Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 56, Hammond, Lake County, 22 August 1917 — Page 3

Wednesday, Aiust(22, 1917

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Defeats Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Company With Babin f Pitching His Best Game.

The Graver Taak Works baseball team woo the chaumiPlonshlp of the Industrial league , by defeating the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric company by a score of 8 to 0. There Is talk that the game may be protested, but this has not materialized. Time and again with men on bases Eabln. pitching for the Gravers, would strike out the remaining batters and avoid further trouble. He made a record of twelve strike outs. The game was hard fought throughout the nine Innings as Bllssmer of the Gas company also pitched a splendid game. The excellent fielding and heady baserunning on the part of the Gravers with Babin at his best made a combination hard to beat. In the sixth Inning the Graver team put the game on Ice by bunching their hits, which, coupled with several errors, scored six runs. This was the deciding game for the championship of the Inter-City Industrial Baseball league. The Graver team, having won thirteen out of fourteen games, are now league champions. The Graver team has been playing remarkably good ball this season, having had only one run scored against It in the last five games played. Four of these were league games and the other was a game between a picked team of soldiers located at the East Chicago camp. In which the Gravers won, 8 to 0. Wm. Graver Tajik Works. ab. r. h. . Simons, ss. 3 10 1 Potts. 3b. 4 110 Loda. 2b. 4 2 10 Babin. p. 4 110 Cobb, rf. 3 0 0 0 Thompson, lb. 4 2 10 Myers. If. 4 110 Arnold, cf. 3 0 10 Harles, c. 4 0 2 0

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THE STANDING

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W. L. Pet. CHICAGO 74 45 .622 Boston : : 63 46 .600 Cleveland 63 56 .637 Detroit 60 57 .513 New York 55 58 .452 Washington 53 60 .463 St. Louis 45 72 .385 Philadelphia 42 63 .378

Yesterday's Sesolts. Chicago, 2; Boston. 0. Cleveland. 16; Philadelphia, 3.

New Tork. 3: Detroit. 1 (10 innings). TVashington-St. Louis, rain. ITATIO-TAl. Z.EAOTTE.

W. L. Pet. I New Tork "0 33 .64 2 Philadelphia 59 48 .551 j St. Louis 61 54 .530 i Cincinnati 63 57 .525 CHICAGO 60 56 .517 Brooklyn 53 53 .477 Boston 46 60 .434 Pittsburgh 36 76 .321

Yesterday's Results. Chicago, 0-4; Philadelphia, 6-2 St. Louis, 1; Boston. 0. Cincinnati. 7: New Tork. 5.

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Norman Raas. Norman Ross, of Neptune Beach, Cal., has won national titles in the 220-yard free style, 500-yard free style, 150-yard back stroke and onemile free style. Ross i. one of the country's real swimming stars and recently won the Pacific coast chasiEionship swimming meet at San

Boxing Will Thrive

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By comparison with the boxers of the future, those of today are mere pikers. This i3 as Jack Skelly sees it in painting a rosy picture for those engaged in the sport when we, of this age, long since have ceased to be interested in the ringsters" doings. Skelly orates as follows: "Many of the old bare-knuckle champions fought desperate battles to a finish for a couple of hundred dollars. When Jack Johnson defeated Jim Jeffries at P.eno, he received J70.600 and Jeffries $50,400. Quite a difference between the old and new style. "AV'hat -.v 111 the future champions of f.fty years hence receive for a battle? It's mighty hard to predict so far ahead, but at the rapid rate boxing Is advancing in a financial way (not scientifically, mind you) there is no telling how large and fabulous the future boxing purses will run up to. "Nearly all the old champions of America, England and Ireland died poor, many in absolute distress. But John L. Sullivan, Jim Cerbett. Jim Jeffries, Tommy Burns or Jess Wiliard will not end their days in poor financial condition. Neither will Mike Gibbons. Packey McFarland (the wealthiest of the wholg bunch probably). Eddie McGoorty, Johnny Kilbane, Battling Levinsky, Benny Leonard, Charley White, Al McCoy, Willie Ritchie, Ad Wolgast, Battling Nelson and many other rather wealthy boxers. "Fifty years from now boxing will be universal, and far more popular than it is today. Immense fistic stadiums will be built in every civilized country and great international contests will be fought for still larger purses. This, of course, will vastly increase the incomes of the ring, and possibly v make many of them millionaires. "No restrictions can , stop the popularity and progress of the manly art now that it has become such a favorite sport among all classes of red-blooded young men of this and every other athletic nation where it has been introduced. In time it will outgrow all other sports on earth."

