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HKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN* BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS SUNDAY. MAY 11, 19M.
Showing Here That Jeff Is Also SOME Ring General
By “Bud” Fisher
Ry Tiok Tichenor.
W HIl.E I stated In last Sunday s
American that our solf does
not yet class with that of the
East and West, still there has been
a marked improvement In the work
of our players in the last five or six
years. ,
For example let us compare the
scores made in the first tournament
held over the East Lake course and
the tournament which has just been
finished for the Henry W. Davis cup
over the same course.
The first tournament held by the
Atlanta Athletic C'lub was held Sep
tember 18. 1806. and an examination
of the cards returned in the Qualify
ing round proves beyond the shadow
of a doubt that the golf now being
played has Improved on an average
of at least a stroke a hole.
It is true ihat when this first tour
nament was played, now nearly seven
years ago, the course was new
and therefore was not in very good
ondltlon But even making al
lowance for the defective condition
of the course there is too great a
difference between the scores then re
turned snd those now being made to
be accounted for In any other wav
than In the improvement in the men
swinging the dubs.
• • •
J N tills first tournament there were
thirty-two starters In the quali
fying round and F. G. Byrd was the
only one to turn In a store of less
titan a hundred In fact his ninety
eight was eleven strokes Detter than
W. J. Tllson, who was the next man.
The scores ranged all the way from
Byrd’s ninety-eight to Joo Colquitt's
two hundred and six which so far
as X know Is a record.
F G. Byrd and the writer had the
only fives at the twelfth and Byrd’s
four was the only one at the thir
teenth. Not a man got a four at the
fourteenth but W. J. Tilson. 8. W.
Trawick, B. J Clay, Lowry Arnold,
W K. atone. C. P. King and W. H.
Glenn all had fives Byrd anti Tra-
yy lek had the only fives at the fif
teenth and Marye and I^ngston had
the only sixes at the sixteenth, S. C.
Williams was alone In the glory of
having the only five at the seven
teenth. while Byrd scored the only
six at the eighteenth This made
the best ball coming home forty-four
or one under fives. The only hole
which was played under par whs the,
fifth at yvhlch Lowry Arnold and O.
D Street holed threes.
* * *
N OW In the tournament which was
started on April 26 and finished
last week there were only fifty-five
players who returned cards but of
this number there were twenty-sevrn
who were as good or better than the
low score in that first tournament
seven years ago.
If other evidence is desired to es
tablish the general improvement in
the playing of our goffers let us
compare the fcoi** returned in the
qualifying round < r iie first Houth-
ern Championship yed here in
June. 1907. and tin nade at Chat
tanooga last June.
In 1907 there were only two men
of the one hundred and forty, who
teed up in the qualifying round of
the Southern Championship, who
were able to break a ninety. Law-
lence Eustis. of New Orleans, won
the low score medal with an eighty -
six and K. G. Byrd was second just
one stroke behind him R. H. Brooke
nnd Nelson Whitney tied for third
plate with an even ninety. All of
those w'ho were as good as rinety-
eeven qualified in the Championship
Bight, which at that time was limit
ed to sixteen. Those whose scores
were between ninety-seven and one
hundred qualified in the second flight.
The first flight in this tournament
consisted of eight players and all of
those who made as good as one hun
dred and sixteen in the qualifying
round got in it. Playing true to
the form exhibited in the qualifying
round F. G. Byrd and W. J. Tilson
met in the final which Byrd won
eight up and six to play.
Those who made between one hun
dred and seventeen and one hundred
and twenty-three got in the second
flight, which also consisted of eight
players This flight was won by J.
G. Darling, who disposed of P. M.
Whiting in the final at the fifteenth
green.
The third flight consisted of all
tii' other entries and was the only
flight of sixteen. In some unex
plainable manner yours truly. who
had qualified with a score of one
hundred and twenty-six. managed to
win from W. Carroll Cat inter in the
final of this flight
* * •
IF we go further in an examine
* tion of the cards rnturned in the
qualifying round of this tournament
you will find that the best ball of
the entire thirty-two players was on
ly eighty-one. In making this best
ball score P. Thornton Marye was
the only man who had as good as a
three at the first hole W. P. Hill,
C. A. Langston and F G Byrd had
fives on the second Byrd had the
only Hire*- at the third and Marye
"Vie only four at the fourth. Lowry
Arnold and O D. Street had threes
at the fifth and H. Clay Moore had
the only four at the sixth. The
seventh was easy, if w« are to judge
from the number of players who ne
gotiated it in five. They were W.
