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THREE PITCHERS FORGE TO FRONT Battle for Supremacy in Na tional League Probably Go to Alexander, Vance or Sheehan. By JOHN B. KOSTKR C*ryn?*>i. IW4. fear TM New York. June 9.?The pitching supremacy of the National League tor 1924, according to present indi cations. lies between three men? Alexander of the Cubs. Vance ol Brooklyn and Sheehan of Cincinnati In the American League ,lt still seems to be anybody's race. Of the National League contend era. Alexander is the veteran. H< has plenty of reputation behind him and a side arm delivery that has car rled him through 14 years. One o the big managers said fire years ag< that Alexander was due to breal down. The broad shouldered Cul has been busy since proving hin wrong. Whenever he meets tha manager, he casually remarks tha his pitching arm is still hanging t< the same old shoulder. Vance has speed and a generally blonde complex that Is as cold ai ice. Time when Alexander woul< be said to have more speed thai Vance. But whether he posseses 1 now Is a question. This Iowa boy Vance, certainly has lots of it. Sheehan was kicked around quit* a lot before Cincinnati took him in The Yanks had him once and lei him go. But that's the same thing that has happened to a lot of good pitchers. Sheehan has a good curvc and great height from which to let It go. Usually the Giants have had a pitcher "Who was commanding figure in the percentage column, but they are not likely to be able to boast one this year, unless Zeke Barnes, broth er of the well known Jess, of Bos ton, who once was a winning pitcher for New York, decides to fill the bill for the Giants. The American League has blocks of pitchers who have won six Karnes, five games and four games. But none of them has an outstanding lead In the race for pitching honors, and none is doing more artistic work than (he veteran, Walter Johnson of Washington. Johnson is standing by the showing he made In the spring. when he seemed to be about as good as he ever had been. The real knockdowns in the Am erican League are those being admin istered to pitchers who once were good but, unlike Johnson, have been unable to stay that way despite the hand of time. Hardest hit of all Is Covelesklo of Cleveland. Shaute had a hard time getting started, but he seems at last to have got under way. f Dick HobllUoll, once first base man for Cincinnati, been giving the batters pt the International o rudfry race to keep tip with 1 him. He has been hitting the ball as freely for the Reading club as ho ever did for Cincinnati. Two former first basemen of the National League?Hoblltxell for Reading and .Markle for Rochester, ore two of the leading batters of the International, and It Isn't certain that either of them might not hit well enuogh In the majors to keep up with the best. Merkle predicted In the spring that Bush would lead the American League pitchers In 1924. "They can talk all they like about his sore arm," he said. "But Its the ball that geta sore, the way he throws It up. He should top them all at the end of the year." NATIONAL LKACJl/K HnniUy'H Hcopm. Philadelphia -. 5?Chicago 8 New York 7?Pittsburgh 0 Saturday's Hoorw. Boston 13?Cincinnati 10 Boston 13?St. Louis 7 New York 1?Chicago 3 Brooklyn 4?Pittsburgh ,,r 1 HUndlnx of Teams. W. li. Pet. New York 29 17 .fi31 Chicago 28 18 .609 Brooklyn 23 19 .648 Cincinnati 24 21 .53.* Pittsburgh 20 23 .466 Boston 19 22 .463 8t. Louis 19 27 .413 Philadelphia 14 27 .341 AMKIIICAN LKAUUK Sunday's Hcorw. Chicago ,?>10?Boston "i Cleveland . 11?Washington St. Lou la 6?New York - 0 Detroit 6?Philadelphia ?.H Saturday's Score*. Detroit 11?Philadelphia ?10 Chicago 0?Bo?ton ? 3 St. Loula 6?N? w York 3 Cleveland 3?Washington - 0 Standing of Teams. W. Ii. Per. Boston 24 17 .583 New York 24 17 .685 Detroit ?26 21 .65 J Washington 21 22 .489 St. Louis 22 22 .600 Chicago 19 22 .46^ Cleveland 17 24 .46.1 Philadelphia 17 25 .405 Let us show you our hoautIfnl line of Hand Painted (kmtpect*, thin model*, fl.OO and up. LOUIS SELIG Jeweler. BASEBALL QUESTION BOX If yon have some question to ask about baseball Writ* t? Jahn B. Foster.l the man who helped make the rales under which the same Is played today. If you want a personal reply enclese a] stamped, aelf-add reused ea ??lope. Otherwise your *ae? tiea will he answered In tk!s] coluaa. Address: John B. Foster, special baseball cerrespondent| ef The Bally Advance. 811 World Balldlag, Now York. Question?Runners are on first and second bases. No one is out. The hatter hit a slow {rounder te the pitcher who threw to third to start a double play. The third base man then threw to second to get the runner from first. The throw wai wild and the runner on first kept on to third. The runner who was on second did not know it was a force play and after seeing the throw go wild to second ran all the way home. The center fielder threw home and the catcher put him out again. The umpires ruled that two were out. They said the ruuner who was on second interfered with the play. What wan the decision? Answer?The runner who was on Recond wan out when the throw was made to third. Once out he was out for good. The throw to the plate was wasted effort. The man on third was entitled to the base. He ran there legitimately and as he did not interfere he could not be put out. The umpires were making de cisions on a "dead man.' One out was all. Question?A runner hits safely and go?