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New Generation of Spitball Flingers Break Out
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Proves Wet Fling Doesn’t Shorten Career
p Damon Runyon.
. THER generation of spitball
/A itchers has suddenly arisen
x 'i the big- leagues to take
th e pe of any who have gone. o.
ma ie going. The fresh crop
loots formidable as the old, and
ne /eputations are likely to be
m Jnn the strength of the damp
sip 1912.
he managers are not narticu
]a partial to the spitbalßrs, but
t jare willing to have a gtod one
a nd if they can get hint The
t of legislation against tie de
fy has practically died ou\ and
ps long since come to be rtcog
sd as an institution in the game.
»y are developing spitbalers
just as they develop curve
IT pitchers.
Manager McGraw, of the Giarts,
s one of the successful club’ lesd
rs who is supposed to be ratter
apposed to the wet delivery. :nd
yet he went to further lenghs
with a spitball tosser than he *er
did with any other man again, am
ply because he recognized his
greatness as a pitcher, and his
value in winning games for the
New York club. This was "Bigs”
Raymond, the erratic Chicapan,
who McGraw declares has the
greatest natural pitching grfte of
any heaver he has ever seen. Ray
mond relied almost entirely 0 the
spitter.
Raymond Great Wet Fliner.
With his ability, Raymond hould
have achieved the fame ad for
tune of any pitcher ever .n the
game—and his ability consstcd of
a superb mastery of the sitter
McGraw now’ has anothr spit
hall pitcher and a star in 'barley
Tesreau, the Giant who pranked
with Mathewson and .Mrquard.
Until he mastered the spifall Tes-
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reau was not much of a pitcher.
He was signed by McGraw when
he was with Shreveport, in the
Texas league, largely on his size.
Then he was turned over to To
ronto, in the International league.
He was apparently unable to get
any "stuff" on his fast ball, and he
had no curve when McGraw first
took hold of him. -out he com
menced picking up the spitbal! de
livery. and McGraw encouraged
him in that, as he saw little hope
for him with the other slants. To
day Tesreau has developed a splen
did spitter.
"Buckey" O’Brien, .the Boston
Red Sox pitcher, who promises to
be a sensation, uses the spitball
freely, although it is said that half
the time he merely bluffs at it,
masking his mouth with his glove
before he pitches, as a matter of
habit more than anything else.
Connie Mack recognizes the value,
of the spitball by hanging on to
"Cy" Morgan. Claude Hendrix, a
Pittsburg youngster, is regarded as
one of the coming stars of the'
game, and he uses a spitter. Be
fore he acquired that delivery,
however, he was not considered of
big league class.
Marty O'Toole, the $22,509 beauty
purchas'd by Pittsburg last sea
son, is a spitball heaver. His value
for some time a little problematical
on account of his bad arm is no
longer In doubt in the minds 'of
Pittsburg fans. They consider him
a world beater.
The Yankees have a corner of
FODDER FOR FANS
The Pelicans have a lot of hocks baited
with the latest improved southpaw bait,
but the biting has not been very strong
yet, due perhaps to the high water. Frank
almost landed Pleister from the Cubs, but
Milwaukee just beat That Dutchman to
the Cub.
♦ * ♦
There is no danger of any legislation
against the spit ball so long as the Ameri
can league has so many good ones. The
list includes Walsh. Chicago; <’y Morgan.
Athletics; Russell Ford. New York; -D»e
Lake. St. Louis: Buck O’ Brien, Boston;
Bill Steen, Naps.
* * *
Tho Vols have let out Doc Seabaugh,
one of the veterans of the game in the
South.
• • •
Three clean-up hitters in the major
leagues now are recent graduates from
the Southern league The list includes
Jackson with the Boston Braves, North
ern with Brooklyn, and Bratt with the
St. Louis Browns.
* ♦ *
In a game that lasted almost three
hours recently Kansas City and Milwau
kee hurlers issued 20 passes.
* * ♦
Joe McCarthy. Indianapolis utility man.
has been passed down to Wilkesbarre.
* * *
Irving Higganbotham has been released
by Toledo to Portland. Oregon.
• • •
The Savannah club is batting .308. The
leading hitter is a gent named Glenn
Colby.
