The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1923, Page 6

/ Few pitchers are good hitters. > center, prior to slipping_it to some other player for a thrust at the time or a rra around the end. It was a real jot H Old-time fans and players of the! west Jean to Walter Eckersall as just ‘ several runs and didn’t seem to have Eckersall Ranks Wonder Quarter Of Grid Sport Who is the groatest quarterback in the history of football? There js a real problem for you. In modern football the quarterback | has more or less lost his identity— he is just a back. In. the oid day handled etic the quarterback every pass from about=the greatest quarter that ever trod the gridiron, And justly so, hecaué: Eckersall was even more than a fr ple threat player—he could fast, a clever dodges, and at man in an open field. Besides nil these assets he possessed | a real football head, On defense he was a hard, sure tackler. He once turned a trick on th: mighty “Willie” Heston which no one else ever accomplished, bringinis Heston down from behind after the Michigan star had broke loose into an almost clear field, with Graver as interf¢tence. Eckersall, the only barrier to the goal ling,'erashéed into the Wolverine runners, spilled Graver and then brought Heston to the turf ‘That vlay still ranks as one of the best individual defensive efforts in the middle \west, Twice during his football career Eckersatl booted five field goals. in « game,“and against Wiseonsin in 1904 he took the ball from the kick- off and dashed 105 yards through the entire Badger team for a touch town COBB RANKS AS OLDEST PLAYER " By ‘NEA Se Detroit, Jan. 29.—Ty Cobb is the oldest player in the American Leaguo in pgint of service. Cobb joined the Tigers in 1905 and is still going good. He has seen 18 years of service. Despite the stren- uous game he plays, he has slowed down but little. If Cobb continues to Be g succes as manager he can go on indefinitely in baseball, long after he is through as a plaver. Cobb alone remains of the players who were in the American League at the time of his debut. He has seen them all nass out. Eddie Colline and Walter Johnsor are close behind Cobb in point of service. While Johnson is slowing up a bit, Eddie Collins seemed as good as ever last séason, with a num- ber of years ahead of him in the majors. McGRAW STILL SEEKS SHADOWS By NEA Service, Philadelphia, Jang :29.—The : firat big problem that confronts Arthur Fletcher, new manager of the Phila~ delphia Nationals, is Lee Meadows Is Meadows loafing on the job or has he a sore arm? Fletcher must make a final decision in the matter. For several years Manager Mc- Graw of the Giants has been anxious to add Meadows to his staff of piten ers, That is the reasqn for the ; hopes to block the Dartmol DARTMOUTH GRD: SPAR ALSO SHINES By NEA Service. Hanover, N. H 30.—Lloyd “Pudge” Neidling cE ding star of Dartmouth’s 1922 football team, is a versatile athlete. With the gridiron sport merely : ‘| memory, Neidlinger has turned his attention to hocke; In football he tackle; In heel started at. ey he th cage with his he plays goal. massive frame, as . AT HOCKEY inger was picked as tackle on Camp’s second team. Many of the experts selected him as a first choice for tackle on their All-Amer- | ieu elevens. Neidlinger’s greatest game of the football seasop was against Harvard. In that contest he stopped George Owen, Harvard star, to a whisper. Boston critics, .were unanimous in alling him the best, tackle of the season. NEA Service. New York, , Jan. United States will send a team of amateur golfers to compete in the British that it will not comprise the cream of the talent. Jesse Sweetser, winner of the U. S. amateur title at Brookline, Mass, last year and Bobby Jones and Rudy Knepper, who also worked up to the semi-finals, are not being figured on in the makeup ef the team. True, the services of these three amateur, © is a certainty College Work Hampers Selection Of Best Amateur Golf Team 30.—While the | holding great players are much desired, but of the British amateur. in May conflicts with the coHege work | of the trio, Sweetser is at Yale, Jones at Har- vard, and Knepper at Prineeton. If they made the trip, it would serious- ly interfere with their studies. Even if the desired to go, it is doubtful if factilty permission would be granted. All ef whigh makes it seem thet the four semi-finalists in the United States amateur of 1922 will not go abroad to)represent this country this year. Advent of Lively Ball Running Is- base-stealing becoming a lost art? Is! it Is so what's the reason? the whole are slower of foot or is it be cause the class of catchers in the big leagues is better than was the case a few years ago? players as a because hurlers are more adept holding the runners to the bag, hus cutting down’ their lead, and ob: viousl diminishing their chances o pilfering cushions? ee No doubt cach of the reasons above nresented have played a ar in the decre you haven't heard reat The veal base-running can be found in livel ball no in use in the majors. The steal is a one-run play. One taking his work seriously. Those who know Meddows scout | the idea that he is not doing his|i best. Others are of the belief that} the knowledge that McGraw is after him may have something to do with his ery of sore arm and his inability to win. BULLSEYES OF || BASEBALL Bill Carrigan, a dangérous batter, always at his best in a, pinch, broke up a batting rally quicker than I have ever seen a player turn such a trick. Usually some sensational fielding play or effective pihch pitching spoils a batting-rally, Seldom does the batter,/the pinch hitter, come to the assistance of the team in the field. 