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Flag-Winning Array of Players Must Be “Club”
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No Jealousies of Diamond Stars Must Exist
John (“Chief”) Meyers
‘ (Giants’ Great Catcher.)
,-pHE fighting out of a world’s
championship battle between
*• two baseball teams that have
-■■classed the competitors in their
e . c etive leagues no doubt brings
F ' tl . the minds of the enthusiastic
,V.rs of the game—it certainly
doe> to the members of the teams—
the question:
••What makes a winning ball
club'.'” * .
I will try to answer that ques
t> ,-i as best 1 can.
; n . the first place, I believe that
the most important thing of all is
, t the members of the athletic
.mgregation which is to represent a
■~ty must be a "club” and a "team."
a "club” they must be all
f 1 r>ls, all good fellows together.
T v iyust have pride in their or-
Kanization. There must be no jeal
bies. no dissensions. Every man
v,,,uld regard every other man—
v i ether he is a regular or a sub-
S . , ulc _as his pal, as a man he'd
stick to through thick or thin.
I am mighty glad to say that the
X w York National league club
men feel just that way. We all
VP on our-visiting cards, after
~m names, the words, "New York
Giants." and, believe me, 1 don't
mind saying that every one of us
f,. X a little swelling of the chest
■ n lie hands one of those cards
; out.
Giants” Means Guarantee.
The words "New York Giants”
mean not only that we’re members
f a baseball organization that's
b st in the country, but they’re
a guarantee that each of us is a
•,gula - man —or else we wouldn't
be able to sport.
As a "club” we're proud to be
'mig to the Giants as a society man
in New York is to say that he's a
member of the Union, or Knicker
bocker. or the Brook. We i-hare
mil troubles and joys together, and
like it.
That, perhaps, is the first requi
site of a pennant-winning organi
zation —being a "club."
Being a "team" is another mat
ter.
| Did you ever watch a skillful
boxer at work? His eyes work,
first of all. watching the moves of
his adversary. With them, disarms
work to find a vital i "int where he
<an deliver his bio.. >:• ward off
his enemy’s blow. Ills logs carry
him forward into .tn aggressive at
titude. or backward into a defen
sive attitude.
fiver all these his mind works,
controlling each.
Well, a successful baseball nine
must be just like that —just like a
fighter. His physical parts are, in
an individual way, a "team.” They
no k together, instantly, without
uniting to size up a situation,
my know, as soon as the situa
tion arises, what they have to do,
and they do it instinctively. So
does the winning kind of a ball
nine. And so does each player on
’hat nine.
Makes Great Play Instinctively.
Here is a little instance which
; happened only a few days ago: A
aid hit ball was slammed at Lar
y Dotle, who was playing a trifle
deep beyond second base. He got
it. miraculously almost, with one
hand. There was a runner coming
down from first who had started
"ith the crack of the bat. Larry
■ < no chance, he knew instinc
tive'y, to throw to the bag, be-
■iuso the play had been so swift.
So he made a backward dive with
hall in his hand, trusting to
his <onse of location to hit the can-
- before the runner did. Larry
made it.
That was only an individual
P ay, of course; but it showed how
tue "team instinct” runs. He knew
'hut his mates coula.i't cover the
bag quickly enough to take his
". They knew it. too. and
't try. They relied upon him
I i t. they knew exactly what he
I try to do. And, wonderful
th? play looked, it was expected
■i’ound our Infield.
I" a ball is hit so that Merkle
; to go out of his territory to
■over it and leave the first bag un
r-tected, the pitcher—no matter
o he is—is over on first like a
i!i h. He knows instinctively—just
i°w is hard to tell—that he is
p ded. And he's there.
’’•m may think: "That's simple—
M's the first principle of base-
Well, in away, it is. But
■ winning club does it. and the
mg club does not; and that's the
difference.
Must Be Good Friends.
! be w inning club is a machine
hose parts are, first of all, good
■ nds, and next are units which
1< together swiftly without con-
f, ring that they are working to
gether.
You've got to have both the
; lib" and the “team" spirit in a
‘■essful baseball organization. I
e I have made clear just what
h spirit is.
A ball is hit. Every man knows
n the very instant it leaves the
t where it is going and just what
should do. The play is carried
The runner is disposed of.
’"re is a comment that the spec
>rs don’t hear: "Good boy, Mat-
Nice work there. Fred;” "All
:| ght, Chief.”
