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FT I ! IS ATTELL'S FIGHT CAREER AT AN END? M j f By TOMMY CLARK. H I x(AN It bo that tho time for tho Hi u fll passing of that wonderful H 111 lltlle nKhlcr, Abtf Attcll. Is at PVB , I &r hanJ? It would Bccm so, ac- H - cording to all reports of tho condition PVH ' . of Attcll. who Is resting, or at least trj- PVH lng to, within tho conllnos of little old pVfl ' u Now York. Abey has been kept out HK I of the ring for months now because pVBfll ' of nn injured shoulder, and according PVBH t to those who arc In close touch with ) 1 the little featherweight It Is likely that PVBH j, he may nover enter the arena again to pVBfl ' defend the title of featherweight cham- PVH . ' plon. which ho has held for many PVBH ' j cars, and that. too. without scrloui pVAfl contention. piBfl '' As rare an snowballs on tho Fourth PVBJ i of July on tho equator In the Rome of PVB -- pugilism will be the case of Abey If pVJ u he 13 forced to relinquish his crown H f - throuch inability to defend It. Since Hi --4K--K-MX'WW-''J--M-4j' H IF GRIFFITH HAD SEEN Hl I ' DONLIN STAR AT SHORT, ? j Ij j Bii ! t "TVERY onco in awhllo ono i ' hears Clark Grimth is B I looking for a shortstop." said m ! ' it. Mlke Donlin. actor and ball JL H i, player. "Well. I was thinking M- 1 f the other day that If Griff had IVVL'' f 2 seen me tho first day I ever 4. 1 (! ". played short in the biff league f IVVf ' f he W0Ud have paid $10,000 for r til mo. Then ho would probably .. Mi ,iy . havo committed suicide tho next y 1IIIBJL 2 day. IVSK kj I I "It was shortly after I had .. V fl I t Joined the SL Louis club that I H , y vas asked to fill in at short for .:. IVVf ' (. JL a couple of days. I had played y IBH, A in the outfleld. at first base and l I A t had dono a great deal of pltch T illllt ( J, ing. but tho short field Job was j. V f nither new to mo. T Vj J Y To mako a long story short, HL A i I looked like the greatest short- 4 H f stop In tho world that nrst day. r V Thoy couldn't get anythlnp X M 1 past mo. I fielded like a Brid- M , ' f weli and threw like a blc Uans f H 1 ,f Wanner. No short fielder ever X H. , T looked better than I did that H ift' f afternoon. I think I took caro B I f J of something like twche or thir- X HF teen chances. T K. "Tebeau eyed me rather bub- M j I I plclously after tho game. Ho X 'J couldn't figure out whether I was f H : - !: I fa mere flash In the pan or T - i 'whether I was really a sreat X '. ' A shorLitop. He found out .he f H I ncxt day. It must have been the i 1 J X reaction, for no shortstop ever T H f looked worse than jours truly. M j 1 couldn't catch a fly ball. , i J , X couldn't ntop a eroundcr. X K T couldn't take a throw from the l catcher, and once, after recover- 4. K f ? Ing a bobble, I mado a wild j. H t throw. Tebeau didn't look at g, H) t X me at ntl that night" I B 5 Donlln Btarted in a a pitcher. T H -1 N T He first attracted tho attention Ki X of tho blB leatrue folks when ho X B t was pitching in Santa Cruz. He f 1 J Joined the SL Louis club, but Df 4! did not make good in tho box X l 4. brcauKO he didn't have the stuff, y H He played a protty sood cimo H 4; at first, but finally learned that X B - ! he had been cut out for an out- J B- X fielder. flk although not a J H .C large man. Is a natural hitter. X H3 f He can snat tho ball about as y H1! J hard or as far as any of them. K t X At loost ho could before he Join- H '. ' ' y ed tho actor folksF J ' ' " SAM CRAWFORD IS A GOOD ONE B.. t , Wnhoo Barber Ono of Standbys of Do- Hif troit Tigers. H : ' "OAXLi players may come and ball H,i J 1 playors may go, but Sam Crawford ' goes on forever. Tho great Detroit H ' outfielder, rho hat ben a big league H' 1 J ctar for cloao to twenty yeara, seems K -Mmuno to tho Inroads of time, Sam big fellows who quit before hli title was taken away from him That was Jamea J Jeffries, and he was forced to to clvo up his crown through voluntary retirement principally because there was no ono capable of making him fight for It But the fact must not bo overlooked that after bK years of re tirement this same James J Jeffries was hauled back into tho ring to meot that Inevitable defeat which has been traditional sinco the start of tho gam from tho hands of tho negro Jack Johnson. Another Instance Is that of Joo Gans, the great colored fighter, now number ed among the dad. For years Joe was lightweight champion. He continued to fight until age and tuberculosis, caused through excessive training, made him a different man It mado him an easy victim for Battling Nel son, and with that defeat went the title H f. k ADE ATTELL, WORLD'S FEATHCRWCIGHT CHAMPION. 