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Why Is a Hard-Working Player?
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He Isn’t—If He Loves the Game
They would he playing baseball for
fun if they weren’t making a living
at it.
Max Carey said of ‘‘Big Six” Math-
ewson the other day:
“Matty always looks as if he’d
rather be out there pitching than
doing anything else in the world. I
never have seen him in a game when
I didn't think of that. After thirteen
years of baseball as a profession,
baseball still is Mathewson’s favorite
sport.”
RITCHIE’S FATHER
STAYS IN CHURCH
WHEN WILLIE HAS
RING ENGAGEMENT
BOSTON, Aug. 9.—Some one called
Manager Callahan, of the Chicago White
Sox, the "David Harum" of organized
baseball after Prank Chance complained
that he was "stung" in the Hal Ohase-
Borton Zeider deal, but despite that act
minor league managers were in Boston
recently to try their hand at swapping
with the White Sox leader.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5.—Willie
Ritchie’s father, who is down here
with his son on an automobile tour,
has never seen Willie in a ring.
Mr. Steffens (Willie Ritchie’s real
name Is* Geary Sti ffen), is of a
devoutly religious nature and has
very serious doubts as to the pro
priety of prize fighting. As long
as Willie is in the business, how
ever the old man wants him to
win.
Whenever Willie is in the ring,
his father is in church. He won’t
go to the ringside for fear of Fee
ing his boy hurt and he can’t stay
at home with anxiety for society;
so he always goes to church and
remains there until the battle is
over.
rian vocal encouragement of his
mates while the game was on.
By O. B. Keeler.
K NOCKING about with a profes
sional ball club, you get one
ear full after arrother concern
ing “work,” “business.” “toil.” “drudg
ery.” and so forth. And so on.
You might get the hunch that the
athletes had set out from very early
in their young lives determined to
hammer out a living by working at
baseball.
That is. you might get the hunch
if you didn’t travel with them more
than one day. and never sat on the
bench during a game, and never
looked at a game very understanding-
ly. anyway.
In that case you might feel sorry
for the hard-working ball player, un
der contract providing that lie must
play In order to eat. hut not play for
any other club than the party of the
second part, or whatever party th--
party of the second part shall assign
him to play with.
A good many rather well-meaning
and entirely sap-headed persons
these days are wasting perfectly
good sorrow over the assumed griev
ous lot of the toiling ball player.
They seem to get the Idea that he
is playing ball because he has to.
• * *
"M" OW. take it from one who has
seen some little chapters In the
life of a professional ball player, the
said ball player is playing ball for
money because he can make more
money that way than he can any
other way.
And, above all, he is playing ball
because he likes to play ball.
I BELIEVE that goes for eight out
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the hall players who are the most
successful. They don’t “slow up”
quickly, these men who love the
game. “Slowing up" may be due in
some cases to failing legs or dimming
eyes. But in other cases it is due to
getting stal« in the game, because the
first incentive is gone—the keen edge
worn off.
But take it from the ball players
themselves, if you please, no man ever
set out deliberately to earn a living
by working at baseball.
Every single professional ball play
er in this country started out in the
beginning for one and the same rea
son.
And that reason was because he
loved to play ball.
A FINE example nearer home is Joe
** Agler. Joe never could work
around that old first sack the way
ho plays around it. The class of the
Southern League in fielding, Joe per
forms with a speed and dash that can
spring only from a real joy in the
game. Watch him, next time you go
to see the Crackers play ball.
And see if you can imagine Joe as
a mere hireling, plugging along to
earn his daily bread with the same
ambition as a man with a heavy ham
mer making little ones out of big
ones.
Eight out of ten professional ball
players enjoy the gam« of baseball in
the same way a sunburned kid on a
vacant lot enjoys playing the game.
So Declare Newspaper Scribes
Recent Gathering Held in
New York City.
Does Best Clouting Playing
Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit
and Boston Fields.
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iLEVELAND, OHIO. Aug. 9.—Joe
hit .400 or better
N EW' YORK, Aug. 9.—At an in
formal gathering of newspaper
men in New York the other day
the topic of baseball was being dis
cussed. The name of Mathewson fig
ured prominently in the conversation,
as is inevitable whenever the national
pastime is the theme. After most ot
the scribes had borne their testimony
as to the personal and professional
worth of “Big Six,” an old baseball
reporter put a cap on the eulogies by
remarking:
“Matty isn’t a mere baseball player
—he’s an institution.”
That remarkable tribute was hailed
with delight, as being a most apt ex
planation of the Giants’ great twirler.
There are a number of stars in base
ball at the present time who have
made and are making a marvelous
stand against the inroads of time.
Prominent among these may be men
tioned Hans Wagner, Napoleon La-
joie, Eddie Plank and Mordecai
Brown.
