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Bv “Chick” Evans
C hicago, ill.. May 33.—The
brasgle shot ia becoming more s
thing of the past, and by a bras
sie shot I mean any shot after the
tee shot has been played that la too
long for the Irons. Donald Rosa says
that three-shot holes are really only
names now Tears ago before the
advent of the rubber-cored balls the
brasale was a very Important club,
but since the coming of the new ball
Its use for the second shot has con
stantly decreased among the more
skillful players.
It may be explained for the benefit
of those new to the game that a bras-
sie la really a well-lofted driver with
brass-covered sole. Sometimes it is
shorter than the driver, but that Is a
matter of Individual choice. As the
ball Ilea close to the fair green and
It la not teed up like the driver
it Is easy to understand riiat the
brass sole ia intended to prevent the
club from being Injured by the rough
ground underlying the fair way. I
appealed to Tom Bigelow, the well-
known golf authority, for a detailed
explanation of the origin of the club
and I found the information very In
teresting.
“At a certain length from the tee
at a certain hole at St. Andrews."
said Tom "there was a gravelly out
cropping ” In consequence the wood
en club used for the second shot
had to be constantly repaired At
first the club was mended with a bit
of ram's horn, but It was finally de
termined to shoe the new club, as
Tom expresses It, to avoid the neces
sity of frequent repair. Then some
one tried a brass plate covering the
entire sole, and as this was much more
durable the Innovation at once be
came popular and lusting.
Brassie Once Useful Club.
In the . days of the gutta-percha
ball the brassie was very useful. In
those days bogey was figured at 175
yards for a drive and 160 for a brasfle,
and a player getting home on a 326-
yard hole was playing remarkable
golf
Of course there always was a bras
sie shot on those 826-yard holes and
when winds were a little unfavorable
three brasrie shots of good length
and direction were needed to help
out the drive. It Is hard for us to
reaiixe-e. time when the taking of four
wooden shots of the well-hit kind was
necessary to reach the green.
With the change In balls came long
er shots and bogey distances moved
up. Holes of 40(1 yards were reached
with a drive and a good brassie, and
at the present moment there are few
holer In the country of the recog
nised lorrg-hole length, 600 to 600
yards, that cannot be reached with h
drive and a brassie. This meltns that
different irons have supplanted the
brassie on nearly all distances of
450 yards or so, and there are few
holes now over that length
So while the brassie could formerly
be used on perhaps sixteen out of I
eighteen holes and then often more
than once. It Is now used probably
only once or twice on the round. I
Sometimes on the few long holes
where one cap use a brassie there
are bunkers guarding the green and j
the player will find It much safer io I
play short with an Iron Instead of
trying to place a brassie shot Just
over the bunker.
It's ths Driver and Spoon Now.
One can play round after round on
Chicago golf and use no brassie a!
all. Even on the windiest day It
may not be needed more than three
or four times and many players now
carry only a drlvur and a spoon.
Necessarily the decreasing use of
the brassie Is developing a corre
sponding uncertainty In playing It,
and perhaps It Is to counterbalance
this weakness that some players are
adopting It In the place of the driver
They claim they can get just as far
and It keeps them In practice wilh
the club for use on the fair green;
yet. on the other hand, I have seen
several players use a driver on the
fair way.
The wooden clubs give advantage
to the strong, but they lack the deli
cate accuracy of the Irons, and It is
the desire for this accuracy Joined to
shorter holes and longer balls that
fs depriving the brassie of all Its
legitimate use.
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Chamber Works for
Vital Record Bureau
A committee on vital atatlatlcs from
the Chamber of Commerce began work
Saturday to throw the weight of its In
fluence behind the medical societies In
having a State board of vital statistics
established. The committee was organ
ized with Alfred C Newell chairman,
and Dr. Stuart Roberts secretary
Dr. J. P Kennedy, city health officer,
who appeared before the committee.
* that Georgia was one of the four
tates in the Union that had no legisla
’or. on the subject.
Physician Arrested
For Patient's Death
CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. May 31.—
D. 6 Hamilton, of Griffin. Ga., has
caused the arrest of Dr. E B. Anderson,
a prominent physician of this city, as
the result of the death of Horace Ham
ilton here May !#. following the admin
istration of a dose of phylacogan. The
physician will be given a hearing
June 6.
