Sporting Gossip
Edited by E. L BEDELL.
National League.
Won Lost Pet.
New York. 15 8 .652
Chicago . 20 11 .645
Philadelphia. 15 9 .625
St. Louis.13 13 .500
Cincinnati . 14 17 .453
Pittsburg . 8 10 .444
Brooklyn . 12 17 .414
Boston . 11 18 .379
American League.
Won Lost Pet.
New York. 15 9 .625
Chicago . 20 12 .625
Boston . 15 11 .577
Cleveland . 16 15 .516
St. Louis.14 15 .483
Detroit . 11 15 .423
Washington.11 16 .407
Philadelphia. 8 18 .308
Northwestern League.
Won Lost Pet.
Tacoma. 16 7 .696
Great Falls. 13 9 .591
Spokane . 11 11 .500
Vancouver. 10 11 .476
Seattle.10 13 .435
Butte. 8 15 .348
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YESTERDAY’S GAMES.
National League.
Philadelphia 4, Chicago 3.
New York 4, Pittsburg 3.
Brooklyn 2, St. Louis 6.
Eoston 1, Cincinnati 2.
American League.
No games in the American league;
rain.
Northwestern League.
Seattle 2, Vancouver 8.
Spokane 4, Great Falls 5.
Tacoma 5, Butte 9.
Several of the district court offi
cials worked out on the local lawn
tennis courts last evening.
H. R. Brenneman is a tennis fiend
and spends his spare time on the
courts instead of in them. He ap
peared in the doubles for Valdez play
ed here last fall against the Commis
sion but the match was not finished.
The two teams were very evenly
matched and in the end honors were
easy; many of the games and several
sets going to duece. Mr. Brenneman
and team mate have signified their
willingness to enter another match
which will probably be arranged
against two local players in the near
future.
Manager F. A. Hansen telephoned
Secretary Fleischmann late yesterday
afternoon that it had been raining at
Potter creek for the last three days
and the diamond was in bad condition.
He will report later in the week and
if the grounds do not dry off in shape
for play the fans of Anchorage may
have the opportunity to witness a
double header next Sunday.
. The lawn tennis organization is be
coming so popular that it is neces
sary to have a waiting list for the
players. Both courts were kept going
until dark yesterday and judging
from present interest taken in the
game it will be necessary for Mayor
Watts to start work on the two new
courts in order to accommodate the e^
tra players, who are bona fide mem
bers of the organization.
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The decision in the A. E. C.-Farm
ers ga |.e played Sunday at Matanus
ka, protested by Manager Mills of the
Commission, will not be handed down
until Saturday night. Manager Mills
has filed his protest in writing and
Captain Jimmie Cunningham has fil
ed his rebutal. The directors have de
cided that, in order to get more ac
curate information regarding the af
fair and to give each side an equal
hearing, they will have the two cap
tains appear personally before the
meeting and state their cases. Cap
tain Cunningham can not reach An
chorage until Saturday, on account of
business, so the directors of the
league will meet at that time and
hear both sides of the case. Unless
it is necesary no one else will be call
ed and it is thought that the case will
be settled to satisfaction of both
teams interested.
Many athletic events have been ar
ranged in the east for the benefit of
suffering humanity in Europe and the
American Red Cross movement. Just
recently an announcement was made
in one of the larger eastern papers to
the effect that—“1700 women lawn
tennis players of the east will take
part in a tournament early this sum
mer.” Each player will pay the sum
of $1.00 entry fee and the total
amount thus raised will be turned
over to the Red Cross. The tourna
ment has commenced at Long Island
and the paper goes on to state that
the idea has found favor in the west
and south with the lady lawn tennis
players who believe in doing their
part as well as their brother athletes.
Will the young ladies of Anchorage
emulate their eastern sister and per
haps assist the Anchorage Woman’s
club who will push the Red Cross
movement in Anchorage this sum
mer?
The members of the City and A. E.
C. baseball players are about to get
an opportunity to show their grati
tude for what Anchorage has done
for them and can show their apprecia
tion by manual labor. The directors
of the league have decided to erect
bleachers along the north and west
sides of the park and Secretary
Fleischmann has sent out the call for
volunteers. Mayor J. G. Watts has
drawn the plans for the bleachers and
the lumber has been contracted for.
