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HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, <5 A., Sl'NDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1913.
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OLE ELM NoVd! Listen, Dear Reader, and You Shall Hear!
YE STRANGE TALE OF YE STANGE SPITBALL
Hope Dashed of Playing Chicago,
but May Meet Dartmouth and
Syracuse Next Year.
I T Is a thin gof mystery,
x This spitter sort of twistery,
I Whose origin and history
Are In dispute, gol ding it!
Did Elmer Stricklett Discover the
Spit Ball? No, Elmer Did
Not Discover It.
f^UT not a Wagner nor Cobb
Can hit a ball that’s rightly slob-
Bered by a man who holds his Job
By knowing how to fling it.
And every one you run across
Will sircar without a moment's loss
He was th( first to heave across
The spitter. Would you believe it?
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N EW HAVEN, CONN.. Dec. 13.—
When the Yale football sched
ule for 1914 Is announced ex
tensive changes in the annual date
list are certain. Yale will have a new
stadium which will cost some $500.-
000 on her hands, and a partially
built general playground plant valued
at about $600,000, and the question of
financing them has led to a decision
to expand in football engagements at
home.
In making up the schedule the new
administration, headed by Captain
■Nelson Talbott, banks on the Har
vard game, here biennially, as the
trump card. There will be seats and
standing room for more than 70,000
people here next fall, and it is pos
sible that the price of tickets may be
elevated. Even this nunqber of seats
will hardly fill the demand, it is ex
pected, for the Yale football manage
ment estimate that the requests for
tickets at the past two or three Har
vard games here could not have been
tilled with less than 125,000 seats.
The Yale Football Association will
make a bid for the Army-Navy game
in another season, for the first time. |
The new "Bowl,” it is felt here, will
prove the only American gridiron
plant capable of accommodating even
partially the demand for tickets for the
battle between West Point and An
napolis, and it is believed here that
the .invitation for the game to be
played here will be accepted. Yale’s
share of the receipts from this game
would be of great benefit in relieving
the strain caused by the expense of
constructing the athletic plant.
Yale-Chicago Game Would Draw.
It is probable that another game
that will prove a drawing card will
be added to the Yale schedule. One
that is favored in some quarters is a
bout with the University of Chicago.
It is practically certain that Yale pre
fers Chicago to any other Western
eleven and it seems equally clear that
this meeting of the East and West
would fill the stands to their eapac-
‘ iiy as no other match outside a
Yale-Harvard game could pack them.
But Walter Camp to-day said on
this subject, at Chicago:
, All the leading Eastern and
Western universities had a hard
season this year, and none prob
ably could have withstood the
‘ strain of an intersectional game.
"I did not come West for the
purpose of trying to arrange such
a game, but on purely business
matters. There is little chance of
Chicago and Yale meeting in the
4 future.
May Play Dartmout.
Another college whose advent on
the Yale schedule is discussed is
Dartmouth. The Green Mountaineers
have not figured as Yale’s gridiron
opponents in exactly two decades,
although it was revived as a remi
niscent feature of the banquet of
Captain Corbin’s '88 eleven here three
weeks ago that Yale sent its eleven
to Dartmouth to teach football there
about 30 years ago. The ability of
Dartmouth to pack the Yale stands
Is hardly doubted, but the preference
of a game with Chicago has been held
generally at Yale.
Yale will make an effort to get back
Syracuse upon her schedule next fall.
That college was not played the past
season because of its demand that if
Syracuse came to Yale in 1913 Yale
must agree to play at Syracuse in
1914. Yale was unwilling to make
that concession.
May Drop Two Teams.
Lehigh and Holy Cross are likely to
be dropped. Yale did not fancy the
brand of football exhibited by the
Holy Cross eleven and Lehigh failed
to meet expectations in playing
strengtl). Any eleven not strong
enough to either beat or tie Yale the
past fall is now regarded with some
suspicion. Colgate. Maine and Wash
ington and Jefferson, all of whom
proved too tough to be defeated by
the Blue, will be urged to come back
for a return engagement next fall at
which Yale hospitality will be keenly ,
in evidence.
Phillies Introduce
'14 Baseball Season
H ERE is where an old discussion
is to be opened once again.
Elmer Stricklett did not dis
cover the spitball. Someone bobs up
occasionally with the positive dec
laration that the spitter existed when
Father Adam heaved one of the Eden
Bellefleurs at a trespassing ptero
dactyl.
But in baseball circles far and wide
it is understood that Elmer Strick
lett. one-time star of the Coast
League ami afterward a member of
the Brooklyn club of the National
League, was the real Columbus of the
moist and elusive shoot. The Strick
lett balloon will now take a puncture.
The spitter was discovered by
George Hildebrand. former Coast
League ball player, later Coast
League umpire, and now umpire on
Ban Johnson's American league cir
cuit.
Hilde showed Stricklett the spitler.
Stricklett showed it to Chesbrough.
