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By James Swinnerton
OF GOLF BUG
Cracker Manager Negotiates
Brookhaven Course in 81.
P, S.—For 9 Holes.
Bv 0. B. Keeler.
O UR old friend, Billy Smith, is
positively the latest to take up
the Royal and Ancient Game of
Golf.
Billy is in it for fair,
Billy had dabbled with the Deadly
Sport before. Once upon a time Per-
, Whiting enticed Billy out to East
l.ake and caused him to smear his
remains pretty much all over the fair
sivnsward, and then came back and
\ rote an astonishing story about it.
Hut that was all in. fun.
Hill is in earnest now—and if you
■ pink Bill's tobacco consuming faeili-
u,.s ale prettv good uhile watching
a extra-inning struggle with Mobile
ou ought to see him square off at an
..offensive little gutta-percha pellet.
Bill is in earnest, now.
* * *
yo date the fell swoop with which
1 Billv fell for it, we have to go
hack to Tuesday of this week, when
couple of friends of the Hon.
George Stallings, manager of the
Boston Braves, were in town.
it was up to Billy' and .Major Calla-
.av and 0. T. Nunnally to entertain
•hem, and when they found the vis
ors were keen on golf it was an aw-
fol shock to all but Major Callaway,
who is a Regular Golfer himself.
However, Bill collected himself and
s*:d he'd try a crack at it, and so did
Mr. Nunnally.
For some reason, best known to
William and Mr. Nunnally, the report
of the proceedings did not leak out
until yesterday'.
* * *
oAH. I don't think we did so bad-
ly,” Bill said, blushing! “We
placed out at Brookhaven. where the
outfield is full of little hills, and it’s a
lough diamond, but I made it in—in
SI. I believe.”
An 81 for a beginner struck us a?
something great.
Why. if you did an 81 for 18 holes,
you were breaking all records for a
rookie.” we began.
Who said 18 holes?” Bill objected.
I- was a nine-inning game. And I
nk an 81 is pretty blamed good,
on Mr. Nunnally made a 79 one
rn ind and a 59 the next, and I got to
• inking he was a champion.”
* ♦ *
D ILL diagnosed his principal trou-
ble as follows:
I can hit the blamed ball all right,
»ut it. always goes out to left field. If
'key could switch the lay-out so the
'oles all went around that way, I’d
got along pretty well. If that can’t
be done, I reckon I’ll have to turn
round and begin trying to hit ’em
own the right-field foul line. What
uo you suppose causes that?”
We gave it up.
Rut Bill didn’t.
"I know that any guy that could
ever hit pitching with a jump on it
an hit a ball that lies down and
keeps quiet,” said Bill, “and I'm go
ng to demonstrate it before I quit,
'or one thing, I don’t believe I strad-
b> the ball quite far enough, and T
no.v I don't dig up enough ground
ith the bat. I notice these good
Havers generally cut out a hunk of
*od along with the pill. But I'm go
ng to keep at it. I had no idea there
was so much to that blooming game.”
* + *
C EEMS to ua we’ve heard that be-
^ fore.
But here's one thing:
\Ve will get down with a small bet
ght now that if B-. Smtih makes up
is mind to play golf, B. Smith will
' o that very thing. And as a codicil
• that bet. we’ll dig a bit further
nto the futufe and add that if B.
s 'Tilth goes very far with the game
“ will be a tough man for any in his
lass to beat. Any real ball player
as something on ordinary citizens
hen it comes to the pinch, in golf as
ell as in any other sport that test?
'he limit of nerve and courage.
Wilcox President
Of Billiken Club
MONTGOMERY. ALA.. .Tan. 2.—■
ormal reorganization of the Mont-
>mery Baseball Club of the South
ern League took place yesterday. The
' ■anchise passed into the hands of lo-
y l business men just before the close
P the past season. It was decided to
organize completely and reineor-
>rate. The officers elected are:
M. P Wilcox, president: Harry
Kahn, vice president, and C. T. Tullis,
•vretary and treasurer. Ten promi-
;. ent business men, including the of
fers. were elected as a board of di-
’ “Ctors.
