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Show & HIS BEAVERS TO TO WN THIS Has CTow - with the skipper and a headsail would be trimmed. These trimmings seemed sa vigorous as the tug which a woman sometimes would give a disordered lock of her hair. But it had nautical sig' nificance. As the two craft drew near the turning mark, the Shamrock IV had drawn away a little - from her competitor, which lagged behind about four minutes. The next leg was to be a rus straight before the wind. Commotion attends this tufn.' Out had to come the spinnaker, a tall, triangular stretch of canvas, run np tt e the masthead aud held out on the side to the mainsail by a light oom. As soon as the leading yacht T gan breaking out this auxiliary call, the crew of the meter boat bopped te their feet and prepared to do likewise. Tims ea It was a race in a racing yacht is figured in seconds, not minutes. The great string of 'canvas which folded and bound at two-fointervals with light twine, had been fed out of the sail locker like a fire hose, then was run np and by taeklo pulled out ts the end of the beam. The first tug broke the first stop, and the wind did the reiL. It was like a giant wavs rearing on one end and then breaking. On the second leg the- challenger increased her lead, and when, twenty miles covered, the yachts ktsrted On ths last and most tactical streteh beating i up into thd wind it was found the Shamrock IV. bad gained more than five minutes in the last ten miles. Ths real jockeying came with the tacking. Each skipper hoped' to blanket the other that )s thrust his $32,000 set of sails between the wind and the skippers- maneuvered for the start. It other yacht and ent off propelling was like nothing so much as a game of power as one would snug a gaslight tag. such as Then the signal to start was given. Great atretchss of canvas earry create quite a hole ; Twenty-five- i Yank Slugger Also Press Sisler for Batting. S' op-it- W a new 10. With CfllCAGO, July Babe' world record within hie grasp, Ruth, the New 'York Mugger, today Is driving toward the batting championship e American league. Reposing In fourth place a week ago, tiiiome-ru- n king la now second in the list of batters with an average of 48' tjftrty-thre- e poinU behind George Staler, tbs.JSL touts star, who Is leading the league. - Ruth passed the veteran Trla Cleveland and Joe Jackson of Speaker of CMeago, who are tied for the third place honors with .385. Sisler, in first place, la , ob-th- - batting .19. record duri.Ruth fattened his home-ru- n ng- the week by one, raising his total to He connected with thirteen twenty-livlilta in nine games. In addition, he pulled for scoring honors. from Speaker sway Mr has crossed the plate seventy times, while the Clevelander Is two runs behind him. The figures are for games up to although Wednesday, and including homer waa made Friday. Ruth's - Rice of Washington continued to burn among tint paths and la far out In front tA thefts base stealers with thirty-fiv- e Other leading batters are: tyeaver, Chie. Keen Interest is .being aroused among the athletically inclined Salt Lakers over the new polo troop- that is being or- ganised hers. .Definite Information was received by Senator Reed Smoot that the war department would supply the new organisation, with .mounts suitable for polo training when the troop was given federal recognition. This will be as soon as 'ft 'strength is brought np to fifty men ? Ott Romney, tme of the greatest athletes ever turned out by the University of" Utah .and coach of the East high scheol, ; hRS been selected as first lieutenant of the polo troop. WllHatn Yeates will be organisation commander ft ts announced by Captain W. W. Gordon, instructor for United Stated military this district. The other lieutenant has not yet been named. It ts the intention to make up' the personnel .of the troop from men who are known to- one another and who are fond of equitation and athletically lined,--The troop wHl rival the