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AMERICAN AssoC1ATIoN.
JOHNSTON Wins TITLE
Defeats Tilden in Three Sets for
Clay Court Tennis Cham.
pionship.

CHICAGO. July 1s.-william NJ
Johnston of San Francisco is the new
national clay courts tennis champion.
He defeated William T. Tilden. jr. Of
Philadelphia, the 1918 title holder, in
the finals for the championship today,
Go, 81, 4-6, 60.
Miss Corrine Gould Of st. Louis won
the women's championship in the
singles. defeating Miss Carrie M
Medley Of Chicago. the 1918 champion,
in straight sets, Ga, 60.
Samuel Hardy Of Chicago, and Will
liam NJ. Johnston of San Francisco
won the mems doubles championship
by defeating Robert G. Kinsey, San
Francisco, and Axel Craven. Berkeley,
Calf. 6-3, 81, 26. 6-3. 1t was
the thirA consecutive time that Hardy
has been one Of the doubles title.
holders.
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RED SOX BACK manager
Players Claim Combination of Bad
Breaks Responsible for De-
feats of Team.

BOSTON, July 19.-The world cham.
pion Red Sox, now in seventh place In
the American League standing, publish
, ed today statement signed by vir-
tually every member of the team, deny
ing that the teams failure was due to
dissension or mismanagement
The poor showing is attributed in the
statement to "a combination of bad
breaks, the failure of some of the regu-
lars to perform up to the past standards,
weak pitching and continued bad luck
on the field"
Manager Edward Barrow is said to
have treated his players in a manner
that could not be improved upon." and
the statement adds that 1.-THE players are
in complete harmony with themselves
and with the manager"
Annapolis the following year.
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HOLDS UP CINCINNATI.
Brooklyn Checks 0nrushing Reds
in 12-Inning Battle. 2 to1.

