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., "W HOPE TO WIN PENNANT AGAIN
'"" St. Louis Manager Believes Rixey and Demaree
Will Help Alexander, But Side-arm
Artist Must Finish Strong
TN eltingr up the Phillies' chance to repeat In tho National Leaguo pennant rrce,
X Miller Huggln, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, says: "The Phillies are
much stronger than thojr are given credit for being, but so Is the league, and I
think It will be necessary for Alexander and Mayer to finish Just as strong: as
they started In 1916, for tho team toirepoot."
Looking back over tho flics one finds that Alexander and Mayer had gained
I6"vIctorIes' between them In the first six weeks of tho season. This year Alex
nndor has captured 10 gamers already, but Mayer has won only two, his second
being won yesterday. Huggins allows for Itlxey and Demareo pitching consistent
ball in doping out the race as he does, but belloves thai Mayer also must como
through for the Phils to win the pennant.
Lat season Mayer started off In groat shape; went bad for six weeks In tho
middle of tho season and then came back strong. This season ho has been useless.
Ho la credited with only four defeats, but his lack of form caused tho loss of
several othors which ho could have saved by relieving a weakening hurlcr, If
ho had been In shape. Perhaps Mayor Is having his losing streak now and will
recover. Ills work yestorday Indicated that ho was rounding Into form.
Mayor Pitches Well in Closing Innings.
MATTER relieved McQuillan In tho tonth Inning and looked Just as good as ho did
at this time laat season. Ho was only In for two Innings, and as ho lias
hown a tendency to start well and finish poorly, ho may not havo been on
tho mound long cnbugh for ono to tnko his flash of form seriously, but wo aro
Inclined to bellevo that Mayer Is about ready for regular work. Ho had bettor
speed yesterday than ho has shown at any time this season; his curve ball was
breaking well and ho showed more ginger nnd ambition. In tho two Innings ho
was on the mound the Cardinals failed to get a hit and only ono was batted out of
tho Infield.
If Mayer has returned to form tho Phillies aro In excellent shape, but If
yesterday's exhibition was merely a flash In tho pan tho Phillies aro In a bad
way for pitchers. Moron has enough hurlcTs, but only three have shown con
sistent form. They ore Alexander, Demareo and Rlxey and tho latter Is Ineffective
against certain teams. Bender has pitched grand ball as a relief pitcher. This
In tho Indian's strong point and Mornn should save him for this work, as going
the nlne-lnnlng routo Is not so easy for tho veteran.
Bonder started yesterday's game against tho Cardlnnls, but weakened after
tho fifth Inning. For five Innings ho hod as much stuff as at any time In his
career, but suddenlyvlost the break on his fast ball. St. Louis was helpless until
Hornsby smashed his terrific drive Into the bleachers with Miller on base. Then
Bender began to weaken and the Phllly lead dwindled.
Meadows Gave Wonderful Exhibition
WHEN Binder retired from the game tho Phillies were one run in the lead, but
thd Cardinals quickly tied the score on McQuillan and tho game went into
extra Innings with McQuillan and Leo Meadows staging a duel, until Mayer
relieved "Big Mac" In time to get credit for the victory. While it was a brilliant
victory for tho Phils to win, a large percentage of the spectators were pulling
for Meadows because of tho great exhibition of nervy pitching ho gave In tho
ninth Inning. f
Tho Phillies, had tho bases full with nobody out in this Inning and Stock
end Cravath duo to hit. Meadows got by with Stock, who fouled to Hornsby.
Then camo Cravath. Tho Phllly slugger had struck out twlco and tho fans
thought ho was due for a hit, but Meadows fanned him for the third time.
Dugey, who was sent in as a pinch runner for McQuillan, had started for tho o'ate
with the count three balls and two strikes on Cravath, as ho figured Gavvy would
surely hit. "When Cravath missed his third swing, Dugey was caught napplnj?
off third. v
The teams battled along until the eleventh with neither team In a position
to scoro. Two men were out in this Inning when Bancroft walked. Bert NIchoff,
Who had made a home run and two singles, then broke up tho game with a doublo
to right. This hit was an ordinary high fly which would havo been on out on any
other field, but It Just reached tho fence. Tho hit was so high that Bancroft
had no trouble scoring1 from first desplto the fact that he fell rounding third.
Pipp Succeeds Where His Father Failed
TWENTY-FIVE years ago a slugging young second baseman, of an Independent
team In Chicago, went South on a training trip with the famous Chicago team
under "CanVAnson. He lacked experience and Anson advised him to play with
SA;ono 'OfJfo many star independent teams of that period for a year or two and
S$Treturn to Chicago. The youngster had Just married and decided to glvo up
"Uie gamo, although it was his ambition to bo a ball player.