• * *
Harvey Bussey, who trained with the
Washington club in Atlanta two years
ago and who couldn't win for losing last
year in any league—and he tried several
—is doing grand work now for Danville
in the 'Virginia league.
• * *
Rube Benton has five straight wins to
his credit with the Reds. That's better
than he did with Chattanooga last year.
♦ • •
The famous lack Knight-Gabby Street
trade seems to have panned out about as
usual. Knight is so busy taking den
tistry examinations and such that he
isn't worth a bang to the Nationals,
while Street isn’t showing much and may
go back to the minors.
« « «
Heine Berger, Mobile hurler. is likely
to wind up eventually at Akron.
• » •
The second raid on baseball bettors at
Philadelphia netted two wagon loads of
victims. They are making gambling an
unhealthy outdoor pastime in Sleepy
ville.
• * •
Heine Pietz Is getting so good in his
old age that Hank o'Day is threatening
to use the veteran coacher in a game
soon.
* * *
Edward Dewis, first baseman three
vears ago for the Addison club, has lust
married. Eddie weighs 427 His bride is
a dainty little thing, totaling a mere 300,
avoirdupois.
Sam Mertes is out of baseball. He has
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: THVRSDAY. MAY 16. 1912.
spitball pitchers, carrying more
than any other club In the big
leagues. They have Russell Ford,
one of the greatest of them all;
George McConnell, Ray Fisher and
Jack Quinn. They are accounted
above the average. Ford's masteiV
of the spithall is nothing short of
uncanny, and only Ed Walsh, the
daddj- of them all, has.anything on
the Yankees, when it comes to
making the queer delivery perform.
Frank Smith, now of Cincinnati,
the old Chicago White Sox star,
and Harry Mclntire, of the Chi
cago Cubs, are masters of the de
livery, but they are hardly the
pitchers they were a few years ago.
Joe Lake Fair Spittballer.
Joe Lake, of the St. Louis Browns
in the American league, Is a good
spitball pitcher—probably better
than any in the National, and half
a dozen others in the younger or
ganization could be named who
outclass their fellow spitters of the
other league. There seems to be no
reason for this except that the old
organization does not have the luck
in picking up the spitters that the
other has.
The old argument that the spit
ball shortens a pitcher’s career in
baseball is still advanced, but the
long service of Ed Walsh shows
that there may at least be excep
tions to the rule, and it is a ques
tion whether the spitbailers who
have come and quickly gone would
have lasted any longer if they stuck
to the old styles.
tailed as an umpire on the coast and has
dropped out entirely.
♦ ♦ ♦
Heinic Heitinuller, who might have
been a Cracker if he had so desired, has
just hem suspended from activities in
the coast league for rough doings.
♦ • ♦
Baseball experts figure that Russ Ford
will be about ten times more effective
now than he has been this season. He
has Sweeney back to catch him.
♦ ♦ •
Harry Wolverton still holds the confi
dence of New York fans, despite one of
•he poorest early showings that ever a
manager made.
* * ♦
Herbert Kutz, last year with Wilkea
barre and Utica. who was tried out by
the Athletics this spring, has been sent
to Allentown.
• ♦ •
On seeing an announcement in Secre
tary Farrell’s bulletin; ’Ed Goes, from
Youngstown.” some fresh guy remarked,
"He sure does.”
• * *
Frank Dwefs, once a Turtle, is desired
by the Phillies. Frank is with Minneap
olis now. hut may go even to the luck
les? Philadelphia Nationals.
“POP” EYLER, ONCE IN
SOUTHERN,DROPS A PEG
HUNTSVILLE. ALA . May 16. Manager
Riggs, of the Huntsville team, has made
some alterations In his pitching staff and
expects to have Charles Tompkins, now
at the Washington and Lee university,
back here in a few <lays. Tompkins was
the heaviest hitting pitcher in the league
last year. Pitcher (diaries Reese has been
suspended for the present because he has
not rounded into form. Pitcher James
Allen has been released to the Hastings,
Nebr., team of the Mink league. “Pop”
Eyler, former Southern league pitcher,
who got ofT badly in his first tryout here
Saturday, has been placed with the Green
wood. Miss., team in the Cotton States
league. Tdie regular pitching staff of the
Mountaineers is now composed of Finch,
Luhrson, Wylie and Rusa.
