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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERTP.'N, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1913.
tones From Tennis Courts and Golf Course:
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The year that Cummings discovered
the curve he was playing with the
Excelsior team of New York. He
Rivinpton Bisland, in addition
to bein',' the class of the Southern
League in the short field this
year, is a reliable, nervy bats
man, particularly good in the
pinches, and displays speed and
headwork on the bases. Ilis
sliding is well judged and tricky
under all conditions.
first used his bender against the
Harvard University team and he
proved the easy winner. The Har
vard batters could do nothfng wTlh
the new delivery.
In 1870 Cummings gave the secret
of the curve out for the first time and
then only to one pitcher, Matthews,
who was pitching for Baltimore. It
later resulted that these two curve
ball pitchers were traded and In 1872
they opposed each other on the
mound. Although two years before
Cummings gave Matthews the secret,
the latter had not mastered It. in
this one game he practiced it from
start to finish and did fairly well.
Curnmlngs won the game.
Played on Many Teams.
In 1872 Cummings played with the
Mutuals of New York. The next
season found him with the Baltimore
team, and in 1874 he played with
Philadelphia. The following year he
went to Hartford.
It was with Hartford that Cum
mings had his best year and that
season he won 69 games out of the
96 during the season. His curve hall
was then working in wonderful fash
ion and he was the talk of the base
ball world.
Mr. Cummings believes that the
game has not changed much since
his days, but states that the players
have It much easier with their gloves.
He also says there were more re
strictions on the players in his days.
He picks the New York Giants to
win the world’s championship this
season from the Athletics.
B OSTON, Sept. 13.—Arthur Cum
mings. the inventor of the curve
ball, was an Interested specta
tor at the Red Sox games last week.
Mr. Cummings came to Boston from
his home In Athol for the express
purpose of meeting Joe Wood, in
whom he is greatly interested. Al
though a follower of baseball for
more than half a century, Mr. Cum
mings had never met the Red Sox
star pitcher until last Wednesday.
Cummings was a great pitcher back
in the '70s. when a ball club carried
but one regular pitcher and a relief
man during a season of 96 games. He
has never forgotten those days and
he proved a great entertainer to the
Red Sox players, telling stories of his
days on the diamond.
It was In 1867 that Cummings first
discovered how to throw' a curve ball,
and It was not for several years aft
er that any other pitcher was able
to master the art.
Pitcher Was Nearer Plate.
Back in his time a pitcher deliver
ing the ball stood but 45 feet from
home plate and was forced by rules
to throw the ball from the level of
his waist-line. Consequently It was a
difficult task to put any "stuff” on
the sphere. At that short distance
It was also hard to get any contril.
According to Mr. Cummings, weather
conditions had to be with the twirier,
or else it was impossible to throw a
curve. If the wind was against the
throw a curve was possible, but hurl
ing with the wind a straight ball was
Much of the
Crackers’ suc
cess in that last
terrible drive
depended on
the cool, heady
work of Chap-
back of
THE SOUTH’S NEW CHAMPS.
IF YOU WANT TO WRITE ’EM.
Wallace li. Smith, Philadelphia,
Pa., age 23.
Joseph Conzelman, Puget Sound.
Conn., age 21.
Elliott Dent, Atlanta, Ga., age 25.
Gilbert Price, Canton, Ohio, age
24.
Carl Thompson Copper Hill,
Tenn., age 23.
John D. Vost«, Monticello. Ga.,
age 2L
Houghton Hove, Meridian, Miss.,
age 19.
Harry E. Chapman, Cincinnati,
Ohio, age 23.
Joseph E. Dunn, Springfield,
Ohio, age 29
Joseph Agler, Beach City. Ohio,
age 24.
Rivlngton Bisland, Carnegie. Pa.,
age 24.
Harry Holland, Atlanta, Ga.. age
20.
Frank Manush. Louisville, Ky.,
age 27.
Tnomns Long. Belden Springs,
Ala., age 25.
Harry Welchonce, Akron, Ohio,
age 25.
Albert Nixon, Atlantic City, N.
J., age 20.
Hitting, Running, Form Reversals
Bumped Managers, and Other
New Marks.
man
the wood, and
his deadly
throwing arm
when opposing
runners were
threatening.
f’T'VlE 1913 season of the Southern
S League, or, more properly
.‘•peaking. Southern Association,
is no more. When Finis Wilson sent
the Gulls down in sickening defeat
before thousands of their home guard
and bestowed upon the Crackers*
sw'eaty brow the filet of victory, the
race of 1913 had passed into history,
and it went recorded as one of the
most sensational and epoch-making
which has ever been witnessed by
Dixie fans.
In spite of the sensational character
of the ball Chat was staged, the sea
son just passed has not been extreme
ly successful financially for the league
as a whole. None of the clubs are in
distress, however. The failure of
New Orleans and Memphis to remain
in the race Is largely' responsible for
the failure of the various clubs as a
whole to come out on the light side
of the ledger, as these two towns
pulled down the attendance of the
road clubs. Atlanta and Birmingham
Cobb Would Have
Been One Gorgeous
Football Player
made big money, the spurt of the
Crackers and the attendance race be
tween the two cities turning out the
largest crowds in history.
