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Small Colleges Rapidly Gaining in Football Strength as ‘Big Seven’ Fade
Big Team Day Has Now Passed,
as Indicated by Many Upsets
This Season.
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By ARTHUR ROBINSOM,
A football, scarred by the marks
of leather cleats, weather stained,
aged and considerably deflated,
gpeaks. From an Inanlmate in
strument of a. great game it has,
for the purpese of this story, been
converted to an animate, articu
late manikin. It is a football fifty
years old. It was born the day,
Princeton and Rutgers engaged in
the first game of intercollegiate
football ever played,
For fifty years it has been
kicked about, bruised and squashed.
Large men have fallen upon it with
great violence. For fifty, years it
has suffered in silence. It has
listened to experts and old grads.
It yearns now to express itself. Its
observations on the current season,
as compared with the forty-nine
which have preceded it, may be in~
teresting. It speaks somewhat after
the manner of a Harvard senior,
Hear it: |
“I am amazed afi the peculiar
and unprecedented events which
have marked the play on the grid
iron this year. I am, as a matter
of fact, quite astonished. Yale has
been beaten. Princeton has sus
tained two defeats, and Harvard
has played a tle with Princeton,
The ilnference, of course, is that
Harvard would also have lost to
those teams which defeated Prince
ton.
SEASON OF REVERSES,
“Cornell and Pennsylvania hhve
met with reverses, and so have the
Army and Navy;, and with the
others they are all, for the first
time in my life, beyond the pale of
the championship. I am, to say
the least, perplexed,
“Taken by and large, this is a
most singular state of afalrs. Pos
gibly the feeling of unrest which
exists throughout the world is re
gponsible for it. It can not con
coivably be that Colgate, Dart
mouth, Syracuse, West Virginia,
Washington and Jefferson, FPitts
burg, Rutgers and Penn State are
playing better. It can not be.
“In the days of my youth Yale,
Harvard and Princeton, Cornell and
Pennsylvania, and the Army and
Navy constituted three distinet sets
of superiors. They were, after a
manner of speech, the first families
of football, 'They were supreme,
They dominated. They were ex
clusive,
“There has been a strange up
huv&‘t and 1 can not understand
it. It is, as a whole, a manifesta
tibn of psychology quite beyond
my ahalytical powers,
““Phere has heen a sudden rise of
the small colleges, and T am unable
to account for the fact that the
public at large has been disposed
to rate these colleges on the same
level, of even a higher one, than
that which the older sets sempiter
nally attained.
INTER;ST IN “BIG THREE."
“But ale and Harvard and
Princeton will continue to meet
each other, and despite the unto- ‘
ward turn of recent events they
will always create great interest. |
They will always play before huge
assemblies. Their games will al
ways he picturesque spectncles, |
“Perhaps it is as it should be.
Perhaps it i® for the best. Per
haps it is well that Pittsburg,
which has been defeated hy Svra
cuse, should defeat Washington
and Jefferson, which had previous-
Iy won from Svracuse. It raises
the very deuce with syllogistic rea
soning, but it adds to the interost
of the game”
Roanoke to Try for
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Berth in Va. League
ROANOKE. Va., Nov, 15 --Hasehall fans
here at a meeting decided te drop & move.
ment designed to align thia oity with
several Virginia and North Carolina cost
jée in an organized baseball league, and
tufned thelr attention to a berth in the
progent Virginia League It was stated
at the meeting that efforts are on foot
around the Virginia efrenit to enlarge that
orgatigation from a six-club to an eight.
club affair by adding Rennoke and Lyneh.
hurg to the present cities of Norfaolk
Hiehmond, Portsmonuth Suffolk, Peter
hurg and Newport Nows . M. Barry
president of the Norfolk club, was guoted
ar fuvoering the addition of Roanoke and
va'n-hhurm and making an glght-cluab olr
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Sentiment of local fandem was that riv.
alry bhetwoen Rennoke and other Virginia
cities woull be késper than cempetition
with North Caralina towns
Committees have been appointed to look
after the question of grounds and ather
phasea of the movement so hring frafos
stonal baseball hack to the eity Bomo of
the most influential business men of the
city are interesting themselves n the
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For Winter
Melancholy Days Arrive for Devo
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Evans.
By CHARLES (“CHICK™ EVANS.
CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—~WIith the
melancholy days hard upon us,
every golfer is beginning to in
dulge in his annual gloomy reflec
tions. When the financlal reports
of the various clubs begin to come
in I know to a certainty that the
outdoor golf season is growing to
a close, It is poskible that genuine
winter will not be here until Jan
uary; 1 have known such years in
Chicago when we played golf until
Christmas But there have been
BLI other times when mid-Novern
ber was cased in snow and ice,
and golf was impossible. The men
of wealth and leisure can now be
gin to think of Southern' courses,
and the man who has neither time
nor money to spare must lay away
his clubs and walt as cheerfully as
possible for the spring. There will
be indoor golf, and the lessons may
help him a bit, and it is not im
possible to believe that the season
of rest may be helpful, toe.
PRACTISED IN ATLANTA.
I remember when 1 was a young
boy, just learning to play, that my
heart often dwelt enviously upon
a promiging youngster Who sapent
hig winters in California. Many and
many a time I said to myself, look
ing in bitterness of gpirit upon our
snow covered links: “How can I
expect to compete with him when 1
am forced every winter to milss
months of practise!” 1 thought that
1 could never make up the time
lost, and that he would be that
much ahead of me at the beginning
of our mid Western golf season,
and it is true that for a few weeks
after our season began 1 felt tne
difference, but soon I got into my
game, and in the end it never sur- °
ferecd. Now, whenever 1 feel gloomy
at the advent of winter, I try to
recall that experience. There are
times when it may be heipful to
practise the year round, but nature
has her compensations, and some
times it is rest that we need rather
than practise,
Bobby Jones, who intends to play
in the British championship next
gpring, is, 1 think fortunate in
being able to practise this winter,
because the British event begins
long before our Northérn golfers
could hope to gét in shape. Before
‘going to Kuarope the first time I
was generously invited to practise
for the event at Atlanta, and it
was there, on Bobby's own course,
that 1 tried to put my game inte
proper shape. Americans in Ku
rope in the spring seem never able
to get warm, but freezing is over
long before It is in this country and
they begin play weeks earlier, ‘
I think, however, that those of us
who are not going to Kurope need 1
not worry overmuch over edforced
abstinence from the game we play.
Let us play as late as possible into
the fall and winter, and after that
rest in patience until spring
breezes and sunshine -are here
again. And a few ‘lessons &t the
indoor schools will hot hutt us.
John McGraw Famed
As Manager Maker
John MeGraw, the dope has it, was in
strumental in getting George Stallings his
joh as munager of the Boston Braves, and
Stallings won a penfant with the Braves.
Mctiraw groomed Wilhert Rebinson for a
joh as manager with Hrookivn and Rebhy
won @& pennant. MeGraw took on L’at
Moran after the Phillies let hln’L go, then
relensed Pat to Cincinnatl, and Pat won a
pennant with the Reds
Now John MeGraw {8 trying te land
Lafry Doyle a Job as manager, rumor says, ‘
with the Bt. Louis Cardinals, Will it work
out as it did with Stallimgs, Rebinson and
Moran—-or, will ft work out likKe it md‘
with Mathewson whoen MeGraw loaned him
to Cincinnati to manage the Reds? If Me-
Graw oan't place Larry with the Cardinals
maybe he can get him a m-finlsrfi\l job
with some minor league team, say Roch
ester It he does it is to be hoped Larry
will do bhetter than did Mike Donlin, who
was placed in a berth at Mom‘{mln through
McGraw's influence and failed,
The Little Napoleon of the Giants prob
abhly has placed more of his basehall
friends in jobs as mapager than gll other
men of inflyence in the game combined.
They may not all have made good, but
the percentage s fair
Soccer Is Abandoned
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By New York College
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.~<Secer for this
soason has been definitely dropped from
the athletie eanlendar of the College of
the ity of New York Athletic Director
Walter Willinmson recommended that this
wtion be taken by the faculty commit«
tee on athleties after consultation with
Coach Nat flfoiman. Manager Sid Unger
was (netructéd so cancel all gameés ar
ranged
The recent order of Dean Carleton F.
i”"n\\l*v-n barring sophomoress from ath
letics for the rest of the present term was
| & hard hlew to Coach Holman's aspira
tions hecause (t practienlly eliminated
from hie squads all the promising eandi
}.l:vy--- A ecall for upper classmen was
made and a number fesponded, byt Coach
Holman reosfved word from Dr. Frederiok
‘L\.\'mv acting director of the hygiens dee
I:HI:lwn' that these men were ineligible
to play soccer
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fIEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN— A Newspaper for People Who Think —SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1919.
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$20,000 Was Offered Connie for
ex-Cracker, Who Later Last the
Athletics Flat.
