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“Nothing Can Kill in Player the Faith That
What He Has Done Once He Can Do Again.”|
His Own First Championship Hardest to Win., |
By Harry Vardon. ;
World's Greatest Golf Player. ?
T HAS been remarked many times that while some golfers win |
a lot of competitions, others who appear to possess almost if |
not quite as much playing ability scarcely ever uruuglel
overcomes that little trouble. |
into the limelight on a field-day. I am often asked to divulge the |
secret of suceess in tournaments. It is to be found, I think, in a|
person’s first important success. ‘
He may be a long-handicap man, who has set his heart on se
curig a second-class medal or a lucky-endowed individual who
feels that he is capable of capturing a championship; it is the first
triumph that renders further success easy to him. For a time he |
may suffer from a sense of responsibility born of the fact that he
has an enhanced reputation to maintain, but sooner or later he
overcomes that little trouble
Nothing ean kill in him the
faith that what he has done once
he can do again. Temperament,
certainly, has important effects
in some cases; 1 have known
golfers who, having achieved an
ambition, have found so muech
satisfaction in it as never to en-
Joy the incentive to rise to great
er heights. But they are the ex
ceptions.
As to the best means of galning
that initlal victory, I can only say
that experience has shown me that it
comes most readily when a player
does not strain desperately for {t.
Some two years ago, 1 told J. Doug
las Edgar—a truly splendid golfer
who had never wor a solitary event
worth mentioning — that victory
wonld come to him as surely as the
,‘l‘nl of the sun if only he would hit
the ball in tournaments as naturally
and easily as in private games on his
own course and not try so hard to
make every stroke better than any he
had accomplished in the past.
Edgar created the outstanding sur
prise of last season by securing the
French open champlonship at Le
Touquet (he put me into second place
in & competition which I particularly
wanted to win), and directly the af
fair was over the first thing he did
Was to walk up to me and say:
“l owe this to you. | never forgot
what you told me about not trying
too hard. 1 have made a point of be
ing just my natural self in this com
petition, and it's come off.”
I mention this matter, not in the
spirit of self-satisfied sage, but
merely to afford concrete support for
the contention that naturalness is a
quality that tells heavily on the links.
My own first championship was by
far the hardest to win if we leave out
of the reckoning last year's affair at
Prestwick, when the circumstances
were exceptional; yet on that vividly
remembered occasion at Muirfield in
1896, 1 do not think 1 ever made the
mistake of trying to play better than
in a quiet game on my home course.
Win Over Taylor Helps.
In connection with that event, | de
rived a great deal of encouragement
frm a victory gained a month earlier
over J. H. Taylor, who had then been
champion for two years. A team of
Southern amateurs came up to Gane
ton in Yorkshire, where | was proses.
®onal. to meet a Northern side, and 1t
happened that with them they
brought Taylor.
It was arranged that he and 1|
should contest a match, and, to the
surprise of most people, including
myself, 1 won. The moral effect of
that small incident was considerable
In the champlonship itself, 1 was
well in the running from the begin
m end, and when four holes re
to be played, 1 knew exactly
what 1 had to do In order to beat Tay -
for, who had just finished. 1 could
not afford to make mistakes: fortu
nately, matters progressed steadily
And arrived on the last teeing ground,
When I had a 5 to tie and a 4 to win,
The drive was a good one, and then
ut A very ticklish problem. A per
brassie shot over the bunker
rrlln. the green would enable me
*ecure a 4 and win the champion
ship; the sefe game of playing short
'l& an fron would result in a 5 and
leave me to contest a tle with Taylor
. 1 reflected that if 1 were at home in
Q clrcumstances, 1 would no! take
the risk of being bunkered, with the
Klmost certain penalty of defeat 1
g‘d play rhort and make sure of a
MO as to live to go on fiehting. 1
w on that line of reasoning and it
with success.
Takes Championship Easily.
- When Tavior and | came into zimt
conflict for the title we had an up
own struggle: 1 wae leading by
® strokes at the end of six holes,
Ut at the second hole in the after
m\n were level From that point,
er, things went m way, and
2" A long putt fell with a gratify.
“Bump'” {9lO the tin cn the sev.
onteenth green, 1 felt safe. 1 was
z' ”l:m strokes ahead, and 1 won
r
_After that, champlonshins hecame
comparatively easy. 1 had one vear
of perturbation in striving to uphold
& new position, and in 1887 I finished
fi #trakes behind the victor. Harold
Hiiton, but I felt that I could win
i ok
agaln, and once this confldence was
complete'y establizhed all the difficul
tles disappeared.