Records were smashed with a wan-
top hand during the season just
passed. Atlanta broke the attend
ance record for the season and for a
single game. Tommy Long, of the
Crackers, broke the runs scored
mark, and Harry Welchonce broke
the league record for the number of
hits made. Clayton Perry and "Del"
Young, unwilling to have the Crack
ers be the whole noise along the van
dalism line, then came along and set
up new records for consecutive hits,
securing eleven bingleg in succession.
The season just passed Is resulting
In wholesale managerial changes,
most of which have already been
made. But three clubs will stand pat
on their 1913 pilots, these being At
lanta, Birmingham and Nashville
Chattanooga will not retain Elber-
feld, Bernhard will depart from Mem
phis, Finn will leave Mobile, Dobbs
will shake the dust of Montgomery
from his feet, while Frank, In New
Orleans, will retire to the presidency
of the Pelicans and leave the Tabasco
Kid in charge as playing manager.
For sensations, upheavals and sur
prises the reason of 1913 carries off
the undisputed palm.
The Baseball Fan
■ ■ ■- ■■ By THOMAS NUNAN ■
T N old times there were orators;
•*■ Demosthenes, they say,
Would fill his mouth with pebbles, then
Talk clear across the bay.
Ty Cobb may be a pretty nifty little
baseball player, admits Dan McGugin,
famous Michigan football star of other
days and now coach at Vanderbilt, but
oh! be would have been a humdinger on
the football field
McOugln has held firmly to this opin
ion ever since that time Ty was at
Nashville It seems that he was given
the privilege of practicing one week
with the Vanderbilt learn. He was a
joke at first, says McGugin, but he didn't
remain such very long
He kept plugging away, observing
what the others were doing and profit
ing by mistakes. In four days he de
veloped Into the hest drop kicker on the
squad. By the end of the week there
was not a man on his team whom Mc
Gugin would not have traded for Cobh.
Hard work and brains have made the
Georgian the greatest baseball player,
says McGugin, and the same qualities
would have made him one of the best
little old football stars that ever booted
the pigskin.
T N old times there were orators;
Great Edmund Burke, hooray
Could so control the Parliament
He almost had his way.
training farm for corpulent business
men. Boston money Is to finance the
enterprise, and J. B. Walcott, a Bos
ton millionaire, is behind it. This
is according to Bob.
It’s a long time since the lanky
freckled ex-champion has been heard
from. Sunday afternoon a chic lit
tle automobile stopped in front of
the Hotel Knickerbocker, and on the
back seat sat a man who was evi
dently a prominent citizen. He wore
a natty straw hat, a black and white
checked suit, a white silk shirt and
a blue knitted tie containing a scarf-
pin in the form of a horseshoe, but
containing Lincoln’s head. A very
prosperous and not unusual looking
New Yorker. It was Bob Fitzsim
mons. Tf you didn’t believe it, you
would notice a gold and diamond
watch charm with "World’s Cham
pion” upon it in big head iines. Here
is something Jack Johnson ought to
have, but Fitz retains It.
“Yes. sir,” said Mr. Fitzsimmons,
*Tm going to have a regular training
farm where business men who are
run down can gel in condition. Lots
of people have been dissatisfied with
Muldoon’s method?, but his was the
only thorough place, so they would
have to stand for It.
"I believe in treating gents like
gents, and I’ll get them to do just
as much work as though I said, ‘Do
this, you son of a gun. You won’t?
! Then take the first train out of here.'
"Mr. Walcott, of Boston, is going
to put up the capital, and we are go
ing to erect the building on my farm
in New Jersey. It’s going to be a
swell place."
Fitz Not Broke.
"I heard you were broke.” said the
reporter.
*No, I ain’t broke." said Bob. "I
got my farm and some money. I get
along all right I don’t ask nothing
old times there were orators
Said Patrick Henry Clay:
give me liberty or death!”
Well? Someone that did sayl
old times there were orators;
As Daniel Webster said:
will be mangled with the free
Or mingled with the dead!”*
•J old times there were orators
Now, Samuel Shortridge, hs
wise expostulation points
His finger unto me.
G'T’HOUGH olden times had orators.
Says he; "since time began
Was no one else so eloquent
As is the baseball fan.”
♦The correctness of this quotation can not. bo guaranty
somebody, somewhere, sometime, said something of that sort.
Rush of Boxers to
N. Y, Expected Soon
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For This Season
Princeton Coaches
Must Develop Her
Football Squad
NEW YORK. Sept. 13.—unless an
signs fail, there is going to be a rush
for New York by all the best boxers
in the near future. The announce
ment that the Vernon Arena will close
down for several months and the s?efi-
rral agitation against boxing in Cali
fornia are likely to cause'a stampede
n this direction.
