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Giants’ Star Pitcher Will Finish 1914 Campaign With 50 Victories
Over Five Various National Leanne Teams—Hrs 3
Percentage of .681 Since Joining New York——
Had Indian Sign on Cincinnati Bells
(‘hristy Mathewson will, unless the
unexpected happens. finish the cam-
with a record of hav-
ing pitched at least fifty victories
over each of five. of the National
League. clubs, Up to last Sunda‘y Mc—
Uraw's master mechanic owned 348
triumphs, of of those secured against
the Beds. .33 against the Braves, 50
against the Pirates, 49 against the
Phillies. ~17 against the Cardinals, 45
against the Superhas and 43 against
the Cubs. llis defeats totaled 103, of
which 9.7 were administered by Chloe.»
go. 35 by Pittsburgh, 21 by Philadel-
phia. :0 by St. Louis. ill by Boston. itsI
by Brooklyn and 15 by Cincinnati. ‘liis
entire career in the National League
has netted him a percentage of .681.
and this percentage. it is worthy of
note, is higher than that made by
twenty teams that have. captured
championship honors in the senior
organirutiou.
Scribes. not having the. complete.
record of Matty at hand, have ilnngin.
ed that he went for the greatest
length of time against Cincinnati
without losing a combat. This is not
so. “Big aStx" was beaten by the Reds
in 1908,. downed them every time he
faced tlisqn'fn i909 and loidpttd then
lost to them again in 1011. .ln 1908,
190p and 19-10 Many did not stirrer 11
Talking at. "W. ““0218, .Oijllnbuilerllisn
outrun-1909, 19m and 1911 Boston
gained no victories over bun. 'lils
best record of this kind. however. was
hung up against St. 1.0uis.»he losing
one game to the Cardinals in 1904
and then conquering them every time
he faced them until five years later.
(July during one championship run-
ning—that of littlZ—did Bucknell‘s
most famous graduate fall to win
’ One of the odd things about
games from all seven of his oppo-
nents. That year he failed to subdue
the Pirates, but the next yearhe more
than got back at the Clarkesonians by
conquering them all eight times be
operated against them—a record he
never has been able .to equal against
any other ‘club. The greatest number
of reverses Matty has sustained in any
one season has been five, the Cubs
dealing him this number of defeats in
1900, end again in 1907. On the per-
centage basis, Matty has been most
effective against Cincinnati. least so
against Chicago.
Christopher the Crafty will hardly
this year equal his wonderful record
of 1913 in the line of accuracy, when
he winged no one and passed only 11
athletes. Matty alr‘oady has hit one
man this season—Johnny Bates. of
Cincinnati—1nd has [ranked 13 play-
ers, these being Mazes and Cravnth of
the Phillies, each twice, and Stengel
and Smith, of Brooklyn; Huggins, of
St. Louis; Rudolph, of Boston. Vtox, of
Pittsburgh, and I’lleian, Safer, Keat-
ing and Leach, of Chicago. each once.
the
1914 record of Mathewson. who. as
usual has an excellent chance of being
picked by the Chalmers jury of news-
paper experts as the. player most
valuable to his team, is that he has
been slammed for eight home runs,
these having been made by Wingo and
Wilson, of St. Louis; Connolly. of Bos-
ton; Safer, of Chicago; Ludurus. of
Philadelphia. and Dnubert and Wheat.
of Brooklyn. Wingo made two homers
off Matty, one. manufactured while
acting as a-plnch hitter, causing “Bis
Six' to .go down to defeat. \i’heat‘s
four-hugger also meant a reverse for
the great New York_liurler.
OPELL. BAKER AND ~VALE PLAY-l NlckALLo choruses, av
‘ ED WITH NORWALKS IN
ii . 1912 AND 1913.
A number of players who formerly
played with Eastern Association clulr;
are going fine in the Southern League.
Al Odell. playing third for Mobile, is
hitting .270. and Howard linker. is’go.
ing at. a .279 clip for' Montgomery.
Flick, who was with New Haven in
1912. is batting .304 for Chattanooga.
Bill Morley, last year's Hartford short-
stop. is cloutlng .284 for Atlanta.
