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Show 1 SPORTING SECTION. THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- WALTER CAMP TALKS OF MEW LONDON HARVARD CREW THE FAVORITE FOR BIG COLLEGIATE REGATTA i ! SPORTING SECTION SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1916. N, HAL CHASE CAN SHINE ELSEWHERE THAN ON FIRST; PLAYS BRILLIANT GAME IN OUTFIELD FOR THE CINCINNATI REDS rr u nil i i i i i i i I i I i i i i i i i i i i i i 1 1 I i i i i i t i i i I i Yale's Boatmen Will Not Be Strong Contenders; Coach Nickalls Is Dissatisfied With Eli Boat- I i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i I i u .... HAL CHASE. That's the Small Trifle Big Moguls Have Paid and they tory for the last two years a are all in good condition, ifIfpossible worked which. little would overweight, not prove a great disadhard, some vantage. Harvard, too, has done be may there and possibly shifting London. more at New vital feature of rowing, One very fport. even of in these possible shifts of days of consideration about moving the There has been a jrreat deal in. print men. Is in the possession of a stroke-oa- r to rhvthm andwhere the Adee boathouse of Yale from the harbor out to the Housatonic river. This drivewho has abilityYale's men. is There the both are Ilomatonic is a marvelous body of water and there possible courses, greatest weakness has lain since the below and above the bridge, the one above the bridge being a grand one, were loss of Morse, and It may have proved the stumbling block, bund at Harit not for the fact that there is more or les of an ice gorge in early spring. vard has not been entirely satisfactory but he has The one below the bridge is the one upon which the Yale crew has been doing under certain conditions,races and still several stroked splendid black be will a New at it eye is beaten Yale Londqn its practice. If however, stroked also has in him. has Brown it did well in a to the Housatonic proposition in more ways than one. In the first place, the the Harvard boat and recent practice pull, so he is distinctly urdor of Yale's former rowing men, who were made enthusiastic by the splen- available. Of all golf championships, that of did showing of Yale at New London last year, is likely to chill off considerthe amateur at Nassau , all second in the thought will Metropolitan place ably if there is a return to the old defeats, and Its be longest remembered for there connection ful' men of the rowing contingent are rohdering just what wretched weather conditions. home-timwe have had a bad day. but the may be between the rather jolly, comfortable life riding out to this secluded had three of thenT in sucMetropolitan and the Housatonic and rowing a few stretches and coming home, cession, and only those who are faspot on thewell-femiliar from actual experience with the d aspect of the Yale boatload June 1. very logy, grip in feeling of that slippery club an aoumonai the the I on tne water can early piaeea what hands good It lias been suggested that If two appreciate burden unon this feature work several of the men did in scorIn described nquad had been divided into season as Thia already shown that ing under such adverse conditions. Acrews when they began work on the this article, has, however, ltogether there were the regulation never can tell;' a shift number rowing "you Housatonic. and one crew had walked in of upsets, for golf is truly a or a the one men two in of or boat, no one knows what may where game one wav a day. that crew would have switching in several of half a crew has low Carter had the marhappen. Philip both ways crew rode in by that beaten the Instances made a marked difference score he did and it by qualifying the speed of the boat, and Nickalls has velous playing in the last five holes, a very comfortable margin. In other been and the but he went down to defeat in the very making these experiments words, what has the Housatonic prop- time tries he is coming near- first round at the hands of Reginald show that the ortion to do with the condition of er to results. In other words, the gap Lewis, whose game was commented Vale crews when thev left for New between the two crews which would upon so favorably in this column last acmaysea- have Iondon? Trn. the late reason been very marked had they rowed week. Topping, who has recently won count for all thi. but it wa a late a race against each other the day both the Ardsley and Garden City tourreal son for other crew. and certainly thev come to been nament'!, was beaten by Downey of the Thames has crew and even Harvard growing- narrower. Princeton. Yale If the Syracuse who whije Gardner White, on June 1 looked more nearlv the type as finally placed can get together in was a considerable was beaten