8o far as concerne the playing off
of ties, | have memories of greater
excitement in connection with that
meeting at Brook!ine Mass., in 1913,
than in the case of the struggle with
Taylor for recogniti n in the golfing
world,
1 was Intensely keen on winning the
American champlonghip two years
4go because Ray and I had been sent
out by an enthusiastic supporter of
the game with particular injunctions
to capture the title; there was to be
no excuse for defeat.
| Gives No Excuse.
Well, there was no excuse; we were
beaten by a man who, during that
week, played the best golf and played
it with just that regard which I have
already recommended for not losing
one's head in an effort to accomplish
prodigious things. Mr. 'rancis Ouimet
hit his shots as though he had been
engaged in one of his innumerable
private rounds on his mother course;
he knew just how to win.
1 have always felt that the turn
ing point in that contest occurred on
the tenth green. Ouimet, Ray and |
were leve! at the turn. The tenth, a
short hole, demanded a mashie shot
on to a green that was soaked as a
consequence of the heavy raing of the
previous days. A rule had been made
that, In the event of a ball being im
bedded In the mud of a green, it
#hould be lifted and placed beside the
spot where it had stuck. |
Both Ray and I pitched short of (h«‘
hole, and the slope of the green was
such that in each case the ball jumped |
back a few inches, leaving in front of
It & mark in the ground at the place
where it had pitched.
Ouimet sent his ball about eight
yards past the hole, and as it stuck
he was entitled to lift it. Thus he had
a clear putt, while Ray and I had to
take midirons in order to chip over
the dent in the turf just in front of us.
We dropped a stroke each,
It was one of those little incidents
that occur from time to time, helping
one here and going against one ther&l
I refer to it because I know that it
settled just about the most thrilling
open championship of the United
States that has ever been held.
Oulmet gave us no chance of drawing
level with him.
I ma¥e up my mind to do it at the
seventeenth, where | was still only a
stroke behind (Ray was now out of
the hunt), but in some strange man
ner a drive which I thought I had
struck perfectly finished In a bunker.
People who saw the shot told me aft
erward that It carromed off some
thing and broke fully elght yards into
the hazard, |
Starts for America. |
It was shortly after thig third suc
cess in the British open championship
that 1 started for my malden visit to
America. Perhaps | left some of my
best form in the States (I have never
played quite so well since except, per
haps, for a few months in the spring
of last year), but | enjoyed every min
ute of the golf and the life, even to
the traveling, which was more or less
continuous. Naturally, there was re
lief oceasionally from serious com
petition. 1 relished nothing more than
the bolling indignation of two caddies
who offered to teach Willle Smith and
me how to play golf on the Van Cort
landt course in New York.
We went there for a quiet game, far
from the maddening crowd. The cad
dies whom we engaged knew noth
ing of our identy, and evidently tak
ing us for innocents, they volunteered
to give us hints, Entering into the
spirit of so kind-hearted an offer, we
decided to play the part, and for elght
holes, we held the club In a variety
of ways, arranged oumt in a man
rer that would have e the halr of
Any instructor stand on end, missed
the globe and did many other fool
ish things,
Caddies Are Patient.
The caddles were extraordinarily
patient, so we decided thaf we ought
not to trespass any longer on their
Food nature. We started pla ing
properly. At the end of about t{m
minutes our henchmen looked at one
another curiously, Then simultane
onsly they flung down the clubg and
stamped off making the most violent
temarks that anybody ever delivered
at our heads
For sheer agony of suspense at golf
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‘Hated and Loved, the New York
. Manager Is One Who In
! spires Sympathy,
| .
* EW YORK, Sept. 1§ John Me-
N Graw looms up just now as a
pathetic figure in baseball; not
& figure that really demands sympa
thy or wants it, but a figure that in
spires it just the same i
The wonderful baseball machine |
that McGraw used up the best vears
of his life developing is broken:. some
of the old cogs are gone, and others
must go To figure again as a pen
nant contender McGraw must build
up a new machine—a task of vears
and one Into which he can not enter
with the enthusiasm and energy that
characterized his more vouthtul years
The old fighting spirit of the Giant
leader is gone. Rarely is he seen on
the coaching lines these days. Rarely
does he rush on to a ball fleld and
verbally battle the umplres over de
cislons as he did in the bygone days
The old fire has died out: MeGraw
seems engrossed in his reveries of
other days—of glorious dayvs when he
and his team ruled supreme in the uld
league
McGraw never was popular with the
fans outside of New York, and never
was extremely popular with those in
his home town But just the same,
McGraw, because of what he accom
plished vear after vear with a medio.
cre<looking baseball outfit. was ad
mired angd lauded throughout the
length and breadth of the land. He
was a real baseball leader—in our
opinion the greatest baseball leader in
the history of the game, and one of
the most spectacular figures that ever
loomed alone the baseball horizon
McGraw Hated—and Loved.
