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'JOE BEAN SEES
BETTER TIMES
FO HIKES
Visit to New York Shows Chance's
Team Picking Up—Gossip
of the Big Show.
LEFT-HAND PITCHERS
HAVING HARD TIMES
Port-Side Batsmen Simply Wait
for Curves and Then Pickle
Them Unmercifully.
By O. B. Keeler.
OUR friend Joe Bean is back from
New York, where, among otner
things, he saw some baseball.
Wherefore Joe is as full of tips and
Ideas as a spring training trip Is of
Charley Horses.
Joe will now lead off.
“Never get the idea that Frank
Chance Is a failure as manager of the
Yanks,” began Joe. “I saw them play
a few times, and they look like a reg
ular ball club, even now. Next year
they are bound to look a whole lot
better —maybe enough better to get
into the first division. Anyway, they II
•poll a lot of chances for the good
ones.
“I aaw the Yanks trim St. Louis,
which is no groat job, but they did It
In workmanlike style. Then I flaw
them lick Detroit, with Ty Cobb in
full career, which is something else
again, now, or any other time.
Joe Likes the New Hands.
“Chance has got hold of Rome
mighty good-looking material. This
chap Malsel —the expensive guy—is
going to be a marvelous ball player,
or I’ll miss my guess. He’s one bird
of an Infielder, and he can hit—well,
the paper this morning <”lves him a
triple and three singles, with a base
on balls, in five times up.
“Then there’s a fellow named Gll-
Ibooley, an outfielder. I had heard he
was fast on his feet, but, say —he’s a
•peed marvel. It sounds like lese
majeste, or something of that sort, to
•ay Ty Cobb is no faster on the bases,
but I’ll just take a chance and say
that very thing. Os course, this fel
low hasn’t the experience yet, but he
certainly has the speed.
“He and .Malsel are rather short
knd stocky, both built for spe'*l.
JJalael steals third as readily as I
•ver saw It done.”
Advantage of Stealing Third.
When upon Joe launched into a dis
sertation of the comparative ease
with which third base might be stolen.
"Most spectators and moat ball
players, too,” said Joe, “seem to have
an’idea that because the peg to thirl
Is shorter by about 36 feet that base
is harder to swipe than second.
“The reverse is true, in nearly all
cases. The runner can take thr«*e
times the lead off second he can off
first, particularly with a left-hand
pitcher working. Then, with a right
hand batter up. the catcher’s throw
js necessarily slow and hampered
And It takes just as good a : • g to g-3t
• man at third as at second.”
Donlin to Manage Skeeters.
Joe says there is a lot of talk about
Mike Donlin’s approaching manage
rial connection with the Jersey Ci*y
Fkeeters, the club that has Joe Agler
now. and will keep him In spite cf
drafts and other winds that blow
“Mike is a very popular citizen.”
Joe said. "Folks up East never will
forget the style and dash of Sir Mi
chael’s batting with the Giants, nota
bly In 1907, when he came to bat in
the ninth Inning on three separate
•nd distinct occasions, with the bases
full and two out, and cleaned up with
a home run.
'Mike is in good shape, too. He Isl
faster than in some years, and ought
to make a good example for the
f’keeters.”
Speaking of batting. Joe says the
port-side reapers In the Big Show’ are
making life a burden to the fork
band pitchers, who in former seasons
have pestered them very materially.
Hit Curve Balls Now,
“Their plan Is quite simple. They
•Imply wait for a curve and then
pickle* It. And they certainly are mur
dering the curves.
“Ty Cobb picked out one of Joe
Boehling’s pet hooks the other day
©nd knocked all the kink out of It—
with several men on bases, too. By
the way, the talk goes that Boehling
Is curving himself out of the Ameri
can League. Four out of five of his
pitches are curves, and no pitcher—
particularly a left-hander —can keep
that up long. Os course. Joe was suc
cessful for a time while he was run
ning up that string of eleven straight
victories. But by the time the wise
old sluggers had looked him over a
bit he didn’t look so tough. Now he’ll
have to pitch his arm off to hold his
own.”
Vaughn an Illustration.
