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ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1913.
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Latest Stories From Tennis Courts and Golf Course:
Big Dutchman Has the Most In
teresting Career of All the
Baseball Stars.
Bringing Up father
By George McManus
H ANS WAGNER, the hero of all
baseball heroes, has had an in
teresting career. Wagner, the
big German, was born in what is
now Carnegie, Pa., on February 27,
1874. His father, who is still living,
was a coal miner in those days, and
he decided that John P. should help
him in his work. So Honus was
packed off to the mines to help dad
every day. Hans was not lazy, but
he didn't like the black darkness of
the earth’s interior, and many a
warning he received for playing
hookey from the bituminous section
and scampering off for a game of
baseball with other kids of the neigh
borhood.
A correspondent recently approach
ed the big fellow and asked him to tell
how he came to break into baseball.
Honus pondered a moment, and then
BT)un the following yarn about his
•Vkhpay experience:
• • *
*‘i BROKE into baseball by posing
A as my brother Al. We were j
playing ball around home. Al re- :
reived an offer from Canton, Ohio, •
before he was offered a place with
the Mansfield, Ohio, club, in the same j
league. The day he got the second
offer he turned to me and told me to
go to Mansfield. I got there early in
the afternoon, and a man named Tay
lor recognized me. He had seen me
play. The club was hard put for a
third baseman, however, and Taylor
decided to take a chance with me.
“It so happened that Mansfield
played Canton that day. My brother
was in the line-up of the Canton
team, and the pitcher, ‘Toots’ Barret, I
was also from Carnegie, or Mans
field, as it was called in those days, j
^They regarded me as pretty much of j
* kid, and when Canton got away to j
good lead early in the game Bar- i
ret let up in his pitching when I j
went to bat. He want to see me make
good and figured that a couple of !
hits more or less would not affect his !
rating any. I made a couple of hits j
in this way, and then came the ninth j
inning. Never will I forget it. Mans
field was three runs to the bad when
we went to bat. They needed four
to win. We filled the bases and it j
was ray turn to bat.
* * *
M r p AYLOR was not wise to the fact
A that Barrett had been easing
Up when I had been at bat before and
made a couple of hits, or he might
have sent in a pinch hitter. He let
me stick. With the bases full, Bar
rett meant to strike me out. It was
too ticklish a time for monkey busi
ness. He shoved across a fast one
and I knocked it over the fence for a
home run and won the game. It was
just a case of the luck of things.
That’s always the way. If the pitcher
is lucky he gets you. If you’re lucky
you get him.”
Wagner then explained that he
went to Adrian, Mich., where the club
was owned by a son of the Taylor
who ran the Mansfield (Ohio) club.
He .went there as infielder and cap
tain. Honus got homesick after a few
months and quit the club, going to
Warren in the Iron and Oil League.
Toward the close of the season he
Joined the Steubenville club of the
Interstate League. That was In 1895.
* * •
<»T WENT there as a sort of all-
1 around player,” said Wagner. “I
pitched for a while. I was so wild
that I used to walk half the batters
and strike out the other half. I had
terrific speed and it was hard to get
a catcher who could hold me. They
borrowed Pete Lavelle from the Pitts
burg Nationals to catch me in a cou
ple of games, thinking it would steady
me. As a pitcher I was a failure.
However, while in the games as a
twirier I banged a couple of hits over
the fence, and they made me an out
fielder, putting me in the middle gar
den.
“The following spring the Pittsburg
club signed me, and W. W. Kerr, who
then owned the Pirates, wanted to
farm me out to Kansas City, but I
insisted that It was too far from
home, so he sent me to Paterson, N.
J., in the Atlantic League. I played
with Paterson all of that year and
until June 29, 1897, when the Louis
ville club, then owned by Barney
Dreyfuss, my present employer,
bought my release The Colonels
were managed by Fred Clarke ajid
. the secretary of the club was the
late Harry C. Pulliam, later secretary
of the Pirates, and still later presi
dent of the National League. Harry
was one of the best friends I ever
had.”
