iyi y , - j. j . vr j c v; EVENING IlBDiGI-l3R-fflIl20DEI3PHrff, WETOKEBIXST, " TOTT 11," 191T ID BALL FANS WILL BE RELIEVED TO KNOW THAT GAME IS ASSURED FOR SEASON OF 1918 :S r 1 r K r CLEVELAND CLUB IS DARK HORSE In PENNANT RACE; creeps up ON LEADERS IN THE LAST WEEK Fohl's Team Has Won 12 Out of Last 16 Games and Is Going Better Than Other Aspirants ' for American League Flag ALTHOUGH the American League pennant has been, awarded to Boston and .Chicago, it would not be at all surprising If both of these favorites were left at the post and a dark horse came In under tho wire and won the pennant. Tho hand-to-hand battle for the hosiery championship has attracted widespread In terest, but don't lose sight of another club In tho list. We arc referring to Clce land, the team which surprised the lied Sox by taking three straight games and keeping parrjS men anchored In second place. The Indians are playing owell baseball at present and have a good chance to catch up with tho leaders before the end of the month. The pitchers are going good and tho plajers have regained their batting eyes. This combination means nothing but victory, and the record since June 25 proves It. On that day Cleveland played St. Louis and won by the score of 9 to 6. Since that time sixteen games have been played and only four were lost. The Trlbo took three out of four from tho Browns, split a four-gamo erles with the White Sox, took four out of five from tho Browns In St. Louis 'ind three straight from Boston. Only two games have been lost this month, which Is SOME record. Picking up a baseball club torn by dissensions and lacking in discipline, Lee Fohl has succeeded in turning out nn American League team that Is able not only to hold Its own with any of the other clubs, but for a tlmo last season was a prominent factor In the pennant race. Kohl had nothing to start with. Joe Jackson had been sold, but Trls Speaker had been purchased to replace him His pitching staff was as much of a Joke as anything else, with Guy Morton out of the running and tho others only desultory winners. -His Infield was badly cracked, with Bay Chapman badly hampered by it cracked leg. Since Kohl has nrrhed he has made over the outfield with Speaker. Roth and Grancy, and has laid aside some youngsters who are perfectly able to take caic of themselves when the occasion arises. Terhaps the best success of Kohl has been in his development of pitchers. Covaleskle. Lambeth, Bagby and Gould all have been developed under his tutelage. FOHL'S success differs widely from' that enjecd by other big league leaders, in that he has developed most of the stars who cavort on tho Cleveland diamond by himself. If Kohl ever wins a pennant It will be with material he hlmbelf has brought into the majors, and not the result of the success of some other man In developing men. Major League Baseball Is Certain for Season of 1918 IT VIRTUALLY has been decided by the big league magnates to keep baseball teams in tho field next year, regardless of what may happen In Europe. This tip has been floating nround Washington for -the last week, and It is safe to predict that tho schedules will be placed out for the benefit of the stay-at-homes. even If the old-timers who have exceeded the conscrlptive age llmtt have to fill tho positions. Kurthermore, each club is willing to operate nt a loss in order to keep the parks open. One of the arguments-In favor of this move is that baseball seems to be :n no danger of being taxed. It will be remembered that a tax of 10 por cent was about to be plastered on the national pastime, but it is believed that such n measure has been thrown Into the discard, since It Is the purpose of the revenue committee to leave the poor man's entertainment alone. The movie films, which offer a greater opportunity for wartime taxation than baseball, escaped the drastic tax because it was pleaded that the cvery-day man who pays a. dime to see tho flittering films cannot afford to pay more een if the additional contribu tion goes into tho Government's coffers. And baseball takes its place alongside the movies as tho everyday man's means of recreation. Another thing to be con sidered is that the public must have somo diversion and the popular mind must be taken off the grim and sordid happenings over In Europe. If Interest can be diverted even for a tlmo to the pennant races, It will be a great benefit. ' rTlHE boost President Wilson handed to intercollegiate sports last month, l when ho said that the war should not curb athletic contests to any great degree, has had Us effect in baseball circles, even though tho Presi dent did not speak specifically of organized professional sport. Heavy Percentage of Stars Are Eligible for Conscription THE greatest danger the 1918 baseball season faces is tho possibility that the stars of the game may be drafted. While baseball Is to be favored so far