But of them all Matty is putting
up the most brilliant opposition to
the ravages of the years. The best
that the others are doing just now is
holding their own. They are holding
Father Time off at arm’s length, but
the old fellow is close enough to them
to worry them in their playing. But
in the case of Mathewson it is dif
ferent. Instead of stopping to spar
with the old gentleman with the
scythe, he is going steadily on—im
proving his game—mastering his
technique and acquiring the supreme
artistry of the mound.
This year of 1913. which many had
thought would mark the last of his
active service, finds Mathewson again
at the zenith of his prowess with a
little added craftiness. He is an artist
and all true artists never cease
striving to improve their art—and
they never cease loving it. Who can
look upon the eager, smiling and boy
ish countenance of Matty as he stands
in the box and say that he does not
love the game?
The position he holds in the es
teem of the baseball fans* and the
public at large, which, of course, Is
the same thing, is unique. If a
vote were taken to-morrow to settl**
the question as to who is the most
popular man in organized baseball,
there is no doubt that Matty
would carry the election by a large
majority.
Jackson ha:
on four diamonds this year, the
fields being those of Cleveland. Chi
cago, Detroit and Boston. At home
the Slugging Southerner up to last
Wednesday had piled up an average
of .441. in the Windy City his record
was .419, and in Detroit and Boston
it was an even .400. Jackson, on his
visits to St. Louis, has walloped the
sphere at a .303 clip; at the Polo
Grounds his record is .333 and at
Shi be Park it is .133.
The Clouting Clevelander, who
ranked ninth in the competition for
the Chalmers car last season and who
is likely to rank higher this season if
he keeps up his present timely stick-
work, possibly would set a world’s
record for a batting percentage could
he stay at home and bat only against
the Washington pitcher. Jackson has
torn off 16 safeties in the seven games
the Senators have played in Cleve
land this year and he only has been
at the bat 23 times, the extremely high
percentage of .694 being the result of
his activities against Walter Johnson
& Co. Jackson collected five hits in
the two full games the Idaho Phenom
pitched against the Naps in Cleve
land and his percentage for the sea
son against Sir Walter is .456.
* * *
T ACKSON has hit at a .531 clip
J against the Browns on his home
field. .471 against Boston, 412 against
New Tork, .400 against Detroit, 296
against Chicago and .286 against Phil
adelphia. Up to last Monday he had
made 40 runs and 79 hits in the Forest
City and 24 tallies and 39 safeties on
foreign diamonds. Of the 44 long
wallops then to his credit, 28 were
manufactured in Charles IV. Som
ers’ ball orchard and the rest in other
parks.
• • *
Jackson has twice this year come to
the bat with the bases full and emp
tied the sacks of all their inhabitants.
The first cruel blow the Southerner
struck was in the game of May 10
with the Boston Red Sox. Then he
tripled against Charley Hall. The
next day the Highlanders played the
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T RECALL in particular one ”011101!'’
A Autrey, first baseman for St.
Paul, in the American Association,
and the least shade under big league
caliber in hitting.
Chick is an extreme sample of the
ball player who likes to play hall.
When the club is at home. Chick is
out on the field in uniform half an
hour before his mates get to the club
house to dress, playing catch or hat
ting up files with any stray young
sters he can find about the lot.
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Jackson last season led his team
in driving in runs and this season it
looks as if he would again show the
way to his mates. Thus far this sea
son he has put the finishing touches
to 58 counters, batting in 52 of these
on safe hits, two on sacrifice flies
and four on infield outs.
If Cleveland fans want to honor
their eminent slugologist their atten
tion is respectively called to the fact
that on August 25 Jackson will cele
brate his fourth major league birth
day. The Naps will then be at home
playing the Highlanders. Joe broke
into the American League on August
25, 1908. playing with the Athletics
against Cleveland in a game that the
Naps won, 3 to 2. He made one hit
off Rube Vickers in four times at bat
and accepted three out of four chances
in the field.
dHT HAT would happen to Me*
Graw?” asked this same old
scribe, who had characterized Matty
as an institution, “if he were to in
continently fire Mathewson after the
manner of Murphy in giving old Mor
decai Brown the gate?”
The consensus of opinion was that
if McGrnw did such a thing he might
just as well lock up the Polo Grounds.
That is just how close “Big Six” is
to the hearts of the baseball public.
But there is no danger of John J.
ever doing ?»uch a thing. In the first
place he Is not a Murphy in any’cor
puscle of h - s compact being, and in
the second place Matty’s art will con
tinue in his head long after it has
departed from his arm, and as a mere
instructor he would be more valuable
to McGraw than the average twirler
Is on the mound.
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Copjrlfht, 1913. International News Rerrtca.
By Tad
Tom McCarey, Ban Johnson and
James E. Sullivan Are Big Pow
ers in Athletic World.
D ETROIT, Aug. 9.—Uncle Sam
puts it over Russia in several
ways. Not the least Interest
ing fact to note, in this connection,
is that whereas the most despotic of
all great civilized governments has
only one czar, the United States at
present has no less than three.
