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) ■ 11 D ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY, AUGUST in, 1013. HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, Latest Stories From Tennis Courts and Golf Courses President Britton Puts Ban on Indoor Baseball, Soccer and Others for Athletes. By Sid C. Keener. S T. LOTUS, MO., Aug. 9.—Indoor baseball, soccer football, bas ket ball, or, In fact, all winter sports where there are chances of broken ankles, twisted knees, sprain ed arms, etc., will not be allowed for the Cardinals this winter. President Schuyler P. Britton has clamped the lid oh all winter pastimes for his ath letes as a result of the injury to Shortstop Arnold Hauser. There is no such clause in any of the present contracts, but when school is over this October, President Britton intends to issue strict orders to all the players that the ban has been placed on Indoor baseball, soc cer football, basket ball and others. And if the command is not obeyed, Britton has plans that will alter the present conditions. Hauser’s loss has been a severe Jolt to the Cardinals this year. He has played in only a few games, still he is being paid his salary every 1st and every 15th. And that isn’t all. Pays $1,000 in Doctor Bills. Since the training trip of last March when Hauser was sent home from Co lumbus, Ga., President Britton has paid more than $1,000 in doctor bills for Hauser. At present, Arnold is re covering from an operation at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and all the expenses are being paid by the president of the Cardinals. “I'd be willing to pay more than $5,000 if I thought Hauser would be as good as ever,” states Britton. “You can’t buy shortstops like him for $5,000.” There’s also a funny angle con cerning the bills which have been paid by Britton. During Arnold’s stay in St. Louis several months ago, he was being treated by several ex perts. The bills always were mail ed to Robison Field and one day Brit ton received a bill from a doctor who was not hired. “I opened the envelope and saw a bill which read: ‘For services to Ar nold Hauser, $200.’ I asked Hauser about it and he said that he never heard of the physician.” The athletes, as well as the mag nates, suffer when one Is Injured dur ing some winter pastime. The aver age ball player makes enough in the summer and finds some other occupa tion to live on during the winter. There isn’t much financial gain play ing soccer, basket ball or indoor base ball, and the athlete is taking a great chance to ruin himself. Winter Sport Withput Gain. While Hauser’s Injury Is attributed to the day he slid into second base at Columbus, Ga., it is thought that the starj, came when he twisted his knee sliding on a wooden floor playing in door baseball last winter. It also will be remembered that in the winter of 1911-1912 a gathering of diamond stars held an indoor series at the Jai Alai. In the line-up were Hauser, Bobby Byrne, Larry Doyle Ed Koney, Lefty Leifield and a few more major leaguers. The games were well advertised, but didn’t appeal to the real baseball fans, and when the receipts were divided each athlete drew down something Jess than 45 for three nights’ play. Where would the Giants be to-day had Larry Doyle been permanently injured? The same for Bobby Byrne and the Pirates. Ed Koney has quit of his own will and says that it will be hunting, fishing and other amuse ments this winter and thereafter. Maybe some business investment for the bie: fellow, but no more indoor baseball. It’s pretty soft for the athlete to draw' his full season’s salary and have his doctor bills paid b>* the magnate. Britton Is quite right in placing the ban on winter sports, and no doubt the players will obey the ruling. International Scope For Athletic Meet James E. Sullivan Goes Abroad With Invitations From Panama Exposition. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—James E. Bullivan. secretary-treasurer of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States and director of athletics at the Panama Pacific International Exposi tion. left last Tuesday on the Kron- prlnzessln Cecelie to attend the Inter national Federation of the athletic governing bodies of the world which Is to be held in Berlin, Germany, Au gust 20 and 21. While at this congress Director Fulllvan will extend invitations to the foreign governing bodies to send teams to the Panama Pacific Interna tional Exposition at San Francisco in 1916. All the sports at the exposition are to be International in character, and, as a matter of fact, teams have already been promised from many of the foreign countries. After a con ference with the officials of the dif ferent governing bodies of sport in America, a lengthy program of Sports was prepared. It is planned to have the Important International championships in the early spring and fall—February. March, April, October, November and December. The events now planned will, of course, be subject as to dates and regulations to the receiving of official sanction and approval from all the associations that are Interested. STANDS HURT OUTFIELDING. PITTSBURG, PA.. Aug. 9.