THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG | tATEST GENERAL iL Local | REVIEWS ---- ------ 3 RACK JEOPARDIZED Boats Ineligible for Competition. Rochester, Aug. 23.-- Abolition of this year's Richardson Cup races for the championship of the Great 'Lakes, and the possibility of a death- ng blow to the entire yacht- Tacing sport on the Great Lakes, was threatened by the information that a number of the crack Class R boats NOW in commission on the lakes had Been discovered ineligible for com- ~ Petition under the rules of the Lake Yacht Racing Association, . Included among the craft which Me declared obsolete, in addition to the Kathea II., formerly the Dande- Hon, and the Valerie of Watertown N.Y., are the Nomiji of Rochester, the Lightning of Detroit, and the *8pry of Buffalo, in addition to a number of others. : The Information that they did no* measure in under the moulded depth clause which outlawed the Kathea 8nd Valerie was contained in a letter 0 Commodore Stevenson of the Ro. chester Yacht Club from Commo- dore Laneing of the Watertown - Yacht Club, who investigated the ~ protests of the - Rofal Canadian Yacht Club of Toronto. The letter also contained the draft of a pro- Posed amendhent to the rule, and provided for its subhission to the American Yacht Racing Union, gov- erning body of the lake associa- tions. » * §Oanadian Golfers WiII Invade United States New York, Aug. 24.--Five Cana- dian and two English players will invade the United States in an at- tempt to win the U.S. Amateur Golf Crown at present worn by Bobby * Jones, of Atlanta, Ga. The cham- plonship will be held at the Baltus- rol Club, Short Hills, N.J., commenc- ~ Ing on Sept. 18th, with 152 players entered. : C. Ross Somerville, of London. Ont. Canadian amateur champion. 4s among the entrants. Don. Car- rick, of Toronto, and Charles B ~ Grier, of Montreal, both former 'Canadian title holders, are also en- tered. ~~ M. Scott, 'other members quis e. Major C. B. Omerod and Bustace | F'. Storey are the English entrants. WESTERN UNIVERSITY SQUAD. OUT EARLY Football Players Will Report © There on September 13th. a---- London, Ont., Aug. 24.--The Uni- versity of Western Ontario rugby "squad will report for pre-season training on Monday, September 13, Jack G. Lang, new director of phy- sical education at the university, an- nounced today. Lang is anxious that the intermediate intercollegiate rug- by recruits report a week ahead of the school opening, so that the rug- by couch may have his squad well * 'advanced when the season opens. The rugby coach for 1926 has not yet been named, but it is possible _ that Clarence Fickley, who has coached Western for the past two years, will be back again. Officials of the univers ® Jave written Fick- oy io he will be aval "able this year. . i The new director of physical edu- a has commenced his duties at We , spending condiderable time orgénising for the coming sports pro- gr Lang comes from 'Spring- Mass, where he has been en- "gaged In college work. He is a na. : of St. Thomas, and had a most 1cce: career in physical educa- Hon, work J. B. Mickles and Norman of Royal, Montreal, are the of the Canadian in the United States. u're the Jae Squivalent of fa "pumber it you can't remem played in Phew) Eom dk, Eh Nr -------- 'GREAT LAKES YACHT 'Number of Orack Olass R Gees 000000s0t0n * LISTEN TO CONNIE. Philadelphia, Ang.' 24. -- Sunday baseball is a good thing, in the opinion of Con- le Mack, the Athletics' mana- ger. The crowd dresses better and does not reprove the play- ers. He gave his views te a judge when his club was seek- ing an infunction against inter- ference with Sunday games. Pett tet * le [% * [o + (pee ess0ss00000000 | Billy Evans Says Slumps in Badlball, Slumps in baseball, batting in par- ticular, either by the individual or team, are simply a part of the game. There is really no way to satisfactor- ily explain them. Recently in discussing the secrets of his great success as a batsman, Ty Cobb remarked to me: . "No matter how badly things are breaking for me at the bat, I make it a point to stick to my original Style and I make a special effort to keep from pressing. "When base hits are hard to get it is customary for most batters to press. In other words, they either swing harder or commit some other fault that tends to handicap rather than help them. "The greatest danger when in a batting slump is to swing blindly and try to get more power than usual, in the hope that the ball wil go safe, "To prevent such a happening I shorten my grip on the bat and gpread the hands a trifle farther than usual. This keeps the batter from swinging wildly, since he Is choked up on the bat which must necessarily shorten his swing." When in a slump he fs inclined to swing all the harder. A mistake, of course. For that reason the hard hitting batsman is almost certain to remain in a batting slump longer than a player who chops at the ball, just meeting it, rather than the athlete Who tries to knock each and every piach out of the bal] park. The slugger seldom bunts and as a rule doesn't wait out the pitcher to any great extent. These are two mediums that can be employed to great advantage in breaking a batting slump. They are wedpons for the average batsman but are not part of the slugger's methods, In any sport, when things are breaking badly, the most difficul: thing in all the world is to keep from pressing. Baseball is no ex- ception to the rule. te Case of Simmons, The comment of Cobb on batting was most interesting. It was easy for me to see the logic of his state- ments, i Lne of the disappointments