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STAHL. HOOPER. WAGNER. SPEAKER. ENGLE. O’BRIEN. CARRIGAN. LEWIS. GARDNER
STAHL PET OF
BOSTON; POT
TEAMINRACE
By R. W. LARDNER.
Garland Stahl, otherwise Jake, evident
ly told the truth when he said he wasn't
ready to give up the national pastime
for good His aceornYlishments as man
ager and first baseman for Boston's Red
Sox have shown him to be Just as good a
bail player as he ever was and a more
successful leader.
The banking business may be safe and
sane, but it can't be half as Interesting
or pleasant as the Job of bossing a major
league club when that club is winning as
consistently as the Boston team.
Jake was always popular with his
mates on the field and particularly so
with the Red Sox, with whom he was
employed before he got the delusion that
it was time for him to retire The Bos
tonians haven't been satisfied with their
leadership for several years. They are
tickled to death to have Jake in charge,
for they believe he has good baseball
sense and are fully convinced that he's
a "good fellow "
Have Good Chance to Win Flaq.
The Sox may not win the pennant. In
fact, although they are about seven
games In front, nobody Is giving them
an even chance with the Athletics, who
have been good finishers of late But
Boston has a better opportunity than
stnee 1964, and the inhabitants of the
bean and fish town ate therefore strong
for Jake
Stahl bed a great ball olub to start
with. What It lacked In recent years I
was s manager capable of getting the
beet work out of the men If there Is a
weak spot In the team it is seen at sec
ond base, and Yerkes is now performing .
acceptably there with Wagner on one
aide of him and Stahl on the other, and
with this good companionship he may
hold up.
Jake has used good Judgment in work
ing his pitchers Other Boston managers
thought Joe Wood was a delicate child
who needed careful handling Stahl has
used him In and out of turn and as re
lief pitcher, an<l he is enjoying his best
year.
Tells McAleer to Keep Hall.
Charley Hall was slated for the minors
a year ag 1 Stall! advised McAleer Io
hold on to him and Charley Is doing al
most as well as Wood Buy Collins Is
another Red Sox i>it< her who is keeping
the club up tn the race, ami John I
Taylor threatened several times last jeur
to ask waivers on him
Stahl's hitting is a big- asset He isn't
up to Speaker's mark, but he is likely to
break up a game at any stage and against
any pitching Moreover, he can via' first
base as It should be played and his
brother infielders are - oust-quently going
along with more confidence than they had
at any time in 1911
FUNNIEST BASEBALL
SCRIBE INTERVIEWED
From Lardner's baseball ■'tuff tn The
Chicago Examiner this is giabbed
During our call on the Cubs we had Hie
good fortune to be Introduced to Charles
Dryden, a humorous baseball writer on
the staff of The Chicago Examiner
He consented to an interview as fol
lows;
Q —Do you travel around with the
team
A —Yes. sir
y—Do you know the ball players per
sonally
A —Most of them
<-• You must have i great time on the
road
\ Undoubted!}
—Do you get very much excited at the
game”
A—Horribly
Q —Do you wire your report In ever,'
night ?
A —No. I send It to >'hhag-> by a yoke
of oxen
Q—-Well. I must g" now
A —Curses and maledictions
FITCH BREAKS AUTO
RECORD FOR 5 MILES
PORTLAND. <<HE. July 10 Fitch
driving a Cinco. at the motor ear races
here yesterday, broke the world - word
for five miles on a dirt track for ma
chines with less than 300 Inch dlspl.u .
ment. covering the distance in I minute?
end 48 seconds
The former record of 4 minutes 54 ?,.<•■
ends was held b; Hugh Hughes, Brighton
Beach, made July 4, 1911.
Ad Wolgast Tells His
Story of Fight: Will
Battle Mexican Again
By AD WOLGAST. •
LOS ANGELES, July 10.—T am ready
to take on Joe Rivers at any time and at
any place. I shall demand at least a
$5,000 side bet, for I am tired of this
squabbling and crabbing by the loser
They have talked let them back their
words with money, and we'll fight it out
Labor day suits me. and so does the
Vernon arena and Jim Jeffries as referee
This claim of Referee Welch Is unjust.
Any fair-minded fan will admit that 1
had the fight won and had It won decis
ively when that thirteenth round came
along Why, then, should Welch make
his decision with the motives some peo
ple are charging him with. Rivers was a
bad loser—he was not In it.
