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White Tells How He Expects
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Whitney Says He Will Make
Bv Left Hook.
TA.M out to win the lightweight ti-
[_ tie,” said Charley White yester
day, “but I have a tough ‘bird’
to beat in Frank Whitney here next
Wednesday night. Of course I ex
pect to win. but I fully realize what
a worthy opponent I am going to be
stacked up against in the ring at the
Auditorium-Armory.
"Do you know that up around Chi
cago all the experts look on Whitney
as one of the toughest trial horses in
the game. He is a hard man to hit.
can take an awful mess of punish
ment and at the same time is so awk
wardly clever that he is hard to make
a showing against.
“I saw Frank work with Packey
McFarland in McConnell’s Gymna
sium last Wednesday. Why he gave
Packey an awful time for the four
rounds they worked.
‘‘After the session was over Packey
came over to me and said: ‘Charley,
old pal. that young fellow will give
you a rough voyage when you meet
in Atlanta, or I’m a bum judge of a
scrapper.’
"Packey didn’t have to tell me that.
I was a spectator, although Whitney
didn’t know it.
"But, do you know, I am glad that
I saw Whitney work out against Mc
Farland. T got a good line on his
style. And I am going to tell you
just how I intend to beat him.
“Frank is a rushing tighter. Well,
let him start leading and I will coun
ter so fast that he won’t know where
he is at. 1 believe that I can pick
off or stop any of his leads and coun
ter so hard that he will be willing to
let me do some of the heavy work be
fore the scrap has gone over three or
four rounds.”
With that Charley left us to go
back to his training.
* * •
W HITE hadn’t eased his way out
of the office over ten or fifteen
minutes before Whitney came in.
When he was told that White had
seen him work out against McFarland
Frank laughed.
"So he thinks that he can stop me
from leading and rushing, eh?” re
marked the "Fighting Carpenter.”
“Well, I’ll make him travel faster than
he ever traveled before. I have never
been floored vet, and if Mr. White
thinks that he can stop me I’ll bet
him my end of the purse on it. And
take it from me, I will make a rush
ing scrap of it, too.
“I’ll stick on top of him and keep
flaying away with so much speed that
he’ll wish he was back in that dear
old Chicago. He is going to pick off
my leads and counter? That’s what
to Win Bout
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Rushing Attack
he said. I should worry. He will
have a line time picking ’em off.
"I was never in better condition
in my life and I’ll keep going at top
speed from the first round to the end.
And the end
"Well, I’ve got a hunch that I am
going to put over a decisive punch.
The mill may go the entire ten
rounds; hut not if I can help it.
"All I ask of White to do is to stand
toe to toe with me right in the center
of the ring, and if he does I’ll guar
antee that I’ll prove I have a better
kfck than the one he possesses.
"He says tie is g<dng to In- t! <- m \;
lightweight champion? Say. I have
got that same hunch about my$<
UNUSUAL RULES AND
PLAYS IN BASEBALL
(No. 5.)
J. W. Heisman.
TWO STAR SCRAPPERS
WHO MIX WEDNESDAY
The photograph at the left shows Charley
White as he looks in the ring. The other photo
graph was snapped during a training hour in
Frank Whitney s camp.
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N owadays no substitute can
get in the game without flfst
reporting to the umpire, and
the umpire first announcing to the
public and the scorers who the new
comer is and whose place he takes.
This rule is all right, but it has only
been in existence a couple of years.
Once upon a time, a long, long tim-^
ago, the umpire in a big league game
had the time of his life in a dispute
over this very point with the great
and only Mike Kelly. The “King”
wasn’t catching that day, on account
of a bad finger. He always hated to
ornament the bench when playing
was going on, and as the game was a
close one, he was having considerable
difficulty in maintaining his patience:
in fact, he was looking for most any
provocation to jump into the game.
Directly there went up a high foul
that went sailing away over toward
the stands, obviously quite out of
reach of either Mike’s substitute
catcher or of the first baseman. In
stantly Mike sprang from the bench
and yelled to the umpire that he was
putting the other catcher out of the
game and that he was going in at
once. After delivering this charm
ing BON MOT—or. rather, simul
taneously with it—he took out after
the crazy foul and neatly pulled it
down. Coming in with the ball he
picked up his mask and protector on
the way to the plate, and with su
perb nonchalance proceeded to signal
his pitcher for what he wanted.
