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EVENING LEDGER-PniLADELPIIIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 191C
ATHLETES IN PINK OF CONDITION MAY HAVE VERY BAD TEMPORARY SLUMP
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OFF-FORM COINCIDENCE
MAY BE ANSWER TO THE
TENDLER-O'KEEFE FIASCO
It Is Possible, but Not Probable, That Two
Athletes May Be Affected at the
Same Time
CAN two nthletCH well-trained nnil In the. )lnk of condition be off form
at tho snmo. time? Is It pomhIIiIo for two boxers like IJilillo O'Keefe anil
Lew Tendler to tumble Into a ski nip, ko stale call It what ynit may and use
this ns an excuse for their poor sbowltiK In what wan Hiipposed to be one of
the star bouta of the year? Such a thliiK la likely to happen, but only on rnro
occasions. If these boys were oft form liwt Monday tilfilit they will have n
clmncd to prove It In their special bout next Monday. It Is up to the pub
lic to decide.
Wo have often rend of n populnr race horse bclpK defeated by a bunch of
soiling platers: Drover .Alexander has been knocked all over the lot by a tnll
end, wcak-hlttliiK team. In fact, In every lino of sport tho participants have
their "off days"; but It Rencrnlly happens that the other fellow Is "rlnlit" ntnl
pets tho best of It. If O'Keefe nnil Tendler put on a brother act with tilts
slump stuff It Is something new In the sport (,'amc, and we aro anxiously
awaiting the answer.
Majors Might Do "Well to Follow Minors
"Stalling." to prevent the romplotlon of n game, or calling oft a contest
for any reason which the home club believes to bo beneficial, will not be
tolerated In the American Association this year. According to tho now rule
In that organization, the game can be called off by the cnptnln of tho homo
team, but the postponement, regardless of cause, cnrrles with It a fine of $12..
Many games every season are postponed when they might bo played,
but tho home club, and possibly the visiting tenm also, will take n clinnco on
getting more money by playing a double-header the following day.
It would not bo a bad plan for the major leagues to adopt this rule also. ,
There are more unnecessary postponements In the mnjors than in the minors,
consequently the rule would eliminate much unpleasant talk among the funs
and unfavorable criticism In the newspapers.
Not only that, but In case a whole series has to bo postponed on ac
count of bad weather. It Is no more than Just that tho home club should bear
nt least a portion of tho visiting team's expenses.
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Kicking Against Referee Lowers Sport's Standard
Constant wrangling with tho referee because he has called fouls is not only
unsportsmanlike, but it Is hurting the De Nor! team, of tho KaBtcm League.
Tho chief offenders In this respect aro "Mil" Dark and "Doc" Newman. They
have talked the tenm out of several games, and appear to be doing It more
frequently in proportion to tho times the team Is defeated. i
The De Nerl Is and has always been a very popular team, but such tactics i
ns these will soon bring the wrath and disgust of their followers on their heads.
Basketball players, as well ns baseball players, should know enough to i
realize that when once a referee has called a foul he Is not going to reverse
his decision except under very unusual circumstances. In case there Is such
an occurrence, tho captain of the team should do all the talking and do it
in a. sane manner. I
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Joe Wear Played Fon..ilI at Yale
It Is not generally known In local club circles that Joe Wear, the partner
of George II. Brooke, In tho Itaccjuet Club's double racquet team which Is
making a strong bid for the national chumpionshlp this week, was a former
star football player at Yale. In 1000 Wear played quarterback on Gordon
Brown's famous team which defeated Princeton. 29 to C, and Harvard 2S to 0.
At that time Wear was an all-around athleto nt Yale, and following his
college career he settled In St. Louis. He always retained his inteicst in
athletics and teamed up with Dwight Davis, a St. Louislan, former national
tennis champion and donor of tho Davis international tennis challenge cup. In
racquet play. This pair won the national double championship in 1914, but a
short time later Wear, who Is a hon-ln-lnw of William Potter, former I'nltcd
States' Minister to Italy, moved to this city and became n member of tho
Racquet Club. Last season Wear still played with Davis, but the latter was
not In the best form and the title went to Pell and Mortimer, the New Yorkers.
