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Sandlotters Seek Games

Indian Head, with record of fif-
teen consecutive victories. is looking
for more scalps. Games with the
GibraItars. Clarendons. Winstons,
Linworths, Cloffeps and Dahlgrens are
especially desired Write Manager
H. +. Burroughs. Indian Head. Md,
for dates.
The Herzl Athletic Club would like
to arrange games with the Rex Jun
iors, r. r. Andrews and Western
Union. Address A. l.. BENEFIT. Y. M.
H. A. 11th street and Pennsylvania
avenue northwest.
Eastern Athletic Club is booking
games with teams in the seventeen
year-oId division. Manager J. NJ.
Mitchell. 423 18th street southeast.
will receive challenges His telephone
is Lincoln 4779.
The Cardinal Athletic Club of Alex
andria is out with a challenge to any
team of recognized standing in Wash
ington, Maryland and Virginia. ]. J..
Sweeney. District building. is book
ing games.
Myer Epstein, manager Of the Grif-
fifth Juniors, is scheduling games for
his charges. Teams In the ten to thir-
teen year old classes can book con-
| tests by writing him at apartment %.
| the Fafrmont
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162 SEEK GOLF TITLE.
Evans, Jones, Manion and Adair
Among Players in Western
Amateur Tourney.

MEMPHIS, July 12.-Fair weather
and course pronounced in tiptop
condition favored the start today of
the twenty-second amateur champion
ship tournament of the Western Golf
Association over the Memphis Coun-
try Club course.
including half dozen sectional cham
pions, representing more than score
of western and southern clubs. were
paired this morning to start at five
minute intervals in the first eighteen
hole. round of the .36-hole qualifica-
ton test, which also will decide the
team competition for the Olympic
cup. the Western Associations medal
play club trophy. The second eight
cen holes in the elimination round
will be played tomorrow. Match play
will start Wednesday.
Chick" Evans, former national
champion and four times winner of
the western amateur title, and Bobby
Jones of Atlanta, southern champion.
are among those expected to make
strong bid for tournament honors.
Evans. in practice round yesterday.
went over the course in a 70, only two
strokes above the amateur record.
Jones played the inside of the course
in 36, one stroke, better than his
teammate, Perry Adafr, also of Allan
ta. Jimmy Manion of ST. Louis. med
alist in the national amateur last
year. played thirty-six holes in 157.
Seven state and sectional associa-
tionS have entered teams in the Olym-
pic cup contest.
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Verify Slipping Both Majors Staging Great Flag Chas
LEAGUE RACE CLOSE
AT"HALEWAY"MARK

The halfway mark of the major
leagues base ball season views a
close strugge between an eastern
and a western club for the leadership
of each league. Brooklyn holds a one
game advantage over Cincinnati in
the National, while Cleveland, though
possessing no game advantage over
New York. has a lead Of four points
in the American League percentage
column.
The heavy batting Of the the Brook
lyn and Cleveland clubs, with re-
spective team averages for the past
week of .337 and .344. enabled them
to oust their rivals from the coveted
top position.
In the American League Cleveland
has difficulty in keeping ahead or
New York despite the Yankees re-
cent lapse Coveleskie and Bagby have
been called upon frequently to re-
leve faltering Indian twirlers.
New York recovered from its wash
ington setback and made it three out
of four with Detroit.
The Brooklyn Nationals. VINO nave
won fifteen games in seventeen. pos
sess a pitching staff that should be
useful in coming doubleheaders. The
Dodgers were the only winning team
in the National League last Week
Cincinnatis twirlers are going wen.
but light batting by their team mates
has handicapped them.
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KN|CKS' STRING NOW "a
Win Three Times in Two Days.
Silver Spring Takes Goth
Straight.