J. Tilson, C. A. Langston, B. J. Clay.
T, B Paine, J. G Darling and A. T.
1£ Brown. P. H. Whiting was the
only man to get a five at the eighth
B. W. Trawick. W. J. Tilson and B
J. Clay had the only fives at th«
ninth. This made the best ball go
ing out total thirty-seven. Coming!
home F. G. Byrd alone had a four
at the tenth. W. J. Tilson. P. T
Marye. S. W. Trawick and Fulton
Colville tied with fives at the
eleventh.
• • •
F 'ROSl one hundred 10 one hundred
and three qualified in the third
flight and from one hundred and
three to one hundred and six made
the fourth flight All of the flight*
at that time were made up of six
teen players each.
I-tst t ear at Chattanooga the qual
ifying round was thirty-six holes
Instead of eighteen as In 19b" and
it took one hundred and seventy-five
for the t»o rounds or an average of
eighty-seven and a half to get into
the first thirty-two as against a
hundrerf for the same number in
1S01 ar.« it also took as good as nine-
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Bean Writes About Hit-RunPlay
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Calls It Hardest Offensive Stunt
By Joe Bean
A FEW years ago while watching
a game at the Boston Ameri
can league grounds, I was In
troduced to the captain of one of the
largest Eastern college base ball
teams. During the course of con
versation he intimated that they used
the hit and run style of play a great
deal.
The thought struck me that they
must be pretty well advanced in the
art to accomplish this* to any great
extent, especially as this Is the hard
est offensive play to make. The way
to pu it "tr <-r the wiLjr i<» break it
up is utterly unknown. The hit and
run as we all know is called "hit
and run” because the player that is
on bsse runs before the ball is hit.
* * *
E will take the play with the
** runner on first base and the
signal is given for the runner to steal.
The signal has been given by the
batsman because lie has figured that
the condition of balls and strikes
that he has against him Is In his
favor. He thinks the pitcher is go
ing to put it over. That is. he ex
pects to have the ball come near
enough to take a crack at it. Also
he has* figured out who is going to
tover second base and lie is going
to hit It through the opening left by
that player. If ihe batsman strikes
at the hall anil misses, the catcher
can or cannot get him at second base.
This all depends on the quickness of
the play, but the chances are against
the runner. If he hits the ball in
the infield the base runner who has
had a good start reaches second and
the batsman retired at first, but if
Ihe batsman hits through the infield
the runner will invariable go to third
and the play lias been a success.
While the batsman is figuring out the
play und giving the signal to the
runner there is also some figuring
going on by the pitcher, catcher and
Infields of ihe op|»oeing team.
* * *
C UPPOSE tiie catcher has gotten
^ wise to the hit and run signal
He calls for a waist ball or a pitch
out. The players on the infield saw
it also, and knew that the danger of
the batsman hitting through the in
field was not very great. Supposing
that the catcher did not get the sig
nal. it is up t<> the .''in i t stop or se<
ond baseman to break up the play and
this in done by not going over to
cover the bag until the ball has pass
ed the batter and the catcher has
it. In this way the Infield is always
in place up until the last possible
fraction of a second and then the
infield, ball and base runner come
into the play and a fast double play
is the result.
Some people will say It was
tough luck and can not see the good
play made by the in fielder" though
of course a double play in appre
ciated by the baseball public in gen
eral. How many times have you ?-een
the bas-runner start to st- ai and be
called back because the batter has
hit a fly ball. There are players who
when playing hit and run take their
healthy wallop just the same as they
do when driving for a long hit anil
th* result is a fly to the outfield or
infield Skillful players are a little
more careful.
* • ♦
IN writing about this play i have
* brought into view lust why thi
play is used with a man on second
or with a man on first and second.
It is just ns difficult to make under
one condition as it is under another,
though it has hocn said that to work
it from second is easier than from
firrt. When the play is pulled oft
correctly it is a great play and one
that brings applause and commenda
tion from the fans. The opposing
team , feels it badlv. nnd when it is
broken up the offensive team feels
the same way. So you can see that
the hit and run play if pulled off
successfully Is a great help.
