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Bat Choking Not Popular With
Red Sox; They’re Free Swingers
By Bill Bailey.
x "1 THAT’S nil this talk about
choking the bat to hit the
pitching of the modern
twirler?
You have heard and read the
stories Tj Cobb is one of those
who remarks that you have p>
choke if you expect to get the base
hits
Take a look at the Boston Red
Sox and you are nt least likely to
have some doubts on the subject.
You may not become convinced that
choking of the bat isn't necessary.
But you are bound to admit that
there are two sides to the argu
ment Because there are just two
of the Red Sox regulars who choke
their bats.
The lads who line them hard and
far are the fellows who grip the
bat at the very end and then take a
good, healthy swing.
• • •
AMONG those who do not choke
** their bats are "Sluggers"
Yerkes. Speaker. Lewis, Gardner,
Wagner and Cary When Stahl Is
in the game the count is 6 to 2
against the choking of the war club.
The pitcher isn't counted, but when
Wood Is on the mound the fellows
who grip the club near the handle
have another vote. Because Wood
also stands up there and whales at
the, ball, getting all the power he
can behind his drive and grasping
said drive-producer so near the
handle that his left hand is on the
knob
You know there Is a theory In
baseball that choking the hat Is
mme scientific. Those who favor
that method claim that the pitch
ers of today break their curves so
quickly that the fellow who grasps
his bat at the very end and swings
is sure to make a show of himself.
They claim that by choking the
bat the slugger can hit quicker
and, while he may not get the dis
tame t|iat the long swinger does,
that he will get so main mme
base hits that he will be the gainer
in the end.
HUNTER. SECKEL. TRAVIS
AND EVANS PLAY TODAY
CHICAGO. Sept 13. Charles Evans.
Jr. Western golf champion, today is
playing Albert Heckel, formerly West
ern champion, and Walter .1 Travis
formerly American and British golf
premier, is contesting with Paul Hun
ter in the semi-finals for the Mayflower
golf trophy at the <>nwentsia club.
Evans yesterday made two rounds in
71, defeating both \\ p plow. ,|i of
onwentala. and i-'iaser Hah. of Sko'lsie
four and the. Travis bad two .nv
matches against Chicago golfer- .
feating J M. Tait, 9 up and 8. •>; the
forenoon, and All. n Reed. 7 and '. in
the afternoon. Seekel won his wax to
the semi-final* be defeating W |>
Egan, formerly Western .hampion 5
and 4 Hunter, yesterdac afternoon
defeated R M McElw ee. of <_>nw
who earlier had eliminated C G \\ al
fio. Jr. Connecticut champion. 2 and 1
" ’»’«ek fief fortnet
Champion Harold Hilton ln th. mi
tlona! tournament
ATTELL FIGHTS TONIGHT
IF SHERIFF LETS HIM
FVatherw eight Champion Abe * "vT.'ii
Will make an effort to back ' at
Madison Square Garden tonight unless
ms scheduled ten-round boxing con
test with Harry Thomas, of England
is stopped by Sher iff Julius Harbin ger
M hen asked Whether he would allow
th* bout to go on or not, in the light
of Governor Dix .<• re nt letter t’e
sheriff w „ld w ||| enforce the law
Sporting eir. eg her. heard H report
that Manager Hi’ • Gibson, of th< Gar
den Mhleti. < üb, would go into court
some time during the day and ask for
an Injunction preventing the authori
ties from interfering
KETCHELL BESTS CLABBY.
HAM-.1..M, ;m, S)1 „ ~ stev|>
■ R-tehe ,f. .. p.,; .„ v . f(
ten r.. it . i.. , ~r , , L . .
J I' hasn't been so long age that
Tyrus Cobb was quoted on this
proposition "Time was when I
thought 1 could grab my bat at the
very end and swing with all my
might," said Tyrus. "But these
curve ball pitchers broke me of
that habit and ruined that belief.
1 realize now that the way to get
the most base hits is to choke the
bat and then meet the ball. I may’
not get the power behind the drive
that I formerly got. but I get more
hits Because by choking the bat I
am in position to hit quickly and so
take advantage of a quick breaking
curve If It breaks where I can hit
It"
Now, theie are not many who are
going to dispute what the Detroit
slugger has to remark on the ques
tion of hitting But at the same
time you have this Boston club to
take Into consideration. There
Isn't a pitcher In the American
league who is going to claim for a
moment that the Red Sox can't hit.
