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1. EEM UNEARTHED T SEASOK. FIND raxvv,UiUA,AU UJ-UL I FTEKALU, WbUNhSDAV, ULlULstK 20, iyK7 HAVE MIS B By TOMMY CLARK. HE . 1915 baseball season has - produced a number of . real . finds. Se-vneral teams, espe cally m the National leasrue. tave been fortunate enough to pick up layers ( who have helped make this - season's history. Last year the big league scouts stated that the minors were well drained of promising mate rial, and few youngsters gave any evi dence of showing they were second Cobbs or Wagners. But the scouts -were & little bit off, as the showing of few youngsters have proved. Of course a number of the kids were sent back to the minors early in the season, but quite a number remained. , Probably the greatest find of the year is Frank Bancroft, the Phillies' short fielder. This youngster has done a whole lot to weld together a power ful infield for the Quaker boys. Todaj t$e Phillies' infield quartet is the " itrongest In the National league. Not lion has Bancroft done remarkably well in his position, but his general all around playing has been brilliant. Manager Pat Moran has been fortu nate in landing such, a youngster. Much credit for the team's grand show ing this year mast b ytven to him. St. Lou la has been very fortunate In . landing such a remarkably versatile player as Slsler. This fellow can pitch and do most anything: else on the dia nSVnd. He held down first base In fine style recently, in addition to making .rood as a'plnoh hitter. He has also twirled a number of brilliant games. Next season Manager Branch Rickey believes he will surely land a place in baseball's hall of fame. Pittsburgh has had the good fortune to land two corking good players in Third Baseman Balrd and Pitcher Ma $aux. The latter is the real pitching find of the 1915 season. This young ster has stood the heavy batters of President John Tener's circuit on their heads time and again. He is as cool as & cucumber and has wonderful con trol, .Baird has performed notably at last station. His game has been steady and consistently brilliant since the start. fPitcher Wezer Dell has done a whole lot to put Brooklyn on the baseball map. His pitching has been a feature . of many" of the Brooklyn games this : year. Dell cannot really be called a 1915 find, as he was with the team last fall,' but ' then he did not show to ad vantage. However, his name has to be r mentioned in connection with the real developments of this season. n Wagner Cincinnati has landed a real gem. This youngster has played Whistle Helps QONTRARY to general belief. Hughie i Jennings was not the first man to employ a whistle In baseball as a me dium to assist in coaching. There was another, and. incidentally, he was a red .head too. Of him more anon. In-the season of 1907 Jennings cre ated a furore in baseball circles by springing a little postman's whistle as an adjunct to his coaching. Previous to this Jennings worked his voice so hard that he had to devise some other means to make known that he was in th- game. The whistle was a success, and the manner in which Hughie used it brought down the house. It also brought down the ire of Silk O'Lough Iln, : the umpire, and he made a loud protest and ordered Mr. Jennings to desist. The next day Hughie was out on the lines as big as life and opened up with Us little whistle. In a moment he had L Ui-bleacherites in an uproar of merrl- nent. The music pleased tne tans, ana the .Innovation was a great hit. ' D'Loughlin again ordered the auburn haired one to put the whistle up. Jen nings asserted there was no rule to compel him to desist and forthwith started another tune. Silk chased him to the bench. It took ) SAM BELL AH IS ; , IT A VINO won a national champion- i " ship for the Multnomah club, Sam Bellah's ambition now Is to break the I Jw6 vorld's pole vault record of 13 feet 2 ches, held by M. S. Wright. Bellah woa ' the national vault championship at' San Francisco with a vault of 12 feet 9 inches, or about 514 inches shy of the record. " Bellah is twenty-eight years old, and, in light of this and the little time of practice, his recent performance was really .remarkable. "I am working indoors and have lit- 1 tie time for ' outdoor exercises or for practice,,, remarked Bellah recently