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riEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, Ua, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1913.
Mathewson, Lajoie, Wagner and
Plank Refuse to Join Down-and-
Out Class—Football and Pugilism
Also Must Have Youth.
By Frank G. Menke,
N EW YORK. Dec. IS.—It all de-
pends on the sort of athlete
referred to—that’s the answer
10 question: “At what age is in
athlete at his best?’
In baseball an athlete usually
reaches his prime around 25. and
goes into the discard around 30; in
boxing the limit ranges from 20 to
"°iL in ^ footbaI1 u ,s f rom 17 to 28,
r. ith the crest around 20; but ther?
are exceptions to these rules as there
are exceptions to all the rules.
u alter Johnson, the whirlwind
wirier of the Senators, has just
turned 25, and looks good for ten
years more in major league society.
ALF 0bb ’ of the D *troit Tigers, and
Eddie Collins, of the Athletics, are
ar °un£ 27, and, barring accident,
ought to be cavorting on the big
league diamonds for ten years more.
The same is true of Joe Wood, the
Boston twirler, now 24; "Tris” Speak
er, the Boston outfielder, now 29; Joe
Jackson, the Cleveland slugger, who
is around 25, and Jimmy Archer, the
Cub catcher, who already has reach
ed 30.
Old Players in Game.
Mathewson, of the Giants, now is
33, has been in the big league for
thirteen years and is still one of the
greatest twirlers that ever stepped zo
the mound. Eddie Plank, the port-
side flinger of the Athletics, is 37, has
been many years in service and still
is a star of the first water.
The national game does not boast
of two better infielders, two grander
sluggers than Lajoie, of the Naps,
and Wagner, of the Pirates. Wag
ner is 40 and has mingled in nig
league battles for seventeen seasons.
Lajoie is about two years the junior
of the Pirate, and has been in major
leagues for fourteen years.
What’s the answer? First, that
these four men are among the great
est natural ball players ever born.
And the second part of the answer is
that they have kept themselves in
condition through the years—have
lived straight, clean lives, have taken
care of their physical selves and so
have survived the legions who have
come and gone during the past sev
enteen years.
In tennis there i9 no real age
boundary. Just now it looks as if
youth has the call because Maurice
McLoug'nlin, the Californian, and na
tional champion, is only 23. and R.
Norris Williams, second, is the same
age. These two, with their two team
mates, who won the international
tennis championship, averaged around
23. But, in rebuttal, Wilding, the
great New Zealander star, who de
feated McLoughlin, Is well into his
thirties, and many of the greatest
tennis players in America and in Eu
rope are over 30, and some are near
ing the 40 mark.
No Age Limit in Golf.
In golf it is the same as In tennis.
Ouimet, the American open cham
pion, is only 20. Travers, one of the
greatest goifers in the country is 26.
Most of the Amer’can stars are either
under 23, or only slightly over it. But
in England it is somewhat different.
Vardon and Ray, that wonderful pair,
are nearing the grandfather age. Hil
ton, the English amateur champion,
is over 40. and J. H. Taylor, open
champion, is 43.
Football calls for youth, and the
gridiron gladiators seem at their best
around 20 and 21. Before that age
the player has not arrived at his full
development; usually after it the
strenuous game exacts its toll and
after a player reaches 23 or 24 his
effectiveness is gone.
Youth Has Call in Pugilism.
Youth has the call in pugilism, with
the fighter at his zenith around 25.
There are many fighters who are un
der that age; even a number of
champions. But they do not reach
their full power until that time. And
socn after that they lose it—and lose
i: rapidly. Kilbane, the featherweight
champion, is under 25; so is Ritchie,
the lightweight champion. Gunboat
Smith, the leading “white hope,” is
only 25. and most of the “hopes”
either are under or of that age.
Paekey McFarland is 24. Jeffries was
in his prime at 25.
Jack Johnson, however, was well in
h s thirties when he won the cham-
rionship from .Jeff. Sam Langford is
far over 30. Fitzsimmons won the
championship after 30.
In pony polo, perhaps, the most
strenuous of all games; the youth
and middle-aged shine forth from the
cluster of stars. England’s great team
which visited here last summer aver
aged over 30. So did the American
tram. But the substitutes for both
aggregations were mere youths, bril
liant players, but given no chance be
cause it was felt that their presence
on vthe teams would break up the
combinations which had played to
gether for a number of years and
thus developed *», wonderful bit of
teamwork.
Hurlingham Club Admits Its Team
Must Play Dashing Game as Do
Americans if It Expects to Win the
International Trophy in 1914.