Wiliard in Tentative Agreement to Fight DETROIT, Aug. 22. Jess Wiliard yesterday tentatively accepted Mitt Hinkel's offer to meet the winner of the

I Fulton-Morris bout.

Bill Howard, former manager of the Hammond baseball club, starred with an Indiana Harbor club last Sunday In a double header with the Mohawks a colored team, who lost to tha Harbors. 8 to 5, 12 to 4. Howard besides working well in the field banged out two two-base hits, each scoring two runs In both games. HvnJwtll, outfielder, scored three hits and six put-outs. Another game will be played with the "smokes," finishing a three-game series. The Harbor club Is anxious to schedule a game for next Sunday. On Sept. 2, 3, the team will travel to Plymouth. Ind., to finish a three-game series there. Plymouth won th first game.

WAR EAGLE OUT TO SCULP

Crown Point Manager Big Chief Wrestler on the Warpath.

Tub Times sporting department this rooming received a telegram from W. Tanner of Crown Point, manager of a wrestler known as Chief War Eagle. He challenges Curly Davis of Hammond to a finish wrestling match Saturday night. August 5, at Hammond, winner of match to take gate receipts and J500 purse.

Judge Upholds SundayBall for War Cause

EW YORK. Aug. 22. Declar

ing that Instead of being summoned into court to

answer a charge of violating the Sunday law, they should be commended for rendering service to a patriotic cause. Police Court Magistrate McQuade yesterday dismissed summonses against John McGraw, manager of the New Tork Giants. and Christy Mathewson, manager of the Cincinnati Reds. The baseball managers conducted a baseball game Sunday for which no fee was charged, which was followed by a concert to which admission was asked, the proceeds going to dependents of a regiment soon to leave for France.

Guisto Sixth Cleveland Player Called in Draft CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 22. Louis Guisto, relief first baseman for Cleveland, yesterday received a telegram from Napa, Cal., notifying him that his draft number for selective conscription ser-ice had been drawn. He will go before one of the Cleveland examining boards today, and does not intend to claim exemption. This takes .both of Cleveland's f rst basemen, as Joe Harris has pasesd without cla-iming exemption. Outfielder Elmer Smith also has been drafted and will take hi3 examination today. This makes six Cleveland play

ers take In the draft.

Doig Beats Sheehan in 10-Round Battle CHICAGO. Aug. 22. "Goats" Doig of Spring Valley was given the decision over Tommy Sheehan of Chicago Heights after ten hard rounds at a downstate club last night. Doig rights Bryan Downey at the same place September 26. Young Dundee and Martin Henderson boxed ten blistering rounds to a draw. Young Nausen bested Harry Nebergall. Eddy Turdy refereed the fights.

HUSKED MARVELS ME DEFEATED B PEERLESS

Masked Marvels hold no fesr for the Peerless A. C. ball club of East Chicago as evidenced by the score of their gsme last Sunday. It was 10 to 7 in favor of the A. C. The association wants games. Write John Buckley. 4S.15 Olcott avenue. . y

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Efforts are to be made next winter to try and bring tre bantamweight champions of Americ and Europe together in an internationil battle for the world's title, which, at the present time, would mean a match botween Toung Joe Fox, the British champion, and Pete Herman of New Orleans, the American representative. Fox just recently won the bantamweight championship of Britain and Europe by uefeating Joe Symonds in eighteen roundf before the London Sporting Club, f.nd for the Lonsdale belt. The Britlsi limit for the bantam class Is 118 pounds, which would suit Herman very nicely. A prominent sporting man of london is after the mr-.tch. but Is holding off for a time in the hope that the war will end and he can then better stage it. The bantam class In England has had some classy performers in thu past, the recent holders of the titles being Pedlar Palmer, Joe Bowker, Digser Stanley (who held it three years, l3st it and regained it

j again). Bill Beyron, Curley Walker and I Joe Fox, the la'.ter having won it in

1915 and successf ully defended the title for the belt three times. Holders of the title in America the last ten years have been Frankie Xeil of San Francisco, Jimmy Walsh of Boston, Johnny Coulon of Chicago, Kid Williams of Boston and Pete Herman of New Orleans, the rresen". champion. Both Neil and Walsh went to London and fought internation battles for the title, as did

