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6 jioxTi.w, ArnrsT is, iai3 THE SOUTH BEND NEWS-TIMES. J X J ATHLETICS AND GITS HE IT ABOUT CINCHED Week of Play Leaves Two; Teams Practically in Samej Places in Percentage Column j Players Bring Big Money.! NEW yoke, viewpoint in the Ay-. 1 'v No n'U" cha 1:1 pion-diip out look in either f tin ir..ijr bague.-j has been uevIuK .1 by an'.;hr ven days of ba-ball. l th- leader.-, in the National and A iii'TK a n eircuits, the New York (i:ai.ts gained a half iuuiic- and the. Philadelphia Athletn s lost r:e lull ran.-. bavin.: tile .Mtua tioa practically unchanged alter a vnk of interrupted .-thedules, pad ded With doUl.lt: headers. Playing better b.Ji tlian any of the other club. .Ic( 'raw's learn, winning live games, a:;d lo.-,:ng one, not only more than held its own, hut i-uco-fd-c-cl in making up the ground i,,.st to the Phillies, during tne spurt, of Dooin's players in the previous tort Eight. The Phillies in the- last week drop ped two out of live. For some time the Philadelphia club has been looked Upon as the o-nly one tliat stood be tween Mcdraw and his third ein -utive pennant, hut with les.s tlian two months to go the Philadelphia; are XiOt even, holdirr.; their own. Week W-i Paluuctd. "A tetter halani d week than tlu one just ended in the American league has not been furnished this .reason. Cleveland, Chieago and 'Washington ach broke a little hotter than even, winning three and losing two. Detroit i-plit even two and two and the Ath letics and the ."ew Yorks won two ami lost three. This left the .St. Louis clulj wh.ning hut one of tive and the l;ostons winning three- cut of four. The present Pads held hy the Giants and the Athletics prompted the .National commission to set (Jet. as the day on which the l'Jl.) world's series will start if these Hubs win. Maxquard. Fronune and Adams were the only National Jeanne pitch ers to win twice in the week. In the American. Mitchell (Cleveland), Groom and Scott repeated. Hut the star in twirling was Washington's "Walter Johnson, who ran his string up to 1L a record for the season. Johnson aside from this achievement, pitched his way to the front in the major leagues. His twelfth straight -was his -th triumph of the season against live d feats. High Priees Paid. Pig prices for "Minds" in the small er leagues continue to prove that the national name is not threatened with bankrir.Ucv. Manager Chance Y announce,! the expenditure of $;,mhi for Pitchers Mcllale of Jersey City. Cooper of Petersburg, and Pieh. of Iu; ton. and Pres. Ebbetts of Brook lyn $:o,000 for Pitcher Prown of Montgomery, Atchison of Newark, and others'. Detroit paid $::..oo for Coval fskio. a. Southern h-airuer, formerly with the Phillies. other cluhs also bought, wold and exchanged, and one yarn had it that Crilhth of Washing ton wis prepared to ofu?r loo,H(0 for Ty Coht). The request for waiers on Sh. k ard. Pates. Kk'mu and Suuns and Sail and the sale of Ievore to the Phillies, was followed closely hy counter-statements hy Pres. Herrmann and Man ager Tinker of Cincinnati as to the policy being pursued in building up the Reds. Tinker. Saturday announced he "was ready to join the long list of Cincinnati's ex-maiiigers unless given more leeway. The week f.'iw 10V stolen bases. 10 of them in the National circuit. Pitts Jhurgh leadimr with 12 and P.oston having 11. In the American. Cleve land led with 1 and St. Louis h:id nine. Pescher. Leach, Milan. Maisel and f"hotten had three and Carey, Marar.ville and Graney four each. I.caguo Kcfon!.-.. The record in each league of the frames played, won and lost. with runs, hits errors a.nd im n left on "base?, follows. National Icagin. P W L U H K A New York ". 