Sam Harris Faces
'Gossip’ Charge by
Milwaukee Club
MILWAUKEE, WIS., Dec. 13.—Sam
Harri», manager of Kid Williams, the
^Baltimore claimant to the bantam title
of the world, faces prosecution under
Wisconsin’s new gossip law for talking
too much to Chicago newspapers about
the financial condition of a Milwaukee
fight club which holds his forfeit for
Williams’ appearance here the last of
this month in defense of his title. Har
ris, before leaving Milwaukee after
Williams fought Dick Loadman, of
Pittsburg, here, signed a contract for
Williams to tight Patsy Brannigan, also
of Pittsburg, and pouted a $500 forfeit
with the local club. Later, however,
other clubs bid higher for the match
and Harris tried to recover the forfeit
money, charging that the club Vhich
had the forfeit was on the point of
bankruptcy.
For this charge in Chicago the local
club Involved threatens suit for dam
ages under the State gossip law and
will also take measures to have Wil
liams barred from fighting in Wiscon
sin, New York and Louisiana, where
there are boxing commissions, under the
inter-State agreements which makes a
boxer who violates his agreement in
one State ineligible to appear in an
other.
The gossip law. however, will be the
chief point of attack against Harris,
and he has been warned to take back
his remarks about the solvency of the
local promoters or stand suit. The
The gossip law affects all persons who
untruthfully talk about other persons’
affairs and is to individuals what libel
laws arc to newspaper publications.
Cbance and Mack
Use Different Tactics
On Baseball Field
NEW YORK. Dec. 13.—Every major
league baseball player has his pecu
liarities. Connie Mack keeps score, and
makes note of all t:ie bad plays. He
tells his men about their faults the next
day when the meeting is called at the
hotel, when the club is on the road,
and in the clubhouse when at home.
Frank Chance tells the boys about the
plays as they make them on the lot.
The New York men will never forget
Chance on a few occasions during the
past season, when he told one of his
outfielders where he got off.
lx. was crurlng a game in Cleveland
with a man on first base. Olsen hit
the ball to the shortstop. The latter
had no trouble in stopping the “pi'l,”
but in his anxiety to make a double
play by touching second, then throw
ing to first, he missed the middle bag,
and also lost the man at first.
“What are you trying to pull off out
there?” shouted Chance from the bench.
“Why, I was trying to make a double
play,” answered the shortstop.
“Let me tell you something.” said the
manager. “You keep on making double
plays like that and you will double-play
yourself to Kalamazoo.”
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JOE TINKER.
Joe Tinker was a manager who al
most ran a team;
To win a big league pennant was his
long and lasting dream.
But he signed with Garry Herrmann.
He knew the game from soup to nuts
and fought from bell to bell;
He fought his owner all the year, and
fought his owner well.
But he signed with Garry Herrmann.
He couldn’t win for Herrmann with
a thousand years of work.
For a manager is sat on and becomes
a common clerk
When he signs with Garry Herrmann.
The sole cause of the split between
Messrs. Tinker and Herrmann was
that Joe wanted to be a manager,
whereas Garry wanted a messenger
boy.
We often hear of ivory displayed by
ball players, but it is infinitesimal be
side the ivory exhibited by get-rich-
quick gents who own baseball clubs.
As a result of Joe Tinker’s retire
ment, approximately 90 per cent of
our baseball scribes have picked
Fielder Jones to fill the Job. The
other 10 per cent must have been en
joying their day off at the time.
Reports from Paris indicate that
Jack Johnson is a strong exponent of
wrestling. We also have extraordi
narily warm weather in this vicinity.
Connie Mack has signed another In
dian, despite the fact that he has the
Indian sign on anything connected
with or appertaining to baseball.
PUGNACITY.
“You great big bum!” the fight fan
yelled
Beside the ring where flghis are held.
"You great big bum, get in and scrap
And slam this geezer on the map!
You stall around like some big rube
And wallop like a hopeless boob!
Why, 1 could climb through them
there ropes
And clean you both, you poor old
mopes"’
He ambled home at 2 a. m.
His wife arose and said, "Ahem!”
His fighting blood had beat it hence
And he resembled thirty cents.
Physically, John K. Tener Is big
enough to be a white hope, but men
tally he is not that small.
BIX IN HI
Good Bouts Are Being Arranged
by Local Promoters for the
Gate City Fans,
S OME corking good boxing mills
are being arranged for Atlanta
fans, and right after New
Year's it is likely that the cream of
the lightweights will display their
stock-in-trade here.
Arrangements are now being made
whereby Ad Wolgast, former light
weight champion of the world, will
fight Frank Whitney or Charley
White about the middle of January.
Wolgast has announced his willing
ness to box here if the proper induce
ments are made.
