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tfarquard Tells of His “System” in Baffling Batters +•+ +•+ +«4* Sensational Southpaw Makes Study of the Various Men MORE WILL HURLTODAYAT MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY, ALA.. July 23. riateci over yesterday’s conquest, whic!l pulled them out of eighth place, the n „ abers of the Atlanta team were fn o,>zins at 9:30 o’clock last night un d', nrirrs of Manager Hemphill to t? , urf a full night's rest. The real ob -1( 1. wue to be in perfect trim to cap today's battle from the Billikens. T J he crackers were in excellent shape , n arising shortly after daybreak, hav i'np pj-sed through the hottest night f t ) t e season in Montgomery. It v.js announced that Waldorf will mr the visitors, while Donahue "h take charge of the receiving de partment. The line-up of Atlanta will be the same as yesterday. It < a tossup between Johns and Her. h r , f,. the Montgomery box this aft ernoon. It's Johns' turn, but Herbert [ just rejoined the team and there i9 ’"a'chance that he may pitch. Me fliister is billed to catch. The weath is co inc what cloudy, but hot. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Game, Today. Atlanta in Montgomery Chattanooga in Birmingham. Nashville in Mobile. Memphis in New Orleans. Standing of the Clut>». . I W. L. PC. W. L. P C. | g ham 55 35 .<sll C'nooga. 41 44 .482 Mobile . .50 43 .538 N’ville. .39 45 .464 \ or n 39 .513 Atlanta .36 46 .439 M'mphis 43 42 .506 Mont. . .39 50 .438 Yesterday’s Results. Atlanta 5, Montgomery 2. Birmingham 6, Chatanooga 1. New < »rl?ans 4, Memphis 3. Mobile 4, Nashville 3. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Savannah in Albany. Columbia in Jacksonville. Columbus in Macon. Standing of tne Clubs. W. L. P C W. L P c ■"bus 15 6 .714 Macon . .11 11 .500 Sav .13 8 .619 Albany . 815 .364 J'ville. .13 9 .591 Columbia 617 .261 Yesterday's Results. Albany 5. Savannah 2. Jacksonville 8. Columbia 2. Columbus 8, Macon 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE Games Today. Chicago in New York. St. Louis In Philadelphia. j , Detroit in Washington. Cleveland in Boston. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.O. W L. P C Boston. 62 27 .697 ("land. . 43 47 .478 Wash. 55 33 ,62F Detroit .43 47 .478 I’hila .51 39 .567 N. York .26 56 .317 Chicago .45 41 *.523 8. Louis 25 60 .294 Yesterday's Results. Washington 5. Detroit 3. , Boston 8. Cleveland 3. New York 13. Chic ago 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 or the Clubs. W. L P C W. L P C \ York 63 21 .750 I'hila ..46 46 .500 ; Chicago. 52 32 .619 S. Louis 34 46 426 P burg. 48 34 .578 Br'klvn. .29 54 .349 t’nati .44 42 .518 Boston .22 63 .259 Yesterday’s Results. Pittsburg 2. Bosion 0. New York 4. Cincinnati 1. Philadelphia 6. St. Louis 2. Chicago 10, Brooklyn 3. ■»■■■■———m———— ■ii ■ii i ■ SDr. Hughes specialist Nerve. Blood and Skin Diseases I treat successfully all private diseases. 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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 tel] it as gospel truth. Schmidt, who now lives around Chi cago. and occasionally sends McGraw a promising young ball player, doped out that book himself. One day when he was working, Hans Wagner came to hat in a pinch 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—page on palls!" And there you have a great littie 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. You 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, are 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 bad 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. For instance, a man Is at bat with three men on bases. Supposing he stands a foot and a half away from the 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. I naturally argue that he intends to bunt, and 1 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 Die 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 CJiicago. when thev 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 1 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 II is wisdom to throw a curve in a pinch. Most batters can not help hitting them to the dirt for an in field out- The reason Is rather simple, it seems to me. When tile curve breaks on the batsman, his bat does not hit it squarely. Still he lilts it hard enough on tile 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, if 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 realty 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. I watch how they ’ stand at the plate; note whether they are afraid of a fast ball, and how they swing. On that I base my judgment as ' to how to pitch to them. The man who grips his bat at the end is. usually, unable to hit a fast ' ball. On the same line of reasoning. ' the man who takes a. short grip on his slick —“choking" it —is apt to be a high ’ ball hitter, and can’t get at the low • ones. Os course, there may be excep ' tlons to ether 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 1 better now. It doesn’t make much difference to E me whether a batter is right or left ' handed, although naturally a right handed batter is more likely to be ef i fectlve against a left-handed pitcher I than a left-handed hitter. I change my method