1 11 '1 IT. Philadelphia :; - 1 : r':: Cnicago T - P t'T In " Pittsburgh 4 1 1 " r.7 Prooklyn 1 -H s 1 .1 Boston :: : 4'' Cincinnati 1 7 -1 "1 -0 -" ?t. Ixuis r 1 ' M lu . Ameriean 1.c;i,mii'. p W I. U ?! P rhlladelphia " - -" n 1 4 4l Cleveland Z - - ."2 - "Washington .". 1! -17 7 Chicago " ' - 11 -s " Host on 1 1 1- :-1 - ivtroit 4 - v 14 J"t. I.ot;i.: :. 1 t P s -" New York - :- - :'-' - " r;i T;r game A 1 BREWERS DEFEAT INDIANS Hit and Hun at Will, winning Secn to One. INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 17. Milwnu kee took ndvantagv i.f mi-plays by Indiarapolis and w t. Sunday'- irame seven to nr.e Th' visitor ran hase almost at will. Wmks did r.--t s-'m able to bold the men to tho bacs and Casev couldn't throw th m '::. Milwaukee . ..el o o. . - 7 7 2 Iiiilianapo'i . . . 1 ".u . , Powell ar.d Hughe-; Wt'ks and .-Casey. Umpires Chi'l and Irwin. Wjm m im i "il 7 '.. , . I ' i 1 . a , 1 I m tm . . . I 1 I i I 1 MM m II II ? " MEAT - iF r bo AMY ncXl TlP?IM(j i'LL tiE TO HOAG WINS STATE TENNIS TOURNAMENT Cup (iocs to Indiana .Man First Time hi Iie Yir Wentzcl of Cineinnati Lor-ts. IN PI ANA POMS. Aug. IS. Gage Iloag d" Indianapolis won the Indiana open state tennis tournament cham pionship here Sunday afternoon by defeating John A. Wentzel of Cincin nati, 6-0: d-?,. It was the first time in live .years that the cham pionship cup went to an Indiana player. Wentzel appeared in poor condition and slowed down after the first set, which he won. Iloag. who is left handed, played a steady game. He scored most of his points by stealing up to the net and Wentzel was able to get only a few past him. The Cin cinnatian played his base line alto gether, not once offering to take the net position, although he was given any number of opportunities. The finals in the singles was so late starting that the doubles match, scheduled for this afternoon was put off until tomorrow. Four teams re main in the doubles and the finals probably will not be reached before Wednesday. BROWNS PLAY BALL AND DEFEAT BOSTON 3-1 Play I'rrorless (iaine Pehind Raum ganlncr and Hit Pill Par and Hard. ST. rHThS Aug. IS. vSt. Louis played in championship form Sunday afternoon and defeated Hoston three to one. St. Tenuis scored first when MeAHester was safe on Janvrin's er ror. He stole second and scored on n two base hit by Shotten. Pratt's triple and a one base drive b Will lams counted another in the sixth. A single and Hriefs triple in the eighth netted the last run for the home team. With men on the bases Paumgard ner was eiYective in all but one in ning. In which Poston scored Its run on a single by Janvrin. a stolen base and Wagner's single. Poston .ono 000 100 1 .000 011 01 3 anil Thomas, and MeAHester. 10 3 S it Cady; St. I. nil is . . . . Anuderson 1 'aumgardner Um- pircs Mi'Greevey and Connolly. TOLEDO LOSES TO MILLERS Minneapolis Pounds Three Iltchcrs and Wins 8-5. TOLEDO, o.. Aug. IS. Toledo lost the last game of the Minneapolis Se rbs here sunday eight to five. The Minneapolis club pounded three pitch- rs hard and had no dillieultv win ning. Toledo 20u 000 OOH 5 10 0 Minneapolis 000 022 4 00 S 15 0 Pashner. Collamore. Penn and De- vogt: olmstead and wens. Umpires Handiboe and Johnstone. ADLl'RS l.OSi: 10-1. Py a score of In t 4 the A. P C. baseball team defeated the Adlers Sundav A. P. t and for afternoon. Latteries for the '. were Jackson and Winlock Adlers. Peggy and Whitey. 1 . -.?:;.n vr----: miH. - ?SL r ' 1 -.I:-,.. i - --'ifiliif ifiJ,,' s - x - SiJ . j oji t0 t4 rev. BOOBS ABROAD.