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Show PROBABLE PITCHERS FOR THIRD BATTLE OF BIG SERIES j EUBE EENTON, Giants. y ', $ V'- .' fcp ) , : 1 I ' v V ' j) ' ' ' v i v- if v y f V i KEB RUSSELL, White Sox. W- ,:) fee i WMM IS GIVEN ' III DPM'DEVin Coast Welterweight Lacks Experience to Beat Idahoan. Lee Morrisse', lightweight champion of Idaho, basted Walter McDevitt of San Francisco in the main event before the Manhattan club last night. McDevitt has a haymaker, but has not as yet brushed up on science. He is a welterweight and Morrissey seemed afraid to take a chance on the McDevitt swings. At that, Morrissey bad a good lead at the end of fthe sixth round and easily won tile decision. Old Man Altitude, who has been blamed for the los,s of hall games, the failure of Californians to put over land deals and other alibis which are sprung by visitors. was used by McDevitt's friends as the reason for his being bested. The opening of an old cut over McDevitt's Mc-Devitt's left eye started him on the downward road. Kid Rromeo met his mut'di in Willie St. Claire, a coffee-eolore V Senagambian from the wilds of Oakland and other transbay habitats of Pullman porters. The colored fighter went into the ring with a bad hand, but, while he got a draw with P.romeo. he seemed to have more than a shade of the fighting. The battle was one of the best staged this season. Ned Young came into his own last night. He put out Kid Dutch in the second round of a four-round houU He put the Kid down for the count of nine and after he arose finished him with two punches to the jaw. Ned Young created a sensation a couple of years ago by putting put-ting them alt away in the first round. He is in better condition than be has been for many months. Tast night he showed the old wallop that put many of them to s'.eep two years ago. Jess Oren substituted for Jimmie Chris-t-msen in a l'nur-ro'.:nd bout with Kid Slater, the boy with the haymaker. Oren licked Slater with one hand. He hit Slater at will wtlii his left and only struck two blows during the entire four rounds witli his right hand. Rillie Whalen and Jack Kberhardt. both from Fort Douglas, staged four rounds, in which Eberhardt got the decision. de-cision. Whalen was out on his feet for two rounds, but Eberhardt did nt know-how know-how to put over tiie one pwneh. Frank Gray and Joe Young, both from Fort Douglas, put on the curtain-raiser. It was a comedy fight. |