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IfEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN-BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1013.
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Some Day He Will Land on Them,
Get His Confidence Back and
They’ll Be Easy.
. BATTER who goes op to the
/l plate believing he it going
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on the pitcher, save Zimmerman, in
this, the third article of Kit series.
Read what follows and see if von do
not agree with Heine’s logic.
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By HENRY ZIMMERMAN.
r T"S my opinion that there la 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 tjtem. I’ll
get It back all right.
Some day 1 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
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A BATTING slump Is the
terror of all batters. It
eeeme 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 stump 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. 1 believe I hsv i the
right system of getting over It.
I do not ease up on the swing.
1 believe In keeping the mus
cles at work; to 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.
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 possesses the other qualifications that a
great pitcher must have. But it Is his marvelous control that keeps him
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 ball to hit
His pitches are a bit wide to hit hard yet In far enough to tempt
J ° U He pitches so closely to you that you constantly hit on the handle of
the hat. 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
wallop. ..
It’s Tesreau's wind-up rather than what he has on the ball 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 Coles wind-up that car
ried him through the National League when he was with us.
Says He Will Solve Tesreaus Windup
Tesreau hits 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. Then I’ll pay
back Mr. Tesreau.
Too muon stress can not be placed upon the value of confidence
in a batter. It extends to a team frequently which accounts for some
of the things which fans marvel at. . .
You read that this pitcher is a jinx for a certain club. Lack of confi
dence Is the answer. At some time or other that pitcher was going good
when he met this club that is now
easy for him. He pitched some good
bali and beat them a couple of games
In one series. The chances are the
games were important ‘and attracted
much attention and comment.
Transferring the Goat.
The next time that pitcher came
to town he was referred to as a jinx.
And pretty soon he was. It wasn’t
that he pitched so well, although the
chances are that he pitched ahead of
his form, for the moment a twirler
gets the idea that he has It on a
team he becomes better. It is a men
tal condition.
The fellows in the clubhouse said,
“Wtfl, our old jinx will pitch to-day.
We’ll have our troubles.”
They went in half licked and they
came out thoroughly trounced.
A jinx Is broken the same way.
~he pitcher hasn't all of his stuff, a
couple of fellows get base hits, con-
.luvnoe 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. Yet
I can't remove it. The reason I am
not hitting Is because I am not swing-
i 'g freely. My eye Is all right. 1
know where and when to meet the
ball. *kv& V”N muscles of my shoul-
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der seem to be bound. I don’t seem
to be able to handle that bat just as
I should.
It’s my belief that I have the right
system of getting over It, though.
Men who swing hard when they get
in a slump begin to choke the bat;
they swing easy, just hard enough to
meet the ball. I don’t. 1 swing just
as hard when I’m In a slump as
when I am hitting at my best. I
know that If I keep right on swing
ing that I will get back to the old
swing and that the slump will be
over.
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Chicago Lad After
Three-Cushion Title
Charles Morin Will Issue Challenge
to Winner of DeOro-Carney
Match.
CHICAGO. July 26.—Charles Morin,
for a number of years rated as the
leading amateur three-cushion player
in this part of the country, and who
subsequently joined the professional
ranks, has challenged the winner of
the next world's championship match.
Alfredo DeOro, of New York, who
recently regained the Jordan Lam
bert diamond emblem and the title
by beating John Horgan, of St. Louis,
at San Francisco, was challenged
shortly after that match by Joseph
Carney, of San Francisco, and Morin
is next in line.
Morin has been doing sensational
work in practice of late, playing
against the best amateurs in the city
in the rooms of Charles Weeghman,
who is backing him.
HEN George 8. 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 his 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.
* • •
\17ITH 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.
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pAPTAIN 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 bowling,
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 was
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.
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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 swing,
perhaps, than If he had never driven
in runs on the ball field.
Oswald Klrkby, 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.
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Tichenor Tells of Queer Breaks
By Tick Tichenor.
H OW much luck there 1b in the
game of golf Is about as hard
to answer as “How old is
Ann?’’
