Evening star. [volume], August 21, 1910, Page 3, Image 49

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ALL PITCHERS LOOK ALIKE TO
JOE JACKSON, EMBRYO NAP
Spends a Season in Each of Three Leagues of
Different Classes and Each Fall Finds
Him Still Leading the Batters.
CHARLOTTE. N. C., August 20.?Un
less Joe Jackson, the ex-Carolina League
star. Sallle League phenom and Southern
league wonder, suffers a cataclysm of
form when he dona a Cleveland uniform
?ome weeks hence ahd assists the Naps
In their American League race, he Is des
tined to be the shining light of the dia
mond, a rival of Tyrus Raymond Cobb
for the honors and glories of base ball.
The late purchase of this remarkable
player from New Orleans by the Cleve
land club is the most significant negotia
tion of the season and evidences the fact
that the moguls in the big woods have
had their optics cast on the Greenville
lad since he leaped into base ball promi
nence.
The Naps did not get picked up on this
deal, despite the fact that Jackson must
be regarded as a castaway of the elon
gated manager of the Athletics, to whom
he belonged prior to this season. The
terms made between the Cleveland club
?nd the New Orleans management seem
to Indicate that Charley Frank owned the
player himself and that Mack had a
mighty slender string tied to him.
Jackson broke into base ball three years
?go. He was up to that time an operative
In the Monaghan mill at Greenville, S. C.,
and had been playing ball In the back
lota of that town with mill teams. The
fame of his playing reached the ears of
Manager Tommie Stouch, who was the
manager of the Greenville club, and he
decided to give the youngster a tryout on
ills line-up.
From the flr*t time be picked up his
bat and strided toward the plate there
was no doubt about his base ball caliber.
He took a natural pose at the plate,
swung heftlly at the sphere and hit it
every crack. It became evident at once
that he ?u one of those unnatural play
ers who are called natural hitters, and
every day Jackson has played since that
day has strengthened the evidence that he
Is a born base ball player.
A natural hitter Is an anomaly on the
diamond that can't help hitting the ball.
Jackson nailed the missive or. the fore
head every time he came to bat and it
raced off somewhere, sometimes to left
field on a line, sometimes to right with a
mighty speed and sometimes clear over
center fielder's head. He laced the ball
over the fence three times In one game
for home runs, and In practically every
park in the league during the season he
made the unique record of having hit at
least one ball over the fence, and he
didn't care whether it was right or left,
the nearer fences, or center. Talking
about breaking up games. Jaokson literal
ly smashed them into smithereens during
his first year in base ball as an underling
of Stouch in the Carolina Association and
hi* batting was largely responsible for
keeping Greenville right at the top all the
season.
He was aided by Hyder Barr, now with
the Mobile club in the Southern League,
and a probable Athletic in days to come,
and Buck Fressly, first baseman of Roa
noke, in the Virginia League, considered
a major league possibility whenever he
wants to begin to climb a little more. Al
though these two players were the main
runs In the defense, Joe Jackson's oflfen
SMBESTBATTER
Leads Capital City League in
Hits, With .355 Percentage.
CARR IN SECOND PLACE
Taylor and Murphy Are Tied for
the Honor of Leading
Base Stealer.
The following average* are the official
and Anal ones of the Capital City League
for the closing season. When the last I,
publication of the averages were printed. 1
which waa over a month ago. Snyder of
the Navy Yard aggregation was leading
the league with a nice percentage of .087 '
for eleven games. Since then Earl Steele
has come to the front as the league's
leading batter with a percentage of .805.
Steele has participated in twenty-one
games, been at the bat seventy-six times,
scored twenty-three runs, hit the horse
hide into safe territory on twenty-seven
different occasions, stole ten bags and
made two sacrifices
Jack Carr ran a close second with a
percentage of .348 for twenty-two bat
tles.
Jack Hurley, second baseman of the
same team, also hit the ball at a terrific
rate, he having been In twenty-one bat
tles and hit the pill safe twenty-three
different occasions out of sixty-eight
times at the bat. giving him a percent
age of .338.
Willie Taylor and Murphy are tied for
honors as the leading base stealer both
have stolen eighteen bags.
OORNKL.L COM PANT.
