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BOSTON RED SOX NEW SENSATION Baiter* Hitting With Men on Ba?e? and If Fielding Had been Air Tight Team Would l>e at Top. II? JOHN B. KOSTKR (CwnW. im. ?> T?. ktnmmt New York, May 24.?If the Bos ton Red Sox prove as good on the road as they have been going against the Westerners at home, the owners of the St. Louis Americans will be gin to wonder if they didn't make a mistake in letting the Arm of Quinn, Fohl and Company get away. And if the St. Louis club wasn't going so well under the guidance of George Slsler the St. Louis administration would feel still worse. The Red Sox, made over from baseball's hash ingredients have sim ply knocked the glass out of the De troit skylight. They have treated the Chicago White Sox with as little respect. Only one game was played with St. Louis, and the" Drowns won that; while wonder still is being ex pressed at the kind of reception the Cleveland Indians got when they reached the home of the sacred cod fish. The Boston club is making head way because its batters are hitting with men on the bases. If they had been as tight in the field as they have been good at bat, .they might have been leading the league today, Five games lost by the Red Sox can be traced to fielding busts at criti cal moments. If they had those five on the won shelf and erased from their defeat column, they would be galloping far out In front. Baseball experience teaches that they will be a less powerful team on the road than at home. But base ball experience every now and then gets a swift kick?and this may be one of those times. If the Red Sox can go through the West and stick up where they are, they will have to be reckoned with all summer, not so much as a championship team, per haps as one that will boot some other teams out of the championship. It was an odds-on wager at the start of the season that the Sox would not be finishing the third week of May with as -many victories to their credit as the champions of their league, but they have done it. Inci dentally the Bostons and the St. Louts Browns are the real spring sensations of the American circuit, so that I*ee Fohl is basking in a dou ble bit of spotlight. There is only one radically top heavy race in the minor leagues? that in the Southern Association. Memphis has been streaking out like a scared rabbit, but the team may drop back before the Beason is over. The American Association race has come together until It fits into the percentage column as tight as n hat In a hatbox. With no team above .600 and none below .400, the Asso ciation has some fight on Its hands. If that speed is to last from now un til the end of September, the enthu slastn of the circuit will be raging maniacs before the championship is decided. There is only about five games difference between the top and the bottom of the league. Indianapolis came back because it was crippled and Its players were not as strong on the road as they had been at home. If they start go ing again they will have all the league in a turmoil to keep up with them, but that will make better base ball. The case of the Denver Club Is a fine Instance of what reconstruction can do to help along a ball team. Last year Denver seemed ns if It nev er could get anywhere. This year it is breesing along on top and point ing Its finger Joyfully at Tulsa. The reason Is that the team Is put togeth er right. DANCE TONIGHT Bquare Dance 8 to 11.80 at Cohoon Social Hall orer Cut Rat* Drug Store THE SALMON CREEK LINE Will on Way the 11th put In effect an addltlorM achedule between Wil li* Landing and Aroca, Rertle Coun ty and Edenton, Chowan Countjr, North Carolina, for the purpose of connecting the two counties by tbo moat direct and (hottest route alon? the proponed Coastal Highway lu Eastern North Carolina. Thla route takes you through the town of Wllllamaton. Martin Countr, oyer the new Roanoke Rlrer bridge and highway Into Windsor and <h* T,ll?Kp? of Merry Hill, Willis landing and Aroca. There . you cross at the head of Albemarl* Sound and up the beautiful Edeuton Day to the terminal at the foot of Jlroad Street In the Historic town of Edenton. This connecta you with th? Highway through the Interesting and progrnsalve town of Hertford and on to Elliabeth City, the busi ness center of Northeastern Nortn Carolina, thence to Norfolk. Virginia. Tou also connect at Kdenton with th* State Highway toward Suffolk Virginia. We otter to the general public our op to date freight and passenger ser vice and accommodations for auto mobiles. Rates ars as follows: Auto mobiles 1^.50 to (4.00 one way: rer Mat off (or round trip within i hours. P???nger? 15c each way. tears Willis Landing and A roe* at TiOO A. U., 10:10 A. M. anl ' 4: tO P. M. Leare Kdenton at 0:00 A. M.. 1:10 V. M. and ?:?0|?. K. ASS - BASEBALL QUESTION BOX If Ton hare soma Question to uk about baseball-? Write to John B. Foster, the man who helped make the rules under which the game la played today. It yon want a personal reply ercloae a stamped, self-addreeeed en velope. Otherwtae your ques tion will be answered In tUi column. Addreset John B. Foster, special baseball correspondent ot The Dally Advance. 