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1HL lt;J H A it L L IS X O N DAILY MAIL, MONDAY EVENING, MA1ICH1 9 1SPORTLYN IS THE CITYOF PRIZE RING BOYSDempsey, skolly. CHrrnll Sullivan—All of Tii Art* Brooklynite*.:n is known as the “eitv of but at one time it might bee n ealled the city of pugi-niany of the best boxers of or two ago claimed the iggesi suburb as their home*k McA uliffe. Jack I)empsey.ly. Brooklyn Jimmy Carroll,Tommy Sullivan — these a few of the illustrious ones ■ burn or got their lighting le borough of steeples.rty-fourth anniversary ui the*Thomas F. Sullivan, other- : jcklyn Tommy,” who onces king of the featherweights, tly celebrated. Tommy was Brooklyn, and it was in ?n he whs six teem, that he make a noise in the sportinghe same year witnessed the■* . ' ■dehut of another Brooklyn able Terry“ McGovern, who a newsy in Brooklyn before o the tight game. Early in ker the two lads who wereto be featherweight cham- i t in a Brooklyn ring and rounds to a draw.;THE FTXNIE8T THING OX THE DIAMOND.The funniest thing I ever saw on a baseball Held, says Larry Gardner, third baseman for the Red Sox. was a pitcher sliding clear past third base and spiking a coaeher. and at the same time preventing his team from making what might have been considered n serious error.The play came up in a game between the Bed Sox and St. Louis Browns. Patsy Donovan was our manager at the time and he was coaching at third base.and Bill Bailey was making it hard for us to get■; will take part in the 24-hour race scheduled fur Madison Square garden. New York, beginning on St. Patrick's1 Day.V\ e needed a run. .t We had n runnercenter.ton ova n s ig n a 11 e don second base when a long fly was hit tlt;» rightMenus Wagner, the veteran shortstop. has signed his 1915 contract with the Pittsburgh National league baseball club. The contract, which calls for SI0.01*0 per year, was thesixteenth he has made with the localclub.DespLFreddiepi on, Cllightweienoughtwo moiwaukee.Griffith1-th ani Charley him to March 1ithe runner to come on after the catch and. as the outfielder hauled in the ball the runner sprinted for third, and the center fielder threw to nail him. it was evident that the play was going to be a close one.Bailey came tearing across to back up the third baseman. Just as he reached the base line his feet slipped and he fell sliding feet high in the air straight at Donovan who was too interested in the welfare of the runner to see Bailey. Bailey slid stiaight int* Dtnovan. spiked him and brought him down on tcp of himself. Meantime the runner slid to third, the ball took a crooked hop. got past the baseman and hit Bailey, who recovered it before the runner could start home, and prevented a score. It is the only time on record that a pitcher spiked aeoacher.SCHULTE TELLS FUNNIEST/THING SEEN ON DIAMONDJEANRelates Two Htories, but Can’t Decide'Which of Two Is theFunnier.shot straight at John’s bean and he dropped again just in time.“Everything was quiet on the bench.then someone said: ‘If Rucker hitshim in the head there’ll be brains all over the infield.’After months of effort. Jean ”1 never have been able to Chassagne, holder of the world’s hour which of two things I heardrn was the first to reach the nd in 1900 Tie annexed the ight title by whipping ixon. The next year Terryod from his throne bv the•enverite. mder theBillvnameRoth well, of Youngrecord, and one of Europe’s most brilliant drivers, finally managed to obtain his release from the Frencharmy and enter the next 500-milerace at Indianapolis. Chassagne will drive a Sunbeam car. taking the place of IK Resta, who will handle a Peugeot instead. During his term of service, Ghassagne was artillery man in a naval fort at Marseilles. He only secured his dismissal, it Is said.ball field was the funnier.decide on the So 11!“Heine jumped up and started toward the plate: ‘If Rucker hits him.’lie said. ‘I want to be near and some of them.*gettell themSchulte.both.” says Frank M.In 1903, when Iin the New York had a l'our-gamewas with Syracuse State League, we series with llion“Chance exploded, ha. ha. ha. and laughed until he bumped his head on the top of the bench.'*LOCALS GO rlt;) CIXCY.which was managed by Howard Carl.“The series was very important; it meant the pennant for llion to win two out of the four games, and we had beaten them the first two. IniIisa Carey in Charge of CorpsC liarlrston Skater*.ofit'ootls I niI of Tun.seemed very improbable to the com manding forces.IcGovern and Corbett had to the lightweight division yoklyn Tommy forged to theic woods were full of good in those days, but Tommy them all. knocking out Jixon and Eddie Santry, lers. and also defeating Kid n Kansas City and Clarence Omaha, He also tackled jhtweights. but was not sc in that division.SPORT SAUCE.because attack upon that fortress . .. . _ _ ,i the third game Pop Morse was pitch- expedition, a corpsing and tip to the fourth inning he had us stopped without a hit. ard, on first base, was playing the game of his life and shouting, ‘This gent certainly is twirling today. He’s there, boys, lie’s there!*“In the fifth we started and hit Pop for eight straight hits and seven runs. Howard had swral towed hisPhiladelphia fans have one left to be thankful for. at Connie Mack hasn’t retired.thing b ast, tWith Jesse Carey in charge of theof roller skaters of Charleston left last night for Cin-Hovv- cinnati, where they will take part inthe Tri-City amateur races, principal among which is a two-mile championship contest at the Music Hall rink.Bugs Reisial, the former New Havent wirier, lias been bought Frisco ^eals from Detroit.by theigum and was unable to speak, butj w hen the eighth hit was made hethe featherweight title was r Abe Atteii, who triumphedry Forbes in .Si. Louis. Tommy was not inclined to ie honor he had been striv-% i} wAntrh ♦ o nm loh u *1 li t })lt;•Johnny Harvey. New York lightweight has been matched to meet Johnny Griffin, of Akron, on March 17th.With Eddie Collins on the team, the White Sox may lose their title of “Hitless Wonders.** tmless. of course,! turned and looked at Jack Filicld, who was coaching for us.“ Ry Jack.* he said solemnly, In all my baseball career i never was known to lay down but I feel— euliar just now.’“One lt;3ay the oh! Chance to Eversto Tinker to Steinfeldt to Kling to Sheeka rd to Hoffman to Brown to!-'l 1 1 1 AM to t It K I i n n oL u nln v'pe-In the Carey st ible are Wayiand Kerns, national champion one-miler by virtue of his wins at Madison Square garden in New York this winter; Lawrence Sonn. a contender for the local championship, and one of the wisest speeders of the bunch;O. M. Oviatt, whose demonstrationsfor several* years have placed him among the best of them; Roger Nat-lis, the Belgian wonder, and Eustace Birthisel, the boy phenom, who improves with every race.This same party, or part of it.Conservation9ConversationThe busv man regards*liis time as moneyYeteachmailw hoaca*Isonhim in person wastes it byfremarks on politicstheweather, anil other subjects*4i\4having no bearingr ronthebusiness in hand.Not so with the callerbv telephone.He goes totheat once, stales his business, antthe busy man a chance to atteTalking by telephone consersaves time.Transact Business byTHE CHESAPEA*TELEPHONC. M. BOREN,TcL 9000210FLOWER VAS(DURINGWITH EACH OB
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