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SIOE KETGHEL
IS LATEST TO
IT
Bv Ed W. Smith.
C HICAGO. May 1.—Boxers all
over the country are displaying
a restless mood and many of
them have already quit their old man
agers or are pro pa ring to do so. The
ease of Jess Willard set the exam-
*. v pie and there was an immediate eon-
* tagion of separation Eddie Mc-
had a spllt»up with his man
ager and now comes Steve Ketehel
to the front with the statement that
he cannot longer get on with Larney
Lichtenstein and will either go it
alone and do the best he ran single
handed or else find some other pilot
to guide him through the more or
less perilous shoals. Incidentally, one
of the most prominent of the near
lightweights is or has been scrapping
with his manager and the belief Is
general that said manager soon will
be out of a Job. at least as far as
said star near 'lightweight Is con
cerned.
* • •
PROM the looks of things the tight-
* ers have generally agreed among
• themselves that managers are pretty
much nix. Some of them are abso
lutely outspoken about the manager I
who grabs so and so much for his
services, forgetting in many instances j
that it is the manager who has huost-
v \ ed his fighter into a state with the
promoter where almost double the
price of what the fighter himself
might get Is obtained. While a man
ager is good he is mighty good, es
pecially in this matter of increasing
the price for the services of his fight
er. In the case of Ketehel, much Is |
to be said on both sides. Larney
made a good card out of Steve and
Jumped his value up three or four
hundred per cent. As much cannot
be said of all managers, however,
and In a good many cases the fighters
have legitimate grievances. It is gen
erally the case, however, that the pub
lic is but slightly interested In the
private affairs of fighter and mana-
\ AND speaking of fighters and their
* managers brings to mind the loud
plaint that John MoCue of Racine is
making about the Chicago managers
who are making such strenuous ef
forts to take away from him that
smart little knocker-out. Matthew
Paulson MeCue. the Racine boy, who
l.s one of the real sensations of the
ring hereabouts. According to the
elder MeCue, whose name Matty took
for fighting purposes when he start
ed into the business, not one, but
several Chicago managers are trying
to steal Matty away from him. Emil
Thlry, who has been handling Packcy
McFarland’s business for some time
now, is .irnong the number, according
to a lett-r from McCue. Thlry wants
MoCue badly and pointed a rosy fu
ture for Matty the other day, but it
looks a.s if the boy’s heart is still
with the man who brought him out
and gave him a real start towards
fame and ring fortune.
M ATTY, it now appears, is prac-
tically matched to box Jeff O'
Connell, Joe Sullivan’s young feather
weight star,‘the contest to be decid
ed in Racine about May 15. That
date was selected because it will be
the second anniversary of the day up
on which Matty took his first boxing
lesson from MeCue in the latter’s
gymnasium. The match will be a
sort of testimonial to MoCue and his
young fighter by the citizens of Ra
cine who feel grateful to them for
the advertising the town has received
at their hands, incidentally, MeCue
will run the show himself and ex
pect ; to profit handsomely thereat,
for which nobody will blame him or
should not begrudge him the coin.
MeCue thinks if any of the Chicago
fight managers could have the pa
tience to take a green boy like Matty
and in two years get him to win for
ty-two battles, the last ten of them
on knockouts, the\ would have some
thing to be proud of.
ELBERFELD HAS
8UI IT UP HIS
LI
C HATTANOOGA. TKNN , May 1.
The release of "Red” Massey to
Galveston and that of Eddie
Starke to New London marks Klber-
feld's third reduction of the season
for the sake of an observance of the
salary and player limits. The two
youngsters in question were decor
ated with the order of the can to
make room for Rudv Sommers and
Harry Thrasher.
With his present lineup Elberfeld
honestly believes that the Lookouts
will rapidly shake off the "Jinx'' which
has pursued file club all season and
speedily become a factor in the race.
