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tii« Rochester team was in At-
iUita lie said, “If anybodj can Ban-
le Graham lie will Pc a marvel.
Vud John ought to know, for he
ried and failed dismally.
A month ago Smith \va- no rooter
or Graham. He admitted Hat's ahil-
ty but itiUeh prefeifed to let rome-
>0(1 > elst' develop It.
Since thdll Pat Graham lias wlitil-
1 (aught great baseball. He
•d well rr i he has hit well.
It is u cii.tli that Pat has cbtivliiccd
Smith that lie can tatcli better ball
than any man on his Pldff.
The question h . therefore, has Pai
convinced Bill that Pat will continue;
Ids good work all the wesson?
Whoever cun worm the answer <»t
licit question out of P.ill Smith can
with ■ ' i:iim\ name tin Cracker
catching staff for the year.
* * *
PWO accident.- nave combined t"
■ make the iiiml eh •>tion <»C the
pitching staff diilieult. One Is the,
injury to Ge«*rg«* lt.iUsewcin. The
other is the fact that I’hick Becker;
turned up this pring a bit tinder
weight and not in top-notch condi-
l loti.
If Hmitl) could have found out just
what Builgewolh had and ir he Unt-v
pihether lieckor were coming around
ail right the selecting of the stuff
would be easy.
Taps for Wolgast, Says Naughton
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Expert Advises Him to Quit Game
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S AX FHAXriSGO, April 21. Taps
fur Wildcat Wolgast. That 1b.
as a champion. Ac a good,
useful selling plater, he might con
tinue for a while in the lighting game,
if lie Wished. If he is ’.vise, though,
and is well endowed with the world's
goods as he says, he will retire. Bet
ter that than to drift gradually Into
the Sargasso Sea of pugiilym, as Bat
tling Nelson has done.
• Wolgast was thoroughl’. vanquished
by Harlem Torihhy Murphy at <*of-
fioth's Klghth Street Arena Saturday.
11 took MurpliN the full twenty rounds
to gain the decision, but when the
Irtst blow was struck arid the last
gong had clanged there was hover a
doubt as to which way Referee Jim
Grillln wotlld rule.
Even for Seventeen Rounds.
It \v;i" nip and tuck, touch arid go.
for seventeen rounds. During all that
tittle, the lightweights fought with tho
spirit Of a couple of game roosters.
.Murphy, maybe, was the more per
ish tit of the two. He scored the
greater number of punches, but when
Wolgast landed, there was more alp
and sting to his delivery. This ap
plies particularly to the tirade of
body blow-*.
•M e uppercut, delivered In the cigh-
L'etith, changed the aspect of the
whole affair Needless to say. M or
pin sp» d iU but whether it was a left
U K course if Bill Hi
other player or twe
if Bill Hiriltll heeded ail
tho local bu.se-
ill associ tit loll wouldn’t mind buy-
ii.’g 'em.
Just before the reason opened
Smith had a chance to get a goixl
.looking * atcnt'i* at a reasonable priec
and he laughed at the offer. That
seems to mean that he was even then
quite satisfied that his catching staff
na.N of penntin; « alibor.
Judged by the <.]>eninK showing «*f
the Cracker lmrlcrs it will h, a long
time bei’oto Smith will need to buy
any pttchfrs.
In eonaideHibh less than ;t u.<k
it will probably be possible to tell
exactly now tho Crackers will appear
the day after the final cut in made.
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or a right, the writer for one would
not undertake to say.
At the tittle the lads were leaning
breast to breast and Murphy’s fast-
flying gloves were us nebulous in
appearance as the paddles of an elec
tric fdn in action. The cons’tant tilt
ing of Wolgast's head testified to the
accuracy of Murphy’s dim, but at that
Wolgast was not idle. He hiihiniei’ed
diligently at tile Harlem boxer’s ribs,
but with the diminished force that
had been noticeable for several
rounds.
