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Giants, Cubs and Reds and Two
Sox Teams Should Fight It
Out, Says Corbett.
By James J. Corbett.
N the eve of the baseball cam-
O paign of 1918 the experts have
made the White Sox and the
Giants favoriies to repeat. Both ag
gregationg look
like the class tn} 0 ouliiGE
their respective 7| M (i
circuits, but noth- { i#B. « W
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certain than base- R
ball. It wouldn't§ 586 4%?
be at all surpris- § % Q%;y
Ing to see thefi et Tndl
Cubs or Reds nose §it o 0 S
out the Newii . 3
Yorkers, or for the §4 4 ey
Red Sox to show § g =\ 25 A
the way to the L A I
world champions. \
The clansmen of McGraw go inte
the fight this year carrying practi
cally as much power as in 1917. But
the opposition they will face in two
sections, at least, will be far stiffer
than any offered in 1917. And so the
Giants who were a 6 to 5 shot in the
pre-season wagering of 1917 are only
quoted at 13 to 5 in betting circles
now.
The Cubs this year look better than
any since the halcyon days of Tinker
to-Evers-to-Chance. The addition of
Grover Alexander and Rill Killifer
has given to them a pennant look.
The great right-handed hurler turned
in 30 victories, or better, for the 1915,
1916 and 1917 Phillies. Given ecven
fair support, he ought to repeat with
the Cubs of 1918. If that comes to
pass and the associate hurlers do even
fair work, thosg Cubs must be re
garded as the most dangerous Giant
rivals.
The Reds loom up powerfully. Mat
ty has welded together a team that
looks really great. It has great hit
ting power, K superb flelding, skill,
speed, fighting spirit—and youth! The
'pitchjng department tutored by the
canny Mathewson may be expected to
do its share—and perhaps a little
more.
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The other flve clubs in the Tener
circuit do not figure right now as
pennant contenders. Drafts, enlist
ments and retirements have gshot most
of them to pieces. The Dodgers look
weak, and even their most optimistic
supporters do not predict better than
a top section of second division for
them, The Phillies, without Alexan
der, look at least 3( per cent weaker
than in 1917. The Cardinals may land
in fourth place, but even such a high
ranking for them is doubtful. The
Braves appear mediocre. Second di
vision seems to be their certain lot.
George Stallings is bullding a new
machine and until it is completed it
can not travel at a pennant clip. The
Pirates have been improved and seem
sure to furnish a far stronger argu
ment than they have for several
years.
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The White Sox have been extreme
ly fortunate. They haven't lost a real
star through draft or enlistment and
the team that Clarence Rowland will
pilot in 1918 will be almost the same
that swept through to the crest of
the baseball world in 1517. It's a
great ball club—a marvelous one—
and any team that heads it to the Oc
tober wire certainly must be wonder
ful.
The entries for the American
League race show but ong club that
can be considered as a really power
ful rival of Comiskey’s juggernaut.
And that ig the Boston Red Sox. The
very fact that Ed Barrow is at the
helm of the Bostonian machine is a
menace in itself for every rival. Bar
row is one of the best versed men
identified with the national game; a
great leader, a wonderful strategist—
a baseball genius.
The many gaps made in the Red
Sox ranks by war calls disheartened
the Boston rooters at first. But each
and every hole has been plugged in a
most satisfactory way. Bush prom
ises to fill Ernie Shore’s shoes, “Stuf
fy” Mcllnnig is a far greater player
than was Dick Hoblitzel or Del Gain
or, and Wallie Schanz and Amos
Strunk are sure to star in the other
' yvacancies. These players, together
with the veteran Red Sox, all directea
by the fighting Barrow-—well, that’s
a grand combination and one that
surely should be in the fight all the
way.
The Yankees look good. The ae
quisition of Miller Huggins as man
ager was a master stroke. The sev
eral deals put through by the new
leader have strengthened the team—
and it has some new-found and
much-needed “pep.” Offensively and
afield, the Yankees have power. If
their pitchers come through they may
spring a bulky surprise,
The Indians, which furnished such
a strong argument in 1917, have been
weakened by drafts and enlistments.
The 1917 team would have had a
chance in the battling this season.
But the new team looks weaker. The
Tigers, despite the presence of Ty
Cobb and Bobby Veach, look fair—
‘and no more. The trouble iz the
same—weak pitching staff. If two or
three youngsters come through, why
—-but the chances are that they won't.
