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Marquard Tells of His “System” in Baffling Batters
Sensational Southpaw Makes Study of the Various Men
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MONTGOMERY
MONTGOMERY. ALA., July 23.
Elated over yesterday’s conquest,
which pulled them out of eighth place,
the members of the Atlanta team were
snoozing at 9:30 o’clock last night un
,.. orders of Manager Hemphill to
g( U r< a full night’s rest. The real ob
i., t was to be in perfect trim to cap
• ire today’s battle from the Billikens.
The Crackers were in excellent shape
on arising shortly after daybreak, hav
ing passed through the hottest night
nf the season in Montgomery.
It was announced that Waldorf will
fl i ns for the visitors, while Donahue
uil’take charge of the receiving de
■.atnnent. The line-up of Atlanta will
h the same as yesterday.
p = a tossup between Johns and Her.
l- |e , rt for the Montgomery box this aft
orimon. H’s Johns’ turn, but Herbert
has just rejoined the team and there
is, a'chance that he may pitch. Mc-
Allister is billed to catch. The weath
pr i< somewhat cloudy, but hot.
the baseball card.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Mlanta in Montgomery.
Chattanooga in Birmingham.
Nashville in Mobile.
Memphis in New Orleans.
Standing of the CtuDs.
W. L. P C. W. L. P C.
F ham .55 35 .611 Cnooga. 41 44 .432
Mobile 50 43 .538 N’ville. .39 45 .464
N <> r (1 39 .513 Atlanta .36 46 .439
M inphis 43 42 .506 Mont. . .39 50 .438
Yesterday's Results-
Atlanta 5. Montgomery 2.
Birmingham 6, Cbatanooga. 1.
New Orleans 4. Memphis 3.
Mobile 4, Nashville 3.
6OUTH ATLANTIC.
Games Todav.
Savannah in Albany.
Columbia in Jacksonville.
Columbus in Macon.
Standing or tne Ciub*
v\ . 1.. P C W L P C
Thus . 15 6 .714 Macon . .11. 11 .500
Sav .1.3 8 .619 Albany . 8 15 .364
Jville. . .13 J .591 Columbia 6 17 .261
Yesterday’s Results.
Albany 5. Savannah 2.
Jacksonville 6. Columbia
Columbus 8, Macon 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Games Today
Chicago in New York.
St. Louis in Philadelphia.
Detroit in Washington.
Cleveland in Boston.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.C. W L. P C
Boston . 62 27 .697 C’land. . 43 47 .478
Wash. . 55'33 .625 Detroit .43 47 .478
Pliila. .51 39 .567 N. York .26 56 .317
Chicago .45 41 .52 3 8. Louis 25 60 .294
Yesterday's Results.
Washington 5, Detroit 3.
Boston 8, Cleveland 3.
New York 13. Chicago 3.
Philadelphia 15, St. Louis 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Games Today.
Boston in Pittsburg.
New York in Cincinnati.
Brooklyn in Chicago.
Philadelphia in St. Louis.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P.C W L. P C
N York- 63-21 .750 Phila . .46 46 .500
Chicago. 52 32. .619 S. Louis 34 46 .425
P'burg. 18 34 .578 Br’klvn. .29 54 .349
C'natl. .44 42 .51 8 Boston .22 63 .259
Yesterday’s Results.
Pittsburg 2. Boston 0.
Now York 4. Cincinnati 1.
Philadelphia 6. St. Louis 2.
Chicago 10, Brooklyn 3.
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By Rube Marquard.
YOU’VE doubtless heard, or read,
that famous baseball yarn about
"Crazy” Schmidt, the fellow who
kept a note book in his hip pocket
when he was pitching, filled with no
tations on the weaknesses of the big
league batters? It’s an old-timer, that
story, and I’ve often heard McGraw
tell it as gospel truth.
Schmidt, who now lives around Chi
cago. and occasionally sends McGraw a
promising voting ball player, doped out
that book himself. One day when he
was working. Hans Wagner came to
bat in a pineh and "Crazy’’ reached for
his book.
"Let's see,” he said, as he thumbed
the pages, "vat's Vagner's veakness.
Ah—here it iss—pase on palls!”
And there you have a great Jittie
pitching system when It comes to
handling that same Wagner today, or
Heine Zimmerman, or any of these
other natural born swatters, if the
bases are leaking with runners and a
long drive means a defeat.
Aou can spend a life time thinking
out a system for yourself, and study
ing batters, but when birds like that
are up in front of you systems and
everything else go to smash.
Still, you have to have some kind of
system, because all batters, luckily for
us pitchers, ate not Wagners, or Zim
mermans. or Meyerses; so I'll tell you
something about the system I've used
since I came to the big league.
I have found that it Isn't a had
scheme to watch a batter's eyes, after
you have looked him over in other
ways. Generally the batter seems to
pick out a spot, with his eyes, where
he figures to hit the ball, and he shifts
his position to suit. Then I can usual
ly guess just about what he is looking
for. His eyes give me a sort of clew.
Sizes Up the Batters.
