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I Luck Reversed in Second Game +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Crackers Win, lust the Same By O. B. Keeler. D ETROIT, Aug. 20.—“If Cleve land la going to win a pennant, It better do It this year, for it la my honest opinion that It will have no chance next year, for I figure that 1 will then have the beat team 1 ever had.” Such la the remark made by Connie Mack, manager of the Athletics. Connie has little to aay about the race this year. He la not given to boasting and haa not put In a claim for the champtonehlp of 1913, but he la taking time by the forelock and putting In his bid for the 1914 bunt- Somite likes the material ho has at hand. He la nursing It carefully and by virtue of that caution may •ucceed in winning the title this year. But win or lose this year, he can not •ee anything but wiccens ahead next season. His reasons are many While Ira Thomas has slowed up and Ja<*k Lapp is not hitting as well ah he should and has, Walter Schang al ready Looks as good as any catcher In the league and he should Improve next year over the great form dis played this season Connie probably will pick off « youngster this fall to help the former Buffalonian and Lapp Pitchers Performing Well. Take his pitchers. Bender and Plank have done grand work this year. They may not be as good next season, but that is what the experts have been saying for yeurs. Jack Coombs must be reckoned as an un certainty. but looks in better physi cal condition than he has for several campaigns. But Connie is not counting on his three veterans. He has already quietly announced his plans, which are to use Bush, Shaw key. Brown and Houck regularly In the box in 1914 and give his three veterans a fair amount of rest and only call upon them for relief work and in emergencies. He asserts, most emphatically, that Bush, Shawkey, Houck and Brown form the best quartet of youngsters In the country, and he counts on them being better in 1914 than this year, when they have shown ability to go along and keep the Athletics in the face. * Then there is no telling Just what prises Mack will pick up In the draft and by purchase He got Rchang, Bush and Shawkey this season, and the plums may again fall into his basket. Has Only Great Infisld. Of course. Connie has no infield worth mentioning—hag no one except Mclnnis. Collins, Barry and Baker only three of whom can hit .330 or better and only four of whom can fleld with consistent brilliancy. Pr^ttv outfit—that 1100,000 Infield |iey say the weak spot in th.> sthe outfield. So it i« com- ► remainder of the team, alnst the outer garden other clubs, U over St. Loui*\ and N#w York. i r KING the first game with the Barer.*, and then taking the second, and stacking them up, one against the other, they look pretty much the same. That is, In^the box scores. Two games in one series hardly ever look more twin-Uke. In the first ghme the count In R., H. and E., you know, was Crackers. 7-13-3; Moles, 2-8-2. In the second game it was: Crack ers, 7-11-4, Moles, 3-6-1. That is to say, the general propor tions of the two games were about even. The similarity ends just about there. EOf laago , IL PRICE, In h1s game, had all the luck In the wide, wide world, and w-as not scored on or hit con secutively until th^ ninth inning. Elliott Dent, in the second contest, ran into Mtreak after-streak of tough luck, and it was only after the Moles had clawed their way to a three-run lead that things began to brighten up a little DILL FOXEN was elected unani- mo us I y to work against E. I>cnt, and hie amiable am bit lob to slip it to the Crackers 19 well enough known not to require explanation. Right at the outset, Mr. Foxen's equipment appeared to consist solely of his ambition and a second-hand glove, worn on the near Hide. Rut he was getting by with it, somehow, and that is the chief end of baseball. IX7HILE Mr. Foxen was getting by with it, Mr. Dent was suffering from neglect. He started trouble for himself, right off the real, by mak- * a two-base throw on Marcan’s bunt. Then Marcan was nipped at third on Messenger’s grounder, which was followed by a steal and a base on lialls. ending in a safe hit by the pestiferous Kniseley. who is so strong he can't roll a cigarette without tearing the paper. • • • U/E filled the bases in the third with one out, but all the set ting amounted to was to show off Mr Welchence in a strange and en tirely hush league role. Mr. W. was the guy who came up with the bases reeling. So was Mr Foxen, who had Just pasaed a couple and allowed a hit. But Mr. Wel- chonce didn’t give Mr. Foxen a fair chance to walk him. With the in field drawn close, Harry swung at the first one Mr Foxen put near the platter and Dent was neatly forced at the pan on a feeble bounder to Ellam. Then Wally Smith, dazed by the mischance, struck out sadly. "CT NCOURAGED by this evidence of ^ favor on the part of Providence, the enemy got another run in the next frame when Bisland let Mayer’.