J W3Z 31 ?) i V t r Ssj! ;:?- 7 A v 1 -1 f , BVKtsrXflQ' gUBLIO 'LgBGERPHiLADELPHrA, -THTJBSDAY, JUNE 26 lffl C r , ' M'QUILLAN NOW BELIEVES FOUR BALLS FOR ONE BASE BETTER THAN ONE BALL FORFOUR BASES SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE 'BRA VES DECIDE TO REACHING TOP FORM M, . AT PROPER MOMENT NOTEWORTHY STUNT Willard Is Gradually Working Himself Into Condition, Dempsey Has Reached the Crest and From Now on the Mental Strain Is Upon the Challenger IN THE SPORTLIGHT By GRANTLAND RICE Copyrliht. 1010. All rtchU ruerrfd. , The Race , - What't the use of worrying Vp and down the waut irMVl rfZ,t JL Li V lr V Jl V '- em mtt ta p nrinriNns G? r : If'' ..7. ilf..-nt mi7 T .nrim-iie ICaon Philc Out nt FihrtrinillR S$ C.pllnr Cnamhsmen's SluinD Due to Poor Physical Condition of Players uu f l j.- i ft- . St W .1 :? ,'L I lr- h IK I lav IK ny ItOBEKT V MAXWELL. " Vtxrt Editor Krnlnc Inbllr Ledger Coturloht. llti. tu Public Lctotr Co. THE time has not yet come for the rtrnves to vacate the cellar in the National League. After flirting ith the sunlight on two different and distinct occa sions, the hunch from Hawston derided to linger a few daj-s longer because they arc accustomed to the surroundings. On Tuesday they had the Thils down and out nfter the first game, but couldn't make it unanimous in Hie recohd. Yesterday it was more of the amc. and nhen the crowd filed out of the tall yard every one was satisfied that no hard luck could visit the home folks tintjl this afternoon, when the final game of the set is put on, Gavvy Craiath. IrMi Meuel and Fred I.uderus caused the downfall of the visitors in the twilight attraction, (iawj droe the ball into the center field bleachers for a home run in the sixth and in the eighth banged a binglc which prolonged the contest and allowed I.uderus to soak that home-run drive over Riggert's bead I.udy certainly laid on the ball, and now Hughie Mc Quillan is sorrj he didn't hand him n base on balls. Tour balls for one base It much better than one ball for four b.f-ci at that xtage of the game. Irish Mcusel also was there with his tru'-tj war club and hammered out hits indlscriminatcl . trMi doesn't know and dorsn't care where he hits the ball. Left, center or right field, it s all the same to him. Hut he takes n good cut at the bull, and wheu he connects there is something doing. Mcusel can leave his throwing nrni in the dressing room and ncer mis it. but he is a sore fielder and one of the most natural hitters in the league. Too bad his wing is weak. Too mucli baseball on the coast last winter is the cause of it. In the opening act the locals bad eery appearance of the next opponents of,thc Darby Professional. They meaning the Phils looked like disgruntled aand-lottcrs and the Hraves scalped them good and plenty. Loyal fans wept bitter tears and almost flooded the grand stand when the first game was being kicked away. Bradlej Hogg bad nothing but a white uniform and a sun burned neck, and to add to his discomfort his pals made four errors behind him. THE lays started hitting in the second tilt, and when that happens the other elub is out of lurk. The pilt-picklers. led by Cravatk, put J ihe skids vndir Hughie McQuillan and shoied Ilairston bark into 1 the bog. Cy Williams Out for Tivo Weeks JACK COOMBS is elated ocr the outcome of the second game, but the injury to Cy 'Williams has taken some of the joj out of his life. Cy was hit on the hand by a pitched ball yesterday and forced to leave the game. At first it was believed he sustained only n bad bruise, but after a close damnation and an X-ray yesterday Doctor Roger announced that one of the bones had been broken and he might be able to piny again in two wreks. Perhaps Williams will round into shape by that time, but the chances v. in k nn fho sidelines for more than a month. It was Ins left hand lie . " " " are (which was injured, and as he throws with that mauler he will be of little Jralue to the club until be has fully recovered. Cy isn't the best thrower in 'the. world when he is in good health, so what can he do with that bum mitt? He'd be lucky if the other gus didn't steal his uniform. Therefore elongated Cy should be eliminated for the time being. There's a reason for ever? thing, and that goes for the losing streak of the Phils. Physically, the team is shot to pieces. All of