But the umpire said nay! This
was not according to the law and
the prophets. Mike dared him to
show any rule to the contrary. The
umpire couldn't show any, but refused
to let Mike make any such dramatic
entrance just the ^ame. In spite of
the lack of law, Mike finally lost the
case before the supreme court of
baseball; but one can’t help admire
his quickness of though; under the cir
cumstances.
• * •
YI7 HEN the batter has made a foul,
the base-runner must go back
and touch the bas-e he left. If the
foul fly was caught, he must also
touch all bases intervening between
him and the base he left, and if while
doing this the opponents get the ball
back to the base he left before he
arrives there he is out. But if the
foul fly was not caught, he need not
touch intervening bases.
The runner is, however, supposed
to go back to the base he left with
reasonable dispatch, and if he does
so, the pitcher must wait for him. If
the pitcher will not wait for him, but
goes ahead with his delivery, the run
ner has the right to start again for
the next base ahead, right where he
is and without losing the time to go
back to the base he started from.
Most pitchers do not' seem to be aware
that the bate-runner has this right,
and they do a very dangerous thing
when they start in their delivery
without giving the runner a reason
able time to go back.
* * *
A FTER the pitcher has taken his
position in the box ready to pitch,
the batter is not permitted to cross
over from one side of the plate to
the other. If he does so, he may
be called out.
Should the betsman desire to cross
over to the other side after the pitch
er is in his box, the only way he
can safely do so is to step backward
out of the box he is in and go around
behind the catcher.
* * *
N OT only should the outfield fence
not be less than 235 feet from
the plate, but the backstop should no;
be less than 'JO feet distant from the
plate. This is the rule, but most peo
ple are agreed that for the good of
the game it is better to have the
spectators closer to the field of play
than this. It is more interesting and
inspiring both to players and spec
tators to get closer when possible.
But if the backstop is l^ss than SO
feet behind the home plate, special
ground rules are an absolute neces
sity. Now. it would surprise you
greatly to know how many captains
of amateur teams fail to grasp the
significance of this lessened dis tance
and what the appropriate rule should
be in such case.
When the backstop is 90 feet back,
a runner is entitled to as many bases
as he can make, but he runs entirely
at his own peril. If the passed ball
has sufficient force to carry it clear
to the backstop, it is clear that the
runner should be able to make at least
one base while the ball is being re
covered. for he can certainly run 90
feet from one base to another while
the catcher Is running 90 feet after
the ball and throwing it back to the
diamond. If the passed ball doesn’t
go as far as the backstop, the runner
must use his judgment.
Now, if the backstop is less than
90 feet back, and a passed ball hits it,
the high probabilities are that it had
sufficient force to have gone on to
a backstop 90 feet away had the
backstop been back that far. In
other words, had the backstop been
at the regulation distance, the run
ner could no doubt easily have made
one base on that passed ball. Then
why shouldn’t he be given the one
base?
• • •
CTRANGE to say, most captain? of
^ fields where the backstop is less
than 90 feet away seem to think that
in this case also the runner should
be made to run at his own peril,
when it is their fault, not his. that
the field was not laid out according
to rule specifications'. It must be
clear that if the pitcher is s»o wild, or
the catcher so unskillful, as to have
a passed ball at a time when there is
an opposing runner on base they
should certainly be charged up with
a demerit for such bad play, and what
demerit should or could this be but
for the opponents to get at least one
base out of it. as they certinly would
on a regulation field? But to make
him run at his own peril with the
backstop, say, within 30 feet of the
place means that when the fielding
team makes a bad play and has a
passed ball that passed ball will very
likely hit that near backstop with
such force as to cause it to rebound
right back to the catcher, and thereby
he is enabled either to keep the run
ner on third or, worse still, to put
him out at the plate even, and this
on their own bad play and solely
through the unmerited help of an il
legally-placed backstop. Clearly the
runner should be given the one base
and be entirely free from the liability
of being put out.
(To Be Continued Next Sunday)
Chess Champion
• Returns to Cuba
Jose R. Capablanca Goes Home Be
fore Series in New York
With Duras.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Jose R. Cap-
ablanca, who equalled Dr. Lasker’s
record last week by winning thirteen
straight games in the Masters’
Tournament at the Rice Chess Club,
left yesterday for Havana.
The Cuban champion expects to
spend about a fortnight at his home,
and is due to return to New York
early in September. If then arrange
ments are made for a series between
him and O. S Duras. of Prague, whom
he defeated in the recent tournament
after a struggle lasting seventy-five
moves, the young master will tarry
long enough for that purpose. After
that he will depart for Europe.
