' Q
PAGE EIGHT
Earnings 5549““)
PIXLICO RACETRACK. ny 13.
e-Bud Fisher's sturdy little ally Ne].
50 Horse won the Preakneu here
yesterday P. M. Horn Payne Whit-
ney'- Transmute was second and
Harry F. smfir‘s Mad Play third.
The race not truly run.
VII replete with crowding and foul-
ing. The track was fetlock deep in
mud and it was a scramble for pc-
dtlona from start to finish.
Nellie Morse deserves great credit
3‘" for her vic: cry. She had sufi’lclent
speed to keep close to the leaders
7 during the first half mile. 1nd
L’ enough sta amlna to withstand never.)
determined challenges in the home
i stretch.
' More2 than twenty thousand per-
sons nan the contest. By her vic-
tory Sci“ ie Blorse won 554. 000 for
l
her owner and paid her friends who f
ma- .
5.50 a place and ' '2
Transmute was $16.10 .- ’
on her 225.20 in the 82
She was 31
be.
chine
$7. 90 third.
for the r74
Pla.v
H. 12‘.
show.
and $8.20 third. Mad
with Bracadale as the
can: paid 8
at“?
2'1
co;
Sm _ lazr
Filly Steps Out.
Rounding “'22 turn into the home
Stretch Sun 3. .ag falter-ed.
quit Nttl. e Morse s‘epped to the.
from and Tm..srr.-u:e and Mad:
Play challr-rxt-d. But the Fisherf
had In
finish d car 9 1V.
Tran:
fill?
and
lI-ng‘ths.
of a ler~‘h 2..
a: of Mad Play.
“as 1'57 l-u.
{uric-:5!
slow.
Preakness
TAXESLEADINSI‘REI'CH, ‘
TRANSMU'I'EZD, MAD PLAY 3D
Wise Counsellor Among Six That Failed’to Go
to Post — Race Marked by Crowding and
Fouling on Track Deep in Mud — Winner’s
It‘
310 for.
As he?
v of speed in rcscne;
to win by twof
NJ: was three parts:
The 1;: e for the one mile and a;
(xtremelyj
but (*onleered good because of ‘1
the TrPlC?"’.—d co: dimer. of the track. '
sox EXClTE
BOSTON FANS
City Is All Steamed Up
Over Showing of Lee
Fohl’s Club
gthe- grunt est taasebai l 12.
:o «as 1:;
Donaghb, a first ra‘e plat er. finished 5 '
fourth in the race many lengths!
ahead of such good colts as Rustic. : "
Bracaéa'c aid Apprehensmh.
Just hé-fare 2 o‘clock the ral
ceased at the run trzed to shin»
but it remazned in Fight only a. fen
More rain followed and
minutes.
then came another spell of clear
weather. A5 a rcsul’. of the storm
the track Was
In the (wagon of the hora-moo
couldn’: 'r-e wr-rse. ,
Viith the lad track came many
scratches horn the $53,060 event.
. Jimmy Ron's wi‘hdrew Harry Payrp
E- iWfififi—fifif—E“? icfir’e' ’26 .
if Bob . fr-ilon'rd \rith the-
: stretchlsg (L! “'a‘atvr M. J=ffr>rd'r
“ Diogenes. h0?‘f§i_wlnn£r. A limo.
late-r Bud Fisher declared his
“'ise Counsvllcr.
tivcly last right
would not start.
withdrawn when the field went 1-;
the pmfl for the first race. :
ARRANGE FOR
ARMY TRYOUTS
Olympic Trials for Un-
cle Sam’s Own “Till
that than colt
Be Held at Pershing
Field
NEW” YORK. May 13 -One of the
coming aitractlons in the “orld 0!
track 2:22) 122.2d is the army quad
rennlal games which will serve as.
the official Olympic tryouts for
omcero and enlusted men of the reg-
ular army and members of both the
national guard and the enlisted rL--
s‘crve corps. The men-t will be a na-
tional‘one and throughout. the coun-
try thousands of soldlcrs are pre-
paring .‘or the lmpormm test. which
will take piace at Pershing l-‘lcld.
Jersey City. on May 31.
The big meet has been sanctioned
by the American Olympic commlttec
and coming as it does two weeks be-
fore the :mul tryouts. which will be
held at the Harvard Stadium, Cam-
bridge, Masai-5,, a good line may be se-
cured on the quality of athletic ma-
terial that has been developed
Among the soldler aspirants tor
berths on the big team.