No fair minded person will deny that
the Lookouts as they now stand with
Thrasher. Kink, and Elston In the
outfield: Gillespie. Elberfeld. Flick
and Coyle on the inner \»orks; "Gab
by" street (IoIiir: the hulk of ttie
catching; and ''rtveleskle, Sommers.
More Cliappelle, and Troy for hurlers
arc truly a formidable aggregation.
This array leaves Elberfeld also well
fortified in the utility role with "Dug”
Harblson.
The regular array above mentioned
will hit. exclusive of pitchers, close
to 290 and will held with any club
In the league; in fact, it Is doing so
at present, and this being the case
the Kid does not believe it possible
for the losing streak which has as
sailed the Lookouts to continue its
pernicious effectiveness much longer.
The real cause for the Lookouts'
losses up to date after a careful ana
lysis of the club's play seems to be
a lack of concerted effectiveness be
tween the offensive and defensive
alignments Lack of the proper co
operation between the batsman and
the base runner has also been costly.
These liner points of tile game have
naturally been ignored to some ex
tent by the wild anxiety of the In
dividual members of the club to win
but It is believed that a short string
of victories would imbue the locals
with that "esprit de corps" which,
combined with their natural strength
would make them truly formidable.
Local fans are not at all discourag-
,d- tilts Is an actual fact.
The Boys
l>e finished
Jones play
honors in t
also he pla
Boys Hi
;lie meet i
win place*
in the hui
in the higl
and Holtz*
trying to get an out-of-
r next Saturday. The
■ team has written for a
Georgia scrubs, but has
as yet. Tech High will
game with Tech to-day
High tennis tournament will
to-day when Candler and
Starr and Harris for the
10 doubles, The singles will
»ed this afternoon.
;li will have four entrioH in
lav 9 who are pretty sure to
These men are Lockridge
lies and broad lump, Leaser
jump, Johnson in the dashes
orn in the pole vault.
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Spurlock will also enter in the 100-yard
dash, and is likely to get a place.
• * *
G M <’ will play a two-game series
with Dahlonega to-da.v and to-morrow
at Dahlonega Dahlonega is a mighty
hard team to beat, and gave E. G. I.
their first trimming of the season on
Tuesday < J. M. t.\ will have to be in
th* best of shape in order to get away
with the series or to even divide It.
• • •
Joe Bean says that his boys are going
to win the prep meet on May 9. He
has had the men hard at work every
afternoon this week Allen and Lewis
look like sure winners in the 100-yard
dash, ami Fowler has made longer prac
tice throws with the 12-pound hammer
than any man in the league
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The surprise of the local Prep league
baseball season was sprung on Tuesday
when Peacock won over Tech High in
a ten-inning game by a score of 9 to
8. Peacock had not won a game until
Tuesday, and had been easy prey for
the other nines in the league.
• • •
Here it* the present standing oP the
Atlanta Prep league teams:
Won. Lost. P. C.
Bovs High 4 0 1.000
Marist 3 1 .760
Tech High 3 2 .600
Peacock • • 1 4 200
O. M. A 1 4 200
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The unexi>eeted victory of Peacock
over Tech High on Tuesday shoves the
high school boys into third place and
brir.gs Peacock out of the cellar Tech
High has an orratical team this year,
a team that may be beaten by the cellar
champs and then turn right around and
beat the leaders.
The Douglas Aggies cinched the prep
school championship of South Georgia
when the> trimmed Norman Park Tues
day afternoon 9 to 0 at Douglas. Oa.
The Aggies have not lost a game this
season and have played every team
that would accept u game with them
Brouch. who pitched for the Aggies, al
lowed but one hit.
| At last the Locust Grove baseball
team has been defeated. Dahlonega
• ugnt them off color in a game at
• I.trust Grove Tuesday and w on 4 to 1
! The tw,n teams w ill meet again soon,
land no. doubt E. G. 1 will more than
J even aft their defeat of Tuesday.
Sporting Food
— By QEORQE E. PHAIR
A PLEASANT TIME WAS HAD.
