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The Bee's Special Sunday
Sport Pages
CENTRAL HIGH
PREPARES FOR
HARDSCHEDULE
But Few Veterans Will Return
to Participate in Stiff Pro
gram of Foot Ball
Battles.
CENTRAL'S SCHEDULE.
Sept. H Commerce High, at Omaha.
Oct S Sooth High, at Omaha.
Oct. 12 Council Bluffs, at Omaha.
Oct. 18 Norfolk, at Norfolk.
Oct. 26 North Oca Moines, at Omaha.
Not. 2 Sioux City, at Sioux City.
Not. S Sioux Falls, at Omaha.
Not. Lincoln, at Lincoln.
Not. S3 Beatrice, at Beatrice.
Not. 28 St. Joseph, at Omaha.
With a handful of veterans and a
stiff schedule of 10 games ahead, Cen
tral High will open its 1918 foot ball
season on September 28, when Coach
Mulligan' will send a new combination
to meet Coach Green's eleven from
the i High School of Commerce.
' Cbach Harold Mulligan is the rock
on which the Purple and White will
base its championship aspirations.
Uncle Sam has not yet claimed the
services of the Central mentor, al
though a call may come at any time
during the season. t
"Little Dave" Noble, the only back
field man to return, is expected to
have a large part in determining the
outcome of the season. Noble de
veloped some "tank" action tactics
during the climb up the championship
ladder last season, which were always
good for substantial gains. Captain
Art Logan, Ed Moser, Chris Crowell
and Schafer are the only other men
to return. Bob Russell will not be
among the men to answer Mulligan's
call, since marine corps posters have
lured him to get on an end run around
the Hindenburg line. Harold Eaton,
who subbed at quarter last year, may
return.
The contest with the Joetown lads
billed for Turkey day is looked for
ward to as the toughest of the 10.
The Missouri lads have a big sore
spot over their defeat last year at the
hands of the Central warriors and
their ambition of the season is to take
home the Omaha scalp when they
leave here after the fray.
North Des Moines High is a new
name on the schedule and was placed
there because of the classy brand of
pigskin frolic displayed last year. Lin
coln will play at Omaha and will be
as strong as ever, save that Bob
Hager, the coach, has gone. Ben
Beck, former coach of the Iowa City
High school eleven, is the new men
tor. Trapshooting Tour Planned
for Benefit of Red Cross
A fall tour of trapshooters for the
benefit of the Red Cross is being
talked among leading scatter gun
cracks and would undoubtedly, draw
large crowds. The idea is at least
worthy of consideration.
Trapshooters have been doing their
best not their bit for the Red
Cross ever since the war started.
One of the leading professionals re
cently said: "No sport has done more
for the Red Cross than trapshooting,
and we will see to it that no sport
will do more."
They have donated ambulances.
Every state shoot has donated a por
tion of the purses to the Red Cross
and several thousand dollars was rea
lized at the Grand American handi
cap. In addition to this practically
every gun club has held one or more
Red Cross benefit shoots.
Ammunition companies as well as
the' shooters favor the idea and will
undoubtedly complete the plans be
fore cold weather. Nebraska cracks
favor the idea and will undoubtedly
have one or more representatives on
the tour.
The suggestion which apparently
meets with the most favor is a compe
tition between the eastern and west
ern cracks. The two sections of the
country have had little opportunity to
meet in competition of this kind and
should present a good drawing card.
Lampkin Breaks Record
in Roamer at Des Moines
Ray Lampkin, driving his Deusen
burg motor equipped Roamer, set four
dirt track marks at auto races in Des
Moines, la.
New Old
Record. Record.
10 miles 11:26.40 11:30.00
IS miles 17:20.60 17:54.60
20 miles 23:09,40 23:54.80
25 miles 28:59.00 29:40.20
Lampkin added to his laurels Satur
day by breaking the world's record
for 25 miles on a half-mile dirt track
- when he won the Hawkeye sweep
stakes at the Iowa State fair from
seven contestants.
The Victor Motor company of
Omaha has one of the Duesenburg
equipped Roamers on display at 2525
Farnam street now.
Camp Dodge Athletic Men
Transferred to Georgia
Camp Dodge, la., Sept. 31. Both
Capt. John L. Griffith, athletic di
rector at this cantonment, and Mike
Gibbons, boxing instructor, have been
transferred to Camp Gordon, Ga., but
it is not known here whether the
change -will be permanent or is merely
temporary.