First, we have Byron Bancroft
Johnson. “Capital I” Ban, dictator in
the baseball world; next we have
James E. Sullivan, “Flret 3?er»on
Singular” Jim, who makes us forget
that a sporting goods concern con
trols our amateur sports; and of late
we have Thomas McCarty, of Ed-
waxdsvflle and Los Angeles, “I’m
There” Tom, who creates a new
champion in pugilism whenever fol
lowers of boxing on the coast begin
to dig a little reluctantly for their
pocketbooks.
Sullivan and Johnson are too well
known to need further exploitation,
but the rise of McCarey to fame has
not been accompanied by any fanfare.
Thomas has been gaining notoriety as
chief agitator of pugilism out in Los
Angeles for six or more years.
His first big move was to bid for the
Jeffries-Johnson fight. He next grad
uated into the clairvoyant world by
predicting the downfall of Bat Nelson,
a few' months before it occurred.
But it ’s only in the last two or
three years that he has set himself
up as a king maker. In this field,
McCarey has now reached the stage
where he can start a new champion
ship contest regardless of the whether
a living title holder is one of the prin
cipals.
...
M 'CARET did this twice and he's
about to pull it again. He be
gan. by hanging up a championship
belt in the bantamweight division tor
Monte Atteil and Frankie Conley, the
latter winning by a knockout. The
new title didn’t stick because the pub
lic had previously come to believe
Johnny Coulon was the title holder.
Later, however, he put up a heavy
weight championship belt, while Jack
Johnson .was till conscious and able
to bo about, without Inviting that
chafhpioft to compete. Lute McCarty
won it and a lot of fame, and was on
the verge of being recognized as the
real thing„when his untimely end oc
curred af-'Calgary.
Now MqCarney is going into cham
pionship making again. Although
Johnny Coulon is still alive and is
still the accepted titleholder in the
bantamweight division, McCarney do
nated a diamond championship belt
to Kid Williams for defeating the
French champion, Charles Ledoux.
7 * * +
S OME class to McCarney's nerve.
all right, especially as Eddie
Campi has a look-in at the title. Nev
ertheless the conditions governing
the donation of the new belt make
for action in the boxing world and
for less four-flushing on the part of
future champions. The conditions
governing the retention of the belt
and title compel the holder to defend
his honors not less than once every
six months in a twenty-round fight.
Also McCarney has amputated an
other canker from the bantamweight
situation in stipulating that 116
pounds ringside shall be the cham
pionship figure. Almost every fighter
who has sought an engagement with
Coulon has come to grief on the
weight question. It is interesting to
note, however, that McCarney's is
the figure for which Coulon has nearly
always held out.
...
M 'CARET'S attempt to create a new
champion in the little men's di
vision, regardless of the existence of
a titleholder. will not meet with gen
eral approval, however. Coulon is one
of the best liked little men in the
game and until he resigns or is beaten
many will decline to credit a surces-
BRANNIGAN WILL BATTLE
MEXICAN IN LONG BOUT
NEWCASTLE. Aug. 9.—Jimmy Dime
and Patsy Brannigan left last night for )
Denver, -where, on August 11, Branni-
gan meets Benny Chavez, Western ban-
tarn, in a scheduled twenty-round bout.
Brannigan knocked Chavez out in
six rounds in Trinidad, Colo., about
three yeafs ago. but the Western sports
believe the Mexican has improved
enough sin’ce to beat Dime’s lad. T he
bout is for a side bet of $1,000.
Before returning home, Dime wall get
in touch with “I’ncle” Tom McCarey',
of the Pacific Coast Athletic Club, at
Los Angeles, in reference to a bout on
the coast between Brannigan and Cam-
pi the native son who has been clean
ing up generally on the aspirants Tor
Coulon’s crown If satisfactory arrange
ments are made. Dime and Brannigan .
will proceed immediately to the coast.
STAR COLLEGE ATHLETE
IS DISCOVERED BY NAPS
NEW TORK, Aug. 9.—William
("Hiker") Joy. the Holy Cross pitcher,
who joined the Naps, is one of the
greatest all-around athletes who has
ever been a member of the Naps. Pitch
ing is one of his accomplishments in
the realm of athletics.
Joy also played halfback on the varsity-
eleven was a forward on the basket
ball team and the crack sprinter and.
hurdler of the college. Incidentally, he
was captain of all four teams in his se
nior year. 1912.
While pitching for his team he also
hatted in the clean-up position. His last
football eleven won eight and lost three
games, losing only to Harvard, Tale
and Princeton. On the track he won a
heat In the New England intercolle
giate league games by sprinting In
10 1-5. He was barred from the final
because of professionalism.
CATCHER HENRY OUT OF GAME.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—John
Henrv. Griffith’s first-string catcher,
will be out of the game for at least
a week' on account of an injury to
his instep He was struck by a bat
ted ball Thursday.