This season Wear teamed up with another football star, (ieorgc Brooke,
and this formed a happy combination. Twice already Wear and Brooke have
beaten Pell and Mortimer, und are favorite for tho championship.
The most remarkable fact about tho pesent championship tournament is the
unusual number of old football stars who aro In competition, this number in
cluding Percy Haughton, tho Harvard coach; Norman Cabot, tho old Harvard
captain and halfback; Barrett Wendell, Jr. and J. W. Cutler, two other Harvard
stars; Brooke and Wear, Hatch, Cutting, Stockton and Crane.
Negro Was Star in American Association
From time to time in the past fow years great colored basemill players
have been developed either on independent teams or in Cuba, men who havo
been of n calibre that would havo warranted them playing on major league
teams. Somo of them have been so light of color that efforts havo been made
to smuggle them Into organized ball
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All of these attempts have been failures, for It is nn unwritten law that
colored players cannot play In organized ball. Yet tho fact remains that a
colored player of undoubted color did
niuuu un uxi-k-imuiiuiiy nnu rttuiu. nu
player of considerable skill In batting
Ho played with the teams- in tho old American Association from ISS1 to 1SS7.
At that time the American Association was a major league, In fact a league
of equal or greater skill than tho National League. There was never any
protest against Walker, and ho enjoyed considerable popularity. This riddles
tho belief that the major leugucw have ulwuya held tho bars up against colored
players.
Leland Stanford University plans to send Its track tenm Kast to tho In
tercollegiate games. As tho crew Is also coming Kast for tho Intercollegiate
Regatta at Poughkeepsle, It can be seen that Stanford has mapped out an
ambitious and expenslvo Invasion of Eastern sports for tho coming season. It
Is estimated that It will cost tho Pacific coast Institution's athletic association
$8000 to send tho two teams Kast. This is nn expenso that any but Kastern
colleges would go to for any &Qrt of an athletic competition.
Fred Fulton's greatest argument In asking for a mntch with Champion
Jess Wlllard is that ho la the seventh son of a seventh son, and, therefore, is
bound to be successful In uny line of endeavor he undertakes. This Is Indeed
an odd freak, nnd it Is strictly tho truth, Fulton bus sis brothers, nil of whom
havo been rather successful in business, and Kred says thut as he is tho seventh
son he is bound to bo more famous than all.
' Bill Hanna has gathered somo Interesting "instdu stuff" ancnt tho trouble
between Kred Toney and Garry Uerrman. Bill says: "Garry Hermann's letter
to Fred Toney, offering him a J4000 contract, contains 241 words and only alx
sentences. Punctuation periods are aa scarco In Clncy as penunt periods."
Just how fond the Southwark fans aro of Alllo MeWllllums was shown
last night when ho appeared on the lloor at Greystock. Allle was given a
wonderful ovation In spite of tho fact that it had lieen announced lie would
not play. McWIIMams has been afflicted with "double vision" and has not yet
fully recovered,
Connie Mack states that those who expect to see tho Athletics again at
the foot of the American League (adder may have somo surprises, in store for
themselves. With Lapp released and Schang on he Infield, we didn't know
Connie had any "Masked Marvels."
According to the local dallies "Aurora Defeats Vesper," There must be
eorae mistake, John Milton plainly says: "Zephyr with Aurora playing," etc,
,
Frank Baker declares he will Join the Yankees If he gets the proper terms.
Judging by his last year's performance, his should be at least flve years.
When Bube Oldring announced last fall that he was going to retire, he
must have been referring to that particular evening.
under tho gulso of Cubans of Spanish I
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play in a major lenguo at ono time nnd l
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and throwing to ba.ses.
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TENNIS CRACK!
WILL ENTER THE
INDOOR TOURNEY
Matches Will Begin Febru
ary 25 on Court at First
Regiment Armory
COMMITTEE
NAMED
By W. T. TIU) EN, 2d
There Is no event in the athletic world
of Philadelphia mole Inteicsting to all
than the Kiioitsinen's Show which is
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annually held in the
First Hogimciit Ar
mory. Ilrond and
Callowbill stiects.