Captain Griffith's work here at
- tracted wide attention among recrea
tion leaders in army service and sev
eral prospective camp athletic direc
, tors observed his work before taking
up their duties. A number of camp
boxing instructors also received their
preliminary experience under Gib
bons. Ducks Start South from
Alaska Earlier Than Usual
Dawson, Yukon Territory, Aug. 24.
Fully two months ahead of their
usual time for migration, vast flocks
of wild ducks are passing southward
over Dawson. At times the Yukon
river here is black with the birds.
Forest fires north toward the Arctic
circle or some strange action of na
ture, it is believed, is probably re
sponsible for the early flight Many of
the ducklings are hardly able to fly.
Athletic Carnival Will Be
Held on September 14th
An athletic carnival of large pro
portions will be staged at the Omaha
Auditorium September 14 under the
auspices of the Omaha Elks. The
carnival will be a patriotic benefit
from which all the receipts will be
turned over to the Salvation Army
war fund.
Gene Melady, well known Omaha
spo.....an and manager of Earl Cad
dock, the world's champion wrestler,
will act as ringmaster of the event
and he has been given the task of
procuring the talent
Melady already has begun to pull
the wires to bring a number of the
top-liners in the world of sport to
Omaha for the event. It is the plan
to have a first-class carnival and Me
lady has been told by the Elks to go
the limit.
Several boxing matches and wrest
MURRAY WINS
WAY TO FINAL
TENNIS RECORO
"California Meteor" Defeats
Indoor Champion; Will Next
Meet Tilden or Jap For
Titular Honors.
Forest Hills, N. Y., Aug. 31.-R.
Lindley Murray, California tennis
player representing the Niagara Falls
tennis club, won his way into the
final round of the 37th annual turf
court championship here today and
next Tuesday will meet either W. T.
Tilden, jr., of Philadelphia, or Ichiya
Kumagae for titular honors. Murray
won his place in the final by defeat
ing S. Howard Voshell, national in
door champion, who entered from the
Terrace club of Brooklyn, 6-4, 6-3,
8-6.
Kumagae advanced from the fifth
round to the semi-final at the expense
of Lyle E. Mahan, winning at 4-6;
6-3; 6-0; 6-1. The Japanese will play
Tilden Monday and the winner will
be bracketed with Murray.
Conditions were unfavorable for
fast play. A high and fitful wind and
heavy atmosphere made it difficult
to hold racquets firmly or control
the ball. The indoor champion gave
Murray some of the hardest opposi
tion that the Californian has faced
in the tournament. Murray had the
advantage of his smashing service and
ability to hold the net at critical mo
ments. v
Plays Service Line.
He did not elect to take a stand at
the barrier, frequently playing
from the service line, much o the
time with softer strokes than is his
usual custom. He forced much of
the play to Voshell's back hand and
the latter was obliged to depend for
the majority of his points to passing
shots close to the side lines, inter
spersed with an occasional sharp
cross-court smash which seldom
was more than a foot or two beyond
the net in its flight.
Murray easily held the upper hand
in the first two sets, but with the
match turning against him in the
third set Voshell lifted his game to
remarkable heights and by taking
desperate chances, in which fortune
appeared to favor his play, ran into
a lead of 4-2. His footing and rac
quet work at this point elicited
rounds of applause. It appeared as
though the match would go into ex
tra sets, for Voshell was driving and
chopping the ball to inaccessible
points of the court, notwithstanding
the fact that Murray tried for every
thing. At this stage Murray changed his
tactics and anchored himself at the
barrier and by spread-eagling, first
at one side and then at the other,
broke through Voshell's service and
offensive until he had regained the
lead. The Brooklyn player fought
for every point and the rallies were
both long and brilliant, but Murray's
great agility and net smashing, com
bined with his service aceing, finally
gave him the lead of 7-6. Voshell
threw away his last chance of victory
by three double faults in the closing
game.
Build Gym for Aviation
Mechanics at St. Paul
St. Paul. Minn . Atitr 31 Ammv;.
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mateley $25,000 is to be spent for the
construction or a modern gymnasium
at the aviation mechanics school here.
Scores of athletes, many of national
prominence, enlisted in this service.
Plans provide for a basket ball
floor, bowling alleys, hand ball courts,
a gymnasium proper, boxing rings
and a hall with a seating capacity of
3,000.
