Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 269, 22 September 1914 — Page 8

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IHE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESpAY, SEPT. 22, 1914

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FINISM SECOND Sport Writer Suggests Plan to Stimulate Interest of Fans and Players in Late Season. Why don't the big league magnates get together and offer cash rewards for members of the clubs that flnlnsh second, third and fourth each season? The team that finishes first mingles in the world's series and each of the players get a nice divvy. But there's no financial reward for the clubs that finish second, third and fourth, even if they are only half a game behind, as was the case in 1908 when the Tigers beat out the Naps. If the magnates offered $10,000 to be eplit among the players of the team finishing second, $7,500 to the third team players and $5,000 to the players on the fourth team, it would result in adding to the income of the magnates because there would be rivalry to the last day of the season and therefore increased attendance: In the American league now the Athletics are so far ahead that nothing but a miracle will enable another team to beat them out. The 1914 pennant race, as far as the American league is concerned, is over. There is little glory for teams finishing second, third or fourth, and the teams aren't exerting themselves to land those positions. This means that for weeks before the season has closed the interest in American league baseball has been dead. Seven of the teams have nothing to fight for and the crowds aren't lured to any extent by the teams that can achieve but little by victory and lose nothing by defeat. How different the situation would be if there were prizes for the teams to contest for. There'd be a merry little battle among the other seven teams to land in one of the positions. Their interest in the fight would continue right to the finish of the season. They would put up better ball games and would fight harder. There would be lasting Interest in the race among the fans in the towns whose clubs had a chance for one of the prize positions. If $10,000 were offered for second place, $7,500 for third place and $5,000 for fourth place it would mean that the eight magnates would have to chinp in about $2,800 each. They would get this back ten-fold each season through extra attendance at the fag end of the season to see the battles for second, third and fourth position.

CLEMENTS SHAKES OFF ALL CONTENDERS! LEADS S, A. L, BATTERS WITH Ml WORK

Clements, the A. S. M. second sacker, by getting three hits out of seven times up shook himself loose from the rest of the field in the race for the premier hitter of the S. A. L. Stevens who last week was tied for first dropped into second place with average of 428. Marine, Roop, W. Evans, Rust, Colbert, Hannah, and H. M. Smith who were in the charmed circle last week tumbled below the 300 circle but will make a desperate effort to get back the coming Saturday. Following are the official averages up to date: G. A.B. R. H. 2B. 3B. H.R. B.A. Clements, A. S 1 39 13 19 2 2 1 .487 Via 8 35 9 15 1 ,429 Cook 5 21 1 9 .429 Stevens. A. H 6 21 1 9 .428 Stover, Rob 11 47 9 20 1 .425 Clapp, D.-M 10 31 9 13 2 3 .419 Zeyen, W. W 6 17 1 7 2 .412 H. Smith, Pan 10 41 7 16 2 2 .392 Gordon 3 10 2 4 .400 Diggs, A. S 10 45 13 18 2 .400 Brokamp, A. H 3 11 2 3 1 .375 Middleworth 9 39 9 11 2 1 .367 L. Quigley, A. S. 14 61 15 22 1 1 .361 Allison, A. S 4 14 6 5 1 1 .357 Cracraft, W. W 11 42 7 15 4 .357 E. Nite, A. H 9 39 8 14 2 1 .356 G. Davis, A. S 12 45 11 16 4 2 .348 Minner, D.-M 12 45 10 16 1 .355 Laird, A. S 10 34 9 12 .353 Bosworth, A. S 12 40 16 14 1 .350 Sullivan, D.-M 7 26 7 9 4 .346 O. Davis, A. S 8 41 15 14 5 .341 O. Poster. E 10 41 16 14 3 2 .341 G. Evans, Rob 3 12 1 4 1 1 .333 Drischell, Pan 7 27 4 9 1 .333 Jones, Ad.-H 10 40 3 13 1 - .325 Klenbeck, Rob 10 40 7 13 1 1 .325 Bailey, W. W 12 39 5 12 4 1 .308 Benning, D.-M 7 29 7 9 2 .310 Taggart, A. S 15 60 17 18 1 1 .300 Not playing.

