Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 71, Hammond, Lake County, 10 September 1919 — Page 3

Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1919.

THE TIMES. Page Three

INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE TO

DECIDE ALL

Fans from all over the Calumet region ill flock to tie HammuMd ImU park ! t Saturday aftarnoon. v.htn t:i two l".'BfSt fines of tho ms."i will be staged on the local diamond. The first game, which -will decide the .! amp Kinship of the Calumet. Industri.il Le.iue, wiU begin proDptly . v. 2 o'clock ntl the coEterdmj? iirus v.Al be the o.ernl American Tank Ca Corporation of Kasf. oVeago and the f landard Oil ."o. ' f "Whitir.g-. The last time these ttams met they engagevl la an intensely xrinnjr bAtTla, tho Genera' American lornins out on top after a tough scrap. In this same the Standard Oil Co. led. a to 2. up until the seventh inning, when the General American tied the score and then tnaly put over a 6 to 5 win in the ninth. It was a hard fought game throughout, with bitter rivalry existing on both Bides, among players, as well as epeciators, most of whom were made up of died In the wool fans representing the tvp respective plants. In as much as Saturday's game will practically settle the championship of th league it is fully expected hat at least 500 fans from each of the two plants involved, will ba present when the umpire announces "play ball. The Standard Oil team Is made up ot a bunch of stars, most of whom have either played college or professional baseball. Johnson in left nvid was the property of the Philadelphia American league team in 1917. while Bergwald. Kanafrh and Ogren are all Chicago sc-nii-jrros. Griesel and Pond are college mon and Began and Mc.IarreU hae bo'h played minor league ball. Komeo. the pitcher, is well known to fans in the Calumet region as he has pitched for several firs' class teams in Hammond and East Chicago. Johnson, Griesel and rvnd will be recognized by many of the baske'ball fans, as these men are the stir basket tossers of th famous Whiting Owls, who for years played with the championship team of the Illinois Athletic Ciub. The General American team has on Its roster three of Hammond's resu'ars in Baichley, pitcher: Blank, third base-j man. and Pete Callan. centerfielder asid

cartun. Thomas of East Chicago plays second base. Jones. shortstop, and Brarre, first base. John Leitzen, -who plays one of the outfield positions, has a number of followers in "West Hammond who will be present to root for their favorite next Saturday. Andy Hcrrick does the catching and the other outfield job is divided between Jens and Havengard. Immediately after the first game is f.nisced Hammond and J.let will hook up in the afterpiece. Jolut. determined to make it two straight, will uso their ?;ar battery with iliddleton doing the pitching and Jacobs on the receiving end. Buckeye, who would willingly give half of his life to beat his home town t..am. will ritch for Hammond and Pav -. , .- r frftm

ai:ace. caving luny jc..d. .i his injury of two weeks ago. will catch.)

Manager Xagel is so eager to win this game that he has signed no less than three new players to fill In the weak spots on the Hammond team. He declines to make known the names of tho men he has secured, hut he promises the fans that he will have the best club on the field that has eer represented the city of Hammond.

ID GLEASON'S STRATEGY HAS BEEN MAIN FACTOR IN HIS SUCCESS WITH WHITE SOX

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not been signed up yet but Oswego will try to arrange the bout. If Gallette can not be secured some other good -lightweight will be on the card. The preliminary bout has not yet been arranged. The fight will be held in a tent but no definite location has yet been picked.

GARY TO PLAY DOUBLE HEADER.

An all-star boxing card with Tommy Holderson as the drawing card has been booked by George Oswego for September 17. Thrte ten round bouts and a preliminary six round bout will complete the card. The firt bout will be between Tommy Holderson and Tatty Clancy, both or Chicago. They will fight at 133 pounds. Holdersor. is the scrapper who saved the day at Benton Harbor on Lrfibor Pay. The second bout, also at 133 pounds, will be between Tommy McCarthy of Irondale and Murray Johnson of Rosel.iwn. The third bout is scheduled between Sally Gallette of Gary and Billy Henry

of Chicago at 128 pounds. Gallette has

For the first time this, season, the White Eagles of Gary will take part in a double header Saturday and Sunday, it was announced yesterday afternoon. Saturday afternoon at three o'clock, they are scheduled to appear against the Ashlands at Glea.son Park and on Sunday they will travel to LaPorte. Ind., where a recently scheduled game between the two teams will be played. Much interest !s being displayed In the Ashland fame as they defeated the steel city aggregation by a score of 3 to 1 In a thirteen inning game.