* * *
TOURING the spring practice when
new’ players are reporting, many
interesting tales are told, s«ome con
cern the former playmates. J»ome the
majors, some the happenings during
the winter, and every one connected
with baseball gets theirs. Dur
ing one of the fanning bees in Provi
dence on a wet day the players were
all congregated around the stove and
Bill Murray came in and joined the
crowd and after listening to the bill,
started in to tell about his experience
on the Dover, N. H., team. They
had a good team and started the
season well nnd were leading with
1.000 per cent when they took a slump
and lost quite a few games. They
eventually got back on their feet and
started up the ladder when one of
the newspapers had a long article
saying that if the team kept up its
present gait they would soon be back
to 1.000 percentage.
Wolgast-Burns Bout
On Coast Called Off
Rival Lightweights Fail to Agree on
Weight—Campi May Meet
Conlon, May 21.
S AN FRANCISCO. May 10.—The
Wolgast-Frankie Bums fight, sched
uled for May 21, has been called off.
Wolgnst’s manager. Tom Jones, in
sists on the weight being 133 pounds
ringside and says that his poundage
mark will ahvay.s stand no matter
who the former lightweight cham
pion’s opponent might be. Burns in
sists on the 133 pounds at 3 o’clock
that was orginnlly agred upon by
Wolgast.
At the time of signing for the bout
Matchmaker Jimmy Rohan, of the
Oakland Wheelmen’s Club, questioned
Wolgast as to Jones* consent and be
assured Rohan That he had this lib
erty and that there was an under
standing regarding such matters be
tween himself and Jones, but when
Jones arrived from Los Angeles this
morning he immediately got into
touch with Rohan and told him that
the weighing hour must be ringside.
To this Burns refused to agree.
But tlie Wheelman’s Club will have
a card on the night of May 21 just
the same Champion Bantamweight
Johnny Coulon has agreed to terms
for a bout here with Eddie Campi
over the ten-round route at that
time, and the only hold-back lies in
the fact that the champion is having
a hard time arranging his engage
ments so that he might get to the
coast to trail) properly. Rohan ex
pects to hear definitely from Coulon
to-morrow morning
BIG LEAGUE TEAMS WOULD
ABANDON TRAINING TOURS
DETROIT. MICH., May 10. Man-
ager Hughey Jennings of the Tigers
is not the only major league club
manager who favors the elimination
of the spring training exhibition
tour for a ball club.
.Manager McGraw of the Giants.
Mack of the Athletics. Stovall of the
Browns. Dooln of the Philies. Evers
of the Cuba. Birmingham of the
Naps and Stahl of the Red Sox. all
favor the establishing of a perma
nent training camp and abandonment
of the exhibition tour.
MORGAN MAY BEAT DUNDEE
OUT OF KILBANE MATCH
FROM
RINGSIDE
AND
BLEACHERS
ty-one to get into the first sixty-
four which is equivalent to the four
flights as arranged in 1907.
• * *
T HE team match in 1907 was de
cided by the four lowest scores
returned by the player- of any one
club and it was not necessary to|
name the members of the team be
fore starting as it is now. Yet in
1907 the lowest scores returned by
the four players of any one club
was three hundred and fifty-eight,
while last year, with a team named
before they started the Country Club
of New Orleans cut off forty-three
strokes from the above number or
an average of nearly eleven strokes
per man.
True it is that the Chattanooga
course is somewhat easier than the
course of the A X. C but the differ
ence is only two or three strokes
and not eleven as the dope on
qualifying rounds show Therefore
there can be but one answer for the
.differeryr in the scoring—our golf
is improving.
LOS ANGELES. CAL. May 10.—
Promoter Tom McCarey decided that
the public was not enthusiastic over
the prospect of u return Kllbane-
Dundee battle. He Immediately be
gan planning for a battle between
Kilbane. who is featherweight
champion, and Eddie Morgan, who is
classed as the featherweight cham
pion of England. McCarey hopes to
get Morgan and Kilbane into the ring
for twenty rounds about the middle of
July.
CHANCE ORDERS CLARKE
TO JOIN TEAM AT ONCE
AMES. IA.. May 9.—Manager Frank
Chance of the New York Americans,
has ordered (George Clarke. Ames
University student, to report to the
club a: once. Clarke was with the
Yankees part of last season and wa?
farmed to Rochester of the Interna
tional league.
He refused this spring to sign a
Rochester contract because he would
not break off at college and was in
formed of his suspension.
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A SONG OF THE SAIL.
I jet the landsman dig the lands
man’s dir I
To conquer the ocean hoar;
Ere I drive mu keel with steam
and steel
1 11 hide on the landsman's shore.
The pine that clung to the thun
dering marge.
The hemp that the (eaters grew—
We want hut these to brave the
seas,
And scoff at the kicking screw.
