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• D IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN— BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS-SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1913. Confidence Gets the Hits Baseball J mx R ea L But C an Be Beaten Heine Tells How to Do It I AD SHOWS HOW THE GOAT PASSES FROM BATTER TO PITCHER AND VICE VERSA OM PRGTTV ,r- -/h>T irouT t rl wou FAT . , f HEAD J vuhat" tu-oa thi4 one/ YjWiCH’SIOE' ” OF HIM 15 rHA-rt BAu. COMIHGr n FROM CHIEF^ rwe tivv pitowct- ISAwOrV+eit. MARviEL’ UlHEV 7V*-e - RvVAL. UUTVAA FEAQ.S him He TDi/ES THe 0A.LL OVEP AS 8'<5- AS A BARREL VJ/ITH Momiwfr om it 90r Tve ^ cov/eitAMO woQooy^ HITS if. / A 0ATT7 KJ<r il_L>M\l> 11, MM5TE*ClO^ affair. USUALLY TWt FELLOW WHO (SIHASLuMP / CHOKES TH6 6AU j TRIES TO KH-L ' £ rHE Dali. etlaS AMO- STDHilU THE SLOMf? come ow ’ FOOL HIM PAix face rV*— nwd THimk^v THAt SIMF ' uuAS CKAA/KiMfr up someth wooloht 'to 1 *' 6rrrnrRi/P Day He Will Land on Them, His Confidence Back and They’ll Be Easy. I THIWK THE BEST* WAy to oerOuT OF A SLUMP IS TV TAKE IT EAW- 60 MT FRET- SWIV* FREEW AT THE P'll amo OPAPVAC-Ly votf COME &AC.KJ j BATTER who goes up to the /J plofe believing he is going to hit the ball has a big shade on the pitcher, sags Zimmerman, in this, the third article of his series. Read what folUncs and see if you do not agree with Heine’s logio. NEurtAy the urpsr mam of <?RAes A Hit- COMF1 PEWCE Ren/RMS- 77-te VUrtOLE TEAM Hits— EllTTthJ'b Wind HANSON, YANK RECRUIT, IS CHICAGO SCHOOLBOY By HENRY ZIMMERMAN. / T’S my opinion that there Is no business or profession In the world where confidence In one’s self counts as much as It does when a batter steps to the plate In the pinch. Hitting in a large measure is believing that one can hit. That has been my experience. There are three pitchers In our league who seem to have It on me. Christy Mathewson, Jeff Tesreau and Earl Moore are the men. And I am Ineffective against the latter two for the reason that I have lost my confi dence in my ability to hit them. I’ll get It back all right Some day I will get In there and pound out a bunch of hits when they happen to be on the slab and then those two will worry me no more. I don’t know about Mathewson. Here is a man who should be envied by every pitcher lacking control. For It Is the control of this veteran that makes him one of the hardest men In the game to beat. Mathewson poss* great pitcher must have. But it Is hi going year after year. How Mathewson Fools the Batter He uses his control In a peculiar sort of way. Some pitchers dis play their control by keeping the ball over the plate. Mathewson uses his in quite a different way. He never gives you a good hall to hit His pitches are a bit wide to hit hard yet in far enough to tempt you. He pitches so closely to you that you constantly hit on the handle of the bat. Yet It Is ont just far enough to get you to swing. He’s pitching a bit high or a hit low to you. He's always pitching just where you take a swing yet never where you can get a good solid wallop. It’s Tesreau’s wind-up rather than what he has on the hall that wor ries me. And a deceptive wind-up has helped many an ordinary pitcher. Remember King Cole? He went through a lot of gyrations before let ting go of the ball. The batters scarcely knew from what angle to ex- BALLOONS WILL COMPETE IN INTERNATIONAL RACES NEW YORK, July 2C,.—The distance* in the recent elimination race covered respectively by the three balloons whose pilots were chosen as the teams to rep resent America In the international bal loon race from Paris in October, are an nounced by Major Samuel Keber, offi cial statistician of the Aero Club of America: K. A. Upson, of Detroit, In the Good year, the statistician announces, cov- Pitcher Is the Thing- That A BATTING slump is the UV terror of all batters. It seems strange that a man can go along and hit hard and safely day after day and then all of a sudden go days with out a safe one. When I am in a batting slump It Is not my eye that Is at fault. I know what It Is, but am helpless. It Is because my muscles are bound and I am not swinging freely. I believe I have the right system of getting over it. I do not ease up on the swing. I believe in keeping the mus cles at work; so I swing just as hard as ever and the first thing I know I get back the old swing and the slump is over.