1 t H , s r ,, 1 he days .of glove fighting began It Is 1 1 v hard "to find a champion who has been " t 1 ' fori o to glc up his title through an , (l Injurv received in tho ring Thero Bi ft ' ' have been many cases, far too many, HI ' 1, where a champion through defeat has H If ( ) u' ''" dethroned after he had passed H V ' tho stage of his best lighting days. H' Mnny Inutinces of this might bo cited H, ' , here, taking into consideration every H class from tho heavyweights down to H the bantams' A J Jeff One Example. J 1 j , Thero was only one man among tho he had held so long. And. as Indicat ing the. change In ihe Baltimore man, It was not long after that death claim ed him. In Class Alone. Those are cases where lighters have met tho !ncltablc. but in the caso of Abo Attcll it is far different Up un til tho time his shoulder was injured In a fight less than a year ago with Tommy Kllbano at Cleveland few were able to make Abey step his limit to win. He fought all tho feathor wclghta that could bo sent against him Ib, with the exception of Cobb, the only regular player In the Tigers' present lineup who was with the team when Jennings assumed tho management In L907 and molded a pennant wlnnor out of an aggregation that had never but onco finished in the first division Sam has seen many a youngster break In And he beat them all and gathered in tho shckl8 all th while But since being out of commission Attcll has not been able to sund training, despite tho fact that he has been under tho watch ful eyo of physicians Only a short tlmo ago Abey was to have fought In an eastern ring The match had been m.ide and all was ready for tho sotting but the fight didn't take place A couple of days before fight time It was called off by Attoll. who an nounced that he was unable to light. Of course if Attell cannot fight again tho tltlo must rocrt to the next best boy, but It docs seem unfortunato that the little Hebrew should bo forced to give up his tltlo when there ap parently Is no one capable of taking It awav from him In actual combat It would be hard to find a more won derful llttlo fighting machlno than At tell. Ruling the roost for years, he has hrn elvlncr nwnV nniinds In rtrdor to keep activo He has everything there Is In the pugilistic repertory at his finger tips Many dcclaro there nover was a moro clover defensive and of fensive lighter, and this, combined with his great headwork, which made him a wondorful ring general, com pleted the machine which has proed Invulnerable to attaclc As a two handed fighter nono ever was bettor, and if'thero Is anything lacking in At tcll it is a stiff punch. Ho had a punch that could scoro knockouts, but ho did not display It often. Wolgaat Recovered. There have been other cases, and thero aro at the present time, whore injured hands or amir havo put a flghttr out of commission for a time, and In other instances for all time, but these men were not champions However, It Is interesting to clto the caao of 0110 champion, a prrnent one. ThlB la Ad Wolgast of CadlUac. Mich . holder of the lightweight championship When Jack Redmond fought the little Mich igan "bear cat" moro than a year ago Wolgast broke his right hand. Ho minaged to stay the limit. -ten rounds, w 1th ltedmond and thereby Bavcd his title. Thcn It was up to tho champion to take a long1 rest so that tho Injured muulle might mend. For months Ad did not do a lick of work, and finally he was Informed by his physician that he might trv It out He did, and the hand was Injured, much lens seriously this time. Then came another rest beforo the tltleholder was able to re enter the ring. , Since then he ha3 had soveral fights and the hand ham caused him no trou ble, and It npw Heems to bo sound enough for hard usage. and after a short career pas3 on to tho bubhes, while he himself has held his "3lt" In tho outer garden with never a danger of being supplanted It Is doubtful if Jennings today would ac cept nny amount of money, no matter how great, for the celebrated Wahoo barber. WHY PRESENT DAY BALL PLAYERS ARE BETTER THAN OLD TIMERS. Tho batters work for runs Instead of hits Where tho old timers turned to tho right at first banc after hitting a. nlnglo the present day stars turn to tho left go as to take an extra baoo if the Holder should fumble The systematic handling of records, and tho continual publication of the feats of players has enabled the pltchors to mako a closer