Former Eastern Association players
in the TrbSttate League . are going
ivcll. l’op Foster leads the clouters
with an‘dverage ’of' .432. ‘Ottlers“are
Hoffman. Readille .386: Foye, W“;
mington. .253: Nuxie. Reading. .231;
Yale, Trenton. .222. Norris is fielding
for .978; rays-.963; Yale, .985: Pos-
ter, .955; Hofflnan.,.942. '
DEMK-TWOMILV SALE-‘CCN-u
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SBAL’PIMORE. July
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ROWMIXPERTS GUE‘SSING
The victory}! the Yale crew over
“mud; at» New London, and the
wonderful showing of the Pennsyl-
vania eight. Which finished a good
second tot.Columb_la and beat out
Cornell. at Poughkeopsie, have re-
vived dldcuasion as to the respective
merits of the English but! American
rowing systems. The Ytlo and Penn-
'sylvantx nights were to a. certain ex-
tent produ’ctmof the English methods.
Guy menus, at. Yale. and Vivian
Nicholle. ant-WWW English-
men? and . brother's. Both learned - their
rowing ‘pt “Oxford University...from
which they graduutpd'and sld‘co‘ftheu
have been tanning their icons mi the
youth ‘of England and ‘Amer‘i'ctl. ‘
omen. IN PHILLY.» ' .
biannger on. O‘Neil. of the Hartford
., illnmlfir TttE
wash-illuminant,
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Boxing in general will profit by the
‘fact that the lightweight honors are
now in the keeping of the country
that mothered the sport. For years
[international rivalry has been dead
lfor lack of competition. But Ameri-
I(‘n now has something to strive for in
seeking to regain the lost this and
:the fact may bring back much of he
interest that was felt years ago be-
fore the sport was so highly com-
mercialized.
Although Freddie Welsh ran true
to form in outpolnttng Willie Ritchie.
the new champion is not likely to re-
main in possession of the champion-
ship crown for any great length of
time. Welsh at 28 years of age and
with ten years of battling behind him
is too much of a veteran to last. How-
‘ever, good lightweight material is
rather scarce just now and with the
care Welsh is sure to take of his new
possession he may be able to stall off
defeat for a Year or two.
. There seems to be no reason no
question the justice of the decision
rendered by Referee Eugene Corrl. who
was Ritchie's own selection. Welsh.
a master boxer. completely outgener-
‘alcd the comparatively inexperienced
Ritchie at every turn. Welsh fought
like one of the old school light-
weights, showing everything on the
pugiiistic calendar bllt a knockout.
His remarkable generalship and
knowledge of pace. together with his
greater speed. better footwork and
blocking. put him so far in the lead
on points that only a knockout could
have cost him the decision. it was
evident that Welsh had planned his
‘battle with great shrewdness and that
he carried out his plans most skilfully.
, futile early gonads Welsh took ad-
;‘vantnge of Ritchie's slowness to get
warmed up, and gntned'a big lead.
Then when Ritchie. getting well into
'his stride, became dangerous. Walsh
was enabled to play safe until Ritchie
tired from ills efforts. Welsh was then
fit to set a terrific pace at the end and
finished in great from. white Ritchie
was tired and spent.
' The bout was a triumph of science
over heavy hitting. ‘thchio failed for
“the same reason that our struggling
white hopes are so slow ill developing.
He paid too much attention to the
applause of the gallery. which always
shouts approval to the mere slugger
while viewing coldly the efforts of the
scientific boxer. In his efforts to please
Ritchie neglected the. finer points of
,the game. He wanted to be known
as a knockerout and scorned to try
and box cleverly.
Ritchie was upheld in this course
tby those who all along have berated
Welsh, alluding to him as the “feather.
-dustor champion." shearing at his
"ability and making much of. Ritchie's
3 earnest but rather crude efforts. The
.nntural result was that Ritchie ceased
ito pay ’attcntidii to developing science
gaud gonorelahip; althoushmiy in his
{career he seemed to, be out out for a
imaster zlovemant ot‘the Puckey M¢~
Farlend order. .
.5 It .is evident that too much stress
was laid upon Ritchie's good showing
9.—-—0ut,fielder, team. is of! on a flying trip to Billie-r when he encounteredWelshmhile act.-
George Twombly and Infielder Cloude'ddhhls‘. up 110’: but on carrying on; ing on a. substitute for an Wolgnat.
Derrick. of the Baltimore lnlemotion- a few otOonIlo‘Mack’a younsatorl. do; That Ritchie was a norm cube time
at fugue club were' sold yesterday's role Dab doiu'tcolno bouts empty- and tooktheboutoto moment's notice
morning to the Cincutnlt't National; tinder“ be gay- onono of film. mode a good otory,and those vino told
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New Lightweight Champion Has
Plans for Reaping huge
Stage Harvest
LONDON, July a. mule Kitcliig.
former lightweight clmmplon of the
world. is being congratulated for his
astute shrewduess shown when he stip-
ulated a return match in the United
States with Freddie Welsh when sign-
ing for the fight that cost him his title.
Just when the return match will be set
has not been decided upon. Ritchie. of
course, l> anxious: that it be as early
as poacible. Welsh. on the other hand.
after the fashion of all new champions.
would prefer to reap the financial hur-
vest that is open to him in the theatri‘
cal line before staking his laurels. ‘
However. boxing followers will not
begrudge the new champion anything
he may earn now. for he got nothing
out of the tight in which he won his
title, according to announcement last
night. Ritchie received the stipulated
315.000. Welsh was to have divided
with the promoters after expenses had
been paid. but the match was run at a:
loss.
There is little doubt that Welsh and
his shrowdnununor, llarry Poliok. will
earn a fortune before the British cham-
pion is called upon to defend his title.
No man intanglund is more,populnr
than the conqueror of Ritchie. When
the return bout is held titers is going
to be such a crush for admission as
seldom llae.:been witnessed in on Am-
erican primming. ]
Ritchie. however, suffered his do“
foot phfluopflonllyuw'l have no ex-
cuses moan.” said he. "I lit. to a
cteverer mun. But 1 think i can do"
much better men ext time we meet.I
l tout in two: 1mm.- butPun‘sul-ol
I can regain the rifle in that: distance."
,“My greatest concern was to avoid
Ritchie’s right punch," sold the new
champion. "lie has improved wonders,
fuiiytin delivering this blow. i played
safe from «out to finish. Now that l
have taken Willie's measure 1 am not
afraid to meet him again. Once you
beat it man you have him for life as a.
general rule." .
Already offers have begun to pour
in from tho United States and the
Continent from fight managers who
wish to feature the new title holder.
Denver cabled an offer of 825.000 to
Welsh to inset the winner of the Char-
lie ‘Whitcsmuley Yonkum bout. White
got a newspaper decision over Ritchie
in Milwaukee :1 short time ago.
White‘s manager has challenged
Welsh on his own behalf. He says
that he is willing toltave Charlie most
the champion in either London or Ans
erica. ' ‘ .,
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DISMANflJNG SHAMROCK iv.
Challenger W to} start Across
Atlantic in Turmdtl. i
GOSPORT. July th-‘llhe dismantling
of the Shamrock 1V. began yesterday.
The work will occupy three days. She
will then be ketchrtgge’d, this task re-
quiring a week;
The designer expects that the work
will be completed in time to allow the
challenger to short for her voyage
across the Allintic two weeks from
yesterday.
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* CINCINNATI Tamas nERRiOK.
ClNCINNATI. July“ 9.—-Cluud Der-
mal, the inflolfigr. pnrch'ued by the
Cincinnati Notional We club from
“more. was yesterday traded to
few in wince tor 1mm Base-
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GUNBOAT SMITH GREAT FAVOR-
lTE IN ENGLAND.
Gunboat Smith, the white champion
of America. who is to meet Georges,
Carpentier, the French champion. in
London, July 17th. has made a big hit:
with the fight fans of England. He
has been wined and dined by many of
the big followers of the boxing game
'und they are not backward in stating
=that they expect the American to de-
lfeat the Frenchman when they come
' together.
Some of the crithls have
even gone so far as no state that Mr.