-' line drive sift through his system and Dent walked the next two men ui* and allowed even Mr. Foxen to hit a sacrifice fly—a foul, by the way, which Calvo should have allowed to hit the dirt, unlees—as probably was the case—the little Cuban was leg ging it so hard that he didn’t know the ball was outside. One more run the Moles made In the fifth, and it wasn’t an honest one. either. Rialand put that run on, too— shoved It clear around to second, in fact, by a wild heave to the south east of Joe Agler Kniseley let out another single and the Moles were through. M OBODY knew that, however, and the Crackers ruined another prett^situation in the domestic half of that inning when Long, with the bases full and nobody out, hit into a two-ply killing and only one run got over. But Harry Holland and Bisland did a brother act In the next inning, Harry's hard drive getting through McBride for the circuit on what should have been a very fine little single. THAT tied the «?ore. and here is * the point we have been driving at for quite some time: Mr. Foxen’s amblsh departed right there. We got ahead in the seventh when Agler beat out a hit that Ellam fell over fielding, a base on balls and Wel- chonce’s single. Then, with the real explosion of the happy afternoon. Wally Smith shot off a home run far over Kniseley’s head and the game was on ice. • • • CUM MING up. I>ent got better as ^ his luck improved, while Foxen fell completely through as soon as Providence removed Its beneficent arms. Worthy of note: Dent’s pitching, after he got wound up, and Wally Smith’s wallop. Other features: None. 17 OR those who enjoy the calcula- 1 tions incident to a stern chase, it may be stated frankly that the Crackers now are six and a ha^lf games back of Mobile, and one and a half laps south of Montgomery. Remaining games: Twenty. To catch Mobile, if the Gulls break even, the Crackers must win seven teen of the twenty games. Chance for first place: 1 In 6,667.3 —estimated. DON’T forget this is “Bill Smith Day” at the park, and you have an Important engagement there not later than 3:30 o’clock this after noon. RESULTS. International League. Baltimore 7-6. Montreal 1-6. Rochester 2. Jersey City 1. Providence 8. Buffalo 2. Newark 14. Toronto 1. Appalachian League. Morristown 11-6. Mlddlesbor* 1-0. Johnson City 2, Bristol 1 Knoxville-Rome. rain. Texas League. Waco 5, Austin 0. Beaumont 6. Host on 3. San Antonio 6. Galveston 3. Fort Worth 7, Dallas 6. FAMOUS IN SPORTS—Vm. The Queer Ride. T he queer ride is a cor- rollary to the Breed of Horses, which was discussed in an earlier paper of thi« series. The two are fast woven together. All efforts to separate them have, up to this time, failed. Thus Is it now generally recog nized that the Queer Ride is an inevitable agency In Improving the Breed of Horses. The owners of race track* ore against gambling anywhere but in their clubs and on the Stock Exchange. Any of them will tell you so. But In spite of this fact humbler men Insist on betting on ' the results of horse races, and the Queer Ride was In troduced to eliminate the slight element of chance, -without which there can be no true gambling. The Bookmakers have responded nobly to the call, and have made free use of the Queer Ride In car rying on the crusade against gam bling. It is believed that by per sistent use of this device betting on horse races can be finally abolished. It l-s figured that even a man with so little primary Intelligence as to buck another man’s game will eventually see a light after he has blown his bank roll against a sure thing every day for several years. The Bookmaker Is usually, though not always, the author of the Queer Ride, and the Jockey is the active agent. Successful demon stration of the phenomenon is very simple. It requires only the morals of the race track and a well-de veloped forearm. On the whole, an unpretentious but valuable institu tion. (“The Amateur” will be th# next victim. Get a ringeide seat.) WITH THE ARRIVAL OF MR. Vardon and Mr. Ray. the English golfers, we have a profound hunch that the American string of inter national victories is about due to be badly mangled. LET IT NEVER BE CHARGED that we are hoggish. We hope the English will win the golf cham pionship and that they will continue to lead the world in cricket. Noth ing could be fairer than this. IF HUGHEY JENNINGS EVER rsads the news of the chess mas ters’ tournament he