't’s. the em in clusters wins. in use is simply suicide. The hic} and ren nlay i> far more profitable Some iden cf the decline in base- runni®e can be gleaned from the following figures. due to the fact that pres-| | ason for the decline of | every the, run means a mighty little in modern} crs thought that Meadows may not “em in Is Fast Making Base- Lost Art Last season, 861 bases were pii- |fered by the American League clubs | to 755 for the National, Two teams jin the Johnson loop passed. the hun- dred mark with three turning the ame trick in the older outfit. Pitts- burg was high with 145, gnd the Phillies Igw with 48. Six players wearing American reached the 20 or while. but five National Leagaers were able to accomplish a imilar feat. Now compare the above records with those of 1915 when base-stealing was at its high watermark, Jn that} campaign the total stolen sacks in} the American League was 1,444 with team getting above the cen- tury mark, and three going over the 200 total. Incidental League uniforms {above figure, y no leas than 25: play- snacged 20 cushions. or mor Stealing bases with the lively bal! ! bases. National “eague, the saine n 1,194 thieveries, every ssing the ‘hundred point. There were 18 men who resched the “20 or above” class. The " over. The ball was a beauty—right lover the heart of the plate. Carrigan took a healthy cut at the boll as the shortstop made a dash for second to drive the runner back. delivery so that the shortstop could get back to his position, pitched the ball at what semed a most inoppor- tune time, The pitcher, instead of delaying his |" Uf Corrigan had’ been, able to hit through the spot vacate, all would have been lovely. Instead, he drove a finer stops side of second base. Had fhe shortstop” been: playing properly it would havdé been a clean hit. Instead, he ran directly into the path of the bill, madé an easy catch, stepping on second ‘rétired- I have umpired any number of games in which a pinch pitcher! would break up a.rally on one pitched | ball. Usually in- such cases \twe were cut and the batsman would bej retired on the first ball pitched by! the relief hurler, I have several | times scen double plays made on thb | first ball delivered by a relief pitcher, retiring the side. To Bill Carringan, ine the role: of; pinch batsman, goes the credit of breaking up @ promising rally \on one hard-hit ball. Boston was playing in New York. | ‘The Boston team was tra{ling by! much of a chance when the first half of the’ ninth opened. Then things began to happen. The first three men up reached first in safety, filling the bases wiih no one out, Things began to bright- en up for Boston. There seemed .d be & chance to win’ a game that ap- parently was hopelessly lost: It was the pitcher's turn to bat. Bill Carrigan wos selected to act as pinch ‘break up the old ball just what Carrigan x -but with reverse English. In- ad of helping Boston, Bill’ played wight 'tnto the hands of New York. How did. Bill do such a mies? mtly long before ‘ho reached ate, Carrigan had decided to ‘first ball pitehed i oe In Capitol Form cag se emp tl aah a few feet to the short-| the i | triple Diay. time I ever saw a'pineh batter hit/ into a triple play on ws first ball! Pitched. Ly [A. C. TEAM BEATS | MORNINGSIDE} | Sioux Citys, Jan. 80—The Motn-| | ingside College hasketball team dropped a hard fought contest tot the North Dakota Aggies five ‘here ‘last night, 39 to 17, | The first half was excitingly close | ‘and hte Bison crew was unable to | forge into a lead until the game! | was more than three quarters gone. | ] | Billy Evans Says |, pee | ‘T haye often been asked if it isn’t | far more difficult to umpire balls and | strikes when some star pitcher is working than with a couple of aver- age twirlers doing the hurling. “The impression prevails that itsis| {much more difficult to judge the! curves and speed of the truly great, pitchers, That fact that the star ‘pitchers ere usually very troublé- some to the batter creates the belief | {that they are equally severe on the umpire It may’ occasio jwhen I say. that 4 majority of tha | great pitchers of the game are easy té umpire. I can offer any number of arguments to substantiate such a | Statement. ur | First: Most of the great pitehote j have such confidence in their ability |that a miscue on the part of the | Umpire doesn’t