The caae has attracted attention in
national medical circles.
Jack London’s new story,
‘ ‘ The Scarlet Plague, ’ ’ begins in
the American Monthly Magazine
given free with every copy of
the Sunday American.
TINTED LENSES
For the mountains or seashore.
Have your prescription filled In
amber shade for the glare of sum-
i mer sun at John L. Moore & Sons,
42 North Broad Street.
White city Park Now Open
Games Saturday.
Montgomery at Atlanta, Ponce De-
!,eon. Two games. First game called
at 2:15 o’clock.
Memphis at Chattanooga.
Mobile at Nashville.
New Orleans at Birmingham.
Standing of the Clubs,
By Bill Bailey
C hicago, ill. May 26.—'"silk"
O'Loughlin, American League
umpire, declares that Albert
Russell, the Sox southpaw, has bet
ter control than any lefthander who
ever broke into the American League.
“He'B going to be a great pitcher.”
said O’Loughlin. “Not only has he
control, but he has a lot of stuff
on the ball. But his control i» the
thing that makes a hit with me. I
do not believe that I ever saw a young
lefthander who had the control that
he has.”
And Russell has control for the
reason that he warms up In a way
different from almost every other
pitcher in the league. Russell works
for control from the moment that he
gets the ball In his hand until the
final warmup.
Can Place Ball Well.
"Four at your waist,” he will say
to the catcher. Then he will pitch
four at the waist. It doesn’t matter
so much whether there is anything
on the ball. Ills first idea Is to get
those four at the waist.
"Now at the knees,” Russell will
say.
Then he pitches four at the knee.
He pitches Just as carefully as if
there was a man at the plate and he
wanted to break the ball at his knee.
“Now at the shoulders,” he will fol
low.
And four are shot at the shoulder.
It's control that he Is after. He
has an idea that his speed and his
curve ball are with him always and
that it is the control which will
make or break him in the contest to
come.
Bender Gives Tip.
Chief Bender, the star Indian of the
Athletics, is another pitcher who
warms up that way. And it was
from Connie Mack’s Indian that Rus
sell got his idea. When the Ath
letics were in Texas in 1912 Bender
was instructing some of the San An
tonlo youngsters how to warm up
and he insisted that the only way to
do was to try for control.
Some youngster who was coached
by Bender saw the good point
of it at once. That isn't the way
the ordinary pitcher warms up by
any means. He just throws the ball
in the general direction of the plate.
His idea is to start pitching easily
at first, then putting more and more
speed on until his arm is in condi
tion to permit him to put everything
he has on the sphere.
But it's control first with Russell.
W. L.
Mobile. 32 19 .62
N'vllle. 25 21 .543
Atlanta 24 22 .522
M’phis 24 22 .522
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Chatt. 23 24
Mont.. 22 24
B'ham. 21 23
New O. 15 31
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Friday’s Results.
Atlanta. 13; Montgomery. 2.
Memphis, 5; Chattanooga, 4 (first
game).
Chattanooga. 4; Memphis, 0 (second
game).
New Orleans, 3; Birmingham, 2 (first
gams).
New Orleans. 6; Birmingham, 12 (sec
ond game).
Nashville, 7; Mobile 2 (first game)
Mobile, 6; Nashville, 1 (second game).
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games Saturday.
Brooklyn at Boston.
Philadelphia at New York.
Chicago at Pittsburg
Cincinnati at St. Louis (two games).
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. Pc
Phlla . 22 10 .688
B’klyn 20 15 .671
N. Y.. 19 16 .543
Ch'go. 20 19 .613
W. L. Pc.
St. L... 19 20
P’burg 18 20
Boston 14 19
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Cin'ti. 13 26 .333
Friday’s Results.
Pittsburg. 2; Chicago, 1.
Brooklyn, 2; Boston, 1 (first game).
Boston. 7: Brooklyn. 6 (second game).
Cincinnati, 5. St. Louis, 3 (first game)
St Louis, 6; Cincinnati, 4 (second
game).
New York, 8; Philadelphia, 6 (first
game).
New York, 5; Philadelphia, 1 (second
game).
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games Saturday.
Detroit at Chicago
St. Louis at Cleveland.