will never 1st a guy with a name like* Tenen- wurael get away. WE ARE GLAD TO LEARN that a pitcher named Tlncup is about to break into the big leagues. He will fill a hole left by the pass ing of Lush. MORAN AND PALZER ARE about to fight for the ’’right” to meet Gunboat Smith—which is a £ ratty good laugh Just as it stands, "e will not add anything. BRAVES SELL COLLINS. BOSTON. Aug 20—Wilson Collins, a pitcher and outfielder, who has been with the Boston National League team several months, was sold outright to-day to the Buffalo club of the International League Collins formerly played on the baseball and football teams of Vander bilt University. Integrity) Essential to Baseball Success +•+ +•+ , +•+ +•+ +•-{- +•+ +•+ Giant Manager M’Graw Detests Laggard By John “Chief” Meyers. (Star Catcher of the Champion Giants and One of the Leading Slugger* of the National League.) E arnestness of purpose wm carry a professional baseball player a long way. An athlete who is not prepared to do hts very best for the common cause at all times sacrifice* a great part of his effectiveness. I have been associated with Mc- Graw long enough to realize that this most succes.^ful manager places integrity above all the other virtues. Anyone who shows the Iea^it dis position ever to “quit” br to “loaf” on John J. McGraw, in doing so seals his own doom. I have made a close study of our boss during the annual spring training trips. To attract the serious notice ^of our boss in those days is something of an accomplishment, I can tell you. But the youngster who Is thoroughly In earnest In all he does and serious In his efforts to put instruction* to the best advantage has always 4he verv keenest sympathy of McGraw from the very start. Even if McGraw might have no im mediate opening for a recruit he would go a long distance out of his way to advise a colt ambitious to rise In his profession. At the same time McGraw has absolutely no use for a man who Is not truly serious in his work all of the time. Indifference Is Fatal. I have s»een many and many a most promising young player at the Marlin camp sacrifice his whole future, so far as any connection with the Giants might be concerned, through some apparent indifference. What may be accomplished through diligent application might well be Illustrated in the case of almost any one of the Giants. Outfielder Jack Murray certainly Is a very striking example. Murray was a pretty good ball player when he came to New York from St. Louis But though well ex perienced at that time he was not half no valuable to our club as *he is to-day. He found in working for a champion team new' and more pleasant avenues for the exercise of his skill. It takes something out of the stoutest heart to be forced to buck the fate of a tail-end team year by year. I consider Jack Murrav to-day one of the very best assets of our team. If we win our third straight pen nant—and I feel very confident that we will—the a u burn-/haired guardian of the right field will have had as much to do with our triumph as Matty or Marquaid. “Red**” record ^^aks oretty plainly and strongly for itaelf. His work is the admiration of thousands of our supporters. I do not know’ how many games he has saved us already this season by his wonderful throw ing arm. hut I realize that if he had failed even several times on what ap peared the most desperate chances; we would not now be enjoying the advantageous lead which favors us. Murray a Great “Pegger." I think Murray is the best thrower I have ever seen. His arm is not onlv strong to a phenomenal degree, but. best of all. Is deadly accurate. Jack has the knack of bouncing the ball true to the mark and in such a way as to leave the receiver In the very best position to tag the base- runner. I am told that Joe Birmlng- iuun, mgjnagftr oX the Cleveland Americana ie the best thrower in his company. I would % like to stack up Murray against him in any kind of a throwing teot. Murray, of course, brought his good arm to New York from the Mound City. But it was more frac tious than now. The plucky outfielder has worked very hard to perfect that defensive system which is the pride his fellows and the amazement and consternation of the enemy. Jack had several striking weak nesses when he first reported to Mc Graw. His throwing was not the most accurate in the W’orld. and he was somewhat slow in getting the ball away from him. This was the direct result of a weakness for ground balls. Jack could always come In fast or go to either side of him for difficult catches. But he had trouble In going back. Perhaps he never will be able to go back with the speed and accuracy of a Milan or a Carey, but he Im proved so much that to-day he com pares