Knlckerbocker Athletic Club con-
tinued on it's winning way yesterday.
taking the measure of the Corinthians
in a to 6 battle, and downing the
Comanches, to 2. 1t made three
triumphs in two days for the knicks,
who vanquished the Mayflower nine
Saturday, and ran their consecutive
victory string to twenty-four. Next
Sunday, the Knicks will visit Alex
andria for "a game with the Dread
naughts, another team with a long
winning record
Defeating the All Stars, to 4,
Silver Spring registered it's twentieth
straight win. Burch's and Barber's
hitting featured.
Virginia Athletic Club showed the
way to the Government Printing
Office tossers in an to slugging
bee.
Founding Folliard for twelve hits.
Cardinal Athletic Club beat the Peer
less combination, s to 4. Teterault
hit homer.
Sartoies good pitching gave the
Yankees a to l win over the Herzl
Athletic Club. Van Zant's hitting
featured.
Shops of the Terminal League
punched hits off owen in three in
nings and defeated Rex Athletic Club,
to 2. Hughes of the winning nine
made two doubles and two singles.
Company took a double header
from Company c in the National
Training School series, to and
10 to 5.
Playing the York Railroaders at
York Pa. the Benning Shops nine
won. % to 4. Kagle famed ten York
batters.
Fort Myer went to the eleventh in
ming to take a 6--5 battle from the
Alexandria Torpedo Station team.
Kuhnert held Brentwood to three hits,
while Potomac Athletic Club slammed
the offerings of Huffman and Bald
win. winning, to 5.
Gibraltar Athletic Club was handed
a 6-to-5 defeat by the Dreadnaughts
at Alexandria. Beamer outpitched
Quail of the Dreadnaughts, but was
poorly supported.
A ninth inning rally that netted
three runs gave the Mount Rainier
Yankees fl decision over the
Highland Athletic Club.
The Rex Juniors trimmed the claws
of the Black Cats in an 11-to-4 en-
gagement.
Park View Athletic Club now has
won twelve straight. 1t trounced
Rrightwood and Riverdale Athletic
Club in a double bill yesterday
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D. c. MAN FOR OIL [YMPICS
Nogara, Mailman, Earns Place on
Bike Team, Finishing Second
in Final Tests.

August Nogara, who helps Uncle
Sam handle the mail at the city post
office here, will represent Washing
ton on the American Olympic bicycle
team at Antwerp this summer. He
earned his right to compete with the
best of the worlds cyclists when at
Floral Park, New York, yesterday he
finished second in a field of thirty
five riders in the final road race try
out The Washington cyclist. riding
at steady, consistent pace from be-
ginning to end of his ardous journey.
crossed the finish line in 5.27.31. actual
time. The trial was ridden over a
stiff course of 108.74 miles.
First honorS went to j. D. Free
man of St Louis. who covered the
course in 5.24.50, new unpaced mark.
Freemans actual time shaved min
ute and so seconds off the best pre-
vious mark, made June - IN tne sec
ond of the eastern try-outs over the
same course by Arthur Nieminsky, .
New York rider.
J. Otto, a Newark cyclist. was third
in $3.50; Ernest Kockler of Chicago,
middle west try-out winner. was
fourth in 5.2s.45. and r. Grasing of
New York finished fifth in 5.30.02.
Grasing, however, was protested.
Sixth position was held by G. stock
holm of Chicago, whose time was
5.32.29. Should Graslns pe olsqoait
fed Nieminsky. who finished seventh
in $3.50, will be awarded place.
Nogara, a veteran of the great world
conflict. came to Washington at the
close of the war and entered the gov-
ernment service as mail carrier. he
is also attending school here. pursuing
one of the vocational courses offered
ex-service men by the War Depart.
ment. Although Nogara did a bit OF
cvcling in the west for couple OF
Years he is a comparative novice at
the sport. He first attracted the at
tention of cycling enthusiasts here In
Speedway sprints during the past
snring and gained national recogni-
lion when he won the southern Olym-'
pic try-out in Baltimore. -,
The bicycle sprint track team will
be composed of Fred Taylor of New
york, who won the national amateur
title Yesterday at Newark, N. j., and
Anthony Young. William Beck and
Chris Dotterweich, all of Newark.
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lage, soon enabled the pupil to excel
the master. and in 1913 Ryan wiped
McGraths world hammer figures on
the record books. At Celtic Park on
August II, 1913, Ryan hurled the ham
mer the unprecedented distance or
1S9 feet 61k inches. a throw which no
rival. either before or since. has ap-
preached.
Since 1913 Ryan has had a straight
string of triumphs. He won the ma
tional hammer throwing champion
ships in 1913. 1914. 1915, 1915, 1917 and
1918. The reason Pat failed to cap
ture the American title in 1918 was
that he was overseas with the A. +.
F.. fighting to make the world safe
for democracy. While in France Pat
competed in the great interallied
games in the Pershing stadium and
won the hammer throw for Uncle
Sam. In 1912, before he flashed on
the athletic world as American ham
mer hurting champion, he won the
national title with the 56-pound
weight. He repeated the stunt in
&.
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WINS TWO WATER TESTS.
Prieste Takes Plain and Fancy Div
ing in Olympic Trials.