favorite, of men who could pull someth Ing- more last week, therein lies their chance. by the returning Pred Herreshoff, and than their weight in the shell than did the is as desperate h one as 1914. but John Ward was a taste of what It Yale the eight. when the spirit moves that Is one of the interesting features Floy Webb can-d- given of rowing.' for young Webb went out in 35 Harvard the Favorite. now at Its him, Willi the rowing seasonHarvard-Yaland defeated the veteran 7 and 5. John But to come down to the closest pos-on e and only the Anderson didn't even qualify. height sible estimate of what will happen and very races on the Thames remaining, and The semifinals brought out two good next Friday. Harvard distinctly of premost one Lewis had already found an matches. the How. variety favorite. astonishing the reasonably should base to ocraces which been put out by Kirkby, crew and off upon liminary rimson day the ask. might what Webb is while the under Yale asking gone down to Roy whn judgment, this position won the last two in the world Is the meaning of all these Dyer, so that these had cupy were out of it. two Nickalls has Coacil In the boats and and the semifinals brought Herreshoff a very impressive kalidescoplc changes rears and in 1913 lrrow! behow it Is that a crew instead of Dyer and Kirkby againstMarston against Mar-stotic faster than manifestly margin, In was his as old it his a mile fixed gave half every In quantity Harvard ing practically one race and a hard run, going out in 36, to opponent now and dem- dav lasts through of the eight durinat the race not coach and 38. but thereafter Kirkby was Kirkby's the betthen i taken apart by theboats onstrative that thev could but only and a ter and finally won by 2 up and 1 to outInto assorted divided Harvard boat, up m;tsrrint theThe in his old form answer is this: Har- new varsity or a new A and B crew play. Herreshoff was last them? is that and defeated Dyer 3 and 2. Altogether formed. The answer to all this vard was getting ready two ytars 3Ro tjonie probably there could not have been a her system of we live and learn and that even to throw overboard rowmore interesting combination than that of under successful most been of It had the coaching. to thus bring Kirkby and Herreshoff to recogare theorists Wrav in defeating Yale, but the Yale beginning for the finals. And the match nize the fact that rowing is the niTst had been floundering about In ing together rntv we for it was not until the this, a mate of contradictions and experi- mysterious of all our sports; that proved the second round when Kirkby began with authorivet begun to find out balas not have ments and tne Harvard rowing an outward Journey of 35, that he was were beat- basic facts about the shape and what they realized that ties were to the front and finally crews. Then ance of a shell that Is to hold eight abfe to come not first-clas- s ing was men averaging 170 odd pounds and a win. out 3 and 1. when the Harvard second crew laws sent ovr to Henlrv inl'JM. the coxswain, ami to slide through the waKeeps In Form. of the Ilenlev committee forbade a pro- ter wtih the least resistance. to find out fessional coach. Consequently Kobert Coaches have Jnst begun If. golf and Sidney Fry showed how a thing about Courtney on account of billiards Herrick. a Harvard graduate, much and may be go may together g talent lias kept up In good form by winning in row in jr. took charge of that his wonderful at soon crew. It was mad manifest very on realized more readily a than any of the the age of 47 the amateur billiard in the practice of this crew, both it few. years ago, rest, and realized his for the fourth time, beone Of these shells may championship thi side of tne water and after they that one been sixteen namely, first years having was and yet fore, as he won it the first time in 1893. went to Henley, that Herrick was boat satisfactorily one crew even the the stroke, and be unite out of balance by second time in 1896 and the third lengthening out and the crew as it shift of two or three men in this boat. the results,In in 1900. Up to that year he had getting rowed time not If any one had the nloney to experi- not taken those heats was one finally he had up golf, but before he but but doubt that Rood crew, ment there is little onlv a distinctly to scratch was a he down year played difof the shells off dozen prize could build a half which succeeded in bearing won the Don memorial cup" at and then arid of the rowing world. th grand chal- ferent buovancv amid shapecrew a scratch trophy open to. the Richmond, on In eight-oaretried been had the same put a dozen leading clubs. In of lenge cuu. a thine which members sevundoubtcrews upon .shell arter another and would by American college in the same