Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 52, Hammond, Lake County, 18 August 1913 — Page 3
Monday, August 18, 1913.
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Stars of Auto Game Preparing to Start Practice for Elgin Events.
at Keokuk. Is one of the original "Barnacled," and Adam Weckler of the aame city has even named his new twenty-foot racing boat after the new order.
Chicago Is the Mecca for racing:
drivers, for never before In the history of the sport have so many famous pilots been gathered together as will be In Chicago this week. The Llbertyvllle speedway meeting drew several stars like Disbrow, Hearne, Bill Endicott, Rickenbacker, Chandler, Luttrell, Wilbur and others, and Elgin will be the magnet that will attract many more. Leading the vanguard of drivers who are coming to compete In the El
gin races of August 29 and. 30 was Harry Grant, two-time wlner of the Vanderbllt cup and hero of many other big speedway and road races. Grant arrived Thursday with his Isotta racer and at once secured his racing camp. He was accompanied by his mechanic and a helper and at once took possession of quarters at. the McCormick farm on the south leg of the course. The camp Is the same one he occupied when he drove an Aleo at Elgin In 1911. Grant made several rounds of the course In a touring car and pronounced the circuit the best In the country. He was particularly pleased with the change made at McQueen's turn, where the shap corner has been done away with and a wide curve substituted. He thinks the change will mean a rise In the average time of about four or five miles an hour. Grant's Isotta is the same one he drove In the last 500-mile race at Indianapolis, but it is in much better shape than before. It has been thoroughly rebuilt, and that it is one of the fastest machines ever raced Is Indicated by the fact that Grant in a recent road trial got It up to a speed of over 100 miles an hour.
UMP RESCUED BY COPS Cairo, 111., Auy. 18. Prompt action on the part of the police saved Umpire Lauson from rough treatment at the hands of a mob yesterday. In the sixth after two P&ducah men were down a long drive was made to center which was caught by Manager Ke&sling of the Cairo team after a long run. Kessling fell to the ground after catching the ball and rolled over several times, but still held the ball. The umpire called the batter safo, netting two runs for Paducah. The crowd became angry and It was some time before order was restored.
YALE'S FOOTBALL
WORK BEGINS SEPT. 1 Siasconset, Aug. IS. Yale's football men this year will get into harness the earliest in the history of the Eli's gridiron sport. Capt. Ketcham has accepted an Invitation- from the "Sconset Cottage club to have the football candidates begin early training at the Nantucket resort. The new leader of the Ell foroes hopes to get together a team strong enough to regain the Blue's lost prestige, expects that 25 men, all candidates for the line, will report about the first of September for a stay of about two weeks. It Is very likely that Head Coach Howard Jones and Assistant Douglass Bomeisler will be on hand to watch the preliminary work. The early start of the squad will be interesting, as it is an Innovation for Yale candidates to report so early.
YANKS BUMP SOX IH TWELFTH. 3 TO 2 Two Slips by Weaver Give Keating Verdict Over Joe Benz.
Yesterday's Hero.
BIG PURSES AT CHARLESTON Charleston, 111., Aug. 18. The Eastern Illinois Grand Racing Circuit opens the season with a program at
j Charleston next week, the dates being
August 19 to 2. There will be three events of $1,000 purses each and ten events of $400 purses, assuring an attractive program. The second week of this circuit was awarded to Urbana, the dates being August 26 to 29. Entries to both meetings have been satisfactory.
"BARNACLES" TO MEETAT RACES Milwaukee, "Wis., Aug. 18. One of the unique features of the Mississippi valley races at Keokuk, la., August 2$. 27 and 28, will be the establishment of a local "cluster" of the Order of Barnacles among Mississippi valley boatmen : visiting the regatta." The "team" from Milwaukee will go to Keokuk to conduct the Initiation, and will be accompanied by a special car of "Barnacles" from Chicago. The Order of Barnacles is a new secret society, to which only motor boat "bugs" are eligible. The local lodges are known as "clusters," and Milwaukee and Chicago both have strong organizationsft which Include the leading boat "bugs" of both cities. Commodore James A. Pugh, whose racer Disturber III. will be a feature
WOMAN HURT BY BATTED BALL Mrs. Pere Malek of 8812 Exchange avenue. South Chicago, was struck on the side of her head by a ball batted by Raymond Ratzekowskl of 3036 East Eighty-seventh street as she was passing through a prairie at East Eightysixth street and Commercial avenue
Saturday. Raymond is 14 years old. His father is a butcher. He was delivering meat and stopped on the way to "knock a few flies." He was arrested, but later released.