It's an accepted fact that they can,
and if you don't believe it consult
almost any pitcher of your ac
quaintance. and he'll tell you about
the time that they inqde him take
to«tfye woods
♦ ♦ ♦
VET. the only men who choke
1 their hats on that club are
Hooper, the man who leads off, and
Wagner, the shortstop, who bats
seventh There isn’t a freer hitter
or a longer swinger in the game
than this Tris Speaker. And
Yerkes, Gardner and Lewis stand
up there and start theii swings be
hind their backs.
No one in the game is going to
dispute that the free swinger is the
lad who drives in the runs when he
does connect w ith the ball. Chop
ping hits may be tine and the thing.
But when you see these lads from
Boston finding up there with their
hands at the very end of the handle
and swinging from the shoulder you
are bound to have some doubts
about it.
CHECKER TOURNEYS WILL
ALL BE HELD IN ATLANTA
KNOXVILLE. TENN. Sept. 13—The
fifth annual tournament of the South
ern Checker association closed two
days of play In this city last night.
John M Allen. .It , of Knoxville, who
won the championship at the Green
ville. S. c , tournament last year, suc
cessfully defend.-d his title against all
comers s. S Hallman, of Spartan
burg. S c, won second honors; G c
Raymond, of Atlanta. third. S G.
Neville, of Knoxville, fourth, and F. B
FMibu'n. of Anderson. S c.. fifth
The minor tourney was won by Cas
Frazier, of Knpxvtlle, with w. T. New
man. of Atlanta, second.
E B. Elshburn was elected
to the ensuing year and Erank James,
of t olumbia. S c .secretary and treas
urer
.Beginning with the 1913 convention
annual conventions will be held at that
point
"YALE PROSPECTS NEVER
BETTER” COACH A. HOWE
NEW H AVEN..CONN . Sept. 13
Head Coach Arthur How. of IH(
lootball eleven. s„i.l today that the out.
look sot 1912 could not be blighter
Sixty men, Including six veterans have
i.portdtl sot practice. Bomeister. one
ot last -.as.ni - st ir-, said he would be
on the field this afternoon. Work thio
w.ek and the first of next will consist
of falling on the ball, passing and dum.
my tackling
THORNTON DEFEATED IN
DOUBLES AT CLEVELAND
'LEVELAND OHIO, Sept 13.
I'-a'ine iii t". -. mi-flnn s of the state
tennis tournament y ext, ■ day. \V s
•'ll Elliot If I'lt-buig. beat .1 C Roy.
on. of Cley.land 6-3, 6-1 and 9-7. and
.1 G N. .sop. . • Dartmouth college, de
tente. T \V Si.j iien- of Wilkinsburg
x-H. 7-3 h ml '.-2
I”” ' ' " round .f men's doubh -
R” ' I Mam lp -I. beat Thornton
and Armstrong 7-3. 4-6 and 6-4
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 13. 1912.
Baptist College Should Have Best Team of Its History This Year
MATERIAL IS HEAVY AT MERCER AND PROMISING
By Percy H. Whiting.
IT'S a tough job pulling out of
an athletic rut. The University
of Tennessee is finding it out.
So is the Atlanta ball ■dub, the
Boston Nationals, the St. Louis
Americans, the track teams of
England, and Walter J. Travis—
for a few assorted examples. Some
times teams fail at it. For in
stance, the University of Nashville,
which has slumped from promi
nence io nowhere. Others succeed
as witness the Washington base
ball team and the Vanderbilt elev
en. yvhich was a joke twelve years
ago.
All of yvhich is byway of lead
ing up to Mercer. The Macon col
lege a few years back was nowhere
in football. It ranked a little bet.-
ter than the average prep team,
but not if lot.
Thon they set about building up.
It was a tough Job, but they pul a
good man on it—Frank Blake, of
Nashville He made a grand start.
When he dropped the work, Couth
Strouds was secured. And he's at
it yet. with good chances of suc
cess. t
• Lagt year, for the first time in
ages, the Mercer team yy as a tough
proposition. Good colleges quit
leading off their schedule with it.
and Mercer games ceased to be re
garded as practice affairs by Tech.
Georgia. Clemson, Auburn and the
big colleges of the middle South.
• ♦ ♦
j F you ask any of the Mercer men
,* about prospects, they at once be
gin unloading a tale of woe.
"Wlty. look who we lose." say
they; "Grice. Conger, Zellars, Fox
worth and Bradford. Wow!"
Well, you have to hand it to them.
That's a pretty big loss to any
team. Grice, who played well at
center; Conger, a guard; Zellars,
quarter and captain, and Foxworth,
halt' back, were the mainstays of
the team last year.
But then it's alyvays the main
stays that go. College men don't
seem to realize that. The coach
gets hold of a man and trains him
three years. By the time he en
ters the fourth year he has be
come a mainstay. But. of course,
the next year lie Is graduated. And
the old cry goes up. "We've lost
our mainstays "
The good coaches ate the ones
who ahvays hive a good crop of
mainstays coming on.
