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MORNING. SEPTEMBER 7, 1908. 6 LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY Gathered by ALL LATEST NEWS OF A Staff of Experts THE SPORTING WORLD KETCHEL AND PAPKE WEIGH IN MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMPION AND RIVAL WHO WILL SEALS AND OAKS AT NOON FOR THEIR FIGHT TODAY BATTLE FOR PREMIER HONORS OF THAT DIVISION GET EVEN BREAK HENLEY AND. HARDY ARE BOTH SCRAPPERS ARE BELOW WEIGHT, AND TEST ON THE THE WINNING SCALES WILL BE MERE FORMA LITY TWIRLERS GRIFFIN, TEXAS RECRUIT, SHOWS Each Is in Perfect Condition and Has Made Poundage Without the IN GOOD Slightest Difficulty, Which Indicates They Will Be at Their FORM Best Form When Gong Sends Them After Championship Eagan'i at Vernon This Afternoon—Both Remarkably Confi- Usual Home Run Wins for Commuters In Morning Game—San dent of Winning by the Knockout Route and the Francisco Blanks Cellar Should Be Fast and Furious One Battle a Champs In Afternon fly Press. FACTS REGARDING BIG BATTLE Associated PERTINENT SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6.<-Oakland , and iSan Francisco each won a game Time—3 p. m. ' today. Oakland >> took . the morning I Place—Jeffries Vernon Arena. game by a score of 3 to 8. and the local i Reason—World's Middleweight Championship. team won In the afternoon by 9t0"0.r jThe morning game was closely, don-' Contestants—Stanley Ketchel, Champion. tested and was won •at -' the • last mo- Billy Papke, Challenger. ment, ; when Oakland * succeeded tin ! Distance—Twenty-five Rounds. gathering two hits on Griffin. Errors and lack of hits were responsible for Referee—James J. Jeffries. Oakland's loss of the afternoon : game.. Purse—Sixty Per Cent of Gross Receipts. \u25a0 Morning Game Capacity of House—s2s,4Bo. SAN FRANCISCO ' \u25a0*-\u25a0." :\r-- AB n H a\u25a0; P a c Betting—Ketchel 2 to 1 Favorite. Mahler, Sb ...... 4 1 1 0' 3 »: 0 Curtis, If. 4 0-3 0 »,' 1:' oi.-.o:i Togo, Eight Rounds. Zeldcr, m. 3 ;01 . 0 2 . « 0 Preliminary—Austin vs. r( ...... Henley, 4- 0 3'o '0 11-.l- '\u25a0 ......\u25a0 Referee—Tommy Walsh. William*.•lb ..... 4 0 1 0' 11 '.' 1 1 » 0 Beck, ! ct. 3' 0*- 0 0 2 0 0 Berry, ...... 1 1 0 To reach arena take cars marked Vernon Arena, run- o. 3 .-.' 1"0 1 Jeffries McArdle, 3b........ 311 0 11 0 ning down Spring street from Temple to E.ast Seventh at 3-minute Griffin, p. i 0; o.\u25a0 0 1 10 intervals after 12 o'clock. Before 12 o'clock on East Seventh from Totals 10 2 8 2 '26 H 0. ! • direct IV, . )-' OAKLAND '. \u25a0 '-; ': Broadway. Every car to arena. BILLY PAPKE, CHALLENGER * AB B II S V A B Cook, It :,..i... 4 0 1 0 -.1 8 il, Truendale, ;Jb .... 4 0 0 0 1 •' B'r 0 • JAY DAVIDSON lleltmullsr. it. ... i 1 1 0 1 0 0 EAgan, •». ......41 1 0 330 final formalities preceding the great middleweight cham- BEAVERS MAKE Hlattery, lb 4 1 SO 18 < 8 0 STANLEY KETCHEL, CHAMPION Van Haltren, cf.. »r* 0 ,'J 0 0 0 0 pionship battle at Vernon this afternoon will be observed at Miller. 8b 3"I 0 1 0 2 3, , 0 Lewis, 0. i .00.0 . SViIV/.Oj THE today, when Stanley Ketchel, the champion, and Billy ' 4 noon WINNING FINISH Hardy, p. ....... »'v° < .l' 0 0 Papke, challenger for the title, weigh in at the Jeffries cafe on South Total* ......»0 -:-l ,» .0 27 18 °1 Spring street, according to the articles of agreement between them. Jay Davidson •One out when winning run Beared. Gossip The Rialto SCORE THREE IN EIGHTH AND SCORE IBY INNINGS • By the terms of their agreement they must weigh in at, or under, San Francisco ;.V.....0 0 9 0 0 3 0 0 0— of 0 i—» CINCH GAME Base hit* .......... 1 0 0 0 1 I 1 at owing to the great interest that has 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 —3 158 pounds that hour and regularly. will be noted with pleasure by the Oakland will be good news to Los Angeles baseball cranks that His success Bum hit .*.....! 