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HEARST’S SITNDAY AMERICAN—BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS SUNDAY, MAY 11. 1013.
Battling Nelson Retires From Prize Ring
STARS LOST BY ! DFIDEIIL GOLF Ex-Champion Has Earned and Saved $300,000
COLLEGE RULES' COURSE HOADic
BATTLING NELSON, AT CLOSE RANGE AND IN THE RING
By William F. Kirk.
I N the town of Cincinnati, where the fans an* tried and true.
They never knoeK tile old home team, whatever else they do.
Ten thousand UeaFtfi that befit as one, they’ll sit up in the stand.
And this is how they eulogize the leader of the baud :
Bv Innis Brown.
I T may be all right for the national
game of baseball to spread over
the length and breadth of the land,
invading the small towns In an or
ganized form, but If it does, said
spreading will cause woes untol/3 to
ojjege coaches of football anu base
ball. A number of the small towns
in this and adjoining States are now
enjoying league ball for the first time
their existence, with the result
that every hamlet and village is being
combed for ambitious young ball
■ layers, who hope to pick up a few
easy dollars, and at the same time
afford themselves an opportunity for
getting into the game professionally
for Jarger things.
Owing to the fact that these towns
have only a limited population from
Which to' draw their patronage, it is
necessary that they establish a sal
ary limit that will not permit their
managers to sign up anything other
than youngsters who have never
had league experience, and in a ma
jority of cases, who have never even
played college ball. Many of their
players are either “prep” men, or else
boys who have shown more progress
in playing ball than they have in
class work, and are not even attend
ing a good preparatory school.
* * •
A T „
_ tlae present time there are a
number of good ball players In
Southern Institutions who are barred
from playing because of the fact that
thgy have received money for play
ing. Only last season eligibility rules
knocked Pitcher Wilder off of the
Georgia team, when he was giving
promise of showing great stuff tn
'■ollege circles. The same thing hap
pened at Vanderbilt two seasons ago.
when Bob Brown was declared ineli
gible. At the time he looked to be
the best bet in the box that the Com
modores' had been able to unearth
since the days of Spencer Love.
At thp present time, there are no
less than five valuable ball players
at Washington and Lee who are un
able to play college ball because of
the fact that they have played pro
fessionally. In fact, these are so
gopd that they have played In various
leagues from the Appalachian League
up to the American League.
However, it is not with the colle
gians, after they have entered college,
that trouble is likely to arise Once
In university, most players will show
enough loyalty to the Institution to
‘stay off of the professional stuff,
until they have completed their
course. The trouble Is rather with
the youngsters who have developed
sufficiently to attract attention before
they reach college. There are many
of these, who would have to do from
two to three years preparatory work,
before they can make the require
ments at a university, and it is these
fellows to whom the allurements look
<) specialty strong,
T AKE the case of Hickman, football
star at Riverside during the pres
ent year. Owing to the regulation
of the prep association, he was al
lowed to play football but has been
cut off of the baseball tiam. This
boy w'as good enough to size up with
the beet In the Appalachian League,
and would certainly have made some
sweet foqtbal! player had he entered
• ollege and been allowed to play.
However, his baseball experience will
out him off from college football in
the South
It appears practically certain that
college eligibility rules will have to 8be
revised, else college athletics in this
section' will suffer, provided these
small leagues make good. Of course,
it is a practical certainty that many
of these are going to spring up, run
a short course and then die over
night. Bor the limited drawing ca
pacity to which they are restricted,
makes it a fact that many toe the
mark but few check in at the finish.
* * *
'PHIS, however, will mean little to
* the youngsters who SPQil their
amateur career by going into profes
sionalism. In fact, it will i«eap noth
ing, save probably that they will win'd
up a season with a few dollars back
salary due from a defunct team,
whose treasury has long since been
depleted. There is a lot of satisfac
tion. and some glory, to the local
enthusiast who puts up a few dol
lars in real money to organize a
league team, but it is anotner thing
to have to keep digging down for
the real roazuma to maintain the
^eam when the boys are going bad
and the gate does not register a cor
poral’s guard at the games.