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This year the at- I Fisher, Ilutloy, Wolltzcr, Itynn, Klcmll,
tractive .show will j of Columbia; "Gil" Kinney, Hack Nocs,
be Kreatly aided wm u , , , , u t h
by staging the first ! ' ' , ,. , , ... , .
annual indoor ton- I A'"hl. of nlc: Aunderbllt, of I'rlncc
nls championship of ' ton: CJtllllths, Walter Itandall anil A'm-
Philadelphia.
held
under the
ausplces
of the regiment and
siinotloned hv tho
Philadelphia and DIs-
trict Tennis Assocln-
linn.
The following events will lie held:
1. Women's singles and doubles.
2. Mens singles and doubles.
I 3 Junior (hoys) singles and doubles,
1 open to boys under Hi joins of age.
I The entrance fees, which Include ad
1 mission all week to the show, nil ex-
dibits, swimming pool, shower and locker
l facilities, etc.. ale $2 in the singles and
I $.1 a tenm In doubles for men and women,
while for the Juniors it Is but $1 In
singles nnu $1.50 a team In doubles. This
., most nmaciue oner to those who
w'sn to P'ay in the tournament, since
nffnrns Mwiri nn! onlv V fun .if ,l,
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play itself, but also most interesting and
Instructive entei ta.ument under the
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niont. It should assist materially In
urawing n large entry list. Trophy cups
will bu piesenled for the ladles' singles
and men's singles. These cups must he
won thico years, not neees.sailly In suc
cession, to become the absolute piopoity
of the Individual. Suitable prizes will
bo given to the winner and lunner-up In
all events.
Tho ladles' events will ho run In tho
morning. From noon on, during tho nft
crnnnu and evening, the misses' and
junior events will bo run off.
Play will start Friday, February 2j, at
10 o'clock and will continue until n week
tho following Saturday.
A most attractive court lias been ar
ranged and will bo erected a week beforo
the tournament to allow entrants to
practlco there. For this reason eaily en
tries have been requested. Tiio court
will bo covered with a heavy rough can
vas, thus forming a surface which will
hold tho bounce of tho ball and will give
tecuro footing. Seventeen nnd one-half
feet behind each basellno will provide
plenty of room to make any shot.
Tho lighting will bo Indirect overhead
lighting from gas nnd electric lights. It
should bo leniarknlily easy on the eyes,
as there Is no chance of getting the full
glare of tho direct light.
Tho tennis committee h representative.
It Includes P. W. Gibbons, Cyntvyd Club;
William T. Tlldcn, 2d. Gcrmantotvn
Cricket Club: Dr. Philip It. Hawk, Merlon
Cricket Club; A. A. Cnpello, Wilmington i
Country Club: William 1". Rowland, Ilel- I
Held Country Club; P. S. Osborne, Point
J'lfUSIlUl 4,. 1. ..,
Josenh M. Jcnnlnc.H. i
Philadelphia Cricket Club; Kdward C. I
Hall, Moorestotvn Field Club: Wallace
Johnson, Merlon Cricket Club; llosmer
W. Hanna, Stcnton Athletic Club; T. H.
Martin, Cyntvyd Club.
The following prominent tennis men
have entered: Wallace F. Johnson, P. W.
Gibbons, L. C. Wlstor, William T. Til
den, 2d. Alex D. Thayer, Joseph B. Bow
land, William P. Bowland, Hosmer W.
Hanna, T. H. Martin, P. S. Osbourne, E.
U. Dew hurst and others. G. Carlton
Shafer, ex-natlonal indoor champion of
tho United States, will probably play
also.
Fifteen entries are already In for tho
Junior event. The tournament promises
to be a great success.
Special Bowling Match
Itaiuock Knitting Slllln. rolled on Casino
ullttf. Peumun anrl Wright won two out of
three game from .N'aylor anil Miller.
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WUEH .THE GREfT
Amateur is peprivieo
OF HI LWINJ E.X.PEMSGS
MOEGAN AVEES BASKETBALL
RULES ARE AIDING THE GAME
He States That Keinath Is Wrong in Saying
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UOCie IS iDOUU LO 1VI1I Tlie
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HAVi; lead with a great deal of inter
est excerpts published III New Yoilc
nowspa tiers fiom an nrtlclo by Charles
ICeiu.'ith to tho effect that basketball rulc-
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j makers, were killing the game by the
oretical changes. In fact. Charley has
I said tho ramo soit of thing to mo many
I times.
