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LPITLD W. 9 FARNSWORTH ,
the SPORTING IDITORV
COLUMN
By W. S. Farnsworth.
NEW YORK fans, arc claiming:
that Rube Marquard now
holds the record for straight
wins On Frida', when hr defeat
ed the Hestons, he wa' credited
with his -Ixteenth victor' Rut he
still has three games to garner in a
row before he reaches the high
mark.
John I.uby, in 1890, while a mem
ber of the Chicago National league
club, won twenty straight games
Amd still all of the Gotham papers
claim that when Marqttard passed
fourteen straight, the .joint ecord
of ®d Reulhac.h and Jack Cheebro,
the lanky southpaw won for him
self a crown
The following extract from
Sporting Tjife nf August 21. 1909. Is
of much Interest on this topic:
"During the past week Pitcher
Renlbach. of the Chicago National
league dub, aroused universal Imer
eat when he reached his fourteenth
straight victory, thus equaling the
record made by Pitcher Cheshro, of
the New York American team In 1904.
and which 1s the best record at the
present pitching distance of 6014 feet
from the home plate Tt was hoped.
In National league circles at least,
that Renlbach would surpass Che?
bro’s record, and perhaps even enual
John Ruby's high water mark, which
has stood for nearly two score years,
but the Giants destroyed that hope on
Saturday, August 14. when they low
ered Reulbach’s colors, after fourteen
straight victories
"Reulbach thus remains tied with
Chesbro for the record at modern
distance, and John I.uby remains In
possession of the supreme record
twenty straight- made in 1890, In
which year that remarkable pitcher
«180 led the National league batsmen
with the great average of 942 for 30
games This pitching record was
made under the old distance of 50
feet and a 584x4 box. which, as ex
perfence has demonstrated, was real
ly less advantageous to the pitcher
than the present distance, which per
mite much better curves, without
perceptible effect on speed nr change
of pare.
“In this connection we must once
more call to order some Chicago ertt
les. who will persist in crediting Me
Cormick, of the old Chicago team,
with a record of 24 straight victories
1n 1886 and who last week once more
sent this misinformation broadcast
over the country. McCormick did not
pitch In 24 consecutive victories, in
FODDER FOR FANS
Over in Portsmouth. Va , they axe going
to have a “Dollai Day" at the ball park
If vou k)ck In it's a dollar, even for
bleacher rests The kicking will prob
abb not be extta good
Orth Collins, who lost out ae a manager
tn the Cotton States league, alleges he
has a job with Minneapolis Bat boy.
maybe
♦ • •
Bill Beirhard i»tlU lirf et<ht of the
wme men playing far him that st a Had
the season His only changes have been
1n the pitching staff
♦ * •
Why even m the Routh Atlantic league
thev ar? beginning to call their games
at 3:30. They must have a cook problem
down there, too
Johnny Rates has a slight Charley
horse and Larry McLean Is nursing h lame
foot Except for that and the tact that
the Reds < an't m ball games everything
Is going all right In the camp of O'Day
"Irish' Cahill has jumped the Orlando
Fla., team "To many mosquitoes and
alligators down there " chirped "Irish"
as he heat it for Indiana
• • ■
Catcher Waring, of the Terre Haute
team, recently jumped into the stand and
thrashed a spectator This sort of stuff.
If continued, will be tine for the ball pla\ -
er? Rut it will play hr.-k with attend
ance
When in
Evening Dress
your Shirt Frc nt
must radiate
Whiteness
It does, if we hiuiitiert Un
We give pavticulHf ati< n
tjon to linen for <lr< ss u n
White ties white vesG
etc.. that we lamni r lo.>\
like new.
Your laundrx can't 20
wrong if we do it.
We call and deliver.
1 rio Laundry &
Cleaning Co.
I'hojp . t v 1099.
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"Hr sterilize all uiir u'orl(.
JFSG or any other vear. arid n**v«»r ap
proached I.uby\ record of 20 - freight,
a feat which even the great Rad
bourne mver equaled McCormick’*
record in ISRO wap fifteen straight vic
forles, uhkh performance he had n«t
equaled before IRfl*», and never ap~
prnarhed after that year, which wa ~
the best nf Ids career Why Ru< h a
persistent effort should be made to
rol> dead Ruby of the wonderful rec
ord nf a very short professional career
is as mystifying ns it is disgraceful."
