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12 ©OMAN SIPCW CSWK 9 * EXKKOY EDITED W 9 FARNSWORTH ~ Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit The Judge Just W? anted to See Them copyright, 1912, National News Ass'n. Tad ( r*R Disi Arry i vac- z — x p— —————————————————————— ? TD Be.rjo ,mT7) . I TKoT ovr DAfio FFiTZ c ~-X GOOD A A COUK-T THe R.g7Kl / SPANISH I9NAT2. ( ( ' \ NI6>HT 7 / INfi-MuyT iM ; / AHO lOOIM SAM- \ ( ,i£. 'Ya Y x ~ -x SSl »._. r»o- .--“-X hoYtoush T«vweX X J ow7«e ' ■=r ■-—Lfek. "-- s 7 ' lUA ' x ,Qn i - tT 'Bw >m ■ H' ' A<l w" ’ ; l'' > , «!1 fill -I ”e >r w j— / .r— y : Obsolete Baseball Must Go if Crackers Are to Make Showing By Percy TL Waiting. TO er.LnwnUr all the weeklies*- «• that have combined to put the Crackers In last this year would require more vnfrmwi than a comb has teeth. One of the big caugee of flabbiness, under the Hemphill regime, was the use of ancient method*. A lot of plays that are accepted an the real thing 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 "pttch-out" or "waste ball.” The pttch-out 1s usually em ployed either to break up the hit and-runrtr 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 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 the pftch-out. The ball Is thrown well away from the batter and at .such a height that the catch er can easily get tt away on Its journey to second to intercept the runner. It's fine brgrtnees to see a catcher guess th* signals of the opposition, call for a pttch-out and throw the runner out by a mil*. But a constant ■ucre«*trm of pitch-outs on whiicb nothing happens makes a esstoherr took Hke a boob and worse •tm they put th* pitcher tn the bole. ®**ry wuarte ball ts a "balf against the ptttahrr And no pitcher living baa to great control that h« cares to ptfath any men* "balls" than h« haa to, Th* “pMc-b out" w being relegated to Cbo dlaoard. AiMtfbgr play that can be worked too rnnsnh to the sacrifice The play iatft worth e Natig th* gam" ts in mdb shape that one run ts worth a fbrtun* Then, sometimes, «»* saxwince is a good play. It can ■net!/ be onrtone. A good, live team doesn't use the sacrifice on an ■wsrage of once a game Another poor play that is seen all too often in the Southern league is this business of taking a wild wai top at the ball just because a run ner > going down from first. The mart who first said that that waa always good baseball had freak no tions. ft always costs a strike, if it doesn't connect- and if tt does It to I bit mor* likely to cause a double play than anything else. Give Runner a Chance. Said John McGraw recently "The hit-and-run is al! right, and we play it often —but we trv to in sert tt at the proper time If one of our fast men has a big lea.fi on the pitcher, and anyboflt can see that he already has the base stolen, our batsmen have brains enough to let him alone and let him have his steal. Then you have several other chances to hit, and the man on second won t have so far to travel on your drive. "We have some I<ii> runs more than any other club. How many of the extra runs were gained by extra stolen bases" Probably three quarters. That's the answer! ***"'* ' ■ ll " 1 ■■■ - ■* —r——— II |IM w. MB HERhISHEIM /]Uway<s I jR Good ? srqpke psrlo Ricoq L £ ■ II i Ono reason why the Giant* have stolen bases Is because the Giants ar* fast and because the batters have used their heads 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 i» 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 fa 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. ♦ • • THE 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 ha< been raised. Now any club In the big leagues who takes a player from the Southern will have to pay f 1.500 for him. Here are the draft prices: $2,500 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 th* prices of real players going up so fast tt is unlikely that there will be any lessening of the drafting business Makes Contract More Binding. One-novelty of the new agreement ts 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 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 hts services and 25 per cent for the privilege of re serving him. Eminent lawyers are of the opinion that this change has patched up the holo 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 be sent out of either league must be waived both before he is allowed to drop to any lower classification. This a 111 in a measure make it more likely that all really deserving play ers will be kept tn 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. LtMISVILLE. KY. Aug. 6.