NAT BUTLER HAS RACED
20 YEARS ON STRETCH
Nat Butlei. bike rider well known in
Atlanta and the South, has just cele
brated h«s twentieth anniversary of his
start in the cycling game. No other rider
in the world has ever lasted so long or
ridden in so many races. It is probable
that Butler has been in three and four
thousand < ontests
Butler has probably not won as many
races as Frank Kramer, who for eleven
vea» : ba- been the champion of Arret
ica. nr Thorwald EHegaard, who has
copped the six world's championships, but
he is not far behind.
CRACKERS AND
BARONS CLASH
IN ffl CAMES
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., May 16.—As a
result of yesterday's rain, which
brought to a timely death what looked
like a joke ball game, the Crackers will
close their first long road trip with a
double-header.
Manager Hemphill will offer an as
sortment of pitchers—Sitton, a husky
right-hander, and Atkins, a diminutive
southpaw. Against them will be op-,
posed Eoxen, a Cracker fizzle of last
year, and Prough, one of the Barons'
best in the 1911 season.
The score was 2 to 2 yesterday in
the second inning when the game was
called. It was a fright of .a game up
to that point. A wild toss by Alper
man. usually the steadiest of infield
ers. let in the -two Baron runs. The
Crackers' runs were made also on gifts,
and both teams seemed to be off form.
It was Ad Men’s day in Birmingham,
but the crowd was small, owing to the
bad weather.
SECOND PLACE WON BY
TECH ON TECHNICALITY
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Mat 16.—The
Tech track team may be awarded sec
ond place in the recent Birmingham
Athletic Club track and field meet be
cause of the disqualification of R. C.
Stevens, of Mobile, who won the pole
vault. Stevens, it is charged, is as
sistant secretary of the Mobile Young
Men’s Christian Asociation, and on that
ground was ineligible to compete. His
disqualification would put Smith, of
Tech, first, and Goree, of Tech, second
and give the Atlantans 32 points in the
meet, only one point less than the Bir
mingham Athletic Club made in win
ning first idace.
CAPONI AND GORMAN
FIGHT A FAST DRAW
(MLXTTANOOGA. TENN.. May 16.
Tony Caponi, of Chicago, and Joe Gor
man, of Lo.s .Angeles, fongh eight rounds
Io a draw before the Southern Athletic
dub The battle was very fast for mid
dle, weights.
(’anoni proved the superior in Hie in
fighting. but Corman employed a left jab
to the face and head that was very ef
fective. Neither man was able to send his
opponent to the floor, though each stag
gered his man at intervals
In the second main bout. Terry Nelson,
of Chicago, won a clear decision over .lack
Dougheitx. of this city. Dougherty was
groggy at the finish.
PAPKE AND HICKS BATTLE
IN GOTHAM RING TONIGHT
NEW YORK. May 16.—Ex-Middleweight
Champion Billy I’apke will make an es
fort to “come back" tonight when he will
hox ten rounds with Freddie Hicks, of
Detroit. Mich., at the National Sporting
club. Some doubt was expressed as to
whether the state boxing commission
would allow the contest io go on because
of the investigation which is being made
into the conduct of the club.
The inquiry into the. action of Patsy
Haley, referee, in giving a decision al the
National club in the bout between Jim
Stewart and Gunboat Smith, is still under
way. and another sitting of the investi
gators was scheduled for this afternoon.
PREP TITLE IS DECIDED
BY MARIST-GORDON GAME
The Marist and Gordon teams clash
today in Barnesville in the game that
will decide the prep championship of
the state. Marist has cleaned up Stone
Mountain and all the teams of the At
lanta Prep league. The Gordon nine,
under Coach Bob Williams, 'has not lost
a game this year.
Gordon has the advantage in everv
way in today’s game and should win.
TOM DWYER FAINTS AT
END OF THIRD ROUND
NEW Y‘»RK. Max' 16. Tom Dwyer, the
English heavyweight wh<« recently in
,vade<l this <-ovntrx, believes that he is
the original hard luck man and his
friends are predicting that he xx'll e tight
no more in this country At the end of
the third round of his bout with George
Ashe, of Philadelphia at ’he Sharks
Athletic club last night fainted in
h’- corner and could fight no m«»rc. In
bis first contest in this country two
months ago I>wyer broke his arm.