The Browns have a second-division
‘appearance. So have the Senators
And the Athletics do not look any
better than in 1917, when they fin
ished last.
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So, in the National, it looks IYke the
Giants, Cubs ¢r Reds, while the
* American battle promises to be be
tween the White and Red Sox, with
the Yankees having an outside
chance—unless another bhaseball mir
acle is wrought, as was the case of
1914,
DISTANCE RUNNER INJURED.
NEW YORK. April 13.—1 t has been
learned that Julius Katz. the former
distance runner of the Pennant A. C.
had been wounded on tne firing line
Katz is attached to the headaquarters of
the 165th Infantry. He is the first one
of the local athietes in service to be
injured ~oing “over the top.”
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gins Is Peppery Leader.
J HE custom of changing man-
I agers in ‘the middle of the
winter, which was so much in
Vogue a few years ago, is rapidly
disappearing. The wholesale changes
in managers, tvhich used to feature
the doings of the Winter League, ap
pears to be following the playing
managers into the baseball discard.
There are only three managerial
changes this winter, and all except
One were due tq force of circum
stances. Bill Donovan was the only
manager to be “fired” this winter. In
fact, only three men have been forced
to give up their commands since the
close of the 1916 season: Joe Tinker,
formerly of the Cubs, in the fall of
1916; Jimmy Callahan, of ‘the Pi
rates, last fall. This is the low wa
ter record for firing managers in the
big leagues.
The new managers'for the coming
season are Miller Huggins, of the
Yankees; Ed Barrow, of the Boston
Red Sox, and Jack ‘Hendricks, of the
St. Louis Cardinals,
As Jack Barry, manager of the
Boston Red ‘Sox last year, has en
listed in the navy. President Frazee,
of the Boston club, offered the post
to Ed Barrow, for five years presi
dent of the International League and
a former manager of the Detroit Ti
gers. The appointment of Barrow
was the big sest surprise of the Win
ter League. Though Barrow says
he has been engaged as the perma
nent manager of the Bogton club, it
»8 understood that with the return of
peace, Barry will be given his old
post and Barrow will be transferred
Lo the business end of the Beston club
and may be made president.
Miller Huggins tackles a ° queer
problem in New York. He has inher
ited a team which finished sixth last
season, but on which thousands of
dollars have been spent since Rup
pert and Huston acquired the club
in the winter of 1914-15. It 1s esti
mated that the Yankees spent close
to $150,000 in buying players to
strengthen the team, and at the
end of three years the Yankees finish
ed in the same position as the season
before Ruppert took over the club.
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In many ways Huggins is better
fitted to run the club than any other
available manager. His experience in
St." Louis has been most valdable, and
taught him to wim with very little
financial aid from the businegs office.
In St. Louis Huggins did not win any
pennants, but he did something even
more wonderful, at least to St. Louis
eyes, when he piloted the club to two
third place berths. Before the Car
dinals finished third under Huggins
in 1914, no other St. Louis National
League team had finished that high:
since 1876, the year the League was
organizad.
Huggins finished in last/place in St.
Louis in 1913, but he was gradually
buidling up and by the follewing sea
son, thanks to a shrewd deal with
Pittsburg, he finished third after an
exciting race with Boston and the
Giants. The Federal League tore his
club apart, and he was down on the
bottom again in 1916, but by 1917 he
was back in third with one of the
most formidable young clubs in either
league.
In St. Louis Huggins had practi
cally no financiall backing behind
him. The Brittons usually were in
the hole financially, and sold players
instead of buying them. Huggins
will now have the biggest bankroll in
the league behind him, and an owner
who will not hesitate to take tHe rub
ber bands off it if it will help bring
a winner,
Huggins is well equipped mentally
to develup a winner. Always re
garded as one of the smartest men in
baseball, he has a shrewd insight
into all baseball affairs, is a ithorough
thinker and. has inside baseball on
the ends of his fingers. If any
manager should be able to succeed
with the Yankees Huggins .is the
man.
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Ed Barrow should find little trouble
in winning with the Boston <c¢lub
which has been bequeathed to him.
He has a readymade club, with the
best pitching staff in his: league in
Ruth, Leonard, Mays, Bush and Fos
ter; the second best catcher in base
ball in- Wally Schang, a consistent
.300 slugger in Meclnnis, as good a
flelding shortstop as is in baseball in
Scott, two star outfielders in Hooper
and Strunk and the services of John
ny Evers in an advisory capacity.
