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Show STAND ARlT"sPORTING PAGE M'lNNlS VALUABLE j AS FIRST BASEMAN Philadelphia, June 4. Local baseball base-ball experts say "Stuffy" Mclnnis is the most valuable first baseman In , i the game today. lie Is a far more J valuable player tban Hal Chase and J has the box scores to prove It. For j one thing, Mclnnis is a harder hitter than the Highlander star. There is I not much difference in the fielding. 1 J Chase, perhaps, will make more bril- !- v I Hant plays in a season than his i younger rival, hut for steady, sure i j and conscientious work, game in and , . I gamo out, there is nobody who has ' ? anything on the New England boy. jv 1 "Stuffy" has this advantage over I , Chase in that he is more adaptive to jo, I team play and club discipline and VjSMc' I fights to the last. Mclnnls impresses mC I ' B spectator as playing more for the liBft'- love of the game than the fortnightly KSbiJ l check, Chase, brilliant as he is, JMgSfrf sometimes is mulish. When the Hr&jI Hlhglanders are winning he looks like Kjjgfl ' the best player in the country, but Knjf as soon as they slump Chase becomes BRH ' morose and his game suffers. Ho Is MBga not a leader, but essentially a follow- Htav or. WfjJM I AMERICAN LEAGUE. g9 Washington, 13; St. Louis, 4. rani A, St. Louis St, Louis presented a WSm patched line-up and lost to Washlng- ifiJM ton. The contest was featured by the r-hH reappearance of Lou Criger behind the hJaH I bat. It was the first time the veteran M t kfls been in active serice for two ,H 1 years. Waldou, a local catcher, made J'5 ) ' his debut with St. Louis. Williams "iH and McBrido featured with the bat. m3m Score: R. H. E M St Louis 4 10 3 j Washington 7 13 13 3 HH Batteries Baumgartner, E Brown and Criger, Waldon; Engel. Hughes and Williams. Two-base hits Foster, Williams. Three-base hits Foster, Shanks, Moeller, McBride, ililan Bases on balls Baumgartner, 2; Engel, 6. Struck out Baumgartner, 3; Hughes, 3; C. Brown, 2. Umpires Pcrrino and DInecn. Detroit 4, New York 1. At Detroit Debuc deserved a shutout, shut-out, but lost it when Jones muffed Daniels' fly In the first inning and the batter went all the way home War-hop War-hop was hit hard and Detioit won Score: 11. H. B New York 1 7 1 Detroit -1 10 2 Batteries Warhop and Sweeney; Dubuc and Stanage. Two-base hits Zinn, Cree. Three-base Three-base hit Bush. Bases and balls Warhop, 4. Struck out Dubuc, 4. Umpires Connolly and Hnrt. Philadelphia 8, Chicago 4. At Chicago Philadelphia batted Chicago hard and at opportune times and won Most of the visitors' hits were for extra bases. Plank pitched consistent ball until the eighth, when the locals started a batting rally which netted two runs and was stopped stop-ped only on a decision which proved unpopular to spectators and players. iManager Callahan argued with Umpire Um-pire Westervelt and was put out of the game. Because of a noisy demonstration demon-stration nolicemen walked to the clubhouse with Umpire Westervelt No violence was offered, however. Murphy, in attempting to steal a base, wrenched his ankle and retired. Score: It. H. E. Chicago 1 10 2 Philadelphia S 11 0 Batteries Mogrldge, Peters, White, Benz and Sullivan, Mayer; Plank and Egan. Two-base hits B Lord, Weaver. Three-base hits Baker, Mclnnis, Egan, B. Lord Home run Baker. Base on balls Plank, 4; White, 1; Benz, 1. Struck out By Plank, 5, Benz, 1. Umpires O'Loughlln and Westervelt. Wester-velt. Cleveland 4, Boston 3. At Cleveland Boston started well with three runs In the first, knocked Blanding out in the second and iheu was held by Baskette, Cleveland In the meantime doing good, steady work and amassing four runs. Manager Stahl of Boston was put out of the game by Umpire Egan for protesting a decision. Score'. R. H. E. Cleveland -1 7 1I Boston 3 10", 1 Batteries Blanding, Baskette and Easterly, O'Brien and Carrigan Two base hits Speaker, Lewis Throe-base hit Jackson. Home run Easterlv. Base on balls Blanding, 1; Baskette, 3, O'Brien, 1. Struck out Baskette, 1; O'Brien, 5. Ubplres Evans and Agan. