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HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, <5 A., Sl'NDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1913. 11 D 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? ‘V I 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." • ^ 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. 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