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Copyright. 1013, InlernaUonal New* Service **
By
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J. H. Heisman.
P ERHAPS the most singular thing
I ever saw happen in a baseball
game was during a contest be
tween Oberlin and Allegheny Colleges
about twenty years ago. The game
was being played on Allegheny’s cam
pus at Meadville, Pa. The baseball
Park was very long, but it was quite
the narrowest baseball park I ever
’.saw. IJotli the right and left flell-
ers always played but a little way
back of and out from first and third
base respectively, and let line drives
to their outside hand hit the fence,
and then play them on the rebound
like they would a ball on a pool ta
ble.
The near proximity of these fences
1 ’ .also meant that many balls w’ent over
the fence, and so they had to keep
a couple of boys on the outside dur
ing the game to return the balls. At
one time I remember, there were six
balls outside the fence. The boys
on the outside simply returned the
balls into the field by a throw over
the fence, and so they were liable to
come popping back into the field of
play at any old place and time.
* » *
T one stage of the game there was
a man on first and one on sec
ond for Allegheny, with two hands
down. The batter hit a slow line
drive that started right for third base,
but when it had traveled about tw'-
thirds of the way there it suddenly
encountered another ball that came
from outside the field. This other
ball appeared to be headed for second
base, and of course from the side of
the park. The two balls were jour
neying about the same height, and
when they collided they were both
deflected from their former courses
and both rolled almost together right
down to shortstop. Being called upon
at short notice to handle not one but
two balls, neither of which he had
expected to try for, the Oberlin short
stop went up in the air for an instant,
but valiantly decided to try for both.
They were not rolling with much
speed so he managed to flag one with
hie right hand and one with his left,
but as he handled neither of them
clean he managed to roll them both
from one hand to the other just
enough to confuse himself and every
one else as to which was the batted
ball and which the thrown. But be
ing near third he simply tossed on°
► of them to the third sack with his
* left hand and landed it there before
the forced runner from second Ar
rived. He now whipped the oth i,
which he had picked up with his right
hand simultaneously with the grab
of the first by his left over to first
base. He made a pretty g«od heave,
but it was clear the batter had beat t
out by a step.
* * *
'fTHTEN came the argument. If the
1 ball that short threw to third
was the batted ball Allegheny had
been retired; but if the one he threw
to first was the ball that had been
in play then no one was out and all
hands were safe. There were about
849 people at that game, and 424^
persons were ready to make affidavits
that the ball that went to third was
the one that the batsman hit, while
about 424^ others took their oath
then and there that the batted ball
was the one thrown to first. The
poor umpire was the only individual
in the grounds who seemed to have
no opinion w’hatever on the subject.
But he heard all about it from the
captains, the players, the waterboys,
•corers. lawyers, doctors, expert wit
nesses and, I believe, every cat and
dog in the grounds.
* * *
H E wound up by giving a decision
that of course pleased nobody.
He declared that, inasmuch as his
light eye had seen the play one way
and his left eye the other way, the
best thing he could do was to put
the runners back where they started
from and the batter- back at the plate,
and all hands try it over again.
Wouldn’t it be a funny old game
if two batters and two pitchers and
two balls were put into the game at
the same time?
Here's one I heard Treasurer Ban
croft. of the Cincinnati Reds, tell ;i
year or two ago, which I have told
once or twice since and found It was
as well enjoyed by others as it had
been by me.
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f team of bush leaguers whose mana
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infielder. He recalled having re-
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novice living in a neighboring state
who had over and over again assured
this manager regarding his, the writ
er’s wonderful ability and of the cer
tainty of his becoming the game’s
greatest star at no distant day, could
he but secure a trial. In desperation
v the manager wired him to come on.
The recruit arrived in due time and
was promptly thrust into the breach,
hut. sad to relate, he booted and
bungled and threw away about every
ball that came down to him, and thev
were many. That night he mustered
up courage enough to approach his
sorrowing manager with an idea of
squaring himself as best he could.
“I was a little bit off to-day," was
his propitiatory offering.
"Yes, a little.” conceded his mam-
-or. with a tinge of young grape fruit
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Giants Should Cop Third Pennant
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Expert Sees Little Hope For Cubs
By W. J. Me Beth.