No man ever has been more genu
inely hated than John MeGraw ind
no one ever has been more genuinely
:l‘\"“
On the ball fleld MeGraw alwavs
has appealed to fandom as the Sper.
lative rowdy off the hall fleld he
was a per=on entirely different And
to John MeGraw's credit 1t shall he
#ald that those who hate him are
those who know him onlv as a base
ball manager: that those who love
him are those who know him Intl
mately
. The fallure of the Glants to win the
1914 pennant hit MeGraw a harder
‘“-o"u'- than he had ever hefore re
celved In his long diamaond career
He had won three nennants in a row
‘II‘.- ambition was to achleve what no
I know nothing worse than the ordesl
of walting. after one has finished in 2
champlonship with the prospect of
winning, to see what the other fellows
will accomplish. | had & very severe
dose of it at Sandwich In 1911,
1 was one of the first to complete
the four rounds. At least elght men
Pad a chance of beating my score, and
they arrived at intervals during a pe
riod of two hours. 1 do not think 1
left the back of the last green all that
time. First one would fall by a stroke,
then another. All the while reports
were arriving tha? ‘So.and-So want
ed only two £'s and a 5 to win”
(Copyright, 1915, by Harry Vardon.)
(This is the ninth of a series of arti
cles on golf that Mr. Vardon, the Brit
ish champion and the world's ’mtm
rlhr. is writing especially for The
merican. The tenth article will ap
pear next Sunday.)
“The Story of Susan Lenox,
Her Fall and Rise”
'“And Jesus said unto hes, Neither do | condemn thee: g 0 and sin no more™
HEARST'S - SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1915
other manager ever had achieved—
the winning of four straight. Right
up to the last six weeks of the 1914
campaign It seemed a certainty for
him. True, the Braves were shoot
ing upward with amazing speed, but
it seemed they couldn't hold the pace
~—that they must drop back. <
But the Braves didn't, ’l‘hey‘
caught the Glants, went beyond and
held the lead until the finish line was
crossed—and McGraw was a broken
hearted man. The victory of the
Braves meant that his name never
would be written in the baseball Hall
of Fame as the only modern baseball
leader who had led a team to four
pennants in a row,
Recovering from his disappoint
ment in 1914, the Glant leader led his
team into the 1915 fight, hopeful, con
fident. But then—and only then—did
he discover that disintegration had
set in. The machine no longer moved
forward with merciless precision
against the opposition. It moved
haltingly, hesitantly—and often it
backed up.
Defeats Crush Olg Spirit,
During the first two months of the
campaign McGraw threw his whole
soul and body into an effort to steady
his wabbly outfit. He drove them,
‘ajoled them. He made a dozen shifts
n the arrangement of the Ccogs In the
machine—but to no avail. The ma
‘hine’'s rhythm and power were gone,
And then McGraw, tired and worn |
ind embittered, with the old nre'
burned out, with the spirit deadened,
I#signed himself to bench duty, I"ur'
him it was useless to battle longer.
He still could manage, stil) direct, stil]
enthuse his men—but he couldn’t do
the pitching for his pitchers, he
couldn't do the flelding for hie fleld
ers, nor the batting for his club.
McGraw is nearing his forty-second
birthday. That's not old as managers
0, but it's rather old for a man who
must start anew in his baseball life
the tearing to pleces of an old ma
chine and the long, tedlous task of
building a new one.
MceGraw may issue forth with a
smashing good team in 1916 but the
chances are against it. The old stand.
bys of other years are about through,
lHe will have but few good veterans
in 1916 to form the nucleus of a great
team.
The Giants—the peerless Glante-~
of other days are throueh, and no one
knows it better or experiences a 4 more
stabbing pain over it than John Mc. !
Graw-—the scrappiest, most maligned,
yvet ‘vithal the greatest basehall mans
ager of this or any other decade,
Into City Series
CHICAGO, Sept. 18— A mnvomon(|
Is under wav to-day to get the Chi
cago Federal Leagne club entered into
the city rerles which has been staged
annually at the end of the regular ma
jor league seasons between the Cubs
and the Sox,
The effort to make the series a
three-cornered afair i« be'ng done
through petitiors which will be pre
sented to Mayor Willlam Hale Thomp.
son
The petitions set forth that the Fed
eral League club is of major league
caliber, and that the Whales are en
titled to a chance at the champion
ship of the city of Chicago.
