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Show !i n - 1 I SPORT GOSSIP J the Washington club. Schulte has not far to fro to break or tie Freeman's mark. needs six to tie. As he still has more than sixty fames to play, his prospects of accomplishing this wonderful won-derful feat are more than bright. That much talked of mat?h betwen Jim Flvnn and Carl Morris, tit Oklahoma treasure. Is still hanging fir. Mori Is' maruigcr, Z. B. lTfr. la In Nw York to conclude negotiation for t?o shewing of his bljr protege. The only .jV-lnlt thing known about the much seetoti to be that It will not take plv.-e on l-atxr day, as originally ached ulo.1. It I reported re-ported that Morris and his trelner uie to leave Tula for New York at onc-e. V, llh ' Morris on the battleground. It ought not to take Ion to complete all srrane-menta. srrane-menta. Klynn must have p-v'ty tir hunch that the mt--h is cTtuln t. come off. for the ex -ft reman has rn-en (mining (min-ing rltrht aiona- at a Chl.-a.ro prymnaauim. It Is halved that the only hlu-1. in regard re-gard to a final sttlement of the conirnt l-m In I'fer'a exaftiteraied Mca of value of Munis' aervlcea.x' Not Ion he refused to fl;ht Mortis before YA-waitfs" YA-waitfs" club 1n Philadelphia unl-ns he was Riven a guarantee of $1600. He do not stand much chanw of getting anything any-thing like that sum from the New York promoters. One thins; Is certain: he must bring the Oklahoma wonder out In the open now; for The governor of his native slate won't allow him to scrap In that section of the country any more. Flynn la supremely confident that he will cut Morris' ftsThtlag career short If he ever gets a runch at him, and nls opinion opin-ion Is shared by the rank and file of pu-aillsllc pu-aillsllc Dtttroaa throughout the country. Hal Chase Is another man who can do two things well to wit, manage a club and play the game. There are not many players who can perform the double sunt and get awav with It. As great a player as l,ajnte tried to plav the two roles, and failed completely. Clark Griffith was one of the great pitches of his tlm. but that was all. Fred c7!ark and Flolder Jones, asde from Chase, are the few players who Wer successful simultaneously simulta-neously In both jobs. Jennings and Mc-Oraw Mc-Oraw virtually quit the playing nd before be-fore they became recognised as great leaders. Dooln and Bresnahan have shown ability this year In the double ml, but whether they are permanent fixtures In the galaxy of stsr managers remains to be seen. In addition to keeping his team up In the American league race, the work that Chase is doing around first base is described aa nothing short of marvelous. The worries of running that usually attend the management of a club are not affecting Hal's playing tn the slightest. , Onlv the ottwr day he made a play on Ty Cobb which the latter asserted as-serted was one of the greatest ever. It robbed Cobb of a home-run and saved the day for New York. We will let Tyrus tell bow Hal did it: "I have seen many a good play on the ball field lnce I have been In the big league, but there is none which one could say waa any better than that Hal Chase pulled In the ninth Inning of the first game yee-i yee-i terdar. How In thunder he ever got over there to make a play on. that tall- one of the hardest I ever hit I don't know. He has killed many a base hit from batters, but that one waa going to the far corner for a home run. sure, and It Would have tied up the score. Yon hava to take your hat off to that guy. It waa not blind stab or anything like that, but he must have called the turn that I was going to pull one down that way. which waa the best apet for a, home run at that stage of the game." Trylnir to put Mathewaon In ths -has beta class Is Ilk (Indlna th UtU. pea, under ths walnut shell. Tony Caponl and Phil BrhtoMbers. the navy champion, meet In a ten-round box. Ins contest this .afternoon at Kenosha ball park. Kenoah. Wis. Those New York fight fans just can't jret over their prejudlcs against Ad Wol-sast. Wol-sast. Parkv McKarland. however. Is their Idol snd they are backing him pretty stron. against ths champion for their fight September 15. at Mllwaukea. t'hat a grand old man Is Fred Clarke! Ha Is plsylng the gams of hta life and seems able to hit any pitcher whom he faces. Wagner would better look to hta laurels or his boss will wrest Iks dubbing dub-bing honors from him. Ping" Bodle. the California fence wrecker now with the white son. had what hs called the "smoothest train Tide of my life'' tiis other mM. He slept soundly while the trsln wa.i l-.ld up seven hours by a freight wreck ahead. 