Barrow is a forcible character,
with a lot of punch in his actions as
well as in his talk. He is a nat
ural leader and a fighter, When he
managed ball clubs in D\e past he
was absolufe boss, and it did not pay
to thwart him. It was nothing but
this man’s fighting spirit that pre
vented the International League from:
going under three years ago.
The Fighting Edward also knows
a lot of baseball and should make a
big success of the Boston team. ‘
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Jack Hendricks .is a prominent
minor leaguer who deserved promo
tion to the big leagues more than
any other minor league manager with
the exception of Derry Bill Clymer.
Hendricks, like the man he succeeds
in St. Louis, belongs to that shrewd,
educated type of baseball men who
make a study of” baseball as though
it were a science. Like Huggins,
Hendricks is a college man and was
educated to be a lawyer. He makes
a splendid running mate to Branch
Rickey, also a baseball barrister.
Hendricks is a graduate of North
western University and practiced law
three years in Chicago before he de-"
cided to throw his entire energies;
into baseballl. He was a member of
the Giants in 1902 and was among‘
the bunch of misfits that McGraw re
leased shortly after he took hold Ofl
the team.
Hendricks, who was an outfielder,
later caught on with the Washington
club, but the Senators cast him a-lrift{
in 1905. He began his managerial
career with the Springfield club ot“
the Central League in 1905, and since‘
1906 none of his teams ever finished
out of the first division, and in the
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} PARIS, April 13.-—The American
Soldiers’ Baseball l.eagué, which has
'been organized, held a meeting to ar
‘range a schedule for the season's
‘games. The league comprises clubs
‘made up of men of all the different
categories of the service in the city,
the aviation section, the engineers,
‘the military police, the Soldiers’ and
Sailors’ Club, the Red Cross, the Y.
M. C. A. and the gquartermaster’s de
partment.
de Hits Hard i
ode Hits Hard in
~ (Clean-Up Position
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- Dode Paskert, the former Cracker
‘outfielder, who is now .a member of
‘the Chicago Cubs, recently asked
Manager Mitchell to let him bat in
‘the clean-up position.: Dode hadn’t
'been hitting very hard, but the man
‘ager placed him fourth, and the first
day Paskert slammed out a double, a
single and drew a walk. Now Mitch
iis glad he put Dode in that position.
Two to Rochester
} NEW YORK, April 13.—Two of the
Dodgers’ recruit pitchers have been
‘turned over to the Rochester club of
'the new International League.
They are Norman Plitt, right-hand-}
er, and Richard K. Durning, left
‘hander, both of whom came to Brook
i‘lyn from Portland, Maine.
Marsans Is Trying
- Out His Injured L
~ Out His Injured Leg
.~ NEW YORK, April 13,—Armando
Marsang, the Cuban, who i 8 a mem
ber of the Yankees, has notified Man
ager Huggins that he is trying out his
injured leg in Havana and that if it
feels better he will report to the team
in a few days, according to informa
tion received here,
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Three Games Billed
Tuesday for Preps
The thrz2e games scheduled for Friday
will be staged Tuesday, Fulton playing
at Tech Hizh, G. M. A. at Boys' High
and Marist at Commercial High.
Fulton is the league leader, with two
victories and no defeats for the sea
son.
Joe Birmingham I
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Signed by Toledo
Joe Birmingham, former manager of
the Cleveland American League eclub,
has been signed by Roger Bresnahan,
president and manager of the Toledo
team, in the American Association.
Birmingham will play center field for
Toledo.
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Dillon and Walker
Fight in Memphi
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MEMPHIS, April 13.—Jack Dillon, the
veteran Indianapolis light heavywgight,
will battle Hugh Walker, of lénsns
City, at the Phoenix Athletic Club here
Monday night.
twelve years only one fel! as low as
fourth.
He won one pennant with Spring
field, three with Denver in the West
ern League and one in the American
Association with his 1917 Indianapo
lis club. It is not surprising that
McGill, owner of the Indians, was not
particularly anxious to let Hendricks
20, as Jack worked for him both in
Denver and Indianapolis. However,
Hendricks felt he had won the right
to promotion to the big leagues and
finally McGraw consented. ’
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Will Assist Val Behind Bat
ARL EUBANKS, an Atlanta boy,
has been signed by Manager
Charley Frank, of the Crack
ers, to assist Valentine Picinich be
hind thé bat during'the rapidly ap
proaching campaign, it was -an
nounced today. o 2
Eubanks is well known in Atlanta,
for he pastimed for several years on
the local ball lots, playing in the City
League at one time. He is an excel
lent minor league receiver and is no
slouch with the stick.