0 0 1 1 J 1 1 S—» been manifested in the fight the club officials and fighters have ar- catcher In fans. Teddy Easterly, the most promising young GRANEY EARNS VICTORY BY SUMMARY-' ranged the weighing-in performed the balcony at ITthe Coast league, is not to leave the Angel band after double-header today with Port- Home run—En nan. Two-base' hits— to have stunt on The Angels will play a Van Haltren, Siattery.' Sac- Hen Berry has received a telegram from Secretary land, being of the very few Mondays when games TIMELY STICK WORK ley. Heltmuller, the rear of cafe, so that the fans may have an opportunity of all. this one Oakland also rifice —Orlffln, Zelder, Beck, Miller. Van Jeffries the national baseball commission in which the are played In the league. San Francisco and base' on —Qrlf- Farrell of Nagle and Briswalier probably will twirl Haltren. First called witnessing the formality, for such it will be, as both fighters are be- furnished that If Berry desires to retain will double up. fln 2. Struck out—Griffin 2, Hardy 4. Dou- information is Angels. flattery, I Zelder its rights to for the Ellis Knock* Home, Run, ble —KaKan to .to low the required notch and ready to step on the scales. Easterly and will permit Cleveland to waive but with Mohler \u25a0to Williams, filattery to Eagan \u25a0to commission will set aside fact that, despite that Owen Moran Lewis, Blattery to Kazan to Lewis to Miller the services of the youngster, the It is a remarkable Nobody on Bases—Gray Pitches , gams—l:lo. That there will be no difficulty in making the weight is proved Angels well liked by many local sportsmen to beat Abe Attell to Cook to Lewis. \u25a0: Tin»« of: the order granting the draft of Cleveland upon thb is ' and Flynn. , today, there is practically no money in sight to back Him Four Rounds and Gives Umpires—O'Connell ,\u25a0;% , in the fact that Papke been below weight for several days and Easterly. Did Hen lose any time in accepting this going has for here. The fans are not convinced that Abe is Hack Way to Koestner ':<\u25a0-• : Afternoon Game unexpected decidedly welcome news? He did not. expected to give the Ketchel has held himself within less than two pounds of the required and and unless such is the case he is SAN FRANCISCO ''\u25a0 notifying commission and the a good spanking. He burned up the wires the English boy - AB II H S .PrA.'Hi notch for nearly a week. As a precautionary measure, the man- retained with thanks. - ' , ,1 Cleveland club that Easterly will be boys to San Pedro ' COAST JJSAGL'IE STANDING Mohler, 2b I 0,,, 3 1.'2 .5 Hen Berry took a bunch of press ; ...... 8 1,0 0 0 " 8 agers of the have bean testing the of principals Now, if some other major league club does not make draft midnight, fishing trip, the party Clubs— . • Won. Lost. Pet. Curtis. If 0 fighters weight their last Saturday, on a and In Angeles 79 St .872 Zeider, si 4 1 1 1 I-.-,«.. 0 . for before the drafting season closes, Hen will have fifteen from ...... 0 him spent day the ocean, about miles out Ban lianrlico 73 6 8 2 1 1 0. meantime and will do so again this morning, several hours before at least. the on 74 .497 Melcholr, rf. .... '" his crack catcher through next season, Sau Pedro. Berry tried unsuccessfully to catch a flsh all Portland ... 65 68 .489 Williams, lb ... 4 1 1012 , «.'.•,. the lime set for making weight. Both managers are business men forenoon and finally quit in disgust, crawling onto a seat Oakluud (4 77 .494 Back, cf 4- 1; 2 14 0 0 sudden de- and taking a four-hours' nap. When he awoke, Berry, c 8 11 .0. 1 0 0 It ia presumed that the motive behind this cushion By Associated Press McArdle, Sb 4 1 will exercise good business judgment in taking these ordinary, the again and to his surprise, as well as that of all \u25a0-\u0084.' i'\u25a0./...' i ;'. ..... 1, 1. 5*f(S I"^L and sire of Cleveland to waive its draft of Easterly ia that he tried '• Henley, P. .-4 0 secured another catcher who may appear a bet- others in the party, ho landed seven big albicore. This PORTLAND, Ore., Sept B.—Portland ... v ' •*'J^J "'!' although necessary, precautions. club has got exciting Klllf«r, c J|*4_l• \_• lj.ilI possibility Easterly. The youngster Is hitting saved his reputation as a fish story teller. The party won one of the most games of ••••••J J> ter than photographs Angeles today. The prospect for rain yesterday constituted the only marring the ball tor keeps and is showing steady improvement in tVyenty-one albicore and then posed for a few the season from Los J :' Totals ......87?» 18 '-.•\u25a0 »t,\l*,>* great work behind the willow, so Berry believes he before returning home. The teams see-sawed back and forth all OAKLAND y\ ,.'.'»ji* his way eighth, Oraney 't feature that could be conjured to make the fans a bit uneasy. Other- will be 100 per cent better next season than now. The the to the when ABCB H^B P A H Berry meantime, the following won his own game with a single that " news is made doubly welcome to because he has Unless changes are made Cook.