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TIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1013.
Latest Baseball News and Gossip of All the League:
STAR ATHLETES Bringing Up father
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Exorbitant Demands for Appear
ance Cause Many Promoters
to Abandon Meets.
Bv .Tamos S. Mitchell.
World's Champion Weight Thrower.
B OSTON, Auk. 30.—In athletics
the ffoose that laid the golden
egg Is dead, and this prolific
bird of yore passed away nicely and
calmly from overwork. She could no
longer yield appearance money and
prises to the ambltfous 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 aport* this season.
Outside of a couple of big meets of
fered bv the New York A. C. and the
Irish-American A. C.. It might easily
rank as the tamest year the Kait 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 and vim and on edge for
the fray. Instead there has been a
few meaaly 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 gam#* 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 Stars.
As a general rule, a flrst-olass per
former would demand from $50 to
$100 and a gold watch for his ap
pearanue; 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 games every year tells an
interesting story about his last ven
ture The rent of the park, 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 are 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, Mpecitlly
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 fare,
which wan about $2, if he would com
pete in the events. At first the ath
lete was 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
eighteen-year-old Irish lad who won
the four-mile run for the Green Isle.
The English experts hall him as the
greatest find of the decade
For the first two miles Flynn, which
is the youngster's name, did 9:49
Very soon afterward the Scotch run
ner, W&llack, gave up. and the Irish
boy finished alon e in 21:04 for the
full Journey.
The Englishmen are afraid that
Flynn will be coaxed to America At
the same 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. C. 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 hurdles, and he will be helped
out in that department by Braun.
Wendell has been summering at
I«ak« Oeorge and had intended to re
tire permanently, but the lure of the
track was too much for him and he
had to come hack among the boys for
a while longer.
The Adams brothers and Eddie
Frick have planned to get married in
the fail, 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.—Baseball man
agers and players of a quarter cen
tury ago say they drew salaries that
appear ridiculous compared with fab
ulous sums which those of to-da\ are
•aid to receive, according to figures
gathered by a local aporting writer
“Captain" Adrian C. Anson wa»
said to have received the "princely’
•um of $2,700 for managing the Chi
cago "White Stockings" in 1888 the
year after he had flni*h*d the season
with a batting average of .421 Of
this amount $700 represented 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 N. Williamsoi
when they played in the Brotherhoo.;
League in 1889. These two players
were talked of at that time ay the
greatest In the game. The Chicago
club paid Williamson $3,000, while
Pfeffer, one of the greatest of all sec
ond basemen, received only $2,000 and
the score card privileges
A larger salary than any of these
old-time stars was paid to Charles
Comlskey. present owner of the Chi
cago White Sox. when he jumped to
the Brotherhood League. His con-
• a * 80 ^Id by Smith, called for
$i.000 in 1890. Comiekoy was then
regarded as the dean of fielding first
although he was not re-
*^»-ed as good at bat as Anson.
Big League Clubs in Homestretch
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MajorRaces Have Been In teresting
Bv 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 hay
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 interaec-
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 hack to their
native heaths, there to finish the cam
paign against rivals in their own
sections, with the big wind-up on Oc
tober 5.
It seems hardly a month ago when
the season got under way. Odd how
every baseball 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 expected run
ners-up so far from the pacemakers
that hope has been abandoned, even
In their home towns.
• • •
S URELY the season just closing has
not been an uninteresting one.
In many ways it has excelled most of
those that have u me before. But it
has proved a great disappointment in
•>ne way. The best part should be
the last, just as dessert comes after
the soup, entrees and wind. But 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 enjov
good baseball whether it Is by their
own team or the rival.
• V •
B ACK 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, what
have we?
The Athletics have sewed up the
race and the dash down the final five
weeks of the way will be wins com
petition. Where are the Senators and
Red Sox They have given way 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 contender* Into second place.
The Senators even have a battle on
for third place, with the White Sox
providing the worry, and the Red Sox
are nowhere, an absolute fixture m
fifth place unless perchance the Ti
gers should perk up and take that
from them, shoving the Bostonese
down to sixth. Worlds champions
one year and second dlvisioners the
next. Truly hard lines for Hub fans.
Manager of the world’s champions
one .tear and out of baseball entirely
the next—poor Jake Stahl!
• * *
P AST your eye upon ihe Pirates —
that crestfallen band of Bucca
neers that had .hoped to run the
Giants ragged. It probably is safe
to say that there were more persons
who picked the Pirates to win the
National League gonfalon than the r e
were who thought the Giants would
triumph. Yet third is the best that
the Pirates ean possibly get now. and
the Cubs may beat them out of that.
Again in the National we have fhat
grand old institution -the (lark horse
-springing into view in the shape >f
the Phillies, who have wrenched off
second niche when hardly anyone
considerd them In talking of the race
before it got under way.
An unusual condition exists among
the fans of the American League cir- |
cult. Those of every city are dis
gruntled at the showing of their home'
teams, odd as this may seem. It would
be expected that somebody would h>
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 comoined strength ♦ >
win a few more games In a season
than any rival. But only three weeks
ago they were talking In Philadelphia
of the possibility that the Mackmen
would win 112 games this season an i
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 of 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 i
time when they seemed likely to make j
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 ftox Is ensv
to imagine, and as for the otlipr tall-
enders St Louis, New York and De
troit—it is th»f same old story of
false hopes gone to wreck.
• * •
I N the National League the fans tha-
are well satisfied with their clubs
are those who follow the Giants, the
Phillies and the Boston Braves, who
under Stallings have fought out of tha
cellar Into a place where thev have a
chance to beat out Brooklyn for t!\«»
leadership of the second division. The
Dodgers have had a discouraging mi 1-
season after an encouraging star;,
and will have to wait for next year,
when Bill Dahlen will give way as
manager to Harry Smith, of Newark.
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis
are the other teams that have carried
the hopes of their admirers up .>alt
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.
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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 intend 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
dayB.
DOWNEY LOANED TO COLONELS
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Aug. 30.—
Tom Downey, infielder, 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.
Manager of Washington Team
Expects Coveleskie To Be Big
Help to Jennings Next Year.
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 \shkh Is in vogue In both Amer
ica and Europe.
According to McIntosh, one man
can not see more than half of the
points 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 de- isions at the close of a
match, each unknown to the other,
and have a fourt man at t as a teller,
is McIntosh's idea.
Japanese Collegians
Adopt Rugby Football
Pacific Coast Pastime Is Added to
Curriculum of Sports at
Keio University.
STANFORD. CAL.. Aug. 30.—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 basebaJl team,
which has returned from a tour of
the Orient.
Louis Cass, varsity Rugby captain
last ®?asin. was enlisted to coach the
players of Keio University during the
stay of the Cardinal nine in Tokio.
According to the Stanford boys the
sons of the chrysanthemum empire
are remarkably fast in following the
ball and are adept in passing and
dodging, but have not yet learned
much of the fine points of the game.
D ETROIT. Aug. 30.—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. He 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 tw'o months dis
tant and the winner of the pennant
not yet settled—that is to say, settled
beyond argument Griffith comes out
W’ith the statement that Washington,
Philadelphia and Detroit look like
the active contenders for the 1914
pennant.
• * •
/GRIFFITH'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 Jennings 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 was a hope
less aggregation of players. 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
beat-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.
Veaeh is a slugging outfielder, and
the Detroit infield, as it stands, is a
fine one.
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