The Atlantan was a free agent
when signed by Manager Frank. He
is already practicing with the home
boys out at Ponce DeLeon, and the
“SPRING TRAINING.”
ACH and every spring the
E baseball managers lead their
athletes South for a process
that has come to be known as “spring
training.”
They go to carefully selected places
in carefully selected climes. Fine
weather is the first consideration, and
clubs frequently travel as far as the
Pacific Coast seekipg the proper me
teorological ingred‘ienta.
' A few days of rain or cold weather
often. drives a manager out of a spot
that he has hit upon only after long
study and observation. Even when
the weather is all right, a bad hotel
has been known to chase big league
outfits to another port.
It costs from SB,OOO on up to $15,000
for a ball club to make a spring train
ing trip—this when times are normal,
too. The thoughtful manager seizes
upon every pleasant hour of the day to
work his pastimers toward the fa
miliar pink of condition that is con
sidered essential to the successful
baseball campaign.
The ambitious ball player leaves no
stone unturned to prepare himself,
And with good weather and a con
genlal hotel the club usually winds up
a four or five weeks’ training spell
“r'arin’” to go.
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THE MAGNATE TAKES HOLD.
Manager and players have done
their duty toward getting ready. The
inevitable squad of baseball writers
which accompanies every club South
in the gentle spring has probably
labored prodigiously in the same di
rection, giving the athletes mlies of
publicity on the momentous matter of
condition. :
Then the business management
steps in and takes charge of affairs.
The carefully trained ball heavers
are routed homeward to the opening
day in the big league from their care
fully selected places In carefully se
lected climes, through chill atmos
pheres which obliterates their pinky
condition in about 24 hours,
From their congenial hotel they
pass to Humpty Dumpty hostelries on
the one-night stands which produce
all the digestive ills to which the
stomach is heir. F¥From the smooth
diamond of their training field they ga
té the hard, uncurried grounds of the
deep sticks, where the possibility of a
broken leg lurks behind every clod.
For just enough of a gate to pay the
expenses to the next jump the thrifty
magnate loses the services of a $lO,-
000 ball playver half a season. |
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SOME GREAT ECONOMY. |
'Or*maybe the club doesn’t play at
all. |
Maybe after weeks of continuous.
work in the tranine camp it is rained
in two or th ee Jays handrunning at|
big manager thinks well of him.
Fubanks has been playing in the
South Atlantic League for several
years with Augista, and last season
handled the managerial reins. His
record as skipper for that team .is
goods . il
The new Cracker has had plenty
experience, and should make a valu
able assistant to Picinich. With these
two boys on the receiving end, the
fans shoudl not worry about this de
partment.
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Manager Frank.is hot on the trail
of a new pitcher and expects tc have
some good news for the fans in a day
or so.
the wide places in the road picked
out for the Northern journey by the
business management. |
In that case, the club loses only the
potential gate, and the edge of the
physical condition for which the man
ager and men have worked so long.
A few sore arms and colds and sore
throats may develop here and there
among the n?stimers, but these only
lay them up & couple of weeks or so.
When the club finally arrives at
home, and appears before a crowd of
the fans who pay the freight all sea
son, it is generally pretty lucky if it
can present its regular line-up intact.
Sometimes it is lucky if it can present
it within a anonth of the opening. |
It's wonderful economy—that way
of operating. Nowadays the big
league clubs travel in pairs in the
springtime, presenting a spectacle to
the inmates of the small towns that
is denied the home fans——the freight'
bearers mentioned above. As a spec
tacle that is no particular loss, how
ever,
In fact, the only loss in that re
spect is sustained by one or the other
club in the matter of prestige when it
gets badly shown up by its traveling
companion. A good sample is the
Boston outfit headed by G. Stallings.
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IS IT WORTH WHILE? |
There has long been an argument
as to the value of spring training.
Certainly it can be of no value if,
after weeks of work, the edge of con
dition is blunted the moment a club
starts home.
Perhaps' the ghest end ' served by
spring training, anyway, is publicity.
That is attained during the stay in
the training camp, if at_all. ,The fan,
if interested, is interested in the
youngsters, who are trying for the
team, and not in the veterans. He
knows about them already. His in
terest in them will awaken later on.