GETS HONOR AT WHITING

ISPCCUL TO THE TIMES! WHITING. in., Sept. 10. Geo. I'eck. the Chicago professional, carried "ff first honors at the semi-monthly t-iioot of the Whiting Trapshooters Club Shouting BKainst a strong wind and w'.th renditions all against the shooter. IVik broke 4Sx.".o birds in the f.O-bird event. He was shooting against a classy'bum h of shooters and !i;ul to break that rivmy to win C F. rvurson ran him a close r;ii-e by breaking 47. Wni. E. Vatrr, the Whiting shoot.r. was third with 4.". Eighteen shooters entered the ff)-bird event, and while Peck came out winner, his chanres did not look so good earlier in the eent. as Vatr was breaking every bird that came out of the tra; hou.".e, but time told on the eTeran and he lost out by 3 birds. A number of fine practire scores were turned in, one of 2 .1 straight by Pe.irson being nn example of what a shooter can do if he is right. Following are the scores for the afternoon : Shot at. F.rok" Geo. AV. Peck lfW !) H. 1'. lagers 1 r i?H J. K k inn 44 O. P. Lottinville 15" i;n Win. Vogel 1 2.1 102 A. I Buchanan T.'i fie Wm. Vafer 12:, pi W. Eggers ion 7 Geo S haaf inn C. F. Pearson inn o;, J. F. Pearson &n 3." K. T. Baker f,n ?.0 H. Vater 75 fin L. X. Dunning 75 6:1 Fred Vogel 25 1.1 Mrs. Galway 25 '. Mrs. Vogel 25 1 Mi.-s Buchanan 25 5 TRAP NOTES. l,40n targets were thrown during the afternoon. The second lap of the match race between Geo. Schaaf and Wm. Eggers was started at 3.nn p m. and lasted until the judges decided U a tl. A number of shooters are away on vacations. Herman Vater came late. In the absence of Clarence Eggers, L. X. Dunning cashiered the shoot. Three fine trophies were awarded the winners in the ;n-blrd event.

Sept. 21 is the next shooting date. The management is planning a tournament shoot in the near future.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Pet. CHICAGO SO 44 .645 Cleveland 71 51 .52 Detroit 7t 53 .57.1 Xew York -6S 54 .55't St. Louis 64 6n .515

Boston fin 62 .412 Washington 47 75 .376 Philadelphia 39 P0 .268 Yesterday's He suits. Chicago, 2: Washington, 0. Philadelphia. 4: Detroit. 3. Other games postponed, rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Pet. Cincinnati S 40 .63 Xew York 7 4(5 .623

CHICAGO fil 57 ..533!

Pittsburgh 63 61 .50 Brooklyn 60 63 .4SS Boston 50 71 .413 St. Louis 45 75 .375 Philadelphia 44 76 .367 Yesterday's Besults. Chicago. 4; Xew York. 1. j Xew York 7; Chicago, 1.

Pittsburgh. 6; Boston. 3. Pittsburgh, S: Boston. 1. Philadelphia. 2; Cincinnati, 0. Ft. Louis, 4; Brooklyn, 3.

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TAGGING ALL THE BASES By JACK VEIOCK I. N. S. Sports Editor

GEORGE SMITH, pent to the Phillies by McOraw, pitched a two-hit shut-out against the Beds. AVITH six rookies in the line-up the A's trimmed Detroit. Welsh, Mack's

THE Pirates are making sure of sticking in the first division to the finish.

They demonstrated this twice to the! Braves.

THE "White Pox. with James pitching, trimmed Walter Johnson and gained half game on Cleveland. The Indians and Yanks were idle. THE GIANTS and Cubs split a double-header. AMES, veteran pitcher, has been released by the Cardinal. DOAK registered a win over the Dodger at St. Louis.

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