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Show ALMA RICHARDS GETS HONORS fll Provo Athlete Takes- First in Iflll Decathlon Staged 'at Ex- !jB position Wins by Good II Consistent Work. H i San Francisco1, Aug. 10. AJnia W (( 'Richards of Provo, Utah competing J( i under the colors of llic Illinois Ath- (I 'letic club, won today tlio distinction Hi I of being the best all around athlete ii 'of tho United States by placing first !in tho decathlon which was staged In i yesterday and today on tne stadium ffl (of tho Panama-Pacific exposition. G. In iA. Brundago of tho Chicago Athletic SIR I Pee of the Multnomah Athletic club j of Portland, Ore., placed third. ju Sixteen men started In the compe-J compe-J iition yesterday, many dropping out ill when they saw that they had no IN chance of winning. As indicated by MB,' tho closeness of the scores, the rat-I rat-I H ings of many of the competitors -could 1 19 not bo determined until the last 1 II event had been decided. I Richards won by good consistent r In work. At no time did he place boll bo-ll low ninth in-any event and took one I I first place and three seconds. His poorest efforts were with the javelin I and in tho J1500 metre run. Brundagc 1(1 did not drop below sixth place at any 1 1)11 time and had a majority of fours and m fives placed to his credit Chester fi Fee Ib credited with three wins, the 9 greatest number taken by any of the U competitors. U Following are the scores of leading I athletes who linisEed- A. W Richards, Illinois Athlot- m ic club 6S5S.31 M C. A. Brundage, Chicago Ath- ' ffi letic association ...G45I.$4 m Chester Fee, Multnomah Ath- ffl letic club w 6442.71 Ri H. Goclitz, Chicago Athletic jjl association . , 6432.14 Ji P. F Connor, Irish-American 81 r A. C. (N. Y.) C04S.54 S Fred C. Thompson, (Los An- ii geies Atmetic ciud tU4U. tg John Jacobs, Oaklahoina Uni- 11 versity 5767.02 A. H. Hutchinson, Illinois A. (5 C 5567.15 Ml Hans Kolehmalnen: of the Irlsh-jfi Irlsh-jfi American Athletic club of New York n had no trouble in winning the modi-I modi-I fied marathon of fifteen miles from jo a field of six competitors. His time i m for tlys distance was 1 hour, 25 min- R uteB and 51 seconds. Vlllan Kyronen y of the Millrose Athletic club of New Nj York finished second, 100 yards bell be-ll hind the winner. Nick Glanakopulos H of the New York Athletic club was jro third and Hugh Honohan, his club 1 Fji mate, fourth. r J Tho men ran over a course select-jflj select-jflj ed through the avenues of the exposl-Jli exposl-Jli Hon grounds and were cheered by !tens of thousands of visitors. Auto-inoblles Auto-inoblles -and motorcycles cleared the track In front of the runners. - aii The international 800 metre race jWj Was won by tho team of the Chicago n' Athletic association made up of a Booth, Blair, Smith and Loomis. Tho n Olympicclub of San FranciBco was H second, while the four men of the Los Angeles- Athletic club took third IS place. The timewas 1 minute, 21 1-5 jf (fleconds, a new world's figure for the jj distance until it waB discovered that ef the track was seventy-four yards uj short. HI J. ("Ted") Meredith national cham- SK pion in the 440-yard dash, failed to H equal tho world's record for the H straightaway distance In a special trial. His lime was 48 3-5 seconds, H while tho record is 47 seconds flat, rjL made by Maxey W. Long In 1900. H Meredith, who has been competing m In tho A. A. U. championships, is a W member of MeadowbrookT Athletic l club team. He raced against Fred 1 1 Stormer of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce In the trial today. 1! A false start caused by the failure Ij of the timers to get the flash of t,he 5; gun made Meredith run his speed H trial after he had covered nearly hall? the distance in tho first attempt. jj PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE. : i K Won Lost Pet K Los Angeles 73 58 .557 I San Francisco 71 58 .550. 