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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
M'TIGUE TUNNEY
 BOUT CLOSED FOR EARLY IN OCTOBER

NEW YORK, August 16.-Mickey McTigue, after holding the light heavyweight championship of the world for four months, a last has succeeded in finding a match in New York He Is to fight Gene Tunney, American champion at the weight in Madison Square Garden early in October. They made an agreement with Tex Rickard Thursday. Thus there are now pending five world championship matches-Wilson for the middleweight title on August 31; Leonard-Dundee for Leonard's lightweight title, at a date to be selected later; Dempsey -Firpo at the Polo Grounds on September IA, and Joe Lynch and Joe Burman for Lynch's bantamweight championship, in Madison Square Garden, as the opening scrap of the indoor season, These bouts will make a total of ten genuine world championship fights since the outdoor season be- gan. In three of the five champion ship bouts held thus far this sum mer, the titles changed hands.
 After winning the championship from Battling Ski McTigue was of fered an open air bout for a large purse with Georges Carpentier. But the Frenchman had gone back so far that he turned down the match and McTigue, except for some minor scraps, which paid him comparatively little, has been a champion with very small earning capacity. Thus, al- though champion, McTigue was vir- tually forced to challenge Tunney to fight him.
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(. 4. Bernier Predicts Great Sport Future
 For State UniUersity

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, August 16- Leaving Tuscaloosa Saturday for Hampden- Sydney, Va, Charles A. Bernier. director of athletics at the University of Alabama, appeared be- fore the Junior Chamber of Com merce last night, summing up indi- cations and predicting the brightest future for athletics at the university the coming season. He character ized Wallace Wade, new head coach, who was present. as a man who has won his spurs in the hottest kind of competition, and declared Barney Perry. new director of athletics, well fitted.
 The nucleus for the gridiron team of the coming season will be the fine men who put up such game fight against Pennsylvania on Franklin field last fall" said the re tiring director. In basketball the university has some good men to stand the brunt of the season, and after difficulties in building up base ball, he said. it looks as though next years team will come through" Never has a better sched- ule been built for freshman team in the south than that the univer- sity freshmen will have this year. said MT. Bernier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
ROY MOORE AWAITS REVENGE

Roy Moore's ears still hear in quiet moments the phantom shouts anu cheers of that mob of Chick fans, when Roy struck out, with the bases full, in the tenth inning over in Memphis short time ago. And he's awaiting the chance for his revenge. Moore will twfrl that series opener against the Chicks this afternoon, and the opportunity will have ar rived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
Navy Gridders To Be
 Detached From Duty

ANNAPOLIS. Md, August 16.- Captain Arthur Carney of the Naval academy football team, and his en- tire squad of about 40 midshipmen will be detached from their regular academy duties when the battleship squadron, with which they have been on their summer cruise in European waters, returns to Hampton Roads Sunday.
 The men will thus be relieved for their summer vacation of one month about 10 days earlier than the rest of the midshlpmen, so that they may return to the academy earlier at the expiration of their leave and begin earnest practice for the season.
 The squad was quartered on the ship during the cruise and this gave them an opportunity to hold signal drill on deck in fair weather. They also practiced ashore at every op- portunity.
 The squadron bearing the main body of the midshipmen will not ar rive here until August 2S. There are 1,700 men in the party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
FEENEY FIGHTS TO DRAW IN GO WITH BAKER--IO ROUNDS

Feeney and Baker, two of the best known light heavyweight mid wheelers at Camp Mcclellan, fought a 10-round draw in their match of Wednesday night in the Sixth cav airy arena at the training post, the trophy fought for being the cham pionship of the Fourth corps area. Referee Krone called the bout a draw after Feeney had declined to fight an extra round after the fight had already gone the schedule length of 10 rounds. In the semi
 final match of the evening, Dizzy Dodd of the Sixth cavalry, was an easy winner over Tiger Levenson, Of the national guard. The latter en- tered the ring with a broken rib, against the orders of his doctor. Dodd soon found the weak spot and the referee stopped the match in the fifth round to save Levenson from further punishment. It was one of the gamest fights ever witnessed in the Sixth cavalry arena. In the pre- liminary, Young Boyd was beaten by Shifty Paul. Fighting fans in Anniston and Camp Mcclellan are looking forward to the fight Friday night between Captain Bob Roper and Bill Bailey.
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J. [. RAY, ATLANTA
 SPORTING WRITER, DIES FROM INJURY