Keinath, I really think, was tho great
est placr of the college game and that
i Is quite a statement when ono consld
j ers nil of tho very gicat college play
1 eis of tlio last 12 years. There aro
berg, of Harvard, the Ilalsteiids, of Cor-
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" """ 5'ear's toinell team, a star of
1 the llrst water: Schomincr and Pat Page,
of Chicago, and mst, but not least, of
our own great- plater. Artlo Klcfaber,
(ieingo Flint, Low Walton, Matty Pcarce,
Harry and IMdio McXIchol. Of all of
theso gieat plajf-rs that he has seen
M'Peatedly In action, the wilier would
rank Keluatn ae the best. Keinath
"played with his head" all of tho time.
When Pennsylvania hail the ball Keinath
cither had It himself or was In a posi
tion to get it and score, or relay It
to some one else In position to seoie.
When tho other team had the ball, Kei
nath Immediately became a guard. Ho
UI1H tlln host tlcfclifltl'e ttlnver 1 linvn over
toon. L'p ami down the court In every
yame Kolnnlh was alwa.ts In close to
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of the ball is the game. Keinath taught
the Intercollegiate I,eagnc many things
ho taught us the value of tho foul
point by developing foul-throwing to its
high point of elllcioncy. Ho taught tho
league tho elllclemy of the dribble. He
developed tho dribble to such nn extent
that It pretty nearly wiecked tho game.
The Olil League
Tho old Intercollegiate League disbanded
after tho season of 1007-S. Harvard
ill tipped tho game becnuso it was too
lough. ' Piobldent Kllot had been a bitter
foe for heveral eais. A foe of football,
be said In his icports to tho Hnrvatil
coiporatlou that basketball was woi&c
tougher, uioie hiatal.
The writer hud been a member of tho
Collegiate Basketball Hutcs Committee
since Its fm matlon In ISM when tho col
leges broke away fiom A. A. A. rules.
Tho writer saw tho light when tho Inter
collegiate League disbanded in 1903.
Harvard did drop basketball. It was on
tho rocks at Cornell and Princeton, and
very shaky at Yale. Wo placd two
seasons, U'OS-Q and 1003-10, without a
league, and the futuio looked blue. Tho
Itules Committee was divided. Harry
Fisher, of Columbia a gieat player and
coach and a dominating personality stood
for the old order of tilings. Hairy taught
hU teams to hold on to their opponents
and made tho game a close guarding ono
of actual bodily contact. It had to be
pretty llagrant to be called a foul by
Hurry Fisher. He says today tho sumo
thing that Keinath bays, namely, thut
the rule makers have Killed tho game.
Became Convinced
in the other camp of the itules Com-
mlttee wcio Dr. Joseph IJ. Bnycroft, then
of Chicago, now nt Princeton, and tho
witter. Doctor Hajcroft convinced mo
that tho game was played dlffeicntly in
tho West the Western conference has a
tine attitude toward college athletics gen
cially and I wns much Impressed with
tho style of play of Doctor Itaycroft's
Chicago team, which Pennsylvania played
In 1003. So Doctor Baycroft and I formed
an alliance without saying so I do not
mean to imply political collusion. I mean
tve seemed to think allko on the needs
of the game and on the method of sav
ing it.
And so wo have btudied the gamo from
its beginning, the tendencies that have
crept In and tho remedies. Wo agreed
that bodily contact must be eliminated;
that there must be a curb on running
and on dribbling-, so as to make guarding
without bodly contact possible. Then
thero must be a curb on fouling to Mop
intentional fouling. Flvo years ago we
made these fundamental changes that
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put a premium on clean, hard play and
made the winner of the game win Its
laurels by speedy, skilful, clean work.
U'o have stopped Intentional fouling by
dividing fouls Into two classes technical
and personal and by disqualifying a
player for making four personal for bod
ily contact) fouls.