jbotween hie customers in a sporting .goods stor. "I wuld like to take a I couple more years of college work, for iry ambition is to become an expert Rjrir.alturiat. I believe that under col- l ie training I could break the present v-'ortd'G rCord. Rellah 'learned to pole vault under ld Moulton at Stanford university. Keattonded Stanford for three years, taking an engineering course. fPole vaulting requires great muscu laxity in the arms, shoulders and back,' Boxer Loses Money pOGER 0'MAIliB-T, th Toledo f7Vw.thrwelght, tells this yarn: "X ' few years wgo I landed up in Prince Rupert, a town in British Co lambla. The manager of one of the clubs . there , asked me if I wanted to fight twelve - rounds with some Cana dian battler. j, " Tea," I said. 'What do I get for itr Twenty-five dollars f or . a twelve rou&d fight is the best I can, give you,' eaidthe manager. ' "Well, I'd been getting $300 to 1600 for my fights through that section, but I decided that 525 was $25. "I knocked out the other fellow in the first round. After the show was over I bunted up the manager, i Td like to have my money I told jhini. . l M,'Oh, "sure,' he said,. and he hands me two one dollar bills and a dime. -What'a the matter here? I asked. 1 was to get $25 and you're giving me oniy $2.10 - That's all right, ain't it?' he an Awered. v it ta'V X aald. m Tffl 2W d '" i i - ' ' ii Four Youngsters Who W igP I 6 1 1 Cj Have Helped Make ( v VlfW' -A 1 yi . Baseball History V-V JVP .'i " fl 1. Bancroft of the Phillies. 2. Wagner of Cincinnati. 3. Dell of Brooklyn. 4. Mamaux of Pittsburgh. a remarkably flashy game. Of course Manager Herzog's being alongside of him has helped his playing to a great extent. Aside from this, Wagner's showing at second has been fine. There have been a number of other youngsters ho have shown up well in different potions, but the above men tioned are the cream. TN order to keep up with the boxing promoters Dan Morgan. McKetrick I Jennings Coach more than mere benching to squelch Jennings, for he was on hand the next day and opened up with a merry tune on his pet whistle, and the hard heart ed O'Loughlin suspended Jennings for ten days. Then came the v final decision from Ban B. Johnson, with the remark that whistles were all right for steam en gines and policemen, but were out of place In a well regulated ball park. Credit Is given to another red head for being the first to discover the great possibilities which lay In an Innocent little whistle when used in a skillful manner in a ball game. Reddy Mack, the famous second' sacker of the old Louisville team of the American asso ciation back in the late eighties, ap- peared on the field one day armed with a boiler room whistle, using it at dif ferent stages of the game. Red had all the arbitrators in the circuit wild, but they couldn't stop him, as there was no Ban Johnson In power those days. A wild Irishman by the name of Brannick, who played In the South Michigan league a few . seasons ago, used a mouth organ In a very effective manner In conjunction with his ability as a coacher. When a player, fanned Brannick played a dirge. AFTER RECORD explained Bellah, when asked for the reason for his success. "It likewise re quires good leg muscles for the pri mary spring off the ground. Once in the air the shoulders and arms bear the burden. "The chief regret of my vaulting days Is that I was unable to do myself Jus tice at the Stockholm Olympic games. I was in wonderful form then, and, ex cept for an Injury to one of my legs going over on the boat, I feel sure I could have won at least secon4 place. Babcock, the Svlnner, cleared 12 feet 11 Inches or thereabouts, and I might not have gone that high. Wright, the world's record holder, went 12 feet 7, and T know I could have bettered that." Bellah has made his hore In Port land for four years. Last winter, In the Columbia Indoor meet, Sam established a world's in door record of 12 feet 7 Inches. In addition to being a pole vaulter, Bel lah Is a broad Jumper, a Javelin throw er and hammer tosser. He Intends to cut out all these side events next year for a supreme attempt to break Wright's world's mark. by Early Knockout shy and don't you forget It, lad!" "You're getting all that's coming to you,' returned the manager. 