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But let not the ignorant piisunte that this is a prediction of re-election for out present golf ing president. E'or Governor Wood row Wilson is likewise a golfer. Barring the recrudescence of Ted dy. which isn't regarded in sport ing circlet ns at all a probability, the I'nited States will have an other golfing president President Taft's golfing ability is well known Those who have seen him perforin allege that he plays something a shade better than the usual "fat-man game.” lake most bulky golfers, he hits the hall right down the course, never for an ex treme distance, using a near-half shot for the purpose. There have been few fat men in golfing history who have mastered the intricacies of the full swing. Governor Wilson's golf Is not so well know n as President Taft's, but that doesn't necessarily prove that it isn't a better article. The gov ernor is a moderately big, spare man and of a physical build that is well suited to the game. Pictures showing him in golfing action are not conclusive. It might be added that the next president will be a man who I- en thusiastb ovet sports President Taft's lore for golf and baseball is wall known, tlovirniir Wilson's is broadet in his sporting tastes. In addition to golf and baseball, he is a football expert and a former football .< li. ami it can be well imagined that . man who has stud ied and taught at a- many colleges as Governor Wilson knows the less er spoils too—track athletics, ten nis. bask 'ball and tin like. • • V.Vlpfth X N golfers eidn't show mu. Ii in England this year. IT. delink Herreshoff lasted only to lh« second round in the British am ateur event. while lack McDermott blew up in the very til st round of the British open. Herreshoff returne'.i just the oth ei da. H. had no excuses "My short g an., was U" good." hi' -aid. "I didn't play a leal game of golf either before ordering the tourna- I ment.” One of the t. porters w ho greeted him at th. dock asked: Did you .hold your end up at driving The Britishers surely didn't outdrive you'."' Herreshoff tinned a smiling, al most pitting. i\i upon his inter rogator. A\ i- fellows ovei here can't dttii with them." he said “If It's at Hartman’s, It's Correct’’ PRICES CUT LOW ON ALL OXFORDS Illi $6.00 for $4.35 $5.00 for $3.85 $4.00 tor $3.15 $3.50 for $2.95 Theres full) three months yet to wear low-ent shoes. This is a notable oppor tunity. Better come now before your size is gone. All styles, all leathers. See Our Windows Six Peachtree Street B <opp. Peters Bldg J It’s Correct, It's at Hartman’s” 'Why. the driving of Abe Mitchell, the runner-up to Hall, is simply wonderful. lie gets such a ball that 1 couldn't help smiling when you suggested any superiority in my driving. The remarkable thing about his swing is that he has prac tically no follow through. His club comes up and around the shoulder in full style, but Just at the moment of impact he gives his wrist a—- what shall I call it? a sort of flick that causes his club to stop Instead of going clear through and around. But he gets a groat, great ball," repeated Mr. Herreshoff, slowly, as if memories come thronging upon him. 'Bali, as a long driver? No. fie isn't like Mitchell when it comes to distance.” Herreshoff brings news that not only H. H Hilton, present cham pion of the I'nited States, but also several other great English golfers,' will come to the I’nited States for the amateur championship at Chi cago. Others who will be with Mr. Hilton will be H. E. Taylor and the Hon. Michael Scott. Both these men lasted until the sixth round of the amateur i hampionship in Eng land. which gives an idea of their ability. The showing of the juvenile American professional in the Brit ish open was even worse than Herreshoff’s. But he played some good golf before the event. Here is what Golf Illustrated, an Eng lish publication, said of his pre tout nament matches: I .1 McDermott, the I'nited States champion, was among those who attracted attention on the links last week McDermott is on the small side, but he is a fine golfer a better one than most of us had expected. He hits a very long drive, and, so far as I have been able to see. does not bother to have a tee. He just puts the ball on the most pleasant looking spot that catches his eye on the teeing ground, and lot's fly Ills greatest fault Is careless ness H may be more apparent than real, but one would like to see him take more pains over his golf and consider details which must surely escape his notice, considering with what light-heart edness lie plays He is said to he a wonderful putter, but except on Saturday, when he did very well against the best ball of Robert Maxwell and .1 It. Gardiner. I be lieve that ever since his arrival his work on the greens has been a little below his usual standard He uses an American ball of which nobody in this country has heard anything " • • • | !