Now, wo have lulncd tho game to just
this extent In 1003 when I larval d dropped
unsKctball
colleges rill over the Kast
diopped it Amherst, Hrnwu, M. I. T.,
torts and otheis, and tho feeling against perse tho hoodoo nnd report with the mcr
basketball wasn't confined to New Kng- chnndiso. lfo recently put before Jack
land, either. Coincident with the outcry Doylo the proposition to bet $1000 ngalnst
against tho game came the constructive, 510,000 that Fielder Jones landed not only
Intensive work on tho part of tho com- . tho 101(5 pennant, but tho world series
mlttce. We met with conferences for tho i championship. Any pop-eyed fnn with
study of athletics, conferences with mem- I WOO who doesn't bellove tho Ilrowns
hers of tho faculties of tho colleges that
had dropped tho game. We wrote ai tides
for collego and school publications. Wo
held meetings to Interpret and explain
tho rules. Wo mude direct lefcrence to
tho coacli who taught Intentional tough
ness; wo have, I think, pretty well
smoked out this gentry by now. In
shot t. we made ovety Intelligent effort
that bust- men could In an avocation such
as basketball rule-making must be.
Progressive men from New Kngland,
in Tower, of Williams, and from tho
West, In Doctor Nalsmlth, of Kansas;
Doctor Cooke, of Minnesota, and Mr. St.
John, of Ohio, were added to the Itules
Committee and two .tears ago Hnrry
Fisher letlred. The Itules Committee has
been unanimous In Its beliefs since his
ictlreinciit.
I And what lias been the result of all
tills work. Theie is no voice as far as I
know, certainly none of any great weight
raised against the game, Colleges every
where who havo not teams aio putting
them on the lloor. Collego rules havo
been adopted as standaid li.t tho Y. M. C.
A., and It was a simple matter to con
Milldnle the A. A. P. nnd the collego
lidos last spilng so that thero Is a uni
form code of rules for all who wish to
play amateur basketball.
Now as for tho gnruu as a spectacle.
I will leave It to any one who lias been
fortunate enough to sco tho Pennsylvania
team In action In nny of its cham
pionship games played to date. Person
ally, I am of a calm and placid disposi
tion, but I can't sit still when the close
of the hccond half Is near nnd tho score
Is tied or wo uro a point or so to tho
had nnd I noticed that nobody else could
either at the Pilnceton gumo In Welght
mnn Hall, for Instance.
Then I reflect that I havo seen four
League games tills season so far Prince
ton 10. Cornell 17; Pennsylvania 19, Cor
nell 17; Pennsylvania 20, Pilnceton 22,
nnd Yale is, Pennsylvania 17; and I re
member last year's race witli many scores
ns close IS out of M games decided by S
points nr less margin. If niy memory
serves me. And so I think thnt
Keinath and Harry Fisher and others
who say that tho "rulemakers nro kill
ing tho gamo" either do not study their
rcinniks and the facts back of them
very clofely or else they are like Hie old
men around tho stove in tho vlllngo store
who say that tho country Is going to the
logs, in spite of the many marvelous
improvements of the age.
IMlHiLY liKFT-HANDKKS
REPORTED DISSATISFIED
Baumgurtner and Rixey Do Not Like,
Contracts
'Lefty'
IiaumKartncr unil Knpa nixey
Jr.
tho unlv
ftoncu fcoumiMitu t'ui ai
if nlaeru for thn romlni
oran haa
on hU list of platers for the coming ueaton.
ara reported as being dlMitlsttcU with tho con.
not yet signed, itaumgariner is said to hatu I
mr.,n , .mln..,.! Itinni lit, I III, 1'Klllla. iin.l l.n .m
ueclurnl ho will stuur law at ilia Chicago
I'ntvertlty before ho will ucccpt the terms of
fered, lie has somo time to think It oter
before thu season opens.
Tho Phillies are In need of left-hand pitch
ers nnd Mansgtr Moran has been counting on
theso two southpaus being of some servlcu
to the team this jear. UUey has been nursed
along for several seasons now. but has tct to
provu himself a winner. In 101.1 he pitched
only 10 complete games, but took part In ?J,
and Is credited with It won and 12 lost, llaum
gartner did not pitch a full game during the
season, but rccelted credit for winning 2 out
of the 10 In which he took part. Ilaumgsrtner
aroused Moran's Ire last fall by getting mar
ried Just when Iho team was making Its final
dish for the pennant and when his vertices
weio needed. It l likely that the Ditchers, cs
well as Whltted, who Is also a bold-out, will
coino to terms In time to go South on tho
training trip.