If Rivers was fouled he wasn't fouled
as badly or hurt so much as I was. He
hit me way low. yet even after that I
kept fighting I waded In and landed two
telling punches. The first was a left
hand swing, the second was a right to
the belt line that dropped him
Declares Rivers Grabbed Him,
As Rivers fell he grabbed hold of me.
and I tumbled on top of him, for my
shoes were slippery, as any one could see,
and In falling his knee caught me in the
groin Welch pulled me off he did not
assist me to rise—but as I had little
strength, 1 took advantage of his move
by scrambling to my feet
Welch did not support me. but held me
back as he was counting Rivers out. This
was plenty of time before the gong rang,
for Welch had counted six when the buzz
sounded If Rivers is game he would
have tried to get up when he saw the ref
eree was counting him out, for after the
count of ten he got up and walked to his
corner.' Rivers was not game—that's all.
"Mexican Yellow," Says Champ.
I don't know how the fight would have
come out if Rivers had not displayed the
yellow streak, and not tried to get up. I
wus in terrible pain from" the two foul
blows In the groin, and would have bad a
hard time of it. He was not ganie, and
that lets him out. As to the cry ot foul,
1 was fouled worse than he, and was In
greater physical pain
With my left hand and arm In bad
shape, 1 went into the fight with the set
idea of letting it go fifteen rounds before
I opened up, unless I found it necessary,
and 1 never found it so. When I'm in
good condition I can stop Rivers in ten
rounds. Money talks, and I 'll put up any
part of $50,01X1 that 1 cun lick him.
TRAMPS TO PLAY BALL;
STOCKADE FOR LOSERS
WILKESBARRE, PA , July 10 The
baseball diamond will take over the func
tions of a court here in connection with
the conviction of 30 tramps recently ar
rested by the police of Plymouth borough
When the tramps were arraigned be
fore Burgess W. D. Morris, the burgess
who is an enthusiastic baseball fan, or
dered that the men be divided into two
equal squads from which two teams are
to be selected to piny a full nine-inning
game on the town common.
The winning squad is to go free, hut
the losers will be compelled to pound
stone for two days.
"It will be a great game.'' declared the
burgess "I am anxious to see how well
men can pla> Hie national game when
their liberty depends on the outcome "
HERE IS ANOTHER CV YOUNG.
I'HII'AGO, July 111 Wether t’y Young,
known as "Uy the Third," who stands
II feet ti inches and is said to be a proin
ising pitcher, lias been signed b> Presi
dent t'omiskey, of the Chicago Ameri
cans Young was obtained front tin*
Stevens Point, Wis . club, after he hud
pitch,-J lus ninth consecutive shut-out
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Crackers Have Come to Life, After Long Sleep, and Are Playing Ball
WIN 2 FROM BARONS--OFF NOW ON MAD CAREER
By Percy H. Whiting.
THE value of conversation on
the baseball diamond is well
known. A gabby catcher is
a great asset. A eoachor with a
good line of talk can win many a
game. A lot of conversation will
liven up the dullest contest.
The talk that wins games for a
slumping team is sprung in the
club house, and it’s so hot some
times that it ought to cancel the
insurance automatically.
It is said by those who know
that Charley Hemphill made a
speech to his ball club Monday
afternoon. Charles Is no great
speechmaker. He never made an
after-dinner speech in his life, and
few before dinner. He may talk to
himself, but he certainly doesn't
waste much conversation with
anybody else.
Yet they say that Hemphill's
speech Monday afternoon was equal
to anything ever delivered.
The report goes that It was a
warm, tempestuous speech—that it
pointed out the nearnes of the
Crackers to last place, dwelt on
the fact that the. Atlanta players
were receiving good money and
giving poor service, and suggested
the addition of a little ginger and
action to all ball games in the fu
ture
Oratorically it may not have been
a great speech. But neither De
mosthenes nor William Jennings
Bryan ever had anything on it for
results.
For. after hearing the speech, the
Crackers went out yesterday and
won both ends of a double-header
from the league leaders. And In
doing so the Crackers lifted them
selves a good ways from last place
and pulled the Barons down so
materially that the league teams
are again bunched, virtually with
in 200 points.
• • •
I" HE Crackers gave yesterday
one of the most realistic im
personations of a hall club ever
seen on the local field. Even the
experts couldn’t distinguish it from
the real tiling. Everybody played
ball all the time There was not
only more pepper and ginger, but
there was more artistic baseball.
Hemphill must have done more
i han go after the team, as a team.
He must have picked out the in
li' idual flaws. For Agler was
"Hiking right into the ball. Harbi
son wasn't breaking ills back over
curve balls. Callahan wasn't run
ning clear to the slab to meet the
pill and a hundred other little
minor flaws of technique had been
eliminated.