ATLANTA, Ga, August te.-J. L. Ray, sports writer for the Atlanta Journal, died at a local hospital this morning of blood poisoning.
 Ray was injured in an automobile accident last week and was thought to be recovering, when his condition suddenly took a turn for the worse last night and he died today.
 He came to Atlanta early this year from Nashville, where he began his newspaper career. He served in the marine corps during the war, return ing to Nashville as soon as he re- ceived his discharge.
 The body will be shipped tomorrow to Nashville for funeral and inter- ment.
 Commenting on the death of his assistant. Morgan Blake, sports ed itor of the Journal said:
 'In the death of J. L. Ray a golden hearted boy, whom I have known and loved as a bro ther for five years, lose one whose friendship cannot be measured in mere words. He was a man who could always be depended upon in any emergency. There was no, one iota of selfishnesS in his heart"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
Maddened Bull Puts TOrmenters To Flight

PARIS, August 16.-The tradition al amateur bull fight in the Forques district, near Aries, probably never will be held again, authorities said today, following yesterdays tragedy in which four persons were killed and twelve seriously injured when an infuriated bull leaped the bar rier and caused a stampede among spectators.
 The bull fight was part of the elaborate festivities with which the people of the district always had ob- served the Feast of the Assumption. It was in front of the bull that the youths of Provence were accustomed to display their valor before L. maidens of their choice.
 Yesterdays event was just start ing and the grandstand was crowd ed when a maddened bull leape, into the enclosure where the anna teur bull fighters were preparing their attack.
 People rushed for the highest tiers of seats and the grandstand collapsed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
TraUeLerS Are GiUen Credit For alley Scored Wednesday

The Travellers of Little Rock were not cheated by the rain of that one run they scored against the Barons Wednesday after all. Further examination into the baseball rules by the official scorer of the Birmingham club disclosed that the latest rulings on games halted before the nine innings have been played show that the score stands as it really is, if the home team is leading at the time of the halting. There fore. Birmingham defeated Little Rock by an to 1 score Wednes- day, instead of 8 to o. The game was halted by rain in the eighth ming.
 As a result of the change in the score. Hurt gets credit for 8 single and run scored, and Philbin gets a two bagger. Band trimmer, Neiderkorn and Smith have times at bat added to their records. The Barons didn't go to bat
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Australian Cup Stars Are Easy Winners In TiItS

LONGWOOD CRICKET CLUB BROOKLINE Mass, August 16.- The Australian Davis cup tennis team, employing only veteran tested players with more experience in iIh portant tournaments, easily won both the first days singles matches from France on the courts of the Longwood club Thursday. If Austra- lta wins Fridays doubles match, the makeshift team from the land down under belatedly called together just in time to challenge again this year will enter the challenge round against America. for the second con secutive season In any case, Aus tralia has to win but one more match, either singles or doubles, to win the right to play the American team for the huge Dwight F. Davis cup.
 Rene Lacoste, one of the younger French stars, was sent against J. O.. Anderson in the first match Thurs day. Anderson beat him 7-5, 6-3, 6-4. J. B, Hawkes. of Australia, won from Jacques Brugnon, France, 6-2, 6-1, 7-5.
 Notwithstanding the apparent struggle in the scores, the two Australians had no trouble winning. Neither Lacoste nor Brugnon was up to first rate tournament play At the beginning, Lacoste gave Ander- son little trouble with his wicked back hand that took a bit of solving.
 Hawkes. was superior to Brugnop in all details of the sport, being much steadier from all parts of the court and stroking with poetic smoothness. Brugnon made many errors, netting frequently in an attempt to stop ral- lies.
 With the score games to in the last set and with Hawkes. lacking only one point of winning the set and match, Brugnon showed something in the nature of a rally. He ran the score to five-all, but Hawkes. smoothed out his work which was rather patchy in this crisis and took the next two games, each love, on his own and the Frenchman s
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Rickard Says There Is No Doubt About Staging ThIe Bout

NEW YORK, August 16.-Although Jack Dempsey has not yet obtained a license to box in New York state and the permit for the Dempsey Firpo fight has not yet been issued, there is no doubt that the men will fight when and where they have agreed to fight, Tex Rickard, the promoter, said Thursday. The bout s dated September IA, and the pat lie site will be the Polo Grounds.
 Friends of Harry Wills, hoping to have him substituted for Firpo in this match. seized upon the fact that some of the proper formalities had not been completed to cast doubt on the fight. Rickard said all the H. censes and permits that will be needed will be issued at the next meeting of the New York boxing commission.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
Independents Win