PRESENT AMATEUR CODE IS "'
A FARCE,
Sentiment Has Changed Regarding AthleteaiS
During the Last Two Decades,
He States
By GKANTLANI) IUCE
TIIKHH aro a lot of Subdued and Irasci
bio ltystnntleis, Innncent and other
wise, who are wondering how this Amu
tour Orgy was over stnrtcd.
Nothing could bo simpler. The bulk of
It li duo to tho widespread fickleness of
tho American Sporting Public,
Of which wo have extended pi oof.
Then and Now
Forty-five yonis ago In ccilnln Ameri
can cities there was a law to the effect
tlmt nny ball player caught on the slrcct
after dark was to be aircMed and locked
up ns n bum. ""
' Ten years ago nny man caught with n
gnlf or tennis nut lit on his person Was
Immediately branded In business circled
nn n lonfer nnil No-I'so-At-All.
In plncc of being a help, golf ami tenuis
eilinprd I lie bnnkinll and loft a dent In
one's business status.
Hut when Uvrryone, as the nnylng Is,
hegnn doing It, n midden ehnngc ai lived.
In place of being a drawback, nblllty to
got mound In 72 or stain one In the back
tine suddenly became, a keen financial ns
cot. A champion golfer or a champion
tcnnli player, u briber engaged In the In
surance, pportliig goods, tailoring or what
not business, began to lind his bankroll
bulging, hugely through the fame secured
upon tho Held,
The Change
Quite naturally, this sudden change In
affnlrs upset those controlling, or nttempt
, lug to control, tho destinies of amateur
sport. Now the tangle Is terrific. The
sudden shift In the viewpoint of the sport
ing public has tossed various censors Into
! unplumbed depths.
I This Is shown In the caRo of the Lawn
Tennis Association. It has ruled that one
who sells tennis goods exclusively Is n
professional; but that one who sells ten
nis goods In fair proportion with other
I products Is not a professional. .
. Obviously this ruling Is a farce. If
McLoiiglilin nnd Dundy arc to be rated
! lrttIZlTM
s
rat-
ed now engaged as salesmen In any snort
Ing-goods house. There Is no other way
out.
Tho man who sells $t00 worth of tennis
goods a week Is as much a professlon.il
or ns much an amateur as one who
sells $1000 worth. A player who gets
JM a month playing bull is ns much a
professional as Ty Cobb.
$1000 on the Browns
lied So. Tigers and White Sox have
the way to first place In the Amerlcnn
I i.e.'iKiie in-bay wen oiocuca irom any
other club.
I3ut there Is nt least ono camp-follower
j who figures otherwise. Kegnrdlcss of tho
I fnto which has pursued the Hi owns for
. many seasons, this man bellovrs Hint
, Fielder Jones Is genius cnougii to dis
will be 191G Champs can got action hero
in a brief interval of time. Perhaps.
Jones is virtually tho solo survivor of
NOTES OF THE BOWLERS
Philadelphia Council has replaced Ia Itlhlda
found In the KnlRlilH of Columbus I.ciikuc.
Like their preilei cKwira. they fulled to win,
but are likely to bronk into tho tlctorlntis
column In tho near future. Their first re
terse was by 10 hIiih. They tackled tho
leaders in their first appearance, too.
Ltwler compiled u storo of SO pins for l'lnzcn
In his third game against San Salwider.
Enterprise won two Karnes In tho "Phll.i
delphl.i Jtadc" Hardtvaro League from North
llrothcrs. and Mr the time liclnit held the
runners-up back. Tho deciding gamo was
won by tlirco plus.
Kcen-Kuttcrs nnd Scull Manufacturing Com
pany teams, the leaders, showed auperloilty
over their opponents In tho Induntrial League,
each making a ilenn sweep. Pnxtioti tcored
KiO fort ho Kuttcrs In Ids first game, while
John fi.iy toppled oter i'7 In his llrst gamo
with Kuill.
Mnlestle again came to llfo with 101.-, arl, n
White Llephants, It being Us eolltnry trhiru.ni
iner tho ex-tlKimpIotis. Nock smashed ht
Pins for HSU. LithKow totaled '-'21 and Tnplinni
IMS. wbllo Morgan contributed 2 and Shaffer
ITS to tho big aggregate.