PHILADILPHIA, N0v.15.-—For the
sake of a principle, Connie Mack has
passed up a small fortune when he
refused to consider a deal for Scott
Perry, who pulled a semi-Mays and
Jumped to an independent ball elub
in Franklin, Pa. Now a dispatch from
Franklin says that Perry nas “come
to terms” with the Franklin Club for
1920, that he has moved his family to
Frarklin, and intends to make the
town his home. working and playing
ball for the home tea.n. In spite of
that there is a hunch that Perry
would like to return to the American
League and the question comes up:
Will the league, for the sake of a
principle, 'et Perty stay in the sticks?
It is an actual fact that Connie
Maek passed up 20,600 cold dollars
in real money for Peérry this year.
In the middle of the championship
race, Kid Gleason offered Mack that
amount for Perry, while the Atnletica
were playing in Chicago. There were
no strings to the otffer, and Mack
could have enriched the treasury of
the Athletics by $20,000 had he said
“All right.”
As Perry was violating club train-
Ing rules, Mack should have accepted
Gleason’'s offer, but he didn't as he
believed that Philadelphians would
think he was still in the selling bus
iness That's a reputation Connie is
trying to live down and in this in
stance he passed up a big wad of
money for a player who was of no
use to him.
Perry still i 8 the property of Mack's
club, and Mack will send him a con
tract next spring. Fans here were
banking that would bring one or
a trade that would bring some one
more needed tossers here. It rfe
nains to be seen whether a godd
salary offer from a big league team
would temipt Perry to abandon his
Franklin project and thus be of ad
vantage all around if a deal were
made.
WHAT IS PERRY WORTH?
The writer believes that any Amer
ican ILeague club who has the per
mission to negotiate with Perry could
sign him in five minutes if he went to
Franklin and had a talk with him
and also fetched a little advance
alorg. But the salary would have to
be a tip top one, more than he is per-'
‘r:aps worth, based on his 1919 show
irg.
Perry should be one of the
greatest pitchers in the country and‘
still ean be if he concentrates on
baseball. With the country dry, l‘m‘-‘
ry ought to be the kind of tos.~qer(
benefitéd by the change in social
conditions. He is still comparatively
young. What an arm he has! Few
can equdl it. Stick a good team be
hind Perry and he would loss migmy]
few games 5
When J. Pranklin Baker was with
the Athletics, Connie Mack had m‘
make a special trip to Trappe each
year to sign him. Baker always gn\'e‘
the impression that baseball bored
him and he was doing the sport a
favor by staying by it. Mack be
came so tired of Baker's attitude that
he decided one spring not to bend his
knees before Baker and the third
baseman never joined him. He was
subsequently sold to the Yanks. The
Yanks have had the same trouble,
and each spring they have to send a
regiment of emissaries and ambassa
dors to coax Baker to accept a sky
scraper salary from them. Last spring
Baker joined the Yanks, but said he
would not play another year. He re
iterated this at the close of the race
on Septembar 30
| HOW HE HATES TO PLAY.
- Now this Is what Baker, the man
who hates baseball and objects to
traveling around the dountry, has
‘hoon doing since September 30, He
ras been playing three and four days
a week with a team of Maryland
barnstormers. He plaved as late as
last week. The fact that the games
were fought on rough diamonds and
in rainy and chilly weather did not
keep Baker from picking up a few
L dollars.
The man who professes *o scorn a
top notch major league salary for
playing under ideal oconditions does
not hesitate to play in hick towns in
bad weather for the price of a box
of cigars. A canny lad is this man
Baker. He hates a dollar worse than
his neck and he has for years buf
faloaf baseball owners into thinking
that he doesn't want to play.
~ So far as known, baseball owners
have taken no steps toward inquiring
why the fen per cent tax ban was
lifte® on aristoeratie football whila
the revenue is still collected from the
Laseball patron.
Will the basebhall powers make a
fight for their patrons, or will they
remain silent and lot baseball he per
haps the last sport on which the ban
fs lifted? Wonder if the faet that
the club gots & two and a half cent
break on the 30-cent ticket and the
same bhreak on the S-cent t!ek'h has
anything to do with their apathy?
Such a stand would be petty. If
the haseball owners knew their bus
iness they would have the tax elimi
rated and then increase admissions,
o at least do away with the 25-cent
seats. Theatars that used to charge
$1.50 and s§2 for their hest seats now
charge $350 and as high as £3.50,
JUSTIFIED IN ASKING ADVANCE.