The games will be held under the
dlrcctlon of General Robert Lee Bul
lard, commanding general Second
Corps Area, Goxcrnors 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 metvr hurdleo.
400 meter hurdles. 10,000 meter
wnlk.
Fleld—Rum:lng high Jump. run-
ning broad Jump. running hop skip
-ud Jump, pole vault, throwmg Ja-
velin. throwlng dlscus. throwing
hammer, puttng shot.
The decathlon and the classls pen
thllon will be included showing 1
Went number of entries warrant.
' l L125;-
fit—Iock deep in mudf .-
i, .,
..
31!”."2t
Mutt and Jame-5 Butler wuhdrew
Sleepy-“head. Although J. S. SVard}
and Fredcrick Burton. owners of
concur-"rd pori- 5 '
he was not officially"
' ('1’
1. ..;'. 4.: pILSF'lL
1'11 rot.) a an'wn: 315511.“.
‘ u.- 3.4-:-
“\‘ kt
4.-..
. Lu.- l-‘o'n.
{Lon-2 I'n‘ill
:.....-. \2...: conne- ti. Chg}: 1'
ground on: one o;
:3. ELE gouging? . , 7 7 v
13:: .l‘ou. n to is run:.‘ "
llzls you: :x. m '3“ LL‘E'NJZ
11.1: p.i’.}' fr2
thud bare.
1' I-Lcaus: the {29:11 15 '.A l.
jéllzn and 15 t.:..
.
l
; .2;ch
x
Ind.
"N r in 33.28 rat":
.- 1.0 1911-. For 211L-
M 111299 seasons 1m,- -:on team
§managed to no»:
. into titt- Ira-i uni-
fawn. '.-’.'o (in) l: Loasts u! .9 man
inning Ltlltr than .2..-2J and pitch-
:4 ->
.z 5 s .1. at n; l help it ll: tin; race.
i (.111 is dcmrznlntd to hoop his
puchcrs in shape run though rum
lots-rich: \vl‘h ll...- ;:...-}l.';; o: the
game. As pvr custom tins )L-ar the
lied So: marzagLr had the pitchers
out at the bail ark Sulurduy going
through 1:131: pact-s Wlth the catchv
era.
Pitchers Hate To “'Ork
l-‘oh; says that the Mann are in
good Manual condition and the
{can} ls as :me a conditional hall
club as he c‘-’Lr saw. He says he V-
the pltchcrs out of
of mind and: 15
mt-
llkL-s to 32.1.
the PllClllng frame,
a thorough bell-,wr In haung
chlhg arms “(‘11 oiicd.
The ‘Yffiillht‘f at Boston has been
chilly tor baseball. yct the attcndv
ance records are barter than in the
days who Currlgan was at the helm
Big Joe Bums. who is swinging a
mean but tor the Red Sox, says he
has not had a good sxn—at since San
Antonio. Harris, according to re-
ports from Boston, has run into one
o! the coldcst springs (nor known
in the Hub. .
lloslou writers observed that all
of the rainy day work on Saturday
Was not confined to the lied 50x pltv
chores. for as they went through their
paces they were soon joined by L'r-
bun Shocker. the star spit. ball of the
Browns. and Hank chervuid, 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
look it also to mean that Slslcr has’
harmony and ambition in the club.
and that Shocker after a. bad start
this season ls eager to get out and
try to pitch himself lnto shape.
MGRAW AND
BAKER SCRAP
.1...
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-
playera hurled by William F. Baker.
President of the Philadelphia Phtl-
lies. at dohn J. McGraw, manager
of the New York Giants. in a. tor-
mal statement by the head of the
.Phlls on Saturday night.
“I have no intention of calling 5
Inch! meeting at this time," 15314
lg Samar. “The whole m»:
“ " mat these moot um-
in very much dis-
tw was:
l BOSTOB May 13—13052”. one oi ;
COuDL'E ts ail sis-3m. u; on: i 'v:
I oh ‘5 Amerlcun Lruguc nun. 3.»:
51.19. 12;:- cans of 13:1; tan“ 3 uJH
When Ty Cobb begun to will?
his ferocious, tigers 513130 8589'
lot the pro-at season his main
lorry was over the apparent
roubles: his team can!’ ed in tho
Infield. He had Lu Blue set to
play snather brilliant gun. ct
first. Bobby Jones“: resdy for
his usnsl dependent gone at
third. But Del Pratt had been
1 disappointment at second last
tensor: and shortstop Emory Rig-
aey was still fighting an diluent
that handhpped him in 1923.
COBB FlNDS STRENGTH WHERE HEWDWEAK Spot's i“
sri going great guns. Pratt ts
scans like a kid coma second.