Six bits he paid the frowning guv
Who held the gate and proudly let
him by.
An usher scowled at him, but he
was glad
Said usher did not clout him in the
eye.
Seat check in hand, he clambered up
the stair
And found his seat—with some one
sitting there.
And when he tried to register a
kick
The usher froze him with an icy
glare.
Nor left nor right was there an empty
seat,
And, though he spoke in accents full
of heat.
He stood all day behind a crowd of
men
While peunut peddlers walked upon his
feet.
The shouts of thousands thundered in
his ear.
He heard them howl, he heard them
root and cheer.
He stretched his neck, blit all that
met his gaze
Were signboards advertising gum and
beer
And a.s he wandered homeward, weak
and lame
And aches pursued each other through
his frame.
He scorned his neighbor who had
staled at home.
“Some game!’’ he said. “Believe me,
bo, some game!"
Ty Cobb is not In shape to play hla
usual game, but he is in midseason form
as a drawing card.
Aside from Mr. Cobb’s value as an
athlete, he Is worth $15,000 as a public
benefactor. He advises ball players to
keep off the stage.
THE DAILY BUMP.
Count that day lost whose low de
scending sun
Sees not the Lookouts lose another
one.
H O'Day has concluded that even an
umpire’s Job is an improvement over
managing a team irr Cincinnati.
Mr. Tinker gets a goodly stipend for
his labors, but how would YOU like to
manage the Reds with O’Day umpiring?
THE GOAT.
If your hatting eye is lost.
Blame the Jinx.
If your fielding Is a frost.
Blame the jinx
If your curves are weak and lame
And they land upon the same
And chastise them every game.
Blame the jinx.
The high brows who named the seven
modern wonders might be interested to
learn that 26,000 of the populace paid
money recently to see Brooklyn play.
Clark Griffith avers that he is getting
ready for the world’s series, demonstrat
ing that some persons like to kid them
selves.
WHO WOULD A THUNK IT?
He was a shark at grabbing coin: Iiis
wavs were sharp and keen.
He had a hank roll large and round
and owned a limousine.
All men avered he had a lot of bruins |
beneath his hut, j
And yet he paid his coin to see two
wrestlers on the mat.
TRENDALL AND CROSS TO |
BOX IN ST. LOUIS RING j
ST LOUIS, MO.. May 1.—Harry Tren- j
dall and Leach Cross will clash here on j
May 8 in an eight-round bout. The
match was closed yesterday, when
Leach Cross' signature was signed to
a set of articles and sent to a local
promoter Trendall is a great card here
having defeated every boy of note in
the last two years. He was also cred
ited with an eight-round newspaper ver
dict over Joe Mandot last year
KILBANE GETS $8,000 FOR
JOHNNY DUNDEE FIGHT
SONG OF THE SULLIVANS
By DAMON RUNYON
(In baseball parlance a "Sullivan" is a day coach.)
T HE water Is cold In the wash room, I hear the youngster complain:
And he mentioned the ventilation which prevails in this limited train
And, hearin' him beef, I got thinkin' o’ MY route to the big league
goul
When I rode In a Sullivan sleeper, wit’ me pillow me uniform roll!
I thought o' the Jumps In Texas, where you leave while there's still some
light.
Boltin' your sinkers and Javvy to ride for the rest o' the night.
O’ the days through the wide, warped country—the sky like a red-hot
bowl—-
And me in a Sullivan sleeper, wit' me pillow me uniform roll!
I thought o' the heave o' the rattler, a-llmpln' along the miles;
I thought o’ the day coach odors, wit’ the fruit peels piled in the aisles—
The squawk o' the fretful habies; the stops at each prairie dog krioll—
While I rode In a Sullivan sleeper, wit’ me pillow me uniform roll!
I thought o' the hotels yonder, and the ptomaine germs that we’d fight;
O' me room wit’ te alley exposure, and a bath every Saturday night.