It is up to the boys to do the resl and
as they are good sports and realize
what it means to them they will no
doubt respond to the call which is not
to carry a musket but to dexterously
wield a hammer and saw. This call
is not confined to ball players alone
and the fans are requested to take
part, for in this manner the work can
be accomplished by a few hours work
for a day or two and save unneces
sary expense.
WORLD’S RECORD BROKEN
BY TWO NATIONAL CLUBS
CHICAGO, May 2.—A world’s rec
ord was established when Chicago
and Cincinnati each went nine innings
without a hit or run. The game was
a fine pitching duel between Vaughn
and Toney.
The game was won by Cincinnati in
the tenth, when Kopf singled to right
field, went to third when Williams
dropped Chase’s fly and scored on
Thorpe’s grounder. Prior to this in
ning the visitors had three men reach
first, two on walks and one on an er
ror, but two fast double plays kept
them from second base. Chicago man
aged to get Williams to second on
a base on balls and an infield out.
Vaughn outpitched Toney in the
duel, striking out ten of his oppon
ents to Toney’s three, but Toney’s
support was perfect, Cueto on one
play backing into the left field fence
for Merkle’s long fly.
Groh was banished from the game
by Umpire Orth in the seventh for
arguing a decision. R. H. E.
Cineinnti . 110
Chicago . 0 0 3
Batteries — Toney and Huhn;
Vaughn and Wilson.
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BASEBALL GEMS
IT CONNIE MACK
Greatest Machines Were Ori
oles, Cubs and Athietics.
HOW HE BEAT OUT THE CUBS
When Orioles Swept the Country They
Worked the Hit and Run Style—Op
posing Pitchers Hurled Wide When
Pittsburgh Tried It Out, and Result
Was Laughable.
Connie Mack is winning laurels as
an after dinner speaker. Committee
men in charge of large banquets, espe
cially those having a tinge of sport, are
gleeful when they receive an accept
ance to their bid from the tali leader.
The baseball engineer's forte is the
meat one ilnds in his utterances. In
flected oratorical salad is not for Mr.
Mack, but when be talks he says some
thing.
There wasn't a participant at a re
cent big baseball dinner that didn't re
joice when the toastmaster Introduced
Mr. Mack as one of the speakers.
The well known sage had some
praise for Mordecai Brown and Orvie
Overall that the baseball set should not
miss.
“I saw Brown and Overall pitch In
the world series of 1308 between the
Cubs and Detroit.” said Connie, "and I
thought then that 1 never saw such
wonderful pitching before. Brown was
especially remarkable, and Overall was
little behind him.
“1 made the mental note then that
no club could ever beat them when
they were right. Two years later my
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CONNIE MACK.
club had come forward with a rush
and won the American league pennant,
and we were scheduled to meet the
Cubs in the world series.
“Columns of advance were writteu
about the great Cub machine and how
j the Cub base stealers would run wild
on our catchers. 1 never said this to
any one before, but it wasn’t the Cub
machine or its base runners I feared.
It was Brown and Overall.
“All my plans were made to diagnose
the pitching of Brown and Overall and
try to get under them in some way.
In the series it did not take long for
me to see that Brown and Overall
weren’t the pitchers they were two
years before. We hit both hard and
won the series handily, but I have of
ten thought that had the two Cub
Ditching stat’s been right the series
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4th and D C. P. PEDERSEN, Mgr.
would have been one of the hardest
fought In history and would have taken
seven games to decide.
“I have been in baseball several dec
ades and think that the three greatest
machines were the Orioles. Cubs and
Athletics.
“I was managing the Pittsburgh
team when the Orioles began to sweep
the country. They made the race a
joke by the facility with which they
worked the hit and run. The owners
of the Pittsburgh team came to me and
wanted to know why I didn't work the
hit and run like Hanlon's stars. I re
plied that I would try it.
“We tried it the next day, with laugh,
able results. I had a team of wooden
shoed chaps. Nearly all were as slow
as the proverbial snail. Jake Beckley
was on first when he tried it the first
time. The other fellows saw what we
were going to do, pitched wide, and
Jake was caught twenty feet from the
bag.”
FIRST PAYMENT ON BROWNS.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 2.—The first j
payment of $175,000 on the St. Louis
Nationals was made to Mrs. Helene
Britton today. Subsequent payments
to complete the $350,000 for which the
club was sold will be made during the
next three years.
J. C. Jones, originator of the plan
for organizing a popular stock com
pany to buy the club, said today that
there are about 1,500 stockholders.
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