he was runner-u- p that year four-mile a over find a difference eral occasions In vain. edly 1902 and in Irish open championship course of a half dozen lengths ,lf was runner-u- p to this Henly race, the Just previousrew chamin amateur the under Nickalls had not more. In fact. Warre of Katon Yale varsity the St. George's pionship. He inwon d shell one challenge the Harvard varsitv crew un- built a peculiar defeated 1901. and repeated in cup one the of was he when der Wrav. Then began niestionlnKS coaching With Taylor he won the London situ- year crews and upon shifting his l!e. and considerations of the rowing came varsity crew tournament In 1906. Foifrsome new shell which Into this finally ation at Cambridge, shaped as I varsity of time defeat In decisive beat their midseason to a head by the by, I'lTCllEH.' The YALipKEDUn last Juno. The remember it. nearly a minute. same at New Ir.iion Harvardwas to win the second All Yale 'needed committhe to vear on the he expected the how of next writer into Princeton game, and with it the series, v shifting ata mldseason crew, tee boat following th race with a forresults was a pitcher who could locate the different mer varsity oar of Harvard, who had this shell but with Watrous of college.v and Instead of gaining In speed the plate. As neither Walsh f nor been a few years out nly to 1 In the do that, a lead of could crew made considerably slower time "When the crews et off on their jour-red shell. This was un- sixth became a defeat of;7 to 5. Three he made the statement that the in the Harvard crew was rowing the Wray doubtedly caused by, the different of theseonruns were simply forced in by halls. bases stroke, the best he had ever seen it balance. with one of the chiefa rowed. In this he voiced the sentiment in talking DIDN'T STOP GOTIIAMITKS. HAIX of the powers In rowing at Cambridge, engineers of one of athe largeof roads, certain who were about ready to be convinced man who has made study A real New Kngland nor'easter blew connected with motor boats, a change was necessary. With that the women golfers at c i ri iia was convinced tiiat the very and rained upon Herrick this year and Haines, the boat v.problems the New York conbut Manchester, a shell a combination has been turned slight change in the shape of rivger. good enough proved tingent would out the Harvard towing authori- affecting the wave of resistance with to win the Griscom cup. difference Hainesn make a full half minutefour-miibelieve is a very strong one. ties e course. was expected to handle the waterman-shi- the same crew over a OIH.F PSYCHOLOGICAL SPOHT. of the crews, and a great many Now all' this brings us to the reasons Golf Is one of the greatest studies in Rive him credit for considerably more. fi.r ihi extraordinary rowing season Did you a wise vowing head and what lias been going on in the last Hut Merrick psychology of all sports. nrf n cuuH eve for body swing, and! in the way of changes In ever notice that when for some reason a new grip or a new anu or other you in me and especially the rinlsh or a stroke, of stance it is try has shown! pi;onnel very likely to improve Instead position of carrying'a crew as boats. certainly the Harvard crew five substitutes you your distance for a time, but then new very great improvement since the time eight and four orcoacnes now back and have to have a Just In tne old uays, thev first began to get together slump on the water In the lip? They tell the story of a man at previous to the Cornell race on the great nanv crews a season, narrowing Prestwlck who was Charles. eariv parta of the trying some- new grip and that thealways and second of the and first to first down day ot Satisfied. MckalU Cocb a scrub crew when the season new grip he almost Invariably InNow Yale, on thew. other hand, after times I words, of his drives twenwell creased the distance under way. In other men rid the most pertwo successful ye.ii at ty or twenty-fiv- e but In a week there mayarebe inabout astwenty yards, fect confidence in Nickalls. whose work least or two he would be back at the old good physical who just In the other two years has been really condition were a if they somefor rowing a Then he would distance. more than phenomenal, has nver at boat of thing quite different with a try of varsity similarly regularor members anv time this year had a crew that has eight ten years ago.but followed unanv satisfaction to their coach. Is satisfactory result, Kten it conditions these under Now back again the slippine by fortunately was The confidence that very strong at to shift men from one to the old length before-thmonth was possible the beginning- of the season has been quite potheir to shift and to another same between the two over, thus oscillating defeats boat a by