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By Chaarles (Chick) Evans.
National Open Golf Champion,
HICAGO, ILL. Sept. 14 —With
‘ out doubt there are too few
tournaments for junior goifers
in the Chicago district, and unless
they increase in number Chicago must
eventually lose the splendid position
it hae held in the world of golf for so
many years.
When 1 was a very youthful golfer,
one of my greatest incentives were
the junior championships at West
ward Ho. To play only in tourna
ments with golfers who have already
arrived is a bit discouraging to the
youthful player; for a boy needs a
victory now and then—or a near-one
~to cheer him on the difficult way.
The future depends on the vouth of
today. Age-limit tourneys are desir
able things, but the disproportion be
tween them and the junior events is
startling, and it is not the junior alone
who needs encouragement, but the fel
low in between.
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IT is instructive to note that the
leading qualifiers In the junior
tournament at Hinsdale, 111, are pub
lie course players. Bennie Ruffham.
the low medalist, was a former caddie
at tha Chicago Golf Club and was
one of the best caddie plavers there,
A study of the list shows that three
out of the first four qualifiers were
from public course golf clubs, and, in
deed, 70 per cent of all the juniors en
tered came from the public parks,
Now, this can only mean that the
ns of private club members are too
lazy to develop a game. They want
the things that come easiest and
quickest, and the way to a good goif
game is long and difficult. When pub
lic park golfers trained on the “built
for speed” municipal courses can go
to a private links and play it as well
as these boys have done, it means that
they have got the real stuff in them,
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THESE boys ware nearly all caddles
at the different clubs, and after
the caddie age was past they went to
work; but they still longed to play,
and they were enabled to do so
through the cheap memberships of the
public park golf clubs.
Lose to Chicagoans
CHICAGO, Sept. 14-—Walter T.
::yu and Ralph H. Burdick, local
nis eracks, defeated Ichi Ya Kum
agae and Hachi Chiro Mieaml, the
Japanese, in a two set match here.
The scores were 9-7 and 6-4,
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Athletes Who Think They Are Coming Back Are Usually Going Back
| HATTANOOGA, Sept. 14.—Most
‘ of the individual members of
the Lookouts have returned
home for their stay during the off
season. It is believed that most of
the players will be back in uniform
next year, though very few of them
are considered strong onoug’; to .be
brought on without competition. The
team of the past.season was strong
In many respects, but was never thor
oughly balanced and was always weak
in pitehing. Yet it was one of the
best the city has employed, and,
doubtless as such, will not have to be
“doctored” as much as some of the
squads of the past,
It is feared that either Joe Harris
or Jake Pitler will bhe caught in the
draft net. These two boys are too
good to be overlooked, at least by the
Class AA clubs, even if the majors
pass them up. It is a pipe, however,
that the one who is not snagged in
the lottery will be back next season
with the bells on. Moreover, the re
mainder of the infield would not he
unwelcome, without a hbreak.
Fred Graff is said to have expressed
desire to be traded because he believed
that he had been long enough on one
club, This may be true, but it is a
cinch that the Lookout roster has
never contained a more popular or a
more faitkful player than Freddie,
Moreover, Graff had his hest season
this year, batting 20 points higher
than usual, setting up a reputation of
being the best “squeeze player” on
the club or in the league, besides field-
Ing the bag in his accustomed sonsa-‘
tional style. Just why he shouldn’t
be brought back is a mystery. If he
Boes, however, it's certain that a serv
fceable player will pe secured in ex
change. '
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TOMMY McMILLAN plaved a phe
nomenal game after he Joined the
team and undoubtedly will be retained
for & try-out next spring. Tommy is
not a certainty and doubtless will
have other competition In addition to
young Watt, who has been sent down
by Detroit. |
In the outfield, it appears certaini
that Helne Jantzen will go hence.
Heine finished in a bad slump anad his
health has been su@gh as to handicap
him. Heine 1s a hard-working, gln-\
gery scrapper, but' hits rather light
for a fielder. Ham Hyatt also wound
up slowly, but Ham proved a val
uable citizen, all things considered,
and probably will coine back next
Spring. If Harris lis caught in the
draft Ham will be taken on for a
first-sacker, and it must be confessed
that he .played a much better first
bag this year than outfield. Bob Mes
senger played good, steady baseball
all season, hitting a few points shy,
but fielding better than in previous
years. Bob Is a high-salaried man,
and it is not unlikely that he will be
raded, though he is plenty fast.