They parted suddenly from a spasm
of exceedingly rapid lighting and
Wolgast’s lower face was a glisten
ing smear of red. One of the Mur
phy punches had smashed the lower
lip Into contact witli the teeth and a
small artery was severed.
Wolgnot Tried Gamely.
Wolgast was in sore straits, but
In* bailed on with spartan fortitude,
the while th<‘ Murphyites on the
packed benches bellowed gleefully
over the change in the look of things
Wolgast. who for several rounds
had tried weakly and butigHngly, by
the way, redoubled Ills efforts to stem
the tide with one fell punch. But li**
| was dog tired and wild of aim, and
it was no trick for Murphy to snap
back from the Michigander’s wild as
saults and a quick return to the At
tack. In the klyt round of all Wol
gast fought frantically. * lie swung
and tumbled into clinches and while
at close quarters he put his remain
ing strength into body blows which
had lost their power to listurb.
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am that hud to face the
ckers in every gaim* of a sca-
fcuii would need . bout ten pitchers.
For the Ctackers use up tfvb op
posing pitchers in almost every gam*
they go in.
Here is the list of the two-pitcher
games that the Cracker batters have
forced on opposing dubs:
April 10—More and Troy. Chatta-
April 11—Cpvelbskie arid Chappell' ,
«'.'dittauoogd.
April ll* -Tro\ and Stark Chatta-
i.ooga.
April 14—Thompson and Sloan,
Bimiinghain.
April 1 16—Foxoii .urn Thompson,
Birmingham.
April 19—-Williams *and Gender,
il the Crackers go on lik«* this,
knocking out on or mor< Jltcllcrs
a day, they will become th«» terrors
of tit*- league. Arid judged hy pres
ent batting av< , iges tiiir might .
STRONG N AKES RECORD DRIVE.
PINKJtl’KST. A. C.. April What
Is believed to be a world’s record drive
va* recorded by IJorbhrt Strong, dr the
lx:wood Club, in the open event of the
thirteenth animal United North and
Amateur Golf cnfetublnftshlp at
Pim-hurst. NT. p. with the wind back of
hjtn. Strong made the tirst green on tho
Xu. l. course, a distance of 408 \ard«
SMITH PICKS MUSSER
TO FACE V0LS TO-DAY
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CHRISTY MATHEVKJNS
BIG LtAGUl GOSSIP
Welters Coming Into Their Own
‘Attell Can Beat Kilbane’-Rivers
B OSTON, MASS.. April 21. Baseball is passing tliroligh. a period of transi
tion. Everything does. The changes are not iii the game itself, but in the
organization.
V few years ago the hi" difficulties in baseball Mere always between
rival bodies, such as theNational and American Leagues in the old war days,
but since then it lias been discovered there is room for two leagues, and now
Hy •!<)(* Agler.
AMHVIIVLK, TIONX' . April
11,
Tho Crackers are ready for
the third game of their series
with the Veils this afternoon. Paul
Musset* has been selected by Bill
Smith to twirl, with Graham behind
the bat. Manager Schwartz will re
ly on Fleharty to fool the Chackerk,
with KdUie Noyes at the receiving
end.
The Crtmkers were up at 8:30 this
morning, confident of taking the two
remaining games from the Vols. Most
• *f the boys spent yesterday sceihg
Nashville in a big Inuring car. while
others were content to sta> around
the hotel and play pinochle.
Nashville scribes here admit that
Blllj Smith litis a good hall club. They
lire loud in their praise of the At-
lanta pla>
ami outtield
rs
especially of the infield
Wally Smith will stire-
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lv go to the big leagues is the opin
ion of the scribes around here. His
bother Saturday over the right field
fence was one of the longest hits ev^*
seen hero. Cy Haldgreeit, a hitcher,
has joined the Volts, and Manugbr
Schwartz Is after two more pitchers
from the majors.
ST. LOUIS STORY SAYS
MURPHY IS TO SELL CUBS
ST. Bul’IS, MO., April 31.- Charles
Webb Murphy, owner of tht* Chicago
Cubs, will dispose of his holdings this
year and retire permanently from the
national game, according the sv.