POLLY AND HER PALS
Christie No Match
For Jack Dillon
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 2.—Jack Dillon
>ntinued his winning streak here yes-
, rday by handing Gus Christie, of
iilwaukee. a neat lacing for ten rounds,
bristle was no match for his opponent
nd was a badly marked man when
A left the arena at the end of ths
out.
DiUon fought an aggressive battle
om the first round to the finish and
was only Christie’s gameness that
nabled him to stick the limit.
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HOPE.
“/ wouldn't wind another league
the baseball rooter spoke.
“! wouldn't mind another league
though many men go broke.
I do not rare who owns the club or
who the athletes are.
Or if each player be a dub or if he
be a star.
But there is one fond hope I have
that fills me night and day.
One hope that will possess me when
the Federal League starts play;
It is that when I pay my fare and
take my grandstand, seat
The peanut merchants will desist
from walking on my feet."
One way in which Mr. Murphy can
put an everlasting jody on the Fed
eral League is to wish his peanut
peddlers on it.
And on the other hand, the Federal
League can make itself popular by
hiring ushers and crackerjack sales
men who do not look upon the fan as
an insect.
This talk may sound small in com
parison with the mighty bawball
problems before us. but !t must be
remembered that the fan pays the
freight and that he is almost human.
It is refreshing to read, now and
then, of a baseball player who has
not been offered a fabu’ous salary by
the Federal League.
British golf experts do not con
sider Ouimet a pure amateur. His
amateurism lost its purity when he
beat Vardon and Ray.
After several years of observation,
we have reached the conclusion that
an American is an amateur as long
as he refrains from beating an Eng
lish champion.
One thing hard to understand is
that Maurice McLoughlin has not
been declared a rank professional.
The recent heavyweight affair in
New Haven showed that Carl Mor
ris is not the worst white hope in ex
istence. He and George Rodel will
have to split the honors, fifty-fifty.
George Rodel claims that he is a
Boer, but he evidently is not the same
sort that fought under Oom Paul.
No, Rollo: there is no truth in the
report that Ping Bodie will be a pro
fessor in Charlie Carr’s baseball
school.
The match between Americus and
Lewis revealed one surprising fact. It
showed that a wrestler can be ren
dered unconscious by a bump on the
Head.
A B. B. OWNER SINGS
How dear to my heart was the old
fashioned player
1 Vho spent all his money as fast
as it came.
And often kicked in with a pitiful
prayer
To buy him a dinner to strengthen
his frame.
Tin ir ir fashioned players arc haul
ers or actors
And always hold out for ten thou
sand or so.
I grieve when I think of these young
malefactors
And yearn for the players who
needed the dough.
The old fashioned players.
The debt ridden players,
The hungry old player*
Who needed the dough!
One who is in a position to cele
brate a happy New Year is Bill Swee
ney, of Boston, who was charged with
being a candidate for Joe Tinker’s
old job, but who was not convicted.
Our heavyweights may be all to
the bad, but we hope that when
Georges Carpentier hits our hospita
ble shores he has enough money to
pay his fare back.
Mr. Murphy refutes the story that
Heinie Zim is on the market. Mr
Murphy had the said refutation in
mind when he gave out the story that
Hc-inie Zim was on the market.
A report from the American Asso
ciation shows that King Cole wap
the iron man in that organization.
He was the same in the National
League, but the iron settled in his
head.
Geography has much to do with
life. Joe Birmingham got a motor
car from his slave owner, whereas, if
he had been working in Cincinnati he
would have been presented with a
can.
While it is true that Larry McLean
has become an actor, there is no foun-
datlo nfor the rumor that he is starring
in ‘Ten Nights In a Barroom.”
Pennsylvania League Catcher Pulled Funniest Stunt Harry Ever Saw
WELCHOiNCE TELLS OF FREAK PLAYS ON DIAMOND
Ad Wolgast Knocks ! Local Quintet Ready
Out Jack Redmond To Give Columbus
In Fifth Round Five Hard Battle
Pressly to Manage
Norfolk Next Year
ROANOKE. VA., Jan. 2.—William
L. Pressly, considered to be the pre
mier first baseman in the Virginia
League and last season’s manager of
the Roanoke club, met Dr. J. R. Mc
Crary, president of the Norfolk club,
here and agreed to manage the Nor
folk club next season.
