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Rule Suggested Six Years Ago
Enables Wagner to Maintain
Unbroken Record.
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HlPAOOY C-'IZ / .
By (>. B. Keeler.
I N the intervals of rumors ion-
corning Billy Smith and his pend
ing deals for Desperate Esmond
■ind Third-saeker Yeager, of Montreal
that one looks as if it will slip, by
1 *♦ * way—and other gossip of a simi-
:*r nature, vvc note that, the reason
for our old friend, Honus Wagner, g^t-
• ing onee more into the National
League Society for Three Hundred
Hitters nates back about six years
ago.
Hans Lobert and Zack Wheat aiso
horn in under the same conditions,
and, in fact, that exclusive society,
this year numbering 23 members,
would have been curtailed by three
had it not been for something that
happened half a dozen years back.
We refer to the sacrifice fly rule.
ffeoR swAfct f
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The hole
S IX years ago Billy Murray, now a
Pirate scout and then manager of
he Phillies, instituted a motion to
credit with a sacrifice hit the useful
bloke who should arise in the pinch
and smite a long fly to the oufield on
which a runner on third scored.
This was a deserving clause in the
scoring rules, and has proved a popu-
;ir measure since its adoption, but
never more so than this y^ar.
POLLY AND HER PALS
YY^THOUT that saving clause, dat
ing six years hack, good old Ho
nes, for the first time in all his long
and honorable National League ca
reer, would have finished outside the
charmed circle of .300 wallopers.
As it was, Hans batted an even .300
ii. * he official figures. Without the
■ red it of sacrifice flies deducted from
his “at bats,” the ^Flying Dutchman
would have hit just .298—a pretty
fair little average, by the way, but a
whole lot of a margin when those
wretched little two points would, have
separated the great shortstop from
his rightful place in the noble three
hundred class.
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been haifled down to a miserable
.297 each had they been charged with
rimes at hat on the several occa
sions when their long punches counted J
runners from third.
Among the other swatters who
i"ofi;ed by the rule were Jake Dau-
hen. who led the National League by
margin of .002. Gavvy Cravat h.
a* io ran second, would have lost .005
from his record had his sacrifice flies
Been plain “at bats.” and Heinie Zim
merman gained still more, finishing
>07 better than 1m would have if Mr.
Murray had not fathered that bright
idea six years ago.
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A MONG the .300 hitters who did not
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pole any sacrifice flies were Mil
Mr, Collins, Brown, Schmidt, Hess,
Hartley. Hooper and Crandall. Jack
Miller, of Pittsburg, hit the most sac
rifice flies, his total being fifteen. Ed
Konetchv walloped thirteen, and two
>'r,bs—Zimmerman and Saier—were
liext in order, with eleven and ten,
respectively.
T LIT. to our way
of thinking, the
best thing that sacrifice fly thing
ms done in its six years of opera-
ion was to keep old Hans Wagner
where he belongs—in the most exclu
der and select batting circle of his
league—in the Society of Three Hun
dred Hitters.
We always said Honus. could hit
.:>u0. When it was reported he was
damaged and running on one side by
reason of a busted knee—and had no
a nee to hit in his usual stride—we
ame to bat with this little asser
tion:
• Honus will bat .300 with a crutch.
' necessary ”
And Honus did it.
Thanks to Mr. Murray.
Yes, ‘Where?’ the Echo Answers
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Fifty Motorcycle
Demons to Start in
300-Mile Marathon
Bv Left Hook.
HE ring statistician who cuts
loose once a year with a review
of the champions will find him
self all out of material when he
reaches for the 1912 “dope.”
Jack Johnson had a lively year, In
jail and out, mostly in. but as heavy
weight champion the Big Cinder was
not called upon to defend his title.
The wholesale movement to "legis
late” Johnson out from under the
championship failed for the simple
reason that none of the pale heavies
were able to make a decent showing.
As championship candidate-* our
White Hopes run muchly to gorgon -
zola, the same being a fine brand of
ripe cheese recently discovered^ by Joe
Reichl.
Ah! yes; the middleweight cham
pions, some flock. We have Jimmy
Clabby, middleweight champion of
Hammond, Ind. And George Chip,
•hampion of Scranton,
run for the past twelve months, leav
ing all the fighting in this class to
Williams, Ledoux and Campi. Wil
liams is the best of the bunch and is
the bantamweight king in everything
but name.
