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1. Motorbot Dixie IV. Z, Snamrook
'ft III. 3. Mauricaft McLaughlin.
4 Franci Ouimet. 5 American -tennis
cracks (left to right), Hackatt,
MeLoughlut, Little and Wtltiams.
6. Chick Evans. 7. -Jiworne D.
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' By ODGER3 T. GURMEE.
. PTKIS promises .to be the greatest
year In American sportLnsr his--.
tory. . Its importance rests in
.: a largo measure on the many
Internatloiial contests to be decided.
Most of these contests ' tpII be held
here 2t America, for most of the tro
phies'are in our possession One of
tneni, however, reposes safe y in Eng
land. It Is the Ilarmswottb trophy
symbolic of the speed boat champion
ship, and we are going: to try and take
it away from her. . .J:
In. four sports there are cups for the
possession of which sportsmen of dif
ferent nations will contend. These are
the curious ewer shaped piece of silver
known as the America's cup, which Sir
Thomas Lipton hbpes to wrench-from
its anchorage ; : the International t Polo
cup, which has been .defended by the
horsemen of America since its recovery
In 1909; the' Davis cup,, which Mc
Loughlm and ftWilliams brought across
the seas last year after their . contest
on the tennis courts of England, and
the . Harmsworth cup,, which might
much better be called a trophy,--which
was 1 taken to England In the motor
boat" races-of 1912. and kept there;'.-; ;
There is no international golf cup to
be fought over, but Ouimet, the youth
who took the honors from the famous
Vardon and Ray in the -open cham
pionship last year; Jerome Travers,
Fred Herreshofi. Charles W. Evans, Jr.,
and one or two others are to begin their
invasion of the courses of England at
Sandwich;. They are in search of both
the -open and the amateur , champion
ships and comprise the most formida
ble attack America has mde on these
prizes. ' It was reported recently that
ably next claim attention, for It is ex
pected that they will, take place late In
August or early in September. -:; High
powered . motorboats ; are . , feensitiye
things. Not only are . theyi; slenderly
built, when their power Is taken. into
consideration, but in order to get mo
tors ot hundreds of horsepower into , a
craft less than forty feet long the en.
gines must be complex in construction.'
Their engines would , run av, tramp
steamship. . While the prospects for
American victory do not seem to be as
good as those of France, it is expected
that this country will be represented
by three boats. These are Count Man
kowski's well known Ankle Deep, which
is being altered and repaired, and Com
modore J, H. Pugh's Disturber III., both
of which competed in last year's races
near Cowes, and James Simpson's
small Peter Pan "VI., which Is credited
with a speed of fifty-five miles. , '' j ft t .
And last, chronologically, of the sea
son's contests but the greatest of, them
OWEN MORA!! REPORTED VICTIM OFTUCERGUL
a Boston crew of eight oarsmen would
cross to contend at Henley early in
July, and efforts are being made to
end some athletes in .quest of the Eng
lish championships in the same month.
The fate of the polo cup will be, de-i
cided. earliest. The first match will be
played, on June 9 on the Meadowbrook
club . grounds, .Westbury,' N. :.T.; the
second on June 13, and. if a third is
required to settle the aftair it will prob
ably be played oft on the Saturday fol
lowing. - ' : '' -.4-t
The struggle for the retention of the
hardly wonpavis cup will be the sec
ond of the international contests to be
settled, The dates! for the - so called
challenge round are Aug. 13, 14 and 15.
Challenges have been filed by ' Canada,-
Australasia, theft British 'isles, Bel'
gium, Prance and Germany. ; The Ca
nadian' and Australasian and the Bel
gian and-British teams will play each
other - before July . 25. The German
team will meet the winner of the first
pair, and France the winner of the
second pair before Aug. 1. Thewinner
of 'this round will, then" meet 'the de
fenders of the cup McLoughlin and
Williams ... will ' almost . certainly . be
among the defenders. ... :
The motorboat races near Cowes for at his best. Moran also has the distlnc-
the Harmsworth copper slab will prob- J tion of being the only; boxer , to make
all, a fitting climax, is the race hetv :.