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BEHIND the bat, both Kitchens and
Peters may bhe back, but several
other catchers must be secured to
compete with them. Kitchens WAas |
far from playing the game this year
that he did last, his arm going bad
and his Dbatting eye cnnshlerably‘
dimmed., Peters improved consider
ably in all departments. |
Strange as it may seem, the piteh- |
ing staff bids fair to be retained al
most intact, though here, as in the
catching, a lot of “help” will be lined
up. Rube Marshall, Jim Allen, Tom
my Knowlson, Howard Merritt, young
Bacon and Dixie Walker will make a
quintet around which Elberfeld may
build. Arthur Johnson doubtless will
80 back to Birmingham. There is not
one of the five named who is.a cer
tainty as a star, but every one has
shown enough to compel being
“looked over" next vear.
The new owners of the club will be
up against a problem of finding a
Ccouple of good-hitting outfielders, an
inflelder to replace Harris or Pitler,
at least one first-class catcher, and
not less than a trio of pitchers to
augment the squad next spring, be
fore they can enter the. 1917 training
season with any degree of confidence.
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BUCK WEAVER BANKRUPT
CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Buck Weaver,
White Sox shortstop, is bankrupt,
Buck's attorneys have filed a petition
to this effect In Federal Court, list-
Ing his labllities at $1,002 and his as
sets at nothing. Buek formerly op
erated a poolroom on the South Side.
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LD DOC CHILDS gave the finest little exhibition of raw
O courage and fighting against impossible odds I ever saw on
a baseball diamond. :
It didn’t get him anything, so far as pennants go. And I am
inclined to think it ruined Doe’s arm, pitehing that desperate
game omn a chilly September afternoon at Piedmont Park. Any
way, Doc never was much good after that, and he surely had plen
ty of stuff that season.
It was the tail end of the season of 1904 Ab Powell owned
!tho Atlanta team and ’Gene Demontreville was fald nosmbain ae A
practically manager for the
club. They had brought Doe up
from the Sally League with Al
vin Bayne when that season
ended, to help the local club in a
desperate chance to land the
pennant,
It was no great shakes of a chance.
New Orleans and Memphis and At
lanta all were in the hunt, but At
lanta was pretty well behind. It came
10 a serfes with New Orleans, where
the Crackers had to win every re
maining game to land the flag. One
game lost, and thers were five more, |
think, and the chance was gone, In
short, it was an absolutely critical
game for Atlanta, |
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DOC CHILDS wns sent in to pitch
—a huge, lumbering chap, with
worlds of stuff ard speed, but very
wild. FHe hit the first batsman to |
face him. The runner—none other |
than “Diamond Joe" Rickert—prompt- 1
ly swiped second on Nig Clarke, went
to third on an out, and scored on a
wild piteh.
And right there Doc settled down.
He pitehed regular baseball, He had
all the stuff in the world, and he was(
getting it over the pan, and the Pels
had just as much luck with it as the
oliest inmate of the Soldiers’ Home
killing flies with a folded newspaper,
But, while Doc was making mon
keys out of the opposition, the town
boys were having absolutely no luck
at all against Winnie French. He was
using a sweeping curve ball, and
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TO CHICK EVANS.
s CHARLES “CHICK” EVANS is -deservedly the natlonal amateur
golf echampion. - None is more enthusiastic over his vietory than we. For
A decade “Chick,” who is the finest golfer up to the green ever de
veloped in America, has “blown” in big tournaments because of his
infinite capacity for poor putting. But this year he won the National
Open and learned that he could putt. Then we predicted he would g 0
through the current amateur field muen as he did go through it at
Merion last week, and as he should have gone through it long before.
The victory of Evans in golf and that of Willlams in tennis proves
that the man who sticks it out in the face of fate’s rebuffs will event
ually win if his backbone 18 of the proper firmness,
Tennis and golf for 1916 are out of the \ay. Boy, page a world’s
series.