BROOKLYN, July 19.-Brooklyn
beat Cincinnati today, 2 to 1. in
twelve innings. Galore and Reuther
had a great pitchers battle, neither
side scoring until the final inning.
Then. with two out. Daubert tripled
and scored on OIson's low throw of
Groh's grounder. Ward started
Brooklyn's half with a fly to Rousch;
Kruger singled and Grimes ran for
him. Kilduffs batting for Galore,
walked. Olson's Texas Lacquer to left
filled the bases and Johnston's single
to center scored Grimes and Kilduff.
Wingo was put out Of the game for
kicking and Sallee was chased of
the visitors bench for loud talking.
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to Brooklyn, in the National League.
after graduation in May, has been re-
leased to Rochester in the Interna-
tional League. This paragraph culled
from New York paper concerns the
transfer:
president Charles H. Ebbets of the
Brooklyn base ball club. last night
announced the release of Letter
| Aitcheson, a pitcher and outfielder to
| the Rochester club OF the Interna-
tional League. Aitcheson is a Balti-
| more College player, for whom a
future similar to Babe Ruth's has been
! predicted by close students of base
around player, much after the fashion
of Ruth, and is a heavy hitter. Mr..
Ebbets declared he was releasing the
Baltimore lad SO that Aitcheson could
! obtain some needed experience
| holding down the job back of the bat
| for the Finance team in the Depart
mental League. The former Central
! High star is not hitting the ball as
F., he should. Last spring he batted in
| fourth place for the State nine and
| landed on the ball hard against as
good pitching as usually is found in
colleges.
University of Virginia is declared
/ by those in close touch with it to have
the best prospects for foot ball this
| fall that have been known at Char
lottesville since Mayer and his team
mates whipped Yale and barely lost
to Harvard. Splendid material from
the Freshman eleven of last fall
! teams probable strength.
The championship of the Govern
ment League undoubtedly lies be-
| tween Rnraan and
The latter won the title in the first
| half of the series, and if it comes
| through in the second half will have
! the honors for the season without
can deliver sufficient strength to win
the second series final series of five
! games will be played between the two
to decide the championship Bureau
claims that it has just as strong a
combination as that which makes up
Bus Hager's combina ton, while the
latter feels certain that the Money
| handlers do not have the pitching
strength to come through in the sec
| ond series.
| War Risk probably will win the
! championship of the second half of
the Departmental League schedule
and get the championship of the
| league without having to play off a
| final series with winner CT one of
| the two sections. War Risk took the
| first series without a defeat War
Risk followers figure that Pfeil and
Schafer, are good enough to carry
their team through the remainder of
the season without many defeats be-
| ing registered against it.
| Two or three days ago, when Tom
Crooke's Cloffep team in the NAVY
Yard League was not showing yery
well in game, somebody. in an at
tempt to josh Tom after he had made
good play at first. yelled. "Hev Tom
how did you manage to get that one ?"
Toms reply was: "Don't.bother about
how 1 get 'em; been doing it for
twenty years and I've got twenty
more coming to me-
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In the Navy Yard League. a closed
organization, are several hurlers of
distinctly high caliber. With one team,
Cloffeps, are Buscher and HUMPHREYS,
both of whom have been pitching
stellar ball. The former has had years
of professional experience, which
serves him we'll against the ball clubs
he is facing; but besides that Buscher
has the stuff to make good in any
kind of amateur or semi-professional
ball. A new pitcher also has broken
into stardom in the Navy Yard
League, Kircher having worked a
twelve Inning 2-to-3 game against
Buscher Thursday afternoon. Kircher
Rochester International League club.
Frye, Snow and Sterzer are other
stars in the navy yard circuit, and
Braund and Kuhnert have been pitch
ing creditably.
Among the Terminal Railroad Y
NJ. C. A. League hurlers are Walter
Beall and Rooney Virnstein. Every
body who knows much about anna
teur ball around Washington is ia
miliar with Virnstein's capabilities,
but Beall also is mentioned here be-
cause he is doing well, has plenty
of stuff and is a conner. Wildness is
big factor against Bealls success.
but he should learn to overcome that
weakness by another season.
In the Departmental League are
fer of the War Risk nine. These
pitchers carried their club through
the first half of the season without
defeat, winning the championship
of the series with a record of four
teen straight victories. Miles of
to develop into a capable artist Only
the other day prominent amateur
player made the statement that Miles
was about the best looking young
amateur pitcher in Washington"
In the Government League the
exceptionally good twirlers in Owen
Kelley and Won Herbulis. Kelley has
not pitched for Operations as yet, bur
is in reserve should he be needed
Working in the War Department In
terbureau League Kelley pitched a
seventeen men. Owen and Won Her
bulls have been doing good work in
practically all the games they have
hurled. Bureau. in the same league
has Ferguson and McDonough, the
former a star at Gallaudet College for
the last two years.
All the promising pitchers on the
sandlotS of the District have not been
| named. only those who have attained
the greatest prominence through ex-
ceptional performances. Others there
are who have done good work and
should do better before the champion
ship series Of the fall is played.
Amateur base ball is more popular
this season than was expected. AT
the meetings last spring to boost the
game and to make preparations for
| this year a considerable amount of
encouragement was felt. Since that
though, conditions have been improv-
ing, and right now large crowds are
attending the games. and the revival
of interest is such that another year
should find the game on as high a
level as it has ever reached in the
District.
Lighter Aitcheson, star pitcher at
Maryland State last spring, who went
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First Defeat After Five Wins.

