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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, CA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1013.
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By “Bud" Fisher
IN TIE DRAFT
Magnates Merely Tie Up Cash
While Recruits Try to
Make Good.
By Bill Bailey.
O NE of these fine days in the near
future you will read that the
magnates of the majors are on
their way to Cincinnati for drafting
day.
Every magnate will carry two grips
In one he will have a clean collar and
a tooth brush and various other ar
ticles of a personal nature. In the
other he will have a bunch of cer
tified checks*. These are to accom
pany his drafts and to pay for the
men he secures in the annual lottery.
This grip will be carried in his right
hand and guarded closely.
Immediately afterward will come
stories that this of that magnate had
certified checks amounting to $30,000.
“He certainly is spending the coin.”
will be the comment. And immedi
ately we will picture the magnate
as of the sort who cares no more for
a thousand dollars than he does for
a cancelled postage stamp. The in
terviewers will say that he said that
he didn’t care what It cost, that he
was determined to give his town the
best to be had and that he appre
ciated the greatness of his city to
the extent that he would spend his
last cent to put his gang on top.
Fine.
But Is he going to spend all that
money? Not on your life. That isn't
saying that he wouldn't spend a lot of
money if he knew that he was going
to get what he bargained for. Since
he can’t get that assurance he
naturally protects himself to a con
siderable extent.
AA Men Expensive.
He goes m with a draft for a bunch
of AA men. Now, they cost a lot of
money. Any time that you take a
man from that class you have to put
up $2,500.
Well, It’s cinch, of course, that a
man must show something before he
attracts the attention of the scout
And the latter must turn in a pretty
glowing account before he Induces the
bow to put his name at the bottom
of the check.
But the draft goes in. Say that the
magnate secures four of these fellow's
There’s $10,000 Invested in ball play
ers. HJs liberality is applauded. Then
the team goes South in the spring
time. The four fellow's v'ho cost
$10,000 are among the passengers on
the train. When the training camp
i9 reached they are w’atched carefully.
Being touted as stars in a high-class
minor league indicates that they
should show considerable when they
reach the majors.
Instead, they are disappointments.
Somehow or other, they fail to live to
the expectations of the manager, and
he informs the owner that the re
emits won’t do.
Back in the minors they are glad
to get those fellows. For they w r ere
w'hales the year before, favorites with
the fans, and that sort of thing. Back
comes a check calling for the same
amount that the major magnate gave
in the fall.
Buying on Contingency.
What did the deal cost the major
league magnate? Just the expense of
the recruit on the training trip.
Just before the drafting F^ason
comes on a bunch of youngsters are
purchased. Frequently the price is
$3,000 or more. The youngster hasn’t
shown enough to make him stand out,
but he is a bit too promising to take
a chance on in the draft, Some mag
nate w'ants him and he doesn’t want
to run the risk of some other club
drafting him. Neither is his hunch
strong enough to justify him in pay
ing a lot of cash.
So he says he w'ill give a small part
in cash and the remainder will be paid
if the player makes good. By that is
meant that if the player remainsnvith
the major league team until a certain
date in the following year.
Of course, it goes into the estimates
as a sale. But if the youngster fails
to show then all that the major league
magnate is out is the cash which he
deposited at the time of the sale.
So when the major league magnate
goes down to Cincinnati and invests
$30,000 in drafted players it doesn’t
mean that he actually spent that
much money to strengthen his team.
It merely means that he tied up that
sum for the privilege of trying out a
large string of youngsters the next
spring. The fellows he keeps will
represent w'hat he spent in strength
ening..
Some Cost Real Money.
But don’t get the impression that all
deals are conducted in that manner.
Larry Chappell cost $18,000 in real
money. There was a cash sum paid.
John Beall went to Milwaukee. On
top of that, President Comiskey prom
ised a catcher to be delivered in the
spring. If that catcher doesn't suit,
then the Milwaukee team may take
in his place a specified sum of money.