It does not seem likely that a re
vision of the eligibility rules of the
Southern Association will be made at
an early date. This contention is
made that it is next to an impossi
bility to draw the line between a
player who has received money from
a semi-pro club and ope who played
in organized ball. As a matter of
fact, cleaner eligibility requirements
v could be established if the faculties
uf the different institutions would see
to it that men who play on the teams
are past the dead line in their class
work.
In a recent clipping from a for
eign paper I came across what seem
ed to be a peculiarly good arrange
ment of length of holes on a golf
course. The writer was describing
the links of one of London's begc
clubs and casually mentioned the dis
tances. It occurred to me that it
might interest the golf beginner to
have these distances translated into
terms of shots and clubs.
The first hole was over 500 yards,
which is an excellent thing, because
a long hole is a great help to getting
the players away without congestion
The second hole was 200 yards.
That distance means to the good
player either a long wooden shot
home or one not so well hit near the
edge of the green, either in front
or to the left or right. At ahy rate
if the green could not be reached
with a tee shot one could play a
small chip shot onto it and to the
hole.
• Fairway of Great Importanc®.
The third hole was 320 yards
which is a long drive and a light
mashle shot. The longer the drive
the shorter the mashie shot, of
course, and vice versa. The second
hole gave the long driver the advan
tage. but this hole favors the light
mashie player.
The fourth hole was 360, and it
gives the advantage to a good driver
and a longer mashie player. Here
the good player would need a good
tee shot and a longer mashie shot
perhaps a three-quarter stroke, de
pending upon the player’s skill with
the mashie. I might mention here
that I define a light mashie as any
thing between a one-quarter stroke
and one-half: the chip shot, one-
quarter stroke and down. Perhaps
the player at this hole might use a
runup with a mid-iron.
I do not, however, much favor the
runup shot on American courses, be
cause our greens committees feel
they have done their duty when thp
putting greens are in beautiful shape.
They do not realize that the ground
for fifty feet in front of the greens
is nearly as important and increases
in importance In proportion to the
fastness of the balls. Many a tinje
have players seen their balls on a
straight passage to the green and
the hole, hit something and deflect,
while their opponents may be off the
line, but meet an obstacle and kick
toward the hole. Keeping the fair
way next to the greens in good con
dition is a necessary part of all old
country greens keeping. This little
digression is timely, but let us return
to the hole*.
Arrangement Gives Variety.
The fifth hole ig $00 yards In
length and will require a good tee
shot and a light mia-iroD and jigger.
Of course, in this article 7 am mere
ly illustrating golf distances under
normal conditions of weather, and
not considering the intervening dan
gers that lurk between cup and tee.
The sixth hole was 440 yards in
length, and that distance required
two good long, stiff shots. A good
drive and an iron. I consider this
length of hole ope of the best tests
of skill, and I would like to see it
at the eighteenth. Many a t{me I
have made this distance >vith a d.rJvp
and a nice long hit-to-the-fullest
mid-iron shot. Against the wind it
is two good woodens or a cleek.
The seventh was 475 yards, a fine
drive and a cleek or your longest
iron, and frequently a drive and a
brassie. A beautiful well-earned 4
distance.
These holes show an interesting ar
rangement of distances, giving the
player with a great variety of shots
a distinct advantage, and this is as
it should be, for a really good golfer
ought to command skill with all his
clubs. It seems to me It would be
a good idea to consult expert players
before laying out distances. Each
course should contain every known
variety of shot, exclusive of freak
shots.
Speedway Railbirds
See Flashy Driving
Nearly All the Noted Autoista in
Indianapolis for 500-
Mile Race.
A T the present time there should
be little or po trouble In keeping
track of these matters. A few years
ago, with few exceptions, members
of the faculties of Southern institu
tions paid little or no attention to
athletics. However, whether through
a pure love of sport or an apprecia
tion of the fact that a winning pall
team affords very valuable advertis
ing. you can now see most of these
professors lined up in attendance at
both footbaH and baseball games, and
It is not an uncommon thing to see
re than one of them show up the
most enthusiastic freshman in the
way of rooting dor the team.
Furthermore. many o.f them know
every member of the team intimately,
i heir acquaintance extending from a
knowledge of the locality from which
the players come, to an ability to give
1, ur pedigrees for a couple of gen*
rations b; ck, more especially If said
pedigree involves athletic prowess on
pm . of some preceding male member
of the family. In view of these facts,
'here is no reason why Southern col
li go faculties should not be able to
l ass readiiy on the standing of its
athletic aspirants of itself without
calling on outside regulations to make
♦hem come te time.