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VERSES FOUND ON A PAIR OF STILTS.
Drive, Dinner,
Long ; w Show,
» Brassie, Roof,
Ntrong ; Dough !
Oh, - Dancing,
Bow! Late, y
Huch Night,
Joy: Great!
Putts, Raising,
Punk; Ned!
Golf, Morning,
Bunk! Head!
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CINCINNATI'S FAVORITE PLAY is the hit-and-done!
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CONNIE MACK TO THE contrary notwithstanding, ¥lo Ziegfeld
is the only manager who makes a business of staging Follies,
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CLARK GRIFFITH'S AREN'T the only Senators who will finish
along about seventh in November.
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A RELIGIOUS GOLFER never plays more than thirty-eight holes
on Sunday. .
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HEADLINE: “KELLY TAKES Senior Seculls at Washington.”
Took 'em from Grifr, probably!
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SWITCH IS SWITCH?
Braves or the Dodgers, or Phils,
Which of the three will come in?
Which will step home with the world's series bacon,
With enough dough to dbuy Moscow or Macon,
Which one is going to win?
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THE IRRESISTIBLE TYRUS.
IT WOULD BE like Tyrus Raymond Cobb to eateh Speaker. There
A% something irresistible about the “Jule of Jorga” when he is pressing
on toward a given point. One set or current averages show that Cobb
has made only a few less hits than Speaker, While Tristram of Texas
has made a few more trips to the plate.
Speaker without a doubt is as great a hitter as Cobb in the sheer
power of swinging, but he is not so Smart nor so fast on his feet.
Cobb is the ideal type of batsman for amassing a high average, as his
nine years’ record of lendership shows. In the matter of hitting in
runs, no doubt Speaker is quite as valuable as the Georglan—pechaps
more sO. This leads to the premise that great hitters are of two kinds.
One Kind is he who is of the straignt-away, slam-banging school that
rolls up a large number of hits that reach a pretty aggregate of total
bases. The other is the smart hitter who mixes his style and keeps
the defense on its toes trying to nab him.
A more perfect illustration of this difference could be found no
where better than on the Brooklyn Dodgers, We ean think of no
harder stralght-way hitter than Zack Wheat. He swings at a pall
more powerfully than Daubert ; yet, beeause the Dodgers' first baseman
has the ability to dursp the ball and beat it out, or pull an infleld in,
in expectation of a bunt, and then hit it through, Daubert annually
compiles a better average then Wheat. When there are men on bases
we have no doubt most National deague pitchers wlvuld rather face
Daubert than Wheat.
Cobb and Daubert are the same type. They are smart and
versatile hitters and fast afoot. They not only have keenly developed
batting eyes, but they possess razoredged bralns that outguess rival
pitchers and infields,
Speaker Is not dumb—far from it. But he s neither as fast nor
as clever a bunter as Cobb, and that margin of difference in itself ought
to be enough to swing the leadership to Cobb, Because he has a
chanee now to extend his leadership through ten years most fans are
pulling for the “Jule of Jorga." -
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POP BOTTLES don't care who throw them.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Clarke and Heinle Krug and Whitey
Morse and George Winters were
looking foolish. Inning after inning
was reeled off, and that one run be
gan to look like a winning margin.
Stafford and Koehler wére as helpless
as the rest against Winnie, and the
crowd was getting more and more
desperate,
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TI{E game rolled into the ninth in
ning, and once more Doc sat the
enemy down in a row. Then the
Crackers came on for their last ef
fort.
The first man up was an easy out.
Then Nig Clarke was retired, and it
was up to Doc—for they didn’t run in
pinch hitters for pitchers very much
In those days.
And, boys, old Doc was THERE.
That big ¢hap, who hit rather less
frequently than Professor V. M, Day
does now, cracked out a beautiful
single, and the crowd got to its feet
to cheer better. And not only that—
old Doc began burning up the tow
path. He weighed over 200, and was
slow and clumsy and no base runner.
But, boys, that big, slow, clumsy
piteher stole second--and stole third
—and, by gum, he was stealing
HOMMX, and was darned near the pan,
when George Winters missed his third
strike, and Atlanta’'s pennant hopes
went into the limbo of things that
might have been.
