OCR Interpretation


The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, July 25, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 11

Image and text provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, Urbana, IL

Persistent link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1916-07-25/ed-1/seq-11/

What is OCR?


Thumbnail for

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

xml | txt