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HEARST’fi SUNDAY AMERICAN
BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1913.
By E. G. B. Fitzhamon.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, May 24. American own
era, horses and Jockeys seam likely
to cut a pretty wide swath in the
great English Derby this year. Harry
Payne Whitney’s colt. Meeting House,
which ran third in the Guineas, has
a nice chance of winning. So has
Herman B. Duryea's Boyne, which
won the Paris Biennial, at ten fur
longs. quite comfortably from a
smart field. August Belmont also has
a colt in France which is going to
take some stopping on Epsom Downs,
barring accident.
Whitney’s Meeting House is a fine
big colt by Voter out of Noonday,
and is one of the thirty yearlings he
purchased from the late James Keene
eighteen months ago.
Meeting House began slowly in the
mile race at Newmarket for the
Guineas and for a few strides he was
the last of a field of 15, but he moved
up to ninth in the first quarter, was
seventh after going five furlongs,
and ran over four well fancied candi
dates in the final quarter, being beat
en only two lengths in the final quart
er by Louvois and Craganour. which
was almost dead-heated. Meeting
House ran practically unbacked, with
15 to 1 against him to show, and
Frank O’Neill riding.
Was Nipped at The Last.
Craganour divided favoritism with
Fairy King and they showed the way
for six furlongs, when Craganour
drew clear with Johnny Reiff, on the
20 to 1 shot, Louvois in hot pursuit.
Craganour should have won. but his
English Jockey was overconfident
and tossed it off and the American
nipped him on the post with Ijouvois.
O’Neill would have ridden the
winner if Jack Joyner had kept Meet
ing House in the barn O’Neill was
engaged last year to ride for Whit
ney in this race if he was wanted.
Subsequently Mr. Raphael, the owner
of ? .->uvois, as well as of List year's
Dei y winner, engaged both O’Neill
and Reiff to come over from Paris to
ride Louvois in the Guineas, O’Neill’s
engagament being conditional that
Joyner would not want him for
Whitney. ,
When Joyner decided to take a
chance with Meeting Hot/se, Raphael
had Johnny Reiff to fall back upon,
and it was Johnny who won the
Derby for him on Tagalie last year.
But Mr Raphael agrees with me
that Frank O’Neill is the greatest
Jockey in Europe, and probably in
the world just now, and he has con
tracted with Frank to ride Louvois
in the Derby and other important
races. So if American owners and
horses fail in the Derby an American
rider is quite likely to win it.
Louvois Shows.
Louvois is the colt of which I
wrote last December: that if I had
to make my selection for the Derby
from last season's two-year-olds be
fore they ran this season as three-
year-olds, he would he my choice.
Louvois not oply showed speed last
year but he impressed me as the most
likely to carry it over the Derby
route this year.*
Judging from the manner in which
he came from behind and wore down
Craganour at one mile 1 expect
Louvois to beat Ismay’s colt easily
at a mile and a half To some ex
tent this argument also applies to
Whitney’s Meeting House being like
ly to beat Craganour for the Derby
However, the talent makes Craganour
favorite at present at 9 to 2.
Shogun is going to become a hot
tip for Derby but I cannot stand for*
a colt with two splints coming down
the hill at Epsom unless the going
should be very soft, which it seldom
is there.
Mr. Duryea's Boyne is by Irish I^ad
out of Running Water by Sir Dixon
He is being pointed for the Derby, so
I hear from France.
Belmont's good Derby colt in
France is Vulcain. by Rock Sand out
of Lady of the Vale.
ANN ARBOR PRODUCES
BEST COLLEGE PLAYER
Out at Arm Arbor, Mich., they flg-
ure they have a sort of college combi-
of Tv < ' ol,b nnd a left-handed
Christy Mathewson. His name is
George Sisier.
The St. Louis Browns wanted him
badly, but it is understood Sisier be
longs to the Pittsburg club. When
he isn’t pitching for Michigan he Is
playing the outfield. Whatever he
Ways, he tints fourth and hits hard
Likewise he runs the bases like a
Streak and is a natural ball player
with a real batting eye, and In many
w-ays a finished player.
Observing him lii tils pitching ca
pacity, Joe Sugrien. the Detroit Tiger
scout, said to Coach Branch Fflckey:
"He has the best curve of any left
hander I ever saw."
"You don’t quite mean that, Joe”
said Branch, hut the veteran ob
served that he did mean just that.
But It Is as a base runner and hit
ter that Sisier makes the biggest im
pression on his teammates. Pew col
lege players know how to run bases:
most ran not slide properly. Sisier
has a good hook slide either Way. He
is an aggressive has.' runner.
Branch Rickey, chief scout for the
Browns, thinks it's tough to develop
athletes for another ball club, but he'*
doing it in this ease.
