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THE ATLA.N I A <ilM/K<.lA.\ ANU JNfcWS, ULL-PREP TEAM NEARLY SETTLED By Jim Glover O F course It If b bit early to pick an All-Prep baseball team but a pretty good idea has been l . med as to who these men will be With the possible exception of a pitcher all of the positions are prac tically assured. Sam Armistead, of Boys High, should he behind the bat on the strength of the showing he has made in the last three games played by his team. He is ©Iso leading the league in hatting The pitching honors at present are divided between Fox. of Boys High, and < 'allahan. of Marist, with the odds a bit in favor of Fox on ac count of his victory over Marist last week when he was pitted agalnsl Callahan. Weston, of Boys High, is not out of the running, either, for this position He has only pitched one game of Importance but his showing then was beyond reproach. His status among Prep twirlers can better be determined after the game Wednesday with Boys High. Spurlock at Shortstop. Spurlock, of Boy* High, will no doubt be the unanimous choice for shortstop. He is a fine fielder and a slugger Lowry, of Marist, looks good for the Job on flrs»t base At present he is catching for Marist but he shines on the first sack. Lowry is without a doubt the best utility man in the local league this year Bill Bedell, of Tech High, appears to be the beat bet for second base. He bats and fields well and Is s fast man on the diamond. He rarely fails to steal second when once at first. Charlie Allen, of Marist. will very likely be placed at third base al though he has not sliow'n as well this year as in former seasons He is the fastest man in the league and one of the best hitters. Weston and Parks of Tech High are both classy third sackers and may be giv en the place In preference to Allen by some experts. Rennolds a Good Man. Harry Rennolds, of Boys High, should cop a place in the outfield without n dissenting voice. His fielding average so nr this season is about .906 and he is always there with the stick in a pinch. Johnny Laird. of Tech High. Is another good outfielder and a sure man on diffi cult balls The other outfield posi tion ought to be given to Wells, of Peat ock, although be is a shortstop. Wells has played swell ball with a losing team all season, and while Spurlock, of Boys High, has it on him a little at short. Wells is too good a man to be left off the team entirely and he would make as good an outfielder as any of them Babb, of G. M. A. is another good player who has been handicapped by a poor team. He has played third base but there are too many good men for that position this year, so Babb will proha Ply be given a place as sub. It is safe to say that no team in the local Prep League could possi bly be selected that could give the above aggregation a trimming. Women Taking Part in Outdoor Sports Feminine Athletes Increasing in Almost Every Branch of Athletic Endeavor. Women are now taking a promi- n* in part in the world of sport©. In Chicago three clubs of women are engaged in athletic events. In th<» women's athletic club each day is marked by some exhibition of wj- mns prowess in the gymnasium. >n Tuesdays and Fridays of each week women practice swimming at the Illi nois Athletic <’lub. In Jackson Park, Chicago, Mrs. Roy Banal, wife of the Hyde Park foj;- ball star, won the race for women skippers recently. Mias Ethel Lar sen is the proud possessor of a pilot's license. in baseball Mrs. Helen Hathaway Robinson Britton is the owner of the Si Louis league club and Mrs* Charles Havenor is the owner of the Milwaukee American Association club. Misses Ma:> and Priscilla Williams won championships in archery. \t the University of Chicago Mrs. A A. Stagg, wife of the famous coach. If interested in athletics, and scorn of >• ri are now engaged In playing basketball. V;*.r.y more women are driving au- year than ever before. Tii. Chicago Gun Club of Women is 'nnmg out many experts with the PEACOCK-FLEET TRIUMPHS OVEh u, M. A—SAMS STARS Peacock-Fleet triumphed over the G a> gia Military Academy aggrega tion yesterday afternoon by the count of 1- to 7. The Fourteenth Street iads out- p!a> ed the losers in every way. Both teams did good work with the big mien. G. M. A. registering nine safe hilts, while the winners came close with. <ight bingles to their credit. Both teams, however; seemed rath er off in the field. Numerous errors were registered on both sides, and they were usually grouped in the most dangerous periods. Sants pitched a fine game for his ram, causing eight men to whiff the breezes and giving only two bases on balls. KLAUS SIGNS TO BOX M’GOORTY AT PITTSBURG VFV York, May 14.