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By “Bud” Fisher
By .Tamos Clarkson.
Despite the fart that big Jeff Tes-
reau. a Riant of the Ozark Mountains
before he became a New York Giant,
has not been going any too well this
season. Manager McGraw, the smart
and brainy leader of the probable
winners of the National league bunt
ing. is pinning his faith In the b*g
twirler. whom he believes will prove
one of the stars of the world's se
ries during the coming fall
Tesreau Joined the New York club
in the fall of 1911. He was not given
much work that fall, but when the
Giants went to Marlin to open their
1912 training season the big moun
taineer was taken In charge by Wil
bert Robinson. McGraw's chief ad
viser and coacher of yoting pitchers,
and before the carr.p was three weeks
old great thing* were predicted for
Tesreau. Before Joining the Giants.
• Big Jeff" performed with the Shreve
port club in the Texas-Oklahoma
League.
He made good all of his advance
notices by pitching winning ball for
McGraw all of last season In fact,
it was Tesreau’s work, along with
that of the famous Mathewaon and
Marquard, that piloted the New York
machine saffly over the National
League goal. He w r on and lost a
game each during the 1913 cham
pionship against the Boston Red Sox.
his victory having been witnessed by
a brother who had traveled all the
way from Seattle. Wash., to see him
perform in a world series game.
Tesreau Is a popular fellow among ;
his fellow players, and his qunlnt
humor and stories of bear hunts and
the like in the Ozark Mountains do
much toward keeping McGraw’s men
in a good humor when things on
the diamond appear to be a little bad
for them.
The big right-hander has the honor |
this season of leading the National
League fling*-?* as to strlke-outs. He
also leads the league in the issuance
of passes, a record which he does |
not care about retaining
McGraw figures that with Tesreau
pitching the kind of ball of which
be la capable, and with Mathew son
and Marquard. to say nothing of
Hemaree, all In first-class shape, his
New York Giants should experience
little difficulty in grabbing the big
end of the series with the Pbiladophia
Athletics when the two clubs battle
for the world's championship In
(>ctober.
Turn Out for McNeil Benefit
+•+ -ha-I- •!*•+ +• +
Dead Rider's Mother Needs Aid
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
Frankie Burns, the cIrhsv Jersey City
bantam, will exchange wallops with
Benny Chavez, the crack Trinidad hoy.
in a ton-round sot-to at Denver to-mor-
iow night Both these boys have been
fighting good of late and should put up
an lntercstlpg mill
• • •
Jim Griffin, the coast referee, has
been selected to Judge the Willie
Kltchie-Freddy Welch bout at Van
couver next month The rival scrap
pers agreed on Griffin yesterday.
• • •
Toting Shugrue, who Is matched to
box Jack Britton at New York on Sep
tember 10, will take on Young Brown
next week Brown Is a tough light
weight, having met such stars at Leach
Cross, Tommy Murphy and “Knockout"
Brown. He should give Shugrue a
tough scrap for ten rounds
ENTRIES
AT SARATOGA.
FIRST 3-year-olds, selling. 6 fur
longs Battery 101, xAfterglow 96. Trl-
fler 105. Scallywag 101. Progressive 108,
xLuria 96. Hobnob 116. Sandvale 109.
Briar Path 107, Dorlon 106
SECOND- 2-year-olds, handicap,
furlongs: Surprising 122. Florin 107,
Trade Mark 98. Tranid 108. Gracilla 113
The Frsher 107. Brumley 103. Harry L.
106. Ralph 104, Well Known 99, Flltter-
gold 117. I'ncle Mun 108.
Also eligible: Edith W. 110. Roamer
116. Stars and Stripes 97, Preston Lynn,
110.
E VERY motorcycle fan In Atlanta
should be at the Motordrome
Friday night. It will be a bene
fit [>erfonnance, every cent above ex
penses going to Jock McNeil's mother
in Scotland.
Thjs fame Jock McNeil, hero of
many a thrilling race at the Saucer,
time and again gladdened the hearts
of his admirers by dare-devil riding
before he was killed. And it is up
to those admirers to dig down in
their pockets and see to it that Jock's
mother is given aid in this great
distress.
Nobody is going to be allowed
within the wooden walls Friday night
unless they pay to enter. The of
ficials, the newspaper men and even
the riders must "kick In."
Let's make it a banner night. The
program arranged is a "bear" and
the riders promise to ride as they
never have ridden before. They will
i ok their own lives to help out a
most worthy cause.
Bo let the fans risk the price of
admission. And. by the way. If you
have a little extra change, take along
a few friends.