Frank J. Marshall, the United
States champion, is in receipt of an
urgent invitation to play In the inter
national tournament from P. P. Sa-
bouroff. former president of the St.
Petersburg Chess Club.
Rivers and Wolgast
Both After Ritchie
Fighters Agree to Meet Chatty*' n
For Nothing—Ad Wild
To Get On,
LOS ANGELES. CAL., Aug. 9.—A
unique situation exists in the fight
gam? in Los Angeies. Both Joe Riv
ers and Ad Wolgast, former cham
pion, want to meet Champion Ritchie
and have started bidding for the
fight.
"All I want Is to get into the ring
with Ritchie again,” said Wolgast.
“Any promoter who can stage a
bout can name his own terms as far
as I'm concerned. If I win, he can
give me anything h^, likes. I don’t
ask a cent.”
"Same here, win or loMe.” said Riv
ers. "Whoever stages the contest can
keep my share or give it to Ritchie.”
In the meantime Champion Ritchie,
who is now in the ci^y, says it makes
no difference to him whom he fights
just so long as he gets his price.
C0UL0N TO DEFEND TITLE
AGAINST BOBBY BURNS
ST JOSEPH, MO., August 9.—Bob-
by Burns, of Dallas. Texas, signed
article? here yesterday for a ten-
round boxing contest with Johnny
Coulon, bantamweight champion, at
Omaha September 12.
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Pittsburg Citizen
Doesn’t Know Hans
Smoky City Scribe Claims He Is Dr.
W. J. Holland, Director of
Carnegie Museum.
•TSBURG, Aug. 9.—Help! Hel-
lup!
There’s a citizen at Pittsburg—a
prominent citizen at that—who
doesn’t know Honus Wagner, of Car
negie. Pa.
“Wagner? Wagner? Is he really,
as you allege, a baseball player?”
This was Dr. William J. Holland’s
reply to a question propounded by
David Davies, of The Pittsburg Dis
patch. Dr. Holland is director of
Carnegie Museum and was said to
have received from the king of ball
players a letter offering to sell an old
uniform for $15. This information
came from New York, the editor of
one Gotham daily being quite hyster
ical over the ’’possibilities” of the
story, to use hi.s own words.
When Dr. Holland was approached
on the matter he was surprised. "I
don’t know Wagner,” he said, "and we
are not conducting a hero fund at the
museum. No doubt this Mr. Wagner
is quite a wonder in his chosen line
of endeavor, and I suppose it is my
misfortune never to have made his
acquaintance.”
’’But, Doctor,” protested the writer,
"did you receive an offer from Wag
ner—did you receive any old kind of
an offer?”
“Man alive!” came the crushing re
ply; ’ haven’t I just told you that 1
never spoke to Mr. Wagner, that 1
never heard him speak, that I never
received a letter from him, that 1
never was called on the ’phone by him
—and that I never have given the
subject of his old uniforms any con
sideration at all? Next thing I know
they’ll be making ah old-clothes man
out of mo.”
Dr. Holland was positive that there
was no chance of Honus’ discarded
raiment finding repose within the
classic confines of the big building
erected at Mr. Carnegie’s expense.
“The whole thing is arrant non
sense,” he said. “I don’t know who
is responsible for the circulation of
the ‘story’ (I believe you newspaper
chaps cail it that); but I do know that
the entire yarn has been made out
I of whole clnih.”
Poor old Honus doesn’t know where
he is since the circulation of this
I uniform-museum story. Vowing that
fhe never has made any tender of his
worn-out scenery, he said yesterday
I that he guessed "somebody was try
ing to kid him.”
“When I get through with a uni-
| form,” said he, "there’s not much left
i of it. Still, if Dr. Holland, the Car-
j negie Museum or any other body or
j place wants what remains. I’ll sell for
i $15. And I’ll be making money at
Luck Begins to Break for Griff
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Injuries Gave Boehling a Start
By IV. J. McBoth.
N EW YORK. Aug. 9.—Manager
Clark Griffith of the Washing
tons is a firm believer in luck,
at least as applied to baseball. The
“Did Fox" certainly has had his share
of bumps. With the least iota of
breaks or good fortune he would have
landed at least two pennants for
Frank Farrell. This year he mignt
have driven the Athletics to cover had
his fine, aggressive young team not
been so seriously handicapped by in
juries to players
Griffith has had some pretty tough
luck in his career, and particularly
this snsnn. He seems a man destined
to always be on the threshold of great
fame without being able to find the
latchstring. He has had many buf
fets; but he has likewise enjoyed
some few favors of fickle fortune.