G. AB. R. H. SB. BH. A*f.
Masser 2 2 1 1 0 0 .500
Orees 3 * 1 3 0 1 .800
rfclpp* 2 7 1 3 0 0 .429
McDonald 7 28 3 11 1 8 .383
A. Handlboe.... 14 SI 17 19 1 1 .373
Heeeler 19 63 19 22 7 6 .348
Ke*n? 17 ?1 7 21 4 4 .344
Hunra IS ? 8 is 4 l .333
Nojrea 14 45 11 13 2 1 .33a
Jl??l>4 5 IS 5 6 3 1 .333
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#lsyes 18 6" 12 17 4 4 .29*
No-rias 8 7 0 2 1 0 .286
Butcher 8 80 4 8 0 0 .267
Tr>Ma 2*2202 ,23o
Brown * 12 6 3 2 2 .230
eaefse 1 4 1 1 o 0 .250
Payao 3 8 2 1 o 0 .2uo
Kaiser 8 11 1 2 o l .182
Ktog f 17 8 8 1 4 .17#
Moras 8 23 4 4 0 0 .174
?Tfd 8 T 1 1 o 0 .187
Ba?ette 8 14 O 2 1 0 .143
*?r 8 8 4 1 1 1 .111
glsaif ft 18 4 2 0 0 .133
Vaaftn 8 11 4 1 2 0 .091
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?ft 21 24 A ? .848
MrfSf ........ 21 88 24 23 17 1 .338
*y ........ 17 04 20 21 18 1 .328
O'Xeil 18 43 8 13 4 1 .302
Taylar . 23 78 24 28 It O ,2M
Kelllkcr 13 38 lo 11 ? s .>?
ftmJta 14 44 6 12 6 3 .273
Price 11 M 6 8 11 ? .230
Bui it ran 17 37 14 14 ? a .246
Carroll 8 ? 7 * 1 .241
Corrlgas 10 3 4 I o .200
? 3 6 8 1 .194
Gallsg&er T 3 4 2 1 .190
tffoch 8 r 3 3 11 .13a
Barretts 6 > 0 2 0 o .us
Leonard 13 6 2 1 2 .000
guamier 6 0 0 0 o .000
Doyle 1 OOOl .o.?)
M Barker 1 > 0 0 0 0 .000
Forrester 1 1 0 0 0 0 .000
1 1 1 0 0 0 .000
SEWAGB PUMPING STATION.
1 4 0 2 0 0 .300
21 78 28 27 10 2 .833
irtby 12 40 8 14 4 1 .830
___.tla 8 8 0 8 1 2 .833
Mullia 28 78 20 22 11 0 .293
Wllklos T 18 8 4 0 1 .267
Murray 1* 80 11 14 8 1 .238
Brn.. i. ,>ikle ft 14 2 3 0 O .214
Hofu.tca 18 61 8 18 T 2 .213
Mwre 12 SV 6 6 6 0 .207
PSager 7 26 2 3 *2 9 .11*2
Taylor SO 63 6 11 8 2 .173
Rewart 8 12 1 2 1 1 .i?7
1 via T~ S IS 10 8 7 .1J?
Clemests *>8806 .121)
Pari 0 2 8 1 .000
Bartoa 1 1 1 1 .060
Brady 0000 .000
~ 6 O 0 O .000
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11 18 8 8 t 1 .444
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K&d
slve strokes became the most damaging
after all.
Near the close of that season, three
years ago now. 8touch negotiated a deal
with Connie Mack for the purchase of
both Barr and Jackson, and then the trou
ble began. They went to Philadelphia In
the fall, and although the Athletics* man
ager was able to get Jackson In only a
few games, he still gave ample evidence
that he was major league timber all right.
Jackton left Greenville one day under
pretense of going to Philadelphia, but he
, didn't go. He had married an acquaint
ance and friend of his uneventful child
hood In Greenville and couldn't leave his
newly acquired wife.
He returned to Greenville, and it re
quired everything but the South Caro
lina legislature Itself to get htm moved
again toward Philadelphia. He tinally
made up his mind to report to Mack,
however, and he stayed around the camp
of the Athletics about long enough to
find out that he wasn't at home, and he
skipped, picked up his duds and pulled
out for home.
It became pretty clear to Mack that
he was not going to be able to keep his
claws on the phenom at the beginlnng of
; the season of 190U, and he put him in
| Savannah in the Sallie League, thus
leading him by degrees into the acquaint
i ance of the troubles of organized base
ball. And behold him in that circuit re
peating his record in the Carolina asso
ciation. a terror to every pitcher in the
league and a sign smasher of the Cobb
type. He got better every day: he be
came more natural In his position at the
plate, more select In his choice of what
balls to hit at. although this had made
but little difference to him previously,
and the conclusion of that season found
him the leading batter of the league.
Manager Mack still wanted the young
ster as one of his regulars, but Jackson
did not want to try it again in Philadel
phia. and rather than ruin for all time the
chances of one of the wonders of tke
diamond, he negotiated a deal with the
New Orleans club in the Southern League
for Jackson's services during the present
season.
