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NEWS OF SPORTING WORLD
COVERINGVARIETY OF TOPICS
Leaders in Big Baseball Leagues—Downfall of Bill
Clymer—Wonderful Girl Swimmers of Pa
cific Coast—Football Boom Coming
NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Cincinnati is leading
in the National .Baseball League by
five and one-half games over New
York. In the American league Chi
cago has a lead for first place of four
and one-half games over Detroit.
Angels Meet Setback.
After being away off in the lead
ever since the season started, the Los
Angeles club of the Pacific coast base
ball league finally has been pulled
down in the percentage ratings to
within hailing distance of the other
first division teams in the circuit. To
the Vernon club belongs the honor
of making the Angels tumble below
the .600 mark, to which, until only
recently, it appeared they were in no
danger of falling.
Followers of baseball are pleased
at the turn of affairs, with the excep
tion perhaps of the Los Angeles
fans, for the reason that it adds more
interest in the race for the pennant.
The first division teams now are suf
ficiently close together to make even
a brief losing streak on the part of
one of the leaders a matter of con
siderable concern.
Brilliant Girl Swimmers
Two girls, 16 and 17 years old, and
a third who, a year ago, was unable
to swim a stroke, are engaging the
attention of followers of equatics on
the Pacific coast. Miss Helen Mar
tin, 16 years old, of Honolulu, in a
recent swimming meet at San Fran
cisco, lost only by a few inches in the
fifty-yard breast stroke event to Mrs.
Terrie Desch. Miss Martin’s per
formance is the more remarkable by
reason of the fact that in this race
Mrs. Desch created a new Pacific
coast record of 1 minute, 39 3-5 sec
onds for the distance.
Ruth Crane is the 17-year-old mer
maid. In the same meet she won
both the 50 and 100-yard sprint
events. She is an Alemeda girl, and
her friends are predicting a brilliant
future for her in swimming compe
tition.
Lillian Snowgrass who, a year ago,
was unable to swim a single stroke,
is placed second in the diving events
to Miss Gladys Boehmer, the Pacific
association champion. She has com
peted only a few times. Under the
circumstances her ability is consid
ered quite remarkable.
For her versability as a swimmer,
many followers of the sport have ac
corded to Mrs. Frances Cowells
Schroth the place among women that
has been accorded among men to Nor
man Ross, that of being the best all
round performer of her sex.
In a recent meet held at San Fran
cisco, Mrs. Schroth won every event
in which she entered. Their diversi
ty may be judged from the fact that
they included 220 and 500-yard swims
and the 50 and 100-yard back-stroke
events. She holds records in the free
style short dashes and also is a win
ner of the annual one-mile grind
across the Golden Gate, considered
one of the most exhausting and dif
ficult of the local waters to negotiate.
In this contest she was opposed by
the best long distance women swim
mers on the coast.
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Holland Tires of Game.
Jack Holland, owner of the Okla
homa City, Okla., club of the West
ern League, is planning to retire after
twenty years as a player, manager
and owner. Holland said he would
quit this season if he could find a
buyer for his club.
“There’s nothing wrong with base
ball,” he explained, “but I’m tired of
the game. I figure I need a rest. I
am perfectly satisfied with the treat
ment received at Oklahoma City this
season and with the showing of the
club.”
Contradictory Bill Clymer.
Few managers in the Pacific Coast
Baseball League ever have been the
object of greater diversity of criti
cism than Bill Clymer of the Seattle
t^rn, who has just been succeeded
by Irwin. He frankly admits he
doesn’t know whether he is a hero
or a renagade.
Clymer was execrated as the leader
of a tail-end team who hasn’t shown
any particular aptitude for getting
together a creditable-playing machine,
and as showing poor judgment in the
men whom he has dismissed from
the club.
On the other hand, there are those
who laud him as a man who kept
on fighting notwithstanding the dis
couraging showing made by his men.
They say he put more life into the
game for the spectator than any other
one individual in the entire league.
His coaching activities during the
progress of a game have been com
mented upon by the sporting writers
as one of the features of the play.
Clymer while in the East is never
credited with having managed a team
which did not figure up in the first
division, and the fact that the Seattle
team is in the Pacific coast “cellar”
position has afforded abundant ma
terial for the paragraphers.
Back to the Bush.
Josh Devore, who has played in
four world series, and who recently
was released by the Indianapolis club
of the American Association, has
signed to play in the outfield with a
semi-professional tenm, at Indiana
polis.
John Hendricks, son of Jack Hen
dricks, manager of the Indianapolis
Association club, has joined the same
semi-professional team. He will play
in the infield.
New Texas Speedway.
Plans have been perfected for a
$150,000 motor speedway at Dalworth,
midway between Dallas and Fort
Worth, and construction will start im
mediately.
The track will be constructed on a
s;te of sixty-five acres, located on the
interurban and on the Dallas-Fort
Worth pike. The speedway and
stands will be of brick, with a seat
ing capacity of 50,000. The oval
track will be a mile and a half long,
and the promoters claim this will
give the longest straight-away on any
speedway in the country.
A Football Boom
With the return of “Chick” Harley,
all-American half back, football is on
the boom at Ohio State University at
Columbus. Harley is in splendid
physical condition as a result of his
training in the aviation service. To
make up in his studies he has entered
summer school.
Best coffee in town at the City
Bakery. . 2-6t
Home portraits of quality. Agency
Cordova drug store. Scarborough, pho
tographer. 14-tf
Try the Club Billiard Hall for
golden, silver and royal fizzes. 23-tf
New Fall Blue Serges, Bankers' Grays,
Fancy Worsteds and Imported Tweeds.
All suits will be made here.
HUBBERT & STEEINE
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Alaska
Steamship Company
Regular Sailings Between Seattle,
Ketchikan, Juneau, Cordova, Valdez,
Eilamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward
FROM SEATTLE— SAILS~SOUTH—
July 24.ALAMEDA.Aug. 3
July 31. NORTHWESTERN Aug. 9
Aug. 7.ALASKA.Aug. 16
Aug. 14.ALAMEDA.Aug. 24
Steamer Alameda will make trip to Anchorage.
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
This schedule subject to change without notice.
F. B. TRACY, Agent
Alaska—Washington—California ALASKA ROUTE
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WEST BOUND SOUTH BOUND
LEAVE CORDOVA LEAVE CORDOVA
Aug. 23.......WATSON....About Sept. I
Three Sailings per Week from Seattle for San Francisco, Los An
geles and San Diego. For further information call
Office Phone 7 L. A. COUNTS, AGENT Residence Windsor hotel
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Tiains lea\e Coidova for Chitina Sunday and Thursdav
Trains leave Chitina for Kennecott Monday and Friday
Tiains lea\e Ivennecott for Chitina Monday and Friday
Trains lec~\e Chitina for Cordova Tuesdav and Saturday.
Dining Car in Connection with all Regular
Passenger Trains between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to 5 p m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot office
one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER Superintendent
D. L. LEATON, Ticket Agent
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The latter part of next week we will move into our new store room
in the Lathrop building, and will have a new and up-to-date stock '
of goods. The public is invited to call and see us in our new place
of business.
PAUL BLOEDHORN
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