the breaks have been against them, Including ankles, hnnds and fingers. Bancroft will not be avail able until .August, no one knows about "Williams. Jack Adams has a badly goralned finger, Meusel's arm is lame. Sicking is playing indifferent ball since &.Ma sprained ankle mended. Packard has a charley horse, Hogg and Rixey are -DoMn condition, Tearcc is plaing wits a spiKcu Knee ana me caicning stan 1 all shot. It's a miracle that the club still is in the league, let alone seventh place. George Whitted is playing his head off everj day despite the fact that tome one stepped on his pet bunion. He is doing more than he is given credit for, as Jie plays in the infield one day and goes to the outfield the next. George isn't hitting, but it in't because he isn't trying. The batting slump will depart as soon as he gets a regular position to play. ' R1 V ilQHT noir Cooptos u til a bad tray. With Williams and Bancroft out. the only utility man n Leo Callahan. If an inficlder gets hurt i Whiited must take his place, and if tiro players take the count Coombs i might have to go in and play himself. It's a hard life for the mem len of the Phils these days. Braves Anxious to Trade Blackburn PRESIDENT BAKER said yesterday that he still was on a hunt for new talent, and Larry Sutton, scout of the club, was combing the bushes for promising material. Nobody will be passed up and the price will cut no figure. Mr. Baker realizes that the fans want winning baseball, and unless the home dub plays better the attendance will buffer. There was a rumor yesterday that Lena Blackburn, utility inficlder of tiw Braves, would be sold to the Phils in a day or so. It looked like a sure deal until the rumor was officially, spiked. There is nothing doing, although Boston is anxious to sell him. Blackburn has had a varied career. He started in 1010 with the Chicago White Sox and looked like one of the coming stars. He was weak at the plate, however, and his bum hitting kept him out of the regular line-up. He re mained with the Sox three seasons, went to Milwaukee in 1913, but came back again in lf)14 and 1915. The next two years were spent in Toronto and last year Lena played with Cincinnati. His hitting improved and this season be was sent to Boston in a trade. Lena has lots of pep and showed up well this spring down South. He is a; classy fielder, and with regular service should be a fair hitter. Stallings has Johnny Rawlings as utility infielder and Blackburn is rather superfluous. He probably would make a good man for some club. Cu-rV m I " " ""-" v rZ " f X l WOULDN'T Qo ACROSS) f v I. "we sot a Take my advice Thc streot To see it? . YooR mind I 7,CKBt To 1 And KeeP AnaV UJMV ? ) IT'LL' BE Thc SAr-te olT) HARRV ? g ScRAp FROM T-- YoO 1 T 'W F,ASCO AMD BveRYBODY V. -" isj ; Toledo om I wmouj houj it ll v Will Be Sore aftcr it's , 7) V ToLV Fourth Turn1 oOT 7 . OVER - - MO TfcAixJS- no I V JoLX FOURTH ( HAD T(CfiET I HOTELS- tiO EATS - MO e12 Stfiat you tu bits lF ,-coou omly r OF couRie ctost-To get FoR Yoor TtCrter . ( ogY RID or T ) a'Lotimore Suckers I S "Tb'.COUGW UP DOU6H FOR r " ' ' i A FINISH FIGHT-, - I ' V koovaj- J-" I ( FOUR CHEW IHCES iWILLARD ISFU, Dempsey Will Deserve Crown if He Happens to Slug Jess to Sleep CHAMP NOT HUMAN SHELL By GRANTLAND RICE Toledo. O.. June 20. When Corbett dropped Sullivan, when Johnson stop ped Jeffries, when Willnrd flopped Johnson, the resounding chorus which frtllAii arl nn-rmri triA tnmn nlil nnlin viz.. to wit: "Well, why not? He' only beat a human shell." They can I rever send that echo ringing down the dim and musty sporting corridors if Jack Dempsey ever leans a. right hook on Willnrd's jawbone and sends that worthy into the laud where poppies bloom and canaries sing, until they wake up and say. "tough luck." If Willard is a human bhell. then David had a lame arm when he beaned Goliath nnd Snmon had rheumatic I fever when he became tangled up with! the marble columns. Pretty Good Man It may be the vital spark isn't there. No one can slip you any certain an swer as to that part of it until after the carnival ends. But so far as out ward appearances go the Kansas party looks to be a pretty good man, as men go. He isn't carrying as much fat as he carried into the mix-up with Frank Moran. He has a healthy look fioni hoof to dome. He may not carry any surplus of the