II was Johnson's first defeat after
five consecutive victories, and con-
sidering the amount of work he had
to do today he is Justly entitled to
the short vacation he will have in
Washington the next three days. he
was hit hard in the early stages OF
the contest. but settled down after
the fifth and allowed but one hit until
he tagged himself out running in the
eleventh.
Gleason uncovered new pitcher in
the person of Lefty Sullivan, a prod
uct of Chicago sandlots. This young
ster has the distinction OF being the
only left-handed spitbal pitcher In
the big leagues. as far as we know.
He was withdrawn in the fourth after
some timely hitting and his own wild
heave had given the Nationals four
runs. Dick Kerr, Gleason's official
finishing twirler. then took up the
burden and did mighty good job
of it, one unearned run being all the
Griffs could obtain off him.
Both the Nationals and Sox hit the
ball hard and often. and that there
was not more scoring can be attrib-
uted to the f1ashy support given the
hurlers of both clubs over the greater
part of the distance. Picinich made
Washington's only error. 1t cost a
run. but was more than offset by Sui
livan's miscue, which Melted the Ma
tionalS two tallies.
Judge and Foster gave Weaver and
z. Collins chances to distinguish
themselves in the initial session. Buck
made a diving stab of Joe's line drive,
and Collins was compelled to pull a
one-handed stop to flag the third
sacker. Sullivan was unable to get
them over for MenoSky, who stole
second. Rice also strolled, and when
Murphy drilled d double over third
base Johnson was given a margin of
two runs to work on. Weaver took
care Of Picinich.
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The suburban schedule ends on Au-
gust and it could delay playing the
postponed matches of yesterday to a
week after that. but it will likely run
them off sooner. Regularly listed
matches remaining are:
July 26-Euclid at Bureau of Stand
ards, Holmead at Racquet. and Home
Club at Argyle.
. August Euclid at Holmea2 Home
Club at Racquet and Bureau of
Standards at Argyle.
Soc~"ta~" Nelson had figured it out
that Euclid will take the title, with
i..-,quel second anu Holinead, OF whicn
the remaining matches should work
to the advantage of Euclid. The
leader has only one more hard match
the one it has with Holmead on the
last day of the season. Its other two
are with the next to the cellar and
the tail-end teams. Another factor
that should help Euclid is that Hol-
mead and Racquet clash next Satur-
day. on =,r
Listed matches in the Departmental
League this week are as follows:
Tuesday-Interstate VS. War, Munich
pal courts, and Interior VS.. Shipping
Emergency, Bureau of Standards
courts. Observation-Disclosures VS. Navy,
Municipal courts. and Commerce vs..
Treasury, Bureau of Standards courts.
Interstate, although in seventh
place, has been going like a house
afire" recently and is out to spoil
Wars clean record, on Tuesday. War
is making a bid to go through the
season without defeat. 1t has agteam
that is strong all down the line and
should slip over one victory. Here Is
tho standing.
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HOME RUNS FIGURE
At POLO GROUNDS
Giants Defeat Chicago, 80,
Chase's Four-Bagger Reg
istering Winning Tally.

NEW YORK, July 19.-New York
defeated Chicago here today in the
second game of the series. 3 to 2.
Home runs were the vital factors of
the game. Fletcher hit into the right
field stands in the sixth inning for
New York's second run. Merkle tied
the score in the seventh inning by
hitting into the same stand with Ma
gee on base. Chase won the game
for New York in the second half Of
the inning. when he hit a home run
into the right field stand. Score:
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ALICE LORD CAPTURES
HIGH-DIVING TITLE

, RYE BEACH, N. Y, July 19-Alice
Lord of the New York Women's Swim
ming Association won the A. A. u. ma
t;onal women's high diving champion
ship here today, with point score of
1911. Helen Meany of Rye Beach
was second and Bertha Tomkins of
the New York Womens Swimming
Association third. Elizabeth Becker
of the Philadelphia Tungemeinde tied
Helen Wainwright of New York for
fourth place.
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OVERTIME CONTEST
! LOST BY GR|FFMEN
Walter Johnson Defeated. 6
to 5, by White Sox in
Eleven Innings.
COLLINS HIT DECIDES 1T
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

CHICAGO. July 19.-iu 4 Sruellns
contest that kept a monster throng
on edge for two hours and seventeen
minutes. Walter Johnson today was
compelled to bow his head in defeat
at the end of eleven innings, after an
exhibition that for excitement seldom
has been surpa ssed at Comiskey Park.
The score was Chicago. 6; Washing
ton. ).
Going in to pitch after two hard
sprints that Slapped what vitality ne
had left, following ten ROUNDS OIL
twirIing at top speed, the hansal
was unable to stop the Garrison hniSh
of desperate Gleasonites. waiter
two-bagger in the eleventh neceS-
STATED "a sharp dash to the middle
cushion, and another effort to make
the plate when Judge followed with
a single to right. left him pretty Wen
used UP. and the fact that he failed
TO get home in safety did not help
any, either He adjourned TO the
water cooler for short rest with the
bluff of getting a drink, and then
went back to the hill. but falled 10
make the grade McMullln, the nrSt
pale hoSed warrior up IN the eieN
promptly raced a single to right ana
was sacrificed to second. Johnson
grabbed kerr's roller and tossed to
Foster. who ran McMullin down on
the line, Shanks getting the putout.
Kerr eased around ito second Whlle
this was going on. Johnson was I'M
able to locate the plate for Lelpoid'
who walked, and Collins then drove
the ball far over Menosky's head,
scoring Kerr with the winning run.
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JACK WEBER BEST IN
PITTSBURGH MARATHON