The decided difference in the pitching
of Class C and D twirlers and the South
ern League mounders had no eflTect at all
on the batting retina of the Greenville
marvel, and at the close of the present
season he will stand far in the lead as
the premier batsman of that fast or
ganisation, leading base runners and on*
of the league's finished fielders. He
seems now to have acquired enough
knowledge of the game and necessary
finlfch to get in the majors and burn the
woods. He la not an apt student of any
thing, and never had the advantages of
an education. It Is said that after hts
marriage he endeavored to Improve his
mind by constant study, but his inaptl^l
tude In other matters has developed an
apparent abnormal base ball acumen,
and he la one of the coolest-players in
the business, knowing always what to j
do, and when. He la daring on the bases,
an elusive, sensational fielder, and still
a natural hitter.
Base ball experts of this section. In
which Jackson was reared, and where he
began his career, believe him to be one
of the wonders of the age, and under
careful development ought to rival the
genius from Georgia as the greatest
player ever produced. His career with
the Naps will be followed closely by his
friends down home.
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Monday's Entries.
Pint nee. ttwi war ahls aft ?p; selling; alio |
?Rockatone. 101; Hock. 108: Lin Win, 114;
Chapultepec. 108: Cllffsdge. 110; Merry Knight,
103: Madeline U. 94: Nerhltt. 108; 81r Cleges.
Ill: Hilltoo. 101.
Second race. Foot-year-olds and up: steeple
chase handicap; about two mile* and half? Prlnco
Haiopton. 156: Paprika. 134; O. K., 147; gam
Ball. 130: ladlola. 138.
Third nee. three year-olds: fillies: Vasaar; one
mile?Checryola. 96: Follle Lory. 101; Ethel Le
Brume. 96: Bcbuolmartn. 96; Mesoana, 98; Jao
queltna. 96: Madeline L. 96.
Fourth race, all a*ea; handicap; mile and one
eighth Bob R.. 10S: Ronnie Kelso, ill; Sir
John Johnson. 128; Ftnstoae. 122; Montgomery,
103: Woodcraft. 100; gopecstltion. 98; Cheek.
92: Taboo. 90: Hilltoo. 90: Blahop, 83; Beas
cvue. 110.
Fifth nee. three-year-olda and op: selling; 7
furious*?May Amelia. 195: Merry Knlght.110;
Imitator. 100: Wander. 107; Etching. 119: Har
vey p.. no: Candle berry. HO; Osorge W. Le
holt. 110: On. nbridge. 110: Shamrock, 107;
Crossover. 100: M. Cambon. 107; Moatealm, 107;
Claque. 106: Blue Tie. 109; Spohn, 107; Acu
men. 107: Mlramlr, 197.
S'ath race. tso Tear-olds: selling; 6 furlongs?
Old Bot. )oi: Macon. 119; ?Belfast. 93: 8am
Matthews. 107: ?Excellence. 93; Ben La sea.
107: Patrick S.. 98: Cttbon. 101; DsSnlte. 101;
?Thrifty, 93: Gold Osp. 107; * Beatrice. 93;
Shooting Spray, 101; Nosegay. 101: Lady Ros
alie. 107: Double Pin. 107: BUly Barnes, 107;
Joe Kenros. 104: ?Klnnelen. 99; Pair At.
alaata. 98; Plan Ryan. 107; Ksyal Ledge. 93;
Tay Pay. 107.
?Ananatfee
Johnny Evers sa,?
Johnny Xllng could ?<
form in throwing snd ?
answered ia the tfflnnattnh
his old-time
NEW KING OF HARNESS HORSE WORLD
WHICH CLIPPED OFF MARK OF U58H
UHLAN.
LARNED, TENNIS CHAMPION,
HAS WONDERFUL RECORD
William A. Lamed. Ave times national tenilla champion, has recently
been out of the game with a strained tendon, which he first injured when
serving: as a volunteer in the Spanish war.
JLarned ll" the most remarkable history of all the American tennis
champions.
When he was nineteen years old he won the intercollegiate champion
ship In 1882, representing Cornell.' In this tournament he defeated the re
doubtable Bod Wrenn of Harvard. During the same year he was the runner
up at the national championships at Newport, being defeated by the then
champion, O. 8. Campbell. He was again runner-up in the Newport tourna
ment in 1884, 1885 and 1886.
The Spanish war kept him out of the game for some time after this,
but In 1801 he achieved his ambition and won the all-comers at Newport by
defeating Beals Wright and acquired the title through default of the cham
pion, M. D. Whitman.