McLoughlin Possesses Punch in
Tennis; So Have American
Poloists and Boxers.
NAPS ARE AFTER THREE
PLAYERS FROM MUD HENS
TOLKDO, OHIO, Aug. 16.—Vice
President Barnard, of the Naps, came
to Toledo yesterday to look over pos
sible purchases for the Naps. It Is
thought that Pitcher Lefty James.
Shortstop Brady and First Baseman
Bluhm may be sold to the Cleveland
fclub.
James iray be the only player to
report tv the Naps before the A. A.
season closes. In return for him
the Hens expect a good southpaw’
from the Naps. Toledo will recall
Pitchers Leak and Myers from
Charleston, W. Va.; Pitcher Williams
and Catcher Brady from Waterbury.
Nash, who has been playing a
whirlwind game at short for the lat
ter club, and is hitting at a .360 clip,
and on whom Toledo has a string,
will quit baseball at the close of the
season to go into politics. He is now
running for Assemblyman in his home
town.
CUBS NOT AFTER DENVER MEN.
CHICAGO, ILL.. Aug. 16.—Officials
of the Chicago Nationals denied to
day that the visit of President Mc
Gill and Manager Hendricks, of the
Denver Western League club, here
was made in connection with a deal
for players. The Denver men. ac
cording to President O’Neill, of the
Western League, came to discuss
general matters and the annual draft,
which takes place this month.
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By W. W. Naughton.
S AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16.—A
magazine man of my acquaint,
ance told me that one of his
short stories was returned to him
with the criticism that it lacked “the
punch."
This goes to show that “the punch"
counts in Action as well as <n real
life. I
An Englishman wrote to one of the
London papers the other day, com
plaining that Maurice E. McLoughlin
had introduced the punch Into lawn
tennis. The smashing service which
McLoughlin has perfected was char
acterized as a trick, but a legitimate
trick at that.
The Englishman referred to said
that if methods like McLoughlin’s are
countenanced “lawn tennis is within
measurole distance of death.”
It was the plaint of a man who is
used to old ideals. He has watched
the rhythmic, lobbing game for years,
and got it into his blood that that Is
the only way to play tennis.
But perhaps the outlook Is not as
gloomy as he pictures it. His coun
trymen may adopt McLoughlin’s
trick and try to improve on it.
Even lawn tennis must change 11
character when the punch comes
along.
• • •
A NOTHER Englishman discusses a
form of sport into which the
punch enters with broader view. He
wrote to The Ttmes asking how it
is that English boxers are more easily
knocked out than American rlngmen.
Then he attempts to furnish the
explanation. Beginning with the ques
tion of physique, he satisfies himself
that while ’Americans are slightly
sturdier than latter-day Britons, the
answer is not found in that. He be
lieves that it all rests in what he con
siders a false conception of the man
ner in which pugilists should be
schooled.
English lads, he says, are required
to conform to old standards of box
ing. It would be quite different, he
thinks, if academic notions were sac
rificed to personal initiative, for,
while learning to r-ar on the “one,
two, three" principle, a British stu
dent loses his punch and never re
covers it.
...
In America, he says, it is different.
It is by setting in his own particular
fashion with various kinds of oppo
nents, rather than by following the
rules laid down in some pugilistic
primer, that a young American devel
ops an effective individual style; that
with those who learn boxing naturally
—that is from experience—the acqui
sition of the punch is not only the
first consideration, but a matter that
takes care of Itself as the student’s
knowledge widens.
This Englishman, it is noticed, does
not take the stand that because Eng
lish pugilists are deficient in smiting
force boxing "is within measurable
distance of death."
He says frankly that English meth
ods are wrong and intimates that
there would be wisdom in taking a
leaf out of America's book.
* * ♦
THE punch was In evidence again
I when the American polo players
took the Britishers by storm at
Meadowbrook recently. The judg
ment of the expert was that the visit
ing Britishers comprised the flower
of the polo world. They brought
their own ponies with them, and their
seeming superiority influenced the
betting market to the extent that
they were made odds-on favorites.
