Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, June 12, 1912, FINAL, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextTR A CSMT RAI U . H WHITING WWNAUGHTON. TAD, (^OILIr 7 ''"’ % LW ILWLIL Iwßfi ™ - ™wF Rube Marquard, Giants’ Star, Tells His Pitching Secrets By Sam Crane. PITCHING, according to Rube Marquard, is like making love —everybody does it differently. But also, like making love, there are certain genera! rules of suc cess that must be followed. Marquard is the pitching sensa tion of the baseball season. After loafing for several years on Mana , ger McGraw's staff, he developed, last season, into one of the greatest left-handers that ever broke into baseball, and this season his record has been remarkable. He has won twelve straight games and his phe nomenal work in the box is not the least of the reasons that the Giants are running away with the pennant. Several years ago. when the fans were speaking of Marquard as an "SII,OOO bloomer” and in similar unkindly terms. George Wiltse told the writer that Marquard could "put more stuff on a ball than any left-hander in the business.'' Wiltse is a veteran left-hander himself, so his opinion counts for something. Marquard in this interview tells the readers of The Georgian the secret of successful pitching. "Every spring." said the Rub, , l a •' .JG <■ ' sWmWiirtSrjl .4 x|a Hr j r — . (1) Position of hand for "Turkey: T rotter.” “you hear all sorts of stories about new and weird pitching tricks that are going lo revolutionize the game. Some of these new balls are really good and some of I hem are not. The spitball. which I don't use at all, .is one of the comparatively new freaks of pitching that has really done remarkable work and at one time threatened to give rise to special legislation in the American league. Matty's Fadeaway. • "Matty lets a fadeaway ball that is a wonder. Other pitchers can throw this ball, but none of them ~ I • wßii I1 . LIL XJ.I t. - ——— (2) Position of hand for fast ball. has the remarkable control of It that Matty has. He is real!** the only pitcher that can use It suc cessfully. "And this brings me down to w hat 1 was getting at. Freak balls are all right for a change, and a pitcher must have some curves and '--eel .• t t nake good, but ’he foun dation of all good pitching lies in two things—control and change of pate. A pitcher that hasn’t got these two—especially the first—is no good, no matter how many slants and queer jumps he can give a baseball. "That was the hardest thing I SANTAL-MIDYI Relieves in 24 Hours Catarrh of the Bladder All Druggists af Counterfeits SANTAL-MIDY had to learn—control. You have to put the ball over the plate for big league batters. They don't strike at bad ones. And if you put them square over the plate ■■ I—l (3) Position of hand for drop curve. they hit 'em a mile. This means that you have to work the sides of the plate, ‘working the corners,’ pitchers call it, and that takes con trol. "Change of pace is necessary, be cause if you pitch every ball at the same rate of speed the oppos ing batters soon learn to time it and hit it. You have to mix up fast ones and slow ones, and the same motion in throwing must be used, or they will be able to tell which is the fast and which the slow one before it leaves your hand. My Turkey Trotter. "I have a slow ball I call the 'tur key trotter.’ I hold the bail wedged between my middle fingers and supported by the thumb. Natural ly you can't hold the ball firmly, and the final snap of the wrist that gives the speed does not take effect. Going through the air. it Is wabbled from side to side, and i the batter can not gauge its speed until it is upon him. The seere’ of all slow halls is that the ball is not securely gripped close in to the hand. "The slow ball, thrown with the same motion, is very effective fol lowing a fast curve or a ‘fast’ ball. The fast ball, usually thrown high, has a sharp break close in to the batter, and this, combined with the terrific speed, makes it especially hard to hit. Perfect mastery of the-e two balls make; a danger ous pitcher without anything else, and when 'you have a good curve along with them you have all of it. The fast one is held with the two fingers and the thumb —tightly, and thrown straight out with all the strength of the arm "The drop curve that I depend on for most of my curve work is thrown by holding the ball exactly as it is held for the fast one. In fact, a pitcher should, to the eye of the batter, hold the ball as neatly the same each time as pos sible. But the peculiar break of the drop is given by releasing the ball over the top of the’fingers with tin under turn of the /land. It is very hard to hit.” Norfolk Jacket Suits S2O 2 Piece Crash—*4 and *4 Skeleton Lined JK X \ HPHE latest popular fashion for [/ I U K “lounge” or dress, in the sea- Z \ \ A son’s preferred light or dark colors. CMi \ o IvA Also ne se^ect^on m m °hair, V\ 1 I i’l crash and desirable summer pat- / terns °f unfinished worsteds and f cheviots. !' vl M* Regular Standard, English and j Box back models, S2O to $35. nmn V Parks-Chambers-Hardwick I /w7 v ! 