811 World Building, New York. Qu^tton?Can you tell how far It Is from home plate to where the fielders usually stand in the major leagues? Answer?Varies from 160 to 300 feet. There Is no set distance. May average about 200, Question?Will you please tell me the age and how long the follow ing players have been playing for the Detroit Tigers? Hellmann, Blue, Jones and Bassler. Answer?Hellman, thirty years old, nine years with Detroit, Includ ing 1924; Blue, 27 years old, four years with Detroit; Jones, Si years old, nine years with Detroit; Baas ler, 29 years old four years with Detroit. NATIONAL LEAGUE Friday's Scores Cincinnati 3?New York 8 Pittsburgh 1?Brooklyn 3 Others postponed?rain. Standing of Teams. W. L. Pet. New York 19 13 .69 4 Chicago 20 14 .588 Cincinnati 16 14 .533 Brooklyn 16 14 .548 Pittsburgh 14 lg .438 Boston 13 17 .433 Philadelphia 11 IE .423 St. Louis 12 17 .414 AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday's Scores Boston 5?Cleveland 1 Philadelphia 5?St. Louis 0 New York 7?Detroit 6 Washington ?4?Chicago 0 Standing of Teams. W. L. Pet. New York 18 9 .667 Boston 17 11 .604 St. Louis 16 12 .671 Detroit 15 15 .600 Chicago 13 14 .481 Washington 14 15 .483 Cleveland 12 15 .444 Philadelphia ?_ 9 It .321 STILL DOUBT AS TO HARRY WILLS His Fight With Madden Sche duled for Monday Night Still Put in Doubtful Col-' umn by Some Experts. j By PAIR PLAT C*?rr1?fcl 1194. ft* T?? AMim New York, May 24.?Tex Rickard, who haa Wills' signature agreeing to flght two matches for him this year, with a third battle contingent upon what happens in the preceding two encounters, is chiefly engaged at present In lining up an opponent tor the negro's first flght of the project jed series. It looks as though Rickard wa3 inot very well pleased with Wills* proposed settoo with Madden. Or if j not Rickard some Important people I were against it. At least that is the way the gossip runs among fighting men. Result, Simon Flaherty gets the razz after he spent a lot of mon ey in fixing up his Queenaboro stad ium. Poor Flaherty! He muat be wondering what happened to him. Maybe he can guess. But no one in New York can stop the Jersey promoters if they are , really interested in going through with the battle. They were foolish in the first place to let it be trans ferred to New York, where a wiae man could aee with his feet that powerful flght interests woilld not look with favor upon it. Will Harry Wills, all things con sidered, be willing to go through with a "Madden scrap In Jersey? Or will he decide it would be wiser to train along with the New York crowd? The next few day* will tell. There Is no doubt that this bout In title. This may carry weight with Newark would draw a gate attractive to any contender for the heavyweight Wills who of course knowl of the old adage about a bird in the hand being worth two in the bush. Ermlno Spalla is shortly to arrive In this country and they say Rlckard and Nick Kline, who is supposed to represent Spalla. are cooking up a meeting between Wilis and the Ital ian. On the other hand, there Is talk that Carpentler is due to make a good showing against Tommy Gib bons and then light Spalla here. Again, you hear gossip that every thing is going to work out so that Dempsey and Gibbons meet again. In i fact, one hears so much conflicting I talk about everything that It is dlf flcult for any one trying to follow this uncertain lime to know where he la at. Only one point sticks out clearly and that la that the fight came must be In rotten shape when no one trusU anr one else and every one'a motives and every event Is doubted and mistrusted. Diamonds i FOR ' ENGAGEMENT or GRADUATION GIFTS in latest styles. H.C. Bright Co. ;; Jewelers. Hinton Bldg. ELDER COBB The Original Par ton From Tennessee. At the First Methodist Church Sunday School Auditorium. Monday Night, May 26 Under auspices of the Woman's Wesley Bible Class Adults 25c ? Children 10c ???H????S??B???S@HS?S?l?S???H???[i]?[i] ? For A Desirable Homes Site ? 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