Blgnéy la in perfect conditional!
claiming his own as a slim.
Pratt’s hitting is startling every
one.
Cobb took his turn out tb-
other .1” seem whom it might
devour in revenge for four
six-night licking: handed it by the
St. Louis outfit under Slsler': _
clever handling sad timely clout»
ing. The defects were a blow to
Cobb’s hopes of keeping up s oer.
rifle gait while the Indians were
'Now both of these Int two men
wallowing in a slump.
,, fl! ""1"!” .uwap, .
1!
l————
(4!"
~.‘. .22; 1.: Lomuug}
~* .
_.._.,..w :- "u“...
f”?
w““""
9“
09' Put' left and Emory ngney.
lS SENSATION-
Team That wHad No;E
Home at Start of ’
Season N o w Real;
Contender i.
r this season we roce in thcf
Ullill League 1.55 bth a our-:2
.. Only two and 0124- mg! games}
sepurute tin: lirst six'clu'b, .
.srnsn'lun .of this campaign is the;
vaark baseball club. llltlnrrlo for?
yours this team has been the joke of
the (sin 2 it uml its position was well;
In cause at “"10"! its members-
am no: Illa-x? :y cl ass Z hall.
ln tic 2:th place, the Bcara are.
only a game and a. half bclzlnd But-
fzilo. which is leading Baltimore and
Toronto. in 5-:cond and third places.
by loss than that in fact so close is
the competition that in three days
the sixth plaCe club might nasily go
into the lvad, and Suwark ls hold~
lug lxs and up by solid hitting. fast.
fielding and good pitching. 3
There is not much doubt about the 7
v am: :2.
. h... .Aw.m._....-._ w.-.
billing ability of the club now 33-.
l
scmhlml under the lcmlv-rshlp of:
Manager Fred Bralnurd‘fml the Hold 5
lug ought to remain first class. The
only doubt is the pitching. But the
acoulailion of young Tml Alusante in
particul'lr ma) she the team the
poncr r. (c. waxy to make the Bear
lzltlcrs' : Luis send (nor a more
runs than tlw enemy can score in :L
majority r‘ g'nmes. 1‘ look Roches-
tor mur'Len lnnlncs to beat them
3'1 six-win y.
XL-wurl‘. fans are excited over the
team and :1. real wrlcomc awaits
Hum 1:1:an tlwlr return from the
road Friday, when Baltimore will
meet the Hours in :1 st-rics. It New
ark can do “'Ull against the Orlolcs.
there is litllc doubt but that the
city is in for some enthusiasm that
has not been its lot lot many years
from a baseball standpoint.
\Vhlle the pitching has been good
the success of tho: Newark c‘uh has
been due principally to good hitting
Of the first “who butters ln the
league five are Newarkcrs the low-
ust of which has a mark of .352. The
team average is .313 a Ylgure that
will throw {our low the hfigrts ‘!
any set of pitchers. i
gill!)
mm the ’ I
ithe ar‘commndatlnn of a league park.
*m
gm mourn 12% ow hiritufiiefi
teams m the lrnguo thinks there
l-a- gmng to hr- nn runaway race thls
2S2_‘:xsun. ’ xltimoré is not so strong as
it once “as, splitting a, double bill
'11 53 racuzsn lemurday. and Roche's.
ter missed Maurice Arvlzdnacon and
it‘s”! Brody. Torohzo is a tut strong-
. r and lienslmg ls groéatly improved.
Buffalo, loo. 1‘, .20 wcak sistvr. There
till he no 3131'}; lit-r Baltimore as
how lmtn the l xse in llzc past. Jor-
s--y Flt}: and Syracuse “’lEl he tho
weak nmcs. but they lack strength
so lntrlnslnllly that tlzr-y ought to
hr as Hui/Ur one of the strong-3r
(“1’03 as the othlr.
In at; tho CillE-s ma: Ira up 1! 0
race the attendance has lmL-n lug.
leading and Nowxrk loading in this
room-ct though the latter is using I.
scml profosslonnl field which locks
in
mm T0
BATTLE DUNDEE.
Match Slated for Velo-
drome in New York
City During Present
Month
NEW YORK. Bay 1...-——A fifteen
round match between Johnny Dun~
doc and Luis \‘lccntlnl of Chile. vlr-
HIGHS PLAY.
wally has l-cr-n closed for the opcn~
in: boxing r-how at the Now York
\'c-l(-xlrnmo. so! for \Vcrlnesda)’, May
Shh. k‘étl Barbarian of Detroit. one
of the r-lmllomzts-rs for L'rvnny Leon-
:artl's lulu, trlul to land the contest
with \‘lco-ntlni, but the Chilean
wquld havo l..lhl.‘.g l!) 130 “in! Sid.