of the year at the bat hus heen Al Simmons of the Athletics. The outstanding figure among the recruits Jast sea- son, his batting average has shrunk considerably. I looked for Simmons to battle the leading hitters of the American League for the batting champion- ship this yesr, after being a runner- up last season. While Simmons has an unorthodox style at the plate, he gets much power back of his wing and is one of the really great hitters, regard- less of the 1926 averages. Cross Him In a.recent series in St. Louls, in which; Simmons fafled to get the ball safe more than a couple of times, he remarked to me: "Everything I seem 'to do this a is wrong. Last year every; ing I attempted seemed to break is' my favor. : "This year if T decide to swing at the first one it is jnvarfably a bad ball. If I decide to 'take' it, the ball is usually right over the heart of the plate. pobre "I am constantly crossed up® In- stead of picking my ball, as I do when I am Jitsing them on the nose, I'm swinging wildly, Simmons realizes he * > > + > + » + + * + * % . ASEBAL L International League. Jersey City .000 000000--0 3 0 Toronto ....000 001 02x--3 6 a Batterigs--Cantreil and Cobb; Stewart and O'Neill. Newark....012 011 000--5 11 2 Buffalo. .... 000 210 204--9 15 0 Batteries--Mamaux and Schulte: Ferguson and Lake. Newark ...... 112 011 0--6 13 1 Buffalo ...... 100 002 0--3 10 © Batteries -- Hankins and Wilson: Proffitt, Brice, Stryker and Barnes. Balt'e 000 000 1000 000 001--2 15 1 Roch'r 000 100 000000 000--1 4 2 Batteries--Chambers and Freitag: Tbormahlen and McAvoy, Head. Second game-- Baltimore ....010 401 0---8 10 2 Rochester ....000 002 2--4 8 1 Batteries -- Jackson, Parnshaw and McKee; Roch, Horn, Thomas and Read. National League. New York.010 003 200 0--6 14 1 Cincinnati. 001 101.003 1--7 11 1 Batteries--Greentield, Devine and Snyder; Rixey, Meeker, Donoliue and Pieinich. Brooklyn...005 000 101--7 13 2 Pittsburgh. .200 000 100--3 6 2 Batteries ---- Petty and DeBerry: Meadows, Morrison and Smith. Second game-- Brooklyn. .000 100 001-- 2 8 2 Pittsburgh.025 101 10x--10 15 0 Batteries -- Barnes, Ehrhardt, Williams and O'Neil; Yde and Gooch. American N Cleveland...100 000 010--2 7 2 New York..000 120 00x--3 § 23 Batteries -- Levsen and Sewell; Shocker and Severeid. Detroit 211 000 050--9 11 vn 000 100 000--1 8 Batteries-- Collins and Woodall; Wiltse, Welzer, Russell and Gaston, Chicago....100 000 000--1 8 0 0 Philadelphia. 003 100 00x--4 9 2 Batteries -- Thomas and Crouse; Ehmke and Cochrone. St. Louis...004 000 040--3 13 0 Washington.002 000 200--4 9 2 Batteries -- Giard, Ballou, Win- gard and Schang; Murray, Marberry and Tate. STANDIING OF THE CLUBS National League, Won Lost P.C. St. Louis... ....... 69 50 .580 Pittsburgh .. ...... 68 48 579 Cincinnati .. ,..... 69 51 575 Chicago .. 4 ..... 61 51 517 New York... ...... 68 59 .49¢ Brooklyn .. .. .... 58 65 AT2 Boston ',. .. ...... 47 70 402 Philadelphia ....... 43. 11 3171 -- American League, Won Lost P.C. New York .. ...... 77 45 .831 Cleveland... .. .... 87 B55 549 Philadelphia ....... 67 56 545 Detroit... ........ 63 B57 .525 Washington .. ..... 9 59 .500 Chicago .. ... ..... 0 61 .496 St. Louis .. ....,.. 51 71 .418 Boston... .. ...... 42 82 .339 -- International League, Won Lost P.C. Toronto . . 84 49 632 Baltimore..." ...... 80 51 .611 Newark .. ......... 79 B53 598 Buffalo .. .. dee «77 87 575 Rochester "se oh. 65 68 .4890 Jersey City .,...... 60 70 463 Syracuse .. ....... 51 80 .389 Reading ., .. ... «. 30 98 .234 A THE REFEREE Where was the 'western open go!t championship held fo 1922, and who was the winner?s-D. F. G. At Oakland Hills, Detrolt, Mike winning. Did France win any matches in the 1925 Davis Cup play with Ameri- ca?--F. q. J. 2 No, » How long has Earl Smith, Pirate catcher, been in the majors?--sS. D. A. ' E : X Since 1910. CORBETT IN SLASH OVER THE BIG BOUT Stated That He Has First Claim to Use of the . Stadium. Philadelphia, Aung. 24.--Develop- ments in connection with threatened legal proceedings that have arisen following Tex Richards's decision to|/ move the Dempsey-Tunney bout to the Sesquicentennial Stadium on Sept. 23 are looked for Tuesday, when James J. Corbett, - former world's heavyweight champion, is ev- pected to arrive. 2 Corbett has been injected into the situation through his counsel, Mc- Devitt, who claims that Corbett has first claim to use of the stadium for a title battle. McDevitt said he would 'advise his client to seek an injunction restraining Richard from staging the contest. "We were first in the field," Mec- Devitt 'said. "Col. David Collier, -- p-- (former . Gemeral-Director of the Centennial), and Dempsey agreed to a title bout under Corbett's pro- motion." ---------------- Football Gossip ! The Hamilton Herald says: "Halt- backs, snaps and outside wings, twenty in number, were outfitted and put through the paces at the H. A. A. A. tield on Monday, 'and the squad. ~~, in one week an entire squad will be out. Coach Manson stated that Ken Walker, Bert Gibb, Bill Robinson and another smart back would join Just when "Pep" Lead- ley will turn out is unknown, but Manson is authority for the state- ment that the former Queen's star will be in uniform before the first game is played. "From a reliable authority comes the information that "Red" Bat- stone will be playing on the back division for Queen's again this fall. The fleet-footed back has been Eastern Ontario went fifteen innings, 'and was won by Renfrew by 8-T/N A sensational steal home by Scott p gave Renfrew the victory. 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