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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-11-12

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
ATLANTA IS WITHIN FOUR GAMES OF TOP .ar0ns Are Heading Second Division, With a Small
 Margin to Spare
Rv Associated Press

New Orleans, July H.-No proverbial upsets of the thirteenth playing week of the Southern association resulted at the close of the period today, as all eight teams are in their respective places of last week with variations in margins.
 New Orleans remained at the cham pionship place although on road trip. The lead in the race has widened to two and a half games. Little Rock is second with Atlanta pushing close by less than two games. 'The Cracker climb in the last few weeks has put them in a good fighting place for the pennant. They are within four games of first place.
 New Orleans was second best on the circuit in playing this week. The Peli- cans won five games of nine. The rec ord was one of two from Little Rock, two of four from Nashville and two of three from Chattanooga, which included split in a double bill today.
 Little Rock lost game more than was won. Victories each from New Or leans, Birmingham and Atlanta were overshadowed by the loss of one each to New Orleans and Birmingham and two to Atlanta.
 Atlanta was first in playing honors for the week. The Crackers finished with six victories to three defeats, Two of three from both Nashville and Memphis was topped off by a split in double header yesterday with Little Rock and a 15 to 1 victory over the Travellers to- day.
 Mobile remained at fourth place with the margin widening between third, but narrowing between fifth. The Bears won three and lost four games.
 Birmingham, still at fifth place, is in precarious position. Chattanooga ad- vanced from seventh place to usurp the Barons for a day, only to drop back Memphis yesterday tied the Barons for fifth, but was trounced by Birmingham today and sent back to sixth. B;rmng- ham, heading the last division, where margins exist in fractions of games, broke even on six contests
 Memphis, passed at sixth place by Chattanooga in the week. regained it and now holds it by two points, The Chicks registered three wins and four losses Chattanooga, at seventh, divided equally eight games. Nashville. breaking up losing streak of 10 straight games, fin ished again in cellar place. but recorded four victories to five losses during the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
hF1lDiO1D|
 By Marvin MECa1thl

The old Baron outfit worked to- gether like a swarm of bees yesterday and turned the tables on the Chicks. When the batting eye is right and the twirling arm steady and strong thare is no way to avoid winning. This is precisely what happened to the Barons yesterday.
 Smiling Sammy" as the Chickasaw scribe has dubbed him. pitched in old form yesterday. Samuel has been picking up right along recently and looks like he intends to continue 3o- ing so It is beginning to look like Crews is not a morning glory, after all.
 Cy Barger must have been uneasy yesterday when the seventh inning rolled around. The Barons had a siv- run lead and up to that time his ag- gregation had gone htless, as we'll as scoreless. It would have been an awful setback for the Chicks to go runless and hitless before tho Rarons, who have so far this season been "easy" for the Bargerites.
 Can it be that the Barons are gain ing back their old batting eye? Yes terday they lined out IA hits. including three doubles and a single Ever sin9e they hit the road they have been hit ting pretty hard and regularly. There were 10 doubles in those two New Orleans games yesterday.
 The ancient Hub Perdue is not above 1osine a game oeca sionallv. Usually he is pretty steady and is pitching about
 $50 ball However. as all good pitch
 --sI l. l. >t- yesterday and lost to the Lookouts.
 Volunteers we salute tGee. The Mo- bile Bruins were pulled down a little more toward the second division yes terdav. Mobile has a bare foothold in the first division and the Barons are drawing nearer. Mavhap we will be holding higher position in the next few days The team will he home soon and when we begin to whoop things up there ought to be a change.
 The Cincinnati Reds are awf,iily earnest in their desire to take first place in the National 'e.ere. Bv win hing two yesterday they helped their chances along considerably, One of those games yesterday was for three inninss the other six being played CT July 6. However, the Reds would have won either way. as they scored mere runs than the Pirates in each section of the game.
 What is this we hear of that wflhoit guv of the Wichita Western leacde club? Hitting in ds consecutive games to a percentage of .522. r might well he termed excellent Go to it, Joe We are strong for you.
 Look how they ore lined up in the Southern league. New. Orleans a scant leader. Little Rock two Famas behind and Atlanta two games behind them
 A sinrle series mieht csange the order around considerably
 | After meeting the Chicks on their own grounds today. the Barons will come home and nlay single game with them he-e The Barons and .he Bargerites will meet only five more times after the game to be played to- morrow. s4s s5.ss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
REVIEW OF PLAY
 IN MAJOR LEAGUES

