t EDITED BY I Sporting News Barons Spring Big Surprise HUGH W. ROBERTS

THE BARONS WON SOME DOPE WINNING A PENN AN 7 DIAMOND WIZARD Sport. Champion, fa Football .. Harvard-Pennsylvanla fa to Baseball Pennsylvania fa combination, THEN LOST AGAIN The fortune of baseball has clung Hughey Jennings declares that , July 19.—(Special.) — that we find the exact IS CONNIE Rowing.Cornell fa a team can go so MACK; lost out in the on ac- and that Is why Mobile persistently. Suggs majors Track athletics Harvard There are three things that are ab- fa without winning a pen- team which must count of his with the long sometimes But the stays up popularity gent- Basketball.Columbia fa solutely necessary and there might and Cricket Pennsylvania fa nant. All the good management have a great break of luck. ler sex. be said McGraw In answer to Isn't HARD BLOW HERE Chess Pennsylvania-Princeton fa others,” Intelligent direction of players DOPE ON BUNCH „ And luck breaks with that team which And some time as is nave ago, remem- Cross country running .Cornell fa a question as to what he thought were worth a cent unless the players thinks and which plays good bered, the Associated Press handled a Associated football .... Columbia fa absorb It. I would quickly, the necessary requisites of a ball club got the brains to to the effect that a West Point fa a ball. story young wom- Fencing rather have an ordinary player with Golf Yale to make it a championship possibility. Detroit, July 19.—(Special.)—In the Amer- SOUTHERN LEAGUE STANDING. an of Detroit attempted suicide be- fa a wonder who You can’t around it. Luck broke quick brain than get Gymnastics.Columbia fa ‘‘No bail club can be a champion,” ican league It’s the Played. Won. Lost. Pct_ cause she could not get to the park on couldn't think quick when the time always unexpected with us In 1906. Hockey.Harvard fa that is Atlanta .. 79 48 31 an afternoon on which was he went on to “unless It has the wood- happening. On 15 last .608 Suggs Lacrosse Cornell fa explain, came. It has got to where May year the the Nashville. 76 45 31 .592 slated to pitch. Pennsylvania fa a great pitching staff, a squad of fast 1 en-headed ball player Is a thing of Johnson gonfalon seemed to be des- Neighbors, who made a reputation Swimming. Mobile. 82 46 36 .561 Cy Whether all this is true is unknown. Yale fa All the play- tined to be won Shooting men on the bases and a club of good past In the big leagues. by the Highlanders. It Little Hock. 79 41 38 .519 in the Southern league some years ago Suggs is popular in the south and * Rifle shooting George Washington fa thinkers, or they ers must be quick looked as if the Hilltoppers never could New Orleans. 79 39 40 .494 eat a freezer of ice 2 Tennis Pennsylvania-Harvard fa hitters. for his ability to many who remember him are glad to I have to move back to the minors. be headed and that the 78 37 41 >2 Water polo Yale fa said the chief of the junior organiza- Montgomery. .474 cream without stopping to breathe, struck have him back. “Then, again,” “Some men have what we call ball Wrestling.Yale fa tion would, for the first time several Memphis 79 30 49 .380 a certain kind of way in his third strike in the ninth inning yes- Giants, “there is playing Insinct," Mac remarked by 82 31 | seasons, have a Birmingham. 51 .378 It takes many years to land a win- that must the whole of “They seem to know runaway race. Yet the terday at a ball which was wide. Raub fafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafafaSsSSSra feeling pervade explanation. ning baseball team. So there is hope what to do at the right time Highlanders finished last. The sensation team. It Is a pretty hard thing to de- exactly failed to catch the sphere and Neighbors to con- RESULTS YESTERDAY. for us yet. Some of these days we and do not have to take time of the this year are the went safe at first. to revised scribe, but it is something like each | Mobile. 