Under the agreement the Roanoke
club will get Pitchers Campbell and
Saxe, of the Norfolk club, and Nor
folk waives its first claim to First
Baseman Graham, of the Morristown,
Tenn., club, of the Appalachian
League.
Graham will come to the Roanoke
club by purchase.
Pressly has been manager of the
Roanoke team for five years. He
will be succeeded by Joe Holland,
formerly of Roanoke, now said to be
in the Carolina League.
FLYNN BEATS O’CONNELL.
LA SALLE, ILL.. Jan. 2.- Maurice
Flynn, a California product. slep7>e<J out *
Into the front ranks of the feather-J
weights when he defeated Jeff O’Conne l
here yesterday afternoon in their ten-
round battle. Tue Westerner won six
of the ten rounds.
AMERICAN NEGRO LOSES.
LONDON. Jan 2. — Bandsman Blak®. ;
rh^ champion English miodleweight no - |
gibst. last r'gt't defeated “Dixie Kid.’’'
ihe Americ; r rgiu boxer, cn points ini
a 20-round bout.
By Harry WpMiojico.
Captain of 1914 Crackers.
I THINK about the funnier;; play I
ever saw was w.HIlf? a member of
the Steubenville,. -Ohio, club or
tlie Ohio and Pennsylvania League
in 1909. We were playing a series \*
Canton, Ohio, hnd had ..Ay on only one
game and lost one when we started
the game which brought about the
play I am about to describe. We had
a youngster by the name of Winches
ter catching for us, and it was his
first season in professional ball, and
to make things harder for him, he
had an impediment in his speech
commonly known as stuttering, and
he was nicknamed “Windy.”
To get back to the game, it was
very important to us that we should
win this game, and we were all doing
our best.
When we took the field at the end
of our half of the ninth inning, we
were in the lead, 3 to 1, and every
thing was moving along smoothly.
Burkett, who was pitching for us,
walked the first man to face him in
the ninth, and the next man hit for
two bases, putting men on second and
third, with none out. He then pro
ceeded to walk the next batter, who
was a heavy hitter, preierring to take
a chance on filling up the bases and
a possible double piav. The next bat
ter hit an easy pop fly to the first
baseman, and was an easy out, wi%h
no change in the situation on the
bases. The next man hit a ground
ball right back at the pitcher, who
made the play at home, and “Windy”
immediately shot the ball to first base
for a double play. As it happened
this day there was only one umpire
on the job, and be, being back of the
bat, ruled the runner out at the plate,
but declared the runner safe at first
base. “Windy” turned to argue with
him. and before he got started for
his stuttering the man on second kept
on coming am] was now nearing the
plate. The first, baseman, seeing this
shot the ball home, but “Windy” side,
stepped it and kepi right on arguing
the ball going 50 or GO feet to the
stands. In the meantime there was
a merry-go-round on the bases, and
before the ball was retrieved by the
third baseman everybody had scored
and we were defeated, 4 to 3. The
manager rushed up to “Windy” and
jelled, in angry tones: “What is the
trouble with you?” Imagine his sur
prise when Windy answered him as
follows: “N-n-not-nothing. O-o-only
I-I-T-I a-a-a-am t-t-t-trying to sh-
sh-show th-this guy where he is in
wrong.” I will not attempt to tell
what Jhe manager said, but 1 can
6ay this much: He did no stuttering.
* * *
\1/HILE a memb*' o >e Philadel-
phia Nationals m i f) !" apd 1911
a couple of funny one? came up. one
<»f which I was mixed up in myself.
