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12 r GtOKMTIWW ISWShH’’ HHZfFI EDITED fy 9 FARNSWORTH UU I_7Z- Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit The Judge Just Wanted to See Them Copyright, 1912, National News Assn. By Tad ; ( °'^ 7 ATT V i vvM/rA Z —~ ————— ' ; sou TO8«HM& <WTO J /TKoT our OA6o FUtrz -A <—f - &OOD A \ COU«-T 7RE HfM / ’ SfAMISH IffNATI ( */C \ NtfirHT ) / TW Guyr IM / I AHt> TOOTH JAM - \ f Y A N • WSCASE- ._Z { MOW TOUGH 1M»/M£■ [& j. A a / \ / x vjft, Y ' _- —e , y ;> I 'Lils a"a i, 'l!''',. I > z i "Wtf'r • ' - l!1L Jh ifc"- WW^fe'lY 1 fi VU ‘‘UK jL In ; I W r x\~\ >l-llfc -H Obsolete Baseball Must Go if Crackers Are to Make Showing By Percy H. Whiting. TO •numerate all the wtekMM- M that have combined to ptrt the Crackers in last P**» Thbt year would require more mftrrnee than a comb has teeth. One of the big cauac« of flabbiness, under the HwmphQl regtate, wae the use of anolent methode. A lot of plays that are accepted as .the real think by a lot of base ban managers are bogus anyway. One of the poorest moves tn base ball, for example, Is the constant, use of the "pitch-otrt" or “waste ball." The pitch-out is usually em ployed either to break up the hit and-run «r to catch a man stealing. And it isn't worth a continental cuss unless somebody has actually caught the signals of the opposition and really has reason to suspect thal the htt-and-run or the steal is to start on the next ball pitched. Fine! If You Know Signals. if the catcher knows positively that the base runner will try to steal on the next ball, he signals for the pitch-out. The ball is thrown well away from the batter and at such a height that the catch er can easily get It away on Its journey to second to tnteroept the runner. It's fine business to see a catcher guess the signals of the opposition, call for a pttch-out and throw the runner out by a mils. But a constant snooession of pitch-outs cm whirlb nothing happens makes a oatrher took tTk» a boob—and worse •KTI they put the pitcher in the bole. Bhmry waste ball Is a “baJT' against the pitcher And no pitcher living bee so great control that lw> cares to {fltdh any train* "balls" than he has to. The "'pitch-oat" ks being relegated to th* discard, Atodtberr ptay that nan be worked too ranch is the sacrifice The play tatndt worth a hang unless the game !• 10 such shape that one run Is worth a fortune. Than, sometimes, the ■aertfic.e is a good play. It can easily be overdone. A good, live team doean'T use the sacrifice on an awwmge of once a game. Another poor play that Is seen all too often in the Southern league is this buetnees of taking a wild wal lop st the bail Inst because a run ner ts going dnwn from first. The mxr who first said that that was always good baseball had freak no tions. ft always coats a strike, if It doesn't connect - and if tt doss ft ta s Mi mors likely to cause a double play than anything else. Give Runner a Ohance. Said John McGraw recently “The hit-and-run is all right and we play it often—but we try to in sert ft at the proper time If one of our fast men has a big lead on the pitcher, and anybody can see that he already has the base stolen, our batsmen have brains enough to lot him alone and let him have his steal. Then you have several othot chances to hit, and the man on second won't have so far to travel on your drive. “We have some 100 runs more than any other club. How many of the extra runs were gained by extta stolen bases'.’ Probably tin, ' quarters. That's the answer!" PJIERbISHEIM Allway<y '/I Good , R’ l '* ° ' = ’ ( ■HMOHHWiMMMaBMIi ■■»«■«■■■«««»"■■■ ®«" r ‘ twwto vvnißMMH iniiß Ona reason why the Giants have stolen bases is because the Giants are fast and because the batters have used their heads and have en deavored to protect the base run ners—not by talcing a wild wal at the ball every time a man was going down but by doing what the situation seemed to call for. There is a theory that by hitting when a man goes down there is a swell chance that he can get to third. It has been proved by the Atlanta club this year that the batter was a lot more likely to hit into a double play. To win ball games a club must use Judgment as well as speed. A varied system of attack is neces sary. No one scheme is best. To fool the opposition a man must “mix ’em up" and must have the head to use the system that is best under the circumstances. • • ♦ 'F HE recent adoption of the re -1 vised national