—At a late hour last night the pathfinders for the national tour reached Louisville, having mad" a re< ord run for one day over country roads in their Flanders electric coupe The distance traveled wtts 13S miles toward New Orleans, but It’, miles were actually covered, as the party b<<ame lost j n the darkness. Every rias- of road was struck by Offi cial Pathfinder Westgard. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 6. 1912. IVor/d’s Greafesf Southpaw Te//s How He Trains and How He Lives MARQUARD SMOKES LITTLE,DOESN’T DRINK AT ALL O.r As J 11 By Ku be 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 baseball 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 method/>f living has some bear ing on my pitching—and I presume It has, In away. I am only' too glad to answer them, although 1 don't imagine that my daily 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. 1 never drink at all. and I know* hut very' few players who ever drink tn 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 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 it down as a genera! 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 ordinary work keeps me in form. I try to maintain a sys tem of exorcise in winter, and. of course, I go through the usual form of hard training in the spring Takes Walk Before Breakfast. 1 get 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. 1 have made it n rule never to eat meat during the hot w eather. 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 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 1 go right back to the hotel. 1 sit around half an hour or so resting, but I eat no Junch- and haven't for a long time That Is the g< net a i ule among all ball play ers, I guess Some may have a bow l of soup and < rackers at noon, but for the most part they eat nothing between bieakfast and supper. I base 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 sec me every day- batting the bill around In fact, even when I ki;ow 1 am to work I limber up g' ntly by tossing the ball and hit ting funpoes. After the game I have my show i or plunge, and then 1 again re turn to tin hotel this time for my evening mea' Ili st sit around for :'ai minutes to give my stomach a test, and then I eat whatever I feel ilk" h.t vmg <-x< • ■ t>t ing meat. 1 am ill b>a; between lh;3(t and Rube Gives Some of His Secrets of Success He doesn t dissipate, “Xo real ball players dissipate,” he says. He smokes and chews 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 1(1 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 t Hat'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 1 did the physical effort, and 1 was glad wben’it was over. Os course, if I 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 curfous 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 th' y gave me ad vice as to how to pitch and what to pitch. Then when 1 lost my first game aftei making a run of nineteen straight. 1 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 get only a draw after a slow 20-round tight with Toninn Murphy on the coast Saturday Abe Attell showed plainly that he Is not the Abe who for years was the marvel o f the ring While he had what shade there was, he did not show anv of his old-time cleverness. ♦ * ♦ ■luck Britton, th«* Hhidigu lightweight, has been signed for a ten-round encoun ter with labile 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 decision was loudly cheered The bout was a 20-round affair. • * • A letter from a person at l>ennison. Texas, says that be is the original "Kid" McCoy and that the McCoi under arrest < in London, charged with complicity in a jewel robbery, is a brother McCoy save he secured several tights for his brother, one of them with George Carpentier, and that he allowed him to tight under his name • • The rumor that Tommy O Rourke and l \l Palzer had patched up grievances ano ; that the crafty one would again manage trying to win for their twn club by upsetting me. After the run was broken they let up. but while it was on they' had a great time w ith me. And J 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 that 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 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 ■» 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 tiie 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. I don't believe Joe ever beat me. Johnson Entitled to Reputation. If the Giants should run against Washington and 1 should happen to hook up witit 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, of course. lie wasn't in as good form then as he is now. but I could see why he lias 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 tn which big Al wanted Tommy to manage him again. However, the pug santel no contract attached to his end of