WITH THE MAJORS NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Boston Pittsburg 5 9 1 Boston 6 9 1 Batteries Kelly, Harmon and Gibson and Coleman; Rudolph and Whaling. At New York Chicago 6 11 1 New York 0 7 3 Batteries Vaughn and Archer; Marquard, Fromme, Wiltse and Meyers. At Philadelphia St. Louis 6 15 1 Philadelphia 3 12 2 Batteries Perritt, Doak and Wingo; Tnicup and Burns. At BrooklynCincinnati 6 10 1 Brooklyn 9 11 l Batteries Fittery, Schneider, Ames and Clarke; Ruelbach, Steele and Mc-Carty.

Second game Cincinnati 2 21 1 Brooklyn 8 10 1 Batteries Benton and Gonzales; Allen and Miller. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Washington 6 8 1 Chicago 1 6 2 Batteries Johnson and Ainsmith; Faber and Schalk. New York 4 6 1 St. Louis 3 9 2 Batteries Brown and Sweeny; Hoch, Baumgardner, Hamilton and Agnew. At Cleveland Phila ' 4 10 0 Cleveland 5 12 0 Batteries Bressler, Shawkey and Schang; Coumbe, Bowman and O'Neill. At Detroit Boston 8 12 6 Detroit 8 12 2 Batteries Foster, Bedient and Shore and Carrigan and Thomas; Cavet, Dauss and McKee.

PUGILISTS IN TRIM FOR BOXING CARD Benson, Promoter, Promises Fast Clean Sport Between Trained Men.

Tonight will settled once and for all time who is the better with their mitts Kid Ash, a colored boxer, from Columbus, Ohio, or Kid Clark of Cincinnati. Both boys are trained to the minute and as there has been quite a little rivalry between them for some time, somebody is going to get a licking. Both deny that they will be the ones to get it. Its going to be one sweet 10-round bout anyway and with John Stark as referee there is bound to be action every minute. They will weigh in at 158 pounds. Chester Meyers of Cincinnati and Ray Jeffries a local boy who has been progressing rapidly in the fight game the past year will be sure to produce a thrilling 10 rounds. Weight 128 pounds. Jim Oakley is another Cincy lad who will try and better a local boy, Young Bussen. The latter says "nothing doing, I've got his tag before he steps in the ring." Here's luck boys go to it. William Benson, promoter says, "It's the best card ever offered to local fr-ns who like good, clean, fast boxing." Preliminary starts at 8:30 o'clock in the Coliseum.

RITCHIE SIDESTEPS MATCH WITH WELSH

BY LEASED WIRE. CHICAGO, Sept. 22. It is

known whether it is fear of Willie Ritchie or what prompts Freddie Welsh in refusing to do battle with the former champ, but Welsh, in accepting Coffroth's $50,000 bid for

HOW THEY RANK National League. Won. Lost. Boston 79 65 New York 76 60 Chicago 73 66

St. Louis .". 72 Philadelphia 67

not J Brooklyn 64

Pittsburg 62 Cincinnati 56

66 72 74 74 82

American League. Won. Lost.

Philadelphia 90

three fights, specifies that Ritchie . Detroit 75 must not be one of the opponents. Washington 71

Welsh is willing to battle Whjte and Chicago 65

St. I-OU18 63

any other two foes. Fred may surprise himself In this White boy. Chicago fight fans are up in arms because Milwaukee promoters are ignoring Charlie White for Ad Wolgast and some threaten to make their absence felt. Wolgast was beaten by Joe Mandot, yet Ad is given a match with Tommy Murphy.

New York 63 Cleveland 45

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American Association. Won. Lost. Milwaukee 90 68

Louisville 91 Indianapolis 85 Columbus 84 Cleveland 79

nsas City 78

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BOXING BIFFS

Joe Wolcott, who is said to have been quite an old person when the civil war began, is back in the midst of things again. Joseph discovered some weeks back that the family larder was running shy of bacon and trimmings. So Joe went out, picked a fight with some fellow, got a boxing promoter to stage the doings, and, as Joe puts it, "Ah, done copped off enuff mazuma foh a few slabs o' dot bacon." "You're pretty old for such active work as boxing," some one told Joe. "Who? Me old?" exclaimed Joe, surprised and offended. "Ah'll have you no, sah, that I aint werry, werry old. And ah's jist as good today as a hull lot of them fellah's what's gittin' de coin for puttin' up what they calls fights." BOXERS GET BUSY. The boxers are mobilizing in different sections of the country and will declare war on each other in two weeks or so. Some of the pugs who have been summering in the wild parts of these United States are returning to civilization and assuring everybody that they are in shape to put up the greatest fights ever displayed before the boxing public.

