphia which sent a run
over the plate. The former National
has not been even meeting the ball,
ana appeared TO nave lOSt his stride
during the Boston series here, in which
the Indians were beaten three out of
four, Bagby, who repeated today,
being the only pitcher who won a game
from the Red Sox.
Griffith is hopeful that both II. Milan
and Turney Barber will develop into
real ball players in the International
League during the remainder of the
season. He needs some hitting on his
team, and, while he will not recall these
players until the fall. he wants them
to learn to hit while they are in the
high class minor league.
Foster was hooked up in a peculiar
play today. In the eighth inning he
drove A sharp grounder by Chapman
1t was fair fully a foot, but for some
unaccountable reason he got the i'm
preston that the ball was foul and
he started back to the plate before
reaching first. Some one called his
attention to the fact that the ball was
safe and he started to run around the
bases at a jog. because Graney was
not hurrying after the ball. believing
that Foster had indicated 1t to have
been a foul when he started back to
the plate before reaching first base
There were two of the Washington
pitchers warming up in left field and
one of them-Craft. perhaps-picked up
the ball and threw 1t to Graney.
In the meantime Foster had scored
and the Cleveland players claimed that
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Morgan Starts With Single.

Morgan started the game with sin
gle but no effort was made to move
him up and Foster hit into a double
play. In the second inning Rice start
ed with a single and this time Charity
did not move him up. but duplicated
Fosters performance and doubled Rice
up. The visitors were retired in order
IN the third and fourth and then after
Rice had flied out in the NTH, Charity
and Moeller. who had taken Acostas
place, singled. But Henry and Mcbride
were not equal TO. the occasion and the
two runners were left. In the seventh
after two were out. Moeller and Henry
got brace of singles. but Mcbride
could do no more than hit a grounder
70 Chapman. on which he was thrown
out at hrst.
Shanks batted for Gallia in the eighth
and flied out to Speaker. Then after
Morgan had been retired Foster hit
down the third base line for a double
In the ninth the visitors were retired
IN order Score.
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CAUSE OF NATIONALS SLUMP
IS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE
Every Member of Team Trying His Best to
Break Losing Streak, But to No Avail
Foster In Peculiar Play.
By 7. ED GRILLO.

CLEVELAND, July 29ust what it that ai the Gffmen
hard determine Some days the hits and enough
but the last days member of the has
reached the goal In the which the Nationals hit hard and
scored bunch of the pitchers did hold their end and
they beaten Now the pitchers still showing
thing and the productive hitting has been conspicuous by alb
While may have anything do with the present losing
streak however actual fact that the ned
shifted and Morgan second and Foster third
single has been This be but coincidence
there those who hold that time breaks
combination it is certain setback The
the change Morgan had eight
the last eleven gamehree out OF four from the Indians four
from the White Sox and these
that have and
the end OF the slump will Indications that
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it was a blocked ball Just what
OLoughlin's ruling was could not be
learned, but he compromised by allow
ing Foster to go to second base, where.
of course, he was left.
-Four more games remain to be played
here and Griffith has hopes of annex
ing three of these in order to get his
team back on its feet The Nationals
will be back to the 500 mark if thew
lose another game, and it will not be
an easy matter to work forward from
, that point.
The team, when 1t started on this
trip, had a comfortable percentage
and was but a few games behind the
leaders, but since then it has lost five
straight games and there is real dam
ger of it dropping lower unless there
is a change in the general playing
and the team should show a fash of
its former brilliant fielding. But that
feature of the game for which the
team has been noted heretofore seems
to have been forgotten, and more err
rors have been piled up since the slump
heretofore. Every day now three or
four errors mark the work of the Griff-
men, and, what is more, most of these
come at times when they are most
harmful.
One day it is one combination that
spills the beans and the next day it is
another They have been alternating
in the matter of making boots, and as
a result WHAT little chance there has
been to get victory or two has been
dribbled away.
Just why this is no one seems able
to explain. There is dissipation on
the team and every player is trying
his best to break the losing streak,
but the more they try the worse they
play.
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Hatch Wins Another Marathon.