From all accounts' the Americans
went at them like Japanese at a Rus
sian fort. The visitors were just load
ed to the Plimsoll mark with knowl
edge of “how to play polo.” but the
punch upset them. All the Kings
horses and all the King’s men could
no: withstand the onslaught of the
A lr.ericans and the cup remained on
this side.
Maiden Turned
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Didn’t Make a
By Tieh Tichenor.
W HEN H. H. Barker did a 69
over the course of the At
lanta Athletic Club in the
open tournament held in December,
1910, it was the opinion of all of the
professionals who were present that
he had set a record which would
stand for some years. In this opin
ion they have thus far been correct.
Yet on two different occasions Stew
art Maiden, the local professional,
has had a chance to break it if he
could have holed out In one put on
the eighteenth green, while at an
other time he reached the last green
on his sixty-sixth shot. He tried to
hole the put for a 67 and ran past
the hole and then missed a compara
tively easy one for the record.
In one of his rounds which tied the
record Maiden performed the feat
which might be equaled but which
can not be excelled when he went
around without a five upon his card.
If you are familiar with the East
Lake course the more you think of
this performance the more wonder
ful it becomes.
On the outward journey there are
the second, the seventh and eighth
holes, which are all par fives, while
it is easy enough to take a five at
either the fourth or ninth, both of
which are bogey five. In coming
home there are the twelfth, sixteenth
and eighteenth, which are par fives,
while the fifteenth and seventeenth
are hard fours. Yet not a five did he
have at any of these holes. At every
hole he took a four except at the
fifth, fourteenth and fifteenth where
he secured threes. Just think of it.
fifteen fours and three threes and
neither of the threes gotten at the
first or third holes, where he would
be expected to get a three.
I don’t know how this score will
appeal to others, but the more I play
around East Lake and labor to keep
out the sixes and sevens, the more
remarkable this score becomes. To be
perfectly frank, I do not recall but
one round I have ever played around
this course in which my card did not
register at least one six. George
Adair has had th e same experience,
except h© has two such rounds to his
credit.
• • *
TOURING the early part of June
Maiden took a trip to his home
in Scotland and while on this visit
entered the British open champion
ship. In this event there were 270 en
tries. These were divided into squads
of 90 players each, who played a 36-
hole medal play qualifying round,
and the lowest twenty in each squad
qualified for the championship, which
was 72 holes of medal play.
Maiden landed on Tuesday *and had
only one day to learn the course and
to become accustomed to the vast
difference in the greens from those he
has played upon since he has been in
Atlanta, as he was drawn among the
players who had to play on Thurs
day. In this qualifying round he
failed to get in by two strokes which
he says was due entirely to his put
ting, which was very bad.
• • *
1 N writing of this tournament, the
1 British correspondent of The
American Golfer says: “For most
of the day the weather was very had,
indeed. When play began at 9 o’clock,
the wind was very strong and rain
in Great Card ATHLETES ARE
Single “Five”
was pouring down, while late in the
Afternoon it was woi e. In such cir
cumstances the peculiar difficulties of
Hoylake were well brought out, and
the foreign visitors had an unenvia
ble task before them. The first of
the Americans to go out was Stew
art Maiden, of Atlanta, who was part
nered with J. Higgins, of Walsall,
and this pair was second on the list,
striking off at five minutes past 9.
Maiden opened with a nice four at the
dog-leg hole, with which the round
begins, and after dropping a stroke
at the second, went along steadily to
the sixth, the famous Briars, and the
hole which caused more disaster than
any other on thi9 course (it was once
halved in nine in the final of the
amateur championship), and here he
took a six.
“However, at the difficult short hole
that follows he pot a splendid two,
but another six was added at the
eighth, and he turned in 40. He came
home fairly well, hut lost a stroke
at the short blind Alps, being the
eleventh, artd two very valuable on-'s
at the home hole, making his round
in 82. In his second round in the aft-
. moon he had a bad seven at the
third hole, which Is a long one and
straight, hut very narrow in the fair
way, with ditches on either 3ide, and
another six was added at the Brians,
so that by the time he got to the turn
he had used up 43 strokes. He came
home really fine In 86, almost the on'v
blemish on his card being the five at
the eighteenth, and that was very ex
cusable.”
