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Yankees Beat Reds and Dodgers Play 10-Inning Tie in Inter-League Double-Head-i
Hugmen Triumph in Ninth;
Players Threaten Strike
Doubles by Babe Ruth and Lewis Win Game in the
Last Inning; New York Athletes Demand Full
Shares of World Series Third Place Spoils
By W. J. Macbeth
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 29.?The Yankees out-gluttoned the
world's champion Cincinnati Reds for punishment here this afternoon,
j-.nd in the opening game of the first major league double-header ever
played south of the Mason and Dixon Line, won out in the ninth inning by
a score of 8 to 7. In the second game Brooklyn and Washington battled
to a scoreless draw through ten wonderfully fast and interesting innings.
Tho twin bill was the sporting even
of the year for Jacksonville, as wa;
evidenced by the turn-out, Approxi
mately five thousand persons paid fron
$1 to ?2 each for the privilege of sit
ting in. The bon-tons of the town wen
in tho boxes, and the well-to-do ne
groes filled the "Jim Crow" section t<
overflowing.
It was a capacity crowd, as well a;
en appreciative one. Almost every on?
stuck to tho finish, and that mean
some sticking, ho Yankees and Reds
played all over the field for about twc
hours and a half before they gave th?
Dodgers and Senators a tumble.
But, aside from the wild hurrah o?
it all, there was something deep anc
ominous which the gala crowd little
suspected, something which if nol
curbed and put to rights by the mag?
nates or level-headed players will just
about tear the whole institution of pro?
fessional baseball to pieces before the
end of tho current season. Two base?
ball strikes were narrowly averted, and
the teams which headlined the jubiles
day celebration were directly con?
cerned.
Players Are Disgruntled
Certain Yankee players, disgruntled
over the manner in which Manager
Miller Huggins had divided their share
of third placo spoils from the last
world's series, served notice on Colo?
nels Ruppert and Huston this morning
that unless the owners made good to
the regulars the individual sums lost
by having declared in tho pot Allen
Russell, Bob McGraw and certain
other club connections with the New
York American League team, they
woul- not take the field for the game
with liie Reds. The matter was finally
adjust temporarily by the battling
colonels promising to give a definite
answer Wednesday.
At the park Eddie Roush, star out?
fielder of the world's champions, had
;\ brainstorm about tho admission of
his family and friends. He declared
that unless he wat*, given five box
seats he would have the R.eds mutiny.
Roush abused Charles H. Ebbets and
Harry Sparrow and even went so far
; s to push tho business manager of
the Yankees. Business Manager
Bancroft finally gave the mutineer tho
number and kind of seats requested.
"Babe" Ruth and Duffy Lewis finally
Wv.n the came for New York by bunch?
ing two doubles with none out in the
ninth. Previous to that the Yankees
had a strangle hold on the argument,
but frittered away a fine lead. All
lour pitchers who took part were
hammered rather freely. Bobby
Meusel hammered one of "Dutch"
Reuther's offerings to deep center for
a home run with two out in the sec?
ond.
In tho third Cincinnati took tho lead
momentarily. With two out, Meyer
and Groh scratched infield hits and
both scored on Roush's double to right.
New York tied in its half on Peck's
double and Pipp's single.
Ruether Batted Out
Singles by Meusel, Ruel and Mays
and an out gave New York two more
in the fourth, which saw the end of
Ruether. Pipp, who singled, and
Lewis, who walked i'n the fifth, bluffed
Wingo into a poor throw on a fake
double steal. This added another run
to the Yankee total.
Cincinnati scored two runs off Carl
Mays in the sixth, as the result of a
horrible muff by Lewis and errors by
both Ward and Yiek on Neale's
grounder. A catch by Duffy would
have retired the side.
Ruel tripled to start New York's
sixth and tallied when Roush muffed
May's fly. Pipp doubled in the seventh
and Ruth drove him in with a single.
In the eighth Cincinnati clubbed Mays
all over the field and scored three
runs, enough to tie. After Meyer
struck out Croh singled and stole.
Roush tripled to right. The infield
played deep and Roush tallied while
Peckinpaugn was throwing out Duncan.
But Kopf doubled to left and scored on
Nealo'a single to the same garden.
Nealc was caught stealing.
That brought it down to the ninth,
at the end of which, by agreement, the
game would have been called had the
tie not been broken. Ruth, however,
hammered one of Luque's offerings
to the right field fence and pulled up
at second. Duffy Lewis hit tho next
pitch far over Duncan's head and Babe
trotted in with tho winning run.