Leach Cross and Johnny Dundee,
the two New Yorkers, are now home
ward bound, having concluded that
there is nothing more to be gained
In California for the present. From
all accounts Cross was not sorry to
, a ll off his bout with Dundee. The
dentist-boxer came in for a mild
roasting when he insisted upon set
ting the weight for the match at 135
pounds. As Dundee is little more
than a featherweight, it was felt that
PRINCETON. N. J., Sept. 13.—Foot-
ball practice has started at Princeton,
| but the coaches are facing one of the
most serious problems that ever con
fronted men who are trying to evolve a
championship team.
It will be necmiaary to develop an al
most entirely new squad, bh nearly all
of the best men have giaduated from the
university.
Here's the loss among the linemen
alone Arthur Rluethenthal. all Amer
ican center; H. G. Andrews, one of the
1912 ends. W. G. Penfleld, tackle; W. J.
Logan, all-American guard, and W. G.
Wight, end. In addition to this heavy
loss, Hhenk will be unable to play. This
leaves only one veteran In the line, <1.
F Phillips, a tacklo. The line will have
to be built from the freshman squad
mainly.
Among the .other missing stars are
Captain Pendleton, W. L. DeWitt and L
O. Waller, all back field men. Both I >e-
J Witt and Waller will be ineligible. The
freshmen class will turn out some gr>c*l
men. incuding Captain Semnmns at
tackle, Heyniger at tackle, Larnberton
| and Brown at tackle. Shea, law anti
! Glick as hacks 'I ne team will he built
1 around the captain, H. A. CHobey”)
Baker.
The field coaches this season are Ar-
* thur Bluethenthal and H G. Andrews,
succeeding T. A. Wilson and Ivogan
, Cunningham. W. G. Penfleld will also
act as coach.
Other Tailors Charge $25
Felton Spurns Big
Bid to Play Ball
your indi
vidual
measure
UNION MADE
Mack Vainly Tries to Give Harvard
Hurler $15,000 for Three
Years.
think. It’s that the others are so
burn.
"You know that Jeffries was doped j
when he fought Johnson. Sure. I j
know who did it. And I was doped ,
when 1 fought Jeffries, and I know i
who did that. Lu'her McCarty was I
poisoned. too. They gave him I
cyanide. He’d have been dead in five i
minutes if he hadn't gone Into the
ring at all.
Sure Thing ,Bettors.
"The trouble with the modern
fighting game is these sure thing
bettors. They ain’t satisfied to lay
a bet on the best man. They pick
the long odds, take the worst man
and make him win by handing doj>e
to the other guy, If they can get
him.”
•Tell him the joke about William
Morris, Fitz.” suggested a by
stander.
‘ Didn’t yer ever hear about that?”
••uled Fitz.
•It’s a long time since it happened
If you want a high-grade, per feet-fit
ting suit at a distinct saving of $10,
come in.
and after striving as he has never
before done for any player, failed to
gain the coveted star.
This much-sought collegian Mack
says would have made the greatest
ex-college pitcher in the history ot
the game.
He is Samuel Felton, football and
baseball star at Harvard for three
years.
Within the past month Mack of
fered Felton a fiat contract of $15,000
for three years, offering to permit
him to make his own terms and giv
ing him the option of an uncondi
tional release should he tire of pro
fessional ball.
Felton, who live.s at Haverford,
Pa., comes of a wealthy family and
does not have to play ball for a
troft.
Thorcas H. Bushnell. 1916. came to
Michigan from Cleveland. Last year
Bushnell played quarterback In the
Pennsylvania game. He undoubtedly
will he the varsity pivot man this sea
son. He weighs about 166 pounds.
E. F Hugnltt, 1916. made his letter
last year as a backfield man. He is
rather small, but fearless. He lives in
Detroit.
M. FI. Boyle, 1914, from Duluth, Minn.,
won hl*» "Si” last year playing In the
backfield. Boyle weighs 160 pounds, and
is an excellent man in carrying the
ball through a broken field
"GETTING ONTO” COURSE.
BROOKLINE, MASS., Sept. 13.—A
trio of Europe’s greatest golfing ■tar>.
Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, of
England, and Louis Telller, of France,
have started to familiarize themselves
with the peculiarities of the Brook
line oCuntry Club links, where, on
Wednesdav next, the American open
championship golf tournament, in
CLABBY BATTLES LOGAN.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.--Jim
my Clabby. the Milwaukee middle
weight, who has established him
self as an important contender for
the title by defeating Sailor Grande,
has been matched to meet Frank Lo
gan for ten rounds on Wednesday
night before the West Oakland Club.
On me turner’’ 75 PtACH 1 KEfc ST. Cor. Auburn Ave.
tVOOL£N M/LLS
Going Oi
it After a Tall Foul;
Harry C)
lapman at Top Speed
DISCOVERER OF CURVE MEETS JOE WOOD
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CUMMINGS TELLS OF EARLY BASEBALL
‘7 he Best Shortstop’ Does a
Fancy Slide to Third Base
RECORDS FELL
IN BASEBALL
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