'The agreement was for you to box twelve rounds for $25. That's an average of about $2.10 per round, ain't It? You knocked that guy out in the first and so you get paid only for the time you worked one round.' " PITCHER DEMAREE LOOKS AFTER HIS FRIENDS. "PITCHBURG, MASS., is the home of x Pat Moran, leader of the Phillies. When the Phillies recently played In Fltchburg nearly the whole town Jour neyed there for the purpose of "whoop ing er up" for Pat and his squad. Just before the game Pat saw Pitcher Al Demaree at a writing desk, in the hotel writing on a telegraph blank. "Whatcha doin'?" queried Patrick. . !Oh, I'm Just wiring to a burglar friend of mine In New York," answered Al. "I'm telling him Fltchburg is de serted and if he hustles up he can burglarize the whole town before the folks r-Arn," and Harry Pollok have started what they term "the boxers' union." Jimmy Dunn, manager of Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion, has received a letter from Morgan, asking him to come into the fold. The purpose of the boxers' union Is to see that the bat tlers get their share of the spoils and to see that the guarantees are not low ered for the high class men. Tom Andrews' pet scheme, the pro- moters' organization whlch was .re MICHIGAN GETS PONTIUS. pOACH DOUGLASS of the Unlver sity of Michigan freshman football squad announces that among the prom ising gridiron performers to enter Michigran this fall will be a brother of Brute Pontius. The younger Pontius is only seven teen years of age and now weighs 180 pounds, with room for 200 as soon as he grows a bit older. He is a fullback and was given that place on the Ohio all state prep school eleven last fall. Douglass also expects a recruit from the Oak park team at Chicago, made famous by Coach Zuppke of Illinois. This lad Is a back and comes writh a big reputation. GIRLS TAKE PLACES OF MEN IN CRICKET MATCHES IN Photos by American Press Association. A S their American cousins indulge in tne national game of baseball occasionally, so the girls of the British Isles cricket. At a girls' school In Scotland cricket is Just now the most popular sport. The players wear costumes the game, jlnd ye, as can be seen from the photograph, by no means deprive the wearers of their feminine charms. SCORING STOPPED THE town of Cannonsburg, Pa., x boasts of the oldest baseball pitch er In the world. He's sixty-eight, and his name is William C. Bedillion. A week or so ago he was watching a game between a visiting club and the team representing the McConnell mills, with which he is connected. The opposition was hitting the McConnell pitcher all over the lot. "Why don"t you put In another "pitch-, er?" asked Bedillion of his manager. "Ain't got any." was the answer. cently formed, led Morgan. McKetrick and Pollok to organize the boxers' union. HHHE cauliflower, or "tin" ear, used as a "card of admission" to fight clubs by third and fourth rate boxers, is about to be no more. Reports received from Seattle. Wash, state that a local physician had discovered a method of treating damaged ears without leaving the member swollen. The idea is to HARVARD'S PITCHING MACHINE JjOR drilling pitchers and teaching them control, as well as for trying out new material, the coach of Har vard's baseball team developed a pitching box which proved useful dur ing training season. The device con sists of a large canvas and board box, approximately six feet in height and two feet in depth. In the middle of the front side is a rectangular hole three feet by two feet, while within the box, against the back wall, is a red flannel bullseye one foot in diame ter. BY OLDEST PITCHER "Well, you've got one now," said Be dillion, peeling off his coat, vest and other outside rigging. "And this pitch er's name is Bedillion." To the amazement of the crowd, Be dillion went to the box and took up the pitching chores. And to the great er amazement of the assemblage Be dillion pitched three full innings, struck out four men, passed one batter, hit another, but did not allow a hit. Bedillion was a star player In his youth. drain the tissues and then attach a plaster cast until they knit together again, obliterating all trace of Injury. Few boxers who have appeared In ring hostilities have escaped disfigure ment In this way. In fact, a number of fighters have been actually made deaf