Traveling and hotel expenses have
virtually doubled, and with salaries
also Kiting, the major league owner
wounld be justified in jacking up the
prices,
One of the local owners declared
trat last season it was only a ques
tion when the 25-cent seats were
abandoned here with the new mini
mum raleed to 50 eqnts. He declared
that the Phils and Athletics conldn't
compete with other cities when they
had 20 many che&p seats.
It is a conservative prediction that
the time is not far off when 50 cents
s£l and $1.50 will be the standard ad
mission pricées at big league parks.
The movies in tha center of this cily
charge 44 cents admission for a vir
tually short entertainment, vet one
can spend th= entire afternoon in the
Lleachers at one of the local ball
parks in the plaving season for 30
cents, JAMES C. ISAMINGER, |
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Rodgers of West Virginia Best
Scorer, With Zink of Amherst
a Close Second.
By GEORGE R. HOLMES,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—With the
end of another football season less
than two weeks away the dopesters
and the armchair coaches already
are beginning to look about for
somebody to pin a medal on.
Some of the biggest games of the
season are yet to be played, and
football stars can be made in about
ten seconds quicker than the bat
ting of an eye, but the 1919 stal
warts already are beginning to
stand forth. ;
Unless the unforeseen happens,
which i 8 not at all unlikely in
football as she is plaved, it ap
pears that individual scoring hon
ors among the big ones of the
East will go to Redgers of West
Virginia this season. The Moun
taineer's big ful'back has been the
main pillar of the team all season,
and he practigally beat Princeton
single-handed a few weeks ago.
It was the worst licking a Tiger
eleven has taken in years.
Up to November 8 Rodgers had
scored a total of twelve touch
downs and Kkicked twenty-one
goals from the same for a grand
total of ninety-three points. His
total for the season undoubtedly
will run much higher than that.
One hundred. point scorers aren't
picked up in every team.
There isn't a back in the East
who looks as though he would
come close to the West Virginian's
record. When Rodgers had ninety
three his nearest competitor was
Zink of Amherst, who had six
touchdowns and two field goals for
a total of fifty-six points. Hast
ings of Pittsburg, was next with
s—B—~B for a total of forty-four
points, Dorr of Pennsylvania, and
Weldon of LaFayette, were tied
with forty-two points each.
Up to last Saturday there has
been but one Kicker in the Rast
who has stood out among the rest
-—a gent by the appropriate name
of Boots, who does just that for
Wesleyan., He has placed seven
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Heavy scoring machines are ‘
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opponents’ 17, which is quite a re
spectable total for anybody’s foot
! ball team. West Virginia again
comes in for honors with 223
against an opponent's 26, and that
26 by Pitt, which constitutes the
only defeat the Mountaineers have
suffered this season. In the South,
Georgia Tech has rolled up 223
against an opponent’s 16, and that
! 16 by the omnipotent Pitt again.
| Pitt is the stumbling blowk of
k many a hopeful coach.
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Sam Strang, Ex-Giant,
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Has Romantic History
There i mot a ball player who has ever
| appeared under the big top who has a
inmru romantic life story than Sammy
lstr:mfl_ ex-Giant and C'ub outfielder, Sam
imy cama of a rich Southern family with
| deep prejudices against professional ball,
inn:l for that reason he played under the
nom deguerre of strana, rather than his
}nwn name of Nicklin, hile playing ball,
{he trained his veice, and went abread
| later, to study under the maestros of Eu
| rope. Then—on the eve of an eperatic
fr-an-f-r%he accepted a position as coach
i at West Point, because his love of base
| ball outrode his love of the stage. Whén
‘war ecame Nicklin secured a commission s
;ramnin in the United States army, and
imade an honorable record on the French
front.
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Johnson Will Be Fought
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ToFinish,Says Old Roman
l CHICAGO, Nov. 12.—-Charles A. Comis
key was back at White Sox heéadquarters
vesterday follgwing the American League
}(lirw-tnrs‘ meeting in New York, and de
clares that seme radical changes are about
| to he made in the national pastime.
| *“Yes, I heard reports of a new league,”
lhn gaid. It could be done; but I don't
care to discuss it now. I didn't discover
lunythvng more than the mereé rumor, how-
American League Magnates Must
Depose ‘Czar’ or Suffer Loss
of Game’s Popularity.
By GUY BUTLER.
While football is going full blast
and overshadows all other sports at
the present time, there are some of
us who are inter
ested in the basé
ball situation par
ticularly the stat
us of Byron Ban
croft Johnson, the
American Lea’gue
president, who is
likely to be “bust
ed” now at any
moment.
