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yf'mmj'iH' was happy over, the postponement, as "his pitching staff is weak, and needs all the rest "it can get. Bresnahan is recovering from the attack of ptomaine poisoning that put him on the bench, and should be ready for duty in two or three days. Phelan is still suffering from rheuma tism in his shoulder. As soon as Art boils out the pain he will be given another chance at shortstop. His fielding may abt be sensatiqnal, but he can crown the pill, and is fairly sure on balls he can get to. Hal Chase drew a large crowd at Buffalo yesterday. He was responsi ble for a big share of the 6,500 people who paid admission. Tris Speaker knocked five hits and stole three bres in the Red "Sox Yank double bill. Warhop outpitched Collins in the first. Peck knocked a homer. Joe Wood relieved Johnson in the seventh of the second with. men on second and third and none out, and kept the runs from scoring. Washington was ahead of the Mackmen when rain halted the pas time at the end of the fourth. Cleveland batted threp pitchers hard and the Browns fielded poorly. Gregg was effective. Lajoie got back to second base and made a hit. Braves hit Tesreau hard. Strand pitched last six innings for Boston, knocking in the winning run .with a double. Mann and Chief Meyers each whaled homers. Reulbach weakened at the end, and the Phillies nosed a win with three runs in the ninth. Becker got three singles and Cravath a homer and sin gle. Tincup, the Indian heaver, start ed for the Phils. Pittsburgh returned to life, batted Perritt hard', and played well back of ConzeJman's good pitching. Wag ner poled two hits. Indianapolis lost at last, Kay See batting Mosely hard. Gilmore and Bariden each smashed three safeties. Buffalo Won with chase in the line- up-ioc-two innings. Camnitz pitched J fairly for Pittsburgh, but Hanford's homer settled things. Baltimore outbatted Brooklyn, but lost. Artie Hofman belted a double and' single. Pitcher Carl Cashion has been sold by Washington to Montreal of the International League. Cornell is a favorite for the big boat race at Poughkeepsie this after noon. Columbia is a second choice, and the westerners, Wisconsin and Washington, are expected to finish well up. Among the Wisconsin men there is a feeling of confidence, and Coach Vail declares his charges have an even chance of winning. Washington has a crew of veterans. Pennsylvania and Syracuse are given no better than an outside chance for third place. A LOVERS' PIALOGUE ON HOME, SWEET HOME By Jane Whitaker. There was just a little breeze, tan talizing because it would fan my face as I sat on a bench in the park and make me forget for a moment how intolerably warm it was, and then It would flit away and the heat would press down. And all the whole boys and girls walked to and fro, happy because they1 had forgotten the intolerable basements of department stores or other intblerable.places where they worked, and rem.embered only that they had hoursof freedom and each other. - From a bench nearby that was al most in the shadow a few words would come once in a while, borne by the same tantalizing breeze. Love words, they were, because the girl and the boy was planning to be married and the girl was building in fancy the "homeV they would have that was to cost $14 a month rent and $175 to furnish. And then the very Proper Person passed. And she saw those two little nest builders-on the bench. And she