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nJW'i'i!v:aB!JW BTg;M53SBp 3ill Sweeney made his fifth hit of the day and broke the 14-in-ning 6 to 6 tie of the Boston Braves and St. Louis. Babe Adams and Eppa Rixey battled for 10 innings yesterday in Pirates-Phillies game, and then Max Carey, outfielder of Pitts burgh crowd, drove out a double, scoring one needed. Cincinnati and Brooklyn also played an extra-inning cpntest, Reds winning in 11th when Rube Benton doubled and was sent home by Marians' single. Zach Wheat, Indian outfielder of the Brooklyn team, drove ball over fence for homer. Bill Dahlen will not be canned as manager of infants, according to Charlie Ebbetts, club's owner. Scrappy Bill felt so confident after hearing that, he went right out and manager to get thrown off field by Ump, Eason. Yesterday might well be called pinch-hitters' day. 10 of them used in 7 games and most of them bingled. Danny Green, who played in Chicago National outfield when team had such names on its ros ter as, Bill Lance, Jimmy Calla han, Bill Dahlen and Clarke Grif fith, and who later jumped to Sox, with whom he played great ball, is dying of consumption at the Oak Forest infirmary. Luther McCarthey, who used to push scenery around McVick ers' stage,, has claimed the heavy weight championship, now that Johnson says he's through. That's all right, Luther, you have a perfect right to claim it. Claiming fttje is one of $$ oldest and most effective stalls l'n pugil ism. v Charley Miller ofJcoast, white hope No. 674,-may get a chance to argue with Jim Flynn for 20 rounds jn 'Frisco, Labor day Owen Moran, who was disqual ified in his fight with Jack White, will sail for lome in a' tfew days, making usual Bfltish howl of "robbery." Barry McCormick, who was a big league star before .Jphn Titus started to shave, has fired entire Newark, O., team, r Barry has been manager of thefctub about 3 days. !.- Joe Jeannette has piped up and annou.nced thqt he is heavyweight ;f' champion if Johnson really means - that he has quit, OUR PRECISE ARTIST. mFmmJ 3-f t't. "I i 'T Fast black. Some folks put their skeletons in closets; others put 'em in hob-" ble skirts. "-jS! -g, ,. .tttmmsiiet Hfik WfoffWTfc iflgfe Iggg 4 tiltM