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IIKARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN— BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS SUNDAY, MAY II. 1013
British Reporter On Baseball
O O O O O O o
Says Game Is Extremely Comic
At Inst the Britisher's Idea of base-
al has been put into cold type Mr.
’harl-s Spoke*, a well-known sport-
ng authority in England, wrote the
ullowtnff story on baseball an he saw
1 for in Engllvh pap**r, and It la re-
rlnted on their favorite sports:
Englishman who tares to the
other side of the Atlantic—whether
to Canada or the State*, for In this
matter the two nation* are as one—
i.« Mt th< first loftily contemptuou*
:ov rds the national gamr of base-
hall. C -mplete ignorance of the game
(, \ . pt that it is a kind of grown-up
rounders”) la largely the cause of
iis attitude, for, notwithstanding the
Inc- number of exoteric pastimes
,vi i.•! have become acclimatized In
!-'in; la nr! itch, for instance, as base-
b or din bole—baseball I* never seen
her*- and the Englishman is apt to
iseball as being childish
with the same readiness that Amcrl-
. is laugh at cricket as being a thing
of -bite flannels and afternoon tea. ’*
What especially amuse* the Ameri-
the dignified showness of
<ruket. The three day*’ match, the
• -<iay batting session, the intervals
for lunch and tea, tickle his imagina
tion when compared with his own
beloved “ball game.” For baseball Is
, t thing of frenzied excitement: when
<1 h side hr* nine innings and the
whole business is over in two or three
hours, it follows there are no pro
tracted or flat periods. Baseball Is
realy rounders. Who expanded and
codified the children’s game Is a mys
tery. but for all his ingenuity he did
not hide the original. Hit and run—
that is the principle. Off a hit which
is not n foul ball or within foul ter
ritory, the batter drops his bat and
Mins ;is fast as he can to the first
base, or beyond that to other bases
if be can do safely
Never Called Batsman.
a little for the encouragement of
players, but mainly for the delect*
tlon of not only the audience but the
players too. Baseball has given birth
to a whole dictionary of slang
“boob,” ‘“mutt,” “bonehead,” “fan.”
“bleacher,’' "guy” and ”dub” are onl\
a few with which the novice has to
become familiar; but the greatest of
them Is "root.” To "root” is to "rat
tle,” otherwlN* to anoy by abusive
or ironical remarks. To the British
mind thl* Is bad sport and undigni
fied; to the baseball '‘fan" it Is hr
much a part of the game as the ac
tual play.
Everybody Roots
It is carried on. usually, in a small
falsetto voice—-Indeed, typical music-
hall ‘back-chat.." The spectators
root at the player*, the players who
are awaiting their turns to hat root
Three Sensational
Hailed as the
Young Players Who Are Already
‘Finds ’ of the Big Leagues This Year
Ai Demjr** the
"Shutout Kino.”
who was with Mo
bile feet season,
hae earned a regu
lar turn In the bos
with the champion
Oiante. Demaree
ia one of the moat
promieing pitchers
that have ever
come to McGraw’a
notice, and the
manager of the
. Four bases make the round w’hlch
s'vurcs a run. each runner halted at
. h.cc resuming his running directly
the succeeding hatters (they are
never caled “batsmen’’) strike, and
often stealing bases whilst the ball
is in play elsew here. The only change
of consequences that has been made
Is that the ball Is not thrown at. to
hit. a runner, to put him out of play,
which Is necessary (if my recollec
tions are correctly) in rounders, at
the first base a holder from the op
posing team has only to have the ball
in his hands and his foot on the base
plate before the runner reaches it; at
:he other bases the fielder can either
have the hall In his hands and his
foot on the plate, or, with the ball
In his hands, touch the runner with it.
A ball delivered; by the . “pitcher”
directly over the batting plate Is a
strike”; not over the plate, a "ball”;
and four ‘balls,' a body hit from a
hall, a “wild pitch.” entitle the batter
m a base without further ado. On the
other hand, to miss three “strike*,”
to he run out at a base in either of
the ways described above, ^ to be
naught off a fair ball, to run outside
ihe limits between bases, and certain
other contingencies, concludes his
innings, and directly three men are
out the side is out.
Extremely Fast Game.
From this cursory explanation the
uninitiated may probably derive the
impression that the game is childish.
