SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1908.
THE MORNING ASTOHIAX, ASTORIA, OREGON
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Gotham's Three Baseball Teams
Not Playing Up to Earlier Form.
BROOKLYN? BAD SHOWING.
Patty Donovan's tupsrbaa Have Ink
Putting Up Poor Fielding and Bat
ting McQraw on tha Lookout For
Pitchers.
Greater Now York baseball enthusi
asts art tn n gloomy wood ovor the
poor exhibitions of their threa teama,
Yankeea, tilnuts anil Buperbaa. All
baro disappointed their admirers at
thla early atago of the campaign. For
tlnio each team played grandly, and
tbo races allll have until Oct 0 to run,'
but Just now do not recall these facta,
but consider only tlio startling condi
tion of affairs now current (but all
thr- ciulM are putting up a poor arti
cle of bull.
' If the thwo tennis contluuo to play
tbo brand of Imll they Imvo boon ex
hlbltlng fur tlio pout few week there
will bo absolutely no hope of a sliver
llnlug to the cloud of gloom. But en
thusiast know that nil three repre
acntnttvea of Pop Knickerbocker . will
perk up and band back some of those
exasperating defeats recently benpwl
on the teama by ungullunt hostile.
There may be a reconstruction of the
combinations In tbo perking up proc
ess, ror amnagera unmui, aicuraw
ami Donovan nreJiiHtaa bitterly disap
pointed a tlio enthusiasts over the
failure of tlielr clubs and owe It to tbo
fans, themselves and their joba to
make nweanary changes,
Thews leaders know wherein their
charges bnve failed better than the
keen observer, tlio caustic critic and
the general populace.
McQraw baa a problem on bla banda
to pull his abnttcred forcea together
and to get nmre pitchers. If be la ex
pecting to make a deal with 8L Lanla
he will be disappointed, for Stanley
Iloblnaon, president of tha Cardlnala,
aaya no National league team can get
a twlrler from htm except Cincinnati.
Stanley la bitter on the community of
intercut Idea and relatea with a touch
of tabaeco bla experience In trying to
got good meu, who were decorating1
the lncb, from the cluba owning
them, "The ownera of tbeae cluba,"
aaya Stanley, "never helped ma out
when I wna abort banded, and now
they can go hnng If they think I am
going to be relieved of any of my
pltcbera. who are the beat tn tbe coun
try. The only magnate who ever
helped nio oufwltn talent waa Garry
Herrmann, mid he la the only owner I
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draw will have to look elsewhere for
twirling talent than to tha fair Ifoand
City.
The New York Americana have pitch
era galoro and are well aupplled with,
relief talent, too, but the fana think
that Manager Grlflltu hasn't put some
of bla regular In tbelr proper pega.
At leant they think ao now, but tbey
didn't have thla Impreaalon when tha
team wa winning gamca with great
regularity. Tbo men In queatlon who
are wrongly placed, according to tha
general Idea, are Jake Rtahl and liar
ry Nlles. Jake bnan't played good ball
in tbe outfield and now haa to hi dla
crodlt tbe loss of mora gamea than
ha haa won by bla long and timely hit
ting. Nllca playa aecond all right when
Elberfcld la alongside of him, but
makea a poor atab of the job when tha
kid la absent. Bull did the beat ha
could In Norman'a abaence, and, while
ha made many errora, theae mlaplaya
abouldu't have unsettled tbe team.
There I too much veteran talent In It
to blow up In "All-of-a-Sudden-Peggy"
faablon.
Tbe Brooklyn team la aufferlog from
a lack of t wirier and bittern. Tbey
ought to have the butt mimed commod
ity with Jordan and Lumley in tbe
lineup, but Tlm'a biffing tins fallen off
greatly alnce the early wceka of the
running, and Harry, while he haa made
a few long driven, lan't the Lumley of
old. According to the Brooklyn view
point, Pat Donovan made a mistake
when bo took rtureh out of Lumloy's
place In right after tbo Bupcrbos bad
trimmed tlio Ulanta three straight at
tho Tolo grotinda Into In April. There
la a large delegation In Brooklyn
which tbluka Burcb In bla present
form la a better man than Lumley.
Thla la Indeed a year for tbe shatter
ing of Idola, Lumley, pnee beloved In
Brooklyn, being a cnndldato for tbe
bench and a favorite mark for pitch
era and "Weo Willie" Keelcr, popular 1
everywhere, twice being guilty of ossl-
fled beaded bane running In one game
and dropping nn easy fly with the
baaea filled In the anme encounter.