O’ the heat that soaked through the hallways like a breath from the fur-
nacy Hole—
When 1 rode in the Sullivan sleeper, wit’ me pillow me uniform roll!
I thought o’ the dinky ball grounds down by the railroad yards.
Sooty wit’ smoke and cinders, and rotted by age to the guards.
And 1 dreamt o’ the old skin diamond, and the Infield that tried me sout,
When 1 roue In the Sullivan sleeper, wit' me pillow me uniform roll!
Gettin’ my rest in the Pullman, and hearin’ the youngsters complain
O' the train, and the diner, and service, It hands me a laugh—and a pair.
They've got it some soft—you believe—and they'd know if they’d paid
the toll.
Of a ride in a Sullivan sleeper, wit’ the pillow a uniform roll!
MUTWJirr
COLUMN-
BASEBALL SUMMARIES.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Atlanta at Birmingham.
Memphis at New Orleans.
Montgomery at Mobile.
Nashville at Chattanooga.
Standing of the Clubs
W. L. P C
Mobile 14 6 700
Atlanta 11 7 .611
N’ville 10 7 .588
B'ham 9 8 .529
W. L. P C
Mont. 9 8 .526
M m phis 7 10 .412
N. nr. 6 12 333
Chatt. 5 13 278
Yesterday’s Results.
Birmingham 6, Atlanta 2.
Chattanooga 2, Nashville I.
Mobile 6, Montgomery 0.
Memphis 6, New Orleans 6
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Cleveland at St. Louis.
Chicago at Detroit.
Washington at Boston
Philadelphia at New York.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P u.
Phila. 0 3 .750
W'gton 8 3 .727
C’land 10 5 .667
Ch’go 10 8 .555
St.
Boston 6 8
Detroit 5 1.1
New Y. 2 11
W. P C.
8 9 .470
429
.313
154
Yesterdav’s Results.
Boston 8, New York 1.
Washington 2, Philadelphia 0
Chicago 8. Detroit 3.
St. Louis 2, Cleveland 0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Boston at Brooklyn.
New York at Philadelphia
St. Louis at Pittsburg.
Cincinnati at Chicago.
OTHER RESULTS YESTERDAY.
American Association.
Minneapolis 8, Columbus 4
St. Paul 11, Indianapolis 0.
Toledo 7, Kansas City 1
Louisville 4, Milwaukee 3.
Cotton States.
Jackson 1, Selma 0.
Clarksdale 2, Pensacola 1.
Columbus 10, Meridian 1.
Carolina League.
Raleigh 6, Greensboro 5.
Durham 7. Winston-Salem L.
Asheville 2, Charlotte 0.
Virginia League.
Richmond 12, Portsmouth i.
Roanoke 3, Newport News 1.
Internationa. 1 League.
Baltimore 10, Toronto 7.
Buffalo 13, Providence 7.
Newark 5, Rochester 1.
Montreal 9, Jersey City 4
College Games.
Princeton 7, Columbia 6
University of Pennsylvania 6. Lehigh
5 (14 Innings).
Lafayette 5, Cornell 4 (13 innings).
Army 3, Holy Cross 2.
Yale 18, Tufts 7.
Washington and Lee 7. University of
West Virginia 6.
Davidson College 3. V. P. I. l.
A. and M. of N. C. 7, University of
N. C. 6.
Clemson 14, Wofford 6.
Texas League.
Dallas 10, Beaumont 4.
Houston 4. Fort Worth 1.
Waco 6. San Antonio 6.
Galveston 4, Austin 2.
Standing of the Clubs
W. L. P C.
Ch’go 12 4 .750
N. York 8 4 .667
Phila. 5 4 .556
B’klvn 7 6 .538
P'burg
St. L.
