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UNK|ND TO FORMER PAL
Griffs Hop on Ayers, Who Pitches
at Own Request, for Good
Early Lead.

DETROIT. September 21.-Doc Ayers
pitched against his old teammates
yesterday at his own request and was
rudely handled at the outset. He then
settled down and did we'll for six
rounds, after which he was with
drawn for a pinch hitter. Red Old
ham. who succeeded him. was I'M
steady, thumped hard ana accorded
miserable support, thereby tightening
Zachary's task. Jezebel was in fine
form, and with good backing in the
fourth inning would have escaped
with only one run charged against
him.
Ayers was accorded a hearty re-
ception by his former teammates.
Judge greeted him with a three
Dagger over Flagstead's head. and
Harris scored him with single to
left. Stanley tailed on Rice's triple
down the line in left, Sam register
ing. after Roth fafined, on Ellerbe's
loft to Cobb.
Charity singled and Zach walked
to no purpose in the second. A pass
to Roth and Ellerbe's safety awaited
nothing in the third, and Zachary
double in the fourth was unsupported.
O'Rourke Makes Great Play.
Cobb got no farther than first on a
. free ticket in the initial session
With two Tigers away IN he second,
O'Rourke made a two-base wild heeve
on Huber's roller and followed with
a sensational one-hand stab of Ain
smiths bounder over the middle
cushion. mailing Eddie with a quick
toss while off balance.
In the fourth the Griffs donated a
pair of tallies to the Bengals, thanks
to a wild heave by Judge. Cobb
scratched an infield' hit. Judge took
Eeach's bounder and in attempting a
force play hurled the ball to left field,
putting Cobb and Veach into position
to tally on Heilmann's single to center
The latter took an extra base on Rice's
tumble Fiagstead sacrificed. Huber's
roller resulted in Heilman being run
down. and. after Ellerbe erred on
Ainsmith. Ayers lofted to Shanks.
sesse-Ffye I'm Eighth.
Roth's Texas league double, walk
TO Shanks and O'Rourke's swat
through Pinelii gave the Griffs a tally
in the fifth, and they added five more
of the unearned variety in the eighth.
Shanks walked O'Rourke singled to
right and Bush's fumbles Of rollers
by Charity and Zachary. a walk to
Roth and singles by Judge. Rice and
Ellerbe were factors.
The Tigers got their third and final
Tally in this round on Cobb's double
and Heilmann's single Manion was
left after connecting for. a triple in
the ninth.
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ON FOOT BALL FIELDS

BALTIMORE, September 81. -
Twenty-Five Johns Hopkins gridders
went through their first practice on
the home field yesterday. While the
workout was light. it was brisk
enough to favorably impress the spec
tators.
ANNAPOLIS. Nd. September 21.-
Shortening by ten days their leave OF
a month. the members of last years
Navy foot ball squad are expected to
report to Coach Folwell here this aft
ernoon. Capt. Even. Larsen. Koehler
Cruise, Walters, Moore and King al
ready are at hand. The squad OF
forty, with the exception of the men,
bers of the Olympic rowing party
will begin practice this week.
ANNAPOLIS. Nd, September 81
AS a starter for the season st. Johns
gridmen were unfortunate enough to
severely injure the shoulder Of Ridge
ly. last years star fullback. The ac-
cident occurred in a scrimmage. An
X-ray examination will be made to
determine the extent OF the injury.
PRINCETON, N. j., September I'll
Princeton's second week of foot ball
practice opened with three tentative
teams going through signal drills. On
the first team were Davis and Ray
mond, ends: Keck and Rutan, tackles;
Thomas and Dickinson. guards; Capt.
Callahan, center; Louire, quarterback
Wittmer and Murray, halfbacks, and
Sheerer, fullback.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. September 81.
Harvard's varsity foot ball squad has
started secret practice, and from now
on the Crimson team aspirants will
be kept hard at work. There are
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johnson Goes Home; Sure
His Arm Is Good as Ever

DETROIT. September I'll
Walter johnson today is home
ward bound. He did not get into
uniform yesterday, but watched
the game from the bench. and
when 1t ended shook hands all
around and boarded a train for
COffeyvillc, Kan. Griffith is sat
listed that his star pitchers all
ing arm has fully recovered and
has .>.i.f IN shared by johnson
himself, who has felt no return
of pain in it since he rejOined
the club. GriR is convinced
Johnson will show all his for
mer efrectiv hess next yenr. and.
considering the cold weather
prevailing, concluded 1t would
be inadvisable to use him any
more this season.
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HARD TO DECIDE TITLE
Shops and Silver Spring in "A
Game Yesterday Will Battle
Again Tomorrow.