•' Atlanta ever gets all its golf courses in running order it will have rather the most remarkable liivnil of courses of any city of its size in the I'nited States. At East Lake is the greatest of Southern courses, and one that lacks only turf and condition to put it with Ihe leaders in America. The course at Brookhaven has amazing natural possibilities, and if enough money were put into it to gel it in first-class trim, It would have few equals in Amer ica And now <nines the Druid Hills course This is hacked by men with unlimited money and equal golfing enthusiasm. An eighteen hole course will be installed that will rank with the greatest of the South One especial use to which this course will be put will be for the entertaining of winter tourists. At present there is no place where they are especially welcome The Atlanta Athletic club. witli its membership of 1.000. perhaps half of w hom are golfe s. has little loom lor tourists or anybody else except membets The Brookhaven course is too fat out The new Druid Hills course will b< neat the Georgian Te'iace hotel and in a fine csjdentia' section It should prove tile ideal course for tourists. THE ATLANT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TtJESDAY, JULY 9, 1912. What Atlanta lacks now is a public course. There ought to be one. even if it were only a small, six-hole affair. Several Southern cities have public courses already, and Atlanta could well fall in line. • « • JOHN BALL. JR., the present am- J ateur champion of Great Bri tain. Is indeed a wonderful per former. In the final round of the 1912 tournament he met a golfer who was but one year old the year Ball won his first championship. Ball won his first amateur cham pionship 24 years ago. Since that time he has won seven others and one open. It will be a long time before any other golfer spreads eight wins of the amateur over 24 years. It may never happen again. • « • A LOT of rot is being talked these days about standardization of golf balls. There is about as much ch/rnce of standardizing golf balls as of standardizing courses. And about as much need. Those of us who were playing back tn the days of the old gutta percha ball recall well what a lot of foolishness was talked about legislation against the new rubber cored ball. If they had legislated it out of business, which many of them wanted to do, they would have set golf back 100 years. Let the ball manufacturers go the limit The better balls they produce the better it will be for the game. VV hat we should welcome, how ever, would be. not a better ball, but a cheaper ball. Talk about the higher cost of living. Why, twelve years ago you could buy a pretty p ayable ball for a quarter Now they are 75 cents a throw, and no, material discount if you buy a mil lion JIM STEWART STOPS STORBECK IN 6 ROUNDS NEW YORK, July 9.—Fred Stor beek, the South African heavyweight, went down to defeat before Jim Stew art. ot Brooklyn, at Madison Square Garden. The bout was scheduled to go to ten rounds, but in the sixth round Storbeek's manager threw up the sponge to save his man from further punishment. Storbeck had the better of the first round, but after that the tight was Stewart s. The Brooklyn man got to Storbeck with heart and stomach punches and swings to the head. In the fifth round Storbeck was knocked down three times, JOHNSON AND PALZER TALK ABOUT BATTLE • HICAGo July 9. -Al Palaei. lowa heavyweight, will meet Jack Johnson in a ten-round go in New York if some Gotham promoter will step forward with "the price" for Johnson Balzer talked the matter over with the colored champion here in a brief stop in a trip to New York Johnson wants $30,000 for his end and both fighters believe the card would be big enough to attract Eastern tight promoters. They expect to find a man who will stage the fight. CHANCE AND McGRAW TO OFFICIATE AT AUTO RACE CHICAGO. July 9 —After two post ponements caused by rain and a wet trio k. racing at Riverview motordrome will be resumed tomorrow night with the Cub-Giants sweepstakes a- the feature of a star card of events. Man ager Frank Chance has agree ' to han dle the starting flag in the sweep stakes. while MTlnager John McG aw. of the New York club, will act as ref eree of the big race. PLAYER “BEANED" CAN NOT RECOVER. SAY PHYSICIANS DAVENPORT. IOWA. July 9 - Charles Woomer. shortstop for the Princeton. lowa independent