Something must
be done in the
American League,
else there will be
such a turmoil in,
the junior major
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it is apt to split up the entire works\
before many moons have elapsed.
Johnson, it is certain, has been the
cause of most of the warring on the
part of his club owners. Many of his
acts have been childish, and he has
since nis advent into the pastime,
shown siifishness that does not be
come a man of his position and stand
ing in the baseball world.
It seems that both Johnson and
Carry Herrmann, the national com
missicn chairman, will sooner or lat
er feel the knife wielded by their
fellow basebal!l men. Johnson is dis-
I'ked in ‘he major wheel, and his un
ropularity bespoke itself in unmis
takable termfs when his former right
hand bower, Charley Comisky, turned
against him, following the Carl Mays
case and other petty aets by the
American chleftain. Commy and
Ban were formerly fast friends. Be
sides the Oid Roman, now there are
Harry Frazee, Colonels Ruppert and
Huston, Frank Bevin and perhaps
others among the influential men of
the American league who are op
posed to the rotund rule maker. |
That Johnson’s power has waned
can not be denied. The action of
Ruprert and Huston in obtaining a
court order restraining Ban from
keeping Mays out of the game showed
their disregard for the orders of the
vetéran president.
Though it would be well for the
game at present to avert a baseball
war such as that which occurred
during the existence of the Feds, in
our humble opinion, if the new league
were to get into action, it would
gerve to reduce th ecocky airs of the
two majors which have been as
sumed the past few years. It would
make the magnates of the American
League see the error of their ways
and depose Johnson. Any man chos
en to succeed the burly boss would
certainly fare no worse than he has.
With Garry Herrmann off the na
tional eommission, the popularity of
the game would increase and so much
of these politics would be eliminated,
and the fans would think of baseball
as a sport more than as business,
Changes are sure to come about
sooner or later, and it would be wise
| for the magnates to take action be
!f(ro it is too late.
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Four years ago when the Cleveland was put on |
the market, it brought some brand-new ideas in de
o — sign, weight, price and use. It made its own class, and
17 ie\ was alone in that class.
'{ ( s Today it is still alone in its elass, acknowledged
\ILES Ji and aceepted for its merits, sold for its beauty, econ- ]
N ™2 omy, serviceability and used by thousands of perfectly
s satisfied owners throughout the world.
fothe gallogy The price of the 1920 Cleveland is $225.00, plus
War Tax and freight charges. Terms will be made to
those residing in Fulton and DeKalb Counties. Liberal
discount allowed to out-of-town dealers.
DISTRIBUTORS FOR THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
373 PEACHTREE ST., ATLANTA, GA.
Indian snd Cleveland Motorcycles, Bicycles, Parts, Accessories.
Mashie-Putter Is Difficult
|ouimet Gives Tipsto Golfers
Short Game Is Hardest
1 am often asked which club in
golf is the most difficult to master.
That is a hard question because
the answer is often different with
different individuals and because it
depends upon what degree of mas
tery is meant by the person put
ting it up to yvou to reply. I think
what is wanted is an answer that
will apply to the average golfer,
one who learnsg to play an average
game. By that I mean a game
that now and then is consistent
enotigh on each hole to permit the
player to get in well within the
eighties. Any one who plays a
course 80 consistently that his
medal varies but two or three
strokes knows full well where his
trouble lies.
In my own case the drive has
been the most difficult shot to
master. Time and again the drive
has carried me into trouble that
Jhas left me beyond the power to
recover, This past season has
been a bad one for me with the
driver. At the time of the open
my driver was not working any
too well and just when 1 thought
I had it remedied for the amateur
it failed me against Woody Platt
in an extra hole affair that sound
ed my doom. )
MASHIE AND PUTTER.
Personally, thouh, 1 think the
clubs used for short distance
strokes give the average golfer the
most trouble. All through the
open season on the links he will
lose matches mostly because of his
inability to play an average game
with the mashie or the putter. Be~
ginners invariably get better re
sults on leng shots than on the
shorter gnes, where touch and nice
ties .of play count most. This is
due almost entirely to our na
tional desire to swat the ball.
There is nothing which makes a
golfer feel better than a long drive
or brassie. He'll talk about it for
days and smile every time he re
calls the sensation. In conse~
guence he gives more time to prac
tising with the wood than with the
irons, particularly the mashie and
putter. L -
We were schooled in a short
game school in this country. Our
champions were champions because
of their uncanny ability with, first
the putter, and then the mashie.