STANDINGOF CLUBS. AMERICAS LEA Gl'E. W. L. pct. Philadelphia ...73 37 .664 Cleveland 69 44 .611 Washington 61 49 .555 Chicago 60 63 .622 Boston 53 65 .491 Detroit 48 65 .425 St. Louis 45 72 .385 New York 37 69 .349 Yntrrdar's Results. New York, 3; Chicago, 2. St. Louis, 3; Boston, 1. Cleveland, 6: Philadelphia, 2. Detroit, 7; Washington, 1. Games Today. Boston at Chicago. Washington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Detroit. New York at St. Louis. NATIONAL liEACl'E. W. L. Pct. New York 75 33 .694 Philadelphia ..64 39 " .621 Chicago AO 61 .541 Pittsburg 57 51 .52S Brooklyn 47 58 .44S Boston 45 61 .425 St. Louis 42 69 .373 Cincinnati 43 71 .377 lrterUy' Renult. No games scheduled. Oamea Today. Chicago at Philadelphia. Pittsburg at New York. St. Louis at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Boston.
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Slips of the spikes and digits were the dominant and determining factors in yesterday's final game of the New Y'ork series here, which the Yankees won in twelve innings of airtight hurling by Joe Benz and Ray Keating. The scor was 3 to 2. One silp of each kind by George Weaver cost Chicago the game. It was a lapsus spikorum in the fourth inning and a wild chuck by our effervescent shortstopper that blew the whole thing in the twelfth. On the other foot, the White Sox would not have been in the game at all but for the error of Williams right ahead of Weaver's crashing three-bagger in the second inning, and Sweeney's passed ball, which converted the swats of Chappell and Chase into a run in the third. Benz and Keating pitched a lot of swell baseball. It was the best scrap Bene has put up on the slab In a long time and he had it on his rival in stinginess, for the Yankees could annex only eight safeties, one of which never ought to have happened.
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RYAN SHATTERS HAMMER RECORD New York, Aug. 18. By throwing the sixteen-pound hammer a distance of 139 feet 6 inches at Celtic park yesterday, Patrick Ryan of the IrishAmerican A. C. established a new world's record for this event. The former record, 1S7 feet 4 inches, was made by the Olympic and world's champion. Matt McGrath, Oct. 29. 1911. On the same grounds yesterday Hannes Kolehmainen, the Finnish and Olympic distance runner, made a new American record of 14:22 3-5 In win-
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ning the three-mile handicap run from scratch. Both the outdoor American record of 14:82 and indoor of 14:29 2-5 for this distance were held by George N. Bonhag of the Irish-American A. C. for the last three years. Golehmainen's time is exactly five seconds slower than the world's championship time made by Al Shrub at Stamford Bridge, England, May 21, '03.
CUBS EXHIBITION GAME CANCELED
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 18. There was no Jersey coast frolic for the Cubs yesterday, as planned Saturday night. A'mes8age came from Bayonne that the exhibition game had been canceled. A mixup in dates was the cause. The Bayonne magnate expected the Chicagoang a week later and
had another show booked for yesterday.
Consequently Jt- was a most restful day for the athletes, for one can't
spend a Sunday in Philadelphia and
tire oneself physically. Only his mind
will suffer.
A few of the boys escaped the mental distress by going to Atlantic City
for a swim, but nwjst of them remained
In suffering silence at the hotel. Roger.. Bresnahaji, wS'j? jvas among the latter, almost collapsed. It's a terrible thing for one of Roger's temperament
to Sunday here with little old New
Y'ork qnly ninety miles away.