N EW YORK, May 10.—In the es
timation of New York fandom
this big town is reasonably
certain of a share of the next world’s
championship games. No one who
has seen the Giants perform around
these parts is ready to concede any
other rival more than an outside
chance against the two-time cham
pions of the National League. It may
be sectional prejudice, for under
Johnny Evers the Cubs have gotten
away to an advantageous start fo 1 .*
a club that was heretofore a slow
breaker, but strange to say the Chi
cago team does not carry the same
fear as in former days.
The answer is the absence of the
Peerless Leader.
The Cubs have always been fuli
of surprises for New' York and may
be again this season. More will be
known of this after the Keystone
King’s men have had a chance to sift
through the Eastern wing of Tom
Lynch’s domain. If the Windy City-
array is able to win against Phila
delphia and Brooklyn with the same
marked regularity that they have been
cleaning up our Western neighbors,
then it will be high time for John Mc-
Graw to shovel on more coal. From
this long distance angle it strikes one
that Chicago’s fine showing has been
the result of poor opposition rather
than individual club brilliancy. Jn
support of which a few argumerts
will hereby be presented.
Pittsburg Team Crippled.
In the West Chicago has encounter
ed practically no opposition. Cincin
nati and St. Louis have shown a
straw defense. Pittsburg, generally
accredited pennant prospects at the
start was wrecked and broken when
the mighty Hans Wagner and the
reliable George Gibson went down in
a heap. It is an easy matter for even
a fair team to beat out crippled or
sadly disorganized rival aggregations.
Now the Giants on the other hand
have battled neighbors that shape
up far stronger than for the past
several seasons.
Philadelphia and Brooklyn both ap
pear better balanced than in years
and from what they have shown
must be reckoned for first division
berths. Philadelphia and Brooklyn
have both displayed real pitching:
pitching of far greater class than
Chicago has yet encountered. Chi
cago’s pitchers have been winning
right along with five and six runs
scored against them. This speaks for
the hitting powers of Evers’ line but
in the same breath insinuates box
weakness on the part of the rivals.
In New York’s games the scores have
been much more limited, proving bet
ter pitching and all around baseball
qualities.
Must Face Eastern Pitchers.
If against Eastern battery strength
the Cubs are able to rip off seven
or eight runs a day then indeed the
Chicago Cubs shall be hailed with
due acclaim. They will indeed be a
great shadow to the pennant pros
pects of the Giants. But I do not
think the team exists that consist*
ently tear loose even an average )f
four runs against such box men as
Seaton. Alexander. Mathewson. Tes-
reau, Marquard. Rucker. Allen and
such sharpshooters. Certainly’ New
York, Philadelphia and Brooklyn may
expect to score as frequently against
the Cubs as have St. Louis, Pitts
burg and Cincinnati. In which case,
limiting the score as the good Eastern
pitching should, the Windy City trioe
is most liable to find tough sledding
on its first long travel. All of which
puts it fairly and squarely up to the
approaching Eastern invasion by the
West. We will have to await devel
opments to get a proper line.
Giants Look Stronger.
New York has reason to preen
herself over the possibilities of a third
st’« ght pennant. To date the club
has looked fully 15 per cent stronger
than last season when the pennant
was won in the first there months.
That McGra.w does not enjoy the run
away lead he did a year ago is due to
the improvement of Philadelphia and
Brooklyn, a happy circumstance that
should help his cause greatly when
Pittsburg and Chicago heave into
view. Every department of the cham
pion machine has been improved ove-
1912. George Burns, in left fieid,
has rounded out a garden combina
tion that will compare favorably with
any rival. By the elimination of De
vore. McGraw has suffered no ioss
in speed and has gained greatly in
hitting power and defensive strength.
By the same token the infield has
been bolstered up by Shafer. He 5s
better than Fletcher in every depart
ment. Still McGraw’s greatest 5s
embraced in a new battery strength—
a department which for years has
been a constant source of worry to
him.
Matty in Great Form.
Christy Mathewson, the great an
chor man of his hurling corps for the
past decade, has shown all his old
time form and should have one of
the greatest campaigns of his bril
liant career. Marquard was late in re
porting, but is almost ready to cut in
witn all his accustomed ability. Wil-
iiRBi QohintxYrx uvii ho ia all rio'ht and
none should know better. Tesreau
has always been a hot weather pitch
er. He is better now than any time
before this early in the race. Leon
Ames, with a brand new spltball,
has chased his “jinx” and stepped
into his proper sphere at last. George
Wiltge seems to have returned to his
form of 1908. In A1 Demaree little
Mac has corralled one of the season’s
finds, to all appearances. He has
several other very fine looking Colt
tossers who should provide against
any possibility of overwork to the
veterans. As it stands to-day Mc
Graw has undoubtedly the most ef
fective pitching staff in his company
if not in organized baseball.