—"Have you noticed that the present day out fielders do not judge fly balls as quickly as the old-timers did?” asked Manager Clarke, Of the Pirates, to day. “The stands at most of the parks are huge, dark affairs and when they are filled with spectators it is difficult to tell which Is the ball and which are the faces of the fans, until or unless the sphere rises clear above the roof.” E P R ft | S E I nn k Brown Talks on Football |Jfj[J[ P(]j(][ +•+ -!•••> Heisman Faces Difficult Task FROM CRITICS British Writers Still Boosting the Great Californian for His Excellent Playing. M aurice e. m’loughlin, who did so much in helping the American team capture the Davis Cup, made a lasting im pression on the critics abroad. Writing of the American champion one of the foremost London critics says: “The arrival of a new master in any game is always important, for it is by a succession of masters that the art itself is developed. No two men play alike, and w'hen the dif ference due to individuality Is con siderable, new’ methods are the out come, and the possibilities of the game are enlarged. Lawn tennis, like other games, has been made by Its personalities—a Renshaw, a Doherty, a Brookes. If his promise material izes fully McLoughlln may figure among the makers of epochs. The per sonality of the young Californian is a striking one. Both in name and in blood he is Irish. A blonde, with red dish hair and freckled face, he is a true specimen of the fair HibAmian type. In repose his mouth generally wears a smile. A Great Athlete. ‘When driving his hardest or when serving, he shows his teeth. Ret like a vise, they give a touch of ferocity and of deadly purpose. The great breadth of his square shoulders makes him look less tall than he Is. You will not often see a more finely built figure of an athlete. He has the straight and well-shaped legs that spell litheness of movement; his carriage on the court is rhythmical. The combination of limbemess and apparent looseness of joint, with steel- like tension during the stroke, is characteristic of many great athletes. That much abused term ‘grace’ ap plies in its proper sense to McLough- lin’s movement and his play alike. “Out of the personality comes the play. Like the man, it is dynamic, swift and strong. He attacks when ever he can, and his weapons of of fense are all severe in the extreme. Hir service is pTobably the fastest ever seen. It is graded from a slightly breaking ball, w’hich keeps low, to a very strong American break. His pose when preparing to serve sug gests a general’s summing up of the situation. The man’s poise is me chanically perfect. His forehand drive at its swiftest is possibly harder than that of S. H. Smith. It carries considerable top spin, and is hit with the full reach of the arm, preferably with a horizontal racquet. The sound of it Is a crash. With this stroke, as well as with his severe smashing, he can kill a ball from the extremity of the court. The drive keeps low’; its trajectory is flat. Cuts His Backhand. “His backhand is cut. and the ball when hit is in front of his body. This is his weakest department, but it has winning moments. Low volleys he often misses; he prefers the higher and winning position. Extraordinary activity is combined with splendid footwork. He can leap from the cen ter to the side line and cut off a drive with a stop volley. When a ball suits him and he can time It as he pleases, he generally hits it with full strength His speed on the court is great; his control over the ball and himself Is remarkable. To beat Barrett when the latter was two sets to one show’s great determination, as it shows good brains. To beat Parke in three sets reveals consistency; survive a field of all comers, over a hundred strong, at the age of 23, on his first visit to England, makes McLoughlin famous indeed.” BELMONT GETS NEW TRAINER. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—It is learned that August Belmont has engaged Sam Hildreth to train his American racing stable. Some time ago Hild reth sold his own string of horses to the late Charles Kohler and went abroad, the latter’s stable manager scoring many successes on the French turf. By Innis Brown. HE king is dead. Long live the king." No doubt it is a bit early to begin chanting any funeral dirge over the demise of the present base ball season and cut loose a host of happy huzzas over the near entry of football. In fact, the real big noise with the horsehide is yet to be sprung, and a majority of the baseball popu lace is really Just beginning to ad mit that the impending problem of the coming world series is whether it will be Bender vs. Mathewson or Plank vs. Marquard. • For all of that, however, the old season Is well on Its way, and It Is merely a matter of a little more than a month until ye crafty football in structors will once more be on the Job. Some five weeks more and man agers will begin to dig out the musty, moldv regalia of the season past, fol lowed shortly by the loss of large gobs of cuticle from the manly forms of numerous chesty young athletes while engaged in the rather monoto nous preliminaries of falling on the ball and tackling a dummy. * * • T HE return of the season of glory of the knights of the pigskin will no doubt find a rousing welcome among local enthusiasts in the grid iron game It will also awaken a bit of curiosity as to what local and other teams will be able to show