Deciding a championship has been
a difficult matter this year in Dis
trict sandlot base ball. Amateur
leaguers and Independent players
have been struggling for supremacy
since early in last month. but to no
avail. Yesterday Shops, amateur cir
cult leaders, and Silver Spring, win
ner among the Independent mines,
tried to settle the issue, but the best
they could do was deadlock at fall
after six innings of play. The same
mines are scheduled to meet again at
Union League Park. 18th and H streets
northeast. tomorrow afternoon at 4:45
+, o'clock, and the commission in charge
of the title series hopes the mines will
/ play to a decision.
Silver Spring found Pfeil to its liking
yesterday and should have scored a
win over the Terminal Y. NJ. c. A
Leaguers. Kelly had the Railroaders
guessing the greater part of the game,
but his mates faltered af1eld in the
second inning. when Shops garnered
all it's TALES. The amateur league
champions made only three hits off
Kelly, while Silver Spring pounded
Pfeil for nine safeties.
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ROTH PLAYS STAR GAME
Makes Two Catches That Save
Runs-Heilmann, Reinstated,
Hits In All Tigers Tallies.

DETROIT, September 21.-Bobby
Roth played the most sensational
game he has put up since he Joined
the Nationals. He galloped across
lots of ground to take Eush's short
drive near the foul line in the sew
enth and ran back to the bleachers
in right center to spear Veach's ter
rife drive with one hand in the
eighth. Both efforts saved runs. He
was far from being the worst field
er in the league" yesterday.
The next most spectacular bit of
work was contributed by ORourke.
who atoned for bum chuck in the
second by robbing Ainsmith of a hit
by one-fin spear of a liner.
The day after Jennings announced
Meilmann had been indefinitely sus-
pended the big first baseman made
his peace with the pilot and was re-
He batted in all of the
Tigers runs.
Shanks gave the Tigers a. merry
chase before being retired on the
line in an attempted double steal
with O'Rourke in the fifth. The en-
tire inner works, with the exception
him down. He lodged under two
of them and was out on a close play
sliding back into third.
The weather was largely RESPONSE
BILE for the numerous errors. 1t was
so chilly the athletes fingers were
numb.
Harry Costello, Georgetown's most
famous gridiron product. and now in
business here, called on Grin after tne
game, the first time he has seen him
since he piloted a company of Yanks
to Russia during the war. Costello
says his connection with foot ball
this year will be confined to the role
Of spectator.
Griffin expects to add a pitcher
named Stokes to his roster. He has
been playing this summer with
steel team in Homestead, ia.
johnson, the Evansville outhelder,
has joined the club.
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D. {. COLLEGE COACHES RUSH PLAYERS:
II REPORT FOR FIRST C.. U. PRACTICE