8avs a correspondent of Sporting News: In the matter of schedule there Is little to choose among Chicago. Pittsburg and New York. Each has lust about I he sums number of gsmes remaining at home and away. But In the stsnd against the western clubs New York will use up most of Its home dates, and If by the end of that crucial period McOraw a men have not secured a confmandlng lead, thing will Indeed be dark for their pennant hopee. Pittsburg and Chicago both finish the scseon st home. Mnrty O'Toole Is one of a family of baseball plavers. four boys, all pitchers snd all red haired, at present tsklng pert tn the game. His older brother, who Is 25. Is at present pitching for Albany, Al-bany, N. Y.. and Is one of the league's "pbenoms." and Msrty believes that he would prove a first class msn In the American assoclstlon. ' Marty's mother Is proud of her four hesebal! sons and the 8t. Paul pitcher has two sisters who sre always "pulling" for ths success of the name "O'Toole." Martv O'Toole, the $?I.5 twlrler sold to Pittsburg, wound up his career In the American association In classy style. It was at 8t. Paul and his team won over Kansaa City, to 1. Although his arm was said to be a bit sore, he hsd no apparent trouble except a little lit-tle uncertainty with his fast ball, which resulted In four passes. e struck out eight men and was air tight eacept In the fifth, when William Arthur James, a dangerous flogger. pminded out a two-bagger, scoring one of the men wno had walked. Within the nest three weeks Irar more American fighters will he on their way to Australia, where they will engage In battles with the fighters of that country. The Yankee scrappers who are to make the trip are Sam Langford. Al Kaufman, the California heavy weight: Tony Caponl, Ca-ponl, the Italian middle weight of Chicago, Chi-cago, and Jimmy Clabby. tha Ml; waukee fighter. This will be Clabby s second trip to Australia, he having fougj" there' the early part of this yjar. The quartette will sail September (. North Carolina, which disputes with South Carolina ths honor of ,'" birthplace of Andrew Jackson. Is seeking further laurels In the line of h farcnt-age farcnt-age of great men by challenging th te' that Tyrus Cobb Is a OeorgU Product H. Taylor Cobb, an uncle of the noted tiger fleMer. who visited Ashevtlle, said Ty Cobb waa born on Moccasin creek, in Cherokee eounty. North CaroHns. n4 that he did not move to Georgia, with his father until hs was ! yers . He attsnded the village schMl "Bf11'1; the uncle said, for several yean before going to th cracker stats. Johnny Coulon. bantam weight 'J-plon 'J-plon of the world Is going '"'" long rest. He will do no Jl"meJn. for at least elx months. In ths meanwhile mean-while Fred Coulon. brother "f the late Emll Coulon. will do all of Joh.ys rtng business. Whether Johnny '' a new manager after he g'' J" lni the ring Is a matter he has not e. ie-clrted. ie-clrted. and Emll Thlry.Packey Mc- Farlands manager, are cWwo I frlen as and. though not a word has been sug gested on either side, Emll stands a good chance of handl ng Johnnv s ef-fslrs ef-fslrs If some outsider Is given charge of the bantam's affairs. Jjhn says when he is ready te fight he will make all his opponents do 11 pounds. "Did yon know." said John rJ'w' "that a large percentage of the hits in baseball are made when there sre runner, run-ner, on first and third? . That ta the beat time In the world to get because the whole Infield Is tightened up and stationary Ths first allied to his ssck and the third baae-Sn baae-Sn Is also haW pretty tight on wroount of having to watch the runner. The shortstop and ths second b" .J getting ready for a throw. ever one la to cover has to edgs over toward the second bag. The Infield to unable to cover any ground and hitting under thoae circumstances Is asy. A ..In. there are all kinds of . chances to pull off play. We can worn tne -hie steal, the delayed steal and all kinds of plsys which will net a run In any plaver on the opposite aide makes a bad throw." . ' All pitchers look alike to Schulte: the cubs' right fielder, when he steps np to smash out a home run. Among tne pitcher who hsve watched the sphere sail Into the bleachers are Bailee. Bleeie. Golden. Marquard, Htack. Moore. Keefe, Perdue. Rucker. Tyler. Kwlng. McTlgue and Barger. Schulte Is now regarded as one of the moot dangerous batsmen In the National league. This doea not bar Hans Wagner. Fred Clarke. Kherwood Magee. Roger Bresnahan or Fred liUde-rua. liUde-rua. His position at - the plate Is one of unconcern thst Is aggravating to the twlrlets. Hchults hits a ball- on th outside corner as well aa ths ones Inside In-side which he pulls for boms runs Into the right field bleachers. Kchults Is out to set the world's record, which is held by John Freeman of the old Washington Washing-ton and Boston teams. The record made by Freeman was twenty-flue home runs tn one season, and It was made In lHle while he was playing the outfield for ; N J . - v v. . j ' . -: -- - ... .. . . ; . B08TOV BLOOhCEU vs. htTJBJLAT B. B. CLUB. . COOLET FASJE, STJKOAT, 9:90 P. h . |