5 j Vernon 63 66 .488 jj Portland .- 58 65 .472 II " ,ii 62 70 .470 Oakland j '" 4G0 Salt Lake 53 68 .460 NSALT LAKE LOSES TO SEALS. San Francisco. Aug. 10. Salt Lake did not make much of a avowing to-dav to-dav in tho opening gamo with the Srals. and lost by a score of 5 too. Baum appeared to have the batters at his mercy, and they utterly failed to solve his puzzlers, until the last inning, when he shut off the steam and pormitted a couple of hits. Thoy were not productive of rims, TheeScals landed on Fittery Trom the start, and kept up the target prac-tice prac-tice with damaging results. Salt Lake errors also played a prominent part in the scoring. -N SRui,saker 000 000 000-0 SfS ;;. ;. on 100 002-5 San Francisco RUns 301 100 00X o Hits ...'.. 221 110.30X-10 UtAVCno Mnc uuaunui Portland, Qre., Aug. 10, After three weeks of basoball vacation Portland Port-land fans lined up at Recreation park today to see the home team get Its usual drubbing in tho opening of tho series with1 Vernon. The score was to 4. Vernon w Runs 003 111 200 S Base hits 112 222-31115 Portland Runs 000 013 000 4 Base hits 010 133 0008 OAKS ANNIHILATED. Los Angeles,"Aug 10. The annihilation anni-hilation of the Oaks was accomplished accom-plished today In a manner that was unique, to say the least It also was just about as unexpected as. it was unique. Up to the seventh Rowdy Elliott's bunch had a 6 to 0 lead and seemed a winner bar nothing but an earthquake. earth-quake. x But the shock did come and when the ninth rolled around tho Angels An-gels had killed off three of the Oak heavers, chased in eight men in three frames and won out 8 to 7, with no one down. Oakland Runs 010 320 010 7 Hits 110 420 12112 Los Angeles Runs 000 000 212 8 Hits f.. - 011 101 24415 NATIONAL LEAGUE. "Won Lost PcL Philadelphia . ..v..53 45 .541 Brooklyn 55 48 .534 Pittsburg . 51 49 .510 Chicago 50 49 .505 New York 49 48 .505 Boston 51 50 .505 St, Louis 49 55 .471 Cincinnati 43 57 .429 Chicago, Aug 10". The Brooklyn club won its t eighth straight game from Chicago today, when it defeated the locals, 3 to 1. The visitors were outhit more than two to one, but Adams' generosity in passes and his fumble --of a sacrifice hit, together with opportune hlttirig, cost the locals lo-cals the gamo. In tho fourth, a base on balls, Adams' fumble, a single, an infield outy and a sacrifice fly gave the visitors a lead which Chicago was unable to overcome. No Chicago player passed second .base until the ninth, when bunched hits saved the looals from a shutout. Brooklyn 000 200 0103 Chicago 000 000 0011 BABE ADAMS IS TOO STRONG FOR THE GIANTS Pittsburg, Aug. 10. Pitcher Adams was Joo good for New York today and they were defeated, 8 to 2. Mar-quard Mar-quard was hit hard and had poor support. sup-port. Carey waB hurt 'in the third inniug when he stole third, Lobert falling on him and injuring his back. He was forced to leave tho game. New York 000 000 0202 Pittsburg Ill 004 Olx S AMERICAN LEAGUE. "Won Lost Pet Boston 63 35 .645 Detroit 64 38 .627 Chicago 61 40 .604 AVashington 53 49 .520 New York 48 '49 .495 St. Louis 40 61 .395 Cleveland 38 60 .387 Philadelphia- 33 68 ,327 Boston, -Aug. 10. The Boston Americans Amer-icans lost ground in the race for the American pennant in an even-break Avith St Louis today, losing the first gamo 3 'to 2, and winning tho second A triple play by the visitors, the first in a league gamo In this city 'within tho memory of the oldest fan, featured the second contest. Shotton caught Hoblltzol's fly after a long run In threw cleanly to SIsler at first baVe catching Speakef. and. SIsler throw home, whoro Sevoreid tagged out Janvrin. Koob's