—Frank Klaus. Pittsburg middleweight, to-day was signed for a six-round bout with Edd; Mi Goorty at Pittsburg, on May 54. ihd a tp?)-round bout with Jack Dilion, of Indianapolis, in that city o % SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT A Warm Heart and a Piece of Ice Copyright, 1913. Inti'rtaUonal New* Serrle*. By Tad t VJC4J. WY POOK- / UTTte A'ldi. ^ rwe wipttCT ^ £ A QOV TOOK MV *| piece op ice 1 OH - \N/AW - AVW - v ou y V/AlT- I 1.1. &€T VOO A Ml ce B ,6r Piece THE* 15 — \jjKATJ rrs too 3icr miK'* n/JHAT \WEP-E VOU vSih <r ir f-o e. 1_ J CUCKOO CPCKOO I ■ Cock oj>) \\' f / “Half-Errors” Will Help Scorers o o o o o .o o Can Split Up Blame for Misplays By Percy H. Whiting W OIJLD it seem odd to you if next year’s box scores should contain such unusual state ments as these: Ab r h po a e Smith, rf 4 1 2 2 1 2 1-2 Jones, 2b 5 0 0 4 3 1 1-2 In other words we face the era of “half-errors.” Did you ever hear of a “half-er ror?” No, and nobody else ever did, until Dode Birmingham suggested a scheme for dividing misplays. There are many plays in an aver age game that have the scorers gues sing They know that an error has been made but they don’t know wihich of two men made It. For Instance the batter bunts down the first base line The first bane- man runs In to field the ball while the pitcher goes to first to cover. At best it is a delicate play. The first baseman throws a shade wide, the pitcher gets the ball In his hands ami then lets it go again. The question at once arises was the first baseman the victim of a bad eaten or the pitcher ©tung by a bad throw' ? The scorers must guess at it. Now suppose it were possible to give each of them a half error. Then there would be no hard feeling. The baseman would be penalized for a bad throw', the pitcher for a poor catch. * • • DIEM INGHAM suggests also that half-errors could be awarded on the play which arises when the catch er throws perfectly to second to catch a base runner who Is trying to steal and when neither the sec ond baseman nor the shortstop cov ers But he’s w'rong on this one This play brings up the famous “consultation error.” There Is Just one way to score it. The scorer must find out which of the two possible victims was guilty. Frequently the only way to find out i« to go and ask both. This isn’t a convenient way but it Is fair. It would not do to give half-er rors on this “uncovered bag’ play. One man or the other is guilty. It is not up to both of them to go for the ball. One man. under the sys tem of play. Is due to cover. The other has no business their. The only way to score this play Is to find which one should have handled th* ball If they will not tell you ask the manager. He knows. * * * T HERE’S an awful lot of bunk turned loose about this scoring thing. It isn’t half as complicated and difficult as lots of the experts would try to make you believe. Any good, intelligent fan could keep a tip-top box score The- only trouble would be that the errors would be amazingly numerous. A fan la a vicious scorer at heart. After a game the fans will grab a baseball w'riter. ‘‘Bay. how did you score that thump in the third inning. when Jones let the ball get by him?" The scorer consult© Ills book. "Why,” he says, real apologetic like, “we gave the batter a hit." “A HIT!” they will shriek in chor us,” Why a child could have stop ped that ball with one finger." * * * TDTOflT scorers start off like that. But gradually the players bring them around. They yell so loud that the scorers ease off, Just to save their ear drums. Of course if you gave the players every doubtful point, not to mention the press stand, including ice water, you couldn’t satisfy them. But fi nally, after much practice, your ex perienced scorer strikes a mean. It is neither very stiff noT