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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, 0A„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 24. 1012.
atest Stories From Tennis Courts and Golf Course:
LAJOIEISBEST
■ire if ill
These Young Cracker Hurlers, Dent and Love, Go to
Claris Griffith for a Trial With Senators Next Spring
Cub Outfielder Declares Cleve
land Slugger Is Easily the
King of All Batters.
C hicago, ill., Aug. 23.—najoie
is the real king pin hitter ac
cording to Outfielder Schulte,
of the Chicago Cubs, himself some
what of a slugger. Schulte was in
terviewed by Haroid D. Johnson, a
Chicago sporting writer. Here is the
result:
^ Quoting F. Wildfire Schulte, the
home run kid, “There's hitters, and
again there’s Lajole.” Not that the
Cub star is coyly making fresh with
the club swinging abilities of certain
present day greats, to wit, Heinie
Zim, Joe Jackson, Tyrus Cobb, Hans
Wagner, Tristam Speaker et al., for
Wildfire is a knowing cuss. He’s hep
to the fact that these are dangerous
birds at any and all stages of the
milling. He has seen them all, lamped
'em carefully and makes bold to pro
claim the reformed hack driver from
Woonsocket, R. I., the master mal-
letier of all time.
fYNE of those fanfares always in
season when the elements go
amuck and weep copiously, convert
ing big league battle fields into tem
porary natatoriums, gave Schulte his
cue to compliment Larry.
It isn’t a case of hero worshiping
•with Schulte. Here’s a big leaguer
who counts his pals in legion. He
is rated one of the truly greats in af
fairs pertaining to the game of swat.
Once only in all his days as a nation
al pastimer has Wildfire sat in when
King Larry was batting. It happened
down at Commy’s grounds some eight
years ago.
The Cubs were off that afternoon,
being scheduled to catch a rattler,
leaving at midnight for St. Louis.
Schulte's memory failed him when he
tried to name the White Sox flinger
opposing the Naps. Whoever he was.
he sure got a fine combed mauling.
Said Wildfire reminiscently, warming
up to his recital:
*D heard a lot about this man
A 1
Lajole and grabbed the chance
to look him over. As I remember he
batted fourth and he had his first
,’ time up in the first inning. I was
’ sitting in the stand where 1 could
draw a bead on everything aimed at
that Frenchman. Careless like, he
ambled up to the plate, swinging
his slap-stick like a drum major on
parade doing trick stuff with his
baton. He didn’t miss a trick that
time, but I did. I watched carefully,
yet he didn’t seem to set hilnself or
take the toe hold so common among
4 batters. Instead he stood up there as
if he might be talking with the arbi
trator.
"Whoever was pitching took a wind
up. then—“Zowie! ! ! down the right
field line ninety miles an hour and
up against the bleachers. That’s
what he did to that ball. Two innings
passed and I saw Larry prancing to
bat, carelesslike the same as before.
The same thing happened, every move
the same, only this time he tripled
down the left field line, putting his
brand on the bleachers.
“Just to show he had a change of
pace the big fellow poled a double
to center his third time out. and to
top off the exhibition he singled past
short in the fourth trial. By that time
I was sure enough pulling for Larry.
He had shown me how to crack that
agate.
<<THE remarkable part of Lajoie’s
4 batting lies in the fact that he
seraom gets an infield hit of the bunt
variety. None of that stuff. It’s a
thousand to one shot he will lay on
the pill every time, and after all that’s
the sort of batting the fan wants. His
poise at bat, his graceful yet terrific
drive, his ability to clout all kinds
of pitching and to keep on hitting
above the .300 mark for 17 years, with
but one or two slumps below that
notch entitles him to a position at
the top of the heap—the greatest nat
ural slugger since the days of Ed Del-
ahantv, who rolled up an average of
» .367 for twelve years.
“Infield taps by naturally fast men
like Cobb may be all right and serve
to get the old average padded to a
high figure, but I’m one of the com
mon herd that always pulls for the
big wallop.’’
