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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLK. NEW iOKlv, WEDNESDAY, MAY. '21. 1924. PITCHERS ARE AGAIN GETTING THE UPPER HAND OVER THE BATTERS 2 A CONSISTENT HARD WORK IS THEIR "GENIUS mm mm mm mm BRE5SLEF BROKE INTO BIG LEAGUE.

60ITH HIS BAT-ABOUT 914- Miss Marie Jenny Looms Up as Most Promising of1 Youthful Met 'Girl Golfers By GEORGE TREVOR. MOVING along as smoothly as a turbine engine, Miss Marlon Holltns! advanced yesterday a step nearer to the Metropolitan Women's title which Alexa Stirling relinquished without striking a blow. Today the Westbrook star will doubtless shoulder aside Miss Maureen Orcutt, the youthful Jersey schoolgirl, who probably lacks the necessary experience to be the medium of a startling upset. Maureen's style shews -the line Italian hands of George Kerrigan, the White Beeches pro, and of Pat O'Hara, her first instructor. She swings a club as prettily as any of the top-notchers, but she is still a bit conscious of her youth and apt to be overawed by the reputation of her famous adversary.

Miss Orcutt is still about "two years away," as they say In baseball. Right now we are inclined to believe that Miss Karie Jennie trf North Hempstead is a more formidable match player than Miss Orcutt. Miss Scoring Is Being Kept Down cis Fine Crop of Young Pitchers Appear By THOMAS HOLMES. BASEBALL HISTORY moves In cycles as surely as do the stars. From Spalding's day down to the present time the balance of haseDalt power has moved back and forth from batting strength to pitching itTiciency with almost clock-like regularity.

The shift has been gradual in some instances, sudden in others. It legins to look as though the era of heavy hitting that originated in major league baseball shortly after the war is drawing to a close. Bubo Uuth i sample set every one in the National and American Leagues to swirgirg from the handle and the abolishment of freak deliveries and the advent of a so-called "rabbit bsll" helped the batsmen to make life miserable for the pitchers. Slowly but surely the moundsmen are again gaining the whip hand over their natural rivals. The powers that be may legislate to their hearts' content, but it ts doubtful that a day will ever come in the history of the game when pitching is Irretrievably secondary to batting.

jenme mignt De likened to a rose, Johnny Lavan May Join The New York Giants DOCTOR JOHNNY LAVAN. until recently shortstop ot the St. Louis Cardinals, and recognized as one of the greatest hit-and-run batsmen in the Ni-lionai League, may join the New York Giants in the role of utility infleider. Johnny became a free agent when the Cardinals secured Jim Cooney from Milwaukee to play shortstop, and has announced that ho will come to New York to open a dental parlor. The tooth-pulling hall tosser began his career in 1913.

when he played with the St. Louis Browns and the Philadelphia Athletics. He remained with the Browns until 1918. when he wad sent to Washington. The Carui-nals obtained him the next year, and Johnny lias performed with Rickey's team since.

The veteran is 33 years old. THE PITCHING DUEL BETWEEN AND VANCE. SHOULD A' BASEBALL SA3A tH ST. LOUIS CARDINAL The reason for this is plain. Bailing i more or less of a finished It has changed little since Cap Anson swung a mean and healtl-y bat against thci twirlers or the OAs.

On the other hand, the art of pitching has netcr s'ood still. It is constantly changing, usually for th belter. In a way, the Inevitable triumph of pl'rliing over batting is merely a triumph of brain ovor brawn. Smaller Scores And Closer (iainw. Look over the box scores of the 1 i 2 4 season thus far.

Notice th smaller scores, the tighter games, the fewer number long hits. What is this due to? Why, It merely Indicates that pitching science Is again catching up 10 forceful swatting. A more direct reason is that the younger set of pitcher! in the morning of their major league careers are far and away the most likely looking set of hurlers who have come up from nowhere since the c'ays when airtight pitching ruled the roost and a batter that could hit .28: all season long was an undisputed star. Look over the 1924 crop of hurlers anil you will And that almost every team in either league possesses a young pitcher who if he does not appear to be a star in tha making, certainly look3 good enough to holi down a regul ir job. The Brooklyn Puperbas have "Rube" Yarrlson.

ho has shown flashes of good form. The New York Giants possess Way-land Dean, the high-priced piece of pitching brie-? -brae from Louisville, who has a'mo'it won a regul ir place on the staff of ti.e league champions. T'lenty of Good Young Twlrlci. The Boston number anion; their hurlers little Gearln the midget si'M-hTiPw obtained re cently from 'li- Hiants. whose work hns caused rri'ir-- to label him another Dickey Kerr, Tom work has been one of the leadin? features of the dasli thai has put the Cincinnati Reds on top of the National League race.