“Hl Fight ’Em AH, One a Week”—Jack Johnson
Champion Makes a Big Offer to the White Hopes
• Ry Ed. W. Smith.
CHICAGO. May 16.—" Bring 'em
all on: one a week for as long
as they last. I'll whip the en
tire lot, but I must hurry, because
I surely will retire at midnight next
Labor day.”
This was the confident statement
made yesterday bx .lack Johnson
while discussing his plans for the
immediate future.
"There ate a lot of 'white hopes'
around, eh? Well, if thev can com
mand any backing in the way of
purses I'll take A shot at all of
them without exception- one
w eek apart for as many weeks as
there are fighters or as long as the
inducements last.” he continued.
"That's how confident 1 feel that
1 can < lean up the entire lot.”
Johnson Feels That Way.
And there isn't a bit of doubt
about the real feelings of the big
fellow or his confident way of look
ing at the general situation.
"Why am I setting the date of
my retirement on Labor day?" be
repeated. “Simply because that is
a. good fighting day all over the
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Frank W hitney has just received a tele
gram from St. Joseph offering him three
bouts there. The promoters tried to get
Joe Mandot for W’hitney, but the New
Orleans boy said "nix Owen Moran
will be the Fighting Carpenter’s
nent in one of the contests.
• * *
Mike Gibbons and Sid Burns, a new
comer from England, will box ten rounds
in Madison Square Garden May 21
Eddie McGoorty will meet the winner
of the Gibbons-Burns bout about the first
of .Tune.
It is likely that Matty Baldwin will be
seen in the ring with Ad W’olgast before
very long. W hen Baldwin heard the W <»1
gasl-Cross match had fallen through he
wired the Garden A C , in New York,
stating that he would like to meet the
champion.
• ♦ ♦
Cyclone Johnny Thompson has just re
turned from .Australia and is seeking
matches with Eddie McGoorty and Frank
Klaus.
♦ ♦ *
Digger Stanley, the English bantam
champinn, is now talking “come bark"
stuff He is seeking a match with John
nv < ’oulon.
* ♦ •
Reports from New York sa> Malt Wells
and <>wen Moran have signed up to bat
tle ten rounds in Madison Square Gar
den Max 20.
* ♦ ♦
James J Corbett is of the opinion that
F’ackey M< Farland is the only light
weight in the world who would have a
chance against W’olgast.
■ * *
Joe .Mandot and Rax Temple have
been matched to box eight, rounds be
fore the National A. in Memphis May
20.
« • ♦
No, Carl Morris isn't going to retire
yet. Morris says he xvill rest up for
awhile and will again enter the pugilistic
ranks. Carl’s excuse for his bad show
ing against Luther McCarty a few nights
ago is that it was a frame-up by Mc-
Carty's followers and the city officials
where the bout was held.
• ♦ ♦
It will be a Mexican against an Amer
ican when Kid Michell, of El Paso, and
Jack Herrick, of Chicago, mingle in the
old bull ring in Juarez on Sunday.
’ Hilly I’apke and Frank Klaus have been
matched for a six-round bout, to lie
staged in Pittsburg before long.
Battling Nelson is planning a tour of
tlie world. The Nelson party will be
composed of the Battler, Frank Goteh and
Harry Lewis.
I'ackey McFarland is in receipt of an
offer from Los Angeles l.oxmg promoters
to meet Frank Picato, who recently re
turned from Australia, where he met
man y t opnot chcr s.
•lake Abel and Terr? Nelson arc train
ing iu Chattanooga for their ten-round go
ai the Atlanta A C here May 25.
• * •
Tonx Caponi. who ha:- fought most of
tlie top-notchet s. including Sam Langford,
sues Jim Flynn hasn't a ghost of a chance
against Jack Johnson July I. Caponi be
lieves Langford is the logical man to
tight Johnson.
Mike Gibbons -axs lie has just found out
ihal lie ' in make 142 potinrls easil.X, and
that if Ray Bronson is anixious for a
match xxith him that he will make 142
fur the St. Joseph boj.
country and perhaps some promoter
would like to engage my services
for that day after I get through
with Flynn.
