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CONTESTS Chicago Giants and Murleys Fall Victims to Superb Playing of City League Champions Big Crowd Present. Hammond, 6; Murleys, S. Before the season's record-breaking crowd of sixteen hundred wild, cheering' fans, Hammond annexed Its tenth win, by defeating the twice-trounced Hurleys of Chicago, Sunday. The weather was In perfect accord, and the grandstand and bleachers were almost completely filled. Hammond has demonstrated her complete disgust with half-managed baseball in the past by continual poor attendances, but Is responding admirably to good management and the excellent work of a cratker-Jack. team that can and does play baseball to their utmost. It looked bad for the local boys yesterday from the third until the eleventh Inning, but the Indomitable spirit remained, each Individual player was determined not to disappoint the supporters of the game, and they pulled out, the victors, with a score of six and five. It was a hard fought game throughout and the result always laid In the balance. Hammond fans predicted a one-sided game when Parduhn's men scored three runs In the first session against a cipher for the Murleys. But the latter drove In three for themselves In the second, and another in the third, reversing the outlook. Then the fans began to howl and the players soon conceived the Idea that they now had some real competition. It will probably be remembered that In our last encounter with the Murleys "Peter the Great" shut them out In a no-run. nohit game, and we had anticipated something soft. In the sixth, however, the visitors score one more run, and Hammond brought In two. This brought the contest to a five and five tie where It remained until the last half of the eleventh, when Hennlng's single ended things. Following Is a summary of the game: Henning started the affair with three straight strike-outs. Then Rhode opened for Hammond with a clean twobagger to center. Moll followed with a single and went to second on their leftfielder's error, scoring Rhode. Walsh, the next man up. was struck by a pitched ball and took first. Mokate fouled two In attempts to sacrifice and was finally beat out to t rst on his third at- . tempt, at the same time sending Moll to third, and Walsh to second. Shannon worked pitched O'Xeill for a pass. Knight cracked a hit off the shortstop's shins on a hit and run play, scoring Moll and Walsh. C Thompson went out pitcher to first. Shannon went to third--and Knight to secod. Shannon tried to score on a short pass ball and was pegged out at the plate. This showing caused the general prediction among the fans, and well it might. McGarry got the first hit for the visitors by a singling over third. When Picrun came' up he singled into center field and filled the bases. Then they went crazy. Martin hit a triple out the first base line and the hit scored three men. This tied the score. In the third W. Lebin of the Murleys took a base on balls and stole second. McGarry lined to Knight, who pulled C. Thompson off the bag with a wild one, and Lebin scored. In the fifth Moll's wild throw to first again Jerked C. Thompson from his station and Hennesy, who had swatted It HE RIVALS MAYS IN UNDERHAND HEAVING 7. - 1 4 m5 . 1 -s s Otis Lambeth. , Otis Lambeth, Cleveland Indian bitcher, has been perfecting an underhand delivery that is said to be now as good aa anything o the sort to be found in the bigr leagues. Not long ago Lambeth utood the New York Yanks on their heads with his new heaving and all the players who have bz.tted against it dsclare that Lambeth has lot3 more smoke than Car! Mays, the Boston underhand Etar, and that he will be a nuisance for the other A. L. teams this sum-