TOM LEACH GOES TO FEDERAL LEAGUE

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GOLF MATCHES CLOSE Country Club Players Go Extra Holes. Five games were started and four finished yesterday in the fight for the president's cup at the Country club. The match between C. A. McGuire and Ilelhuish was a thriller from beginning to end. taking three extra holes to decide the winner. MelhuUh won the match with a handicap of ten. In the other matches S. E. Swayne defeated P. Comstock. 3 up, 1 to play. W. R. Dill bettered G. LeRoutilller. 3 up, 2 to play, and C. S. Bond bettered E. F. Hiatt. 3 up and 2 to play. The

match between Will enkins and D. N. Elmer was not finished. It is close and probably will be finished today.

NOTES OF BOUTS ON FIGHT CARD

BY LEASED WIRE. NEW YORK, Sept. 22 Tommy Leach has made un his mind to eo to

the Federal league. He made his de-!

mand to President Thomas, who refused to accede to them and advised Leach to get the monpy from the Fed- J

eral league if he could. Leach is said to have demanded a three-year contract calling for $6,000 a year with $3,000 as a bonus for signing. Thomas deemed this out of the question, and proffered him a one-year agreement

the same as any ordinary player, but '

this did not appeal to Leach, and he is now prepared to go with the outlaws for a salary said to be $25,000 ,

per, and he will perhaps manage one of three clubs, presumably Pittsburg.

SIXTY-FIVE MEN

OUT AT PURDUE!

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. National League. Brooklyn, 9; Cincinnati, 6. (First game.) Brooklyn, 8; Cincinnati, 2. (Second game.) Chicago, 6; New York, 0. St. Iouis, 6; Philadelphia, 3. Boston, 6; Pittsburg, 5. American League. Cleveland, 5; Philadelphia, 4. New York, 4; St. Louis, 3. Boston, 8; Detroit, 8. (Eleven innings; darkness.) Washington, 6; Chicago, 1. tThirteen innings.) American Association. Milwaukee, 4; Minneapolis, 0. Indianapolis, 5; Louisville, 5. (Nine innings; darkness.) Columbus, 7; Cleveland, 5. St. Paul, 2; Kansas City, 0. Federal League. Kansas City, 11; Brooklyn, 3. St. Louis, 5; Pittsburg, 2. Baltimore, 3; Chicago, 2. Indianapolis, 8; Buffalo, 1.

Kid Clark and Manager Harry Gordon arrived in the city early this afternoon from Columbus with a number of Clark's followers, who predict every success for Clark in tonight's match with Kid Ash. Manager Jack Link and Kid Ash also brought over from Cincy a number of Ash's admirers, who are just as emphatic as Clark's that Ash will bring home the "salty meat." Oakley put in his appearance yesterday and put in some light work. He looks in the pink of condition. From Russen's manager: "Bussen will surely spring some fast stuff on the fans tonight, and say, that boy has a wallop that, if it ever lands, means the curtain."

PIRATES CALL BACK BAIRD FROM WEST

Big Nine football stars got into action on the various conference college gridirons when the season's practice began Monday, and today they were out again getting into trim for the opening games two week's hence. Purdue had the largest number of players on the field in the opening practice, sixty-five candidates for the team working out. Iowa had 60, Minnesota with 50, Ohio 45, Illinois 40, Chicago 35, Wisconsin 34, Indiana 30 and Northwestern 25.

GAMES TODAY. National League. Cincinnati at Brooklyn. St. Louis at Philadelphia. Pittsburg at Boston. Chicago at New York. American League. Boston at Detroit. (Two games.) Philadelphia at Cleveland. New York at St. Louis. Washington at Chicago. American Association. Indianapolis at Louisville. St. Paul at Kansas City. Cleveland at Columbus. Minneapolis at Milwaukee.

BY LEASED WIRE. FULTON. Mo., Sept. 22. The Pittsburg Pirates are getting one of the star infielders of the Western league, and a probable successor to the great Honus Wagner, in the person of Douglass Baird, who Manager Clarke haa recalled from the Sioux City team. Bair is to join the Pirates at the close of the Western league season.

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