-By Golberg EVEN THE STATUES OF ANCIENT ROME SEEM TO HAVE THE EUROPEAN HABIT. WILLETT WINS PITCHING DUEL Detroit Star Holds Washington 7-1, Giving Two Hits in First Six Innings Engle Driven in Seventh. DETROIT. Aug. 18. Edgar Willett. twirling superbly, survived a brilliant pitchers' battle Sunday, and Detroit savagely attacking Engle when ho weakened in the seventh, look the closing game of th-f series from Wash- I inton, 7 to 1. During the first six innings, vwilett granted two hits while Engle allowed three. "Each team could score only one run although De troit had men on bases in five of the innings. A fielder's choice play, which gave Oandil a hit, enabled Foster to score "Washington's only run in the fourth, linden's single to center, brinug Push home, tied tho count in the next inning. With one out in the seventh, Willett singled and Push drew his fourth successive base on balls. Mc Pride's error and 'rawford'ii double produced two runs, and Engle was re lieved by Hughes. The veteran delib erately passed Cvb, and then walked hVeach, forcing in a run. Gainor hit to McRiiae, who nipped Crawford at the plate hut f?Jtanage doubled to the scoreboard, and Cobb, Yeaeh and Gainor scored. With two out in the eighth and Mc ."Sride on first, Schaefer batted for Hughes and singled, but Willett, averted possible trouble by retiring Moeller on strikes. Washington ...OOO IOO 000 1 5 2 Detroit 000 010 60 7 7 0 Alnsmith, Engle, Hughes and Henr"; Willett nd Stanage. Umpires O'Laughlhi and Sheridan. s. i:ni cubs losii The East Side Stars met their first defeat of the season Sunday at the hands of the South End Cubs in an Indoor baseball game by a score of 3 2 to one. The heavy hitting of the Cubs and their clever base nnning featured. Batteries for the "winners, Zillmer and Raabe; for the Ptars. Burns and Wells. i lLTHE CLOUT11- lP you ST7CKTo( IT EMOOGK V7U LITTLE , faT 6Ur iSToHUA ACr; THAT PT J who AR.e "THE J v v.v v X vC SttS- v . 11: PFEFFER WINS LAST GAME ON FIVE HITS Grand Rapids Tvvirler, on l'vcn of DoiKirture for Brooklyn, Beats Dayton Four to One. DAYTON. Aug. IS. Pfeffer pitched his f'arewelle game for Grand Rapids Sunday before joining the Brooklyn Nationals and held Dayton to five scattered hits, winning 4 to 1. In a field meet held before the game. Tom my Mee, the Grand Rapids third base man, did the bunt-and-run in three and one-nth seconds, equalling the record for the event. Grand Rapids .100 001 020 4 7 2 Dayton 000 000.010 1 5 2 Pfeffer and McGraw; Stremmel and Warren. Umpires Thomas and Ross. REAPERS AND WAYNES SPLIT DOUBLE BILL Springfield Takes First 7 to "5 Fort Wayne Cops Second G to 2 Amateurs Pitch. SPRINOFIKLD. O., Aug. 18. Springfield and Fort Wayne broke even in a double header Sunday, the locals winniutr the first contest .and Indianapolis and Ridgeley of New Al j bany, Ind., an amateur, pitched the second game and both were wild. First game Fort Wavne ..030 000 000 3 8 1 Springfield 002 104 00 7 10 3 Young. Laudormilk and Wager; Hixon and YVIthrow. Second game Fort Wavne ..001 202 ion 6 9 2 Springfield 000 Oil 00 0 2 5 2 Ainsworth and Martin: Norton, Ridgeley and Snyder. Umpire Groeschow. John R. Chace of San Jose. Cab, Fays that one of the greatest improve ments in the service since he has been postmaster is the addition of the motorcycle for collecting mail at night. Mr. Chace says this greatly faciliates deliveries, making it pos sible to get the out-of-town mall ready for the evening trains. George Barnard is oi a 2,00-mile motorcycle trip which will include Minnesota. South Dakota. Montana and the Yellowstone National park. GUY -f. H; Ai l MAY i t Triors ixjrv- r. KX-?r v i i i &T FLLovajS J t s r: BENDER BS; NAPSTAKE SERIES Big Indian Knocked Out of Box in Seventh, Losing Game 6 to 2 Gregg Strong Until Ninth When Two Are Made. CDEVFDAND, O., Aug. 18. Cleve land made it three out of four from Philadelphia Sunday, winning, 6 to 2. Gregg outpitched Bender, the latter being knocked out of