He moved to a small town In Michigan and went into business. Just 22
years lator. his son Joined Detroit, buWwa3 sent to the International League for
lurthor- seasoning after tho training trip. Tho father thought that hlBtory was
repeating, but today the youngster Is one of the best first basemen In the game,
and also one of tho hardest hitters of tho major leagues. He is Walter Plpp,
tho brilliant young first baseman of tho Yankoes.
New York Again May See Gibbons in Action
THE promoters In New York are active again. This time a Mike Gibbons-Jack
Dillon battle may occupy tho spotlight, and it Is proposed to stage the middle
weight attraction at one of the Gotham open-air clubs. Gibbons has engaged in
two. big matches In New York within the last year and on each occasion drew
largo audiences. Against Packey McFarland he drew a record crowd, and pitted
against Ted "Kid" Lewis filled Madison Square Garden.
Now what would a Gibbons-Dillon battle draw? This would be a bout botween
two of the leading mlddlewelghts and fighters who employ entirely different styles
of ring attack. One Is the finesse of "cleverness; the other, a rugged, slugging
fighter. But both havo demonstrated that they aro leaders, and a meeting
between the two is certain to be an excellent attraction. Dillon seldom appears
to good advantage matched with men of his own size, but let him go out of his
class and he rarely falls to take the verdict.
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President Toner's congratulatory dinner given to the National League umpires
was rather an unusual affair. As a rule the umpires are called together only
when it is necessary to issue some orders or to read tho riot act to the officials,
but Terier called them to New York to congratulate them on their work. Tener
claims that his present officials aro the best the National League has over had, and
he probably is right. Incidentally the league chief congratulated Harrison for
his work In Philadelphia, which Is another way of taking a slap at tho Phillies
tor their conduct during the afternoon game on Decoration Day.
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Now comes the rumor that not only will Everett Smalley, tho brilliant Central
High School track athlete, enter Penn, but that "Bud" Walsh, the all round star
of Penn Charter; Shields, the Mercersburg ml!r who broke the world's scholastic
one mile record, and George Meredith, brother of Ted, also will enter Pennsylvania.
This quartet of athletes would assure the next Penn track coach a solid founda
tion for the 1918 team, but as so many rumors of this sort havo been circulated,
only to meet with denials, ifis best to wait until next fall before enthusing.
If all tho scholastic athletes who hove been sent to Penn by rumor were to
matriculate, the track and football championship of 1918, when tho Incoming
Freshmen are eligible for Varsity competition, would bo clinched for the Bed
and Biu before the seasons started.
For some reason or other neither of the St, Louis teams can attract a large
erowd In this city. No matter how high either the Cardinals or Browns stand
In their respective leagues, tho fans fall" to turn out when they, ore playing. It
'baa been so for several years. Perhaps the reason Is that both leagues have
been represented by teams which lack personality. This season, however, the
Browns havo lots of individuality, but they drew less than any other team playing
at Shlbo park this season,
Jack Eller's feat In running the 120 hurdles in IS 4-5 seconds is not a
record becauae be did not perform the feat over regulation hurdles, His mark
was made over 2 feet 6 inch hurdles, which is vastly different than topping the
regulation hurdles which are a foot higher. There is at least one second differ
once in the average time made oyer the low and high hurdles. It was a wonderful
performance, nevertheless, and Indicates that tho New Yorker Is in shape to give
fHmpsbn, tho Missouri wonder, a great battle if the pair can be brought together
Uus summer.
What ft pity It Is that there aro no Olympic games this year. There are
wore good track athletes, in tho United States than ever before, and our team
would have been far stronger than any eyer entered in these games. The 1912
team, was believed to bo the height of perfection, but the 1916 aggregation is
superior in virtually every event but the hammer-throw, and it is possible that
tho oW sward of weight men would still bo able to reach their old marks.
OUR OWN CONVENTION
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PTTTflK AND LUCK ESSENTIAL
BUT DON'T. OVERLOOK PARI
PLAYED BY FATE IN SUCC
Gawv Cravath Failed in World SeriW
through Lack of Merit, But Rather hat Pal
Had Him Marked and Spotted
STAND
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THESE ARE "EXAI"
DAYS FOR OARSMEN
AT POUGHKEEPSIE
'Cramming' Is Principal Oc
cupation and Crew Work
Is a Thing Apart
COLUMBIA IS CONFIDENT
HOW "PAR" IS DETERMINED
IN GOLF LINKS PARLANCE
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FOUGHKCnPSIE, N. Y., quno C. Al
though there Is war In Europe and therein
engaged Is Vivian NIckalls, thero nlso nro
threo clght-oared shell rnce3 to bo rowed
here In lass than two weolts, ono novor
would sense that fact theso dayn by a visit
to the crew quarters of Pennsylvania and
Cornell. Here the tallt Is. "Mr. Wright
may I pleaso stay up until 10:30 tonight to
run over the formulao for alcohol?" or.