But Doc had done his damnedest—-
angels and b_lg fat pitchers can do no
more,
JIM LYNCH.
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; HEN the magnates of the
| Southern League get to
? gether for their December
Igabfest in Nashville, the spirit of
Prosperity is going to rule the meet
:mg, and as a result, Southern League
fans will have conglderably Dbetter
baseball provided for their delectation
in 1917 than they enjoyed in 1916, al
though this season Just ended provid
ed plenty of high-class amusement.
The race of 1918, however, was
staged under poverty conditions.
When the magnates assembled for
their winter maeting last year, base
ball was in the throes of the Federal
War. Hardly a club in organized
baseball had made money in the dark
year of 1915. The magnates very
wisely decided to trim expenses all
along the line.
As a Tesult, the Southarn League
started off with a 140-game schedule,
twenty games shorter than the sched
ule of the year before, adopted a four
reerlA-pia)’er limit rule, which prohib
ited clubs from carrying any reserve
players, and adopted a salary limit
80 small that even the Mobile club
couldn’t hardly live up to it.
That isn't all they did. They pass
ed a rule abolishing the guarantee
that home clubs had in the past paid
visiting = teams, thereby imposing a
tremendous burden on Atlanta, Bir
mingham and Memphis, though, of
course, Mobile, Chattanooga and Lit
tle Rock profited iinmensely.
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THIS vear, however, the league has
enjoyed good attendance, and
while there hasn't been a lot of
money made, the magnates are feel
ing a lot more hopeful as to the fu
ture of the sport in the Southland,
New financiers have been found for
the Mobile club. There will be new
blood in the Chattanooga association.
Memphis has had a record-breaking
vear of prosperity. Little Rock has
done splendidly. Birmingham has
done poorly from a financial view
peint, but Rick Woodward has never
believed in pinching pennies, and he
will be in favor of loosening the purse
strings. Nashville is naturally feeling
gay. Atlanta has fared well enough.
In short, nearly everybody is satisfied
with conditions.
So after the magnates have had a
drink and a fanfest, the lid is going
to go off.
RBeyond doubt the season will be
lengthened, probably to a 154-game
#chedule. The reason for this is ob
vious, Ball players of the higher
class don’t care to come South if they
are to lose their pay for September,
with all the other Class “A"” leagues
running until October.
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A ND the fourteen-player limit will
be done away with. In all prob
ability, a rule will be passed permit
ting each club to.carry fifteen play
ers, which, with the one player who
can be carried as “ineligible,” will
give the league plenty of talent.
The salary limit had just as well
remain the same. No club paid any
attention to it, and it could be two
bits or two million ddllars without
changing anything.
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Phils Break Even.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14.—S8t. Louls
Bot an even break yesterday, winning
the first game by knocking Rixey off
the rubber i the seventh inning 7 to
4, while Philadelphia took the second
5 to 0, largely through Cravath's hard
hitting. Cravath’s home run drove in
IWo runners ahead of him in the sixth
inning and his double in the eighth
helped to score the winning tally.
FIRST GAME.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
St. Louls ......... 200 003 200—7 o 1
Philadelphia ..... 121 000 000—4 8 3
Batteries: Ames and Gonzales; Rixey,
Oeschger, Bender and Killifer.
SECOND GAME.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
St. Louis ......... 000 020 002—4 7 1
Philadelphia ....." 100 003 01x—5 § 3
Batteries: Lotz, Currie and Gonzales,
Brottem; Demaree and Burnas.
Pirates 5, Dodgers 3.
BROOKLYN, Sept., 14.—The Pirates
beat the Superbas 6 to 3 vesterday and
tightened up the National League race.
g‘otomr held the Brookiyn batters to six
2.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
Pittsburg ........., 000 003 300—6 13 ¢
Brooklyn .......... 010 001 010—3 § 3
Batteries: Cooper and J. Wagner;
Smith, Dell, Rucker and Meyers,
Per? Makes Debut.
BOSTON, fift' 14.—Winning two from
Chicago vesterday, the Boston Nationals
gained ground in the pennant race and
are now one and one-half games behind
the leading Brooklyns. 'The scores of
the games, which were marked by hard
hitting, were 7 to 3 ad 11 to 6.
