Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07

McGraw has gathered up a won
derful ball club" says Pat Moran,
OF the Phillies. The old Cubs un-
der Chance were a wonderful COM
| bination. I know, for l was a silent
member of that array, and I had
plenty of time to size 'em up and
set real line on their ability. 1
have seen many teams come and go
since that club was broken up, but
not until the 1918 Giants took the
field did I see one that had an edge
on Chances outfit. The Giants are
a better club than the Cubs were, if
| for no other reason than that they
| make things easier for their pitch
ers than the Cubs did. Brown,
Pfeister, Overall, Lundren, Ritchie
and those old pitchers of ours had
to work mighty hard for every game
they won, because the team, brill
7 llant, defensively. was not so strong
on the attack. Most of our games
were won by scores of l to or 2
TO l, or similar counts. but Giant
pitcher of to-day regards it as pretty
tough afternoon if he doesn't have
at least three runs to work on"
Eddie Collins, captain of the Chi
caso American baseball team. has
established a record by playing in
4IS consecutive games. His first miss
since 1914 was in yesterdays lineup
at Detroit. His records beats Sam
Crawford's of 472 games.
Ralph Mulford, the smiling dare
devil racing driver, has entered the
Liberty SwS pstakes, the feature
event of the seasons opening meet
at the Uniontown speedway. Null
ford is star of the first water. He
became famous as racing driver
while plotting the Lozier mounts.
and has participated in all the big
events held in this country in recent
years. He won the worlds record
last year at Sheepshead in a Hud-
son, twenty-four hours stretch,
without calling for relief. On July
last Mulford won first place at the
Omaha speedway, and was the star
driver on the Hudson team, which
was managed by Arthur Hill. former
manager of Dario Resta. Last fall,
when the Hudson team disbanded,
Mulford bought a Frontenac from
Louis Chevrolet. Chevrolet, by the
way, has entered two cars in the
Liberty Sweepstakes. The famous
F'renchman, who was the winner of
the first Universay trophy race at
the local track, will drive one of the
Frontenacs himself.
The first baseball game ever play
ed in Spain took place on April 80
between a Spanish and an American
team. which resulted in the defeat
of the Americans, % to 12. The
American team had for it's cap
tain Paymaster William Ormesby,
U. s. N, prominent American ath-
lete, formerly of Brown University.
A. Captain Gonzales led the Span
iards. Three of the Spanish ball
players were bullfghters.
Mathewson remains the cham
pionship checker player of the big
leagues. Ty Cobb who never met
him at the game, had his chance the
other day and was willing to bet he
could wallop Matty; he had trimmed
everybody on the Detroit team. Cobb
never knew what hit him.. report
the spectators. Matty made about
three moves and Cobb was hand
cuffed. Matty has many a divert
ing hour with his checker skill. His
team was playing an exhibition
game in a Texas town last spring
when the champion local expert, old
Col" Something. beat all corners
before the assembled town gathered
on the square. A tall, WE'LL
man strolled up and challenged the
champion who accepted, though he
did not know who Mathewson was.
Matty cornered him in jig time,
much to the amazement of the ma
tives.
Fred Plum, druggist from At
lantic City. known among trap
shooters as the Jersey Peach" won
the thirteenth annual amateur trap
shooting championship of the Unit
ed States at the Travers Island traps
of the New York Athletic Club with
the remarkable total of 1877 out of
possible 200 targets. His individ-
ual strings were "a, 25, 25, 25, 25, "a
and "a. On his way to the title
Plum smashed all of the Travers