Hilly Knox toppled oier 2.V). Ills easy de
livery makes It seem n slmplo matter to tcoro
strikes when needed.
Tho White Illeplmnts rolled sin games last
nlsht, winning four. Against Wndham's Kill)
noro thev totaled IKlllf won the i-econd game,
1S7, to S'lil, and concluded with 1031 to Wynd
hafn's li'H.
S.un Ilndgers scattered the pins for a .13
count against Wjndhain.
Ilert Frailer showed consistency ngalnst tho
ex. champions; his scores reading -!-, -Ul and
0.1.
Howard Price beenn his scries with a 221
score.
Algonquin, by dofe.itlng Giants two games,
are tin with White llleplmnts for llrst pluco In
the ljuaker City League.
The rival Wyndliam quintets had quite a
battlo, iho Colts taking tho odd game.
Wyndh.im diopped four out of six games
laut night.
Considering the hnndlcnn'tn Antl-Cohden by
thu absento of Hood, who Is HI, nnd Kline,
who Is out of town. Antl-Cobden has been
holding Mutual hi good stupe In the Uerman
AmerUan Lcuguo terles.
Di-nps.
tho one-armed bowler rolling with
United, topple! over JG3 ,4ri8 In hU eeconl
Kame against Quartet.
Charles Lambert's 20S fitted In nicely with
MrCorkle's 2U. Stewart's ISO. Hutchinson's
1UT and Holler h 111 for an aggregate hi ore
of Oi,- ugalust Olrurd hi their second match.
The Intercluu gamoa this week resulted In
numerous tine IndlWdual efforts by the club
men Lynd knocked iloun 210 and Trout 21) I.
while Townsend concluded ttllh 20.1 for Merlon
Maroon. In which series tho Merlon won all
three from 1'nlon League Illuea.
Schottle, of Manufacturers' Club Illue squad,
got going In his dual game ng.ilmt Macouet
lub Maroon, and concluded with a 2.S tally
Tigers showed a return to form In whining
their last game agulust Maueio. the latter
squad winning the first two matches In tho
final the Tigers Lroko locuo wi.h a Oil score,
which was I! pins better than their opponents.
Karri's 222 being enough to turn tho tide.
Kocdlsch. after getting scores of 201 and 211,
registered 1.11 for the Manufacturers' Club Yel
lows, the Walnut street (tubmen winning ull
thiea flora U Itttiquit, Club llcsertes.
It. Lee, of Merlon White, was high for his
team with 35.1 against Union league White.
Interclub Leaguo may send Ave teams to the
Atlantic Coast championships at Washington.
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DECLARES RIG
on insi worm scries outfit The Rn t.tl
In his game, once the impel,,, fs
r,?:w "?? j'j lnst. i iS
limn nine ycais ago, vet tho emi n .
has faded out. Ulllv H ,11 van 1; v. ?'
Nick Allrock. Doe White. Jlgg, n0I ml S"
'rank Isbell, Oeorgo Oaviji ." &
hill, l'nt Doughorty, ncorgc Holm ai.1
llnhn have skidded fiom II," wl Z Vn J
Walsh Is still around, but npporenlft
Ihrough. The otheis loft t ,o tJie t..!
well behind. ,,lfc T'"'
Half Strides
To tho majority of all entries S7 ,,,.
cent. Is a good oven break. I .fc '''i
Icsj
...... w..,. uiv.iu m uiii,v one Mil I Til u at
unhlttnhlo-tho one that has p'Jsslj lh'J 3
lleorge Stovnll, the cx-Keil Klrebrnn.1
s now- a firebrand at golf pool The M
.".. inii,.ii nvu tonsccuiivo Hole, uti('r
nguc start
to hop from one circuit to another
The Masked Marvel game will never n ,1
In Knghiiid. not union thrv ,Tinn,,r...: ,Vi
masks piopcrly perforated for a pipe. 2
Joe Steelier today may bo a brttir i
wi ostler than Frank Gotch Is. But proy.