Jacobs hc.4 become a winner with the Chicago Cubs and the Pittsburg Pirates possess Ray Kremec who. while no kid, has been doin great work on his first time up. In the American League the "uorld's champion New York Yankees arc standing pat. on the great staff of veterans. The Boston Rod Sox have Osca- Fuhr, a southpew who has come hrough.

The Wash-'ngton Senator1- hae been getting great results from Roy Marhe-ry find Joe Martina, a 34-year-old re-cruit. L. K. "T.II") Stoner and Karl AVhitehill fearured the early winning streak or the Detroit Tigers. Jfd Lyon of the Chicago White Sex has shown enour.h to -stamp him a promising youngster and Krnie Wingard's pitching has be one ot the main reasons wny the Louis well that the Reds got him In 1917 as a southpaw pitcher.

He failed to set the world afire in the box, but he could hit. He paid strict attention to business and was willing to do any little Job that came to hand. Those qualities have kept him with Cincinnati ever since. Awkward But Effective And Can Slug. One of the best outfield catches we ever saw was made by Bressier at Kbbets Field in 1919 before the Reds obtained Pat Duncan as a regular left fielder, and we have seen him make other great catches.

In the field he. is awkward but effective. Dutch Ituether of the Brooklyn Superbas. who was on the champion team of the Reds in 1919, expressed the idea when he said: "As welt as we knew Bressler's ability as an outfielder, he. had our hearts in our throats whenever he went after a difficult chance, but he would come "up with the ball.

How he got away with It we could not understand, but there he was with blushing unseen in the "desert air" of North Hempstead. No slight to that excellent golf club is here intended, but we simply must ring in Gray's famous elegiac simile. Miss Jenney Impresses. If she gets by Miss Rosalie Knapp today Miss Jenney should give Miss Holltns a lively tussle in the semifinals. Any woman who can cover the first nine holes at Cherry Valley In 41, as Miss Jenney did yesterday, Is certainly not a "false alarm." Mis Hollins, playing at the crest of her powerful game, was only one stroko under the nine-hole total compiled by Miss Jenney, who Is still In her teens.

Best of all, the North Hempstead youngster has the rare gift of poise. Her self-assurance when facing the experienced Mrs. Jack Ren. wick was amazing. "Miss Jenney has the Ideal match play temperament," said Mrs.

Ren-wick after suffering an unexpected defeat. "She is confident to a degree and plays her own game regardless of her rival's shots. We haven't seen much of Miss Jenney in tournaments, but she did qualify well up in last fall's National Cham plonship and then carried Mrs, Ron aid Barlow to the nineteenth green A Long Driver. "I drive a long ball for a woman, nut miss jenney was aneaa ot me from a majority of the tees. She must have averaged close to 220 yards.

On the putting greens she gives the ball every chance to drop. This bold policy paid rich dividends In the shape of long putts holed. I regard Miss Jenney as the most promising of th rising generation of golfers In the 'Met' district." Miss Holiins' splendid play was so fully covered in yesterday's news columns of The Eagle that there is little to add here. Our sympathy went out to Mrs. Albert McDonald, who undertook the thankless role of acting as a foil to better display the superlative merit of Miss HolUns' game.

No one but a golfer can realize how discouraging it is to lose eight of the first nine holes while playing to'the best of your ability. Mrs. McDonald was not in poor stroke. Her outgoing card showed nothing but 5's and 6's which were not good enough to match the string of par 4's that Miss Hollins reeled off. To' ward the end of the abbrevlattil round Mrs.

McDonald's discourage ment began to take tangible form in the guise of topped drives and sliced irons. She was pressing in a vain effort to keep up- with the slashing tee shots of the sturdily built Westbrook girl. Miss Hollins' Status. As a matter of fact. Miss Hollins is playing below her class in thu tournament.

One suspects that Marlon could defeat most of the male players who enter Long Island invitation tournaments. We rather think that she would have qualified in the nrst 16 at Pomonok and at Garden City. Certainly she played the wind at Cherry Valley more impressively than Eddie Driggs did In the Long Island championship and the Garden City Cup tourney. We should like to see Marion Hollins face, for instance. Eddie Van Vleck.

