Sporting Gossip
Edited by E. L. BEDELL.
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National League.
W on Lost Pet.
Kcw York . t2 5 .706
Chicago . 17 8 .680
t*t Louis 10 10 .600
Philadelphia 9 9 .500
Cincinnati . 11 14 .440
ftoston 10 13 .435
Brooklyn 6 11 .353 j
Pittsburg 7 15 .318 j
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American League.
Won Lost Pet.
Boston 12 6 .667
New York 12 7 .632:
Chicago 14 11 .560;
J>» l/ouis 12 11 .522!
Cleveland .11 13 .458
Oetroit 8 12 .400
Philadelphia. 7 12 .368
Washington . 7 13 .350
Northwestern League.
Won Lost Pet.
Tacoma 13 3 .813
Great Falls . .... 8 7 .533
Spokane. 8 7 .533
Seattle 7 8 .467;
Vancouver. 7 9 .438
Butte .3 11 .214
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Saturday’s Games.
National League.
Brooklyn 0. Chicago 1.
New York 6, Cincinnati 3.
Philadelphia 3, St. I.ouis 1.
American League.
Detroit 0, Boston 8.
Clevland 1, Washington 4.
St. Louis 4. Philadelphia 0.
Chicago 2, New York 1.
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Northwestern League.
Seattle 5, Spokane 12.
Tacoma 1, Great Falls 0.
Vancouver 1, Butte 3.
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OLD WAR HORSE
GETS IN THE GAME
George 11. Purvis has resigned as
Manager of the City baseball team and
Jack Robarts has been selected to fill
the vacancy. Owing to the press of
business Mr. Purvis was compelled to
(five up the position and he told a
Times yesterday that he did not feel
that he had the time to give the duties
justice.
The selection of Jack Robarts is an
extremely popular one and meets with
universal favor. Jack is a dyed-in-the-1
wool fan and has always taken a great
xiterest'in spoils of all kinds in An
chorage.
In the estimation of The Times ho
an come nearer giving the City a
winning team than any man in An
chorage and has every ijualification i
for a manager in addition to being
very popular with the players who
made the selection. In talking of his
fdans this morning Mr. Robarts said
that he expected to ask for assistance
from the business men and he is cer
tainly entitled to their support. There
was no change made in the captaincy
f" '
Listen!
I found out who that
Pioneer Painter is. 1
Yes!
He’s the fellow who’s
been doing’ that painting
for those particularly peo
ple.
1 Yours for a city beau
i tiful. (
John J. Ross
Pioneer Painter. Box 116
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and Vic Nicholls will handle the team
on the field. The combination of Ro
barts and Nicholls should prove a win
ner.
A. H. Magnus, captain of the A. E.
C. basketball team, is able to be out
after being in the government hospital
for the past week on account of sick
ness.
Grandjean. the heavy-hitting out
fielder, has been signed by the Mnta
nuska Farmers.
Dune Duncan, who played first for
the Shamrocks last year, will wear a
City uniform this season.
Both the City and A. E. C. teams
were out yesterday and got in several
hours of stiff practice.
Hum Higgins and Bill Spencer, root
ers extraordinary, are getting in voice
trim for the opening game next Sun
day.
Young Brown, who recently came
here from Treadwell, is working out
with the City and solves the question
for one of the fielding positions.
Brown showed up fast in yesterday’s
practice.
J. Storme has accepted a position
with the Fairbanks Clothing company.
Storme is showing up great at third
on the City team.
Versatile Harvey Cline has been
annexed by Manager Robarts. Har
vey plays almost every position and
plays them well.
Paddy Welch has engaged in the
transfer business in Anchorage and
has been assi red of considerable pat
rcrage. Paddy recently came from
the outside and found an old team
mate in Ed. Henning who will proba
bly catch Paddy this season.
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* NOT IN HOTEL LOBBY *
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+ /CHICAGO fans are going to •3’
* ^ liave their troubles finding
4* Manager Mitchell after game ♦
■3* time this summer. The Cubs’ "**
t new manager lias liis eye on a *
^ quiet dwelling place where he *
^ can go into seclusion alter the *
,j. contests. It was suggested that *
A he live In one of the big North
j, Side hotels, but he cannot see it T
* tliat 1
^ "Too many 5> o’clock managers ‘
around there.” was his com- ^
<g, men t. «?,
4, “Nine o’clock managers," he ,j,
.5. explained, “are the fellows who
■S> sit around the lobby and play <j>
+ the game over every evening.
+ When tlie game is over 1 want
■S’ to forget it. But those fellows <j>
•?> are always on the arm of your <i>
•S’ chair telling you wlmt pitcher *»■
•S’ you should have sent in to win •§>
•S’ the game. *3*
•?’ "Nine o'clock managers are the ‘S’
•3’ same the world over. There are *5*
'31 a lot of them in Boston, and 1 '
* suspect they're in Chicago too. *
'f 1 like to do all my ball playing ‘3*
* on the field and forget it in the ‘3’
* lobby." *
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SAWYER FOR THE MINORS.