Yet there Is no denying that there
is a certain amount of luck to the
game, even though we are willing to
admit that the good luck Is gen
erally with the person who Is play
ing well and the bad luck with him
who Is slightly oft his game, because
the man who 1b playing well Is hit
ting his shots better and more accu
rately than he who is playing badly
and therefore there is less chance for
luck to break against him.
It Is strange, but every golfer who
has played for any length of time
has noticed that on some days every
shot he makes gets the proper kick
toward the hole. All of his ap
proach shots are easy and on all of
the sloping greens he has a straight
up-hill put for the hole. At the next
time out every kick his ball takes
puts him into a bunker or the rough.
Shots that look as If they are going
to be dead to the cup receive a BUd-
den kick, which leaves him with a
hard approach shot for the hole. All
his putts are hard ones, which neces
sitates the accurate calculation of the
slope of the green. In the long run, I
believe that the good and bad luck of
a player evens up, and especially do
I think this is true on the green, for
I believe that as many putts off the
line of the hole are turned into It
by some slight obstruction as are on
the line and kicked off.
When a player is getting all the
good breaks he comes in after a round
telling how well he played. But let
the breaks go against him and he
walks from the eighteenth green
abusing the course and telling of all
the hard luck which beset him.
Around the nineteenth hole we hear
many hard luck stories, but there
are few who maintain the good luck
which followed them on a round.
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O F course. Old Man Luck sometimes
kicks in at the proper time and
turns a bad shot into a good one.
It was a lucky shot at the sixteenth
hole tha* gave Lawrence Eustis the
low qualifying score and medal In
the Southern championship played in
Atlanta in 1907.
Early In the day F. G. Byrd re
turned what looked like the lowest
score of the day. All day his score
stood four strokes better than his
nearest competitor, until Eustis, who
was the last man to start, came in
and bettered it by one stroke.
But it took some luck to do It.
In playing the sixteenth hole, which
is 513 yards In length, with the green
on an island, Eustis played two good
shots, which left him with an easy
pitch shot for the green. In playing
this third shot he half topped It and
it barely cleared Use bank of the lake
between the branch and the canal
and seemed certain to remain in the
water of the canal, thus losing a
stroke. Instead, the ball struck the
water at such an angle that it skated
out and onto the green, and he got
his five, when a certain six or seven
seemed the best he could get when
the shot Aft his club. It was the
break In his favor at this point which
gave him the medal by one stroke.
* * •
HICK EVANS had an exceptional-
V “ x ly fine or lucky shot—look at it
whichever way you pleas©—on the
thirty-sixth hole of the qualifying
round of the Western championship,
which was finished Saturday and
which gave him the low score medal.
Mason Phelps had completed his
two rounds with a total of 162. Evans
had a total of 149 when he finished
the thirty-fifth hole. A three at the
last hole would put him in a tie with
Phelps for th e low score. He got
away a screaming drive from the last
tee, which left him some 76 yards
from the green. He had to get his
approach shot dead so that he could
get down In one putt to be all even
with the leader. A tie with Phelps
was the best he could hope for, but
you never can tell what’s going to
happen.
Evans played his second shot and
the ball kept running nearer and
nearer to the hole until, with one
last turn, It dropped Into the cup.
He had holed a 75-yard approach
shot for a two, which gave him the
low score by one stroke. Take your
choice and call it a good or a lucky
shot. One thing Is certain—he was
trying to get the ball as dead to the
hole as possible, and the deadest
place I know is In the cup.
• * •
\V7HILE talking with Willie Mann,
vv who has charge of the building
of the Druid Hills golf course and
who also is taking Stewart Maiden’s
place at the Atlanta Athletic Club
during Maiden’s trip abroad, I asked
him what was the luckiest shot he
ever pulled off.
"Well,” said Willie, "I guess It must
have been one miss that I got away
with back home at Conoustie. I was
playing in the club championship and
had worked my way to the final. In
this match I was having a hard time
keeping the match square First, my
opponent would win a hole and then
I would get It back. But I couldn’t
get up on him. I lost the sixteenth
hole, but by winning th© seventeenth
was all even when we started the
last hole.