Young Golfers in the Limelight
Three Great ‘Kids’ at East Lake
Drafting Season Arrives Again
0 0 0 0 9 0©
Owners Scramble for Players
Arthur Pelky to Box
Johnson in Paris
Burns Wires Acceptance of Match
With Colored Man—Thinks Jack
Has Gone Back.
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 23.—Tommy Bums,
manager of Arthur Pelky, the present
holder of the heavyweight champion
ship. announced to-day that his pfotege
would box Jack Johnson in Paris with
in the next three months.
Burns received a cablegram from
“Jim’’ Pratt, the Parisian promoter, as
follows:
“Will you permit Pelky to fight John
son in Paris? Public here anxious for
the match.”
Burns filed the following reply:
“Pelky will fight Johnson If terms
are satisfactory. If I were not abso
lutely certain that Pelky can defeat
Johnson I would never make the match.
I feel that Johnson has led a fast life
since winning the title and the first
good man the negro meets will defeat
him. Wire terms .and date.”
KANSAS PLAYERS GRADUATE.
GREAT BEND, KANS., Aug. 23.—
Itcher Riley ami Shortstop Smith, of
le local (Kansas State League) team,
ere sold to-day to the Wichita (West
'll League) club. Riley has won all
' the ten games he pitched for the
reat Bend club, and Smith also has
ade a splendid record.
THORPE’S BROTHER ONLY 14.
Jim Thorpe's young brother Tom. now
studying at the Carlisle Indian School,
is only 14 years old.
Bv W. J. MeBeth.
N EW* YORK, Aug. 23—The major
league drafting season has once
more arrived. The next week
or ten days may prove the most im
portant of the season for a number
of big circuit clubs now struggling
for recognition. Conditions within
the past several years have greatly
changed. No longer is it possible for
indiscriminate drafting. The new
working agreement under which or
ganized baseball operates holds all
major league teams to a rigid roster
limit of 35 men, besides limiting the
liabilities to draft from leagues of
inferior rank.
Only two winters ago Charles H.
Ebbets, of the Brooklyn team, se
cured, through draft, something like
forty players. Of. course, he had no
idea of carrying even one-quarter of
these through even the spring train
ing trip. He was so profuse in his
claims simply as a business proposi
tion. He wished to retain a few of
the very best players secured, a. 4 ' near,
of course, as could be judged, with
out thorough trial, and to utilize the
rest as “farm” material or in con
templated deals. Besides, when there
was no limit to draft numbers, the
more athletes he bagged, the more
were kept from riva’. clubs that
m-ight benefit thereby.
T HE roster limit as at present con
stituted has struck a telling body
blow to the former curse of the draft.
Major leagues can not gamble so
heavily in green material, if they
would, and must necessarily exercise
far greater caution in selections. But
in limiting the field of draft doubt
less a far greater premium has been
placed in blind luck. We will try
to see how this is so.
The draft is more or less luck, any
how.
it Is simply a case of outlucking
a rival in the draw, nine times in ten.
Every major league club has the righ 4
to claim so many players from a
league of inferior ranking. It is.
therefore, possible for every major
league club to put in a draft for some
certain player. When more than one
team claims a certain man, his fate
is decided by lot. It is, therefore,
possible for some certain club to se
cure all the prizes of the draft, while,
on the other hand,* an owner may
draw nothing from his lottery even if
he has put In the most claims for
talent.
CIMPLY because of the loopholes of
^ the draft have such fancy prices
been paid this season for minor league
stars. Charlie Oomiskey gave $18,000
value for Outfielder Larry Chappelle,
of Milwaukee. Frank Farrell paid
equally dear for Infielder Maisel. of
Baltimore. Either might have landed
his prize for $2,500—the draft price—
had he waited till August 20. But
each magnate realized a delay might
be dangerous. It was reasonable to
suppose that athletes of such caliber
had attracted the attention of many
scouts and that practically all the
clubs of the two big leagues would be
willing to hazard an outlay of $2,500
apiece for such stars. To protect
their interests and absolutely assure
the delivery of th a cherished material,
the Chicago and New York promoters
had to pay some seven times mori
than recognized market value—as es
timated by the standards of inter
league business.
