EVENING LEDGJBJB PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1916. o ATHLETICS TO MAKE HARD TRY FOR FIRST DIVISION BERTH, BELIEVES CLARKE GRIFFITH 12 tLi-."'-...1'"""" . ' - ssrr. BRILLIANT VICTOEY OVER , JOHNSON CONVINCES GRIFFITH MACKMEN ARE POWERFUL - Washington Leader Admits Athletics Are Go ing to Make Great Bid for First Division Berth Witt and Myers Star WHEN Manager Clark Qrimth, jor Washington, brought tils team to this city last Thursday he felt absolutely certain that he at last had a team which was going to take the lead in the American League race, and would bo able to keep It. He also flgurod the Athletics a tall-cnil team, which was In the league "only to fatten tho percentage of seven others. When Mr. Qrlfflth left Philadel phia last night ne had changed his opinion. Just prior to taking the train Grimth declared that the American League teams anticipating easy victories every tlmo they face the Athletics are going to bo sadly footed, and as much as ho dislikes tho Mackmcn (It being an old foil ing of "arid" to roast the Athletics), ho predicts that the team is going to make a great fight for a position in the first division. Grlfflth picked Walter Johnson to repeat against tho Mackmcn, believing that he could cinch the final game and take the series. Ho received tho surprise of his life when Johnson received the hardest drubbing ho has received In several seasons. The old Mack machine batted Johnson hard at times, and often staged censatlonat late rallies on tho peerless hurlcr, but they novcr mauled him as badly as Mack's reconstructed machlno did yesterday. The Mackmon madd 13 hits and 4 runs before Manager Grimth pulled John son from the mound, and if it had not been for sensational plays tho total prob ably would have reached 17 If the famous hurler had been permitted to remain on tho mound. Johnson apparently had almost as much as ho did in tho first gamo of tho series, but ho faced a team with greater confidence than it had Tnursday. "" Mackmcn Now' Have Needed Confidence EVERY gamo won by the Mackmen has Increased the conlldcnco and caused a notlceablo Improvement in the general work, particularly In fielding, but tho moral effect of tho triumph over Johnson yesterday will bo greater than If four or five games wero marked on tho right side of tho ledger against ordinary pitchers. Tho Mackmen have beaten the best hurlcr in tho league, and tho batting slump apparently is over. With tho Western teams hero for tho noxt two weeks, the Mackmen will need all the batting strength they can mustor together, as Detroit, Chicago nnd Clove land have been scoring a" great number of runs and havo been hitting the ball hard. The pitching in the West has been erratic, and this may be the cause of the great averages and largo scoro games played on tho far end of Ban John on's circuit. ' Tho Athletics havo nothing to fear from the West, if tho young hurlers con tinue to show consistent form. Now York and Boston aro rated as strong hitting teams, but they were unable to average better than three runs per gamo off Mack's pitchers in 13 games, with two large score defeats Included. Joe Bush, Elmer Myers, "Ml" Crowoll. Jack Nabors and Tom Shcehan havo proven themsolves capable of carrying the pitching burden, and tho failure of Wyckoff and Bressler to round into form has not been noticed. These veterans will have a fight on their hands to earn-regular turns on tho mound when they strike their stride, as the youngsters are Improving so rapidly;. "Witt and Myers Star in Downfall of Johnson WHILE virtually all of tho Mackmen aided In tho downfall of Washington's mighty hurler, two recruits, Lawton Witt and Elmer Myers, were the most prominent factors, though tho voteran Lajole and Amos Strunk also did yeoman work. Myers held tho Senators in check throughout the game, and If "Shag" Thompson had been accustomed to playing loft Held GrlMth'a men would havo been shut out. "Shag" is rather timid about going after drives close to the bleacher wall and allowed Barber's high fly to get away from him. It bounded