Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1923, Page 26

SP Noted Batting Feats Mark 1922 Campaign : Light Heavyweights Now in Spotlight ORTS., SEVERAL NEW RECORDS SET; OTHERS EQUALED Williams, Hornsby, Maranville, Parkinson and Cal- laghan Earn Stick Distin Tops Put-outs for BY GEORGE N of ash before the season of the records, which became available for they spent most of their time doing fore and may never be done again. bawling athlete who felt it in him to ter than dying Take Walter Maranville of Pitts were on throughout most of the year. ction, While Stan Harris Second Basemen. CHADWICK. EW YORK, January 15.—Batters must have been given an injection 1922 began, judging by the rampage From inspection of the first time today, it looks as if stunts that had never been done be- Strategy was no deterrent to the do or die, and considered doing bet- burgh, for example. He went to bat more times in 1922 than any National League batsman since the senior clreurt was a kid. Maranville batted still begging for more chances when previous record in the National was when scorers marked down 658 a: Callughan, a beginner with the Cubs | hit three times in one in- hapi the fourth gan Philadelphia vas not quite took place ning. frame of at Chica; 50 notable on September Detroit o1 ings in history. test Tom Burns, his a t memorable a’ Pleffer, Fred | Goldsmith und Bil nday all went tu | bat three times in the seventh inning. This feat was duplicated on June 18, 1894, w Boston defeated 23 to 7. In the first inning _Bobby Lowe. Hermun Long, Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy cach batted three thnes, H er.” Philadelphia thought Callaghan's feat was notabie enough. Hornshy Passds Old Mark. Willie the brightest of them all, made hits for his team in 1897. This was a Nutional League ord for twenty-five yea A quarter of a century, later, however. Rogers Horns- by of St. Louis inade 250 hits. The un- usual part of this is that Hornsby should have stopped at exactly 230. More strange is that Hornsby's total bases amounted to exactly 450. Then Hornsby pressed the run of multiples of ten, for he bated an even 200 extra bases, beat- ing the old record of 147 held by Sam Thompso 5 Until 19 never had three hom, B Keele: star rec- American League player who batted runs in one game, Kenneth it three April Baltimore, | ! 672 times during the season and was the base ball year ended. The best made by Brown of Louisville in 1892, poearances at the plate for him. Shugart, Bill Joyce, Tom McCreery and Jake Beckley. And to add a little to the edge over the American League, Henline of Philadelphia did it once more on September 135, 1 Parkinson's Unenviable Record. I'hiladelphia got another record in 1922, but they are nol bragging about it. Frank Parkinson, their young sandlot second baseman. struck out ninety-three times. Kelly | of the New York Nationals had been Lest striker-out up to the time kinson made his record, piling up nix two strike-outs in 1920, Pittsburgh ‘as a team took the slugging reputation of St. Louls In 1920 the Cardinals went to bat 5,495 t Pittsburgh raised this total to 11in 1922, That shows the Pirates Were not waiting much on the pitcher and that they liked their base hits. Parkinson glorified Philadelphia in another way than by striking out so frequently he had more assists in 1922 than any second baseman and more than any keyvstone sacker in thirty years. = Bierbauer Pitts- burgh set the mark at 536 in 1892 and Parkinson jumped it to 562. Washington had a second baseman in Harris who 1 all records in putting out runners at second, tag- ging 479, two more than the former cord held by Jimmy Willlamson of New York. In closing please note that Lu Blue of Detroit is the only first baseman to have double plays unassisted in one game. away of (Copyright, 1 “SILENT MIKE” TIERNAN WAS STAR IN OLD DAYS BY FREDERI NE of the slugging outfielder: Giants was O conversation around a ball par old shillalah. but CK G. LIEB. s of the “we are the people” era of Silent Mike” Tiernan, 4 worthy thumper of the late cighties and ninetics. Mike Tiernan never spilled a great deal of he always had a lot to say with his He swung a wicked wagon tongue. Tiernan was one of the few major league stars who spent his entire major league career in one uniform haired chap when the Giants procured him from Jersey Twelve years later he turned in his gray in the service of the New York Mike's first big league game was) the opening clash of the 18! 