famous Saiv Francisco Grizzlies, which during the. war was developed Into a regiment of field artillery, the personnel of the troop making up the officers and high noncommissioned officers ot the regi- Aboard Sir Thomas Yacht Youngster Wins 2 Victory Over Carl Mays at the Polo Grounds Inc- ld 4-- - " run-gette- - base-stmle- ra ht NEW YORK, July 10. If young Waite Hoyt' takes good care of hie right arm and continues to learn the weak points of American league batsmen be soon may be the greatest pitcher in baseball Four years ago Hoyt, who now is 20, was a Brooklyn schoolboy, also a natural curve artist. Anxious to become a professional, he visited Ebbets held on several occasions and surprised the big leaguers with hia dlplay of skill. A Giant scout saw Hoyt warm up one afternoon and told McOraw, who asked the youngster to report at the Polo grounds. Hoyt made auch a favorable impression on McOraw that he was signed to a private contract, and a. year later hs-was sent to a minor league team. Making little headway among the small fry, the boy finally drifted out of McGraws control and wae temporarily forgotten. Last summer the Boston Red Sox unearthed Hoyt and he Jumped Into the box Home-ru- n Leader. x. g, , nt base-steae- I STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Won. Lost. P.C. Saltna Gugnlson Moroni Fairvlew Mt Pleasant Neplil Ephraim MabtL-..w- 9 7 6 . ..5 ....A..... 6 ,.7. 8 2 3 8 .813 .700 .667 " .55 .55 . - 8 .435 .2)3 .273 ,....,-.,- -.t "lle Southern Utah league has had a good campaign thue far this year. All are made up of restdenta of the towns in the league, it being a of the organization that no outside talent halt be permitted to participate In any league games. the-club- s by-la- w ft. o. p. Dominations filed, Sprritl to The Tribaaa. RUPERT, Idaho, July 10. The Republicans have filed the following nominations on the state ticket: Senator, W. W. Thompson; representative, J. H, Davis and Dr. Adams; commissioners, Charles Smith, Jr., 1L P. Falla J. I Butler; sheriff, E. T. Hollenbeck, C. C. Nelson, George Cowell; assessor, Guy Shilling-toAustin Smith; treasurer, Roy Toyer; probate Judge, C. jD. Fhlbbs; attorney. H. rA. Baker; coroner,' W. A. Goodman; D T. McDonough. surveyor, Advertise you old equipment In Tribune VI ant Columns and see The hew quickly you can dispose of it, n, t in Novice. the atmosphere. . Inside Stuff." , As the Shamrock cams about and orders were given to break out the .Back and forth the two sloops tacked. the crew, which, had even efore BOARD THE SHAMROCK OFT been milling around the deck, in- Muffled orders earns from behind ths SANDY HOOK. A landsman creased their seeming efforts to4 create whCe where the skipper was- kneeling. of confusion. A man would Oyer to leeward crawl over one by undismayed by a daily charge a scene at one and then go one, so they wont see you I Now, then, give a through New Yorks subways, gallopingtugforward to-rope - twitch another, about we cornel by the vagaries of Coney Islands most while his mate came tearing aft on the ' Round spun the big yacht on another boisterous scenic railway and' by the other side of the eraft.' Everyone taek. It apparently took the other crew to be training for sprints and by surprise, but it was onl- - a few secuncertainties of glare ice under dull seemed the deck was a mass of ropes. onds later that the headed skates would feel perfectly at ease on Meanwhile orders came writhing Cke machine up into the wind andchallenger at surged again Amerfor the Shamrock bullets. IV, racing the . gun another angle. cams out But order of seaming chaos. ica a cup this month. The wind, which had been flattening crossed the line and out, played a prank on the trial horse as A representative of the Associated As the two craft out for the of first leg straightened the Shamrock IV was ths Press, invited by Sir Thomas Lipton to the triangular course hi reach finish line. While the approaching tnal horse was on the a their the hardest work the