§ DEVOTED TO • BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Title Registered in U. S. Patent Office. Copyright, 1910 by the Sporting Life Publishing Company. Vol. 55-No. 11 Philadelphia, May 21, 1910 Price 5 Cents Owing to the Sur "Cubs" in the Old prisingly Weak League Race, and Showing of the the Poor Start of Once Invincible the White Sox in World Champion the Junior Race. BY FRANK B. HUTCHINSON, JR. since they stopped hitting, and the result is HICAGO, 111., May 16. Editor they have stopped winning. "Sporting Life." Neither of our JOHNNY KLING big league base ball teams is play ing the sort of base ball that wins is back in the game, but he is not the J. pennants. The Cubs have broken Kling of the olden days. Of course, he may even three won and three lost strike his inimitable stride in a short time, in their series with the Eastern but to date his work has been mediocre, if teams here, while the White Sox have landed not worse than that. He caught his first game one out of three in the hostile East. The last Sunday against Pittsburg, and the Cubs Cubs started brilliantly against the ©Eastern were beaten, 7 to 4. He has caught four teams by winning three in a row from t©heir games since then. While he has handled near deadly rivals the Giants. This filled the ly everything that has come his way, hi3 fans with much joy, but it was short lived. throwing to bases has been atrocious. His Chance©s men dropped the fourth game to poor heaves have cost the Cubs several runs. New York in the face of some magnificent .He does not appear to handle his pitchers pitching by George Wiltse, but that was to "with his old keen and unerring judgment. On be expected. The really sad part of my tale the whole, Kling, as he is working at present, now comes. The Boston Doves and Fred© Lake is a decided disappointment. Right now it were the next to be entertained, and to be looks as if Jimmy Archer or Tom Needham frank with you, they appeared mighty easy can go in and catch as good a game as Kling, picking while they were in the offing. Whei> but Manager Chance and Acting Manager they hove near shore and unlimbered their Evers have given him every chance to work guns, it was in the hope that he would recover his old- time form. A DIFFERENT TALE. MANAGER CHANCE In the first game Sam Frock, who was traded has been out of the game for a week with » to Boston with Bud Sharpe in the .deal which bad cold, but Luderus has handled the me made Kirb White a Pirate, held the local chanical end of the first base job in good joys to three stingy hits, while the once in shape, but, of course, the presence of the comparable Miner Brown was hit hard enough Peerless Leader is missed. Tinker was out to yield a score of 3 to 0. This looked-like of several games and Artie Hofrnan was on a slip to the still cheerful fans, but when the bench with a bad knee. The© last two are Cliff Curtis, late of Milwaukee, allowed the in the game again now, but it may be some same number of hits in Saturday©s game, they time before the manager will be back in act began to realize that all was not as it should ive service. "Miner"© Brown is also a disap be. While Curtis was doing his, duty with pointment, and the fans are hoping that his neatness and dispatch, the Doves were bat slump is only temporary. He has received ting Orval Overall hard enough to win by a two beatings in the last week and that cer count of 4 to 1. All last season these Doves tainly is an unusual record for him. Last won only one game out of the 22 played Sunday he was sent in against the Pirates with the Cubs. You can well imagine the with men on first and second and with none dismay caused in the Cub camp when they HARRY NILES, out in the eighth inning. A single by Miller \ron the first two games played this year. and a home run from the bat of Flynn, cou A GRAVE QUESTION. Substitute Out fielder of the Boston American League Club. pled with errors by Steinfcldt and Schulte, al lowed the Pirates five and a victory after it Are the Cubs really going back and are Harry Niles, the clever utility player of the Boston lied Sox. was born at Buchanan, they going to be out of the running for the Mich., on September 10, 1881. He began his career with the Binghamton Club, of the New looked as if the Cubs had the game sewed up. pennant this year? That is the question York State league, at second base in 1903 and 190i. Then lie went to the Birmingham On Friday he was hit safely right times by which is causing a lot of anxiety on the West Club, of the Southern League, where his work in 1905 caused him to be bought by the St. Boston and two sensational one-hand catches Side of our fair city these days. While they Louis Browns, of the American League. For St. Louis he played in the outfield his first by Schulte robbed the Doves of two extra were not fortunate enough to win the pen year and at second base in 1D07. In a trade he was sent to the New York American League base hits. Apparently he Was not thought nant last year,, they won 104 games a new Club that Fall and after playing a few months of 1908 with the Highlanders he figured good enough to be used against New York, record for a team finishing second. So far in a deal taking him to the Boston American League Club. In 1908 he was a utility man. as the twirlers used were Pfiester, Overall, this year they have appeared to lack the but in 1909 he played almost steadily in the outfield and at second base. He is 5 feet 8©^ Kroh and Mclntire. snap and smoothness that has characterized inches in height and weighs 176 pounds. TWO MORE DEALS. their work for so long. Their fielding is the Chance has made two deals of interest dur most ragged they have shown since the pres ing the last week. He sold catcher Pat Mo- ent aggregation was put together. In the ran to the Phillies and traded outfielder Doc last week they had one victory in which they Miller, a recruit from San Francisco, to Bos made seven errors, but overcame that handi Tinker, whose leg was put on the blink early is a rare thing «to find a record for a single ton for pitcher Lou Richie. The return of cap by some strenuous hitting. In another in the week when he was hit by a batted ball game including four errors and three singles Kling gave the Cubs four classy catchers, and game they made five errors and lost. Of in practice. Heinie does not profess to be a and a two-bagger. In that seven-error game Chance thought that was too many. Pat was course, many of those misplays were made by shortstop, but he was kept in the game by the Cubs won out, 9 to 5, by batting Mathew- his walloping powers. In the game in which son and Ames out of the box. In the last not showing up as well as Needham and he HEINIE ZIMMERMAN, he made four errors against New York he three games the Cubs have gathered only 11 was the one turne©d loose. Since Pat joined, .who had been filling in. at shortstop lor Joe made four hits in as many times at bat. It bits. Their ragged fielding has not improved (Continued on the second page.) SPORTING LIFE MAY 21, 1910 of the locals in the purchase from the High landers of outflelder Bugle. According to a dispatch from Rochester the locals tried to secure Alperman, formerly of the Brooklyns, but Manager Ganzel refused to part with him. Engle played the infield at times when he was IS PUT OUT OF COMMISSION a member of the Newark Club. The locals had such a tonga time of it against left-hand BY CICOTTE. ed pitchers it was thought advisable to have a man who was a right-hander. He hit for .278 last season and ranked very high as a long-distance hitter. French, who was played The Boston Pitcher Hits His Fel at second owing to the illness of McConnell, failed to make good, and his ragged fielding low Pitcher on the Elbow of His caused his retirement and the substitution of Gardner proved to be decidedly advisable. This was bad, too, as French did some splen Once Wonderful Pitching Arm, did work the last part of last season in the infield. Then there has been a lot of talk Breaking the Joint about changes in the management, and Presi dent Taylor contradicted a rumor that Billy Murray was to assume the reins now held by SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." Donovan. When a club is not going just Boston, Mass., May 14. Poor old "Rube" right there immediately starts a lot of talk Waddell, most eccentric and at one time the about changes. most wonderful southpaw pitcher that ever THE DOVES flung a ball, may never pitch scarcely did themselves proud in St.