—HEINE ZIMMERMAN. CROSS LANDS JOB DOWN EAST. Monte Cross, former scout for the Browns and one of the members of the "board of strategy." has been ap point^ manager of the Bridgeport. Conn., team In the Eastern Associ*- tlon. Toronto Star Qualified for Ameri can Championship Despite Awkward Style of Play. Worries W HEN George S. Lyon, of To ronto, In 1906, at Englewood, was prevented from carrying off the American golf championship by the brilliant playing of E. M. By ers, of Pittsburg, who won the final by 2 up, there was a general regret expressed during the match that a player with so awkward a style, so distinctively a cricket stroke, should thus menace the United States cham pionship. Lyon, with about a half swing, would lunge at the ball just as if he were hitting a cricket ball. He has been a fine cricket player all his life, and when he cable into the golf field, instead of trying to form cor rect golfing habits he just whanged away in the old form he had in de fending the wicket. As a result, he has one of the most awkward styles on the tee of all the crack players, with the possible ex ception of Parker W. Wlilttemore, of the Brookline Country Club, Boston, who would do well to take a year off and unlearn his present methods and adopt such More Than PROVIDENCE RECALLS O’MEARA. EVANSVILLE, IND., July 26.-01- lie O’Meara, the shortstop who was loaned to the Evansville Central League team several months ago by the Providence team of the Inter national League, yesterday was re called by Providence. {VUTv TXl* VS WOT A COBtST PtCIWR-G'- IT IS TUST AS TESR.ETAO LOOKS TO ZIM H"£T VUIHOZ 0? . 7-lAA SAVS THAr fte CAa/T TEU- TMC 8ALL (S COMIVO' UU-0 /A ■ Curves, A 20242 140 liocit26 1*2 «ma and a nod at his command. He is modest, perhaps bashful would he a better word, and but for a “panned” left ear and a “tunnel” nose, would never be suspected of being connected j with the prize ring. J “We will meet any white man in th e world,’’ continued Burns after Pelky had been made to stand up, sit down and roll over for a general in spection. “There are no colored box ers worthy of consideration and I am glad of it, as this saves us a lot of argument. The black boys can save their breath, Pelky will never give one of them a chance. I was roasted By H. M. Walker. S AN FRANCISCO, July 26.—Ar- thu’r Pelky, claiming the world’s heavyweight championship, but not appearing to be a bit excited over the fact, arrived in California—the real battleground of the Queensbcrry world—the other day and made a general application for work. Accompanying Pelky, whose real name, by the way, is Arthur Pellitier. was our old friend Tommy Burns. Tommy is as fat as our own Jinima da Jeff and wears considerably more Jewelry. He did all the talking fbr Pelky, who stood in the background and kept smoothing back his black hair in a manner that suggested em barrassment in finding himself in the “big town,” surrounded by the men who have kept the ring records since the days when an important bout called for a barge ride. “There is a general disposition to look upon Pelky as a ring accident, just as the people tagged Willie Ritchie as a false alarm,” said Burns. "This is a mistake. My man has had 33 fights without having had a deci sion given against him. He made Jess Willard quit cold and he stop ped Jim Barry in five rounds. All that he needs is the opportunity to prove that he Is the best heavyweight boxer in the game to-day. Pelky After Smith. “There is not much doing among the heavyw-eights now, and for that reason we have signed up for a ten weeks, stage engagement along the coast. The one man we want to meet is Gunboat Smith, but if the public w ill point a finger at another man we will be on the job. “I boxed Pelky six rounds and at the finish I was ‘all in.’ I knew then that Arthur was the real goods, and, although it is not generally known, I have been his manager since that night. He has everything that a champion should have, and is a clean liver. Although the big fellow' is 29 years old now, I expect him to hold the title for the next six or seven years, and before he gets through he will be the most popular heavyweight since the prime of John L. Sullivan.” In personal appearance Pelky is in striking contrast to Jim Corbett, “Bob” Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries or any of the old-timers. The office boy who Marathons at the beck and call of “Uncle” Bill Naughton painted the right picture when he said, ‘There’s a guy out here wants to come in. I think he’s a policeman in his Sun day clothes.” Pelky weighs 218 pounds now, but in form trains down to a mere 207. He Dins mostly to chest, arms and hands, the latter looming up as big as a pair of month-old twins. Artie does not talk like a fighter because he has but two words, “yes” and “no,” a form as his frequent Boston opponents, like Francis Ouimet and Percival Gilbert, possess. It w'ould take just about that time for Whittemore to get rid of the faults he now r has, but it