If Van Vleck struck one ot his frequent wild spells our money would be on Miss Hollins. Eddie can be as wild as the, fabled man from Borneo when he choose3 to disdain the fairway and takes the "over-rough" route to the cup. 'Admitting that Miss Hollins can meet all but the top-notch players on even terras it is obvious' that Marion Is not exactly in her element against the feminine grade of opposition that the metropolis affords. One of the most amusing matches of the first round was that wherein Mrs. Larocque Andersen of Cherry Valley defeated Mrs.

George Harrington of Garden City by 1 up. Oddly enough. Mrs. Anderson dropped the first four holes in a row before she struck her stride. When the tide turned, however.

It did so with a vengeance, for Mrs. Anderson proceeded to win the next five holes In sequence, to turn for home 1 up. Mrs. Harrington squared tho match on the sixteenth green through the medium of as fine a recovery as has been seen at Cherry Valley. Trapped on her second, in the bunker to the left of the green, she niblicked out neatly, the hall rolling un dead to the pin for her par 4.

This fine effort was wasted when Mrs. Anderson obtained her winning lead by taking the seventeenth hole, 5 to 6, and halved the home hole. A One-Shotter? fllerrv Vnllov'o entel.jr,v like its Garden City counterpart. Is A. "nnp.hnti txr that statement by saying that Cherry niieys eignieentn is a one-shotter in theory only as far as the fair bex is concerned.

The "femmes" seldom negotiate those 207 yards in- tervenlner tw xt tee and ernn tn nna shot. A 4 has been lha piHlmnirv tally In this tournament, with more man to relieve the monotony. Seated in the attractive grillroom One frets n. htrH'a-ova nC In. teresting eighteenth hole through iiitr wiuest winnow we recollect ever having seen.

This expansive stretch Of ITlaSS frflniPn lh fltllahinv lovnnt as If it were a picture and not a reality. This picture setting frames bits of golfing drama that run the gamut from comedv to tmo-ertw can loll back comfortably In an easy inn wai.cn ine lemmes approaching the pin by easy stages They jret thero in tho takes time. Judeintr hv the tionate emhraees tbof the anish of a ladies match-amenities In which the feminine portion of the gallery join a match memners or tiie gentler sS is not resrarded in iha miv. spirit, which nrevnila n.l,Dn -h- i j- of creation do battle. Jill taken her golf les3 seriously than Jack.

Kansas Defeats Jacks. Binghamton. N.Y.. Mav 21 Rnefev Kansas of Buffalo decisively defeate i ii-uuie jauKs or nere last night In a six-round bout. Kansas dropped Jacks for a count of three in the third round and had the Englishman groggy in the sixth.

Jacks did his best work In the first and fourth rounds. Jim Barnes Out Of Open Golf BECAUSE he put off till tomorrow what he should have done "today." Jim Barnes, ex-pride of Pel ham, will be on the outside looking In when the golfers gather at Oakland Hills, Detroit, next month in quest of the crown that now adorns tho tousled locks of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. The U. S. G.

A. has announced that Barnes" entry for the open championship has been refused because it Was received after the prescribed closing date. The lank Cornishman has thus automatically canceled his chance to repeat the victory he rang up at Columbia back in 1921. The moral is plain. Laggard3, take heed! Son of In wood Pro Survives in Greenwich, May 21 Jack Mackie, Lawrence High, son of the Inwood professional; Eugene Choate, New Jersey champion; Bill Lanman, Tome School, and Al Brodbeck, Mt.

Vernon High School, purvived the first and second rounds of play for the Er.stern scholastic championship at the Greenwich Country Club here yeste.day. Despite the poor playing conditions, the youngsters put up some fine exhibitions of j-'Olf; as good as has been se.en in scholastic tournaments anywhere. Jack Mackie scored to 78's in his victorious march and Al Brodbeck was only a few strokes behind him. The defeat of Donald Bomann, defending champion, by Ills schoolmate. Bill Lanman, was one of Ihe surprises of the day.

Bomann was playing a fine game off the tee and with his wood but could not his short approaches. On the other hand. Lanman was playing steadily, negotiating the flrnt nine holes in S8, three over par, and was only one stroke over orthodox figures jr the four holes he played coming In. Lanman will meet Mackie this morning In th? temi-finals. Maekie's match with Kenneth Reid, Farmlngton, brought out some fine golf.