Into tho bleachers for a homo run, Rondeau scoring ahead of him. Thereafter, Washington never had a chance against the great speed and charp breaking curve ball of tho up-State lad. Only four hits wero made by the Senators and two of these wero scratches, while Myers grew stronger as tho game progressed. Tho most pleasing feature of Myers' work was tho control ho showed In using his sld'-urm curve ball. Myers has a wonderful side-arm ball, which he'mlxes well with :he over-hand curve that has excited so much comment, Jut until the lato innings of yesterday's game had not been able to control it. This no doubt was due to lack of confidence. After beating Johnson, Myers should have plenty of it. Tho sensational work of Witt is the talk of the town today. Tho schoolboy wonder looked better than in uny previous gamo and showed signs of developing Into the player wo predicted ho would be. Thero has not been a better all round exhibit bi of short-stopping given in this city in many a day. Davy Bancroft has shown flashier games in the field, but seldom does a shortstop shine in all depart ments as Witt did yesterday. Witt Hit Everything Johnson 'Pitched HE SLAMMED everything Johnson shot up to the plato and finished the day with a perfect average, getting two doubles, a single and a long sacrifice fly. Prior to hitting tho sacrifice fly, Witt laced two long drives to -the fence which were foul by Inches. If either had dropped in fair territory he would easily have made a triple, which would have givun him the greatest single diy performance against Johnson since he has been in the league. As It stands now. Jack Four ,nier, of the White Sox, with two home runs and a single, has an edge on Witt. Witt had the confidence he showed at the training camp. Johnson did not worry him a bit. The first double was made oft a sweeping curve ball after Walter had him In the hole. He also was In the hole when ho made his second drive, having had two strikes and no balls called when Johnson tried to sneak a fast rone over the outside corner. On his sacrifice fly he hit a curve bail, while the last time he singled on tho second ball pitched. Johnson, very much peeved at Witt's showing, put all he had on the last ball. Confidence in Hitting Ability Has Returned WHEN Witt hit'his triple off Keating, which was his first long drive of the season, we predicted that he would start swinging freely and extra baso bits would be his specialty, and tho youngster Is now coming through. He is likely to get better every day now. though the fans must expect him to have his bad days, as he is sUll a trifle green and may take a "balloon ascension" occa sionally. In the field the Mackmen played brilliantly. Thompson made an unfor tunate misjudgment, and Charley Pick was credited with an error on a difficult chance, but brilliant plays by the entire team more than atoned for these mis plays. Lajole, Witt and Mclnnis pulled plays that reminded an enthusiastic crowd of the heyday of the famous $100,000 infield, of which the latter Is the ale survivoc Phillies Still in Batting Slump WHILE the Mackmen were adoring a great triumph the Phillies went down to defeat again at the hands of Brooklyn. Weak hitting was the cause of the defeat, as Alexander the Great pitched his usual brilliant bail. The Phillies ecured only four hits off "Wheezer" Deli, who blanked them for the second uroe aunng tne series, which is some feat. Te catting slump is coming at a very bad time, as the Phils are en route for the West, where they will have no chance for morning practice. The most discouraging feature of ths work of the team in the last two weeks has been the miserable hitting and slow fielding of Cravath. A few years ago Dooin benched Cravath for a few weeks with excellent results, and it might not be a bad Idea for Moron to try this stunt. When Cravath is not hitting he Is of little value to the team, and allowing him to remain in the gan.e when he is not hitting will only prolong the slump, aa Gavvy worries a great deal when he la not clubbln? the ball. Larry Lajole declares