(lunboat is a better man now than
John L. Sullivan ever was. This same
criticism was made by Mike Donovan,
the famous boxing instructor of New
York. However, we cannot agree
with any of them in regard to this
statement. ‘We have seen John L.
Sullivan in some of his big fights and
also Smith in several of his ten round
contests in‘ New York and getting
down to cold facts, there is no com-i
parison between the two men. Sulli.
van wns‘nrouud the 200 pound mark
Not
only that. but he had tremendous hit-l,
ting power and while not professing'
to be‘o clear boxer, he had a re:
markable defense Just the same and
his ludgmeut of hitting was almost‘
perfect. Gunbout Smith in all his;
battles has. demonstrated that he is
not hard to hit, bit like all other box-'
ere, he is improving as he goes along.
And it he continues to do so he will'
be a first-class heavyweight in the'
near future. lie will have about fifteen:
:pounds' advantage in weight over the'
Frenchman and 11 he cannot win with
this handicap. he certainly cannot be
classed as a real heavyweight cham-
pion. The Frenchman is not to be
cheered at, even though he is little
more than a middleweight. for he has
demonstrated of late that be has the
class. And it is a moral certainty that
he will give .Ml'. Smith the bottle, or
his life.
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DOUBLEDA‘BH STEAL.
Hero is u newshound play, known
as the double-dash steel. which (Bonnie
Mack invented and which ills team in:
using with good results. With a man
on second and a man on third, with.
either none or one out. the signal is;
given and the hotter hunts. “Upon the
signal the man on second and the man
on third dash for home like wild. The
am onécmfruie' play is dazzling—it.
appears to the spectator as though
everybody, were running. Now. the'
man at the but must not fall down
on his port—:he'muat connect for a
slow roller; udpway he goes. The
man whoffwné‘on‘ third, of course, is
nearlyx’home, and the. pitcher. or who-
ever gets the ball. throws to~catch
him “PillJZRlFESZM Sometimes he is
caught andgsoniétinics not, but in any
event the mun who "was on second is
dashing‘up' teh‘path 101‘ the plate be-
hind the man who was on third. He
must slide into the platoon the side‘
opposite, that'décupied by the catcher.|
:who isengag‘ed, in trying input the;
'first runner outL‘TThe play is usually
auccesst‘hl.’
WORLD'S ALTtTUDE RECORD.
JOHANNISTHAL, Germany. July - 9.
——The world's autltude‘ record for an!
aeroplane carrying only the aviator,
was madetoday by Otto Linnekogel.
who at the nemdrome here. attained
a. height of 8.600 metres, or approx!»
mateiy 21,654 “feet in his monophmo.
' The existing. record we: held by , diabolical club'oa '
“F. lasagnoux, a. Frenchman, who on ,, . W. I... . P.C.
December 23. 1m 10"» flew *0 a Baltimore . ..... -.......48 25 .658
,holsht 0‘ 9-120 NW“- Rochester ............ 43 29 .597
. ""r “h“: ‘ sonata ..... 41 31 .569
3”“ sensatf‘ovuuconomou. Providence ...........39 32 .549
' Toronto ..............34 37 .479
“Nam“ my 9'4”” Newark ..............32 36 .471
3"“ “1’ mama“ ”Mae" Bml'MOIItl’eal ...... . ...... 25 4-8 .342
his unconditional release ”Sterility. 48 .333
He tabulation off’budly in his batting
sud fielding. Bates is now a free agent
and will pick his own berth; He re-
m helm I let.
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,xew London ........ ...40 in ms 5:
AMERICAN LEAGUE. ,Waterbury ........... 3 23 .596 5.
[Bridgeport ........... 3 27 .657 V ’
Yesterday's Results. Springfield ........... 29 31 .483
New ,York, 7; Cleveland, 1, :liartt‘crd ............. 2‘7 29 .482
St. Louis. ; Washington, 5' New Haven ....... _...20 30 .46}
Philadelphia, 3; Detroit, 0. l’itlsfield ..... . . . . . . . . .25 20 .463
Chicago, 4; Boston, 3 (first game, New Britain .......... ii 44 .241.
11 innings). Chicago, 3'; Boston. 4,
(second game).
Standing of Clubs.
