Martinsburg journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1920-1977, 1921-08-01

the head Of the standing column.
hlmm1ck OF the Waynesboro
team leads that aggregation in hit
ting. His present average is 1897.
with II homers chalked up for him.
Layne is leading the Hagerstown
hitters, with an average of only
.322. In Frederick. Blethen is the
real leader with an average of .347.
Neun of the Sox is hitting 1884
and Rawlings is hitting close sec
ond at $40.
This weeks schedule calls for a
Monday and Tuesday trip to Way
nesboro, while the Babies will repay
this visit on Wednesday and Thurs.
day. For Friday and Saturday, we
lose a little money going to Han
over.
1t wouldn't do to have very many
managers with heart trouble in a
race like this one We are staging in
the Blue Ridge-fact is, they could
mt stand-frst one and then an
other team in first place and then
you drop to third.
Shipley, Waynesboros second
baseman until they had a slight dis
agreement non-appearance at one of
the games. has signed up to coach
and play on the Pocomoke City
team down on the Eastern Shore.
Waynesboro has signed us an
other pitcher-Hummer from Prin-
cess Anne team of the Eastern
Shore. He has Won majority of
his games down there and is ex-
pected to go good in the Blue Ridge.
Babe Ruth is now just one day be-
hind his last seasons record-he
got his 37th just in the "nickle Of
time" TO save his record from pass
ing his present season perform
ance. 1t came in the sixth INNING
of the ClevelalF New York game of
SaturIy, and Co,alski was the vic
tim. However it was the only run
the Yanks scored while the Thibe
gathered Is.
New York's new State Boxing
Commission, probably the able adj
vice of the veteran Tom O'Rourke,
has made several important changes
in the rules in the Empire State
that SHOULD greatly benefit the game.
Hereafter boxers will not be per
orf in al,
in New York State oftener than
every eight days. and preliminary
boxers will be prohibited from ap-
pearing more frequently than every
six days. This ruling will stop man
ayers from signing up their pro-
teges for matches two or three days
apart and then cancelling bouts be-
cause of slight injuries.
popular ruling with the fans is
one which provides that all main
events must be started not later
than 10 o'clock p. m. This rule was
in force in the old Fraley law days.
The blowing of whistle ten sec
onds before the expiration of each
round. a ruling that caused boxer
from other states much annoyance,
has been eliminated.
A change of uniform certainly
works wonders with some baseball
players. Trades and sales during
the recent winter caused many a
player to swap uniforms when the
big league races got under way last
spring, and not a few of them are
playing better ball than ever before.
Rabbit Meanwhile is vivid ex-
ample. Maranville, OF course, has
long been wonderful player, but he
has seidom shone to better advan-
tage than since he donned a Pitts
iburgh uniform.
BY the same token Johnny Rawl-
ings, who came to the Giants from
Boston via the Phillies, has sue
ceeded in filling q yawning gap on
Mister McGraw's infield, and jeff
Prefer, who went to the Cards from
Brooklyn, had little trouble finding
himself.
The trade between Boston and
Pittsburgh, by the way, was per-
haps the most beneficial to both
clubs of any that has been made in
recent years. Southworth, Nichol-
son and Barbara have gone a long
way toward rejuvenating the punch
ing power of the Braves, and Maran-
vile has certainly done much to-
ward making" the Pirates.
Jack Dempsey may have fractur-
ed all high-powered, money-earning
records for time elapsed in knock
ing out Georges Carpenter, but if
reports regarding what Joe Lynch
. received for boxing Sammy Sandow
last June are correct the West Side
bantam takes the belt.
Dempsey. on the basis Of $780,
GOO for his bit, earned something
like SHIPS per second against Car
pentier.
Lynch, who fought Sandow at the
Boxing Drome in the Bronx earlier
in the year, was reported 10 have
taken down $4,000 for his end. AS
Sandow lasted just fifty-fve seconds
with Lynch, the bantac boxer was
paid s1S1.S1 per second for his ef-
forts. Of this ffty-fve seconds San