that he enjoys baseball more this season than at any ether time In his 21-year career and he attributes It to the presence of young Witt at short Larry is enthusiastic about the youngster and says it la a pleas urtj to worJt beside a youth who has so much nerve, ginger, fight and ambition, without being too fresh. Witt provides many a laugh 'or the other Inflelders also with his Incessant chattering, A young man named Wescott, who is pitching for Wesleyan College and who WlU Join the Athletics, read a great deal about the terrific hitting of, Watt and Buonaguro, pf Columbia, who also may be given major league trials, so he decided to teat fata skill against Columbia last Saturday. Buonaguro'hit one foul ball and jauariflced la four trjpa to the plate, while Watt also was disposed of o strikes 4hr times. Which would make Jt seem that Mack has a rather clever young Ug Pitch? incoming. EVENING LEDGER MOVIES-YESi LACHRYMU, IF YOU HAVE TEARS TO SHED, MOVIE YAW HUM'M .-LtEVe lE- I'M TiR6t- Lit- 'OLT BeptSo Looks 00 OX) To MB BVBM IP IT . owtY ninb O'CLOCK AMY BoDV fj fERCE MK' AU RIGHT AIM' NO , FRCH' OP MINE, NO DELILAH HAS SNIPPED LOCKS OF SAMSON DORIZAS Penn Greek Breaks Collegi ate Strong Man Eecord. 2109 Points IN POOR SHAPE, TOO I Mike Dorlzas is king ngnln. lie has regained his title as strong man at the University of Pennsylvania and of all the colleges in the United States by breaking the strength record made a. short time ago by Edward Husael, tackle on last year's Red and Blue eleen. Mike set up a new mark today of 2109 points, 79 better than tho old mark. Ho walked Into tho physical examination ofllce this morning In Wolghtman Hall. "What's all this I hear about a new strength record?" asked the herculean wrestler and all-round athlete, as he stripped off his coat. He grabbed a back testing machine and yanked the handles almost out by the roots till they groaned with the strain. "It's true," said Dr, W. B, Cromle, as sistant physical director. "Your old rec ord of 1776 polntB was smashed by Rus sel, who made 19C8 points. I guess that record will stand for a irood many years." "Well, wo'lt Just see." answored Mike, as he drew his shirt over his sturdy head and flexed his mighty arm. Ofllce hangers-on, students and others gathered when the news spread that tho Qreek was going after a new record. Doctor Cromle got out his record sheets, his lung-testers, bolted down his machines a little tighter to the floor, heaved a sign as he laid out some of the more delicate Instruments, and then gave the signal. Mighty Mike heaved his chest, grabbed a pulley and the trial was pn. Bolts cried out as the great muscles of the athlete's back gathered nnd trem bled as Dorlzas threw back his head, puffed out his cheeks and strained with all his heart. The door slowly closed and the windows sagged In as Mike drew In air and expanded his enormous chest. Another record fell when, the measure ments were set down The arms he used for his famous "bear squeeze," with which he threw, in wrest lipg. the biggest giants of the college rank, were the only members of his pow erful body that went back on the Qreek today. On the "arm extension" machine he was only able to register 310 points as against the 350 points he forced on its register when he set up his first mark. "Ouch !" exclaimed Mike, when he strained today to better his score. He rubbed his shoulder and smiled. "I'm not In very good shape to break a record today," he said. "Walt till my shoulder gets well. Then I'm going to make a record that will be a real one." He hurt his shoulder In wrestling prac ticed Dorlzas also fell down on the "arm flexor' test, when he only made 290, as against his previous mark of 330 points. But in nearly all the other tests for heart, lungs, back, legs, neck and hands the modern Samson tacked a few point? on the mark made by Russel. The test today -was Mike's final physi cal "exam." Every student at the Uni versity Is required to take an examina tion when he enters and again when he leaves the University. Mike says his strength Is due to leading a "right life." He has played varsity football, track and wrestling, so that he keeps in condition all year round. When he graduates from the University this June he will go to the Germantown Academy and teach. He will likely return ta the University to help coach the football and other teams, as well as to give advice as to physical conditioning of the athletes. "Before I leave col)ego, when I am feel ing fit, I am going to hang up a new rec ord If I have to smash all the machines to do It." said Mike, today. When Russel, holder of the old record, was shown the new figures of Mike, he looked at them for a long time. Then he caressed the Jlgamente of his big frame, still strained from his previous efforts. He shook his head, "I have nothing to say." Tome Athlete Breaks Mile Record TOMB SCHOOL. Md.. May 8. William Wnrv Raker. ork Pa . In the Toms School , ei a woo is a aiua&oc lha 4 BbHWWI, W h WWl. 4H Port Deposit. Md brolu mlla record .ox tho XwrenGevl,lnr. cbolaitfo uxteta by sU second. Ill mils In i:ib. m air ran HI FS IlMll i Bh al OF A MAN TRYING r SeeP MiHTJ BEST And U EARLY- TfcATS MB " I (AM I Rt' .? J " N YoU'Rg AU) ) .-. -JV, -C -3-lKlSB' Too TICK " r - rB6 -so- LootV) . .. r. o' Bcvry - Ajusht, J ' NEXT TWO WEEKS WILL SHOW RELATIVE STRENGTH OF THE CONTENDING CLUBS Fans Throughout Country Watch With Interest First 1916 Diamond Clash of East vs. West By GRANTLAND RICE THE Interactional Jamboree, meaning East vs. West and West vs. East, which Is now under way, brings on moro Inter esting possibilities than nny Intersection criss-cross for several years. In this shift ing of troops and wagon trains tho East goes west In the National League, while the West comes east In the American. And by tho time the double Invasion Is over we may bo able to get the first faint line on Who's Who In Balldom, or Who Will Be. For Example These next two or three weeks will show us many things. In the American League wo will seo how Washington, suc cessful In the East, can stand up under the hammering of Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and St. Louis. And we shall also see Just how serious this Cleveland rally is. If Mr. Fohl and his pet Indians can rip along through Boston, New York and Washington as they have out West the Cleveland revival will be complete. And yet, when you think It over, the upllft,now In vogue In Washington and Cleveland isn't such a mystery after all. Washington has a great right hander in Johnson and a great left hander In Harper. There Is the Jump In two games out of any four, Cleveland has In Morton, Klepfer, Coumbe, Mitchell and others a first-class staff. Washington and Cleveland have drawn tho best pitching in the league and the rest of it is a cinch. No Hurry The two clubs supposed to get away In a hurry, Detroit and Chicago, have had their troubles, trials and tribulations, but this Eastern Jaunt will give a good line on their strength. Perhaps they will swing together out on the road. And perhaps they won't Which Is fair enough as a baseball prediction. But they are not likely to discover any peculiarly soft spots around Washington, Boston and New York. Giant Dream of Revival However the other clubs may look at It, the Giants are viewing their Western Jaunt with feelings akin to supreme Joy. They have gotten so sick of the other three Eastern clubs that they can't even bear to look at the standing of the clubs. On this trip McQraw will show the West plenty of hard hitting, but whether or not he can show It anything like good CHAMPION STRONG .MAN Mike Donzas today broke the coj. legiate BWengdv usf fcj mefcing 2100 points at Weightman Hall. !gg-gHjMjPHfc j jflBHsRRHR iib, ? TO SLEEP IN A HOTEL A maN'-Of8 1 I ipenev is a I r JFReM mime . Che's a ?ooo t-w scoot- aim" r j Vvr rkjhTj-J MB IISEM - i ALL FRGM5. ToGGTHEP THAii R pitching Is nnother matter. There Is a chance that ngalnst new contenders tho Giants may finally hit their better stride and get going again. They havo practi cally exhtusted al) tho known ways to Ioso a ba gamo, and pe-haps they will start wlnn .,s for a spell. But