The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 26, 1919, Page 6

PAGE 6 ETERANS TELL SOME . REAL LIVE STORIES, iow Kid Gleason Used to Be Cut Up With Spikes, Davy Jones, Then With Chicago Cubs, Tried to Put Peppery Manager of Chicago White Sox Out of Business, but Failed. There was some great fanning at the paseball meetings in New York. One) bunch of yarn spinners were talking | bout how Kid Gleason used to be cut | jp with the spikes of base runners he- ause he refused to give any. ground fo them at second base and the Kid ras an interested listener to his own obituaries.” “Yes,” he put in, “sometimes they did ash me up, and sometimes they idn’t, I remember once whea Davy fones was with the Cubs. Early in fhe game he tried to steal and I tagged im pretty roughly. He warned me at the next time he got on he was oming down and was going to cut pe down. Sure enough he got.on gain, but as we had the Cubs beaten, to 1, I tipped Kling off to make a], igh throw. Down came Davy with ne ieg swinging high so as to spike ne. Of course, I paid no attention to he ball, which went to center field. 1 I did was to grab ihat leg, give Jt} twist and cause Davy to plow up he infield with his face. When Davy ally escaped there was no skin left n his nose, and what made him even adder was that the ball was thrown ack to me in time to put. him out efore he got back: on the bag.” “That reminds me of a game,” re- jarked Johnny Evers, “in which, with Hagle on third and Schulte on first nd only one out, Schulte was told to p into second standing up if the ball fas hit on the ground, Chance not} anting a double play .to prevent! Nagle from scoring. Schulte, of | purse, obeyed orders, and when the} hortstap, after taking the toss from! he second baseman, went to wheel the| Il to first he hit Schulte between the} ves, “Down went Schulte as if hit with hammer, He was up in less than a pinute, and turning toward the grand| Fe John (Stuffy) McInnis, first baseman of the world’s champion Boston Red Sox, has been for many years now past one of the striking wonders of the guine.. if one were looking. for a first baseman among a crowd of uni- formed men on the bench McInnis is about the very last man he would sus- pect of class for the position, Phys- ically he is a living refutation, in ap- pearance, of everything a good. first sacker ‘is supposed’ to be in. these times of highly developed specialties. To begin with he. is a chunky look- ing fellow who belies his five feet ten inches. He is somewhat deliberate of action off’ the. field. His arms, are short and he does not appear possessed of the reach or “stretch” which has come to-be-associated with the first base type. He is a right-handed throw- er in’a’day when southpaws are in demand for the position. Ciass.of First Basemen. Yet McInnis comes very near to be- ing the class of first basemen of the HA ~ CHARLIN Nifty First Baseman of--Boston Red Sox. MINNIS ONE OF BASEBALL’S WONDER _ MEN NOT BUILT ACCORDING TO STANDARD In the last nine campaigns, since he first gained recognition as a regular player. jn fast .company, .McInnis. has failed but twice to.bat better.than. 500. His successful campaign . last. season with the world’s champions. witnessed his lightest hitting performance.. He batted only .272 in Boston. Once be- fore, only, he, failed. to. qualify. in the charmed circle. That was in 1916, member of the Athletics, . But it was only a remnant of the. .old,.machine with which Connie Mack.had won four championships and. three world chaim- pionships, McInnis at the time was the sole survivor. of the illustrious “hundred thousand dollar infield.” Best. Hitting Year. In 1912, the year: Jake Stahl’s Red Sox nosed out the Athletics, McInnis had his best hitting year,.a 327, and that year, too, he stole the most bases, 27, The next year, when the Quakers beat the Giants for the second time and, yelled majestically: ‘They told} he to stand up and then they knock! pe down.’ “And the worst of it was that Slagia | prgot all about scoring, but when he} as half way home he cut across to} econd to see if Schulte was hurt.” ERT NIEHOFF IS IMPROVING formsr New York Giant, Now) With Seattle Club, Hopes to Return to Major League. American League, a circuit which boasts of a number of rare. profes- sionals of exceptional merit, Wally Pipp and George ‘Sisler. among them, the last two mentioned of the south- paw variety of course, i To begin with. McInnis {s one of the niftiest-and. surest infielders of the game, for if he.lacks any way in phys- {eal handicaps -he more than makes np for the Geficiency in agility. And ‘f he foozles'a wild throw now and then that a bigger man—a Chase or a. Pipp—might get he more than malas up the difference in the deadly punch he carries at bat. For, McInnis is a 800 hitter in every accepted sens of the word. Bert Niehoff may not he destined to emain in the’ minor leagues for so ery Jeng. Niehoff, who is now play- ig with the Seattle club of. the Pa- Hfic Coast league, is driving the Dall arder and further than ¢ before. he old knee, It of Bert's sa by-phone to try to éxact a pledge from ; him. Rodgers, however, does not fin- y|4sh his college course till the middie | of next year ‘and will not play protes- sioual ball until then, if at all. , Pratt to Captain Maine. Harold E. Pratt, 21, of Barre, Mase, has been elected captain of the Mawe track team for next year. JACK QUINN IS “COME BACK” Pitcher, Who was Failure With Yankees Some Years Ago, Now Regarded as Winner, Jack Quinn, who was a failure with the New York Yankees nine years ago, is shaping up now as one of the best Mound prospects Miller Huggins has for the 1919 cxmpaign. (Guinn uged Bert Nichoff, pended and the Di nd fast as ever, When Niehoff was sent from the At- pntic coast to the Pacific coast he de lared he would be in the big iow before the season over, and B scems very likely now he will make ad on his declaration. His many tends are with him, pulling for the eturn of the hard-iuck infielder, ACK IS AFTER COLLEGIAN odgers of West Virginia Nine Attracts Scouts’ Attention—May Not Play Professionally. enver boy Is as spry : to have only a spitter, and not much The great record the West Virginia | pf one at that. Now he is a giant, e has been making this year has ut- | Weighing 210 pounds, and has devel- neted the attention of big league; Obed a murderous fas: ball which opts, and several have been watch- | enzbled him to win half a dozen games g the Mountaineer playces in action. | for the White Sox toward the end of Ddgers has becn especially sought af- | last season. Quinn is.a veteran on nes aes , and it is said that Connie Mack | the diamond. “His experience should the Athletics called him personaily | Prove a great ald to him, SSE Se meen AE shee ae eterna een erent in the world’s series, McInnis ‘hit -326. In 191] he clubbed ‘.321.- He hit i 314 in each ‘of the seasons of 1914} and 1915, and 803. in. -1917, his, last year with the Athletics, It canbe seen, then, that Stuffy !s,a consistent ag well as a brilliant hitter. Lah McInnis was one of many brilliant phenoms unearthed. and’ schooled -by Connie Mack.for the purpose of ‘re- consiruction after his great team .of r 1905—which was beaten: by -MéGraw’s | Giants in the world’s series—had.gone | | to, seed. The list- included: such other ; illustrious personages as “Home Run” | Baker, Jack Barry and Eddie Collins, all of them still in the game and go- ing sirong as ever, apparently, BASEBALL “STORIES Bill Whittaker is havin, ‘son with Fort Worth. 3 ~ : * #6 - Buck Weaver .is traveling wi Some speed this season. se @ :::The University .of Virginia baseball team made a profit of $2,421.07 this year. : see . Bobby. Roth is playing a great game for the Macks and is immensely pop- ular with the fans, 4 Rebs ‘% see Lefty Schorr,.a pitcher who started the season with Salt Lake, has been taken on by Seattle, * 2. @ Del Pratt, Yankee second baseman, iz & great Bea- {sg playing a greatly improved game |” since the Yanks returned home. On arn ne: ; ‘The Pittsburgh Pirates have not been hitting to brag about, -but..this feature of thelr play: {s improving steadily. : i see Pat Don Carlos Ragan, now a Giant, once was considered - quite a, Giant tamer. That was when he was with Brooklyn, foe see Pittsfield’s heaviest loss is In the ab- Bence of Catcher Dewne, who has been out of. the game with an attack of ap- pendicitis, r see Horace Allen, an infielder who gain- ed fame as a player at Georgia Tech, He. clubbed for .295 that. year as‘a | | He's "BIRD. THAT TRIES TO WALK NORTH AND. SOUTH, “W’ SAME TIME BUT SKIDS FORWARD WATH MIDDLE Wel -WEH: RILLIANT DOUBLE PLAY Ross ‘Young, playing right R field forthe Giants, pulled olf a brilliant’ double play in a recent game against the Phillies. Uogg was on first.and.Gady on third, % whenWhitted hit a fly to Young. Hogg thought Cady, would try to score and ‘that’ Young would throw home, so he lit out for second. Cady held his base, Young threw to second ahead of Hogg, and the latter was caught between first and second. He turned back. to. first. Doyle threw over Chase's head at first. Young raced in, got the ball and tagged Hogg,.as he came into the base, HEINIE ZIMMERMAN ” Veteran Has ‘Stood Strain “of , Eleven Seasons With Majors: Weuld Be Displaced at Third Base + Not, Yet Fulfilled—-Slow in Rounding {nto-Form. After a player has steod the gaff in the major leagues for eleven years he is labeled -“all. ix’”.the first time he shows a sign of. slipping. : . Whis was the sort-of a. “rawsberry” handed to. Heinie Zim jn:1917, even be- fore he got’ himself into the limelight in fhe’ world’s. series. by, chasing Eddie Calling honie. in. that. now. ;.famous promptly. pointed ont as a one-reel er fan ‘Than’ You Are, Heinie Zim,” Last fall, after the Giants had closed thelr curtgiled season, various scribes 3. Helnie. Zimmerman. ~* * predicted that 1919 would:find some- Zim‘at third base forthe Giants. expertly ‘pointed ‘out’ that’ the great one,Wwas ion’ the skids; that his legs were.-gr stiff’ and: his ‘throwing ‘ed, pickitig outa soft spot for Heinie and the ones who. were, less hopeful relegated him to, right field, just as though John McGraw would think for halt’ a second: of displaciig: a; crack youtg player:likée Ross Young. .. Heinie kept his pace. through all the long: winter of 1918-19, hibernating jn the Bronx and saying nothing.. But when, the time rolled around for, con- ‘tracts to be signed Zim visited the offices of the. Giants, accepted terms without. a’ svhimper, and ‘cally told McGraw: that if he had ordered a new third baseman he'd better cancel the “order... ory Ret at cya When the Giants entrained for Gatnesville-to ‘start spring training ‘the veteran. Zim was very much in evi- ence. He got: into a uniform and rted:sawing.wood in hig own, way, taking his time and working hard to get. into shape. . Eight hours’ ‘work, a duy ‘in ‘a_Jersey ‘shipyard during part of the winter had ‘not done: Zimmer- eman‘ any noticeable harm, but: like “most' of the veterans, Zim rounds into shape slowly, and, like most athletes of an aggressive nature who have a touch or two of temperament, Zim didn’t gtve a tinker’s. rap) what any- body thought about it. “Lettem try displacing me at third base and there'll way Zim looked at it. in Atlanta, has been signed by the Dodgers. : eee : The, playing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” in*ball parks reveals the mel: ancholy fact that Mr. Emslie has more hair than Mr. Klem. be ss @- ‘ag Hooks Warner, back from overseas and out of the army, is practicing with | the Pirates and hoping something will happen to permit him to stay, on’ the tehm,. BESPECTACLED HURLER HILL Carmen Hill of Pittsburgh Pirates Finds Glasses Are No Handicap “While Playing. dei le Pittsburgh Pirates, like Lee Mead- “ows: ‘who wears ’em when-in action ‘for the Cards, finds the glasses, are no *hatidicap-whatever. Incidentally Car- \ nen promises to" be- one of the best voung Prediction of Various'Séribes That.He |: Marathon -“of'; G0. feet, which | was |! thriller-and ‘given the title “I’m ‘a Fast- |; s{-ehicf is nursing him with ‘infinite ‘care body: else ‘filling the shoes of: the great New York scribes led the gang who : \arm turning to'glass. Then they start- F | to light. Some. chose first base for him, | be a funeral for somebody,” was the : ‘Carmen’ Hill, bespectacled hurler of | NO WARTAX ON THis MOVING MOVIE -. LEE FOHL, AS BA IS GOING STRONG); = Lee..Fohl. is..one. who remembers. when ‘Jack Graney was a pitcher... Lee was catching’ for Columbus when Gran- ey, then a hurler, was*farmed:out to that club by Cleveland. ° Lee caught him: in ‘his first: game there, ‘and tells the story this way: » Gave’ Block. a. High One, “Jack‘had Milwgukee, 1 to On the ninth, with a man on second and two! out, and Catcher ‘Block at bgt. I walked: out and told Jack