Lipton's Shamrock IV. and an A
can yacht for the possession i i
giant . bottomless silver .vessel ir 'i
nated the America's cup. The- f rst i
ia scheduled , for . Sept. 10, A'".
races until three have been won i. y
of the competitors following r i
succeeding Saturday, .Tuesday, H ur
day, "Saturday, etc . " ,
Never ..before have - there i
many yachts tuilt in a year to 1
this tlrnple $500 silver . orr. jr-i- : 4
this year. Three are in procei- f '
structton. They are the .
building at the Herreshoff yfr. ,
Bristol, R. I., for the so called Va
bilt syndicate; the Defiance, v Y
being constructed at the Fore I
yards f or : a syndicate of .?"'. t
Philadelphia and Boston yacl.;.. .,
which George, M. Pynchon is tfe r
aging-director, and the , Vanitii, -.
Alexander S. Cochran is buii ' . -Neponset,
Mass.
"VTEWS comes , from," England that
r4- . Owen Moran has - contracted tu
berculosis, and it -Is feared that he has
but a short time to live, . Moran' s last
appearance in . this country, was with
Young Shugrue in New York last Jan
uary. At that time the clever little
Englishman t showed that' there .was
something amiss with him, as he was
forced' to stop -after boxing ,' seven
rounds. - '- - ---ft-v- '
. Next to Jem .Driscoll,.. Moran was
probably, the best featherweight' Eng
land ever sent over to Ws country; He
held Abe Attell even in three hard bat
tles when the American champion was
Battling Nelson ". take "the .fall c
This happened in 1910 at Kan i
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That feat marked the turni sr
in, Moran's ring career. In Soi-f
battles he failed to show his best '
and, after losing to Ad Wolgast. ki;
ally went downhill. He still ret n
Jiis skill as a boxer, but his s .
and hitting ability left him. 1 .
bout; with Shugrue he made a srio
the ; Jersey .lightweight whil-3
strength lasted, but he was u;,; i
stand the pace, and, rather than
a knockout, he stepped to the n;.
the end of, the seventh round am; ;
up the contest, sayint? he was turf
with. the ring for an time...
EiEns ce;:ies mmu
FULLED "IIEnXLP PLAY
JOHN EVXRS recently had his atten
tion called to a statement by Mor
decai Brown that Artie Hof-na.ii really
engineered the play in 1908 when Mer
kle filled to touch second." : In answer
Eren saya: .... ,s '. Z
"I hare no desire to enter Into any
controversy with Brown over this mat-
t pt. - In thA first nlace. if I Co baclt at
BroWi at length It will be Just what
the Federal league Is seeking--adver.
tiaiag Hofman did not call my atten
tion, to the play, and nobody knows this
better, than Brown. I, have received a
letter from Pat Moran, who was with
the Cubs at the time, in which Pat says
he is sending some matter on the same
Incident. .
. "While some considerable Importance
and notoriety were, attached to the
MerlJa play, I believe the same identi
cal play which occurred ten days earlier
In Pittsburgh was just as important.
It ws.s in September,. 1908.- We f were
playing Pittsburgh In ftPittsburgh. The
Kore was tied at 1-1 in- the eleventh
Inninj. Pittsburgh had threa men on
bases and tweout GIIIv was. on first
for, Pittsburgh. , The batter hit one
through Brown's legs, and. it went to
center, where Jimmy Slagle was play.
. Ing. t ' 'ft ,
"Tse ' run went over the: plate, but
Gill ld not go all the way- to second.
I ,,got the. ball back from Slagle and
toucntd second, ay tnis time tne play
ers of? both teams were about off , the
field. End it occurred to me right away
that tie play was not right.
"I yelled to Umpire Hank O'Day, who
was at the water barrel, but he would
pay oo attention to me and told me to
gj bark to the hotel. , If there was ever
a tin I crabbed I did that day. All
the vay back to the hotel I grumbled,
and (he Chicago1 players thought I was
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Chance came to me and had me explain
"the iplay. - Murphy wrote one of his fa
mous long telegrams to President Ful
11am. "who Investigated the play. Chick
Fraasr was the only Chicago player
who!- agreed that I was right, and a
statement from him caused Pull lam to
issjje an order to umpires not to leave
th grounds until the - final play was
crmpleted. or, in other words, practl
tlly admitting that I-was right in my
- aantentlon. - .
"For some unknown . reason little
.publicity was given the matter in the
papers, yet to me it was just as impor
tant as the Merkla incident and had a
vital bearing on the race that year.