study of batters. The Inflcldcrs aro able to make much moro dlfllcult stops by the use of the gloves than did the old timers with bare hands Tho first baseman Is now a position that requires great fielding, while he was formerly nothing more than a man placed on tho bag to catch thrown balls Many jcars ago the batter could call for any kind of ball that ho wanted In other words, they pitched to a batter's strength In those days, and now they pitch to his weakness The deportment of the playors Is dlffercnL In th old days the play ers did not pay so much attention to their physical well being Now thoy have to live and caro for themsolvcs 00 as to hold good in tholr respootlvo positions Tho outfielders havo a greater knowledge of tho Individuality of bat tors Thoy learn tho direction In which certain batters hit and shift their positions nccoralngly HANS WA6NtR HAD AMUSING TIMES WITH TH ONLY RUBE WADDELL "TN all the world," says Hans Wag ner, "there Is only ono Rube Wad dell. This Is probably extremely for tunate for the aforesaid world If there were many llko the Rube univer sal bankruptcy would soon have to bo declared He Is a curious card and a pest to put it mildly, and yet It is Im possible to help but liking tho eccen tric fellow, who has furnished laugha for millions during his long connection with the game. "He Is a left bander, and left handcrs do not last manyoeasons He Is dis sipated, and ball players who lush heavily aro not supposed to continue In the business 'any great length of time Being both left handed and a boozer, Mr WadldeU, by all baseball logic, should long nro have moved back Into retirement, but he lasted a do7en j cars In the fastest company, and peo ple who have seen him work this sea son In the American association say his arm Is as strong aa ever t "The mont Interesting characteristic of Mr W.ddoll-ln my opinion has al "wayn been his artistic 'Berne of touch He has no or been known to buy any thing He haii never been known to pay for anything anywhere or under any conditions. "What he does with hJs salary has alwa3 been one of tho mysterlos of the game Cot Introduced to tho Rube and In ten minutes h will make a toich. What's more, he will spring so artistic an excuse that It's five to ono ha will get away with It, and never, jiever as long aa thla world shall endure will ou get back the money. .J3 "Ono winter, not ho long ago I had nothing to do riffd took a notion that I would run up to Butler, Pa,, where the Rube lives and which is not bo very far from Pittsburg. The Rube when not engaged In elevating tho stage or tend ing bar and during the Intervals of his frequent marriages and divorces lives near Bulcr and llvos with, also on, his father a lino old farmer, rich and pretty shrewd. "Mr Waddell was dead glad to see mo and suggested that wo go and paint up the town of Butler. I couldn't see It mainly becauso I had thoughtfully forgotten to bring any money and had bought a round trip railroad ticket ere I started I knew that If I had any coin tho Rubo would borrow It, and how could I refusp a man who was of fering mo the hospitality of his home? "When I explained to tho Rubo that I had forgotten my wallet ho was struck for a. tew minutes and then be gan to figure out ways and means of touching his father At last a great thought dawned upon him. and. drag ging mo along, he marched Into the sitting room, whore tho old gentleman was reading the weekly paper " 'rather,' said Mr Waddell, Jr. very respectfully, 'I havo some Important buslno33 to transact over In Butler, and Mr Wagn6r will go over there with me Let mo have $20 I will need about that amount before I get home ' "Mr. Waddell. Sr., looked upon his son with a doubtful eye, 'Sco here, George Edward,' spoke Jhe old gentle man, 'I gave you $10 only last nlghL Where liaa that money gono to al ready T " 'rather.' answered tho Rubo most earnestly, 'vou remember that pair of pants I had out in tho barn to do th stablo work In? Well, I thought I could use, those, pants for a bank to put my nest ogg In. So I put tho $10 In the pants. Last night, tather, you. In the kindness of your heart, told a tramp he could sleep In tho barn. Fa ther, that wicked tramp stole those pants and my nest egg with them.' "The old gentlcmin, shaking his head, coughed up the $20. and then Rube had $30 with which to paint the town." STUDY AND WORK MADE WALSH A. GREAT PITCHER "Whatover success I have had in baeoball Is due to hard study and hard work," says EU Walsh, tho Chicago pitcher. "I had senso enough to keep my eyes and