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One Hundred and Thirty-stx American Athletes Compete in. Olympic Games
THREE THOUSAND
ENTER OLYMPICS
BINGLES AND BUNTS
BOB THAYER'S SPORTING GOSSIP U
By Grdntland Rice.
-"EVERY KNOCK IS A BOOST."
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, EKIDAY, JUNE 28, 1912.
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One Hundred and Thirty-six Athletes From America to
Be Seen In Games Which Commence
' Tomorrow.
Ancient Olympiads.
Tlio Olympic gnmes wore inaugu
rated In the Eighth Century at
Tyrgos, near the northwestern
const of Peloponnesus. Origi
nally organized to Inculcate the
rigorous Spartan requirements
of endurance and strength In
war, they were gradually
brought, at the Twenty-fifth
Olympiad, to Include chariot
racing, when the word hippo
drome was first used; wrestling,
boxing, leaping, quoits, running,
etc. For many years the games
wore an annual occasion for the
assembling of the world's
strongest men, but with the de
cadence of Grecco they gradu
ally fell Into desuetude, nnd
lapsed for centuries, until jrc
Tired at Athens, under the aus
pices of the King, In 1890.
fluently attract 7,000, or 8,000 spectators
in Stockholm and other large clues, ana.
as over 3,000 seats will be needed for
press and official purposes, the allow
ance for extra spectators and foreign
visitors is not generous.
Tomorrow's contests will Include foot
ball, lawn tennis, and shooting-, the
more important athletic events com
mencing July 6. The rowing contests.
which are fixed for July 18-19, will be
held on the river running through the
heart of the city, and the yatchlng
events ai ine jioyai Swedish yaclit
Club's reyatta, at Nyashumn, July 20,
21, und 22.
Germany Is After
The 1916 Olympics
BERLIN, June 28. An invitation to
hold the next Olympic games in Ber
lin in a new $300,000 stadium will be ex
tended to the international Olympic
committee at its coming meeting In
Stockholm. It has been understood
that Germany would be awarded the
games as soon as Berlin was in a posi
tion to offer suitable accommodations,
and as this condition has now been met
by the patriotic-offer of three Berlin
organizations to assume the financial
The Predatory Interests. '
They have Jammed through Root and Parker In conven
tions up-to-date
With tho old steam roller working by the schedulo of
tho slate
So in the N. L. pennant race to follow out the law,
For temporary Chairman may we nominate McGraw?
Or you might make It permanent chairman 'for 1912
so far as the National League end of the whirling strug
gle Is Involved.
Hurling the mutineerlng athlete out of tho game car
ries quite a different angle from the moth-eaten past.
When Klfng banished Hub Perdue ho fired that stalwart
athlete back to tho fertile Tennessee farm, an automo
bile, and rich hunting and fishing preserves all upon Mr.
Perdue's property. 'If we had this to fall back on the
national pastime would have been left flat upon its
broad back a good many seasons ago. Not knocking
the pastime, buj the other stuff is regular life.
Joe Wood.
Joe Wood hasn't any set of delegates primed to cheer
noisily at each mention of his name, and but few have
gone out of the beaten way to hang any laurel upon his
clammy brow but Mr. Wood is Betting something of a
pace despite the lack of a claque.
No slabman in either league has outpltched the Red
If wo owned a ball club and had the pick of Ave slab
men, Johnson, Walsh w Marquard, Coombs, and Wood
would All in well enough until our scouts had reported
in tho early fall.
The Giants now need Bcventy of their next ninety-six
contests seventy victories against twenty-six defeats to
pass the old Cub record of 116 victories compiled In
1906. Seventy out of ninety-six is fast speeding, but it is
still above seventy points slower than their present
stride.
responsibility for the construction of j Sox wonder through the first ten weeks of the race. His
the stadium, the American athletes will , . m ,i, w ,.,
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STOCK HOLM, Sweden, Juno 28. Over
'3,000 athletes representing twenty-seven
countries will participate In the Olympic
names, which will open hero tomorrow.
Of these America Is represented by ISC,
Great Britain 2S7, Austria-Hungary 3SC,
Germany 183, Franco 144, Canada Si,
Denmark 5c0, and Sweden over 800.
The world-wide interest displayed in
the games Is Indicated by the fact that
countries like China, Japan, Turkey, and
Chile have sent representatives. Thero
is a Japanese marathon runner and a
Japanese sprinter, while Turkey Is mak
ing a bid for tho wrestling champion
ship, and China will try to beat the
Swedes and Danes at gymnastics. Ow
ing to the handy situation of Stockholm,
the Scandanavlan races are strongly
Jepresented, and Sweden, Norway, Den
nark, Finland, and KuBsia are expected
to carry off a good share of the prizes.