37 and 39 Company Il 1111/ 111 a I . ' BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip When the season had just started they called the Reds the Belted Knights of O'Day. Now they call them tha much belted knights. • • • Another fine old diamond learnt is "ruint.” It was always said that Jun Mc- Cormick was the only pitcher who ever quit baseball while his arm was still right. Now' .lames kicks in with a con fession that he broke a ligament tour years before he quit, that he bluffed through a quartet of seasons and that the arm has bothered him ever since, .» • • Galloping in from third on any old kind of a ground ball, when said galloping means a certain "out,” is poor baseball Yet a lot of good teams are doing it right along, not only in the Southern, but in the National as well. • » • Il’s out now why ,\rtie Hofman was released Art got sore at (’holly Murphy, tailed him a “chuckle-headed, silly old woman" and agreed to slap his wrist if he didn't like it. Hence the can. • a a Artie Hofman may take “Scoops" Carey's place regularly on the Pirate team. • • •■ Mike Dunlin's nether limbs are consid erable shaky these days. Bui so long as Mike continues to bat a shade over .375 he can probably have his job. a a • President Lynch has promised to plas ter such a tine on the next man who puts oil. turpentine, liniment, pepper or any thing else on the hall that they will be all summer paying it. He admits that he is tired of the poor sportsmanship of the players who have it in for spitball pitch ers. • • • Chicago writers say that (’ole will never bp a great pitcher because he hasn’t the intelligence. • a a Hugh Fullerton has it that iCe Sox "are playing the kind of hall that non malo dorous fame for McGraw in New York and that hurt the game under Tebeau in Cleveland, Hanlon in Baltimore and Rill O’Rourke at Baltimore." That might justly be considered a knock. a a a The Pittsburg team has been cut to 22 players. Mlckex Keliher and Harry Gard ner were the last tn go. a a ■ John McGraw is planning to build up a team in New York that will withstand the ravages of time and which will make the famous (’uh machine of other days sink clean out. of memory. We wish hirn all the hard luck in the world. a • • George Bell, of Academy Corners. Pa . celebrated his drop to Class A.\ hall by shutting nut the Baltimore club. It was Newark's first shut-out of the year. • • a Ted Easterly uses the biggest bat In the major leagues. An average player can't even pick it up unless he's feeling extra strong, Hal Chase selects new bats by nibbling the wood. He often chews up a cord or more before he finds one that tastes right. • • • Clark Griffith s Washington team is the voungest that ever made a noise in the big leagues. The average of the players outside the pitchers is 22. » * * Everv time there is talk that the White Sox wifi trade Ed Walsh Charles Comls key has always said that he would just as soon trade his grandstand. The last time the rumor came out her marie it stronger and threw in his franchise along with the stand. • ♦ • The Red Sox have bought Van Dyke, of Worcester, claimed by many to be the best pitcher in the New England league. In the third inning of the first game a ver> peculiar play occurred. Case hit a high flv behind second base and East and Callahan went after it. East made the catch, but it bounded out of his hands into Callahan's. This made an out sec ond baseman to center fielder. « A • Well, well! Along conies a rumor now that the attendance is poor in Chatta nooga and that the owners there are ready to quit. Case and Dessau both pitched a good game yesterday. Hemphill got a triple in the first game and a double and single in the second yesterday. HERN’SHEIM OGA^ i fl II way-5 C— > Go ” d -' - “ " CIMCKERSBUY I NEWMENiSYKES GOES INiTBIDE Determined to win a pennant If it strains the resources of the bastball association to the last notch. President Callaway has just closed two deals for players. One brings "Humpty" Mc- Elveen lo Atlanta in place of Sykes The other lands for the locals Third Baseman Harbison from Ute Spartan burg club, of bhe Carolina association. McElveen is known well in the South. He broke in with Nashville. Tire Vols sent him to Biooklyn, where he played fairly useful ba6l for some lime. The Dodgers returned him to the Southern league and he played 88 games with Montgomery last year, batting .276 and fielding well, McElveen is big. young, .strong, a husky hitter, a useful fielder and a good all-around player. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Nashville in Atlanta at Ponce DeLeon; game called at 4 o'clock. Mobile in Birmingham. Montgomery in New Orleans. Memphis in Chattanooga. Standing of the Club*. W L P C W. L. P C B’hatn. .33 21 .611 M'mphis 26 27 491 Mobile 32 25 .561 Mont. . .25 29 .463 C'nooga. 27 24 .529 Atlanta 21 27 138 New' < >r. 25 24 .510 N'ville . 