If Managera firlflltb, McGraw and
Donovan and tbo vast nrmy of metro
polltnn fans are puzzled aud aghaat at !
tha recent turn In the tide, what must j
be tbo feelings of tho owners of the j
clubs! Presidents Farrell, Brush and
Kbbets are the men wbo "pay tbe i
freight, and they all have spent money 1
liberally to got together winning com
binations. The Investment of Frank
Farrell laat w Inter waa the costliest of
the trie, and the New York Americans'
payroll probably la the largest In tbe
country. Tho New York Nationals are
well paid, -and ao are the Uroofclyns. I
but the players of the three teama are j
not now earning their salaries, much j
to general regret. The hoe of all loynl j
fana la that tbe three cluba will brace J
up, and brace Immediately.
SAN FRANCISCO
ED SEIVEil LACKS LUCK.
Pitch Wall, but Unable to Win Ma
jority of Hia Games,
Although Ed Belver of tbe Detroit
Americans has won only three out or
the first eight games pitched this mm
son, the big south paw bus been pitch
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AM12IIICAN8.
Ing Qrst class bull. but. owing to burd
luck, umm to be unable to win a ma
jority of bis guiles.
Solver aci'Jtis to have the Indian sign
on the Chicago White Six this season.
Manager Jennings nets away with the
Sox by working Kllllan and Selver as
much as possible agulunt Fielder Jones
agtrregatlon. Thla is one club in tbe
league against which be eeems to be
Invincible.
Cornell Trsck Msn Elect French.
(.'buries M. French. wht tlnlshwl sec
oud In the half mile at the Intercollegi
ate track meet at Ithaca. N. V.. recent
ly, has been unanimously eUnHed cap
tain of the Cornell track team for 1009.
French is from Worcester, ..Masa, and
waa a member of Cornell's champion
two mile relay team Intit winter.
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American Athbtes In Good Shape
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RECORD BREAKERS ON LIST.
Ssleetiona Make Up the Most Remark
i able Group of Athlstss Ever Brought
Together Under One Emblem To
Sail Juno 27.
Uncle Ha iii bus selected tbe seventy
six athletes whose brain, brawn and
speed are depended upon to keep tbe
stars and stripes afloat In tbe Olympic
games In London next month. Con
sidering their caliber, half that number
would have been sutiicient to capture,
crate und ship to America tbe lion's
ahare of the events, but with charac
teristic generosity tbe old gentleman
with the eon tee threw In a second set
for gocd tnensuro.
With one r two exceptions tbe last
American team to cross the pond In
search of the world's athletic suprem
acy swept tiie board clean, but this
year's guluxy of stars was selected
with a view of sweeping the board
and bringing it back with tbem. Tbe
wholesale forclR'.i .Invasion was planned
nor In a buustfrz maimer, but to con
vince nllier contenders that the Unit
ed Stales wis not CcivMllng o any
one man l:i any eve it, br.t h id several
men who cos:ld be r -lied upon tv show
tbelr heels to the best that other na
tions could j-reduce.
North, sixth, east and west have
contributed to t!:e or'flt. and no ham
let was too snsall to be overlooked
when the selection of team committee
was going through the records of ath
letic tryouts of t'j.' past few months.
Every man of the sele.t seventy-six
is trained to the hour and wi!l be kept
In perfect condition until the team
sails away on June 27. The flfry-eigbt
substitutes, .many of whom just fell
short of tljp charmed c!r?!e. are not to
be slighted In the calculations.
This Is the greatest OKJcepition of
athletes that has ever luvoded another
country In nny time that history has
record. ToUen as a whole. Its com
bined athletic strength Is remarkable
when one considers that the field and
cinder path sort , In this country Is
still In Its Infancy as compared with
the European nations with which It
will compete. Its cosmopolitan make
up is test shown j.v the fact that
among the candidates are two full
blooded Indians and two rep-oca. The
former are 1'rcnU Mount Pleosant and
Ix?i!is Tewarina of tho Carlisle Indian
school and l!ie latter J. B. Taylor of
the University of Pennsylvania and F.
straight wkiskies
ASTORIA
Le Roy Holmes of the Chicago uni
versity. y V '.
New York city la sending twenty
seven athletes. Brooklyn will bar
one representative, Newark two, Brook
line, Mass., one; fit Louis two, Chicago
twelve, Boston three, San Francisco
one and Portland, Ore., one. There
will be twenty-six collegians on tha
team, asaembled from colleges and uni
versities In all parts of tbe country.
World' record holders that America
will unload on John Bull are Sheppard,
Gilbert, Dray, Sheridan, Ewry, Dear
born, McOrath, Bacon, Bmlthson and
Daniels. The Intense rivalry among
American atuietlc clubs which baa
made possible the development of anch
a superb team will be forgotten tha
minute tho boys board tbe ship for tha
other side. From that time on it will
simply be a case of how to outdistance,
outjnmp and outburl tbe athletes of
the old warld.
The official makenp of the Olympic
team la aa follows:
j One hundril metorj Cartraetl, 0, of P.;
Rctor, V. of V.: Robertson, I. A. A. C;
Huff, Orlnnall college; Mar, Illinois eot-
On hundred and ten meters, hurdl
8haw. Dartmouth; gmtthaon, Callfornts.;
Oarrcls, Michigan.