We were playing the Giants at Phila
delphia in the early part of the 1910
season, and the game had progressed !
along until the eighta inning, with!
the Giants leading. I to 0. Tiie “Peer- |
less” Matty van pitching as no one
else could, and it looked like a snul- '
out for us. The last half of the eighth
inning came, with two out and Eddie
Grant on first base. Magee came up
and hit for two bases, putting Grant
on third and himself on second. Kitty
Bransfield was the next hitter, and,
as he was always pretty successful
against Mathewson, it looked good to
us fellows on the bench, and we were
making all kinds of fuss, when imag
ine our surprise when on the first
pitched ball Magee made a break for
third, just as if Lie base we rent oc
cupied at all. Chief Meyers, catch
ing for New Yoik, was so taken by
surprise when lie* saw Magee going
for third base that he. too, forgot
about the base being occupied, and
fired the ball to Devlin, at third, to
catch Magee. In tiie meantime Grant
caught a glimpse of Magee coming
and raced off of third a few feet w hen
he saw Meyers throw the ball, and' at
the same time yelled to Magee.
“Where are you going?” Devlin, see
ing Grant had gotten away from him
and Magee actually had beat Meyers
throw’ by a dandy fall-awav slide,
started after Grant with tlie ball.
They ran him up and down tne third
base line, and Movers finally hit him
on the shoulder with the ball, and
both Grant and Magee scored when
the ball rolled almost to our bench,
winning the game, as there was noth
ing doing for tlie Giants in their half
of the ninth. You might call this
* bonehead play. Magee said It was
a trick play, hut what Charlie Dooin
said about it well, we are not al
lowed to print it.
* • *
T HE season of 1911 opened rosy for
the Phillies, and we got away bo
a good lead. I was being used in the
role of pinch hitter the first few weeks
of the season, and I will trj to tell
you about the longest single I ever
made. We were playing in. Boston
along some time the first of May, and
it was very cold. Earl Moore was
pitching for us, and the game had
gone along for seven innings, with
the score 5 and 5. The first half of
the eighth inning found us wdth three
men on the bases, one out and the
score tied, with Moore, the pitcher,
coming to bat. Dooin, who was on
first base, gave his usual pinch hit
ting sign —that of swinging an imag
inary bat and 1 grabbed my stick
and started for the plate. Sam Frock
was pitching for Boston, and I was
so cold from sitting on the bench so
long that I could scarcely get my bat
to swinging while going up to the
plate. I took one ball and one strike,
and then swung on the next one. The
hall sailed out on a line toward the
left field screen, and I started for
first at full speed, figuring on taking
two. and maybe three, bases on the
hit. I rounded first and dug for sec-
oond; when within about ten or fif
teen feet of this base I heard some
one holler, “Where are you going?”
I looked up, and discovered that I had
just passed Dooin. I immediately
scampered bac k to first as fast as I
could. It seems that Dooin thought
the fielder was going to catch the
ball, while the fact of the matter is
that he never had a chance to get it.
as it hit twenty fee* high on the left
field si-reen. The other two runners
had scored without even hesitating,
w hile I v as held to a single on what
should to*ve been a two, or possibly
three, base hit.
A ITER joining the Nashville club in
niidseason in 1911, I witnessed
about as weird an exhibition of
throwing tiie ball away as it would
be possible to see without the thing
being prearranged. We were play
ing the Mobile club. and. the game
was about an even affair up to this
time. Julius (“Doc”) Wiseman, who
was rounding out his eleventh con
secutive season—and. Incidentally his
last—with the Nashville club, came to
bat with no one on bases. He hit a
sharp bounder to the shortstop, who,
in his hurry to get the runner, threw
the ball over “Swat” Swacina’s head,
at first. The stands are very close at
Nashville, and the ball hit the stand
and rebounded to Swacina. who threw
in the direction of second base to
head “Doc” off. The ball went to
left field, and “Doc” kept on going
for third. The left fielder grabbed
the sphere and cut it loose for third,
where George Rohe allowed the ball
to get through his legs, and Wiseman
kept on going for the plate. The ball
again bounded off of the stands, and
Rohe grabbed it and threw it twenty
feet over the catcher's head, lip
against the screen, in his effort to
head the runner off at the plate. ■
Wiseman landed on the bench corn i
pletely winded, as he had slid at sec
ond, third and home. After getting a j
drink and his breath, he exclaimed:
“I am glad you don't have to keep
on running in this league until some
one puts you out!”