Iowa Track Star Awarded
French Medal for Bravery
Sioux City, la., Sept. 31. For "dis
tinguished behavior under fire," Bern
ard A. Brown, former Morningside
and Drake university track star, now
a member of an ambulance corps in
France, has been awarded the French
Croix de Guerre, according to word
received by his parents here.
Kansas City Boxer
Instruct in Army Camps
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 31. Harry
Brewer of Kansas City, a former wel
terweight star, will become a boxing
instructor at Camp Sheridan, Ala
Brewer was somewhat disappointed
because he was not assigned overseas.
He plans, however, to ask for a trans
fer to a camp in France.
Great Lakes Naval Team
Defeats Havelock, 5 to 1
Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 31.The Great
Lakes Naval Training Station base
ball team defeated Havelock here
today by a score of 5 to 1. Score:
A. H. E.
Great Lakes i $ j
Havelock 1
The Omaha Sunday Bee
ling bouts will feature the carnival
with other miscellaneous sport events
and vaudeville numbers to fill out the
program.
Benny Leonard, Jack Dempsey.
Jess Willard and Joe Stecher are
some of the headliners Melady has
asked to appear in Omaha. Gene
has great hopes of landing Leonard
and Dempsey and believes Stecher
will be able to get leave from the
navy to come.
All of the receipts from the event
will go to the Salvation Army war
fund as the Elks and Melady are
donating their services as will the
performers. The Elks' committee in
charge of the event consists of Carl
Marfisi, chairman, George Brandeis,
Miles Greenleaf, Gus Renze, Howard
Goulding, Charles R. Docherty and
Billy Byrne.
'BIG LINE' HfRSES
GO TO HARTFORD
FOR WEEK'S SHOW
Bay State Circuit and Driving
Club Equines Have Monop
oly on Last Day at
Readville.
Readville, Mass., Aug. 31. Bay
state circuit and driving clubhorses
had the track to themselves this aft
ernoon when the final day's meeting
of the Grand circuit was held here. In
order to reach Hartford for the
Grand circuit opening Monday, and
the big Labor day stakes the "Big
Line" trotters and pacers had to be
shipped this morning.
Forest B. won the 2:14 trot in
straight heats, coming to the front
in each heat after trailing to the last
turn.
Patrick Duluth won a seven-heat
race in the class for 2:18 trotters,
leading Rosa Watts home in the final
mile.
The Metropolitan for 4-year-old
trotters owned by members of the
Metropolitan Driving club of Boston,
was won by Leonard C, driven and
owned by N. S. Crossman. Sum
maries: 2:14 class, trotting, purse $500.
Forest B (Gllles) 1 1 1
Earl Wood, L (Doore) 2 2 3
Sir Todd, II (Proctor) S 5 2
Worthy Blngen (Crozler) I
Prlnelda (Ralston) 4
Watercress (Harding) d's
Time: 2:104. 2:10U. 2:1114.
2:18 class trotting, purse 11,000.
Patrick Duluth (Crozler 4 11114 1
Rosa Watts (Dore) 1 1 8 2 2 1 2
Mary Magowan (Crossman) . .1 1 4 8 4 3ro
Peter Hopeful (Ollles) 4 1 4 3 2ro
Atlanta Peter (Atkinson) dls
Time: 2:U, 2:1214, 2:10, 2:13.
2:12, 2:14. 2:17.
Eleven Stake Races at Fall
Meets on Kentucky Tracks
Louisville, Ky., Aug. 31. Eleven
stake races will be run during the
fall meetings at three Kentucky
tracks three each at Latonia and
Churchill Downs and five at Douglas
park with a total value of $32,000.
At Douglas park, the stakes in
clude the Douglas Park Inaugural
Handicap, $2,000 added, for three-year-olds
and up; at a distance of
one and one-sixteenth miles; the
Beechmont Selling Stakes, $1,500 add
ed, two-year-olds, five and one-half
furlongs, and the Louisville Cup
Handicap, $2,500 added, three-year-olds
and up, two miles.
At the Latona track will be the
Inaugural Handicap, $3,000 added,
three-year-olds and up, one and one
sixteenth miles; the Fort Thomas
Handicap, $3,000 added, two-year-olds,
six furlongs; Autumn Selling
Stakes, $2,000 added, three-year-olds
and up, two and one-quarter miles;
the Queen City Handicap, $5,000
added, two-year-olds, one mile.