agreement isn't of especial interest to baseball fans, though it Is to ball players and club owners For one thing, the draft price has been raised. Now any club In the Mg leagues who takes a player fropi the Southern will have to pay $1,600 for him. Here are the draft prices: $2,600 for each player se lected from Class AA; $1,500 for each player selected from Class A; $1,200 for each player selected from Class B; $750 for each player selected from Class C, and SSOO for each player selected from Class D. It looked at first as though this increase in the price of drafted players would materially cut down the number drafted, but with the prices of real players going up so fast it is unlikely that there will be any lessening of the drafting business. Makes Contract More Binding. Cine novelty of the new agreement Is that it attempts to strengthen the contract. There has always been a legal flaw in the old reservation clause of the contract, on the ground that an employer had no right th reserve an employee as there was no compensation for the reservation. The new contracts Will provide that 75 per cent of what a man receives Is for his services and 26 per cent for the privilege of re serving bint. Eminent lawyers are of the opinion that this change has patched up the hole in the old con tracts and that the new ones are legally binding. Another good point in the new agreement is the provision that every player who is to he sent out of either league must be waived by both before he Is allowed to drop to any lower classification. This will in a measure make it more likely that all really deserving play ers will be kept In the big ring and that nobody will be farmed except such players as have no chance of making good in fast com pany. PATHFINDER PLUGS ON. LOUISVILLE. KY. Aug, fi. -At a late hour last night the pathfinders for the iiattonal tour reached Louisville, having made a ii.cord run for one day over country roads in their Flanders electric coupe The distance traveled was Ids miles toward New Orleans, but 145 toiles «, e actually covered, as the party beam, lost In the darkness. I !v. ry Class Os r ..ni , .st I tick by (ttll < ial Pathfinder Westgmd. PHP: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 6. 1912. Wor/d’s Greatest Southpaw Tells How He Trains and How He Lives MARQUARD SMOKES LITTLE,DOESN’T DRINK AT ALL By “Rube” Marquard. I RECEIVED a letter the other day from a bunch of youngsters —half a dozen of ’em signed it — asking me how I put in my time during the basebalf season when I am not actually pitching—that is, they' want to know how I train; what I eat; when I sleep, and so on. They’ evidently have an idea that my r method of living has some bear ing on my pitching—and I presume it has, in away, 1 am only too glad to answer them, although 1 don’t imagine that my dally existence varies greafly from that of any other ball player, pitcher or otherwise. You will find that they all live by rule during the playing season—early hours, careful eating, and the sim ple life generally. First and foremost I want to say’ that dissipation Is rapidly becoming almost unknown among ball play ers, especially during the season. Personally. I never drink at all, and I know but very few players who ever drink to excess. I know of no member of the Giants who does that; they are the cleanest living crowd of young fellows ever banded together. The idea that a man can not dis sipate and continue in the big league is prett.v firmly’ planted in the minds of all who enter fast company nowadays. A manager no longer wants that kind of players. He fig ures life is too short to bother with them. Leave Off Tobacco, Too. I use tobacco to a greater or less extent—both smoking and chewing —but I wouldn't advise any young ster to follow my example, because he can Just as well do without it. Certainly it doesn’t help him. While most ball players do smoke or chew, you can lay it down as a general proposition that there is less drinking among them than any other single class of young fel lows During the baseball season I have no set course of training, be cause my ordjnary work keeps me in form. I try’ to maintain a sys tem of exercise in winter, and. of course. I go through the usual form of hard training in the spring. Takes Walk Before Breakfast. 