Not a title changed hands, not a
champion (save Ritchie) took a * • , n . . , 0 . ,
fighting chance. Nothing about th American League President Said
year 1913 for the ring birds to grow
IRE SIB
excited over.
Giants Announce
Spring Training Trip
Schedule for 1914
to Have Signed Two New
Arbiters—One ‘Fired.’
C
Buckingham to Coach
Denver Gridiron Boys
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Secretary John
K Foster, of the New York National
1 eague club, last night announced the
spring training trip schedule of the
’Lam. For the first time in many years
.... . , , „ -- . 1-e Giants will not play an exhibition
i middleweight champion of Scranton, game on the Polo Grounds before the
; Pa. And Frank Klaus, middleweight . I 'ginnirrg^of the regular season,
{champion of Pittsburg. And Frank I Following is the training schedule of
! Mantel!, middleweight champion ft i- o, o«» .» ,, »»
^-.(•r-imentn And Uillv mi ' L March 14, lo, 21. 22. Dallas; 28. 29.
Sacramento. Ana BUIS 4 apke, mid 31, Houston; April i, Beaumont;
a pril 4, 5, 6, 7, New Orleans; April 8
DENVER, Dec. 24.—H. G. Bucking
ham. of Alemphis. Tenn., was last night
• I 'pointed coach of the University of
Denver football team. He formerly was
a ' each of the University of Tennessee.
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dleweight champion of something or
other.
Clabby appears to be the best of the
lot, with Chip a suspicious seconu.
The remainder of the herd might
possibly qualify as sparring partners
for a real fighter.
Packy McFarland is the welter
weight champion, but he isn't printing
this fact on his letterheads, for fear
that he may have to meet Mike Gib
bons. Mention these two boxers and
you have talked about the entire
142-pound division.
Willie Ritchie has worked like the
! regular lightweight champion that he
i is. Since taking the title from Wolgast,
! the San Francisco boy has beaten his j
two most dangerous trailers—Joe
! Rivers and Leach Cross—and is now
! rematched to meet the veteran “Har-
I lem” Tommy Murphy. Rut it is up to
j him to fight Freddie Welsh as soon as
I possible.
j As featherweight, champion. John
nie Kilbane had an easy year of 1
He ic
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cinnati, until that youth never
hope to amount to anything, and
picked a few “plants.”
Johnnie Coulon, as bantamweight
champion, is the most pitiful speci
men of a title owner we have ever had
to look upon. Coulon has been on the
J'obile: April 9. Chattanooga; April' 11,
32, 1.3. Baltimore.
The training schedule of the second
team follows:
March 7, 8. Dallas; March 14, 15, 21,
Si. Waco; .March 28, 29, Dallas; March
f . Denison; March 31, Sherman;
j pril 1. Bonham: April 2, Paris; April 3.
r < xarkana: April 4. 5. «>, Memphis; April
Nashville; April 8. Knoxville; April 9.
Asheville; April 10. Richmond; April 11!
Portsmouth.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Dec. 2 —
The Rutgers College 191.4 baseball sched
ule*. consisting of fourteen games, was
announced to-day. The local college
is to have a Saturday game with Prince
ton.
'I he schedule for the Southern trip,
to follow the Princeton g
been announced yet. The
lows:
March 28 - West Point, at
April 4 Princeton, at Princet
1.5, Hamilton, at home; April 18, R. I
I.. at home; April 25, Union, at home;
April 2*9, Ursinus. at home.
May 2—Swarthmore, at home; May 6.
Stevens, at home; May 9. New York
University, at home: May 13, Dickinson,
at home; May 16. New Y'ork University,
at New York; May 23. Delaware, at
Newark, Del.: May CO, Union, at Sche
nectady.
.June 13—Stevens, at home
HICAGO, Dec. 24—While the
magnates and managers of
major league clubs are scouting
around for material to strengthen
their clubs for the 1914 .campaign,
President Ban Johnson is not sitting
around idle. Big Ban Is searching
the Class A leagues for good umpires,
because he needs them badly. Tho
staff as it is at present is none too
good.
Reports have it that the czar of the
American League has signed two new
callmen. Thty are “Red” Field, the
St. Louis boy, who last year did good
work in the Pacific Coast League,
and Ollie Chill, of the American As
sociation.
Held has been in the game a long
time, and wherever he went he has
cone well. He umpired in the Con-
SAVANNAH, GA., Dec. 24.—Fifty ma
chines are expected to compete
for the 300-mile Grand Prize pro
fessional motorcycle race over the
shortened Grand Prize automobile course
on Christmas day. The value of the
cash prizes and cups to be contended
for has attracted motorcycle riders from
all over the country.