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, August 1s,- (Special.) )-The Huntsville Independ- ent bas eball team won the game from Shelbyville yesterday by the score of to 5, following their de- feat of Monday by a score of 8 to 2.
 The Boaz team is due here Thurs day to begin a series of three games.
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Totals ...,.,.31 24 14 sBatted for Haines in eighth.
scnre hv innlnrn:

Brooklyn ............ 0O1 900 10'-s
 Summary: Two-base hits. Bottomley Three-base hit, High. Home run, Neis Stolen base, T. Griffith. Neis Sacrifice Johnson. Left on base St. Louis 6 Brooklyn 5. Bases on balls off Haines 2 North l. Grimes 2. Struck out by Haines ?, Grimes 4. Hits, off Haines in innings off North none in 1 inning Losing pitcher, Haines. Umpires Morar and Hart. Time, 1:S2.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
Mitchell Bout In New Orleans Is Off

15-round bout scheduled for August
 "A between Pinkie Mitchell of Mil waukee and Basil Galiano of New Orleans for the junior welterweight champion title was declared off today by Frank Edwards, match r aker, Edwards said he had learned
 that Mitchell had injured himself while training in the Wisconsin city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
Huntsville Loses Series

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. August 16,- Sp(ecial)-The Huntsville Inden- pendent baseball team returned from Shelbyville this morning after having dropped two games of the series three to the Shelby vile inc Shelbyville won the con- cluding game by the score of to 5. The Independents are playing Boaz the rest of this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-17
YANKEES WALLOPI DANFORTHIN DUEL BY 3 TO I SCORE
Tigers Blank Athletics, While Indians Maui The
 Red Sox

ST. LOUIS August 16.-A pitching duel between Pennock of the Yankees and Dan forth of the home team, resulted in a to 1 victory for the visitors. Kenneth Williams was put out of the game in the sixth inning by Umpire Hndebrand for protesting against being called out at sec nnd hase. The score:
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Tuscaloosa Stars To Try Out With Bqrons

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, August IS. Wright and Wyatt, Tuscaloosa baseball stars of this season, were given a tryout before Manager Stewart of Birmingham yesterday, with the result that the local boys will sign a con- tract for spring tryout with the Barons.
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BASEBALLFORM
SOUTHERN LEAGuE

T Ns VT 1tIg ' ANNHWNNHs Little Rock Birmingham, rain. New Orleans 4, Chattanooga 1. Memphis 1. Atlanta l. Mobile 8, Nashville 8.
 TOday's Games. Memphis at Birmingham. Nashville at New Orleans. Little Rock at Atlanta. Only games scheduled.
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oCUTH Uy IIITIHBss
 Memphis ................ oo2 900 o11-4 Atlanta ...-.........s... GOO 900 OO1-1 1 Summary: Two-base hits, Ring Kilin- ger. Three-base hit, Camp. Stolen bases
 Padgett. Brock. Sacrifices. Camp. La motte, Killinger. Double plays, Tuero to
 Moore to Miller (2): Moore to Clarke to Miller. Left on bases, Memphis 4 At lanta 9. Base on balls off Warmoth B.
 Tuero 4. Wild pitch, Wsrmoth. Umpires
 PfenninEer and Williams. Time. 1:47.
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1 GIANTS HIT THREE PITCHERSHARD TO|
 WIN FROM CINCI.
PhiIIieS Beat Pirates While Cubs Win Game From
 Braves, 6 To 2

NEW YORK, August 1s.-The New York Nationals came back strong today after yesterdays double defeat and won from Cincinnati in the third game of the series, to l. The Giants landed on Benton, Harris and Gill for 16 hits for a total of
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Totals ......s.s,.
sBatted for Ezzell in ninth. ssRan for Collfna in ninth.

