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TWO THE DINGBAT FAMILY You Can’t Beat Those Old Indian Pots issr.- 1 : j | cxrr Atb MV KITS X/n'l * \tVAT IAIDIAM PclT*ftV\ (jNffcLA ST/H6 /7= SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP SPORT bill mm HEWjHLE Mishap Occured When Homer, Fast Columbus Shortstop, Was Sliding to a Base; Team Working Hard. . Columbus, Go. -Crippled, but nllll doti-railnnd. ;,ttrr the nrcUi.nt In which Hmi.or, the fn*t <'•ilnmhim HhortHtnp, broke hlo ankle while aliillng Into n hn»e during u game l»»t Wtdnradiy, tlio Columbus Solly League team la worMny out dully In preparation to tlm (•licnihi! of the Sully League araaor. on Sion !a>. Vho phynl lona in attendance n,»on Jlomor Mate thHt II will be at leant ten week a I efoia the fuel llttla in fielder will attain l>« In condition to dee rale the baacball diamond, nnd Kox ti.ia atarled finking for another map lo take hla place Cnlll Cox can tM a l.ite, I >ay will lie uacil In Ho me, ►. place. The remainder of the team la In i .iflenl condition and are expected to idp the Baine with Macon handily f 'Shorty" Brook a who haa been (Oaehitiß the tlnlveralty School for Iloya teanv at Slone Mountain, On reported In the city yealerday and will ai pear In uniform today, ll P hardly expo-ted that h* will play la He- opener, ae he la not In condition OK on a ret rult pitcher, waa releaa *• I Friday u the Cordela team in tne Georgia State l.eitgue The probable line-up of llm Foxen >n llialc game with Macon will he: cox flret ba-e Moore, aecond baao. McDuff, third banc. Ha t. ahortstop. 'l'hornlon, left field. Wallace, center field. Coin ar. rlrht field. liiKlnmdey. catch <* inning*), Hi ddlnK. pitch di innlnsat. Kimball, catch |3 inning*,. Stair, pitch 13 inning*! II ROUND-yP OF THEMACOKIUM Manager Stinson Has Gom- Eletely Weeded Out All of ndesirable Rookies; Work ing Players Hard. (By P. L. Johntfon.) Macon, Ga. —Nnt •tin** the balmy daya of HU smith a management of the Ma con club haa there been aueh may rroepnta for tha Faaihes. George Stm aon, the new manager, him wrought wonderful churcea In the peranniMri of the team and haa i-aiiaed a tremendnua rally of local fana to tho Macon manage ■lent. • pUnion hm completely weeded out nU of th# twdeidimhl# trockl#* and Is spend in* nit of his ttm# in dsvsloping the 13 men that h« has on hi* rotter. Th# doßcn m#n n th# k>«#l oamp glv* prom ts# of opening the Hally #**son for Mi con in a rush. James Claudius sn«l )tts roynards wuj find them waiting for the mid* Monday at Central City park . Martin has but four of the veteran* Iwtt k thla year And all are looked upon; with « deal of favor by the managers for the nto .tor and big league clubs that have been on the local diamond this sea son Home of the big company have been dickering with the local manage tnent for Muttn and Voss with no sat isfactory reply. Ail of the old quartet should go to higher company th s season Norman Munn is pointed out by all who have seen him work this year a* being tha best first sucker In the league Beside* ♦ elng a cloan and sure fields Munn is hitting like • three hundrsd slugger. Old Pitchers. John Voss and George Martin are the old pitchers to return. Noth have shown tip exceptionslly well antU Stinson states that he will be willing to put them up ugninet anything in the league It is row a question to get two others that will qome along in their class At pres ent J B Vaughan, who cut such a swath in the <Georgia Htate League*last ecu eon w tli Valdosta, is dishing out ** good else package of the box goods and bids strong to *ta\ here. Th 4 pitching problem is about the only thing that is giving Manager Htmaoti much worry there days. He has Ham ilton who was w th Albany « while Ins? season and a dtftl is on foot for a left hander. With Hamilton getting In hat - j mony and the southpaw deal closed there will be a live v scrap on between Vaughan and Hamilton for the third ltght-liand * - s the left under would most likely stick A hunch of j hurlers came hut soon went as Stinson is not the man. to speed money on use-, less and non-promising material When the training season opened Rtin soti had three catchers on hand. Ail three looked good, they had about an squaj rhftQrd Fine* Georgs p ! ay* right field find Matthes, ths veteran ctnt«r ftsldsr Is hart ***ln, only »•»»* onfflld twiAttlon «im vtuani. II NKin ddvHopfd that Ttm<m Ikiwden. (he ri*o«ciiiH «-;tl« H#*r mid thr* Of»rd*|* (Georg!