In 1802 he defended hia title successfully against R. F. Doherty, but In
1908 was beaten by E L Doherty, who was the champion of England at that
time. It waa not until 1807 that he renewed hia tournament play. That year
he again won the national championship, defeating Robert Le Roy In the
final round. He repeated his victory In 1906 and 1808, successfully defending
his title against Beals Wright and W. J. Clothier.
At Longwood he has been most successful. Beginning in 1884 he won
the Longwood title eleven times, the other years being 1896, 1887, 1801, 1806,
1804, 1806, 1806, 1807, 1806 and 1808.
| Diamond Sptrki. |
Four triple plays have been made In the
National League this season.
Manager McGlnnlty of Newark has
canned the veteran "Steve" Brodle, who
has been with the Redskins for three
weeks.
Rube Waddell made an auspicious de
bqt In the Eastern League by beating
Montreal and sending Newark back into
first place.
The Cubs have It on the Giants. During
1909 the latter team defeated Chicago's
crowd but three times on the Polo
Grounds. The record this year Is worse.
A cub bear has been forwarded to the
Chicago Cubs by the Spokane club. The
Spokane fans hope that it will bring
luck, but Manager Chance and his men
don't take much stock in the real live
animal.
The full name of Outfielder Thomason,
the new player from Topeka who has
Just joined the Naps, has been revealed.
It Is Arthur Wilson Townaend Thomason.
Enough names for a whole outfield and a
utility man.
Player Fred Hunter of the Kansas City
club was fined $50. in addition to suffer
ing a three-day suspension, for striKing
Umpire Bush during a game in Kansas
City August 4. Umpire Bush has been
reinstated.
Eddie Collins, who gave Ty Cobb such
a warm struggle ,for batting honors last
year and who threatened to eclipse the
Tiger star in base-stealing records, will
not head the league in hitting this sea
son, neither does he promise to beat Ty
out for the record of stolen sacks.
Derrill Pratt, foot ball and base ball
star at the University of Alamaba last
season, later a member of the Mont
gomery Southern League team and said
to be slated for a try-out at third next
fall by the Chicago Cube, has been ap
pointed foot ball coach at the Southern
University, located at Greensboro, Ala.
Kansas City fans came close to setting
a minor league attendance record a Sun
day or so ago when 17,748 of them turned
out to see the Blues give Louisville a
double beating. And Dusty Rhoades, ex
Nap, showed that he knew what a psy
chological moment was by pitching a one
hit game In the first half of thar double
bill, shutlng out the American Associa
tion champions.
The Brooklyn club has relinquished Its
light under optional agreement to H.
Brady with the Springfield club; T. Cat
terson and Pem Flnlaysonn, with Law
rence; Walter Clement, with Jersey City;
A. C. Downey, with Oklahoma; Bruce
Evans, James Hamilton, David Kraft,
W. E. Prout. Charles Swalm and
Clyde Webeter, with Hannibal; Andrew
Herbst and George Sherwood, with New
Haven.
The Boston Red Box will train next
spring on the Pacific coast, according to
announcement made by President Taylor.
The players will meet in San Francisco
March 1 and practice there for a week
before playing their first game. They
?will play at Los Angelea, Sacramento,
8an Francisco and Oklahoma during
(Mr training, starting east about April
I
1 and playing In Salt Lake City, Denver,
Omaha and two or three other minor
league towns.
Secretary John Heydler of the National
League says that a close scrutiny of the
minors showed only two umpires of major
league caliber?Eason, who has already
been secured, and Wilson Matthews, now
umpiring in the Texas League, who will
report to the National League Septem
ber 7. Matthews is an old-time ball play
er and was once owner and manager of
the Savannah club. He Is considered
the best umpire In the Texas League
this season.
Birdie Cree Is having the time of his
life protecting himself against opposing
pitchers. The little professor of forestry
was hitting about .400 early in the sea
son until Walter Johnson happened to
"bean" him with one of his fastest
shoots. For six weeks Cree wouldn't
stand close enough to the plate to reach
the ball with a telephone pole. Now he
Is hitting harder than ever. He has all
his confidence back. But the pitchers of
other clubs are evidently either trying
to scare him back or to bit him again.
They figure that if Cree gets another
crack on the head he will be of Uttlel
batting value for the rest of the season.
CLOSING DAY AT HAMILTON.
Donald McDonald Win* Feature
Event; Expansionist the Jnmpe.