’'There's alxvays a better chance
of getting the right sort of a purse
on a holiday -than on the ordinary
day.
"By ‘right sort of a purse' I mean
one that is well worth going for.
Now, I'm getting $30,000 in Las Ve
gas for working xvith Flynn, in ad
dition to my training expenses of
$l,lOO. As Flynn looks for the time
being to be the very best of the
white fighters who aspire to take
the title axvay from me I naturally
asked a big price for fighting him.
John L. Graded Prices.
“You know how John L. Sullivan
used to grade the prices when he
was fighting. He once said SIO,OOO
for white men, negroes double price.
He did that because he didn’t want
to battle Peter Jackson for the title,
because ,he knew pretty well what
might happen to him if he did. And
if there had been a promoter who
would have paid the price at the
time Sullivan wouldn't have made
the match anyway. But I’ll show
a different spirit. I’ll start any time
Packey McFarland has agreed to make
133 pounds at 3 o’clock for a ten-round
bout with Ad Wolgast in New York, and it
is likely that the champion will accept.
• * •
'l'hat Perry-Bronson chase is beginning
to look like the chase between .Johnson
and Langford. Perry is anxious to meet
the St. Joseph boy, who seems to be
continually dodging him. Bronson was
anxious for the match until Perry cleaned
op all the Southern welters and now he
doesn’t seem to care for any of Jimmy's
goods.
Ivali Kinney, of Milwaukee, is now’ the
lightweight champion <>f the navy.
'l’he New York Stale Boxing Commis
sion has issued 43 referee licenses.
* * «
On account of receiving many good of
fers here, Billy I’apke has postponed his
frij. to Paris for several weeks.
* ♦ ♦
Eddie McGoorty and Leo Houck will
box in Philadelphia in the near future.
Arrangements for Hits bout are being
made, but no date has been set.
Should McGoorty successfully defeat
Houck he xvill then be matched with
either Frank Klaus or Jack Dillon.
<
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you’ll find Ford service sta
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Ford advantage. Anri a rea
son why you should place an
early order for one of the
seventy-five thousand new
Fords to be sold this season.
All Eords are Model T’s—all like except
the bodies. The two-passenger runabout
costs $590 i—the five-passenger touring ear
$690- the delivery ear S7O0 —the town
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I get the price.
"More than this, I want t® say
that I'll be ready for a battle with
any of these ‘hopes' three weeks
from this day.
“There are good reasons for my
retirement. One, and the chief one.
is that I am going in business at 41
West Forty-first street, and will
have a fine place there. Yea, I’m
getting to the ag» now when I am
sick of the game of training. But,
mind you. I’m not saying that I
can not train. Far from that, be
cause I feel as easy about the work
as ever I did.
Doesn't Have to Fight.
"As for the money end of the
game. I have enough to keep forty
wolves from the door for th.e re
mainder of my life. So I don’t have
to fight. Neither do I have to go
into business, but I want to become
a respectable citizen and like Chi
cago better than any place I’ve
ever been in.
“Eighteen years In the fight
game! That's long enough. Yes,
you can bet your life that I’m sin
cere about this retiring, business.
No more for John Arthur/after next
September."
YALE’S SECOND CREW
WILL ROW AT PHILLY
NEW HAVEN. CONN.IMay 16.—The
second crew, and not varsity eight,
will be sent by Yale to/ the American
regatta at Philadelphia ion May 26, ac
cording to an onnouncefment made to
day. Harvard, Pennsylvania, Prince
ton and Columbia in this
event.
Yale’s crew will be (made up as fol
lows: Bow, Allen; Na 2. Bryce; No. 3.
Pease: No. 4, Ross; Nio. 6, Peck; No. 6,
Freeman; No. 7, Ives; stroke, Beck;
coxswain, Barger.
FORMER ’cRACKEThOWARD
PURCHASED BY RICHMOND
'■Kid” Howard, the former Cracker
utility man sold recently to Washington,
has been turned over' to the Richmond
club of the Virginia league by Manager
Griffith.
After looking Howard over tn Wash
ington the Old Fox (decided that what
Howard needed was a< lot of steady work
with a fast club and therefore sent him
to Richmond.