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ITEARRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN- BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS —SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1013.
Confidence
Gets the Hits
Baseball Jinx Real, But C an Be Beaten
Heine Tells
How to Do It
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on the pitcher, says Zimmerman, in
this, the third article of his series.
Read what follows and see if you do
not agree with Heine’s logic.
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HANSON, YANK RECRUIT,
IS CHICAGO SCHOOLBOY
BALLOONS WILL COMPETE
IN INTERNATIONAL RACES
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 bach 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. Rome 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 ball to hit
His pitches are a bit wide to hit hard yet In far enough to tempt
J0U He pitches so closely to you that you constantly hit on the handle of
the bat. Yet it Is out Just far enough to get you to swing.
He’s pitching a bit high or a bit low to you. He's always pitching
just where you take a swing yet never where you can get a good solid
" all< lt’s Tesreau’s wind-up rather than what ho 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
pect that pitch. _ , , . . ...
There’s no question in my mind that It was Cole’s wind-up that car
ried him through the National League when he was with us.
Says He Will Solve Tesreau s Windup
Tesreau lilts me the same way. I find it difficult to watch his windup
and it is hard for me to follow the ball from the moment it leaves his
hand. It’s on top of me before I can see it.
But some day I’m going to figure out that wind-up.
ST LOUTS, July 28—Harry Hanson,
a Chicago schoolboy, made his first ap
pearance with the New York Ameri
cans the other day. Hanson has been
with the team two days, having been
picked tip in Chicago, where he played
with the Washington Heights team. He
is a sturdy lad 21 years old and seems
to have a good whip.
The distances
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 Carls in October, are an
nounced by Major Samuel Reber. offi
cial statistician of the Aero Club of
America: «
II. A. Upson, of Detroit, in the Good
year, the statistician announces, cov
ered a distance of 685 miles; John Watts,
of Kansas City, in the Kansas City II,
673 miles, and FI. E. Honeywell, or St.
NEW YORK, July 26 -
in the recent elimination
Pitcher
A BATTING slump Is the
Ta 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 1 get back the
old swing and the slump is
over.—HEINE ZIMMERMAN.
CROSS LANDS JOB DOWN EA8T.
Monte Cross, former scout for the
Browns and one of the members *f
the "board of strategy,” has been ap
pointed manager of the Bridgeport.
Conn., team In the Eastern Associa
tion.
Toronto Star Qualified for Ameri
can Championship Despite
Awkward Style of Play.
Worries
Zim
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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 came 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. Whittemore, of
the Brookline Country Club, Boston,
who would do well to take a year off
and unlearn his present methods and
adopt such a form as fils frequent
Boston opponents, like Francis Ouimet
and Percival Gilbert, possess. It
would take just about that time for
Whittemore to get rid of the faults he
now has, but it would be worth while,
for, with his fine, powerful physique
and sure eye, he would come close,
with a perfect style, to carrying off
the national championship.
• * •
VKTITH. the discussion in England of
vv 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.
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providence RECALLS O’MEARA.
EVANSVILLE, IND., July 26.-01-
lio 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.
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"We will meet any white man in
the 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
from Sydney to Schenectady because
I refused to fight Johnsoh. After I
finally did lose to the big dinge I was
roasted all over again for having
given him a crack at the title. We
will not make this mistake again.
Pelky is a white champion for white
people only.”
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 runs mostly to chest, arms and
hands, the latter looming up as big
as a pair of month-old twins. Artie
Goes not talk like a fighter because he
has but two words, “yes” and “no,”
By IT. M. Walker.
S AN FRANCISCO, July 26.—Ar
thur 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 Queensberry
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 Jimma
da Jeff and wears considerably more
Jewelry. He did all the talking for
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 heavyweights 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
will 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
wiH 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
w’ho Marathons at the beck and call
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 Tinker
“Live Wire”
The manager and
short-stop of the Cin
cinnati Reds — noted
for hustle, heavy hit
ting and head
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The Hon. F. S. Jackson was another
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A Jinx is broken the same way.
The pitcher hasn't all of his stuff, a
couple of fellows get base hits, con
fidence Is restored, the fellows go
up there with determination and,
presto—the Jinx Is knocked from
the slab and the chances are that
It Is for all time.
A batting slump is the terror of
all batters? It is also one of the
mysteries of the game. 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 without a safe one.
Many batters believe that it is the
eve. That isn’t my belief. When I
am in the midst of a batting slump I
know exactly what the cause Is. Tet
>1 can’t remove It. The reason I am
[not hitting Is because I am not swing
ing freely. My eye is all right. I
Know where and when to meet the
fcall. But the muscles of my shoul-
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 is up to the scouts, and that in
rase of failure to ggt 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
mavbe we can climb a bit.
“You know Stovall isn’t building up
the St. Louis Club—he mustn’t g»*t
either credit or blame for what has been
done in this respect. The manager has
nothing to do with the building up of
ub-—that’s what is left to the scouts,
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wo’re due to climb.”
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saw. For one so thoroughly ground
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is not bad, though there is a stronger
suggestion of the hit in his swing,
perhapsj than if he had never driven
in runs on the ball field.
Oswald Kirkby, the New Jersey
champion pf 1912, and one of the
finest drivers American golf has ever
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