New York, July g.-No change in lead- ership took place in either major league last week. In the American, Chicago gained half game on Cleveland, increas-
 ing it's lead to six games, and retained
 this lead today as both teams lost. New
 York dropped further to the rear In the National, the pace set by New York
 was met by both Cincinnati and Chicago
 The Reds crept up to within one game of the lead, with double victory today
 over Pittsburgh, while New York was
 defeating Boston. Through the addition
 Of their pitching staff of Phil Douglas
 obtained from Chicago for Outfielder Robertson, the Giants hope to outdistance
 their rivals.
 Good pitching featured the National
 League struggles last week, one-half ot
 the eighteen games being shutouts.
 New York defeated Cincinnati in the only game in their important series, when
 Pitcher Benton won his game with a home run. The Reds offset this victory by taking three straight from Pittsburgh, while the Giants lost one of their three games with Boston.
 Chicago figured in five consecutive shut outs, including Alexander's four-hit vic- tory over St. Louis today.
 Pitchers Kerr and Cicotte starred in the credit of winning victories for the Chicago Americans Kerr delivered with success in both games against New Fork, but fell victim before the Tanks hard hitters Tuesday.
 After making a clean sweep in three
 games with Philadelphia, Cleveland lost twice to Detroit before winning. Bagby
 won two games for the Indians. Tn ad-
 dition to it's setback at Chicago. New
 York dropped two games out of three at Boston. Ruth aided Boston in Thurs days victory with his 18th home run of the season. Five pitchers were used by the Yankees in winning Saturday. In the intersectional series ended las; week, the western teams of the American league overwhelmed their eastern visitors
 by winning 47 games and losing only IS
 Rain reduced the National schedule to
 fl games of which the Fasteners playin : at home won 21.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
VICTORY EARNED
 BY THE RARONS

Eddie Foster on the firing line for the homelings, upheald his end of a pretty even pitchers duel until the sixth inning. when the Barons individ- ually and collectively fell upon Foster. and batted him out of the party. It verify was round victory for the Barons, for in the sixth inning. six straight hits off Foster produced five runs and sufficient quantity for a victory. Chief Barger took up where Foster left off, which was with one on base and one out. and the chieftian retired the sides without further SCOT ing.
 In holding the tribesmen to a quar- tette of hits, Smiling Sammy" was ably assisted by Duncan in centerfield, firstly, Summa in rightfield secondly, and Ellis in left field thirdly. Duncan and Summa had four put outs each, and Ellis three Nice catches by Duncan in the first and second innings deprived Lewis and Smith of what might have been extra base knocks but for Dun cans speed. The Barons had but seven infield assists, and Crews made three of them.
 The Barons took lead of one in the first. when Mcdonald looked over four bad ones. and ambled to first. Summa sacrificed. stevenson flied out, but Dun-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
SCORE FIVE
 RUNS IN THE SIXTH

From then on until the sixth Foster and Crews duelled, with Foster giving up but two hits, and Crews none. But in the sixth came the avalanche of Baron hits, and the decision in the old ball game. With one out, Stevenson was safe when he dropped a fly back of short, and then stole second. Duncan secured his second double, scoring Stevenson. Ellis singled, sending Dun can to third Bernsens single scored Duncan. and put Ellis on third. Hair ston singled. scoring Ellis, and Bern san moved to third. Hairston stole second, and then followed Bernsen home, when Peters singled through the box. Here Chief Barger decided that Foster had about enough and went out to take his place. He did, for Smiling Sammy" greeted Barger with double to left, sending Peters to third. Me Donald grounded to Griffin, and Peters was caught in chase between home and third. Barger ribbed" Summa but Stevenson, the eleventh Baron to beat in the inning, forced Summa at second, and the fans sighed, and the inning was over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
Over 200 Horses to Take
 Part in Columbus Races

Columbus, O.. July 27.-More than 200 horses are quartered here for the mid summer grand circuit race pro- gramme which opens tomorrow afternoon with the free for all pace as the first event and the feature
 The 2i06 pace, the Elks home purse of 5000. is another feature. The re- mainder of the program will consist of the 2:1S class trot and the 209 class trot. In the free for all there will be four starters Miss Harris M. Directum J., Eva Abbe and Single G.
 Ten horses will start in the EllSs Alcantara, Jay Mack. Little Batiste. Red Bearer and South Bend Girl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
Wilhoit Hits Safely in
 46 Consecutive Games