7; Birmingham, 5. According might have a team fighting for the sider. They are natural ball players White Elephants, who continue to merri- all of Nashville. Little rules of scoring Raub gets an error. man pulling for the other, and and their minds direct them 10-4, Rock, 1-1. bunting. EBBETTS OFFERS peculiar ly on their When I have trample opponents. Atlanta, 4: Memphis, 2. But there was something peculiar about After winning the pennant in 1906 we them believing that the combination Is what to do without any effort. a was taken by a St. Louis news- men who were highly poll Montgomery, 5; New Orleans, 2. that third strike. It looked as if the failed to strengthen the weak spot the a winner. seen some young paper last of the various Ameri- following year, and our old luck did educated and brilliant conversational- spring ball was fouled. At any rate, it was out “In other words,” and Mac pulled this A on can teams’ to finish FORTUNE who were blockheads league chances GAMES TODAY. not continue. We finished in the sec- BIG ists regular high of Raub’s reach and If It was not fouled one on the ‘‘it is what the level, a It was not that they didn’t Mobile in Birmingham. ond division. The following year we ball club. up, the experts generally awarded the then Fleharty was guilty of a wild French might call esprit de corps.' If of Memphis in Atlanta. got many new faces, but the new faces have the brains. given plenty Philadelphians a berth in the second di- “Where did Mac?” could outwit the New' Orleans In Montgomery. pitch. and the old faces played bad ball, and FOR JOHN KLING you get the French, time they probably vision. must have tlie cropping out of Internal dissen- fool If I told I others, but in baseball we Little Rock in Nashville. "Might you you played ”C. McGillicuddy will have a grand ball Had Raub caught this ball we would tion sent us to the cellar and the men who can think and act sim- Harry ball In wouldn’t it?” It cer- Paris, yard and u poor team,” chuckled those have won. to the official block. ultaneously—on the Jump. Thoughts BY BILL AX. Vaughn did. I was over there New York, 19.—President Ebbetts tainly “Sure, come to him in a flash and not who thought they could out the Had Fleharty taken a chance of walk- Tills year we got a new team en- July must dope The Barons with a crowd of ball for a That’s what were almost persuaded to and it should have caused no of the Brooklyn club has players after mature deliberation. race. Mack has the great ball ing Sabrie we might have won. tirely, plant, leave the cellar and we had a I mean quick thinkers, and they yesterday afternoon, but surprise that some wreak spots were made the Chicago club an offer of $20,000 long time, jimdandy by all right, and apparently a team worthy Had Fleharty been allowed to remain be on a team on the threshold | been marvel- are the boys that must of better conditions developed. It would have for Catcher Johnny Kling. who has re- time.” Tills was somewhat of a sur- of it. Last season the Athletics played in the box we might has won. that wins a their ous had Molesw’orth found 15 stars in l championship. they changed minds. j fused to with this prise, but It developed that McGraw poor ball after the first month and a \ Had Dickson been to w'ork after play Chicago year. “As I said, there are three requisites \ And in the when the Barons put a two weeks’ search. f ' ninth, Ebbetts wants to manage the has traveled all over Europe and is fast base running and half of the campaign. They didn’t 1 Fleharty walked the first man up in the Kling —good pitching, get had a lead of four runs, the Mobile Sea extremely well informed on the lilting—and the greatest of these started right this season until ninth we would have won. Now, next year several of those we Brooklyn club. gov- heavy recently, Gulls, advantage of several bad ! probably taking will not be returned. Raftls ernment of tlie various countries—but is the wallop. but they have been going at such a fast Had Raftis made a double in the ninth have today breaks on our hammered six runs j that Is “You cannot bases unless you get part, is not coming south again. Raub is Kansas City, July 19—Johnny Kling to- getting away from the subject. clip that even the Tigers fear them, for ! instead of down we won over the In our half of the ninth running McCay sir,” “a on them, and a game cannot be by pan. seeing his last season in the Southern day when shown the New York dispatch "Yes, emphasized McGraw, Detroit now heads the Is needed to hold Pennsylvanians Otis Stock the old veteran on whom would probably have won. Henline states that he is championship ball club must have a pitching. The pitching dale, j league. go- announcing the Brooklyn club's offer of by only a few great base run- the other fellows down. The batters points. Mobile asked