New York at Philadelphia.
Boston at Washington.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. ^ *c. W L. Pc
Phila.. .. xo .730 Boston 16 21 .432
Cl'l&nd 2S 12 700 St. L 18 27 .400
Wash’n 21 17 .553 Detroit 17 26 .395
Ch'go.. 23 19 .548 New Y. 9 27 .250
Friday’s Results.
Philadelphia, 3. New York, 3 (first
game).
Philadelphia, 7; New York, 4 (second
game).
Washington. 4. Boston, 3 (first game)
Boston, 1; Washington, 0 (second
game).
Detroit, 3; Chicago. 2 (first game).
Chicago. 9; Detroit, 1 (second game).
Cleveland, 5; St. Louis. 4.
ZOOTE BEATS M. ATTELL.
SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, May
31.—Ad Zoote, of Stockton. Cal . was
given the decision over Monte Attell
at the end of a twenty-round bout
at Midvale last night Both fighters
weighed in at 118
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Games Saturday.
Charleston at Albany.
Macon at Columbus
Jacksonville at Savannah.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc. j W. L Pa.
S’v’nah 30 7 .811 ' J’ville 18 19 .486
Col'bus 19 18 .514 ! Ch'ston 13 24 .351
Macon 18 17 .514 | Albany 11 24 .315
Friday s Results.
Savannah. 7; Jacksonville, 0.
Albany. 4; Charleston. 3.
Macon. 4; Columbus, 2.
EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE.
Games Saturday.
Brunswick at Americus.
Thomasville at Cordele.
Waycro5s at
W. L. Pc.
V’dosta 17 9 .654
C'dele. 15 11 .577
T’ville 13 13 .500
Friday’s Results.
Cordele. 9; Thomasville, 2.
Americus, 4; Brunswick. 3.
Valdosta, 12; Waycross. 2.
GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE.
Games Saturday.
Newnan at Anniston.
LaOrange at Opelika.
Gadsden at Talladega.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. Pc.
G’sden 15 8 .652
T’dega 13 10 565
Opelika. 12 10 .545
W. L. Pc.
An’ston. 12 11 .622
Newnanll 12 .478
L’Gr’ge. b 17 .221
Friday's Results.
Anniston. 4; Newnan, 3
Opelika, 20; LaOrange. 11.
Gadsden. 15; Talladega, 1.
Carolina Asoclatlon.
Asheville. 6, Winston-Salem, 4.
Raleigh, 9; Durham, 4.
Charlotte, 6; Greensboro, 1.
Appalachian League.
Johnson City, 7; Bristol, 5 (first game).
Johnson City, 2; Bristol, 0 (second
game).
Knoxville, 4; Middlesboro, 2 (first
game).
Knoxville, 5; Middlesboro, 4 (second
game).
Federal League.
Chicago, 2: Cleveland, 1 (first game).
Chicago, 4; Cleveland, 3 (second
game).
Covington, 3; Indianapolis, 2 (first
game).
Indianapolis, 18; Covington, 3 (second
game).
Cotton States League.
Meridian, 4; Jackson, 1.
Selma, 4; Clarksdale. 3.
Pensacola, 15; Columbus, 0.
Texas League.
Beaumont, 5; San Antonio, 0.
Houston, *; Galveston, 2.
Waco, 3; Fort Worth, 2.
Austin, 6; Dallas, 4.
Virginia League.
Portsmouth, 8; Norfolk. 8 (first game).
Norfolk, 3; Portsmouth, 2 (second
game).
Richmond, 6; Petersburg. 5.
Roanoke, 4; Newport News, 0 (first
game).
Roanoke, 13; Newport News, 5 (second
game).
College Games Saturday.
Yale vs. Princeton, at New Haven.
Harvard vs. Anderson, at Cambridge.
Brown vs. Colby, at Providence.
Cornell vs. Pennsylvania, at Philadel
phia.
Navy vs. Army, at West Point.
Holy Cross vs. Williams, at Wllliams-
town.
HILL STREET SCHOOL WINS.
The Hill Street School triumphed over
Capitol Avenue. 27 to 9, in a slugfest
Friday. Winburn and Gastrell did the
heavy clouting. The winners scored
seven runs in the second and nine in the
fourth.