wo advise no gentlo reader to wager his all upon this possibility. Far from It. If they get the pitching yes. But getting is something else again. Phillies, Dodgers and Dravcs This Western trip will also offer tho first full test of the Inherent strength shown by tho Phillies, Dodgers and Braves. They have been picked all along as the three strongest clubs In tho league. Their records havo upheld the dope. But how much of this actual strength and how much Is due to Giant weakness is yet to be tested. Braves, Dodgers and Phillies havi all picked up four or moro victories from ".he Giants and have thereby been enabled to get away at top speed. There is nothing like havlpg a soft mark to start with, and the Eastern trio have overlooked fow be.ts In this respect. But there will come a fairer test when they meet tho four Western clubs, who will be barricaded at home with machine guns trained on the advancing foe. The Western Test Moran, Stalllngs and Robinson all be lieve they are slated to win. The main dope Is that these clubs will finish 1-2-3. If the West Is to check their rush, there will be no time like the present Later on It may be too late. For If the three leading Easterners can more than hold their own In the enemy's country; whaf chance Is there to head them off In June, after they return for a long siege In the vicinity of home cooking. Not enough to rave about Tho West hasn't won a National League pennant since the Cubs triumphed six years ago Since that time Giants, Braves and Phillies have gathered In all the glory. But all four Western clubs have been bolstered up this season and one of them may come through with a punch Btrong enough to give the East erners a harder tight than the outstand ing dope now suggests. t In the American Le'ague Bhlftthe East ern clubs' will have their hands and feet full facing in a row Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and St Louis, There was a time when Cleveland's arrival wus the signal for loud, rousing cheers, but that aay apparently naB passed. The American League race this season gives promise of outranking the National tn general closeness. Leaving aside the Mackmen, one club In the Johnsonian cir cuit has little on the other and the In terest, has greatly Increased since the three supposed to be the class Detroit, Boston and Chicago have had a tough time keeping their heads on their shoul ders. ANY SUIT In the House TO" OltDKB Reduced from ISO, J23 and 120 $ge Our 7 Big Window PETER MORAN & CO. MLltCHANT T.ULOHS 8, V-. Cor. 8th and Arch Sis. . IS, Cur, "11th sad Cheatnut flls. BASEBALL TODAY SHIBE PARK AMERICAN LKACUK G It O UNI) 3 ' Athletics vs. Detroit Game Called at 3:30 V. M. Tickets on bale at GlmbeV and HouliUoi'a. DViM A f! 16 Soring Garden St, V A A '-' I'tlttt tie anil Silo TTBtfe Bra2zo"VB. Tommy Carey . 7 . ,.. f- km $11.80 PREPARE TO SHED THEM DURING THE SUMMER SEASON ROOM AB-SO-LOOLY, PERCE 14 A Good scout, Tha' swat, AIM' GOO B-l. - FR6N ToCeTHJ- - Bt J 2- AUJ "'CM ;25We LA SALLE TEAM RALLIES IN WIN OVERVILLANOVA Donovan Scores in Tenth Inning Ryan a Good Twirler OTHER SCHOOL NEWS La Salle College -has a bseball game on tho schedule for every day this week and If the breaks aro not all ngalnst the Col legians they Bhould win the majority of the contests. In tho game with Villa- nova Preparatory yesterday, La Salle made a rally which gave them the verdlcj, 10 to 9, In a ten-toning battle. Six runs In tho ninth inning enabled tho North Broad street students to tie the score at 9 all, and In the 10th the winning run was scored when Donovan came home after Heuslcr's long fly to centre field had been gathered In. The timely hitting by J. Mahoney and Whalen gave La Salle tho victory. . Ttyan. the Lansdowne High all-round ath lete, pitched a good tame agalnat Lower Merlon High yesterday afternoon, and In addi tion made two two-bag-ffers and a elnsle, but no could not win the came single-handed, the Ard moro team, led by Lardle Davie, capturtne tha contest by a mara-ln of two runs, o to 4. It wns the first real teet ot the season for Lower .ucrioii. Catholic Illeh won another Interscholastlc I.eucue same yesterday afternoon, deieitlnc Ocrmantown Illch. 