C*ARRELL and Comiskey are cited
-*■ as examples simply because of
the unusual expenditures for indi
vidual minor league stars. In both
cases, these single transactions rep
resent a very small fraction of the
outlay of the promoters in question
in their quest for new blood. Frank
Farrell, for instance, paid $6,000 re
cently for Pitcher McHale, of Jersey
City. Besides, he has purchased some
eight or ten other promising minor
leaguers at sums ranging from $1,000
up. There is not an owner of a big
league club who failed to close at
least three or four purchases, and
the reason for all this outlay of money
was fear that the desired talent might
escape elsewhere through the chan
nels of draft.
’T'lIE fact that most clubs have done
* unusually stiff marketing prior
to the big mad scramble will not
take the edge off this year’s draft In
the least. There Is no doubt at all
that many managers are hopeful of
saving substantial outlays by beating
someone else to it. The scouts have
gone thiough the "sticks” with a fine-
tooth comb, and any performer of abil
ity who has escaped sale is not likely
to be overlooked in the call to come
up higher.
It is not always the players
who command the fancy purchase
prices who turn out most valuable
to a team. Nap Rucker, the great
Brooklyn southpaw’, was drafted by
Ebbets. He cost $750. He would
bring 25 times that amount on the
market to-day. Ty Cobb and Joe
Jackson, the American League slug
gers. came up through the channels
of draft. Russell Ford, for several
years the backbone of the Yankee
pitching staff, resulted from the ex
ercise of an option on the Atlanta
club for the services of a "farmed
out” drafted player. Some of Mc-
Graw’s most valuable talent are play
ers who were drafted—Chief Meyers
among them. Rube Marquard, on
the other hand, purchased for $11,000.
was of no use to his team for two
long years. Second division teams
of the two leagues might be exacted
to be most interested in the draft.
But this is not the case. The cham
pions of the rival big leagues will
fight just as hard to draw the prize
packages as the tallenders. and gen
erally, too, with more success, for
in the word of the swain: "Them that
has, gets.”
Vean Gregg Proves
Himself Workman
Nap Twirler Does Regular Job as
Plasterer After Joking
With Men.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Sometimes
you can beat a fellow at his own
T HE drafting season is a harbinger
of the year to come. It serves
only to create speculation, for the
accruing material does not report be
fore the close of the :?eason to which
it is affiliated, If indeed, before the
following spring. But indirectly if
affects the current issue in that it
drives home the purchases earlier
than might be otherwise. Teams that
pay fancy prices for minor leaguers
may be excused in their desire to
get back smme of the coin. Especially
In second division clubs is the public
interest so great as to Justify the im
mediate outlay of salaries for adver
tising purposes, if nothing more. Be
side, the manager can in addition get
a line as to whether the reputed
wonders are likely to turn out plum.-'
or lemons.
game.
They’re finishing up a skyscraper
across from the Naps’ hotel here.
Plasterers are the busy parties ther* a
now.
Vean Gregg and a couple of Naps
w r ent over to see the workers toil
away recently.
"What do you think of their work,
Vean?” asked one of Gregg’s compan
ions.
"Oh, pretty fair," replied Gregg.
One of the plasterers Immediately
became grouchy and said aloud, for
the ball players’ benefit, "Lot of wis*
guys looking on here. If you asked
one of these ball players to do a
man’s work, he’d faint.”
Gregg rose to the occasion. “Lend
me your tools and that long coat for
a minute,” he said.
The plasterer grinned and complied
with Gregg’s request, thinking it a
good joke. After Gregg had done as
pretty a job of plastering as any <»f
them had ever seen, at a spot selected
by the workers, they were willing to
concede that Vean had slipped one
over on them.
"You can never tell what a man
may be able to do by the clothes ne
wears,” said the surprised plasterer,
as Vean surrendered his clothes and
tools.
Would Trade Stars
To Strengthen Team
Miller Huggins Is Trying Desperate
Means to Bolster Up
Lowly Cardinals.
ST. LOUIS. Aug. 23.—Manager
Miller Huggins, of the St. Louis Car
dinals, is having troubles of his own
attempting to build his team up. It
is said he stands ready to trade prac
tically any member of his staff if It
will strengthen his forces.