Wichita. Kan., July 27.-Joe Will holt. center fielder for the Wichita Western league baseball club, today established what is believed to be n new worlds record br hitting safely in 46 consecutive games. Jnck Ness of the Oakland club in the Pacific Coast league, was re- ported in 1915 ns hitting in Al consecutive games. Wichita fans today presented Wilhoit with purse of $500. Wilhoit's batting average in 197 times at bat this sea- son is .522.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
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Summary: Two-base hits, Neusel, Graf, Neiderkorn, Demoe, Gleason, Sul livan. Three base hit, Deberry. Sacri- flee hits, Perdue. Daniels, Anderson. Graff, Agnew. Stolen bases, Bratchi, Sullivan, Gilbert. Deberry. Double play. Sullivan (unassisted). Left on bases, New Orleans g. Chattanooga 5. Base on balls, off Perdue 1, Marshall 2, Lehman 1. Struck out, by Marshall s, Perdue 1. Hits apportioned off Marshall with 3 runs in innings. Time, 55 Empires, Blackburn and Lauzon.
 CECnND CANFE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28

Herndon @, Roberts, Griffin, Damrau, Mayer, Brottem. Three-base hits: Mo Ginns Double plays: Walsh to McGinnis to Grimm, Distel to McGinnis to Grimm. Left on bases: Little Rock 6. Atlanta Struck out: By Hengeveld 6, by Bacon l, by Roberts 1. Base on balls: Of Hen geveld 8, off Bacon ?, off Roberts 1. Wild pitch: Hengeveld, Bacon. Balk: Bacon Stolen base: Galloway. Hits: Off Hem geveld 8. with g runs in innings. Time 1 :50 Empires: Johnson and Villains
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
PELS AND LOOKOUTS SPLIT DOUBLE BILL Perdue Loses Out to Mar shall in First Game of
 the Day

Chattanooga July c7.-An overflow Sunday crowd saw New Orleans and Chattanooga divide a double header here this afternoon, Marshall winning over Perdue to 8. in the opener. while Tor kelson bested Kelly 1 to in the final. Lee started the second game for New Orleans. but was yanlSed after Gleason, Graft and Neusel, the first three men to face him, hit a double, a single and a double respectively. Gleason went out stretching, and Torkelson pulled out without damage. Score:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
SPORTS
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With Baron Offensive In
 Fine Condition, Smiling
 Sammy" Upholds His End
Crews Allows No Hits Until Seventh Chicks Getting Only Four During Whole Game-Duncan Hits Two DoubIes-Whole Baron Team Gives Sammy
 Fine Support-Barger Comes In

Memphis, Tenn. July 27-(Specia)-Good pitching and good batting before strong Sabbath congregation this afternoon at Russwood park Smiling Sammy Crews of the the good pitching The Baron batters the good batting and most perfectly naturally the Barona basebalers licked the Chickasaws by of to 8. Sm
 ing Sammy smiled whipped his rusy right with such eff that nary Chickasaw batter tasted of hit until the inning when Francis Griffin laced single ter Four hwas the total of the days work of Chick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
CHICKS GET FIRST
 SCORE IN SEVENTH

The Chicks added a little interest into the game in the seventh, when, as before. Griffin singled. Lewis flied out to Ellis. Smith walked Conway struck out. and Bischoff singled, SCOT ing Griffin, but Barger ended with a roller to Hairston.
 Another Chick rally in the eighth briefly aroused the fans. With one out Manda walked. and went to third on carrolls double. Manda scored, and Carroll went to third, when Bernsen let Griffin's grounder duck through his waiting hands. Carroll scored, when Lewis forced Griffin at second, and the round ended when Crews tossed out Smith.
 The Barons scored once more in the ninth, when three singles were made off Barger. The last of the series will be played tomorrow. Score:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28

summary. stolen base: Street: TWO base hits: Cunning. Double plays: Nc Milan to W. Meyers to Golvin. Schooner to Golvip; Wickman to L. Meyer to Gra- ham. Struck out: By Beretsky l. Base on balls: Of Utt 1, off Beretsky 2, off Hodge l. Wild pitch: Beretsky Passed ball: Coleman. Left on bases: Mobile g Nashville (. Time 1:37. Umpires Brennan and Campbell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
TRAVELLERS BEATEN
 BY CRACKER TEAM
Atlanta Scores Five Runs in First Inning, And Adds
 Ten More