1 got up about 8:30 o'clock every morning, and take a walk before breakfast. I walk fifteen or twenty minutes, at an ordinary gait, and then return to my hotel. For break fast I eat plenty of fruit, eggs and toast. I have made it a rule never to eat meat during the hot weather. Ahother thing—l never drink cof fee at any time, not even for break fast. My morning drink is a pecu liar one—iced tea. I report at the Polo Grounds at 10 o'clock. This is McGraw’s iron-clad rule, and it must be followed by all the play ers. Has No Time For Lunch. Sometimes I loaf around the club house for an hour or so, and then i go right back to the hotel. I sit around half an hour or so resting, but I eat no lunch —and haven't for a long time. That is the general title among all ball players, I guess. Some may have a bowl of soup and i lackers at noon, but for the most part they- eat nothing between bieakfast and supper. I have to be back at the park by 2 o'clock and dressed and on the field at 2:30. Then, unless 1 am to work. I spend the time Just as the fans see me every day—batting the ball around. In fact, even when I Know I am to work 1 limber up gently by tossing the ball and hit ting t'ungoes. Aft.: the game 1 have my show - ■ i or plunge, and then I again re turn to the hotel this time for my • vening meal 1 (li st sit a ound for minutes to give my stomach a !■-: and then I eat whatever 1 feel ;:k>- ha ' ng -x. • ntlng meat. 1 am in bed between 1t',30 and Rube Gives Some of His Secrets of Success He doesn t dissipate. “No real ball players dissipate.” he says. He smokes and ehews tobacco, but advises youngsters against it. He doesn’t eat any meat in summer.’ He doesn’t drink coffee, even for breakfast. Iced tea is his breakfast beverage. He does not eat any meal in the middle of the day. He keeps in condition in winter with regular exercise. He always takes a brisk walk before breakfast—and then doesn’t eat much. Here is his daily schedule: Up at 8:30. takes 20-minute walk, eats light breakfast, reports at park at 10. loafs around club house until noon, eats no lunch, reports at park at 2. eats supper after game, goes to bed 10:30 or 11. 11 o'clock every night. Although there is no hard and fast rule on the subject, McGraw expects every man to be in bed by midnight, and that’s where 12 o’clock will prob ably find every member of the Giants during the season. When I was having my long run of nineteen victories I had a hard time sleeping. As I have said be fore. I felt the mental strain more than I did the physical effort, and I was glad when it was over. Os course, if ever get another chance to try- for the record I’ll do it, but I am not keen about It. “Fans Curious,” He Says. The fan is a curious creature in many’ ways. I love him. of course, because he is responsible for base ball, and. consequently, responsible for me. but I've had many a laugh studying his moods. The “roasts” I used to get were a serious mat ter to me when I was trying to break in, but I’ve since come to have a better understanding of hu man nature as applied to base ball. and I’ve got a different per spective of things. When I was on my big run I used to get rafts of letters from the fans. Most of them were big boosts. They were all "with me.” as they said, and they gave me ad vice as to how to pitch and yvhat to pitch. Then when I lost my first game after making a run of nineteen straight. I got barrels of letters from the same people "bawling me out.” The players on the opposing team* —particularly the Philadel phia club —used to try hard to "get my goat" during my record run. They'd say some rough things from the coaching lines, but they were only using what is recog nized as a legitimate method of NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Able to gel only a draw after a slow 20-round fight with Tommy Murphy on the coast Saturday Abe Attell showed plain!} that he is not the Abe who for years was the marvel of the ring. While he had what shade there was. he did not show any of his old-time cleverness. ♦ • 0 Jack Britton, the Chicago lightweight, has been signed for a ten-round encoun ter with Eddie Smith in New York. The bout will be staged within two weeks. Britton is also matched with Eddie Mur phy for a fight at Boston. August 27. • • • Many women were among the specta tors who saw Sam McVey go before Sam Langford, the Buston Tar Baby, at Syd ney, N. 8 W Saturday Langford won all the way ami the referee’s decision was loudly cheered The bout was a 20-round affair. ♦ • • A letter from a person at Dennison. Texas, says that he is the original 'Kid” McCoy and that the McCoy under