PITTSBURGH. July 10 Jack
Weber, unattached. of Oakmont, Pa.
won the modified marathon race of
slightly more than ten miles here to-
day in one hour. eight minutes and
eleven seconds. The race was feature
of the annual track and field meet of
the Allegheny Mountain Association
of the A. A. T., under the auspices
of the Pittsburgh Press. Charles Hig-
gins, unattached, of Pittsburgh and
Arthur Vaughn, Pittsburgh Athletic
Association. finished SECOND and
third. respectively.
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Onwentsia Polo Team Wins.

CHICAGO, July 19.-The Onwentsia
polo team defeated the Dayton polo
four 5 to "a today in the last regular
match of the series. Dayton won the
preceding three.
Capt. RAIDERS stellar play enabled
the locals to win. He was virtually
responsible for all the scoring. of
which he made three goals.
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WINS
EASILY OVER SMITH
French Champion Scores
Knockout in Eighth Round
Before Great Crowd.

PARIS. July 1s.-Georges Carpen-
tier, the French champion, knocked
out Dick Smith, former English
champion. in the eighth round of a
twenty-round bout tonight. It was
Carpenters fight all the way.
Smith was offered as the victim to
Partisan fight fans in celebrating
Carpenters return to the ring after
five-year absence. He was COM
pletely outclassed, Carpenter domi-
mating the situation throughout.
The fourth round alone was about
even. Smith was down for a count
of seven in the third. and took a
count of eight in the fifth. Car
pentier finished his work in the
eighth with left and right hook
to the jaw.
The Frenchman seemed anxious for
a prompt knockout. He fought fierce
~. leaving openings which might
have been taken advantage of by a
more clever opponent. Carpenter
appeared little short Of condition.
and some line was obtained on this
evenings showing regarding his
chances in grue1ing battle.
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Milan left for Washington tonight.
accompanied by Walter Johnson. 1t
has been determined that Clydes ILL
ness is due to a stone. possibly two.
passing from his kidneys to his blad-
der. This does not necessarily mean
he viii have to undergo an opera
ton but it is proving exceedingly ~ =
full. and it may be weeks before the
trouble is alleviated sufficiently. to
permit the centerfielder to return to
the game.
A whale of crowd, by far the
largest the Nationals have played
before on the present western trip,
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HARRY G, LEGG WINS
STATE G0LFING TITLE

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. July 49,
Harry G. Legg. western amateur golf
champion, today won the Minnesota
state title for the ninth time by de-
feating Harrison r. johnson, ST.
Paul youngster. z up and to play,
in the thirty-siX-hole finals at the
Minikahda Club.
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EDDIE GILL MAY MAKE DEBUT
TODAY AGAINST THE BROWNS
Griff Intends to Pitch Former Holy Cross
Star if Double-Header Is Played.
Milan and Johnson on Way Home.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

CHICAGO 19Edde Holy Cross
College St
to break in with the Nationals He graceful
George
to
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Nationals Even It Up.

This advantage was short-lived, the
Nationals evening it up in the follow
ing frame. Risberg gave them their
start, after Foster whitfield, by fun
bling Menoskys little roller, and
Rice completed the job by hammer
ing the ball over Leibold's head for
three bases. Murphy drew a pass
Picinich famed trying to produce a
long fly. Rice and Murphy died steal
E ing. A fast double play, Judge to
Shanks and back again, annulled jack
sons bingle in this session and rem
dered valueless the safety Risberg
followed with. McMullin popped to
Menosky.
An uneventful sixth was followed by
Griffithian threat in the seventh.
Two were gone when Menosky
reached third on his monosack and a
similar blow by Rice. Leibold ended it
by making nice running catch of
Murphy's foul fly.
Janyrin got an unsupported single
in the eighth, while single Sox drew
walks in the sixth. seventh and ninth,
none of whom got beyond first. Felsch
tenth. but was doubled up with Ris-
berg.
Johnson made a desperate bid to win
his own game in the eleventh, when
line, after Shanks and Janvrin had
been retired by sensational plays
Judge did his part by pounding a
clean single to right. Johnson tried to
score from second. but refused to
slide, and coming into the plate stand
nipped him. The unusual exertion
Of two hard sprints tired Walter, who
weakened and permitted the >blows
that caused his downfall
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Caddie Knew What Was
Wrong With This Golfer