The program, which will be completed
by July 22, contains most of the events
and prizes competed for in previous
Olympiads, but In addition there will
Be a number of new competitions for
which trophies have been presented by
the Kfngs of Sweden and Italy, the
Czar of Russia, the Emperor or Aus
tria, the Emperor of Germany. Count
Geza Andrassy, the Swedish Cavalry,
Countess de Casa Miranda, the city of
Budapest, and Baron Pierre de Cou
bertln. president of the International
Olympic committee.
Many Novel Contests.
These new competitive events provide
some novel contests, Including the Pen
tathlon, a series of five events running
broad jump, throwing the Javelin, 200-
meters flat race, throwing the dlsous,
and 1,500 Hat race. The modern Pen-
tathlon pistol shooting, swimming,
fencing, riding, and cross country
race. And the Decathlon, a series of
ten events Including running broad
Jump and high jumps, throwing the
Javelin and discus, putting the, weight,
pole Jump, 110-meters hurdle race, 100,
400. and 1,500-meters ilat races.
These mixed contests are expected to
favor the Swedes and Danes, who go In
for all-around proficiency in sports,
rather than specializing in different
events as tho Anglo-Saxon athletes are
lnclimd to do, and in this connection
the Swedish committeo has been criti
cised for arranging the whole progiam
on lines favoring their own countrymen.
Howover, the committee, of which the
crown prince Is president, has beaten all
previous efforts In tho way of arrange
ments for thev games, and the mag
nificent stadium In which the contests
will take place Is quite the finest struc
ture of Its kind In the world. F.rected
at a cost of $250,000, It has taken two
years to build. The arena is 225 feet
long by 493 feet wide. The running track
is about 425 yards to the lap and thirty
feet wide.
Resembles Castle.
Its general appearance la that of a
medieval castle built Into a rocky hill
and the violet bricks nnd purplish-gray
granite gives tho structure a most pic
turesque effect. Two great watch tow
ers mark the eastern entrance, nnd
these are surmounted by two gigantic
figures, of Ask and Embla tho Scan
dinavian Adam and Eve. Grotesque
heads adorn the many supporting pil
lars and tall Venetian masts bearing
flags of all nations encircle the arena.
The only fault to be found is the
lack of seating accommodation. Being
intended for a permanent spoits
ground, the designer, Torben Grut,
thought that seats for 25,000 would be
sufficient, but the enormous Influx of
foreign visitors makes It already ap
parent that the stadium will not hold
Them all. Local sports meetings fre-
probably gather here on their next trip
across the Atlantic.
At tho laat meeting of the German
imperial committee President von Pod
blelsky announced that the Union Club,
the Berlin Steeplechaslng Association,
and tho Berlin Racing Association had
offered to build the stadium and to
raise the money by a bond Issue of $300,
000. The German Olympic committee, in
which all branches of athletics are rep
resented, hopes as soon as possible to
take over these bonds among the vari
ous organizations represented. Count
SlersstorpfT. the German representative
on the international committee, was
thereupon Instructed to tender the for
mal Invitation at Stockholm.
American League Is
Rebuilding Teams
This soems to be the open season for
rebuilding ball teams In the American
League. Four managers have threat
ened to clean house. Stovall, Jennnlngs,
Davis, and Wolverton are searching for
new players and gradually letting vet
erans go. These four clubs are booked
to finish In the second division this sea
son, but at any rate all four leaders are
making desperate efforts to get their
teams into shape.
three defeats, which Is fair enough even in this hectic
epoch of pitching marks.
Wood ranks with Johnson, Marquard, Walsh, Coombs,
aa one of tho premiers of the firing line, and while he
may not absorb the vocal cataclysm these others draw,
the record showB where he belongs.
"You say the Giants have a pipe in the National
League affair," writes in a fan. "Don't you know tho
queer turns of baseball better than this. There Is no
such word as 'pipe' in this game."
If having a lead of thirteen games with seven con
secutive contests with tho Bostp Braves isn't, we yield
the floor to any bloke who may desire to express his In
most thoughts. And especially as Cubs and Pirates,
McGraw's only two rivals, are engaged in a cut-throating
duel, while John J. Is grappling with tho .blighted
Braves.
v.
Now that Walter Johnson is back In harness the Dis
trict of Columbia is willing to let Messrs. Taft, Roose
velt, et al. disperse for the year. With the notable
Swede back to Bob Groom's rescue tho Potomac will be
about as quiet as a national convention when nineteen
speakers have the floor at one and the same time.
