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Show r meant. Usually, though, sonic of hla trainers accompanied blni. but he refused re-fused to penult any trainers to go that dav. Not Doped Week Before. ".Jeff was not Moped" eight days ho-fore ho-fore the. fight, as he said. I aiu certain cer-tain of that. If he had been I certainly cer-tainly would have noticed it., I did not notice hls mental condition until noon, the day of the fight, and taw thin that Jeffries was an absolute wreck. He acted like a child in doing what he was told, and did not seem to have any nilud of his own ?t all. Everybody knows that that was not at all like Jeffries." Cornell denied the story circulated some time ago that, there had been several rows In Jeffries' rubbing room because they were too many bosses. NATIONAL LEAGUE. St. Louis 11, Philadelphia 2. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 12 St. Ixiuis broke Its long losing streak today by defeating Philadelphia, 11 t 2. The visitors his Moron's delivery deliv-ery hard, bunching hits In three Innings In-nings and knocking him off the rubber rub-ber in the sixth. Score: R. H. E. St, Louis 11 13 1 Philadelphia 2 8 3 Batteries Corrigdon and Brcsna-ban; Brcsna-ban; Moreu, Brennan and Pooln. Cincinnati 5, New York 4. NEW YORK. Aug. 12. Cincinnati got 17 hits off Crandall and Wlltsc today to-day while New York was making five off Burns and Beobe, nut the isltors had all they could do to rapture the game, 5 to 4. Score. It. H. E. Cincinnat 5 17 1 New York 4 5 4 Batteries Burns, Beebe and Clark; Crandall, Wlltse and Meyers. Chicago 5, Boston 3. BOSTON, Aug. 12. Chicago won from Boston today, 5 to the winning win-ning runs coming In the seventh Inning In-ning on bunched hits, nn error and two bases on balls. Score: K. H. E. Chicago 5 10 1 Bostnn 3 13 1 Batteries Reulbach. Browne and Kling; Frock and Graham. Pittsburg 3, Brooklyn 2. BROOKLYN, Aug. 12. Pltlshurg tcok another close contest from Brooklyn today, 3 to 2. Tiie visitors made twelve hits, including two don J bles and a triple, off Bell, tu t brilliant fielding held the runs down Score: : R. H. E. Pittsburg .. 3 12 0 Brooklyn 2 9 0 Batteries Lelfield. I-ecver and Gibson; Bell and Bergen, AMERICA'n LEAGUE. St. Lou's 5, New York 4. ST. LOTIS, Aug. 12. St. Louis defeated de-feated New York loday with four runs in the ninth inning. 3 to I. Cnss and Stone batted inthe winning tuns. Score: K. H. E, St. Ixiuis 5 iS 3 New York 4 10 2 Batteries Hay and Killlfer; Quinn and Mitchell. Cleveland 0, Washington 9. Cleveland. Aug. 12. Cleveland was beaten In the first inning by Washington, Wash-ington, the final score being 9 to ft. Score; R. H. E. Cleveland " C 2 Washington 0 11 ft Batteries llarkness. Mitchell and easterly; Keisllng and Alnsmith. Boston 3, Chicago 4. CHICAGO. Aug. 12 The locals made it four straight frornh Boston today winning In ten Innings. 1 to 3, on singles by Scott and Zeider. The Chicago team gol away to a one-run lead in the first inning. Score. p. H. E. Boston o 0 - Chicago 1 Batteries pall and Carrigan; Scott and Sullivnn. Philadelpha 7, Detroit 4. DETROIT,- Aug. 12- Th.lndelphia got three home ri'ns off Summers to-dav. to-dav. accounting for five tallies, enough to beat Pet roll without the aid of two runs thai came from other sources. Score: V. II. E. Philadelphia " l- :- Detroit 1 " r Batteries Plank and Thomas; Summers and Stanage. WESTERN LEAGUE. At Omaha Omaha 11. Topeka 2. At Des Moines Wichita 3. Des Moines I. At Sioux City Sioux City il, St. Joseph 1. At Lincoln Lincoln 1, Pernor 2. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. At Milwaukee Louisville 0. Mil- I waukee 3. At St. Paul Minneapolis 12, St Paul C. NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE. At TacomaTacoma 1, Seattle 2. COAST LEAGUE. At Portland Sacramento 1, Portland Port-land 2. At San Francisco Vernou 3, Oakland Oak-land I. At I.os Angeles I,os Angeles i, San Francisco 2. ROGER CORNELL SAYS JEFFRIES WAS DOPED San Francisco,. Aug. 13. Roger Cornell, Cor-nell, who trained .lames .1. .leffries for his battle wiih .lack Johnson, took u hand .n the controversy over statements state-ments by JerTrleH that he was drugged before the tight, by declaring he -o-lieed tbe bollcrmaker was given some East Indian drug the very night before the fight. "You remember Jeffrie's went fishing fish-ing that Saturday." Cornell said "He did not return to Moaua Springs camp ciitil 10 o'clock that niRht. I was afraid something had happened during dur-ing that trip. Jeff had always taken a lot of his friends on his flsbine trips before, aud you know what that |