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mpppppmv1" paused now quickly and definitely. The Yanks have been playing for several weeks with a patched line-up, but in a short time Donovan will have his regulars back in harness and the club will be strengthened. Maisel is due to get back in the game here, and Gilhooley will be available shortly. Cullop may pitch one of the local games. Frank Baker is im proving rapidly and may compete be fore the club gets-out of the west Even without Speaker the Red Sox form a difficult combination. The team has the best pitching in the league, and there are suggestions of a punching attack still lurking about Washington does not appear so for midable as the two leaders. In the extended trip which closed yesterday at Detroit the Hose made what is for them a good record, win--ning li games and losing 10. They return home three and a half games from the Yanks, the same margin that separated the two when the eastern trip was begun. Two victo ries in Detroit and four in Philadel phia were big factors in this record. The brightest ray of sunshine is that eight games are to be played with the Mackmen in four days, be ginning next Saturday. This should make certain a climb in the percen tage column, as Mack is still experi menting in an effort to hit on a win ning combination. Wolfgang and Williams pitched finely against Detroit yesterday. Two singles by John Collins and a triple and sincle by Ed Collins were the run-making blows of the battle. Isess and Jackson went hitless. Today the Cubs are jn Boston, the home of effective left-handers, but the wrong-handed fiingers are not the same pests to the Cubs they once were. NTinker can now put seven right-handed batters in the game against the southpaws, and when Archer recovers he will be able to send out an array with but one left handed batter. - Kelly and Mann will work the out-' field when southpaws appear, and Fred Mollwitz will replace Vic Saier at first base. For the time being Schulte and Flack will give way to Mann and Kelly, but this arrange ment may be changed unless Cy Wil liams shows marked " improvement when facing the crooked-arm heav ers. Cy's efforts to hit their shoots here were pitiful, and he was fanning out on an average of almost twice per game. This is not big league stuff. Mordecai Brown is slated for an other trial at an early date, and it is a certainty that he will be shot against the Giants when New York is reached. Tinker and his people are glad to be away from home, for they do their best playing in foreign parts. Mamaux held Phils to three hits while Pirates blasted three pitchers. Wagner knocked a double and two singles. Unless Benny Leonard knocks out Fred Welsh or Charlie White before Labor 'day, the Briton will defend his title against the Chicagoan in a 20 round bout at Colorado Springs on that date. All arrangements -have been com pleted for the match, the fighters have been satisfied by guarantees and forfeits have been posted cov ering every contingency. Leonard meets Welsh this week and later in the summer he is billed to scrap White. The club promoting the title affair will cancel if Leonard should put over a kayo in either engage ment. Welsh is guaranteed $13,500 as his part of the proceeds, and White is to have $4,000. Welsh also gets 51 per cent of the movie privileges, and 50 per cent of all the gate over $27, 000. How different this affair is to be from old lightweight battles is best evidence by the weight, which has been fixed at 135 pounds at 9 o'clock the morning of the battle. The men will enter the ring around 138 pounds uttmmmMmMmmmmam