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labeled the best southpaw of the
game his team usually finished down,
around the kneecaps of the league,
due to no fault of Rucker. Now, ag
ing and near the end of the path,
Nap had his chance. The game was
gone, Boston may have been easing
up in its attack, but Rucker showed
some of the younger pitchers of the
game how to substitute cunning for
muscle. His slow ball came up like
a watermelon, caught the batters off
balance and fooled them completely.
Three men whiffed, one hit safely,
but no score threatened.
Home runs are the bane of Rube
Marquard's existence. In the world's
series of 1911, when Rube was pitch
ing for the Giants, Prank Baker belt
ed the right-field pavilion at the Polo 4
Grounds and broke the Rube's heart
when he seemed to have the Mack
men on the run. The same actors put
on the same show in 1913.
And now, three years later, along
comes Larry Gardner and soaks one
to the far reaches of the park with
two men on, giving the Red Sox
enough runs to win the game. Throw
out these home, runs of Baker and
Gardner and Marquard would have
a world's series pitching record be
yond all compare.
And note that these home-run
clouts were made by left-handed bat
ters against southpaw pitching, a
combination not usually regarded as
productive for the attacking wing.
For the four games from which the
players vdraw their coin the receipts
were $301,717.50, exceeding last
year's gate for the same four games
by approximately $33,000. Of this
total the players of the two teams
will receive $162,927.45, which
means the winners will each get
close to $4,00, while the losers will
take down a trifle over $2,500, which
is pretty fair for fellows who fail to
win.
Their onslaught of yesterday
boosts the team batting average of
the Red Sox to .234, registered with
32 hits in 137 times at bat The Dodg
ers have hit for .223, having made 31
hits in 139 times at bat The Amer
ican leaguers are fielding .976, the
Nationals .946.
President Charles Comiskey of the
"White Sox ball club, accompanied by
about 50 guests, left last night for
Camp Jerome, Wis., the Old Roman's
hunting camp. The party will be
away ten days. Ban Johnson and
several others now attending the
world's series will later join the
pleasure seekers.
Indoor football practice is the or
der for the Maroons, Coach Stagg
requiring every minute possible to
point his men for the Indiana game
Saturday. Yesterday Stagg shifted
the candidates recklessly and when
scrimmage was over no athlete was
playing in the position he is expected
to start in against the Hoosiers.
Capt Jackson went from guard to
tackle and several men were given
a chance at the vacancy. Marked
improvement must be made or the
defeat at the hands of Carleton will
be repeated, giving the Midwayites a
disastrous start. t .
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ISTRIB BACKING UP?
The Tribune yesterday filed a de
murrer to the $1,000,000 suit of
Henry Ford, millionaire auto maker
of Detroit
The Tnb says it didn't libel Ford
when it called him an anarchist be
cause he spent money fighting the
publicity campaign of the munition
ring and steel trust gang to scare
the people into buying armaments.
The Trib printed the story itself to
day. When the suit was filed the
Tribune, didn't mention it Some
thing has changed the minds of the
Tribune bosses.
Mr. Ford's name was used very
carefully in today's Tribune story.
The Trib bosses have changed their
mind on that, too.
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London. German diet has decided
to seize all stocks of tobacco and will
-issue it on application, only,
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