Which recalls the circumstance of
Big Jim Vaughn, who pitched for
Kew York and Washington in the
American League, then went to Kan
sas City in the American Associa
tion, and finally was sold to the Cubs
ft month ago.
The writer became well acquainted
■with Big Jim and his pitching pecu
liarities while the southpaw was in
Kansas City. He had a wonderful fast
ball, with a most amazing hop to it,
and it was deadly effective, particu
larly against left-hand hitters Big
Claude Rossman was so afraid of that
fast ball that he batted against
Vaughn, as the saying goes, “with one
foot in the wat >r bucket.” All Jim
had to do was to shoot the first one
tip fast, high and a bit inside and
Claude’s dog was on Its way.
But Jim. also had a dftiky curve,
and he was very fond of It. The
catchers had hard work making him
use his fast one, and he wasn't any
too lucky in the A. A., though he did
pitch a no-hit. no-run game against
Toledo, whiffing twelve batsmen and
walking seven.
JACK HEISMAN
SMILES AS HIS
JACKETS TOIL
Evidence of Beef, Brawn and
Speed Justify Good Humor
of Coach at Tech.
INNIS BROWN SEES GOOD
CHANCE FOR WINNING TEAM
.Patten, Preas, Cushman and John
ston, New Men, Show Up
Well in Practice.
By Tunis Brown.
AFTER standing for 20 or 30
minutes at a safe distance and
watching some 40 or 50 husky
l young athletes maneuvers about
■ Grant Field Friday afternoon, we ven
tured a bit closer and succeeded in
engaging Coach J. W. Heisman in a
brief interview or rather social con
fab.
Byway of a bit of raillery, w’e In
quired whether the report was true
that he would report to Connie Mack
shortly for a tryout with the Ath
letics, seeing that he was all togged
out in a spick and span baseball uni
form. Humoring the joke, he admit
ted that the report might be true,
but he opined otherwise.
All of which, we maintain, went to
show’ that the coach was in an ex
ceedingly good humor. And casting
about a bit. we found no difficulty in
finding cause, pood and sufficient.
Tons of Hope.
Our Idea of the reward of hope for
a football coach is the discovery on
or about reporting day of several
tons of avoirdupois, all sewed up in
the robust hides of some two score
or more husky young men and suit
ably bound around with a liberal
trimming of ginger and “pep.’’ At
any rate, whatever it takes to please
ye football instructor Coach Heisman
has it, wherefore his readiness to hu
mor any slight joke that may be flung
his way.
But coming down to cases, the
Jacket skipper appears to have the
goods In large, wholesome packages
this season. Those who know’ say he
has the appearance of conjuring up
mentally the presence of other Bus
ter Hunters, Vedder Sittons, Derricks
and Johnny Maxwells. Those who
remember the days when the Clem
son Tigers ran riot In this section
ought to know the result of such
conjuring.
Not Clemson —Yet.
Os course there remains some gap
between the present situation at Tech
and that which obtained in the Caro
lina village several seasons since.
However. It appears likely to de
velop that the difference is merely
a matter of time. But baseball pen
nants are rarely won in March, and
we have yet to learn of a football
championship being decided before
November. Wherefore Coach Heis
man is not boating .the incubator in
checking in his poultry.
But unless all signs fail, the Jack
ets are due for a winning this sea
son.
They certainly look it. just now.
To begin with, they now have at
practice Cook. McDonald. Fielder and
Means, of last year’s team, with the
likelihood that Loeb will drop in any
old day. In addition to these they
have several individuals who should
prove new stars in the Jacket firma
ment notably a few well-known citi
zens from Tennessee, hailing from
Chattanooga and neighborhing prov
inces.
Patten and Preas.
Among these is Gene Patten, from
the shadows of Lookout. Patten is
a halfback, and, if his backers pass
the dope straight, he can deliver.
Denizens of Moccasin Bend say Gene
is as good or better than Skinny
Shipp was in his prime. If he is as
good, Tech has made some acquisi
tion. He has had lots of experience
at football. He is fast, fairly heavy
and compactly built. Furthermore,
he is said to have an abundance of
grit, which can cover a multitude of
deficiencies, should such exist.