If th'- Southern Association can see
fit to include summer baseball, with
, certain limits, it will allow a good
number of youngsters who would oth
erwise be barred to take part, and at
ihe s-anie time allow them an oppor
tunity to earn vacation money In
Ufggf amounts thjn they would like-
E
Robinson, Also From Mercersburg
Academy, Runs Quarter Mile
INDIANAPOLIS. May 10—The
railbirds at the speeaway track arc-
daily being treated to some flashy
driving on the part of several of the
entrants of the 500-mile international
race Memorial Day. The drivers in
their practice spins take advantage
of the fine weather and the clickers
snapped quite a few Iag,s under the
1:50 mark for two and one-half miles.
Bob Burnam celebrated his appear
ance at the brick course in bis Keeton
by showing a lap In 1:47. which fig
ures at an 82% mile an hour clip.
Don Herr with his Stutz got some
good speed out of his mount and
hung up several laps In 1:48 and
1:49. Charles Merz and Gil Ander
son followed Herr close In their cars.
Johnny Jenkins was tuning up his
Sehacht at a two minute lap clip.
Howard Wilcox, with his six special.
. is doing nothing more than working
out his engine without frying for
| speed.
Billy Liesaw, with William p
Thompson’s specially built Anel, has
arrived in his city from Battle Creek,
Mich, to foin the merry throng of
speeders. He says his car is consid
erably faster than the Marquette-
Buick, in which he rpad^ such a cred
itable showing last year, and conse
quently expects to be wejl up in the
running.
Billy Knipper is here with his Hen
derson. Word was received to-day
at Lhe speedway that the Isottas
would not arrive in Indianapolis until
May 20. the delay being occasioned
by difficulty in shipping The Italian
team therefore, will have only ten
days in which to get ready.
Ak Grant and Tetzlaff of this out
fit, however, are wise to every angle
of the speedway. It is thought that
this will be ample time.
in 48 3-5 Seconds.
RECRUITS RELEASED.
UTICA. N. Y.. May 10.—Pitcher
Taylor has been turned over to Mon
treal by the Philadelphia Nationals,
and Outfielder Savage who was wl'a
the New York Americans in 'the
spring, has been obtained by tip ,
N EW YORK. May 1(1 —A new
schoolboy marvel has been
produced by Mercersburg
Academy. He is A. S. Robinson, of
Westboro. Mass., who was timed for
the last relay of the preparatory
school championship in the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania’s annual relay
carnival last Saturday in 48 3-5 sec
onds. This Is not only the fastest
time any schoolboy In America ever
made at these relays, but time that
has never been exceeded there by any
college man.
Only one other schoolboy ever ran
a quartpr mile under 49 seconds. He
was J. E. Meredith, also of Mercers
burg Academy, and who last year won
the 800-meter relay championship in
the Olympic championships.
Robinson started his scholastic ca
reer as a sprinter and last year in the
Middle Atlantic scholastic champion
ships won the 100-yard dash in 10
seconds flat. This year his coach.
James Curran, started him to work
at the quarter mile, and with aston
ishing results.
Robinson is built much on the same
lines as Meredith, though not quite so
heavy. He stands 5 feel 10 inches
and weighs 340 pounds. This is hie
last year at Mercersburg Academy,
where he Is preparing to enter the
University of Pennsylvania
COHAN WILL PAY $1,600
TO SEE CHANCE’S TEAM
CHICAGO. May ID.—It will cost
George M. Cohan about 51,600 to see
Frank Chance play ball here on May
17. Mr. Cohan has abandoned his
Saturday matinee on that date in or
der to pay tribute to chance, who n
he consider? the ideal ball player.
George and the entire Cohan family,
including the kids, will be at the garpe
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Century Plant of Lightweight
Fighters Will Lay Aside Gloves
After Long Career.
By Thomas'.I, llalpin.
(Quarter Mile Champion of United
States and Canada.)
I AWSQN ROBERTSON, coach
of the Irish-American Athletic
Club of New York, is credited
with the statement that Abel R.