10 to 2. Itoblnson'a twirl In u- and the numerous double plays by Catholic IllBh wero features of the came. The Purple and Oold are making slow but sure prosrean In the Princeton Cup series. Thero was only one match In which Penn Charter had to work very hard to outwit Frankford Illeh In the tennis competition at Queen Lane yesterday, and It was Walsh's vic tory over Dornhelm. tha junior Indoor tetinla ihamplon. In two out of three sets. In the other matches, Pilnrst, Bright, Pennock. Brig ham, and Myers all won poTnts for the Yellow and Blue. Jack Ott, the Northeast High School tennis player, showed his best form of the season In 11 a ( Uvvarthmore Preparatory School nlaver. At lv. Ott led un tea nis team to a S-to-0 victory by defeating Van Allen In two straight sets,, tj-2, 6-8. Hears, Klnkead. Cloak, Cook and Calhoun played for Northeast High. When Central High defeated South Philadel phia In the Interscholastlc League yesterday. Clarke allowed only one hit In six Innings and Leopold and Cravla, who alternated in the box. got out of a number of tight places. League Soccer Meeting Postponed On account of Bethlehem and Dtsston hav ing arranged to play their postponed American League match at Bethlehem next Thursday, the semimonthly meeting of the American League, has been postpone! until Thursday night. May 18. George Caipenter, of Beth lehem, Pa., will referee the Bethlehem-Dlsston match. IB L fa IS p (23 I L?f nmu.iwliM. jW mt M ONEY must draw int'rest. could have its age-mellowed smooth ness if it didn't rest "in the wood" two years. ! MEREDITH PICKS CORNELL TEAM TO BEAT PENN "Just Can't See How We! Can Win After Compar ing Results," Says Ted HARVARD MEETS YALeI By tTED MEREDITH Captain Penn Track Team. This Saturday wilt conclude tha an! meets for all the Eastern colleges that expect io enier iniercoueglates at B6(nn iJ year wilt be held this Saturday w Harvard meetsNYale and Cornell cornea t Philadelphia t6 meet Pennsylvania. ' Princeton also will have a m ,... Virginia, but this will be an easy task S Princeton and will not bring out toaJ competition. The Harvard-Yale meet-al . ways is a good one and is nearlv o. iJ. portant to these colleges as the lnter 1 They always get as fine as pomim, for this contest and I think thai l. ,. reason some of the Harvard ami v.ili I An liAsrA W4 nrlA a a tit Jtljhn.l.al- "J . iiicx .i.o ,'"" ouwit uiooyyoirumg sndw. limn wutm u vuinoa 10 ino interim,-!.. Bingham, for Instance, ran In fast tlmi -i naiir i.iai juu, um ion uown miserably In the tntcrcolleglates. Cornell nhould win from us In our doU meet I can't seo how wo can wln'aftsr looking over tho results of tho meet thn had with Harvard. ' Arllo Mucks Is keeping up his record smashing crusade In tho weights, and adj. ed anothor record to his oredit last Sat urday when he made a new confercita mark In the d I sous of 14B feet. Thli beati the formor mark, held by Garrets, of Michigan, by five feet. Mucks should be the greatest, all-around weight man in tho country this year. H , can put tho shot closo to GO feet throw tho discus 145 feot and also is good with tho EG pound weight. Shields, of Mcrcernburg, took all the Joy out of Earlo Humphreys' victory Iwt Saturday, Humphreys ran n great raoe and won his letter by winning the mUa against Dartmouth, but about tha same tlmo that afternoon Shields was break lng Humphreys' two-mllo Intcrscholastla record of 9:57, making a new mark of minutes 39 seconds. Mcrcorsburg now holds, or Jointly holdt every Intorscnolastlc running world"! record except the mile. Coach Curran told me the last tlmo he was here that ho was after the mile and two-mile rec ords, bo he will now start to groom Shields for the mllo. To Even New York Bouts ALBANY, N. Y.. May 0. Action laken fcr the State Athletlo Commission In proMatnr for "examination of lighters other f't tin regular physical examination" meant, .ccord tng to Commissioner. 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