The Cardinals were long tail-
enders. At the season’s start Hug
gins was reported to have said that
if he did not have a first division
team by July 15 he’d quit. His play
ers failed to gain the first division,
and Huggins did not resign, so it is
to be presumed that he feels he can
still make good as manager and boost
his team up.
Ed. Konetchy, Harry Sallee, Bob
Harmon and even the recruits will be
swapped if there it* a chance to
strengthen the club. Negotiations
have been opened with the Giants.
Reds and other clubs, and If the Car
dinals can get the long end of the
deal anybody will go, barring Hug
gins himself.
Love is the big
fellow at the
top. Dent is
shown in the
lower panel.
Four Lads Destined
To Play In Majors
♦ PUOTO^ 'b^ * A
•SVKbKVT ASWCICAX*
BLACKBURN IS RECALLED.
CHICAGO, Aug. 23.—The Chicago
Americans to-day recalled Shortstop
"Lena” Blackburn from the Milwau
kee American Association team.
By Tick Tiohenor.
I N amateur golf in this country as
a general rule it is the young
golfer who is in the limelight,
while in England old John Ball and
Harold H. Hilton still hold the cen
ter of the stage in almost all of the
Important events, as they have done
for the past twenty years.
If any Investigation was made of
the ages of the players who qualified
last in the amateur championship in
this country I firmly believe that It
would develop the fact that 75 per
cent of them or 24 of the 32, who
successfully weathered the qualifying
day, were under 30 years of age,
while many of them were around
the 20-year mark.
Chick Evans, who is the pride of
the West, even though he was beat
en by young Allis in the Western
championship, is hardly more than
21 and there are a host of others
about the same age around Chicago,
which Is the golfing center of the
West, who may not shine quite so
brilliantly as Chick but who are
able to put any golfer to his best to
have them down at the finish.
In the East. Jerome Travers, the
present title-holder and the only man
placed at scratch on the handicap list
of the U. S. G. A., is hardly more
than 25 or 26. Of course there is
the grand old man. Walter J. Travis,
who Is always dangerous In any
tournament, who Is the exception to
all rules as he did not take up the
game until he was past 35 and yat
has won two, or is it three, cham
pionships. As a winner of tourna
ments—big and little, large and small
—I believe that Travis would easi’y
head the list in the number of prizes
won during the year.
In the South the young players do
not stand out m such numbers as
they do in the East and West. This
is very probably due to the fact that
in the beginning of the game in the
South the idea was prevalent that It
was an old man’s game and It was so
generally laughed at by those who
had never tried it, that for a 1 mg
lime it did not seem attractive enough
to draw any of the youngsters away
from their other games.
Within the last three or four years
there has been a change in the idea
entertained by the boys as to the
game, and they are more and more
taking it up and seeking to master its
intricacies and overcome its difficul
ties. There are at this time in the
South quite a number of boys who
have the foundation of a good game
well started and who will in the course
of two or three years give any player
all he wants to defeat them.
It was only last Muy that Rollo
Steinmehl, a 15-year-old boy, upset
the dope of the Birmingham invita
tion tournament by winning it when
he was practically unknown even to
the members of his own club. A few
weeks later he went to the Southern
at Montgomery and made a credita
ble showing during the early part of
the week, but the constant grind of
36 holes a day wore him out toward
the end and in his match with Hardy
he was not able to play his game at
all.
Charlie Hardy, of New Orleans, Is
another youngster who made his de
but at Birmingham. In this, his first
tournament away from home, he had
a bad case of stage fright and did
not make much of a showing. This
tournament, however, taught him a
lot of things, and he made a fine
showing at the Southern a few weeks
later. He qualified well up In the
championship flight and won his first
match, but lost his second in a close
match with Jack Edrington. who was
going very w r ell that day. This put
him in the second flight, where he
worked his way to the final. Here he
met W. H. Rowan, who was playing
par golf on nearly every round, and
he went down to defeat, though he
made a brilliant effort in the after
noon to regain the big lead Rowan
secured In the morning.