HAMILTON, Ont. August 20.?The last
day of the Hamilton Jockey Club's
summer races saw the largest attend
ance of the meeting. Eight thousand
were present. The features wsre the
Hamilton cup handicap and the Inter
national steeplechase over the full
course. Summaries:
First race, $000 added; sis furlongs?J. H.
Houghton. 105 (Gross). 4 to 1. won; Belwlk,
113 (Goose), 8 to 1, second, sod Comptcm, 111
(Davenport), 8 to 1, third. Time. 1.13 8 5.
Sandrian and Fly'og Footsteps also ran.
Second race, |4uu added; Ire ana one-hair
furlongs?Forth Worth. 103 (O'Connor), 9 to 2.
won; iloncrief, 101 (Goose). 7 to 1, second, and
Ivabel, 101 (Gross), 6 to 1, third. Time,
1.07 2-6. Prvtty One. Mariner, Cheppewayan.
Trustee. Muakmdon. Missive, Limpet, Qnlacy
Bell and Planutess also ran.
Third race, $5oo added; one and one-slxteent*
miles?John Rear don, Ill (Bursa). 7 to 2, won;
Collla Ormsby, 106 (O'Connor), 7 to 1, secoad;
John Graham. lo2 (McTacgart), 10 to 1. third.
Time, 1.48. Donilthilda. Tom Sayera. Shawnee,
Judge Lansing, Bang, Spindle, William Pitt,
The Golden Butterfly and Hedge Roae also ran.
Fourth race. International selling steeple
chase; $600 added; about two and one-half
miles? Kxsanilontft, 147 (McKlnney). 3 to 2,
won; Bally Castle, 140 (Fembertou). 7 to 2,
second, and Dscra, 139 (Boyle), eves. third.
Time, 4.60 4-6. John IWllon sad Ted also fan.
Fifth race, Hamilton cup; handicap; $1,000
added; one and one-quarter Biles?Donald Mac
Donald, 126 (Bice), 4 to 1, won; Leamence,
112 (Grosa). 4 to 1, second, and Dos Antoale.
114 (Taplln), 4 to 1, third. Time, 2.06 1-8.
Albert Star, Noon and Everett also ran.
Slxtlj race, $000 added; six furlongs? ?lla
Brytog, 101 (Bonxanon). 12 to 1, won; Mes
aenger Boy, 110 (McTaggart), 9 to 2, second,
and Jim L.. 106 (Burns). 8 te 1. third. Time,
1.18 3-5. Maramara. Clamant, Plaster, Sidney
B. and Capalze also ran.
Seventh. $500 added: one mile ea turf-Sin
fran. 108 (Goosei, 4 to 1, won: Mostclalr, 99
(Taplln), 6 to 1. second, and Itesponseful, 92
(Dunn), 4 to 1. third. Time. 1.89 8-6. Laugh
ing Eyes. Adriuche, Kokomo, Lyndhurst, Dr.
Berkley and Bambro also ran.
Eighth xaee, $600 added; ess sails m turf?
LaEetne Hindoo, 106 (Goose), 6 to 1. wee:
L. Daly, Ksamars Qasa*. fttgfct. Little Ossgs.
Doily Butt man sad WoUoaso also res.
YOUNG "PHENOMS" ?
PESTER CORBETT
(Continued from First PagaJ
Jack must be careless with his money,
because If some of the stories are to be
believed he Has already spent a million
?T so since the Reno fight.
Another is the acceptance by Barney
Oldileld of Jack's challenge to race any
automobile driver In the world. Barney
says that he will not draw the color line
on Johnson's bank roll and will bet S5.00U
he can beat the negro. If It Is true that
Jack is to race Old field It ought to be a
little soft money tor Oldfleld. But *gien
Johnson's managers challenged
knew there was no chance of a racqLas
the Automobile Contest AssociaQpn
would put the lid down hard on auch an
affair.
Johnson and His Vanity.
They are telling an amusing atory
around town about Johnson that em
phasises the negro's vanity and also goes
to show that he Is getting "wtsed up."
The story runs that on his return from
Reno Jack visited an Italian sculptor of
this city and was so eager to have a cast
I of himself made that he passed ?everal
hours posing each day. Finally the
sculptor sent Johnson a bill for f4,uw,
which the champion refused to pay.
Though anxious to be reproduced In niar
ble. Jack says he thinks the sculptor
made a mistake, and_has'charged him
for a doten busts. Result is, Johnson
hu been made defendant In a suit for
the amount. . . H._
Billy Delaney, Jack Gleason and Bam
Berger are a few of the notables in
sporting circles visiting New York l*tely,
land each has given his little talk on the
subject of the Reno fight. Delaney says
that neither he nor Johnson had any
I fear as to the outcome, and that tne
negro was brimming over with conn
! dence before the fight. Billy may be
sincere in his belief that such waa the
case, but if ever I saw a more anxious
or worried colored gentleman than Jchn
?on waa as he sat in his corner Juat be
fore the light began then my memory
[fails me.