The score:
CINCINNATI ,\. I,.) , NEW YOKK (A. I.)
m> r h po a? al) r h po no
Ratli. 2b 5 0 1 8 0 0 Vick. rf....!*0 0 2 0 1
Daubt, nun) i, 4 OOlQloloh. rf...o 1 1 (> l
??Tar, tu 4 1 I ;; o OiPeek'gh, ss.r> 1 2 1 2 0
gfh. 31) I ?: 2 0 5 0 Pipp, lh ...-i? ?11 Id
Rouan, of.4 a :? 1 Dl|ltuth, ci ...:. 1 2 1 00
guncau, lit? 1 o o oi.-wis. K...4 0 1 0 0 1
K.;pf. ?...8 3 1 U 8 0 Mouse., ?ib..-ta -J 4 1 0
Neale, rr..::o 1 1 no'Ward, 2b ..4 0 1 1 2 1
\\nigo. C..40 o sii Kin-1. c ...3 2 a s :; o
Jtuothor, pi o o o i o M.-i-rMiu. p.:: o i i so
nuque, p..30 0 o 1 IM ays, j, ...lo 0 0 20
?Allen _10 0 ? 0 01
Totals . 35 V 10 '2111 31 Totals . .SS 8 15 :;iH
?Butted for nuethcr In llio firth Inning.
TNona out when winning run was scored.
Cincinnati . 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 a 0_7
Now York . 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 0 1?8
Kuns batted In?lly Roush, 8: by Ihinean 1
by Kopf. 1* by .Wale. 1: by Vi-k. 1: bv Pip;.' 1 ?'
by Itut.h, 2. i/!ft on base*?Cincinnati i- Now
Wk. 8. Two-base hits Roush. Kopl Gleich
J'ocklnpaugh. Pipp, Ruth, Lewis, Ward. Home
run- Mensel. Racrtfloo fly?Mays, First base on
firrors-t*Jn< Innai!. 2; New York, 1. Stolen bas?
--Or?n. Pita*. Dout?e plays-*?Ptpp Binl Ruel*
Win?- and Itath. Out stealing?Naalo, Mays.'
Batvrt on balls?Off Mogrldgo, 2; off Ruether I:
off I.uqiie. 1. Struck OU) llv Ifcgrtdire, 1? by
Mar?. 8; by Ruether. 8; by l.uquo 8. Hit liy
1-liWiur? liy Mojrl.k-e tDai/.-rti. lilt??Off Mog
ndge. 4 In 5 Innings: off Mars, 6 In I- off
Huether, 7 In 4: off l.ii'iuu. S In 4 (none In the
ninth?. T'milres?lMmvu and O'Pav. Time of
game?2 10.
Pilgrim IVot .Selected
The statement published recently
that Paul Pilgrim, New York A. 0-.,
had been chosen as assistant manager
of the American Olympic* tram was de?
nied yesterday by Frederi-k W.
Rubien, secretary of the American
Olympic Committee.* Rubien &aid the
committee would not name an assistant
to Matthew P. Hal pin until nexjt
month.
N. Y. ?. Athletes Outdoors
Despite a drizzling rain, Coach Emil
Von Elling put a squad of nearly :\
hundred New York University athletes
through the first outdoor session of the
Year on Ohio Field yesterday. Von
?Slling, after lookinsr over his squad,'
of sprinters and candidates for the Held
events, sent the men into the gym and
confined his activities to tho middle
distances.
Exhibition Games
AT ASHEVII.LE. N. C.
R. H. K.
D-trott Americans.12 1- 3
Boston Nationals.,. 2 4 3
Love, Gl-iur, Alnamlth and Woodull;
0-_cii_-er, Scott, Morgan and O'Neill.
Freak Pitching
Barred* J. Evers
Again Rears Call
JOHNNY EVERS, the Trojan, wants
to come br.ck into the baseball
trame now that they have barred the
pitchers from using freak deliveries.
Johnny is quite certain that the very
pitchers who caused his batting
average to dwindle to a mere noth?
ing toward the end of his service
with the big league would be soft
picking for him now.
"I'd like to have a chanco to take
a crack at those fellows now that
they have to pitch on the level," he
told President Heydler of the Na?
tional League yesterday. "What a
plastering I would give them and
what a plastering some of them are
going to get all aronnd. I could
?bust' them pretty well before they
got to using emery and other things,
and I could 'bast' them again If I
got the chance."
