-; ;rffmwi'l''M'' f M'"w ijiflM'iiraiiJ ' "wwr'ww'v'jspcs-pyt- Nprmwi a'. jitjTWJ'fTtWI'W WWBi1grg 16 THE WASHINGTON TIMES, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 1912. Cobb QkirhsThkt Red Sox Pitchers'Are' Weakening---t-y ooo! Atone Holds 0n TY COBB BELIEVES Walter Johnson and Clyde Milan Are Credited BOB THAYER'S NATIONALS HAVE With Much of the Success of the Climbers Sporting Gossip . i , - : ' I . "Every Knock Is a flcost" CHANGE FOR FLAG Famous Twirler Has Been Climbers' Great Basc-Steal- cr Climbers' Peerless Pitcher Backbone pf Griff's . Dwindling rapidly. Outfit. The chances of tho Climbers In the Thinks Red Sox Pitchers Are present campaign may bo measured now by tho calendar and they aro dwindling freaking Under fast. But six weeks remain of the sea- STERLING GARDENER son and that Is hardly enough to allow the Strain. Griffs lads to selzo tho lead from tho ALSO HAS HIGH RANK Red Sox. If those pesky Sox don't hurry up and slump well, what's the WOOD' ALONE IS use? McBride and Gandil Come in for Walker to 'come back." RETAINING CONTROL Much Praise This Clarence Walker, who goes to Kansas Year. City with "Tiny" Vaughn In exchange for young Gallia, a green pitcher, Coming Six Weeks Will Afford . aliould come bock year I , , next to the big ts.' leagues. Right now Climbers Good Chance vi "SENATOR." several clubs have By outfielders far below his standard. Ho to Advance. The Climbers havo ,mado such a re- la fast, can hit, and pegs to bases llko markable record this season, lifting a backstop. He has made many friends Washington from a graveyard position here who aro sorry to see him go and to the runncrup's Job in tho American aro sure he will return. League of good Indi- A. ' - that much the Bochllng Tomorrow's Card tw ' f ) imL M mi 111 vidual work of players on the team has1 shines. been overlooked. However, GYlfflth's Joe Bochllng, the young southpaw Tomorrow tho Climbers face tho outfit contains several stars of tho first sent to Worcester by Clark Griffith, Is magnitude, notablv. Walter "Smokeball" double-Leade- r, meeting with success up In Drowns In n be- Johnson, "Zeb" Milan, George there the McBride, wilds Now England I ginning nt 2 of and am glad o'clock. Hamilton and "Chick" Gandil, not to mention to hear It. This lad Is a modest young- and Allison will probably pitch "Massa" John Henry, "Dare-Devi- l" ster who cannot but Impress thoso Dan Moeller, Bob Groom, and Eddie him with for St. Louis against Groom and Alnsmlth. about his Innate ability. Griff is holding onto him largely because tho Hughes for tho Climbers. Johnson and Milan, two cronies If ,. 1,11 boy gives ll I m a jj'.i ' j$sJ ' v1" l&tw t " JtKr Richmond his beBt all the ever there wero cronies, have gone out tlmo and Is always willing to learn. By "SENATOR." this season and established marks to bo i Www shot at for some time. Tho. peerless Browns are dangerous. That tho Red Sox pitchers are pitcher of tho major leagues has won to crack under the strain of UTht sixteen straight all- Don't underestimate thoso St. victories from Louis 'the grueling race for tho American comers, not picking out tho weakest, BroWiTi. Beforo now tall end clubs havo League pennnrit, Is tho claim of Ty but mcetlmr them all as thoy came, and blasted the budding hopes of possible 'Cobb, tho Tiger star, who lately hit handing them a fine collection of neat champions. George Stovall has whipped against them In the series In Boston trimmings. together a ball team capable of making ''between tho Tigers and tho Red Sox. twenty-eig- ht strongest J Griff's premier hurler has won the hustle to win and tho "I think the Nationals have a chance, games and dropped but noven, bo-I- Climbers will have to work hard to earn perhaps not a good one, but still a responsible for more than a third the victories they may get from the chance to pass the Red Sox," said Ty of the team's victories. In those games Browns. 3Cobb . yesterday. "I base my opinion on he has fanned 242 batsmen, the largest the condition of Stahl's pitchers. I hit number by far credited to any pitcher McLoughlln slated for title. 