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* / 12 D 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 © O Q © © 0 0 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. Bv Monty. N' thv 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. lltillliUlllllilllliililllllil'ilillli The Werld’i Largest Builders of Six-Cylinder Automobiles “54” Phaeton Electrically Self-Cranking and Wherein a Six Excels You will not consider the purchase of any other automobile if you will study the engineering achievements that have been embodied in the latest HUDSON cat" -a “Six.” Note when you ride in the car the things that are distinctly in advance of other 6-cylinder cars of its day. Note how it throttles down with traffic on every side to 3 miles an hour on high speed, how smoothly, sweetly it picks up to 58 miles an hour from a standing start in 30 seconds without a jerk. 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