Candidates for foot ball teams at
Catholic University, George Washing
ton and Maryland were hurried yes
terday in their drills. It is evident
that the coaches intend to give little
time to fundamentals before getting
down to the more strenuous work of
scrimmaging. The Brooklanders,
practicing for the first time, were
driven almost at top speed by Coach
Robb; Coach Morse didn't spare the
Hatchetites minue, while at College
Park Byrd had his Marylanders on
the jump every minute.
Seventeen athletes reported to Robb
on Killian Field. OF this number
eight were Veterans of the 1919 COM
bination. The group of old-timers in
GUIDED Capt. Murphy. Dunn, Kilcoyne,
Brennan. Mcnamara. keliher, Mar
shall and Curran. The others were
men with scholastic gridiron expert
ence. Robb lost little time in draft
ing lineup and sending it through
a signal drill. In this workout the
men were placed as follows: Woods
and Curran, ends; Boland and Bren-
nan. tackles: Kilcoyne and Frye,
guards; Ebert. center; Murphy, quar-
terback; Dunn and Denault. half
backs. and Mahoney. fullback. The
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Cornell people may feel assured that
they can go to Philadelphia Thanks
giving day with their pocketb~oks as
wide open. as they care to have them
on something that is at lease an even
chance.
Harvard and Yale.
Much interest will center in Har-
ward and Yale. The former was not
defeated last year and the latter had
wonderful material, but what was
generally thought to be rather poor
coaching Yale has back most of the
men who proved so capable as in
dividuals, but who failed to work to-
gether as a team. 1t should be inter-
esting to see just what Tad Jones will
be able to do with the squad.
And in speaking of the probably
strong elevens, it is not we'll to for
get Pittsburgh, Brown, Dartmouth,
Rutgers. Washington and Jefferson.
| Pitt lost two games last season, Blu:
against the same two eIevens Syracuse
and Penn State. it is likely this fall to
show at it's best.
! gia Tech, if they are up to their
standard of recent years, and other
schools turn out about the same kind
of teams should again be in the van.
Virginia, Georgia, Washington and
Lee, North Carolina University. North
Carolina State. Maryland. Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, Catholic Uni
versity and V. NJ. I. probably will
struggle on not far from even terms
j for high positions in the standing.
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plenty of good linemen, but particu-
lar attention is being paid to the de-
velopment OF ends: and many have
been tried at the wings.
NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, September q.
-Yale's players are getting plenty of
scrimmaging. The first and second
varsity teams an dthe scrubs were
driven through long clash yesterday
Kempton, Aldrich. Lay and Boltwood
are showing up well in the first varsity
backfield
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Septembe,
21.-Light practice has been started by
the Rutgers foot ball squad in prepare
ton for the opening game with Ursinus
Long signal drills are held and scrim.
images occur daily.
EASTON, Pa, September 21.-Joe
Williams. the 210-pound tackle on last
years Lafayette College foot ball team
will return 1t was rumored that Will
liams had entered Fordham.
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Doubtful, indeed, is it if such glow
ing reports generally have ever be-
fore come from those connected with
foot ball in the various institutions
Material seems to be much more
plentiful than usual, and in most OF
the larger schools it is more a prob
lem of how to make use of the ma
terial on hand than of how to find
men to fill certain positions.
Two Big Reasons.
Two main causes for this are very
evident. Greater numbers Of stu
dents are registering in the colleges
and universities. and, inasmuch as
foot ball is being more generally
played in high and prep schools. a
greater percentage of students regis
tering with each passing year have
had experience on the gridiron. And
tipathy toward the game there used
to be. and most parents now are
rather glad to have their sons play
foot ball, whereas a decade ago, in pei
suasive efforts to bolster squads, more
than one fond parent had to be con-
WINGED that the husky offspring woulo
not run any great chance of having his
legs twisted off.
In the east two teams loom ul
among what should be the most pow
crful combinations-Penn State and
Princeton. Penn State has SO many
good men that one or two of the best
players on the championship eleven
of year ago are in doubt about
their positions. Why, for instance
one of the best running backs in 1915
is sitting on the sidelines watching
another man fill his position. Ness
captain of the team, is dividing hi.
time with another player at guard
MI r. crSL H. ,,e,A ~ -
that the other man will win the jot
regularly. 1t used to be the preva
lent notion that a captain had to b.
given his job no matter what the
consequences, but last season. wher
captains of about six big eIevens sa
on benches most of the time, JUS
about dispelled that notion.
Princeton Well Fixed.
Princeton, with the exception O
Trimble, has back practically tn,
same players with whom it tied Har
ward and defeated Yale. and beside.
has from the freshman eleven som,
of the best prospects that have gons
to varsity teams from first-year ag.
gregations- The Tiger freshman clever
of year ago was worthy OF more motto.
than it got; it beat the Yale yearling.
20 to O.
Syracuse lost Erwig from the pow.
erful eleven with which it beat Pitts.
burgh. but it has back the bulk of its
other strength. Alexander. All-Amer-
lean guard, is to be back. Colgate
also drops one or two stars. but still
has the nucleus of the kind of teams
it has been turning out for years.
One school which is going to sur
prise everybody is Cornell. In it's
early season contests the Ithacans
probably Will run up some scores
which will make Pennsylvania sit w
with jerk. Dobie has the kind OF
material at Cornell he was used to in
the west, and that he will develop q
great eleven nobody need doubt. The
Ithacans have the men for a wonder.
full foot ball team and Dobie is coacf
enough to get the best out of them
For the first time in quite a while
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Start Big Series Here Today.