He need not hang hi9 head whe-n
his catching corps is compared with
any other. Chicago boasts a great
pair of backstops in Archer and Bres -
nahan. But for all around effective
ness Meyers and Wilson will pretty
nearly hold their own. The “Big
Chief” has always been a rattling
good catcher, subserious to injury
ar.d a fellow who will stick pretty
close to .330. Hitters of this type
are mighty scarce nowadays when
batting covers a multitude of sins.
Wilson is a very much improved
catcher and also a very dangerous
hitter. Hartley the third man on the
list, in the esfimation of John J. Mc
Graw is just about the sweetest pros
pect he has ever seen.
Giants Have Youth and Speed.
Those greatest of all natural ad
vantages—youth and speed—belong
to McGraw by a very wide margin.
He. too, possesses a list of candidates
of such well balanced ability that it
is practically impossible to cripple
him. His substitutes are just one
little shade less formidable than the
regular men. Now both Chicago and
Pittsburg, while possessing in num
bers are far below in class. Nor are
the regulars possessed of that vigor
of youth that is capable of standing
all the strains of a strenuous cam
paign. Take the Cubs. now. Clymer.
Mitchell, Bridwell and ' Evers hav?
several times stood upon the brink
of major league oblivion the ^ast few
years. Clymer, a veritable “old man,”
was rescued from the minors when
everyone thought him through as a
major star years ago.
The great uncertainty of pinning
faith to waning stars is best illus
trated in the case of Pittsburg. The
loss of one such man a» Hans Wagner
seems irreparable. The great “Fly
ing Dutchman’s” playing days have
run their course. In his unfortunate
fall he carried down with him the
pennant nrospects of the Pirates. Be '
fore Wagner and Gibson were laid on
the shelf—let us Jiope it will be but
temporarily in both cases—the Giants
seriously regarded Pittsburg’s opposi
tion. Chicago has never received the
same sort of respect. Pittsburg ha?
a wonderful pitching staff; Chicago
corps is lightly regarded. There lies
the answer.
Cubs May Be Surprise.
Chicago may be the big surprise wf
the season. We will all know better
in a couple of weeks. But in the
meantime we may look for better
things in Brooklyn as some consola
tion should the Cubs slip one over
Mr. Dahlen at last appears to have
rounded out a real first division pos
sibility. There should be no am lit
grain of comfort in that.
JOE RIVERS TURNS DOWN
OFFER TO MEET BRITTON
NEW YORK. May 10.—Rivers*, 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.
Rivera so l'ar has refused to box
Britton at 133 • ingside and 27 1-2
per cent, of the gate terms named
by Dan Morgan, 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.
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 hi-.' savings and enter the men’s
furnishing business.
MOORE AND GRIFFITH TO
CLASH IN ’2-R0UND GO
AKRON. O.. May 10.—Pal Moore,
of Philadelphia, and Johnny Gr.ffith,
local boy, have completed training for
their 12-round scrap here Monday
night. Griffith has fought some of
the toughest lightweights in the game
lutving recently ” bested Jack White,
U19 boy who bolds victories over Har
ry Thomas, Frankie Conley and Owen
Morn n.
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B OSTON, May 10.—How do you
account for the failure of a
ball team which consistently,
and on its merits, won the champion
ship of the world, reported in splen
did condition for spring training, came
out of the training season in better
shape individually than ever before,
and is nov\ beaten consistently in
about seven-eighths of the games it
plays?
This question is in the mind9 of all
Boston “fans,” who- have been aston
ished at the conspicuous downfall of
the Red Sox since the season began.
There is. not one. but many, an
swers, all of which partly explain tne
position of the Sox.
Of course, the team is not batting
up to the hitting of its competitors
It is not slamming the ball as hard
and as safely as last year, although
still hitting hard enough to win more
games than it has, if the men “came
through” in pinches as they did then,
and if backed by the pitching that
made the Sox famous in 1912 and
the other sterling defense that con
tributed so much to last season’s tri
umphs.
But this is a general answer—one
of the kind which explains most
teams’ defeats. Why has the batting
fallen off. particularly hitting togeth
er when hits mean runs enough to win
victories?
Pitchers Fallen Behind.