COURTNEY SELECTS CREW
FOR PENNSYLVANIA RACE
ITHACA, May 24>—Coach Charles
* Courtney has announced that his final
selections for the junior varsity crew
that will row againm Pennsylvania
on Memorial Day are: Ornelassl,
bow; Graver. 2; Kllin.s, 3; Reevs. 4.
Munoz. 5; Nichols, 6; O’Brien. 7;
Brooks. >*roke and Murry, cox.
He also stated that the four-oared
crew to be entered in the Intercollegi
ate Regatta at Poughkeepsie will be
made up as follows: Brown, bow :
Bird, 2; Thatcher. 3: Hiseock. stroke.
JIM LIGHTBODY AS COACH.
CHICAGO, May 24 —Jimmy Light-
body, one of the world’s greatest mid
dle distance runners and a graduate
of the University of Chicago, has been
engaged to act as coach at the Chi
cago Hebrew Institute. Jimmy
learned much of his great athletic
skill under the dean of all coaches.
A. A. Stagg, and is thought to he
eminently fitted for the position hej
has just accepted. j
Mugsy McGraw Picks
Mackmen to Cop Flag
New York Manager Says Connie
Needs but One More Pitcher
to Walk Away.
NEW YORK. May 24.—In discuss
ing the American League I «m going
to begin at the bottom. Frank
Chance came to New York this spring
unacquainted with his team, and with
little knowledge of the conditions In
the American League. Chance has
got away to a had start. He ad
mits it himself, says John .» McGraw.
There an* going to be some
changes in the team.” he said to me
the <»th. r night. What changes he
mentioned ^re not up to me to an
nounce. Some players on the club
who have been rated very highly
heretofore have not Impressed
Chance.
“They have not got fight enough,”
asserted the big lead***.
‘This I know—he intends to tear his
club to its foundations and build.
"On the other hand, the Athletics,
slopped along last season, overconfl-'
dent of success during the early part
of the race and handicapped by in
juries and the lack of pitching tal
ent toward the end of it. Washing
ton was not the contender last year
It will be this season. The team
was Just finding Itself. This spring,
when the Giants played the Senator*
before the season opened, they looked
to me like the fastest club 1 have
ever seen In the American League,
and the men work together better
than the Red Sox. and even the Ath
letics, I think.
"Mack’s one problem thi.« season is
his pitching staff. At that I pick
them to win the flag His marvelous
infield is going better than ever, and
his hatters are pounding the ball hard
er. 'With one more good twirler he
should walk home. But the pitchers
are uncertain. Plank is the one
man who has displayed keen-edged
form so far on the season. If Ben
der and Coombs round to there should
be nothing else to it.
CHAMPION LASKER TO
QUIT CHESS ENTIRELY
Practically all hope of inducing Dr. E.
Lasker, world's chess champion, to
enter the, competition has been aban-
lonc*d by the management of the Havana
International tournament.
Word was received from the cham-
i«*ri at Berlin that it would be impose!*
le to come over for the Cuban con
gress. and that, moreover, it was ques
tionable whether he ever would take
part in any tournament hereafter.
As his serious life’s work will be di
rected Into other channels. Dr. LaRker
states that he will be obliged to limit
himself to a few matches.
Quaker CityFansRaveOverTeams
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Mackmen and Phillies After Flag
Wood Gets $1.82 for
Each Ball He Throws
I Red Sox’s Star Twirler Will Average
About $172 Per Game This
Season.
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5W YORK. May 24 —jPhlL
phla, O happy town, glee is
name. While other cities are
filled with weeping, wailing and
gnavhing of molars, the f<*i;s of Quak-
ertown beam forth smiles of bliss,
for their prides, the Athletics and
Phillies, are winning games. For over
three-fourths of the time since the
r.eaBon began both clubs have been
in first /place, land the way they
loom up at present makes it appear
not improbable that they will be there
when the Daueba.ll year ends. The
Athletic- look like a sure thing for
the honor just now ind the Phillies
like a good bet.
To many of the Phillies have been
a surprise, but to those who have
watched closely the- progress of the
team in the last few years, they ap
pear simply to be corning into their
own. A hard-hlting and steady-
fielding infield has ben kept intact for
the past three years. Laderus, Knabe,
Doolan and Lobert have played con
sistently good ball all the way. The
catching staff has been practically
the same for two seasons, with Man
ager Dooin and Killifer doing the
bulk of the work, and the pitching
staff and outfield are vastly Im
proved. Also tremendously superior
substitutes have been lined up. Con
sider then the fact that, for three-
fourths of the way, the Phillies led
th<‘ race of 1911 and that they fell
only when broken lege, suspensions
and sickness broke up the team. This
year’s squad, much better than the
one of that time, is considered a sur
prise only among those who fail to
take cognizance of things as they arc.
Dooin Ha* Great Pitchers.
