Sporting Gossip
Edited by E. L BEDELL.
National League.
Won Lost Pet.
Chicago.20 10 .667
New York.14 8 .636
Philadelphia . 14 9 • .600
St. Louis . 12 13 .480
Cincinnati . 13 17 .433
Brooklyn . 12 16 .420
Boston.11 IT .303
Pittsburg. 8 10 .2061
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American League.
Won Lost I'ct.
New York.15 0 ' .625
Chicago. 20 12 .625
Boston . 15 11 .5T7
Cleveland . 16 15 .516
St. Louis.14 15 .4S3
Detroit . 11 15 .423
Washington . 11 16 .40T
Philadelphia . 8 18 .30S
Northwestern League.
Won Lost Pet.
Tacoma.16 6 .T2T
Great Falls. 12 9 .5T1
Spokane . 11 10 .524
Seattle . 10 12 .455
Vancouver. 9 11 .450
Butte . T 15 .318
Y ESTERDAY’S GAMES.
Northwestern League.
Seattle 5, Butte 4.
Vancouver 4, Great Falls 6.
Second Game—Vancouver 3, Great
Falls 7.
Tacoma-Spokane; rain.
National League.
Boston 5, Cincinnati 1.
Brooklyn 6, St. Louis 1.
Philadelphia 5, Chicago 4.
New York 4, Pittsburg 5.
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American League.
Cleveland 3, Philadelphia 5.
St. Louis 6, Washington 9.
Chicago 8, Boston 2.
Detroit-New Y'ork eleven innings
tie.
The lawn tennis courts were occu
pied Sunday morning for the first
time and again yesterday afternoon.
It is reliable understood that the di
rectors of the Cook Inlet Baseball
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league will erect bleachers on the
north and west of Athletic Park.
Recreation bowling alleys played to
an all night house Saturday night and
several large scores were made during
the play as follows: Ganty 238, Carl
son 230, Komos 221, Ivrygier, 214 and
Twedale 200.
The new suits of the Turnagain
Arm team are real nobby with caps
and stockings to match; gray with
black trimming with the letters ‘T.
A.” in black, across the shirt front.
The result of Sunday’s game was
highly satisfactory and the manage
ment is to be congratulated on the ef
ficient manner the game was conduct
ed. In addition to being a success
from the standpoint of clean athletics
the receipts of the game wiped out the
balance of the indebtedness on the
grand stand, with the assistance of
Sid Anderson who generously over
looked the deficiency in the interest.
All current debts and the umpire's
s;ilaries were also paid and the league
now presents a clean sheet, which is
laudatory. Barney Watson, treasurer
of the league, will celebrate the occas
ion by burning the note at the regular
league meeting tomorrow night.
The Times made arrangements with
its Matanuska correspondent to write
up the A. E. C.-Farmer ball game Sun
day, together with the box score. The
account has failed to reach this office
but judging from the fans who saw
the game it was on the order of mid
season baseball. The new men on both
teams showed up in good form with
Chesterfield and Grandine especially
distinguishing themselves. It is un
fortunate that the first game should
be marred by dissention but the prero
gative of protest is always available
and will be settled by the directors of
the league tomorrow night. Both
sides stand pat in their assertions
and whichever way the decision goes
some one will be disappointed.
Tom Finnegan, one of Seward’s real
baseball players, arrived in Anchor
age yesterday afternoon on the Ad
miral Evans, too late for Sunday’s
game. Tom reports that the town of
Seward has as yet made no efforts to
organize a team but will be in shape
for the series to be played in Anchor
age in July. He will play with the T.
A. team this summer and is a valuable
man on the diamond as well as an ex
perienced surveyor and accountant.
Tom says that Sport Smith will ar
rive on the S. S. Alaska and George
Cotter has entirely recovered from his
misfortune of frozen feet and has
gone to Snug Harbor on a hunting
trip. Tom has applied for service in
the U. S. army and expressed a wish
to join the first contingent of Ameri
can soldiers to leave for the front.
Several of his Anchorage friends have
used their influence in his behalf, not
because he is a crack ball player on
an opposing team, but because they
believe that Alaska should be repre
sented on the firing line anil know of
no one better or more capable for the
honor than Tom Finnegan.