Jimmy Barry, the old-time champion off Chicago, when he knocked out Walter I

Groot in London in 1S97. the latter dying afterward. If Herman goes to London for a battle with Fox and should be successful, the chances are he will have a challenge from Jimmy Wilde, the wonderfully clever flyweight champion of the world, who defeated Toung Zulu

Kid of Brooklyn some time ago in Lon- ;

expressed his willingness to enter the bantam c!afs in case the American champion goes over to the other side to battle for the title.

Harry Coveleskie Showing Poor Form This Season

Admirers of Harry Coveleski. the big left-hander of the Detroit Americans, are considerably concerned over his poor showing this year. When the Tigers Jumped back from New Tork recently for a Sunday game with Chicago, the Pole was left behind when Detroit resumed its eastern swing. Hughie Jennings was quoted at the time in a local newspaper as saying that unless Coleleski showed a decided improvement when the team returned, he would not be used again this season. Covelesxi said that a muscle or tendon in his left shoulder was bothering him.

PREDICTS ED SOX COLLAPSE

Jackies to Hold Contests at Grant Park Saturday CHICAGO, Aug. 22. An athletic carnival, "the biggest of Its kind yet held," so the managers says, will be held at Grant park on Saturday afternoon under the auspices of the Third Illinois field hospital. There will be all kinds of sports, including boxing and wrestling.

BY H. C. HAMItTOX. (Vnlted Prea Staff Correspondent.) NEW YORK. Aug. 22 According to members of the Cleveland American league club, the Red Sox are in a state bordering on collapse. The pennant, they believe, cannot go to Boston this year, and they; predict a complete reversal of form by the champions. One member of the Indians put it like this: "The Red Sox are failing to take advantage of things they would have turned to their credit a year ago. The club is not hitting and the fielding is getting ragged. In addition Rvtii is the only consistently effective pitcher. "Some folks are inclined to lay a great deal of stress on George Foster's one-hit game against us recently, but the fact of the matter is we should have beaten him badly. Every ball hit was driven hard, but always directly at some fielder. Foster's pitching will not give the Red Sox much help, regardless of what you hear. "Whether the trouble is due to squabbles on the club I can't say. but I predict and so does every other member of this club that the Red Sox

will fade away before the season is

over. The Cleveland ball player may be right, but he is taking a long shot to predict the collapse of the Red Sox. Things just as startling have happened, but they are rare occasions. The Red Sox ere good enough to be in the f.ght ail the way. With the pitching staff that graces the payroll in Boston the Indians would have been a pennant possibility without any argument. And, if the White Sox and Red Sox were to switch pitching staffs the Red Sox v. ould undoubtedly glide toward the bottom.

A . Philadelphian is trying hard to bring about a baseball game that will send all the old Athletics of palmy days into the field against John Mc-

! Graw's great team of Giants.

U Collins, Baker, Barry, Plank. Coombs.

Murphy, Bender. Lapp. Pennock and Shawkey are still playing ball. McInnis, Strunk. Schang and Bush are still with the Athletics. The game easily could be arranged. The pseudo promoter wants to give the proceeds to the Red Cross.

Australians Pay Final Tribute to Boxer Darcy When Les Darcy flitted away from Australia, the natives rose up and gril led him unmercifully. "Slacker," "quit ter" and "ingrate" were a few titles bestowed upon him by his own people. They buried Darcy in Australia th other day. One hundred thousand persons view his body. The papers that once hid roasted him praised. Those who reviled him the "chipping" in now to buy a monument. All of which seems to prove right the man who remarked that "you hav to die to be appreciated,"