Bouls Times.
In an ttrtifcle published yesterday, Si<l
Keener states that lie has inside in
formation to this effect, and says that.
| while Murphy will indignantly deny the
j story, he has reasons rot believing that
tf Johnny Brers tails to build up the
once famous Cub machine. Chaflhs
Webb will got but while the getting Is
good.
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the battle appears to be between the players and the
organization. The case of Cobb lias demonstrated
this fact. The unusual number of holdouts last win
ter confirmed it. Baseball has become a highly oi-
gnnized and developed institution, and the old dispute
of labor and capital is coming into evidence in it.
I am not going to undertake to adjust the differ
ences between Cob and the Detroit club. I lie real
facts of the case and the merits of the contention are
not accurately known by me, but the incident has a
big bearing on baseball, it is not a question of salary,
because at present there is a variance of only a few
hundred dollars between Cobb and Mr. Navin. 1 ho
outcome will establish a baseball precedent.
* * *
N OW t do not want my readers to think 1 am taking
tills game too seriously. But a statement made to
the class in history while I was in college many years
ago returns to my mind. ,
“Every second or third generation, said this ac
celerator of knowledge, sliding his spectacles back
on his forehead, “there comes some sort of a change
in all governments. A rush of unrest strikes into the
bones of the people, and they demand an alteration.
So milch has been read of strife /they want a few
thlrills for themselves, and are eager to know what
■war is like. The next revolution iu this country will
be between labor and capital.”
This, In d more superficial way, applies to base
hail. Iti t.hfe old days of the baseball wars, the play
ers were merely the pawns with which the owner
played. The star was offered much mbhey to leap
from league to league and back again, and many
players spent their spare hours leaping. A man could
go to bed at night owning a pennant-winning ball chib
and awake in the morning with nothing left but hope
and a prayer, especially if he slept late. Those j limp
ing ball players used to like to travel on sleepers.
Jimmy Sheckard was the prize bullfrog of them
all. He could leap faster and oftener than iny of the
rest. The magnates were chary about paying off their
men In full, because pay day always made a nice
springboard. No player was going to jump a club
with a bundle of money owed to hint. And out of this
war between the leagues the stars received many
thrills and sincerely believed competition to he the
life of trace.
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a Certain cltlb’, he must stay out of the game. This
situation lias existed for several years, but Tv Cobb
has proved to be the disturbing factor in it. Last
summer, in New York, when he stepped into the
grandstand and punched a spectator, he delivered a
blow which was to rock baseball. It was the direct
result of this that the Detroit players went oh the
first baseball strike of history, and it was during the
walkotlt the present players' association was formed.
Now Cobb has again brought the matter to a head.
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C OBB lias demanded fifteen thousand dollars to play
baseball for Detroit this season, and there is lit
tle doubt that, this would be u good investment for
tiie Owners of that club, because Cobb would bring
tuttph more than his salary to the gate in the course
of the race. It wools establish a precedent, llow, ver.
find lead other stars to rebel.
Organized baseball cannot afford illis. anil milch
tore is behind the Cobh case than appeal's on the
surface. There is little doubt that tile leagtie htts
taken an aethu interest in the outcome. The Ameri
can cantlpt afford to lose Cobb, yet tie is not: tiig
enough to force organized baseball to yield to his
demands and set aside long-established principles.
Fhns cannot blame Cobb for his attitude In the mat
ter. Tie. realized the life of a ball player is short
and is stteking to bis stand like an old maid to an un
married man.
If he wins, it will strengthen the position of the
players. If he loses, the organization will have
triumphed, it is an interesting case.
* * •
A ND, In the meantime, the clubs In both leagues are
trying to play their schedules, although the first,
week of the season was not much to encourage them
in the effort. The standing of the clubs now looks
like a scene when viewed through the wrong end of
a pair of opera glasses. Everything is upside down.