At Churchill Downs the three fix
tures are the St. Leger Handicap,
$2,500 added, three-year-olds and up,
two miles; the Falls City Handicap,
$1,500 added, three-year-olds and up,
six furlongs, and the Golden Rod
Selling Stakes, $1,500 added,two-year-olds,
six furlongs.
List of Players Eligible
For Championship Games
Cincinnati, O., Aug. 31. The fol
lowing is the list of eligible players
for the 1918 series, as announced to
day by the National Base Ball com
mission: Chicago National League Club
Fred Mitchell, manager; Barber, Car
ter, Clark, Deal, Douglas, Flack.
Hendrix, Hollocher, Killefer, Knabe,
McCabe, Mann, Martin, Merkle,
O'Farrell, Paskert. Pick, Tyler,
Vaughn, Walker,. Wortman, Zeider.
Boston American League Club
E. G. Barrow, manager; Agnew,
Bush, Cochran, Coffey, Dubuc,
Hooper, Jones, Kinney, Mclnnis,
Mays, Mayer, Miller, Pertica, Ruth,
Schang, Scott, Shean, Strunk,
Thomas, Wagner, Whiteman.
Great Lakes Ball Club
Pays Visit to Capital
Lincoln, Aug. 31. (Special.) The
Great Lakes baseball club, which is
playing a series of three games with
the Woods Brothers Havelock base
ball club, winners of the city league
pennant, arrived in the city this morn
ing and were entertained at lunch at
the commercial club rooms at noon.
C. E. Matson introduced the speak
ers, who were P. A. Barrows, repre
senting the city league; Will Israel
representing the Havelock club, and
Messrs Pool and Jones of the visiting
sailor boys who responded to the ad
dresses. At the close Private
Douglass, who was present and who
spent three years in the trenches and
discharged because of wounds, talk
ed of his experiences.
De Palma Clips" Record.
New York, Aug. 31. Disregarding
a large hole which had been burned
in the board track at Sheepshead
Bay. Ralph De Palma. the automo
bile racer, today clipped 6 seconds
from the track record, covering 4
miles in 2 minutes and 3 seconds.
OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1918.
Y. M. C A. Secretary in "Battle Array" "Over
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CHAMPIONSHIP
FLAG CLINCHED
BY BOSTON TEAM
Pitcher Ruth's Ail-Around Play
Feature of Deciding Game;
Washington and Cleve
land Win.
Boston. Aue. 31. Boston clinched
the American league pennant bv
winning the first game of today's
doubleheader from Philadelphia, 6
to 1. Watson, who was hit freelv
throughout the opener, pitched all of
the second came, hnldino; Rnstnn in
one hit, and Philadelphia won, 1 to 0.
Kutns an arouna play, including his
double to deep center field which
just missed entering the bleachers,
ieaturea tne nrst game.
Score, first same: II n n
Philadelphia ....10000000 01 3 i
Boston , 0 1 1 1 S 0 0 0 6 12 1
Batteries: Watson anil Parkin.- nnih
and Schang.
Score, second sum w tt w
Philadelphia ....00000100 0 1 s i
Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 1 1
Batteries: Wntann nnrl' Parkin.- TO.h
Kinney and Asnew, Mayer.
uievclund Boats Ihicaffo.
Chicago, Aug. 31. Cleveland beat Chicago,
2 to 1, today, In a listless game. Two
bases on balls and a RnrrifloA flv hv gnnak.
er scored a run In the first lnnlnir and
In the fifth O'Neill's triple behind Evans'
single accounted for the other. Chicago
outhit the winners, 11 to 6, but poor
base running let three men be caught at
the plate and the locals did not score until
the ninth, when Collins doubled and a
single brought him In. President James
Punn announced today that his team will
disband tomorrow night and not go to St.
Louis for a Labor Day doubleheader, Tho
Cleveland players are anxious to start
essential work . Tuesday, Dunn explained
Score:
R H E
Cleveland 1 0001000 02 S O
Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 0
Batteries: Enzmann and O'Neill; Russell
and Devormer, Si ha Ik.
Washington Wins.
Washington, Aug. 31 A triple by Lavan
with the bases filled in the first game
gave Washington a lead In today's game,
which New York was unable to overcome.
The local team won the contest, 6 to I.