well-known and justly lauded pink, but he is far from being a big fat man, wheezing at every turn Willard never was any fleet and fancy performer. Very few able-bodied citi zens around 230 are. He isn't any thing like as fast and as quick as Dempsey is. But if Dempsey wins he should get the credit due a smaller man for knocking out a whale who was pretty close to being at his best. Another Matter Whether or not the vital spark Maxivell Has Ringside Seat at the Big Fight The big fight In Toledo. O., be tween Jess Willard and Jack Demp sey, will soon be singed. The Hvn nino Public- Ledger has not cm plocd a host of special writers to coxer this great fistic cxent. It doesn't need to. ROBERT W. MAXWELL, Sports Editor of the K Kixn Pub lic Ledoeb, is one of the country's foremost experts on boding. lie will not only have a ringside seat nt the big mill, but will have an iuside seat at the camps of Wil lard aud Dempsey from now until the gong sounds July 4. Mr. Maxwell has already paid one visit to the fighters' camps, nnd has told our readers Jiow the two big men began their training. He will tell them now in just what condi tion each man is for the fray. His intimate knowledge of the fighting game, breezy, personal style of pre senting the news of the camps to readers of the Evenino Public Ledger, insures them of the best and most authentic "dope" on the situation. Mr. Maxwell's first article will appear Saturday morning and each day thereafter until the fight is staged. The EJvening Punnc Letjgeb. also will publish Grantland Rice's ideas of the fight and fighters. WHIST TOURNEY WINNERS Parsons and Lenr. of New York. Gain Minneapolis Trophy Chicago, June 20. Parsons and I.enz, the New York team, were today announced as the winners of the Min neapolis trophy, one of the chief prizes of the tournament' of the American Whist League, which has been in prog ress here this week and will close to morrow. Another eastern team Peck, of Hart ford, and Ward, of Boston finished second. IN NAVY DAY SPORTS Aquatic Events One of Many Features at Public Inspec tion of League Island FIVE CONTESTS ON TRACK Four crew races will be among the many features of the Navy Belief Day at the navy yard on Saturday. The oarsmen have been practicing on the water and good competition is assured. The Caldwell trophj has been offered to the winner of the mile cutter race. The four rowing events include a mile for cutters, a half-mile race with turn buoy and a half-mile straightaway and a quarter-mile hunt race with shovels. There are five track races on the program, including the 100 nnd 220 yard sprints, the quarter mile, a half mile relay and a reveille race. Numerous events also will be staged afield, besides the tug-of-war, horse back boxing and a pushball contest. Tickets for the carnival are going rnnitlh. nnd it is expected that a great throng of spectators will witness the spoils and get a chance to sec the yard for the first time since the war began. Willard Is 37, According to License Record Book Leavenworth, Kas., June 20. Jess Willard is thirty-seven years of age, according to the 'records at the marriage license bureau here. In order to decide n wager as to Willard's age, the clerk of the coun t.i court today exhibited the license record book, which showed that on March 13, 100S, a license wns is sued to Jesse M. Willard, nged twenty-six, and Hattic Evans, aged twenty-two, both residents of Pottawatomie county, Kansas. GERMANTOWN LEADS What's the use of hurrying Through an endless dayt ' A'euer mind the growing score, Never mind the pace; "Life to me means something more Ttian a pop-eyed race. There is something more to life Than a winning game; Something more than endless strife For a splash of fame; ' Competition, envy, greed Where the welkin rings, I had rather take my heed ' Of the simpler things. TFflere one doesn't have to bote To the lust for fame That may vanish anyhow By tomorrow's gime; ' Out Ityond the winning score, Uecdless of ihe pace; Out where life is something more Than u pop-eyed race. ' , THE league of nations has a universal peace Idea running through it. but even that classic covenant makes no effort to prevent an umpire from being pop-bottled by an Irate fan. The blighted ump must still operate outside the fold. The' Mental Strain REGARDLESS of the general aspects, the mental strain of