New York .............. 900 200 001-3 St. Louis ....,........... 0lo 900 0O0-1
 Summary: Two-base hits, McManus, Meusel Dugan. Sacrifice, Ezzell. Left on base New York 3, St. Louis T. Base on balls, off Pennock 4, Danforth 8. struck out by Pennock B. Danforth 4. Hit by pitcher, by Danforth (Ruth). Wild pitch, Danforth. Umpires, Evans and Hide brand. Time, 1:b6.
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Totals ..S4 5 0 s26 10 1.-TWO out when winning run scored.
sRsttsd 1 for Wilson in ninth

sBatted for Wilson in ninth.
 '"Batted for Betts in ninth.
 Score by innings;
 Philadelphia .............oo 900 900 ooo--S Detroit .s......s....OO Ol1 10@-3
 Summary; Two-base hits Tierney, Holke. rhree-base hit. Mueller. Home run, Walker. Sacrifices. Rawlings Wal ker. Double plays, Sand to Tierney to Holke; Tierney to Sand to Holke. Left on base, Pittsburg G., Philadelphia z. Base on balls, off Morrison 5, Weinert g. Struck out, by Morrison 2. Weinert B. Hits, off Mitchell 1 in l inning; Weinert 6 in innings; off Betts in 2 innings. ley. Pfirman and Finneran. Time. 1:42.
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NATIONAL LEAGrE
] esterlnylHl kesuIt ts

Brooklyn 3, st. Louis Q. Chicago 6, Boston ?, Philadelphia 8. Pittsburg 5. New York T. Cincinnati l.
 TOday's Games. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Chicago at Boston. Pittsburg at Philadelphia. Cincinnati at New York.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
XaaterdavSa nR

tHNeFUMy78 78 fIesuIt9. New York 8 St. Louis 1. Detroit 3, Philadelphia O. Cleveland 12, Boston 8. Washington g, Chicago ?.
 TOday's Games. New York at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Detroit. Washington at Chicago. Only games scheduled.
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OuTiTndIys IWU-DdHt UIIs. VOITIHst NICF, Russell. Thurston, Liebold. Stolen bases, Rice, Judge. Sacrifices. Graham. Peck (2), Llebold Double plays, Bluege to Harris to Judge (2) Peckinpaugh to Harris Left on base, Washington z. Chicago 10. Bases on balls, off Cadore 9 Russell 2. Struck out by Cadore 8, Russell l. Hits, off Cadore in 2 1-s in nings; Thurston In 2-s. Wild pitch, Russell. Losing pitcher, Cadore. Um- pires Naliin and Owens. Time, 1:49.
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Grimes Allows Four Hits

BROOKLYN, August 1e.-Grimes al- lowed St. Louis four scattered hits to- day and Brooklyn won, to o, making 1t two straight in the series of four. Neis hit a homer in the third inning over the
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Totals .......... 33 24 16 'Batted for Harris In eighth.

New York ............. 002 l30 00*-7 croft Jackson. Three-base hit, Young. Home runs. Frisch Meusel, Hargrave. Stolen base, Young. Double plays, Burns to Daubert; Caveney to Daubert; Gowdy to Bancroft; Caveney to Bohne to Daubert. Bases on balls. off Watson l, Benton l. Harris l. Gill l. Struck out, by Watson 5, Gill l. Hits, off Benton Il in Ia in- nlngs. Harris { in 2-3 innings. Gill in l inning. Left on base, Cincinnati G. New York 8. Losing pitcher. Benton. Empires, McCormick and O'Day. Time, 1:42.
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Cubs Mass Attack

BOSTON, August 16.--Chcago defeated Boston today. 10 ?. largely due to massed attack on Eschger in the early innings. Cooney came in from center field to the box for Boston in the first
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LOOKOUT ERRORS GIVES PELS WIN

NEW ORLEANS, August 1s.-New Or errors today and ran the bases well, de- feating the visitors to 1 in the final game of the series Roe hurled good ball and held the Pelicans to two clean hits and three scratches while his teammates collected eight hits and only one run.
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Tigers Shut Out Macks

DETROIT. August 1s.-opportune long distance hitting won a pitchers battle between Dauss and Heimach here today. Detroit winning from Philadelphia, 3 to 0. triple by Cobb with Dauss on and homer by Fothergill accounted for two of
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summary. TWO -Dase mt. D. Williams. Sacrifices. Muivey 2: Double plays, Me to Bernsen to Graff; Cueto to Huhn; zei- der to Niehoff to Huhn. Left on bases. Mobile T. Nashville g. Bases on balls, off Faeth 8, O'Neill 8. Struck out. by Mat teson l, Faeth 6. Fours hits off Matte son in innings with runs; hits off O'Neill in 3 innings with runs. Passed ball, Heving. Losing pitcher. O'Neill Um- pires, Erwin. Johnson and Doolan. Time, 3 :2b
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FAITH HARD FOR
 FORMER MATES

