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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
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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.
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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
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(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. '
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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
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L 'm,T'hv tie names, aiul tfat jicrrotisntss pvfs them on the losing
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