• • •
j" t'CK has been breaking for the
' Crackers this year as it broke
for Napoleon at Waterloo and for
Roosevelt at Chicago. Rut the
Crackers can safely thank their
stars for one thing, and that is
that nobody wanted Brady.
A few weeks ago Brady looked
like the falsest alarm that ever dis
turbed the serenity of a Cracker
nightmare. The local club was' as
keen to get rid of him as if he
had had the plague. But for one
thing they couldn’t find anybody
who wanted him, and for another
they couldn’t get anybody to take
his place. So they figured he was
a thin shade better than no pitcher
at all and held onto him.
On the 26th day of June, about 4
o’clock in the afternoon, James
Brady awoke. He rubbed his eyes,
asked, "Where have I been at any
how," and then pitched a two
hit game against Chattanooga. He
was out again three days later, and
though he allowed Chattanooga
eight hits and four runs he won.
His next out was against Mobile on
July 3. That day he allowed five
hits and one run up to the eleventh
Inning, after which he exploded.
Yesterday he allowed the league
leaders four hits, well scattered,
and won his game 1 to 0. Exclud
ing the fatal eleventh inning of the
SUNDAY BASEBALL IN
WASHINGTON LIKELY
Sunday baseball in Washington is a
probability In the near future. A con
ference held by President Ban B. John
son and Manager Griffith at the for
mer's office in the Fisher building in
Detroit recently resulted in the head of
the league giving his approval of such
a change in the schedule and inci
dentally Immediately taking the mat
ter up with the other officials of the
Washington club.
Griffith contends that a majority of
the people In Washington want Sun
day games. He says that it has been
urged to him by those most interested
in the project that Sunday baseball
would be a blessing in disguise for
those inhabitants of the nation's capi
tal who can not afford to attend games
during the week, and who have no
place to spend their Sundays.
President Johnson is an advocate of
Sunday ball. He pointed out that it
required years to have the barriers
raised against the sport on the Sab
bath in both Detroit and, Cleveland, but
that since it has been tried there the
clergy of these two cities sanction the
playing of he games on that day, and
that there is not the slightest objection
from any source.
He immediately wrote a letter to
President Noyes regarding the subject,
and if the club can see its way to play
games at home on Sunday the sched
ule will be so arranged at once as to
make this possible during the Nation
als' long stay at home.
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July 3 game. Brady has allowed less
than five hits, and a small frac
tion over one run to a game for
the last four games He has sprung
curves and fast balls that are won
ders, and he has developed a
change of pace that would fool Ty
Cobb.
Also Jim kicked in with a sin
gle in the eighth xvhen the Crack
ers uncorked the batting rally that
won the game. Graham and Agler
also furnished hits in that inning
and Alperman developed the sacri
fice fly that sent the winning run
across.
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t N the second game there was a
* miracle. The Barons opened
with three consecutive singles off
Becker and with the aditional aid
of two sacrifice flys scored three
runs. The Crackers then came back
with two hits for five runs in the
second half of the first inning. After
that Becker tightened, allowed two
more hits and no runs and won the
game in a romp.
ANNAPOLIS WILL ASK OLD
COACHES TO RETAIN JOBS
ANNAPOLIS. MD., July 10.—Lieu
tenant Douglass L. Howard, U. S. N.,
and Frank Wheaton, of Yale, will be
asked to continue as head coach and
field coach, respectively, of the Naval
academy football team. The other
coaches will probably be Lieutenant
Weems and Shaw, of last, season’s
squad. The candidates for the new
Jonas H. Ingram and Captain Dalton;
fourth class will begin work September
1, and the members of the regular
squad will return for a week’s practice
before the opening of the. academy, if
it can be arranged.
THREE GOLFERS SICK:
MISS TITLE TOURNEY
CHICAGO, July to.—Three Chicago
golfers are patients in hospitals here with
appendicitis, among them Dr. J. B. Ellis,
who was believed to have a chance for
honors in the Western championship at'
Denver, and who will be unable to com
pete. The others are Donald Edwards
and Richard Bokum, of Midlothian.
Dr. Ellis was stricken while playing in
a match with Charles Evans. Jr., and
Charles Furthman at Edgewater. He
was summoned to attend the wife of one
of the players who had become ill and
after administering restoratives to her at
the club house, returned to the links and
fell in a faint.
He is a member of the University of
Chicago faculty.