• V ♦
pOAt’Ji STROUDS will have
some real material to work on
this year of last year's team he
will have back these men:
Nornmn. captain and full back
Irwin, quarter, and perhaps the
best all round player on the team.
Very fast. He played half a dozen
different positions last .year.
Cook quarter and general sub.
Light, hut fast anil versatile.
MeKnlght. end.
Jameson, end.
Westmoreland guard.
Helnshon. Miles, Hughuley. Kelly.
Jenkins. Grenade, Stribling, lines
men all subs last year.
There aie some good men In that
101. Out of that batch of 1911 subs
some clever regulars should be de
veloped
* • *
u p HF. one bright spot." they tell
me. about the team Is that it
will be the heaviest in the history
of the college."
Fine business Weight will be
needed this year, for heavy men can
plow through anti make the need
ful ten yards in four doyy ns.
A little investigation shows,
however, that experts expect the
•Mercer eleven will axersge 165
pounds. That's heavy for Mei
eer but it's mighty light for a 1912
football team. However, you can
safely count on It that they are
putting the figures |<>yy, and it will
not be surprising if t'oHch Strouds
has an eleven that will total one
ton before he is through.
Q OME good men are going to
Mercer this year from various
Georgia prep schools. One is Hol
man Grice, of Edwardsville, Ala.,
who played grand ball at Norman
Park this year. They probably will
use him at center, where he will
succeed his brother. He weighs
227 pounds, and is said to be a bet
ter man than his brother—which
makes him tolerably good.
Here is an assortment of good/
strong candidates for positions,
some of them subs ami scrubs of
last year, and some of them new
men but all promising candidates
for regular positions:
Rob Heinshon, sub guard last
year. Weighs 175; will be guard
this year, and sub at center, if nec
essary.
Asbury Hall, half, from Adel, Ga.
Went to Sparks institute last year.
Weighs 166.
Holman, from Shellman. Ga. At
Norman Park last year. Either
tackle or end.
Herschel Forrester, a north Geor
gia boy; guard. He is certainty.
Huguley and Kelly, subs last
year, each yveighing 172, are practi
cally assured of positions as tackles
this year. Regarded as valuable
men.
Miles Smith, of Norman institute.
Picked to be a flashy half. Weighs
165, and is very fast.
L. B. Aultman, of Tifton, weighs
170, and is expected to be a star
end.
.Miller Wood, of Cochran. Ga.,
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
u
The Appalachian league sent up quite a
lot of players for a rank bush organiza
tion—Davis to Cincinnati. Walker and
(’ullop to Cleveland. Williams to Brook
lyn. Sloan to St. Louis and Shaw to Kan
sas City.
♦ • •
Gonzales, the Cuban who has been
signed by the Boston Braves, can't speak
English.
• • •
Armando Marsans. of the Red team, has
been given leave of absence for the rest
»>f the season and has departed for Cuba.
* * *
The national commission will arrange
for the world's series at a meeting which
will be held Monday at Cincinnati.
* * *
The national commission has decided
that the Cincinnati club has purchased
Peter Kinseley after the end of the
purchase season and that he is subject tn
draft. You would hardly look for Garry
Herrmann's club to pull a bone over the
rules.
• • •
Mrs. Helen Britton says that Roger
Bresnahan's contract as manager of the
Cardinals has still four years to run and
that Roger will have to stick to the finish.
She denied that she ever interfered with
him except in the one famous fizzle—the
one that made Rajah see red
The sporting program for the fall and
winter
World's series
Presidential election.
Absolutely nothing
• • •
Herman Schaefer is (’ailing the atten
tion of the world tn the fact that Detroit
hasn’t won a pennant since Jennings let
him go—not that it made any difference.
she fund for the Birmingham baseball
players has reached #6OO If the play
ers get SSO apiece out of it when It is
finished they will be doing remarkably
v\ (‘ll.
• • •
Extra Adrian won the pennanf in the
South Michigan league What of It—ls
anything'?
• • •
Cleveland has bought the Waterbury
club of the Connecticut league and will
use it for farming purposes.
• * •
Weilman. of the Brow ns. is said to be as
Ing at .Jim W iggs.
• • ■
The fact that so few real sales were
made by Southern league clubs to major
leaguers this fall is another indication
that the league this year is vastly slower
than normal
. • ,
Neyyark rumors have rt that a draft
will he put in io Brooklyn on Hillv Zim
merman. former t’rai ker outfielder He
has played fairly iroial ball this season.