The point that is being made is
that while $500,000 may be spent this
year by major league magnates tor
minor league ball players, a largo
percentage of that sum is coming
back to those same magnates when
they begin to unload the undesirable^
next spring.
Boxer Takes Up Golf
In Training for Bout
NEW YORK. Sept. 6.—A boxer who
plays the royal game of golf is aome-
thing of a novelty even in these oai. ,
when the popular conception of a pro
fessional boxer has ceased to be a low
browed. crop-haired individual. But ho
far as is known, Bob McAllister is the
first knight of ihe mitt to introduce golf
as a feature of his training. During his
preparations for his recent bout with
Sailor Petroskey. McAllister spent some
time each morning trudging over the
links. He declares that he finds the
game a good substitute for the usual
road work.
Langford Picked to Beat Johnson
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Jack Always Feared Colored Rival
By Jack Conway.
T HE world’s colored heavyweight
championship match between
Jack Johnson and Sam Lang
ford. which will take place in Paris in
December, has aroused sporting men
in this country and Europe. Thou
sands of people, who care very little
about athletic contests, are also show
ing an intense amount of interest in
the coming battle between the tw r o
rival negro heavyweights, who are in
ternational characters.
Johnson has always feared Lang
ford and has turned down numerous
offers for matches w'lth the "Tar
Baby.’’ He has claimed that a fight
between two negro heavyweights
would not be a financial success^ but
close followers of the ring game real
ized that the real reason why Johnson
did not desire to battle Langford was
because he was afraid that the hard
hitting Cambridge negro would knock
him out.
The Galveston man fought Lang
ford In Chelsea back in 1906. At that
time Johnson was trying to forge his
way to the front ranks of the heavy
weight division. He was not consid
ered a world-beater and when he was
offered a bout with Langford he glad
ly accepted It.
Met Before in Chelsea.
Sam was then only a welterweight,
while Johnson weighed all of 200
pounds. Was it any wonder, then,
that fight “fans” thought that John
son would win easily? But he did
not. For fifteen rounds Langford
rushed at Johnson, swinging terrific
right and left punches. He fought
like a panther at bay and gave John
son the hardest battle of his career.
Johnson won the decision, but he
was in poor shape when the bout end
ed. The stalwart Johnson had had
enough of Langford’s game and for
seven years has turned a deaf ear to
Sam’s challenges.
Joe Woodman, Langford’s manager,
has been undaunted. He has kept his
battler busy in the ring and has al
ways had in view a match with John
son. His efforts have finally been
successful.
The writer does not believe that
Johnson even now cares a great deal
about fighting Langford. He Is meet
ing his old rival because he is ‘‘broke”
and must have funds.
Johnson About “Broke.”
There are many people who believe
that Johnson is worth many thou
sands of dollars. They are mistaken.
The only “big” money which Johnson
ever made was when he fought Jef
fries. He received $60,000 for his end
of the purse when he vanquished the
former heavyweight champion. He
also got a $10,000 bonus., while he sold
his moving picture privileges for $50,-
000. making a total of $120,000.
Johnson made a little money on the
stage, while he picked up a few odd
dollars in minor bouts. His last bout
with Jim Flynn was a financial bloom
er and netted the champion but little
money. . „ .
Another reason why Johnson is
fighting Langford is because no pro
moter would match him with a white
man. They realize that the boxing
game would be given another black
eye If there were another such bout
as the one that wae staged in Reno,
Nev., that memorable Fourth of July
in 1910.
Johnson Now on Stage.
Johnson is now' showing at music
halls in Europe for a salary of $200
a week. This proves that he is in
need of funds. The Johnson of 1910
w r ould not show on the stage for a
single day unless he was given $200.
He is now glad to get this amount
for a week’s work.