• ♦ •
epHFTRE U some question In
■ whether Marquard did win nun
of the sixteen victories he <l;ihns
In the eame between the Giant
and < üb« <>n June 12. the Rub*-’
was taken nut in the eighth inning:
tn allow Shafer Io bat. New York
Rented two runs In inni’ig.
winning the game. 3 to 2
Nwv York papers credited Mar
guard with the victory, on the
ground that although "New York
was behind when Shafer batted for
Marquard, when Crandall went in
the locals had forged In the front "
Gater tip- Gotham papers defended
this position by claiming that Mar
guard had left the game in such a
shape that the Neu York team
could win it
All nf which raises th* interest
fug question of the limit to he pet
determining when and when not
games are "1n happ to win/’’ How
few runs will have to be made In
games of this sort? it may as well
he ten as the two needed in the
game under discussion.
By section 2 of rule 28, dealing
with substitutes. Marguard was out
of the game an soon as Shafer was
sent up tn bat. and surely common
senne would dictate that a player
on<e out of the game could have no
influence whatever on what hap
pened in that game after he left it
It ha« been generally the custom in
oases of the kind to charge the
pitcher with neither defeat nnr
victory, but tn simply put him on
record a? having hern taken nut.
The whole situation seem? to
have been brought about bv undue
haste of New York scribes to give
Marquard a modern-day record.
Still, a few days later. John Heyd
lor, who Is official statistician of
the National league, decided to
award this doubtful victory to Mar
qua rd.
Helnie Zimmerman gave up a plumber’s,
life to take-up baseball
♦ • •
Johnnv Kling wants a change in the
baseball rules which shall provide that
club presidents are out for interference
* • •
John Ward says that baseball hasn't
Improved any In 20 vears Possibly he
refers io the kind his team plays
• • •
John Daly from Savannah has joined
the Jersey City team
«• • •
Add leagues in distress New York
< 'onnecticut
• ♦ •
Jack Warner, after losing a peck of
money with his team, that started at
Kingston, moved to Poughkeepsie and
ended in the ditch, has paid off his play
era and unit Yes, it was in the N Y
<’onn. league.
J Hank Robinson is lhe best fantan
player of the National league
Jimmy Williams is to retire after this
season IK is doing well with Minneap
olis. hut he has been fifteen years in
baseball, has plenty of mono and is going
to drop out
• • •
Sime A rile Ixithan has been canned .and
Charles Faust has jumped, the Giants
have tn depend virtually on their own
strength to win games.
• * •
Roy Radabaugh. ex-t’raeker and ex
Billiken, has hooked up with the Win
Fton-Salem team and ought to be a won-
• ♦ *
Wallace has been plaxmg marvelous
hall since he has dropped the manager
ship of (be Browns The relief must be
Intense
• • •
It seems improbable now that Tom tic
McMillan's jaw was broken when he was
hit by a pitched ball the other day How
ever, <» make mailers certain', an X-ra>
examination u ill be made
• • •
Wp knew it A fan has gone crap
over the Reds’ slump Yes of course, a
Cincinnati fan They committed him to
the hin>-house because, he thought he
bad been signed to pla\ short for <>'l>a\
The thought was enough to drive any
body craz\
GIANTS OUT TO BREAK
"GAMES WON" RECORD
' NEW YORK, .lune 24. Managi r Mr-
Graw of the Giants, believe?. his team
this year will hold up a imw major
league record for games won. The
record now Is held up by the Chicago
National club, which won lit- games
in Itinfi The Boston Nationals were
the tii-t to win more than too cham
pionship game?-. when they captured
11'2 in 1592.
I’lu New York team had Hlfi vie
tori in ISi'l inn 105 In IOC, The
* l>i-.-go t'lth- after tin-li record break
ing p< rformani-e in I'imi won 107 in
It'ilT and 104 in 1910 The I’ittsburgs
i <t in game, in l nos
The Ph Imiel|>|i- ,s 11,,. ,mly Amer
ican ii ague champions to pa - the < en
' try mark 'IT -y won 10'j gaums in
rl'i and 105 last year, when the New
York Nationals finished the season with
■' Victories to tin It credit.
WOLGAST LOOKS FIT.