Ing that Steelier, at his host. I- i,.i,
than Gotch ever wns Is ono of those aim-'
plo little details like proving that Math
cwson had more stulf In 1903 than Itad.
bourne had In 1883.
Jess Wlllard maintains the record of
hnvlng fought one flrst-clnss fltrht in 1,1.
entlro carter. This was aga. st a man
-.. ... ...-iv, w tin uwg KvCKi
battle to his credit, Mr. Wlllard Is willing
to meet any man for 10 rounds, provided
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and
lloston aro deeded over to him, with th
United States Steel Corporatlc tossed In.
It doesn't take tho old bean Ions to
develop a decided puff once a blokj
doesn't know any better than to believe
ho is pretty good.
A good mnny billion people have Inhab
ited this universe nt ono time or another,
but no ono has yet ever done enough to
earn an attack of the swelled ddinc, much
loucl flin tntl nml utntnh. nlllvmt ,. Urx i
...... ...u ..... ...... ........, ..it,....,, ,i,u ,
now heavyweight champ, the same ap- y$
plying to n Mr. Frank Moran. "
Thirty thousand dollnis for "0 minutes -
of stalling, shuflllng, clinching and mak
ing a few gcstuies holy mackerel! '.i
money being carved out of dirt?
This Masked Marvel stuff has even In
vaded tho war zone. Wo note where both
Germany and France aio using mask;d
batteries with telling effect.
Docs nny ono know of any capacity
wherein a Masked Hard could nehleve a
fow extra pieces of eight or a doubloon
or so not needed in tho general distribu
tion? It's Kid ilroad's luck that the mask
camo Into popularity after he had quit
tho ling. The Kid will never tecoicr
from a law deal by fate.
FAIR CIRCUIT DATES
ARE ANNOUNCED
Racing Will Open at Fleming
ton Track August 8 Uni
form Classes
Tho annual meeting of the socretnrlei
of tho nip Fair Circuit wns helil yes
terday nftcruoon in this city, with all
the nlno members of tho circuit repre
sented. It was tho best attended meet
ing in tho hlstjry of tho orRnnizatlon,
llvo States bclnjr represented In the
mootluir, as follows: William H. 0"
chor, secretary of tho National Trotting
Asboclatlon, Hartford, Conn ; Henry
Mcycrhoff, Now Yjrlc; S. H Wilson, Jr.,
Joseph Davidson and J. Leonard John
son, of Wilmington. Del.; L. P. Ilandall.
of Trenton. N. J.; nlchnrd W. Wills, of
Mount Holly. N. J.; Eiltvard B. .Allen
nnd W. A. Totvnscnil, of FleminBtnn,
N. J.i Harry B. Schall. Allentotvn; Jnlm
A. Bollman, Lebanon; V. SI. Shaner,
Pottstmvn; John Relnhelmer and W. K.
Shinier. Nazareth; S. II. Hcffner and K.
V. Do Turk, Kutztown; Abner S. Dey
slier nnd Daniel J. McDermnt, rteadlns,
Hnrry C. Ileckort ami II. D. Snyder,
York; Thomas J. Clemens, Fred n
Shrove. AI Saunders, Walter L. BaKor
and Robert Laycoclt, of this city.
BASEBALL MEN BANKRUPT
Federal League Fiasco Blamed for
Pittsburgh Officials' Failure
niavrcnmimr .inn. 211. Dabbllnir in base-
.n .i.,, ,i. p..iArni r-cmcue has nrovea coiir
to William A. Kerr, vlro presweni oi in. 7
huridi Federal League ("lub, who, tvltn nij
'ati ,ii ""' V"--". :r. ".i :.,! ,ha
'rut:,ui wnh". ,r, -.. ni,,
hrother.Mtqbcrt J. Kerr, also a a recjor -
club, have been forced Into bankruptcy.
It was stated here that the firm of WllHf
Kerr'- Hon.. contractors, which comprise' ths
two men mentioned, are Involuntary : Li-
rupts. William A. mt ""?"",iSi'ii
Snihl. liabilities liiil.2.vi,l while, those, of
his brother nre. assets. $JWJ Tl, ana naui -
Jl,'Jjl.U3.
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jlc Itosen t.. .H'le Meel.au
Eddlo .MorKUi. is. friiiik Mi-tUn"
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