"Mr. Courtney, may I please get up at 6
tomorrow to bono on Mark Anthony? 1
never could find out why ho was so foolish
as to leavo Egypt I"
Never a word do you hear about tho
Birth of the Syracuse stroke or tho bolls
of Collyer, the Cornell stroke', or of thole
pins or tho reason why Yalo and Harvard
don't como up hero every year and get a
licking.
It Is nothing but binomial theorems,
nuantatlve analysis, the history of tho
Medes and similar exciting subjects. Those
oarsmen are oblivious to yellow-colored
sporting extras or tho latest time trial made
by Columbia. For thcao fellows are taking
their final examinations. Crow work Is a
thing apart.
Professor Foster Not Present
Now If Professor Foster, of Reed Uni
versity, who Indicted Intercollegiate sport,
only wero hero the Poughkeepilo Hospital
or the Vassar Sanitarium -would have a
patient suffering from ohock. As ho Isn't
muck-raking ho nevertheless must pause
and consider for the very good reason that
here Is proof on "every Bide that college
oarsmen study.
Why, when the Quaker varsity crew
started down the course this morning. Al
Foster, coxswain, who Is nil wrapped up
In engineering, kept yelling "dive her gas!
Give her gas I" Just Uko a regular engineer
In a Vanderbllt cup race. Rowing news
why there Isn't such a thing, It'H al tils
tory, philosophy, metaphysics, engineering
and architecture.
Penn's oarsmen even got the goat of Joe
Wright when he set out to ask them about
their outriggers on the new shell which
needs adjusting. "How high shall I raise
yours. Checkering?" he yelled to the cap
tain, and before he knew It the Red and
Blue leader was taking Into account the
specific gravity of the shell, his strength
test and blood pressure and combining
them Into a formula ts And the value of
"x." This Is no place for a regular news
paper reporter.
Hoylo Not Practical
The Quakers arrived here Saturday eve
ning In time for a row and Cornell broke
the Sabbath by detraining at 6:30, Just
Ilka a Red Cross outfit removing soldiers
from an ambulance. At least you would
have thought so the way John Hoyla Im
pressed them to care for these fragile
boats.
Personally, It was beyVnd understanding,
for Hoyla makes those same shells and
gets 1600 per for them. All of which goes
to prove that unless Courtney can come
to the rescue Cornell is taking a chance In
leaving her crews In the hands of Hoyle.
He showed right away on his arrival that
he wasn't a practical man.
One has to go up to the Columbia quar
ters to get a line on rowing. "Exams"
were finished there last week and the
boys can give attention to things' of Im
portance, They have It all tlgured out that
they can licit Pennsylvania and give Cor
nell a rub. Wright's crew Is too light
and hasn't the punch. Cornell's Is a heav
ier looking outfit and sufficiently rounded
to give any. of them trouble. But they
are pretty sore over the fact that the
Quakers have taken their old honor of
being the lightest crew on the river. There
Isn't an alibi left for them.
NB of tho firet things for the beglnnci
at golf to do Is to acquaint himself
with the terms of the gamo. Ono of those
most used Is "par." "Par" means porfect
play without flukes. Tho par of the holes
at Cobb's Creek Tark Is determined by
certain rules laid down by tho United States
Golf Association, and this Is truo of every
golf course In this country. Holes up to
225 yards In length havo a par of 3. Holes
22C to -125 yards, Inclusive, havo a par of 4.
Holes 420 to 000 yards, Inclusive, havo a
par of S. Holes 601 yards and upward havo
a par of 6.
Par Strokes
In determining tho par two strokes are
allowed on each putting green. Irrespective
of whether the holo Is short or long. Holes
up to 22B yards may bo driven from the
tee cither with wood or Iron clubs, so that
It will be seen that one stroke Is allowed
for tho too shot nnd two for tho putts.
But when tho hole Is longer than 22D yards
It will take two shots to reach the green,
bo tho par Is Increased by ono stroko, still
nllowlng two strokes on tho green. Where
It taltes three shots to reach tho green the
par Is made- Ave, threo for the tee and
fairway shots and still two strokes on the
putting green.
If you will remember these figures It Is
not difficult to estimate tho par for any
holo, except in certain cases where thero
are unusual conditions. Any hole whose
putting green can be reached In one stroke
from the tee Is called a one-shot hole. If
two shots nro needed It Is a two-shot hole,
and where three are required It Is a three
shot hole.
"Bird" Defined
If the par of a hole Is three and 'you
make it In two strokes that feat Is called a
"bird." A "bird" Is ono stroke under par.
