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12 i ffIOWAW Kl® CCWW * EfflKW I EDITLD Jy W. S FARNSWORTH "•' i _ SilTc Hat Harry's Divorce Suit she judge just wanted to see f hem copyright, 1912. National News ASS n Tad UmR DiST D X \ rou TOBeiMd IWTO . z TXoT OVT OA6O Htirx - . r—f ) \ COUB-T THE ' S?AH»_SH ItfNATI f \M I ft-HI J __ / TW&«G«jy< iM I AH& JA'XTDOIHJAM- \ f ' S J>" V U \ " -4 f THIS CASE - DRinG I *®* V v ° / 4’ \ k.U lAA- ,V-"> 4LA tin “ ~ Jmß-""' HB ■ Wx' = ra» •ibWIIM *fcl Ju I} r A I I i '*' W /—[ I M § ■ w W l/ , — x, t ’iEF/Sh. <• W - ' / ! “~ -'i im ■> 'i Obsolete Baseball Must Go if Crackers Are to Make Showing By Percy IL Whiting. TO KiLmwal# all the weekneee- ee that have combined to pct the Crackers tn last ptaoe flits year would require more Tntwmee than a comb has teeth. One of the big can»»s of flabbiness, under the HamphQl regime. wtw the use of ancton' methode. A lot of plays that are accepted as the real thing by a lot of base ball managers are bogus anyway One of the poorest moves tn ba«« ball, for example. ts the constant use of the "pltch-onf ar "waste bril." The pttch-oirt is usually em ployed e-£ther to break up the hlt and-runor to catch a man stealing. A nr! it Isn't worth a continental cuss unless somebody has actually caught the signals of the oppoeltkm anti really has reason to suspect that the hit-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 tire pitch-out. The ba.ll 1s thrown well away from the batter and at such a height that the catch er can easily get ft away on Its journey to second to intercept the runner. It's fine buwtnwee to see a catcher gives the signals of the opposition, call for a pitch- out and throw the rnrtncr out by a mile. But a ccnatant etsoceewivm of pitch-outs on whkrfli nothing happens makes a —trthwr took tike a tx>.<b acai worse gttD they put the pitcher tn the hole, ©vary wantr ball ts a 'Ym.ll’' against tbs pitcher And no jrftvher living bas •o great control that he cares to pt*r#i any mrrre “bwliw" than he has to, Tito oerF* la bet1 < rrtegatod to Cbe discard. Another play that can be worked too ranch Is the sacrifice Tito play terft worth s hang unless the gamo t» in such shape that one ran In worth a Then, sometimes, the sscrtfVoe is a good play. It can easily be overttone. A good, live tesn doesn't use the sacrifice on an ■arwrege of once a game. Another poor piny that Is seen all too often in ths Southern league la this business of taking a wild wal lop at the bail host because a run ner to going down from first. The man who first mid that that was always good baseball had freak no tlons. It always costs a strike. if It doesn't connect and ts It doss It to s htt mor« likely to cause a double play than anything else Give Runner a Ohance. Said John McGraw recently "The hit-and-run isatt right and we play it often -but w e try to tn sen ft at the proper time If one of our fast men has a btg lead cn the pitcher, and anybody can see that he already has the base stolen our batsmen have brains enough to let him alone and lei him have hts steal. Then you have several other chances to hit, and the man n second won't have so far to travel on your drive, "We have some 100 runs tm>r> than any other club. How many of tlie extra runs were gained by extra stolen bases" Probably tm- • quarters. That's the answer' r TTernsheim iflllwayts .' y /} Good > ' P op l ° Rjcttr\ One reason why the Giants hove stolen bases Is because the Giants are fast and because the batters have used their lieads and have en deavored to protect the base run ners—not by taking 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 uh 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 tn use the system that Is best under the circumstances. ♦ • • ‘T’HE recent adoption of the re ■*■ 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 big leagues who takes a player from the Southern will have to pay $1,500 for him. Here are the draft prices: $2,500 for each player se lected from Class AA. J 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 tor each player selected from Class D. It looked at fl ret 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 that It ts unlikely that there will be any lessening of the drafting business Makes Contract More Binding. One novelty of the new agreement t» 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 to reserve an Aniployee as there was no compensation for the reservation. The new contracts w 111 provide that 75 per cent of what a man receives is for his services ami 25 per cent for the privilege of re serving him. FJmlnent lawyers arc of the opinion that this change has patched up the hole In the oldA’on tracts and that the now ones are legally binding. Another good point in the now agreement is the provision that every player who is to be 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 llkelv that all really deserving play ers will be kept In the big ring and that nobody will be farmed except such players as have n” chance of making good In fast com pany PATHFINDER PLUGS ON. I,< M'ISVILLE KV . Aug. 6. At a late hour lasi night the pathfinders for the . national tour rem hed Louisville, having made m ord inn for one day over count’y ro ids In their Flanders electric coupe The distance traveled as 12S mill's tow .nd New Orleans, but I 14*. miles were actually covered, as the I party became lost in th darkness. I Ev< ry .'lass of r.