These came along now and then as
blessings in disguise. And not the
least of the lot by any means hns been
Joe Boehling. the young southpaw
who so far has been the sensation of
the major leagues this season.
It was only laut spring that the
"Old Fox” deplored the decay of
competent left-handed pitching.
“Fork-hand fling,” opined Griff “has
become a dead art.” Why Griff should
have been so melancholy on the sub
ject when two such able experts as
“Rube” Marquard and Eddie Plonk
were on hand to refute the insinuation
is very hard to figure. Tt may have
been that all his life Griffith had been
disappointed in digging up a portsdde
of real merit when at times such a
one would have spelled victory.
• * *
OUT nt the time when the “Old
1 Fox” wap grieving most sorely
over his years of disappointment, he
had with him a young man who in a
very few months to blossom out into
one of the real wonders of baseball.
Not since Russell Ford, of the
Yankees, and “King” Foie, of the
Cubs, in 1910, averaged well above
tile .800 mark in victory percentage
for over thirty games their first sea
son in fast company has any young
ster displayed the class of Washing
ton’s prize southpaw.
Boehling reeled off eleven straight
victories.
Boehling is going to be of great help
to Griffith and Washington. The
team is pretty well out of the race
now. yet still has an outside chance.
Certainly next year, unlen Mack
braces his pitching staff, the Old Fox
is likely to give the Athletics a fight
to the last ditch. Walter Johnson
and Joe Boehling form a pretty good
pitching staff as modern hurling
corps go. And Griff has several other
young men, among them Engel, who
can give a pretty fair account of
themselves in the box
But getting back to Boehling. Ha
has divided in hearts of loyal Wash
ington fandom a place this year
usurped by the great and only Walter
Johnson. His advent to fame has been
more or less of an accident. But for
the fact that Griffith was forced to
utilize him in the face of injuries to
seasoned twirlers. young Joe might
now be wasting “his sweetness on the
desert air of some bush league.
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LI ERE Is his history;
1 A Only back in the year 1911. w f hen
Dr. William H. Parker, the dean of
amateur athletics in the Keystone
City of the South, kindled an interest
in amateur athletics of every sort,
particularly devoting himself to ama
teur baseball, the medical man of
cherubic countenance, who is also a
police commissioner in Richmond,
formed and managed the Battle Ax®
teajn, which won the championship
of the city in a league comprised of
eight club«. Joe Boehling and Bill
Kay formed the star battery of th®
Battle Axe team, which lost but two
games out of sixteen played.
Succeeding the amateur baseball
season, an intercity championship se
ries was arranged with the winners
of similar championships in Wash
ington and Baltimore, in- w hich the
championship was won by the Pepcos
of Washington, the games directing
attention to the splendid battery work
of the Battle Axes. Bill Peet, of the
Washington Herald, was the wide-
eyed visual artist who saw in Boeh
ling possibilities sufficient to con
vince “Old Fox” Griffith of the ad
visability of adding Boehling to the
staff headed by that strong-armed
genius. Walter Johnson.
• • •
TOURING the training trip of 1912.
Washington scribes proclaimed
the worth of Boehling and predicted
that he would prove a tower of
strength for the Climbers. The bril
liant attack of the Senators during
1912, during which they rolled up a
succession of sixteen successive vic
tories—which record was ruined in
the seventeenth effort by “Home Run”
Baker, of th* Athletics—prevented
Griffith from risking the club’s climb
with a game pitched by Boehling. so
Griff farmed him out to Chattanooga.
Climatic conditions there hindered
the upbuilding of the youngster, and
Kid Elberfeld returned the youngster
to Washington, when Griff turned him
over to Worcester, where, under Jess®
Burkett, he achieved a winning per
centage of .636.
Again to Charlottesville and under
the tutelage of Griffith and Jack Ryan
the experience gained assterted itself.
A boy of big frame and intelligently
acquisitive. Boehling earned his right
to stay with the Senators, and Griff,
while bemoaning the dearth of good
left-handed pitchers, intrusted tta®
fortunes of one game to the young
ster. who returned it as a victory.