On that opinions differ, hut this can
be iid that baseball, properly
pi;t#ed, b in exceedingly fast game,
. nd. because of its fastness and fre
quency of incident, a more interest
ing game to watch than cricket or
football. Rugby football is the only
parallel a regards rapidity. Of the
baiting 1 will not speak, except to
point out that with a round bat, only
inches wide, greater accuracy of
• nip nent Is needed to hit a bal de-
i. < i about waist high than' with
lieket bat; nor of the running. It
is 'he fielding and the throwing which
a truly amazing. The ball is
1 brown from player to player with
the speed and precision of rifle prac
tise. Watch the fielders in cricket,
see • how they fumble the ball and
make faulty returns, then consider
that in baseball a fielder in the out-
tie'll win send a ball to the pitcher at
lightning speed and with so true an
aim that neither have moved from
their original positions to catch it.
Similarly, the quickness with which a
man fields the ball and then decides
what to do with it is remarkable.
True, this is achieved oaly with con
stant practice—practice In the streets,
I iodise everywhere—and also witn
the aid of a catching glove worn on
the left hand: however, this does not
alter the fact that in catching the
ball, and especially in returning it to
Hiiy part of the field immediately
they work like highly organized auto
matons.
Giant* believes the
youngster will be
come one of the
best pitchers In
the major leagues.
at thd fielding team; the batter, as
he swings his bat, roots at the pitch
er, the “catcher” (I. e., the equiva
lent of a wicket-keerper) roots at the
batter, the fielders root at the base
runners, the coach roots at the um
pire, and even the umpire roots at
the spectators. “Now you’ve got
him, kid!” “Want another pitcher,
fellers?” “Chuck that ump off!”
“Com© and do that yourself, then,
fou guys!” and so on -a tremendous
noise, generally, and all with the idea
of baulking the pitcher or throwing
the batter off his guard* but generally
extremely comic, and, as the London
hawker cries, causing great fun and
amusement and roars of laughter.”
It is high comedy, pure and simple.
The big teams, I am informed, -carry
round with them In addition to the
team, manager, and coach, a man
whose only Job it is to root, and this
is the man who gets the cheers and
the applause. And all the time the
players chew gum—chew when they
hat, run or catch!
Probably Had Lead in Shoes.
For instance, 1 saw this following—
and not in a professional National
League match, but in a match be
tween two spare-time office teams in
a remote part of Canada. The batter
struck the ball to the outfield, and
immediately ran to the first base—
about twenty yards; the ball was
fielded, thrown to the fielder at first
base, and caught by him so quickly
that when the runner, covering the
short distance as quickly as he could,
reached the base he was out by fully
a second. In the same match a run
ner left a bade for the next, but, see
ing he could not reach it in' time,
turned back when half way to his old
position. The fielder with the ball
threw It to the fielder at the old base
.so that it reached him before the
runner did, and then that runner
doubled backwards and forwards for
five times while this jugglery' was
going on over his head, till at last he
was touched.
But this is the serious side to base
ball. and no one follows it for that.
In saying that it is exceedingly fast,
I must add that it is exceedingly
amusing.
Some Do Look Like Tramps.
The players themselves are amus
ing in their quaint costumes—baggy
knickers that come half-way between
the knee and ankle, reminding one
somew hat of a Frenchman's idea of a
cycling costume, socks wMh broad,
‘•rude-colored rings* flannel shirts
ith turn-up collars very much like
a Gladstone flaw ay, and, above all. a
most rediculous hat. something of a
cross between a Jockey’s and a rail-
ay porter's. There Is not the grace
ful lissomness of the cricketer, nor
’ Vf - brawny muscularity of the foot
le r r, but a kind of clumsy, misfit,
tyi;. tramp appearance. Add to this
' h&t .11 baseball chaff and “back chat”
i only allowed but encouraged.
FLYNN TO tlOX COFFEY.
v YORK. May 10 —Jim Coffey,
n ’ 'in giant” has been matched
r ' ;t ,i:n Flynn, the Pueblo flre-
! iu a ten-round bout here on
THOMAS AND WHITE MEET
IN RETURN BOUT MAY 19
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
Billy Gibson, of the Garden A. C., New
York, is trying to arrange a ten-round
bout between Eddie Campl and Kid Wil
liams. They met on the coast recently,
and Williams was awarded the decision
in twenty rounds.