«.ltrlarlnx ho 1m {t-rrcd to lilll-P Dun- ‘
The health “m be at 135‘
pounds. and unloss \‘lcr-ntini crosses
Johnny 11nd cameo in at 130 pounds
I’mn'lr‘c will be in no danger of los-
mz his. junior lightwclght crown.
('hzxrlio Phil Boscnborg. clever
llarbm lmmmnnright, and Cannon-
hall L‘ddie “-zllrtin of Brooklyn are
£1.21th to mrr-t in the ten round semi-
lm ll 1“ the Dundee- \icc—ntinl fracas.
.2. .-..
These two boys put up a. great fight
iln the Olymplc fund show and
thou-2h I’osonborg appeared to have
won, tho jualgcs on that occasion
x'rllml rm- a draw Rosenberg is con-
xmwxl that he “on that fight and
. ”‘1
TRADE SCHOOL
Local School Hopes to
Score Victory in
Game This After-
noon At Amusement
Park
The vinalk l-lxgh School baseball
(cam ls playing: the ljridgépoi‘t Trade
school nlno at Amusement Park
this afternoon. Sorman Flcwwellln
is slnlng mound duty for the locals.
Tho (Trot-n and White larls are out
to ri‘trlr-vo tho clvfcrgt handed down
to tlwm by tho l'nrk City aggrcgn-
lion two works ago.
The next team which will be en-
countered by tho “'05: avenue boys
will b0 Ansonla in the up-smte town
on Saturday. lrwin‘ Holmes will
most probably pitch that game for
Soy-walk.
On Monday the Stamford Hy
match will he played in the Lock
city. This game is a .postponed
contest of the one which was to
have born played last Saturday. It
was called off then because of wet
YES—F— . END.
.9: ESES
3.”:TXONAL LEAGUE.
St. Loulffi. New York 3.
(‘lnclnnatl 4. Philadelphia 1.
Brooklyn 7‘ Chicago 3.
-—__..____________
MIERICAN LEAGUE.
(No American League Games.)
EASIERN LEAGUE.
S All games postponed—Rain.
jumped at the chance to meet Mar-
tln again. Charlie declares that in
the coming bout he will win by so
large a margin that there will be no
doubt in the mind or any one as to
the correct verdict.
innififilreéw
Clint and Comment
Good afternoon.
0
Just a little snnshlng
O C C
It is welcome.
0 O ..
Fan-nae: Lodge hit the m
again last cream: at the hands of
George Godfrey. The Farmer‘s back
mustbewellwlonsed' .asthel'esfl!
ofthenumba-ol’tlmestlnthehzs
beEn put to sleep.
0 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 ln'the ring in a
horizontal position.
0 O 0
Wow Beckett is considered the
champ 0'! the horizontal scams.
He won that title some tlrne ago and
noouchascvcncomcclosctouk-
lug it away from him.
. C 0
The Wills-Madden 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.
0 I 0
“‘9 hope that they ore well work-
ed hymeumethsttheyenta the
ring and thst the fans who “tend
will be the winners and not the
losers. as Is the case in I great
many or our present. day bouts.
O O
Monsieur Georges Carpentler is
due to arrive in our mldst today for
his bout with one Tom Gibbons of
St. Paul. since Georges was in this
C ls 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 rue-—
Gen'ral Sherman began
filo. tramp. tramp to the CEB.
Cy Wllllams. Philly slugger and
outfielder. still can't believe that
’mfin?rnir?eason under the
same man who was his boss last
year. For it‘s the first time in Cy’s
13 years experience in the big show
that \Vllllams has played under the
same pllot two seasons in succes-
slon.
Cy got his start with the Cubs
and la the six years he remained
in Chlcago played under Chance.
livers. O'Day, Bresnahan. Tlnkcr
and Fred Mitchc-ll. In 1917 the
Cubs let him go to Philadelphia.
He has taken orders from Fat
Moran, Jack Coombs. Garry
\‘mvath’, the late Bill Donovan.
"Kaiser" “‘llhelm and his present
boss. Fletcher while .3 member of
that team.
»Jack Qulnx‘ 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. letthanded 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 \Vashlngton club first
gave 1111:: n tryout he had all the
car marks of n. world beater. He
fllvvered howaver. and the Senators
traded hlm to.Chlcago. 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 13 wins and 6 losses for
a .760 average. He ranked accend
to Year: Greg in effectiveness.
allowing but 2.80 runs a game.