Palzer Now Biggest
White Hope: Giant
lowan Heavy Enough
By SOL PLEX.
A) Palzer looms up as a big white
hope right now. Even though tile ex
perts are not convinced that Flynn
would have succumbed to Johnson in
their sensational struggle at Las Vegas
on the Fourth. Palzer. to our mind,
because pounds Riggers than Flynn,
looks more nearly like a coming cham
pion than any white man we know of.
Al weighs about 228 in condition and
is over six feet tall. He's a regular
giant and the kind of a man Johnson
can not push and puli around and hold
onto when he Is in distress. *
Palzer is two Battling Nelsons roll
ed into one. as Tommy Walsh says, and
we predict that he will be booked for
a world’s championship encounter in
side of eighteen months. Do not be
surprised, either, if he is the man that
finally whales Jack Johnson and re
deems the white race pugilistically.
To our mind Johnson was a rather
lucky champion on July 4 afternoon.
Flynn Is no whirlwind and the fact that
he gave Jack tit for tat every step of
the nine rounds proves that he has
gone back very, very much since the
day he took Jim Jeffries to his first
and only lacing.
Johnson probably is in for a licking
in any one of his next two fights. The
only way he can save himself is to
retire and give up the title. They all
go the same route if they keep fight
ing, and Johnson is about due.
JOHNSON HAS BLOWN WAD
IN FANCY BAR AND CAFE
CHICAGO, July 10. "With auspicious
inaugural function." Jack Johnson col
ored champion, will today throw open
the doors of his new case, bar and res
taurant. Jack, glittering with diamonds
to match the glitter of cut glass, silver
and gold in his new establishment, made
a final inspection yesterdav before he be
comes a "restaurateur.” He was not sad
dened by tiie fact that most heavyweight
Champions forced to hang "ex"' before
their titles have gone into the same busi
ness. There is no hoodoo in it. Jack al
leges.
Instead, he pointed around the place
with considerable pride. Four oil paint
ings. $15,000; one bar. trimmed with sil
ver and gold. $5,000: silver water service
$3,000: sterling silver cuspidors, $67.50
each. These are some of the things the
champion pointed out, not omitting the
price tag.
It was back in the olden times that they
had to have a person go crying it oik if
any- one had anything to sell or wanted
to buy. or to notify the people that so and
so hail lost this and that. The way was
the only one available. It's different now
Your wants can be told to an audience of
over 50.000 in this section through a Want
Ad in The Georgian No matter what
your want is an ad in The Georgian wil]
till it for you. Georgian Want Ads huv.
sell, exchange, rent, secure help, find lost
articles and countless other things
CHOMS
GDBO IS BEST
OFILEPLM
By CY YOUNG.
Ty Cobb is the greatest of them all.
In my baseball experience, covering
almost a quarter of a century. I have
never seen an all around player the
equal of the Detroit star.
There may be other players almost
if not quite so fast as Cobb; Lajoie has
it on the “Georgia Peach” for straight
away hitting; other outfielders may
throw- a trifle better, hut for work, day
in and day out, Cobb hasn't an equal.
At bat he hasn't a weakness. It has
been my experience that you can fool
him. possibly, one day. on a certain kind
of ball, and the next time you face him
he will whale the cover off the ball
On the bases he is wonderful. He
uses both his head and his feet, and I
sometimes wonder if the former Isn't
more responsible for his success than
the latter.
Cobb can size up a baseball situation
like a flash, and the way he divine?
plays is uncanny. On the paths he
doesn t know the meaning of the word
fear, and this lack of timidity help?
him.
In the field, too, he is a wonder He
uses splendid judgment in playing for
batters, and his marvelous speed cn
ables him to retire batters on balls that
others would play safe.
Able to hit. to field, to throw, to run
bases and to do each in phenomena!
fashion, coupled with his nerve and
confidence, Cobb is the greatest player
that ever wore a spiked shoe.
BEST HORSES IN LAND
WILL TRY FOR $15,000
LOUISVILLE, KY„ July 10.—The
approximate value of the Kentucky
endurance stakes, which will be run on
October 7, the opening day of the nit.
day fall meeting at Churchill Down 5 ,
will be $15,000, more than double that
of last year. The value makes this Un'
richest prize by far on the Ann?'' '
turf.
Secretary Lyman H. Davis of tne
new Louisville Jockey club, will sen
out entry blanks this week and expect?
that the best long-distance horses in
the country will be entered for th'?
four-mile race. The race last fall
won by Messenger Boy, owned by Et.-
gene Lutz, and the same horse will
trained again for the race.