JOHNSTOWN, n. Y. July 29.-Sidney
H. Hatch Of Chicago. the national mar
athon champion. won the 2es-mfle
marathon here today In hours and Z
minutes.
William Kennedy, also of Chicago,
was second. and Carman A Sippelet of
schenectady. y. Y. finished third OF
twelve starters all finished except one.
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DAVENPORT VICTOR
IN DOUBLE-HEADER
Pitches Winning Ball in Two
i Contests With New York
Yankees.
| PROVES HARD HIT
IN BOTH THE GAMES
Boston Also Loses Pair and Dono-
vanites Keep Lead.
Scores, 81, 80.

special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. LOUIS, July 29.-Dave
Davenport, the giant pitcher of
the St. Louis Browns, matched
the power and cunning of his
good right arm against the New
York Yankees here this after
noon and won a remarkable vic
tory. He turned the invaders
from the great metropolis of the
east back in both games of a
double-header, giving them only
four hits in the first game. Had
the Boston Red Sox flashed any
of the power which is theirs, Dav-
export would have hurled the
Yankees out of first place, but
Boston lost two games to De-
troit, and the Yankees hold the
lead. The scores here were 3 to l
and 3 to ?, respectively.
There were no soft spots in
the afternoon of sport for Dav-
export. He was called upon to
match his skill against Ray Cald-
we'll in the opening battle, and
for eight innings the slim New
Yorker had bit the better of the
fight, for he led by a score OF
| |, to 0. But Caldwell wilted I'M
der the oppressive heat in the last
half of the eighth inning and al
lowed enough hits, along with a
base on balls, to produce the
three runs which were necessary.
In the second game the Yankees got
off to a one-run lead in the third in
ming, but Allan Russell, who has been
pitching remarkable ball of late, could
not time the break on his splitter to
avoid the lunge of the bats, and the
home team drove on ahead to victory
again.
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Davenport Strong All the Way.

If Davenport was effective in the first
game, he lost none of his strength and
skill in the second. Found for only
four hits in the opening encounter. he
came right back and let his opponents
down with five in the final; and, not
content with merely fighting defen-
sive battle, he sprang into additional
prominence by lacing out two-base
hit. Bert Shotton got another double.
but Bert is the sort of chap who does
those things and no one ever thinks
much of it.
After the visitors scored their runs
in the third frame, Dave swept along
furiously until the ninth, when he be-
came magnanimous for a moment ana
permitted one more run to cross the
plate. Neither Caldwell nor Russell was
caught in a bad day The former
doled out half a dozen hits in his game:
and as told previously had lead OF
one run until the eighth. when the
heat got him. Russell was even more
parsimonous than his taller teammate,
and he allowed only five hits. Score:
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Cmen Banke by indians davenport Of Browns Beats Yankees TW
Jim Rice OutroWs
Veteran James Riley

SARATOGA, n. ", July 20
James H. Riley, seventy-one years
old. a former professional rowing
champion. WINS defeated by
scant half length by Jim Rice.
ffty-fOur years old and coach OF
the Columbia University crews, In
n three-mile sculling race on
Lake Lonely, near Saratoga Lake,
today.
Riley, who WINS conceded a han
dicap of one minute by his OPP
pOnent, rOwed a vigorous race,
and was not Overtaken until
near the end of the course. He
finished strong.
Rice's time was 2c.22h.
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Marston Beats Wheeler
in Ekwanok Golf Finals

MANCHESTER, VT, July 20
Maxwell H. MarstOn of BaltusrOI
won the thfrty-six hole final
match for the first President cup
In the Ekwanok Country Club
golf tournament today, defeating
Nathan Wheeler of BrOOklawn, L
up. MarstOn's playing of the
tenth hole of 500 yards in 3 was
the feature of the match. Wheeler
eddy after he apparently had lost
control of his game.
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FIRST GAME.