Gregg held his opponents to 2.75
runs. But. back with the White
So: for spring llmberlng this year
he failed to hit his stride. He
showed so little lndlcatlon of being
able to help the Soxlets that they
released him early to the Frisco
outfit.
‘0 o
The Cleveland Indians now ap-
pear to be the jlnxed team of the
American league race. At the start
of the season they seemed to have
the main thlng they lacked last
year-capable pitching. Joe’ Shanta
and Jlm Joe Edwards. two young-
sters, apparently were set to shine.
The vtemn Uhle Wu counted on
for another good year and even
. NorwaIkEans.
kmDJJow-
:1.
a
I
l
2:: Spam Intel-05E f6 :
m - V 3.
country last he has lost some of 11:.
prestige.
O O 0
Wbahemwlth us before Jar‘
-kn0cLed him for a row (f
ah ans, but that still loft him \n h
hhflght ha weight lltlcthatlr
won from Battling Lcn'mky. GHrrz-
latc- lost this title to none 0
than Battling sun.
5
uh:
O
'et
Georges must h:
rlblo shape a: the
dropped his title to
third rotors are 8751-.
battler a. lacing at tho rrx-rn—f. 2-4--
0 O O
In Tom Gibbons. the Frcnrhman
is going to meet a. mULh both-r
lighter than Slki and one who stay-rd
15 rounds “1th Jack Dornp~9n V.
are of the opinion that Tom v.2};
defeat Goa-rec, - in their (-«mm:
bout.
ErncsLA. Blood has he:
as the coach of the
school basketball team.
time that he has bcor '
team has won HS st.
Blood last season, x1.
Pascale five from the .\
lnterscholastlc bash:
meat after they had
semi-finals. This more is ii.
of all the trouble.
0 O O
‘7an Mulligan ls “rvrkin: ll’Lrl
for his coming battle “am
Plug Russell in New Haw!)
\; _-_1_—x
Alll'
[om] “Tapper expects to he in 1:)»
pink of condition for link bout.
L'hle's arm went lame.
back. '
away to a. bad start
seems about done—a.“
stars {:11de to math
ball asked of them.
Then, on top 0‘ these 21359:?"-
tetrn. contracted a cold the
Tris Speaker. mainsprlng
(
:
the game for several days.
In the meanwhile the Bron-:5 a: :
Tigers are cutting each :5
throats and the Yanks are ‘rrw :2:
along in the lead. A
EASTERN LEA! él'lj.
\V. 1.. ETC
Waterbury 1 -_2 3 , . 2
Worcester .’-
Hartford 3 E 5
Springfield \ \
Albany \ 9
Bridgeport .-' 1 ..
New Have. 5 l
{afield d l 3
AMERICAN LEAHL’E.
\V. 1..
New York 3 6
Boston 2 .. 5
Detroit 1 1 9
St. Louis I 1 1C2
Chlcago :2 1 "2
\Vashington 1 -i2 :- :
Cleveland 3 l l
Philadelphia 6 l 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
\X'. 1..
Cincinnati 1 4 7
New York 1 4 8
Chicago 1 4 ‘l 1
Brooklyn 1 1 1 1
Boston 25 1
Pittsburgh 1" 1 3
St. Louis S 13
Philadelphia ’ 6 113
BELL DOGS ARE READY.
The Bull Dog's nine has orga
for the season. The managi.
now booking games and is rt“.
pit the team against any 13 to
year old nine in the city. .—
Charles Vadas 3121. -
The Bull Dog lineup include-s 3. ;
Knlscor. W. Keri A. Srabo B. Bod- .'
not. 8 .Urban. J. Kardos \X. Geer :1 1
C. Vadas. B. Mezzo and S. aKpuse. l
The monthly mectlng of the Nor—l
walk Branch of the American Asso-
ciation of University \V’omen will
be held Friday afternoon. May 16. a’
three o'clock. at Hillside School:
There will be election of othcers, and .
the report of the Washington Con-E
Coi'eleaklefl. figured to d o a. come-
Ema-{Hm
cla.
.. .
ly forced him mr%6fififii_ffl Ends-'1. .:: '7
vention by Mrs. Helena Hill “feed
and possibly Misc Vida Hunt Fran-V .
\OUQ'FATM? WQ'UKED ST‘
W 8‘! ”GOSH I DON’T
. $65 DRY-'
a
Norwalk Chronicler