this coming battle is upon Dempsey not Willard. Dempsey was In shape to go the limit two or three weeks ago. A young, rugged athlete in fine condition, he needed little work to get on edge. Once on edge he had nothing left except tothink about the fight. Willard has been too busy trying to prune awny a few rolls of fat and to get into shape, to think nbout much else. ,He gradually has been working his way to condition. It begins to look as if he will reach the correct stage just a day or so in advance of the show. And all this time DcmpRey, at top form, has been merely waiting ior the big day to arrive. Naturally, under these conditions he has been the one to carry the growing mental strain. i T 18 for this reason thft more than one contender has lost his ehanee by reaching top form too soon. For after you reach the top there is only one other direction to take. Quite So ' When women enter baseball They'll shake a batter's naves; - I never knew a player Who could catch on their curves. ' Krcrtanpe. Wins Fourth Straight Game In P. R. T. Baseball League Gcrmantown kept on winning, mak ing it four straight yesterday in the P. R. T. Company League, when they took the Woodland boys into camp, S-7. Knox, ot'Gcrmantown, struck out nine batsmen. The league standing follows: w. L PC. t. I,. PC. dfrmant'n 4 0 l.nnn Woodl'd .. a 2 ..ion l ,nu mace ... 1 .7R0 Calfowh'l '.' ,600 Luzerne . Oen. Off Hrankf'd 230 000 Pottsvllla Wins Shoot ' PottftTlIle. Pa., June 2H The rottstllle team won the prize at the summer bhoot of the Country Club at , Fountain Springs yesterday by making a record of 115 out of U'5 Another for Stetson Stetson defeated the Harrowgate team at Harrowgate ball park In a twilight game that was interesting throughout. H to a When women enter baseball The time to take your heed Is when by chance you tackle those , Who have both curves and speed. Holding Condition THISmatter of maintaining top condition for too hong a spell recalls the invasion of Jerry Travers launched against Great Britain in 1014. He went over six weeks in advance of the British amateur championship and reached top form two weeks before the classic was due. He was playing his best golf, at this time, traveling around leading British courses in from 72 to 75. He had nothing to do these last two weeks except to try to hold hls form and think about the championship. The result was that when he faced Palmer, the Irish champion, in the first round, Jerry was beaten by an SS something that had never happened to him in his entire golfing career. ' nEACHlNQ top form isn't any noteworthy stunt, put reaching i it at precisely the proper moment is guile another matter. m THE Boston Red Sox looked -to be in late August form around the last of March. They were on edge then. You mny observe where they are today with one of the best-looking machines on copy paper either league holds. Another Defeat for Cornell BLACKBCItN lives in Palmyra, X. J., and once was a great basket ball player. In 101S, when he was playing with Camden, he in jured his ankle and that slowed him up for the coming baseball season, Blackburn's injury caused the big league magnates to put a clause in the contracts forbidding the men from indulging in any other sports during the off season. Rigler a Great Educator IHARLET RIGLER. the rotund umpire, is with us again. Charles was Xt- teamed with Charley Moran this season, but was sent here in a hurry when . iitrxT Mcuormicii uroite mm inc iru&uc &o scuigiw a puvv,mi. -wi:if - tbpugh young in years, is one of tlic veterans or tne league. He Mas been &8wtnB strikes and balls since 1000 and is regarded as a very good arbiter. ;f.Anumptre who can hold his job fourteen years MUST be good. 6-5" -i Rlrler has shown the ropes to more new men than any other umpire In h lo,i v.rrrv time, an annaintmcnt is made the new man is wished on C" large Charley, and when he gets through with him he can get by any place. ''( ' . . . . . . .. . -. a, -t.1- T.1 .... T) Ti.l- TV , A-ii Itlgler has educated .iiai J-.ason, ai unu, riuucruu, ujrau, i-eie iiarrison, af3Sransfield, Charley Moran and now Barry McCormick. &;' ' McCormick is the old Chicago third baseman who jumped to the St. Louis if Aiaericans In 1004. He was a good player, has been In the game a long time fci its' a scout and manager and was an umpire in the Federal