repeated In When sapped boat. gradually sitions in the Just as Columbia was distances, but never really Improving:. sud also by tne statements put frank-lprintv crew Is beaten. paper by the coach in the college race, as Cornell was the Child'sascup EVKH WINS IN E.NGLAXD. confessing- that it is Impossible to at was at Ithaca, inYale nt Harvard, There are come strange facts conwrong. In time rows held stead of going to work at them In tell wht Iscrews as went to New Ixndon, love for home. nected with a man' since the place James old dav and endeavoringmento themthe lived in Harvard has shown distinctly the bet- the Ilrald, golfer, the upon the reponsibilltv did not row properly Kngland for twenty- years, has to but ter of It. that theyor that there was om that his heart has never come prove Now all this shows pretty clca.ri- whv selves away hard or enough, crew Crimson is the favorite for fiult In their stroke, the coach realized from Scotland it should be instanced the race on ZZ. mean June It does not tn that all five of the championships that cannot alter this late in the that he the In he has won have been In Scotland, two Harvard is ur of winning, for the seaon that main displayed qualities A ale condition does not look St. Andrews, two at Muirfleld. and nearly as the" method of his crew's rowing, nor at in Nickalls' first year, rrobablv can he make them work any one aton Prestwlck, and he has never Iioptlcss 3 it did he had in Appleton a the Kengllsh championship but in that year v.9n thev haver in the races won ...... imi.- they out greens Deal and lioylake. whose physique and general where m.vii been dereatea. have bost had never len entirely satisrealize that his second does ie A TIP FOII COM'KnS. his rowing career, but nay with the addition of a couple of factory Vardon writes. '"I always have said was.during that side of the ques- nen In his first boat, go faster than who barring a man who shall say that the great always tion, a really goodfecistroke happy combination before he is and In golf Is to keep the success of secret a crew, and who the could drive and head still. I do not mean to indicate could gret pace out of It. This year In through. rouehkeepsle Crews. not move the head to the has seemed nil the experiments Nickalls with the that youofdare Now this Is what happened cases even an eighth of an inch, of extent unable to find nny man who could do Toughkeepsle in the crews should keep It as nearly as this for his eight of 1916. It has seemed the had not been doing but you that and as But It can be at possible." rigid has h loggy. lifeless boatload always, and the "eights work happened feathat an eighth proven a new different in its characteristics New best photographically out It entirely London. brings It gives of an Inch Is not nearly enough leeway from the boatload that Morse, the Yale ture of our rowing situation. for even the best Kolfen pick up and stroke last year, could an opportunity for the partisans not made a good drive at any time and under any con- also has crew a that of for great speed. When the two showing to still have some basis for HAM HYATT TO GET THE ditions went it ws hop'-- , if the crew is being shifted crews up to New London, was more and evident that inHarvard happy order thatof tome boat CHARM LOST LONG AGO be found their method and In about, both may the weighting than Yale. The which will bring fast time. For intheir crevv physical condition looked too well fed. Now a: stance. If one were to judge by the Two years ago "Ham" Hvath former Jilue the Yale crew that orts of beautiful things have been said standards, extraordinary for the in went up to New London would simply bout sport and thea sport abroad, same not In and the of wav had which its being been presented to him pleasure exactly th gor pounding along and charm a grind, but the fact remains that a and with very little changewould bv his many Vancouver (R. C.) friends. crew must do hard work and Isserious those who understood rowing game in Pittsburgh he Following a all someas to missed this time had been for the most part Rive up hope would it and perhaps work, and work which are if loss. of success, and this rmiis of a grind his chances the they mourning thing which is willing be logical, because there wou'd really basenau neaaquarters has to beat another crewPittsburgh do that sort of b- not in which the a much chance under .such condi- received letter nd cioes intend to look conas if the of tells of having the charm and writer Kut with tils possibility And It would tions. asked th'nr if . UUUUHI a i. mt .1 from the victory of shifting men there is always a chance I Or u 11 ct ti. fidence heldhsdover nun' to do witu of striking a happy combination. The mailed. Hyatt, who is with the Chatfcomethin