baseball team who was struck in the head by a ball during < game yesterday, can not recover, attending physicians announc ed today. DOUBLEBILLAT POIKTODAy The Crackers and Barons mingle in a double bill at Poney park this aft ernoon. weather permitting. The first battle is carded to start at 2:30 o’clock. Although the clan of Hemphill has Veen playing very “bushy" ball of late, the veteran manager is confident that his men will give the league leaders a mer ry series. Brady and Plough are the pitchers slated to work in the first game, with Dessau and Foxen about the right hit for the closing chapter. As it is ladies day, there should be a pea n of a crowd on hand. Today's double-header is the result of yesterday's game being postponed on account of rain. It is going to be a strenuous week for the Crackers, as 11' c have nine gar l er to play in five days, wi i the l e"< t ns following the L.rmingham < uttl: CUNNINGHAM TROPHY IS WON BY_RUSS RICHARDS R. B. Richards won the W. \V. Cun ningham golf trophy in the 36 holes finals played yesterday afteinoon over the Ea:-t Lake course of the Atlanta Athletic ( tub. Richards played steady golf through out the entire 36 holes, and at no time was he ever in any danger of losing. At the end of twelve holes had Dick Jemison six down, but the morning round ended with Richards but three up. The twenty-seventh hole found the two players standing the same, and the tournament ended at the thirty thiid hole, the count showing Richards winning 4 up and 3 to play. The run ner up cup in the first flight went to Jemison In the second flight Clarence Angier won from H Clay Moore 4 up and 3 to play. In the third flight H K. Neer defeat ed Scott Hudson 4 up and 2 to play. In the fourth flight E. G. Ottley de feated W. F. Upshaw 3 up and 2 to plax. SMITH SELLS HOPKINS TO GALVESTON CLUB CHATTANOOGA. TENN., July 9. Outfielder Hopkins has been sold to the Galveston club, of the Texas league. Noyes will cover right field for the lo cals temporarily. Billy Smith signed a player contract yesterday and appeared on the lines for the first time in a Chattanooga uniform. He led his club to victory. CEDARTOWN MAY LAND BESSEMER-FRANCHISE ANNISTON. ALA., July 9.—The Bes semer club of the Southeastern league failed to show up here, and it is re ported in Birmingham that their fran chise will be transferred to Cedartown. Ga. Birmingham reports that the club has decided to withdraw from the league. OLD DIAMOND STAR DIES, ROCKFORD. ILL.. July 9.—Frank G. Trumbull, who played right field ion the famous Forest City baseball tetim in the days of Spalding. Foley. Barnes. Add} and others, died early today of pernicious anemia. "YOUR MOVE" ON THURSDAY. I’he C.r>>-gia state checker champion ship will be played for this week in At lanta at engine house No. 2, corner Washington and E.tst Hunter streets. Play will begin promptly at 1 o'clock Thursday. The general public is cor dially invited to attend. Hessheim ,/l Goodjjrqpke "Boy Speed Marvel” of Boston Team Says He Was "Born With the Knack” HOW JOE WOOD PITCHED RED SOX INTO THE LEAD By Joe Wood. (The star Red Sox pitcher, leading twirler in the American League.) WHEN you ask me how to pitch championship base ball, I do not like to an swer, because I am afraid baseball "fans" may say that 1 don't know how. The truth is, I don’t know why I pitch any better than any other man in the game—if I do. I suppose it is a knack of pitching the ball, and faithful, classy sup port on the part of the team that has given me a record of more baseball games won than any other pitcher In the league. I can not even tell why the ball I pitch is better than that pitched by other twirlers —if it is—unless it is in the speed of the ball. They say I have a.snap of the wrist that gives the ball that speed. I do pitch it with a snap. I have watch ed other pitchers who rely mainly on a "fast ball” and I have not no ticed much of a snap of the wrist. Os course I can not see how I pitch myself, so I must suppose 1 have mote of that snap than the others. I do know that my "fast ball” is the one on which I mainly rely. I seldom use a “curve ball” and rarely serve up a slow one. If I have more ’speed than some of the others, it is because I give the ball more energy the way 1 pitch than it gets from some of the other delivery, and if I have “something on" the ball it is because of a knack that I have had all my life. I do not try to give the ball any freak twists, and I do not know why my ball should have more speed or any freak that other pitchers do not have. Ball Takes a Jump. The ball I pitch does take a jump before it reaches the batter. That comes from the speed, I think, although it may come from some twist that 1 give the ball, unconsciously, before it leaves my hand. That jump seems to fool them often. 