Johnson’s fortune has been spent
freely. When he had money he spent
it like a prince. Automobiles, lawyer
fees, fines, forfeited bail, wine sup
pers, clerk hire and traveling ex
penses have made great inroads into
the champion’s bag of gold. He has
been spending his money lavishly
while he has not been adding much
to his bank roll.
The betting on the Johnson-Lang
ford battle will probably be at even
money. Langford will have many
backers, but there will be thousands
of “fans” who will argue that a good
little man can never beat a good big
man.
Johnson, of course, is w'ell on in
years. He is 3G years old, and it
has been a long time since a heavy
weight held the championship at that
age. Jeffries met his Waterloo at
Reno, when he wa.s 35 years old;
Fitzsimmons started to go back at
the age of 34. Corbett was knocked
out by Fitzsimmons at Carson City
w'hen he w'as 31 years old, while the
mighty John L. Sullivan w’as flat
tened by Corbett in New Orleans
when he wa„s 34 years of age.
Must Be in Shape.
Ring history also proves that a
heavyweight must keep busy in the
ring if he is to remain in shape.
Johnson has done very little fight
ing in the past three years. His last
bout was. with Jim Flynn at Las
Vegas. N. Mex., a year ago last Fourth
of July, and boxing experts who saw
that contest declared that Johnson
was in poor condition and that If
Langford were in Flynn’s place he
might have won the heavyweight
championship.
Langford is now 27 years of age.
according to the record book, though
there are many who claim that “Ho
Ho” is at least 30 years old. Sam
has been fighting steadily since he
was a lad of 15 years and has en
gaged in over two hundred battfes.
He started boxing as a bantamweight,
but took on weight gradually and now
weighs 186 pounds. This is eleven
pounds more than Langford’s normal
fighting weight.
Joe Woodman declares that Lang
ford will weigh 175 or 178 pounds
when he enters a ring with Johnson.
The extra weight on Langford Is not
doing him any good. It is merely
fat and has slowed him up a great
deal.
Griffith Will Use
Many Port Siders
WASHINGTON, Sept. Bari-lns.
perhaps, two or three right-handed
pitchers. It would not be at all surpris
ing If the Washington pitching stafT
next season consisted almost entirely of
southpaws, Clark Griffith has come to
the conclusion that left-handed twlrlers
do not need as much natural ability to
make good In the big leagues as do
rlEht-handers, and he figures that if the
proper effort Is made It will be easier to
find suitable material of this kind.
He has instructed all his scouts to
keep a sharp lookout lor left-handed
pitchers. He wants to pick up all of
them that he can find, in the hope of
getting three or four southpaws on his
team by next season ..
"You have often heard It argued,
said he, "that left-handed hitters are
not puzzled by left-handed pitchers, but
vou bet they are. There are a few left-
handed hitters who hit southpaws oc
casionally but all of them must admit
that they are handicapped under such
conditions. , , . , . , .
“What Is more, the right-handed hit
ters are mostly helpless against a left-
handed man who has anything. I want
a whole staff of left-handers for mine
in the future and I propose to scour
the country from one end to the other
for them.’*
RIGLER AGREES WITH MACK.
Umpire Rlgler agrees with Connie
Mack that St. Louis will never have a
winning hall club because the heat there
is too severe to allow the players to do
Hum best.
Demarest Gets New
Jap Billiard Expert
CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 6.—Ikujiro Ta-
mura, the champion billiard player of
Japan, who recently arrived in this city,
has signed a contract with Calvin De
marest and for this season at least Ta
rn ura will be under the management of
the local expert.
Like his predecessor, Koji Yamada,
the new invader does not profess to be
an expert at balkline play, and he has
come to this country for the purpose of
perfecting himself in the modern game
as played by the leading American pro
fessionals.
Demarest was convinced quickly that
Tarnura was an adept at straight-rail,
and that he had a fine stroke, and for
this reason he undertook to give the
little Japanese player the benefit of his
experience.