II ith these we laugh at the cloud-
wrack grey
And the wild gale’s angry yell.
And the spindrift’s sting and the
heave and swing
Of the old Atlantic swell.
•
Tt’itA these—and Ihe fear-free
hear! of youth.
The heart that grows never old.
While ire dare the course of the
fierce While Horse
To the Land of the If unset Gold!
But J can't deny there are draw
backs, too,
That every true sailor meets.
When Ihe breeze dies down und
you cuss and frown
Some ump-stcen miles from Ihe
eats.
* * *
BASEBALL IS MAKING A HIT
in Paris, where “la Savate" is also
popular. It is to be hoped that the
French will not endeavor to com
bine the two sports as so many of
our young inflolders insist is
proper.
• * •
“IF THE SPORT OF KINGS”
could be confined to kings there
would be no objection to it. A
king bucks the bookie with un
earned money and can afford to
lose, a
* • *
SIC TRANSIT THE BUSHER.
(Spring m outing with "Top'’
Wordsworth.)
Young Jimmy Hone was over-large.
Hut hollow in the beau.
And never guilty of the charge
Of rapid thought. I ween.
One day he stole—bags full, //on
know—
't hat was the end of Jim.
Fete heard his boss’ words. Imt oh.
The difference 1o him!
• * *
DIRECTORS OF THE RACE-
traek are going to co-operate with
the New York authorities to elim
inate gambling.'' Well, why not.
Aren’t the directors of the Gotham
Police Department “co-operating
with the District Attorney” to
eliminate graft?
• # *
DID YOU EVER WATCH A
couple of wrestlers co-operate to
eliminate wrestling''
• * *
••ALONE. BUT WITH UNBATED
zeal, *
The Lookouts step on banana peel.''
JOHNSON HURLED RUNLESS
BALL FOR 86 INNINGS
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Way out
in the state of Washington in 1907
when American League batters did
not know what it meant to stand a
the plate with palpitating hearts and
watch Walter Johnson, speed kin..;
prepare to shoot a fast one toward
them the marvel of the hurler’
mound hung up a record that wester*)
fans will never ferret.
For 86 consecutive innings not a j
run had been made off the bi:4 '
Swede’s delivery In the games he.ha
pitched and it was not until the nint.i ,
inning of .a game between Johnson's j
team. Welser and Caldwell, played at \
the latter's city, that a man scored.
Two were down and a Caldwell man
got to first on an error, stole second
and reached third on a passed ball.
A fluke hit through the infield scored
the runner. Blankenship, sent to look |
Johnson over by Washington, sow >he
game and brought the phenom to the
big league
GRIFFITH RELEASES TWO.
WASHINGTON. May 10.—Catcher!
Jack Eagan and Pitcher Bob Austin
have been handed the customary ten)
days’ notice by Manager Griffith to
look around the miffor leagues for a
job. ^ 1
ATHLETES USE
S AN FRANCISCO, CAL. May 10.—
The man whO said there is
nothing new under the sun did
not keep track of the constant
changes that are taking place in the
various lines of sport.
The old style o£ boxing, whiph had
for its basic principle stand straight
and hit from the shoulder” has gone
its way. Nowadays the best expo
nents of the art crouch and hit from
every old angle.
Later-day jockeys perch upon a
horse’s withers instead of riding with
the long stirrup of other years, while
the innovations that are seen in foot
ball. baseball and wrestling are sure
ly “too numerous to mention.”
Now certain teachers of swimming
have discovered that the breast
stroke, even though it has endured
since the beginning, is all a mistake,
and that in order to achieve the best
results the young idea must be taught
to swim on its side and, for a change
method of natation, use the “crawd.”
Well, here is one threatened reform
that lends itself to discussion. With
the human family swlmimng is an
acquired art and it stands to reason
that the living things with which the
practice is natural long ago settled
which is the best stroke. Whoever
heard of a frog or a sturgeon or a
duck using anything but the breast
stroke?
Pretty soon the aeronauts w r ill be
discovering faults in the method of
air navigation followed by the birds.
* * *
Ad Wolgast has become the man
ager of Willie Hoppe. This means
that Manager Tom Jones is now the
manager of a manager.
“Giants and Senators
Look Best "--Griffith
Washington Manager Says Speed
Will Win Pennant for Both
Ball Teams.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Clark
Griffith declares that Washington is
going to win the American League
pennant and is equally positive that
the Giants w’ill win in the National.