Had the Pittsburgh game been order
ed replayed and we have been fortu
nate , enough to have won we would
have had the pennant cinched before
that game In New York In which Mer
. kle figured. As it developed, we lost,
and when we played New fork over
again we bad only s full fame on
towa." .
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Heavyweight, Wants Crack
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THE GUNNER AND HIS RIGHT.
flUNBOAT SMITH, the world's greatest heavyweight humorist and some-
what of a fighter in his way, is considerably riled at the prospect of Frank
Moran getting the first crack at Jack Johnson. "If Moran beats. Johnson I might
as well go. to work and earn an honest living," says the Gunner, "for he will
never agree to meet me for the championship. - He knows I can! beat him."
Smith Is the only ''white hope who, ever received a referee's decision over Sam
Langford and for that reason feels that he should be the one to get first chance
Aft jahntoa.
CHAMPION KRAMER MAY
NEVER RACE AGAIN
MERICA has probably lost its best
, 'cross -country . and long . distance
runner, for Billy Kramer, the great
athlete of the Long, Island A. C has
broken down and may never again be
able to don another racing shoe. Dur
ing the three mile special race at the
Monument A. C. games at Celtic park,
New York, recently, he i injured the
achilles tendon of the left foot and is
now scarcely, able to hobble around.
The injury is not ., new. as Kramer
first strained the tendon while training
on the- steamship Finland on his way
to the Olympic games in Stockholm.
While it still pained him severely he
started in the 5,000 meter race in the
Swedish- stadium,- but was compelled
to quit before half the distance had
been completed. For jtwo weeks he
nursed the sore tendon, which controls
the movement of his heel, and then he
started in the Olympic cross country
run. As ;in the 5,000 meter race, he
was forced to quit ' before fimshing the
Journey. "'.'.'-,--'
After this contest - the late . Mike
Murphy the veteran trainer who had
charge of the team, declared that he
would never again be able to. run an
other race. . .
On Kramer's return to this countryi
Lawson Robertson devised a rubber
brace that prevented a "jarring" on
the injured tendon, and ' thi3 support
enabled the cross country king to re
sume training and campaign again
through the indoor season.
Kramer began athletics In-1908 as a
member of the Acorn : A. C. and soon
jumped into prominence as a great cross
country, runner. Two years later he
joined the Long Island A. C. and while
a member of that' organization . won
many titles, including half .' a dozen
cross country and the three and five
mile championships. t
Marsans Is Second Ty Cobb
rpHE Cincinnati Reds have two Cu
' bans on the regular . lineup who
are expected to be stars of the Nation
al league during the season. Gonzales
and Marsans are the. names of the Cu
bans secured by Frank. Bancroft,
business manager of the Reds.
"Marsans will prove the Ty Cobb of
the Nationals," said Mr. Bancroft. "If
it - is possible to have another such
wonderful player as Cobb is. then Mar
sans will be the player. He will play
the left field position this season,- re
placing Bob Bescher. and, mark my
word, he'll be nothing short of a sen
sation. "And Gonzales, whom I signed on
my trip to Cuba last summer, prom
ises to be a second Archer. His throw
ing to the bases is most accurate, and
he throws from a flat footed position.
Gonzales cannot speak a word of Eng
lish, and Marsans is used . as inter-nrster."
Athletics' $100,000 Infield May Soon Be Broken
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STARS OF THE
$ioa,coa INFIELD
OF THE ATHLETIC.
rjONNlE MACK'S famous J100.000 Infield is on the verge of a dissolution. Jack Barry, who has long shared t r :
honors with Eddie Collins of being the most brilliant fielder on the Athletic payroll, and one of the greaiw-i;
shortstops that ever played ball, may have to go into drydock for a few months for repairs. Jack has been Ijoth-
; ered for the past two seasons with a bad, knee, and as the trouble continues to get worse instead of better his wor.t
on fast balls has become noticeably weak, and his speed on the bases practically nullified. But Connie, "the slier.
one," has resurrected from some unknown corner, an equally unknown gentleman named Kopf, who. fields with il
the grace and ease of an old master and stings the ball much in -the same style as his fellow player. Stuffy Mcla-
i nes. Where, he came from no one seems to know, but that he is a rattling good ba6 player there ia certainly n
doubt. . The passing of Barry, even if only temporary, will be received with sadness by fans and players alike, 1
the speedy litUa short fielder was one of the most popular men In the game. "The king is dead. Long live tft5 l 1