Ithem. \Miss a perfect strike on some |star and ninety-nine times out of a | hundred he will pass it by unnoticed. | Miss a strike on some ordinary twirler and he will in all probability. let the world know it. Second: Practically every great pitcher has good control. Good con- trol means much less work for the |umpire. The star pitchers invariably jhave the batter in the hole, forcing him to hit. The ordinary pitcher, who is constantly working on the batsman in an effort té make him | hit a bad ball, is usually in the hole. |The batter is working on him. , That jmeans trouble for the umpire. Third:, “Batters' as @ rule ido; not seem quite né ‘fussy when some ster is pitching as with’-the ordinary twirler working. They seem toitake it for granted that the star should be able to fod! them, but they ques tion the right of some “busher’ vw get a striké past them, It is just like a day off when called upon to work for pitehers of the j Mathewson, Johnson, Brown’ Bén- der type. On the other hand, if‘you thereby constantly in the hale, you have a day’s work shead you: and who is hanging on because of good old arm, you are a busy persor. There are some star pitchers who make plenty of work. if Stanley Coveleskie’is pitching for Cleveland and Urban Shocker for St. | Louis, the umpire is set:for a tougi | day. Coveleskie statts with a spitball | ahd finishes with one, to use the| words of the rest. of the American |League. Coveleskie has a varied ac- |sortment of spitters, all breaking in a different ‘manner. ‘Calling '2m to> |quick on “Covie” is fatal, for often | in the last six feet the ball takes’ its team that gets|with Ty Cobb setting the pace with; deceptive break. the marvelous record of 96 stolen} rary Few pitchers in’ baseball mix them jup moré than Shocker of St. Louis. First he slips the batter a spitbatl, then he ¢omes back With a slow ent sort of a spitter, followed up by a floater that seems to. Nahg in the air‘on its way to the plate. Shocker means work not only for the butter but umpire as well. Carl Mays gives: the: umpire a day’s work. Carl is hard to please. In‘ addition, his underha: ball is kept constantly at the knee to be effective. The low:ball is the ‘di fi- calt delivery for the:um; to judge. Then again, when eonsidering, how diffent it. js’, for. the batsman to judge .the offerings ‘of the ‘star pitcher, remember that he must hit the ball,: while the umpire merely has to pase judgment on it. dozen ball gaines with Walter John- son ‘doing the pitching than one | on rubber. beled thoysands to jeshattered to vacco habit. Wi you have t longing for’ & amoxe piace & harmtess No- your mutt instead, jire stops Shortly the habit: is pletely bro- ken, and you are better off tioxtally, physigally, ncially.: It's so easy. so simple. Get’ a box -of. No-To-Bac and if-1t° doesn't relensé ‘you; from all craving for tobaccd im ‘any form, your, | druggist. will refund’ your money without question. 3 Aav. table in | original occupant .of that base, “and, | then threw to firat, pometting a} In all my experiepse Fis the in | some surpridé mean a thing to! ; draw some “busher’ who is “wild, : Likewise, if you get some sccabhy 4 veteran, whose stuff is fast’ fading, | his wise old head rather than his! For instance, | curve, then a fast one, next a differ-|" EF would auch ideo werking: aj | game in which te. seecnits mete on, | Mrs, Ora Doherty has been picked as the most beatuiful young | woman in Halifax. She will attend the Montreal Winter Carnival as Miss Halifax, \ BRANDED BECAUSE OF BEAUTY? : | { sn oe j ed | >Rosabella Garrison, 15, Laporte, Inds shown here, declareg a masked mang tered her home and branded her arm with’a hot iron:’ The man, she. 8, ‘confessed: in a note e had committed the ontsage 4 at tha | | _ | | George E. Law, Brazil (Ind.) jus- tice of the-peace, gays he'd wed 10,- 443 couples, bore’ than’ twice as many as any other man in the world. They, with their children, would make up d,city of more than 50,000 inhabitants, says Law. Here’s Law's “marriage mill” with the chairs he has marked to facilitate splicing parties. ailing @brecali Gur of’ Bath, England, gavo-ahe: - herd sb erie his two sons, Joho. (ett) Paltred ie “TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1923 Gilda Gray, shown jiere, known as the “shim: queen” of a New York musical review, was granted a divorce in Milwaukee when she testified she received $1000 a week when playing bit only $1 a week from her hubby, John Corecki, when living with him. « EX-HUBBY IS HER DIRECTOR Clifford ‘pita, movie director, hag engaged’ s as a.star his divorced wife, Gladys E. Elfelt, known on the screen as Jiathe La Vere. “Clifford's t a failure as a matrimonial director, but as ‘a foyi9 director! me's all right,” says June. 4 X Poli ratded a‘ theater in the “Mop-house” quarter of Chicago and charged ‘attors ‘with putting on an immodest show. . Mary Raymond, shown ete eays sete pe tt Senet ip Biche and she appearel way re Man! Court an ichai What do. you think tee rdson' td prove