as taxation is concerned, the human factors of the game are to receive no special consideration, and if they are drafted they must go. A heavy percentage of the major league players are eligible for conscription, but if the law of averages holds good not more than 20 or 25 per cent of them will actually be drawn for fighting It is pretty certain that tho line-ups all over both circuits next year will be as nearly Intact as could bo hoped for. The possibility of a decline In patronage Is something that the magnates vill anticipate. With a real war whirring on the other side. It is not to be expected that Americans here aro to give undivided interest to mere pennant races. But the lords of the national game hae divined that it will bo better to keep both tho big leagues going in 1918, even if cery club is run at n loss, than to allow big league baseball to lapse. UNTOLD damage might be done to the game as a blg-tlme proposition If the major leagues were to cancel tho season. As a matter of safety and strategy rather than as a play for profits, baseball will be continued. Sam Langford, the Boston Tar Baby, Is Through ADMITTEDLY always one of the best In his class, but always shunned by . champions, black and white, Sam Langford, negro heavyweight, is through. He fought them all, Sam did. He never barred any of the heavyweights. He lost fights, plenty of them, but he won most of them. His defeat at the hands of Fred Fulton, Minnesota heavy, Is something no man has accomplished in a decisive fashion since he began wrecking hopes of near-champions. Gunboat Smith once had an Idea he had stopped the career of Langford as a prominent heavyweight when he outpointed the black demon In Boston In 1913 H was so confident he went back for more, and Sam stopped him. Harry Wills defeated Langford in 1916, and in his very next fight Sam popped Wills on the chin and stopped him. Bam McVey and Joe Jeanette both have ictorles to their credit over Langford, but Langford has knocked out both these rivals. Since Langford began boxing as a featherweight his record runs down the list of great fighters In every division. He fought Joe Gans when Joe was a whizz and he won in fifteen rounds. He outpointed Young Grlffo, tho marvel. He stopped Willie Lewis, fought a draw with Joe Walcott and lost to Jack John son before Jack became champion. Jim Barry, now dead, was a persistent chal lenger of Langford and Sam always was accommodating. He stopped Jim sev eral times and won many other victories over him. Jeanette, Wills and McVey appear many, many times In Langford's record, and he holds the best of these clashes by a good margin. LANGFORD was the only man Jack Johnson really feared wtien Johnson l was champion. He was the only man Johnson refused consistently to have anything to do with. Langford challenged Johnson repeatedly. Many efforts were made to get Johnson to meet him, but Johnson paid the Boston Tar Baby 'the compliment of always squirming away. Star College Twirler Expounds Gospel on the Sabbath IF YOU were a pitcher and had a record of striking out seventy-seven men In thirty-four innings, and during these thirty-four innings had allowed only three safe hits to ". made off your delivery, would you follow the national game as a profession, or would you throw aside your chances to win fame and glory In the big leagues and become a preacher of the gospel? This is the question that Is bothering A. C. McKinney, a student of William Jewell College, tat Lib erty, Mo. During the week McKinney attends college and pitches Invincible .ball, but when Sunday arrives he adds "Rev." to his name, dons a frock coat and occupies the pulpit in the Christian Church at Bosworth, Mo. Whether McKinney ever breaks Into the big leagues or takes up preaching, he certainly has made a record that any veteran would envy. Pitching for his college team In four games he struck out seventy-seven men In thirty-four innings, pitched two no-hlt games and allowed but three hits In the quartet of games! He set a new world record in one of these games by fanning twenty-five men in nine Innings agalnsf Tarkio College, and the following week caused twenty-three members of the Missouri State Normal to fan. In both games he held his opponents hltless. McKINNEY has not been overlooked by the Ivory hunters and has had several offers from the big league teams. Branch Rickey had him working out at the Cards' ball park a couple of weeks ago. 0 'and Detroit. According to Manager Its batting- average far nine games ts .444. According to the recent averages of tho National and American Leagues, Cincinnati leads the Tener league In bat ting with an average' of .267. and Petrolt leads al) the Johnson clubs with an avtrwi of .253, fio one can im that Manager Janet must have a team composed 4Mt hiasr. ifownr Tnr"' i willing te.fwW t4-twcciira.cy ot the bttln i Jones, of the Coatesville baseball