Kivlat, the roller who represents that
club, is able to give John Paul Jones,
the great Cornell distance runner, a
handicap in a mile race and defeat
him.
When questioned about this, Rob
ertson replied: "I don’t recall having
said this, but it goes, nevertheless,
as 1 consider that Kiviat could coi
cede Jones five yards and defeat him.
This means, in other words, that
Kiviat. when running at his best, is
capable of doing close to 4 minutes
12 seconds far the full mile distance.”
The Irish-Ameriean Club, which
means Robertson In the matter of
track athletics, has b€*en carefully go
ing forward with arrangements to
have Jones. Kiviat and Taber meet
in a special mile race at the annual
meet of the Ngw York Athletic Club,
which will take place on June 12.
If this r0.ee is held on the Travers
Island track it is reasonably sure to
be a record-breaker. Jack Moakley.
who is training Cornell, lias said
nothing about Jopes appearing In this
race. Tbs New York Athletic Club
has flatly refused to listen to any
such arrangements as the games in
question are run solely for amuse
ment for the members and no admis
sion is charged.
Owing to the fact that Kiviat re
fused to compete in the indoor games
of the wjnged fpot club, he is not
any too popular with the officials of
the New York Athletic Club. The
Irish-American Athletic Club would
cheerfully finance such a meeting at
its track oh Rung Island, for if this
race took place on a Sunday over
30,000 ‘ fans” would take in the race,
for it is a popular meeting place for
track athletic^ and is well supported
It js to be regretted, however, that
Jones does not fancy running under
such conditions, but it is not top much
to suppose that if National Ama
teur Athletic Union championships
are held early in the surqmer the Cor
nell record-holder will oppose Kiviat
in the mile run for the championship
of this country.
Although much has ben said about
these two runners, little hope is held
that Taber, the Rrown track captain,
will be able Jo successfully challenge
either of them over the mile distance.
Taber is, however, training faithfully
himself as a mil^r and this confidence
is a great asset in a rape of this
kind.
"'/'inker, you're a bortehcad!”
• "Tinker. you're a wheeze I"
"Tinker, you're a false alarm!”
"Tinker, you're a wheeze!"
All of u* qre bet tiny
That down the (jnc you'll yo
That's what 'Tinker'x yet tiny
In Cincinnati, O.
Yes. ami Tinker might have known it bad he peeked into the past.
For a Cincinnati skipper never had a chance to last.
If this advice will act as balm, we would advise you. Joe,
To recollect these outbursts not so many years ago:
"Kelley, you're a Jonah!"
"Kelley, take a roam!"
"Hire a hark and journey buck
To the Sol diem' Home l"
“Griffith, you're a counterfeit!"
"Griffith, you're too slow!''
Lovely town for managers,
Cincinnati. O.
JOHNNY DUNDEE OFF FOR
NEW YORK; BABY IS ILL
LOS ANGELES, CAL., May 10.—
Johnny Dundee, who boxed a twen
ty-round draw with Johnny Kilbane,
at the Vernon arena, received a tel
egram from his wife in New York
stating that his baby daughter wag
very ill and asking him to come at
once. Dundee left immediately over
the Santa Fe.
“Scotty” Monteith. Dundee’s mana
ger, will remain here in an endeavor
to arrange a match for a June date
between Dundee and Ad Wolgast.
Montejlh states that he will insist on
133 pounds ringside and that should
the bout be arranged Dundee will re
turn «here at once and go into train
ing. 1
RUBE WADDELL DID NOT
QUIT BASEBALL FOR GOOD
MINNEAPOLIS, May 10.—Rube
Waddell cut another notch in his
stick of eccentricities to-day and
told some of his friends that he might
stay in the game for another season
after all.
Rube quit the Minneapolis (North
ern Teague) team recently, turned in
his uniform and said he was through
with baseball for good. Having thus
delivered himself, Rqbe crawled back
into his baseball clothes yesterday
afternoon, went out to a corner lot
and “helped” the Silver Rows, a semi-
pro outfit, defeat the Elliot club. The
Bows sent Rube to the outfield,
where he muffed his only chance/ '
T HEY always referred to him as
the century plant of the prize
ripg. He loved the title, for ii
struck him as adulation no other
lighter received. Now it is all to
be forgotten. For Oscar Battling
Nelson, of Hogewish, Ill., the greatest
fighting machine that ever fought in
this country, is going to retire.