An "eagle" Is two strokes under par. You
also hear tho term "bob," A "bob" Is ap
plied only to a holo which may be reached
In one stroko from tho tee. It you , drive
the green It Is called a "bob,"
The tee grounding Is the starting place
for a hole. When you start to play you
place your ball on a small pile of sand
called a "tee." The term "tee" also 1b used
for the teeing ground. Tho front of each
teeing ground is Indicated by two marks or
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Box atata on aala at UlrnUU' and Spalding's,
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TOMOUT rTONlGHT
discs nt right angles to the line of piny. The
player never should too tho ball ahead of
these discs, as tho discs aro placed thero for
the purpose of restricting tho players to a
certain place on the teeing ground nnd to
protect the other part
Except under certain conditions to bo In
dicated later tho only placo where tho ball
Is teed up Is at tho teeing ground. After
the ball Is once hit It must be played where
It lies. Thero are exceptions to bo noted
later, but this Is the goneral principle.
The Phantom of Defeat '
They mav ot me f"" the Field
Whom I have shadowed In theWpht
Thov Zav not fcno.o tUi
Whatever be thetr skill, or mightl
Then oi.li know that ounhtheveari,
Thctrfcct mav never reach tho throne,
Their portion only jJ and
Whom I havo marked to be my own.
They may not knoio I marked them out
In babyhood nor down the way
I guided them n reel and rout
Across thi borders of their day,
They only wonder at the might
Of unseen hands that drop them back,
Just as they storm tho final height
To falter tn tho last attack.
You know the ones I speak of here,
That ought to win but never do,
Yoifve watched them struggle year by year
And falter when the crown Is due;
Yon called H lack of nerve or such
Hot knowing, when their dream was
killed,
That I, Fate, held them M my cimci
And drove them doioiticord as I willed.
And some I crush before they rise,
And others I give dreams that see
Beyond the starlight of the sktes
The victories that aro to be;
I lead them upward to the crest,
Anil then, Just where the last gate
stands,
I drive the thorns into each breast
And wrest the roses from their hands.
They may not see me from the Field,
Whom I have shadowed In tho Fight;
They may not know why they must yield.
Whatever be their skill or might;
They only know that out the wdy
"Borne shadow ever dims tha throne
2'oor dreamers of an empty day,
Whom I havo marked to be my own.
Fate and Success
It Is more Inspiring, nnd there Is a better
moral tono Involved, to suggest that In sport
each man Is a carver of his own destiny
that pluck Is everything and that luclt Is
nothing.
But tho pallid facts nro something else.
Pluck and skill apd efficiency aro quite a
lot. But don't overlook Fate. And tho part
that Luck plays Is not to bo dismissed.
The Game's Destiny
What Is meant by Fato? Well, here Is
ono Instance- Last September at Detroit
In tho amateur golf championship Chick
Evans had a 74 In his first round and was
beaten. Shorrlll Sherman had no round
under 80 nnd yet went on to tho semifinals.
By GKANTLAND IUCE
It was Evans' fate to meet Sawyer '?
There
Is tho fate of one man .ifll
well, meeting an opponent who harm.!??
bo at his best. Tho former lose. AhJi
not playing nearly so well, wins S5
hli opponent was far oft form. AtidiS?i
in tno main, goes with the vlein,.c
with flin ilafpnl. """'JiNI
with the defeat.
Fate Again
Last year Maurice McLouahlln k..ia
lam M. Johnston more than onca n V
ihn ,lnv tho nntfnnnl !,..,-.. ."'IB
played It was Mclaughlin's fate thati!
ston should be at his best. 2
Travern lost to Marnton at Detroit 2J
is onen chamnlon nlavpil Vi I., ..!"
exactly In par. Another section from i5?
for It so happened that against 1v.J?
Marnton played tho last 12 holes
strokes better than ho was able to'
them against any other man thrnni
tournament. It "was not Travers noftr'l I
that lost. It was Fato that toriw!5l
against tho most brilliant finish eViSI
Not to Forget CraVatli
Thon, again, thero Is tho world' i
caso of Cactus Crnvath. Th r,...Tlwl
was tipped off to knock tho ball out tit ft! I
lot. In Philadelphia, where the fencn mI
tn l1 nlnen lift u-fio ItnnKU . ."HI
till nnintli amnflrinrl n Ufi.t it! ..
files thot would have earned him tt3
nrMH It OiAir Vin rl It Ann tnnrln.t ii .
ItWMV t-iiw '" wvv... muutu in ng K-
UnlllaatlnV rrUntt iiiAnf tn aiU. -.
whoro they would havo been home nmw
Philadelphia. Ho was facing th u
was not through lack of merit, but mkt'
that Fato oit this occasion had him mirfctf
ill III EJUllUU
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