Says Johnson Feared Jeff.
jack's confidence did not show impres
sively until he realised that he bad a
man before him who was so weak he
could not strike a blow with sufficient
force to hurt a welter weight. The fact
that Johnson a day or two before the
flKht Insisted that the original agreement
to divide the purse T5 per cent to the
winner and 25 per cent to the loaer be
changed and that the amount be spilt
equally between the two men did not
show any great confidence in his ability
to defeat Jeffries. . . . _
That he received O per cent Instead o.
BO per cent for winning was because Jeff
would not consent to an equal division,
and wanted the original agreement to
stand This would indicate that Jeffries
wL the confident one. I still believe that
had the fight taken place one week be
fore the Fourth that Jeff wou d have
won decisively. The nervous collapse of
the last few days was what killed his
chances, and. not the confidence or great
skill of Jack Johnson.
There has been a great deal said and
written about the race prejudice that ex
ists against the colored boxers of today
and of the last twenty years, and * num
ber of the lovers of the game say that
Jeffries should not have risked his title in
a battle with a negro.
Takes Jab at John L.
1 ?
They point to the record of a famous ex
champion, who never would fight a col
ored man. and who berated every man
who believed In giving a negro a chance
at the title. This helps to remind me that
Immediately after the recent champion
shk> contest the first man to Scramble
through the ropes to greet Johnson as
I champion was no other than this former
nrlde of pugilism. It was this same ax
! rladiator who drew the color line so tight
when he waa champion, and yet ha was
the first man. and one of the few white
men. to congratulate the negro. It's a
funny world.
i Looks very much like a case of cold feet
on the part of Sam Langford in refusing
to meet A1 Kaufmann at Philadelphia last
week After the fight had been postponed
one day on account of bad weather Lang
ford's manager. Joe Woodman, aaked for
an extension of one week, which was re
fused by the club managers, and Billy
Delaney. representing Kaufmann. A1 waa
reported In superb condition, and Bam
may have feared a knockout, which would
end any chance he might have of meeting
Johnson. Certainly his ducking out of
this match will hurt him a great deal in
the regard of the public, and the cham
Dion will likely pay no mora attention to
his demand* tor a match. It la a hard
blow in a financial way both to A1 and
tha promoters, as the advance sale
amounted to 130.000, with tha project of
a thirty-thousand-dollar house whan the
entered the ring;
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LIMIT PLAYDt RULE
Managers Worried Because
They Can Sign But 35 Men.
GRAB EVERYTHING IN SIGHT
Waahington, Chicago, Cleveland and
St Louis Are Close to High
Water Mark.
NEW YORK, August 30.?Many a major
league owner with a second-division ball
club on his hands is awakening to the fine
points of the rule adopted last winter to
the effect that Only thlrty-flve men can
belong to a big league club at one time.
It is hard on those who have a bunch of
old-timers all going down hill at once, for
out of every ten class A and farther down
players drafted or bought one probably
gets one or two fit for fast company.
Heretofore it has been the custom to go
out and lay hands on everything one
wanted, providing the owner could come
to terms on purchase price or was lucky
enough to get men in the drafting period.
This cannot be done any more. Now when
a man seeks players he has finished when
the thirty-fifth man has been added to the
list.
Every major league club has between
twenty and twenty-five on the pay roll
during the season. Twenty-two is prob
ably a fair average. Bach club has pos
sibly six men out on optional agreements,
subject to recall by August 25. The men
out on optional agreements do not have to
report until the season of the league in j
wnich they are playing is finished. How
ever, every option exercised eats up one
of that permitted thirty-five.
Take Detroit, for Instance. It has twen
ty-two men on hand now and six out op
tionally. If these six are recalled It makes
a total of twenty-eight, leaving seven
men to be drafted and purchased. Out of
this seven, recruited from the highways
and byways of base ball, the Tigers will
be lucky If they land one capable player.
In other words, with the thirty-five-man
rule In effect Detroit can expect to add
two or three men* at the most, beneficial
to the team.
This thlrty-five-man rule was adopted
by the National Association of Profes
sional Base Ball Leagues as a means of
pacifying the class A leagues. They
howled because the minors wejre an gob
bled up by purchase or drafC end men
who might have labored In class A leagues
with credit to themselves were sent baok
to some friendly team in class B and
class C leagues, in return for which the
major leagues that sent cast-offs had the
pick of those clubs free of charge next
season.