There is no particular thrill to the
baseball follower in reading about the
springtime games between clubs mak- |
ing a joint tour, and these games give
no particular line on the strength of n’
club. The Giants could only break
even wish the Tigers in their tour last
spring, and the Tigers wére minus
Cobb, but tké Giants went on and won |
the pennant in their league, while their
formcr partners were a complete bust |
in the American. !
This year the furious drubbing the
Yanks have given the Braves has
seérved to give the New Yorkers a lot|
of good advance publicity, but the ef
feet on the Bostonians can be im
agined. And the triumph of the|
Yanks has cost hem, so far. one of
their most valuable players.
Y. M. S. A. TEAM GETS GAME.
The Y. M. 8. A. team, a strong am
ateur nine, has book:d a = Vit
he Oricles for next weoek ma of
the starg cf t¥te Y, M. 8 A rre sa.
t‘onn are Spielbhorger Men dortfi«
M., Markalees and G. Markalces
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1918.
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Athletic Contests
Won by Rome High
MARIETTA, Apil 13.—The athletic
contests in the annual meeting of the
Seventh Congressiona' District High
schools were won by Rome High School
here yesterday, with 22 points. Carters
vi.g won second place with 14 points,
witn Calhoun following,
Thé results in the various events are
ag follows:
100-Yard Dash—H. Pritchett, Calhoun,
first, 11% seconds; F. A. Corner, Mari
etta, second; Trammell, Dalton, third.
~ High Jump—Young, Cartersville, first,
‘[-6 feet 2% inches; P. Funderburk, Rome,
‘second; Schnedel, Garlington, third.
~ Half-Mile Relay Race—Rome, first;
Cartersville, second; Calhoun, third.
Time, 1 minute §1%% seconds. -
12-Pound Shot Put—B. Funderburk,
Rome, first, 39 feet 214 iches; Wood,
Dalton, second; Hyce, Calhoun, third.
Pole Vault—W. Battle, Jr., Carters
ville, 9 feet 3 inches,. first; Wallace
Montgomery, Marletta, second; West,
Rome, third. Both Battle and Mont
gomery broke the former district record
in this event,
320-Yard Dash-—Martin, Adairsville,
first, 26 3-5 seconds; Burkhalter, Rome,
second; Pritchett, Calhoun, third.
Broad Jump—Wood, Dalton, first, 18
feet 2% inches; Schnedel, Garlington,
second; Myce, Calhoun, third.
440-Yard Dash—Martin, Adalrsville,
first, 59 1-6 seconds; Pritchett, Calhoun,
second; Gilreath, Cartersville, third.
120-Yard Hurdles—Culpepper, Rome,
first, 171-6 second; Schnedel, Garling
ton, second; Watts. Calhoun, third.
Makes Bid for Bout
DENVER, April 13.—Local promoters
were interested today in the report from
Pueblo, Colo., that J, J. McQuinlan,
manager of an amusement park in the
Smelter City. had made an offer for the
Willard-Fulton heavyweight champion
ship bout. Mike Collins, Fulton’s man
ager, who is in Pueble with the title
challenger this week, announced that
he had wired Colonel Miller to come to
Pueblo at once, as the offer ‘“looked
mighty good."”
McQuillan controls an open air park
there with a large seating capacity. He
says he could easily accommodate 20,000
persons,
It is reported that Commissioner of
Public Safety Studinskl, of Pueblo, is
on record as favoring the fight being
held there.
Willard-Johnson
Films Destroyed
UTICA, N: Y. April 13—Thirty
seven reels of the Willard-Johnson
prizefight were burned here by United
States Marshal Smith in the furnace
of the building wherein is located
the Marshal's office. This is an end
of the films that stirred two coun
tries and caused great activity on the
part of the Government to prevent
their showing.
The attempt to show them from the
St. Lawrence River upon a screen on
this side of the border caused their
seizure by United States officials.
For Team Captains
NEW YORK, April 13.—Columbia has
inaugurated a new custom in the elec
tion of captains for its war-time ath
letic teams. Henceforth when an ath
lete is elected captain of a team and
belleves that fie will enlist or be called
for military service the team will elect
a vice captain.