It's all in the way one looks
at it, or simply another case of
seeing ourselves as others do. A
noted southpav golfer, used to
getting around the course in
low figures, started out one day,
but seeemed unable to get go
ing. After a particularly bad
attempt, he asked his caddie
what was wrong with his game,
whereupOn the lad shook his
head ruefully and said:
"YOu've got me. boss; but it
seems to me that you have been
standing ON the wrong side of
your BALM. Y. Sun.
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turned out to see the expected duel
between Johnson and Cicotte. 1t had
been definitely announced that the
shincball artist would work for the
South Siders. but at the last minute
Manager Gleason changed his mind
and decided to.save his star to pit
against the Yankees, who open a
series here tomorrow. Unofficial es-
Inmates placed the crowd at more
than 10000.
Owing to Boston's defeat in Cleve-
land today. the Griffmen still hold
title to sixth Place, but by very
narrow margin.
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YANKEES WIN OUT
WITH THEIR BATS
Drive Shocker From Mound
in Ninth Inning and Defeat
Browns, SO.

ST. LOUIS. July 19.-After st.
Louis had gained a five-run lead in
the third, New York rallied in the
ninth. drove Shocker from the box,
scored four runs and won today's
game, 9 to s. evening up the series.
Score:
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Two-base hits-Murphy, Menosky, johnson.
Threebase hit-Rice. Stolen bases-Menosky,
Weaver. Jackson. Sacrifice hit-Schalk. Sac
rifice fy--E. Collins. Double plays-Judge to
Shanks to Judge: Shanks to Janvrin to Judge
Left on MISREPRESENTATION, s. Chicago, 8.
Bases on balls-0H Sullivan. 2; off johnson, 5;
off Kerr. 1. Hits-On Sullivan, 4 in innings
and none out in fourth; Off Kerr, 6 in 8 in
nings. Struck out-By johnson, 8; by Kerr,
4. Wild pitch-Johnson. Winning pitcher
Kerr.
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War. which has been harder hit by
postponements than any other team
in the league, has some tough sled
ding ahead if it is to perform its In
tended "whitewash" feat. In addi-
ton to the match with Interstate and
one with Commerce, postponed from
last week, it has yet to- play Justice
Trade on July % and Interior two
days later.
Smithsonian .............. "A ysstS
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Runs-Magee. Merkle Fletcher, KaufY.
Chase. Home runs-Fletcher. Merkle. Chase
Stolen base-Hollocher. Sacrifice hits-Mann,
Magee. Double piaysEFlack and Merkle;
Fletcher tunassisted). Left on bases-New
York. 2; Chicago. 8. Bases on balls-On
Toney, l. Struck out-By Toney, 2.
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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.

Rochester, 8; Jersey City, 4.
Rochester, 6; Jersey City. I.
Newark, 6; Binghamton, 8.
Newark, 4; Binghamton, 3.
Baltimore, 3; Buffalo, /.
Toronto, 3; Reading, 1.
Tc.cnto, 4; Reading, 3.
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tBatted for Gallia in ninth inning.
sRan for Demmitt in ninth inning.
New York. ...... 1 o o 3 0 O 80
st. Louis. 2 o o o o Is
Runs-Peckinpaugh, Baker (2), Lewis, Pratt
(2), Bodie. Wickland. Ward, Bronkie (2). Ged-
con, Tobin. Smith, Gerber, Shocker, Billings.
Errors, Peckinpaugh, Pipp. Bronkie, Gerber,
Shocker. Two-base hits-Bodie, Wickland,
Ward. Three-base hits-Bronkie, Baker, To-
bin Sacrifice hit-Wickland, Gerber. Sacri-
fee ny-Seyereid. Double plays-Peckinpaugh,
Left on bases-New York. Z; st. louis. s..
Bases on balls-On Mogridge, 1; of Schneider,
2; of McGraw, 2: of Shawkey. 1 on Shocker.
Schneider. in 32a innings: of McGraw, none
in innings; of Shawkey, in - inning; of
Shocker. II in innings (none out in ninth.
by Shocker, 1. Wild pitch--Schneider Win
ming pitcher-McGraw. Losing pitcher-Gallia