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back In the game ready for almost
daily, work, and I nave also hit on an
infiefd and outfield combination that
will do the business.
"Detroit is playing better ball, and
George Stovall is back at the head
of the Browns. This will make a lot
of difference in the playing of the
St Louis team. Manager Birming
ham tells me that Lajoie" -will be In
condition to play beforetHe Eastern
trip is completed and" the Frenchman
is a tower of strength. I dorit see
how they can beat us."
"" Dick Rudolph, the pitcher picked
up by Manager Stalllngs of the Bos
ton Braves, looks like a real find.
Monday he pitched five innings
against the Qiants and held them
scoreless. Yesierday he worked seven
innings of the second "game of a dou
header and repeated the whitewash
dose, his mates pulling out la victory.
Boston won both games. Tyler out
pitched Mathewson in the first. Bos
ton scored the winning run when a
throw to catch a runner at the plate
hit a bat which had beenjeft in the
base line and bounded over XJhief
Meyers' head. Tesreau held the
Braves to six hits in the second game,
but a bobble by Fletcher opened the
way to three Boston runs.
The Athletics beat Washington
easily in bQth ends of a double
header, due to the air-tight pitching
of Plank and Bender. In the first
game Plank gave but -two hits, and
in the second Bender held, e Na
tionals to seven Singles -and' whiffed
ten. Oldring got three singles, a
double and triple in the -two battles
and swiped three bases. Engle, Gal
lia and Hughes were easy for the
Macks. Nick Altropk pitched the last
three innings of the -second game and
blanked the-Athletics with one hit.
'.-Punk throwing by Stanage and an
error by Vitt gave St Louis a victory
over Detroit Zamloch and Mitchell
pitched each other to a standstill.
Stovall cut loose a triple that tallied
two runs.
Manager Chance of the. Yanks is
to make more trades. The P. L. be
lieves that Roger Peckinpaugh, se
cured from the Naps, will bolster up
his infield, but he has two other
dickers on the fire. "I have been un
able to make deals that would
strengthen the team, because I have
refused to give two tens for a five,"
says Chance. "On the Western trip
with the team every time I tried to
talk trade I was offered some old
balls and a few broken bats for my
best players."
Jimmy Kilroy, the North Side fight
manager and promoter, is a peeved
gent Hejias reason for his grouch.
One of Jimmy's proteges, Eddie.Mc
Farland, was to have battled Kid
Clipper ten rounds at Tessiville
Grove, near Niles Center cemetery,
last Sunday. The preliminaries had
been run off and the main bout was
about to be staged when seven
deputy sheriffs, clothed with author
ity and stars, butted in and crabbed
the doings. They threatened to hold
Kilroy as the promoter, but Jimmy
fixed matters diplomatically. Six
hundred people cussed the sheriff's
office.
Leach Cross and Teddy Maloney
will clash in a ten-round battle in
NeV York, tonight. Cross, who is
matched to fight Bud Anderson in
Yernon, Cal., July 4, wants to make
a good showing against Maloney to
boost the coast battle. In a recent
six-round affair in Philadelphia Ma
loney held Cross to a draw.
Tom Gibbons, brother of Mike, the
St.Paul middleweight, and son of Old
Man Gibbons, knocked out Al Shaw
in the third round at New York last
night
Waiter Johnson, speed marvel of
the American League, sometimes
known as the Washington pitching
3taff, is starting on another consecu
tive win journey. He had to make a
new start because of the Cleveland
Naps.
The blazing Blues fractuj-end John
son's record in the ulna bone or some
I such place while he was trying to get
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