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SPORTING NOTES.
Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. IS. The body
of William H. Locke, president of the
Philadelphia National league baseball
club, who died in Ventnor, N. J., on Thursday, arrived here Saturday. The
funeral services were held yesterday
at the home of his mother, Mrs. C. E.
Locke.
Russell Blackburne, champion
jinxed" lnfielder of the world, Is to
have another chance with the White
Sox. President Comlskey has exer
cised the option he has had on Black
burne'8 services since he was sold to
the Milwaukee club and the shortstop
will be tried out again In the spring.
Boston, Mass.. Aug. 18. Joe Tinker,
manager of the Cincinnati National
eague team. Is ready to quit, he says
unless President Garry Herrmann of
the club changes his policies.
Ed Harmer of Chicago flashed past
the judges with part of his front
wheel showing in front of Walker of Cleveland at the finish of the fifteen-
mile motorcycle "marathon" at River-
view motordrome Saturday night, win.
ning the best race ever contested at
the north side track.
Southampton, N. Y.. Aug. 18. J. S. t
Strachan and C. J. Griffin, the Pacific
coast doubles lawn tennis champions,
distinguished themselves in sensa
tional style Saturday by defeating W. A. Larned and V. J. Clothier, both
former national champions In the singles, in the final of the doubles match at the Meadow club. The match went
five sets, 3-6, 6-4. 2-6, 6-S, 6-8.
New York Aug. 18. That three syn
dicates have been formed to build
boats for the defense of the America
cup was an important development
which came out during the recent
cruise of the New York Y'acht club. The syndicates are headed by Cornelius Vanderbllt, George M. Pynchon and A. S. Cochran.
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 18. Edward
Ray and Harry Vardon, the English professionals who came to this country to compete In the open golf championships of the United States, yesterday defeated Gil and Ben Nichols In a specially arranged thirty-six hole, best
ball foursome, 3 and ,2. At the end of the morning round they were 6 up. The match was played over the Marsh Valley Country club's links. Peoria, 111., Aug. 18. A new world's record for S-year-old pacers was established at the Great Western races here Saturday when William, owned by W. W. Marvin of Lafayette, Ind., with Marvin up. went the second heat of the 3-year-old and under pace in 2:05 fiat.
one race over the marathon route. Only professional racing men will be engaged, the club deciding after its experience of past seasons that there is but little Interest in the amateur riders, and their contests In the main are not productive of much excitement. Already the officials of the club have been promised several racing teams of the highest clas. The Hawthorne track is in excellent condition. The top dressing of gumbo has been scraped oft and spread over the course again, giving it a splendid cushion that will require only rolling to make it extremely fast.
GILMORE SCRAPPERS GET GOOD MATCHES Manager Fred Gilmore will start out on Labor day with all three of his boxers working. Spike Kelly meets Tommy Sheehan at Superior, Wis., in a ten-round battle at 145 pounds at 6. Mickey Sheridan takes on Patsy Drouillard of Canada at Peoria Labor day afternoon for ten rounds at 138 pounds at 10 o'clock in the morning. Jimmy McGovern. Oilmore's newcomer, will box the other half of the double windup at Superior. His opponent will be Johnny Tillman of Min
neapolis. They box at ISO pounds iA 6. All three boxers start preparation for their matches today at Oilmore's gymnasium.
S YEARS OLD; GOES F1S1UG. Clinton DeWitt Idler of Indianapolis deceives his name. He is not an Idler but a fisherman. And what is more he probably is the oldest fisherman in Indiana. Mr. Idler has taken out a fisherman's license giving his age as 95 years. ; He Is the oldest persons who has ever applied for a license here.
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MOTORCYCLE RACES AT HAWTHORNE Officials of the North Shore Motorcycling club have decided to use the
Hawthorne race track again this fall
for the fourth annual race meet, Sep
tember 6 and 7. The opening day will
see the decision of a number of races at the shorter distances, and the Sun
day racing will be featured by at least
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