Eor instance, a man is at ba I with
three men on bases. Supposing he
stands a foot and a half away from tiie
plate. I take it he is figuring on speed,
and I try to cross him with a curve, or
slow ball. If he stands in close to the
plate, a little forward, and grips his
bat close up, 1 naturally argue that he
intends to bunt, and I cut loose at him.
I try to make the batter go after bad
balls. Get him in the hole, and then
don't give him anything but speed.
Take a risk on throwing a ball, if you
want to. but a straight shot cutting the
heart of the pan may give him a hit,
and lose you the game. It is remark
able how a batter will go after bad balls
when he is anxious for a pinch hit.
In the game with Chicago, when they
upset me recently, Sheckard had two
balls and no strikes. Two men were
on the bases. I guess he thought I’d
walk him. but I grizzled two right over
for strikes, and then hopped all I had
across. He didn't know it was passing
until it struck the catcher's glove. I
take it he was looking for a curve that
time.
I believe it is wisdom to throw a
curve in a pinch. Most batters can nol
help hitting them to the dirt for an in
field out. The reason is rather simple,
it seems to me. When the curve breaks
on the batsman, his bat does not hit it
squarely. Still he hits it hard enough
on the nose not to foul it, but not quite
hard enough to drive it straight. A
fast ball sometimes helps me in the
pinch because it drives many batters
away from the plate.
I’d rather use my fast ball than a
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curve, because I think a curve hurts
the wrist, like the spit ball. A spit ball
pitcher can’t settle down, apparently, it
he has a wild spell, although there are
some great spit bailers in both big
leagues, like Walsh. O'Toole, Ford and
others. You notice I never wind my
arm much. I believe it tires the mus
cles, and doesn’t really add anything to
the ball. I take the ball, roll it in my
glove, give it a downward swing and
let drive. I believe winding loses speed.
Makes Study of Batsmen.
I have tried to make a study of the
various batsmen. 1 watch how they
stand at the plate; note whether they
are afraid of a fast, ball, and how they
swing. On that 1 base my judgment as
to how to pitch to them.
The man who grips his bat at the
end is. usually, unable lo hit a fast
ball. On the same line of reasoning,
the man who takes a short grip on his
stick—"choking " it —is apt to be a high
ball hitter, and can’t get at the low
ones. Os course, there may be excep
tions to either rule.
I believe that I pitch better now
when there are men on bases, although
that used to worry me to distraction.
Somehow I seem to settle down to work
better now.
It doesn't make much difference to
me whether a batter Is right or left
handed, although naturally a right
handed batter is more likely to be ef
fective against a left-handed pitcher
than a left-handed hitter. I change
my method of delivery for each kind. I
generally give a left-handed batter an
inside curve, or a high inside ball that
is straight and fast.
1 believe that pitching is more science
than luck, although there Is a big ele
ment of the latter when the opposing
team starts a rally. All the skill and
science at a pitcher's command will
often fail to stave off a rally once a
team gets going.
Often a pitcher can get by In the
minor leagues—even the biggest of the
minors—just on his natural "stuff,” out
when he comes up into the majors he
finds that he has to learn a lot about
the science of pitching. Some of them
have to learn their business all over
again, as I did.
I was lucky enough to win nineteen
straight games before I was finally
beaten by Chicago. Now. as a matter
of downright fact, I didn’t have a
thought of trying for a record until
after my thirteenth straight victory. I
thought the marks of eighteen straight,
hung up by Charley Radbourne In 1884.
and nineteen straight, set by Keefe
later on. were as far away as the moon
so far as I was concerned.
From then on 1 was really out for a
mark. As 1 went on winning game
after game, the strain became terrific,
mentally as well as physically, and I
was at great tension • when I finally
dropped my twentieth game to Chicago.
1 got wonderful support from the
boys behind me throughout my long
run. Take, for instance, the day I
worked against Napoleon Rucker, the
great Brooklyn pitcher. I have to rank
Nap among my toughest opponents, and
I guess every pitcher in the game fig
ures him in the same class. In the
second inning of that game Brooklyn
had three men on bases and no one out.
hut they did not score.
In the third inning the same situa
tion boobed up. The next two men up
popped out. and the third hit a fly to
Becker, who dropped it. He was so
anxious that he misjudged the ball, but
Reals had been doing wonderful work
in the field up to that time, and the
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CHATTANOOGA, TENN. July 23.-
As the first step in the complete re
juvenation or renovation of the Look
outs, Manager Billy Smith has released
Paul Sentell outright, or rather an
nounced that he will unless a trade is
manufactured for him in ten days, and
has signed Outfielder Wasem of the
Anniston club.
The passing of Sentell came as a
great surprise locally, and. in fact, all
around the circuit, as the peppery one
has been associated with Southern
league ball -so long that he was re
garded as a fixture. Paul has been
slowing up rapidly in the past few
months, however, and while he is able
to play good baseball if used only
sporadically, he grows stale and inef
fective if played regularly.