Runs-oldring. Austin, W. Miller and Sisler.
Two-base hit-Marsans. Stolen bases-shotton
l2l and Austin (2l. Sacrifice hits-Marsans and
,;edeon Sacrifice fy-Marsans. Double play
Davenport, johnson and Sisler. Left on bases
New York .; St. Louis. s. Bases on oaus-on
Caldwell 4; on Davenport, 8. Hits and earned
runs-Off Caldwell, 8 hits and runs In eight
innings; off Davenport, hits and ! run In nine
innines struck out-By Caldwell, Z; by Daven-
mort 4 Passed balls-Nunamaker, 2. Umpires
EMessrs Nallin and Evans. Time OF game-
hour and SO minutes.
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Totals. -. 81 10 - u Totals. 80 3 II 10
'Batted for Marquard in fifth.
fBatted for Appleton in eighth.

Cincinnati. ........ o 9 o . 0 0 0 IL
Brook IN ......... o U o 0 y 0 o Oh
Runs-Groh 81, Griffith. Chase Schneider,
Stcngel. Errors-Neac, Olson. Two base hits
GRIFFITH, Chase. Three base hits-Grtffith
Chase. Stolen bases--Groh. Rouss. Sacrifice hit
I-Neale Double plays--Mowrey Daubert and
Meyers; Chase to thinner TO Chase. Left ON
bases-Cincnnati, .; Brooklyn, 4. First base on
error-srooklyn. Bases on balls-on Vanguard.
3; OH Appleton, of Mails, - off Schneider ..
Hits and earned runs-On Marquard, Z hits and
1 in five innings; Off Mails. no hits and
run in inning: off Appleton, hits and no
runs in three innings; on Schneider. hits and
run in nine innings. Struck out-By Marquard
/; by Appleton. ); by Mails. =; by Schneider .
Umpires-Messrs. KLEIN and Emsle. Time of
ganle-l hour and Al minutes.
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Pitcher Dillinger for Charleston.

NEW ORLEANS. La. July 29.-Presf-
dent Heinemann of the New Orleans
club of the Southern Association to-
day announced the release OF Pitcher
II. Di,linger 20 the Charleston. S. c..
club of the South Atlantic League DIE
linger will report to Charleston Mon
day.
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Totals. 81 Il IU0HIs.....-' q - 4"
sBatted for Russell in ninth
fBatted for johnson in fifth.
New YorkO O 10 900 la
St Louis. o 0 o o o x-3
Runs-E. Miller, High. shotton, Pratt and
Marsans. Errors-Peckinpaugh. Lavan (2) and
Davenport or Two-base hits-Davenport and
shotton Home rune. Miller. Stolen bases
Pratt and Pipp. Sacrifice hits-High, Russell:
Austin and W. Miller. Double play-P1pp and
Walters Left on bases-New York, 10: st.
Louis s. First base on errors-New York, 2:
ST. Louis l. Bases balls-0f RUSSELL 3;
Off Davenport 8. Hits and earned runs-0f
Russell hits and in eight innings; on
Davenport, hits and 2 runs in nine innings.
Struck out-By Russell, 5; by Davenport, Z.
Passed balls-Ceveroid and Walters. Umpires-
Messrs. Nallin and Evans. Time Of game
hour and As minutes.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
New York. 4; Pittsburgh, g.
New York, ); Pittsburgh. 0.
Brooklyn, l; Cincinnati G.
Brooklyn, 3; Cincinnati. ..
Philadelphia, .; Chicago, s.
Philadelphia, 4; Chicago, l.
Boston. 4 st. Louis g.
Boston, s; st. Louis, 5
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'EatIed Tor IaIIia IN eighth

Washington .....0 o 0 o O. 0
Cleveland ....-.. o o o o 10
Two-base kits-Grsney. GBndil. Foster. Bagby.
Tbree-base observation-disclosures. Hts-On Gallin,
o in seven innings; on Dumont. in In
ming Double plays-C hsprnAn. Turner TO Candid
e.. LIFT ON bases-Washington. ,; Cleveland.
Q. Lmpires--Messrs. OIoughiin and Hide
brand. Time Of game hosrs and 10 minutes.