Why have the pitchers dropped be
low the 1912 standard? Why is the
other defensive strength below the
average shown last season? Why ril
this when the men. individually, a<c
in better shape, physically, and ca
pable of playing faster baseball than
they ever showed before at this sea
son?
Looking at the team individually,
we find, first, that Speaker is batting
above his 1912 form. Gardner is hit
ting up to last season’s work.
Hooper, who had an off year in 1912.
is no worse, surely. Yerkes has a
higher average than last season. Lew
is seems to be batting in the form he
displayed a year ago. But there vou
stop. The bottom quartet has failed
to “deliver.”
Fail to Hit in Pinches.
A year ago, the Sox, all the way
down the list, were timely hitters.
Every one of the nine men in the
average line,-up could break up a
ball game when necessary. Although
the men at the lower end had no high
averages, they won many a ball game.
They are not doing that this season.
They are not “coming through in the
pinches.”
No team can win a pennant unless
it does have a batting list that has
good men in the pinch all the way
down the line. The men at the top
can not win enough ball games, no
matter how hard or consistently they
cloul, to carry off a championship-
no, not even if among them were a
1.000 hitter and the rest .300 boys.
. You see, a few men batting suc
cessfully over and over again can’t
score enough runs alone to win seven
out of ten games—the percentage
necessary to land on top.
The other fellows do not get on
the base lines often enough to score
runs sufficient to count, and the
number of times that the topnotchers
can come to bat is limited.
Also, you will find that even the
topnotchers, while making good rec
ords in the percentage tables, are not
"coming across” when hits mean
games, as often as they used to.
Loss of Stahl Hurts.
One of the losses in the lower part
of the list is Jake Stahl. Stahl bat
ted over .300 last season. In his stead
Engle and Janvrin have played first
base and batted sixth. Neither hits
well enough to do his share in a
championship team.
"Heinie” Wagner is also a fallen
idol in the batting list. “Heinie” has
never been noted for high averages.
But by clever use of his brains
and wits he used to manage to “get
on" in many a tight place, and, once
“on.” was a terror to the opposition.
He was one of those timely fellows
who do nbt figure high up in the
percentage qolumn, but who win
many a ball game that the star clout-
ers were unable to squeeze through.
The pitchers and catchers, who used
to be more consistent batters when
hits were needed than most battery
men. have also failed to deliver the
goods this season.
DOC WHITE HOLDS RlcORD
FOR RUNLESS INNINGS
PITTSBURG, May 10.—George L.
Moreland, the baseball statistician,
found figures to-day tending to show
that "Doc" Harry White, of the Chi
cago White Sox, established the
world's record for consecutive runless
innings with forty-five Innings and
not chesbro for the 1 Highlanders with
forty-two, as recently contended.
White shut out Cleveland, St. Louis.
Detroit, New York and the Athletics
in nine-inning games in 1904.
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BY DAMON RUNYON.
M l XE air* have seen this morning,
after rubbing them some rubs,
The figures as presented in the
Standing of the Clubs:
And irhat is this I’m seeingf Why,
the birds they pegged as Dubs—
It’s Brooklyn marching on!
Mine ears have .heard the cheering
of J. Evers’ gallus Cubs.
And the moaning of the f’irates as
they’re sinking to the hubs—
But what’s this scream behind us.
and the flourishing of elubst
It’s Brooklyn marching on.
BEST IF ILL THE
WhiteSox AreNewSpeed Marvels
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'STAGE' BOXING
By W. W. Naugkton.
S AN FRANCISCO, May 10—When
White Hope Luther McCarty ar
ranged a series of pugilistic one-
night stands with his far-flung bat-
the line extending from Pittsburg to
Calgary, critics said that Luther evi
dently meant to 4 take no chances of
losing the championship belt confer
red on him by Tom McCarey.
It is just possible that McCarty's
motives were correctly construed, but
it looks as though Luther is likely to
protect his girdle at the expense of
his reputation. . So far Luther’s
cross-country matches—some one has
designated them safety matches—
have detracted from rather than in
creased his prestige. His .affair with
Jim Flynn In Philadelphia was voted
exceedingly tame, and his bout with
Frank Moran in New York was
worse.
Tiie trouble with McCarty is that
since his defeat of A1 Palzer he has
had too much foot light work and not
enough boxing. It required a very’
moderate amount of success to turn
his head, and it seems as though real
fighting Is the las-t thing In his
thoughts at present.