The new plan was put into effect for
the first time in the elections of cap
tains of the swimming and water polo
teams R. M. Rodgers ’'l9, who was
elected captain of the swimming team,
believes that he may be ecnlled in the
next draft, and R. R. Mabie, ‘2O, was
‘lected vice captain. ‘
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Kircher and Xraft
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On Fort Worth Club
Ganvge Kircher, the hosal
diar farmerlvy with Atlanta and N-agh
vil! will this sease time at B
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TY COBB IS
Outranks the Valuable Honus
Wagner and Eddie Collins,
Georgian Marvel of Game,
g . .
By Frederick Lieb.
HAL player in all baseball his
\V Wry uLus been Lhe wost val
uadle to nis team? Don( adi
Speals al vnce uven most vld-~lners
Wil agiee Lhat 4y LOUL has con-
Wibuted wore Lo s Lewin s suUCLUBs
Yl any viler taul Py Ll e gaiue
has produced. Cowo is bascoa i's
sioal Uy ita.s.o. iU I 8 (rue wiai in
Lwelve reguiar seasons i delivil ne
has beiped we 4 ABEls Will Ouly Lalee
PelLdauws, yel nul oue cap ey wial
Wiliout Cubb Deuuvit wouid Lever
Ldave wul a Billgic aduciicdl bscupue
g,
she Tiger pennanis of 1907, 1908
and lovy were wo'i o aila Ugiivs Laal
ASLCA L 0 Lle Dudl week 01 e Bag
80N, in iact, e love race wus Lol
dslided dolid e st day Ol o sea
sun, when vewoll won e Poouddun
Dy olly (WO poinis. It is & Lo
madicai ceriawmity ial wahioud wunb
LBUVIL COWU UL Uuve wuu In auny
Ol lies . yeals,
li recent years Cubb has kept the
Deirott cluw in cite nust aivision, ne
liaue Lhe liguis suong benuant con
leders in iviv and Luse lairge y by
Lis owa inwvidual dasn auna pidy.
Cobb has veeu accus.d of being a
discoruant eleimeal oo the Dewoil
team. He dues preily much as he
Pinases, swands for no discipune, and
thercfore makes tne other Pluyers
Wissausticy, yet it is (ullde w gu be
youd (ne recarns.
Wiether Cobo s amenable or not
LO'UIcS Juld GOWN [0 less LiUSLIIVUS
b.ayers, Cobo's actual work 18 (or al
L 0 see. By cxauluning each ca.upaign
Of tne Dewott club since 1300 one will
find that everyihi.g circles around
tue magic word ot Lobb.
It s Cobb whno scures runs and
drives themn in, and it 18 Cubb who
ups s the oppusing pitcher time afier
time. His presence In a gawme acts
as an electrifier,
Cobb is the baseball superman.
Though just past 81, Cobb has led the
American league in ten out ot the
last eleven seasons, a record never
approacined in baseball. And during
that time'all the rea.ly great hitters
of present-day baseball, with the one
exception of Wagner, have been
Cobb’s opponents in the American
League—Joe Jackson, Tris Speaker,
Nap Lajoie, Eddie Collins, Sam Craw
ford, Stuffy Mcllnnis, George Sisler
and Frank Baker,
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Next to Cobb, the man who meant
more to a ball club than any other
player, past or present, was Hans
Wagner. There are many who will
not even concede Cobb first place
and consider Wagner the greatest of
them all, especially since he was an
inflelder, where he could be of greater
heip to his club defiensively than in
the outfield,
In twenty-one vears in the National
League Wagner led the league in hit
ting eight times, while Cobb has led
the American League ten times in
thirteen tries and is thirteen years
Wagner's junior. During Wagner's
wonderful career he never reached
the .400 mark, his high mark being
.380. Only twice did Waguer go about
.360. Cobb, on the other hand, has
reached as high as .420, and has ex
celled Wagner’s high mark of .380 on
five different occasions.
Wagner was a wonderful base run
ner in his prime, especially when one
corsiders his bulk. But even in this
aepartment Honus ranks second to
Cobb.
However, Wagner cut down much
of Cobb's superiority on the offense
by his remarkable ability as an in
flelder. Wagner's work at short out
ranks that of any other player.
Those long, rangy hands reached all
over the infield, and. working like
magnets, seemed to draw everything
to them. To hit one through the
Dutchman was the nearest thing to
a baseball impossibility,
Cobb and Wagner met during the
1909 world series, and it must be ad
mitted that Wagner put it all over
the flery Georgian, Ty never did come
up to his American League form in
any of the world series he took part
in. The great ambition of his life is
to get in another one, so that he will
not need to retire og the world series
showing of his earlier days in big
league baseball.