Ills ANGELES. Jun, .'I \d Wol
ga- t appeared to he in the l-.e-t of con
dition today and in good shape to enter
Upon the strenuous grind of regular
> training for tin l-’mirth of Julv go with
Mexican .toe Rivets. He demonstrated
to an immeii'- , loud of hp al fandom
ye tir-lay hi ability at hast to lough
It vigorous-? tot light rounds.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. JUNE 24. 1912,
Stars of Former Olympiad, Who Compete Again Under Stars and Stripes
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MELVIN SHEPPARD. FRANK C, IRONS. , , RALPH ROSE,
bpi rivd trona anrt r,ns» rll<i fu'l sharß toward rapturing the Olympic honors for 52 4-5 seconds, the former mark being 1 minute 56 seconds. His time for the 1.500 metres was
this country in the Olympiad at London four years ago and next month they are expected ti minutes 3 2-5 seeconds. the former record standing at 4 minutes 5 2-5 seconds. Irons won
more than hold their own again. In the last games Sheppard won the 800-metre run and the the runn,n ® broad Jump and also established an Olympic record. He jumped 24 feet 6 1-2
I 500. metre event oet a hllrhliw »e.. tu .< Inches. The record was 24 feet 1 Inch. Rose, the giant Californian, placed the 16-pound shot.
l.Mitmetn event, establishing new ( ecortis for ea< h. Hi s time in the 800 was I minute p „ t t 0 the credit of this country with a put of 46 feet 7 1-2 inches
Battle for Southern Tennis
Title Starts Here Next Week
By Percy H. WMting,
rp HE tennis season is closing
j right in The Mg doings
are on In Augusta this week
and a bunch of Atlantans are play
ing In the annual championship
there. This tennis tournament Is
always a big thing In the sleepy
town of Augusta, and Atlanta play
ers always cut a prominent figure.
One week from today the South
ern championship will start on the
courts of the Atlanta Athletic chib
fit Fast Lake.
Just what the tennis committee
will have to offer in the way of
stars for this event can't be told
now. but it has a. keg of money on
hand to pay expenses and such,
and will get some stars here or
know why not
if the tennis committee Is look
ing for the real star of the season
it ought to round up Gustave F.
Houchard, for he is the king pin
tennis player of the year. Already
Touchard has won the Bronx
championship and the Englewood
Field chib's chief prize, and got to
the challenge round at Chevy
Chase, where he lost to Conrad
Doyle, present Southern champion
The list of tournament winners of
1912 In the North follows:
Bronx Championship at the Bed
ford Park Tennis Chib Gustave
R. Touchard; runner up. Theodore
Roosevelt Pell.
The Army Cup at Chevy Chase
I onrad B. Doyle; runner-up,
Touchard.
New York Lawn Tennis Club
trophy Wylie C. Grant, runner
up, JS. Howard Voshell.
A mackassin Club Trophy Fred
erick (’. Raggs, runner-up. Joseph »
H. Condon.
New England Championship at
the Hartford Golf Club Fred H
Harris, runner-up, Frederick C.
Inman
Nassau and Queens Counties
Championship at the Great Neck
Hills Country Club 1,. Milens
Burt, runner-up, Walter L Pate
Cedarburst Cup at the Rock
away Hunt Club -Theodore Roose
velt Pell; runner-up, Karl Rehr
Englewood Field Club Cup
Gustave F. Touchard; runner-up,
Lyle E. Mahan
Pennsylvania State champion
ship at ths Merlon Cricket Club
R Norris WTlfam* - rnrrner up, O.
P. Siverd.
• • •
Hti: live in hoi-c (even If a faint
one) that some dev the South
- Lawn Tennis association will
cut ou this rot of o;>enlng its tour
naments to the world and will make
it a strictly Southern event.
The people who run the tourna
ments say. "Oh, we have to have-a
famous star or two hum the l-'.asi
to create inli'rest. If we don't have
them we will not get any attend
ance and if we don't get the crowds
how arc we to pay for the sending
of the Southern doubles winners to
play for the national title.’’
Now, It may be that the people
go out to see a couple of famous
Eastern stars play, but to the best
of our recollection the most inter
est that Atlanta over felt in tennis
was back In the good old days
when Nat Thornton and t'owan
Rogers were the big men in singles
and w hen Grant and Thornton and
the Rogers brothers (of Knoxville)
were the main guvs in the doubles.
It'.- just the same in tennis that
it I ; in baseball ' The crowds w ant
to see a close match. They don't
care so much for the notables
We look forward to the day
when the. tournament w-iil be limit
ed to members of Southern clubs
only. Then, if the tennis commit
tee has some money- to spend for
expenses, let it bring to Atlanta
some of the Southern stars. We’d
like to see some of those famous
Texas players. There are always a
few Virginians who might he. "In
duced." Let the committee scour
the South for star Southern play
ers. Bring them here and there
would be a hundred tight matches,
instead of a sorry walk-over, as
there is when a star or two from
outside is brought here.