* Slate), rscslvdt of I**l year, wai Instructed fn forget he- ever riandN a mil and to b*rom* a* custom h glove Backstop * Thl* left tin* backstop Job up to Vetch And Kluth, both r*c«muu*n«l*itlt>ns of f'rok-nhoo VfHrh of old Hoiith«rn Lea- | hunt i of IVrk-n lion Noth ;ire nomlnf Tin* with Klirth doing most of th* catching. If they sen remove the kink A ftflnwon will carry them, <«* he wants an extra ditcher. At first Macon was Hurd put to It to g« t the vght rim ii In tho rife tit Infield | position. A number tried but failed. M.h k Sylftii. a Jacksonville amateur Is the most promising youngster on th* list ll* Is n clever fielder and on* of th* hardest workers In the bunch. Ill* w< ik Kpot though Is at tho plats Tilts in iy hinder him 11 while but m* *<n>n hi bo got* rid of at«a* fright bs will b* on* of ths nlcsat third b.isonisn In th.« Hally. •'lntich*' Klrostln* suddsnly blow In «nr day and <auss<l all of ths doubts utK>ut nhfWtstnp tn disappssr Vfs win with Stinson In N ri Antonio two years ago and Is founding Into a rlsaay man at ths grassy region Jimmy Ford la moving along nicely at ssoond. Jnmoa Is a lad that corns* slow but aursly At present h* la loading ths hatting order. That make* ths Mndfm Iwtll club for Itowd*n. Matthew* and Stinson form an outtsr garden trio that la sntlrsly sat lafactnry t*» local umfiag.incnt and Ma con fandmn With such a llns-up Ma con people expect Stinson to bs a first division contender nil ths esnson. Baseball Everywhere By CEO w REAB Tbs following poetic skit on the na tional game appeared In The Augusta Herald some five or six years ago. Ah Hie good old pastime has been re juvenated in this city, it wNI he apropos to reprint It. for baseball will reign su- Itetne in tho columns of thousands of papers for several months hencs: I. It's baseball In the office; It's baseball on the street; It's baseball In the parlor. And with everyone you meet. The girls are talking baseball. No more their new spring hat. You’ll see them in tbs grandstand Whatever game you’re at. 11 The office phone Is ringing— ’Ten you tell me of the score?" And the rooters are a-rooting As they never did before O. the air is filled with baseball. It's the topic of the town; I'olitlcs and price of cotton Going way hack to sit down. 111 The ticker Is e-tlcking Of the game from far away, And the Pans are breathless waiting For the details of each play. TheSe’e an anxious expectation Ae the men step to the pCate While the wire tells the story Of each loot! player’s fate. IV What lov o’er spreads the features Of each highly Tensioned fan As the boys front old Augusta Lant the sphere and ha**'* land What a groan Intones their feelings When the ticker tells of **011!," Or of error of some player Turning ‘Victory about. College Teams May Now Invade Hawaiian Islands New York.—-Th* rieatre for new ftetia to conquer may teed (o anlnvaslim of flie Hawaiian laUnda by two college I Clime ilorliiK the coining rummer. An Independent tram compored of Harvard l'n!verrl iy player* 1* conetflerlng th* trip and the w I tiling nine In the .in noil set lee between Stanford and California univerrltle* he* been formally Inxted to play at Hone Lulu The nvltailon haa lieen extended by tha Oahu Leegne, wh.ch desires that the Pacific Conn! tmtvcrelty (ram spend nt lean one month In the Hawaiian lalunda at th# expense of the league lt»*el-all la vrry popular throughout tha Hawaiian I*l.unit, and a number of organized team* play the game during the major portion of the year The Oahu League a eotnpoaed of the more Impor tant nine* about liono Lulu. Thla or ganlmaikm 1* now constructing a bill park that will compare favorably with those In till* country. Tha lyrge grand •land will tie completed for official opening on the occaalon of tha ftr*i game with ihe visiting team, should the Invitation lie accepted. That the I* and ball play ers prov, d# worthy competition for the beat colleg iate nine# t* apaprent from tha showing of tha liawalran-Cmneao nine during the past «nd iwceent Invasions of tha t'nlted (bates. Thla team will not be in tha Islands during the coming so* son aa Ha.arheduta with eastern universities In this country extend* through ihe sum mer month* hot team* of like eallbra will be met In the Mono Lulu series by the visiting collegians. i THE SEA BULLS TEAM COMPLETE Manager Hamilton, of the Charleston Sally League Team, Announces His Line- Up. Charie*ton, S. C. —Manager Jams* A. Hamilton of ths Charleston Hca (lulls has derided on tbs t* .m he will u*u In iimking the rues In tbs Sally pennant chase, which starts here Monday with Jvrr.v Mf>*'h champions as the vlval club. On tlie whole ths men that tbs plucky 1" <1 lea'll i li.