Also, there is a Mr. Preas, who
hails from the vicinity of Johnson
City. It is said that he has found
the time during the past four or five
years to become fairly well acquaint
ed with every kind of tool employed
in exploiting physical prowess in
track and field sports, to say nothing
of having become quite proficient at
the art of handling the pigskin. He
has played at Castle Heights, in Ten
nessee; Bingham School, in North
Carolina, and at Riverside. At any
rate. Mr. Preas is a very massively
built young man, and from all we
could see Friday he is likewise very
earnest, and would no doubt take
great pleasure in smashing any oppo
sition that essayed to set Itself up in
his path on a gridiron.
Then there is a Mr. Cushman and
a Mr. Johnston, also natives of the
Volunteer State. Either of these
should have a look in on the best
college football team that ever hum
bled a rival in Dixie, to judge from
their physical appearance. Further
more, there are others—many of them
—who appear to have all of the out
ward qualifications of football play
ers.
Nothing Heavy So Far.
At Friday’s practice, with the ex
ception of Kid Alexander’s “near
greats.” the bunch did nothing fur
ther than work out a few formations.
Alex, however, had his legions tear
ing back and forth arross the field at
a great rate, no doubt figuring that
he had better get the jump in prepar
ing them for the slaughter to come
later.
Since no scrimmaging or real sig
nal work was done, it was hard to
get much of a line on how the bunch
is going to shape up. However, you
can rest assured that they look good,
so far as heft and ability to handle
themselves goes, and. furthermore,
they appeared to be thoroughly se
rious.
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Here Are Ouimet, Vardon and Ray Who Battled Yesterday
For the United States Open Golf Championship of 1913
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MERGER SHOWS
WELL IN FIHST
SCRIMMAGE
Tenth District A. and M. Team Is
Downed by Easy Score—Two
Big Holes.
MACON. Sept. 20—With the
opening of the Southern foot
ball season, Mercer finds it
self with an uncertain team. The
failure of Captain Kelly and Fox
worth to return as expected has left
two places wide open, and they will be
exceedingly’ hard to fill.
But the other candidates are work
ing hard, and Mercer will have a
squad of scrappers on the gridiron
this year. Coach Hardage is trying
every day to make them catch a cer
tain amount of his “Vanderbilt gin
ger.” He is the ideal plan, it seems,
for the left vac&Mt by Coach
Stroud/who has eXhe to/P. S. U.
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THE opening scrimmage of the 1913
season tLok place JFriday after
noon against the Tenth District A.
and team. This puep bunch was
very strong, but the Grange and
Black romped away’ with a long
score, for a practice game.
Levie and Holman will be used at
center, Mills and Ford or Dunn as
guards, Forrester and Edwards as
tackles, Westmoreland and Dewber
ry or Lane at ends until a bit later in
the season. Sams will call signals,
and Sammons, Levie, Parker and
Izamer will do most of the ground
gaining from their positions back of
the line.
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x < ANY new men, green but willing,
have reported for practice.
While Mercer is making no claims
for a championship team, there are
hopes of a fairly’ successful season.
Manager Farmer has arranged a
hard schedule, but Mercer hopes to
win a majority of the games.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1913.
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Standing of Clubs.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Yesterday’s Results.
Washington 6, St. Louis 3
Philadelphia 4. Detroit 2.
New York 7, Cleveland 3.
Chicago-Boston, rain.
Sending of the Clubs.
W. P. Pc I W. P. Pc.
Phila. 91 49 .650 ' Chicago ’73 71 .507
Cleve. 82 61 .573 I Detroit 63 81 .438
Wash 82 61 .573 N. Y. 52 87 .384
Boston 72 65 .525 | St. L. 53 92 .365
Games To-day.
No games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Yesterday’s Results.
Pittsburg, 1; Brooklyn, 0 (first game).
Brooklyn, 4. Pittsburg, 3 (second
game).
Other games off; rain
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc. W. L. Pc.