“And let me tell you something,”
he said. “It ought to be the greatest
world’s series that has ever been
played. It will be the first time that
two really fast teams have ever got
together for the big prize. In the
past one of the teams always has been
superior on the bases while the other
was superior at the bat. The Giants
and my club operate along the same
lines, and. beiieve me. when we get
together it wifi be some fight.”
“Do you think you could beat the
Giants in a world’s series?” he was
asked.
“Yes.” he replied. "In a seCen-
game series 1 think Walter Johnson
can beat any club, though up to the
present I have considered Mathewson
the daddy of all pitchers. There will
never be another like mm. but John
son Is younger and stronger now.”
“Don’t you seriously think that the
Athletics and the Red Sox have it on
you in batting?”
“They may have.” he answered,
“but we r.re going to beat them out
Just like the Giants are going to beat
out Pittsburg and the other clubs—
on speed. There is nothing to it - the
day has come when the main thing j
in baseball is gast base running. That's
what McGraw and myself have.”
McCarty a Card Despite Roasting
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Heavyweight Has Many Offers
RIVERS VS. MURPHY.
NEW YORK, May 10.—Only the
question of weight appears to stand
in the way of a ten-round bout be
tween Harlem Tommy Murphy and
Joe Rivers here. Rivers wants to
weigh in at 133 pounds ringside, while
while Murphy Is insisting on 133
pounds at six o'clock.
By Ed W. Smith.
C hicago, ill., May 10.—while
all the sport critics of the
East have been putting that
white champion, Luther McCarty, on
the grill and roasting him to a finish
in the last few days or ever sinec he
failed to make much of an impres
sion on Frank Moran, the Pittsburg
heavy weight, the Nebraska man con
tinues on his merry way, unmindful
of it all. As long as the promoters
continue to want McCarty’s services
for ring battles and the show end of
the game, Luther is content to take
the short end of it from the critics
and go along about his business just
the same as if they were tossing bou
quets at him. The big fellow has
a thick skin.
Fight fans around the Middle West
and on the Pacific Coast have long
since ceased to regard the Eastern :
opinion as one to string along with
or to make many wagers on. Out
here the general feeling prevails that
New York never could "see” very
much thm came out of the West in
an athletic line, and the critics there
have been compelled so often to eat
their own words that it has become
something of a joke. Occasionally
they pick out real live ones to laud
and only recently showered all sorts
of encomiums on Mike Gibbons and
Packer McFarland. They couldn’t
help boosting in either case.
New York Roasted Jeffries.
It is well remembered that the first j
time that Jim Jeffries showed in New j
York he was roasted out of the city. ;
The critics couldn’t find enough
harsh things to say about him. He j
wasn’t exactly d champion at the j
time, but several good judges in the
West saw in him the right sort of
material, and the fact that escaped
the observation of the wise men of!
the East made no difference to the i
Western men, w ho proceeded to mold
Jeffries into one of the greatest fight
ing machines the ring ever saw.
Ad Wolgast alw’ays was a joke
with the Eastern men and they
laughed him to scorn when he showed
there. Yet out on the Pacific Coast,
where they know a real champion
when they see one. Wolgast always
was regarded as one of the greatest
of the lightweights. Wolgast proved
it more than once, too, over the real
championship route. So Luther Mc
Carty needn’t feel so terribly bad
about it. and incidentally, he doesn't.
Luther to Meet Fulton.
McCarty and his manager, Billy
McCarney, whose unpopularity with
certain promoters and press agents in
New York may account for some of
the roasts the fighter has been get
ting. passed through here recently on*
their way to Kansas City, where they
are showing for four days. They wiil v
be in Omaha on the 8th, and after
that they will journey to Saskatoon,
w’here Luther will take on a big fel
low named Fred Fulton in' a ten-
round encounter. ‘From there they
will go to Calgary, w’here Tommy
Burns has Luther hooked up with
Arthur Pelkey, the New England
heavyweight. { < ,
The four weeks following that will*'
be spent on the Pacific Coast in a f
tour of the larger cities of that sec
tion. Nothing further has been book
ed for the big fellow*, but it is a cer
tainty that he will get on at one of
the fight arenas there w’ith the win
ner of the Willard-Smith fight, the
date to be July 4. McCarney is so
confident of getting a big match for
the national holiday that he thinks it —
is an absolute cinch. Billy declines* to
express an opinion regarding the out
come of the meeting between Willard
and Smith other than to say that
Willdrd will have to be absolutely at
h* best to stick the twenty rounds
with the Gunboat.
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