• ♦ •
T ' HE same season, we were playing
in Mobile, and I will take blame
for pulling as neat a little bone us
you would wish to see on any ball
field. We were having a hard-fought
game, and for seven innings the score
stood 1 and 1. I was the first batter
up in the first half of the eighth in
ning, and cracked out a dandy two-
base hit. The next batter sacrificed
me to third, and it looked like dollars
to doughnuts that we would .score,
for Red Smith, now with the Brook
lyn club, was next up. He was a
good batter and long on pin< h hitting
But the best of them fall down once
in a w’hile, and as it happened Smith
hit a high foul right close to the left
field bleachers, and Rohe, the third
baseman, rushed over and captured it
easily. As soon as the ball was caught,
I dashed off of third a few feet for a
bluff, thinking possibly Rohe would
throw the ball home, as there Is al
ways a chance for a wild heave in a
case of this kind. I had no possible
chance of scoring on the play unless
he did do something of this kind, and
I didn’t have any intention of trying
under any other circumstances. I
drew the throw, a!l right, but not to
hon)e. it was to third base, and Doe
Walsh put the ball neatly but gently
on my foot as I slid back into third,
and 1 was declared out for the third
out of the inning. Walsh had started
after the ball the same time Rohe
did, but, seeing he could not get to It.
had stopped at third base for just
such a play.
It was a smart piece of work on
Walsh's part, as It showed some quick
thinking, but it was a rank one on
me. We went ten Innings, and lost
the game. 2 to 1, which still made it
worse, as those kind of plays are
overlooked when you win. but other
wise. never. I you believe differ
ently, ask one Fred Merkle.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 2.—Ad Wolgast,
formerly lightweight champion of the
world, showed in great form here yes
terday afternoon, when he siopepd Jack
Kedmond in the fifth round of a sched
uled ten-round contest. So badly did he
beat his opponent that Referee Harry
Stout stepped between the men and
called quits. Wolgast put up a rattling
fight all the way.
BRONSON LOSES LONG GO.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. Jan. 2.
Waldemar Holberg. the Danish light-
w* ight boxer, easily defeated Kay Bron-
s the American lightweight, on
points, in a 20-round contest here yes-
teiday.
JACK O'BRIEN BEATEN.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 2.—Jack
O’Brien, of this city, was bested In his
six round battle here yesterday with
Kid Graves, formerly of Milwaukee.
DOHERTY IN DRAW.
GRAND RAPIDS. MIUH.. Jan. 2.—
Tommy Doherty, of Denver, and Billy
Hughes, of Sault Ste Marie, fought six
rounds to a draw before a large crowd
at the Olympic A. C. yesterdaj.
O’NEIL STOPS KEEFE.
PLATTVILLE, WIS.. Jan. 2.—Tim
O’Neil, of Hammond, stopped Jack
Keefe in two rounds here yesterday aft
ernoon
YOAKUM TRIMS WALTERS.
DENVER, COLO.. Jan. 2.—Stanley
Yoakum proved too much for Waiter
Walters hero last night, and had a
big shade in a ten-round battle. Yoa
kum put up a great fight.
The Atlanta Athletic Club basket ball
team will leave to-morrow morning for
Columbus, Ga., where they will lackle
the Young Men’s Christian Association
team of that city.
The dope favors the Columbus boy9
to win. inasmuch as they have been de
feated only once on their home floor.
The local quintet, however, is deter
mined to give them the hardest battlo
that they hav4 bad in years
BATTLE TO DRAW.
MADISON, WIS., Jan. 2.—Youns?
McGann, of this city, was held to an
eight-round draw by Barney O’Neil
here yesterday. In the other bout
Joe Percent© beat Billy Kremers in
eight rounds.
FLYNN DROPS LOGAN.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 2.—Porky Flynn
knocked out Tom Logan in the sec
ond round. A hard right-hand swing
to the Jaw brought the battle to an
end.
KID HERMAN STOPPED.
TERRE HAUTE. IND.. Jan. 2.—
Kid Herman, formerly of Chicago,
was knocked out in the second round
by Spot David, of Kokomo, here last
night.
BRENNAN WHALES FERGUSON.
SCRANTON. PA.. Jan 2. Knockout
Brennan, of Buffalo, gave Tommy Fee
guson the worst beating of his career
here yesterday afternoon
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