waivers last February, as- It’s hard to figure out just what should Into other company next season, pitching corps, good ing | $20,000 for his services said: Mack insisted that his Then nets and heavy hitters. It is seldom must do the winning." always combina- sumed command of the Gulls, and slow- I be done in a pinch and had Dickson even if It is lower than this. , “President Ebbetts has never had any tion was a good one. some there be a draft or a sale or two. i ‘Perhaps of our life out. retired the side without losing the game. may ly crushed communication with me in to veterans But the indications are that we will j regard my my are slowing up,” remarked And thus was enacted another miserable Molesworth would have been praised. fair in But If the deal Is Connie, ‘‘but I have a begin the season with a pretty , playing Brooklyn. great bunch of failure. As it is—well, he is not praised by the AMERICAN LEAGUE. NATIONAL LEAGUE. pitching staff and this will prove a consummated I will play with Brooklyn juveniles.” Connie wasn’t kidding when fan flock. time the fine nucleus. But at this or any other club that meets my terms. * Won. Lost Pot. Won. Lost. Pet. he made this remark. But there has been even worse than Played. Played. The Athletics think the staff Otherwise I advice Is given not to shall remain In Kansas City." Detroit 81 52 29 642 Pittsburg 78 57 21 .731 look to be far that which Last It was the irony of fate. and away the best team happened yesterday. a chance for bettering so strong that Philadelphia 80 47 83 588 Chicago 78 51 27 .654 in the down in the Barons The Barons hadn’t with such American league, and several of April Montgomery played It is overlooked. Bosnia 84 49 3ft .583 New York 75 46 29 .613 their players are sensational assumed a lead of five runs. Eugene spirit in many days. ClevGThnd 79 45 34 .570 Cincinnati 80 41 39 .513 performers, .429 with many years ahead of them in Ford was twirling for Birmingham and But Memphis lost, too, and there are The fans In Birmingham certainly LONGWOOD LAWN New York 81 30 45 444 Philadelphia 77 33 44 fast any St. Louis 76 32 44 .421 prior to the eighth inning he had every- other chances. But while the poor, old deserve a winner. They patronize Chicago 81 36 46 444 society. kind of a team. Give any other city St. Louis 82 35 47 427 Brooklyn 80 28 52 .854 when he in the world. The were Turtles remain in it Mack, wanted talent to thing Sleepers striking distance, 23 55 295 of the league a tailender for two suc- Washington 78 24 54 .308 Boston 78 strengthen his beaten to a frazzle. must be that are combination, didn't chase not overlooked we what TENNIS seasons and note follows. TOURNEY cessive to the (’loss A Then occurred the ascension. The out on an isle of leagues, which are chock drifting isolation. While It is no use commenting. Every- Ball’s Work. Harmon's Fine Stunt. Splendid full of but sent brigade hammered Ford from is some cast-o$fs, his scouts among “sleeping” it comfort to have Memphis with body knows Birmingham’s attendance, Cleveland. 19—Cleveland and Bos- New York. July 19.—New York and St. July the bush and the hill and hammered the man who suc- us it must be remembered that Robinson to the least, is marvelous. The leagues among the colleges. say Boston, July 19.—Play In the nineteenth ton broke even In the first Louis divided a doubleheader today, the he found de- stand what The ceeded him. When the dust was cleared Crusoe, though Friday, still fans of few cities could annual Philadelphia team didn't cost much lawn tannin tournament started of the year here, Cleveland wlnntng the first game of which went 16 innings, sired to get among civiliged people again. in to away had netted runs! they have stood Birmingham. assemble. Harry Davis, its whaling they eight today on the courts of the Longwood first 0 to 1 and Boston the second 8 equalling a record established on the Polo captain, had made At that time we thought— Cricket club. Brookline, with last This contest, which up his mind to retire Cy Neighbors early in yesterday's game And the association has worked hard, many play- to 2. Ball, Cleveland's shortstop, made grounds year. as this can from the game in and was “Well, such a game hap- gave an illustration of he lost out ers of national entered. The the visitors won 4 to was the second I 19

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