MOBILE. August 16.-Mobne won the final game of the Nashville series today, 8 to 8. Mobile hit Matteson hard for two innings and O'Neill for three innings, while Minatree held them safe. Cuylers field ing featured the game Score.
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Kauffmann. Felix, Cooney. Boeckel. Home (2J. Sacrifices, Grantham C2). Double plays, Adams to Grantham to Grimes (2) Kauffmann to Adams to Grimes. Left or base, Chicago z, Boston 10. Base on balls, off Kaufman 4, Oeschger 1, Cooney 1. Struck out. by Kauffmann 3, by Cooney 3 Hits, off Oeschger 10 in Is in- nings; off McNamara none in 2-3; off Cooney in s. Hit by pitcher, by Kauf- mann (R. Smith) Passed ball, O'Neil. Losing pitcher, Oeschger. Umpires, Klem and Wilson. Time. 1:37..
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Iriven from the box h the fourth innlng.
T V ' I T . Score by inninRs

Boston .......,.......,., GOO 021 000- 3 Cleveland ........,...... 3l1 401 1l'--12
 Summary; Two base hits, Reichle, Mo Milan. Devormer, Burns, Sewell. Summa, Speaker, Brower Stolen bases. Lutzke, Brewer. Sacrifices Stephenson, Lutzke, sewell. Double plays, sewell to stephen son to Brewer 2. Left on base. Boston 5, Cleveland 10. Base son balls, off Ehmke 8. Uhle 1. Hits, off Ehmke 10 in 3 innings (none out in fourth) Murray 10 in 5. Struck out. by Murray l, UhIe 2. Passed balls. Devormer 2 Losing pitcher Ehmke. Umpires Dineen Row land and Moriarlty. Time, 1:S5.
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Buffalo 2, Newark 8 (1O innings). Syracuse 9, Reading 10.
 Rochester 10, Baltimore T.
 Toronto-Jersey City game sched- uled for today was played in double header yesterday.
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Senators Beat White Sox

the former Brooklyn Nationals pitcher, in his first game for the Chicago Amer lcans today, was driven off the mound ing the locals. to ?. Score;
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New Orleans ............. O12 001 OO'-4
 Summary; Two base hits, Knaupp. An flee hits, Knaupp. Ewold, Foss. Double plays, Ewold to Knaupp to Henry; Yockey to Wingfield. Struck out, by Whitaker 2, Roe 1. Bases on balls, off Roe 3. Left on bases. Chattanooga g. New Orleans 6. Time. 1:40. Empires, Jorda and Guthrie.
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REACHES HIGH ALTITUDE
French Aviator Equals Record o1
 American Pilot

PARIS, August 16.-(By Associated Press. )-Sadi Leconte, the French airman, equaled the American alti- tude record for airplanes when, on August 8. he reached an altitude of IO.518 metres. it was officially stated by the Aerio Club of France today.
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pstroit i.- ........'... ooO oil 0lx-S
 Summary: Three-base hit, Cobb. Home run FotherKill. Sacrifices, Blue, Jones' Left on base, Philadelphia 5, Detroit B. Bases on balls, off Dauss 3. Heimach l. Struck out. by Heimach 8. Dauss 1. Um- pires, Connolly. Holmes and Ormsby. Time, 1880.
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SOUTH ATLANTIC LEACIrp
TFXAS IFAGTTE

Charlotte 4, Macon 5 QO innings) Greenville 4, Augusta 8.
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WARWOTH HURLS
 WAY TO VICTORY

ATLANTA Ga.. August 16.-Warmoth held Atlanta to six hits here today, al- lowing Memphis to defeat the Crackers,
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Sox Easy For Indians

CLEVELAND, August 1e.-Boston proved easy for the Indians this after noon, being beaten, 12 to 3. Ehmks was
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Dallas Il, Fort Worth GO. Wichita Falls 8, Shreveport 5. San Antonio z, Galveston l. Beaumont 6, Houston 4.
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VIRGINIA LEAGUE
INTER IEACTU

Norfolk 4, Portsmouth 2.
 Richmond 3, Petersburg 8. Rocky Mount 8. Wilson IS.
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of the fifth and pitched well for the bal ance of the game. Boeckel knocked out
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis 1, Milwaukee 6. Columbus 3. Minneapolis 5. Toledo 8, St. Paul z.
 Louisville 4. Kansas City 1.
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Walkers Homer Wins

PHILADELPHIA. August 16.-A home run by Walker, with two on base, in the ninth inning, gave Philadelphia a vic tory oyer Pittsburg today. s to 5. Score
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'Batted for McNamara in fourth. Score by Innings: