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Earnings $54,000
.: PIMLICO RACETRACK. May 18.
'-'—Bnd nsher’s sturdy little filly Nel-
lie Morse won the Preakness here
yesterday P. M. Harry Payne Whit-
,ney‘s Transmute was second and
Harry F. Sin air’s Mad Play third.
The race s not truly run. It
was replete with crowding and foul-
ring. The track was fetlock deep in
mud and it was a scramble for po-
sitions from start to finish.
.. Nellie Morse deserves great credit
for her victory. She had sufficient
speed to keep close to the leaders
during the first half mile. and
Preaknes‘s V
lEADlN'Sl‘RE’lCll, -
"enough stamina to withstand several
determined challenges in the home
stretch.
More than twenty thousand per-
sons saw the contest. By her vic—
tory Nellie Morse won $54,000 for
‘her owner and paid her friends who
bet on her $26.20 in the $2 ma-
chines. She was $15.50 a place and
$1.90 third. ’I‘ransmute was $16.10
for the place and $8.20 third. Mad
Play. coupled with Bracadale as the
..
H. F. Sinclair entry, paid $3.10 for
show.
Filly Steps Out.
Rounding the turn into the home-
stretcb Sun Flag faltered. As he
quit Nellie Morse stepped ' to the
front and Transmute and Mad
Play challenged. But the Fisher
filly had plenty of speed in reserve
and finished gamely, to win by two
lengths. Transmute was three parts
of ‘a length ahead of Mad Play.
The time for the one mile and a
turlong was 1:57 .1-5, extremely
slow, but considered good because of
the wretched condition of the track.
Donaghe, a first rate plater. finished
fourth in the race_ many lengths
ahead of such good colts as Rustic.
Bracadale and Apprehension.
Just before 2 o'clock the rain
ceased and the sun tried to shine.
but it remained in sight only a. few
minutes. More rain followed and
then came another spell of clear
weather. As a result of the storm
the track was fet-lock deep in mud.
In the opinion of the horsemen it
couldn't be worse.
With the bad track came many
scratches from the $50,000 event.
Jimmy Rowe withdrew Harry Payne
2!), MAD PLAY 3n
Wm Counsellor Among Six That Failed‘to Go
' to Post — Race Marked by Crowding and
Fouling on Track Deep in Mud -— Winner’s
80X EXCI'T E
City is
”Fohl’s Club
‘ BOSTON, May 13.-—Bost '
the greatest baseball lowgg' 811181;):
country, is all steamed 17p 0\'cr Lee
hohl's American League entry. Not
Since the days of Bill Carrigan's wool
derrul world champions hate the
fans had a chance to talk baseball.
It was a financial tragedy for the
owners of the Red Sox to haVe rain
call of the game Saturday, for con-
servative estimates were that 25,000
fans would have turned out to see
the opening game of the series “’ilh
the Browns. A
of the last eight games played. The
team is thundering along like a real
pennant contender. The young play-
ers obtained by Bobby Quinn, the
owner of the Hose, last winter have
worked wonders alongside oi‘ the
veteran material on the team.
Steve O'Neill is making the fans
forget Lou Crigcr, than ivhom there
was no better backstop in his time.
O'Neill is receiving credit ior the
development of the pitchers. lihmkc,
Lerguson and old Jack Quinn an:
going along at [UD hi’Clll- Young
l-‘uhr looks so geod he \x-nl bur kcpl.
Great things are expected o: More;
this your. He is developing a hunch-.-
ball. \Vllcn he gets it ulnlcr k'L'..:i'\}l
he will be an even more \...
pitcher than at present.
Pierce: 1: League Mystery.
Piercy is one oi“ the mysteries oi
the league. All of the wise tulcnl say
he is a great pitcher, but llnlt luck
never has been with him. Lec- 190m
believes that the big blond Califor-
man will come through this your and
round out one of best pitching sinus
in the league.
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Whitney’s Klondyke before noon. Lee 1“th who is running tit-r club
Bob Smith followed with the this year from the bench Hm \mmc
scratching of \Valter M. ch‘ford's Mack and McGraw, says liiiiL‘LIE lik-
Diogenes, hopeful -winner. A little es me experiment bullcl' 11.11“ he; did
later Bud Fisher declared his Mr.
Mutt and James Butler withdrew
Sleepyhead. Although J. S. Ward
and Frederick Burton, owners of
‘Vise Counsellor, announced posi-
tively last night that their colt
would not start. he was not officially
withdrawn when the field went to
the post for the first race. Vt
ARRANGE FOR
ARMY TRYOUTS
Olympic Trials for Un-
cle Sam’s Own Will
Be Held at Pershing
Field
NEW YORK. May 13.—0ne of the
coming attractions in the world of
track and field is the army quad
rennial games which will serve as
the official Olympic tryouts for
oflicers and enlisted men of the reg-
ular army and members of both the
national guard and the enlisted re-
'serve corps. The meet will be a na-
tional one and throughout the coun-
try thousands of soldiers are pre-
paring for the important test, which
will take place at Pershing Field.
Jersey City, on May 31.
The big meet has been sanctioned
by the American Olympic committee
and coming as it does two weeks be—
fore the final tryouts. which will be
held at the Harvard Stadium, Cam—
bridge. Blass., a good line may be se-
Acured on the quality of athletic ma-
terial that has been developed
un'ong the soldier aspirants for
berths on the big team.
The games will be held under the
direction of General Robert Lee Bul
lard, commanding general Second
Corps Area, Governors Island, New
York.
The program of track and field
events at Jersey City is as follows:
Track—100 meter run, 200 meter
run, 400 meter run, 800 meter run,
10,000 meter run. 110 meter hurdles,
400 meter hurdles, 10,000 ‘meter
walk.
’ Field—Running high jump, run-
ning broad jump. running hop skip
and jump, pole vault, throwing ja-
velin. throwing discus, throwing
hammer, ‘puttng shot.
The decathlon and the classis pen
thalon will be included showing a
suificient number of entries warrant.
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- LEAGUE.
New Haven at Albany.
Worcester at Putnam.
Waterbury at Bridgeport.
Weld at Hartford.
bossing the play from the Ct‘llCilcl"S
box at third base. He says he liiutn'
it because the team is winning undcr
him and that is what ho is looking
for.
The Sox are higher in the rum
than any time since 10:“. For lhc
past three seasons the Boston team
managed to nose into the first dixio
sion. To day it boasts of S\'\l‘l mun
hitting better than .300 and :1 pitch-
ing staff that will keep it in the race.
l-‘ohl is determined to keep his
pitchers in shape even though rain
interfere with the playing of the
game. As per custom this year the
lied Sox managcr had the pitchers
out at the ball park Saturday going
through their paces With the catch-
ers.
Pitchers lune To “'ork
Fohl says that the players are in
good physical condition and the
team is as fine a conditional ball
club as he ever saw. He says he v-
er likes to gct the pitchers out of
the pitching frame of mind and' is
a. thorough believer in having pil-
ching arms \vell oiled.
The weather at Boston has been
chilly for baseball, yet the attend-
ance records are better than in the
days wile Carrigan was at the helm
Big Joe Niarris. who is swinging a
mean bat ‘for the Red Sox, says he
has not had a good smgat since San
Antonio. Harris, according to re-
ports from Boston, has run into one
of the coldest springs ever known
in the Hub.
Boston writers observed that all
of the rainy day work on Saturday
was not confined to the Red Sox pit-
chers, for as they went through their
paces they were soon joined by Ur—
ban Shocker, the star spit ball of the
Browns, and Hank Severcaid, the
hard working catcher. Boston ob-
servers took this as a. sign that: there
was harmony between the star pit-
cher and his battery mate. They
took it also to mean that Sislcr has‘
harmony and ambition in the club.
and that Shocker after a bad start
this season is eager to get 0‘“ and
try to pitch himself into shape.
MGRAW AND
BAKER SCRAP
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NEW YORK, May 13.——‘-President
Heydler will not call a. special meet-
ing of the National League to con-
sider charges of "invisible influenc-
es" causing the transfer of star ball-
players hurled by William F. Baker.
President of the Philadelphia Phil-
lies. at id’ohn J. McGraw, manager
of the New York Giants, in a for—
mal statemept by the head of the
Phils on Saturday night. __
“I have no intention of calling a
special meeting at this time," said
Mr. Heydler. “The whole thing
looks like one .of these teapot tem-
pests. Mr. Baker is very much dis-
turbed over something that was
probably said in a joking way.
“I do not believe there will be
any necessity for the Baseball Com-
missioner to take any action in the
case. The National League can set-
tle all matters of this kind.“
While the clash was being soft-
pedalled in ofliclal circles. there was
a dispofition among baseball men to
BOSTON FANS
All Steamed Up
Over Showing of Lee
The Red Sox have won seven out
When Ty Cobb began‘to whip
his ferocious. tigers into shape
worry was over the apparent
Weakness his team carried in the
infield. ' He had Lu Blue set. to
play another brilliant game at
first. Bobby Jones was ready for
his usual dependent game at
ihird. But Del Pratt had been
3 disappointment at second last
lesson‘and shortstop Emory Rig-
ney was still fighting an ailment
that handhapped him in 1923.
‘Now both of these last two men
lor the present season his main»
’ was SENTINEB "i ”9-4,... '
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f COBB ms smumfifi WHERE 1m FEAR
.ere' ‘ g great guns. Pratt. is
actingggllxike a kid around second.
Rigney is in perfect conditimrand 7
claiming, his own as a shortstop. »
Pratt’s hitting is startling every
one. ,
Cobb took his team east the
other day seeking whom it might
devour in revenge for four
straight'licldngs handed it by the -
St. Louis outfit under Sisler’s _
clever handling and timely clout-.5
ing. The defeats were a blow to
Cobb’s hopes of keeping up a ter—
rific gait while the Indians were
wallowing in a slump.
Ob .
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De' Prst’ lefl an? Emory ngney,
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lS LEMATION
Team That Had No
Home at Start of
Season N ow
Contender
So for this season {do race in the
international League has been a sur-
prise. Only two and ono half games
sepcrutu the first six clu't. but the
sensation of this campaign is the
Newark baseball club. llithcrto for
years this team has been the joke of
the circuit and its position was well
earned. because at times its members
did not dismay culss Z bull.
In the fifth place, the Bears are
only a garlic and a half behind Bul-
i‘alo. which is leading Baltimore and
Toronto, in second and third places.
by less than that in fact so "close is
the competition that in three days
the sixth place club might easily go
into the, lcad, and Newark is hold-
ing its end up by solid hitting, fast
fielding and good pitching.
There is not much doubt about the
hitting ability of the club now as-
sembled under the leadership of
Manager l-‘rcd BrulnnrtlQnd the field
ing ought to remain first class. The
only doubt is the pitching. But the
acquisition of young Ted Slusante in
particular may give the team the
power necessary to make the Bear
hitters‘ clcuts send over a more
runs than the enemy can score in :1
majority r‘ games. 1'. took Roches-
ter imirtcon innings to beat them
yesterday.
Newark fans are excited over the
team and a real welcome awaits
thcm upon their return from the
road Friday._\\'lien Baltimore will
meet the llears in a series. If New
ark can do Well against the Orioles.
there is little doubt but that the
city is in for Some enthusiasm that
has not been its lot for many years
from a. baseball standpoint.
\Vhile the pitching has been good
the success of the Newark club has
been due principally to good hitting.
Of the first twelve batters in the
league five are 'Newarkers, the low-
est of which has a mark of .352. The
team average is .318 a figure that
will throw fear into the hearts gt
any set of pitchers.
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Real‘
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Most every one who has studied
the teams in the longucrthlnks there
lie going to be no runaway race this
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sczisun. Baltimore is not so strong as
it once was. splitting a double bill
at Syracuse yesterday. and Roches-
ter illisswl Maurice Archdeacon and
Cliff llrndy. Toronto is a bit strong-
vr and Reading is greatly improved.
lhlffalln, too. is no weak sister. There
will be no iv '15 for llalllinorc as
has been the c; o in the past. Jer-
svy City and Syracuse will be the
weak nines. but they lack strength
rso intrinsically that. they ought to
be as easy lor one of the stronger
outfits as me other. .
In all the cities that fro up in We
race the alt-.zndanco has been big.
Reading and Newark lending in this
respect though the latter is using a.
semi professional field which lacks
the accommodation of a league park.
VlCEN'l'lNl T0
BATlllillUNDElE
Match Slated for Velo-
drome in New York
City During Present
Month
NEW YORK. Bay 13.——~A fifteen
round match between Johnny Dun-
dee and Luis Vicentlni of Chile. vir-
tually has been closed for the open-
ing boxing show at thé New York
V\'clcdromc, set for \Vodncsday, May
2801. Sid Barbarian of Detroit. one
of the challengers for Benny Leon-
ard's title. tried to land the contest
with chcntinl, but the Chilean
would have nothing to do with Sid.‘
declaring he preferred to take Dun-
doe. The match will be at
pounds. and unless Viccniini crosses
Johnny and comes in .at 130 pounds
Dundee will be in no danger of los-
ing his junior lightweight crown.
Charlie Phil Rosenberg. clever
Harlem bantamwcighi. and Cann0n~
ball Eddie Martin of Brooklyn are
slated to meet in the ten round semi-
final to the Dundee-\‘ice'ntlni fracas:
These two boys put up a great fight
in the Olympic fund show and
though Rosenberg appeared to have
won, the. judges on that occasion
voted for a draw. Rosenberg is con-
\‘lnccd that he won that fight and
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TRAECHOOL
Local School Hopes to
Score Victory in
Game This After-
noon At Amusement
Park
The Norwnlk High school baseball
team is playing the Bridgeport 'h-ade
school nlnc at Amusement Park
this afternoon. Norman Flewwellin
is doing mound duty for the locals.
The Green lillll While lads are out
to rctricvo the defeat. handed down
to them by the Park City aggrega-
tion two weeks ago.
The next team which will be en-
countered by the \Vcst avenue boys
will be Ansonia in the lip-state town
on Saturday. lrwin' Holmes will
most probably pitch that game for
Nerwalk.
On Monday the Stamford Hy
match will he played in the Look
City. This game is a postponed
contest of the one which was to
have been played last Saturday. It
was called off then because of wet
grounds.
YESIERD.
forse—
Efi’WEAK’SfiTS --
‘ same man who was his boss last
on: :ana Conifil‘ént
Good afternoon. .
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Just a little sunshine.
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It is welcome.
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Farmer Lodge hit the canvas
againlastevenmgatthehsndsof
George Godfrey. The Farmer's back
mustbewellcallousedastheresilt
of the number of times that he has
been put to sleep. , .
O O 0
We must hand some of these boys
credit, they are bears for punish-
men‘t. They are what is termed as
horizontal fighters. They spend
most of their time in'the ring in a
horizontal position.
0 O 0
Wow Beckett is considaed the
champ of the horizontal set-uppers.
He won that title some time ago and
no one has even come close to tak-
ing it away from him.
0 O O
The Wills-hiadden bout will take
place on Friday. It was postponed
yesterday because of the rain. It
will give the fighters a. longer time
in which to think matters over.
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“’1: hope that they are well work-
ed by the time that they enter the
ring and that the fans who attend
will be the winners and not the
losers, as is the case in a great
many of our prese‘nt day bouts.
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Monsieur Georges Carpentier is
due to arrive in our midst today for
his bout with one Tom Gibbons of
St. Paul. Since Georges was in this
C is for Cobb. Yep,
The old Georgia Peach,
Who snags all the flies
That the youngsters can't reach.
Has batted .300
Since—well, seems to me—
Gen‘rai Sherman began
His, tramp, tramp to the CEE.
Cy Williams. Philly slugger and
outfielder. still can‘t believe that
he is playing this season under the
year. For it‘s the first time in Cy's
13 years experience in the big show
that “‘llllams has played under the
same pilot two seasons in succee—
slon.
Cy got his start with the Cubs
and in the six years he remained
in Chicago played under Chance,
Ever-s. O'Day, Bresnahan. Tinker
and Fred Mitchell. In 1917 the
Cubs let him go to Philadelphia.
lie has taken orders from Fat
Moran, Jack Coombs, Gave-y
Vrarath‘. the late Bill Donovan,
"Kaiser" “’llhelm and his present
boss. Fletcher while a member of
that team.
-Jack Qulni‘ holds the world's
record for managers played under
with a list of 24 masters. but Cy
isn't through with the game yet—
and has hopes of beating that
record.
\
Harry Courtney. lefthanded pitch-
er sent to the Vernor club of the
Pacific Coast league by the White
Sox. goes into the records as one
of the unfortunate souls who is "a
whale in the bushes but a. minnow
in the big leagues."
When the WashingtOn club first
gave him a tryout he had all the
ear marks of a. world beater. He
flivvered however. and the Senators
traded him to Chicago. The Sox
sent him out to San Francisco and
his showing there last season caus-
ed them to recall him.
All he did was to lead the coast-
ers in percentage of games won by
turning in 1.9 wins and 6 losses for
ESQ-E
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
St. Louiffi. New York 3.