Chesbrough threw away a world's
championship by spitting at the
wrong time, and since then the spitter
has been common property. In base
ball it has become not so much a sur
vival of the fittest as a survival of the
spittiest. The poor baseball has be
gun to plead for local-option laws,
being a firm believer in a certain
amount of dry territory.
Mike Fisher, former manager of the
Sacramento club, told this story of
the spitter’** discovery, and Hilde
brand corroborated it. Also Hilde
added some Important details, so it
might be better to tell the story in
Hilde’s way and say that Mike cor
roborated it.
"Back in the early part of 1902,"
said Hilde, "Frank Corridon, a young
pitcher who wa* afterward with the
Chicago Cubs, was with the Provi
dence club. He had a halrit of spit
ting on his slow ball, and In fun one
day I imitated him in practice, and
then said, ‘Why don’t you shoot ’em
in faster?’ Then I moistened up the
ball again and threw a fast one. I
noticed it took a peculiar shoot, and 1
experimented with it a number of
times, and even discussed it with Cor
ridon. He used it and in one game I
remember he struck out twelve men
in six innings, and then wrenched his
arm. I doubt if he ever tried the,
spitter again, or if he even realized
that it was of much value even then.
"Toward the end of the 1902 season
Y ET East and West and North and
South—
Save pitchers stricken with a drouth
And hence all dried up In the mouth—
You’ll find the men who heave it.
George. Hildebrand, a Former
Coast League Player. Is Real
Columbus of Mystery.
1 Jumped organized ball to play with
Mike Fisher’s Sacramento club.
Stricklett was a member of the club.”
"And he was going badly,” inter
posed Mike. "I was getting ready to
tie the can to him. He was worse
than useless to Pie.
"During the warm-up in Los An
geles one day, I said to Stricklett, ‘Lei
me show you something they can't
hit,' and I showed him this ball that 1
had experimented with in the East.
He immediately >cgan to experiment
with it. That was the beginning of
spitbnll pitching. Stricklett got so ne
could control the ball, making il
break in any direction he chose.
"About a week after that he begged
me for a chance to pitch,” added
Mike. "I le k him go in, and the op
posing club got about two hits off
him. In tlie post-season series he
pitched two games against the All-
Americans and All-Nationals. In one
of them he allowed three hits and in
the other two. Stricklett went up to
the big league the very next year.
But if Hilde hadn’t shown him the
spitter lie would not have been on my
club when that season ended."
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Joe Tinker Only One
Of New Managers in
1913 To Be Let Out
The removal of Joe Tinker as man
ager of the Reds removes from major
league baseball one of five new pilots
of 1913.
The other four—Joe Birmingham, of
the Naps; Evers, of the Cubs; Chance,
of the Yankees, and Stallings, of the
Braves—will be retained in their pres
ent jobs at least another year. Joe
Birmingham had his team fighting for
the American League pennant right
down to the finish. Evers did as well
as any one could have expected with
his Cubs. Stallings made his team a
winner, and it Is predicted that it will
do even better in the coming campaign
Frank Chance mane a good start with
lis Yankees, weeded out considerable
dead wood and mushed ohe berth above
;i.-- la si hole. Tirnv.-r .-(lone in the quin
tet made a bad showing, finishing sev
enth with a team that hail finished in
fifth place the year before.
Next season will see three new pilots
in the major leagues: W'lbert Robin
son at Brooklyn, Branch Rickey at St.
Louis, in charge of the Browns, and
Bill Carrlgan at Boston, piloting the
Red Sox. All of these throe broke Into
clubs where the managers seemed to bt-
safely intrenched. Stovall was sup
posed to have his job cinched at St.
Louis, while Jake Stahl was expected
to stick at Boston, in view of the fact
that the Red Sox had won the 1912 pen
nant. The release of Bill Dahlen was
not totally unexpected. He had bad a
long trial at Brooklyn and failed to bring
his team up In the first division.
Wolverines Not to
Lose Yost as Coach
ANN ARBOR. MICH.. Dec. 13 —To
quiet disconcerting rumors afloat to the
effect that Fielding H. Yost was not to
coach at Michigan next year, an official
statement has been received from Ath
letic Director Bartelmc and a)w«» from
Yost to the effect that the Wolverine
football mentor will be on hand next
fall. The fact that Yost’s actual con
tract with the athletic authorities at
Michigan ran out a year ago has caused
a popular rumor that he would not take
charge of the squad next year. Di
rector Bartelme states, however, that,
according to a written agreement with
Coach Yost, either party must give no
tice to the other 30 days before the close
of the football season if a change is de
sired the following season.
Yost coached the Wolverines this
year under this agreement, and as no
notice has been filed by either party
during the season just played, it is a
logical supposition, substantiated by
both Yost and Director Bartelme, that
Yost will be on hand next fall.
Howell Will Lead
Trinity 1914 Eleven
HARTFORD. CONN.. Dec. 13. -George
Dawson Howell, Jr., son of George 1).