Here .8 the complete card of events:
First Event.
First Heat Southern Championship
(trial heats, one mile; final, two miles.
First two men In each trial heat to
qualify)- Swartz, Graves. Lewis and
Glenn. Distance, one mile.
Second Event.
Second Heat Southern Champion
ship—Richards, Luther, Lookner and
Renel. Distance, one mile.
Third Event.
First Heat Special Match Race—
Graves vs. Richards. Distance, one
mile.
Fourth Event.
F’lnal Southern Championship. Dis
tance, two miles.
Fifth Event.
First Heat McNeil Sweepstakes to
be scored by French point system—
10 points for winner. 6 for second and
3 for third) Swartz, Luther, Lewis.
Lockner, Renel and Glenn. Distance,
two miles.
Sixth Event.
Second Heat Special Match Race—
Graves vs. Richards. Distance, two
miles.
Seventh Event.
Second Heat McNeil Sweepstakes—
Swartz. Luther, Lewis, Lockner. Renel
and Glenn. Distance, four miles.
Eighth Event.
Third Heat Special Match Race—
Graves vs. Richards. Distance, three
miles.
Ninth Event.
Third Heat McNeil Sweepstakes—
Swartz, Luther, I^ewla, Dockner,
Renel and Ginn. Distance, six miles.
Johnson’s Speed Beats Curves
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Often Tells What He’ll Throw
THIRD 3-year-olds and up. Helling,
mile Swish 107, xlnstepeor Lestrade
102, Batriuohe 107. xHeaucoup 105. xRoy
al Message 100. Bonnie Bloise 105, x\Va
ter Welles 109.
FOURTH 3 year-olds and up, handi
-ap. mile Bane gat 95. Cliff Edge 98.
Spring Board 110. G M Miller 111.
-\ire> 90. Coy Lad 97, Plate Glass 103.
Strenuous 92.Sha«kelton 107, Princess
Callow a\ 104, Hedge 102, Mission 100
Tartar 102
Also eligible: Star Gaze 93, Guy
Fisher 106. Azylade 100.
FIFTH—2-year-olds. Helling. 7 fur
longs: Robert Oliver 106, Old Ben 107,
Small 104, Preston Lynn 112, xHeart-
beat 97, Water ljidy 108. Iaidy Orme
109, x Flask 108, Bac 111, Onta'uri 101.
Chriatophine 101.
SIXTH -3-year-olds and up. maidens,
mile Ann Tilly 103. Queen Sain 103.
Gilbert 105, Carroll Reid 108, Margerum
105. Prospect 106. Noble Grand 105
x Apprentice allowance claimed.
Weather cloudy; track fast
AT OTTAWA
FIRST Turse $500. 2-year-olds, hand-
•caj., 5Ms furlongs Sykesie 106. Commo
dore 110. Marlon aGiety 112, Dark Ros-
aleen 109. Old Reliable HO.
SECOND Purse $500 . 2-year-olds,
handicap, 6 furlongs Stevestu 96 Fin
r raid Gem 104. Minda 107. Hodge 128.
IauIv Trinity 102. Fathom 105. Czar Mi
chael 113.
THIRD Purse $400. 3 year olds and
up. selling, mile furlong: xMemisis 94.
The Gardner 107. Tactics 111, xStrite
104. Naughty I .Ad 110
FOURTH Purse $600. Russell hand
icap. 3-year-olds and up. 6 furlongs
York laid 98. Towton Field 103 Panza-
reta 110. Yorkville 102, Mediator 104,
Sherwood 114
FIFTH--Purse $500. 3-year-olds and
up, selling, mile: xArdelon 99. Willie
101, Dick Deadwood 101. Venera Str.nne
103, Spellbound 112. xBobby Cook 102.
R. H. Gray 101, Chemulpo 102. ixwedav
107
SIXTH—Purse $600. 3-year-olds and
up. selling. 6 furlongs xlaimode 97,
xFred Lesty 104. Queed 104. Anavrl 103.
Inland 107, Back Bay 107. Spring Maid
97, Tankard 102, Camel 104 Spring
Mass 104, Tom Sayers 106. xSpohn 108
Also eligible: xCamellia 100. x Marna
Tohnson 98. xBen Prior 100, Jim L 100
Myrtle Marlon 108.