So important, has the event, become
that the Federation of American Mo
torcyclists. of which the Savannah Mo
torcycle Ulub is a member, and under
the sanction of which the event will In
run. has sbnt down Arthur Mitchell, of
Chicago, as official referee fur the
race.
While the entries are piling in the
road work has\ not been left undone.
The Chatham County Commission* ■*
have had a force of convicts at work
for several weeks, smoothing out the
rough places on the course and banking
and improving the turns.
This will not only be the longest mo
torcycle event of its kind ever staged,
but the first of its kind—the only 300-
mlle race for the world’s record for the
distance this record will probably
stand unless another race is attempted
at Savannah.
AGAIN STOPS
I
McGoorty Battles
Smith To-morrow;
Other Bouts on Card
McFarland Is Still
■ In Good Graces of
NewYork'Commish'
I CHICAGO. Deo. 24 -Some interesting
Mights are billed fur to-morrow after-
Referee Halts Bout
in
Round to Save Pittsburger
From Knockout.
NEW YORK. Dec. 24.—Packey Mc
Farland Is still in the good graces of the
Athletic Commission,
ft pen sion of the Chi
li e offended in Wis-
ruled him out of the
11.‘‘Vinsky vs. .lavI- I n i.-. oil, i.-n rounds, ring for a year. The boxing body of this
Y™uvis I rail a' T"" "I"' 1 . up case with
the Fifth ‘<l.t Williams t . Krauhic Hra.il. v, si: 1 ! regular business yesterday, but faited
i rounds, at Philadelphia: George Rodeliti
vs. Howard yMorrow, ten rounds, at Sy
racuse, N. Y.; Kid Kansas vs. Willie
{Beecher, ten rounds, at Syracuse. N. Y.;
iCarl Morris vs. Jack Geyer, ten rounds
iUt Clovis, N.
sr-- why they should punish the Chi-
!cagoan.
Ihe vommission in discussing tht*
Mox.
Jaurez Results
FIRST-Six furlongs: Refont e 103
(Benton). 4, 2. even, won; “Prettydale
108 (Trahan), 6. 2. even, second; Dahl-
gren 116 (Gentry). 6, 2. even, third.
Time, 1:16 2-5. Also ran: Say. Ajax.
Hattie Me., Tom Franks. Jessamy, Dear
Abbey, Lookout and Iloricon.
necticut League and then last year SECOND Six furlongs: Ramsy 116
went to the Pacitu roust, a (.lass AA (Cavanaugh), 5-2, 4-5, 2-5. won: Ilex 1.15
body. He had little trouble in the (Tuplln), 6. 2. even, second; Binocular
Western I.eague with* players, many (111 (Neylong 4-5, 1-3. out. third. Time,
of whom are former major leaguers. ILI**-.... Also ran: Blaze B. Rioja, The
It is also rumored that Big Ban is
P
1TTSBURG, PA., Dec.
George Chip, Scranton
dleweight, apparently
come to stay. To-day he
Pafliff’s Daughter. Zinkand,
Wicket.
Fire and
about to correct the biggest mistake
on his umpire staff. That is, to fire
Charley Ferguson, who gained much
notoriety in the George Stovall inci
dent last summer. Johnson stuck by
Ferguson until the end of the season
but after the close of the campaign |Eddie Mott, Galiey’ siav
he took some recognition of th
THIRD—Six furlongs: Hazel C. 111
(Stevens), 4. 6-5, 1-2, won; Hyki 103
i Key ion). 3. even. 1-2. second: \\ » i fr* ;
J >. 112 (Ford), 5-2. 4-5, 2-5. third. Time.
3:15 2-5. Also ran: Art Rick, Garden
f Allah. Calethumpian, Madeline J.,
and Balronia.
, . - . _ i FOURTH—Six furlongs: Mimorioso
howls of the different managers. .jnj (Woods), 11-5. won: r See Jr 105
JfGentyr), 2-1, second; Zim 195 (Garner),
trd. Time, 1:14. Also ran
Dolly. Henry Walbank. I'.iystreak,
Roberts ami Sonada.