Tiie Athletics are Tho only boys in either league
who have touched their form, ahd, having been caught
in a flood In the Middle West during the training saa-
Sdn. tills shotting can t>„ Uqdcrslodtl. They aft' used
to the g"ing Trie Boston Bed Sn\ |niv.' not shaped
up like world’s champions, and tho Giants have failed
to impress their admirers.
To go out of the family for a minute, the race in
the American League looks as if it would be a keen
one, judging by the first few games. The Red Sox
are just as strong this season as they were last year.
The pitching staff is magnificent and the outfield un
approachable, but still the fact remains that luck
hugged the Red Sox last summer with the tenacity
displayed hy an actor's wife when she gets her hand
some husband back from a road tout of six months
without any ripples on the domestic Sea. Jake Stahl
went through a wonderful season. Hardly ohe of his
regulars was out of a game, and his pitchers rounded
into excellent form from the first and citing to it.
Joe Wood had a phenomenal year, and made a record
that will be a big one to shoot at this season. I think
he won' thirty-six battles and lost four last season,
which will keep him traveling -tills time. Gardner
was shifted front third base, and became a star after
having been a. very mediocre seeond-saeker. Luck
broke for Jake last. year.
In spite of Connie Mack's often repealed state
ment that In ;i schedule of one hundred and ftfty-
foUr games, luck breaks about even, the showing tiiade
by his team last summer did not bear this out. He
had scafecly his regular line-tip in the game ail sea
son. one star after another was injured, and those
who were not hurt failed to keep iii condition. Con
nie did not voice hi3 favorite theory so loudly at the
finish. The Athletics -made a bad showing against
Boston last season, losing a large majority of their
games to the Red Sox. Already Mack's club has a
flying start on the Boston team with two victories.
Washington was strong against the Boston club, but
wteai; when playing the Athletles.. Things, at this
writing point toward Connie Mack’s men making the
other boys rush.
All is quiet along the National so far, Evers has
not. blown up as a manager yet, and the Pittsburg
tbfim has not displayed a stride which looks like that
shown by a 1 ft 14 racing automobile in its demonstra
tion trip. As i have said so often, the chances of the
i’itates depend largely upon how tdans Wagner Is go
ing to stand the wear and tear of another race. Clarke
lms substitutes, but there never was but one Wagner.
'I'o all pitchers he looks like an exclamation point In
the batting order. This is not true Of am man who
takes his place. The psychology in It is a big factor.
* * *
lWOVf for a few words about, the Giants, which is the
thing I have been working up to alt along, but I
did hot want to feature theth too prominently, being in
the family myself. It seemed more appropriate to
give them a place in this story similar to their pres
ent standing in the league. It. is fuuny how despon
dent a few games dropped Iii April will make the
fatts worry, and McGraw is a great fan. While he is
not despondent, hb was talkdtivte after Brooklyn beat
the cltlb the other day. When McGraw has some
thing to say. he usually lets it go, and his meaning
would be assimilated by a btirteh of dtiaf mutes, even
if he did not use the Dummy Taylor language. After
losing the game with Brooklyn it; the ninth last week,
said McGraw:
Because you fellows have won two petinants in
a row, no* you are getting oveicOnfideht. You mav
think there is plenty of time ahead to catch up. That
is wllat the Athletics thought last summer until they
found out It. was September, and tiiev had an awful
big piece of catching up oil their hands. A game
wain in April amounts to exactly as iriuch as one
taken ih September. Bear that in mind. Look at
what the Athletics are doing this verir They are
bearing It in mirnl. they are taking in all the hay
they can when the sun is shining, and even risking it
oil cloudy days. Now the next time I find any of you
"oys being careless about your manners on the bases
and being caught by a thrown ball with a fiat foot,
it will make a difffereofcfe in your pay envelbpes.”
1 iie acoustics of the clubhouse are fine.
By Ed W. Smith.