-S got tiered ....k like win ners. On# thing la sure, and that la. tlujt this year s clan m much stronger than the team which started out for rharlcHton last season under Georgs Need hum. Manager Hamilton Is not claiming the pennant but be states that he will le very much disappointed If the team fin ishes below third pia* e. The tana hav* watched the wt**k of ths play era in ths exhibition games and are much pleu»<Kl with the ability of the melt. The Gulls Ihls year are strong both at the but, field, and especially In tbs l>o*. which was the main trouble with the team of a year ago. Pal Foster him! Kobe Kldrldge, two vats from last year's bunch, J«m Pats. Cots Cochran and Georg* Payne, make up the pitcher* that Hamilton will start ths reason with. Kldridg* and Pat* are left-hander*. FosUV, Pate and Coch ran shape up like the stars of the staff Hamilton will carry five pitchers until April -ti, when the pikers' limit will have to he enforced. Catcher Marshall, In IMS with Pallns, will he tlie regular backstop. lie Is a giant In alse, good psgger. and a hard hitter Plough fYoin tho Michigan Lea gue will act a* utility man. He can work behind the but. infield and out field with credit. Slugging the bull la lilm strong |H><nt. The Infield will be composer of "Hutch" ItertiMon. a .nit; hitter fVorn th«* Cotton Htatea League, at first; Mana ger Hamilton at second Karl Bitting, of last year's team, at third, and .Elmer Cain, the youngster drafted from ths Ohio State Le .gut*, will cover short. In ths outfield will be seen Ed Win ston, the fastest bass runner In the Sail) hist year. Tom McMillan, the lea gues lending batting and "Rabbit" Russell, a .314 ratter front the Kitty League. Th s trio is touted os tho best in the league. COLUMBUS BALL PLAYER GDSSiP “Capital City” Talk Says Home Team Has Better Chance to Win Pennant Than Ever Before. Columbus, Ga.—Tha Columbua team thin M-a.-ton seem* to have it brighter prospect for a pennant winner than ever Itefore. Marmgn Jim |>Vx had Ida men report on tho lath of March, one peck later than most any other team in the leitßiie. but when the imt trrinl Penan to roll in he made the re imark that he already had a finished hunch of b«il players and that he would have very' little trouble In ruuiullng them Into shape. All durliiK the train I nil season the fellows have been working out mora inic and afternoon, and a few exhibi tion Kames have been played. These contests Have the lengthy manager a good line on his men and as each game was ended he cut a couple of the revruits from the list and at present has sixteen men. who will he retained until the ftiiHl cutting Is reunited by the league rules. Twirling'a Been Weak. Lust season, anil during most of the time the Foxes have been In the thillv i League, the tyylrllng staff has been it j'vitk point, but thla year James Clau dius lias gathered a bunch of pill ' peddlers who are sure to make the ; batters In this circuit shake nt the lends and smoke which they are enr . t ying up their sleexes. Stairs, a recruit from Juanita College, seems to he I about the best of the rookies The | lad bus a spltter which has Robinson | lashed to tho mast The kid has twilled a number of tho practice I names and Fox says that he will sat the league a-tire. Redding, a twliibr of last season. Iw ho canto to this team from the St. J Louis y’ardlnal*. ts showing up well j again this year and wilt be one of the Jtialnstays of tha team. Two loft - handers and two other twirlers finish I the hurling aggregation and all of | them look exceedingly good Fox will have o bum h of w orry coming to him .In making Ms final trim In this de | part a nil. New Men. I On the infield the locals will have THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. FOUR GREATEST STRIKE-OUT ARTISTS SPORT LEFT TO RIGHT: CHRISTY MATHEWSON. WALTER JOHNSON AND ED WALSH. BELOW, NAP • RUCKER. I'nless all signs fall —unless Walter Johnson breaks his arm—or in short, unless he doesn't pitch this season, the great twirler of the Senators will pass the 1,500 strike out mark before the summer of 1914 is over. Since Johnson has been playing major league ball he has rolled up a record of 1,438 strike outs — some record No other major league pitcher in the same time, that is in the seven consecutive seasons from 1907 to 1913, has struck out so many batters. There are only three pitchers beside Johnson who have passed the 1,000 mark in strikeouts during this period They are Kd Walsh. Christy Mathewson. and Nap Rucker. "Rig Ed" Walsh, the White i?ox pitcher, is Johnson's closest rival for the title of strike-out king. Walsh has a record of 1,405 strike outs for the past seven seasons. Although the big Chicagoan pitched in but sixteen games lust season, he has taken part in forty-eight more games during the period under discus sion than has Johnson, "Christy" Mathewson of the Giants, is next, with a record of 1,137, while Nap Rucker, the Brook lyn twirler. has amassed 1,128 When the strike-outs are reduced to an average per game, Rucker goes to third place. Jack Coombs, the Athletic pitcher, goes to fourth place, and Mathewson goes to fifth place. Johnson has an average ot 5.41 strike-outs per game, Walsh's average is 4.38. Rucker's 3.86, Combs’ 3.84 and Mathewson's 3.79. two no\x men