team, MOVIE OP A MOTORIST ENJOYING A fsrarc f5 tew fiss) taslrf Re-STAURVMT'J VTr-"' 1 V 'r- ' I FOR JlMrJCllt I J J - ffi7 ML SS rIM WA ' J -I i ,'TjoUu n1 "e X I DOM'T BB- u I HllRRV UP I SURPRISED P TrHFUB r tieSs MY.WHTS HffipR,Nc: TOXt1 OH THCSRE J SR6. LIT I"- r I MV CH&CK J V L-SSgpg J WESTERN GOLFERS ARE MAKING HISTORY IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP IN WHICH OUIMET IS PLAYING Tournament Will Rank as One of the Most Im portant Ever Held E. V. Lansdale Makes Hole Three Times From Tee Tm: We? nmaleur golf championship of the tcreMIng in more ways than one In tne flrit place, there Is the presence of so manv eastern and southern players, somewhat of a noelty In an association championship eent ' Then there Is tho appearance of I'rancit Oulmct, whom the United States Oolf Asoclatlon has branded as a profes sional. The third clement of Interest is the first trout of the new Btjmlo rule There are only fle golfers In tho State of Georgia who nre eligible to play In the national amateur championship, and four of them are oungsters well under tie tvent-one-ear mark, and the fifth is the father of ono of the-ie boys And nil fle of them qualified for tho championship. It was reported, but not confirmed, that an effort would be made to prcent the ama teurs, both from the East. West and South, from competing In the western champlnn .1,1.. if miimot were allowed to play, out ,u niat th fl1,t was a larco one and unusually reprcsentatle shows there Is nothing to the story But it Is certain that the United States Golf Association of ficials frown upon tho wholo tournament, and Chick Eans, holder of the amateur and open title, and himself winner of the west ern amateur on more than one occasion, thought It wisdom to stay out. Western Body Strong But there Is nothing In common between the western association and the national organization. Neither has any connection one with the other. As a matter of fact, the western has as many. If not more, members than the national body, but in no sense is it a subsidiary body, and the na tional association has no more Influence with It than with tho arlous tennis bodies. The IT S G A has the right to say who shall play In the tournaments under Its (uriofiiptlnn. but it has nothing to say about the rules and regulations governing a championship held under the auspices of the western golfers. No one believes for a moment that the U. S. G A. would be so foolish as to at tempt to discipline the amateurs who nlaved In the samo tournament with Oul- met. That would provoko one of the greatest wars In the history of American golf, and the national Doay nas enougn trouble on Its hands already without going out of tho way to find others. The sympathy of the American golfers goes, with Oulmet, and most of them will be delighted If he wins the western cham pionship Ber since that memorable day at Brookllno when, playing against two of the greatest masters of golf In the world, the youngster of nineteen made both of them crack nnd won for the first time the open championship of this country he has been the golf Idol Ouimct the Same Most golfers see no difference between the Oulmet of those days when he was a low priced clerk In a sporting goods store and the Oulmet of today, who Is the senior mem ber of a firm which sells Bportlng goods. Had Oulmet desired to trade upon his golf ing reputation, he would be much better off financially today than he is. It is n known fart that he turned down a number of offers which would have brought him In a lot of money, and from the day that he was barred from amateur competition he has conducted himself In a very sportsmanlike way. Most of us believe him to be a simon pure amateur, nnd no action on the part of the national body Is going to change our minds. Perhaps the westerners have not alto gether solved the stymie question, but they have taken a step forward. Most golfers are perfectly willing to play stymies pro vlded they lay them themselves, but one and all object to the other fellow doing It. At any eent, the new plan by which the man whose ball is nearest the hole and who stymies the other player plays his ball first will have a tryout, and If It does not work out well, there Is plenty of chance to try It in some other form. Chicago Well Represented The announcement made during the open championship that the national amateur had been called off gave the westerners a splendid opening, and the field now playing for the championship is one of the bet ever seen on a course. It Is likely tha: the next western champion will cotna from the Chicago district, as it has an over whelming number of men who have quail fled and numbered among them are some of the finest players in the country. Yet there is a possibility that Oulmet, Anderson or some of the southern aggregation may be triumphant. In any event. It will prove to be one of the most