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TTEATIST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1013,
STAR ATHLETES Bringing Up Father
By George McManus
KILL' SPORT Bf
GREEDINESS
Exorbitant Demands for Appear
ance Cause Many Promoters
to Abandon Meets.
Bv James S. Mitchell.
World’s Champion Weight Thrower.
B OSTON, Au*. SO.—-In athletics
the roose that laid the golden
egg la dead, and this prolific
bird of yore passed away nicely and
calmly from overwork. She could no
longer yield appearance money and
prizes to the ambitious athletes, and,
not being of any further use, thought
she would give up the earthly ghost
and flit to the happy hunting ground.
What a disheartening effect the
passing of the goose has had on the
track and field aports this season!
Outside of a couple of big meets of
fered by the New York A. C. and the
Irish-American A. C., It might easily
rank as the tamest year the East has
ever seen in the history of athletics.
On the Saturdays and Sundays no
crowds of wild-eyed young men have
been seen tearing to the local tracks,
full of Are anrl vim snd on edge for
the fray. Instead there has been a
few measly meets, with hungry pro
grams and poor attendance.
Not only have the golden eggs faded
away, but the angels that fed the bird
have grown weary of the game. The
athletes grew so keen on raking in
the coin that they wanted everything,
while there was nothing left for the
"angels” and the promoters.
Big Demands by 8tar«.
As a general rule, a first-class per
former would demand from $T>0 to
$100 and a gold watch for his ap
pearance; and when two or three per
meet were paid there was very little
left for the club or association hold
ing the affair.
A promoter who used to run off a
big set of guinea every year tells an
interesting story about h1s Inst ven
ture The rent of the pnrk, the cost
of prizes, advertising and the appear
ance money to four star athletes
came to $1,060, and the total of the
gate receipts was $1,081; so, he said,
he reasoned with himself that his la
bor was in vain. The athletes got It
all and his club got nothing.
This year the man’s association
gave a picnic and dance, out of which
there was nearly $500 profit. So, he
said, they were through with the ath
letic games.
The athletes deplore the poor sea
son themselves and ore blaming each
other as being the cause. During the
week a story leaked out about one of
the “regulars” and a man who was a
great stickler for price, especially
when It came to traveling out of
town.
A man who was running off a set
of games in a neighboring town of
fered a "star" $5 and his railroad faxe,
which wak about $2, if he would com
pete in the events. At first the ath
lete writs inclined to spurn the offer,
but the V’s were so few and far be
tween nowadays that the "star” ac
cepted the offer.
Ireland Unearths Great Runner.
In the international athletic match
recently between Scotland and Ireland
a phenom distance runner was
brought to light in the person of an
elghteen-year-old Irish lad who won
the four-mile run for the Green Isle.
The English experts hail him as the
greatest find of the decade .
For the first two miles Flynn, w hich
ts the youngsters name, did 9:49.
Very soon afterward the Scotch run
ner, Wallack, gave up. and the Irish
boy finished alon© in 21:04 for the
full Journey.
The Englishmen are afraid that
Flynn will be coaxed to America At
'^he spine meet Shaw, of Dublin Uni
versity. won the 100 yards In a shade
better than 10 seconds, which was
quoted a rattling fine performance.
Track Men in Training.
The New York A. U. squad of track
and field men are In training at
Travers Island, where they will work
till about the first of October Con
trary to report. Jim Wendell will train
for the hurdle H . and he will be helped
out in that department by Braun.
Wendell has been summering at
l*ak© George and had intended to re
tire permanently, but the lure of the
track wa* too much for him and he
bad to come back among the boys for
a while longer.
The Adams brothers and Eddie
Frick have planned to get married In
the fall, but for the present they will
train and try and help the Mercury
Foot to win the Metropolitan cham
pionship on September 21
BASEBALL SALARIES OF
OLD WERE RIDICULOUS
CHICAGO, Aug, 30.—Baftebtill man-
Mrer« and players of a quarter cen
tury ago wiy they drew salaries that
appear ridiculous compared with fab
ulous sums which those of to-duy are
•aid to receive, according to figures
gathered by a local sporting writer
"Captain" Adrian C Anion we.
said to have received the 'princely"
turn of f J 700 for managing the Chi
cago "White Stockings In IS88 the
year after he had ttniahed the season
with a batting average of .421 Of
thle amount J700 repre-«enled his
services as acting captain and man
ager of the team.
R E. Smith, of Chicago, says he
possesses the contract Smith has
also the contracts made by N. Fred
Pfeffer and Edward X. Williamson
when they placed In the Brotherhood
League in P8S9. These two players
were talked of at Ihat time ae the
greatest In the game. The Chicago
club paid Williamson 13.000. while
Pfeffer. one of the greatest of all aec-
orid basemen, received only I2.0U0 and
the score card privileges.