One of these has been In this company before and Is thought to be the best keystone player In the league Mclltiff will occupy the hot tack. Day or Homer will take care of short. Moore, who was shipped to ti.urlcston last season, will agHin he get n at second. Fox will take care of lie Initial sack and Kimball will do the receiving. McDuff and Fox are the only ones who finished the 1912 season with the Foxes and Moore comes back with a bunch of pep and a keen eye at tha hat. Homer, a col lege lad. haw been showing a bunch ot speed at short, but in Wednesday's prat lice he received a very had sprain while sliding to second and will prob ably be laid up for three weeks. Oscar l'ay has also been. making the station left vacant by Keating look easy. The ta.l Is big league timber and will he held as a utility man. HARVARD ANiTyALE ARE FAST BECOMING FRIENDS Nfw York. —Professor Briggs, chair man of ths Harvard Athletic Associa tion In hla annual report touche* on the Improved attitude of Harvard and Yale lnt*'r-varsity athletics as follows; "Not the least Important thin* in Harvard athletics of late years has been the steadily fticresing friendliness and confidence of the relaton between Harv ard nod Yale. Year* a got thla relation was frequently disturbed by suspicions which w.e ('Hen too ne v y warrant able. a”.d ! r which each ollege was no doubt in pit responsible. To expect that over\ player in every contest will always do eaxctly right toward his op ponent ** to r xpect something a -tittle beyond human anture; but In gcnwal it may be said th«t the games between Harvard and Yt le are now among the ItiecdhcM nrd the cleanest, as they have long been among the most Intense, nt college games, and that the negotia tion* let ween 11 ward and Yale about them are among th** inn** agreeable »e --gotiat ons of the college year.** Baseball Enthusiasm in Augusta Has Been Aroused to Its Highest Pitch; Young Experienced Players on Team Local Sallie League Team is An Aggregation of Young Play ers With Possibly the Exception of “Babe” Brouthers, the Manager of the Club, and Eddie Sabrie, Star First baseman. When the Augusta baseball club trots out on the WaVren Park diamond Mon day afternoon for the first gune of tho South Atlantic league season an aggre gation of young players, with poealbly two exceptions, "Babe" Brouthers. the manager, and Eddie Sabrie, flrat base man. It will he the first time in two > ears that Augusta has started a team in the Sally and the baseball enthusiasm n this city has been aroused to a high pitch. Manager Brouthers was selected to pilot the club soon aftrt* the board of directors passed a resolution allowing this city and Columbia to re-enter. And Brouthers has lost no time sine# then. He s a quiet unassuming sort of person who attends to his own business. He never brags about what he is going to do. for he believes that results will show Brouthers has made a splendid impression in Augusta. This city has seen tlit? type of manager who won the pennant before the first ball was pitch ed. And it may be pertinent to state .lust here that Augusta never won a pennant during the entire time she was In the Sally. "Babe" Himself. At the third corner, which is one of the most important, will be stationed Manager Brouthers himself, a fin shed infielder. Tills same man Brouthers has won three consecutive pennants for Paducah, Ky„ in the K. I. T. League and has. of course, been demonstrated. To the manager's left at short field will be Broughton, a semi-professional from Columbus, Ga.. who is said to be very fast. At the keystone sack Clark, a try-out with the Birmingham club of the Southern league ana a man who was very nearly ripe enough for South ern Le gue company, or McC&nn, a fast semi-professional from Philadelphia. Pa. will be stationed. These two men are making a strong fight for the Job. At first base the ever reliable Eddie Sabrie will be stationed. Sabrie is too well-known to the fans of the gaily to need any extended introduction He is a Jump up first sacker. a fair hitter and a man who will help wonderfully to steady the infield. With Manager Brouthers on one corner and Sabrie on the other there should be a strong com bination. The Backstop. Behind the bat there will be Wheat, brother of ihe famous Ziu’k Wheat, of the Brooklyn Nationals who wns with the Dodgers a portion of last season and who finished the season with a team in the Nebraska Stat** League Wheat is a young catcher of splendid promise. Another catcher will be Fuesse. last year with the Covington. Ky.. semi profess.onal team and a man who is ex- SUNDAY. APRIL 5. P-ct.d to b* a star when he gets a lit tle mra-e experience. Andrews and Neyerhouae are two pitchers left by the Brooklyns and botli are expected to make Rood men. Other pitcher* are Whitney, formerly with Rirmtngham of the Southern irfaaue. Brumer, formerly of the Appalachian I.ensue, Johnson, a aeml-iwo from Phil adelphia and .Slone, last year »tar a.ab man for tha Oak Hidse College leant. Anhy, Askew and Bod will ba the fielders. The first named wa* a atar In the K. I. T. League laat year, Boyd led the Virginia League In fielding and Askew was a star in the Georgia-Ala baina league. Manager Brouthers has an outfield which he expects to hit well up and the prospects for a highly successful year appears excellent. JACKSONVILLE A WINNING TEAM? At Least Fans in tne Florida Metropolis Think So; Club is Expected to Have Banner Year. (By Roy L. Bishop.) Jacksonville, Fla.