Boston
G’natti
W. L P C.
8 7 533
8 7 .533
3 9 .250
2 12 143
LOS ANGELES, May 1—Johnny Kil-
bane got a check, for $8,000 and Johnny
Dundee one for $5,000 yesterday for their
exertions during their 20-round draw at
Vernon Tuesday. Over 14,000 fans
Jammed into the arena and the total re
ceipts were slightly over $25,000
OTTO JORDAN IS HERE;
MAY LEAD CLARKSDALE
Otto Jordan, former second baseman
and manager of the Atlanta club, is in
this city to-day waiting to h-^ar from
•he Clarksdale. Miss., club. '1 he latter
team is after Otto as manager. He
wired them 'his terms yesterday and
expects to have an answer soon. Jor
dan is also seeking a berth with a
Southern League club. Elberfeld. of the
Lookouts, gave Jordan his unconditional
release and he is now a free agent
LOCUST GROVE WINS.
LOCUST GROVE. GA„ May J. — Lo
oust Grove defeated the North Georg.a
A and M. College. 13 to 1, here yes
terday.
Yesterday's Results.
Chicago 4, Cincinnati 3
Brooklyn 5, New York 3
St. Louis 6, Pittsburg i
Boston 2. Philadelphia 1.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Games To day.
Uharleston at Albany.
Savannah at Columbus
Macon at Jacksonville
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P C.
Sav'nah 9 3 .750
J’ville 7 5 .533
CTbus 7 5 .583
W\ x. P C.
Macon 6 7 .417
Cha'ston 5 7 417
Albany 3 9 260
Yesterday's Results.
Savannah 3, Macon 2.
Jacksonville 1, Albany 0.
'Columbus 2. Charleston 1
OTHER GAMES TO-DAY.
Empire State League.
Way cross at Brunswick.
Americus at Cordele
Thomasville at Valdosta.
College Games.
Vanderbilt v. Mercer, at Macon.
Alabama v. Mississippi A. and M. at
Columbus.
Auburn v. Marion, at Auburn.
Sewanee v. Florida, at Gainesville.
Fla
Virginia v. Princeton, at Princeton.
Clemson v. Wofford, at Spartanburg.
Washington and Lee y. West Virgin
ia, at Lexington
Trinity v V. P. I., at Durham.
Harvard v. Vermont, at Cambridge.
Tennessee v. Chattanooga, at Chatta
nooga.
Mississippi v. Arkansas, at Fayette
ville.
G. M C. v Dahlonega, at Mill edge -
ville.
North Carolina v. N C A and M . at
Raleigh »
STROUD NAMES MERCER
TEAM FOR TRACK MEET
A THENS. OA.. May l.—Big John
Morris twirled a no-hit no-rup
game for the University of Geor
gia against Vanderbilt yesterday, there
by winning the S. I. A. A. Champion
ship for his team. The final score was
Georgia 8. Vandy 0. Morris pitched
masterful ball for his team.
There was only one rap which could
possibly come under the category of
hits. This was from the bat of Morri
son in the fourth period and was a
short pop over short, which Clements
scarcely succeeded in touching. Although
the hit was of the Texas leaguer Variety,
this was scored as an error.
It was the clouting of the local ag
gregation, however, which sent the Van
dy team back to Dudley field to tell
of the wonderful bunch of ball players
Alex Cunningham has rounded up in
Athens to defeat his alma mater. Cov
ington. Georgia’s crack thirdsaoker, was
out of the game on account of pending
action concerning his eligibility, but
Holden, captain of the scrubs, tilled his
shoes in nice style, preventing a score
in the second round by cleverly hand
ling a hard-hit ball to his station.
Tha, fireworks started in the initial
round and before the second inning
had ‘started every man on the team
had appeared at the bat. four had hit
safely, five had tallied and the game
was placed on ice from the very first.
Luck twirled steady ball for the visi
tors after his first ascension and suc
ceeded In striking out eight of the lo
cals.
The division of the Commodores put-
outs is unusual, the catcher and first
baseman getting all but three Left
Fielder Turner pulled a pretty catch in
the fourth, robbing Clements of an extra
base hit.
Ginn got two doubles, Bowden three
hits out of four trials and Clements
three stolen bases for the Red and
Black.