His second round was 79.
• * *
H IS scores were as follows:
Out.
BRITISH ISLES
European Track and Field Stars
Gradually Approaching Ameri
cans; 17,000 Saw Games.
MANAGER OUT FOR SEASON.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL., Aug. 16.—Fred
Wilson, manager of the Champaign
baseball team, is out of the gam e for
the rest of the season with a broken
shoulder blade, received while sliding
to base. Charles Fleming has suc
ceeded him.
Holes.
1
2.
3.
Dlst. 1st. 2d.
420 4 4
330 5 4
490 5 7
4 . .1 155 3 3
5 410 5 5
6 365 6 6
7 200 2 4
8 . .1. 460 6 5
9 380 4 5
Out.,
3210 40 43
Holes.
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Dist.
400
190
355
130
485
440
510
360
40
In 3270
Total for 36 holes. 161.
Maiden’s 36 for the last nine made m
his second round was the best done
on this nine holes on the first day of
the elimination rounds.
It was on this frst day that George
Duncan, who was the favorite to win
the tournament, was unable to fight
against the weather conditions and
failed to qualify by fjur strokes. This
was also the round which eliminated
Alex Smith, Mike Brady and Alex
Campbell, of the American team.
It was a strange coincidence thM
five of the six American entries
should he drawn in the first squad of
90 to fight It out against each oth s r
as well as all of the others to get into
the tournament.
JAKE STAHL DENIES HE
IS TO SUCCEED CALLAHAN
GLOUCESTER, Aug. 16.—The ru
mor that Jake Stahl was to be given
the position as manager of the Chi
cago White Sox and that Jimmy Cal
lahan. the present head of the team,
was to be deposed is entirely without
foundation, according to Stahl, who
was interviewed at Annisquam yes
terday afternoon.
“No,” said Stahl, “I have no knowl
edge of my being picked for the posi
tion of manager, and I had not even
heard the rumor until you told me
just now. Rumors put me out of a
job. I guess that Is all this talk Is.
rumor. Those things hurt the club
considerably and it keeps the fellows
guessing as to the exact truth of the
matter. You can say for me that it is
a rumor pure and simple and one
without the least foundation."
When asked if he would accept the
position if it were offered him, Stahl
declined to answer.
BOSTON BUYS NEW PLAYER.
BOSTON. Aug 16.—President Mc-
Aleer. of the Boston American League
club, announced to-day that he has pur
chased First Pssernan Mundy from the
Portsmouth cldb of the Virginia State
League.
GOV. TENER FINDS JOB
FOR A BASEBALL MATE
HARRISBURG, PA., Aug. 16.—Gov-
ernor John K. Tener has given a sub
stantial reward to a comrade of his
old baseball days, when he appointed
George Wood, once a member of the
Philadelphia National League team,
and a mighty outfielder and hitter, to
a good State position. Governor Tener
and Wood have been friends ever
since their hall-playing days.
About two«years ago the Governor
found Wood serving as a ticket taker
at the American League park in Phil
adelphia and told him he would try
and find him a better job.
Soon afterward Wood wap made
messenger in the office of the Secr>
tary of the Commonwealth. Later he
was promoted to a clerkship in the
same office. Now he is marshal of
the new Public Service Commission,
w’ith a salary of $2,000 a year.
T HE fact that the United States
and English track and field
championships were held upon
the same day makes a comparison of
the w’ork of the native athletes and
their visiting competitors of more
than usual interest. England’s A. A
A. games were held on the famous
oval at Stamford Bridge, London,
while the United States champion
ships were being contested at Chi
cago.