CHICAGO, July 12.-H. Prieste of
the Los Angeles Athletic Club led the
divers yesterday competing for places
on the American Olympic swimming
team, finishing in front in both plain
and fancy classes at and 10-meter
heights In the former class he
scored 35 points against 342 for his
closest competitor, c. A, Swendsen, a
clubmate. and in the fancy class he
totaled 96.1S points. Swendsen was
again second with S5.96.
Ray Kegeris, also of the Los An
geIes Athletic Club. virtually un-
known to the eastern swimming
world, sprung surprise in winning
the 1O0-meter back stroke in 1:22aa.
w. Kealoha of Hawaii was second.
Norman Ross of the Illinois Ath
letic Club won the 440-yard national
A. A. u. championship in compare
lively easy fashion in 5:4025. w. III.
Harris of Hawaii was second, three
yards back.
Jack Howell of the Oakland Ath-
letic Club. who won the 400-meter
breast stroke, was disqualified. 1t
was ruled that Howell advanced a
shoulder instead of having both
shoulders on straight line. First
pldce went to G.. H. Taylor of the
Chicago Athletic Association, who
was three yards behind the Califor-
nian. The time was 7:0025.
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There is little spot in Ireland,
where Limerick, Tipperary and care
come together on the Shannon as II
flows from Lough Derg to the sea,
from which for half a century nave
sprung the worlds greatest weight
throwers. There, among the fox tail
grass of old Limerick, herculean Pat
rick Ryan grew up to join the other
illustrious weight men of the section.
Six times national hammer-throw-
ing champion of America. twice
American champion with the 56-pound
weight, winner of the hammer throw
at the interallied games in the Per-
shing stadium in France. holder OF
the world 16-pound hammer record OF
1S9 feet 61s inches, the world 80.
pound stone for distance figures Of
81 feet u inch, and the world 35-
pound stone for height mark of II
feet. giant Paddy Ryan promises to
gain more athletic fame and glory by
wining the 16-pound hammer event
Evening star., 1920-07-12
DODGERS HOLD TO LEAD
Defeat Cards Again While Reds
Are Beating Braves-Giants
Trounce Cubs.

The Dodgers. thrashing the Cards
yesterday, maintained their one-game
lead in the chase for the National
League pennant, but the runner-up
Reds lost no ground, defeating the
Braves. The Giants trounced the
Cubs.
After the first inning when Janvrin
tripled and scored on an out. the
Cards could do nothing with Mar
guard and the Dodgers won. to /,
for the fourth victory out of five
games played ct st. Louis. Doak's
wildness paved the way for a Brook
lyn triumph.
A home run made by Jake Daubert
in the ninth put the Reds on the bet
ter end of 6-to-3 count in their ar
gument with the Braves. Sallee and
Rudolph. opposing pichers. were hit
freely.
Friscfs double. Kellys bunt and
Kings sacrifice fly in the eighth in
ming gave the Giants their winning
run in the 32 contest with the Cubs.
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DEMPSEY TO FIGHT SOON.
Kearns Says Title Bout to b
Staged Within Six Weeks.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., July Il
Jack Dempsey will appear in cham
pionship match within the next SIX
weeks, Jack kearns. his manager
declared in an interview.
Bill Brennan looms up as the prob
able next opponent. But offers have
come from Fred Fulton, Billy Mtske,
Gunboat Smith, Willie Meehan and
BARLEY Madden.
Minneapolis has offered Dempsey
800. 600 as his share of the purse for
a fight there New York is also bid
ding for a championship fight, while
Benton Harbor, Mich; Milwaukee,
Denver. New Orleans, Buffalo, Roch-
ester, Connecticut and New Jersey
also have made offers. Each city has
a preference as to whom the opponent
shall be
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THINNING GAME DECIDES
TITLE AT WALTER REED

Svobdas single that scored McDon-
ough from third base in the seven.
teenth inning gave Company A an 8
to victory and the championship of
the Walter Reed Hospital Base Ball
League in the play-off Of a deadlock
with the Guard Company nine. Nc
Donough had reached first base on an
error, stole second and advanced to
third on Frutchey's sacrifice. The
contending teams had finished the
regular league series with seven wins
and three losses each.
Barnes pitched the first seven in
nings for the winners. with Steele fin-
ishing the game. Harris went the
route for the Guard Company. PrizeA
aggregating $500 were distributed for
various league feats. 500 going to the
winning team yesterday.
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PAT RYAN
for Uncle Sam in the coming Olympic