SEVENTH Purse $500. 3-year-olds
and up. selling, mile: xMertisis 93
xGraneau 101. xThe Rump 105, xTom
Holland 106. Miss J.»nah 108, l.*dv Ran
kin 112. Senator Sparks 117. xRalph
Llovd 95. S halier 103, xMoonlight 105
Bernadotte. 107. Heretic 111. Lord Elam
x Five pound apprentice allowance
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IW^^er clear, track fast."
By Bill Bailey.
C HICAGO, ktlg 28 Walter John
son, marvel of the Senatorial
pitching staff, not only Is one
of the greatest twirler* who ever
stepped on a slab, but he is a hurl
ing freak. t , .
He is the onlv pitcher I ever looked
at who apparently didn’t care whether
the batter knew what was coming or
not. There may be other twlrlers
who tell the batter In advance what
Is coming when they ate so far ahead
that it makes no difference, or so far
behind that the game is a Joke, but
ti i-- Johnson does it right along. H®
i even does it when the game is close.
He beat Jim Scott 2 to 1 last Sun*
J day on the South Side. It’s very
true that Johnson bad to possess
much luck to get the verdict, which
gave him his fourteenth straight win
With two on and two out, Ping Bodie
lost a fly ball in the sun and permit
ted two runs to count. Those two
runs gave the Senators the victory’.
But that isn’t the burden of this
story.
This story Is of Johnson as a
pitcher, and it isn’t based upon that
single game Did you notice how he
pitched to Chase in the first round 0
Heady Work on Slab.
Berger reached first because of
Morgan's error and went to second
on Lord's infield out. Chase trod
to the plate. Now a base hit would
have put Berger across and the Sox
would have had a lead of one run.
Mind you. this first game of the se
ries was a flgbt for a run. Both man
agers figured that one run would win
Chase knew very well that Johnson
was going to stick that first ball over
the plate. And Chase knew Just as
well that he was going to step Into
it and drive it out for a base hit if
he could. Likewise, this Johnson per
son out on the slab knew that Hal
would step into it. Did he put it
anywhere except over the plate? He
did not If he had possessed a rifle
of a bore that shot a baseball he
couldn't have put It nearer the center
of the plate.
Mine strike." howled the umpire.
The next ball was In the same place,
and Hal swung again.
I ‘‘Two strikes," howled the ump.
Then Johnson pulled the unexpeot-
' ed. He started a curve ball for the
plate and Hal swung It broke wide
, and the first sacker fanned on a near
wild pitch.
But the first two times that Chase
swung he knew exactly what was
coming Yet he couldn't hit. Wt^v?
| It was the tremendous speed that the
elongated twirler was using.
Didn't Waste Any Balls.
Johnson didn't gi\* a base on balls
j during that game and i* is doubtful
if he wasted as many as half a dozen
throughout the battle. You know what
th* average pitcher tries. If be has
control he pitches inside or outside,
he tries for the corners. If he has
the batter in the hole, he tempts him
with pitches that the batter dare not
let go by and which he can’t drive
far if he connects.
Johnson may do that occasionally,
but In the majority of cases he puts
that ball straight across.
Did you happen to notice how he
pitched to John Collins in the ninth?
It would have been foolhardy for al
most any other twirler in the business
to have pitched as he did to Shano.
With two gone. Bodie and Chappell
singled and Schalk, who ran for Ping,
was on second. Collins had been hit
ting fairly well. This time he w'hlpped
the first ball pitched Into the stands
for a foul and^k. strike. The second
likewise was a strike.
Now. the ordinary- twirler would
have kept the ball inside or outside
or _ high or low, as he figured the
weakness of the batter, because a
base hit meant a run and a tied
score.
What did Johnson do? He put on
a bit- more steam and whipped the
hall square acros* the plate and waist
high. Collins swung and the game
was over.
“Kidded’’ Ping Bodie Out.
I say there may he other twlrlers
who don’t care whether the batter
knows what is coming or not. But
they are mighty scarce
Bodie came up in the sixth. He
had just lost that fly ball in the sun
&Hd VU feeling pretty bad, so John
son began to "kid” him.
"Here’s a good one,” said the Wash
ington twirler.
"One strike." howled the ump. But
Johnson had kept the faith. The hall
was square across the plate. The
only trouble was that It was a bit
too fast.
"Well, you didn’t hit that one. so
I'll give you another chance," laughed
Johnson.
"Two strikes,” howled the ump.
Yes. It was straight across. The
only trouble was that Ping’s eye
wasn’t quick enough to telegraph
Ping’s brain that it was time to
swing that club.
Yes. Ping struck out. But telling
Is quite a habit with this Johnson. He
tells you what's coming, and it comes.
The only trouble Is that you are no
better off than If he handed you the
"double cross.”
