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Miiimm&Wjuvgmx'mgmm miiimm&wjuvGmx'mGmm tin 1913, when he was given his first yesterday and smoked a single, scor- chance, he started clouting the ball ing a run. Baker was doing the third viciously, slapping for extra-bas- e hits basing, and Bromwich batter for Ellis with gay abandon. It seemed for a Johnson. time that a real stacjiad been added Two triples by Felch and a timely to the Cub troop. single by Brief helped the Sox to a Then the opposition pitchers de- 3 to 2 victory. tected his weakness. Cy was help- Reb Russell started the pitching less before a curve ball low over the and couldn't get away with it, both side corner of the plate. He might runs being scored during his three as well have left his bat on the bench innings in the box. Then Johnson for all the damage he did when such and Scott put the lid on, Jim allow- a ball was served to him. He was left ing only one hit in five rounds. to work out his own salvation, failed, Ed Walsh tried to come back with and slipped back to the obscurity of the seconds against San Francisco 'he utility men. and found the niche from which he Now he gets his chance. Putting had slipped much farther away than him on the first team will start him Tipperary. He yielded six runs in with confidence, and Bresnahan will three innings, and Cicotte was just be on hand to aid the long fellow in as soft. Frisco won, 15 to 2. Ping his schooling. Cy is being put to Bodie knocked a homer with two on, work slamming at the offerings of a and Heilman, former Tiger, cracked recruit pitcher, experimenting with another four-bagg- Demmitt got different positions at the plate, in an three hits for the Sox and Fournier 'ffort to overcome his weakness. and Daly two each. Walsh prodded Cy is not alone in his weakness. a homer. ven so famous a slugger as Ty Cobb Robert Lord won his second game 'ace found a low inside curve an in the 18-- 2 amateur billiard tourna- ifathonable mystery. Doc White, ment at New York, downing Huston rmer White Sox star, could stand of Detroit, 400 to 294. Poggenburg 'y on his head with a slow, low kept a clean slate by defeating Mil-bur- n, oater. But Cubb is a determined 400 to 299. uss, which is one of the reasons he President Ban Johnson of the great. American league is back from Cali- He experimented in his position in fornia. He broke a precedent by de- he batting box, stood in front of the clining to say "the Federal league plate, and then changed his style, won't open the season." itepping back a pace. In time he Northwestern defeated Chicago, olved the mystery, and White was 39 to 19, in a dual tank meet. The p longer a puzzle. Maroons captured one first. Purple The same thing is possible in Wil- - also won water basketball game, 4 ams' case, and Cy is at least en-- to 1. Pavlicek, Chicago, set a new itled to all the help that can be record in the 150-ya- backstroke, iy.en him. going the distance in 1 :59 5. John- Rairt kept the athletes from a game son covered the 100-ya- rd in :59 5, esterday, but they are off in anoth- - a new record. ar, tussle this afternoon. Bresnahan University of Chicago track ath- puts them through a soccer football letes defeated Ohio, 63 to 23. Fer- drill when the field is poor. guson won the only Ohio first in the Manager Rowland of the White mile. Capt. Ward of Chicago was iox believes Bromwich, the third the individual star. base candidate, has big league abili- ty,. The youngster was shoved in as Russia's population is increasing at a. pinch hitter against Los Angeles the rate of 2,500,000 a year. rititftitititfMMftaMMiMiil.
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