A CONSTANT complaint has arisen from the' base runners of
the Southern League that they are handicapped by the
fact that no Southern League umpire ever calls a balk
except on siK’h a palpable thing that any school boy could recog
nize it.
This complaint has undoubtedly been based ou facts. Pitchers
coming to the Southern League have found that they could get
away with anything from a half-balk to a sixteen-seventeenth-
balk and, of course, they took advantage of this situation.
AD W0LGAST TO MANAGE
BOY WHO FLOORED HIM
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1. -Ad
Wolgast, former lightweight champion
of the world, has announced himself
a.s manager for Willie Hoppe, a local
boxer who knocked WolgaSt down
during the latter’s last training season
as a champion.
MACON, GA., May 1 -CoachStroud
of Mercer University, has named the
track team for the intercollegiate com
petition with Emory College on May 10.
It is as follows:
One hundred yards dash, Cochran,
Wood. Roddenbery, Foxworth; 220 yards,
Wood, Foxworth, Roddenbery; 440 yards,
Cochran. Stubbs, Radford; S80 yards,
Powell, Phillips, Davis; mile race, Jen
kins, Strlbling. Ply male, Cason; hurdle.
Powell, Stubbs, wood, Smith; running
broad jump, Stubbs. Wood. Cobb; run
ning high jump. Grace. Gray. Stubbs;
pole vault, Cobb. Stripling, Smith.
This will be the first field and track
meet of the season for both Mercer
and Emory.
COMMISSION TO SETTLE
TY COBB’S CASE TO-DAY
CHICAGO. May 1.— Members of the
National Baseball Commission, who
were In session yesterday, were un
able to reach Tyrus Cobb’s applica
tion for reinstatement and several
other important matters that were to
have been considered. Routine busi
ness was taken up and the commis
sion adjourned until to-day.
It was intimated that Cobb would
be reinstated and that his fine, If any
penalty at all were inflicted, would oe
light
EVERS SEEKS TRADE FOR CUBS.
CHICAGO, May 1—A deal that
Involves one or more Cubs and two
members of the Boston Braves is be
ing discussed here by Manager John
Evers and President C. W. Murphy
of the Cubs. Evers is reported lo
be dickering for either Perdue or
Tyler, Boston twiriera, to strengthen
his pitching staff. Ward Miller, util
ity outfielder of the Cubs, is said *o
figure in the deal.
RUBE MARQUARD IS SICK.
NEW YORK, May 1.—Rube Mar-
quard, the great southpaw pitcher, of
the Giant’ is under the weather ar.d
also under the blankets, having been
assaulted by tonsilitis. He was un
able to report for the game over in
Brooklyn, but it is not believed the
attack is anything serious.
FLORIDA WINS DOUBLE BILL.
GAINESVILLE, FLA., May 1. Flori
da defeated the Sewanee Tigers in a
double header here yesterday afternoon,
first game 6 to 4. second game 9 to 3.
The visitors were outplayed. Eggles
ton pitched the first game for the Tigers
and part of the second, being taken out
after making three costly overthrows to
bases.
COY GOES TO NEW YORK.
CHATTANOOGA, TKNN.. May 1.
—Ted Coy the famous Yale football
star, who has resided here for the
past two years is shortly to open an
office as a mining engineer in New’
York
$25,000 PURSE FOR MAT BOUT.
NEW YORK, May 1.—Wrestling
promoters here to-day offered a $25,-
WF> purse for a match between Frank
Gotch, retired champion, and either
Zbyszko, the giant Pole, or George Lu-
rich, the Russian.
BOXING BILL FOR WISCONSIN.
MADISON, WIS.. May 1.— The as
sembly yesterday indorsed the Hed-
din boxing bill, which allows ten
rounds no-decision bouts. A canvass
of the Senate indicates that the meas
ure will pasy that body.