under: no conditions ‘to: give: Block. a ‘high: one, igud /returned :to my ‘position. But? , What-does Johnny, do but ‘pitch Block one right.in his groove, and ‘the scora Jeague and Hugo: Bezdek te Pirate | in the hope ‘he willbe able to take his | Segwlar turn on the mound later in the wear, glasses while, pastiming. Both have worn them since boyhood, having weak. eyes, ‘but neither has: ever; been ; handitapped’ by ‘the’ specs*when: field- fag hard-hit balls, UNIQUE TRIPLE PLAY That. triple play in a recent ’ Cleveland-St. Louis game was rather odd and deserves ‘detail- ing... In the fourth inning, with the bases full, Gerber hit a fly to Wood, on .which: Sigler. scored from third.. Wood’s throw was intercepted. by Chapman, who found. Jacobson’ and Sloan: wan- dering .around off: bases, .and both runners were retired, what should have been one. out: thus resulting in three. ety DIAMOND ‘ American soldiers abroad participate | &n 5,000 baseball games dally, ‘ eas i ; , Right Fielder Miller of Worcester is out of the game with a cracked ankle. ese & : Ping Bodie is a natural hitter. Never took a lesson in his life. - He hits by ear. : eee Fewster doesn’t feel well;unless he 1s chased from the bench, on¢e or twice @ week, Genser e.0 8 i Terre Haute hag «signed ger to play first base, “He of the army, 4 ‘Guy. Gel- is just out eee ~ Kitty Bransfield is being compli- mented for good work as an umpire in the Eastern league, ‘. see ; Jim Scott lost his fitst out as a pitchcr with the San Francisco team, ‘Oakland beating him 7 to 6, eee : Pitcher Pete Shields, who has been with Bridgeport, has been released to Evansville of the Three I league. ses & :. Joe Birmingham has found it any- thing but a picnic handling the Pitts- of players, eee CKSTOP, R Manager of Cleveland American ‘League Team, race. Hill and: Meadows are the only | . }.| two players: in. the ‘majors‘taday .who EMEMBERS was, tled. , It was called in the elev- enth.” - “Well,” said’ Graney, | who..was:.8 |: listener, I never: will forget the first game:I played as-an- outfielder in Cleveland.:; Joe: Birmingham was .wn- able:to:play and-I went: to. centerfield. Ty. Cobb hit one,to center. » i ~8"" [Fans Roasted Him. ' “T thought it was going to drop back |” ‘of .second,’and ran up on it, but the blamed: thing. kept: rising and rising, and as J turned toward the fence how that crowd in ‘the centerfield bleacty ere did roast me! There wasn’t a thing they overlooked.” ° : es ‘The: veteran: Eddie Sabrie is a late addition .tothe umpire staf of the South’ Atlantic league. , . no Ray. Kennedy, Little Rock. catcher, arriyed recently from .France and is-at his_home in ‘Pittsburgh. ‘ 8 ee 4 , Old Bill Kay is, still hitting them, A two-ply hit by the veteran won a game , | for. Springfield the other, day. ee 8 Pitcher ’‘Coffindaffer. has .been re- leased from ‘the army and is ready to twirl for Birmingham again, f ‘s f es 6 Third Baseman, Fred Brainerd, who | quit the Providence team to fight the Germans, is back from France. . : se @ > -Jimmy Cerney. has\found a,new berth for the moment. He ts playing the in- field :for:the Peoria -Three I team, : eee : Brooklyn, -has,. been. using Ray Schmandt,, a natural. born first-base- man,on-third.and he-has been. getting away, with it, just.as.he.did at. second base... ‘ aN <A : e + fom Clark. is not depending alto- gether on veterans for his Columbia | team, He -has. two college: boys in Dick. Burryg. and..Red Johnson who look good, .. ‘ oe ves o. 8 @ ‘i | President Tom Wetkins of the Mem- phis club has .been :doing a lot of traveling. lately. in..an..effort to get | some ball players to build up, his wob- bly.Chicks, ~~ gov aot ir es | The Cincinnati club {s reported to have offered: Little Rock $5,000 for Charley Grimm for. immediate de- lvery.. eee The Salt Lake City club announces that it-has purchased Infielder Eddie Fitzpatrick from the Beston Na- tionals, i ed j Red Sox signed Lamar from the Yankees after he had been two years with New York. He was secured from Baltimore. ees With the purchase of Bunny Fab- rique from Seattle to play short the Los Angeles club gave Freddy Driscell his release. ; eee First Baseman Kelliher of Peorla iit safely in. 24 consecntive games. He raade 45 hits and scored 25 runs in that stretch, sees Ray