Some 17,000 spectators watched the
English and Swedish athletes battle
for honors in a drizzle, while about
half that number sweltered In a tem
perature close to 100, while American
titles were won on a track and in
a field which failed to elicit any praise
from the competitors. Although con
ditions as reported from both athletic
fields were against record-break
ing performances, a remarkable im
provement was shown in the general
all-round work of the FTnglish and
Swedish athletes, Indicating that the
lessons learned in the recent Olym
pic games have not been forgotten.
* * *
THE English program consisted of
A fourteen events, of which English
athletes won nine and Sweden's rep
resentatives five. Four A. A. A. rec
ords were established, two by the
Swedes and two by English contend
ers. The United States schedule con
tained eighteen contests, in which two
new “games” records were made, one
by an American-born and another by
an Irish athlete.
A comparison of the programs of
the two meets shows that eleven sim
ilar events appeared on both, and
with these as a basis a comparing of
records proves that times of distances
were better at Stamford Bridge in
six of the eleven competitions. To
what extent local conditions affected
these figures there is no way of know
ing. The comparison is made simply
to show that the oft-repeated state
ments that European athletics are
gradually approaching American
standards are not based on idle ob
servation.
BEGINNING with the 100. 200 and
440-yard runs, England showed a
winner In the first two events In the
person of W. R. Applegarth, who won
in 10 and 21 2-3 seconds, respectively,
against Sprinter Drew’’s times of 10 2-6
and 22 4-6 seconds at Chicago. Haff,
the Chicago A. A. and Michigan fly
er, Won the 440 yards in 61 1-6, while
G. Nirhol did 49 2-5 at London.
In both the mile and one-half mile
runs the United States figures were
better. Baker, the New* York A. C.
runner, captured the 880 In 2 minutes
and 1-5 second. E. Wide, of Sweden,
winner in England, was two-fifths of
a second slower. Norman Tabor won
the mile at Chicago in 4:20 2-5, while
Zander, of the Swedish team, re
quired 4:25 4-5 to take the English ti
tle. In the running broad Jump Abra
hams cleared 22 feet 6 inches at the
A. A. A. games, while Stiles, the win
ner at Chicago, did 22 feet 3-4 Inch.
• • •
T HE running high Jump showed that
Richards, the Olympic champion,
had but three-eighths of an inch ad
vantage over Baker, England's cham
pion, who jumped 6 feet 1 inch. Nils
son, the Swedish shotputter, pushed
the weight out 47 feet 4 1-4 inches,
against American Champion Whit
ney’s 46 feet 2 5-6 inches. In the pole
vault and hammer throw the Ameri
can figures were far superior to those
made at Stamford Bridge.
KEWANEE SIGNS CALHOUN.
KEWANEE, 11.14#, Aug. 16.—Out
fielder Calhoun, of Danville, was sign
ed yesterday by the Kewanee Central
Association team.
NEW HURLER FOR GRIFFITH.
HELENA, MONT., Aug. 16—Man
ager Flannery, of the Helena base
ball club, announced yesterday the
sale of Pitcher M. Williams to the
Washington Americans. The price
stated was $3,000.
DETROIT BUYS TWO PLAYERS.
FORT WAYNE, IND.. Aug. 16.—In-
flelder Fadrique and Outfielder Tuet-
weiler. of the Fort Wayne club, have
been sold to the Detroit Americans
and will finish the season with Provi
dence.
GOTCH BUYS 920 ACRES.
CROOKSTON, MINN., Aug. 16 —
Frank A. Gotch, of Humboldt, Iowa,
the champion wrestler, closed a deal
yesterday w'hich makes him the own
er of 920 acres of land in Polk Coun
ty, south of Crookston. He secured
some very fine land, and it is under
stood that he will at once begin the
development of a model farm and
spend a portion of his time here.
Gotch intends starting a thorough
bred herd and raising prize-winning
stock.
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W.-l. DROPS TWO UMPIRES.
GREEN BAY. WIS.. Aug. 16 —
President Weeks, of the Wisconsin-
niinois League, announced yesterday
he had dropped Umpires Roth and
McFarlane. George Hogreiver was
given a regular place on the staff.
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