— Manager Perce WildeV has had h ! s players out daily fr.j the past month getting his performers in trim for the coining season and judg ing from the material that he has to pick fiom he should have a club that should well represent Jacksonville dur ing the 1914 campaign. Wilder has not furnished all of the valuable information out from under his sleeves yet, but judg ing from the information that is avail able he is expecting to provide the Florida Metropolis with the best ball club club that*has represented this city in many years. Up to the present fifteen players are working out daily in an effort to secure a position on the club, but in the opin ion ofmany it is believed that Wilder has already selected his players who will open the season with the local club. Dur ing the early part of the training sea son when Walton CVuise was traded to the Ht. Louis Nationals, it was thought that his position would be hard to fib. But Bill Pownell who was assigned to Cruise's former position is showing up well and is covering a world of terri tory. Johnson and Callahan, who were included in the Cruise deal are proving to be real ball players. Johnson is a pitcher and the article of ball that he has been playing during the training pe riod has made Manager Wilder believe that he has secured another "Walter Johnson," on account of his speed. Callahan on Second. Callahan is playing second and Ids work around the keystone cushion and at the hat has caused the local leader 1 open kil OTM. At the i*esent prns peels for a winning tall club look ex ceedingly bright and the baseball en thusiastic* are predicting a banner year for Manager Wilder. Fred Melehoir. captain of the club, and who is guarding the initial corner is playing fine ball and is looking forward to the best year of hs career. Melchor is the one who received a diamond stick pin last year for being the most valu able man on the Jacksonville team. Another prize has been offered for tha most valuable performer on the Jack sonville club again this season and ad of the players will do their best to win the high honors. The following players will. In all prob ability start the season with the Jack sonville outfit: “Jax.” Layout. Krebs and Cueto. catchers; Manager Wilder. Johnson. Burmeister, Pierson and Woods, pitrhers; Captain Melehoir, first base; Callahan, second base: CYow ,(!er, shortstop; Hill Starr, third base; Pownell, left field: Carroll, center field; Hoffman, right field. The following pla'ers will likely ho carried a few days after the opening of the season. Whiffed, Mabrey and Gar wood. Manager Wilder was asked what he thought of the prospects for the coming season and he stated that he expected to have one of the best rluhs of the South Atlantic League. Wilder said: “H is a hard thing for any manager to make a prediction as who will win the pennant, but l believe that I have a club that will show just as much class as the other players In the Sally clrcu t during the 1914 season and theref've all I will rtiy Is that 1 will do all that Is ill my power to give the Florida Metropolis a winnig baseball club during the com ing season.” UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN VS. HARVARD FOOTBALL New York. —The Invasion of the East by the University of Michigan football team for the intersections! game with Harvard at Cam bridge on October HI will be marked by some unusual features in the way of welcome and entertain ment. Plans are already being consid ered by both the Harvard student body and the University of Michigan alumni living in New England to make the trip a mentorable one. A permanent organ ization has been formed by the Michi gan alumni to assist the Ann Arbor squad in every way possible during *ts stay in the Gist. This association has been assured of hearty co-operation by the Harvard football authorities and thi various Cambridge student bodies. It is probable that the Michigan players will spend sevem'. days previous to the pim<* at Trinity College. Hartford, pre paring for what is generally considered a test of the relative merits of the east ern and western football play and coaen | ing.