Both boys started well, halving the first three in par figures, but from this point on Mackie was better than Held and bad the latter three down at the turn. A par threo against Reld's four gave Mackie a four-hole advantage, which he Increased to five holes on the 14th. With his back to the wall the son of the Ardaley pro gave a brilliant example of straight shooting, winning the next, two holes and cutting down Maekie's lead fo three holes. It looked for a moment as if Reld would make It two down when Mackie hooked his ball off the course, but a spectacular shot by the Lawrence lad put his ball on the green within a few feet of the cup. He halved the hole and clinched the match, i and 2.

The summaries: Chsmplonahtp sixteen, first round E. Homana, choaie. won from Rutwn, Evandr Ohllds, by dt fault; J. P. Cheney, Kent, beat William Buckley.

Ftamrord. and 4: Jack Mackte. Lawrence. beat Ruddy P.ethenberg. (ieorgo Washington.

8 and Kpnneth Reld. Farmtnirton, beat Leonard Martin, Pomfret, ft and Bill Lanman, Tome heat Doebel. Ureenwich, It and 5: Donald Bomann, Tome, beat Charles flommera. Sluyveaant, a lip; Maurice McCarthy. Stamford, beat William Vilea, Cony, and 4: Al Brodbeck.

Mt. Vernon, heal George Dunlap, Hill, 3 and 2. Second round Homans beat Cheney, 2 and Mackie beat Reid. and 2: Lanman heat Bomann. 6 and 6: Brodbeck beat McCarthy, 1 up (19 holes).

Second sixteen, first round Symington, Tome, beat Giles, Klski, 6 and Dunn, Lansdown won from Flanagan, Rtverhead. by default; Hunter. Klskl, beat Le Bourgeois, Lake Placid. 4 and 3: Hewitt. Klskl, beat schwlmmer, and Decker, Jamaica, won from Brennnn.

Montclair. by default; Connor, Tome, beat Atchison, Hamilton, 3 and 2: McLachian. Cochrane, beat Nelson, Jamaica. 4 and Andrews, Tome, beat I'ilery. Kiskf.

3 and 1. Second round Symington beat Dunn, 3 and 1: Hewitt beat Hunter, 4 and 8: Frank Decker beat Connor. 4 and Andrews beat McLachian, ti and 4. Stribling Defeats O'Dowd. Atlanta, May 21 W.

L. "Young" Stribling, the Georgia schoolboy sensation, won the decision over Dan O'Dowd, Boston light-heavvweight. In a 10-round bout here last night. The fight was slow and uninteresting, with Stribling pushing his opponent most of the The on'y real action came In the sixth round, when Stribling Bent O'Dowd to the canvas with a hard right to the jaw. The Boston battleir however, was on his feet again In an instant.

Major League Records NATIONAL LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. Club. W. P.C.I Club.

W. L. P.C. Cincinnati IB 11 .593 Boston 13 12 .500 la 14 14 15 .483 Srvr Turk 11) IS .1552 St. It 1 a .407 Brooklyn.

14 14 15 .375 Results Yesterday. Pittsburg, it; Sow York, S. Chicago, Philadelphia, 4. Brooklyn nt Cincinnati, rain. Boston at St.

Louis, rain. Games Tomorrow. Brooklyn at Pittsburg. York at Cincinnati. Boston at Chicago.

Philadelphia al St. Louis. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Standing of tho Clubs. Cluh.

VC. P.C.I Club. W. It. C.

Xew York IS Cleveland 12 13 11 li 15 .44 Pt. l.nula. 1-' it Chicago. 11 14 .440 14 13 8 18 .308 Results Yesterday. All games posponed.

rain. Games Tomorrow. Cleveland York. Detroit at Be-fon. St.

Louis at Washington. Chicago at Philadelphia. arraica Track Patrons Threaten Legere After His Ride on Missionary By W. C. VREELAND.

IT'S fortunate for Jockey Legere that he didn't ride Missionary In Cuba, France or Spain In the manner he did at the Jamaica track yesterday. If he had there's no telling what those patrons of rating who are wont, when they see iomething that does not please them, to take it out on the object of their wrath. As it was some of the racegoers were so angry that they followed him into the paddock, called him all sorts of names and threatened to "get him" when he left the grounds. One man said to Legere: "How much did you get for that ride on Missionary?" Whereat Legere answered In words that cannot be printed. Then a man threatened to whip him and another Imparted the cheerful Information that he would wait outside of the gate for him and "get him" if he had to wait there all night.