C ~A HicAGo, April 21. —In recent
Shears the welters Have not been
Very popular ih any Section of
the country, because there were few
of them Worthy of a leading classifi
cation. Recently, however, they have
beeh bdrillrig ihto their own, and with
several corking good fighters spring
ing up in different parts of the middle
West, we are apt to see sorile pretty
good contests among the 145-pound
ers. In the old days of Billy Mollody,
Buddy Ryan, Jack O'Keefe and Jimmy
Gardner, to say nothing of others il-
most equally good, the class was dis
tinctly popular, but the lightweights
ousted them from their position.
4 * *
George Gardner, once lightweight
champion ai*d a fighter of fhe old
school, and a good one, too, back in
the dear old days, has attained the
services Of Johnny O’lCeefe of Denver,
a middleweight scrapper of soiite
class, and is about town httrlihg out
cballehgfes right and left. Johnny looks
like the real thing and says lie
wouldn't be afraid to rhake 154 pounds
at 3 o’clock in the afternoon or 153
pounds at the ringside. He would
like to hook up with Jimmy Clabby,
Bob Moha or some of the other mid
dies. Johnny says he already has
trimmed Tim O'Neil, the Irondale
mixer, out on the Coast, which is
sdme recommendation.
* *■ *
Rivers Boosts Attell.
There is at least one prominent pu
gilistic person who is firmly con
vinced that Abe Attell. ex-feather
weight champion, labks none of tho
qualities and ability he possessed be
fore he was relieved of his title by
Johnny Kilbane. Joe Rivers, the Mex
ican lightweight, vows Attfell to-day
is just as good as he was when he
was king of the 122-potilid boys. Not Seals.
only that, but Rivers offers to bet
$2,5Qft that Attell cah defeat every
man of his weight In the world, In
cluding Kilbane.
Rivers should know whereof he
speaks, for he was sparring with At
tell dally. Recently the tvVo went
through three-minute rounds together.
The bout was ceHninly a hummer
Neither spared the other, for they
punched with all the power they could
piit behind theit* blows. The set-to
was an acid test for the feathe -
weight, who had to box In his old-
time form to save himself from the
aggressive Mexican.
While Rivers was being rubbed
down by his trainer after the bout, he
said:
“You can’t tell mo that Attell can't
come back. I saw him fight on the
Coast wheri he was champion, and I
fefel no hesitancy in saying that he is
every bit as good now as he was then.
I think he can lick a!! the feather
weights. Poor physical condition cost
him the loss of his title. Kilbane is
a good man, but he was fortuna*'
when lie fought Attell. Abe held him
too cheap and did not train as ho
should have for that bout.
“If Attell will bUckle dotvn to hard
work, go to bed early of nights, cut
out rich food and do all the other
things that a fighter should do <•
readh the height of physical condition.
I think he could regain the champion
ship. I feel so certain of it that I'd
bet $2,500 on it, provided, of critifse,
that Attell trains as he should. Ah
can ‘come back,’ because he hasn't
‘gone back.’ With propeh training, he
will be as good as he ever was.”
EWING AFTER NEW PLAYERS.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 21.—j. Cal
Ewing, owner of the San Francisco
team, announced yesterday he had
wired to Connie Mack, Philadelphia,
and Navib. Detroit, big league, mana
gers, for playets to strengthen the
rtt host, an,d he must get it while the gettlhg is easy.
He appreciates the amount he is worth to his club, T’l' was back iii 1900 that the Giants* had fvon two
* pennants and one world’s championship, and the
boys sort of felt they knew jtlst about all there was
to know about playing the game of baseball. All they
had to do was to put on their shirts with “World’s
Champions” marked on them and keep their hands in
shape to pull another pennahtMo the masthead. But
that “World’s .Champions" label looks terriblv foolish
along: about September when the standing of the clubs
dees not confirm the boast. McGraw will keep on the
Giatits harder than ever this season, because he
realizes it is the very year when they fire the most
likely to kick away a championship. Ho will not give
thoitt any leeway.
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