Tarnura has made a run of 2,000 at
the straight-rail game with three balls
on a 4*4 by 9 table, and at the four-ball
game has gone as high as 4,000. Ta
rn ura was born in Tokio thirty-six years
ago, is 5 feet 7 inches in height and
weighs 126 pounds. He started playing
billiards when he was sixteen years of
age, and for the last twelve years has
been teaching the game In a Tokio room.
DREW TO ENTER BROWN U.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS., Sept. 6 —
Howard S. Drew, the negro high school
studentr present American champion
sprinter at 100 yards, is to enter Brown
r it was stated here to-day. Drew is
said to have passed his entrance ex
aminations and will be eligible to com
pete in track meets during his first
i+tu.
FOR SALE, IS
PDESJRinON
Magnate Denies Rumors Released
in the East—Huggins to Lead
Team Next Season.
S T. LOUIS, Sept The series of
stories exploded in the East re
cently concerning a general
shake-up in the Cardinals, principally
the ousting of Miller Huggins as man
ager; the sale of the club by the Brit
tons; the trade of Ed Koney, Harry
Sallee and quite a few more of the
players, were answered by President
Schuyler P. Britton upon his return
last night.
Here is what President Britton
said:
Miller Huggins will be the 1914
manager.
The club will not be sold and
we are trying to get new players
that will improve the team for
next year.
Unless we can make a satisfac
tory trade for any players they
will not be swapped. We are not
giving away th© few good players
we own.
Britton continued in his conversa
tion, explaining how the many ru
mors have spread around the circuit,
having the Cardinals the feature.
“While we were in New York one
of the papers came out with a 9tory
that there was dissension in the ranks
of the team,” stated Britton. “I think
the papers were trying to get Koney
and a few more players from us. Then
the most laughable story was that we
were going to pell.
Changing Managers Bad Business.
“While we are very disappointed at
the showing Huggins has made, he
will not be dropped. Injuries handi
capped Huggins and the team and he
deserves more than one year.
“Roger Bresnahan was in office four
years, and barring 1911 was not a
success. Changing managers every
year will never get a winning ball
club. Huggins will be in charge in
1914 and we will have many new
players for him.”
That the Cardinals could trade with
every club in the league was men
tioned hv Britton, but no magnate
was willing to part with anything
that Britton thought would be at
least an even trade. Especially the
Giants, who, according to Britton, are
willing to hand over nothing but ex
tra ma f erial for Koney. Harmon, Sal
lee and a few more.
Harmon for Bob Bescher.
One trade Is under way and it prob
ably will be completed in a day or so.
It is with the Cincinnati Reds and
will send Bob Harmon to Redland in
exchange for Outfielder Bob Bescher
and Pitcher George Suggs. If it goes
through, then the Cardinals will gei
one of the best outfielders In the Na
tional League.
Since mid-seaaon Huggins has been
dickering with Owner Herrmann, al
ways centering his trade around Bob
Bescher. A marvel of an athlete, a
brilliant fielder, timely swatter anu
speed expert, Bescher would fit in
snugly in the Cardinals’ outfield.
But Herrmann always wanted what
Huggins didn’t want to offer. At one
stage of the summer Herrmann was
willing to hand over Bescher. Hob-
lltzell and Pitcher Suggs for Lee
Magee and Ed Koney. But Hug
spurned this exchange. He wanted
Indian Johnson instead of Sugg? and
had the Reds’ boss agreed to this the
swap would have been completed.
Now it turns to Bescher and Suggs
for Harmon, which is certain to give
the Cardinals the edge.
Club Is Not for Sale.
“The biggest lie turned out.” con
tinued Proxy Britton, “was that we
are going to sell. Ifcvery time I pick
up a newspaper I read that we are
going to get out of baseball. Now',
there’s nothing to this Why should
we sell? We w'ant to give St. Louis a
baseball win/ier and we can’t do that
If we sell tne Cardinals.