New Y. 92 46 .667 B'klyn. 60 78 .435
Phila 81 51 614 Boston. 59 77 .434
Chicago 80 61 .567 t’in’nati 62 84 .425
P’burg 75 66 .532 St. L. . 49 95 340
Games To-day.
New York at Cincinnati.
Philadelphia at Chicago
Boston at St. Louis.
International League.
Newark, 2; Jersey City, 1 (first game).
Newark, 4, Jersey City, 2 (second
game).
Toronto, 5; Rochester. 3 (first game).
Toronto, 6; Rochester, 3 (second
game)
Buffalo, 4: Montreal, 1 (first game).
Montreal, 7; Buffalo, 5 (second game).
Providence-Baltimore, rain
American Association.
Louisville. 7; Kansas City, 4.
Other games off. rain.
Western League.
St. Joseph, 11; Denver. 0
( Des Moines, 3; Lincoln. 0
Omaha. 4; Wichita, 1.
Sioux City, 4; Topeka, 3.
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shown, in the diagram in the upper right hand corner is a sketch of Vardon making a wonderful ap
proach. He is the world's greatest player with the mashie.
The diagram at the bottom is a sketch of a 300-gard drive that Ray made during the tournament. Ray is
probably the greatest driver that ever played the game.
This Indian May Be
A Juvenile Bender
MILES CITY, MONT., Sept. 2d
There is a young (Yow Indian in the
Standing Rock Reservation by the name
of Crow Skin, and the Far Western fans
are watching him every day.
Crow Skin Is only 17 years old and
has never been away from the reserve
to profit by watching other hurlsrs shoot
them over, and all that he has is every
thing but a weak heart. In a recent
game against a South Dakota town he
struck out twenty-five. men. and while
they were not big league players, most
of them had been playing on pretty
fast bush teams
■ Crow Skin has never been beaten thus
j far, and unless he lets up on hi
i smoke the chances are he never will
■ be until he gets into oom pan y that sees
• ’em coming over.
Europeans Adopt Our
Methods to Trim Us
The prediction is made by J. W.
Spalding vice president of the Atner-
Ican Olympic committee, that Eu
ropean athletes will give the United
States team a much harder and closer
battle for Olympic honors at Berlin
in 1916 than heretofore.
Aa a result of his observations
while abroad, he asserts that Ameri
can track and field performers wiil
have to compete up to the high stand
ard in previous meets if they are f
to win the point trophies at the next
Olympic games.
Newark Club Wins
Pennant for 1913
NEWARK, X. J., Sept. 20.—8 y de- !
feating the Jersey (’ity learn by a score i
of 2 to 1 in the first game Gs a double- |
header, the Newark Indians clinched t
the International League pennant The i
Rochester team will finish iu second 1
place.
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Artificial Ice Rink
For Eli Hockey Team
NEW HAVEN. CONN, Sept. 20.
There is every prospect that Yale will
have a chance to turn out a far bet
ter hockey team this* year than ever
before.
Through the enterprise of two New
Haveners, an artificial ice rink is
now almost completed and no longer
will the Elis be handicappea by a
lack of Ice in preparing a hockey
team. The rink will have an ice sur
face of 200 by 185 feet, with rest
rooms, baths and lockers adjoining.
The renter freeze system will be
i used and the manufacturing capacity
| of the ice plant will be 100 tone in
, live hours. The rink Is only three
■ blocks from the cottage, and the Yale
j athletic authorities are well pleased
with It,
BRITONS HOW
TO F. OUIMET,
GOLF VICTOR
Open Championship of United
States Kept in This Country
by Young Amateur.
VARDON AND RAY BEATEN
IN 18-HOLE PLAY-OFF
Grand Nerve and Marvelous Golf
Mark Final Performance of
Youthful Champion.
Brookline, mass., sept. 20
An amateur golfer is open
champion of the United States,
and the British Invasion, which
seemed destined to score an over
whelming success. Is beaten back.
Francis Ouimet, a 20-year-old
golfer, an arpateur, won the play-off
7/ t,le Nineteenth Open
Golf < ’hampionship here to-day, beat
in Harry Vardon and Edward Rav
both former British champions, in ’a
most decisive fashion. At the end of
the 18-hole round played to break the
tie. the score stood: Ouimet, 72.