'hgalnst about all of them In our last in tho league. He given seventy-seve- n has McLoughlln, series In Boston and know what I'm free tickets to first base. In Maurice the Pacific coast .talking about, They're cracking, that's every game In which he has appeared player who has been having things his own way In the tennis tournaments all. he has pitched sterling ball, If this "Aside and. tho season. Is likely to realize tho prize from Joe Wood, who was aa prize automobllo goes to any man, It for .good as ever, won- which ho has, been striving past with 'smoke' and should go to Walter Johnson this year, for the derful control, tho Red Pox twlrlers he proved four years. Should he win from Wal- - for has himself the back- every iP.ll showed unmlstakablo signs of crack- bone of tho CUmbere, WALTER JOHNSON, lace F. Johnson, and there Is Ing the sensation of reason to suppose he will ' under the strain. tho league. that defeat "Buck O'Brien looked tho worst of Leading the American League In Successive Victories and Universally Con- him tomorrow, McLoughlln will take ithe lot. Ho wasn't In tho best of con- Milan year. dition for this stago of tho race, and Another Star. sidered the Greatest Twirler In Major League Baseball. the premier tennis honor of the hud to be driven Into the game. Young Tho other universally recognized Lorned has not appeared in competition U"dlent, a green lad, was nervous and star of tho baseball firmament con- this season on account of rheumatism, 'looked as If he was trained down a nected Mi- and the crown will be awarded to Mc- line. with tho Climbers Is "Zob" 'little lan, tho dashing little middle garden- MANY CREWS WILL FRED CLARKE NOW Loughlln. x Still Has Chance. er. When season the started he Prospects Virginia. - "With the Sox twlrlers going to pieces gravoly announced that he was go- at just before they face tho final trip ing out for a base-stealin- g record. prospects Virginia up Football at loom through tho West, Griff has a chanco to CLYDE MILAN, He has lived to his promise. Ho R0W1N REGATTA S GIANTS WIL L up rather brightly, acordlng to advance "get In there and beat 'em out for the has stolen Blxty-nln- o cushions, and university, Hag. Detroit Climbers Dashing Little Outfielder, W ho Is Leading the American League In notices from tho and the That's what the club did thero are six weeks more for him to Orange and Blue Is expected to have Just pulling through wiien no ono least Cobb's of xgn. work In. rejcpci;ted it," Stealing Bases, and Who May Shatter Ty Record many stars on the eleven this ear. Ty Cobb, with eighty-thre- e In Cobb's remarks seem borno out by steals ON THE POTOMAC TAKE 1912 PENNAN While It 1b too early to get a line on n- 1911, T dispatches from Boston today which - holds the American League rec- any team in tho country owing to the "dicato trouble In the ranks of tho lead-tr- s. ord, but good Judges of baseball be- far-fam- game changed, Buck O'Brien is said to havo broken TO' START lieve Milan will dlstanco the ed fact that the has been training and had a wordy battle with ELI PROPOSE Jungaleor beforo the curtain the men to report at the Charlottesville Jimmy McAleer on that account, lie- - IN fulls on the season of 1912. Ho has a Institution aro a likely string of candi- (irAleer Is said to have threatened O'Brien lull long lead ovor his nearest competitor Middle States Event Prom- Admits That They Have dates which should come up to expecta- n'ulth InBtant discharge unless ho cuts and has no real rival for tho honors. out his midnight gambols. Not only Is ho a good base-runne- r, tions. , "I'll not stand for it, O'Brien; thAt'a HELP OF SOCCER FOOTBALL but Milan Is in tho .300 class as a hit- ises to Be Best in Displayed the Proper i nil there is to it," McAleer Is said to ter and Is ono of tho really great out- The Virginia amateurs. have fired at the twirler. "If you don't Mi fielders In the league. He ranks with Goods. you'll get off II Ty Cobb and Trls Speaker as a History. attend to business, this fielder. The movement to havo an amateur club so fast your head'll swim. There'll Nothing but his connection with a league of the Virginia cities appear to no Berlcs melon, you to tall-en- d club for the few years be world's for COACH IN CAPITAL CITI last be a good one which In time should cut, mark me." PRINCETON has prevented his receiving the hon- The full list of entries for tho Mid- PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 2o.-- Now McAleer Is determined to win his first ors due him. that tho New York Giants have spread all over the country. The project pennant in tho American league, and dle States regatta, which will bo held wci large Gandil Is Shining.