I LEW M’ALLISTER, WHO HAS TWO ROUNDS WITH JOE FOGLER, WHO MEETS FAST BASE RUNNING ALEC SMITH HOLDS GIVEN BIG HELP TO TIGERS ; MORRIS HARRIS WERE GOULLET IN PURSUIT RACE MAKES GREAT TEAM, TWO-POINT LEAD ENOUGH FOR OVE Y SAYS CLARK GRIFFITH NEW YORK, Aug. 27. GRIFFITH, manager Of ttaej Harris, the Philadelphia Cincinnati Reds, declares that out CLARK OVEfl Morrisnegro heavyweight, knocked plenty of base stealing or at- MJERMOn Tom Overby, of Wilkesbarre, tempts to steal will bring a winning Pa., In the second round of a scheduled baseball team. He describes hla plana In Metropolitan Competition at ten-round bout at the National Sport- as follows: "This base running thing la Club of America last Harris bound to and Fails ing night. win, I'm going to keep* Deal, Merchantsville Boy floored Overby three times with right the boys at it while their legs are good. he to Cut Down Veteran’s Mar- swings to jaw and the last time Get the other fellows throwing and you stayed down until carried to his cor- can do a lot of tricks with them. Off gin, and Loses by T03 to 301. ner. Overby was a splendid specimen course, there are times when discre- of manhood, but his defense was crude tion must be exercised. I don’t reconi- Lad Holds Record, Though, and he never stood a chance. Harris Is mend headlong base stealing when a man but his at 71. big himself, opponent Kling or Archer Is bebhlnd, the bait. was fully three inches taller and They might get even Bescher too ofteti looked forty pounds heavier. to be enjoyable. "But take the general run of catchers, BY STRAIGHT DRIVE. Johnny Thompson, the Western Cy- and It pays to keep ’em throwing. Thtg Is Metropolitan open champion- clone, anxious to get a match with is the present status of the Ad attacking ship at the Deal Golf and Wolgast. part of baseball; base running has bee& THECountry Club was brought to a so subordinated of recent yean thaff Jem the clever close yesterday, with Alec Smith the Driscoll, English the Inflelders don't know how to detfr he has en- over Jack McDermott, the boy featherweight, writes that with, a lot of fast Winner are "keyed" up to from the race—Eddie Walter men, plunging g thunder-storm of tirely recovered his health, and that he Root, them all the ■wonder. The heavy a high pitch of excitement over time. Fact! will return to New York In two or Bardgett, Percy Lawrence, Peter Dro- the morning drenched the ma- Bike-loversthe ten-mile "They don’t know what to do wbgft three months and coming human-pace bach, Charles Stein and Floyd Krebs. of the competitors and flooded take on Abe Attetl, man after man. Instead of jority race between Joe Fogler, of Brooklyn, Frank L. Kramer, the national cham- watting until were Tommy Murphy and Pal Moore If they be batted some of the greens they and little Alf Goullet, which will be is out around, comes charging dowg care to tackle his pion, to make a clean sweep in almost unplayable. The home green | game. the the line. Catchers throw feature event on the excellent card the two other professional events that unoertatalj^ during the Inflelders •was literally submerged arranged for tomorrow' afternoon at are down take the throw and gsopfe Sam will be the on the card. The champion of the storm, but after Langford busy miller around like catfish. You can heaviest portion the Velodrome track. Seldom has so as start steal for the next three or four months. The will, usual, from scratch In ajg It was over a gang of workmen swept the time if only have a little much interest been taken in a race as the half-mile and Eddie you neeva> the in a first man he will meet will be Joe handicap, the water off and got green the one that will be rode between The spiking of Inflelders, I tit and be de- these Root, the fast little Bostonian, will think, shape before the I Jeannette, this contest will largely the result of this fairly presentable two cracks, and especially as each rider start from the same mark. unaertalntjp got around to it, but as It cided at the Armory A. A., of Boston, and clumsiness. contestants is out for a clean-cut win over the There are that could one week from Tuesday. If he isn’t so many entered in the was there were a few pools other. "In the old days, when men we Twice before these two cracks three-mile open that it Will be run in not be removed, and when they were beaten to death he will take on