crew, trip for experience slipping slowly through ths water,- - ths Shamrock during one of her moment done, dropped to tha windward challenger was enjoying a gust which side deck the of and to rail (he Just as they buried, her gunwale. many trial races with the challenger off a barrier almost threeclung inehes Its crossed tbs line, the 8hamroek, 'which the Jersey coast, found that, as a pas- companion piece on the other high. was side behind was minute by minute, dropping later awash. senger, this was all he had to do: another gust. But it waq top 1.. Dodge safely down a companion-wa- y For the moment there waa a chance to caught she when and crossed the line the late, when the crew, in adjusting sails, look around. It was a moment of who with a stop watch had navigator, dashed madly from stem to .stern with terdeck strategy. The-- trial horse quarwas from a blast of the Victorias a speed that would have chagrined a short distance behind ths eheUenger. noted whistle the moment the challenger had even a veteran eubway halfback. Directors of the. Shamrocks fate announced that the challenger 2. Get used to the feeling of one viewed their glasses the quar- finished, 13 minutes and 81 had won moment clinging to the Windward gun- terdeck through - crew of the Shamrock IV, knd seconds. ,by exactly wale many feet above the Atlantic, and glaasee on, the latter in turn leveled beatThe Shamrocks crew took at their findcame the next, ns the sloop about, the Shamrock. -- 1 ten-mil- e twenty-three-met- Former Stars of Our League Traveling at Fast Gait Among the Big scores with several winning performances. Although still too young to vote, he Is growing rapidly and tips the scales at 189 pounds. Since the Red Sox began training this spring Hoyt has been a sensaOnes. tion. Not long ago he outpttched the much-a- d vertlsed and expensive Carl with the result that the Yankees 1. Mays, were beaten, to 2. Batting averages of the major leagues ing himself to leeward, with every After the third Inning Hoyt was ini vincible. As darkness .approached, the show many former Coast leaguers and chance of soon being many feet below former Brooklyn boy now a other performers familiar, to local fan- sea level. . Salt Lake Is to have a horseshoe pitch3. Crawl gingerly over young man turned on dom hitting the bail hard. Bobby lieu-sedecks to that spot at the moment boasting tournament, from which will emerge speed that wag bewildering. He bad been EvBodle Joa Joe and Qedeon, ping using change of pace in masterly fashion, ans are all , a horseshoe pitching champion and a clicking the pill over 300 In ing the highest altitude, comfortin; but when he decided to depend entirely that, wit double team. on his fast balls he made the Yankees the American, while Jacques Fournier himself with the recollection tons of keel underneath her. Hollocher are snowing to ad- fifty-odThe week of August X6 has been set- think of Walter Johnson and his cannon-sho- and Charley vantage in the older circuit It would be a bit difficult for the yacht delivery. tled upon for the final tournament, to be Following are the latest available rec- to capsize. ' after wfhners In of the ords Coasters American the at Liberty staged park, After these three requirements had Meusel, New York (Vernon), been league: have been decided in ths six .sectional met, he eould settle down to an St, Louis (Salt Lake), 429 Qedeon, .36; ' tournaments to be held at City playBodle, New York (San Francisco), 437; impersonal study of alien surroundings. Evans, Cleveland (Portland), .317; Tobin, grounds In various section of the city St. Louis (Salt Lake,, ,285; Williams, St Start Without Fuss. during the week ot August L Louis (Portland), .28; Hannah, New There was no ceremony to the start. The horseshoe pitching campaign Is unYork (Salt Lake), .272; RIsberg, Chicago as the meter boat, as green-hulleThe der the direction of the city department .287: Plnelll. Detroit (Sacra(Vernon), ef recreation, and every attention will