would be worth while, for, with his fine, powerful physique and sure eye, he would come close, to carrying off with a perfect style, _ the national championship. • • * VyiTH the discussion in England of late as to whether golf is en croaching upon cricket to such an ex tent as to lessen interest in that game, has arisen the question whether the one pastime is a bad form of prepa ration for the other, especially wheth er a cricketer can become a success ful golfer. This point is interesting In America, as it involves the ques tion whether the baseball swat unfits one for good golfing unless it is drop ped absolutely for the true golf swing. G. L. Jessop, the well-known Brit ish amateur golfer, holds the opinion that it is well-nigh impossible to be good at both golf and cricket in one and the same season, because while the latter game demands quickness on the feet, golf is likely to bring nothing but disappointment to its de votees unless he can contrive to pre serve stability of stance and to pivot on his feet with almost mechanical precision. * • • (CAPTAIN C. K. HUTCHISON, who ^ is a fine batsman and a first- class golfer, considers that the two games can be pursued in quick al ternation without one’s form at either suffering to any extent worth men tioning. And on one summer’s day he made about 60 runs for the House hold Brigade against strong bowding, and then, going straight to Woking, went round the golf course there in 74 strokes. So that he must be an excellent master of his feet. The Hon. F. S. Jackson was another celebrity who quickly became a scratch golfer, and he has often said that the one circumstance which dis appointed him about the game w’as that, when he first fell into its mesh es, he could hit the ball prodigious distances, and that the more accu rately he played It, the shorter be came his drives. Perfect car control and freedom from skids Then I’ll pay You will enjoy driving your car, you will drive with safety, perfect control and absolute free,- dom from skids, if you equip your car this season with Joe linker “Live Wire” The manager and short-stop of the Cin cinnati Reds — noted for hustle, heavy hit ting and head Drinks Diamond e . rp 1 "*“* i baiety Iread (Squeegee) Tires SCOUTS ARE BIG FACTORS IN RACES, SAYS HEDGES This is a real non-skid tire—the IJ 'original “Won’t Slip, Won’t Slide, Won’t - y Skid—it Grifis and Holds. ” ju W And without extra’cost you get f the More Mileage Vitalized Rubber, Perfect 3-Point Rim Contact, also No- Pinch Safety Flap for inner tube protection. -sii.ua***-* - So this time buy Diamond Vitalized Rub ber Tires with the famous Safety v Tread—you can get them to fit your rims from ST. LOUIS, MO„ July 26.—Bob Hedges doesn’t believe a manager has much to do with the building up of a run-down ball club. He thinks that duty it* up to the scouts, and that in rase of failure to g£t the players the blame should fall upon the scouts in stead of the manager. The president of the Browns declared yesterday: “I’m fairly well satisfied with Sto vall’s work as manager with the ma terial on hand. Next season we hope to give him still better material and maybe wo ran climb a bit. “You know Stovall isn’t building up the St. Louis Club—he mustn't got either credit or blame for what has been dono in this respect. The manager has nothing to do with tho building up of ub—that’s what is left to the scouts, and as we tiavt good acouts, I think we re due to climb.” Says it’s the best “inside play” for the thirsty ball player. Refreshing—Wholesome k Thirst-Quenching !|1 AMONG prominent American golf- ers are some who have been good ball players. The best known of these is John M. Ward, formerly of the New' York Giants, and in his day, twenty years ago, called one of the greatest shortstops the game ever saw. For one so thoroughly ground ed in baseball as Ward was, his swing is not bad, though there is a stronger suggestion of the hit in his sw'ing, perhaps, than if he had never driven in runs on the ball field. Oswald Kirkby, the New Jersey champion of 1912, and .one of the finest drivers American golf has ever produced, has been a baseball pitcher of considerable ability. However, he took up golf when still young, and this enabled him to cultivate a full swing with the sweep effect, and with no suggestion of the baseball hit. Diamond Safety (Squeegee) Tread for Automobiles, Motorcycles, bicycles LOANED TO SALARIED MEN AT LAWFUL RATES ON PROMISSORY NOTES Without Endorsement Without Collateral Security Without Neal Estate Security Demand the Genuine- Refuse Substitutes. Whenever you »ee an s Arrow think of Coca-Cola SCHRECK TO MEET GILBERT. 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