In recalling the 1909 world series
at Wagner's forty-fourth Dbirthday
celebration Hughie Jennings, one of
the speakers, spoke of how Wagner,
almost single-handed, beat the Tigers.
But Wagner, on the other Hand, fell
down badly in the series of 1903, when
his failure to hit resulted in the Bos
ton Americans winning the big title,
aftef Pittshurg had won three of the
first four games.
go P ‘
The question as to who deserves‘
third rank is a difficult one. Atterl
Wagner, theve is a wide gap, but the{
player who approaches this pair closer
than any other is Eddie Collins, and
Collins is given this high ranking
larzelv on his world series play. |
On the Athletics of four or flvej
yvears back there were so many great
stars that Collins’ work did not stand
out as prominently as it might havej
with another club. For instance, who
will question the fact that Collins was
the vital spark on the White Sox last
year despite the fact that he hit be
low .300 for the first time in nine
yvears? But for all-round nbll!ty—l
batting, fielding, base running, base
ball instinct and knowledge of inside
basoball«Collins iz the nearest rival
to Cobb and Wagner the game bas
produced.
Though only 30 vears of aze, Collins
has hit over .309 eight times. stolen
as high as 8! bases a season. has
hit over .400 in three world serics and
has won the hono- of heing 'th
greatest world series plaver devel
ped in the famous fall classics be
twean the chamwions of the National
i Americ ues 118 balting
> rog or Ave w id serie AbovE
has & e 1Y
t seriec withm er. or
o Py YW Aance
e s f 1879
ot* sarily
was the Zreat
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BILL MISKE
.
REGULAR
WILDCAT
Dangerous Contender for Title,
Budd Surprised Minor. 1
Harris Kayoed. o
By Guy Butler. :
ESS WILLARD had better look to &
J his laurels, for there looms up
on the heavyweight pugilistic
horizon today in Billy Miske a man
whose path appears to be leading to
the abgolute crest in that division,
oo &
The geat who plastéred the na g
of Wildcat on B. Miske knew wherz
he spoke, for the flash from Minnes
sola is iruly a wild cat in every sense
of the word. He tears in a'l the time
anc ko cps )n top of his foe throughs
out, never giving an inch, and giving
no one his attention but the man
who confronts kim. He is cool, and
his ¢very blow is well timed and to
the mark. . !
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Scott, Former Vol,
Reports to Braves
GREWNSBORO, N C., April 18.—Jack
Scott, the right-handed pitcher, who
last season twirled for Nashville, fn
the Southern League, has reported to
the Boston Braves, :
Scott is suffering from a broken
wrist, sustained in an automobile ae- ;
cldent some time ago, and must un
dergo special treatment for the next
few weeks,
Bunny Hearne, former Toronto flin
ger, has signed with the Braves. :
I .
Thrift Stamps on
Sale at Ball Parks
CHICAGO, April 13.—" Thrift stamps,
peanuts, popcorn,” will be the ery of
peanut boys lin baseball parks through
out the country this season if the eclub
owners of the various leagues act om
the suggestion of the National War Sav
ings committee. q
President Johnson, of the American
League, said he had instructed the club
owners to Install booths for the sal
of war savings and thrift stamps ms
that candy venders would carry the
i%zl\mpalgn through the crowds if possi
e.
'est pitcher of all time, though such
slabmen as could be placed on the
same pedestal with him may be
counted on one hand. “Old Hoss”
would go in every day for weeks at
a time and pitch and never show
the effects of it. The entire Provi
dence club radiated around him, and
there is no question that Providence
would never have achieved the base
ball fame it did had Radbourne played
with another team. :
Fifth place must be awarded to
Christy Mathewson, the old-time
Giant favorite and the dominating
‘factor in five of the six champlonlh!g, ;
McGraw brought to New York. <
fact, it frequently had been predicted
that with the passing of Mathewson,
McGraw would cease being a cham
pionship manager, though McGraw
showed otherwise when he won his
sixth chamnionship last season, the
first year after Matty severed rela
tions with the club, 6
Mathewson rose to his zenith {n the
1905 world series, when three times in
the same week he shut out the Ath
letics, American League champions, &
record which may never be -tied in
world series.
ATLANTA THEATER
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PAULISTCHORISTERS
Rev. Wm. J. Finn, Director, 100
Voices. 1
Seat Sale, Cable Piano Co., April |
12. Prices $2, $1.50, sl, 50c. J
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