*s to first. The ball is put in play to the pitcher and the catch | er fumbles the next pitch. The run ner goes to second base. Some of the players on the bench of the op posing team yell to the player to go back to first base. The player does and the plttfher throws the ball to first base and the runner is tagged out. Would he have been out if he had got hack before he was tagged? Could he choose llrst base or second? Answer?The runner was out. He shouldn't permit himself to be fooled. Of course it was unsportsmanlike, and that kind of base ball doesn't make much of a hit with a good Am erican. The runner cannot retrace his steps If he has touched a base ex cept that it is for some legal reason. He should have stuck to second un til the umpire told him to the con trary. Question?Which is the correct and best position for a batsman so as to he successful at bat? Answer?If an absolutely correct position were known perhaps every body would become a good batter but D08itI?nB vary with players. Per sonally, a positiorf tnai. *-hv pitcher is favored by the writer not one by which the oatter must look over hla Qb'ftldcr to see the ball coming up to him. Question?Will you please tell me which Is the more valuable player. Babe Ruth or Frank Frlsch? Answer?Personal opinion is all that makes one player more valuable than another In most cases to the fan. If you have an opinion of your own, stick to it. Question?I have noticed that most of the pitchers in our Saturday af ternoon League stand with their right foot on the rubber and the left foot back of It when winding up to deliver the ball. In that not illegal? Answer?The ball must not be de livered to the batsman with either foot hack of the pitcher's plate and winding up to deliver the ball is part of the pitcher's delivery. ALL EXPENSES PAID Personally Conducted Tour to Wusliington, D. C. VIA Newport New#, Va. Old Point (Wnnfort, Va. Baltimore, Md. Annapolis, Md. leaves: I'M June 2.1th, or AM Juno 20th Arrives: WmihliiKton I'M, June 28th. Principal Points of Interest Visited on the Tours Newport Metr* Shipyard? IjRrgcnt on the Atlantic Coaat. Hampton, Va.? 01<l Soldier*' Home, Hampton In ntltnte. Old Point, Fort Monroe? Oldmt fortified alte In Weatern ll?*uiK|?liere. Baltimore*? Hteel plant, large*! eaat of IMtta huruh. Auto nlKht'Mflng tour: Fort McHenry, suirar Refinery, Kdirar Allen I'oe'n Grave and many other*. Annapolin? Naval Academy ? Historic Old Building*. Court Houm where Waalilnjcton re*l?fned hU rommU iilon. Auk any Norfolk Southern R. R. ticket agent to secure full particulars for you or write to J. V. DAIjTOX, .General Paaaewger Agent. MADDENS KEEN FOR WILLS FIGHT And Sore at All This Talk About Wills' Hands Wants Know If He's Not Expected to Use His Own. By FAIR PIlAY CMyrtfUt. IK?. kr Tm AImrm New York, June 9.?? bunch of fight critics took a motor ride to Pompton Lakes today to see how Uartley Madden's morale was hold ing up. The report is favorable. Hartley's fighting spirit, instead of diminishing under the series of de lays in his projected Harry Wills encounter, has been turned to sharp er edge. He is ready for the big brown men. in fact, eager. Hartley seems to be peeved because chief specula tion in connection with this bout seems to relate to Wills' hands?how they will fare when they come in contact with Madden's Harveyized steel dome. "Anyone would think" moaned Madden "that I hare not got any hands of my own. There will be more to this bout than Wills going around me like a barrel maker around a keg. I expect to do some hammering on my own account? and I'm not worrying about my hands either." Fight fans are an optimistic class. Desplte the prospect that the Queensboro stadium would be put out of business, only about thirty per cent of those who had paid forty thousand dollars for tickets to this show tried to turn their pasteboards in. Now they have their reward, ( for the customers are flocking to the' ticket office in large numbers today. "I am not worrying about this! fight" said Tex Richard. "I regard1 Wills as one of the greatest fighters in the world and always have. Ij certainly expect to seem him come; through this bout without any trou ble. "Put since you never can tell what will happen when two men meet in the ring I am holding up on the Wills-Firpo bout until after Monday 11 night. There is nothing to my attl- i tude except a businesslike regard for my own interests." ? 11 Flrpo, who has a pretty keen bust ?11 Special Pancake and Buckwheat Flour 6c per Pkg. 5 Pkgs. for 25c M. P. GALLOP CO. Phones 3 and 57 ness mind of his own, will hardly let his Injured pride carry him to any ' great extreme despite reports from Buenos Aires. Where does pride stand in the (ace of two hundred and fifty thousand Slmoleons. HIGH POINT BOASTS ANOTHER RAILROAD High Point. June 9.?The High | Point, ThomasTille, and Denton' Railroad resumed operation Tuesday for the first time since February 1 1923 when the old Carolina and Yad kin Valley Railroad 8tatlon was' burned and the line told to the pre sent company. The first shipment from this city will be to Tampla, Fla. Only carload shipment^ will be ac cepted at present. It was announced, but it is expected that within a short time small shipments can be handled. With the opening of the new rail road means connection with sereral other lines and an oatlet to the en tire United States, it was said. Here tofore the Southern Railroad has had almost a monoply on High Point shipments, it was explained, but on connections are made with the At lantic Coastline, Norfolk and West ern, other lines. Energetic Gasoline and Good Oil, Too You'll get l>otli of these at the CENTRAL FILLING STATION Iload and Matthew* Street. 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