3 played between the Giants and Phil- lies in New York on April 28. Per- haps Jim Mutrie, Glants' manager. didn’t think so much of the batting prowess of Jersey City recrult. Anyway, Tiernan occupied the ninth niche (n the Giunt batting order. He poked Ed Dailey, Philadelphia pitcher, for one doible in three times at bat. Mutrie soon found occasion to pro- mote the biffing young Irishman in his batting order, and the slugging of | Tlernan was a big factor and asset | to the Giants in the winning of their | first two championships, in 1888 and | 1889. In 1889 Tiernan carried 146 | runs over the plate for the National | League champions. “Silent Mike" deserves high ranking | as a big league batter, as he hit for ! an average of .317 over a thirteen- | year stretch. Tiernan slapped out over 100 hits in his first twelve yea in a New York uniform, his highest | output being 196 in 1896, when he hit .361—his best average. His hits to- taled 2,759 bases, 884 bases more than the number of his bingles He was a dangerous mun on the bases and a good run getter, fetching | “SILENT MIKE” TIERNA Year. Cluh. League. 1887—New York York York York York York York York York York York York York seaso Total 13 years (Copyrigh SIRATEN'S THP 48R0 INHANDS OF OLF LB By the Awsoctated Pres NEW YORK, January 15.—Wheth- er Gene Sarazen, national open and professional golf champion, will be permitted to participate in the British open championshlp tournament in England during June, as he planned, will be determined today by the board of directors of Briarcliff Lodge, the Metropolitan club, by which he is employed as a “pro.” Chauncoy Depew Steele, managing director of the lodge, sald tonight that a few of the directors of the club are opposed to granting Sarazen the time from his dutles that will bé required in going to and from Eng- Jand to play in the tournament, since he will not begin his duties at_the Radiators and Fenders ANY KIND MADE OR REPAIRED, WITTSTATT'S R. and F. WORKS A19 13th F 6410. 1435 P. M. 7443 Match Your Odd Coats With Our Special TROUSERS |; 54,55 Save the price of an entire mew suit. All colors, sises, pat- EISEMAN’S 605-607 7th St. N.W. |1 'S MAJOR LEAGUE BATTING RECORD. He was a young, handsome, black- i ty in 1887. Giant uniform, after having grown Nationals. in over 100 runs in seven of his thir- teen seasons. He stole 449 bases in ganfes, his highest mark being in 1890. Tlernan was one of the few blg stars of Mutri Giants who remain- ed loyal to the National League dur- ing the brotherhood war of 1890, most of Mike's teamnmates on the New York champlons of 1888 and 1889 asting their lot with the players’ | organization. After retiring from base ball Tier- nan conducted a cafe on 8th avenue near the Polo Grounds, which was a rendezvous for ball players,~scribes and fans. Silent Mike died a few Years ago i the city where he won his fame on the emerald diamond. “Silent Mike” is one of the five Na- tional Leaguers to score six runs in a game, doing this on July 15, 1887. Ezra Sutton and Mike Kelly of Boston turned this trick on August 27, 1887, when the pair scored a half dozen runs in the same game. Bob Lowe of Boston scored six runs in a contest | on May 31895, while Clarence Beau- mont of Pittsburgh is the last Na- tional Leaguer to score a sextet of runs in a game in all the forty-seven years of National League ball, Clar- ence doing this on July 22, 1899, A.B, 438 R. 81 146 133 111 80 13 87 128 132 123 s9 17 1315 1923) H. T.B. z10 152 255 276 262 182 239 184 251 265 242 168" 43 2,750 wt a LT 177 18 35 1,875 8l .sesensppany T b 8 club until April and would just be started in them when he would leave, Although Sarazen is employed at a salary declared to be greater than that of any golf professional in the United States and acknowledged by the club to be above $10,000 a year, the question of the financial differ- ence will not determine the directors’ decision, Steele said. Steele declared he personally favor- ed granting the American champion the time, as he desired this country to be represented by the best possible talent. BREAKS SKATING MARK. MANKATO, Minn, January 15.