Griffith Releases One of Funniest
Coaches Ever Seen on Field.
Clark Griffith, manager of the Wash
ingtons, has decided to curtail comedy
on the coaching lines, lie lias re
leased Sawyer, one of the funniest
eoacliers ever seen on the field, to the
Minneapolis club In the American as
sociation. Sawyer in an infielder, but
he didn't play regularly with the Sen
ators last year.
Instead he cut capers on the lines
and made thousands of American
league fans roar with laughter. But
Griffith says that one clown is enough
for any team. He will keep Nick Al
trock to provoke mirth In the hull
parks, and the lutter promises to make
the public forget tlie antics of Sawyer.
This may be a hard task.
Courtesy and Fresh Goods at
Robarts’. 984
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The North Pole Bakery puts up a
rare 25c lunch box. 15
Dr. W. A. Kystrom, dentist, over
Harmony theatre. 810
Garden hose and garden tools at
Bolt* Hardware Co. Phone 90-R. 966
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♦ WILL RAISE FOOD ON *
♦ LANDS OF GOLF CLUBS ♦
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♦ »|*o aid in winning the war *
♦ • against Germany, hundreds ♦
♦ of acres owned by goif ciubs *
♦ throughout the United States ♦
♦ are to be tilled for the produe* <•
♦ tlon of vegetables for America ♦
♦ and the allies, according to plans *
♦ of the Dunwoodle Country club, ♦
♦ New York. ♦
♦ Frederick Upham Adams orig- ♦
♦ inated the plan, which has the *
♦ indorsement of the United Statp* •
♦ Golf association. Its member ♦
♦ clubs will be called upon to take ♦
♦ up the movemeut, and Mr. Ad- ♦
♦ ams point* out that when this Is *
♦ done several millions of dollars ♦
♦ should be realized from the ef- ♦
♦ forts of the thousand or more +
+ such clubs in this country. *8*
♦ Members of the Dunwoodle <•
♦ club, which takes the initiative *!■
4> in this movement, have signed a <*
♦ pledge to set aside for cultlva- ❖
4> tlon all land owned by the club •S’
♦ not needed for golf purposes. <*»
Club members are to cultivate *e
v it, each one working two hours •S’
■3> a week for twenty weeks. 'S’
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MAJOR LEAGUES WASTE
BIG MONEY EVERY YEAR
Jennings Says Clubs Should Cut
Players to Eighteen Men.
Manager Jennings of the Detroit
Americans declares that major league
clubs waste $50,000 a year. He claims
that magnates spend a share of this
money knowing it will be wasted. Kent'
of lieing called “cheap skates" by the
baseball populace is the reason for the
wastage, Jennings says.
Jennings, a student of the old school,
believes that the major league player
limit easily could be reduced to twenty
men and that teams could get along
with a squad of eighteen players.
“The ball team that wins pennants
is the team that bus the fewest num
ber of men.” he declares.
Jennings points out the remarkable
success of the old Baltimore Orioles,
of which he was a member and which
won pennants with a squad that never
totaled more than eighteen athletes.
Very often, the Detroit tuauager de
elates, a baseball manager will recoin
mend to the club owner that several
recruits be released immediately after
they have been looked over at the train
lug camp. Magnates hesitate to re
lease them, fearing they may lose a
diamond in the rough ami be criticised
by fandom. As a result, Jennings said,
many hopeless ball tossers continue
to eat major league meals or Bud fine
berths with (Mass V clubs at the ex
pense of the major organization.
Training expenses and the cost of
traveling, uniforms, equipment, hotel
bills and many minor incidentals
would greatly be reduced, says Jen
nings, if big league ball clubs had the
nerve to employ a squad of twenty
DK-U.
HORSERACING IN SPAIN.
Big Stakes Are Offered For the Coming
Season.
King Alfonso, who took such an ac
tive i>art in Spanish fiat racing last
season with considerable success, has
made many additions to his stables
this year and will lx; prominent when
the sport opens up at San Sebastian on
July 8. There is racing practically
every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
from July 8 to Aug. P. During tin
rest of August racing takes place twice
a week, on Mondays and Fridays and
Mondays ami Thursdays. The big
classics are scheduled as follows:
July 8. Grand Prix de San Sebastian,
value $20,000; July 22. Grand Handi
cap of Sun Sebastian, value $3,000:
July 20. Criteriuni de San Sebastian,
value $4,000: Sept, lti. Gold Ctqi of the
King of Spain, value $10,000; Sept. 30.