when the count is held. Out at Tech, Coach Heisman is going to find his legions somewhat shot to pieces by graduation and oth er more speedy methods of depletion. Captain Leuhrmann will not be back, and Montague and Colley may also be lost. The return of some of the oth ers is uncertain. However, he will have on hand Cook, Scrappy Moore, Loeb, Hutton, Means, with possibly one or two other regulars. Should McDonald return, a fair basis for a backfleld may be counted on. In ad dition to these, It is understood that several promising freshmen have sig nified an intention of Joining the Smithies. Should the Tech pilot draw a couple of good linemen along with c.ne dependable back, opponents of the Jackets may count on a stren uous combat when they line up on Grant Field. • • • O VER at Athens, ihe outlook Is a bit unsettled. It is certain that Cap tain Bob McWhorter will be on the Job. With him will be Big John Hen derson and probably Paddock, Hitch cock, Powell and Conklin. Timon Bowden has ended his football career by playing professional baseball dur ing the present season in the Empire League. Lucas and Peacock are through, and the return of Wild Ar- nette, who terrified Auburn on Thanksgiving Dhy, is doubtful How ever, there were a number of good prep men turned out last season in these parts, and the Red and Black will no doubt gather a fair share of these. Besides, the Athenians were rather bountifully supplied with sub stitutes last year, nad should devel op two or three good performers for regular berths. A T Vanderbilt Commodore Dan Mc- Gugin will face the Job of pick ing up two backs and three linemen. The big loss will be in Collins and Hardage, leaving only Sikes of the back trio, with Curlin to fill in at quarter. In the line Swofford, Daves and Shipp will be among the missing. In other words, the Gold and Black skipper will begin with Morgan and Tom Brown of his line; Noch Brown and Turner at ends, and Sikes and Curlin in the back field. In addition to these, he will have a youngster by the name of Boensch, who should land the quarterback Job over Zack Curlin, whose chief bid for fame seems to be the fact that he once Jumped into the game in a crisis and kicked a field goal against Michi gan. However, about all that can be counted on to date in the line, in addition to the two regulars return ed, is Reyer, a sub on last year’s team. He will doubtless draw fur ther assistance from the Incoming freshman class. To date no relief has shown up to fill in the loss caused by the departure of Collins and Hard age. • • • O VER at Auburn Mike Donohue will have to base his calcula tions minus the services of Rip Ma jors at quarter, “Sheep” Lamb at tackle and Doctor Ressijac at full back. However he can count on Cap tain Kirk Newell in the back field, along with Arnold and Christopher, while in the line he will have Mead ows, Thigpen, Louisell and Pitts. He will also have good flank defense in the persons of Robinson and Kearley It appears that the genial Mike will start the season with more than his usual strength of seasoned material, which forebodes worry a plenty for his opponents. • • • NTOT a great deal Is known of what Harris Cope may count on at Sewanee just yet. He will lose one of his mainstays in Jim Stoney at center. He will also lose a service able and promising player in Shel don, who put up a sensational game at half in several oontests last sea son. More serious, however, than either of the above will be the loss of Jenks Gillem at end It will doubt less be a long time before the Tiger squad picks up as valuable all-round man again. On the other hand, he will have Tolley. Hammond and Parker in the back field, Captain McCallum and probably Magwood, Dobbins and Moore in the line. This force will no doubt be augmented by the addi tion of two or three good new men, together with a promotion to the var sity of one or two subs on last year’s team. • • • 17ROM the above it would appear * that neither of these squads will have anything special to begin the season above the average. It will, therefore, be a matter of developing new material, together with good luck in keeping old men in condition, in deciding the relative strength of these teams for the coming season, as compared with past years. But few changes have been made in the playing rules, and with this advan tage coaches can begin early to get down to real business in developing their charges. With the schedules that more than one of the above have cut out for themselves it is a cinch bet that no time will be lost when once a start is made. $18,000 Youngster Forced to Go Against Strongest Pitching in American League. LARRY SEES VISIONS OF WORLD SERIES FOR NAPS PHILADELPHIA, Aug 9.