very lenient. It satisfies neither the fans nor tin* players. Therefore it is probabl> moderately fair. FODDER FOR FANS Helnie Zimmerman, who led the Na tional League batsmen last season, fanned three times yesterday at Tes- reau’s benders The Giants harvested a double, three triples and eight singles in the game against the Chicago Cubs yesterday. Some sport writers are already be ginning lo figure the Pirates out of the National league race True, they are seven full games behind the leaders, but there remains about 130 games still to be played. • * * Again \here was Joy among the alibi manufacturers in New York. For the second successive time the Yankees. Dodgers and Giants won. • * • It used to be ‘‘Who can -the Dodgers beat?" and now it ia "Who can beat the Dodgers?” • • • Johnny McGraw. manager of the Giants, predicted in a signed article that the Cardinals were going to crack right in the middle and break all to pieces, whereupon the Cardinals nosed into third place. • • • Three home runs were made in the Pirate-Phillies game yesterday, but the ■ >ne hammered out b> Magee clinched the game for ihe Qua k art own boys ♦ * * ‘Shoeless Joe Jackson, of the Naps, continued to nound the ball, garnering a single, double and a triple out of four times up yesterday. • • * Those alleged "lowly" Yankees halted the Naps again yesterday, making their fifth victory out of seven games played on their Western trip. • * * "Tris" Speaker, who is out for the batting leadership in the American league this season, got two triples yes terday in the game against the Tigers. ! • . • If the Phillies don’t soon lose a del- I egation of Brooklyn fans may invade their bailiwick and kill off a few of the best players For a week the Brooklyns have been on the edge of first place, out the Phillies refuse to lose a game. • * • "Dutch" Schaefer ami "Nick" Altrock, the comedian Senator ball players, broke Into the game against he Browns yes terday. but their presence failed to stop the St. Louis team from winning. The Reds’ roster contains the names of a large number of Germans, a few Irishmen, an Indian, an Englishman, two Cubans, a Welshman and several gentlemen of undiscovered nationality It was foolish of Hohnhorst to jump the Montgomery club. Unless that lad has improved he is lucky to have a job at all and no questions asked about the salary. Sporting Food | By GEORQK K PHAIR > THE CRIPPLE. “V on are sick, Prof her Urine," the young man said. "You <ire ailing and fevered and I awe. And yet. a* you to** on a hospital bed You are out here enjoying the game" "It i* true," he replied. *7 am ailing and lame: I am just about ready to die. It's a great little feat to be here at the game, For it shows Fm a versatile guy." Seven gas bag* are entered in the In ternational balloon race at Kansas City. Horace Fogel. however, will not com pete. It. Marquard avers that he is willing to pitch his head off for John McGraw. but even if he does he will not sustain any great loss. Frank Chance, commenting on Messrs. Schaefer and Altrock, Informs us that baseball is not funny. Still, you can hardly blame Frank Chance. "Let me have men about me who are fat," quoth J. Caesar, who never sat be hind «»ne at a hall game. Gambling Is frowned upon in baseball circles, but when one bets on Washing ton with Johnson on the slab one does not gamble. EXPERTING IS A CINCH. When Johnson hurls the baseball scribe ha* these few lines to pen : "The]t walked right up and turned around and walked right bark again " After watching Mr. Ferguson in the act of umpiring, the entire population of St. Louis has signed a petition to I reinstate George Stovall. The Kentucky Derby has demonstrat- ’ ed that In spite of the depredations of the soulless corporations It still is pos sible to become wealthy on a small capital IT DEPENDS. He was wild and proud and sulky. Finid of raising discontent. Put his batting mark teas bill kit. So they lulled it temperament. AM) YET, // he were a puny batter And he fielded like a slouch. It would be another matter— Hr icon Id be a common grouch. The report that the public is enthusi astic over the Willard-Smlth argument will be startling news to the public. It behooves some scientist to probe i into the psychology of baseball and tell us why a solid Ivory dome generally ■ shows the strongest tendency to become i swollen. Motorcycle racing is a great litle sport j from ;» spectator’s standpoint if the spectator looks at it from the stand- 1 point of an undertaker. | LniiiinniTH By W. W. Naughton S AN FRANCISCO, May 14.