• • •
ANOTHER reform, we hope, for
though there seems even less
reason for hoping. Is that some day
somebody will reform the foot
fault rule at the local tournament.
It's a pitiful sight to see the. foot
faulting when a Southern tourna
ment is in progress. Nine players
out of ten 1n the tournament start
their serve with their toe on th*
line Some of them hitch forward
from an inch to a foot when they
serve. Occasionally, right in an
important match, with an official
in charge, you will see a man start
a serve with his foot clear across
the line and tn the court.
The officials say, “Oh. well, we
don't punish any little uninten
tional violations of this rule."
• AH right; then where will you
draw the line?
Ts it Is all right for a man tn
serve with his foot half across the
line, why isn't it right for him to
go all the way across the line? And
If he goes all the way across, why
can’t he go to the net tn serve?
If you want to know, the real
reason for this wretched condition
is that the big tennis men of the
club, the men who ought to set the
style for play that is in accordance
with the rules, are about the worst
offenders in the foot-faulting.
We promise to have a good bit
more to say afiout this subject
when the tournament gets under
way. provided the rule is not bet
ter enforced than In the past. We'll
try to let everybody know that the
rule Is being violated, who is doing
it, and what officials are allowing it.
Maybe that will wake up somebody
who will do something—though, as
we admitted befoie, our hopes are
not running very high.
QUALIFY ON SATURDAY
FOR CUNNINGHAM PRIZE
The qualifying round for the W. W.
Cunningham golf trophy will be played
by the golfers of the Atlanta Athletic
duh over the East Lake course on Sat
urday. AH players will ryialifv from
scratch. '
In the match play rounds which will
follow shortly thereafter, the players
will play with their club handicaps. As
many flights as filled will be played.
The first and second rounds of match
play must be played by July 5. the third
round by July 6 and the finals by July
7. In the first flight the finals will be at
36 holes.
HOPPER WINS RICH CHASE.
PARIS, June 24.—The Grand Steeple
chase de Paris, run over the Autehull
course, was won by M. Gerlaln's chest
nut colt Hopper, with Gasten Dreyfus'
Sea Lord second and James Hennes
sy's Pyrrhus third The steeplechase,
valued this year at $28,600. with a’pleee
of plate added, resulted in one of the
most interesyng races in years.
DOUBLE BILLEOR
CRACKERS TODAY
MEMPHIS. TENN.. .Tune !4. The
Crackers mingle with the Turtles in a
double-header here this afternoon. Sit
ton will probably oppose Kissinger in
the first game, while Dessau and Mer
ritt are slated to do the box work in the
closing stanza
Rain prevented the game scheduled
here yesterday, hence the double bill
this afternoon. The first contest will
start at 2:30 o’clock.
First Baseman Agler is expected to
join the team here today or tomorrow.
He will probably not get into action un
til the. Crackers return home Wednes
day. however, as he will need a rest
after a long train ride.
Pitcher Mayer will not join the
Crackers for some time yet, if at all.
Portsmouth refuses to turn him back
to Hemphill, and the Atlanta club must
wait until Secretary Farrell of the na
tional association rules where the hurl
er belongs.
Crackers* Batting
AveragesJncluding
Yesterday's Game
The averages include games played to
date.
Players - - | G. |AB.| R. I H. [Av.
Harbison, ss * I 32 I 4 I 13 1.406
Dessau, p 12 I 36 | 8 I 12 1.333
Hemphill, cf 57 226 I 27 ' 74 '.328
Bailey, If 81 <224 I 42 i 68 1.304
O'Dell, lb 57 1199 | 32 i 53 1.266
Alperman. 2bl ST >236 ; 34 I 59 1.249
O’Brien, ss 1 51 |169 | 19 | 42 1.2-49
Donahue, p 19 157 7 14 .246
Callahan, rfl 19 I 86 1 10 I 21 1.244
Graham, cI 21 I 62 I 7 i 15 1.242
McElveen, 3b.I 67 |245 | 33 I 56 .229
Sitton, p1 11 I 26 i 1 j 6 1.222
Atkins, p| 12 132 317 1.219
Brady, pI 6 i 19 | ID 2 1.105
ROY MORAN NOW LEADS
LEAGUE IN STOLEN BASES
The base running in the Southern
league this season has been very poor,
in the main, though there are a few
players who have a fairly good aver
age on the paths.
Roy Moran, former Cracker and now
left fielder of the Chattanooga- Look
outs. is the leading base stealer of the
league, both in the number 'bf bases
stolen and In percentage
Hero are the leading base stealers of
each team, including the games played
Friday, June 21:
Players and Teams. G. SB. P.C.