Score:
R.H.E.
New York 00100000 1 J 7 l
Washington 4 0002000 6 g 1
Batteries: Love, Banders and Hannah;
Shaw and Plclnlch.
Tigers Lose at fit. Louis.
St. Louis, Aug. 31. Hard and timely hit
ting by Tobln, Slsler and Smith enabled
St. Louis to beat Detroit today In the frst
of a three-game seres, 5 to 3. Score:
rue
Detroit I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 S 9 0
St. Louis 0 12 0 10 10 S 10 1
Batteries: Kalllo and Spencer; Rogers
and Severeld.
Giants and Superbas,
Phillies and Braves,
Split Doubleheaders
New York, Aug. 31. New York
and Brooklyn today broke even in a
doubleheader, The Giants took the
first, 3 to 1, and Brooklyn captured
the second, 2 to 1. Score first game:
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Brooklyn 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 01 4 6
New York 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 11 1
Batteries: Cheney and M. Wheat; Toney
and McCarty.
Second game:
RUE
Brooklyn 0 0 0 J 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 0
New York 0 0010000 01 6 2
Batteries: Smith ar.d Miller; Perrltt and
Rarlden.
Philadelphia. Aug. 31. Philadelphia and
Boston divided today's doubleheader. ths
Bravts winning the first, 5 to 2, in the
eleventh Inning and the second game end
ing, 6 to 2, In favor of the Phillies. Scores:
Boston 0 0 0 0 2 00 0 0 0 J 5 ' 3
Philadelphia ....0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 02 8 4
Batteries: Nehf and Wagner; Prendergast
and Adams.
Second game:
Boston 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 02 10 1
Philadelphia ...1 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 6 14 0
Batteries': Crandall and Wagner; Hogg
and Adams.
Clncls Win From Champions.
Chicago, Aug. 31. Cincinnati got an even
break on the series with Chicago by bat.
ting out an 8 to 4 victory In the final game,
Douglas was hit hard, Neale and 8. Mages
leading the attack. Score:
Cincinnati ......4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 3 13 1
Chicago 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 14 7 2
,Clncy. .aln(
Batteries: Luque and WIngo; Douglas,
Barber and Killefer.
Charlotte Boyle Wins
Swimming Championship
Philadelphia, Aug. 31. Charlotte
Boyle, New York, won the women's
national 100-yard outdoor swimming
championship in the Schuylkill river
here today. Her time was 1 minute
11 3-5 seconds. Dorothy Burns, Los
Angeles, was second; Gertrude Ar
telt, Philadelphia, third; Elizabeth
Ryan, Philadelphia, fourth. Olga
Dorfner, Philadelphia, record holder
for the distance, did not compete.
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BASE BALL FANS
WILL SEE FAST
SUNDAY GAMES
Major Leaguers Will Cavort at
Rourke Park and Amateur
Titles Will Be Settled
for Year.
A sporting calendar of exceptional
merit faces the base ball fan of Om
aha today. At Rourke park the Army
and Navy game will be the headliner
and should attract a large crowd.
The navy will be represented by a
team of ex-leagures, many of whom
quit major league teams to enlist in
the navy. They represent the Om
aha Naval Recruiting station. They
will have as their opponents the fast
Camp Dodge team. Every member
of this team has played league ball
and they are considered one of the
fastest teams in any cantonment in
the United States.
Smith, formerly with the Chicago
Americans, will probably be on the
mound for the deep sea boys. He
will have as his battery mate, Wil
liams, formerly with the New York
Americans. Freynick, formerly with
the Philadelphia Americans, will be
used as a substitute pitcher. Several
familiar faces to Omaha fans will be
seen in the navy lineup. Lyck of
Sioux City, t Nye of the St. Louis
Browns, Krug of the New York
Americans, Wahl of Topeka, Dygert
of the State league and Towle of the
State university will be seen in the
bluejackt uniform.
The khaki clad warriors from Camp
Dodge will be well fortified with
big league material. Flattery of
Seattle and Manihain of the Uni
versity of Chicago, will do the hurling
and Agnew of the Boston Americans,
will be seen behind the bat. Rumler
of the St. Louis Browns, Evenson,
Philadelphia Americans and Doven
berg, Boston Americans, wi'.l be seen
in the outfield. The infield will be
composed of equally fast material.
A percentage of the gate receipts
will be given by the military players
to the Red Cross and Salvation Army.