Cincinnati 4. Philadelphia 1.
Brooklyn 7, Chicago 3.
ABIERICAN LEAGUE.
(No American League Games.)
EASTERN LEAGUE.
A All games postponed—Rain.
jumpcd‘at the chance to meet Mar-
tin again. Charlie declares that in
the coming bout he will win by so‘
a .760 average. He ranked second
to Vean Greg in eflcctiveness,
allowing but 2.80 runs a game.
Gregg held his opponents to 2.75
runs. But, back with the White
Sex for spring llmberlng this year
he failed to hit his strides He
showed so little indication of being
able to help the Soxlete that they
released him early to the Frisco
outfit. ,
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The Cleveland Indians now ap-
pear to be the jinxed‘team of the
American league race. At the start
of the season they seemed to have
the main thing they lacked last
year—capable pitching. J oe’ Shaute
and Jim Joe Edwards, two young-
sters, apparently were set to shine.
The vterean Uhle was counted on
large a margin that there will be no
doubt in the mind of any one as to
the correct verdict.
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country last he has lost some of his
prestige.
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nab cans, but that still lci‘t him “'ilh
hisrl‘ight heavyweight title that h:-
won from Battling Levinsky. Com-g;-
than Battling Slkl.
Georges must have been in try-
rible shape at the time that
dropped his title to Siki. Any of r or
third raters are able to hand
battler a lacing at the present if?“ ,
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in.
In Tom Gibbons. the Frenchman
is going to meet a much born-:-
15 rounds with Jack Dempsey. “r
are of the opinion that Tom mli
deft!“ Georges in their comm:
bout.
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ErnestA. Blood has been dror -.
as the coach of the Passaic ll}:
school basketball team. Duran:
tune that. he has been in char?“ 1?:
team has won 148 straight gdrrtr»,
Blood last season, withdrew 2%:
Passaic five from the New
inter-scholastic basketball
ment after they had reached :3.
semi-finals. This move is the ('1‘: -
of all the trouble.
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Young lfulligan is “(irkinz hard
for his coming battle “ilh .5“an
Plug Russell in New Haven. Tin»
local scrappcr expects to he in tin-
plnk of condition for this bout.
L'hle’s arm went lame.
back.
away to a bad start — even fir-'3.
seems about done—and the you:
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sters failfi‘d to nub the
ball asked of them.
Then, on top of theSe misfortv-w
team, contracted a cold that r.
Tris Speaker. mainsprillg of
ly forced him to remain away fr. .::
the game for several days.
In the meanwhile the Browns a: i
Tigers are cutting each 02‘»
throats and the Yanks are brcrzit:
along in the lead.
EASIERN LEAGUE
3
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Waterbury 1 2 3
\Vorcester 1 l 5-
Hartford 1 1 5.
Springfield \‘ x
Albany 8 9
Bridgeport :3 l a
New Haven 5 1i:
Pittsfield 4 1 3
AMER] CAN LEA it'li.
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New York 14 6
Boston 1 r. 8
Detroit 1 1 9
St. Louis 1 1 10 .-'.
Chicago 9 1“? 4
“Washington 10 1 2 4
Cleveland fl 1 l 4.
Philadelphia 6 1 4 3-.
NATIONAL LEAG 15E.
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Cincinnati 1 4 T
New York 1 4 8
Chicago 1 4 1 1
Brooklyn 1 1 1 1
Boston 5 1 0
Pittsburgh 10 1 3
St. Louis S 13
Philadelphia ‘ 6 1::
BULL DOGS ARE READY.
The Bull Dog's nine has organizrd
for the season. The management is
now booking games and is ready to
pit. the team against any 13 to 16
Year old nine in the city. Phone
Charles Vedas 3121.
The 'Bull Dog lineup includes J.
Kulscor, -W. Keri, \A. Srabo. B. Bod-
nor. s .Urban, J. Kardos. w. Gcrnda.
C. Vedas. B. Mezzo and S. aKpusc.
The monthly meéting of the Nor-
walk Branch of the American Asso-
ciation of University \Vomen will
be held Friday afternoon, Ma)” 16. at
three o'clock, at Hillside School.
There will be election of officers, and
the report of the W'ashington Con-
vention by Mrs. Helena Hill “7eed
for another good year and even
Coveleskle figured to d o a com‘eg
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tour: a-'
and possibly Miss Vida Hunt Fran—
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