That Luther has become ftghty is
suggested by the episode of the bath
robe. It seems that instead of pro
ceeding to the arena to put on his
ring togs the night of the Moran go
he donned his ring togs at his hotel
in New York and went out through
a crowded lobby’ to his waiting taxi
cab wrapped in a bathrobe.
He returned the same way, and the
hotel management promptly request
ed him to give up his apartments.
The one thing required to complete
the asininity of the exhibition would
have been for Luther to have had his
champion belt buckled around the
bathrobe.
McCarty’s pranks are in distinct
contrast to the businesslike methods
of that other cowboy hope. Jess Wil
lard. Jess is putting in big licks up
at Harbin Springs r.nd will be in fine
fettle when the date of his match
with Gunboat Smith comes around^
He has for sparring partners Soldier’
P21der and Big Jim Cameron. Charlie
Miller is to join the camp soon, and
then Jess’ collection of mastodons
will be complete.
JACK BRITTON’S MANAGER
SAYS ALL ARE DODGING
NEW YORK. May 10.—'“Jack Brit
ton" is flghtiiiK himself out of a job,"
says his manager, who goes on to
rtate that Leaoh Cross, Joe Rivers.
Tommy Murphy, Freddy Welsh, ami
Willie Ritchie have all turned down
offers for a fight with the Morgan
entry. "Freddy Welsh," he continues,
“was matched to bix with Britton
last tear, 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 ta,k
of securing further opponents is very
hard.”
WELLS AND CARPENTIER SIGN.
PARIS. May 10.—Bombardier Wells
the English heavyweight, and George
Carpentier. the French champion,
yesterday signed articles for a twen
ty-round contest in this city on June
28.
ATHLETICS PRAISE CALVO.
, PHILADELPHIA, PA., May HI
1-Yank Baker, Ira Thomas and other
members of the Athletics state that
Calvo, the yoimg Cuban with Clark
Griffith's squad, looks like a mighty
sweet hitter and a promising young| F p°TO
player to them.
By Left Hook.
F rank klaus is on top now
with Jack Dillon running a
close second and with a very
good chance for front position. Mc-
Goorty and Clabby are a tie for third
place. This is the present middle
weight status.
It now looks as though a 15R-
pound or a 160-pound champion is
the hardest thing in the world to find.
The task of developing one has been
as hopeless as the white hope mar
ket.
The same old candidates have been
in line for the middleweight honor
ever since Ketchel was laid at rest in
a Grand Rapids cemetery. They have
been scrambling among themselves
for two years or more without ma
terial results. There have been
changes in the relative standing from
time to time, but the goal line is as
yet uncrossed.
McGoorty and Clabby fought ten
rounds in Denver recently to the
same indefinite outcome—-a draw.
How is one to tell from that whether
either or neither is a conjuring fac
tor in the race? That’s the way the
struggle has been going on, however.
It has been one long series of un
satisfactory. meaningless competi
tion.
Klaus Whipped Papke.
Klaus went to Paris and whipped
Carpentier and Papke. He put the
Illinois Thunderbolt on the rear end
of thb parade. Jack Dillon iias been
Scouting along for a few months,
whipping every possible contender
with whom he could get a match. He
defeated Molm decisively In Milwau
kee la«t week and Moha had pre
viously beaten McGoorty. The win
nings of Klaus and Dillon have been
the only consoling features of the dull
and uninteresting story of Ketchei’s
would-be successors, and they tend
to make this pair look better than
the rest.
Dillon vs. Klaus.
With Klaus back home and the pro
moters willing to use him against
Dillon, those interested in the fluctu
ations of middleweight values may
honestly expect a solution to the
problem, but unless things turn out
differently than before there is no
logical cause for a favorable result.
The Pittsburger and the Hoosier have
met twice, in ten and twenty round
contests and there, lias been little to
choose between them. Not only that,
but the battles 1 sre listless and not
of a kind to snake one rise up and
cheer. Their styles are practically
the same. Dillon is the better boxer
Dillon however, lias been fighting
in more brilliant form this year. And
Klaus showed in his Parisian engage
ments that he is more powerful than
ever, with more trick- than he pos
sessed two years ago.
Title Still In Air.
So if the two are matched and
they fight according to their recent
ability, it is just posible we may have
a champion after all. The title at
present lies between Klaus and Dil
lon, and if one wins with lots to spare
there is little doubt that he can
go out and clean up McGoorty and
Flabby. However, another Klaus-
Dillon meeting will have to be of an
entirely different color than the other
bouts. Therein lie? the settlement of
the long struggle. It s a slim chance.