The Cuban Stars of Havana and the
Brooklyn Royal Giants, leading col
ored team of the east. will clash this
fafternoon at American League Park
in the first engagement of their three
game series for the worlds semi
professional base ball championship.
Games will be played tomorrow and
Thursday. The winner will play Joe
Judges All-Star Professionals next
month Service men at Walter Reed
Hospital have been invited to attend
the games.
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BIG THREE WIN IN A. |.
Yanks Alone Hard Pressed-Al
Figure in Games Featured
by Free Hitting.

Pennant contenders breezed along in
form yesterday in the American
League. The pace-setting Indians van
pushed the Red Sox. Gleason's white
hosed clan stopped the tail-end Macks
and the Yanks nosed out the Browns
in an eleven-inning battle. All three
games were remarkable for free hit
ting, none of the clubs involved max
ing less than twelve safeties.
Walter Mails scored his fifth straight
win when the Tribe beat the Red Sox
to 3. Gardeners timely hitting was a
factor. He drove in six of the eight
runs.
The White Sox downed the Macks
IS to 6. Risberg led the victors' at
tack with a triple. double and two sin
giles in four times at bat. The Macks
made all their runs in the ninth.
Ruth's double. Pratt's single and
Peckinpaugh's bunt, scoring in the
eleventh, gave the Yanks a 4-3 de-
cision over the Browns. Weilman and
Mays. opposing pitchers, were good in
the pinches.
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Ball Walls Are Lacking This
Erick Booked to Pitch
Final Contest in West

DETROIT, September %1.-
George Erickson will be pftted
against the Tigers In an EFFORT
to obtain m even break for the
Nationals in their final contest
in the west today. They are
only two games back Of the
Red Sox, with a series of five
games remaining to be played
with them in Boston, and Griff
II hopeful of yet landing his
club mt the top of the second
division. One of Jennings re-
cruits is expected to start for
the Bengals.
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Ruth Sets A. L. Record
in Run Getting With 148

"Bnbe" Ruth, home-run cham
piOn, shattered another record
yesterday, scoring his 14Sth
run of the season in the
eleventh inning, to give New
York 4-tO-S victory over the
Browns in St Louis. The pre-
vi0ns American League mark
OF 147 runs was established by
Ty Cobb Of Detroit in. 1911.
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Nautical Bowlers Ready.

The Nautical Bowling League was
reorganized last night at a meeting
held by river campers and members
of boat and canoe clubs. Newton
Hammer was elected president, S. b.
Maiz- vice president, and A. w.
B. = secretary and scorer. The sea-
SOL =. IL start October 4. Clubs rep
resented in the league are Washing
ton Canoe. Potomac. Raccar. Syca-
more, Colonial, Yapo, Rock Haven and
Craney Island.
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Advance notices about the Interna-
tional Lacquer were to the effect that
his only drawback was a weak arm,
but there was no indication of this in
the speed with which he shot the ball
around. 1t is the manner in which he
throws which gives this impression.
His error was heave that carried over
Judges head. Wild. but anything
rather than weak. He gets the ball
away from him with no delay and
without seemingly drawing back his
arm 1t was this knack which en-
abled him to flag the speedy Ainsmith
after a brilliant stop of a roller back
of the box to make amends for his
misplay.
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NEW INFIELDER SEEMS
CERTAIN TO MAKE GOOD
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

ETROIT September 2Ths Frank ORourke is the goods One
sufficient line the ability
OF ball player, graduate showed enough
the prediction
he will plug the holes the defense of the Nationals
ORourke did which
He resembling Shank somewhat build fast
his hands and adept he
demonstrated three occasions yesterday.
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Landing ninth among the batters of
the International League. where he
dubbed all season at a $40 clip, in
dicates he is no weakling with the
willow, and the more than thirty
thefts credited to him in the Fultz or
ganization gives a line on his base
running ability. But probably the
best thing about O'Rourke is his ex
perience. He has become a polished
player since he failed to make the
grade on his first big league trial
with the Dodgers several years ago,
and is of the aggressive, hustling type
which. will fit in well with the Ma
tionalS.
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Greensboro Is Champion.