Offic'als of the Federal League are
back of ¢the movement, but belief was
expressed to-day that, no matter how
many signatures to the petitions are
secured, the third leaguers will not be
permitted to participate in the fall
PUSt SeASON games, ;
—————
Sell Racing Stable
PARIS, Sept. 18.~Much surprise
has heen caused in sporting circles,
says The Matin by the announcement
that Edmond Blanc, one of the oldest
and largest owners of race horses in
France, will sell his racing stable on
October 8. M. Blanc Is the father-in
law of Prince Roland Bonaparte and
grandfather of Princess George of
Greece.
Billy After Quarterback Position
Held So Brilliantly by Sta
pleton and Bobby.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, Sept
18.—If—and it is a great big IF
Billy Gooch makes h is desired posi
tion on the Virginia team this fall
there will have been only a single
yvear since 1908 when a Gooch has not
held down the quarterback Job on
Virginia's athletics. There have been
three brothers in the university since
that year—Stapleton, Bobis and now
Lilly—all athletes of note, and each
of them quarterback of a Virginia
football team Thi# is almost a rec
ord im the annals of college footbali
The 1909 team of Virginia has gone
down in college annals as “the best
team Virginia ever had,” and it was
'n this team that Stapleton Gooch
made his reputation He was known
as a heady player, a good broken field
rurner and an excellent handler of
his men. The team that year won
from Annapclis, 5-0, and many otner
distinguished victories
The following vear there was no
Gooch in college, but 1911 saw “Bob
by™ enter, and make hie letter his first
year at the keystone position For
four years he was the quarter of the
team, and his record is too weli
fnown to need expounding Sufflce
It to say that his work was consid
ered and mentioned several times by |
Walte Camp in his selection of an
All-American squad
And now along comes Billy Gooch
to uphold the reputation of his broth
ers He has been a star in prep cir
cles for several years, and frequentiy
chosen all Virginia prep quarter, do
ing especlally good work at Fishburne
last year. Billy is solid, fast and gret
Ly, but is an unknown quantity as to
headwork; but if in this he equals
his reputation A Gooch will hoid
quarter again this vear for the sixth
time in #seven vears
| .
J. Willard Goes to
Philly to Buy Hat
' PHILADELPHIA, Kept 18, —Jess Wil
lard, heavyweight champion of the
world, caused great consternation in
Philadelphla yesterday when he ap
peared strolling down Chestnut street.
The giant Kansan just happened into
this city from Atlantic Ctiy, where he
Is appearing in a Wild \\'n--} show
The big, smiling heavywe fin cham
plon came here In order to buy a SSO
hat. Not a =igh silk one, or fancy ke
that, but a plain sombrero, such as is
worn on the plains from which Jess
came,
The champion states he s well pleased
’whh life W the circus and the excite
ment and pleasure, but is willing to fight
| as soon as a_ suitable opponent can he
obtalmed for him and when he will get
the purse he demands.
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)P . .
~ Pass in 20 Innings
—
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 18.<The pitcher
with control nlwn“: i® the naster, and
Harry Sallee has been showing wonder.
ful contro' at Robison Field. In his
last two gamés, counting 20 Innings,
the southpaw has not issued a free tick
et .:‘rllmt the Cubs last Monday he
| worked 12 rounds and dld not hand out
a ..
{n‘-uhl frames against the Reds yes.
terday Sal did not walk a single batter.
e s e
Hearsts
bt sVD Ves AT
Two Tech stars.
On the left is
Bob Lang, fall
ing on the ball,
while on the
g h't
““Wooch’’
Fielder is
shown starting
a run with his
stiff arm work
ing.
Virginia, North Carolina, Auburn, Alabama,
Sewanee, Georgla and Tech to Be Seen
on Grant Field.
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By Fuzzy Woodruff.
} TLANTA may have suffered
| A from sport ennui during the
past six months as a result of
| the sleepy showing the Crackers made
during the almost late and certainly
unlamented baseball season. But At
lanta is due to wake up, and do it be
fore the next month is old enough to
lay aside its teething ring.