year lRt Vale crew, mn have rTI been taught the Nickalls' tanooga team in the Southern associcf the conditioninglate the to set stroke which proved itself satlsfac- - ation, will receive it within a day or so. the of inability tourte, aJthoutfb. Bonifaces and Carriers in Fifteen Seasons 'Zl'- - Li - ft BY WALTER CAMP. The New London Race. ALE'S graduate?, when back for their reunion, will be very much interested in the matter of the crews and the changed conditions in this - notes they Reduced to one-cathe bills to street the Wall from if reach milky way probably were sewed end to end. Never having" measured that distance nor had that we can not speak with authority on the latter many dollar bills at one time, ' point. " TT OUR million dollars is quite a roll. - Sfe."--;r- ' - - old-tim- - - , Syr i " TO TRY SKILL " er p, ol right off the top of the fence. He has displayed the most unerring for judgment of distance, has a clutch the ball at its greatest speed and does it with the grace and agility he has shown all his life around first. Fritz Mollwitz has been playing a game at first and has been satisfactory with agreeable regularity, so hitting be that it seems probable Chase willsome at work in left or center for rekept while. Though he may later be turned to first, it's most likely that he of chances hereafter will have to star in plenty the outfield and Buck llerzog isi glad to know that he need not worry any more when he needs an extra outfielder. BALL IN LONG AGO 'Old Eoss Pitching for Providence, Had Winning Streak of Twenty Games in Year; Record Still Stands snub-nose- -- gt -- snub-nose- mud-hors- h Ii-i- h wki or-me- n - - - ..i Pc-vlt-h aci-vanc- - ed. old-fashion- ed Inch-hitt- er o"-d- -s Jit..,-.!.-.-- - .. 1 1 . I . 1 1 1 es .0 S 1 into the archives of baseball George Morelaud.- who has LOOKING backward sports library extant, has discovered that Charlie Radbournc pitched in eighteen of the' string of twenty straight victories won by the irovidence club. That twenty straight is a record that has sood since 1884. Commenting on the feat. Grantland Ttice says: back into prominence that Proviwinning streak has brought on dence record. Radbourne the spurt 7. 1884, by beating New started York. .4 to 2. He rested the next day while August Providence upset Philadelphia. to 0. Then, on August 9. Radbourne resumed again, beating Boston, 1 to 0, 3 to 1, 4 to 0 and 1 to 0. Radbourne then beat Cleveland, 3 to 2, and Detroit, 4 to 2. for the last time on August 20, when Providence again beat 5 to 2. From August 21 to September Radbourne won Detroit. resting every game Here is the complete record the most remarkable pitching achievement of all time: Date. Hun Pitcher. Rons. Opponent 7 4 - The-Gian- Itndbourne .ew York 1 Itndbourne o Hoston 3 ltadltoume ttoston 1 4 ..Radbourne ItoMton o : 1 Radbourne o Ronton ': Radbourne Cleveland 2 4 Radbourne '1 August 21 Detroit ' Tl . Radbourne Angtiftt --X Chicago ' 7 Radbourne August -- 7 i . . . 3 Clilcago Radbourne v. 5 August Chicago Aiiguat 2 .....Iladbourne 4 Chicago 7 Amount Radbourne 1 Detroit' 30 Radbourne 1 Auguat Detroit U 4 Radbourne o Kuffalo September 3 Radbourne Buffalo 1 Septembers4 3 Radbourne September 5 Cleveland 1 Radbourne September Cleveland 4 3 Radbourne O September 0 Cleveland This record of Radbourne's is now beyond all competition. Certainly no will ever come who can win eighteen straight games within less pitcher than a month. In these again games the Providenc star allowd only twenty-eigeighteen runs, an average well under two runs to the game. His most remarkable achievement was holding Boston to one run In four games. season Providence The club that numbered, in addition to the mighty Radbourne such players as Bancroft. Lovett. Start, Daily, Irwin ' Crane ' Bassett andFarrell, Radford, Murray,. Carroll. Denny, Gllligan. The Chicago club that was overthrown four times in the Providence sweep had such stars as Anson. Pfeffer, Williamson. Burns, Dalymple, Gore Kelly Silver Flint a wonderful organization. So there was no quesBilly Hunday.and tion about the class of teams that Radbourne was beating and that Providence was helping him to beat. August 9 August 11 Aiiguat Yi August Anftiiwt 14 .I August 1.1 H ap-Jf- A , . boat-riggin- N -- CHARLEY RADB0URNE PITCHED MARVELOUS er "We can state with considerable degree of positivity that $4,000,000 and some small has been paid out to railroads change and hotels by owners of the major league baseball clubs during The last fifteen championship seasons. training figuresor do not include spring which contain world's trips too many variableseries, to be requantities duced to common fra.ctions. "Add to that $1,000,000 the cost of sixteen annual training trips and the Oriental Experts at