be anchored a abort distance Franchallenger, Detroit .263; Jones, mento), (San devoted to making It a complete success cisco), .223; Sothoron, Bt. Louis (Port- away, wae riding at anchor with her Because of the small cost ot the sport, set when the land), ,328, McMullIn, Chicago (Los An- mainsail and ths small amount of equipment and space geles), .217; Coveleskie, Cleveland (Port- boarding launch came alongside. required and the small number necessary . land), .205; Williams, Chicago (Salt Sir Thomas had a' short chat with for a game, horseshoe pitching will doubtLake), 400. Colonel Duncan T. D. Neill and Cap less gain great favor as a form of exerIn the National league: FourCoasters x in nier, Bt. Louie (Loa Angeles), ,305; cise and competition among all classes Forty-sitain Alfred Diaper, who were handling Days Horseshoe pitching associations thrive Chicago (Portland), .80S; Schmidt the trial horse, and pushed off. The in- several of ths leading cities of the Pittsburg (San Francises). .395; Bigbee, sloop then slipped her moorings and .Will Uhlted States, notably Minneapolis, add Pittsburg (Portland, .894; Lebourveau, slowly heeled over as she ran out for a national horseshoe pitching contest Is Philadelphia (Oakland), ,389; Terry, Chi- the start. held annually at Akron, Ohio, in which cago (Lob Angeles), .282; Johnston, $507,000 At first there wa so commotion the most skilled tossers from this coun-- 272; (Oakland), Brooklyn Rath, Cincinnati aboard. The crew a ecore of weathertry and Canada vie for 33000 m cash .288; Meusel, Philadel(Salt Lake), prizes and a number of medals beaten tare, looking like browniei (boa Angeles), Southworth, phia Beginning with July 19, arrangements Pittsburg (Portland), .258; Schulte, St dressed in white lay on the deck. LATONIA. Ky., July 10. Following an- "Louis will permit practice and competition coiled and every(Los Angeles), .21; Elliott, Brookwere among adults on the playgrounds of the nouncement of the autumn racing dates lyn (Oakland), .227; Pick, Boston (Ban Ropes seemed neatly simple. city. It Is hoped by those In charge yesterday, General Manager Matt J. Winn Francisco), .22; Reuther, Cincinnati (Salt thing As the yacht worked out from behind that the game will become a popular Portland), .197. back yard pastime throughout the city. of the Kentucky Jockey club today gave Lake, the leading batters In the the shelter of the Hook, she began to Among out thsi The following rules will govern plana of that organization .for the fall American association are numerous get the full force of the wind, and season. The purse distribution for forty-si- x leaguers and other stars who have Coast contests for the city title: , been careened over still further, until every1. Each man will pitch each man one days racing wilt total 8507.000, a vast seen on ths local diamond. Jean Dubuo, one on hia feet wae leaning over toIncrease over any previous season. , game of 21 points The now with Toledo and a former Bee 2. Distance between stakes, 0 . feet minimum purse at Lexington will be hurlef, heads the list with a mark of .85. ward port at an angle that seemed perclose to 45 degrees. -height of stakes, 8 inches above ground. 31000, at Louisville 1200, and at Latonla Others follow Sweeney. Kansas City ilously 1500. 3. Ringers count 2; double .ringers 8; In the cabin even a stranger-eig- ht (Seattle), 419; Dreseen, St.-P(Salt At Lexington thebe win be two stakes LakL, Inches closest shoe 1 (must be within 410; W. Miller, Kansas City (Balt met the eye. Table tops and lamps arwith a combined value of 87300, and Lake.SOS; of stakeT. Wilhott, Toledo (Vernon, Se- ranged on the gravity system listed . Weight of shoes not to exceed, 24 with these, the overnight races will total attle). 