Th$ Great Lakes naval training sta
tion band will give a concert during
the game and an hour concert will
be played before the start of the
game. The game will start at 3
o'clock.
Omaha Amateur Games.
Championship games will be the
bill of fare at the Omaha amateur
parks and fast games are a certainty.
The last scheduled game in the Great
er Omaha league will be played Sun
day. It is probable, however, that
additional games will have to be
played to decide the team standing.
At Luxus park a double header will
be p!ayed. The Armours and Longe
ways, who tied for first place in the
Greater Omaha league, will battle
the Beselins and Holmes White Sox
respectively. A loss by either team
will cost the championship.
At Holmes park the final game of
the city championship series of
Classes B and C of the Omaha Ama
teur Base Ball association will be
played. All four of the contesting
teams are tied, having won and lost
one game each. The Daily News and
J. B. Roots will play the opening
game and the National Cash Regis
ters and Sample Harts will finish the
program.
Kentucky Breeders' 1920
Futurity Has 212 Entries
Lexington, Ky., Aug. 17. Garrett
D. Wilson, secretary of the Kentucky
association, has announced the en
tries to the 11th renewal of the Breed
ers' futurity to be run at the autumn
meeting of 1920. Sixty-eight nomi
nators made 212 entries. Willis
Sharpe Kilmer is the largest nomi
nator, having entered 20. The most
Prominent breeders and owners of
America are represented.
BASEBALL
CAMP DODGE
vs.
NAVY RECRUITING
At Rourke Park at 3:15.
Admission 30c and 50c Benefit
of Soldiers.
All the Latest SportNews
All the Time
EXPECT SMALL
ATTENDANCE AT
WORLD SERIES
Player's Share Limited Under
Regulations; Leading Teams
in Each League Will
Participate.
New York, Aug. 31. While neither
gate receipts nor attendance figures
are expected to be broken at the
coming world series, base ball fans
throughout the country are 'certain
to watch the daily returns with more
thap the usual interest owing to the
changed conditions under which the
series will be played. Two outstand
ing features are apparent which have
not heretofore been faced by cither
the players or the magnates at any
time in the history of the base ball
classic.
No such national or international
crisis has ever prevailed during the
playing of a world series as exists at
this time. Under normal conditions
the annual clash of the pennant-winning
clubs of the rival major leagues
has each season been one of the
events of the year. The play was fol
lowed each day by hundreds of thou
sands of base ball enthusiasts in all
parts of the country. Great cities
and little hamlets in isolated sections
of the continent have witnessed the
daily gathering of throngs before the
bulletin and player boards to follow
the fortunes of the competing teams.
Today the mind of the public is bur
dened with great responsibilities and
cares and the world series at best
can be but a momentary diversion.
Under the circumstances it appears
that, while the games may be well at
tended, there will be nothing like the
great outpouring of fans which has
each year filled the parks to capacity
and swelled the coffers of the clubs
and players. Strange to say, this will
make little difference to the men who
will participate in the diamond bat
tles, for under the new system of
apportioning the winner's and loser's
individual share of the receipts they
can secure but a fixed sum, regard
less of the total of the gate receipts.
Players' Share Limited.
As adopted last winter by the two
leagues and the National commission,
the amended regulations provide that
each member of the winning club
shall receive $2,000 as his share of the
world series proceedes, while the
losers' individual end will amount to
$1,400. The total of these sums will
come from the usual 60 per cent of
the gate receipts for the first four
games of the series. The new ar
rangement, however, calls for l fur
ther distribution of the balance of the
60 per cer-t among the vMswers of the
three clubs which finish the pennant
race of both leagues, respectively,
second, third and fourth.
After the money apportioned to the
players of the two competing teams
has been deducted from the original
60 per cent, the residue will be di
vided upon the following basis: To
the players of the National and Amer
ican league clubs finishing second in
their respective pennant race, 50 per
cent; to the third place clubs, 30 per
cent, and to fourth place 'clubs, 20
per cent.
This new arrangement does not
affect the club owners or the Na
tional commission, however, for the
old rule of distribution still prevails.
Of the 40 per cent of the gate re
ceipts of the first four games, the Na
tional commission will receive.10 per
cent and the club owners 30 per cent.