Lawn Tensum will be increased considerably. or thirty Then consider the twenty-fiv- e minor leagues that have existed more nis Will See What They Can or less persistently for the last decade With United States' Best. and a half. Add the imaginative total railroads by these minor paid to some of which have circuits leagues, that cover a lot of territory, and the EW YORK, June 14. For the first total will begin to listen like the time in the history of internationUnited States mint. The question and al lawn tennis the far cast will arises what would some hotels railroads do for dividends If profes- make a bid for premier honors thi," sional baseball promoters should sud- autumn when the Japanese rocquetX stars, K.iKumagai and II. Mikami. denly decide to quit? K in the American championship pear L. I., late tournament at Forest Hills, in August. These two leading tennis on players of tothe orient are already GUESSWORK their way this country for a three ABOUT TUB FIGURES months' campaign of the United .States courts, and their' invasion will fol-be awaited with great interest by all inof tennis," since their records "There is no guesswork about the lowers that both play a game which $4,000,000. The period of fifteen years dicate them with the tennis exis elected because the American and ranks of this country.leading schedules perts National league circuits and hajfre been practically the same during JAP PLAYERS' ITINERARY. variation worth that period. isThe While the complete itinerary of the increase in the size Japanese players the only considering will not be known of the team rosters. Most baseball clubs are conducted under business- until they reach the Pacific coast, it is like systems so that the cost of each certain that they will proceed eastward item is a matter of record and can be by easy stages, playing at the leading of. years. averaged over a given period the cost of clubs in exhibition and tournament that accommodaIt has been figured and hotel matches as the occasion offers. San transportation avtions for each major league player seaLos Angeles, Chicago and Francisco, close to $8 a erages taking the and New York will be given S son as a whole. Itday, varies, of course, Pittsburgh an to see the Japanese opportunity to the distances traveled, but action according on the courts before the nation--hjm evens up in the end. and after the titular"This $8 per day includes only rail- al championships, and Mikami reKumagai road and sleeper fares, meals and lodg- tournament turn to the Pacific coast by another scores of not does include the It ings. playing occasional matches prior incidental expenses of maintaining, a route, to for embarking Japan. baseball team on the road and, of Apparently this will be the only incourse, does not include salaries. vasion foreign athletes during the " "In the American" and National coming ofseason, and because of th are included In leagues, which alone and ability of the Japanese, the prominence this computation, each team isofon each enouia attract iar more than usual atroad practically ninety days to the leading court tournaseason. Everj' team is tention championship of the summer since both Kuscheduled to play seventy-seve- n games ments magai and Mikami have several times on the grounds of the other seven clubs. demonstrated their ability to hold their No Sunday games can be played in the cwn across the net with the ranking to be eastern cities, and there have of the United States. As far players and other open dates for railroad jumps 1913 Kumagai, then a student as back are 01 inciuaea in at ICeio university, appeared at the wnicn reasons, ail the cost of 'on the road.'" championships and fought his way to the semifinals, where he was defeated by Elia Fottrell in a match which was carrieu over into the second dav. Later with COSTS 9 THE MAX TO a partner he lost to Fottrell and WillMAIXTAIX MAJOR STAR iam Johnston, present American champion, in a double match by scores of at $8 per man fora KUMAGAI. STAR PLAYER. Figuring theyoucostfind that it costs ninetyowner days, club $720 a season for the Two years before Kumagai had never each seen and hotel bills of numa tennis racquet or ball and his transportation on his team. The average player was played with a discarded first game ber of players for the last ten years an English resident of Ja- - L of racquet e into a team, has been twenty-fiva and red pan rubber ball such as small-'- ' the manager and business mancludingThat amuse themselves with by is a very conservative es- children ager. on the sidewalks. Some idea bouncing portimate, because for a considerable of his progress within the past three tion of the last decade all clubs have years can be gained from the fact that been allowed to carry twenty-fiv- e