In this wtfy the new rule is a good
thing, but It is bad for the second-divi
sion major teams. They need more than
two or three good men, all the clubs
having made money, and are willing to
spend big sums chasing that ever-recur
ring hope, "the first division."
The rule works against the minor league
clubs of less than class A, and will cost
them thousands of dollars they might
have had from the sale of players. It
will work against a lot of young men who
might otherwise have advanced to the
major league more rapidly. Big show
owners will not waste money on players
almost ready, but who need a little sea
soning, because the number of men they
can carry Is limited.
In consequence, a lot of men who might
have at least received a big league trial
will be drafted by the class A leagues,
and when they get there they will stick
unless they display enough ability so that
their sales look worth from $5,000 to
000. An owner can draft but one man
per season from class A league teams.
Maybe three or four other clube try to
draft the man he wants, while some more
clubs have designs on other players from
the same team. Lot decided which player
shall go, and lot decided what club he
passes to. This concession was brought
about through oft-repeated declarations
of "outlaw" ball on the part of some class
A leagues.
Where the limitation rule hits the class
B, C and D owners is that It takes from
them a good source of profit through
sales. Base ball in ieagues less than class
A Is largely a matter of civic pride, teams
being owned by stock companies which
think base ball a good advertisement.
Selling players has pulled more than one
club out of bankruptcy, and has added
more money to the treasury along in Au
gust, so that further assessment* on
stockholders were not required.
Big league clubs like St. Louis, Cleve
land, Washington and Chicago, which
need new men, are buying here and there
until In a few weeks they will suddenly
find out they have all the players they
are allowed. Then they will either have
to release men outright or stop adding.
When drafting season starts there will
be a lively mix-up. 8uppose one has
thirty men on his club, and drafts ten
more, and Is allowed seven of the ten
He will be two over the legal limit, and
then what will happen? Mix-ups are sure
and the national commission is goina to
have a lively time.
The thirty-five-man rule le a fine thing
for the Athletics and Boston, teams of
young fellows, but it is hard on the man
ager or owner who has not the same
chance to replace his veterans that the
owners whose teams declined two or three
years ago had.
Hanrard'i First Call.
. BOSTON, August 20.?Head Coach
Perry D. Houghton of Harvard has is
sued his first call for the 1910 crimson
foot ball men. They are to report Sep
tember 18. It is said that Houghton is
well pleased with the new rules and that
he expects a better game. He haa an
nounced his assistants to be as follows
Charley Daly, Dave Campbell, Crawford
Blagden, Francis Burr, Hamilton Fish,
Leon Leary and Earl Long.
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"SWELLED-HEAD" PLAYERS
GENERALLY MAKE GOOD
Ty Cobb, Mike Kelly and Arlie Latham,
Dubbed " Fresh " When They Broke
In, Are Examples of This Type ?
Delivering the Goods.
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NEW YORK, August 20 -Ty Cobb hu
been reviled more than any other player
I know of. He ia cm lied chesty, a swell
head, a grandstand player, a murdering
base runner and other names enough for
a stranger to the game of base ball to
think the greatest ball player who ever
lived to be a dyed-ln-the-wool ruffian of
the worst stripe.
Now, Cofeb Is chesty, cocky and fresh,
but those are the qualities that make the
best ball players. Cobb was the freshest
kid who ever broke Into big league class.
Is what every Detroit player says who
waa with the Tigers when Cobb first
joined them. But it was that chestlness
and nothing else that enabled him to
climb to the top of his profession, where
he stands pre-eminent now, and there will
be no one to push him off that high pin
nacle until he himself says so.
And what Is chestlness but the feel
ing one has that one is just as good If
not better than any one else in the line
of business one follows.
Cobb felt It in his youthful bones that
he was as good a player as any one on
the Detroit team and made good the feel
ing Imbued in him that caused the ex
pansion of chest he is accused of. Chestl
ness is one of the most promising trsits
a youngster can show, and he does not
want to lose it either as he Rets older.
Ty Cobb never wore a number four cap
I will warrant. There is only one player
that I remember of who ever did and
was a good ball player, and that waa
Jack Glasscock.
Cobb's brain expands with his chest
and for the same reason. He knew at
the start and knows now that he Is as
good as they make 'em and, therefore,
why wouldn't he expand, mentally and
physically.