After four games have been staged
the players cease to participate in
the distribution and the National com
mission will receive 10 per cent and
the club owners 90 per cent. The
winning and losing clubs are called
upon, however, to divide 25 per cent
of their world series share with the
other seven clubs in their respective
leagues. ' 4
Wrestling Should Endure
With Grapplers in Service
(By International News Service.)
New York, Aug. 17. Wrestling is
one sport which may well endure
through the period of the war, de
spite the draft, for the reason that at
least two of the leading American
grapplers, Earl Caddock and Joe
Stecher, are in the service and can
take part in bouts in this country or
in France wheffever they obtain
leave of absence, while many of the
other stars of the mat game are past
the military age. Also, a large num
ber of 'them are not citizens of this
country. The, sport was populat in
New York last winter for the reason
that it was not productive of any of
the scandals which so often mar it,
and as loncj as it is well and honestly
conducted it will find favor with the
public.
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CAPT. COBB BOWS
TO LEAGUE FANS
AS CHAMP HITTER
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Leads American League by
Thirty-One Points When He
Leaves to Join U. S.
Medical Corps.
Chicago, 111., Aug. 31. Capt. Tyrus '
Raymond Cobb, who this week
stepped from the spotlight of base '
ball into the chemical division of the
army, took with him the 1918 bat
ting honors of the American league.
As the Detroit star stood bowing
before the falling curtain of the game,
fandom realized that he had taken
these first honors every year since
1912 with the exception of one season, ,
when, in 1916, Tris Speaker nosed hint
out. Cobb's average, according to
figures released today, is .377. Burns
of Philadelphia is second with .346.
and George Sisler, the St. Louis first
baseman, third with .337.
Cobb, however, did not excel in
base stealing for Sisler, with a total of
40 leads by six over the Georgian.
Chapman of Cleveland is sandwiched
between them with 36. Chapman is
leading in sacrifice hitting with 34,
while Shean of Boston is close up
with 33 and Mclnnis, Shean's team
mate, next with 30.
"Babe" Ruth, the Boston star, and
Walker of Philadelphia remain tied
for honors in the home run hitting
with 11 each. Boston, 1918 champion,
leads the league in club fielding with
an average of .971, but is sixth in bat
ting with .246. Cleveland, the runner
up in the race, tops the league in bat
ting with .260. 7
Leading batters:
Cobb, Detroit, .377; Burns, Phila.
delphia, .346; Sisler, St. Louis', .337;
Speaker, Cleveland, .321; Pipp, New
York, .304; Wood, Cleveland, .3,03;
Baker. New York, .301; Walker,
Philadelphia, .298; Ruth, Boston, .297;
Demmitt, St. Louis, 296.
National Race Close.
Batting honors In the National
league race probably will not be de
cided until the final games of the sea- 1
son Monday, Eddie Roush, the Cin-
cinnati star, is " pressing "Zack";
Wheat, the Brooklyn veteran, for the'
lead, according to today's average,
which include games of Wednesday.
Wheat's mark is .341; Roush is three
points behind him. ' v
There are only two members of the
Chicago club, champions of the leagued
in the select group ot .300 hitters,1
They are: Hollocher, the youthful
shortstop. and Merkle, who considers
his playing record of this season
will forever silence those who dub
bed him a "bonehead." Hollocher,
with an average of .320, dropped into
fourth place, relinguishing third to
Heinie Groh of Cincinnati.
Max Carey of Pittsburgh is certain
to finish, the race with thieving hon
ors. He has stolen 55 bases
wlile George Burns of New York,
next in the list, has 39. Roush is the
leading sacrifice hitter, his total of 31
giving him a lead of five over Moll
witz of Pittsburgh.
In the home run hitting, Gravath
of Philadelphia tops the list withi
seven; Cincinnati is in first place ml
team batting with an average of .278,
while Chicago is second with .267.
Chicago also is second in team field
ing, New York leading with .971.
Leading batters:
Z. Wheat, Brooklyn, 341; Roush,
Cincinnati, 338; Groh, Cincinnati, 333; ;
Hollocher, Chicago, 320; J. C Smith,.
Boston, 313; Daubert, Brooklyn, 313-.
Merkle, Chicago, 304; Burns, Nevrl
York. 296: Young, New York, 294-
tiornsby, M. Louis,
Heydler on the Job. ,
In ths meantime Johnny-on-the-spot
Heydler will continue to perform the duties -of
president of the National less us, eame aa
usual. .,,....
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