404; CaveL - Indianapolis (San Wijn Vhe boatTyetkept level.To the pounds; caulks not over (4 Inch; shoes 855.500 to ba given to the horsemen 498; (Sawyer, Minneapolis nmnitiated the first glance at the in not to exceed 1 Inches in length and At Latonla eight stakes will be run off, Francisco), Indianapolis 497; Reilly, (Ogden), (Balt 7 Inches In width. and their total added value will be .295; Brief, Kansas City (Salt tenor was as much of a shock as that in &. Pitchers will be permitted to stand The overnight races there win Lake), .284; Carlisle, Kansas City (Ver- a maze, where concave or convex mir Lake). amount to 132, 0u4, making a total of non, Portland), .232; Within three feet of stake. Qearin, Milwaukee rors play pranks with ones physique. The notional rules Of ths National 8339 800 for that meeting. .26; Fabrique, Kansas City Suddenly the yacht came about. Head-sail- s Four stakes will be ori the Churchill (Oakland), League of Horseshoe pitchers will gov(Loa Angeles. Beattie), .268; Hall. 8L which had been run up since the ern all other points. No entry fee will Downs roster, their combined added value Paul . .255, Lake), (Balt start flapped In the breeze. Indeed, be charged to the city tourneys. . being 826,000, while the other races will marks SL show; The pitchers Hall, tha yacht seemed very like a bulldog call for a distribution of 887,800. This Paul Angeles), won 10, lost 6; ReinWill make 8113,600 for the Louisville track. hardt,(Los CANCER PROVES FATAL. Milwaukee (Seattle,, won 3, lest shaking a rag ia hie teeth. fall Last the total purse money given 1; Lowdermtlk. Minneapolis (Portland), As little waves slapped (the Special to Tbs Tribsna. away at the three tracks waa 3338,600, so won 5, lost 6; Dubuc, Toledo (Salt Lake), bows, sailors crouching at thssloops .bow RUPERT, Idaho,, July 10. Elmer who came to Minidoka county It can a ba seen that this season there is won 7, lost I; Qearin, Milwaukee (Oak- working on tackle were drenched. It land), won 3. lost 2: Horstman, Kansas was not unlike men fifteen years ago, died recently from quite healthy Increase. trying to tig a City (Los Angeles), won I. loet I; Cavet, cancer, after an Illness of several months. n shower. bowknot under BURGLARS ROB HOUSE. Indianapolis (San Francisco), , won 7, pretty Hs was prominent In public affairs, beOutside the Shamrock met the Shamlost 11, ing twice elected county commissioner. Special to The Tribune. rock IV, which had been towed out by Recently he visited Mayo Brothers' hosRUPERT, Idaho, July 10. Silverware, a tug. As ths two craft, shaking out Ths Evalest Way. pital, but obtained no relief. Ha is sur- llnon and wearing to the value mors canvas, chased each other about, vived by his wife, mother, four sisters of 500 were stolen apparel by burglars from tbs In An ware dealer electric anterprlring end a brother Funeral services were home of Mr. and Mae Julius Johanneeen hangs out tho Don't kill your a warning flag was raised aboard the sign: conducted by the Rev, O. H. Barnes end steam yatch Victoria, Sir Thomass out of.town- - The i Wife with hard work. Let our Interment wse made in Ileyburn came-tar- y. burglars also look ham and a sack of j machine do the dirty work."- Titowashing Amerflagship, , The apparently aimless chess Mr. Maynard was 51 years of age. sugar, ican Legion Weekly. became even more frantie s the rival d, cool-head- d d - - ing philosophically. They hadnt exJust an explanation as to why tlie pected te beat the challenger, but they h does not bear any numerals had expected to make a better showr na!ne e wold, by right of ing. But the brief becalming had, been birth, have been the Shamrock IV. but their downfall. she was never built to Fortunes of war, said the skipfight for ths America s cup, and Sir Thomas When youve been in ths racrefused per, her this v magic number which, ndicating the leaves of a he intended should be carried shamrock, only by the craft which he hopes to carry off ths coveted trophy. v Trimming SaiL ing game ' a long time, you dont t , worry. But the wind was taunting. On ths wav back to the moorings it strength, ened and when speed was not needed the sloop tors along like a great seabird seeking shelter behind Sandy The