flno pitching and long hits by Austin and SIsler decided the first game for tho vlslt- Ruth's twirling' waB steady In the second game, while be and his teammates team-mates batted two St. Louis pitchers freely. The socond game was held up 45 minutes in the third Inning by rain, and work necessary to put the Held in condition to resume play. First Game. St. Louis 000 003 0003 Boston 000 020 0002 Second Game. Boston 103 100 50x 10 St, LouiB 100 000 002 3 YANKS AND INDIANS DIVIDE DOUBLE BILL New York, Aug. 10. New York and Cleveland broke even in a double header here today, the locals winning -the first game, 2 to 0, while Cleveland Cleve-land snatched a ninth inning victory in the second game, winning 3 to 2 New York won tho first gamo behind be-hind Fisher's fine pitching, it being his second straight shutout. In the second gamo Cole pitched groat ball until the ninth Inning, when the vislt-ois vislt-ois scored two runs on Southworth's pass, Wiltso's sacrifice, Evans double and a fumble, which leC in the winning win-ning run. First Game. Cleveland 000 000 0000 New York 010 010 OOx 2 Second Game. Cleveland .000 001 0023 New York 000 001 1002 WHfTE SOX POUND BRESSLER AND WIN Philadelphia, Aug. 10. Chicago hit Bressler and Davis hard today, and easily defeated Phiiaueipma, a to . Scott was also an easy mark for the homo team's batsmen, but ho was accorded ac-corded excellent support and threo double plays served to keep down Philadelphia's score. Chicago -. i.... 010 220 2029 Philadelphia 002"000 020 L WALTER JOHNSON IS EASY FOR THE TIGERS Washington, Aug. 10. Walter Johnson had no terrors for Detroit today, the Tigers pounding his delivery de-livery for eleven hits and eight runs Washington could do little with Steon with men on tho bases. - Detroit . 400 004 000 S Washington 100 000 1002 FEDERAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Pet. Chicago 59 44 .573 Kansas City 58 44 .569 Newark 56 45 .554 Pittsburg 56 45 .554 St. .Louis 56 48 .538 Buffalo 47 60 .439 Brooklyn ..- .. 46 61 .430 Baltimore ."37 6C .356 Brooklyn, Aug 10. Brooklyn out-batted out-batted Kansas City today, but lost the game 3 toJJ because of poor fielding field-ing behind Bluejacket, and through good' suport given Packard. Tho locals, lo-cals, needing ohe run to" tie the scoro in the ninth, made three hits, but a double play and a strikeout by Hel-fesch Hel-fesch batting for Frank Smith, ended their chances. Score: R. H. E. Kansas City 3 4 2 Brooklyn 2 9 4 Batteries Packard and Brown; Bluejacket, F. Smith and Simon, Land. y WIN IN TWELFTH. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 10. A base on balls, a force, a two-base hit by Kores and a sacrffico fly by Hartley, a pinch hitter, scored the winninc run for St. Louis against Buffalo in today's twelve-Inning game 1 to 0. Once during dur-ing the game St. Louis had the bases filled and in another Inning had two men on with none out, but krapp was steady in the pinches and received good support. Score: R. H. E. Buffalo i 0 2 0 St. Louis l 8 0 Batteries Krapp and Blair; Cran-dall Cran-dall and Chapman, Hartley. BRENNAN TIGHT. Newark, N.'j., Aug. 10. Only three Newark players reached second base ou cieunan s pitcning, wmie unjeago pounded Falkenberg for six funs In eight innings and mado another off Brandon in the ninth. Wosterzil drove In four runs with his single and double. Score: R. H.E. Chicago . . . 7 12 1 Newark . . .( o 3 0 Batteries Brennan and FlBher; Brandom, iFalkenberg and Rarlden. TERRAPS COP. Baltimore, Aug. 10. Baltimore won the first game of the series from Pittsburg this afternoon 8 to 6. Alien and Bailey, who started, were both driven from the mound. Score: ! . R.H.B. Pittsburg G 12 0 Baltimore ,, g g q Batteries Alien,' " Barger and O Connor; Bailey, Johnson and Owens. |