Interesting champion Open Air Arena Shibe Park tlBT AND I.KllIGH AVE. . WEDNESDAY KVO.. JULY IITII K1KBT BOUT 8:30 1. M. GEO. CHANKY . JOHNNY DUNDEE 4 OTHKR GOOD HOOTS ADMISSION, tit, SOe, S1.00 Tlcktts on ! at aimbl'( Bpaldlnst' and Kllroy'f. tOth and Lehigh ave. MOTORCYCLE RACES i0 THDK8DAV NIOHT S:J0 POINTBREEZEMOTORDROME GAYETY TJ VINB w. CAVETY iTSJHa. lffilWtti8mr ships ever held In this country, and golf ers generally applaud the westerners for the opportunity they have glen Oulmet t- pl-iy among tho men he should be playing against I'hlladelphlans who have met him either nt Seavlcw or Pine Valley were much Im pressed with the gentlemanly joungster from Boston Ho Is unquestionably one of the four or fie best golfers In the courJry, and ho easily ranks with Chick Hans, Jfcrry Traers and Hcb Gardner and the other top-notchers. The Tenth Hole Last week I mentioned some of the holes rtround Philadelphia that hae been made In one shot from the tee. In talking about the Philadelphia Cricket Club holet, Krartcls B Warner mentioned that the old tenth had been made In ono shot, but ho did not re member who had done It The matter ts rlearcd up by this letter from J. I Line weaver' Golf Kdltor the Evening Ledger, Sixth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Sir In jour recent comment on golf holes made In one shot you mentioned that the tenth hole at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, or what used to be the tenth hole. 1 e the one after the ditches, had been made In one, but that the history of the Incident was not recorded. I doubt lr golfing annals can record a history more peculiar. Mr. E V Lansdale, who was playing with my brother, made the remarK as he arrived at that tee that It was curious that Providence Bhould have selected him as a medium for accomplishing the hole not only once, but twice, in one shot. He then drove off and holed a one for tho thlra tlmo J. I. LLNEAWEAVER a4EV sKsiiiiBA 9 '" for . . . i U lia - L' it y ' v IBlaiMr fiii MfMfr MEAL IN TOWN SISLER DISPLACES SPEAKER IN RACE Browns' Star Player Boosts Mark to .340 and Is Sec ond to Ty Cobb ROUSH GAINS ONE POINT Gcorgo Slslcr, tho versatile star now on tho payroll of the St Louis Browns, yes terday batted his way Into second place In tho American League race Sister made four hits out of eight trips to the plate against three Yankee pitchers In the seven-teen-lnnlng game nnd boosted his mark from .330 to 340, passing Speaker by one point The Indian outfielder was kept Idle on account of rain Cobb failed to make a hit out of three times up and lost one point, falling to 383. It nlso will be noted that Slsler has come to hat oftener than any other player In either league nnd has made almost as many hits as Cobb. Slsler has been to bat 309 times and has pounded out 105 hits, agatnit 108 for Cobb Ty has been to bat only 284 times Housh gained nnother point on Cruise In the National League batting race The Cincinnati tutflelder made five visits to the plate agahD the Draves and accounted for two hits, boosting his marlc from .349 to 360. Cruise, of the Cards, did not play, but has a chance to gain today, as the Cards play a double-header with the Braves. Wheat, fourth In the list, lost one point In the double-header with the Cubs, making two hits out of seven times up. Ills mark now is 316. NATIONAL LEAGUE o. An. n ii. r.c. nonh, Cincinnati 10 tea 43 3 .30 ml. St. Ixnl .... 1.1 2BS SB 02 .StS rlnchpr, IMttubiirsh . 4S ISO II) 40 .331 Wheat. IlrooUlrn . . M 2IS 7 AS .lis llarnnbr. Mt. I.onU .... 71 331 47 78 .311 AMERICAN I.KAOUE Cobb. Detroit . 7 2S4 S3 103 .333 Mliler. Ht. I-outn. .... . 77 300 31 iffi ,340 Sneaker, Cleveland "0 230 41 01 .330 Melnnln. Athletic , . . 71 271 22 sv im Chapman, ClM eland. . . , 81 280 40 87 .311 6ND - FATIMA cj Sensible ... J - 'JaftJ wyw " . ' . rvKHfS? !ir bmmj-iiqw.,jjmm- tfifitilliiWiiil RUGGED RECORD OF COLLINS AND BURNS NOTABLE IN DAYS WHEN PLAYERS ARE Neither Has Missed a Marathon Man But One uut ol 5b'U Fate Slams Yanks Again By GRANTLAND RICE Thoughts of the Average Man on War I've no desire to plug a guy With bayonet or bomb; I'd hate to shoot out some one's eye Or even smash his thumb; I have no yearning in my breast To wade through human gore; In place of filling me with test, It leaves me rather sore. Out if the old flag needs me and I feel that I am due To swing into the battle line and help to see it through, I'll be there when the time arrives to (eke my turn at bat, To take the scrimmage as it comes and let it go at that. AMONG records worthy of more than pass .Tjl Ing note are those now held by Eddie Collins and George Burns In their respective leagues. In these baseball days and eras, when so many ball players are so easily wounded and rendered unfit, where so many are unable to play even 140 games a year, the showing made by the Giant and 'White Sox stars Is an unusual affair. Thero are any number of ball players who are unable to play over a month before fading out or falling hack for repairs. But neither Burns nor Collins has missed a ball game since 1914 a matter of three jears or the better part of tho Fame. Burns In this respect has been a marvel. Ho started as a regular with the Giants In 1913. Here Is his record: 1913 1K0 games. 