"That hole Is about 325 yards long
and Just in front of the green is a
bum, or, as you would call it in this
country, a creek. Both of us got
away corking drives, but I bad the
better one. My opponent played a
perfect mashle shot to the green and
lay within fifteen feet of the cup.
"I was rather nervous when It came
my time to play. I tried for a high
mashle shot with a lot of back spin
on it. Instead of getting what I
played for, I hit the ball above the
center, topping it and sending it rac
ing along the ground toward the burn.
It looked as If I was certain to be
caught In a water hazard and that
I would lose the hole and the club
championship. But In some way that
ball ran down one bank, Jumped the
water and ran up the other hank
onto the green, within three feet of
the hole. My opponent missed his
putt, but X got mine down and won
the hole, the match and the club
championship. If that shot wasn’t
luck, pure and simple, I don’t know
what else to call it."
Basebali Men Assert That “Wee
Willie” Sudhoff Is Another
Victim of “Bean Ball.”
S T. LOTTIS, July 18.—'"Wee WITH.”
Sudhoff, on» time star pitcher
of the St. Louis Browns, is re
ported violently Insane In the City
Hospital. The strength of two po
licemen was required to remove him
from his home.
Physicians who examined Sudhoff
yesterday said his condition was due
to some old injury to the head, and
baseball men asserted "Wee Willie"
was one more added to the list of
"bean ball” victims, recalling that he
was hit on the head with a pitched
ball in 1905.
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S UDHOFF'B mania takes the form
of trying to divest himself of all
his clothing, which Is regarded by for
mer associates as a strange reversal
of a whim which he had after being
Injured In a railroad wreck when
traveling with the local team to
Cleveland In 1904. President Hedges,
of the Browns, said to-day that never
afterward would Sudhoff remove his
clothing when traveling.
• • •
S UDHOFF, who is 38 years old, was
in his prime as a pitcher in 1903.
He retired at the end of the season
of 1905 and went into the clothing
business. For three years he nas
worked as an oiler at one of the
waterworks stations.
RECALL HURLER COMSTOCK.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., July 26.—
The Minneapolis American Association
club has recalled Pitcher Ralph Com
stock from the Minneapolis Northern
League team and also purchased Out
fielder Miller from the Duluth club of
the same league. In payment for Miller,
Outfielder George Browne is sent to
Duluth. Pitcher Raymond Patterson,
the Depauw University recruit, will go
to the Minneapolis Northern League
team to replace Comstock.
DROHAN SECURED BY KEWANEE.
KEWANEE. ILL.. July 18.—Tom Dro-
han, premier pitcher of the Central As
sociation last year, was purchased from
Columbus to-day by Kewanee.
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AN FRANCISCO, July *8,—Ar
thur Pelky. claiming the world’s
heavyweight championship, but
not appearing to be a bit excited over
the tact, arrived In California—the
real battleground of the Queensberry
world—the other day and made a
general application for work.
Accompanying Pelky, whoee real
name, by the way, Is Arthur Pellitler,
wae our old friend Tommy Burn*.
Tommy la aa fat as our own Jlmma
da Jeff and wear® 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 Bums,
“This Is a mistake. My man has had
83 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.
'1 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 Ms manager since
night. He has everything that a
champion should hares and la a clean
liver. Although the big fellow Is Si
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 Cort>ett,
"Bob" Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffrlee 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 runs 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,"
and a nod at his command. He is
modest, perhaps bashful would be
a better word, and but for a “panned”
left ear and a "tunnel” nose, would
never be suspected of being connected
with the prize ring.
"We will meet any white man in
th© world,” continued Burns after
Pelky had been made to stand up, sit
down and roll over for & general In
spection. "There are no colored box-
era 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
1 refused to fight Johnson. After I
finally did lose to the big dlnge I was
roasted all over again for haring
given him a crack at the title. We
will not make this mistake agate.
Pelky Is a white champion for white
people only.**
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