A larger salary than any of these
old-time stars was paid to Charles
l omiskey. present owner of the Chi
cago White Sox. when he jumped to
the Brotherhood League. His con
tract, also held by Smith, called for
*7 000 in 1880. Coml»ke> was then
regarded as the dean of fielding first
basemen, although he was not re
garded as good at bat as Anson.
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By Monty,
N EW YORK, Aug. 30—See that
date line? “August thirtieth.”
It means that only the home
stretch stage of the baseball season
remains. Glance at the schedule, in
the American League the West ha*>
had Its last glance at the Eastern
teams. In the National League the
East has had its last look at the
Western teams.
Only one more spell of Interac
tional battling remains. On Septem
ber 9, a week from next Tuesday, the
Western clubs of the American trek
eastward and the Eastern clubs of
the National go westward on the last
long road trips of the year.
After being absent until September
23. the tourists skldoo back to their
native heaths, there to finish the cam
paign against rivals In their own
sect Ions, with the big wind-up on Oc
tober 5.
It seems hardly a month ago when
the season got under way. Odd how
every bawball campaign has a knack
of appearing shorter than its prede
cessor. We take the liberty of pre
suming that other fans are like those
with whom we are In contact, that as
they grow older time flies Just that
much faster. In the spring we all
looked forward to the possibility of
two of the closest races In the his
tory of the major leagues. Where are
your close races now? Gone, absent,
departed—wafted away in the heat of
midseason, with the expectod run
ners-up so far from the pacemakers
that hope has been abandoned, even
In their home towns.
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S URELY the season Just cloning has
not been an uninteresting one.
In many wavs It has excelled most of
those that have gone before. Rut It
has proved a great disappointment In
one way. The best part should be
the last. Just as devsert comes after
the soup, entrees and salad. Rut there
Is little dessert this time, except for
the followers of the Giants and Ath
letics and the moderate number of
broad-minded enthusiasts who enjoy
good baoeball whether It is by their
own team or the rival.
Manager of the world’s champions
one year and out of baseball entirely
the next—poor Jake Stahl!
R AGK In April we had laid out be
fore us the greatest little three-
team contest ever offered In the
American League. The Athletics.
Senators and Red Sox were to battle
neck and neck all the way down to
the wire, with the hottest finisher
clutching the pennant. Instead, wliai
have we?
The Athletics have sewed up the
race and the dash down the final five
weeks of the way will be .sans com
petition. Where are the Senators and
Red Sox They have given wav to a
new white hope, the Naps. who. fig
ured by practically nobody to be in
better than fourth or fifth place, have
slashed their way ahead of both the
expected contenders Into second place.
The Senators even have a battle on
for third place, with the White Sox
providing the ' orry, and the Red Sox
are nowhere. ' absolute fixture in
fifth place unless perchance the Ti
gers should perk up and take that
from them, shoving the Rostonese
down to sixth. World's champions
one year and second dlvislonera the
next. Truly hard lines for Hub fans.
f ^ AST your eye upon the Pirates-^
that crestfallen band of Bucca
neers that had hoped to run .the
Giant* ragged. It probably is safe
to say that there were more persons
who picked the Pirates to win the
National League gonfalon than there
were who thought the Giants would
triumph. Vet third is the best that
the Pirates can possibly get now’, and
the Cubs may beat them out of that.
Again In the National we have that
grand old inatitutlon—the dark horse
—springing Into view In the shape of
the Phillies, who have wrenched off
second niche when hardly anyone
consldcrd them in talking of the race
before It got under way.
An unusual condition exists among
the fans of the American League cir
cuit. Those of every city are dis
gruntled at the showing of their hom*
teams, odd as this may seem, It would
be expected that somebody would bs
satisfied, but not so. The Athletics’
rabid followers had expected to see
their favorites make a tremendous
walkover of the race, with a margin
of probably fifteen or twenty full
games over the next club at this time.
It's funny how great things are de
manded of Connie Mack Just because
he and his team, taken together, rep
resent enough combined strength
win a few’ more games In a season
than any rival. Rut only three weeks
ago they were talking In Philadelphia
of the possibility that the Markmen
w’ould win 112 games this aeason an 1
break the record. They couldn’t do
that now* even If they should win
every remaining game.
Though the Naps had been figured
only as outsiders by fans In other
cities, Clevelanders spoke o? their
pennant chAnce* with alacrity, and
when they got up there near the
Quakers they said, "It’s all over now;
the Naps will breeze In." Just at a
time when they seemed likely to make
trouble for the Athletics, the Naps
failed at the psychological moment
and will have to accept second place.
Chicago fans feel about the same to
ward the White Sox. The attitude of
Hub fans toward the Red 3ox Is easy
to Imagine, and as for the other tall-
enders -St Louis, New York and De
troit—It Is the same old story of
false hopes gone to wreck.
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SPURT 1 1514
Manager of Washington Team
Expects Coveleskie To Be Big
Help to Jennings Next Year,
D etroit, auk so —Leave it to
Mr. C. Griffith, manager of the
Washington team, to break in
to the public prints with something
new.