Little Rock, July 1.-Two errors, two a five-run lead in the first inning today, and by hitting heavily Hengeveld and Bacon, an outfelder who relieved Hen- geveld in the latter inning, the visitors won the game. 15 to 1. Roberts was in fine form and the locals had few chances to score: Score:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28

Two-base hits: Duncan @. Ellis, Crews, Carroll.
 Sacrifice hits: Summa, Manda. Left on bases: Birmingham g, Memphis 7
 Innings pitched: By Foster 1-3 with $ runs and hits One on base. one out when relieved.
 Stolen bases: Mcdonald, Stevenson. Hairston, Christenbury.
 Wild pitch: Foster.
 Base on balls: Off Crews 5, off Foster ], off Barger 1.
 Struck out: By Crews ,, by Foster i Hit by pitcher: summa (by Barger). Time 1:50.
 Empires: Pfenninger and shibey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
Giants Defeat Braves

New York, July 27.-New York made it three out of four from Boston here today. winning the last game of the series 5 to>2. Benton, New York's first pitcher,swas wild. but Barnes held his former teammates to one scratch hit in five innings.
 The game was repetition of yes terday's wrangling with Umpire Klem Gowdy and Smith were put out of the game in earlier innings. Manager Stallings of Boston was obliged to place in the outfield pitcher Thorpe being sick. Score: R. H. E. Boston ......... 010 ono 000- 2 4 New York ..... 210 O20 0Ox- 9 i
 Misunderstanding and Gowdy, Will son; Benton. Barnes and Shydef.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
Reds Take Both of Them

Cincinnati. July 27.-The Reds won both games of double header with Pittsburg today, before the largest crowd of the season. The second game consisted of only three innings, being the continuation of the game of July 6, which was called at the end of the sixth inning to allow the Reds 10 catch a train for Boston. The New York club protested this game on the ground that it should have gone nine innings. and President Heydler di rected the two teams to play the last three innings today. Pittsburg scored in the eighth on a single by Barbare and muffed fly by Neale, but the Reds also scored in their half. on Neale's triple and wild pitch by Hamilton. who relieved Carlson in the eighth. Scores
 First game: R. H. E. Pittsburg ...... 100 020 000- Il ? Cincinnati s.... 900 1o1 sox- 10 2
 BatteriesAPonder, Mayer and Lee; Sallee and WinEo.
 Second game: R. II. E. Pittsburg ...... 900 0oo o1o-1 O Cincinnati ..... 900 020 01x-S ]
 Batteries-Carlson, Hamilton and Schmidt Lee; Ruether and Wingo. Rariden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Athletics Take Series

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 Washington, July 27-PhIladephia won the last and deciding game of the series here today from Washington, to l Zachary, North Carolina college pitcher, started for Washington, but was relieved by Johnson after the score had been tied in the fifth inning. Score: R. H. Philadelphia ............001 010 0l0- 3 ' 1! w dSHiIiStOH ........... -ZuU UVU W. Batteries: Rogers and McAvoy; Zachary Johnson and Picinich
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
SPORTS
 LOCALITY WIRE
Boston Fans Losing Faith
 h Pilot George Stallings
Braves Made Great Pennant Scrap in 914-Took Worlds Series-Stallings Lauded to Skies-Mitchell Leaves
 and Braves Start Down-Fans Want New Pilot
By JAMES J. coRRErr.

6s points or 51s full games beyond tn. Giants.
 And then came the worlds series the lucky and mediocre Braves vs connie Marks peerless Athletics.v The betting that preceded that affair made the Athletics tremendous favorites. But the miracle work of the Bostonians nad not been completed. It reached It's zenith in the titular clash when~ to she utter astonishment of the CT, tire baseball population, the Braves whipped the Athletics in four straight the only time this has happened in the modern history of world series baseball
 MITCHELL, NOT STALLINGS
 When all this came about the crowds from one end of the nation to the other chanted the praises of George Stallings. They gave to him the credit for the spectacular triumph of the Bostonians. But at the time tLere were few persons--tne ~lnsiders"- who made this statement:
 Tt isn't Stallings to whom the real credit should go. Pass it along to Fred Mitchell who was the lieutenant for Stallings and who was the real power behind the throne Without Mitchell it is q certainty that the Braves never would have landed any
 