For Atlanta is in for a reguilar foot
ball geason. Fer the past gix or seven
’)‘eura Atlanta has been growing more
‘and more the f[cothall center of the
South. It has mor: of a monopoiy on
‘the clasay footbal! of the section than
any Easgtern city has on the gridiron
Im‘tlvltien of that land. It is a bigger
football town to the Sonuth than Chi
cago is {0 the West,
l And this is going to be Atlanta's
higgest foathall season. \
| Ten Q‘nmn in Nine Weeks.
~ Just consider the fact that there are
‘but nine weeks of football plaving
#earon, and that during this nine
weeks there will be ten intercollegiate
clashes on Atlanta fields, and Atlan
ta's pre-eminence as a foothall cen
ter for the South can be realized,
Mighty few of these games are of
the usval early season warm-up af
fairs between a stronger team and a
college that is hopelessiy outelassed
Six of the ten battles will Bave abso
lute bearing on the Southern cham
plonship, and of the great Southern
teams Atlanta will see all in action,
with the exception of - Vanderbilt,
Tennessee and Louistana State,
The reason will open the first week
in October, with Tech meeting Mer
cer. Now, there ig little possibility of
the Macon Baptists troubling He's
man’s outfit to any great extent, but
Mercer anlways fights to the last ditch
against the Yellow Jackets, and the
battle should not be devoid of inter-.
est,
Then will come Transylvania to
meet the North avenue warriors, Lit
tle is known of Transylvania, but the
game will give the followers of foot
ball sqme definite line on Tech's de-1
velopment.
After that the real battles will be
gin. Tech encounters Davidseon Col
lege October 9 and Davidson is the
dark horse of the South this season
The South Carolinans bhoast a new
coach, are said to have plenty of ma
terial, and may spring An early-season
surprise,
Big Battles on List. |
From that time on there will not ho‘
a week in which a game is not staged
at Grant Fleld with a d'rect bearing
on the Dixie title. Big game follows
bl game. Tech has an early engage-
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|mf»nt with Alabama, and the Jackets
are keen for this affray, hoping to
avenge the defeat at the hands of the
Crimson-White warriors of last sea
son. But as bright as prospects are
at Tech, this game is bound to be a
hard one, for Alabama has been com
ing, and coming strong, for seasons,
and this yvear should turn out a really
formidable fighting front
Atlanta will see Georgla and Vir
gina on October 23, this game having
been transferred here from Athens.
Atiantans remember the great 1913
battie between these teams, when the
Old Dominion boys won by a long for
ward pass in the last few seconds of
play. Virginia is more powerful than
usual this year, but Cunningham is
usging everything he has and knows
to have his men on edge for this en
zagement .
Jackets Make One Trip.
Without a break, except for- their
one trip to Baton Rouge to meet
Louisiana State, the Jackets will have
a game each week at Grant Field,
One after the other w'll come the fe
rocious North Carolinians, the Purple
aristocraty from the Sewanee moun
tain, the all-powerful, pile-driving
Auburn team from the plains of Ala
bama, which will play Thanksgiving
Day and which will furnish a game
second In the spectacular only to the
annual meeting of the Red and Black
and the Yellow and White, |
€0 there's going to be all the foot
ball that anybody could wish for. And
Atlanta patronizes the collegiate
game. A= a matter of fact, Atlanta is
the only city in the South where foot
ball draws generally. In other South- ‘
ern towns the games are witnessed
largely by collegians and former col
lege men, but here the attendance s
as general as the throng at the base
ball park.
No more brilliant football pros
pects have ever been enjoyed by the
South, A few years ago Vanderbilt
had evervthing her own way. The
Commodores were easily the class of
the section. But now there are no
less than six colleges capable of giv
ing the Nashvillians a fight that the
;’)‘ld Gold and Black can well remem
v,
And all these !:(un- will be seen
this fall at Grant Fleld.
LEHIGH GETS CHINAMAN,
SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PA., Sept, 18,
~With the incoming class at I ehigh
University, the baseball team will ;r
celve gooq recruit for next upfln'. o
is Alfred Yap, a Chinaman, of Hono
lulu, Hawail. the son of a bank offi
cer there. Yap Is a wseasoned player,
pu,yhl first and third basxes for the
Chinese University team, which is now
touring this country.
. . .
by David Graham Phillips
Susan, beautiful, intelligent, unhappily born, cursed with the
cruel stigma of illegitimacy, struggles against the world,
TAKING THE COUNT, gk
And now it looks as though Ger- |%]
many would have to take the count j!fi'
—meaning Von Bernstorff. _:;
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Return of Ancient Glories of Cir
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cuit Are Expected for Next
Season—Many Clubs to Have
New Managers and Players.