'he question of batting and
bing as the means of making a
' king club will naturally arise in
fan’s mind. That leads to
guments which would take up
>mns of space. I will not enter
!r ' r > such arguments.
Being a hitter and not a pitcher,
I think that for my own part I
would rather have a ball club of
good, free-swinging, hard-hitting
fellows which would roll up a lot
of runs than a team which had
two or three cracking good pitch
ers who could hold the other fei
lows down to a verv few runs
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Si' ::T T ■■. ?F F
Chicago ?? " 59 ° New Vnrk 49 94 .343
AT BOSTON: FIRST GAME ' R . „ B
NEW YORK 4 0 0 1 000 00- 5 11 2
BOSTON 00 11 0000 0 - 2 6 1
McConnell and Williams; Bedient and Carrigan Umpires, Dineen and Hart.
• SECOND GAME: *
NEW YORK 000100 0 0 . -1 9 0
BOSTON <><>l 0 0 0 0 2.-3 9 1
CALLED ON ACCOUNT OF DARKNESS.
Caldwell and Williams; O'Brien and Thomas. Umpires, Dineen and Hart.
AT ST. LOUIS: F ' RST GAME '
CHICAGO 000102 3 00-6 12 0
ST. LOUISO 0 1 000 01 0 2 9 3
Walsh and Sullivan; Powell and Alexander. Umpires, Connelly and O'Brien.
SECOND GAME.
CHICAGO > ’0 000000. - 211 1
ST. LOUIS 0010000100.-2 6 3
Benz and Kuhn; Hamilton and Alexander. Umpires, Dineen and Hart.
AT DETROIT: RH E
CLEVELAND 40000 0 2 0 1- 712 0
DETROIT ,1 00 0 0 0 0 2 0- 3 9 1
Blanding and O Neill; Jensen and Onslo w. Umpires, O’Loughlin and McGreevy.
Washington-Philiadelphier game off; rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CLUBS Won. Lost. P.C. CLUBS- Won Lost PC
New York 97 45 .683 Philadelphia 67 74 .475
Chicago * 87 54 .617 St. Louis 59 85 .410
Pittsburg 87 56 .608 Brooklyn 53 88 387
Cincinnati 73 71 .507 Boston' 47 97
All games off; rain.
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Runs, after all, are what count
in the game, you know. With my
club sending over six or eight or
more in a game. 1 think I'd rather
trust to a middle-class pitcher—
and good fielding—to keep the
other fellows from scoring so
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NEW YORK. Sept. 24.—-Eddie
McGoorty, of Oshkosh, is
sued today formal claim to
the middleweight championship as
the result of his victory over Jack
Harrison, middleweight champion
of England, by the knockout route
at Madison Square Garden last
night.
This was the premier appear
ance in this country of Harrison,
w ho is the holder of the Lonsdale
belt. It required 2 minutes and
54 seconds for the Western fighter
to turn the trick with a hook to
the Jaw.
Among the spectators were a
number of fashionably dressed
women who applauded each knock
down with great enthusiasm.
Recently McGoorty knocked out
Dave Smith, middleweight cham
pion of Australia.
In the second main bout Mike
Gibbons, the welterweight cham
pion, beat Tommy Maloney easily
on points.
McGoorty opened up with a right
and left to the face, then stag
gered the Englishman with a left
hook on the jaw. Keeping his man
continually on the defensive, he
sent right and left blows to the
head and. after a smashing right to
the face and a right uppercut under
the chin, he hooked Harrison's jaw
w ith liis left, sending him down for
a count of nine.
The Englishman got up groggy,
and McGoorty, after landing three
rights and three lefts on the head,
with another left hook put him
down again for the count of nine.
The same blow a few seconds later
sent Harrison to the floor for the
third time, when he was counted
out
TYRUS RAYMOND COBB
SECURED 3 SAFE HITS
OUT OF 4 TRIPS AT BAT
DETROIT, MICH., Sept. 24.—Tyrus
Raymond Cobb was in fine form today.
He was at bat four times, made three
hits, but cashed no runs.
POLICE STILL ON RACE TRACK.
HAVRE DE GRACE, Sept. 24.—The
detail of 50 Baltimore police who gath
ered evidence here yesterday on which
40 warrants were issued last night re
turned to Havre de Grace this after
noon. The continued the gathering of
evidence around the bookmakers’
stands.