Not that said Mr. C. Griffith is a
publicity-seeking pest, or anything
' like that, but ideas Just naturally
gravitate to him. lie was the person
who saved money for other American
League managers and club owners by
refusing to pay fabulous sums for
sensational minor leaguers, and he
molded the Nationals into a pennant
contender in a spring’s training trip.
Now. with the close of the major
league season nearly two months dis
tant and the winner of the pennant
not yet settled—that Is to say, settled
beyond argun\ent—Griffith comes out
with the statement that Washington,
Philadelphia and Detroit look like
the active contenders for the 1914
pennant.
7 ATHLETES FOR HARVARD.
BOSTON, Aug. 30.—Harvard’s ath
letic forces will get much material
from Groton School this fall. No less
than seven athletes from that insti
tution intepd to prolong their scho
lastic duties at Harvard.
CATCHER IN POLITICAL GAME.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30—It was
announced to-day that Ira H. Thomas,
catcher of the Athletics, after helping
the Athletics to win their fifth pen
nant, will enter the race for civic hon
ors as common Councilman from the
Thirty-eighth Ward.
EVANSVILLE TO GET HOMER.
EVANSVILLE. IND., Aug. 30.—
The Evansville Central League base
ball team has an option on First
Baseman Homer of the Henderson
,Ky., team of the Kitty League, and
is expected to close the deal In a few
days.
DOWNEY LOANED TO COLONELS
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Aug. 30.—
Tom Downey, inflelder, was sold by
the local American Association man
agement to-day to Louisville under
an optional agreement and will join
the Colonels for the remainder of the
season.
A Car Not too Large, Not too Costly,
and Splendidly Efficient
1 N the National League the fans that
* are well satisfied with their club*
are those who follow the Giants, the
Phillies and the Boston Rraves, who
under Stalling** have fought out of the
cellar Into a place where thev have a
chance to bent out Brooklyn for the
leadership of the second division. The
Dodgers have had a discouraging ml 1-
senson after an encouraging stall,
and will have to wait for next year,
when Bill Pahlen will give way a»
manager to Harry Smith, of Newark.
Pittsburg Cincinnati and St. Louis
are the other teams that have carrltd
the hopes of their admirers up .-*a!t
Creek. The Cubs lost so much pop
ularity through letting Chance and
Tinker go that Chicago fans did not
even want them to do as well as they
have done, so there Is no disappoint
ment in Cubland.
rifFITTI’S disposition would not
permit that he count the Nation
als out of the running, the tenants of
his head would not allow him to
place the Athletics in the second di
vision. and his baseball sense leads
him to believe that Jenplngs will have
a dangerous aggregation of players
next season.
"The Detroit team has shown a vast
amount of Improvement in the past
two or three months," said Clark re
cently. "In the spring it w r as a hope
less aggregation of pluyers. But Jen
nings has whipped the men into line
and he will give us a fight next year.
He has two fine young pitchers In
Hall and Dauss. Dauss Is one of the
best-looking young pitchers to come
into the American League in years.
Dubuc is also a fine pitcher, although
he seems to have had an off year.
Veach is a slugging outfielder, and
the Detroit infield, as it stands, is a
fine one.
Need Three Referees
To Determine Winner
Promoter McIntosh Offers Scheme to
Decide Master in Boxing
Bouts.
Hugh McIntosh, formerly the lead
ing boxing promoter In Australia. Is
strongly opposed to the referee sys
tem which is In vogue In both Amer
ica and Europe.
According to McIntosh, one man
can not see more than half of the
point* scored in a boxing match be
cause of the human limitations which
prevent him from seeing from dif
ferent angles what two men are doing.
The custom of having three men
give their decisions at the close of a
match, *»ach unknown to the other,
and have a fourth man act ua a teller,
is McIntosh's idea. .
Japanese Collegians
Adopt Rugby Football
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HQN'E man G. Griffith - Is flouring
on how to beat Detroit next
year."
Griffith says that Coveleskie. the
big left-hander, purchased from the
Chattanooga club, has a lot of natural
ability, and that it is quite possible
that Detroit has picked up a star per
former.
Coveleskie was with Griffith In Cin
cinnati, but was shunted on to the
minors. He lacked experience.
The Washington players were con
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"learn that George McBride would
succeed Rill Carrigan as manager of
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Pacific Coast Pastime Is Added to
Curriculum of Sports at
Keio University.
STANFORD, CAL., Aug. 3^,—Rug
by football Is the latest addition to
the curriculum of sports which have
been adopted by the colleges in Ja
pan, according to the members of the
Stanford University baseball team,
which has returned from a tour of
the Orient.
Louis Cass, varsity Rugby captain
last ev'ns m. was enlisted to coach tho
players of Keio University during the
stay of the Cardinal nine In Toklo
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illy." declared McRride, before
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