Dooin has one of the most wonder
ful pitching staffs ever gathered to
gether, when its members are in their
stride, which they certainly are at
preHent. Beaton. Alexander, Chal
mers, Moore- Rixley and Mayer are
gems of the first water, while Bren
nan and Nelson also are useful on
occasions. The Giants and Pirates
at the start of the reason seemed to
have the best bunches of hurlers. but
Marquard and Tc*srau, the expected
leaders of the New York corps, have
gon? to pieces apparently, and the
Pittsburg moundmen all seem to have
suffered kinks in their arms. Dur
ing the first month of the pennant
gallop, the pitching of the Phillies
was so good that an average of three
runs a game scored by the Quakers
would have been enough to grab vic
tory In more than half of the con
tests.
Phillies Win Close Games.
One thing that has figured promi
nently in the success of Dooin's tribe
to date has been its knack of win
ning the close games. Whenever th€
team lacked about one run of enough
to win, when the final innings came
along there almost always has' been
some
sturdy b
.itsman who w(
>uld step
UP
rid slam
out one particular hi'
that
brought
in the decidin
g, tallies.
Lobe
rt, Luderua, Cravath an
d Knabe
have
figured
particularly s
rong in
this
class of
pinch-hitting
and the
high
standing
of the team
at pres-
ent i
s due largely to their d
elivering
in th
* crucial moment.
Th
* Phillies
did not lose
a single
one
of their
first six serie
<>1 th<
year.
The be*
•t showing mad
e by an>
of their rival
s w ere by th<
('ardi -
rials
and the
Braves, which
escaped
with
ties, the
former taking
two and
dropping two
and rhe la11
r split-
ting
up at on<
apiece. The
Dodgers,
Giants and Pirates were whaled un
mercifully. the laat year's champions
taking the count l/i two series.
Athletics Outplay Rivals.
The Athletics have been winning
their games in a way entirely differ
ent from that <>f the Philliev. Neither
has shown mediocrity In any partic
ular department, but the Philllt s’
margin over rivals has been large!)
iri the pitching. The Athletics have
encountered pitching almost equal to
theirs but have outfielded and out-
batted their rivals. The Athletics,
however, do not seem to be as well
fortified against disaster as the rival
Sleeptown club. If injuries should
overtake both clubs Mack’s men
would suffer heavily, whereas the
Dooinites could send in substitutes
able to hold up their end capably
But the Athletics seldom have been
afflicted with Injuries of much ac
count, and it seems likely that they
will break better than their rivals
In this respect again. The Red Sox
have suffered from poor condition
thus far. and the Senators have been
cheeked by injuries to Gandll and
Foster. It may turn out, when the
end of the year comes along, that
the games lost in these early stages
by the Red Sox and Senators may
prove just enough to give the Ath
letics a cinch on the pennant. If the
Pirates and Giants continue to av-
BOSTON, MASS., May 24.—Neither
Jimmy McAleer nor Joe Wood has
confirmed or denied the story that
“Smoky Joe” will receive S7.500 for
his efforts this year to smoke them
past the American League batters. If
it is true, Wood becomes in one big
jump the highest paid pitcher in the
league-, with the possible exception of
Walter Johnson, who is credited with
receiving $7,000. but whose actual
salary is not known publicly, and per
haps'"Big Ed" Walsh, whose pay is
a club secret, too.
Wood pitched In 43 games last sea
son. At $7,500 a year that would
mean about $172.09 per game. He
pitched 344 innings—Just averaging
e ight innings to a game. That would
be about $21.80 an inning. Not be
ing quite so old nor nearly so steady
as Walter Johnson, Wood wastes
more balls and more energy than
Johnson does. While "the Terrible
Swede” pitches from abouj; 90 to 100
balls in a game of nine inning?,
“Smoky Joe” goes him about ten bet
ter on an average. While no statistics
have been kept, you will find Wood
averaging some twelve balls to an In
ning. So, you see, Joe Wood w'ill be
paid about $1.82 every time he hurls
the horsehide in a regular game of
baseball this year—always assuming
that the $7,500 story is true.
In other words, Wood threw the
ball from 4,000 to 4.200 times last sea
son. and for probably just about the
: same work he Is credited with reepiv-
■ ing $7,500 this year, to say nothing
of perquisites, as there’s still plenty
of easy money when you only know
; how’ to get it.
BURNS VS. GOLDMAN.
ST. JOSEPH, MO.. May 24.—Bob
by Burns of Dallas, Tex., a bantam
weight, was matched here to-day to
meet Charles Goldman in a ten-
i round bout at Dayton, Ohio., May 28.
The boys will weigh in at 116 rounds.
< rage au low in effectiveness as they
have thus far. the Phillies also w
be fortune-favored.
Some time ago, when Chance had
' just been signed by the Yankees, the
question was raised as to what would
Happen If New York should get a
| corner on world’s series in future
It ^looks just now as though if anj;
town is going to corner the next
world > series. Philadelphia has by
several miles the best chance of doing
I so.
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