It will be realized from this that the racegoers, phlegmatic to a degree in many another irregular case, were roused to a high pitch of excitement Twin Bills Mount for Reds As Showers Halt Superbas; Robbie Has a Tummy-Ache lirown have been grappling with the Yankees for flrt place. Quite a Few Should Be Stars. A likely looking rt of youngsters, these. It wtM 1, a surprise ff or two of them do not a I tain stardom, or if all of them do not stick. To a casual obsorer, Ray Kremer or the Pittsbu-ff Pirates appears to be the fanciest pitching discovery in the National League, but ther rrf others who press him close for the honor.

Kremer has turned in the best effort, of any youngster, ec far, in the form of a two-hit shut-cut, victory ovo the Chicago Cubs, ond he has yet pitch a rrally bad game in this, hi second enture in the big leagues: There has not been a time in the Vast two or three seasons thai. Kremer could not have been a help to any big leap.e -Jub that needed pitchers. "Bti the scouts in theit iadom passed up his excellent work with a chronic last place outfit on the Pacific Toast, saying, with a scorn that, only a cout can affect. "Sure he's good. But.

hi: was up once before, but couldn't make it." Was With fiiauts Ti Years Ao. Ton years have roMed by since the New York Giants hauled Kremer or.t of the Pacific Northwest to give hlrn his first view ot big league territory. He didn't make good bo-'ause of a combination of circumstances, not the least of v. hlch was a nervous breakdown that thteat-( tied to put him out of baseball In -the American League the Detroit Tigers with L.U Sroner and Karl Whitehill appear to have gotten the best of the dfal at the young pitchers' bargain counter. Stoner is a right-handed pitcher, with Fort Worth of the Texas League last season, whose work has erged on th" sensational with the Tignrs thus for.

Whitehill, a southpaw with an either way curve, cam-1 from the Southern Association last fall and virtually pitched Detroit in-1ij second place ahead of Cleveland. Rot a re pari 3 in the Tigers' pitching machinery. having lost the only game the weather has allowed to date. They leave tonight for Pittsburg, where they finish oh Saturday and carry the T'i rat e. wit hem to Brooklyn for a game next Punday.

Since iierrde Neis has cut bis hands, the Superbas will have in the outfield today three left-handed baf-ters. Wheat. Loftus and Griffith, even if Kppa Rixey. that notable outhpaw. pitches for the Reds.

Manager Hendricks said this morning hat Luq ue's hand, which was ii rt by a hatted ha II on Monday, was strong again, and that Luque might be used today, but Hie chances ffe Luque will be saved for the RerJs' game tomorrow with the. Giants. Spencer Clarke, a Baltimore man. who travels for Henry Heide, tht: New York candy manufacturer, bobbed up yesterday and persuaded Manager Robinson of the Superbas to cat so many samples that be acquired a pain In his tummy and took the pledge against candy. Treasurer St- MeKeever of the Superbas an ft his daughter.

Dearie, have been extensively entertained in Cincinnati and have a number of engagements in Pittsburg. Younc. Jackson and Ornh cot a pair a piece. TX AX KFFOHT to jolt bj, u-im into winning form, Mefiraw revamped his lineup before lie brought Younu up from third position to the lead-off port, placed Jlilly Southwoith in lo hit third. THE CHAXOK in the bnttinp order did not do Billy Southwoith any jrood in the field.

The eent fieider had three chances during tiif came and booted thetn all. ft A FKISCir also h-ul trouble in keeping bis feet poinp in tiie same direction as the ball. Ii" slipped in the mud in aifeniptln del, Parnhart's bunt in the first anil injured bis face. THE Cubs won over th Phillies 'ic Keen held the 'harires of Arthur Fletchei- to fiv hits. Thrff of them wre honie runs however, and 'he Phils, seore.l four runs.

year and may be the best pitcher In the National League this season, oral years with a rather mediocre ball team behind him. Now he is Haines has been valuable for sev-good enough to win even with such a team. Week before last he won one full game from the New York Giants and pitched more than half of another victory against the same club. Following that, he lost a 13-inning duel to "Dazzy" Vance of the Superbas. That duel with Vance was one whale of a ball game.