Leo Houck and Mike Gibbons will
probably meet at New York May 21. The
McMahon brothers have already secured
Houck’s signature, and are now alter
the St. Paul boy.
NEW ORLEANS. La., May 10— Joe
Thomas is down to hard training for
his ten-round bout with Charlie
White the Chicago speed marvel, here
May 19
Joe Golden ia putting his protege
through some stiff work-outs in an
effort to get Thomas into the best of
shape when he -stacks up against the
Chicago boy. White is at pre^en* doing
his work in Chicago, b’it he is ex
pected here some time tills week.
MOORE AND GRIFFI1H TO
CLASH IN 12-RCUND GO
AKRON, O.. May 10.—Pal Moore
of Philadelphia, and Johnny Griffith
local boy, have completed training for
their 12-round scrap here Monday
night. Griffith has fought some of
the toughest lightweights in the game
having recently bested Jack White
the bey who holds victories over Har
ry Thomas. Frankie Conley and Owen
Moran.
JOE MANDOT TO BECOME
MERCHANT IN HOME CITY
NEW ORLEANS. May 10.—Joe
Mandot is one boxer who has saved
his ring earnings and will probably
never need a benefit. The French
Market crack has never been a roun
der or a spender. But Joe realizes
that the ring life of a boxer is lim
ited at the best, and that the wise
men are those who save their money.
He has been a regular depositor at
a bank near the French Market, but
will soon withdraw a good portion
of his savings and enter the men’s
furnishing business.
KEARNS STOPS DAVIS.
BUFFALO, N. Y., May 10.—Soldier
Kearns, the Brooklyn heavyweight,
knocked out George (“One-Round”)
Davis, of Buffalo, in the fifth round
of the scheduled ten-round bout here
last night.
When Danny Morgan was asked what
he Intended to do with his pet fighter,
Knockout Brown. Danny thought a mo
ment and replied: “I am going to let
K. O. rest ror at least two months.
Brown took part in three hard fights
on the coast, and Is entitled to a la
off.”
Charlie White, weighing 128 pounds,
will probably meet Jack Britton at New
York. The Chicago boy is certainly
showing some courage in matting Danny
Morgan's pupil, especially when such
stars as Willie Ritchie, Leach Cross ami
Joe Rivers have time and a*raln refused
to don the glove* with Britton.
a>
Ray ScHalk, who is making
the White §ox.
By Jim Glover. •
F OR a number of years part the
annual Atlanta Prep track meet
has developed at last one dark
horse and the meet on Friday was no
exception to this custom. Bob Lewis
was the boy this time. Although it
was generally understood before the
mee't that Lewis would make a cred
itable showing, hia performances sur
prised even his most ardent admirers.
He won the 440-yard dash, the
220-yard low hurdles and was second
in the 100-yard dash and the broad
jump. This gave him a total of 16
points and the special prize offered
fer the highest individual point win
ner. The 440-yard dash was the last
event of the day and Lewis had to
win it in order to beat Fowler, of
Marist, for the high honors. Lewis
and Allen were leading the field in
this run with Allen slightly in front.
Just before tne finish Allen slowed
up and allowed Lewis to pass him
and win the race. This put the
blonde boy’s total to 16 points, which
was one more than that of Fowler.
His wins in the other events, how
ever, were well earned.
Fowler Shows Class.
Fowler, of Marist, was another en
try’ whose feats were far beyond ex
pectations. He is a slim lad, possess
ing none of the bulk and powder usu
ally shown by men who are good at
the weight events. And yet Fowler
threw the 12-pound hammer 109 feet
4 inches, which is quite a remark
able performance for a lad of his
build. To win both the half and mile
runs was easy for Fowler and he did
not even extend himself in the lat
ter event.
G. M. A. fell away below expecta
tions in the meet. This school was
regarded as the most likely winner,
but they failed to make any kind of
a showing. The athletes were out
classed In the dashes and distance
runs, the only entry to get a place in
any of these events was Selig, who
came third in the half-mile run. G.
M. A. has plenty of material but they
lack training.
Nine Games Left.
There are about nine games still
to be played in the local Prep league
before the season is brought to a
close. Boys’ High and Tech High
will meet on the Marist diamond
Wednesday to settle an old grudge.