by the peculiar swelling caused by repeated pounding on the ear. Some of the leading boxers in the world, in cluding the cleverest defensive artists in the game Fred Welsh. Jack Brit When In use the box is placed at a distance from the pitcher's mound which corresponds to the home plate. To hit the bullseye is In this instance the thing to be avoided. The pitcher must throw a curve which breaks quickly, so that the ball, after enter ing the hole, does not strike the red flannel. This readily shows the pitch er, and his coach as well, what he can do. It also does away with all argu ments on the part of young pitchers, who often accuse a catcher of reaching forward and pulling a ball away from the plate. S AO. A A s , ifVyTL" "vt T"r . s i "CHARLEY HORSE" IS EXPLAINED JUST what a "Charley horse" Is lots of people do not know, nor why Its name, save It Is known It causes ath letes woe. It Is a knotted muscle In the leg of an athlete, especially one who chases flies and Is active on his feet. Sometimes It stays but a brief time; again it's there for weeks. It makes the athlete suffer, and relief he often seeks. The trainer rubs the horse each day with JInlmgnt . Quite, hot. but often It has no effect upon the pesky knot. ir t ton and Mike Gibbons carry marks of their trade. Packey McFarland and Johnny Kil bane are two of the very few who do not sport "tin" ears. PAR from the blighting frosts of his native clime. Steve Natuck, who says he Is one of the most famous wrestlers Alaska ever produced, Is In New York eager and ready to meet any or all of the best wrestlers In this land. Although he is but four feet and nine inches in height, weighing but 109 pounds, the young Eskimo, born in Point Barrow, Alaska, twenty-seven years ago. Is a marvel of strength and agility. Never having had the' least scientific instruction In the art of wrestling. Na tuck says he has pinned to the floor the shoulders of many well known wrestlers. Besides the general run of holds employed by ordinary wrestlers. Natuck says he has many peculiar to his people, derived from the necessU ties of encountering wild animals while without weapons. WHY YOUNG PLAYERS FAIL. rpHE greatest enemy of the young ball player is nervousness. Many a youngster of promise coming up from the minors ruins his chances Dy aero planing" when he finds himself lined ud against players of experience. The bet way for a player to succeed Is to try to forget that he is up In the big show and put his whole mind on the ball game. If he can fall to see the huge stands and the big crowd and Just remember that he Is playing a game of ball and trying to ao nis pan toward winning It he will surely sue ceed If he has the ability. The player who is doing everything to win Is the lad who catches the manager's eye. BIG ENGLAND Indulge in the English pastime of which are adapted to the needs of Mythology informed us that the winged steed of the air when captured by Bellerophon. the gay and debonair, and then was tamed and conquered, and his rider meekly bore upon the earth or at command Into the clouds would soar, was questioned thus, "Old hoss, you have an alibi, of course, for being tamed?" Pegasus neighed. "I had a Charley horse." The man who finished last, when the' first Marathon was run likewise bad a Charley horse, be said, or he'd have woa For several seasons Natuck has be touring the country with a wild we Bhow. but Is now making his home 1 Slngac near Patersoo, N. J. While the road Natuck1 attracted much a tentlon by his wonderful feats, throw ing many men almost twice hl welgT and performing seemingly ltnprobabl feats. ' Katuck'H grandfather was an Eklmf chief, while his father owns seversl hundred reindeer, giving him the pre 4 tlge of being a wealthy man.; Natoc attended the mission echeol In Peid Barrow and Is well educated. millionaire, set aside an old K tabllshed rule when he made a tenta! tlve purchase of . William. world's champion pacer, from A. K Van Atta for the reported price of $SI 000.