Senators Battle
To No-Score Draw
With Brooklyn
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 29.?
Tho Brooklyn Dodgers and Washing?
ton Senators nut up the best exhibi?
tion of tho year in the second section
of the inter-league doublehoader hers
this afternoon. The teams battled ten
innings without a score. Unipire
Hank O'Day called the game on ac?
count of darkness.
Both teams presented their full
strength, and the players sweltered
through more than two hours' of big
league baseball without reaching a
decision. The eminent Walter John?
son pitched the first four innings for
the American Leaguers, and held the
opposition to a lone bingle. He was
succeeded by Erickson, th? former
Detroit pitcher, who yielded two sin?
gles in the last six innings.
Each side made three hits, and all
of the safeties were of the one-base
denomination. Sherrod Smith and
Leon Cadoro divided the pitching
for Brooklyn, each working five inn?
ings. The former allowed onlv one
I hit in his r?gime, while Cadore was
?hit safely twice. No player made
more than one hit.
In the first inning, after the first
I two Dodgers were retired, Johnson hit
to center ion two bags, but never
reached third. Sir Walter pitched to
only thirteen batters during his stay
on the mound. ?Smith proved to be a
formidable foe for Johnson. Tho first
twelve Senators to face the Southpaw's
shoots were retired in order. Smith re?
ceived great, aid from Ivan Olson, who
made his six assists and one put-out
while he was hurling.
Roth opened the fifth inning for the
Senators with a single, but died steal?
ing. It was the only hit chargea
against Smith's curves. Cadore, be?
sides allowing two singles, issued two
passes, but with men on the bases he
was invincible. The Dodgers flashed
a rally in the tenth inning when Johns?
ton, the first man up, drew a pass.
Zack Wheat hit into a double play and
Myers, the next batter, bounced a sin?
gle off Judge's glove. The game ended
when Myers was caught trying to
pilfer.
Hernie Neis, the Dodgers' sensational
youngster, made several nifty catches
out in right field wliile Cadore was
doing the Brooklyn pitching.
The rival teams nut un a flawless
gamo in the field. The score:
WASHINGTON (A. I;.) ; BROOKLYN (X. I.)
ab r li po if ab r 1\ po ii n
Juris??, Jb ..-!?l ni:; 0OO!?t?:n, 2b ...4 0 0 1 0 0
Milan, !f ...400 It 0 0 Neis, rt1 _400 4 0 ?>
It?.-.-, of ...-too 3 0 OlJolmstaa, 8b.3 0 1 o 2 0
Until, rf _:: (i 1 1 0 01 Wheat, If ...4 0 0 3 0 0
Shannon, 3h..-ltio i 2 0 Myers, cf ..4 0i l on
Harris, 21? ..401 1 3 0 lCone&'y. lb.30J*13 10
O'Ndlll, as. .3 0 1 3 3 liiWanl, es ...3 0 0 3 KO
Plclnlcll. ?a.100 S OOi.MIUcr. o ...100 2 10
Oiiairlty, c.100 4 2 n!Kruc?er, C...201 .': 10
Johnson, i>..)(V? o ?ftOjSmitii. p ...100 0 00
l-'i'lultson, p. .'JO O O 0 O (..'adore, p ...'-'0 0 0 lo
Totals ..310 3:10 12 0 Totals ...31 0 3 30 1.1 0
Washlngtou . 0 00000000 0? 0
Brooklyn . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0
Out stealing?- Hoth, Harri*. Myers. l>ft on
bas?is?Washing-ton, S; Brooklyn, 2. Two-baso lilt
?Johnston, Doubla plsv? Harris, O'Neill ami
.Tudirt* IliviTi en balls- -Off Erickson, 1 : off t'a/lon?.
2. Struck ?-?il I'.v Johnson. 2; bv Erickson. 2,; by
Smith, 2; by Pailore. 3. Hlis?n?r Johnson, 1 lu
4 Innings: off Krlclison, 2 In ?: off Smith, 1 In !i;
off Cadore, 2 in .'.. Umpires?O'Day and Dim-en.
lime of same?2:0.x.
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Giants Win Again;
Only Two Bingles
Made by Red Sox
MOBILE. Ala., March 29.?The New
York Giants blanked the Red Sox to?
day, 6 to 0, in the series that is tak?
ing them nearer to New York each
day. Jess Barnes was working with
particular effectiveness and pie Sox
connected only for a couple of hits,
, vjhile Ed Barrow's young pitchers
tvere fairly easy for the Giants.
