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• J* 4 n 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- T't> Like To FIHD ANOTHER school bot to •iL(\<v\ (N >Hf JAW TODAY THOse CtYTLE O'O'i', \ T>l>cr Soup f: l Sat, JEFPl l J>JVT ifVw ANOTHER. JAP AROGND THE CORrqtSR. J X OH , LfcAD me TO IT. LfcAO TO IT f WHAT I'M. DO To [ THIS ONE VslILL Rfc ( A NHANe. the oovernsnent j OULHTTO T>6 Ci-AR-C ; OPEN SEAbOM ON JAPb TWICE afFMC ~r j^D. /"X —3 Bean Writes About Hit-RunPlay © 0 O Q © 0 O 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. ,!■ w Ss & mm i <* tiffin mil cerffpif#r/£Z> 19j3 L J/W CO.... By Right Cross. 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 © 0 Q 0 0 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. First CTmmc. th* WmrU Ommr b * F jVagrant Saazer Hop Gardens Anheuser-Busch imports mote Saazer Hops than all other brewers its this exclusive Saazer Hop flavor that placed their master brew Budweiser Absolutely ALONE at the lop of the world's bottled beers. The supreme quality and purity of Budwener ccmefrom our brewing and aging only from die choicest Barky and ra est Saazer Hops. Our plant is the largest and finest in die wcFLnd our output is the greatest. PrttkJ only at dwlmepbot «■ ScAoum Anheuser-Busch Brewery StLouia. .I^S. F. LYNCH. Distributor. Atlanta. Ga.