navigator spent many minutes Hook. wxta parallel rules and chart now and then to glance aloftstopping Make a list 'ot thinss that have acat the cumulated In the attic and run It In The sails and off ths port quarter at Want Columns end you will sell waters. Then he Would Confer Tribune them In no- time wind-ruffle- d club-topsa- Racing Kentucky Carry in Cash Prizes. - Hoi-loch- er, Get Your Tires Now -- -- .5; -- f ISouthern Utah League - - J Pitching Title Sectional August Tournaments August Rapp of St. Paul went Into a tie with DresSen, his teammate, for honors in each having twenty-siRunny Brier of Kansas City nosed ahead hitof Hargrave of St. Paul In home-ru- n ting, having a total of nine. Tha St. Other has eight. leading Pgul slugger haters: Hartley, Columbus, .359; Wlck- land, Toledo, .357; Rapp, St. Paul, .831; Wade, Minneapolis, 426; Sweeney, Kan sag City, .323; Magee, Columbus, .322; GoDd, Kansas City, .821; Rondeau, Mlnne-apdll- s, 420; BuUer, Milwaukee, .329; Dres-seSt. Paul. 413. IJogart of Joplin regained the batting championship of the Western league, pitcher. passing Carlsn Bast,' theof'Wichitawhile .377, East Bogart has sver&eg is one point behind him. Beck ot Wichita hitbroke the tie for honors In bome-ru- a ting, Increasing his total to .fourteen. YaSyan, his teammate, has thirteen. r. Lae of Omaha, the leading Is being pressed by Pttt of Oklahoma City an$ Kelleher of Bt. Joseph. Lee has a string of eighteen, thefts, whlls Pitt has seventeen end Kelleher sixteen. Qther leading batters: Yaryan, WichiSt. Joseph, .355; ta, ; -- 360: Shestak, Beck,- Wichita, .35; Coffey, Lea Moines, .3f- Levivelt, Omaha, .33; Pitt,. Okla- horn City, .333; Platte, Omaha, 432; Crqyby, St. Joseph, .3.32. 4 l, Horseshoe Bunny Race. Between Challenger and Trial Horse Exciting; Delicate Handling of SaiU Confusing to - . - 4 Unique Sight for Novice - cago, .365; Rice. Washington, .357; Milan, 36; Johnston, Cleveland, Washington. 34: E. Collins, Chicago, ,140; Hendryx, ment- - Boston, .333; Felseh, Chicago, .333. As It Is expected that all of the men accepted for the - troop will have had pinch Hitter Is Slugger. service during, the world war, it will be' to go through the routine outfielder and unnecessary tJSayrs of Boston, pitcher, of recruit drill, but equitation will be pinch hitter, dethroned Roger Hornsby and mounted work, as .leader among the National league bat- taken up Immediately or preparatory to training for polo, will be ters who have participated In fdrty mare games. He Is batting .01 for forty-eve- n started at once Those Interested In polo and the orgames. In which heo cracked out times at ganisation of the polo troop will be suptwanty-nin- e hits In sevsnty-twreal leader plied Information, by getting in touch tut, Hornsby, however, isathe mark of .378. with either Romney or- - Yeates. among the regulars with -- araes. Hollocher made In eeventy-thr- o has tied the 8L Louis star r, a having crossed the plats fifty, times. of. Philadelphia delivered -- Cif Williams hSa'waekly home run and is leading In Max Carey, the circuit drives with nine. more Etttaburg outfielder,In- - stole ofthreetha front bases and is far thefts. with twenty-eig.Other leading batters: E. Smith, New York. .356: Konetchy, Brooklyn, .332; Nicholson, Pittsburg, ,823; Roush, Clnetn-na- tl 421; i. .325; Williams, Philadelphia, HoUocher, Chicago, .321; Daubert, Clncin- - i .318; Young, Cincinnati, .321; Groh, najb New York, 418; Robertson, Chicago, 3.18. with Efen Tincup, the Indian" pitcher llnuIsvlUe, is so firmly intrenched in the assobitting leadership of the American ciation that all attempts to dislodge him Meet 15; hav been unavailing. He Is setting the pbte wUh an average of 471. 4 0 - aul -- 857,-60- 0. , ... X Ate you a judgi of bicycle tires! - You can SAVE A THIRD, and choice of the very yet have your best tiree on the market Federals, Continentals, Kokomo Everlasters, Racing and some Vitalics. 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