Bob GTOom is another who shouldn't be overlooked
in fame's shuffle
Some day the sun will shine. .
The hardest aeries of the season Is
upon the Nationals with the arrival of
the Athletics for Ave games in four
days. If the Climbers can get the odd
game they will be doing much toward
keeping tho champions out of first place.
If they are -smothered, thU task will be
up to tho Red Sox next week.
Tom Hughes a winner.
During Ray Morgan's Incapacity
"Dutch" Schacfer Is playing his old po
sition at second with all the graceful
ease marking his game when with the
Detroit Tigers. And Hughey Jennings
considered the comedian all In when he
let him come here, which Is one of the
Jokes onennlngs.
And Milan stole home.
Harrv Wolverton haa some real trou
bles trying to present a, winning combi
nation. Yesterday he had Hal Chase at
second base and a youngster. Stump, at
the Initial corner. Ho will probably try
a number of experiments in his desire
to find a winner, but his task Is hard
and long. The Highlanders lack the
proper spirit that's their main fault.
Oh. that was some clouting!
lot of travel worn ponies yesterday, as
tho team was looked upon as being
able to win. Accidents to the ponies
robbed whatever chance tho army .men
-hed to show, hut their daring rfdlng
and all around ability should stand
them in stead when tho gnmo is bot-
ter known at the post.
Wells meets
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mo ooittiuiwi voiaiuu ib n.cinis ning hurler of the Red Sox. marks
step with his famed side-kick in one of the greatest
pitching sprints of the year. Groomb hasn't dropped
a battlo since Boston beat him on the 29th of May, and
we are now on the verge of celebrating the well-known
Fourth of July.
While Boston and Philadelphia are hooked together
in deadly strife, the Senators draw the Yanks for a
Fourth of July melee. No wonder the Nation's Capital
is planning to enjoy and celebrate the greatest Fourth
of Its history.
TWO LOCAL CREWS
BIG LEAGUE GAMES. )
AMERICAN LEAGUE,
At Philadelphia R H E.
Athletlca 00022000x 4 6 0
Highlanders ....... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Batteries Brown nnd Lapp; McCon
nell and Sweeney. Umpires O'Loughlln
and Egan.
At Cleveland R H E.
Cleveland 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 14 7 2
Detroit 0002 01000-3 7 5
Batteries Blanrilnir nnA ti-., ,,,.
Works and Stanage. Umpires Dineen
and Sheridan.
. NATIONAL LEAGUE.
At Polo Grounds r.jt E.
Giants 000000031-4 8 1
t-nnnneipnia 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 10310 3
Batteries Crandall and mpvpi-h- nn.
nan and Kllllfer. Umplres-Brennan and
Emslle.
At Boston R.H.E.
Brooklyn 3 1110 0 111-913 1
Boston 000020150818 3
Batteries Knetzer. Rucker, and Mil
ler; Dickson and Rariden. Umpires
Johnstone and Eason.
Al St. Louis R H E
Pittsburgh ... 10100000000 1-3 11 i
St. Louis 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 10002 6 0
Batteries-O'Toolo and Kclley; Gever
and Wlngo. Umpires Rlgler and Fln
neran. At Cincinnati R H E
Chlcngo 0010000 2 36 12 2
Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 101 4 2
Batteries Reulbach and Archer; Ben.
ton and Clark. Umpires Klem and
GETTING
REM
FOR
PEOPLE'S REGATTA
Technical High and Potomac
Send Boats to Philadel
phia on July 4.
Modern Olympiads.
Athens .....' 1896
Pnris 1900
St. Louis 1001
London 1908
Stockholm .1912
The Technical High School crew and
and intermediate eight of the Potomac
Boat Club are finishing preparations on
the river for the trip to Philadelphia on
July 4, when the crews will participate
In the annual People s Regatta. i
For the past two weeks the Potomac
has been alive with crews, no less than ,
six taking tho water every evening for
the workouts. The Tech crews are being I
shaken up by Conch Hecox In the hopee
of getting a balanced eight. Beveral
substitutes wil lbe taken on tho trip. In
the event that the Tech crew wins the
Junior event It will probably be entered
In tho Intermediate elght-oared race
Tho Potomac crew will use Its new
section shell with the Intermediate crew
and will be the other entry from Wash
ington in the big regatta. From Indi
cations the annual regatta at Philadel
phia gives promise of being the largest
in tho history of events on the Schuyl
kill river. The best men In the coun
try are entered In the single and double
sculls and tho fanteBt crews from all
over the country are to be seen In the
elght-oared races.