Patsy Flaherty, a nephew of the one?
time famous Boston National pitcher,
and Fortune, formerly with the Phil?
lies, shared the boxwork for the Amer?
ican leaguers. The Giants maced them
for seven hits which, along with three
Boston errors, netted half a dozen
runs. McGraw's men also made three
misplays. **?
The series with all its bickering
moves to Greenville, Mass., to-mor?
row, and by the time it proceeds a
little further north the athletes hard?
ly will be on speaking terms at all.
The score:
1'?. Jf. E.
New York Nationals., . . . . ?1 7 3
Boston Americans .0 2 3
Batteries?Ttecan und <"'on:.alfs, Snyder,
Flaherty, Fortuno and Wallers, Livingston.
Fewster Likely to ?Quit
Hospital in Two Weeks
BALTIMORE, March 29. ?Wilson
i "Chick" Fewster, the Yankee infielder,
i was examined by several noted speeial
| ists to-day, and they gave out the cn
! eouraging report that Fewster will be
| well enough to leave the hospital in
i about two weeks. Fewster is recovering
I his speech slowly.
Fewster was hit by a pitched hall last
j Thursday during a game with the
' Dodgers at. Jacksonville. Pfeffer was
I in the box for Brooklyn. The injured
i ball player arrived in Baltimore last
: evening.
$500 Trophy for Race
The New York Chapter, Knights of
; Columbus, filed with the registration
i committee of the Metropolitan Asso
; ciation yesterday a request to place in
; competition a ?ji?OO trophy for a spe
; cial race at its indoor carnival at the
22d Regiment Armory April 10. This
| prize, it was stated, would be contested
! in the "Casey 500."
Amherst Elect??* Palmer
AMHERST, Mass., March 29.?Waldo
E. Palmer, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y?, a
I junior, was elected captain off the
! Amherst College 1920-1921 basketball
team by this year's squad to-day.
Talmer has played a guard position on
the team for three years and also has
played on tho varsity football and
baseball teams.
Ray to Try for a New
At Wanamaker Games
<P?iJ
Fleet Chicagoan Seeks to
Beat Kiviat's 3:55 4-5
in 1,500-Meter Run
By A. C. Cavagnaro
A carnival of relay races will mart
the resumption of the John Wnnamaket
Commercial Institute games which wil!
be held at the 22d Regiment Armory
to-night. Realizing the importance o?
team competition the officials have
carded nine of these races of the twelve
events constituting the program.
Tiie only "special" listed is the 1,500
meter run, placed on the program ai
the request of Joie Ray, Illinois Ath?
letic Club. There is no recognized rec
ord for this distance on an indoor track
Ray's object is to equal Abel R. Kiviat'i
world outdoor record of 3 minutes 55 4-1
seconds. Kiviat established this stan
dard on the Harvard Stadium track ir
1912.
Several athletes who havo campet
close on the heels of Ray in specia
races in the East this year have beci
secured to aid him in his project. The;
are Harold C. Cutbill, Routon A. A.;
Mike A. Devaney, M'??rose A. A., two
thirds of a mile, American indoor rec
ord holder, and Sidney Leslie, unat
lached, local one-mile indoor title
bolder.
Two Intersectional Athletic Leagu?
?hampionship races are listed. One i:
j six-mile road run and the other i
?elay race at a mile and a quarter.
In the road race the representative!
if the Lower Manhattan Athletii
League are expected to win. This group
is composed in its entirety of athletes
of the Paulist Athletic Club. Each
league is permitted to enter ten men,
of whom only five are counted in the
tabulation for the prizes and champion?
ship trophy. Squads from the Bronx
Athletic Club, Harlem and Heights Ath?
letic League will also compete.
The last running of the race in 1918
I saw the Long Island A. L. team carry
! off the honors through the winning of
I first ?ind second places respectively by
Louis Kaufman and Eddie Mayo, both
of the Brooklyn A. A. Kaufman resumed
training recently after a year in re?
tirement, while Mayo is now exhibit?
ing in the London music halls as the
"American Syncopation King."
In the other relay races the keenest
fights are promised in the two inter
scholastic contests, the one-mile inter
club brush and intercollejriate event.