Me" $ Crack Btmner Coming
iceton; «:To America in Spring i
The A Manta V ’ ’ 1
team is going (•> have
FIFTH -81x fiirlomr^: !*«-ier Grl.cc-, J’ ‘ : c
f*x iNYyloni. 8-5, won; Orbn Sm!> i07 ’
(Stevens), 8-5, second; Bob I. nch 108 .M« -La. ! > ii* y.
(Gentry), even, third. Time, 1:14 4-5. Repo, is fro.u t;.• - \i
that they have a bett
24.-—
mid-
has
must
be taken seriously in the strug
gle for championship honors. Chip
pur himself right up in the front
ranks last night, when, for the sec
ond time, he knocked out Frank
Klaus, local star. This time the fin
ish came in the fifth round of a six-
round bout.
Chip beat Klaus into a helpless
condition, and Referee Dillon stopped !
the bout to'prevent serious injury.
^ Landing a hard left on the Jaw of i
Klaus started the Pittsburger over
the dizzy road. Chip then closed in !
and shot, a short right to the jaw. {
Klaus became weaker, and Chip con
tinued raining blows on his weaken- !
ing opponent, putting him down.
Klaus got up at the count of seven,
but v/ru; very weak. Chip was after :
him like a flash, raining blows on his
jaw and head.
'The arms of Klaus dropped to his
side, and Referee Dillon stopped the'
bout. Although on his feet. Klaus
was battered and did not know what
was going on. Chip at no stage of
the fight was in*danger. He was cool
and put up a wonderful battle.
OUTFIELDER TO JOIN BENEDICTS.
ca-* , dec a red tiie Wisconsin body erred
ii suspending Packey without a hear-
i i;: The\ ui*nt further to intimate that
j was up to the commission to stop
24. —Fr*d Williams,
Packey
ht if In
>m
noting the ring that
had offended and not watt
CHICAGO, De<
ihe J-’iije _ • ' - • * v* . * i* 11 m I the promoters got clear and th«*r»
bratc Christmas eve by joining the An
ient and Honorable Order of Benedicts.
He will bf*’married this evening to Miss
Vada Perkins, of Goodland. Ind. The
ceremony is to be performed at the
home of the bride.
,plnce the ban on the boxer. Their con-
COLUMBU5 FIVE WINS.
COLUMBUS, GA., Dec. 24. -In a bas
ket ball game last night, Columbus Y.
M. C. .A defeated Central College, Mis
souri, VI ! to :>». I'cddy,. for the locals,
made 66 points.
ntion is that the public is to be con
sidered first, not the promoters.
TIGERS LEAD CHESS TOURNEY.
NEW YORK. Deo. 24. —Defeating
Harvard in the second round of the
twenty-second annual Ihtereollegiate
Ciic- Tournament, Princeton yesterday
took tl"* lead from the Cambridge play
ers V, ith only Columbus to meet in
th<- final round. Old Nassau has a good,
chance of repeating her success of lf‘08.
M'-ti
r
Mississippi A. & M.
Has Strong Quintet
) basket bad
.rd battle on
it when they
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The Cigarette of
Quality
NI’A\ xC>RK. I “h In a letter toj^] so ran: Herpes, Toqu’eta, Sigurd
Matthew P. Ii.il|»iri, chairman of thejOrimar I>a/1, Cool. Mandadero, Fioijc
athletic committee of the New York
Athletic Club, Jean Bouin, holder of j
the world’s -•■cord for running one hour, {.. ^4*S.TH~One anr j one-sixteenth mil*
Annual Interest,
ve scot.
Doc Allen and Sir Al
as camp si a
team than la
season, when they made it hot for eve:
team they played in Mississippi, Al,
barn a an<i Louisiana.
mid
annbunced ihat lie
America next spring
ter some of the open athletic meets t j >>iit t
Bouin is he runner who at the Stock- i(’hasernali
holm Olympic., * reated a sensation by Evllna
his showing in the 5.000 meter race, in
which he ran the winner, the redoubt-
c w Kinney 110 (Tap! In).
„.„K?Sv ,i°i KHwUa 105' CXeylon). - S-5. -iton ’’
nd probabb en- iMary Kmlly .105 (Woods), D :
Time. 1:45 4-5. A1«.) ran: Miami. Tim
Molesey, Lord Elam anfl
LOADED BALL AEOLISHED.
MINNEAPOLIS. LX <. 24.- The us.-
of th*- io) led bail In bowling wa
abolished by the officers of the Inter
national Rowling Association her- i
las* night. Opposition to the loaded j
ball was inaugurated by the inter-
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