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ATLANTA. GA.. SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 1013. IIEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN,
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President Britton Puts Ban on
Indoor Baseball, Soccer and
Others for Athletes.
By Sid C. Keener.
S T. LOUIS, 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 on 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 Without Gain.
While Hauser’s injury is attributed
to the day he slid into second base at
Columbus, Ga., it is thought that the
start 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 Leifleld 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
less than $5 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, Ashing and other amuse
ments this winter and thereafter.
Maybe some business investment for
the big 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 by the magnate.
Britton is quite right in placing the
ban on winter sports, and no doubt
the players will obey the ruling.
Bringing Up father
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By George McManus
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International Scope
For Athletic Meet
James E. Sullivan Goes Abroad With
Invitations From Panama
Exposition.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.— James E.
Sullivan, 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-
prinzessrin Cecelle to attend the Inter
national Federation of the athletic
governing bodies or the world which
is to be held in Berlin, Germany, Au
gust 20 and 21.
While at this congress Director
Sullivan will extend invitations to the
foreign governing bodies to send
teams to the Panama Pacific Interna
tional Exposition at San Francisco in
1915. 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 wa9 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 Glarke, 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 sph{*»** clear above the rool.”
E PRAISE
FRDM 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 when 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 McLoughlin 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 Hibernian
type. In repose his mouth generally
wears a smile.
A Great Athlete.
“When driving his hardest or when
serving, he shows his teeth. Set 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 limberness 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-
lln’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 sendee is probably the fastest
ever seen. It is graded from a slightly
breaking ball, which 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 t^at 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 »«v«re smashing, he
can kill a ball from the extremity of
the court. The drive keeps low; its
trajectory i«s flat.
Cuts His Backhand.
“His backhand is cut. and the ball
when hit is in front of his body. This
is hl« 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 ana 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 hall and himself is
remarkable. To beat Barrett when
the latter was two sets to one shows
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.
Innis Brown Talks on Football
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Heisman Faces Difficult Task
By Innis Brown.
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king Is dead. Long live
king.”
No doubt it is a bit early
to begin chanting any funeral dirge
over the demise of tho 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 horsehlde Is yet to be sprung,
and a majority of the baseball popu
lace Is really just beginning to ad
mit that the Impending m-oblem of
the coming world series Is hether it
will be Bender vs. Mathew ’on 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,
moldy regalia of the season past, fc.-
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.
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'THE return of the season of glory
A 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 curlosjty 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
backfield may be counted on. In ad
dition to these, It Is understood that
several promising freshmen have sig
nified an intention of Joining the
Smlthie.3. Should the Tech pilot draw
a couple of good linemen along with
cne dependable back, opponents of
the Jackets may count on a stren
uous combat when they line up on
Grant Field.
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O VER at Athens, the 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. Tlmon
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 Day, 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 Mo-
Gugin will face th© job oi 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, th e 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 th e incoming
freshman class. To date no relief
has shown up to fill in the loss caused
by the departure of Collins and Hard
age.
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fYVER 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.
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MOT 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 contests 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 MeCallum 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.
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U* ROM 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.
LARRY SEES VISIONS OF
WORLD SERIES FOR NAPS
PHIIaADELPHIA, Aug. 9.—Spend just
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
:he field and his bat is playing an im-
ortant 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 Lar
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-miie-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 Chivington. of the American Asso
ciation. for ids action in suspending
Manager Clark, of the Brewers, because
of a verbal argument with Mike Can-
tilion, 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 RIapnicka 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 Eastern Association,
so that he can get more experience.
NEW PLAYER FOR COAST.
KEOKl’K. 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 McOraffi
gan also will go to the Coast League If
negotiations now on are completed.
$18,000 Youngster Forced to Go
Against Strongest Pitching in
American League.
By Bill Bailey.
C HICAGO, Aug. 9.—Did It ever
occur to you that Larry Chap-
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 walkR 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,” i8 usually the answer when the
team is playing on foreign territory.
‘‘Fan him!" howls the fan to the
pitcher.
"Show 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.
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V/DU know what happens under or-
A 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 his 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 doean’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.
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OUT with Chappelle? The pitcher
wants to fan him. There is a lot
of satisfaction In downing a batter
when the eye* 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 nigh-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 pltche/ eases up when
tho other fellows go up. Chaopelle
knows that he will get speed and a
curve ball.
Oh, It’s fine advertising you receive
when you cost a lot of money. But
you can wager that it does not aid
your batting average. You're the
mark all along the line. The infleld-
er.s and outfielders play just twice as
hard for you. The pitcher just works
twice as hard. Any time that Chap
pelle receives any credit you can wagor
that he earns It. For somehow or
other every ball player entertains just
a bit of envy for the youngster who
cost a small fortune.
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 pitches against the Browns in a re
cent series.
After Stovall made a double he con
sumed 30 seconds throwing the first
ball to Pratt. This period elapsed after
.i* received the ball from the catcher
and before he delivered it to the bat.
The next pitch required 25 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,
and 30 seconds. Plank pulls down hi3
can. hitches up his trousers, wiggles his
left foot and buries it In the pitcher’s
box 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, F’resldent Garry Herrmann has
wired around the country for twlrlers.
He sent messages to Pitcher Harring
ton. of Lynn, Mass.; Pitcher Robertson,
of Savannah, Oa., 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 inflelder for a
pitcher, and it may be put through in a
few days.
Scout After Syracuse
Pitcher for Red Sox
Patsy Donovan Afttr Twlrlar Who
Recently Held Athletlea to
Seven Hits.
SYRACUSE, N. Y. Aug. 9—Patsy
Donovan, the Boston American scout,
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.
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KAISERLING SIGNS WITH FEDS.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 9.—George
Kaiserling. 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 Federate. He will join
his new mates to-day.
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