Burns and Jones in
Battle of Invectives
Managers of Arthur Pelky and Jess
Will'rd Laugh at Each
Ot. »r's Claims.
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 9.—Tommy
Burns, manager of Arthur Pelky, and
Tom Jones, who looks after the in
terests of Jess Willard, are booked to
hook up In an Interesting battle of
Invectives and near blows within a
day or two.
Jones wants to match Willard
against Pelky, but Burns in a tele
gram yesterday said that Willard
must go get a reputation before pre
suming to challenge a champion.
“Gunboat Smith is the man Pelky
wants to meet,” said Burns. “Smith
beat Willard, and then, again. Char
ley Miller shaded the Kansas scrap
per. Let him get a ‘rep’ for him
self.”
This sort of language is the sort
that makes Jones glad he is alive, for
he thrives on argument.
“When did Pelky whip Willard, or
anybody of consequence, until lie
landed a lucky punch on Luther Mc
Carty?” asks Jones. ‘Willard can
whip Pelky. and Burns can name his
own terms. Pelky took one beating
from Willard and wants no more.”
As Willard holds a decision over
Pelky, it is probable that Jones will
work that argument and a side bet
proposition overtime until Burns
agrees to a match between the rival
white hopes.
NUMBER FOOTBALL PLAYERS.
ITHACA, N. Y.. Aug. 9.—If the
coaches of other colleges agree to it,
Coach A1 Sharpe, of Cornell, will
number his football players next fall.
Sharpe is said to be highly in favor
of the Innovation suggested by Parke
H. Davis, Princeton's representative
on the rules committee. Dr. Sharpe
believes that the reform must come.
REDS CAN USE THIS ONE.
NEW YORK. Aug. 9.—President
Lynch, of the National League, in a
decision to-day holds that the result
of the protested Brooklyn-Cincinnatl
games of July 11, of which Cincin
nati won. 6 to 3. stands as played.
Broken Fingers Can't
Stop Cy Falkenberg
Cleveland Twirler Has Been Hurt
Three Times This Year,
But Continues Work.
CLEVELAND, OHIO. Aug. 9.—
Falkenberg has been hurt three time?
this? year, but has not lost a turn in
the box because of his injuries. Boeh-
ler, of Detroit, hit him on the pitch
ing arm in April, but Cy kept on win
ning. Then lie had a finger on his
left hand broken, but he continued
to win. Last week he broke another
digit on his left whip, yet has won
two games since.
MACK WANTS NEW RULE
TO PROTECT BASE RUNNERS
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Aug. 9.—Con
nie Mack has a new rule to suggest
when the baseball magnates gather in
the fall. The sphinxlike leader of the
Athletics would have the base-runners
given more protection and have infield
ers restricted in blocking tactics.
When an inflelder has deliberately
blocked the path, Mack believes that the
umpire should grant the runner his base.
He claims that the use of shin guards
by catchers and other protection by in-
fi eld ers makes it next to impossible for
a base-runner to get the goal sought
unless he has sufficient weight to bowl
over the opposing inflelder.
TIGERS GET TWIRLER.
OTTUMWA, IOWA. Aug. 9.—Pitcher
Loranzen. a left-hander of the Ottumwa
club In the Central Association, was
sold to the Detroit Americans for $2,600.
Jeff Smith to Get
Big French Plum
Al Palzer May Lose Chance to Box
Georges Carpentier in
Paris.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—It is report- J
ed here that Al Palzer is not to got ,
the chance to fight Carpentier in
France this fall, the plum going to
Jeff Smith, the Bayonne, N. J., mid
dleweight.
A wire says they are to meet on
October 20 in the Circus de Paris, the
weight to be 170 and the distance 20
rounds. Al Llppe. manager for Smith,
it 1® said, put one over on Tom
O’Rourke, who may have something
to say about the fight. Smith, how
ever is a good card in Paris, where
he beat Adrian Hogan. Willie Lewis.
M. Bernard and made Harry Mans
field quit in seven rounds. In fact,
only Mike Gibbons has the honor of
hanging a decision on Smith.
Carpentier will probably outweigh
Smith about 20 pounds at the agreed
weight, but this will not be such a
handicap, according to Smith’s ad
mirers.
OLMSTEAD IS RELEASED.
SPOKANE, Aug 9.—Pitcher Olmstead
who was obtained recently from the
Oakland Coast League club, was re
leased to-day by the local baseball club.
In his try-out yesterday olmstead did
not show to advantage.
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