There are other ways to use the
pulling power of Alaska dogs than
hitching them to sleds in the winter
time and it was up to Fred Tiffany to
suggest the latest one, which is par
ticularly original. Jimmie Powerie
was in a quandry Saturday in regard
to getting the diamond roled and in
fast playing condition for Sunday’s
game for it was impossible to use
heavily shod horses on the roller for
they would cut and mark the diamond;
the 2000-pound roller was too heavy to
push by hand and a floor polisher was
entirely too slow a process. Jinnnie
was up against it when along came
Tiff who suggested his five malamutes.
The suggestion was tried and the
dogs accordingly hitched to the heavy
roller with Tiff driving and Powrie
on tne “gee pole.” The result was
satisfactory as could be by the splen
did shape the diamond was in for1
Sunday’s game.
BATTLEFIELD SPORTS.
Soldier* Relieve War Strain With Foot
ball, Boxing and Wrestling.
Even if sports are to be abandoned
in the United States, they receive as
much official encouragement as possible
in France behind the trenches.
The following letter from one who
witnessed a football game behind the
lines is testimony to its popularity:
“You cannot imagine a more magnifi
cent sight than the vast field presented.
There was an immense plain, in the
center of which the football field wyis
indicated by a rectangle formed of
5,000 French soldiers. At one end an
improvised little grand stand had been
made, composed of fallen trees, all
kinds of planks and an odd collection
of chairs, all decorated gayly with
army flags. The goal posts were regi
mental flags mid the umpire the army
chaplain, who had girded up his cas
sock to his knees and entered thorough
ly into the sport. The contest was be
tween the young soldiers of Paris and
the old soldiers on the front, or. as we
say here, between the 'bleuets' and the
•poilus.’ The game was arranged by
the president of the French Sporting
society of Paris, it was a great con
test, splendidly played. The young sol
diers won. After this there were cross
country runs and bomb throwing exer
cises. The regiment's records were ex
cellent, some men throwing fifty-six
yards, all this, mind you, while the
German cannons were roaring a few
miles off.”
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Life Staff on draught. Where? Only
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PLAYERS WORKED
HARD IN OLD DAYS
Baltimore Oriolss the Greatest
Team. Says Hughey Jennings.
ALL KIT OVER .300 MARK
Would Spend Hours Dally Hitting Out
the Call—Went to Work at 9 In Morn
ing—Player of Today Hates to Give
More Than Twenty Minutes to Cat
ting Practice.
Hughey Jennings was talking of
players of today nml of yesterday.
Naturally lie spoke at length of the
greatest of ail ball clubs of tlie past—
the Baltimore Orioles of the nineties,
the team of his playing days, the team
of HcGraw, Keeler, Kelly. Uobiuson
and Brodie. “The .300 hitter is a rarity
now," said tlie Tiger leader. “When
McGraw and myself played bail a man
iiad to hit .300 to lie considered of
much value to a club. There were u i
lot of .300 hitters in the old days. That
does not mean, though, that the pitch
ers were not up to the present stand
ard.
‘.'When we played ball there wero
not the high salaries that prevail to
day; also there was not the tendency
Photo by American Press Association.
HUGHEY JENNINGS.
among players to give ns little time to
the game at which they were making
their living as possible.
“AlcGraw, Kelly. Itobinson anil my
self would spend hours practicing bat
ting. When we were playing we would
go to the park at 9 in the morning
and stay there until after the game.
We were not ordered to do this. We
did it because we loved to play ball
and wanted to make ourselves as pro
ficient as possible. That is why we
could hit .300 or better.
“The player of today hates to give
twenty minutes to batting practice.
After he hits a few times he doesn’t
care about missing his turn. The
stars don’t practice at all after the
season opens and they are in condition
to pity.
“I have an old picture at home that I
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consider the most unusual baseball
photograph ever taken. It is of Mc
Graw, Kelly, Brodie, Robinson and
myself on the old Baltimore grounds
twenty-two years ago. The reason the
picture Is so unusual is that it was
taken after the season bad closed and
we had won the pennant. Do you get
it? It is a photograph of five of the
champion Orioles at morning practice
after the National league race was
over and they had won the flag.
“I’m% not one of those who rant of
the good old days gone by and say
that the modern player does not com
pare with the old timer in general abil
ity. I will say this, though—in love for
the game and desire to perfect them
selves in all angles of play the men of
the generation gone by were 1,000 per
cent beyond those of today. That la
why so many more of them hit over
•300."
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