AUTO RACERS FINED.
DALTON, Aug. 28.—Seriously' ob
jecting to two automobile drivers us
ing Hamilton street, Dalton’s main
business thoroughfare, for a motor
drome. Recorder Tarver yesterday-
afternoon fined Dr B L. Kennedy and
Jim Caylor $5 each for indulging in a
race the night before,
“PERSONAL LIBERTY.”
(( rvi It Glorious Constitution,”
G The sad Bookmaker said,
“Ordains for each of us the right
To grab his daily bread.
All night I'm firin' jockeys.
And work all dap the same,
To pry the sucker from his rush—
And here comes this reformer push
And tries to crab my game!"
“Me, too!" the Fight Promoter
Took up the woeful tale.
"They’re tryin' hard to stop me
From nailin' any kale.
I'm grabble' easy money
By match in' White Hope Jakes,
An' then when some bone-headed
plug
Can't take a wallop in the mug,
They blame me when he croakst”
• ♦ •
IT 18 TO BE HOPED that th«
Powers that Be will now take some
steps to abolish the White Hope
Parodies from the box fight map.
Killing them off, even at the rate
of two every three months, Is a
slow and unnecessarily harsh
method.
• • •
HAVING LOST $60,000 this sea-
eon,.Mrs. Britton is willing to sell
the fit. Louis Cardinals for $500,-
000. Which gives rise to the ap
palling thought of what a club le
worth that makes $60,000.
• • •
OLD BILL NAUQHTON SAYS
that the "somethlng-ln-the-tea”
story about the Jeffries-Johnson
fight Is "gaining credence,” but ap
parently those with whom it Is
gaining credence are keeping awful
ly quiet about it.
» « •
PITCHER JOE LAKE, OF THE
Tigers, has been sent to Minneapo
lis, this being considered the largest
single consignment of ivory ever
shipped to a minor league city.
• • *
“WHITE HOPES PLACE BOX
ING IN JEOPARDY ,” announces a
contemporary-, which we consider
a big news beat, If true. We never
heard of any white hopes who got
near enough to boxing to place it
in Jeopardy or anywhere else.
• * •
BY WAY OF FURTHER demon
strating that professional baseball
Is a great sport, the Giants are
claiming the deal by which Byrne
and Camnlts go to Philadelphia
wan framed up with the Idea of
beating them out of the pennant.
• • •
IF THE BIG LEAGUE CHIEFS
keep on insisting year after year,
that baseball isn’t on the level,
people will begin to believe them
after a while.
• • •
PRESIDENT EBBETS IS NOW
thinking about building a bicycle
track at Ehbets Field. It will be a
costly undertaking, but It will cer
tainly call for a bear of a dedica
tion speech.
• • .
WHEN YOU FIGURE ON THE
amounts that W. J Bryan draws to
the gate, Owner Shlbe Is Justified
In Insisting that Connie Mack
loosen up and talk more than has
been his wont.
WAYCR0SS AND BRUNSWICK
•PLAY IN RECORD TIME
IN FIELD DM
ENGAGEMENT
Y OU Just have to hand It to tho*e
Crackers. If you didn’t, they
probably would run away with
it. anyhow.
Yesterday was field day at Ponce
DeLeon, and the Crackers made a
clean sweep of the field. They cap
tured first place in every one of the
five events, getting unto themselves,
In addition to honor and glory -’nd
the plaudits of a big crowd, sundry
shoes and hats and silk shirts and
umbrellas and like usuables, offered
by enterprising Atlanta merchants
to stimulate competition with Bir
mingham in the Grand Attendance
Contest now waging fearfully be
tween the two cities.
Tommy Long was the individual
hero, winning the lOO-yar^ dash like
a regular sprinter, and circling the
bases in 14 seconds, only 2-5 of a
second south of Hans Lobert's fa
mous mark, set in Cincinnati a num
ber of years ago.
Our new outfielder, Mr. Nixon,
showed a powerful whip, winging the
pill in from deep center well beyond
the plate. The distance was too great
to measure, but it looked not far from
400 feet. The record, 421 feet and a
few Inches. Is held by Sheldon Le-
Jeune.
FYank Manush also was a double
prize winner, copping $5 for expedi
tion In a sack race and a brace of siik
shirts for enterprise in fungo hitting,
walloping the hall nearly to the score-
board on the fly.
Long Sets New Record for Runs
*£••4-
Great Work Boosts Mark to .101
A N old-established Southern
League record went glimmer
ing yesterday in the fifth in
ning of the combat between the Tur
tles and the Crackers.
