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SISLER HAS GOT YANKS WORRIED Browns Pressing Champs Close and While Too Early to Say They'll Win They're! Good Prospects. By JOHN U. FOSTER 1(24. fry Th? New York. May 19?George Sis elr's St. Louis Browns have got the ? New York Yankees worried. Some j very enthusiastic New York baseball' men. who are competent to judge ball players, have begun picking the' Browns to win the 1924 pennant on1 the strength of their showing against : the Yankees. It is most unusual when a New York partisan will concede anything to St. Louis. The fact that they! are doing it illustrates how deep an ' Impression the Browns have made1 out here In the East. The reason' Is that they have been playing' smarter baseball in these parts than' the Yanks have shown. This writer is not picking tho' Browns as the 1924 champions. It's' too early in the season for that. But1 he is saying that the Yankees have' have got to get up on their toes' and play ball if they want to win. I They have got stronger opposition! in several quarters than they had! in 1923. The entire American: League is out to spike their ambi-, tions for a fourth straight pennant, j The players of the other clubs are tired of hearing about Ruth and the other Y'ankees. And what's more they want a major cut on the world series money themselves. The Browns have shown they are capable of keeping in the fight it they will hold their heels level. They j are a better team than they were last season, because they have Sis-, ler at first base and have better pitching. Wingart's successful de but with tlie Browns gives the team new life In the pitching department and provides a left hander who seems able to rate along at better than a .600 winning clip. He has not met all the tests that a young! pitcher must meet, and he may slum later but he unquestionably' has been a big factor in putting thel Browns up at the start of the season. Spring tonic was what the Browns j needed. They got away very badly. If that start had not been' remedied quickly, the Browns proba-j bly would have lagged in the second division indefinitely. For here Is a ball team that needs the inspiration! ol winning to do its bept. When it} does not winn the players are likely. to become grouchy and quarrelsome J 'New Y'ork won 15 out of 20 . games with the Browns last year, beating them oftener than they j -beat any other club. Suppose the. Browns split even with the Yankees j this season. That would mean a. drop from 750 to 500 in the win! column for the Yankees, so fas asj their standing with the Browns is concerned. Thus early. Washington has won two thirds as many games from New York as they did all last season. The Y'anks are holding on to the top railing by their ability to beat Philadelphia and Boston. No amount of conjecture would give the Browns a clear title to the championship, or, possibly, boost them as championship contenders, were it not for the fact that they have been up there in the past, and possess a lot of power that should put it in the race if the power is not dissipated foolishly. In 1923 when Lee Fohl had finally got the Browns to working in some thing like form, he was dismissed by the Browns owners, a proceeding which cost St. Louis a chance to finish second or third. The players say so themselves. They are pull ing this year for a season unmarred by a similar mishap. XATIOXAI, LKAdt'B Sflliinlaj's Sroro?. Chicago ^...4?New York 2 Cincinnati 4?Ronton 8 Pittsburgh 8?Philadelphia _.12 St. Louis 1?Hrooklyn 1 (13 Innlncs) Kuntlny'ft Hrnrr* Cincinnati f??Hrooklyn 4 Chicago B?Philadelphia 8 St. Louis* o?Boston A StaiKliim of TeaniK. W. I.. IVt.t Now York ?1? 11 .69.! ICnclnnatl 16 11 .59<) Chicago 17 14 .B1il Hrooklyn 14 14 .500 Boston 13 16 .464 Pittsburgh 12 IB .4 4 4 St. Lou In 11 16 .2114 Philadelphia 9 14 .391 AMERICAN LKAGIK Saturday's Score*. Boston S?Chicago 4 Washington ??Cleveland 4 Philadelphia f?Detroit 9 New York 7?St. Louis 2 Sunday'!* Score* Washington 3?St. Louis 6 New York 8?Cleveland .0 Detroit 4?Boston B Standing of Team*. W. L. Pet. New York 16 9 .640 Boston ?14 10 .683 St. Louis IS 11 .677 Detroit 14 12 .639 Washington 13 14 .481 Cleveland _l_12 13 .480 Chicago 11 13 .468 Philadelphia 7 18 .280 rOURtiR (IAMR8 Saturday's Score*. Wake Forest ?