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IfEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN-BASEBALL AND OTHER SPORTS SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1013. 5 C Confidence L 11 T* I ■> 1 d . c TK T* 4. Heine Tells Gets the Hits Daseba til Jinx Jt veal, . Dut Lan De Deaten How to Do It m SAYS HAVE II 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 * 1 to hit the ball hoe a big shade 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. / 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 TAD SHOWS HOW THE GOAT PASSES FROM BATTER TO PITCHER AND VICE VERSA TH£ TrW PiTUWCT- iSAwornen marvjeu* VjUKEV TM-e RWAtTeAM F€**S HIM HE TOS/ES INa GAU. OVEJZ hi BHr AS A BAAftEC VJvlTH WOTM-tWG-OM (T GClT* THE comer am© wosopy HIT* IT- <3W= KERTtA-y me frwr mah w ©raw a hit- cowFipewc^: fcCTbftwS- THE vurtoue TEAM HITS— KMT Zim Gives Cure for Batting Slump 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- GOLF or USING Toronto Star Qualified for Ameri- Championship Despite Awkward Style of Play. can 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. w 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. «mm m* «rrr Uja-V to oar OUT or A iWJMR ti TO IT 6>*W- 60UT FRET- AtsEW Hr TH«r,P , ‘-V aho graouau-v CQMg CkAttM Pelky Ready to Talk Business ♦•+ ♦•+ +•+ ♦•+ ♦•+ Champion Wants Go With Smith S How Much Luck Is There in Golf? +•4* +•+ +•+ 4*4 +•+ 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. ... 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. . • » 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. : ^m^catarrh: BLADDER * Rsllevtd In « 24 Hours < r Each Cap- s v 1 •“>» bcarslbe a - name Arf- , , Beware of ccemterfeiu i By H. M. "Walkor. 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.** Wbenerer you tee an Arrow thin of Coca*Cola. •en<l for Pree I THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, Atlanta, Ca.