The fielding on both sides furnished a thrill In nearly every inning, and the work of the pitchers was worthy of a World's Series. What ma le Haines stand forth so conspicuously was his knowledge of the Brooklyn batters, and his ability to work the corners on them. He made one pitching mistake. That was in the ninth inning, when the ball failed to break properly and came waist high and Inside to Jacques Fournier, who pulleU it into tho right field bleachers for a home run. IS GUTS BOTH I HANDS WITH A RAZf BLADE Meets With Accident While Washing Hands.

Injuries Not Severe. By THOMAS S. RICE. (Staff Correspondent of The Karlc.) Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21 Bernle Neis, outfielder for the Brooklyn Superbas, met with an accident last night when he severely cut the inside of both handi with a double-edged safety razor blade. Neis was in his room washing for supper.

He picked up a cake of soap, dipped it and his handy In the water and gave the soap a vigorous application. As he did so the blood spurted out ot the palms or ms hands. Investigation revealed that clining to tho soap was a Bafety razor blade which Neis had failed to notice. Jack Fournier, who was with Neis, took charge of the case. He disinfected the cu's and bandaged both hands, but not until after the victim had lost considerable blood.

Neis will be out of the game until the hands henl but as the cula.were clean and the blade very thin, bis recovery should he rapid. He was already on th? bench fluttering from ii Charley horse, but expected fo piay against the Pirates in Pittsiinrg tomorrow, if necessary. In the past spring Neis had a stone hi.iise on one hand and it became serious as the result of infection from a fish fin. -v Wheat. Loftus and Griffith, all left-handed batters, will to play the outfield tor Brooklyn against eft and right-handed pitchers, unless Bailey, a right-handed hlt'er, should be ralied upon to play for Loftus or Griffith when southpaws are working.

Inside Baseball By Frank Frisch Ninth inning. Score 5-3. Runners on second and third. Catcher at bat and one out. The catcher is a fair hitter.

Should the catcher be walked under these conditions? In a case of this kind it is a good policy to walk the catcher and take a chance on the pinch hitter hitting into a double play. The law of averages Is In favor of the fielding team when it comes to the pinch He usually hits into a double play under these conditions and thinking base ball teams plav for it. The pitrher is in a hard situation here but if the catcher Is a fair hitter be in pretty likely to hit a long fly If be doesn't get a singlo and a long fly would end the game. the 'results. The catches he made against Brooklyn in 1919 were not his only good ones.

He made them all over the circuit. "BreBsler joined us In 1917 an a pitcher but soon became utility out-lielder and pitcher to batters In practice. He is a right handed hitter who can lay against the bail hard and often, and he can do It in pinches, as I know from being with him on the Reds and against him on the Superbas." Bressler is a right handed hitter who takes a healthy cut and is frequently used as a pinch hitter. Every pitcher in the league, right or left bander, has the deepest respect for the former southpaw, and there is hardly one of them of long standing who has not at one time or another lost a game through a Bressler hit. Joe Haines Due For a Big Year.

Fans of Flatbush and environs are advised to keep an eye on Jess Haines, the right hander of the St. Louis Cardinals. He Is due for a big opening but no outlet. Legere remained in that, place In the rail position with Red Wingfleld in the lead, with Masquerado and High "Prince hemming him In. Every time that Legere 'got into close quarters he did nothing but pull up.

His horse's head had the "no-noes." It did nothing but shake from side to side ag Legere seesawed on the bit. The fact that Mis-fionary had opened at 7 t'o 10 in the betting and had soared In the odds to 13 to 10, where he remained entombed in cold storage, aroused the suspicions of the fpectators that all was not happy in betting land. The fact that Red Wingfleld was backed from 11 to 5 and practically closed favorite showed that those who bet on him could read the future shall one say the result? to a nicety. No race since the one Houri made notorious has aroused such bitterness among racegoers. The soothsayers say that everything bad has a sequence of three.

Let us hope that this Is the laft. We have now had that number of verv unpleasant, isces. The- were Vista. Hourl and Missionary. Racegoers are not apt to forget those three races and the punishment (not) that the stewards inflicted.

Samaritan Easily Bests Ladkin. ADKIN' was beaten for the South ampton Handles worth $5,900 net, when he tried to carry 117 pounds and to concede 12 pounds to Samaritan and 9 pounds to Lau-rano. The handsome son of Fair Play ran a fair race) and finished third, a head behind Laurano. But ho was four lengths behind Samaritan, which ran over the leaders when Maiben let him down at the head of the stretch. He made one sprint throughout the journey and came away and won as he pleared.