The last time the two met Boys’
High was declared the winner. Both
teams have defeated Marist in the
meantime and are eager to hook up
once more. If Tech High can win
they have a fair chance to cop the
pennant; if they lose they will be out
of the race and Boys’ High wll have
the pennant practically hung up.
The overwhelming, defeat of Marist
by Boys* High last Wednesday threw
the Catholics out of the running and
gave the high school lads a clean slate
with five games won and no defeats.
MURPHY AND HERRMANN
ROW OVER RELEASED PLAYER
CHICAGO, May 10.—A little row
between Prexies Murphy, of the Cubs,
and Garry Herrmann, of the Reds, is
enlivening the diamond atmosphere.
Manager John Evers Is cutting his
team down to the limit recently sent
Knisley v and McDonald to the Bir
mingham club in the Southern As
sociation. When the Cubs traded
Joe Tinker to Cincinnati, Knisley
was Included in the deal and Herr
mann claims to have made a verbal
agreement with Murphy, whereby
Knisley was to be returned ta the
Reds if the Cubs could not use him.
GK DECIDED
IET
B OSTON, May 10.—Talking with
John McGraw one evening last
week, the Giants' manager re
marked: "We are going to be out af
ter that one run this season as never
before. The games in which you are
beaten by a run are the ones that cost
the pennant. Let any club win ev
ery game that It lost during a Cham
pionship season by a single run, and
that club would be a sure pennant
winner. The 1 to 0, the 3 to 2, and the
other games like them are what puts
a club out of the pennant race. I.ack\
ing the one run was what cost us the
world's series, right here last fall. If
the Giants can win this season, all
those games that otherwise the other
fellows would get by a run, there will
be not the slightest question as to
where the pennant will go. It's a
cinch that a third of the games in
either the National or the American
League are won—and lost—by a run.
Just watch it and see if I am not
right.”
McGraw Dead Right.
‘‘Far be it from me to question
a man like McGraw in anything per
taining to baseball.” said a well-
known fan. "but down deep I felt that
the Giants’ manager was just a bit
extravagant in his assertion about
one-third of the games going that
way. So, for the fun of the thing, I
hare carefully followed the scores in
both vnajor leagues from the opening
day down to May 1. And I bek to re
port that McGraw was dead right so
far. at least, as the first three weeks
of the championship season is con
cerned. During that time no less
than 22 of the 63 games in the Amer
ican League, a percentage of better
than .400, were won and lost by a
single run. In the National League
the figures were 20 out of 58, giving
there a percentage of better than .333.
Reds Lose Many.
"Delving deeper Into this one-run
dope a lot of other interesting things
are uncovered, all of which bear out
McGraw's assertions as to the value
of the one run. In the National
League, for example, there is the Cin
cinnati club trailing at the bottom of
the race. Near the other end are
the Cubs. The records show that the
Cincinnati team has lost eight games
by a Bingle run. Give the Reds those
eight games and their record as of
May 1 would have read 10 won. 4 lost.
The Cubs, on the other hand, have
won 4 by a run. Had those four,
gone the other way the best the Cubs
could have shown would be an even
break of 8 won and 8 lost. The case
of the Brooklyn club is quite as strik
ing. The Dodgers have lost 5 one-
run games thus far. Supposing those
6 games, instead of being defeats, hail
gone down as victories, then the
Brooklyn standing on May 1 would
have been 11 games won and only 1
lost, as against 6 won and 8 lost. And
the Phillies, for the same period, wel-e
they to lose the 4 games they won by
a run could only show one victory out
of nine.”
EVERS PLANS TO CONVERT
ARCHER INTO FIRST SACKER
NEW YORK, May 10—Johnny
Evers, manager of the Cubs, who are
playing a series with Brooklyn, to
day was quoted as saying that he
would try to convert Jimmy Archer,
one of the best catchers in the game.
Into a first baseman. Saier has not
been entirely satisfactory to Evers as
a first baseman, while Archer has
shone as a fielding star at that point.
The Garden Club of New York will
reopen May 23. The star bout will be
between Jim Flynn and Jim Coffey, the
Dublin giant.
George Gaelelis, Jimmy Grant's back
er, Is a sad party these days. George
says he has been trying to get some
boy to meet Grant. b»it they all seem
to fear the boy with tne healthy wallop.
George says he has a standing side
bet of $200 to back Grant against any
boy of his weight.