for Uncle Sam in the coming Olympic
games at Antwerp.
The herculean Irish American also
will score more points for the United
States in the 56-pound weight throw,
for only two other men In this wide.
wide world-Matt McGrath and Pat
McDonald-have chance of defeat
ing him.
For good twenty years Ryan has
been hurting the hammer. AS long
ago as May %. 1904. he won the ham
mer event at the Irish championships
on the Ballsbridge grounds, Dublin.
The same year he was beaten by Tom
Nicholson Of Scotland in the dual
meet twixt Scotland and Ireland, but
the stalwart Irish lad turned the ta-
bles the next year on the giant Scot.
and since then has made throws that
make Nicholson look like a tyro.
Paddy continued to win Irish cham
pionships and make Irish records un-
til almost decade ago, when he came
to this country. Matt McGrath took
him in hand. Ryan's natural strength,
aided and abetted by McGrath's tute-
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DAUBERT FIRST TO GAIN
BY NEW SCORING RULE

Jake Daubert is the first player in
either major league to profit by the
new rule that provided for crediting
batter with homer instead of a
mere hit, irrespective of the number
OF runs necessary for his team to win
when he drives for the circuit in the
last half of the final inning. His clout
in the ninth inning yesterday made
when two runners were on and the
score a tie landed in the right field
bleachers of the Cincinnati park and
gave the Reds a 6-3 victory Under
the old rule the game would have
ended with the Reds winning to 3
and Daubert getting credit only for a
single.
history of Redland field to bound into
the right field seats. None ever has
cleared the barrier on the fly.
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INORTON,S COME BACK
BIG BOOST FOR TRIBE
Gives Speaker F our Winning Hurlers.
Jameson Factor in Tean's Success.
BY DENMAN THOMPSON.

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wv three straight White
passed that they slipping their
aspirations that Coveeskie and
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STARS IN NET TOURNEY.
Roberts. Vosheu and Armstrong
Playing for Clay Court Title.

CHICAGO, July II. - Competition
in the first and second rounds of the
mems singles in the national clay
court tennis championships speeded
UP today with the arrival of the last
contingents of out-of-town stars.
These included Roland Roberts. San
Francisco: Joe Armstrong. Mime
apolis; Howard Voshell Brooklyn,
and Walter Westbrook, Detroit.
In the first round pairings Roland
Roberts is pitted against Arthur c.
Nelson, Berwin, Ill, former Univer-
sity of Wisconsin platter; Joe Arm
strong is opposed by F. r. Exiner Of
Chicago; Walter Wesbrook is matched
against Maurice James, Evanston.
ILL.,. and Vincent Richards of New
York is opposed by Bert Keeley of
Chicago.
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CARLSON STARS ON SLAB.
Yields Two Hits in Eight Innings,
Little Rock Winning, 2-1.

Leon Carlson. erstwhile National,
now playing with Little Rock Of the
Southern Association, revealed his
pitching qualities yesterday in a game
against Nashville. On the slab for
eight innings, Carlson held the Vol
unteers to two hits, famed pair
and granted one pass, all netting one
run. In the ninth when the Travellers
staged four-hit rally, Carlson was
withdrawn in favor of a pinch batter.
Little Rock won to /.
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Speaker, Jameson, Smith
and Chapman Clouting

iris Speaker contends the
local grounds are hard to hit
ON and protests he never has
had any batting luck In WASH
inxton. He that as 1t may, the
triple he registered yesterdny
was his sixteenth hit in twenty
i've times Mt hat here for n mark
Of $40. a great majority OF
athletes would he eminently sat
isfied to do half as well.
JAMESON and Smith were sOr-
ry to leave the capital. This
pair of former GrifYmen feasted
ON the offerings of local fingers
for marks of ASS and .sS1. re-
spectively, and Ray Chapman
helped his percentage by cub
hing at a 1855 gait.
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Legally at Bat Twice,
But Scores Eight Runs

What Is believed to be
worlds base ball record was es-
tabIfshed recently in a three
enme series between the kaia-
mazoO and MuskegOn teams.
Right Fielder Wilcox was om-
ciaIIy credited with having been
Mt bat but twice during the
three games, yet he scored
eight runs. On both omcfai
times Mt bat he made hits. He
xyas able TO score his eight runs
hy virtue of bases ON balls and
being hit by "a pitched ball
once.
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YANKS MAKE HITS COUNT;
RUTH GETS 27TH HOMER.