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1 f lOTwAWHW Left to right: E. A. Tcschner, track E. Burbidge, Hammond 's How The Game Was Won 7th Inning. Shannon struck out. Knight gets clean three base hit straight down first base line, low and just over Pettus' head. Hudson counts 3 and 2, then works pitcher ISoker for a pass. He steals second In Jig-time. Flaherty goes to first on third baseman's error. Knight brings in winning run, and Hudson ducks to third. Rhode is out on throw from second to first. Hudson out, trying to make home oft of Rhode's pop. to Moll, took two bases. Then A. Lebin singled to right field and Hennesy scored. Henning fame up for Hamrnoni and took a base on balls. Rhode lined a short one to the pitcher, whose error got him to first and advanced Henning to third. Rhode took a big lead off, causing the catcher to peg to second, but Henning started on the catcher's throw and scored while Rhode made third safely. Moll singled to left centr. scoring Rhode, and the honors were even again. From here on there was some excellent baseball on each side. At the start of the sixth Rhode was displaced by M. Thmpson In right field. Then Pete started to work. He fanned the side In this inning, and received some hearty applause upon retiring the side. The customary "change-our-luck" stretch was evident among the fans at the start of the seventh, but it had no effect, either way, upon that frame, nor in any other until the eleventh. It was a good day for Henning. He fanned fifteen and walked but two. His opponent 'O'Xeill deserves mention too. for her struck out thirteen and walked four. Henning allowed but six hits, whereas O'Xeill was hit eleven times. SATURDAY'S GAME. Hammond, 3; Chicago Giants, 3. Paul Parduhn's unconquerable warriors played their first mid-week game of the 1917 season last Saturday against Joe Green's crack colored team, the Chicago Giants and added to their 1000 per cent record, their ninth consecutive win. The strength of the Africans need not receive comment, for every b. b. fan in the middlewest Is a familiar with the speed of this semi-pro aggregation as he Is with his home team. The Hammond boys knew before the show opened that they were in fast company and gauged themselves accordingly. But it was the same old stuff. Each cog in the mechanism was well oiled, and when the session was over they had trimmed the visitors to the tune of 3 and 2. Pettus was the slugger for the Giants. He swatted out a clean two-bagger close to the right field foul line in the first offensive, that brought home the first run of the game. Mokate evened the score in the second. Pete Henning had lined a beautiful drive to far left field, but Winston of the visitors got under it. But he was a long way from home, adn was short-winged. Mokate got a Hying start from third the instant he had grabbed the pill, and there was not a chance to catch him. Each team scored in the sixth. Winston for the Giants and "Reekie" Moll for the homeguards. Knight brought in the winning run in the seventh round through their third-sacker's error, and they failed to overtake us. Three Hits Off riaherty. Capt. Frank Fowler sprung a new twirler upon the local fans so that he might save the "Peerless Pete" for Sunday's schedule. His name was Flaherty and his work was phenominal. They got into him for but six hits, one of which was in the first frame, before he had thoroughly warmed up. Conincidentally, three of these hits were bowled out by the brown slugger, Pttus. Flaherty struck out ten men and It seemed that he or Knight -were always directly in front of every short infield wallop. His snappy regs to first were always well timed, and beat the runner In each instance. The fans were delighted with his work, and gave him an enthusiastic ovation each time he stepped to the slab. With only three times at bat he made a long clean drive to left field, which had an unfortunate ending in Winston's hands. Next, he walked to first on four straight balls. In his third time up he rapped a hot

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Lucky Innings How The Game Wm Woo 11th Inning. Shannon popped out to third. Knight singled to left field and took second on left fielders' error. C. Thompson filed out to second baseman, Gaffney, who made a sensational backward run for it. Hudson took a base on balls. Henning then won his own game with a clean single into right field, scoring Knight. one straight at third base but It was too warm and the baseman couldn't hold it. When the latter had recovered it, Flaherty was resting on first. Mokate of the restless arm made a machine gun peg to second In the eighth round, and stopped a move that might have proven fatal. Jennings of the Giants hit a low single over third base, too high for Moll and too short for Mokate. and It looked like a two or three sacker because of the- distance that must be covered by the latter, who was playing well over toward center. The runner was within twenty feet of second when Mokate got the ball, but he might as well have been a block away, for when that restless arm went Jack, then shot forward in a disappearing gun motion, it started a pill revolving that it seemed Impossible to waylay. But the aim was perfect, the baseman was dependable, and the runner was out. The writer's sympathy lies in the palm of Shannon's hand. Another surprise was the appearance of Eddie DcLave on first base. The older fan3 will remember DeLave as having played great ball with the old Hubbards in the nineties, and we must add that as a crack ball played, he has not changed a bit. It was a splendid game throughout and was a great introduction for Saturday baseball. The game showed 600 fans In attendance which was surprising to Mgr. Parduhn, inasmuch as it was his first attempt at a mid-week game. It, no doubt, will encourage a repitition. Umpire Fltzpatrick's decisions were fair and Impartial and stood with but one exception, unquestioned by either- team. GENERAL CHEMICAL CO.'S TEAM WINNERS "The General Chemical Co. defeated the Northern Indiana Gas Co. by the score of 7 to 3 in one of the best played games of the season. The features of the games were the pitching of Jess Zimmerman and the hiting of Levering who made a home run and two doubles in four times at bat. The score by Innings: RH E Gen. Chem. 0 2000005 0 7 4 3 N. I. G. Co. 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 33 12 2 G. A. TANKS DEFEAT CONKEY General American Tank Car Corpn. defeated W. B. Conkey at Indiana Harbor, 8 to 4. The feature of the game was the pitching of Grapp for General Americans. GRASSELLIS WIN IN THE NINTH The Grassellis by a tally In the ninth put it over the Hubbards on Saturday. Score: RH E Grasselli 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 7 1 Hubbard 00000010 0 1 4 3 Batteries Bakalar, Hopp; Estrom, Scott. SOME HEAVY B ATTINGO CCURRED The Betz Co. was out after errors after runs last Saturday and the Graver Tank Works simply walked off with a novel match. The Gravers larruped 9 two-baggers and Parker of the Betz poled a homer. Score: RH E Graver T 0 0 0 4 2 1 2 3 1 13 24 3 Betz Co 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 14 8 Enlist for the service you like this week.