WINS PANAMA TITLE.
PANAMA, May 31.—Abe Hollander-
sky. a former New York newsboy,
last night won the heavyweight
championship of the Panama Canal
Zone from Jack Artega on a foul in
the ninth round.
JOCKEY YORK INJURED.
BELMONT PARK. L. I.. May 31 —
Roth well York. a jockey, was fatally In
jured while exercising a horse on the
track here Falling from the saddle,
his foot caught in the stirrup and he
was dragged 40 yards.
THEY COP FLIC
C LEVELAND, OHIO, May 31.—
One hundred thousand dollars In
cash Is the bonus that Cleve
land business men are reported to
have offered the Naps If they can
bring the pennant of the American
League to this city.
The fact has not been advertised
in Cleveland and will not be until all
of the money ha* been subscribed.
But the Cleveland ball players have
been told that there Is every reason
to believe that the full amount will
be donated. One of the players told
Manager Callahan, of the White Sox,
that the winning of the pennant by
the Naps would mean the enrichment
of every man on the team by $4,000.
They figure 26 men In on the division
should the plan go through and the
Naps should win.
• • •
THIS would be the largest purse
1 ever split by a baseball club, and
that regardless of whether the Naps
were victorious In the world’s cham
pionship series or not.
Incidentally this may reveal anoth
er reason why those Cleveland play
ers are battling 60 hard for every
game. Winning a pennant is a whole
lot. It means a part of the world’s
series money, but add $100,000 to the
sum to be won in the big series and
you have a purse that almost any
fellow would strive with might and
main to win.
• * •
THAT the men are fighting hard to
* win that pennant !s a certainty.
Clark Griffith, manager of the Sena
tors, went out of town claiming the
Naps were playing "dirty” ball to
win. There has been nothing to in-
dicate that In the games between the
Sox and the Naps. But the Sox do
know that the Cleveland lads are
showing considerable more fight than
they ever have before.
TOLEDO GETS DAVY JONES
FROM MANAGER CALLAHAN
CLEVELAND, OHIO, May 31.—The
Sox yesterday heard that Davy Jones
would be with them no more. They
weren’t a bit surprised. They ex
pected it and were Interested only
in knowing where he was going. Nor
was there any surprise expressed
when told that he had been sent to
Toledo.
When Shaller made good Jones
was doomed. Callahan took Jones
from Detroit only that he might pro
tect his outfield. The South Side
manager wasn't either long or strong
on fly chasers and isn’t yet. so far
as that goes. So when waivers were
asked on Davy he grabbed him.
GASTON TO ST. LOUIS.
COLUMBUS, GA.. May 31.—Dave
Gaston, who has been a bone of con
tention in the Sally League for
past several months, and whom Co
lumbus wanted this season, is on his
way to St. Louis, where he goes to
sign a contract with John O’Con
nor's team in the Federal League.
NEW YORK, May 33.—Kings
bridge Tavern, a landmark of 100
years’ standing and a resort
where Edgar Allan Poe used to
wait for his manuscripts to come
back from unappreciative edi
tors, is about to give way to the
march of progress.
It is on the site of what will
be the new American League
baseball park next summer, at
226th Street and Broadway, and
a gang of laborers has taken
possession of the old tavern as
a shelter for themselves and
their shovels.
Efforts of Poe’s admirers to
prese**v^ the old tavern for its
historical interest failed.
RAFAEL ALMEIDA WANTS
TO BECOME A PITCHER
CINCINNATI. May 31.—Rafael Al
meida, the Reds’ Cuban fielder, Is
practicing pitching and thinks In
time he will get to be quite a hurler.
He Is working out every day with
Kling and Brown, who are giving
him the benefit of their expert advice
and coaching.
Almeida says that al] he needs Is
practice enough to Insure his having
control. He claims that hls curve ball
will fool the cleverest hitters if he
can get It over. That’s a big “if”
with a whole lot of pitchers.
BRITISH GOLFERS WILL
BE HERE NEXT AUGUST
NEW YORK, May 31.—Edward Ray
and Harry Varden, the present and
former open golf champions of Great
Britain, respectively, will be in this
country as early as the middle of
August, according to word received
at the Shawnee Country Club.