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Cincinnati 7, Brooklyn 4. At Brooklyn Biooklyn made a triple play against Cincinnati, but lost. The play came In tho eighth Inning when, with the bases full, Mitchell drove to Tooley, forcing Bescher at the plate Miller made a 'bluff" to throw to socond, drawing Marsans toward to-ward the jlate and he was run down. Meanwhile Hobhtzell took a lot of room off second and was also nailed on a quick throw down. Miller had two putouts and two assists on the play. Phelps' thumb was broken in the fifth Inning by a foul tip. Score. R. H. E Cincinnati 7 10 2 Brooklyn ,.4 11 4 Battel les Bdnton and McLean; Kent, Knetzer, Stock and Phelps, Miller. Mil-ler. Two-base hits Esmond, Benton, Wheat Three-baso hits Mitchell. Smith. Base on balls Benton, 1, Kent, 3: Knetzor, l Struck out Benton, 5, Knotzcr, 1. Umpires Riglei and Finnoran. Now York 8, St. Louis 3. At New York Marquard won his eleventh straight victory of the season sea-son here, defeating St. Louis. Meyers Mey-ers hit a home run into left field grandstand m the third inning, with the bases mil. In this inning Bres-nahan Bres-nahan ordered Sallee to walk Murray , with two out and two local men on the I bases. Six New York runs followed. i Score: R H.E. 3t. Louis 3 9 '3 New York S 0 1 Batteries Sallee, Dale and Bresna-han; Bresna-han; Marquard and Hartley. Meyers Two-baso hits Fletcher, Ellis, Her-zog, Her-zog, Konetchy, Mowrey, Bresnahan. Three-base hit Mowrey Home run Meyers, Saso on balls Marquard, 3; Sallee, 2, Dale, 5. Struck out Marquard, Mar-quard, G, Sallee, 2; Dale, 3. Umpires Eason and Johnustone. Chicago 4, Boston 3. At Boston Chicago won from Boston. Bos-ton. Ilouser's home run with two men on bases accounted for the local tallies. Sheckard worked a double play in the sixth by taking Campbell's fly on the bound, although ho could easily have caught it. Then ho threw It to Ever3, who touched second lor a force out on McDonald and tagged Hess, who had held the base Kling's protest on the play caused his removal re-moval bv the umpire. Score. R H.E. Chicago 4 8 1 Boston 3 10 2 Batteries Brown, Lavender and Needham, Hess and Kling, Rariden. Two-baso hits Sweeney, Devlin, Sheckard, W. Miller, Zimmerman. Home run Houser. Base oh) balls Pless, G, Brown, 1; Lavender, 1. Struck out Hess, 3; Brown, 2, Lavender. Lav-ender. 4. Umpires Owens and Brenuan Philadelphia 4, Pittsburg 3. At Philadelphia A batting rail bj Philadelphia in the olghth inning gave them a victory over Pittsburg. Errors of both teams proved costly Magoo's catch, which robbeJ Bjine of. a home run, was the fielding Tea-turo Tea-turo Score: R. H.E. Pittsburg 3 6 3 Philadelphia 4 10 Z Batteries Hendrix and GIgson; Alexander and Dooin. Two base hits Wilson, Gibson, Miller. Base on balls Off Hendrix, 2. Struck out By Hendrix, 3; Alexander, Alex-ander, G. Umpires Klein and Bush NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE. Seattle 7, Tacoma 5. At Seattle Score: R. H.E. Seattle 7 13 4 Tacomu 5 10 2 Batteries Thompson, Schneider and Whaling; Schmitz and Crittenden. Vancouver 3, Portland 2. At Vancouver, B. C. Score: R. H E Portland 2 4 21 Vancouver 3 7 2 Batteries Tonneson and Harris; Agncw and Lewis. Spokane 6, Victoria fa. At Victoria, B. C Score. R. H. E. Spokane G 9 1 Victoria 5 15 1 Batteries Cadreau and Ostdiek; McCreery, Concannon and Meek. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. At Montgomery Montgdmery, 1; Atlanta, 9. At Memphis Memphis, 4; New Orleans, Or-leans, 1. At Little Rock Nashville, G; Mobile, Mo-bile, 3 (Game transferred from Nashville.) At Birmingham Birmingham, 1; Chattanooga, 10. WESTERN LEAGUE., Omaha 11, Denver 2. At Denver Score: R. H. E. Omaha 11 11 0 Denver 2 11 2 Batteries Fentress and Johnson, Schiiebcr, Healy, Olmstoad and Spahr. I Dcs Moines 8, Toptka 4. At Topeka Des Moines bunched hits in the seventh and scored four runs, enough to defeat Topeka.Scorc: ' R.H.E. Topeka 0 3 Des Molnca , . b i Batteries Wainwrlght. Cochran and Schmidt; Togs and McOraw. Sioux City 14, Wichita 1. At Wichita Sioux City hit two Wichita pitchers at vlll and defeated defeat-ed Wichita. Score: R. II. E. Wichita .. 