cars opon when I Joined the White Sox. In those days the team had a lot of smart pltchcre, men who did things and who used their heads all the time Every time I saw one of them pull off somothlng I made a sneak over toward the clubhouse and tried it myself to see whothcr or not I could do it I worked as hard In those days as ever a man worked In a mlno or a mllL I was de termined I was going to bo a pitcher. Comlskoy and Jones both coached me, told mo what to do and how to do It, but they could not make me a ptcher. A follow ha3to do that for hmself." TAGGING OUT A BASE RUNNER vSmm&mF. yM uJ8pWis TVAUtJING a base runner Is ono of tho difficult tasks that tho player has to accomplish, and it Is one fraught with considerable danger. Players in tho outor field do not have to encounter this dangor, as their "outs" are made on Ales, The first baseman seldom has to tag the runner, as tho man headed toward him is out If tho ball la held by thy baseman whllo touching tho bag, It 1b at second base and at the home plate that most of the tagglrg Is dono, ttB the player is safe if ho can get foot or hand on tho bag without being touched by tho ball except in case of a force Boao runnors naturally try to Blido ito tho bono in ouch a. way as to mako tagging them as difficult as pos sible. Some baso runners slide in such a way 'that tho body is thrown to ono side and only ono foot goes toward the bag. This means that the baseman or catcher or whoever lo covering the base must slap tho ball against the foot or leg, thereby risking tho danger of being spiked. In a recent game In SL Louis Catcher Dooln of the Phillies was bumped by one of the Cardinals, and his log was broken, putting him out of tho game for somo tlmo Many other plajers have been hurt In similar plays. It requires consider able nerve to stand one's ground when an opposing playor weighing ISO or 200 pounds hurls himself forward feot first with the feot armod with sharp spikes. It requires moro nerve to thrust a hand with a ball toward the sliding player, and tho grip on the ball must be tight, because if It Is knocked from tho hand tho runnor is safe, even if the ball beat him to the base by feot. Tagging tho runnor Is a contest of skill and daring against skill and dar ing, and so far the honors aro about oven. jfr .jiui.u.auu,i.:..u-.. ? " 1 -" Xr' -VJl., .1, CUBS CLAIM TO HAVE THE ;g STRONGEST PITCHER IN TONEY I jTANAGER CHANCE of tho Chicago Cuba probably poB3ec3en in Fred Toney tho strongest and best all around athlete In the National league. This docs not mean he is the greatest pltch or, hitter or runner, but it docs mean he In the most powerful. At present Toney tips the beam In the neighborhood of 195 pounds; and he is In excellont playing condition. There Is not ono ounce of superfluous flesh on him. On every part of. his body tho said in hla southern dialect? "Man, jou ' B don't know what you're talking about. E I'll tako that bcL" Tho wager wu made. 1 K What Toney said ho could do vu ' this: Ho declared he could stand at tho homo plate In SL Louis and throw : over tho left field fence. Tho dlstonca I Is Beveral hundred yards. That aftornoon Toney reached tha ' boll park a little earlier than tho other ) players, got ten rocks, Just larco enough to fit In his hand, and thretr ' r FRED TONEY, CUBS' STRONG ARM MAN. 1 ' skin is drawn and muscles protrudo In knots. In spite of this, ho la not mus cle bound. The only defect apparent In his phys ical makeup la in his pitching arm on the Inside of his elbow. He obtained this In a BCUfTle whllo In the Blue Grass league. It Is an Injury to the cords, which are tied up and form a knot about half the size of on egg This does not affect his twirling any, al though he cannot snap the ball In cold weather with the same free action as he can when the temperature Is high. Toney attained his wonderful strength on a farm in Nashville and In throwing rocks Into and across tho Cumberland river. Throwing rocks is his principal athletic fcaL and he does not hesitate to wager that he can throw a rock a certain distance. While in SL Louis on a recent trip ho explained his hurling abilities to Joo Tinker. Tho latter, who makes bets with his teammates about as fast as ho can think, llstenod attentively to Toneys ability as a rock thrower. As soon as the pitcher finished Tinker spoko up and aald, 'Til bet you $15 to $10 you cannot do It." Toney looked at the shortstop a moment and then each ono over tho bleachers. Jimmy ! Dojl happened to stroll into th grounds Just as Toney started pegging. Aiter