. W. L P.C.,
Philadelphia .......... «ii 29 .603
Chicago .............. 40 33 .548:
Detroit ........ a ..... 42 35 .545 ‘
Washington .......... 40 34 .541
St. Louis ............. 40 36 .520
Boston ................ 39 37 .513!
New York ........... 25 ’44 .362'
Cleveland ............. 25 47 .347 ‘
Games Today.
Cleveland at New York (2).
Detroit at Philadelphia.
Chicago at Boston.
St. Louis at Washington.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Yesterday: Reunite.
St. Louis. 4; New York. 3.
Cincinnati, ti; Brooklyn. 6.
Boston. 7; Chicago. -i till innings).
Philadelphia, 10; Pittsburgh, 7.
Standing of Clubs.
W. L. P.C.
New York ......... 41 27 _, .003
Chicago ............... 40 33 .548 .
St. Louis . . . .l ........ 33 30 .514
Cincinnati ........... 36 366 .500 .
Philadelphia .......... 32 35 .47 8
Pittsburgh ............ 32 36 .471 .
Brooklyn ........ s . . . .31 36 .403
Boston ...... . ..... 29 40 .420
Game. Today.
New York at St. Louis.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
Boston at Clucago._ ,
"Philadelphia at Pittsburgh.
FEDERAL LEAGUE.
Voter-day's Results.
Brooklyn. ti; Baltimore. 4. (first‘
game). Brooklyn, 4; Baltimore. 3
(second game). ’
Chicago, 5; Kansas City. 1.
Buffalo, 5; Pittsburgh. 1.
St. Louis, 6; indiauapolts, 3.
Standing of Clubs.
W. L. P.C.
Chicago .............. 42 23 .600
Indianapolis .......... 38 30 .559
Buffalo ............... 35 30 .538
Baltimore ............ 35 33 .515
Brooklyn ............. 32 33 .492
Kansas City .......... 33 41 .446
Pittsburgh ...........29 38 .433
St. Louis ............. 31 42 .423
, flames Today.
Baltimore at Brooklyn.
Pittsburgh at_Bufialo.
‘Kansas City at St. Louis.
lndianapolis at Chicago.
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lNTERNATlON'AL LEAGUE.
vmmarc tic-uni.
Toronto. 3; Montreal. 2' (10 innings).
Buffalo, 3; Rochgster, 2.
Newark. 1; Baltimore,.0.
Providence, "6: Jersey City. 3.
{Jersey City ...........24
Game. today.
Newark at Baltimore.
Providence at Jersey City.
'Bulalo at Rochester.
~ diam“ at Toronto.-
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EASTERN ”GMT-laid.
You-womb
Eittstield. 2; New . Haven. 1.
wumm; Nevin-two.- 1. .
museums wow London. 6. ‘
summarimmns: '
""A‘l‘ .
Game: Today.
New Haven at Pittsfield.
Bridgtport at Waterbury.
Springfield at New Britain.
New London ot Hartford.
WEEK'S RECORD OF RUNS IN
THE BIG LEAGUES.
...—...—
Nationai League.
New York ................... .12
Philadelphia .................. 21
Brooklyn .................. i... 6
Boston ................ .. ...... .11
St. Louis ...................... 4
Pittsburgh ............... -. . . . .20
Chicago ....................... 9
Cincinnati ..................... 12
American League.
Philadelphia ........ v ......... ‘ 5
New York ..................... 7
Washington ................... 13
Boston .................... 6 "
Chicago ....................... 15
Cleveland ..................... 4
Detroit ....................... 5
St. Louis ..................... its
Federal League.
Kansas City .; ................ ts If
Chicago ....................... 13 ' ‘
St. Louis ...................... 10
ludiauupolls ............ . ...... 13
Brooklyn ...................... 20 in
Buffalo ....................... 20
Pittsburgh ..................... 9
Baltimore .; ................... 1‘}.
International League.
Baltimore ..................... 11
Montreal ...................... 12
Rochester ...................... 10
Toronto ....................... 8
Buffalo ....................... 11 ',
Providence ........ '. .'i ..... 17
Jersey City .......... '1. ....... 1-1
Newark ................ ., ...... 19
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