the box in the seventh inningT Gregg weakened after tw were out in the ninth, four hits netting two runs and allowing Philadelphia to escape a shut out. The largest crowd in the history of the game here was present, the turn stiles recording 25,017 admissions. Cleveland scored its first run in the second inning on Turner's double, Graney's out and O'Neill's sacrifice fly. Another was scored in the third on Chapman's double, Jackson's out and a wild pitch. Four more were added in the seventh on Turner's single, O'Neill's double, Leibold's single. Chapman's triple an dJackson's single. The Athletics went scoreless until the ninth inning when Collins doubled and scored on Walsh's single, Schang and Orr also singled, scoring Walsh. P. Murphy ended the game with a fly to cenlr-r. Cleveland 001 000 40 C, 11 0 Philadelphia ..000 000 002 2 8 0 Gregg and O'Neill; Bender, Wickoff and Schang. Umpires Evans and Ilildebrand. SAINTS WIN IN NINTH BY MAKING SEVEN RUNS Toney of Colonels looses Cunning and Hits Come Rust Score Kight to Two. DOUISVIDEE, Aug. IS. Sh. Paul had a batting rally Sunday in the ninth inning," sen ng seven, runs across the plate and winning the last game of the series from Louisville, S to 2. Toney was effective until the final inning and then lost his cunning, while Relger held his ovn. Frlel bat ted for Reiger in the ninth and crack ed out a double after two were out, which started his team's rally. Two fast double plays by Nleftoff and Wein berg were features. Louisville 000 000 200 2 7 2 St. Paul 000 000 017 8 11 2 Toney, R. demons and V. Clemons; Reiger, Walker, James and Miller. Umpires Connolly and Murray. Two English motorcyclists, Mr. Lowcock and Aubrey Selby, recently succeeded in riding their motorcycles to th top of Ben Nevis, which is 4,406 feet high. liss Hon i fun s 1 R R C V TERRIERS TAKE TWO FROM EVAS Tailcndcrs Outplayed in Both Games, Losing First and Second 5-0 Harris Twirls Fine Game. EVANSTILLE, Ind., Aug. IS. The locals were outplayed by Terre Haute in both games of a double header, losln gthe first game Z to 1, and the second 5 to 0. JIarris allowed only one local runner to get to second base in the second game, while none reached third. First game Terre Haute ..000 H00 000 ?, 9 l Evansville 000 010 000 1 S Z Alberts and Hargrove; Hardin and DureTl. Second game Terre Haute ..021 020 ooo : S 0 Evansville ....000 000 000 0 l Harris and Hargrove: Fromholtz, Spaid and Stratton. Umpire Geisel. BLUES ALLOW COLUMBUS TO WIN NINE STRAIGHT Pitcher Davis Grants Three Singles in Fighth, Winning Game, Four to One. COLUMBUS. O.. Au-r. 1 S. Colum bus Sunday won the ninth straight victory of the season at home from Kansas City, 4 to 1. Pitcher Davis allowed but three .:igles. all in the eighth inninsr. Two passes and Pen son's failure to complete a double play scored Barbeau in the fourth. Miller's triple in the seeon dand Hinchman's double in the seventh were converted into runs on singles by Kommers and Miller. Covington's wildness and high throw brought in two more Columbus runs. Columbus 010 110 10 4 S 1 Kansas City ...000 1-no 000 1 Z 2 Davis, Smith and Murphy: Coving ton and O'Connor. Umpires O'Brien and AVestervelt. The motorcycle has become one of the most valuable assets of Joe Kuhl man. a ranchman near Olpe, Kansas, Recently Mr. Kuhlman received a phone message from a ranch thirty miles away where he was pasturing a herd of cattle, saying that the salt supply was exhausted. Mr. Kuhlman Immediately strapped a snck of salt to the luggage carrier of his motor cycle and In a short time made th SO-mile trip which would have re quired all day with a horse. During the last week in July motor cycle clubs were affiliated with the F. A. M. at Warsaw, Ind.. Salt Lake