In one of the schoolboy races the Bal?
timore Poly runners will get a chance
to even accounts with De La Salle In?
stitute boys, who trounced the South-j
erners at the Millrose A. A. carnival
last month.
An added event is the recontesting
of the one-mile walk, handicap, which
ended in a fiasco at the Hollywood Inn
A. A. games in Yonkers early this i
month.
Georgetown Loses in 13th
WASHINGTON, March 29.?George
to*wn University opened its baseball
season here this afternoon, losing to
the University of Vermont in a thir
teen-inning game. The score was
5 to 4.
(Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.)
Carpenticr is, of course, right when he says that the rushing, aggres
sive type of fighter is tho easiest to hit.
The aggressive fighter, as a rule, depending upon attack rather thar
defense, is thinking more about soaking his opponent upon the jaw thar
upon being soaked in return.
But the attacker also has this in his favor?he may easily managt
to keep his opponent so busy upon defense that he has no clear opportunitj
to swing in return
Attack and Defense
Fulton, opposing JJempsey, expected to keep the latter's rush bar?
ricaded by a long left with a sting at the end".
Fulton had prepared an elaborate defense against any rushing Sys?
tem. But there was a leak?one blow sifted through?and the scrap was
over inside of twenty second;:.
Willard had prepared what he considered a good defense against
rushing tactics.
The big Kansas bad decided to meet Dempsey's looked-for charge
with a left jab, and if this failed, to retaliate with an uppercut.
But Dempsey upset these stolid calculations by refusing to charge.
With Willard all net against a rush, Dempsey craftily and cagily circled
his lumbering rival, who in turn was forced to the choice of leading or
I else spinning around in the hot sv.n like a top. So Willard was forced to
i take the offensive, thereby upsetting his early plans.
It was upon Benny Leonard's advice that Dempsey acted in this case
?as the lightweight champion .insisted that the lighter challenger would
I bump into trouble by rushing one of Willard's uppercuts.
Rushing the Frenchman
In an entirely different way Carpentier would be a dangerous man
I to rush with an open defense.
For this bird is no Willard in the way of speed. He may not be
j rugged, which he isn't, but he has shown that he can hit fast and hard.
A jawbone left open for one of his punches would very likely regret
the incident immediately.
The Af-ermath
On the way back from Toledo, 'after the Willard-Dempsey matinee,
some one in the crowded Pullman smoker offered the suggestion that
Dempsey would be tho most popular champion of all time, not even barring
one John Lawrence Sullivan.
We offered the counter suggestion that no man could be a popular
idol who in 1917 was twenty-two years old, a fighting man by trade
and yet never wore the khaki.
"That's all bosh," remarked a well known boxer in the crowd. "In
I side of six months the public won't even remember there ever was a war,
! much less who was in it and who was not.
But tho fact remains that as Carpentier, arrayed in his war medals,
stepped upon United States soil not many Americans were giving three
lusty cheers for Dempsey.
But Here's Mike O'Dowd!
Sir: In your column you refer to the oft-repeated question of the
champion of the A. E. P. As one of the fans who witnessed the contests
in Paris, and one who has always been interested in boxing affairs in this
country, I wonrld like to make mention of the fact that the "real" cham
j pion of the A. E. F. has never been mentioned, as such, in print, to the best
! of my knowledge.
In my humble opinion, the present middleweight champion of the
? world, namely Mike O'Dowd, is by far the superior of all of the would-be
"champions of the A. E. F.," regardless of weight or colorT As Mike
O'Dowd was a member of the A. E. F., I do not see why he should not
be taken into consideration, even though he is a professional pugilist,
new that Bob Martin et al. have entered the professional class. The
reason, as I understand it, for his not taking part in the different con?
tests was the fact that he was the recognized champion at the time.
As I understood, Frank O'Brien, matchmaker of the National A. C,
at Philadelphia, has offered a purse of $20,000 for a'six-round, no decision
bout between O'Dowd and Carpentier. Let this offer be accepted, and I
feel certain that it will be a better match than a bout between Carpentier
and any of the other A. E. F. champions would be. M. W. S.
The 19?0 campaign opens in about two weeks. Within this time the
public should be given every possible fact in connection with the talk of
scandal that began with the Chase investigation two years ago, con?
tinued through the last world series and then reached the first stages
of a climax in the statements of Lee Magee. Otherwise baseball opens
one of its most interesting campaigns under a cloud that isn't composed
exclusively of silver linings.
