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IE Ye Strange Tale of Ye Strange Spitball
Hope Dashed of Playing Chicago,
but May Meet Dartmouth and
Syracuse Next Year.
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Did Elmer Strickiett Discover the
Spit Ball? No, Elmer Did
Not Discover It.
EW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 13.—
When the Yale football sched
ule for 1934 is announced ex-
fttmslYe changes In the annual date
•tst are certain. Yale will have a new
stadium which will cost some $500,-
"ub on her hands, and a partially
built general play^found plant valued
at about $600,000, and the question of
financing them has led to a decision
to expand In football engagements at
home.
lh 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 number of seats
will hardly fill the demand, it is ex
pected, for the Yale football manage
ment estimate t that the requests for
tickets at the past two or three Har
vard games here could not have been
filled 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 capac
ity 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
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 Y'ale 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 Y'ale.
Y'ale 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. Y’ale 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
strength. 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 Strickiett 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
Bellefieurs at a trespassing ptero
dactyl.
But in baseball circles far and wide
it is understood that Elmer Strick
iett, one-time star of the Coast
League and afterward a member of
the Brooklyn club of the National
League, was the :eal Columbus of the
moist and elusive shoot. The Strick
iett balloon will now take a puncture.
The spitter was discovered by
George Hildebrand, former Coast
League ball player. later (’oast
League umpire, and now umpire on
Ban Johnson's American League cir
cuit.
Hllde showed Strickiett the spitter.
Strickiett showed it to Chesbrough.
Ohesbrough 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 pf
I T it a thing of mystery,
This sf ‘ * ' ‘
tery,
This spitter sort of twistery,
Whose origin and history
Are in dispute, gol ding it!
- .. agnei
Can hit a ball that’s rightly
gUT not a Wagner nor Cobb
slobb-
Bered by a man who Holds his job
By knowing how to fling it.
And every one you run across
Will swear without a moment's
loss
, He was the first to heave across
The spitter. Would you believe
it?
WET East and West and North
* and South—
Save pitchers sticken with a
drouth
And hence all dried up in the
mouth—
You’ll find the men who heave
it.
the spitter’s discovery, and Hilde
brand corroborated it. Also Hllde
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 earty part of 1902,”
said Hilde, “Frank Corridon, a young
pitcher who was afterward with the
Chicago Cubs, 'was with the Provi
dence club. He had a habit of spit
ting on his slow ball, and in fun one
day 1 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 I
George Hildebrand, a Former
Coast League Player. Is Real
Columbus of Mystery.
experimented with it a number of
times, and even discussed it with Cor
ridon. He used R in one game 1
remember he struck out twelve men
in Fix 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
I jumped organized ball to play with
Mike Fisher's Sacramento club.
Strickiett was a member of the club.”
“And he wa» going badly,” inter
posed Mike. “I was getting ready to
tie the can to him. He was worse
than useless to me.
“During the warm-up in Los An
geles one day, I said to Strickiett, ’Let
me show you something they can't
hit,’ and I showed him this ball that 1
had experimented with in the blast.
He immediately >egan to experiment
with it. That was the beginning of
spitball pitching. Strickiett got so ne
could control the ball, making i!
break In any direction he chose.
“About a week after that he begged
me for a chance to pitch,” added
Mike “I le. him go in, and the op
posing club got about two hits off
him. In the 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. Strickiett went up to
the big league the very next year.
But if Hilde hadn't shown him the
spitter he 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 Jo© Tinker as man
ager of the Reds removes from major
league basebrtil 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 lighting 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 mace a good start with
- Yankees, weeded out considerable
dead wood and finished* one berth above
the last hole. Tinker alone in the quin
tet made a bad showing finishing sev
enth with a team that had finished in
fifth place the year before.
OVERESCH TO CAPTAIN NAVY.
ANNAPOLIS. MD, Dec. 12.-H. E.
Overesch last night was elected cap
tain of the Navy football team for
next year. He played tackle on this
year’s eleven.
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 Bartelme and also 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
j 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.
WHITE VS. WOLGAST.
The Charlie White-Ad Wolgast ten-
round scrap at Milwaukee on December
19 is the next big bout to be staged.
It will eliminate one or the other as a
lightweight contender, as a defeat for
either boy means a drop to the lesser
fights.
McCleave and King-
Will Not Coach at
Princeton Next Year
PRINCETON, N. J.. Dec. 11.—Prince
ton’s graduate coaching committee met
her yesterday and Roscoe P. McCleave,
’OS, who has been chairman 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 fill 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.
BOXERS SIGN FOR GO.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 12.—Leo
Houck and Joe Harrell, star middle-
weights, have signed to meet in a
six-round bout here.
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Eastern Heavyweight Failed to
Show Class in Bouts With
Willard and Morris.
By Ed W. Smith.
ITTHETHKR Gunboat Smith’s
\\l 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 Queensberry Club. We call 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
as a punch without any qualifying
words of any sort. It 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 Kam 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 th/it 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 having agreed to all
of the preliminary arrangements.
Now, the Gunboat is possessed of the
big slam, there seems to be little
doubt of that. He may be able to
hang it on the Pelky boy and may
be he 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 (ninbot at a lively |
rate. Smith claimed a foul in the j
fifth round on a blow it is said by j
some ringside spectators to have been
well above the b'lt line.
Note, also, that Gunboat and Jess I
Willard, the Kansas ri nt, went 1
twenty rounds in San Francisco not
so very far back and Smith had all
he could do to hypnotize the referee I
into giving him the verdict at the 11
finish.
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PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 13. — Sam
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left this city for Wilmington. N. C.,
which has been selected as the team’s
spring training camp, in order to lay
out the diamond and give instructions
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Coast League next season, as he is in
line for the management of the Wichi
ta. Kan., club.
LOT OF COIN FOR JEFF.
LONDON’, Dec. 13.—Jeff Smith,
American middleweight who got
2S9.60. for defeating Bernard, the
French middleweight, saided yester
day for Australia, where he is sign
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