THOMAS AND WHITE MEET
IN RETURN BOUT MAY 19
NEW ORLEANS, La.. May 10.—Joe
Thomas is down to hard training for
his ten-round bout with Charlit
White the Chicago speed marvel, here
May 19.
Joe Golden is putting his protege
through some stiff work-outs in an
effort to get Thomas into the best of j
shape when lie stacks up against the
Chicago boy. White is at present doing
his work in Chicago, but he i« ex
pected here some time this week.
SMITH OFFERS M’CaFtY
$5,000 GUARANTEE TO BOX
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., May 10.— I
anxious is Gunboat Smith, the I
“white hope destroyer” to meet Luth- |
er McCarty, that he to-day offered j
to guarantee McCarty $5,000 if Mb- (
Carty will meet him. Smith claims
McCarty has continually evaded 1
meeting him.
By Bill Bailey.
D ID it ever occur to you that th<5
White Sox team, as composed
at the present moment, is one
of the fastest aggregations in the
American League? It never did? Ap
parently it has occurred to few.
Mighty little has been written
about the speed of the white-hosed
boys, and it’s an asset that is rarely
mentioned when the Sox fans ge': into
a discussion.
Omit the pitchers, for they are al
ways in a speed discussion, aad put
Schalk behind the bat and the White
Sox line-up looks one of the fastest
in B. B. Johnson’s organization. Baker
Borton wouldn’t b'* accounted a fast
man on the bases. He isn’t horribly
slow or anything of that sort. But
when you have said that the first
eacker is not a fast man you have
mentioned about the only fellow’ in
the line-up who wouldn't be account
ed swift on any team.
Take the infield. Rath at second is
a fast man. Weaver at short is a man
who is deceptive in his s^eed. Lori,
the third baseman. Is anything save a
slow man when he gets on the bases.
Weaver should really be a great
base runner. Nov only has he the
speed, but he has the vicious slide
which the reallv great base runner
must possess. There isn’t anything
gentle about the shortstop. He is
vicious when he tags a runner. Apd
he goes into a bag the same way.
That’s a big asset, because any time
that the basemen get the idea th.*t
you are going in there with all you 1 '
weight back of you and with tho8€
spikes glistening they, hecome a trifle
timorous. Which.is only natural.
* * *
'THE outfield, especially with Shaller
* in the line-up, also is fast. Col
lins looks like a speed boy. Mattick
is another fellow’ w ho can cover a lot
of ground in the outfield or who can
get over the base paths in a hurry.
And Shaller is fast enough to hold his
own.
Here is another deceptive fellow.
Shaller is a daring man on the bases,
yet a fellow w’hose work will fail to
attract a great deal of attention. He
is of the Schulte type—a fellow who
makes difficult plays look easy rather
than one who makes the easy plays
look difficult.
“What’s the use?” queried Shaller
when he was told that almost any
other outfielder would have made the
chance look difficult after he had
grabbed a line drive at the end of a
hard run. He got it so easily that
half the spectacle was taken from the
play.
“But the fellow who runs ring#
round a fly ball and then grabs ft ?rltb
one hand looks good to the fans,*'was
the answer. • /
“But don’t you suppose the man
ager knows?” was the retort.
* * *
TT’S possible that Schalk would not
A be accounted a fast man ff you
compared him to some of the in and
out fielders. But catchers, as a rule,
are slow and you couldn’t call the lit
tle backstop that. He’s so much faster
than the average run of receivers that
he has the right to be classed with
the fast ones.
Rath, Lord, Weaver. Collins. Mat-
tyck, Shaller and Schalk would be ac-
counted fast on any ball club. And
on top of that the fellow who would
give any and all of them a race for
the base-running honors has not been
mentioned. Rollie Zeider is the lad
No, sir, there are mighty few ball
clubs In the American League pos
sessed of more ispeed than that South
Si<io aggregation.
If they ever arranged a nine-man
relay race with a team representing
every club in the American League
as the contestants, the Sox wouldn’t
be eighth in the betting. And you
can wager on that.
THORPE MAY COME AROUND.
NEW YORK, May 10.—Coach Rob
inson, of the Giants, believes that
Indian Jim Thorpe will amount to
something as a boxman in due time.
Robinson is showing the former Car
lisle athlete how to throw the moist
ball.
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