he returned to Manila and last of and exclusive that won January manager, players, the of the orient championship American in the is the limit leaguea from a field which included Clarence on now. short jumps for Except Griffin, number 7 in the United States, away from home, practisingle series men for last season, and Ward are taken along un- ranking all the cally Dawson, who is ranked in the third ten less incapacitated. eMultiply that $720 for the same men and you per man by twenty-fivWhen the period. semifinal round was discover that each . club owner pays reached there remained Kumagai and- ' hoto a and the railroads $18,000 year and Grifrepresenting Japan, That is the average, Mikami, tels of the land. fin Dawson and the United States. it varies slightly, according Griffin defeated from although Mikami to the geographical location of the while Kumagai won from Dawson club. at When Griffin met Ku"There are eight clubs in each major magai in the final round Mie pair multiboth. in If sixteen you. league very and while matched, ply that $1S,000 by aixteen clubs you proved the Japaneseevenly won in straight expert ascertain that the sum of $288,000 is sets, was only after a terrific court each season to hotel and rail- battleitwith paid two sets out of three going; American and Nationa roads by the to scores being 10-the deuce, mulalone. And that sum, 10-, the American leagues During-amounts to Griffin had won matches from It.season tiplied by ten years decade. Nor-ri- s $2,880,000 for the last Williams, Irving Wright, George M. Church, Ward and Fottrell, and worked 4 his way into the fifth round of the national championship tourney, where he IT WAS XOT.SO was put out by Johnston, the ultimate , BAD IX OLDEN DAYS match. winner, in a hard four-s- WITH AMERICANS Cincinnati, Ohio, June 17. Cincinnati fans ar epersuaded that Manager Buck a wonllerzog of the Redsinhas made use of Hal derful the discovery Chase in the outfield. Not so long ago an injury to Kil-lifmade necessary a change in the line-uand that the team's batting not be weakened Moll-wlt- z strength was migTit on first and Hal Chase put In left field. Herzog made the change hoping anxiously that few flies would ever approach Hal. To the huge surprise and delight of the whole team and all the fans Chase has been playing a wonderful outfield game, picking up the hardest chances, way In near the infield or n. dyed-ln-the-wo- JAP RAGQUETERS SAYS SAXHORN' IX THE CHICAGO TTIIBUXE es ls, se "would I Ap-pawam- COSTS MAJOR CLUB; FOUR MILLION FOR BOARD AND TRAVEL - Sxx;foVvlH Axis. x load; Confidence Sapped by Defeats i. I i TICS PORT, A QUA . - ' 11 -- ht far-easte- rn 7-- 4-- 6-- 6. 2. 6-- 4. 6-- 4. 6-- 4-- 5, 6-- 6, 4, 2. . 7-- - 6-- 3-- 5, 6-- 6, 3. 1, -- 6-- 4, 6-- 4, 6-- 2. . - 6-- 3- 8, 8. TRAPSH00TING EVENTS REGISTERED BLUFFING PAYS, BUT NOT FOR WEEK FOR CATCHER C. SCHMIDT The following- trapshooting tournaSchmidt, who resigned from ments are listed for the week at hand theCharley Boston and Is now out of by the Interstate Association for the baseball, it Braves is of understood;, pullled a Trapshoottng: Encouragement genuine "bone" when he got out of the June 10. game. Billings (Mont.) Rod & Gun club. Twin City Shooting association, MinIt seems that when Schmidt wrote neapolis,, Miss. to the Boston, club informing It that June 19, 20. he had made up his mind to retire, .Recreation Gun. club, Evansvllle. Ind. he had a contract which still had two June 30. to run and paid him $4000 per years Haiti fS. D.) Gun Club & Protective season. . association. His scheme was to scarce the club Mc Alester (Okla.) Gun club. into raising his pay, but that is where (Kan.) Gun club. MarysvilleOhio Central Trapshooters' league. Schmidt stumbled, for the club was . . Lima, O. Warsaw (Ind.) Gun club. figuring how it could get rid of Schmidt Ashton (III.) Gun club. and his contract, so he played right into Primghar (la.) Gun club. the club's hands. Jane ill. Stalling" at once notified President Tener that Schmidt had released himMount Vernon (S. D.) Gun club. self and there was Schmidt out in the Hampton (Id.) Gun club. a- - once made arSusquehanna Pa.Trapshooters league, cold and Stallings to buy Kd Konetchy, on rangements State college, whom he had had his eye ever since June 21, 22. with Feds the was peace declared. Central Illinois Trapshooters' feague, Lincoln, 111. THIS SOUNDS LIKE FISH June 21. 22. 