There is no press agent yarn about
his stepping aside. The hands that
brought many fi»tic ’ stars to the!*-
finish, the iron jaw that (stepped
thousands of blows, have done-their
work and are entitled to a rest.
The career of this human dynamo is
nothing lesh> than sensational in the
extreme. All he knew was fight. All
he did was fight. Not the fancy kind,
but the steady, persistent method
that overcame all obstacles and never
stopped until it j5ut Oscar Battling
Nelson at the top of the pugilistic
ladder of fame.
Eulogizing Ne'Jscn would mean
nothing but a repetition of facts that
have been printed thousands of times
all over this contifiept. He is un
doubtedly the most widely known and
popular fighter that ever donned tj>e
gloves.
As an instance of his popularity
we can recite what happened after
Ad Wolgast wrenched the lightweight
crown from Nelgon. Wolgast paraded
his honors for ten weeks and earned
510 ,000. Nelson went out before the
public and within thirteen weeks
gathered in 516,636. Only two imn
have been credited with knocking him
out—Wolgast and Moran. Nelson al
ways disputed their claims, swearing
that he wac not given a fair deal in
those battles.
Jit* holds the record for marathon
fighting by meeting sixtynjne bat
tlers in one week in Philadelphia.
How many battles he played leading
parts in nobody knows- He never
was idle, and to put the figures at
600 would be conservative.
He leaves the ring with a fortune
estimated at 5300,000. His .Income is
at the rate of 5700 a month. He’s
entitled to every dollar, for he gave
value for value received.
There will never be another Rat
tling Nelson. He f an look any one in
tne eye and defy him to ray he ever
participated in a fake. A sterling
DUBUC PERFECTS
DELIVERY UNAIDED
Tiger Star Pitcher Sends Over
Curves, Slow and Fast Balls
by Different Motions.
POLE TO MEET WINNER
OF LE MARIN-R0LLER GO
CHICAGO, May 10.—Officials of the
Globe Athletic Club have reecived
word from .lack Herman, manager <>f
Stanislaus Zby&zko that the latter will
meet the winner of the Roller-Re
Marin wrestling match, to be staged
at the Globe theater Monday night.
Re Marin has asked for a return
match with the Pole, with the toe
hold bqrred, and under np other con
ditions will he wrestle Herman’s man
during the present season.
Roller says should he come ouc
victor over hip German opponent h 3
will accept the match with Zbyszke
under the regular catcb-as-catch-can
rules, and will ask no favors of the
Pplish giant. Re Marin and Roller
are both training strenuously for
their coiping struggle and promise to
be In the best possible condition.
DETROIT, May 30.—Jean Dubuc
of the Detroit Tigers, attributes his
success as an American League pitch
er to the fact that he can deliver his
curves, his slow ball and his fast ba^
with three different motions, and have
control of the ball by his motion.
“Years ago, when I was pitching
with Notre Dame College, I learned
Jhat speed without control was value
less. I always had pretty fair control
of my delivery, but with the acquired
knowledge I began perfecting differ
ent deliveries and control of the ball
in each,” says Jean.
“It took years of patient effort to
acquire the delivery I now have, hut
T believe it is one of the least trying
on the arm and shoulder muscles, for
the reason that I put the weight of
my body behind the pitches and Io
not depend on the strength of my
arm to send up» a fast ball.
“I worked with my slow ball for
three months before I could get a
curve to it, and after that it took me
three years to perfect the delivery.”
Dubuc declares that his delivery
would be an ideal one for a left
hander, inasmuch as hitting such a
ball*from a left-handed pitcher would
be much harder. The ball would come
up to the batter on an entirely new
angle, and Jean insists that the best
bqtters in the major leagues would be
puzzled.
Various persons have been given
credit .for developing Dubuc, and
among those honored is Hugh Jen
nings. Hughey, however, declare-
that' Dubuc alone is responsible.
“Jean is one of those players who
never wastes a moment,” says Jen
nings.
“When he is on the bench and an
other fnan is pitching, the Frenchman
is always figuring what he would
throw the batter. What is more vai
uable, he makes his comments aloii i.
and the youpg pitchers on the club
can gain valuafne hints by listening
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