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Marquard Tells of His “System” in Baffling Batters Sensational Southpaw Makes Study of the Various Men fIDOHILL HUfILTOOAYST 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. SDr. Hughes SPECIALIST Nerve. Blood and Skin Diseases I treat successfully all private diseases. Kidney. Bladder and Prostatic Trouble. Blood Polson (in herited and otherwise), Piles. Fistula 2?« m Debility. I give 606 suc -5 you or make no lamination and con- 10 H tn U^ S: C? O m ' ,0 "pm.; Sundays 10 to 1. Call or write. DR. J. D. HUGHES, Opposite Third National Bank. _ 16' 2N, Broad St,, Atlanta. Ga. ) 'Wk yWI INJECTION -A PER > S * M\\E\T CFR F. , Y ! 'i •' obstinate cases guaranteed in from cl c ■ n nays ;no other treatment required. C n H druggists. s y/ MARTIN MAY S 19% PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES > FOR SALE X Forsyth i Today, t* •ant n s Busiest Theater f Tonight S:80 ROCK and FULTON Next l,h « Oeijon, Hoey an <l Lee, Hayes and Johnson, Geo. Carter, Fred Stella and Annie Pelol, Laveen and Gross. MOylteW 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. 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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 SMITH PULLING EVERY IRE TO BRAGEUPTEAM 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 "If It’s at Hartman's, It’s Correct" Great Showing of I White “Manhattans” Take a look at our window display today or Wednesday. You'll not blame us for being, en thusiastic over such a showing when you see it. ”’l’llo aristocrats of shirt ; doin'’ are these elegant pure white ‘‘Manhattan’’ ’ negligees some wi t h ‘' white-on-white'' stripes. The prices range from $1.50 upward. Six Peachtree Street (Opp. Peters Bldg.) "If It's Correct, It’s at Hartman’s” (EssgfissfissaYzSxlSiSSßßSSfSß IrEMEDYfohM Enl ; 1 . 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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. • » • One of the ironclad rules to be adopted by the fight clubs of New Orleans is that all boxers be made to post a weight and appearance forfeit. Don’t stand and watch the world go by. Join the pro cession. Anyone can “Ford it” to-day who yesterday could afford a horse and equipment. A third of the motoring world travels in Ford cars—-because they are light, right and economical. l\lort than 75,000 new Fords into service this season—proof that they must he right. Three passenger Roadster $590 —five passenger touring car $690 —delivery car S7O0 —I. <>. h. Detroit, with all equipment. Catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, or direct from Detroit, factory. | temm—«■! ■■ n■ ,i min, am 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. 13