FIRST GAME.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
Chicago ........... 100 200.000—3 7 2
Boston .......,... 001 113 01x—7 14 2
Batteries: Vaughn, Prendergast, Perry
and Wilson; Reulbach, Tyler and Gowdy.
SECOND GAME.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
Chicago .......... 300 000 030— 6 13 4
Boston ........... 100 400 33x—11 14 1
Batterles: TLavender and Archer;
Barnes, Reulbach and Blackburn.
Gilants Win Two,
New York, Sept. 14.—New York made
1t eifht straight by defeating Cincin
nat! in a double-header yesterday, 3 to
0 and 6 to 4,
FIRST GAME,
Cincinnat! ......... 000 000 000—0 3 »
New York ........, 000 003 00x—3 9 ¢
Batteries: Toney and Huhn; Schupp
and McCarty.
SECOND GAME.
Cincinnati ......... 100 002 100—4 9 1
New York ....... 500010 00x--6 6 2
Batteries: Schnelder, Schulz, Knetzer
and Wingo; Smith, Perritt and Rariden.
Gather for Meeting
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Sept. 14—
Baseball magnates, bizg and little,
gathered here today for the annual
draft of minor league players sched
uled for tomorrow., Plans also will
be made for the world’s series, al
though nothing definite can be ac
complished because of the tangled
conditions of both races.
The first game of the series proba
bly will be played on Saturday, Octo
ber 7, said Garry Herrmann today.
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| American League 3
White Sox 9, Browns 8.
CHICAGO, Sept, 14.—Chicago defeated
St. Louis § to 8 in ten innings of wild
and erratic playing yesterday. Weilman's
wild throw of Weaver's grounder gent
the winning run across the plate in the
tenth inning after two men were out.
Score by innings: RH.E.
St. Lovis ........ 111 004 100 o—B 10 §
Chieago .......... 300 032 000 I—9 13 1
Batteries: Hamilton, Davenport, Koob,
Weilman and Hartlefit, Rumler; Wil
liams, Cicotte, Faber, Russell, Danforth
and Schalk, Lapp.
Tigers 4, Yanks 1.
DBETROIT, Sept. 14.—Detroit defeated
New York in the opening game of the
series 4 to 1 yesterday and moved with
in thrée points of first place. There
was good pitching on both sides and
much spectacular fielding. Coveleskie
had the game well in hand until the
eighth inning, when he issued his first
base on balls. The next two men hit
safely and a run was scored. Dauss
then was sent in. Pipp was sent in to
bat for Shawkey and Russell finished
the game.
Score by innings: R.H.E.
New York ........ 000 0000 010~1 5 1
Detroit ....ocvvvuve 100 010 02x—ed 10 o
Batteries: Shawkey, Russell and Alex
ander; Coveleskie, Dauss and Spencer,
Stanage,
Indlans Win,
Cleveland ......... 102 200 30x—8 9 o
Philadelphia ....... 100 200 100—4 19 1
Batteries: Beebe, Lambeth and De
berry; Myers and Haley.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1918
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Sept. 14.—Harg
vard's football squad was Increased tg
slxty-el%l‘xit today. The newcomers in.
cluded die Casey, Hamilton Ceolidgs
and Jack Linder, freshmen stars lasy
year. The coaching staff today includey
Dr. Paul Withington, who leaves Thurs.
day to coach Wisconsin; Bob Fisher, Boh
Guild, Frank O’Brien, Darric Parmen.
ter, just returned from Annapolis, and
Henry Sprague.
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the first time today.
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TO DRAW PLAYERS FRIDAY.
CI‘;ICINNATI, Sept. 14.—1 t was des
cided yesterday that the annual drawe
ing of the drafts of the major leagues
from the minors would be held in this
city tomorrow by the National Baseball
Commission. This will be the first tims
since 1913 that the drafts will be an
nounced as drawn. In 1914 and 1915 the
drawings were kept secret, owin%to the
war that was then on with the Federal
League,
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Sept. 14.-
M. Acosta, the Washington outfielder,
now with Minneapolis, will be out of
the game the rest of the season with
a broken leg. The bone snapped ag
the Cuban was sliding home.
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