I^each Cross was handed a neat pack
age in St. Louis the other night. After
handing Harry Trendall a real lacing.
Referee Sharpe surprised a large crowd
of spectators by giving Trendall the ver
dict. According to reports from the
Missouri city. Leach won a mile
Tex Russell. White Sox, young
left-hander, who is proving to be a
real “find.”
GIANTS-WHITE SOX WORLD
TOUR IS NOW A CERTAINTY
The Great Northern Club, of Bitts-
burg has matched Jimmy Perry and
Mike Gibbons for a six-round affair
May 29 The bout will probably be
staged in Exposition Park
Kid York, of Oklahoma Pity, arrived
in Atlanta yesterday and at once called
us up over the phone. “I hear that
there are a couple of good bantams in
Atlanta.” said York, “and I would like
to meet one of them in private or in
public.’’
Johnny Ray, of Pittsburg, claims he
holds the record for the most bouts
fought in the last four weeks. Hay
says he has met eight different fighters
in that time.
Jimmy Dime, the Pittsburg fight pro
moter and manager, has matched
George Chip and Dick Gilbert for a 10
CHICAGO, May 10.—John J. Mc
Graw, of the New York Giants,
clinched the round-the-world baseball
tour which two big league teams,
made up wholly or partly of Giants
i and White Sox, are to make next fall
and winter by signing the contract in
New York last night. It had pre
viously been signed by President
Comiskey, of the White Sox.
The trip will be on a bigger scale
thnn the famous baseball tour of
1S88, and may carry 76 or 100 per
sons. Tentative plans have it that
the teams will leave Chicago about
October 15 and play games in the
South and West until they reach Van
couver.
They will sail from Vancouver on
November 6. Japan will be reached
on November 16. and & stay made In
the Nippon Realm of six or eight
days. Then Manila, Australia, Italy,
Egypt and all European countries will
be visited.
battle at New Castle May 14
Phil Brock, who is one of Cleveland’s
best fighters, writes from the Ohio city
that he would like to get on with
Mickey Rodgers, the Pittsburg sensa*
tion.
The St. Nicholas A. C.. of New York,
is to hold an elimination welterweight
tourney next month. Phil Cross and
Ray Bronson will probably meet in
the first bout.
BRANDT OUTPOINTS HUFNAGLE.
NEW YORK. May 10.—“Dutch”
Brandt, the Brooklyn bantamweight,
outpointed Frankie Hufnagle, former
amateur champion, in their ten-round
bout last night.
CALLAHAN REINSTATED.
NEW YORK. May 10.—The State
Boxing Commission has reinstated
Paddy Callahan, who was suspended
March 19 for foulii^ Joe Coster.
JACK BRITTON’S MANAGER
SAYS ALL ARE DODGING
NKvV YORK, May 10.—".Tack Brit
ton” 1» fighting himself out of a Job,”
says bis manager, who goes on to
skate that Leach Cross. Joe Rivers,
Tommy Murphy, Freddy Welsh, and
Willie Rttchie have all turned down
offers for a fight with the Morgan
entry. "Freddy Welsh," he continues,
"was matched to blx with Britton
last year, and Britton says he ran out
of the match three days before the
contest, with a very poor excuse.
"Jack Britton will be champion of
the lightweights before the year is
half through, if Willie Ritchie will
give him a chance. Jack has so far
beaten every lightweight and welter
weight pitted against him and the task
of securing further opponents l* ver\
hard.”
JOE RIVERS TURNS DOWN
OFFER TO MEET BRITTON
NEW YORK. May 10.—Rivera the
Mexican lightweight, who gained re
nown by stopping Knockout Brown
and outpointing Leach Cross, doesn't
appear to be anxious to try' conclu
sions with Britton in the Garden.
Rivers so far has refused to box
Britton at 133 ringside and 271-2
per cent, of the gate terms named
by Dan Morgnn, manager of Brit
ton. Rivers is willing to tackle
Welsh or Murphy at 133 ringside but
neither Freddie nor Tommy will con
cede this point.
ATHLETICS PRAISE CALVO.
PHILADELPHIA. PA., May 10 —
Frank Biker, Ira Thomas and other
members of the Athletics state that
Calvo, the young Cuban with Clark
Griffith's squad, looks like a mighty
sweet hitter and a promising yonng
player to them.
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