-ad w.m struck by Olli i - .< ! Pul lilindcr \\ • >•«.• rd. PRE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 6. 1912. World’s Greatest Southpaw Tells How He Trains and How He Lives MARQUARD SMOKES LITTLE,DOESN’T DRINK AT ALL By “Rube’’ Marquard. x RECEIVED a letter the other 1 day from a bunch of youngsters half a dozen of 'em signed it— asking me how I put In my time during the baseball season when I am not actually pitching—that Is, they want to know how I train; w hat I eat when I sleep, and so on. They evidently have an idea that my method of living has some bear ing on my pitching—and I presume It has. in away I am only too glad to answer them, although I don't imagine that my dally existence varies greatly 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 hut very few players who ever drink to excess. 1 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 pretty 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 ft 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 sot course of training be cause my ordinary work keeps me in form I try to maintain a sys tem of exercise In winter, and of course. 1 go through the usual form of hard training in the spring Takes Walk Before Breakfast. I got up about S 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 ent plenty of fruit, eggs and toast. I have made it a rule never io out meat during the hot weather. Another thing I never drink cof fee at any time, not even for break fast. My morning drink is a pecu liar one Iced tea 1 report at the Po|o Grounds at 10 o'clock This is McGraw's iron-clad rule, and it mu«t be followed by all the play ers. Has No Time For Lunch. Sometimes I loaf around the club' house for an hou or so. and then 1 go right back to the hotel. 1 sit around half an hour or so resting, but I eat no lunch and haven't for a long tiling That is the general title among all ball players. I guess Some may have a bow l of soup and < rnekers at noon, but for the most part they eat nothing between b eakfast 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. 1 spend the time Just as the fans sei me every day —batting the ball around. In fact, even when I know 1 am to work I limber up gently by tossing the ball and hit ting fungoes. Aft, t the gatng I have my show ■l piling,'. and then 1 again re in 1 n io the hotel this time for my • v. n.iig niea I ti. st sit mound for ■ in ii's to g \e my stomach a test mu then 1 <a whatever 1 fee! I iK" having "Xi'-ntlng meat. 1 in in b . bet w ven lit; 30 and Rube Gives Some of His Secrets of Success Fie doesn't dissipate. “No real ball players dissipate,” be says. • Fie smokes and chews tobacco, but advises youngsters against it. He doesn't eat a.ny meat in summer. He doesn't drink coffee, even for breakfast. Iced tea is his breakfast beverage. lie 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 1 was glad when it was over Os course. If I ever get another chance to try for the record I’ll do It, but 1 urn not keen about it. "Fans Curious," Ho 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 hn- • man nature as applied to base ball, and I've got a different per spective of things. When 1 was on my big run 1 used to get rafts of letters from the fans Most of them were big boosts. They were all "with me,” as they said, anti th y gave me ad vice as to how to pitch and w hat to pitch. Then when 1 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 teanw parth-ulary the Philadel phia club tFsed 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 RINGSIDEI i _ Able to get onlt a draw after a slow 20-round fight with Tommy Murphv on the coast Saturday Abe Attell showed plainly that be is not the Abe who for years was the marvel of the ring. While he had what shade there was. he did not show anv of his old-time cleverness ♦ • • 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 Boston Tar Baby, at Syd ney. N S W . Saturday Langford won all the way and the referee's derision was loudly cheered The bout was a 20-round affair • • * A letter from a person at Dennison. Texas, says that he is the original , Ki<i McCoy and that the McCov under arrest in London, charged with complicity in a jewel robbery, is a brother. McCoy says he secured several fights for his brother, one of them with George «'arpentier. and that he allowed him to tight under his name • • ’l'l e rumor that Tommy Rourke and \ Balzer bad patched up grievances and that the <-rafts 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 • get a rest before the world's series. We went into the series last fall a little stale and drawn from the fierce campaign in tit? 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 I. ague days— 'Smoky” Joe Wood, the Boston star right hander. When 1 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 I 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. 