By doing this he confirmed what I told the readers of The Eagle last tfeek that he is the one colt which appears to be the most dangerous opponent of Ordinance in the race for the Belmont Stakes. And the liberal odds of 1 2 to 1 was offered against him yesterday. By THO.M.VS S. RICK. (Staff Correspondent The, Etwlr.) CINCINNATI, May 21 While casting about for baseball performers to be honored, why not takw a slant, at Kube, Brossler, utility outfielder and utility first baseman of the Cincinnati P.eds'." Bressler is almost urihonored, and certainly is unsung outside of Cincinnati, and he docs not receive much honor or singing in the home town of the Ileds.

Yet he is one of the few men who, because of sheer merit and conscientiousness, was retained by Manager Pat Moran after Pat began deliberately to break up the Red team which woo the World's Series of 1919. This littlo discussed athlete broke into the bis league as a left handed pitcher for the Athletics. That was about 1914. He had one big year, then went "blooey" and was sold to Atlanta, for which he pitched so REACH THE F1L5 BOSTON BOUTS Boston, May 21 Metro politan district boxers advanced in the second trials of the national championships and Olympic tryouts here last night. Of these four are Brooklyn-bovs and the chances of that boro being represented on the team that will battle for the United States at Paris in June, are more than bright.

The Brooklyn lads who will go Into the finals tonight are: Nat Sa- vltsky, Harry Wallach, Murray Israel, and Paul Gulotta. Bnth Burkhardt, Hufnagle and Sam Aron- son in the 147-pound class wpro eliminated. The referee's decision against Aronson, when the judcres failed to agree, was not a popular one W'ith the crowd. Hufnagle was eliminated by John Reni. the present national titleholder in the division.

Tom Kirby. holder of the nationel heavyweight title, was the onlv other champion to pass the second trials. Kirby this year, is competing in the lio-ht heavyweight class and win meet laic okun of New York tonight. The New Yorker lia nl- readv defeated the Boston boxer and is likely to repeat the feat. In the dan, p.

Armv wan (lvn the referee's lotsion over S.1.J Aronwm lorlt. Mennrmlllsn ch. e-- iiu ire isifpfi tft airrt-a. vu.mh or unttfin. Knglfliin chsniDion.

was Rivon a rW rti. nnn ever J. r. Hamilton. Philadelphia Marlon Kenncr.

hninnaii. out Kd. Hall. PbllnflHnlilH. Mefln Lowell, rteffatm Al Rubin, Baltimore' p' Hnkfjr, S.

Army, TvfrP rlHi iint. Arnmm, Nw York. Hurhie HapRfrty. Pit wliiir. Unr-bo nut John 'train Onm h-i rivHm) defeated Burkhardt Tranntt.

rievelar.fi, rWatd A uut Yjottft. featM Harry Mills, Nw Vork. 1 12-nound cla. third round Rav IMS-pound la 3ft. Afnnrl il.i.

BovmtMn. Pfttsbiirer. out 4 Lynn: Julius i.n. knnrked on! Arthur Mrlmn.iH Newton; Royal Omaha. knnrfcM out Rohort rfrurninifer.

t'olumhiw, Ohio-M-irrnv ri'Rl, Xew York d.rn.iAri ftf-nh Hurrhlrk. Philadelphia: Rubin (. hiraRo. defeated Waller V. Dalv.

Horn on. Ififl. pound rlPM. werond rrlalt Rae rowlher. Tolcratp.

rntvitrnitv defeated a' m. i line. (. S. Marines; A.

AlleKrinl, Ta AnKftct. knnrkd out rhnrleq Oi.ltm wn. as flty. Stanley India na polij. rnfed Mi Up ZirrUi Milwaukee- l.impUt.

Iowa Kta' r0ilege. knorkerf out riink Boston; John Mnffpft 'fw York, knorked out' Paul Houston. flrn Funk. Yale, defeated urh-oy. nun a in, jv V.

William 'her. Phlladelnhle. defenmd Riliu Peterson. Detroit; Kdward S. Una er on ft eland.

defeated Alexander HnrU.r Philadelphia. ifin-pound ria. third round Pa frnv- hr, CnlB-Hte. won hv ilefault from Wil liam (istateher. Philadelphia.