Vardon. 77; Ray. 78.
Big as was the margin of the vic
tory. it was not gained until the round
was nearly over.
Anybody’s Match.
Up to the fifteenth hole any one of
the three had plenty of chance to
win. for although Ouimet was ahead,
he led Vardon by only one stroke, and
Ray by two.
The gigantic Ray was the first of
the Englishmen to go down and out,
accomplishing his downfall bv pulling
Into a trap beside the fifteenth and
taking six strokes for the hole.
That left Ouimet and Vardon tn
fight it out, with a stroke to be gained
by Vardon if he wfeidd tie, and only
three holes left in which to gain it.
Each of the leaders got his three
on the little sixteenth, and on they
went to the seventeenth, where Oui
met had saved himself the day be
fore by’ getting a wonderful three.
Fatal for Vardon.
The Englishman seemed over-eager
to save a few yards by cutting across
the corner of the elbow from the tee.
and the attempt caused him to lose
all chances for the title. His ball was
caught by a trap and he had to plav
out safely, without trying to reach
the green. He took five fnr the hole,
and Ouimet, on in two, ran down a
12-foot putt that gave him the lead of
three clear strokes and clinched the
championship beyond doubt.
The other two strokes came In the
home hole, when Vardon, discouraged
and dejected, took six for the hole,
while the Boston boy made it in four.
The play-off began shortly after io
o’clock in a drizzling rain, a continua
tion of the miserable weather that
had made the second day r nf the
championship proper one long to be
remembered.
All three of the contestants made
the first hole in five Though Ouimet
and Vardon were close enough on
their approaches to have chances to
get down long puts, neither of them
did so.
The First Break.
On the second hole, on which all
three were down in four. Ray and
Ouimet had the same kind of op
portunities. but missed again. The
first jbreak came on the 435-yard
third; Cor ihorc Ray missed a short
put so/ his rbur. and Ouimet and
A’arddn forged/ahead.
Th/n cameZintMher hole on which
\eacly made though Ouimet was
to keep on even
terms wfib/tifie others. His second
went ont oTV>ounds and over the
f< bur as Rai\’ failed to get the
gFCtfJI ou &is sgoond and Vardon took
thn/o PUTS, the American lost nothing
by’ his rnfctake.
Vardon Loads.
'’Wt Jw sixth came another shift.
Vardon pitched his approach to the
green in splendid fashion, and the ball
stopped not more than six feet from
the cup After Ouimet had failed to
get down a long try, Vardon holed his
shot, and was a stroke ahead of Oui
met and two strokes in advance of z
Ray’. A good three on the short sev
enth enabled Ray to pull up on the
others, neither of whom could do bet
ter than four, and he was trailing
Vardon on even terms with Ouimet.
It was all even again when they
holed out in the eighth, for Ouimet
laid his approach to within a foot of
the pin, and went down 1n three, only*
to see Ray hole a 30-foot put for a
three. A moment later Vardon had to
be content with a par four. The ninth
hole is the longest on the course, and
the three made It In five apiece, Var
don having the most work to do, for
his drive was in the edge of the woods
to the. left.
All Even at Turn.
That left the score at the turn Oui
met 38, Vardon 38, Ray r 38. It was a
great struggle, and the crowd, grow
ing every minute, watched the drives
from the tenth tee breathlessly. The
three balls all reached the green, but
Ouimet’s was nearest the cup. It
looked as if three would be made, but
boh Englishmen took three puts,
while Ouimet was taking the usual
two. and the young amateur went
ahead, and. as It later proved, took a
lead that was never to be relinquish
ed.
Three fours on the next hole car
ried them to the twelfth, which prov
ed to be the turning point of the
round.
Amateur Gains Another.
Ouimet was the only one to reach
the green in two. and the Britishers
followed up their poor seconds with
the most Indifferent sort of short ap- |
proaches, with the result that neither '
of them got close enough to get down
in four, which Ouimet promptly pro
ceeded to do. and was two strokes
ahead. To be sure. Vardon made up a
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