NAPS RELEASE TWO.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, May 1.—Catcher
Pete Shields, former captain of the Uni
versity ol Mississippi baseball team, was
released to the Portland, Oreg.. club by
the Cleveland American League Club
yesterday. Outfiielder Charley Betts
was released to the Beaumont Club, of
the Texas League.
Now and then n pitcher arises to
defend his “balk motion” and now no
less an authority than Ed Walsh, one
of the world’s greatest pitchers, says
he is going to call on President Ban
Johnson, demonstrate his famous
half-balk and get the league mogul
to call off his umpire?*.
“There isn't an umpire in the Amer
ican League that can tell me how’ I
balk,” says the big fellow. “Some of
the umpires say that I throw my
shoulders forward, indicating that I
was to deliver the ball to the batter
and then whirled and threw to flfcst,
thus violating the rules. I do not move
my shoulders except when I start the
throw to first. Another umpire told
me that I balked by the movement
of my knees. Yet I don’t move my
knees until J make the throw’ to catch
a runner off the base.
“Clark Griffith, manager of the
Washington team and the man who is
always trying to get the umpires to
call balks on me, doesn’t know my
movement to first. He declares that
I balk with my shoulders, but I do
not.
“Naturally every time that a balk
is called on me I w’ant to know why
and so far not an umpire has ever
told me. Many of them haven’t tried.
“Clark Griffith and Jimmy Calla
han were two pitchers who were con
sidered mighty good in their day when
it came to holding runners to first
base. I have talked to Griffith and
know what his motion was. I have
talked to Callahan and know what
move he had. 1 have combined the
two and think I have a motion that
is mighty effective when it comes to
holding base runners close and at
the same time is within the spirit of
the rules.
“I know one thing, and that is that
I should like to explain it to the pres
ident of the league, so that his um
pires would understand it, and would
not punish me for using it."
C EVERAL ball players have broker.
^ into the big leagues who could
neither read nor write. They were
forced to work so early in life they
never had an opportunity to enjoy the
same advantages other youths** did. It
Is amazing to see how well they get
along, despite this handicap.
Generally one of their teammates
will- act as “social secretary,” and
will attend to all their correspondence
for them. They also make ii a point
to accompany the players into the
dining-room and tip them off to what
is on the bill of fare. Frequently the
non-reader will listen to what the
other fellows order and languidly stay:
“Oh, bring me the same thing.”
One chap, who is still playing ball,
gets by splendidly In the dining cars
—better than one would believe pos
sible.
it’s the custom oq many lines to
write out your order on a card fur
nished by the head waiter.
This fellow casually picks up the
menu card on such occasions, glances
it over with a bored look, and ex
claims: “Let’s have a sirloin steak
hashed brown potatoes and a cup of
coffee.”
Then lie tosses the card aside.
He knows all diners furnish those
three staples and generally has* the
samq thing until the team hits a hotel
again. Nobody, to watch him. would
have the slightest suspicion he
couldn’t make out a word on the
bill of fare. He is a regular little
wonder.
]V/[ ILLER HUGGINS is surely a
wonderful lead-off man and* he
can work a wmbbling pitcher to a
fgTe-ye-well. In four games recently
the Cardinal manager went to the
plate 19 times. He drew nine passes
out of the nineteen times up, or an *
average of nearly .500 in that time, \
which is his long suit. He made tw’o
sacrifice hits and so was officially
at bat only eight times. In the eight
times he was forced to hit the ball
he secured four hits for an average
of .500, on account of having the
pitcher in the hole all the time. He
scored six runs himself and helped
in the scoring of another by a sac- J
riflee hit. This is a record hard to «
beat in a single series. At outwitting
and outgaming pitchers Huggins is
pretty nearly i na class by himself. He.
positively will not hit at a ball which
is not over the plate and the pitcher
is comtantly in the hole when pitch
ing to him. Manager Tinker says
that the only w’ay to circumvent Hug
is to lay the ball right over the plate
with speed on it and trust to his not
hitting it out of the infield.
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