 ed many critical situations, the fight ing spirit of Mitchell was reflected in the athlets. and it was Mitchell who saved the team fpom cracking time and and again." But the Stallings' shout CTS continued to hand it to George
 A year later the Braves, with Mitch ell still a lieutenant put up a great fight for the pennant-but fell bit short. The next season Mitchell was passed along to the Cubs. And from that time on the Braves haven't landed anywhere. The team year after year. although the same George Stallings has been at the helm, has played in and out baseball and has never been a real factor in any pennant fight
 The worst showing the club has made since 1914 is this year And the Bos- tonians are now shrieking for the scalp of Stallings. They want a new manag- CT. They feel that it was Mitchell, not Stallings, who was the real factor in the winning of the 1914 pennant. And so they have lost the 1915 and 1916 faith in Stallings and yearn to see a new face in the pilot house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
Tigers Defeat Indians

Cleveland July 27.-Detroit made it three out of four from Cleveland by winning. ? to 1. Roland pitched and won his sec ond game of the series, holding Cleve- land to four hits. Johnson scored Cleve- lands run on his triple and O'Neilps 5 sacrifice. Score: R H. E. Detroit ..........0 900 900 101-2 8 1 Cleveland .......... .O01 900 000-1 ]
 Batteries: Roland and Ainsmith: Myers, Coveleskie and O'Neill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28

Summary: Two-base hits, Knaupp, Gleason. Neusel, York elson Sacrifice hits, Daniels Knaupp. Deberry. Double play, Graft to Gleason to Anderson. Left on bases, New Orleans 5. Chatta- nooga g. Base on balls, off Kelly 3, off Torkelson 1. Struck out by Kelly 1. Hits apportioned, off Lee 3 with no runs 1 out in first Time 1:s5. Empires, Lauzon and Blackburn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
BEARS ARE DRUbbED
 BY SLUGG|NG VOLS
Nashville Bats Utt Out of Box, Playing a Great
 Game of Ball

Nashville. July T-Nashville batted Utt from the box in the second and won the second game of the series from Mobile here this afternoon by the score of 6 to . The Vols played brilliant ball. fielding and batting In great style Score:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Alexander in Fine Form

St. Louis. July 27-Alexander was in fine form and Chicago won from St. Louis today, to 0. Flack hit home run in the third which scored Alex ander. The Cubs got two more runs off Tuero in the fifth, compelling his retirement. Score R. Fl, E. Chicago 0O2 02O 000- [ 0 St. Louis ....... 900 900 000-- 0 0
 Batteries-Alexander and Killifer; Tuero, sherdel, Ames and Clemons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
International l. eague

At Binghamton: Binghamton ?; Toronto 5.
 At Buffalo: Buffalo 6-S; Rochester 3-3. At Jersey City: Jersey City S-1; Newark 0-O At Reading: Reading 4; Baltimore F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
Batting Averages
American Association

At Lousville Louisville TO; Minneapolis 3-4
 At Toledo: Toledo TIA; Milwaukee 5-6. At Indianapolis: Indianapolis 2-5; Kan sas City 3-1.
 At Columbus: Columbus 6-9; St. Pau
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
Luderus Wins for Phillies

Brooklyn, July 27.-Luderus hitting featured Philadelphia's victory today over Brooklyn 4 to ?. He accounted for three Quaker runs. Score
 H R. H T.. Philadelphia . ;. O31 001 OO0- 10 1 Brooklyn .,... 200 900. 0o0- ? 6 Q Batteries-G Smith, Packard and Tragesser; Cadore, S. Smith and Wheat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-28
Barons Take Second From Chicks

Boston fans apparently have lost the superb faith they once had in George Stallings. And it is possible that be- fore another season rolls around there may be a new pilot at the helm of the Braves craft.
 Stallings leaped into national prom thence in 1914 and became heralded far and wide as the miracle man of base ball. Certainly the performance of his Braves that year stands out as one of the greatest of all time.
 Swinging along into July the Braves were in last place--seemingly deeply mired. The team all season had shown nothing that would indicate that it could lift itself beyond second division at it's best. But of sudden the club started on the most spectacular dash in the history of the national game.
 on July II the Braves were in last place A week later they had moved into fourth position. They maintained it until August Sth. During the fol- lowing week they moved into second place, closely chasing the league lead ing Giants. Boston had been lifted from the depths of despair as far as pennant hopes were concerned and be- gan whooping it up for the Braves. The whole baseball world focused its eyes upon the team and began to ask:
 Can they make it? Can they reach the top? And if they do. can they hold