National League Wants to Dethrone Its President
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Tom Lynch Is Made a “Goat” by Owners of Clubs
By W. .1, M-Belli.
< p HERE is room for doubt as
j to whether the world’s
championship series is a
good thing for the game. Base
ball is public confidence—no more,
no less. It is what the public has
made it.
Intricate organization to the con
trary notwithstanding, its life is
hanging by the thread of public
approval, it has taken years and
years of encouragement, whole
souled purpose and struggle to
place the nation’s summer pastime
upon its present exalted pedestal.
And yet one wave of doubt would
sweep away the apparent firm
foundation like chaff before a gale.
Baseball is an institution. It is
a genuine, blue-blooded, clean and
invigorating sport. Firmly estab
lished, it will endure as long as the
American race. It will endure—
DEPEND ON GRIFF AND
MACK TO TRAIN ETOSTON
Boston, sept. 24.—Jim mc-
Aleer, president and part
owner of the Boston Red
Sox and father of the All-Star se
ries project, the move that put the
Athletics on edge to defeat the
Chicago Cubs In 1910 and the New
York Giants in 1911, says that it
is up to the Red Sox brother clubs
to put them right for the forthcom
ing clash with the Giants.
McAleer hopes and believes that
each and every club will put forth
its best efforts to help condition
the Red Sox for the fight, victory
in which means continued prestige
for the American league.
He says every manager owes it
to himself, the Red Sox and the
league to send his very best line
up, Including his strongest pitch
ing:. agaanst the Boston Speed
Boys, especially in the last half
dozen games of the season.
The Red Sox still have a dozen
games to play, with one more
Yankee game they can play if they
care to do so.
In the final two series of the
season, three games at Washing
ton. September 28 and 30 and Oc
tober 1, and three games at Phila
delphia, October 3, 4 and 5. Man
ager Stahl’s boys want Connie
Mack and Clark Griffith to dish up
their very best opposition.
They ask nothing more than to
but maybe not in the professional
sense. That remains with the
powers which control the profes
sion. Here we are several weeks
away from the classic close of the
season and already there has arisen
a stench of scandal.
Charles Webb Murphy, president
of the Chicago Cubs, appears to be
a hard loser. He has questioned
the integrity of the game from
which he ran a shoestring into mil
lions of dollars. He charges whole
sale collusion among the clubs of
the National league—a conspiracy
to discriminate against Chicago in
favor of the champion Giants. Few
among his associates have escaped
the vituperous tongue of the chesty
little Windy City magnate. He
has even assailed the honor of
Thomas J. Lynch, the man that he
himself advanced In compromise as
president of the National league. '
Had Murphys ravings stopped
be pitted against Walter Johnson,
Bobby Groom and Tom Hughes in
Washington and Jack Coombs.
Chief Bender and Eddie Plank in
Philadelphia.
Inasmuch as McAleer's All-Stars
of 1910 and 1911 did much to prime
the Athletics for their settoes
which resulted in such glorious
triumphs, it is up to Connie Mack
and his players to pay off part of
the debt by reciprocating in like
form.
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with or concerning himself, little
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People have become used to Mur
phy. What he says goes in one
ear and out the other. But, like
the whinings of a whipped cur, his
yelps got onto the nerves of his
associates. Bickerings back and
forth aroused the latent petty jeal
ousies and hatreds of former days.
Ihe whole National league was
taken by the ears until now no one
knows kin or foe. But Murphy es
capes ft all. Tom Lynch is the
“goat.”
The National league Is after
Lynch's scalp, according to tha
best informed authorities. Each
of the several club owners haa
picked his candidate for the berth,
Tlie present executive's strength
lies in the dissension that divides
his house. It will take a majori
ty vote to unseat him, and by the
present signs and tokens the old
major bod# will never be able to
get together to frame a majority
vote for twenty years. In such
case, Lynch would do well to stick
around just for spite. He is tired
of the Job and he doesn’t need the
pin money the National league
pays its president. If Lynch steps
down and out. It will he the Na
tional league’s loss.
Be that as it may” the housed"
cleaning should start nearer the
ground floor. Charles Webb Mur
phy has proved himself no fit. per
son to be connected with the pro
motion of baseball, if half the sto
ries told of him are true, or if half
the interviews attributed to him.
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