“This has been a bad year for us,
but the many changes we expect to
make for 1914 surely will give us an
improved ball club. We have bought
many ptavers and our scouts have
recommended many more to be draft
ed.”
SHIS BIG DIAL
N EW YORK, Sept. 1.—People well
informed on baseball, It Is said,
have learned that the deal In
volving Larry McLean In exchange
for Otis Crandall, put through re
cently by the Giants and Cardinals,
w'as merely a blind by which the
Giants could get McLean for a cash
consideration without Involving a
storm of adverse criticism on the
part of the St. Louis fans.
This is given color by the fact
that Crandall was turned back to
the Giants for no immediate consid
eration, it being announced that he
returned for “cash and a player to be
delivered when the Giants have the
pennant cinched.”
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D EOPLE connected with the New
1 York club have let slip the in
formation that the Cardinals Jiave
been In a bad w'ay financially this
year and w'ere in need of immediate
assistance.
When the sporting editor of The St.
Louis Times was in New York re
cently he sat with Otis Crandall each
afternoon at the Browns’ games.
Crandall did not .seem at all disturbed
over, being "traded” from a winning
club to a tail-ender. Neither did he
display any of the concern of a pru
dent man at being dumped out of
his chances for from $3,000 to $3,500
in the world's series.
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T3EMOVB that much money from
the gaze of any athlete and he’d
holler to high heavens, but Crandall
was extremely cheerful. His attitude
at that time seemed strange.
The raising money part of the New
York yarn we know is straight. Re
ports have been current to that ef
fect among baseball people In St.
Louis for some time.
Papke to Try Again
In the Squared Ring
CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—Billy Papke, at
one time champion middleweight, and
who has been living quietly at hla home
in Kewanee, Ill., the past summer, is
to take another flyer at the game and
also the title—that is, if he can make
the weight.
Billy had intended going hack to
Paris this fall for a match with either
Frank Klaus or Georges Carpentier, but
he has changed his mind and now says
he will remain In the States and grab
off some of the matches in the Middle
West. He is anxious to meet Jack Dil
lon or Eddie McGoorty.
He has been working about the home
all summer, doing light work in the
gym. and says he is in better shape
now than he has been at this time of
the year in several seasons.
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‘Good Pitchers Needed’—Lajoie
D ETROIT, Sept. <5.—Seventeen of
the 37 players the Tigers have
on their rorfter are pitchers. For
years the Detroit club has been weak
as to its pitching staff, anu President
Navin and Manager Jennings have
made up their minds that pitchers they
must have.
But pitchers are very, very hard to
get and get good.
Napoleon I^ajole turned baseball
philosopher the other day and dis
cussed some of the difficulties of a
baseball magnate with a Detroit
sport w'riter. Nap has never been a
baseball magnate, but from his long
experience as manager and player, he
knows whereof he speaka Just the
same.
“Lots of people thought Barney
Dreyfus w r as crazy when he paid $22,-
500 for Marty, O’Toole recently,” re
marked Lajoie. “I don’t know wheth
er Barney paid that much in cash or
not, but if Marty comes through for
Pittsburg it wafl money well spent. If
I w'ere a club ow'ner and had a pitcher
offered me that I absolutely knew
w'ould be a star In the big league, I
don’t think I would hesitate at pay
ing $50,000. It would be money well
spent, but I doubt if many club own
ers will agree with me.
Got Joss for Nothing.
“But they spend the money Just the
same In the effort, without getting
the star pitcher. When I came to
Cleveland Somers and Kilfoyle had
Addle Joss. He had cost them noth
ing and he proved to be one of the
best pitchers and ball players the
game ever knew. But after they got
Joss they Invested a good deal more
than $50,000 in pitchers, without get
ting another man equal to Joss, until
Gregg was bought. See my argument?
