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mfirfmrnmmmmmmmmmmsmm. BOXING SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BASEBALL Jimmy Kilroy, the North Side fight manager, is making strenuous effort to keep his boys busy around Chi cago. Pickings are slim and Jim has to hustle to find matches. And every other manager finds himself in a sim ilar position. Jim is trying to fix up his sailor, Battling Joe Geary, with Rabbit Hed lin for part of the Labor day card at Chicago Heights. Joe Sherman and Jimmy Murphy are to fight the wind up of this show. Geary has a good record, both in the navy and ashore, and Kilroy wants him to have a crack at Hedlin. Twenty-one Chicagoans have en tered the national amateur golf tour nament, to be held over the Detroit Country club links beginning Satur day with a qualifying round. In all 138 entries have been received. Ev ans, Gardner, Sawyer, Bankard and the two Hunters are among the most prominent local men. Frankie Callahan, Brooklyn, out pointed Gilbert Gallant of Boston in 12 rounds at Boston. Gallant was dropped in the first round, but recov ered and made the battle a fast one. First football news of the year. Out at the Midway Harold Gordon, Butch Scanlon and Walter Schafer are tak ing some preliminary practice each afternoon. Scanlon was a guard in 1912 and Schafer played back last year. Both have been out of school, but will matriculate when the fall term begins. Stagg is planning to try Gorden in the backfield. New Orleans is to be a battle ground between fight promoters and fighters. The mitt slingers are dissat isfied with the promoting of Dominick Tortorich and Tommy Burns and have made an agreement with an other club whereby they can have an arena for a nominal sum. o o A girl would father marry a guy that can keep her in the swim than one who can teach her to swim. STANDING OF THE CLUBS National League W. L. Pet. W. L. Pet. Phila. . 60 50 .545StLouis 5660 .483 Brklyn 61 54 .530iPittsb'h 55 60 .478 Boston 58 54 .SIS'Cincin'U 54 60 .474 Chicago 57 56 .504N.York. 51 58 .468 American League W. L. PcL W. L. Pet Boston 75 37 ,670N.York. 52 56 .481 Detroit 74 41 .643Clevel'd 44 68.389 Chicago 71 44.617SLLouis 43 72.374 Wash'n 57 55.509Phila... 35 77.312 Federal League W.L.PCL W.L.PCL PittsbTi 64 50 .561SLLouis 60 55 .522 Newark 63 50 .558Buffalo. 57 65 .467 Chicago 64 53 .547 Brook'n 55 64 .462 KCity. 64 53.547BalL... 39 76.339 RESULTS YESTERDAY National League. Chicago 6, Philadelphia 1; Boston 10, Pittsburgh 0; Cincinnati 5, Brooklyn 0; SL Louis 12, New York 1. American League. Chicago 6, Washington 5; St Louis 10, Philadel phia 7; SL Louis 6, Philadelphia 2; Boston 3, Detroit 1; Cleveland 6, New York 0. Federal League. Chicago 4, SL Louis 3; Pittsburgh 4, Kansas City 0; Pittsburgh 4, Kansas City 3; Brook lyn 14, Baltimore 6; Burralo 3, New ark 0. Manager Rowland of the White Sox is doing ope thing for his play ers that will result in better baseball over the remaining spaces of the American league pennant race. He is sending them into each game to play that game only and advising them not to bother about the per centage or scores of the rival clans. Yesterday in the 13-inning game with Washington the Sox knew early in the pastime that Boston had put De troit away. They knew that to lose to Washington meant dropping be hind a game in the dash for the flag. This information didn't appear to t