—If physical worth count© for much Jess Willard, the Kansas cowboy, will have to be considered as having an excellent chance of winning ove Gunboat Smith when they size up next Tuesday night. At the same time a comparison of the two men is interesting enough for the followers of the boxing game. Smith weighs something like 180 pounds, at least that will be close to his ringside poundage. Willard Is 1 235-pound man at the present time. 90 he will have a round fifty pounds advantage. The Kansan will stand 6 feet and 6 inches, which is five mor inches in height than Smith can mus ter, and height, as has been said, is a help to a man in the ring. In other ways Willard proves by tile tape what a big chap he is. His neck measures 19 Inches, a© against 14% for Smith. Jeffries measured 45 inches around the chest, and Willard is close to him with 44 inches. Willard is 33 Inches around the waist and Smith can tally but 32 inches around that portion of the body. Gunboat Smith's search for a husky sparring partner has at last proved successful. Last night A1 Kaufman brought his fighting togs to Shan non’s and from now until the day of the fight will lend his aid in getting Gunboat into trim for his battle with the Kansan. This afternoon Smith boxed with Kaufman. Bob Arm strong and Jack Greenwood. MURPHY CLAIMS PENNANT BY EIGHTEEN-GAME MARGIN NEW YORK, May 14.—Whether ic j had consulted an oracle was not made clear by President Murphy of the Cubs to-day, but he made the following statement: "We will win the pennant by a margin of 18 games. I said last winter that the Cubs would finish at the top. but I wasn’t sure of the margin. But now I am in a position to speak with unbridled confidence.” President Murphy added that if Mc Graw had not let Brldwell out last year he would have won the world’s series. ‘‘Bridwell is the best short stop in the league, which proves that even McGraw'© judgment is not infal lible.” he said. MERCER PLAYS FLORIDA. MACON. GA., May 14.—Mercer’s baseball season will end this week with the games with the University of Florida on Friday and Saturday. If Mercer should take these games the team will end the season with a percentage of ,666. By RIGHT CROSS. THE ADMIRABLE AND un failing Tigers are getting it in the neck this ©eason which has given rise to a debate on the question whether Jennings i© entitled to sympathy for the way his team is going or whether Detroit is en titled to sympathy for the way Jennings is going. It is to set the question at rest that the sub joined lines are submitter}. * * * IN BASEBALL, as elsewhere, It frequently happen© that a man grabs a lot of glory for the work of other men until something hap pens to take a lot of the bounce out of him. It is then immediate ly concluded that he never had any bounce in him. This is where Jennings comes in. * * * WHEN HE GOT to Detroit he found that his predecessor. Ar mour. had thoughtfully gathered in Ty Cobb. Wild Bill Donovan and others, to aid old Sam Craw ford and others. It wa© a band of tnad meat-eaters who needed nothing but a slip of the leash to pound the well known American League into little piece©. And that’s what happened. • * • PROBABLY JENNINGS’ greatest single stroke of mana gerial strategy was the release of Jimmy Archer. He probably fig ured that Archer was too good for the American League and would more comfortably tit into a real world’s championship club like the Cubs. His discarding of Birdie Cree also has its merits. « * * WHILE M’GRAW AND MACK have been steadily building, tink ering and improving. Jennings has stood pat. His team is now much the same team that won the championship and almost as good —but the league has not stood still In the meantime. It has. for instance, developed a team that could knock the daylight out of the Cubs and another team that could beat that one. • * * SO THE RECORDS indicate that the Tigers made Jennings fully a© much as Jennings made the Tigers. ALL OF WHICH GOES to show that it wJll be Matty and Render in the first game this fall. CROSS OUTPOINTS DOHAN IN FAST TEN-ROUND BOUT NEW YORK. May 14.