The percentage of honest ball players runs as high as any other
trade, business or profession, It is not only to the interest of the public
but also to the interest of the honest player to have the crooks named and
expelled from the game, wherever they can be found.
Use Novel Methods
i To Assist Athletic
Squad at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 29? The
i Harvard track management has ar
1 ranged for the purchase of' a motion
1 picture camera, cost $2.?509, which is to
; be used on ?Soldiers Field this spring,
; according to announcement made to
day when candidates for the varsity
and freshman truck teams reportad. ?
The camera will be used primarily
to take pictures of the best athletes on
the Harvard squad, then to snap the
beginners, and by throwing the finished
film on the silver sheet demonstrate
the difference between the finished
athiete and the beginner to the ulti?
mate benefit of the latter. The reel will
be first unwound soeedily, then slowed
down, and then screened moderately.
For another innovation two mirrors
are to be secured, six feet tall and
about two foot wide, and both will be
placetl on rollers. The trained athlete
and the beginner will run side by side,
while an attendant will propel the mir?
ror in keeping with both, so that the
less inexperienced man will have an
opportunity to see how it is done.
Track practice will be largely secret
this spring.
There now remains only one sport of
the five major ones at Harvard that can
1 be called opi?n. Secret practice has long
been maintained in the stadium, and
! this has been the case in hockey also.
j Rowing is so situated that no available
' information on the form of the crewc
| can be secured. Baseball for a time
] in 1916 was secretive, but. Coaeh Slat
tery has yet 1o make an announcement
j about his attitude in this respect.
Kentucky Derby on May 8
LOUISVILLE, March 29.?The his?
toric Kentucky Derby, with its new
$.'30.000 added value, and for which 107
nominations have been made, will have
its forty-sixth renewal at Churchill
Downs here on Saturday,. May 8, the
opening day -of the Downs meeting.
The Kentucky Jockey Club made this
announcement to-day, following re?
ceipt of information that the State
, Racing Commission had sanctioned the
I date.
Hockey Title at Stake
TORONTO, Ont?, ?March 29.?The
Seattle hockey team, Pacific Coast
champions, arrived here to-day from
Ottowa to take part in the fourth game
ol the Stanley Cup series here to?
morrow night. A win for Seattle will
tic the count, necessitating a fifth
game, but a victory for Ottawa will
give them the world's professional
hockey championship.
? a
Three Records in Danger
Three records are in danger of beir;:
broken to-mcrrow night when the star
athletes of the East gather for the an?
nual indoor games of the 13th Post of
the American Legion at the 13th Regi?
ment Armory, Brooklyn. The events in
which several of America's Olympic
candidates will try for records are:
Memorial 500 yard run, 1% mile walk
and two-thirds of a mile run.
Yale Nine Off on Trip
NEW HAVEN, March 29.?The Yale '
baseball squad, numbering twenty-four
players, will leave here to-morrow
night for Washington, where on Thurs?
day morning the team will open its
schedule in a game with Georgetown
University. In the afternoon the Blue
nine will play Catholic University.
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Magee's Bomb
Proves a^DucP;
Charges Fail
Ex-Cub Does Not Name th?
4 Players He Says Manip?
ulated Baseball Game.?
By W. O. McGeehan
The baseball scandal which was U
have exploded with a loud detonatior
at the National League offices yester
d'r* did not detonate to any extent
President John Heydler admitted re
ceiving a letter' from the Cincinnati
attorney for Lee Magee? the formel
Cub, but Mr. Heydler declares tha*
(lure was no high explosive contained
in bhe envelope. The president of the
National League admitted that there
might be {mother letter on the way.
Following is the official National
League communiqu? on the situation
to date:
"In the press of yesterday and
Saturday appeared a statement in
definite form in which the Cincin?
nati attorney for Lee Magee an?
nounced that ho had sent to mo spe?
cific charges against four National
League players nnd stating that the
names were being submitted to me.
"I am to-day in receipt of ? letter
. from Magee's attorney, Mr. Alcorn.
and except for tho incidental v.?o of
the name 'Lee Magee,' this communi?
cation does not contain the name of
any ball player who is or has been
connected with baseball at any time.
In fact, except for the mention of
this player, no other person is
named.
Awaits Another Letter
"This letter is dated March 2G, and
as the staterhent attributed to Ma?
gee's attorney was not given out un?
til the 27th, it ' is possible that I
will receive some further communi?
cation from him in which he will
comply with my request of last
Wednesday, in which I requested
that Ma?ee produce any evidence
that he had which implicated any
ball player.