Morris all the the have met. and twice the with four men stealing time, basemen we al- the man who so dis- Brooklyn heats, to qualify for the a line of a the committee Harris, quickly clever as In putt speed marvel Was forced to bow before which cats and real wonders, the ball posed of Tom at the National final, will bring sixteen men Into lowed the players to pick up Overby the at touching the runners and prowess of the Australian. The the grand dash, as four heats will be it to another portion of Sporting Club last night, later In the and remove race will be run under the them." the hole. month. He will sail for London In same rules run off at one mile distances. Special the green equally distant from as the one last week between Kramer lap prizes have been offered. to the unfit condition of the October and clash with Tommy Burns, Owing and Fogler. Each man will be allowed In the a much and if he Is able to with this three-mile event all kinds of course, the scoring was of get by a, to have five pacemakers, a man on the are to be ATHLETICS AND RED SOX in the morning than it McGINNITY suffers no regret for out at second while they were tailing fellow easier than did Jack Johnson surprises apt sprung, and higher order track at did all times to act as pacemaker. the race promises to be a thriller from in the afternoon, although Alec making a two-year fight for Lew a lead for third. Steal, why they then he may be In line for a chance at was Goullet, the has CAPTURE THEIR GAMES a on McAllister. The is all that not even It on Mac. He is the Australian, picked the outset. Smith made a 73, getting three JOE backstop attempt heavyweight crown. y ,, Paddy Hehir, Norman A hole of 405 yards, and "Big Mao" declared he was. "the best always in the game and helps the Anderson, quarter-mile national champion- IN the fourteenth Jumbo Pedlar AMERICAN LEAGUE- was in the Eastern He a Full of and The Wells, Palmer and ship event Is down on the card for the a 75. There backstop League.' pitchers lot. ginger championship hope of Young _ J. R. Thompson got Hill to w“j ■ as *.>s is like Freddy act his pacemakers. amateurs, as well as a two-mlle handi- nothing lower than a 73, 74 ana two a more heady catcher than Walter life all* the time, he does not stall Pierce, of Germantown, was squashed Fogler had the pick of all the other cap. AMERICAN LEAGUE RECORD, in the afternoon, but there were many ! Blair, Paul Krichell, Ben Egan, Matty most of the backstops, but is always by Benny Kaufman, of Philadelphia, with the of f: and between a cracks, exception Champion The races will start at 3 o'clock other scores made in 80 and under, Fitzgerald and the rest of ’em. ready to warm the pitchers up in six-round bout at the Frankford j Frank L. who has been barred was of a much "Can he throw?” Ask Jack Dunn A. C., last The Kramer, sharp. W.L. Pod mufM! .... the scoring in general innings. Philadelphia, night. 80 36 699 .. everyone improving ! and Jimmy Slagle that question. Lew Can he hit? Look at what he has bout was even until the fourth round, Philadelphia OevStMid 4ME ... lower order, nearly ---| Boston .69 48 .680 *1 68 has the veteran -with Newark. when Washington .43® on Ills morning round. thrown ball-players done while Pierce was caught by a right New York. ..66 60 .66» Chicago.M 68 JB swing to the Jaw. Detroit.6E 61 .660 St. W .Smith v». McDermott. Lords....M .«UT .AAAAA._______ Yesterday's Results. for supremacy settled down The fight Jpe Stein beat Charlie Lawrence in Philadelphia 6, St. Louis 9. 1 Alec Smith and .li to a battlo beween their ten-round bout at the Lehigh A. NOTES AND GOSSIP i Boston 8, Cleveland 8, W of Merchant- young Jack McDermott, C. last night. In the second round ♦-——— -.« with Smith ville, in the afternoon, j TIMELY TWINKLES inATtwoDbigY LEAGUES Stein sent Lawrence to the mat for the Thank Mr. Collins! of a lead of “-v <TT7 wvwww--r you, not figure in the batting, ho fielded In Games having the advantage j count of eight. In the semi-final bout Today, As they each did the great style. Chicago at New York O two strokes. Fielder won his team Jimmy Powers and Right Schulte practically tainly pitched great ball for Young Cyclone Sline, of the Grays, away with his St. Louis at course in 75, Smith proved the victor, got PhUadelp the game for the Cubs the the Browns Besides fought a fast six-round draw.