Paekey McFarland will also come
to Atlanta during the winter boxing
season. If Paekey will make any
reasonable weight Jack Britton says
he will battle the stockyard champion
here on a winner-take-all basis.
Britton claims that McFarland tip
ped the beam at 1B0 pounds when
they met in Milwaukee the other
night. >
Charley White, who was shaded by
Johnny Dundee in New Orleans a
fortnight ago, wants to meet Dundee
again and local promoters are figur
ing on rematching this pair.
Leach Cross also wants to come
here. Cross and White would prob
ably furnish the greatest fight ever
held in the South, and this scrap may
be arranged within a few days.
CRICHTON ELECTED CAPTAIN
BETHLEHEM, PA., Dec. 13—Hirry
A. Crichton, fullback, was yesterday
elected , aptain of the Lehl#i University
football team Crichton Is also cautain
of the baseball team.
M’lNTYRE LOOKS FOR TEAM.
CHICAGO. Dec. 13.—Matty McIntyre,
former White Sox outfielder, who wa<
with the Providence team last sum
mer, is seeking to manage a minor
league team next year.
BERRY TO HEAD SWIMMERS.
CHAMPAIGN. ILL., Dec. 13.—Edward
H. Berry, of flak Park, was appointed
manager of the llliinois swimming team
on its proposed Eastern trip in Febru
ary.
Sixty-seven Horses
Enter $20,000 Derby
MONTREAL, CANADA, Dec. \ —
The entries for the $20,000 interna
tional derby of the Dorval Jockey Club
of Montreal closed with 67 horses en
tered, including nominations by many
of the most prominent owners on the
American continnent, and the success
of the event seems assured.
The winning owner will receive
$16,000 in Canadian gold, the owner of
the second horse $2,000, the owner of
the third one $1,500 and the owner * f
the fourth $500. It will be the rlch-
est race ever run in Canada.
Two Dozen Preparatory Contests
on Ante-Season Schedule of
New York Americans.
By W. ,T. McBeth.
N EW YORK. Dec. 13—Frank
Chance’s Yankees will next
spring engage in the most pre
tentious training schedule ever at
tempted by that club. The regulars
of the New York Americans are billed
for an even two dozen preparatory
contests, the majority of them with
clubs of sufficient class to make the
big leaguers extend themselves.
In many respects the plans mapped
out by Chance, made possible by the
fact that his club will train at Hous
ton, Texas, are similar to those ob
served by John J. McGraw the past
several years. Within a week after
the club goes into camp both first and
second squads will be sent out to ad
jacent towns on Saturdays and Sun
days for real trials. These regulars
and colts will alternate, the second
team on Sunday supplanting the Sat
urday stand of the first squad. Six
games will be played by each of these
clubs before the journey northward.
The Kilties will leave Texas Sun
day, March 22, beating it home by way
of Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta.
Charlotte, Richmond, Norfolk and
Baltimore. Two games each are
booked at Richmond and Norfolk, so
that the athletes should be pretty well
acclimated, on their return. Once
back, the real tuning-up processes
will be in order.
Prior to the opening of the regular
| campaign five games will be played
with Broqklyn and two with the Phil
adelphia Nationals. Sprinkled among
these interleague clashes are single
games with Jersey City and Balti
more.
The complete training and ante-
season schedule follows:
Saturday, March 7, Beaumont.
Texas (first team), and Houston,
Texas (second team): Sunday, March
8, Houston (first), Beaumont (sec
ond) ; Saturday, March 14, Houston
(first team), Galveston (second
team); Sunday, March 15, Galveston
(first), Houston (second); Saturday,
March 21, Houston (first team), Beau
mont (second team); Sunday, March
22, Beaumont (first), Houston (sec
ond); Tuesday. March 24, Memphis,
Tenn.; Wednesday, March 25, Bir
mingham, Ala., March 26, Atlanta;
March 27, Charlotte, N. C. (with Buf
falo. International); March 28 and
30, Richmond; March 30, Norfolk
(second team); March 31, Norfolk,
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Habits Cured Without Pain;
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Tenn.
The photograph
at the left
shows Wolgast
shooting a left
to the body,
with the right
ready to follow
to ttie same
spot.
At the right the
“Michigan
Bearcat’’
is shown shift
ing, one of his
favorite
methods of at
tack when at
range.
Va. (first team); Wednesday. April J.
Baltimore, Md.; Thursday, April 2, 3
and 4. Brooklyn, at Brooklyn; Sun
day, April 5, Jersey City; April 7,
Brooklyn, at Bro Klyn; April 8 and
9, Phlilies. at Philadelphia; Friday,
April 10, Baltimore, Md.; Saturday,
April 11, Brooklyn, at Brooklyn.