Bates has beem getting a slow start with the Angels. He. hasn't done any ball playing to speak of since __AT-LEAST ONE BONE PLAY. BY GRANEY,| ; fine. Jakey May pitched to only two ! % batters in a recent Cardinals: Reds game, but that was enough for the scorers to charge him with the loss of the game. He. § relieyed Meadows with the score % 4 to 3 and a runner on third, A | hit by Rousch sent in the run that tied. Meadows could be § charged with that, so May was % left with the tie game to solve. % The next batter hit safely off May, leaving two men he had put on before he was jerked. They were enough, when they scored, to give Cincinnati a win and May a black mark, SIX WEEKS’ TRAINING | : 1S TOO MUCH-COBB Tiger Star Says Player Should Remember Length of Season. Looks Like Folly to Georgia Peach for Player to Drain His Endurance In South—Has. His: Own Idea-of Training. » Ty Cobb answers the critics of his training camp methods by the asser- tion that the routine.of one month or six weeks, is.entirely too long. for.the ball player,. ; For reany seasons Oobb has refused to report to the Tigers when they en- trained for Dixieland. _ Rarely has he jumped into uniform. earlier than a week or teh days before the, opening of.the regular season. Cobb’s enemies repeatedly declared -that. failure .to train. would handicap Cobb consider ably. .But it has never been so, Seve eral times the “Southern. Typhoon” has started slowly, but along about mid June he has found his stride and breezed along to the sublime heights of the offensive baseball world. “Four to six weeks training in the South, with two sessions daily, hurt rather than help a player,”, Cobb ex- Plains. “After two weeks in the South the player ig trained. rather After that strenuous training begins to sap, his endurance. When the season opens he looks good and iS Ty Cob! plays well. But before mid August -you, will: notice . that “he is.. growing stale; :that. he. isn’t, playing’ with: all the old dash. and speed. . “It would be all right for a player to train‘ four to six weeks if he was going .to ‘play only for . about. two Months. - But when he. is. conditioning Nitiself: for six months’. play it seems like folly to: me to force‘ him to'drain his endurance powers in. the South 4917, and needs considerable limbex- soe | mys you always make bim | and ‘bring him North. with not. enough . left to carry him through six montha of: play. ‘ 2 “Early.in my.career I spent four to ' six, weeks in training camps. Usually I-reported for:the opening-of the sea- -son‘in.fine condition. -But:after-about two months I would begin to get. a lit tle stale. My: work.would lack zip. 1 decided ‘finally. that it was because. } was overtrained. So. one season I did not report, to the camp for the full training season,‘ but merely put.-19 ‘about ten days’: work. -As.a regult,] -was.able to. put into. the regular. play- dng season all the endurance that. was necessary and I carried it along right through to the end of the season. ‘In stead of finishing the baseball year fagged and worn out and trained off, I was just as good physically as when the season began. And ever since then “I've followed that system of training Just enough to get the kinks out of my arms and legs without the sacri fice of stamina.” $ MANAGER MORAN KEPT KOPF Youngster Promises to Be One ef Shining Stars in National League This Season. -Leave it to Pat Moran to save hime Belf an ace for the day of the big emergency. He managed to..retein Larry. Kopf, who originally was. slated to go to the Dodgers, but refused, ana | the. youngster who broke into.the main show a few years ago as substitute ip- fielder for the Athletics promises to be one of the outstanding stars. of the National league this season. Kopf ale ready has made good, but his admirers say he is going to ascend to even loftier heights. Both in fielding and batting Kopf has been one of the stars of the Reds, and Moran doesn’t. heste tate to express his admiration for the youngster. Moran, it is evident now, accomplished a ten strike for the Reds and himself when he kept Kept for Cincinnati. rl | “Out of the Mouthé of, Babes. Willle,: to. talkative caller—“Well, Dow that you've come, I suppose I shall have to go for the doctor.” Talkati: Caller—“Why, Willle?” Wilte—“Fatht