D. S. Weaver, of Memphis, had hls
son, Dudley, at Montgomery last June
for hls first experience in a tourna
ment away from home. Before the
tournament this youngster did some
good work, but the qualifying round
got on his nerves and he failed to
qualify.
Down at Savannah they have a
youngster, Fred Howden by name,
whom I saw play in a team match last
winter, and' who has all of the ear
marks of the making of a good play-
For a youngster, he drives an
exceptionally long ball with a good
carry to It, which Is absolutely neces
sary to clear the old fortifications,
which are used as hazards on nearly
every tee shot at Savannah.
Here in Atlanta there are three
boys, who, if I do not mis.« my guesa,
are going to give anybody a lot of
trouble to beat them in the course
of two or three years. They are
Perry Adair. Boh Jones and Frank
Meador. All of* these boys can get
around the East I^ake course In less
than ninety, which Is better than a
large majority of the older players
can do.
Perry and FYank have both been
around in 84, while Bob reeled off an
even 80 a couple of weeks ago. This
is a good score for any player in the
club, but when a 12-year-old boy.
who won’t weight over 75 pounds,
causes a golf ball to travel around a
course 6,400 yards in length in 80
strokes, it is remarkable, in big let
ters.
In doing this round little Bob was
out In 38 and back In 42. which Is
one stroke better than bogey on each
side, while his total score was only
five strokes over par.
Give these boys a few years to
obtain additional weight and strength
and they will be making golf history
in the South or I miss my guess.
Greatest Pitcher Ever Seen on Diamond,
Says Hans Wagner of Mathewson
H ANS WAGNER, of FM-ttsburg, In speaking of Matty, says: “Mathew
son is the greatest pitcher ever seen on the diamond. Some may
differ with me, but I have batted against him many times, and
just when I thought 1 had him, he would shoot one over, and I went to
bench. He has as much speed now its he ever had, but as he
the
can win games* without using it. he does not resort to trying to knock
the catcher down. I remember one game he worked against us last
summer in which he did not use a curve ball. He had such excellent
control that day that he used nothing but a fast, straight one. You
can say for me that I think Mathewson is Just as good to-day as he
ever was.”
Three Sterling Performers In New
York State League; Another
In Canadian.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23. — Four
youngsters who are destined for high
places in baseball are playing in the
New York State League and (he
Canadian League.
Mike McNally at short, and Joe
Leary, at flrsn, for Utica are the real
sensations of the New York State
League. Leary, it is said, will go to
Cleveland in the fall and McNally to
Detroit.
The playing of McNally is described
"as the most marvelous in the history
of the league." The boy is playing
his first year in professional ball.
Leary is not a big man. as first
basemen go. but he Is playing the
best first base the league has ever
seen.
“Finners” Quinlan, left fielder of
the Scranton team, seems a big
league sure shot in 1914. lie has
played professional ball two years
with his home team, and a losing
team. In any other place, Quinlan
would hit better than .280. his pres
ent average. He has been looked over
by scouts, and Bobby Lowe, of De
troit. is impressed with him.
Bill Donahue, winning pitcher of
the Hamilton, Out., club, is the best
pitcher in the Canadian League. This
is his first year as a professional. He
Is a right-hander and a big fellow,
only twenty, and noted for his splen
did control and speed.
KIRK AND DIXON REMATCHED.
FORT SMITH. ARK., Aug. 23 —Ollie
Kirk, of St. Louis, and Tommy Dixon,
of Kan.sas City, were to-day rematched
to tight fifteen rounds here on Labor
Day.
TRACERY IS WORTH $300,000.
SARATOGA. N. Y., Aug. 23.—
August Belmont’s Tracery, the horse
which won the Eclipse stakes of $50,-
000, is worth at least $300,000 to Bel
mont, according to Belmont, who toys
he might p;irt with Tracery for that
sum, providing he had a chance to
buy as good a horse for $200,000.
TWIRLER FOR "REDS.”
SAN ANTONIO. TEX., Aug. 23.—
Pitcher Dave Davenport, of the San An
tonio Texas League club, was sold to the
Cincinnati National League club yester
day. The price is reported to be In ex
cess of $4,000.
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