Elsht hundred meten fiheppord, t A.
A. Ci LJghtbody, Ctiicago; Brorullow. L
A. K C; Ralmey, Chicago; French, Coe
Dell. Two hundred meter Same men aa tbo
100 metera.
Four hundred meter, hurdle Hinman,
N. Y. A. C; Bacon. 1. A. A. C; Mullt
fan, Aqulnaa A. C. Phlladplphla.
Fifteen hundred meter HaUrtead, Cor
nell; Sullivan, I. A. A. C; Lightbodr,
Chicago; Coo and Rowe, Michigan.
Four hundred meter Taylor, U. of P.J
Carpentt-r. Cornell: Atlee, Princeton;
Prnut, Boston. A. A.
Five mileaBcllar. N. Y. A. C; Bon
hag. LA. A. C. ; Trube. Cornell.
Pole vault Gilbert. Dray, Yale; Cooke,
Cornell; Ealtali. 8tamford university.
8hot Coe. Boston A. A.; Kose. Olympic
Club; OarrO.a. Michigan.
Rtinnlrg h'sh Jump Porter. L A. A. C;
Moff.t. U. cf P.; Gldney. Boston A. A.;
Patterson. Chtcaga.
Standing high and standing broad Jump
-Ewry, N. Y. A. C; Biller. Brooklyn Y..
M. C. A. '
DUcu. free and Giek style Dearborn,
N. Y. A. C: Sherldat. I. A. A. C; Tal
bott. Cornell.
Running broad Jump Cook, Cornell;
O Connell, N. Y. A. C; Kelly, U.A.C
Hammer Flanagan, I. A. A. C: Mc
Orath. N. Y. A. C; Talbott. Cornell.
Hop. step and Jump Piatt, Adams and
O Connell. N. Y. A. C.
Javelin Adams. N. Y. A. C; Sheridan.
I. A. A. C
Swlmmlr.T Goodwin and Daniels, N. T.
A. C: Green, Brookllne Swimming club.
Marathon run-Morrtesey, Mercury A.
C; Hatch. Chicago A. A.; Hayes, L A.
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"Germany" Schaefer.
"Gennauy" Schaefer of the Detroit
Americans Is there with the goods
when It comes to showing aa an all
around player. The Dutchman went
rVeuty-five games at second without a
clsplay. and then they, moved him to
short. He starred in that position. Be- J
fenny ne went to tnira ana oia tne
same thing. -
"Schaefer Is a remarkable ball pSay
or," aaya Jennings. "When ha can go
to three positions on the field and ptey
them tbe way he has dona it atampa
him as one of tha great players of At
game."
HUMMELL, ALL AROUND STAB.
Haa Done Everything but Catoh tine
Ho Joined Brooklyn Toam.
"Silent John" Ilammell, who la on
tbe payroll of tha Brooklyn National
league club, baa only to catch a game
now and be will go down In the base
ball book as having played every po
sition on tbe diamond. (,
Three years ago a message came to
the Brooklyn grounds that thera waa
a pretty good ball player np In Dol
yoke, and tbe Brooklyn club got him.
la bla three years he has moved Into
the front rank of utility men. Ha does
all his work In a cooL unassuming
way. Ha haa nothing to aay on or off
the field, but what be does with tbe
ball while the game Is on Is what
makea "Silent John" class with the
best of ail around players. 1
Just now Hnmmell la going at a tmt
clip. He was always a good hitter and
la in tbe .300 class at present It
doesn't make any difference where
Patsy Donovan sends him, ha nerer
aaya a word. Ha picks dp his glove
and makes good wherever he la assign
ed. It looks as If Holyoke will nerer
see htm again and no other minor
league club for some time. Hnmmell
has gathered them up In every position
In tbe outfield and baa filled In all
around the Infield. He went In and
pitched a game two years ago In the
latter part of the season, and, aa said
before, be is waiting for a chance to
go In and catch a game.
Old Honus Better Than Ever.
Hans Wagner was worth any fancy
salary that Barney Drey fuss had to
offer to induce him to return to the
game. Never has tbe big Teuton bat
ted or fielded better than thla season.
Criss a Good Pinch Hitter.
Dode Criss of the St Louis Browns
Is a reliable man In pinches. Most of
his hits have been made when he waa
tent to tbe plate to club lor another.
Women of Diplomaby.
Almost ail the celebrated women
have gained their fame by diplomatic
means. The famous women of Jewish
history were all subtle In tbelr meth
odsRebecca. Jael and Herodlaa, to
name but a few of them. What born
diplomatists, too. were Catherine of
Elena, the great saint, and Catherine
la Medici, the treat sinner! The list of
them down the ages Is unending. Wo
man's Life.
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