Babe Ruth's twenty-seventh home run
OF the season. made in the third inning
of the game at New York yesterday,
helped the Yankees to down the Tigers,
6 to 5, and kept his team on practically
even terms with the leading Indians in
the American League struggle. Both
first and second place clubs have four
game leads on the White Sox.
Making each one OF their seven hits
off Ehmke at oDportune times enabled
the Yanks to win Mays was reached
for eleven safeties, including homers by
Cobb and Hale.
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NET TITLE TO ROBERTS.
Drewes and Josties Retain Centra,
States Doubles Honors.

ST. LOUIS. July 12.-Roland Rob-
erts, San Francisco, defeated Roland
Hoerr, st; Louis, for the central states.
tennis singles title yesterday, 6-1.
6-3. 6-3. Theodore Drewes and
Fred Josties, ST. Louis, retained the
doubles championship with a victory
over Harold Bartel, Cleveland, and
Arthur Won Reppert, ST. Louis, If,
3-6. SIS, Ga and Ga.
Evening star., 1920-07-12
Rain Halts U. S.-French Tennis.

EASTBOURNE. England, July 12.-
The tennis matches to have been play
ed today by the American and French
Davis cup players were postponed be-
cause of rain. AS the Americans on
Saturday eliminated the French team.
the remaining matches will be merely
in the nature of exhibition play.
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WASHINGTON.

Cleveland. / 0 0 0 0 o.
Washington. 0 0 D 0 D o o 90
Runs batted in--Smith. .: Speaker. Chap
man. Two-base hits-Shanks. Jameson. Three
base hits-Chapman. Speaker. Left on bases
-Cleveland, IL; Washington. s. Bases on
balls-Of johnson. 9; off Morton, 2. Hits
on Johnson. 10 in innings; of Erickson, 1
in innings. Struck out-By johnson, g.
Losing pitcher-Jdinson. Umpires-Messrs
Moriarty and Chill. Time of game hour and
Sc minutes.
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SHAMROCK MUST ALLOW
RESOLUTE IL MINUTES

NEW YORK. July 12.-Unofficial
measurement figures obtained from
q member of the New York Yacht
Club indicate that the Shamrock will
allow the Resolute. defender of the
Americas cup. six minutes and thirty
seconds handicaps
The figures (unofficiaD:
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Chess Match to Marshall.

ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., July IL
Frank J. Marshall of New York. United
States chess champion, defeated E. S.
Jackson of Philadelphia in their ad-
journed game in the masters chess
turnament here.
Evening star., 1920-07-12
Cheney Leads as Pitcher.

National League pitcher. leads the
South Atlantic circuit with fifteen
wins and four defeats. He has won
eight straight Cheney twice has
famed twelve.
Evening star., 1920-07-12
Colored Teams Play Today.

The Pittsburgh Stars and Baltimore
Black Sox rated among the leading
coIored base ball teams of the east
clash this afternoon at American
League Park. Play starts at $3.50
n
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Tennis Title to Hunter.

NEW YORK. July 12.-Francis T.
added another tennis title to
his collection yesterday when he won
the championship of Westchester
county by a sensational victory over
Harold Throckmorton, 1-6, 2-6, GO,
S-6, S-6.
Evening star., 1920-07-12
White Sox and Dodgers
Set the Pace for Week

The weeks record In the major
leagues of games played, won
and lost. with runs, hits, errOrs.
men left on bases md runs
scored by opponents, including
games of saturday, is as fol-
lows:
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
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Race at Fort Mama Today.

TOLEDO, Ohio. July 1.-THE Sec
ond week Of the 1920 grand circuit
racing season will open on the Fort
Miami track today.
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Printers Beat War Risk Twice.

Printers took two games from War
Risk in the Departmental League.
winning 3 to and 3 to l. Limeric's s
batting featured the victories.
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TEXAS LEAGUE.

Beaumont, 6: Houston. ..
San Antonio. 3; Galveston. 1.
Wichita Falls, 2; Shreveport. 1.
Fort Worth, %: Dallas. 90.
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SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.

Little Rock, .: Nashville, 1.
Memphis. 3: Chattanooga, 1.
Mobile. q: New Orleans. 5.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.

RESULT OF YESTERUAY'S GAMES.
Cleye, 4; WASH, o. n. York, 81 Detroit, s..
Evening star., 1920-07-12

Today the Nationals are idle. To-
morrow the White SoX arrive Tor
four games in as many days.
Evening star., 1920-07-12
PENNANT RACES
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

GAMES TOMORROW.
Chicago at Wash'ton.
st. L. at New York.
Cleveland at Phila.
Detroit at Boston.
I'D VIC Nr0
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