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STANDDJU 07 TEAMS. S. S. A. C. 5 1 .833 Owls 5 2 .71 Macabees 4 3 .571 K. of C. 3 4 .429 Foresters 2 4 .333 Boosters 1 6 .143 Besolt of Games Sunday, Jane 24. S. S. A. C, 9; Foresters, 7 (10 innings). Macabees. 11; Boosters, 10. Owls. 20; K. of C, 4. Games for Sunday, July 1. Owls vs. Foresters. S. S. A. C. vs. Macabees. Boosters vs. K. of C. The S. S. A. C. came through with another extra Inning victory at the New Tork avenue grounds after fighting an uphill game. Hansen of the S. S. A. C. put this game on the kibosh with a three-bagger with two men on In the tenth. The Boosters and the Macabees mixed up in an old time slugging bee a total of twenty-one runs being made in the nine innings. The Macabees made the winning run in the eighth inning through the battling efforts of Punch McLellan the big league demon who Is showing better form every day. The owls set up a .league record in their game with the K. of C. scoring twenty runs on twenty-four hits. Bill Lynch and L. Griffith carried oft the batting honors for the birds while McGowan had the fighting togs on for the K. of C. OLDFIELD'S DARING DEFEATS DEPALMA MILWAUKEE. WIS., Juno 25. Barney Oldfleld and Ralph De Palma met in racing duels of twenty-five, fifteen and ten miles on the State Fair Park track yesterday. The track was In first-class condition. Oldfield in the Deviled Egg won all events and broke all records to twenty-five miles. Ralph De Palma drove a Packard, ana could not take the turns at the Speed Oldfield hit. In the twenty-flve-mlle race Oldfield made it in 22:42, and came in nearly half a mile ahead of De Palma. In the fifteen-mile race Oldfield's time was 13:25, and De Palma's 13:35 1-5. The ten-mile was won in 90:2. The exhibition against time saw both make the mile in 0:52 4-5. THE STANDING AMERICAN X.EAGUE. W. L. CHICAGO 39 20 Boston 36 21 New Tork 32 24 Detroit 28 27 Cleveland 29 32 St. Louis 23 34 Washington 21 35 Philadelphia 19 34 Yesterday's Sesmts.' Chicago, 1; Cleveland. 0. Detroit, 4; St. Louis, 2. NATIONAL IIABVE. W. L. New Tork 33 10 Philadelphia 33 20 CHICAGO 35 28 St. Louis 30 28 Cincinnati 31 35 Brooklyn 22 29 Boston 21 29 Pittsburgh 19 37 Yesterday's Ses Uts. Chicago, 2; Pittsburgh, 1. St. Louis, 4; Cincinnati, 2. Cincinnati, 15; St. Louis, 4. Pet. .661 .632 .571 .509 .475 .404 .3?5 .358 Pet. .635 .623 .563 .517 .470 .431 .420 .339 GARY TEAM WINS "Dave and Macks' baseball team of Gary defeated the White Giants of Chicago in a Red Cross benefit game at Gleason park Sunday afternoon, 4 to 3.

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BY K. C. HAMILTON. (United Pmi Staff Correrpondont.) NEW YORK. June 21. When Phil Dwyer died in this city two weeks ago one of the best-known men In the racing game was gone. Known mainly as president of the Brooklyn Jockey club and the Queens County Jockey club, he was known to racing men the world over aa a subtle power In the race game years before horse racing became tainted with bad betting and crooked races. With Michael F. Dwyer, a brother, Phillip Dwyer organized the Brooklyn Jockey club and built the old Gravesend track, where the Brooklyn handicap and many other noted eastern classics were run. When It finally went out of existence Phil Dwyer took over the Acqueduct track, then a mile circuit, transformed it into a mile and a quarter course, and transferred the Brooklyn handicap and other classics which had made the Gravesend track famous. In the Washington market for years the two Dwyers conducted a butcher business, relinquishing It finally to become the owners of Radamanthus, a horse of more than usual ability. The butcher business soon was shoved completely into the background and there was laid a foundation of shrewd horse judgment, business judgment and honest dealing that has made their name a synonym for racing in the east. When the Gravesend track was established the brotherly 'partnership that had existed from the time the Wash ington market stall was abandoned was dissolved. Michael made a disastrous trip jo England after this, and later became connected with a stable which sent Ben Brush to victory in the Latonia and Kentucky derbies in 1S96 and in the Suburban handicap the following year. Handspring was the last horse of any repute tinder the ownership of Phil Dwyer. This horse won the Withers stakes at the Belmont track and later captured the Brooklyn handicap. LOWELL WINS FROM HARBOR (Special to The Times.) LOWELL, IND., June 25. In one of the best played and closest score ball games that has been played here for some time the Lowell team- won from the fast team from Indiana Harbor yesterday by a 3 to 2 score. Excitement was high throughout the game as both teams had several chances and runs were kept from scoring by spectacular plays by members of both teams. To start the ninth inning the score was a tie at 2 to 2. Belshaw first man up for Lowell hit safely, Loyd advanced him to third. Brown hit to the shortstop and In trying to get Loyd going to second the first baseman threw wild and the winning run was scored. Shurte. pitching for Lowell, held the Indiana Harbor boys to five hits and struck out 20. The Lowell team secured thirteen hits oft Young of the Harbor. You can be a "chooser" young man if you enlist this week. After, you must go where you're put.