Pa. 1 pound 1 PH. nnd rials Tom Klrhy. rioWiurv clefa'rd Leonard A Iter. rinc 'ranier Hill.

J. rlaas, second trials Jospnh rtoiis. Angeles, defeated f'lemetit P. Vuiuy. fo'Rstp; Thorn a a Clelland, Buffalo V.

Itno-ked out pul Anderson. Pltts-(u'(t Knsipn W. ft Ret-Kn. I. P.

Nnvv. Pifhard Kenny. New York: 'lent-(to Mui holla nd. Indianapolis defeated rharles Ar-nv Rnhhv NXll, FInvl.iiry dfrptrd K. W.

Sehelt, 1 Armv ijitntK. Sew Haven. a p- Sf 'i' m'-ns Pi ttjiblirR .1 ul Pi Yale ri K'in. sw defeated John Johnson. Newon.

oi fly THOMAS S. RICK. Staff Correspondent of The Kaglc.) Cincinnati. May 21 The Cincinnati n'ds hae been washed out so many times this spring tha' they are developing web feet. Their second postponement in a row will, ibf Brooklyn Superbas came yf-s-trrday.

and 'he Superbas will ha- iloubleheaders here on July 15 and 18. Seven of the Reds' last 15 games have been postponed by rain, and they have il doubleheaders scheduled already. The point Is wort Tinting because the Reds pi'chers have not set the world afire thus far, and 'bey do not show more form ihan they have already shown, a. flock of doubleheaders In mid-season should prove a handicap to th" tfpm in its fiRhf wit the pirate? and Giants Tor the pennant. Ave.

they may evn have to fight The for he pennant, as th" National Lei' cue dope has become ho twisted on this tour of the West that everv team in the league, liar none, is in the running. The Superbas finish here today. While Rain Dampens Fans' Ardor by the way Legeit manhandled Missionary. Perhaps the stewards, who didn't take the trouble to leave their stand to question Legere in the jockeys' room or to call him before them, had they heard the remarks hurled at Legere, would have said: "The criticisms are misplaced." Why Give Legere The on rdlnanee? THAT was their statement when the members of the press and the racegoers al Aqueduct one day last fall criticised the riding of Turner on Hourl. The stewards found an excuse for Turner.

No doubt will just as energetic when handing out whitewash for Legere. Legere's riding of Missionary was so bad that one man commenting on it said: "If Major Belmont witnessed that exhibition of riding It's a gooj bet that he wouldn't allow Legere lo lead Ordinance to the water trough, let alone give him another mount on that colt." The Spaniards when they wanted to choke a man, during the rays of the Inquisition, did so by placing a htrlng around his neck and twisting it. This was known as a "la garrote." Legere didn't use a string on Missionary. He didn't even choke his mount. But.

he did twist and haul him about and so pull on the reins that the horse's head was in the air the major portion of the race, the distance of which was one mile and seventy yards. If Legere had been a brakeman and his work was to hunt a ca back and forth, first on this side and then on that, he could not have worked to better advantage astride of Missionary. With only four horses in the race there was no need for Legere to have found a pocket more than onre. If he hod any racing sense that would have been one pocket too much. Me would have pullPd out of the troub'e and gone around his opponents.

Masquerado. High Prince and Red Wingfleld. But he didn't. Men Able To nil the Turn. ITNSTF.AD Legere worked hi? way into a ctil de sac, as the French call it.

This meani that there ia an IF IT WKKK possible for tho Cin-rinnnii U''l! remain idl- for ihe i'' of tlu Jark Hendricks' liirc.l iikmi would probably win the pennant by such a wide tnorein that It would bo no contest. "Wliile min ki pt the Reds away from the bull park yesterday, their bold on first was further strenKth-i ii. by the defeat of thu Giants. TDK PTTTSHrrtCr Tirates whale! the stitrhes out of the ball and toppled the (Hants into third place The Buccaneer made 17 safe bits in all. i c.ritnm, with two doubles and two sineles.

and Pie Tray-nor. with tuple and two sinxles. were the siece guns of the day. YI.ANIt Krnie Maun and Claude were I he vie-lims of the Pittsburg team's viciout. attack.

THE (WANT I.Htsinrn obtained II hits, from uhich they rouli cash only ti io of runs. Frank! Friseh poled out three sinules, while.