the game that day Toney told i.J Tinker ho would do his share to win ; tho bet. Whllo they were discussing It Jimmy Doyle spoke up and said he saw Tone"y throw tilx rocks over the fence. -Toney, tho big, honest fellow ho la, nodded and told what he had done, and Tinker promptly called off the beL Evldcnco of Toneys marvelous ' strength was first unearthed In Evans vlllo. Ind , In front of tho Elks' home. In front of the building there Is a hitching stone, which weighs in the neighborhood of 300 pounds. Hclnla Zimmerman and Tom Needham had . somo difficulty In moving It with both hands. Tonoy stood and watched them, j and when thoy had finished he assert ed ho could lift it with two fingers. : Zimmerman spoke up and said. Til bet you you can't do 1L" One dollar J was the wager. i Toney stooped over, put twot flngen ?( In the ring and lifted tho stone to hit ' knees, swung it back and forth and then sent It down. Zimmerman did not j.' wait long to tell him ho had won tb.8 bcL 4 HOME RUN MADE ON A BUNTi 1 I How Andy Oyler Pulled Off a Very Remark' I able Freak Play. I "OASEBALL ia filled with freak plays, ones that sometimes bring about seemingly Impossible feats. Of course there's a lot of fun In them when they go with tho home team, but when they're against the home club you bet they're far from funny. Whenever a bunch of ball players gets to talking basebalL oomething that doesn't often happen for tho majority of thorn llko to got away from tho na tional pus tlmo as much as possible when they're not actually In the jame; the subject often "turns to freak plays of tho diamond. Ono of the freakest on record happened in Minneapolis somo seasons ago. Tho Minneapolis club had a little shortstop named Andy Oylor, who was a corking fielder, but wasn't much on tho heavy hitting. Ho was one of tho Bmalles mon In baseball, and, to make It worse, when he stood up to tho plate he crouched all up In a knoL . It was horrlblo on the pltchors to havo to throw to Oyler. Ono day Minneapolis was playing SL Paul. There is deadly rivalry between the teams, and the game was for blood all tha way through. It had rained tho day before the gamo, and the ground wns Ronolnsr wet. Tho base nmncrn hnrt floundered around like chlckonn with their feet tied. Minneapolis needed ono run whti little 0ler came to baL Andy crouched down in hJs peculiar way, and tho pitcher wound tip. Blng! Ho let a hot ono go straight for Oyler'B head. Andy ducked dowp, bending his knee and leaning1 his bat over bio shoulder Tho ball hit he bat a crock, and oery ono at the park htf.Ot'it. Whero the ball went no one knew. It hadn't gono up( In the air, for the St. Paul catcher waa gazing around the sky and wishing for a tele' cope. The Qrst baseman was looking under the bag to see if the ball got stuck there, j' I tho pitcher was shouting unintelligible I things ,at everybody, and the third ' R baseman was accusing- the umpire of I Btandlng on tho ball. Every one on I tho SL Paul team was crniy mad. - I What was Ojler doing? He was go- 1 lng llko a streak of lightning around 1 tho bases. Some one in tho bleachers B yelled, "He's got it in his pockotl" When tho second baseman on the St 3 Paul team heard that he started after M Oyler, who had Just rounded second on fl tho dead run. Andy had tho start. , 1 though, and ho left tho second baseV i man so far In tho rear that people be- 3 gan advlalng tho latter to hire a taL j Oyler roundod third at top speed and jlk pulled up at tho home plate, scoring m tho winning run. iM "What aro yuh trying to dor. scream- M ed tho catcher. "Gimme that ball!" IS "I ain't got tho ball. Thero it is right ' M In front of tho plato. I got a home run fl on a ball that didn't go two feoL" H Sure enough, thero waa tho ball stick- B lng right In tho deep mud in front of ; H the plate. It had gone off Oylcr's bat B so quickly that no ono had soon it land , but Oyler. Tho umpire, of course, had K to allow the homer, for tho ball had hit ' W on fair ground. ' 13 ( K( HOW STAR BATTERS HOLD THEIR BAT3. , m Good hitters hold their bate- differ- , fi! cnt wajo Lirry and Cobb grip their El bats at the end. Jim Ddahanty-grip ; K his bat six inches from tho endv Larry - Kh and Cobb take long, hard swings at tb El ball. Del chops at it. THb Speaker Bi and Sam Crawford hold their hats llk gft Larry and Cobb. So do most other ;"S betters who hit Ion drives. WJ1U IITi Keoler. ono of the greateot hitters, JIV choked his baL Ho gripped up from JBly tho end like Delahanty and used f & short bat. ' Vi ' m P . m 1 ". j r 'Ju