23. unMinnesota State championship, STORY IT'S BALL YARN der auspices of Minnesota State Sportsmen's association, Rochester, Minn. June 23. A few years ago "Pat" Flaherty, oneGun club. time Boston pitcher, was twirling (Okla.) Muskogee in the Pitcairn (Pa.) Gun club. Southern association. "Pat's" arm was Clifton Forge (Pa.) Gun club. about gone, but he had two valuable Rod & Gun club. assets a good head and a great moStoughton (Wis.)Gun club. Hurlock (Md.) tion toward first base, with which he Decorah (la.) Rod &. Gun club. often caught runners napping off the Jackson (Tenn.) Gun club.. bag. He had a poor team behind him and June 23. In one game they had made a numMonroe (La.) Gun club. ber of errors which gave his opponents Streator (111.) Trap & Rifle club. three runs, but when the last inning Key City GunN. club, Dubuque. Ia. rolled around "Pat's" team was leadC.) Gun club. Goldsboro ing. 4 to 3. Flaherty was determined June 23, 24. to win that and he didn't intend Massachusetts State championship, to take anygame chances on the fielders Mass. the ball. Wellington, He passed the first man tip and then Harrisburg-Pa.Sportsmen's association, booting JIarrisburg. picked him off first base with a snap June .21. throw. Then : he passed the second man and picked him off and the third Aberdeen (Md.) Gun club. White Plains (N. Y.) Gun club. batter was also given a base and Evanston (III.) Gun club. caught napping, thus ending the game. - 1 - , . - . - . . j : et PLAY IX DOUBLEP. "Previous to ten years ago managers were not so strategic. They were able to get along with fewer players per 6 team. The average for the years was approximately twenty playon that ers to a team. Figuring and National basis, the American clubs paid an additional $1,152,-00- 0 league to hotels and railroads during those five championship seasons. Adding that to your $2,880,000 for ten years with which gives you the four millions some scatterthis screed started plus thousands which were knocked off ing the for sake of symmetry. "The average over a period of years show that the cost is unequally divided between hotels and the owners of rollThe advantage is with the ing stock. that baseball is for the reason hotels, y stand amusement. not a When a team remains in one city for four games the hotel bill naturally will be that for transportation. It than, larger has been estimated that the licensed man-dathe $8 $4.50 of victualer gets per which leaves $?.50 for the holders can Tou of "rail slocks. figure these totals out for yourselves. 1901-190- one-da- - v, . HOTELS AXD RAILROADS SOW "WELCOME PLAYERS "Yet it has been only within the last half dozen years or so that the hotels and railroads have realized the size of the business represented by major league baseball. There the always has been among competition railroads, but formerly it was confined chiefly to local passenger agents, eager to make a good showing, but if they endeavored to get favors in the way of modern or holding trains for imsleepers connections the men up portant sniffed at such higher requests. frequently Some hotel proprietors thought ball were entitled to what was left players over in the way of accommodations. That's all changed now. and railroads . Kumagai and Mikami will in both the doubles and singles play at the Forest Hills, national championships. Dawson and Griffin defeated them in the final round of the orient doubles 10-by scores of the weak in teamworkJapanese so necbeing rather essary to win in doubles play. Of the two Kumagai is the better player, hava ing a puzzling lefthand service terrific fore and backhand drive,and coupled with an uncanny ability to make returns from almost any angle and portion of court. He dees not conserve his energy in but is tireless upon theplay, court and aapparently master of tennis tactics. Experts are already predicting that one or both of the Japanese players will prove a sensation at the titular tournament and upset many of the American racquet stars before the finals are reached. 6-- 6-- 4, 4, 8, " and hotels are competing' for baseball business because save seen that in the aggregate. it is 'big business' they "Not nvrny years ago Business Man- - k Williams of the Cubs went to the Y ager ticket of the only road that city from office New York to treks Boston and asked for twenty-eiglower berths for the jump the Cubs had to make four nights later.. He was told by the ticket agent that he could have half lowers and half uppers but that the road ycould not sell him all lowers because It had to accommodate its 'regular patrons. "There are few more 'regular of that' railroad than ball playpatrons' ers. Williams was not However, balked. He purchaser four lowers before leaving the office, went back to the hotel and sent the team manager and several players, one at a time, to the ticket office to buy two, three, or four lowers apiece for that train. "Before he had completed the purtwenty-eigchase of the whole the berths In this way piecemeal called up Williams at the hotelagent and said: r "'Never mind any more relaya Com on down and get tha rest f thm yourself.' " ht ht |