RALEIGH, N. c.. September I'll
Greensboro won the Piedmont League
championship by defeating Raleigh yes
terday, to S. in the seventh game, each
having won three previously Six thou
sand witnessed the contest. Both teams
hit hard.
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MATERIAL FOR ELEVENS
APPARENTLY ABUNDANT
BY III. c. BYRD.

From all ball squads that good
should Hardly single coach has emitted anything
like the usual yep about material the physical condition
that
of and
OF beyond the
mislead
which coaches fully
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Bars pempsey.Moran Bout.

BOSTON, September 21.-The state
boxing commission has refused to
sanction a bout between Jack Demp-
sey and Frank Moran. which had
been tentatively arranged for Revere
October IL.
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Eagles Claw the Yankees.

Eagle Athletic Club walloped the
Yankees in an 8 to game yesterday.
Jet and Beaner were clawed by the
Eagles for sixteen hits.
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Portsmouth Evens Series.

PORTSMOUTH. Va, September 21.-
Portsmouth evened the series at three
all in the fight for the Virginia League
title by defeating Richmond yesterday,
5 to 2.
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Chattanooga Defeats Alcola.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, September 81
Chattanooga, Southern Association, de-
feated the Alcoa Independents here yes
IT. rday, 1 to 0, on a run scored in the
eighth inning.
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Dodgers Sign Semi-Pro.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, September 21.-
The Dodgers have signed Pitcher Harry
E. Hagermann, a local semi-pro player.
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DOC" AYERS IS VICTIM

oEAtt8d 4 ayers IN bpVtnth.
tBatted for Oldham in ninth.
Washington .... 8 5 %
Detroit ......O o o o o o ! 0-3
Runs sbatted in-Harris. Rice t2l. Elerbe
(2l. Judge (2). Heilmann 81. Two-base hits
-Fobb Roth. Zachary, Pinelli Three-base
hift-Judge, Rice, Manion. Sacrifces-Ellerbe.
FIagstead. Left on Observation-Disclosures, 8;
Detroit s. Bases balls-0f Zachary, 2;
of Ayers. 3; of Oldham: 2. Hits-0n Ayers.
in innings; eli Oldham, in innings.
struck out-By Ayers. g. Umpires-Messrs.
Connolly and owens. Time Of game-1 hour
and 50 minutes.
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SCHOOLS OPPOSE: PLAN
FOR TWO GRID SERIES
BY JOHN B. KELLER.

Ihere be only ball the high schools
this seaon the ocad members of the league have their
proposed
and Business the schools which the light
ay planned high
the mechoo will be combinations of unlimited
weight as in former years.
Boys at Eastern
strongly expected
would bar them from
of the
in
When hrst proposed campaign
Central candi
@ @s and
ngfon 1t has lost
the
drills will held
Another
nvon e gn school Charles gdron will be
VINO VIII instruct
today the
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SpeedwaYs Beat Griff Juniors.

The Speedways handed the Griff
Juniors a IL to 10 trouncing yester-
day. Epstein pitched good ball for
the winners.
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Greenheart Gridders to Drill.

Greenheart Athletic Club gridders
will get busy tomorrow afternoon
when they report for their initial
practice. The drill will be started at
5 o'clock
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Robins Reach for Flag;
Indians Hold Advantage

The National League race Inns
reached the stage where the
Brooklyn team can almost reach
out and grab the pennant. By
winning yesterday. while the
Giants and Reds were breaking
even, the Robins increased their
advantage over the Giants to
i've and one-half games, while
the Reds remain two games fur-
Their back. >. Brooklyn has seven
games to plays New York has
ten and Cincinnati thirteen. II
the Robins win three of the
seven games the Reds cannot
beat them out even by winning
all thirteen. II the Robins win
two Of their five games with the
Giants 1T will be Impossible for
the Giants to beat out the
Brooklyn team.
In the American League all
three contenders won, the edge
still remaining with Cleveland.
II the Indians win half OF their
remaining twelve games the
White S0x would need seven Of
nine to beat them, and the YAM
KEGS would need eight straight.
However, the thfee-game series
between the Indians and White
SOx late this week may alter
the situation.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Louisville, z; Minneapolis. 2.
st. Paul. 8; Indianapolis, 2.
Toledo. Z; Milwaukee, 4.
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DOWN THE ALLEYS
BANKERS DUCKPIN LEAGUE.

S.. 5os $40 SIC Totals. 457 400 4ss