League. rf? . Academy Shoot Saturday.. The regular monthly shoot of the Phllla delphta Shooting Academy ulll be held on Saturday oer the traps at Maple Oroe The V A Lindsay trophy la offered for th handicap eent. Only Fifty-two Hits In This Game The Xatttlty A. A defeated theNatlity Men's Club In a hard same, featured by many hits and runs. Fifty-two hits ere made in the game Burlington, Vt., June 2fl In a free- hlttlng game, the Vermont Colleee banehall team defeated Cornell here vesrerriav -after. flames in Willard's tremendous system "0u y ihe score of 7 to .1 is another matter. A bloke can look to be fairly exuding the old pink from a thousand pores until another bloke, twelve or fifteen years younger, throws a lot of fists into his abdomen or his features. But that has little to do with the way Millard looks outwardly, which is the only part of his anatomy open to the naked orb. AH the limited wston can tee Is the outward make up, and that part of it looks as good to day as it ever did. Which means that Willard is still a big, powerful sped men who can absorb a bale of punish ment and can impart the same. No Fat Old Man Jess is far from being a John Law rence Sullivan of 1801 or a James J. Jefferies of 1010. As far from it as Hindenburg Is from being police pre fect of Paris, or Bill Hohenzollern Is from being the winning pitcher on the Tanks. Which is quite a way. And n little bit more. You can paste that part of it in under your wilting straw liat. Willard is no old fat man to be beaten with a punch. He can still go quite a way, and if Dempsey wins he'll deserve the crown more than any man that ever reached the top not even barring Bob FItzsimmons. INDIANA SIGNS MOURADIAN Star Penn Outfielder to Play With Meman'8 Club Manager Melman, of the Indiana club, haB obtained thn sen ices of Albert Mouradian, tue tormcr central Hlgn star, but now of Penn. He will take his place in the outfield with George Bingham and Bernard Clark, while Leon -Lichtenstein will be shifted to first base. See 'em at popular prices SOME BOXING SHOW! TonightI! btar Boats Tonight National A. A. !" 11TH STREET ARENA Joe Welsh vs. oung Joe Dorrell Joe Mendelt is. Danny Dush l"nr Sherlock is. Sammy White itarry uurne is. jaaie loyie Joe Boggs Tt. Jimmy Broun Prices 25 and 80 Cents POI fi PHILADELPHIA rJluS COUNTRY CLUB TONIOHT AT 8 O'CLOCK Philadelphia Country Club vs. " Bryn Mawr at Bala Take Falrmount Park Trolley to TCoodilde. ADMISSION, zSe. AND BCe Next Time Buy lut& iv' i nARRY foot ffood in his new job and should remain in the league. lie is on top of every play and is working hard all of the time. ,' Giants Ready for Midseason Bust ' ,;trr4J8 Winning to look as if the New York Giants are ready for the usual X, raldseiwon bust. Hrooklyn Has ten giving mem iota or irouoie ana wnen 'tii western clubs come out here there will be more of the same. Chicago is '" jiilir gol nd Cincinnati looks like a serious contender for the pennant. - IsSiWgh and St, Louis also are playing 'good ball and every team will be SmSiM ter the Giants. - .7 ,,nBtr thins- iihniii that c'.ub. When they are out In front ther are world - ;tiiei but when the going gets rough and they are closely pressed the big tepfetian occurs. The New Tork club will win the pennant if it is out in front m Mwor uayf uut mere win oe n crac n. m bi ii w". MSY.U.. ' ' Junior Title for Harmon New York. June 2fl Peter Harmon of the Scottish American Cluh won the Junior championship title of the Metropolitan Golf Association nver the Slwanoy Country Club links yesterday, winning both his semifinal and final rovnd matches bv wide marelns i -. I. a &.'.... Hf... JL.i TK..i ... J. i swefjf players nre not oinwrrs or nsvimnv nw ti. v on t C'ifc their work too seriously, try 'o more th" thtv art able, L 'm,T'hv tie names, aiul tfat jicrrotisntss pvfs them on the losing ,W.'' fWM7 9 ' :,fv y&:Ji Bicycle Races PT. nRFKZE VEtonnOMK TONIGHT Speeisl .Motor Taeed Match Race TABMAN T. .CIIArMAN Sprint Match Rarest Oborn. Kaiser, Tog and Keller Tickets, SOe, S5e and SSc. NATIONAL LEAGUE PARK Phillies vj. Boston "Braves" OAMB AT S:30 V. SI, Peels w sale at Olmhels' end HiiaMlnrw $ 15 -. - ! ji ?.- ?;.!." , sO-.j , '. iI V Summer Boxing Course FINALS TO-NIGHT Phila. Jack O'Brien' 8. C Cor. ism ao CSestmrt, Ms, n. r ... . , . 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