-3?N. O: State ( HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday's Scores BASEBALL QUESTION BOX If you have some question to ask about baseball? Write to John B. Foster, the man who helped make the rules under which the game Is played today. If you want a personal rfcply enclose a stamped, self-addressed ea velope. Otherwise your ques tion will be ans?jred in tt'j column. Address: John B. Foster, special baseball correspondent of The Daily Advance, 811 World Building. New York. (Copyright, 1*34. By Tk? AtfvftMt) I Question?Base runners are on first and second. No one is out.! F. hits the ball for three bases scor-' ing the men on first and second. It' then develops that he is not the' proper batsmen and that E. should I have batted. K is out for failure to bat in turn. Should F. who follows j E be made to hit again and the run ners be sent back to the bases? Answer?if the mistake is dls-j covered before the ball has been to the succeeding batter E Is out! and tlve runners go back to the I bases they held while F whose turn Is to but goes behind the plate again, i Question ? In the first of the j seventh, the game having been; agreed upon for seven innings.' the catcher of the other team went' to bat with his shinguards on. He missed the first ball and on the next; he hit for two bases. Both teams j said he was out but the umpire de clared him safe. He came up again' in the same inning with his shin guarda off. Was he out the lirst1 lime after having had one strike? Answer?I shouldn't rule him out.' His shinguards only handicapped1 him. I Question?Cun a batter, if bat ting left handed after having a strike and ball, change to the other side and bat? Answer?He may change to the other side and bat if he does not change while the pitcher is in the! act of delivering the ball. ? ?fit Jftt JS* jJtik ?!? ?*. a. *?? a* 4. TALK WILLS TO MEET GODFREY Bui Chalices are Thai Harry Won! Hisk It Willi Farmer Lodge Testifying That God frey Can Outhit Firpo. By PAIR PUT Copyi(fit. 1924. by TM A?vanC? Now York. May 19?There Is talk that Harry Will* has'agreed' verbally, to meet George Godfrey at a 1*1*illy ball park this summer, i According to the gossip. Jimmy Daugherty's statement that If there' Is to lie a mixed bout Dempsey's opponent should be the real chain-1 pion of the negro race, not any old colored fighter, stirred Wills to | anger. Dougherty's inference, of course, was that Wills is not the real chair pion and that Godfrey can prove this any time the two meet. Since Tex Itickard has pretty much of a strangle hoid on Wills' future it U difficult to see how the fight could be held i:t Philly this summer. In other words if Harry has said any thing indicating a willingness to meet Gawge it is probably a bluff. The last thing the- black panther would want to do Just now would be to risk a lot of big money by taking on Godfrey. For anyone who meets that big black man is taking' clianccs. bar no one. Farmer J Lodge says that walloping he got from Godfrey the other night was! the most painful experience of hU career. He hits har.l?*r >hui Firpo. I says the farmer, and Lodge ought1 to know. Hilly Gibson has secured the back ing of the American Legion in his light to prevent Carpentier from meeting Tom Gibbons in Michigan City until after the Frenchman has met Gene Tunney. It remains to be seen whether the veteran* can suc ceed whore lawyers evidently have failed. Such publicity as the firm of Dempscy. K-.-arns anil Company, is getting nowadays is beinn contribut ed by Kvarnn?undesirable publicliv too. Usually it Is the manager who is the substantial member of a fight firm, but in the case of the world's championship partnership it is the ma nag. r who is the hnd little boy. As a matter of fact Dempsey has not tlu: physical qualifications for a bright liuhts habitue. If he smokes a cigar it mak- s him sick and a cou ple of drinks that the ordinary man w ?uld not notice do not agree with the champion at all. No champion light' r ever had natural habits that \ ?e?-sued so likely to keep him fit for so U *? a period as Dempsev. Hariv Johnston has recently re turned from University Hospital at Baltimore very much improved. The Apothecary Shop PhoVK 400 A Good Drug Store It's Time to Think oj a l\etc Lightweight Suit We have one tliat will suit you. D. 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