1 hold the trail like most othei pitchers do —grasped firmly be tween the first two fingers, above, and the thumb, below. I hold it that way when I give them a "fast one," when I slip them a curve or when 1 serve up a slow one. I al ways throw it with the same over hand motion. I bring my arm over at full length, with the hand more or less upright, and throw with all the energy I have. As the arm comes over nearly as far as it will go. the wrist does the rest. It prob-_ ably snaps quick, thereby giving the ball the extra speed they say I have. Whatever happens, the wrist comes down and the ball leaves my fingers quickly. It goes fast, but with no curve, and takes a Jump before it reaches the plate. -J have been told that the wrist snaps so quickly that it appears that 1 twist it and throw with the fingers below and the thumb above. That is not true It does not seem to me that I have “anything” that the others have not, unless it is the knack, as you might say, which gives it the extra speed. • “Control" Is the Secret. The only secret that I know any- J Why Joe Wood Is ! • The Best Pitcher * J In the American Z • He has won 17 and lost 4 games • • —an average of .810. No other • • pitcher in the league—not even • • Walter Johnson, ‘‘Big Ed” Walsh • • or Jack Coombs—has won so • • many games. • • Notwithstanding Walsh has • • been hailed as a wonder because • • of the number of games he has • • pitched and won for the White • • Sox, Wood has pitched nearly as • • many and won a much greater • • percentage than Walsh. • • Jake Stahl says that Wood's • • great pitching, when the Red Sox • • were in poor shape, is mainly re- • • sponsible for the lead the team • • now has over all its competitors. • '• Wood is “coming,” while the • • other champions have “arrived.” • • He is but 22 years old, but has • • pitched professional baseball for • • six years. He grows better all the • • time. • ••••••»••••••••••••••••••• thing about is that of “control.” “Control” makes or unmakes every pitcher. I know many a pitcher who has more speed than I have, and. of course, there are plenty of them who have curves, the width of which they can control. But they are unable to make the ball "break” and pass the batter where they want it to pass him and where it must pass him to be successful. They lack “control." Sometimes they have it, but that will not do. New days demand new methods. The store of yes terday can’t compete with the store of to-day. An ex pense-reducing and effi ciency i ncr ea sing Ford delivery car is the best evi dence you can furnish your trade that yours is not a store of yesterday. More than 75,000 new F’ords into serv ice this season—proof that they must he right. Three passenger Roadster $590- five passenger touring ear $690 —deliv- ery car S7O0 —f. o. b. Detroit, with all equipment. Catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree St., or direct from Detroit factory. They must be able to do it every time, or nearly so. As to the slow ball, that also comes back to the proposition of control. These pitchers, who "have the stuff," lack "control" and they are not suc cessful. With "control." the pitcher can deliver the ball within a few inches of where he wants it to go—a few inches, I mean; not ANYWHERE within that target over the plate and between the battel's should s and his knee. If that "control” Is acquired; if the pitcher has speed, curves, good judgment and a good memory of what the opposing bats men can’t hit, the pitcher is likely to be successful. A pitcher, to be successful, must have an efficient team behind him If he has "the goods,” and the fielders know where the opposi tion 1s likely to hit and play the game of baseball like the Red Sox know how to play it. he is likely to be a successful pitcher. If 1 have been unusually successful, you al ways want to remember that the Boston Red Sox are a wonde'fir collection of baseball players, who know how to play on the diamond and can hit 'em out at bat and run bases, to boot. You ask if some batters .ce harder to pitch to than others. That is true, as a matter of course. T-y Cobb, for instance, is the hard est man 1 have to pitch to. It Is not alone his style that bothers a pitcher; it is his sure eye. The sure eye makes the good batsman, and when you stop to think of it. good pitching is only the knack of throwing the ball, accurately, so it will pass the batsman in the. way that "queers” that sure eye. That’s why I believe in the "fast ba11..,