- Mr. Billings is known to be a gw judge of horseflesh and has a reput tlon Qi paying any price once ne rars cles an animal. He owns Ioj DIlloH 1:5SV4. champion trotting mare; UhlaJ 1:68, champion trotting gelding, an The Harvester, 2:01. champion trottln talllon. All these cost him some monl ey. All are bred in the equine purpl Net en Aristocrat William Is his first purchase outsifil the aristocracy. William is not, so tl speak, well born. He's one of thor Indiana racers, bred any old way. II was sired by Abe J- a speedy but er ratlc old pacer. His dam was an ol farm mare. William is a splendid In dividual and doubtless can pace fast- than l:B8V4. for he Is only five yean old. But for breeding he is a "mon! grel comparatively speaking. $35,000 a Big Sum. And $35,000 Is a whole lot of mone ven' for one of Mr. Billings' procllvt ties to Invest in a pacer with no breed In behind him and no assurance ct breeding on ahead of him. Instead a horse with only a distant relation ah Id to the old fashioned Jay Bir family Mr. Billings might have had ha'a a dozen of the more pretentious raicc ens, Wllkeses, Pointers or Directs. THREE FINGERED WONDERS. MORDECAI BROWN, with three fin aers on his pitching hand, be came a great winner in baseball as 4 member of the famous Chicago Cubrf t- 1 Va rnwB hrtw eILT ill the Duluth B. C. Intermediate e'K"! oared shell crew, has only a thumt and one finger on one hand. Cobb Can't Hit Johnson Very Often T?VER since Walter Johnson cam Into the American league he has been a thorn in the side of Ty Cob These two athletes areoonsldered the greatest ball players n the circuit dominated by Ban Johnson that Is. lit their respective positions. Cobb's rec ord proves conclusively that he is thr champion batsman of his league and for that matter, the whole world. Cobb has had splendid success as ri batsman against all the pitchers of thd American league save W. Johnson The "Georgia Peach" has mauleJ th curves of about every pitcher In tht league, slammed them almost at wilL He has fattened his batting averagr off the pitching of that mighty man from faroff Minnesota. Chief Bender, and hit the terrific crossfire of the great Edward Plank. The foxy Plank has been a sore puzzle to the most ex pert of left , handed batsmen of th American league, but he failed to pui zle the great Cobb. j Just one pitcher has held the whlpj hand over the demon batsman only one. When this tall lad. known as the "Idaho Wonder." began operation; against Ty Cobb back In August of 1907 he was as green as new mown hay. and his very first lime In the b!j lesgue was against the Detroit Tigers and Ty Cobb. r In three times at bat Cobb failed to make a hit. In fact Johnson only al lowed the lad from Georgia foun Wtt In the first twenty-four .titnes ,'iu'Vbat., This waa rather dlscouragg la. 4h gentleman from Royfton. Oa. and .hs has had a rather discouraging time of It ever since, for Johnson hag been hard proposition for Cobb to solve I PLANK ONE OF FEDS BEST ( PITCHERS. "PDDIE PLANK, although In his for-ty-flrst summer. Is having one of the best aeasona of his career, ma record, made with the St. Ixmla Feds after he was released outright by Con nie Mack, Is one that any hurler halt his age might well be proud of. Plank has pitched 149 Innings and allowed thirty-four runs, an average of 2.07 runs per game. That Includes runs scored on errors, tallies over which the veteran fllnger had no control. Ills average based on earned runs is less than two a game. Plank's average Is the best In the Federal league, despite the tight pitch ing at times of Gene Packard and Nick Cullop of Kansas City, George McCon nell. Claude Hendrlx and Miner Brown of Chicago. plank has worked three shutouts ond nttrhed four three-hit games. One of the whitewashes was against Chicago, in which Tinker's men secured only one safety off the old fellow's delivery. Plank has pitched three nine-lnnlng games in which he did not pass a bat ter. In his 149 innings he has hl op ponents to ninety-eight hits, an av erage of a fraction more than five a game. Plank's record is better than some he made with the pennant winning Ath lectlca That, of course, does not mean he is a better pitcher, because the Federal league does not contain the same class. The record does show; though, that Plank is still quite a hurl er. and at forty-one is doing better than pitchers who have the advantage of youth and strength. SHAW WORTHY "An INtn Of WALTER JOHN SUN. SHAW of the Washington American league team Is one of the most de nnd.ible twlrlers In the league. He a a worthy co-laborer of the great Wal tM Thnscrii 3 'VI