Butcher Goes West.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 28. The
recent sale of Outfielder Butcher, of
the Cleveland American League team, to
the New Orleans team of the Southern
League, was revoked and Butcher will
go to the Portland team of tho Pacific
Coast League Instead,
Cubs Show Weakness
Against Southpaws
Tho Cubs have suffered from the port
side evil also. But in recent games
Schulte and Sheckard have been pound
ing southpaws hard. It is explained
that they faced so many of the Ruckcr
Marquarrt stripe that they got used to
the delivery and can handle it as easy
as any other now. .
Emerson Institute
Had Good Season
Manager Hunter, of the Emerson In
stitute baseball team, has announced the
close of that team's 1912 season. Al
though the Emerson boyB were com
pelled to work under somewhat adverse
conditions, they made a fine record, los
ing but two games and having but one
tie score against them. Emerson will
make an earlier start In the baseball
field next season, and everyone Is con
fident that tho team will be one of the
strongest to represent any of the local
preparatory schoolB.
The following players havo been
awarded the "E. I."' of the school for
service with this year's baseball team:
R. L. Hunter. Jr., manager; A. T.
Terwissc,' captain; T. XV. Noonan: C. R.
Smith. M. Knudsen. A. K. aGlloway,
II. C. Megrew, M. Coleman, H. Coleman,
II. Greene.
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.. i... ci uoi. ui victims oi me unmoors.
Griffith's team seems destined to humble
many a diamond star this season. It is
this hitting strength which is bound to
keep the team up among the leaders
for hitters win ball games these days.
Intercollegiate rowing tomorrow.
It would seem that Dr. Al Sharpe's
assignment as baseball coach at Cor
nell wan a money saving scheme as
much as anything else. Sharpe ha
been engaged to coach football and
basketball, and is to be kept all the
year round, serving In three capacities.
At that, Sharpe knows baseball as well.
pernaps, as football, being identified I
witn many winning nines, some of
which were in the nature of a personal
venture.
In the winter time, when baseball Is
kept alive In the stovo league by all
sorts of dope, umpires are given their
fair share and opportunity to break
into print and contribute largely to
their side of the conflicts of the dia
mond. Every possible viewpoint Is
given by umpires, some of whom mako
excellent reading for the fans. We will
await with interest the explanation of
somo of Mr. Westervelt's decisions and
the wliys and wherefores of some 6f his
rapid deductions.
Hal Chase No Longer
Leading First-Sacker,
Hal Chase has been a big, sad disap
pointment to the fans this season. Ho
Is batting about 100 points under tho
average ho maintained last season. His
fielding has not been up to the Chase
standard, and he has ceased to be con
sldercd the premier flnst-sacker. It la
unon these facts that many fans claim
Chase Is not giving the team his best
efforts. Chase Is the kind of a player
who likes to work with a loser, they
argue.
Amortg the Minors.
American Association.
Columbus, 6; Lo'jlsvllle, 4.
Minneapolis, 0; Milwaukee, 3.
Toledo, 4: Indianapolis, l.
Kansas City. 12; St. Paul. 18 (12 Ini
nings).
Hank Butcher returns to minors.
Carl Brown, of the Athletics, dubbed
by "Dutch" Schaefer. the Ice water
pitcher, is showing signs of developing
into a first-class twirler. Brown held
tho Nationals to seven hits, and won
an 8 to 1 game. Yestorday he held
the Yanks to three hits, scoring a shut
out, 4 to 0. Brown will be needed later
on by Connie Mack, and looks the best
of the young Athletic pitchers.
Reulbach 1b in form.
It was too bad that the Fort Myer
polo team was forced to play with a
International League.
Toronto, 1; Baltimore, 3.
Rochester, 6: Jersey City, 3.
Montreal, 1; Newirk, 8.
Buffalo. 1; Provldoiue. 6.
Tri-State League.
Trenton. 5, Harrlsburg. 2.
Wilmington. 15; York, S.
Reading, 3; All"'ntovn, a
Atlantic City-Johnstown rain.
South Atlantic League.-.
Pavannah, 1; Maron, 17
Columbia. 1; Jacksonville. 7.
Columbus. 1; Albany. 0.
Southern League.
Atlan'a, 0; Chattanooga, 4.
Birmingham-Nashville rain.
Mobile. 1; Montgomery, 2.
Only three games scheduled.
Virginia League.
Norfolk. 3; Portsmouth, 1
Richmond, 6; Newport News, :
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$15.00 Suits reduced to 910.00
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$18.00 Suits reduced to 912.00
$20.00 Suits reduced to 913.35
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$25.00 Suits reduced to 910.07
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$40.00 Suits reduced to 92(1.07
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