Paul has realized for the past two
years that, in view of his Incipient
senility, he would be out of the South
ern league for good if he ever re
ceived an injury that would incapaci
tate him for any length of time, and
he has taken even too good care not
to incur any such mishap. He has
been saving his arm on the close ones
for some time, allowing scratches to go
for bingles, and his tagging at second
has been miserable all during the pres
ent season, for the simple reason that
he is afraid to take a chance on get
ting spiked. Paul's assiduous efforts
at preservation did not render him an
idol either with Smith or fandom.
The local pitching staff, although the
records do not show it, because of in
ferior support on both the offensive and
defensive, is going better than any in
the league. Coveleskie is actually
pitching in his 1910 form, and if the
team will brace up behind the hurlers
the Lookouts will come thundering
down the stretch neck and neck with
the leaders. Ware is not being used
regularly now. in view of the beautiful
ball which is being served up by the
regular quartet, composed of Coveles
kie. More. Allen and t'happelle. All
four of the latter group are undoubtedly
serving up the best ball of their ca
reers.
Hannah showed little in the past
week, but the catching is really fai
from bad. The use of Noyes in the out
field prior to Wasem's acquisition has
made it necessary that the huge Tiger
recruit catch every game, and in view
of the intense heat of the southern di
vision he is not equal to the task.
crowd applauded him as he came in
after making that error.
Rucker and I battled nine inning.-,
and the Giants won, 2to 1 Brooklyn
had fourteen men left on bases. The.
got nine hils off me. and the Giant- got
but foui- or five, as I recall it. off Nap
Lucky .' Maybe—hut what about that
support behind me? That wasn't all
luck —not by a long ways. It was just
that steady, reliable support in most >f
my games that gave me my record.
Inews from ringsidel
Billy Nolan and Abe .Attell have split,
according to reports from the West. Nol
an does not deny there is a difference be
tween the little fighter and himself, but
the noted manager-trainer says he will
stick by the little Hebrew.
♦ * •
Dan McKetrick, who is managing Joe
Jeannette, says he will give Jack Johnson
30 days in which to sign for a bout with
his protege. McKetrick says if the cham
pion refuses to sign for the bout in that
time he will claim the championship for
Joe.
Bombardier Weils, who defeated Tom
Kennedy in New York a few nights ag".
will sail f<>r England today. Wells says
he will tell the English sporting public
how fair the Americans are in everything.
Blink McUlockey and K. O. Brennan are
I sdv luled to go ten rounds at Buffalo
i Monday.
The New York state athletic commission
will adopt a rule some time this week
which will prohibit boxing clubs starting
their shows after 10 o’clock.
♦ • ♦
Johnny Dundee has been matched with
Patsy Kline for a ten-round battle at the
St. Nicholas Athletic club in New York to
morrow night.
• ♦ •
Jim Johnson and Joe Jeannette stalled
through six rounds of pushing and shoving
in Philadelphia the other night. Although
Jeannette could have knocked Johnson out
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any time after the first round, he con
tented himself with letting his opponent
plug away at him.
• • *
L? 1 ? L ar * < * n> w ‘ b ' ’ s managing Boh
M°na ,s affatrs, denies the rumor that Boh
and Eddie McGoorty are matched for a
bout at Kenosha some time in August’.
• • •
I,p be ?' Harry Brewer eould get with
Hilliard Long, the Canadian champ, at
\\ inmpeg a few nights ago was a ten
round draw.
• • *
Had Tom Kennedy roughed it with
Bombardier Wells in New York the other
night instead of contenting himself bv try
ing to outbox the clever Brilon, the re
sult might have been different according
to advices from Gotham.
• • •
Billy Papke will spend a month at his
home in Kewanee before leaving for Paris,
where he is scheduled to box George Car
pentier in October.
• • •
The Southern Athletic club of Memphis
is planning lo stage a middleweight elimi
nation contest next month.
• » •
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I Crackers* Batting
i Averages, Including
Yesterday's Game
J These averages include yesterday’s
game with the Montgomery Billikens:
Player. g. ab. r. h. «v.
Becker, p. . . . 4 12 1 5 .417
Hemphill, cf.. .78 296 35 93 .3X4
Harbison, ss. .30 99 11 30 .303
Bailey, rs. . ..84 299 52 84 .281
Alperman, 2b. .84 319 45 90 .279
• Donahue, c. . .33 102 9 25 .245
Uallahnn, If. . .42 175 21 41 .234
Graham, c. . .32 95 9 22 .232
l McElveen, 3b .90 330 40 76 .230
Brady, p. . . .12 36 17 .194
Atkins,'p. . . .16 43 3 8 .186
< Agler, lb. . . .21 67 8 12 .1,76
• Sitton, p. . . .17 43 8 7 .163
’ (’oombs. utility 6 10 0 1 .100
Waldorf, p. . . 2 5 0 0 .000
’ STRIKES OUT FIFTEEN BATTERS.
NORFOLK. VA.. July 23.—A new rec
ord for the Virginia League was made
here by Gordon. Norfolk pitcher, in the
t game with Petersburg, by striking out
I fifteen men in the nine innings. The
former record was fourteen strikeouts.
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