of delivery for each kind. I I generally give a left-handed batter an ' inside curve, or a high Inside ball that • is straight and fast. > I 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 ; seiertee at a pitcher's command will often fail to stave off a rally once a team gets going. i Often a pitcher can get by in the ■ minor leagues—even the biggest of the . minors—just on his natural "stuff," but 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 i 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 1 was concerned. , From then on 1 was really out for a , mark. As 1 went on winning game i after game, the strain became terrific, . mentally as well as physically, and 1 I was at great tension when I finally , dropped my twentieth game to Chicago, j I 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. 1 have to rank Nap among my toughest opponents, and I guess every pitcher in the game fig ' tires him in the same class. In the : second inning of that game Brooklyn had three men on bares and no one out, i but they did not score. . In the third inning the same situa tion bobbed up The next two men up popped out, and the third hit a fly to ' Becker, who dropped it. He was so i anxious that he misjudged the ball, but Beals had been doing wonderful work in the. field up to that time, and the SMITH POLLING EVERY WIRE TO BRACE OP TEAM 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 father an nounced that he will unless a trade is manufactured for him in ten days, and , has signed Outfielder Wasem of the i 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 i 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, be grows stale and inet- • fectlve 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 be ever re i ceived an injury that would incapacl t 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 I for bingles, and bis tagging at second I has been miserable all during the pres, i ent season, for kite simple reason that he is afraid to take a chance on get- ■ ting spiked. Paul's assiduous efforts ' at preservation did not render hint an Idol either with Smith or fandom. ' The local pitching staff, although the : records do not show it, because of in -1 ferior support on both the offensive and defensive, is going better than any in the league. Coveleskle is actually 1 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 1 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 Covdes ' kie, More, Allen and Chappelle. 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 fat 1 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. I crowd applauded him as he came in ■ after making that error. ' Rucker and I battled nine Innings, 1 and the Giants won, 2 to 1. Brooklyn ' had fourteen men left on bases. They got nine hits off me, and the Giants got > but four or five, as 1 recall it, off Nap. i Lucky? Maybe—but what about that i support behind me? That wasn’t all luck not by a long ways, it was just : that steady, reliable support in most of ■ my games that gave me my record. Inews from ringside 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, hut 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 f«>r Joe. Bombardier Wells, who defeated Tom Kennedy in New York a few nights ago, will sail for England today. Wells says he will tel! the English sporting public how fair the. Americans are in everything. Blink MeCloekey and K. O. Brennan are scheduled to go ten rounds at Buffalo 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 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 yon see it. ‘‘.The aristocrats of shirt i doin’’ are these elegant, pure white “Manhattan’’ 1 negligees some with “white-on-white” stripes. The prices range from $1.50 upward. Six Peachtree Street (Opp. Peters Bldg.) 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I ... ~ \°T L a r kin - who Is managing Bob Mona s affairs, denies the rumor that Bob , and Eddie McGoorty are matched for a , bout at Kenosha some time in August. ... . !’ e ?’ Harry Brewer could get with Hilliard Long, tlie Canadian champ, at tnnipeg 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 Briton, tlie 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 to 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. More titan 75,000 new Fords into service this season —proof that they must be right. Three passenger Roadster $590 —five passenger touring car $690 —delivery car S7O0 —f. o. b. Detroit, with all equipment. Catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factory. N . i Crackers* Batting i Averages, Including Yesterday's Game J These averages include yesterday's i game with the Montgomery Billikens: Player. g. a b. r. h. av. Becker, p. . . . 4 12 1 5 .417 ' Hemphill, cf.. .78 296 35 93 .314 Harbison, ss. .30 99 11 30 .303 Bailey, rs . ..84 299 52 84 .281 t Alperman, 2b. .84 319 45 90 .279 '. Donahue, c. . .33 102 9 25 .245 . Callahan, If. . .42 175 21 41 .234 Graham, c. . .32 95 9 22 .232 5 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 .176 . Sitton, p. . . .17 43 8 7 .163 ■ Coombs, utility 6 10 0 1 .789 Waldorf, p. .. 2 5 0 0 .090 3 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 1 fifteen men in the nine innings. Tha former record was fourteen strikeouts. 13