1 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 hint this last spring in an exhibition game at Washing ton. We each pitched six innings, and the Giants took Walter. Os course, be 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. — I I the big "hope" turned out to be untrue However. Palzer and O'Rourke had an in terview in which big Al wanted Totnmv to manage him again. However, the pug v anted no contract attached to his end of it. O'Rourke turned down the offer because I’alzer was unwilling to use the old contract. • • • Carl Morris out of the game * Not yet. 'The former White Mope is again seeking mutches in New York Morris sh\s he is keen for another < rack at Jim Stewart, but that he is willing to meet anv of the big pugs • • • Jimmy <’labby has signed articles of agreement to box six rounds with Ted Jasper at Hammond. Ind some time in the near future. • • • 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 todav or to morrow and will start working imme diately • • • Monte Attell and Benny <’have? liavr been matched for a 20-iound engagement at Trinidad. Colo No date ha< been set for the bout Jerry Dalton and Harr’ Wade are the headliners on the boxing ard at Indian <po|is tonight The box« 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 ®o value to the team sitting around t'hicago, he grabbed his fishing tod and went after the denizens of the deep. And before he departed President Murphy told him that if he saw any promising young ball play ers 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 lie removed his cap. Then lie saw that he was bald. ♦ ♦ ♦ • iT_J E v.n't do." said Brownie to ** 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 'ike Jini a my Archer?" querivd Ibe president. "Well. 1 wouldn't say that, but he sure has a strong arm ami a j true one." "You say he is fast on tile 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 aggnssi\e." an swered Brown. "Then, what *is the matter with him'.’" demanded Mr. Murphy. "He's bald." answered Brownie. "Then he's an old man?" queried the AVest 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 has 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 some day. Remember Jack Ryan?” Quite well," from President M urphy. » • ♦ “I J 5- "as 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 then exter nal applications and simple cleanliness would be a mr-X f . But the trouble is always in the blood which has become unhellthl” diseased, and keeps the sore open by continually disch" nng ft th impunUes and infectious matter with which the circulation °s fill V Salve., washes, etc ,uay cf „«e the place to .eXovlX ’S' but the blood is not made purer by such treatment and soon the old inflammation and discharge will JaJUIHRgk rehirn and the sore be as bad or worse than before •“““Vorw.ll removing the place hv surgical SpenX n iC O a cure; the cause still remains in W I land the sore is bound to return. S S S heals oH W/*°re? by going down into the blood and r’niovn,u! Z S es s’s g ti rrasw ?■ 1; ar * res P o^'>’e f-« tio e n P and in Ulis' wavS^’ lhe S. S. S. enriches this anyuied£l b advice TUr” emir" 00^ S ' aml THE SHIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. batter and all of that sort of thing, when tlie 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 lie put his big milt 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." of course. Brow nie hasn't the last word in the matter. Said catener wHI be looked over by ontnof tb« Cub regular scouts. It ty that he will not ferraaAi jjaJ if he is purchased. ♦ • * Vol' think that Hr, wtofci’s story 1 of Jack Ryan an exaggera tion But ball p’ayt-rs toftab ly an touchy <-on rrning tbA* hair or la 1. of i;. Ts y fig’ins Ctat t.'ie moment a man begins to Itoto ids n w ill think he ts get - ting old. And the fans don't like < 'll ba l ! players. If they ate 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 1:1m. With the result that a decidedly high forehead sometimes beeoim s a might.' tou - i- tion with a ball player. BILL SMITH WILL NOT LEAD CRACKERS AGAI! Th. rumors, coining from Chattanooga that Bill Smith is to manage the Atlant team next season, are causing som amusement here. It will not happen unless the basebk. association changes hands. Tlie present owners of the franchise di' not get along with Smith. They couldn agree, somehow, on business methodi So they let Bill out the year he won » pennant. Tlfat the.' will take him baci now is highly improbable. That Bill will not manage the Chatta nooga club next year is probable. locals"haven-t bought WEISER OF CHARLOTTi The report emanating from Charlotte N. C . that the Cracker club has bough "Bud" Weiser, an outfielder, for $1,251 was news at baseball headquarters. "We did dicker for the man." said M. Callaway this morning, "but we neva came within a thousand miles of agree ing on terms We may buy Weiser even, tually but certainly not at their presen. price." VOL PLAYERS REPORT NASHVILLE, TENN.. Aug. ft.—Jul Haley, former Brooklyn outfielder. Is ext pected to report hero today front Id? home mar Montgomery. Ala. Waivert have been a-ked on Harry Storch. Pitch or Jimm.' Most, of Toledo, reported ves* terday.