Ail this knocking of Cobb, too, comes
from nothing else than pure and un
T
?Lli<i*U4i4teliaftu4-- XX COB* Aim HIM FAMILY.
adulterated Jealousy. It la a ?au* at omr
grapes every time. I never knew of a
cracker-jack bail player who wu not
pounded and roasted from Hellopolls to
breakfast, anyhow. There was Jflka
Kelly, one of the bast player* who aver
lived, who sot Just what Cobb's
now.
Olva me those "chesty,"* "cocky"
youngsters every time and I will gamble
they will make good. There waa irlia
Latham, for Instance, who when be brake
Into the big league was in danger of get
ting mobbed by his fellow frlayera of the
Buffalo club In 1880, when he turned ftlp
flaps from third base to the home plate
after he made the winning hit and tally
In a 1 to 0 game against the Woroeatera.
Fresh! Latham was the fTeahest kid
I ever saw, but In two yeara he was a
trig league star and for ten years after.
The Cobbs and Lathams make ball
players and they are of the chesty^kind
that should be encouraged.
LAUREL WINS TWO.
Defeats Highlanders in Horning and
Congressionali in Afternoon.
Special Dlaoatck to The Star.
LAUREL, Md.. August 20.?Laurel won
a warmly contested game at Qullford,
Howard county, today from the High
land Club by the score of 6 to 1. As
these teams were rivals for supremacy a
purse was offered the winning team. A
very large crowd witnessed the game. It
being the annual tournament and all day
picnic known as Qullford day. The fast
fielding of the Laurel team and its
timely hitting won the game. Bot
terell, the star twirler of the Highland
team, was on the slab and struck out
sixteen batters, although he was batte<l
for eleven hits, while fiouder for Lsurel
allowed Ave. Highland's only run came
in on a passed ball by the catcher. The
playing of Haslup, Steele, Fulion and
King, the latter a new recruit, won much
applause from time to time. Another
game was played at Laurel in the after
noon between the Laurel and Congres
sional the latter of Washington. Laurel
winning easily by the score of 11 to Z.
The score: ?
Laurel. R.H.O.A.E Hljrbl'd R.H.O.A.K
Tlmanuo,!f 1 2 1 0 o t'tsael.lb.. u O 0 1 1
Ha*lop.2b. 1117 0 Wclltuf.c. li 1 1? 1 <>
Steele, ??.. O 1 a 3 0 I'.H'd'f.cf 0 1 O O it
Brown.3b.. 12 2 10 Br?<wu2t>. 1 2 2 0 V
Bond.of. .. 2 0 2 0 & H.H d* If <i O 0 0 1
Scotl,lb.. 0 1 IS 1 1 . o O 1 O 1
Fallon.c.. 114 10 Clsrke.Sb. 0 1 1 <? t?
j Kinc.rf... 0 1 1 o o Plndell.rf. t> O 1 0 u
| bouaer.p.. 0 2 0 4 1 Bott'r*U.p 0 0 0 4 1
Total*.. ? 11 ST 17 X Totals... 1 S *7 1 "J
Laurel 00001S01
Highland....? 00010000 0?1
Three-baas hit?Steele. Struck nt-l/ Bot
terell. 10; by Souder. S. Stolen bsaas Tlasnna
2; Haalup, 2; Brown, Bond. Dlsnsty. Doc bin,
play-Haalup to Bcott, unasslatsd. Faaasd ball?.
Kullon. Hit tgr pitched ball?Clarka. Baas M
balls?Off Souder. 1; off B >tcsrsU. %. CmDlrss?
Messrs. Donovan of EUlcott City and Gsurgs
Baldwin of Laurel.
Batteries of sftsrnooa fame?Laurel, ileOr#
gor and Fnlton; CooMgre?tonaU, Nut well aad
Thompson aad Unghtm and I'laU.
Score:
R.t.B.
Laurel 10310031 0?11 10 1
Congressional.. 00001001 0- ST*
Umpire?Mr. Whits.
lint Call for Penuy.
PHILADELPHIA, August 9TX?Andy
Smith, all-Am erlcaa fullback In 1004 and
coach of the University of Pennsylvania .
foot ball toam, has Issued hla first call tot
candidates to report September 6. Th?
?quad will bo taken to soma nmmo re*
sort until floptambor 15, whan regular
Kictice will boffin on Franklin FleM,
e first fame la scheduled for ftsptamber
24.
Motor Boat Races.
CINCINNATI, August !U.?Arrange*
ments aro bains mads for tha motor boa*
races to be held In the Ohio river nude*
tha auaptcea of tbe Ohto valley kwp?s<Ug?
Avust tr, Tbo ft* WW Utiu t?n?i
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