—Leach Cross appeared at the Atlantic Garden Ath letic Club last night and showed his neighbors how easy it is to dispose of a perfectly good defensive boxer by handily outpointing Johnny Dohan. of Brooklyn, in ten fast rounds. Dave Kurtz shaded Tommy Maloney in ten rounds full of action. Patsv Kline stopped Kid Black in the fourth round. No Money in New York Battles Q O © O O © © Fighters Claim Fame Has Sagged By Ed W. Smith C HICAGO, May 14.—There has been a big slump in the boxing game in and around New York in the last few weeks, and return ing fighters and their friends say there is little or nothing in battling around the big city at the present time. This would indicate that if a boxing bill is passed in Illinois with- in a short time this city would for the time being at lea©t have a prac tical monopoly on the short route fighting of the country. George Brown, the Greek middleweight, who went there for a campaign after falling out here with Nate Lewis, his old man ager, is back in the city with a tale of woe about the poor returns he received for some of the heaviest fighting he ever did. He is supported in his statements by others, too. * * * DOR a vigorous 10-round engage- * ment with Leo Houck, one of the best of the Eastern middleweight*?. Brown received a trifle over $100, and after paying for a rubber and a box ing partner for nearly two* weeks in preparation for the contest found that he had but little left for himself when he had paid off the help. George had three contests in all, and the Houck battle was the best of the lot, so one can see just what happened to George in the others. The Greek i© going to remain at home now and see if he can not do some good for himself around this section of the country. He would especially like to get on with Jack Dillon. Eddie Mc- Goorty or some of the other good men of this section. * * * T HE situation in New York ap pear to be merely a natural slump, that’s all. The fans of that section have been offered the very best boxers in the world and have be come satiated with the good cards. In the ©pring of the year the athletic enthusiasts’ attention naturally turns Lo the outdoor sport, and with base ball in full swing it takes a mighty good card to pull even an average house. It is the general opinion around here that the no-decision sys tem. too, has had much to do with bringing the game down to its pres ent low ebb. The system has let the bar© down to such an extent that the unscrupulous fighter has done a lot of stalling and added to the dis satisfaction of the festive fan. * * * VI OT only has Billy McCarney got ^ the white heavyweight champion of the country in Luther McCarty, Ponce DeLeon Skating Rink Now in Full Blast. but he claims to have the best light weight in the business in A1 Nor ton. the young fighter Luther is car rying around with him as sparring partner. Norton is a Pacific Coast product, and for a time was known under the nom de ©lug of Young A1 Kaufman. The Los Angeles boy didn’t find that the name carried a great deal of weight after the real A1 had been licked a few times, hence he has changed it. Norton isn't his real name, but is close to it. He is of mixed German and Spanish par entage and weighs 175 pound©. In all he has had 37 battles and has yet to lose a decision. He ha© knocked out A1 Benedict, who fought a 20- round draw with Gunboat Smith, up. setting him in seven rounds. * * * CA XE of our steady readers writes . ^ to ask which Is the better middle-- V weight. Eddie McGoorty or Jack Dil-\ Ion. That’s a question! We prefer to duck the issue now. GIBBONS LACES CHRISTIE IN 12-ROUND BOSTON GO BOSTON May J 4.—Mike Gibbon^ of St. Paul, put it all over Gus Chris-5 tie, of Milwaukee, at the Atlas Ath-\ letic Club last night. The fight went twelve rounds and with the exception of the fifth round, when Christie caught Gibbons with a punch flush on the jaw which stag gered him for a moment, the St. Paul boy had all the better of the fighting and simply made a punching bag of the Milwaukee boxer. 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