—Spend lust a few minutes with big Nap Lajoie dur ing these riotous days. Your time won’t be wasted. Larry is one continuous walking smile. Like a charger scenting the smoke of battle. Larry is scenting the smoke of a world’s series. The big fellow has never battled in a world’s contest. The greatest player never before has had an opportunity. But he feels that the Naps have a chance now and he’s breaking his neck to bring about the realization of dreams of years. Larry is his same old self again. Com pletely recovered from the injuries which handicapped him when he was traveling along at such a wonderful clip earlier in the season, he is showing the way to Birmy’s ambitious youngsters and caus ing them to be consumed by the pennant fever. Larry is playing a wonderful game in the field and his bat is playing an im portant part In every Nap victory. This may be the big fellow’s last chance to be on a club that has a chance for the flag, and he is making the best of his opportunity. Keep your lamps on us.” says I^ar- ry. "We are either going to pass those Athletics or make them think they have been side-swiped by a machine travel ing at a two-mile-a-minute clip.” MILWAUKEE FANS AFTER PRESIDENT CHIVINGT0N MILWAUKEE, WIS.. Aug. 9.—Mil waukee baseball fans and owners of the local club are up in arms against Presi dent Chivlngton, of the American Asso ciation. for his action in suspending Manager Clark, of the Brewers. DecauBf of a verbal argument with Mike Can- tlllon, of Minneapolis. They claim it is a deliberate plan to weaken Milwaukee in the pennant race. A report that George. Tebeau Is ready to quit the Association and join hands with the Federal League is given more than passing credence here. It also is claimed others are ready to follow suit. Pitcher Klapnioka may be sold to Cin cinnati by Milwaukee. CHANCE FARMS TWIRLER. NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Pitcher Wat kins, who recently was purchased by Chance from the Youngstown (Ohio) club, has been sent to the New’ Lon don club of the EaKern Association, 90 that he can get more experience. NEW PLAYER FOR COAST. KEOKUK. IOWA, Aug. 9.—The local Central Association club was yester day offered $1,000 for Catcher Joe Jenkins by the Oakland, Cal., club. Outfielder Hilly and Shortstop McGraffi- gan also will go te the Coast League if negotiations now on are completed. Bv Bill Bailey. C HICAGO. Aug. 9.—Did It ever occur to you that Larry Ohap- pelle was a marked man and that It was more difficult for him to get a base hit than for any other player on the Sox team? It never did? It’s a fact just the same. Chappelle goes against the strongest pitching in the game. Doesn’t make any difference what the score is when Chappelle goes to bat, does not make a particle of difference whether there be a man on base, and it doesn’t make any difference wheth er there be two or none out, the op posing twirler shoots across his very best when the youngster walks to the plate. The reason? The fact that the youngster cost $18,000. Here is what happens when this youngster walks up there. He Is rec ognized by the fans. “Do you think he’s worth all that coin?” queries one fan of another. “Don’t look like that much money to me,” is usually the answer when the team is playing on foreign territory. “Fan him!” howls the fan to the pitcher. “Show r him up!” howls another bug. “Strike him out!” howls a third. In a minute all the fans are after the twirler to show up this fellow’ who cost all that money. And it devel ops into a duel between the batter and the pitcher. • • • ■you know what happens under or- 1 dinary conditions when the home team is leading by a large score and the end of the game is near. The pitcher lets up a bit. He figures that there is no use pitching his arm out when he has hia game won. You know what happens when two are down and an average batter is up. The twirler Is quite willing to let the batter hit. He doesn’t put much on the ball, for the reason he figures the man will go out anyway. Then what is the use? It isn’t likely that a rally will be started. • • • OUT with Chappelle? The pitcher wants to fan him. There is a lot of satisfaction in downing a batter w’hen the eyes of the fans are cen tered upon you. Then a pitcher can’t figure why any batter should cost all that money. And then again, a twirl- er receives much fame if he strikes out the high-priced youngster. Chappelle never gets an easy chance at bat. Any time that he steps into that box he knows that the pitcher is going to put everything he possesses on that ball and that regardless of whether the pitcher eases up when the other fellows go up. Chappelle knows that he will get speed and a curve ball. Oh, it’s fine advertising you receive w’hen you cost a lot of money. Rut you can wager that it does not aid your batting average. You’re the mark all along the line. The Infleld- ers and outfielders play just twice as hard for you. The pitcher just works twice as hard. Any time that Chap pelle receives any credit ypu can wager that he earns it. For somehow’ or other every ball player entertains just a bit of envy for the youngster w'ho cost a small fortune. KAISERLING SIGNS WITH FEDS. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 9.