Howell, of this city, has been elected
captain of the Trinity footba'l team.
He has played leit tackle for the past
j two seasons.
CROWELL COACHES LAFAYETTE
EASTON. PA.. Dec. 13.—W. G.
' Crowell, of S'wiiithmore. lias been se-
: looted to coach' the Lafayette team
next year.
McCleave and King
Will Not Coach at
Princeton Next Year
PRINCETON. N. J., Dec. I I.—Prince
ton’s graduate coaching committee met
her yesterday and Roscoe P. McCleave,
’03, who has been cnairman of the
football committee during the last two
seasons, and Philip H. King, '93. will not
coach here next year.
The other three men, Knowlton Ames,
'09; Donald G. Herring, '07. and Barclay
H. Farr, ’12. were re-elected to the
committee by the board of athletic con
trol. and they appointed Ames as chair
man. Men to nil the two vacant posi
tions were agreed upon, but their names
will not be announced until it is known
that they will accept.
There will be another meeting of the
committee soon, when It expects to an
nounce the new coaches. It was learned
from good authority that Ames may
not act as head coach next year, but
that the committee may select someone
else.
Kling and Weston to
Meet in Cue Match
CHICAGO, Dec. 1 -Johnny Kling
and Charles “Cowboy” Weston were
matched yesterday for a 600-point
match at pocket billiards. Four year.-
ago the baseball piayer won the
championship from Weston at Kan
sas city and the latter asserted he
was not given a square deal.
Eastern Heavyweight Failed to
Show Class in Bouts With
Willard and Morris.
By Ed W. Smith.
W HKTHER Gunboat Smith'd
knockout punch is the real
• thing or not is a matter that
is very much up for discussion these
days at all the various meetings of
the Queensberr.v Club. We ('all It a
knockout punch because It has done
the business on various occasions, but
at the same time we feel that per
haps we should merely designate it
ns a punch without any qualifying
words of any sort. Il hasn’t worked
to the general end of a K. O. on many
and divers occasions and therefore
is open to suspicion of not being all
that it is generally cracked up to be.
It didn’t even get Sam Langford off
his feet in the recent Boston turnup,
but that’s another story—also, by the
way, very much open to suspicion.
Gunboat has been hooked up
with that puzzle of all puzzles,
Arthur Pelky. of Chatham, Ont., the
man who was Lute McCarty’s op
ponent that fatal day in Calgary,
Alta., last May. They are to battle
before Jim Coffroth’s club in San
Francisco the first day of the new
year, both sides halving agreed to all
of the preliminary arrangements.
Now. the Gunboat is possessed of the
big slarn, there seems to be little
doubt of that, lie may be able to
hang it on the Pelky boy and may
be lie can not. for there seems to be a
little class there and against class
Smith hasn't been such a world-
beater. Note what happened in New
York when Carl Morris started slam
ming them into Gunbot at a lively
rate. Smith claimed a foul in the
fllTh round on a blow it is said by
some ringside spectators to have been
well above the belt line.
Note, also, that Gunboat and Jess
Willard, the Kansas ei.int, went
twenty rounds in San Francisco not
so very far hack and Smith had all
he could do to hypnotize the referee
into giving him the verdict at the
finish.
Haven’t You Often Noticed
The Popularity of Overland?
You've seen them everywhere—on the
city streets, on the country roads, in quiet
neighborhoods and at fashionable places,
The Overland design has become so fa
miliar that you recognize it at a glance,
Did You Ever Consider the Reason?
It didn't just happen that all these peo
ple bought Overlands.
They found out for themselves that the
Overland represents the very highest pos
sible automobile value at the very lowest
possible cost.
Why Don’t You Find It Out?
Overland Southern Auto Company
232 Peachtree Street. Atlanta, Ga.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 13, - Sam
Payne, the Phillies' groundkeeper, has
left this city for Wilmington, X. ('.,
which has been selected as the team's
spring training camp, in order to lay
out the diamond and give instructions
as to the kind of soil to be used. Last
winter Payne prepared the playing field
tit Southern Pines, and the Phillies de
clared the diamond to be the best that
they had ever had for pre-season work.
Payne will lie gone for several days,
lie "will probably make another trip
to Wilmington after the Christmas
holidays to see how the work is pro
gressing and to make sure thpt his
. orders are carried out.
. due O'Rourke, second baseman of
tile Venice, t.’a!.. club, was a visitor
at the Phillies' headquarters.
O'Rourke was transferred from Sac
ramento to Venice last sumemr. He
has -pent several seasons on the coast,
lmt he may not return to the Pacific
Coast League next season, as he is in
line for the management of the \\ichi-
i la, Kan., club.
LOT OF COIN FOR JEFF.
LONDON. Dec. 13.—Jeff Smith.
' American middleweight who got
*2,289.60 for defeating Bernard, the
French middleweight, saided yester-
* -ay for Australia, where he is sign
ed for three fights.
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