OOK out for a return of the
! I Southern League to all its an
! cient glories next season.
| It's a far cry, but, as sure as the
sun shines and sets, there is bound to
be a recrudescence of the national
| pastime in these parts in 1916.
| The league has weathered its most
'stormy period, and the coming year
| should see it back on the high plane it
| occupied three or four years ago.
i Southern League historians are go
{ing to write about 1915 as one of the
imost peaceful seasons the circuit has
ever known and that's where the dan
| ger was. Ev ery club owner and man
lager was so afraid of going on the
rocks that everything was played aft
er the safe, sane and conservative
fashion, and as a result patrons of the
pastime saw the very poorest sport
| that the league has furnished since
ltwu years after its reorganization in
{l9Ol,
League Sorely Beset.
i And they acted wisely, for never
| was an organization as sorely beset
*a-s was the Southern League at the
| opening of"the almost happily past
| season. Judge Kavanaugh, its organ
|lzer and its one moving spirit, had
| passed away. A new president had to
|be chosen. Naturally, the new presi
dent was untried. The South's great
lf:st money crop was a drug on the
| market The FEuropean war had
[lhrw\\ n Southern finance into a con
ditlon bordering on panic. The Fed
eral League raids had affected the mi
nors as well as the majors The
Montgomery club had given up the
ghost. Its franchise had been trans
ferred to Little Rock, a town that had
| Lever supported baseball. Mobile was
shaky.
On account of the Federal Leagus
activities, it was well-nigh impossi
ble to get ball players of any rea!
ability from the majors, who were
swinging omo anything that looked
like an athlete. Players on the South
ern League roster were holding out
for hizher salaries, recognizing th
condition the clubs were in as a re
sult of the outlaw movement. T¢
experienced baseball men it seemed
that Judge Kavanaugh's circuit was
| bound to go on the rocks.
' But thines broke well for the league
The selection of Bob Baugh as presi
dent was fortunate. Baugh was uni
versally popular, and he had the con
fidence of thc club owners. He at
tempted nothing radical, which was
just the thing to do under the « ircum
stances, Little Rock’s attendance was
unexnectedly good With a little aid
from the league Mobile was able w
weather the storm
No One Lost Money.
If the class of ball was not as high
as it has been, the race was fairly
well contested up to the last month of
the season If no club owners made
any great amount of money, no club
luwnr-rs lost a great amount, which is
a pretty catisfactory state of affairs
| But now, apparently, all the clouds
E.’\t\n passed Baugh has been broken
{ Into harness. The cotton situation is
| relieved Monetary affairs are about
|'!y=|‘ k to normal. The Federals have
jabout quit fighting, It Is doubtfy) if
they will exist another year. And the
majors will be glad to send once more
the'r unseasoned material South for
idditional training
With any luck, Little Rock should
|'n.clu~ a hetter showing next season,
|and the gate receipts should increase
{ with the number of Rames won Mo
| bile seems destined for better things.
| A\ movement that is sure to bhe pop
{ular when the league meeting is held
‘ n New Orleans this winter will be
{“ne to cut the plaving season back tn
its original length The plan to ex
| tend the season until the last of Sep
|:nmlu-r has proved a miserable fall
ure, as was so confidently predicted
!I:) the first of September all interest
:n) the race had dled, and every cluhn
n the circult was operated at a loss
I’-rr the last three weeks. It would not
be surprising to sce the league go back
"n ts old arrangement ,of 140 bat
jtlrw
| Shake-up in Managers.
' There Is due a big managerial
| shake-up next season John Dobbs
im;n again lead the pennant-winning
’l"- icans, but John isn't very keen for
the job, nor does he care much about
f?m‘hg a fling at Somery’ Cleveland
| club It's more than likely that he
| will be back In New Orleans. Of
course, Molesworth will be back in
Birmingham. That's always under
| stood, and Bris Lord will have anoth-
Ler whirl with the Memphis outfit,
4 Bill Schwartz will be missing at
i.\',uh\i}'o» Bill plans to buy stock in
| some Middle Western club and man
| age its affairs. For the Nashville
;}mr' 1 Charley Frank and Dolly Stark
yare spoken of. The situation in At
lanta !a ’,} aot but the next few dava
| #hould tell the story. It is hardly Jike.
| ‘. v|‘|.| Rill Smith will be back hera
‘lkl" Elberfeld is due for another try
| With the Lookouts. Charley Johmide
lw:wnv\( know whather he g going to
stick in Mobile or not