N EW YORK, Dec. 13.—An inter
national polo match is assured
for next year. The Hurlingham
Club has challenged for another series,
dispelling all doubts that England
would not send over a polo team for
m xt year. The Am* ri.-.;n Polo As
sociation has gladly received the
challenge of the foreign club, and
only Lhe selection of dates remains
to make the playing of the spectacu
lar games a certainty.
The decision of the Hurlingham
Club to make another try for the
polo cup means that old John BuL,
profiting from the lesson learned
last year, is going to send over a
team thoroughly equipped to play
the game In the American fashion.
England sadly confessed after the
last series that her system of playing
polo against the Yankees would
never do. The visiting team repre
sented the pick of the British army.
The English ponies were picked with
great care, and before the games
were considered the equal of the
American mounts. The Duke of
Westminster had spent a fortune de
fraying the expenses of the team,
and John Bull complacently sat back
lo await victory.
m • *
T HE Britons’ excellent form In
1 practice games made them a logi
cal favorite for the big matches. The
defending four, after many changes,
wasn’t considered nearly as strong
as 4he foreign aggregation. But the
Englishmen, playing along strictly
scientific lines, received a rude shock
in the very first contest. The Amer
icans, dashing and aggressive, like so
many wild cowboys, literally swept
the foreigners off their feet. It’s
only too well known how Larry Wa-
terbury charged through the entire
Briton four for frequent trys at goal.
These dashing tactics triumphed over
the more conservative playing of the
challengers.
The second game was a repetition
of the first. It was more evenly con
tested, simply because the foreigners
speeded up their game. It was a
long time before England could be
come reconciled to the fact that its
wonderful polo team had been de
feated.
‘My word, it Isn’t polo those Yaa-
kees play; it’s only running races,”
was the favorite expression of the
English critics commenting on the
series. After carefully weighing the
subject, many came to tb~ belief that
after ail the American style was su
perior. and if England was to win at
polo her team must follow the ex
ample of tne American* md not re
ly entirely on scientific blocking and
passing. Therefore, it is but reason
able to expect that England will send
over a quarrel next year that will be
capable of putting up a slashing game,
sacrificing conservatism for speed and
aggressiveness.
• • *
p RACTICALLY the same defending
team that successfully repelled the
invasion of the Englishmen last sea
son will try the field next year. The
only possible exception will be the
loss of Captain Whitney, who recent
ly announced his retirement from the
sport. The Big Four leader partici-
| pa ted in the last series against his
will, but now declares he'll never play
in another.
Great as is his loss, there are two
qapable substitutes to fill his position.
Either Louis Stoddard or Malcolm
Stevenson can be added to the de
fending combination without impair
ing its strength. The two Water-
bury brothers, already in training fos*
the polo season, will be available foi"
next season, as well as Devereux
Milburn. the greatest polo player in
(he world, according to British.
Judges. Stoddard is a first-class for
ward, while Stevenson is a back but
slightly Inferior to the powerful MIN
burn. But whether Stoddard or
Stevenson “makes” the Big Four. Its
will be a formidable combination that}
Engalnd’s team will tackle In 1914.
Commission Should
Provide Good Gloves
For All Ring Bouts
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—The boxing
commission has not overlooked very
much In its effort to uplift the boxing
game, but there are a few things which,
might yet be remedied which will im
prove it.
The writer has reference now to thm
use of old boxing gloves by the pre
liminary boys. These gloves, used onca
to cover the hands of the performers
In a star bout, are little short of deadly
weapons when they are put on the flstH
of the youngsters. Soaked in blood and.
water after a bout they are laid out to
dry, and when the next evenings erv-
tertainment is offered these old gloved
are pulled out and used. For the main
bout new gloves are always provided.
The preliminary lads, who know not
so very much of the art of self-defense,
tear aftefi each other, each intent only
on landing blows on his opponent. None
of them can be expected to be a Paekey
McFarland in the art of evading pun
ishment. They take what is sent them,
and when they dodge a blow it’s usually
by the greatest luck. When those water
and blood soaked gloves are landed,
against one of the boys a great Injury,
one which may remain for a lifetime, is
apt to be inflicted. A cauliflower ear.
a flattened nose, cut eyes, and split lips
are some of the things which may be
expected. And then the boy has hi9
mark of a fighter. He goes around
with his “badge” and is frowned on
by enemies of the sport, who have some
real evidence to declare brutal the game
of boxing.
And it T s all due to the use of these
old gioves. Other dangers lurk in the
soiled glove, at d it’s up to the commis
sion to demand every club manager to
provide new gloves for each and every
bout he stages. This, no doubt, would
prove a big boom for the manufactur
ers of boxing gloves and a bit of a
hardship for the club manager, but to
the future of many a young man it
may mean much.
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