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EDDIE GRANT JOINS UNCLE SAM'S LEAGUE

PJS ' . Mr - " Eddie Grant. Eddie Grant, big league veteran, is how preparing for the hotter game of war and has left baseball. For almost ten years Grant was a National league infield star, playing with Philadelphia, Cincinnati and New York. He was also one of the first of college stars to become valued in fast company and is a graduate of Harvard, THREE BOUTS FDR DILLON UNLESS NAVY CALLS HIM INDIANAPOLIS, IND., June 25. Jack Dillion the local light-heavyweight, figures he will be able to crowd In three more ring encounters before Uncle Sam calls him to active duty in the United States navy. Dillon enlisted recently, and is expecting a call at any time. Friday he completed preparations for his bout at Memphis tonight with Len Rowlands. On July 4 Dillon will hook up with Soldier Smith, a lightheavyweight, who is a member of the Tenth infantry, stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison. The bout will be staged at Terre Haute. NOTICE On and after Monday, July 2, all barber shops will close on Mondays at 6 p. m. Bsiise in prices, shave 20c and haircut, 40c. Hammond. 6-25-6t Volunteer! Do it today!

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N HOT BE "PUT OUT' By S. C. HAMILTON (United Press Staff Correspondent., NEW" YORK. Juno 25. When John K. Tenor, president of the National league, set John McCraw back $500 and a bunch of days for taking a punch at Rill Byron he started something It probably will take him a long time to finish. McGraw, contrary to his usual procedure, calmly sat down and thought it over when he found out wnat nnd happened to him, and then he declared war without Quarter on the National league's president. "If John K. Tenor had Insulted me as Byron did I would have hit him just as quickly as I did his umpire," McQraw declared, with little respect for the fact that step-ladders would have to be called Into use If John hoped to plant on" in the same spot where he beano.l Bryon. McGraw made the broad cnarge tn. National league affairs are run from Philadelphia, that Tener was handplcked to preside over the league by the Philadelphia magnates, and that Tener never does anything without first consulting his owners In Philadelphia. McGraw undoubtedly went a little too -far In his charges. Tener has a mind , and uses it with little regard for the man who suffers. But when the Giant leader stepped along a little bit and pointed out tnat under the leadership of Tener the National league has consistently played second fiddle to the American in everything but the world's championship the Braves won in 1914 he dug into the facts. He charged that Tener is not competent to run a major league, and cited the record to prove It. McGraw was Justified In patting up a howl at the enormous size of the fine Tener imposed, but McGraw probably forgot that Garry Hermann, owner of the Cincinnati club, was in Philadelphia with Tener when the decision was made and may have talked to Tener about the incident which led tip to all the noise. Hermann sympathized strongly with McGraw at the time, declaring he would have done the same thing In McGraw's place. If Tenrr heard this and then determined to slap on the fine anyway, there must have been some overwhelming evidence. CLOSE ALL JULY 4 BOUTS FOR BENTOxT HARBOBBIKL FlOyd Fitzsimmons. Benton Harbor promoter, has closed his July boxing, card. George Brown and Phil Harrison meet in the windup. Sailor Freedman and Joe Bishop In the seml-windup, anl "Bones" Nelson of the Hamburg-Cornell club tackles Homer Smith, a Benton Harbor product. The first two will be ten round affairs, the last & six. NEW ORLEANS. LA, Jane 25. Under the management of Red Walsh, who made him bantamweight champion of the world. Peter Herman will make his bow to hi3 New Orleans friends for the first time in many months on July 9. when he meets Pal Moore of Memphis In a ten round bout before the TuLane Athletic club.