Moran. Chattanooga ... 61 31 .508
Johnston, Birmingham. . 62 25 .403
Johnston. New Orleans . 60 23 .383
Maloney, Mobile 69 22 .319
Callahan. Atlanta .... 61 17 .279
Netzel. Memphis 59 16 .271
Stengle. Montgomery . . . 61 16 .262
Perry , Nashville 60 9 .150
WOMEN GOLFERS PLAY
SECOND ROUND TODAY
With a lead of two point? at" the con
clusion of the first day of play, the At
lanta team of women golfers w ill today
play the Nashville team the second
round. •
The teams arq playing 36 holes of
Nassau. 18 having been played on Sat
ti rd ay.
Dr. A. W. Stirling has offered a hand
some silver loving cup for the victori
ous team. A low medal score match
will also bo played.
The Atlanta team is Mrs T. B. Paine,
Miss Alexa Stirling. Mrs. N. R. Broyles,
Miss Mae O'Brien and Mrs. R. P. Jones.
The Nashville team Is Miss Jeanette
Ackion. Mrs A R Newell. Mrs E W.
Daley. Mrs F. H Seymour and Mrs.
Rogers Smith.
Matty Still Premier Hurler,
Claim of Big League Batters
By Damon Runyan.
HOW long will Christy Mathew
son last as a big league star?
The permanent passing of
old Cy Young from the big league
leaves hut a single man believed
to have any sort of chance to equal
the famous Ohioan’s pitching rec
ord. and already fandom is looking
at that man askance.
Every time "Big Six" Joses a
game nowadays the question is ask
ed: "Is Matty going hack?" Lit
tle attention is paid to his win
nings. Gotham is accustomed to
seeing him win; it is only when
h» drops a gam* that he attracts
attention.
Some contended that Matty's
curves are not breaking in the old
way. and that he Is slowly but
surely retrograding, hut you can't
get ball players to take any stock
In that theory. A poll of the big
league would probably’ reveal the
interesting fact that* the players
themselves still believe that “Big
Six” is the premier boxman of the
time.
As a matter of fact, the ques
tion of Matty's efficiency will prob
ably not be settled in any one, or
perhaps, even two seasons, when it
is settled. Supposing he should
show a decline thls^year —It might
be merely one of those periods to
which every ball player is subject
—an "off" year—and next season
he might show a complete reversal
of form.
Mathewson is now 31 years of
age. He began pitching when he
was nineteen years old, and most
of his pitching has been in the big
league. Yet at 31 he is spoken of
by the average fan as a decrepit old
man—“Old Christy Mathewson.”
To equal (*y Young’s record. Mat
ty would have to keep going for
the next ten years at better than
average speed.
The man who will very likely de-
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son’s efficiency when the time
comes is Mathewson himself.
Those yvho knorv the big blonde
believe that he will eventually
drop baseball of his own volition
and drop It the moment he is con
vinced that he is slipping. Still, a
ball player is never able to tell
with th« same degree of certainly
as his manager when the slip has
com me need.
Matty has been husbanding his
strength for some years past. In
any game he pitches, the hitting is
likely to be plentiful especially by
the opposition, as the big fellow de
pends much on his support. In
some of his games this spring,
when that support has failed him.
and runners have thronged the
base line. "Big Six" has opened
out and pitched with all his old
wizardry’.
He is not much of an early sea
son pitcher, but beginning late he
usually winds up figuring in a ma
jority of the contests engaged in
by the Giants, particularly if the
race is close. This season McGraw
is able to give his famous star more
rest between games than ever be
fore. The rise of th* Marquard
star lias given the leader of the
Giants considerable leeway in his
pitching staff.
Heretofore, in time of pel’ll, when
a pitcher was going bad the lank
figure of the blonde right-hander
could always be seen in the out
field warming up. and the cry
“Mathewson now pitching for New
York” was a familiar one to the
Polo ground crowd.
It will be a sad loss to baseball
when Matty quits, but it will be
a sadder loss to the Giants.
Mathewson certainly’ still has al!
his wonderful control, and con
trol has been one of the secrets of
his success. You will find, on con
sulting his record last year, that
he gave but 38 bases on balls in
45 games, of which 29 games were
started and completed by’ the big
fellow. Ho was charged with but
two wild pitches in all that service.
Marquard gave 106 bases on bails
in the same number of games.
Matty nltched and delivered ten
wild pitches. Alexander, for in
stance gave 227 bases on halls.