1 10 Sioux City 4 -1 Bareties Hersche, Anderson and Clcmons, Brown and Cadman Lincoln 9, St. Joseph 8. At Lincoln In a 10-Inning game closely contested, Lincoln won fiom St. Joseph. Scoie: R. H. E. Lincoln 9 jj J SL Joseph S lu G Batteries Hagcrman, Doyle, Palmer and Carney: Doldrlng, Freeman and Castle, Bachant AL KAUFMAN WILL TRY TO "COME BACK" Chicago. Juno 4. Hereafter, wo arc told, Ad Wolgast Is to hare a stable-mate. stable-mate. His name Is Al Kaufman, twice punctured champlorrehip., possibility. Tom Jones, who handles the business of the lightweight champion, recently recent-ly accepted the task of guiding Al back into the spotlight of publicity among tho big fellows. Jones himself is authority for the story and announced just before he went to New York recently that he soon would start boosting the big German from tho Pacific coast, along towards something good in tt way of purses. First, Kaufman will take on some mediocre men out on the coast In four-round contests. Among them will be Soldier Elder, Miller and Home Kaufman hopes in this way to fight his way back into shapo and then show them something when he gets among the. vonl tough ones of tho g; class. $K Wolgasts manager accepted the qa Kaufman duties only after a long and '( Bj thorough discussion with Kaufman. M Al ropresentod to Jones that most of gi his trouble in the past was caused V by a failure to train properly, ,a con- w dillon brought on by the overconfl- sS den state of his mind when ho ac- ' ceptcd certain matches that turned vjj out disastrously. ,$? Kaufman has many natural quail- h ficatlons to make him one of the . k world'8 best boxers. He is big and -"J heavy, has n certain amount of speed ) and r.klli and best of all can punch " hard and is game as a pebble. There T? is not any question of his gameness at all He has shown It a dozen tlmeB. ; Twice Kaufman has been given tho severest of setbacks when it looked ' possible for him to fight his way into a match for the real title. Once ho taokled Jack O'Brien out on the Pacific Pa-cific coast and was cut Into ribbons ' by tho speedy Philadelphia fighter ' That was one of tho few mistakes ' that Billy Dolany made with, his man. He matched Kaufman with O'Brien f" when tho former was not ready for 1 L. such game. 1V Something over a year ago Kaufman ' i made a match with Jim Flynn in $f Kansas City that gavo him even a .' greater sotback than the O'Brien af- fair. Kaufman took Flynn on because the Pueblo fireman looked easy and the money of the Kansas City club looked like finding It. Al never . .' I trained a serious lick for the encount- er, It is said, and Flynn sprung one of tho sensations of the year By stopping stop-ping Kaufman in nine rounds. Al neer quite recovered from that beating and later proved rather easy picking for Al Palzer in New York. 5 So it is plain that Al has quit a lot L of ground to make up before he can V hope to receive any attention from tho leader of the class, whoever he may be after the July 4 affair In Los Vegas. & (Continued on Pago Eight ) 3$ (Continued from Pago Two) THINK KIVAT WILL BE A SENSATION New York, June 4 Athletic sharps predict Unit Abo Klviat will be one of tho sensations at the Olympiad to bo held In Sweden this summer If he maintains his present form. At Celtic Cel-tic park here recently Abel smashed the World's record for the 1,500-nieter event when he went the dlstanco in 3 minutes 59 1-4 seconds, beating the mark of 3 minutes 69 4-5 seconds mado by "Pony" Wilson of England June 20, 1D0S, at the tryouls for the English Olympic team. In the recent re-cent rnce Klviat defeated such stars as Mel Shoppard, Oscar Hcdlun and Frank Riley. Many clone followers of the same who thronged the infleld averred thoy witnessed some slashing 1-rcpb lu years gone by, but nothing compared with Klvlat's grent running. run-ning. He sprinted the last 200 yards. Klviat didn't do much all winter, but now that ho has got Into his stride It will take a man of the caliber of J. P. Jonets of Cornell to matte him bow to defeat. He is better than ever. |