arrest in London, charged with complicity in a jewel rubbery, is a brother. McCoy says he secured several fights for his brother, one of them with George Carpentier, and that he allowed him to fight under his name. • • The rumor that Tomnv <> Rourke and Al Palzer had patcheel up grievances and that the crafty one would again manage trying to win for their own club by’ upsetting me. After the run was broken they let up. but while it was on they had a great time with me. And I had quite a time with them, too. Out to Cinch Pennant. Naturally all the members of the Giants, are hoping to get the pen nant sewed up as soon as possible this season in order thal they may g£t a rest before the world's series. We went into the series last fall a little stale and drawn from the " fierce campaign in the National league, while the Athletics had the advantage of freshness. A lot of the boys could stand a good deal of rest right now. If we should again win the Na tional league pennant and meet the Red Sox, I may have the pleasure of hooking - n with an old friend of my minor league days—" Smoky" Joe, Wood, the Boston star right hander. When I was with Indian apolis. in the American association, Joe was with the Kansas City Blues in the same league, and many a time we had a battle. Joe always had a wonderful lot of speed, and 1 had a bit of the same thing then. We'd just cut loose with plain smoke and would wind : up every game we fought with ten and twelve strike-outs apiece. I don’t believe Joe ever beat me. Johnson Entitled to Reputation. If the Giants should run against Washington and I should happen to hook up with Walter Johnson, it will not be my first fuss with him, either. I met him this last spring in an exhibition game at Washing ton We each pitched six innings, and the Giants took Walter. Os course, he wasn't in as good form then as he is now, but I could see why he has such a great reputation as a pitcher. He is entitled to it. < the big •hope" turned out to be untrue. However. Palzer and D’Rourke had an in terview in which big Al wanted Tommv to manage him again. However, the pug wanted no contract attached to his end of it. O'Rourke turned down the offer because Palzer was unwilling to use the old contract. • • ■ Carl Morris out of tiie game.’ Not yet The former White Hope is again seeking matches in New York Morris says lie Is keen for another crack at Jim Stewart, but that he is willing to meet anv of the big pugs • • » Jimmy t'labby has signed articles of agreement to box six rounds with Ted Jasper at Hammond, ind . some time in the future. • 0 • Frankie Russell has started training for his ten-round scrap with Jack White in New Orleans, August 12. White will ar rive from the coast either toilav or to morrow and will start working imme diately. * Monte Attell ami Benny Chavez have been matched for- a 20-round engagement a: Trinidad. Colo. No date has been sei for the bunt. .lerr\ Dalton and Harry Wade are the I headliners on the boxing card at Indian- | a polls tonight. The boys are scheduled to mix it for ten rounds. Miner Brown, Scout, Turns Down : Bald Catcher; Likes ’Em Hairy By Bill Bailey. Chicago, ill.. Aug. 6.—Mor decai Brown. Cub pitcher, doesn’t like a bald-headed player. Especially when he is a catcher. Mordecai, you know, isn't with the team in the East. His ankle is still in bad shape. He sprained it in sliding into second some time ago and still limps and carries a cane. Since Mordecai could be of no value to the team sitting around Chicago, he grabbed his fishing rod and went after the denizens of the deep. And before he departed President Murphy told him that if lie saw any’ promising young ball players while he was on the road to let him know. Well, Brownie returned and re ported. He was watching one of the teams in a minor league town not far distant from Chicago and was taken by the work of one of the catchers. The fellow could throw like a shot, pick men off the bases, cover a lot of ground in going after foul balls and clout fairly well. Brownie was taken with the catcher until he removed his cap. Then he saw that he was bald. ♦ ♦ * • ‘T_T E won't do," said Brownie to 11 President Murphy as they discussed the youngster. "You say he can hit?" queried the president. "He sure can hit." answered Brownie. ' You say he can throw like Jim my Archer?" queried the president. "Well, I wouldn't say that, but he sure has a strong arm and a true one." “You say he is fast on the