it. O'Rourke turned down the offer because Palzer was unwilling to use tin old contract. Carl Morris out of the game’' Not vet l he former White Hope is again seeking matches in New York. Morris sacs he is keen fol another crack at ,11m Stewart, but that he Is willing to meet anv of the big pugs. • • • Jimmy flabby has signed articles of agreement to box six rounds with Ted Jasper at Hammond. Ind . some time in alie near future. • • • Frankie Russell has started tratmng for his ten-round scrap with Jack White in New Orleans. August 12. White will ar rive from the coast either today or to morrow and will start working imme diately • • • Mont? Attell and Benn> Chavez have been matched for a 20-round engagement at Trinidad. Colo. No date has been set for the bout • err.' Halton and Harry Wade are the headliners <>n the boxing .-ard at Indian apolis tonight. The boys are scheduled to mix it for ten rounds. Is* ' I 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 graWbed his fishing rod and went after the denizens of the deep. And before he departed President Murphy told him that if he 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 oft the bases, cover a lot of ground in going after foul halls and clout fairly well. Brownie was taken with the catcher until he removed his cap. Then he saw that he was bald. * * * •‘I—I E won't do," said Brow nie to * 1 President Murphy as they discussed the youngster. "You say he can hit'.’" queried the president. "He sure can hit,” answered Brownie. You say lie 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 be fight?" queried Presi dent. Murphy. "He's mighty aggressive," 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 West Side magnate; "No, he isn't. That is. lie isn't so old that lie 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 someday. Remember Jack Ryan?” "Quite well," from President M urphy. ♦ * ♦ <*[TK was catching witli the Car dinals when I was pitching there. I was in a real pitchers’ bat tle one afternoon. Had the score tied in tile ninth.- w ith the usual trimmings, two and three on the ’ Chronic Ulcers Mean Bad Blood „ al a P "x: d :^^ s l rxs!x? b ix I c f ro '’ ic «tw. But the trouble is alway sin the b odl whSl & C ” ratlVe trea tment diseased, and keeps the Sore bv and impurities and infectious matter with which the 1; "i"?- ’ nt -° Jt the Salves, washes, lotions, etc., may cause the nite f c is filled. .It may cause tne place to scab over temnonrilv but the blood is not made purer by such t J / '« s ores by going down into the blood ami ° ' “MBT HonaSn X' Xd° «» I”" 1 ” s. S; s. . his S coming the bad effects of a chronic ulcer Rn.Tt- c L nature in over any medical advice tree Tuc " "21 ' *" n Scrcs a '" l I’lcers an. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA. batter and all of that sort of thing, when the batter hit a foul a mile high. No catcher should ever miss a foui 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 hail 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 tiiink this fellow will do.” Os course. Brow nie hasn't the last word in tile matter. Said cah-.imr will be looked over by onto of th* ' 'uh regular scouts. It 1»-»*e«iain ty that he will not be fetwwa* pgi if he is purchased. • • * Y'»r think that BmwWs «tory of Jack Ryan an exaspera tion'.' But hall players «gMtoii'v are touchy concerning thdb hair <>r lack of it. They figure the moment a man begins to lav bis hair the fans will think he ts 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 toucl»» lion with a ball player. BILL SMITH WILL NOT LEAD CRACKERS AGAII The rumors, coining from Chattanooga that Bill Smith is to manage the Atlant team next season, are causing som amusement here. li will not happen —unless the basebai association changes hands. The present owners of the franchise di not get along with Smith. They couldn agree, somehow, on business method! So they let Bill out the year he w’on . pennant. That they will take him bad nnw is highly improbable. Thai Bill will not manage the Chatta nooga club next year is probable. LOCALS HAVEN'T BOUGHT WEISER OF CHARLOTTi ■flip report emanating from Charlotte ’ that the Cracker club has bough "Bud" Weiser, an outfielder, for $1,251 wa news at baseball headquarters. “Wc did dicker for the man," said M. Callaway this morning, "but we nevei came within a thousand miles of agree ing on terms. We may buy Weiser even, tually hut certainly not at their presen, price." VOL PLAYERS REPORT. Nashville, te.nn , Aug 5 ju< Daley, former Brooklyn outfielder Is ex, pected to report here today from hit home near Montgomery, Ala. Waiver: have been a-’ked on Harry Storch Pitch er Jimmy V' , st, of Toledo, reported yes. * t r d «i \.