A new school is already at hand,
one which places its bets on every
shot. The champion of today is
master of every shot in the bag.
His drives are long and straight
and his seconds dead to the pin.
He runs down puts like a Travis
used to. As a result the present
day champion, a player like Dave
Herron, for example, is a favorite
over one of the former champiens
who arose to fame because of his
skill at the short game. Dave sim
ply gets to the green in less strokes
and, as he has§ also mastered the
short game, has an even break once
he is there.
This modern and proper develop
ment of golf is causing the craek
players to give more attention to
their long game. It was Long Jim
Barnes who is credited with say
ing once that by mastering the
short game the rest would take
care of itself. While that is true
of Barnes it is not true of all of
us. We have to give more time to
practisé than in former years be
cause there are more clubs to he
master of at all times. One can
not speénd Hhis off hours entirely
with a mashie and puttér. The
driver, the brassie and midiron
demand almost as much attention.
But the case i 8 different with
the average golfer and especially
» with the beginner. He can not
hope to improve his game until he«\
gets down to brass tacks with:
mashie and putter. These clubs
must be understood in all their
varying moods and controlled to
the*extent that the golfer knows
when and how to use them to the
best advantage. The use of these
~ clubs best teaches the player the
game. After they are well under
control is the time to begin a mas
tery of the long shots. Otherwise,
the player is up against a big han
dicap.
| The difficult thing to do in golf
is to seek mastery of the long
shots first. One who does that
has his troubles with a mashie.
The tendency is to use force in
- place of touch and skill. And the
~ overcoming of such a habit is the
~ work of practise. It is just the
[ fundamental principle which hag
~ governed the play of cracks. They y
~ first mastered the short shots.
. Now they are mastering the long
~ ones, or have already done so,
~ though in each case this was their
i last lesson in golf.
{ (Copyright, 1919, Sol Metzger.) |
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Larry Sutton May Hunt
t Ivory for Cubs, Report
. CHICAGO, Nov, 16.—Larry Sutten,
famed as a scout, may hunt Ivory for the
Chicago Cubs next year. Fred Mitchell is
said to be after him and at the annual
meeting of the National League in De
cember there may be something doing.
The Chicago manager will attend. likewise
Sutton who never misses the gathering of
nl)e clan during the National League con~
clave,
Jimmy Ring has Sutton to thank for
being with the champion Reds. It was he
that rescued the young pitcher when he
was sent to Buffalo in 1917. Morris Rath,
the Cincy second baseman, is arother that
owes Sutton a debt of gratitude. Sutton
was laughed at when he recommended
Rath to Cincinnati, but as it turned out
the scout had the last laugh. Rath roun
ed out a wonderful infield. Rube Br
ler was still another that became a R
through the agency of Sutton and Cincin
nati took Jake Daubert seriously because
Larry declared the great first sacker was
not all in.
Daubert, by the way, played with a bum
leg a considerable part of the season.
This was known only to the team. When
with the Dodgers Jake lost much time be
causé of his poor underpinning, but with a
world series rake-off in the offing he re
fused to handicap the Reds by laying off.
»
Phils’ Boss Has No
. .
Trouble Signing Men
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.. Pitcher George
Smith, ex« Giant and ex-Dodger, but now.
a Phillie,. called at the New York club
office and announced that he had signed
a contraet to play with the Philadelphia
Nationfls again next season.
Smith, although he has found it Aiffi
cult to hold a steady position, is still
considered a valuable asset. He did bet
ter with the Dodgers under Manager nn_p&'
inson than with any other team, but he
algo made good with the Phillfes, and is
now firmly established in the Quaker City,
where he s very popular with the fans,
President Baker of the Philadelphia
c¢lub, although he is sald to be not over
popular with his players, has had no trou<
ble at all in getting those whom he de
sires to sign next year contfacts. All the
men express themselves as being nerrnr
satisfied with the ferms offered thé¥a.
Chalk one Aown for President Baker.
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Devlin Great Player;
Pulled Absurd Play
Arthur Devlin was one of the greatest
third basemen the game ever saw. Only
Jimmy Colling afdd Bill Bradley ever
mlayed the bag with his consistent bril
liancy, vet Arthur pulled one of the twe
most absurd thir;rn ever seen on the dia<
mond. He tagged a coacher on third base,
while the real runter romped merrily
home!
The only equal ¢o that in my !muwledr
was when Cozy Dolan batted a fly, with
the bhases full and one out. Doé Gaessier
caught it. Both of them thought it was
the third hnut. and departed from the
field fogether,