1914 154 games. 1916 1 5G games. 1916 165 games In the last 660 games which the Giants have played Burns has missed only one game the second section of a double-header near the end of the season with the race decided and nothing at stake. Eddie Collins hasn't played In as many games as Burns has since 1913, but Eddie has a trifle the better of the consecutive game record since 1914. You can gamblo your bit that no fragile frame or frail system Is going to carry through 375 consecutive games The stam ina and tenacity nnd ruggedness of Burns and Collins are well up to their ability as ball players, which Is far from being slight. It was more than a shame the way Rus sia was doped to be out of the war for good. She was almost as far out of the war as tho Giants aro now out of the National League pennant race. L. II. G So far as we know, Larry Jenk ins, British amateur golf champion, Is still alive. He, was among tho first to leavo for the front In 1914, but we have seen no record of his death Back to Fate Tho Yankees still flutter under the old shadow. There are those who say there Is no such thing as Fate, but how does any one account for the various misfortunes which seem to pursue one club year after year? Last season at this date tho Yanks were leading the league At which point they lost Cullop, Gllhooley, BaKer, High and Caldwell. This season they were moving along nicely when they lost Gllhooley, Shocker, Walters and Caldwell again. Not here are the victories glowing Or, as the poet almost said: Kot here i$ the petmant sweet; 'Tis pray, as our hearts are growing, , Aye, dark as the doom we meet; But stand to your bludgeons steady Wherever the old flag flies; One cup to the maimed already - ilurrah for the next wtio dies I A Star for Uncle Sam Your Uncle Samuel draws one of the stars of the Commonwealth In the announcement " saisfaiWiaisliiiilv. man1 liciuiB Cf - T.HE DAY COMFORT A full, flavory smoke in which "nip" and coarseness never held a place that's Fatima. But Faumas go beyond that they are cool and taste-y all daylong, from breakfast grapefruit to dinner demi-tasse. Yes, Fatimas are sensible, as you can prove to your own pleasant satisfaction. Cigarette aav r in.-..w- 1 FRAGILE AS GLASS' Game Since 1914, Giant! 11 that Robert A. Gardner, of Chlcs.ro U U Join the officers reserve corns. ' Gardner, a Yale track star from the eM days and twice amateur golf champion ! not only an all-star athlete, but the con try knows no finer sportsman, He Is om of the hardest fighters In sport, but aiiooM of the cleanest and Bauarest. Gardner first became the amateur rail champion In 1909, when ho was stilt a tSI undergraduate. Ho doesn't get a worlds time for golf, but he came back with a iJ. ond victory at Detroit In 1915. Last nu at Merlon he went to the final round, d,. spite an Infected finger, before he was ov! thrown by Evans. The game hat n,J Tou can't very well blame Ty Cobb ft V refusing to get a hit In his thlrty-ilxS game. The monotony of the thing had bens to pall upon him. Even the assignment rt ' eating a quail a day for thirty days is till i to have a depressing effect. i MAIN LINE RIFLEMEN WIN NATIONAL HONORS . Club Captained by E. B. Cassatt M.e ExcellentJShowing f The Main Line Blflo Club carried off nml honors In Class G, In which were enttrelf civilian rifle teams from all over the Unlttl' States, in this year's event, which has luitf ended. The Main Lino sharpehootwi ' nmassed a team total of 9318 points out off' a possible 10,000. ' ' The competition Is nn annual one undf tho auspices of the War Department fori ride teams from all parts of the United' States t The Main Line Rifle Club has been lg existence a little more than one year andli headed by Captain E. B Cassatt, who Ii t president. The other officers are: Vktjr president, Dr G. L. S Jameson; treasurer, Henry O. Garber; executive officer, Honcil ii jiaro; assistant executive officer, Cllftoa Lisle ; secretary, Francis G Okie HITTING THE BULL ADDS $50 TO G. BURNS'S B. R. George Burns, of the Giants, will receln i n nV,nnlr fnt. tKft nt tha Tn1n. r!n,,,n t.1.. .- .......... .... ...... .. ,..u . , UIUUIMI UJJ 24 for hitting the Bull Durham sign hen Juno 27. SUITS TO ORDER Reduced from (30, $25 and Sto PETER M0RAN & CO. 8iOTr 13T1I 4 MAKKET. ENTHANCE OS TB S. E. COR. 0TU AND AHCH STS. Market St. Store Open Every Erenlnf NATIONAL LEAGUE PARK PHILLIES vs. CHICAGO OAME AT 3:30 r. M. Seats on sale nt (ilrabeU and Spsldlui' I II I i 1 me: $1 0
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