20 32 .385 Yesterday’s Result*. Nashville 6, Atlanta 0 Nashville 5. Atlanta 4 Chattanooga 4. Memphis 3. Mobile 6. Birmingham 4. New Orleans-Montgomery, rain. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Albany in Columbia. Columbus in Jacksonville. Savannah in Macon. Standing of the Club*. \V L PC W. L. PC J'ville .25 14 641 ("bus. . 19 23 .452 Mbanv 28 16 .636 Macon 16 26 .381 S'nah. . .26 18 .591 Cola . . 12 29 .293 Yesterday's Result*. Albany 7, Columbia 1. Macon 8, Savannah 3. Jacksonville-Columbia, rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. ' New York in Chicago. Boston in St. Louis. 1 Washington in. Detroit. Philadelphia in Cleveland. Standing of the Club* W. I. PC W. L. P.C. Boston .30 78 .625 Detroit .25 26 490 1 Chicago .31 20 60S ("land 23 24 489 1 Wash 29 21 .586 N York 16 29 .356 ' Phila . .28 23 .549 S. Louis 14 35 .286 Yesterday's Results. Washington 3. Detroit 2. t New York 6, Chicago 3. Philadelphia 8. Cleveland 7. Boston 4. St. Louis 0 | NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Today. St Louis in Boston. Pittsburg in Brooklyn. Chicago in New' York. Cincinnati in Philadelphia Standing o» the Club*. W L PC I W. L. P.C. N York .35 8 .814 Phila .19 22 463 Chicago 25 19 .568 S Ltmis. 22 28 .440 C'nati. . 26 22 .542 B’klyn. .14 28 .333 I P'burg, .23 20 .535 | Boston . 15 32 .319 Yesterday’s Result*. New York 8. Chicago 3. • Philadelphia 5. Cincinnati 3. I Pittsburg 16. Brooklyn 4. Boston 2. St. Louis 1 BOXING Late News and Views Joe Sherman, the Memphis pug. is on his way to Little Rock, where he is sched uled to box ten rounds with Ray Temple June 19. » • • Sherman has been boxing around Memphis for some time and fans look for him to register a win over Temple. How ever, he will have to go some, as Ray has a victorv over Joe .Mandot to his credit. • « * Young Delmont, the fighter who refused to box in Atlanta because the attendance was too small to suit hirn, is continuing to do good fighting. His latest win was over ollie Kirke. • • • K. ('. Brown, the sturdy little New York lightweight, has challenged the winner of the Wolgast-Rivers bout. • * • When the champion was shown Brown’s challenge he said Brown Would be a cinch for him ami that he would like to make a side bet of SIO,OOO. • « • Jack Cardiff is scheduled to box Jimmy Gardner Julx 3. (’a rd iff was a preacher until very recently when he quit the pul pit for the-ring He says every one has to live and that he will be Able to make more monej boxing than preaching the gospel. • * • Charley White and Young Shugroe have been rematched for a return bout to be staged in New York June 18. • • • If White is returned the winner he will probably be chosen to box Young Jack O’Brien in Philadelphia June 25. at the initial show to be staged in the big $150,- 000 building recently completed there. • • • Manager Gibson, of the Garden Athletic club, New York, is trying to arrange a bout between Bombardier Wells, the Eng lish champ, and Luther McCarthy. * • • one of the big Gotham clubs has prom ised Ernie Zanders, a crack at Mike Gib bons some time in the near future. Zand ers is confident he can hold hts own with any of the Gotham welters. • • • Eddie Kervin Is claiming the bantam weight title for his protege. Jimmy Walsh. Kervin says Coition only weighs 119 which Is flyweight instead of bantamweight. Walsh recentlv fought Johnny Kilbane to a twelve-round draw. JACKSONVILLE CLUB IS VICTIM OF HARD RAINS JACKSONVILLE, KLA., June 12. This burg has established a new marathon raining record. The last two series of games have been rained out. Fortunately for the Jacksonville club, it goes on the road tonight for a trip and possibly by the time it returns Jack sonville will be dried out. makes hot days coo I In Bottles—lce Cold at the ball game. IT’S SIMPLY D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S “Call the Boy with the Khaki Coat" A Friend of Quaker for Twenty-Two Years Mr. G. R. Howder, 63 years of age, I who lives at 110 ('enter street, this > city, lias been a friend of Quaker Ex- ' tract for twenty-two .'■ears. Whin he , first became acquainted with Its won- < tierful virtues he had been ailing for years from stomach troubles, and had i used quite a few of the many remedies : on the market at that time, but found nothing to give real permanent telief until he at last found the first package of Quaker Herbs, put up at that time ill a dry form. He was ured by a few weeks’ use of them, and since then each year, usually at the spring time, he gives himself and all the family a course of the great medicine, and if more healthy-looklng and vigorous feeling man at the. age of 63 can bo found in Atlanta it will take more than the normal eyes to find him. Mr. How der has raised two children on 'Qua ker.'' and they have never hail the pun.' , pale. sallow complexions of ihe average child, nor have they suffered O’Keefe Beats Devlin; Slow Count Costs Him a Knockout FT-OMMY O’KEEFE won a decl j sivs victory over