favorably with any outfielder in the game. Murray’s hitting has improved every bit as much as his throwing and his Judgment of fly balls. He is not a slugger of the "Doyle stamp. but he is a very dangerous man in the pinch. He generally puts iri his wallops where they do the most good. Is Heady Base Runner. Jack is a good, heady base runner —a touch improved one over his St. Louis form. Of course, for this Mc- Graw must get a lot of credit. Mac has the knack of inculcating true ba-ae running principles into his fol lowers. He know’s that branch of the science as well as any man living, for he was the king of the paths in the old Oriole days. Nobody, however, can take any credit for the general improvement of Murray, save the player himself. No man in the history of the pastime ever mastered a playing territory any better than "Red” has conquered that right pasture. He holds to singles caroms off the wall tha/t would be good doubles and triples with the average fielder. Murray lad to familiarize himself with every square inch of the fence to accomplish this cunning. It meai^ a great deal of time and patience in practice and the same purpose of mind that cured him of biting at bad balls when the pitcher used to have him in a hole BASEBALL SUMMARY TUESDAY’S GAME. Birmingham, ab. Marcan. 2b. . . 5 Messenger, rf. 4 McDonald, 3b. 3 Kniseley, cf. . 4 McBride, If. . . 4 Mayer, c. . . . 4 McGilvray, lb. 3 Ellam, ss. . .2 Foxen, p. . . . 3 r. h. po. a. e. Totals . .32 6 24 9 Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Agler, lb. ... 5 1 3 10 0 0 Long. If. ... 2 1 0 3 0 0 Welchonce, cf . 4 1 1 0 0 0 Smith, 2b. ... 4 # 1 1 1 4 0 Bisland. ss. . . 4 1 2 1 4 2 Holland, 3b. . . 4 1 1 2 0 0 Calvo, rf* . . . 4 0 0 3 0 0 Chapman, c. . 4 1 2 7 a 1 Dent, p 3 0 1 0 3 0 . it Totals. . . .34 7 11 27 11 3 Score by innings: Birmingham 100 110 000—3 Atlanta 000 012 40*—7 Summary: Home run—Smith. Double plays—Ellam to Marcan to McGilvray; Bislancl to Smith to Ag ler. Struck out—By Dent 7. by Foxen 3. Bases on balls—Off Dent 3, off Foxen 3. Sacrifice hits—Foxen. Stolen bases—Messenger, Ellam. Wild pitches—Foxen. Time—2:05. Umpires—Rudderham and Fifield. KEOKUK SIGNS PITCHER. MOBERLY, MO., Aug. 20.—Chaj»tes Parrick, a pitcher for a local amateur team, has been signed by Keokuk. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Birmingham at Atlanta. Game called at 3:30 o’clock. Nashville at Chattanooga. Standing of the Cluba. Mobile Mont. Atlanta B’ham. W L Pr 72 49 .596 64 51 .657 64 54 .542 62 58 .517 Chat. M’phis. Nash. N. O. W L. Pc 69 56 .513 59 61 .492 50 68 .424 39 72 .346 Tuesday’s Results. Atlanta 7, Birmingham 3. Chattonaago 4-2. Nashville 3-2 (sec ond game nine innings.) No other jrames scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pet. I N. Y. 77 34 .694 Phila. 64 41 .610 Chicago 62 61 .649 P’burg. 68 53 .523 W. L. Pet B’klyn. 49 50 .454 Boston 46 63 .422 C’nati. 45 72 .385 S. Louis 43 71 .877 Tuesday's Results. Chicago 3, Philadelphia 2. Pittsburg 8. New York 3. St. Louis 6, Brooklyn 2. Cincinnati 4-2, Boston 2-0. EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Brunswick at Thornasville. Valdosta at Americus. Cordele at Waycross. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Macon at Albany. Savannah at Columbus. Charleston at Jacksonville. 4av’nah C’bus J’ville Standing of the Cluba. W. L. Pc I W. L. Pc 27 20 574 Chas’n. 21 25 .457 26 21 .553 j Macon 21 25 .457 26 23 .524 I Albany 21 27 .437 Tuesday's Results. Jacksonville 3, Charleston 2. Savannah 1, Columbus 0. Albany 5. Macon 4. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Boston at Chicago. New York at St. Louis. Washington at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Detroit. Standing of the Clubs. Phila. C'land. Wash. W L Pc. 74 38 .661 69 46 600 63 49 .563 Chicago 62 66 .530 W. L. Pet. Boston 53 57 .482 Detroit 49 66 .421 St. L . . 45 73 .381 New Y. 38 69 .365 Tuesday’s Results. Washington 6, Cleveland 1. Chicago 6. Boston 1. Philadelphia 4. Detroit 3. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Wednesday. Cincinnati at Boston St. Louis at Brooklyn. Pittsburg at New York. Chicago at Philadelphia. T’ville. A’cus. Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pc. 26 16 .619 22 21 .512 W’cross. 21 22 .488 V’dosta. B’wick. Cordele W. L. Pc. 21 23 .477 20 23 .465 19 24 '.442 BASEBALL —TO-DAY Birmingham vs. Atlanta Ponce de leon Park 0 x? 0 ° h I FORSYTH TO-DAY AT 2:30 & 8:30 TOOTS PAKA AND THE HAWAIIAN MUSICIANS Willie Weeton, Kennedy ARooney, Grace DeMar, Faster & Lovett. Nlkko Troupe Tuesday’s Results. Valdosta 11, Americus 6. Thornasville 5. Brunswick 3. Waycross 9, Cordele 8. OTHER RESULTS. 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