Tommy Long started the game with
98 runs to his credit for the season of
1913.
The league record was 99 run'*,
scored by Gus Hill, of Nashville, in
1902.
Tommy went right after the record.
He doubled himself on in the domestic
portion- of the first inning and scored
the record-tying run when Smith
tripled.
A lot of ball players might have
stopped there, figuring on a dozen
games more In which to break the
record. But Tommy had other ideas.
Besides, the Crackers got to needing
more runs right then.
So In the fifth inning Tommy scored
another run, rounding out his cen
tury mark and breaking Mr. Hill's
record.
Then in the seventh Tommy got up
with Agler on the towpath and Just
naturally kissed that old pill nearly
to the edge of the visible universe.
That was the third run, making 101
in all, and putting Tommy two ahead
of the former record.
And Tommy still has a dozen games
in which to add other runs to the
mark.
RITCHIE AND WELSH SIGN
FOR TITLE BOUT SEPT. 20
VANCOUVER, B. C:, Aug. 28.—Ar-
tides for the world’s lightweight
championship bout I.ere between Wil
lie Ritchie and Freddie Welsh Sep
tember 20 were signed to-day. For
feits will be posted to-morrow. Jim
Griffin, of San Francisco, will ref
eree.
Indiana Race Track
Closed By Governor
PORTER, INT)., Aug 28.—Steps were
taken to-day to dissolve the Mineral
Springs Jockey Club, and announcement
was made that there would be no fur
ther attempt to hold races at the Min
eral Springs track this year. Two com
panies of state militiamen, ordered here
by Governor Ralston to stop the racing
because of alleged violations of the In
diana betting laws, were ordered to re
main a few days longer, to make sure
no attempt would be made to resume the
racing program.
Ben Hymen, track manager, speaking
for the racing association, said today
that the stand taken by Governor Ral
ston was “worse than anything ever
pulled off in Mexico."
D00IN GIVES FREE REIN
TO STRENGTHEN PHILLIES
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 28.-Manager
Dooin, of the Phillies, announces that he
has received word from the club owners
that there Is an almost unlimited
amount of money m his disposal, for
the purchase of players.
Dooin is to start Immediately in an
effort to strengthen the Phillies.
COCHRAN TRIUMPHS OVER
EAST POINT IN TITLE GAME,
COCHRAN, GA.. Aug. 28.—Coeh-I
ran. by winning two out of three
games from East Point, claims the
State championship among the ama
teur baseball teams. In a fast game, 1
the last of a series of three with the I
crack team from East Point was won
by Cochran, 4 to 3.
The game throughout was replete
with brilliant plays, darino- base run
ning and fast fielding from the time i
the umpire called "play ball” until the
last man was out In the ninth Inning j
“ZIM” LOST; CUBS LEAVE
FOR HOME WITHOUT STAR
DRINK
Pure, Delicious,
Refreshing
WAYCROSS. GA.. Aug. 28-Wav-
ernss and Brunswick teams of the
Empire League yesterday morning
played a nine-inning game In one
hour and nineteen minutes, breaking
the league's record and establishing
what Is believed to be a new record
for Class D leagues.
Hartner pitched for Brunswick and
Clark for Waycross, the locals win
ning 6 to 1 McLaughlin was the
umpire and he kept players on the
Jump from start to finish.
SPENCER WISHART SMASHES
RECORDS ON ELGIN COURSE
ELGIN, ILL., Aug. 28.—All previous
practice records for the Elgin Auto
mobile Speedway were smashed dur
ing the tuning-up for Friday and Sat
urday's races yesterday, when Spen
cer Wlshart in his Mercer was clocked
on two successive laps at 6:4C for the
eight and a fraction miles speed
way. This gave him an average speed
of 78 miles per hour.
VOLS PURCHASE TWO.
NASHVILLE, TENN., Aug. 28 —
The management of the Nashville
baseball club has purchased Smith, a
promising young catcher f the Hop
kinsville. Ky.. club, and Snyder, a
pitcher from the Henderson, Ky H club*
NEW YORK. Aug 28.—As the Chicago
Cubs were leaving here it developed to
day that Heine Zimmerman, the famous
third baseman, has been missing since
Tuesday morning. Zimmerman was sus
pended for three days because of a rum
pus with the umpire at the Polo Grounds
on Saturday, and some of the Chicago
players seemed to think that he looked
for this penaify so that he could get a
vacation. In fact, it was asserted that
Zimmerman had not treated Manager
Evers with fairness
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