• • •
1 h -< ft ho have been ft aitlnx all season
for the lied Sox to era, k are stdl watt
ing So is McGraw It's his best chance.
...
s.'i'.i.l.v S gate receipts at Mobile «ill
be divided among the Gull players Seems
as though this act uvght run foul of the
league s salary limit
♦
comes from Locust Grove institute,
where he starred; candidate for
line.
Hugh Cochran, of Buckhead, Ga.,
at Gordon institute last year, and
was one of that prep team’s best
players, at end.
Mills, sub last year, candidate for
line.
* * *
p ROFESSOR R. W. EDENFIELD,
*■ who is head of the athletic de
partment al Mercer, is crammed
full of enthusiasm over this year’s
prospects. He says that never be
fore has a Mercer coach had such
material to work with. And more
over. according to his beliefs, never
before was there such a coach at
Mercer as Dr. Strouds.
The doctor, by the way. Is a gen
uine M. D. He has a lot of train
ing and coaching methods that are
peculiarly his own. and he will go
through the season without an as
sistant coach.
Mercer is making a big try to
"come back." It would like to re
gain a place in Georgia where it will
rank as the athletic equal of the
University of Georgia and Tech. It
may not succeed in doing it this
year, but If it doesn't it will not
be for any lack of trying.
(( If It’s At Hartman’s It’s Correct”
It s time to lay that straw away and don
a ‘lid that's new. ’
See Our Great Opening Display of
Men’s 1912 Fall Hats
Tomorrow, Saturday, Just Arrived= = Beauties
The new fall styles are so hand
some and attractive and there’s such
an immense variety of shapes and
shades in this stock, that, instead of
even attempting to do them .justice
here in cold type, we have decided
to devote our entire two big show
windows to this initial disiilav. Men vm n t • i
this the greatest headftear R ' ,hre< “ ” rf ’ S
' display we've ever I,ad- and v™ ™ e s r one ,n ’
know What that means. ' ln " 'T' v - ' m
There are fuzzv ••| >nlsh ” a |„ in e s ,ls flt .' our
and English cloth hats, there .re ' Y V °" r
smooth alpines and new derbies ga- 2" iT pUrSe at
lore. In fa.-t. any and everv new Ol "
fall and winter style yon can men
tion is here and ready for vour se
lection.
Priced at $2.00 to $5.00
SIX PEACHTREE Opp7peiere'Bi 4 |g
'7/ It’s Correct It’s At Hartmans"
With Walsh Out Cubs a 1 to 5
Shot Over Sox in “Chi” Series
By R. AV. Lardner.
CHICAGO, Sept. 13.—1 f there's
a city series between the
Cubs and White Sox this
year it is almost certain to last one
or two games longer than the one
played last year. No member of
the South Side team can be found
who will claim four straight. Most
of them are willing to bet on their
chances, but they will not venture
a guess as to the number of games
that will be required to settle it.
The prospect is that the Cubs
will rule slight favorites because of
their brilliant fight for the National
league championship. If Ed Walsh
were not a member of Callahan’s
pitching staff, the odds would prob
ably be 4 or 5 to 1 on Chance's
club. But Walsh is still on the job,
and that means ftlat any team is
going to have trouble beating the
Sox.
Cubs Stronger in Fielding.
The Cubs undoubtedly are
stronger in fielding and oatting
than their South Side rivals. And
this season, all things considered,
they seem to be the equals of Cal’s
outfit in pitching. Big Ed has
something on any other member of
either staff, hut Doe White is in
I anything but good condition. His
leg bothers him to such an extent
that he can not take his stride, and
therefore he hasn’t much confideru •
in himself. Eddie Cicotte ought to
give a good account of himself, but
he is going to face some mighty
tough hitters in Zimmerman,
Schulte, Tinker, Evers, Sheckard,
Leach, Saier and Archer.
There is just a chance that Bill
Lange and Jim Scott will round to
before the series. With them in
shape things would assume an en
tirely different aspect. But as the
staff is constituted at present Man
ager Callahan has little to boast of
and is compelled to depend almost
entirely on Walsh.
Sox Catchers Inexperienced.
Then, too, the Sox catchers who
are now being used regularly,
Schalk and Kuhn, have never taken
part in such an important event,
nor have they ever had experience
with the Cub hitters. It will prac
tically be up to the experienced
pitchers to give their own signs
Jim Lavender and Larry Cheney
ought to bother the Sox batters.
There isn’t a spitball in the Ameri
can league that looks like Laven
der’s, although Walsh’s has a big
ger break. The Sox aren't accus
tomed to hit against good spitball
pitching, for the reason that they
are on the same club with Big Ed.
and the American league possesses
no other dispenser of moisture who
is in his class.