The average club owner will think
nothing of paying anywhere from
$2,000 to $5,000 apiece for pitching
recruits whom he hopes will make
good. Nine times out of ten the
money U thrown away, w'hile the
tenth time he may get only a fair
pitcher. My contention is that if the
opportunity is presented, a club own
er should not hesitate about paying
the price for a star. He’ll not only
save money by not having to buy so
many second-raters, but he will also
make it up at the gate.
“Go back through your memory. In
ten years Cleveland has had two real
star pitchers—Joss and Gregg. Chi
cago has had Ed Walsh, and Walsh
has been the one man to keep the
White Sox out of the cellar. St. Louis
has not had any. New York had
Chesbro and later on Russell Ford.
Philadelphia had Waddell, Plank,
Bender and Coombs. Washington has
had only one—Walter Johnson, while
Joe Wood is the only one developed
by Boston. Cy Young and Bill Dineen
w'ere stars at Boston, but they were
stars before they joined our league.
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"I agree with Addle Joss when he
said that pitching was the biggest
part of the game. If I had had Vean
Gregg to work along with Addle back
in 1908, we would have played the
Cubs for the world’s pennant, but one
star pitcher rarely wins a pennant,
especially if that star Is a man who
needs at least three days in between
his games.
Scarcity of Stars.
“Yes, sir, star pitchers are mighty
scarce. You can go out and get the
outfielders who can throw, bat and
run bases; you can get the Inflelders
w'ho can field with a lot of speed and
hit fairly well, but you have got to
go some to dig up two great pitchers
in two or three seasons, to say noth
ing of in one year. No use talking,
but Philadelphia was lucky when it
grabbed Alexander and Chalmers the
mime season and got them cheap, at
that.
"You say the club ow'nlng the star
pitchers would not sell. Perhaps not,
but if some of the magnates were to
lump together the money they throw
away in buying pitchers promiscuous
ly and were to offer it for one star
pitcher, the magnate owning that
pitcher would do a lot of thinking be
fore he turned down the offer.”
No Chance of Austin
BeingTraded-Hedges
RT. LOUTS. Sept 6.—“There’s abso-
utely no chance of Jimmy Austin be-
V; adp< V' declared Owner Hedges of
the Browns yesterday. This statement
was provoked by the report that Austin
would be sent to Buffalo In a deal for
Frankie Truesdale and & pitcher.
The Browns did have a dear on for
Truesdale, but negotiations fell through
when Bill Clymer demanded one of the
Browns best pitchers.
Veteran Plank Is
Slowest Pitcher in
American League
BOSTON, MASS., Sept. 6.—Th© slow
est pitcher in the world haa be^.n dis
covered. H© Is Eddie Plank, th© Ath
letics’ veteran. Just for curiosity, and
to settle an argument. The Times’ tele
graph operator In Philadelphia held th©
watch on Plank when he pitched against
the Browns In a recent series.
After Stovall made a double he con
sumed 30 seconds throwing the first ball
to Pratt. This period elapsed after he
received the ball from the catcher and
before he delivered It to the hat. The
next pitch required 25 seconds. Pratt
hit this ball. *
In the same inning he took 25 sec
onds throwing the first ball to Williams.
Three pitches to Balenti required 28, 36
and 30 seconds. Plank pulls down his
cap, hitches up his trousers, wiggles his
left foot and buries it in the pitcher’s
box like an old hen going to roost. Then
he carefully scrutinizes the bases and
the outfielders, and by the time he gets
around to pitch the batter Is half fid
geted to death.
That’s the system of his stalling— to
get the other fellow over-anxlou*.
George Mullin Hopes
To Be Back in Majors
LA PoRTE, IND.. Sept. 6.-Georg©
Mullin, ex-Tlgor and former Washing
ton National pitcher, has been signed
to play with the Bryan. Ohio, Independ
ent team for the remainder of the sea
son. Mullin hopes to be able to come
back another season and again get into
major league company.
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Tou know as well as we that you can't tell any
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A truss or so-called "appliance" may seem all
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