bases?" queried the president. "He looked fast and he sure did get around lively after foul balls." "Does he fight?” queried Presi dent Murphy. “He's mighty aggressive," an swered Brown. "Then, what is the matter with him?” demanded Air. Murphy. "He's bald.” answered Brownie. "Then he's an old man?" queried the West Side magnate. "No. he isn't. That is. he isn't so old that he couldn't catch for many years. Lost his hair when he was mighty young. Some sickness or other." "Then, what lias his baldness to do with it?" queried Mr. Murphy. “A whole lot to my notion. I don't like a ball player who hasn't got a lot of hair. Especially a catcher, who I will have to pitch to someday. Remember Jack Ryan?” "Quite well," from President Murphy. ♦ ♦ ♦ OTTE was catching with the Car dinals when I was pitching there. I was in a real pitchers’ bat tle one afternoon. Had the score tied in the ninth, with the usual trimmings, two and three on the Chronic Ulcers Mean Bad Blood If outside influences were responsible for chronic ulcers th™ » ♦ nal applications and simple cleanliness would be a = t V ea . exter ' But the trouble is always in the blood which Ins becon J 1 ? diseased, and keeps the sore open by contiimalVy discEin^' 3 T impurities and infections matter with which' the' eir™i F l -° c the Salves, washes, lotions, etc., may cause the"place to scab “ but , the blood is not m «de purer 'by such Tea?" 17 ; | l and the sore is bound to return s”s 's t , heblo< ? d J*?™ b y going- down into the blood ami ’ Ca S °' d WllJJl J tlle impurities and germs which -oJ 1 ren '" v "’S •!R¥ the place. S S. S thorou-Hilv / % re-S P, ons *ble for NjjjjjUT « , this ,£ 'to Ike c„c u ,a- S. S. S. enriches this XTKfe. * <7* bS , coming the bad effects of a chronic ulcer Book on s 1 nat , urc in over I any medical advice free rur , WIFT QD r ', c ' U ’ CerS an< THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. 1 batter and all of that sort of thing, when the batter hit a foul a mile high. No catcher should ever miss a foul ball. It was rather windy that day and Ryan went after it. Gust of wind caught his cap and removed it just as he was about to make the catch. He was bald. But he didn't want everybody to know it. Just then some fellow In the stand howled for him to put his cap on; that he was half un dressed. Ryan was so flustered that he put his big mitt on top of his head to cover his baldness and let the ball fall. That batter hit a homer, and. since we didn't score in our part of the inning, we lost the game. No. sir: I'm against bald catchers. Don't think this fellow will do.” Os course. Brownie hasn't the last "ord in the matter. Said catcher will be looked over by the Cub t egular scouts. Ic ty that he will not be fetort pal if he is purchased. ♦ ♦ * ■VOL’ think that Browed etory of Jack Ryan an exaggera tion? But ball players MSftCTv are touchy"Seoncerninft hair or lack of it. They figure *b* the moment a man begins to leer liis hair the fans will think he Is get ting old. And the fans don't like old ball players. If they are play - ing great ball, it's all right. But let one of the bald fellows make a few bad plays and the fans are after him. With the result that a decidedly high forehead sometimes becomes a mighty toucli>opposi tion with a ball player. BILL SMITH WILL NOT LEAD CRACKERS AGAI! The rumors, coining from Chattanoog* that Bill Smith Is to manage the Atlant, team next season, are causing som amusement here. It will not happen —unless the baseba. association changes hands. The present owners of the franchise di not get along with Smith. They couldn' agree, somehow, on business methods So they let Bill out the year he won i pennant. That they will take him bad now is highly improbable. That Bill will not manage the Chatta nooga club next y ear is probable. localsThaven't bought WEISER OF CHARLOTTi * The report emanating from Charlotte N. < that the Cracker club has bough' "Bud" Weiser, an outfielder, for $1,25( was news at baseball headquarters. "We did dicker for the man," said M. Callaway this morning, “but we neve came witbin a thousand miles of agree ing on terms. \\ o may buy Weiser even* tually—but certainly not at their presen price." VOL FLAYERS REPORT NASHVILLE, TENN . Aug 6 _J U , Daley, former Brooklyn outfielder Is ex. peeled to report beta todav from hit home rear Montgomery, Ala. Waiven have been a-’ked on Harry Storch. Pitch er . hnimy \l est, of Toledo, reported yes. terday. J *