Autumn Grand Prize, value$5,000; Oct
7. Spanish Cesnrowitcli. value $20,000.
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4 PIRATES TO TRAVEL 4
4 GREATEST DISTANCE 4
4 4
4 *TMIK Pittsburgh Pirates of the 4
4 National league will travel 4
4 farther than any of their ri- 4
4 vals this year. The Robins, on 4
4 the other baud, have the short- 4
4 est mileage. According to ofli- 4
4 eial figures, the mileage of the 4
4 teams in Governor Tener’s cir- 4
4 cuit is as follows: 4
4 Pirates, 13,180 miles; Cubs, 12,- 4
4 151; Reds, 11,581; Braves, 11,251; 4
4 Cardinals. 10,489; Giants, 9,998; 4
4 Phillies, 9,403; Robins, 9,322; to- 4
4 tal mileage, 87,411. *
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Building paper and roofing at Bolte
Hd-w. Co. Phone 90-R. 966
Dr. W. A. Rystrom, dentist, over
Harmony Theatre. 810
SUN HAS SET ON
GREAT WAGNER
6am Loses One of Its Most
Picturesque Figures.
WAS OLDEST BALL PLAYER
Through Career if Twenty Tears Wag
ner Achieved Betting Average ef JM.
Flayed In Meet Gamee and Nat Onoe
Was Removed From Field by Um
pire.
The aun has art on the baseball ca
reer of Hans Wagner. For the drat
time In twenty year* the Plratee open
ed their baseball season without him.
and hts friends are saying that he has
decided to retire from the game for
ever.
The veteran, who Is at his home In
Carnegie. 1’a., refuses to make a state
ment. His salary was cut by Barney
Dreyfus, the Pittsburgh president,
when the contracts were sent out a
few months ago, and the great ahort
sfop refused to sign.
For some years Honus had been ae
rlously thinking of retiring from the
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Photo by American Press Association.
HANS WAGNER.
game, anti rather thau submit to a
cut in salary after serving the Pirates
through tlie best years of a wonderful
career he decided definitely and deter
minedly to discard his uuiform.
My ills action—anti if is thought In
Pittsburgh that lie will adhere to his
decision—tlie game loses one of its
most picturesque figures. Forty-thretU
he was Feb. 24 last, tlie oldest player
In tlie big leagues.
Dispatches regularly were sent out
from Pittsburgh to the effect that
Dreyfus had signed a recruit who
would fill Wagner's shoes. These dis
patches were sent out for years, but
witli the passing of time it became
more and more evident that the shoes
of Hans Wagner were peculiarly large,
and so Hans Wagner continued to play
shortstop for the Pirates.
Tlie old boy is slowing up, the fans
in the stands would say. tint the old
boy stuck and continued to outplay
many of bis rival shortstops and all
those who aspired to his position with
the Pirates. Hut now it appears that,
the venerable Dutchman Is through
forever.
Through a career of twenty years
Wagner achieved a halting average of
..'124. He lias played in more games
than any player in tlie history of big
league baseball, and not once was he
removed from a game by an umpire.
He was married a few mouths ugo
to Miss Bessie Maine, Smith of Craftou,
Pa. Mrs. Wagner is twenty-six, but
she was six years younger when it was
first rumored that the pair were to
he married. The ceremony was final
ly performed last December, and all
comparisons between Wagner's speed
as a base runner in his early days and
as a wooer ceased.
WOULD CURTAIL RACING.
Bill Introducod In Canadian Parliament
Limiting Number of Tracke.
Turfmen are alarmed just now by
the report that -the Canadian parlia
ment inay curtail racing in the domin
ion. .V bill has been introduced limit
ing tlie number of race tracks in each
province to ouc. Jf the hill passes
nearly twenty tracks in the provinces
of Ontario and Quebec will close their
gates. Last year racing, outside of
British Columbia, was conducted on
the following race courses:
iu the province of Ontario. Fort Erie.
Counaught park, Ottawa; Woodbine
park, Toronto; Dufferin park, Toronto;
Hlilerest park, Toronto; Windsor, Ken
ilworth and Devonshire parks, all of
Windsor, and the Hamilton track.
In the province of Quebec, Delorimer,
Dorval, Blue Bonnets, Maisonneuve,
King Edward, Mount Royal and Kemp
ton parks, ail located at Montreal.
The proposed law will ent the racing
season In Ontario and Quebec to four
teen days in the aprlng and fourteen
in the fall.
THE NEW SPRING SUITS
Arrived on the First Boat
Moo who onjor the finer
things of fife are quick to
realize the rare quality of
TV* (lit
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Northern Transfer Company
COAL AND WOOD.
GENERAL TRANSFER BUSINESS.
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General Expressing.
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All Necessary Supplies for
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W. A. TAYLOR, Proprietor
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MINERAL WATERS, SODA
CIDER, SYRUPS.
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Anchorage - - Alaska
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