"Magee is not under contract with
any National League baseball club,
and we, therefore, have no official
connection or authority over him.
Nevertheless, he threatened last
week to blow up himself and others
by a bomb which he stated would go
off March 27. I have urged him to
speed up the explosion. I have heard
nothing yet."
So the matter rested yesterday, but
it is highly probable that Mr. Heydler
will receive another communication
some time when Mr. Burleson's men
get around to it. Mr. Magee's bomb
is not a literal infernal machine. He
does not plan to put nitro glycerine
into Mr. Heydler's soup. He has stat?
ed that he will give evidence against
four players who, he claims, wore in?
volved in the manipulation of baseball
games. .
.Mr. Heydler declares that he will
welcome such evidence and that it will
be sifted to the bottom. So far, he
declares, he has received no evidence
of any sort against any player in the
National League.
Little Trouble Expected
Mr. Heydler declared that he did not
see any chance of trouble resulting
from the changes in the rules. He re?
ceived a letter yesterday from Umpire
Bill Klem, who has just completed his
tour of the camps, made for the pur?
pose of seeing that the new rules were i
thoroughly understood.
Klem declared that most of the play- !
jrs had familiarized themselves with '
lie rules before he came and that all
to had to do was to correct some mi- '
?or misinterpretations.
"The rule against doctoring base
Jalls will be strictly enforced in this;
cague." said Mr. Heydler. "I don't I
;ee where it will work any hardship
uther. It is fair to all, and I think'
hat most, of the clubs understand
Jretty thoroughly that it will be en
orced."
irii.y Boxers Meet Here
hi Championship Bouts
The* boxing tournamentof the Do- I
?artirusnt of the East will start at the '
?th Regiment Armory to-night. Elimi?
nation bouts m all classes will be held
nd new army championship titles will
ie awarded. The finals will be he?d to- '
riorrow night Officers in charge be
leve that a logical opponent" for Jack
)empsey may emerge from the car
age.
Georges Carpentier and member? of
-'? mti national Sporting Club will be
?uests oi nonor to-night.
Itis?also exp, cted that General John
.Persniueand Vice-President Thomas
I. Marshall will attend.
Why wait for the crowd'
So much easier to ge*
your Easter shopping <ion?
. early.
Spring suits, including
braided cutaways. b
Easter neckwear?rich
silks. Plenty of knitted
scarfs if you've an eye to
wear as well as color.
Easter gloves?gray
suede kid or gray mocha.
Silk socks, silk hats
shirts, *"Shire" collars
| canes, patent leathers.
Low shoes.
Wool socks to help tern
! per the change from high
! shoes.
*"Scotch Mist" overcoats
of rainproofed Scottish
cheviots.
For the Easter honey.
moon?
Our "Mr. & Mrs." trunk.
A wardrobe designed for
two.
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Rogers Peet Company
Broadway Broadway
at 13th St. "Four at 34th St.
Convenient
Broadway Corners" Fifth Avt
at Warren at 41st St.
Columbia Loses Services
Of Champion With Foils
Columbia's chances for another in?
tercollegiate fencing title were shat?
tered yesterday *??nen it was announce?;
that Captain Millard J. Bloomer jr.
iyiteicollegiate foils champion, had beer?,
removed to his home suffering fren:
scarlet fever. He was taken ill Thurs?
day at the university.
In addition to his intercollegiate
title Bloomer was junior national foi'.'
and epee champion. In collegiate com?
petition this year he lost only or."
bout, at Annapolis a week ago, end *?*>
considered the leading contender for
the foils title in the championAiM .-."
the Hotel Astor. He will hardly be
condition to represent Colombia la I ?
titular bouts. v.-?ich begin April 16.
Hanillrap Wins for Noyes
PINEHURST, N. C, March 29.-Tbir
ty-five members of the T.M Whistle?
who had not won a pn'-e thi? ******
competed in a medal round to-day iy
s,*x prizes. The winners were: H. t.
Noyes, Richmond County, 94?-?-';'?
Eberhard Faber, Fox Hill?, ?''"---'-?'.
H. P. Drysdale, North Adam?. ?SM?
?70; Lawrence Barr, Stanton Heigh.i,
107?36 71; Warren Bicknell, Cle'e
land, 88?15?73, and Tnomas ?M**
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Headwear of truly Metropolitan charac?
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