The famous Britons will make their
first appearance in this country as
competitors in the Shawnee tourna
ment, August 22 and 23. Later they
are expected to go to the Pacific coast
to give an exhibition match, receiving
$2,500 each.
LEAVE FOR GOLF TOURNEY.
COLUMBUS, GA., May 31.—A team
composed of L. D. Hill, Dr. G. S.
Murray, Joe Methvin, Charles Hick
man, Marshall Morton and C. E. Bat
tle will go over to Montgomery, Ala.,
to-morrow to be ready for the open
ing of the annual Southern Golf As
sociation tournament In that city
June 3-7. They will represent the
Country Club of Columbus.
GRIFFITH MAKES BET.
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Man
ager Griffith has bet Ray Morgan
and Walter Johnson a suit of clothes
apiece that he would not speak to
another umpire on the field in any
championship game.
“CHICK” GANDIL TO MOVE.
WASHINGTON. May 31.—Chick
Gandil, of the Senators, has decided
to take up his residence in Washing
ton Immediately upon the close of
the baseball season. Gandil lived for
years In Louisiana.
ran, says
iLYraie
By Ed TV Smith
C HICAGO, May 31.—Though Luth
er McCarty, the powerful
young boxer who dropped dead
in the Calgary arena last Saturday,
was a care-free, Indifferent young
man on the surface; he was sensi
tive to criticism and read all the sto -
ries that were written about him with
the deepest attention. He never said
much about the criticisms that were
heaped upon him In the East because
of Billy McCarney’s unpopularity with
certain people there, but that they af
fected him keenly Is well known to
hi* close friends. As a matter of
fact, McCarney Is outspoken in say
ing that McCarty never was the same
after their recent campaign in the
East, during which the big Nebraska
athlete was roasted severely.
‘Tve seen McCarty In tears after
reading some of the unjust and un
true things that were said of him,”
McCarney told me a couple of days
after the contest that resulted In such
a hideous manner.
"I won’t say exactly that this has
tened hls end, but I do know that he
grieved deeply over the cruel things
that were printed, especially In the
East. While training for the Frank
Moran bout in New York some of
the worst things imaginable, and all
of them absolutely without founda
tion in truth, were printed about him.
“For Instance, It was sent out over
the country broadcast that we had
been ordered to leave a New York
hotel because Luther walked through
a corridor with nothing on but his
fighting togs and a bathrobe on his
way to and from the arena. There
wasn’t a particle of truth In the story,
yet until right now I never took the
trouble to deny it.
“The hotel people were indignant
and wanted to make a statement, but
I couldn’t see It. The proprietor told
us when we were leaving we could
always return there and be welcome.
“That’s merely a sample of the out
rageous yarns that drifted into the
papers. All of them affected the boy
keenly, and he would grieve for hours
over them. He worried a lot.
"There never was a grain of fear
in this man's make-up. He was a
bundle of courage and liked the honor
of the thing above all else. He was
none too careful of his money and
spent it freely, but not in what might
be called a foolish manner.”
HILTON RETAINS TITLE.
ST. ANDREWS. SCOTLAND, Mas-
Si.—Harold H. Hilton, of the Royal
Liverpool Golf Club, won the world’s
amateur golf championship, beating
Robert Harris, of Acton,.England, by
six up and five to pla$’ over a 36-hole
course. This is the fourth time Hil
ton has held the title.
FAST TIME BY DREW.
BANGOR, MAINE, May 31.—The
timekeepers gave Howard T. Drew,
the Springfield, Mass., runner, a mark
of 9 3-5 seconds in the 100-yard dash
vhieh he won at the games of the
Id Town Athletic Association yes-
terday.
NATIONAL COMMISSION
REINSTATES PERRYMAN
CINCINNATI, May 31.—The National
Baseball Commission has declared Player
E. K. Perryman, of the New York Na
tional League club, to be in good stand
ing. The player stated that he did not
report to hls club this spring owing
to his desire to complete hls college
course and therefore no penalty w&i in
flicted.
LED0UX ARRIVES; WANTS
GO WITH JOHNNY C0UL0N
NEW YORK. May 31.—Charley
Ledoux, the French bantamweight
champion, who arrived here yesterday
from France, wants bouts with Kid
Williams, of Baltimore, or Johnny
Coulon, the champion.
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