City, Utah, and Milford. Ind. gfr-iiiii in i in, ii in iiiiumi mii1j;-tviiii W..HIHIIWI ,ii i ih.iiiiii iiii.i 7E'VE V V orice on our spring and summer suits, formerly sold at $30, $27.50 and We Ye also offering unusual values in fine shirts at cut prices. YANKS BEAl S8X H IN FKHEWE Game Goes Twelve Innings With Keating and Benz Do ing Tight Pitching in Pinches Highlanders Field Fast. CHICAGO. Ansr. 1. New York bade farewell to Chicapo Sunday for the season hy winning the rin.il frame of the series. Z to i. after twelve hard foucht innincrs. Weaver's error of I'artzell's grounder followed by a single by Peckinpauch pave the visit ors the panic. It w;us nip and tuck with both teams, with the opposing pitchers piving a line exhibition of nerve in the pinches. The locals had several opportunities t score but tho won.ierful heldinp of the visitor" riehl c it ofl" ('hiiiiL'd's chancs. I Manager Cal'.a ban's men made their first run when Williams made an error on Schalk's drive and Weaver follow ed with a triple. Another run. was scored when Cvppell singled, took second on a parsed ball, third on an iniield out and scored on Cha-se's sin gle. The Yankees tied it up on singles by Hartzell and PecliinpaugU and a double by Knight. New York .011 oOO 000 001 3 S 4 Chicago ..000 2-00 000 OOO l p) 2 Keating and Sweeney; Renz and .Schalk. Umpires Dineen and Ksran. LEAGUE STANDINGS NATIONAL IJlGUn. W L Tct. New York .........75 S3 .694 Philadelphia 64 C9 .62T. .Chicago ........... 60 51 .541 Pittsburgh 57 51 -52$ Brooklyn ..47 5S ,44S Boston 45 61 . 42 4 Cincinnati ...43 71 .377 St. Louis - - 4 2 6 .371 AMKKICAX L FAG UK. Philadelphia 73 37 .664 Cleveland 6 '3 44 .611 Washington ........ 70 49 Chicago . . -60 5o .522 Boston 53 3 5 .491 Detroit ..4S 65 .425 -St. Louis 4 5 72 .38 5 'ev York ........ 37 6 3 .3 43 CnXTlLVIj LFIAGUIl. Grand Raiids ..-...0 39 .673 Fort Wayne 62 5 6 ..2 5 Springfield . 56 62 .475 Dayton 55 6 4 -462 Terre Haute 54 64 . 462 Evansville 4S 70 . 4 07 A MI "KICAX ASSOCIATION. Milwaukee ,.73 4S .604 Louisville 6S 53 .562 Minneapolis .......6S 54 .557 Columbus .........69 55 .657 St. Paul ...5 5 6 4 . 4 62 Toledo 5 5 6 6 .45 4 Kansas City 5 3 6 9 . 434 Indianapolis 4 4 75 .370 IIFSFLTS yi-lSTKRDAY. National league. No games scheduled. American league. Detroit 7. Washington 1. Chicago 2. New York 3. Cleveland 6, Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 2, Boston 1. American Association. ColumbiLs 4, Kansas City 1. Louisville 2, -St. Paul X. Indianapolis 1, Milwaukee 7. Toledo 5, Minneapolis s. C-entral I x 'ague. Terre Haute 3-5, Evansville 1-0. Grand Rapids 4, Dayton 1. Springfield 7-2, Ft. Wayno 2-6. w .k. n ns win 7-3. The West End Cubs were downed by the Muessel baseball team Sunday afternoon by a score of seven to three. The game played on Cassiday's field. The pitching of Taberski and the hit ting of Stuckey featured the game. Muessels challenge all teams in th city averaging 17 year old. For games call Homo phone 777S between 6 ami K o'clock. AMERICANS ARE NOW BACK IN OWN COUNTRY EL PASO. Tox.us. Aug. 1R. Eight trains under federal military erort of 2.000 men commanded by Colonels Romero, Mancilia and Alberta Ter razas, reached Jurarez this evening. Twenty American men and women with 11 children came on "no train. The federals brought thre- raJinon" and a number of rapid fire Runs for defense against possible constitution alist attack. The train were nix days on the road from Chihuahua. Thren of them were of empty cars to be re loaded with provisions for Chihuahua, City. Telegraphic communication with Chihuahua") was re-establLshod Unlay. out this o O o o ( AdlerBeothers I ' v 1 V f ' - Hmm iit--i Sf -iv r ' r . t. T r . . yi i c h i c A N A X D AY A S II I (i T () X low