Tommy Devlin at the Gate City "Athletic . club,” deserving the ' award that was handed him T>y the referee-manager-ma tehmaker of the club. In fact, to many it looked as though O'Keefe had very prop erly knocked out his man in the fifth round. But the referee-man ager-matchmaker’s arm was tired and he dolled oft’ the count in bunches of about two seconds. Ac cordingffto Waterbury and Inger sol time. Devlin once rested on the canvas about thirteen seconds. It was a corking fight, and Dev lin proved that he is one of the gamest young men that ever Stepped Into a ring. He sure is a bear for taking punishment. O'Keefe, on the other hand, sprang a surprise by displaying -some swell hitting power. Athough neither boy really knows enough about the manly art to keep him self warm, they sure put up a fine rough-and-tumble scrap and the fans were more than satisfied. Only a handful of fans saw the bout. The house was "papered” well by the press agents and, con sidering the fact that the fighters fought at top speed all the way, they were unfortunate in pulling down only a wee amount for their energy. For four rounds the milling was even. In the fifth O'Keefe opened up at full speed and a right hook sent Devlin to the floor for the full count. As he. arose another right floored him again for a “nine.” Finally he struggled to his feet, but before he could put up his hands a right swing flush on the jaw sent Devlin down for the third time. He was out cold, and had the ref eree-manager-matchmaker counted from tlm many Hie that beset the grow ing child, more especially the hundreds of worms anad other intestinal para sites that infest the human system of those who do not properly cleanse the digestive tract each year. When Mr. Howder first began to use the Quaker medicine himself He weighed just ex actly 131) pounds. Now he tips the beam at. 198, and it’S all good, healthy muscle and sinew' and steady nerves, not a lot of bloat. This gentleman called at Coursey ,<• Munn's drug store and after talking to the Quakers a while took three more bottles of Qua ker Extract, which he intended giving to a friend who is beginning to mani fest some of the symptoms of pellagra. He knew that the same remedy had al ready cured a case in Marietta, and is doing yeoman service, in six or seven other cases right in Atlanta. Now. those of y ou who are inclined to doubt that the Quaker Remedies ire pe ma nent in their curative virtue, or who think that when once the remedies have properly, O'Keefe would have earned brackets right here. The sixth round was all O’Keefe's, but Devlin was dead game, and he came out of his cor ner in the seventh looking really fresh. A hot mix in the center of the ring finally ended with Devlin flopping on the canvas for the full count. He managed to weather the round out by clinching aSd hugging. \ Devlin had the best of the eighth ’ simply because of his ruggedness. He slugged all through this period and had O’Keefe backing up. The ninth was even. In the tenth round, during a red hot mix, both boys fell through the ropes to the floor. Neither ivas in jured and as soon as they climbed back into the arena started battling again at top speed. Spider Britt and Mayer Prfe« fought a corking eight-round seml windup, with honors even. LOOKOUTS BUY ALLEN FROM MEMPHIS CLUB CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. June li.— t’hattanooga purchased Pitcher Allen from Memphis today. Inflelder Spen cer has been placed with the Fort Worth, Texas, club. Runser has been recalled from Danville as utility man, pending a deal for an outfielder. ONE CATCHER WORKS FOR TWO TEAMS IN SAME GAME YAZOO CITY. MISS., .Tune 13.—1 n the double-header baseball games here yes terday between Yazoo City and Columbus, of the Cotton States league, the Yazoo catcher retired In the second Inning be cause of injuries. No utility player was available, so Taylor, catcher for Columbus, caught for both teams. Everything went well ex cept that It complicated the tajt of keep ing the box score. Yazoo won both games, 4-2 and 6-4. made a friend they are easily shaken off. just take a walk over to Mr. Hol - der's residence on Center street and ask him personally what he knows of the Quaker's medicines. He'll be only too glad to explain why he has used them for so many years, whenthere are over 200 other remedies that are sold on the druggists' shelves today. And remem ber. too, that if you suffer from any possible branch of stomach, liver, kid ney nr blood troubles, or you and your little ones have worms of any kind, here is a cure, one that has created over 300 permanent cures tight here in your own city, right on your very threshold, so to speak, where you have the privilege to Investigate (hem at your will. The.-' wonde'ful remedies Quaker Extract, 6 for $5.00. 3 for $2.50 or SI.OO a bottle. <>il of Balm. 25c or 5 for SI.OO can be obtained st < 'nursey & Munn's Drug Store. 29 Marietta street. We prepay exprt ss charges on all orders of 13 00 or over.