—Georgo Kaiserllng. the hurler recently re leased to San Francisco in the Pa cific Coast League by the local (A. A.) club, yesterday signed to pitch for the local Federals. H© will join his new mates to-day. ‘THE OLD RELIABLE” Plamtens or Black C &■ CAPSULES R E M E PYfor MEN AT DRUGG IBT8.0R TRIAL BOX BV MAIL 60. FROMPLANTEN 93 H ENRYST. BROOKLYN N Y . —BEWARE of imitations— LATEST STORIES FROM THE MAJOR LEAGUES I N the third game of the world’s series, two years ago, Jack Coombs was pitching for the Athletics when Josh Devore came to bat. Coombs remembered what Plank, who had pitched for the Athletics the day before, told him of Devore’s batting weakness. “He’s helpless before a wide curve,” Plank had said. When Devore came to bat. Coombs soon had two strikes on him. Lapp signaled for a fast ball for the next attempt, but Coombs shook his head, calling for a new signal. Lapp then called for a slow’ one. Again Coombs shook his head. There was but one otner signal for Lapp to spring—to call for a curve ball. He did. Coombs bent over a wide curve and Devore swung and missed it a mile. It was a clean strike-out. Lapp gravely took off his mask, walked down to the pitcher's box and whispered In Coombs’ ear; “That's the time WE used OUR head, old top.” • • • • 'pHE talk drifted around to natural sluggers. * "There never was a greater one than Ed Delehanty,” said Tim Hurst, the once famous prize ring referee and major league baseball umpire. “And that reminds me of a story. “It was in the old National League days of the twelve-club circuit,” continued Tim. “A promising young third baseman named Flaherty was breaking in for Washington. I took a train with the Senators one night, jumping east from Chicago. Flaherty consulted me about one of his w eaknesses. "‘My arm is all right,’ said he, ‘but I often find that, hurry as I will, I am unable to get my man at first on a bunt or a slow roller.’ ‘Why, my dear boy,’ says I, ‘you probably play too deep. Whenever you expect a bunt, sneak up with the pitch.’ “I saw’ Flaherty about three weeks later in Washington hobbling down Pennsylvania avenue on crutches. I had missed him from the box scores, but thought he hnd probably been chased back to the sticks. I asked him w’hat had happened. “ ‘Mr. Hurst,’ he said, in the most rueful tone I ever heard, ‘T took your advice. I started tn on Ed Delehanty, but I woke up in the am bulance, convinced that I was never cut out for third baseman.’” • * • II)ILLY MURRAY, former manager of the Phillies, who 1s now ^ scouting for Pittsburg, was fanning with some friends at the Polo Grounds the other afternoon. “I do not believe that anyone except a manager can appreciate how much ‘bone’ there is in the big leagues." he said. “You remember Coveselskie, the big Pole southpaw who beat the Giants three straight games and kept them from the pennant in 1908? I actually believe *he often forgot he was playing baseball. “In a tight game at Chicago one day he naseed Evers with none out. Johnny stole second while Coveleskie held the ball. Catcher Charlie Dooln and all the Quaker infield tried in vain to bring the big pitcher out of his trance. “When Coveleskie came back to the bench I was pretty nearly sore enough to strangle him. ‘Didn’t you know there was a runner on first?’ I asked, as sarcastically as I could. ‘Why, no; I didn’t,’ he ad mitted. “You could have knocked me down with a feather. And Coveleskie was In dead earnest. Turning to Kitty Brunsfield, my first barman. In the most injured tone I could assume. I asked ‘What’s the matter with you inflelders? Can’t you remember to tip iff Coveleskie. when ever there are runners at your buses?’ “Do you know’.” concluded Murray, “that big ‘bonehead’ of a Pole never tumbled to the fact that he was being kidded.” Scout After Syracuse Pitcher for Bed Sox Patsy Donovan After Twirler Who Recently Held Athletics to Seven Hite. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Aug. 9—Pater Donovan, the Boston American scoot, left here yesterday for Binghamton to look over Pitcher Rankin Johnson, of the Syracuse team, who recently held the Athletics to seven hits in an ex hibition game here. It Is understood that two other major league clubs are after Johnson. PLANK IS SLOWEST HURLER IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE BOSTON, Aug. 9 —The slowest pitch er in the world has been discovered. He is Eddie Plank, the Athletics’ veteran Just for curiosity, and to settle an argu ment, a telegraph operator in Phila delphia held the watch on Plank when he pitched against the Browns in a re cent series. After Rtovall made a double he con sumed 30 seconds throwing the first ball to Pratt. This period elapsed after he received the ball from the catcher and before he dolivered it to the bat. The next pitch required 26 seconds. Pratt hit this ball. In the same Inning he took 25 seconds throwing the first ball to Williams. 'Three pitches to Balenti required 28. 36 and 30 seconds. Plank pulls down hts cap, hitches up his trousers, wiggles his left foot and buries it In the pitcher’s mix like an old hen going to roost. Then he carefully scrutinizes the bases and the outfielders and by the time he gets around to pitch the batter Is hajf fidg eted to death. That’s the system of his stalling—to get the other fellow overanxious. HERRMANN SENDS OUT CALL FOR YOUNG HURLERS CINCINNATI. Aug. 9—With South- paw ‘‘Rube’’ Benton practically lost to the Reds for the remainder of the sea son, President Garry Herrmann has wired around the country for twirlers. He sent messages to Pitcher Harring ton, of Lynn, Mass ; Pitcher Robertson, of Savannah, Ga., and several others to Join the Reds immediately. Herrman has tried to arrange a deal with a National League club, offering an outfielder and an infielder for a pitcher, and It may be put through In a tew days. 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