— Everett McGowan, St. Paul speed skater, lowered the world's record for the fifty-yards dash from 4 2-5 seconds to 4 seconds here yesterday. The record {tas made on soft ice and the time was taken officially. IE=m == Sport Mart GOLF = SCHOOL AT THEIR | 1303 F St. Storegy Direction of Our Professional Mr. Shorey $1.50 Per Lesson SPORTMART SH4FsT-nesFseiionIAE fi o[ =——loc]c———o] THE EVENING- STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 15, “MY THIRTY YEARS IN BASE BALL” BY JOHN J. McGRAW, Manager New York Giants, Three Times World Champions. (Released Exclusively Through the North American Newspaper Allianos} Is Modern Base Ball Su- perior to Old?—Plays That Never Were Heard of Thirty Years Ago— Origin of the ““Charley Horse’’ — Prevailing S/pirit of Game Now Is Business. and old-time fans have re- S sponded to‘our questionnaire by asking if I think present day base ball an improvement on the game in the old days, and if T think ball players are better today than they were thirty years ago. T do not wish to answer that ques- tion idly. T have given it consider- able thought. In mv last chapter I told of my start with the old Baiti- more Orioles, which I will resume a little further on. Prior to that T discussed the recent world's serles. This, 1 _belleve, gives me a good chance to answer that question now. In those thirty years 1 have seen much of base ball. My greatest as- set has been a good memory. Modern Base Ball Beat. There is no question in my mind but that present day base ball is bet- ter. Also there are more good ball players today than there ever were before, simply because there are more people playing ball. In those days. if you will recall, there was but one major league, There were but few minor leagues. Consequently there was not 8o large a force of players to draw from. It is very much llke a small coliege trying to turn out as good foot ball players as one of the big universities. The ones who are selected have much more chance to be developed and pol- ished in their profession. The game itself has improved in many ways. To give you an idea, it s” not until Charley Comiske time that a first baseman- was reall an infielder. Before that the firs sacker stood right on the bag and balls hit between him and second base went through, 1 have even seen second basemen stand on the bag in the smaller games. Comlskey, Anson and others started the idea of playing well off the bag and covered infield ground like a second baseman, a shortstop or a third basemar Developed Other Ide This In turn developed the idea of the pitcher covering first base in case the first baseman had to go too far for a ground ball. One new play like that usually develops another. As a result we work plays nowadays that were never heard of thirty years ago. Most of you can recall when it was considered a wonderful play for a pitcher to leave his bex, race over to first base and take the throw from the first baseman. A pitcher who did this got great applause and was ex- tolled in the newspapers for being a “heady” ball player. In this day and time a pitcher is supposed to do that as a matter of course. Nothing is thought of it. But he is given a ter- rible razzing if he fails to do it. Another play that has developed is of the shortstop covering third base on a bunt between third and the pit- cher. If a runner is on second hase and the batter bunts toward third the chances are that the third base- man will be drawn into field the ball and that third will be left uncovered, I1f both the pitcher and the third baseman should go for the bunt it is the duty of the shortstop to dash over and cover third base so as to take a throw. On _more general prinelples, base ball has improved simply because the equipment is better. In that way it is much like billiards. Everything is made as nearly perfect as possible so that there can be no misjudg- ment of balls due to bad grounds. Thirty years ago we had no such perfect grass infields and outflelds as we have today. The groundkeepers were not expert landscape gardeners. They made a ground fairly good and let it got at that. Nowadays a ball- player will kick to the groundkeeper if 2 single pebble interferes with the bound of a ball. The ground must not be too heavy or too fast. The grass of the infleld must be as smooth as a billiard table. In the old days we had to take them as they came. Some grounds were fairly good, some were awful. Today all of them are practically perfect. Players Better Cared For. Ball players are taken care of much better every way. This is particu- lary true of their food and their sur- roundings for rest. The hotels are wonderful as compared with the days of the old Orioles. Players know much more about the sclence of hyglene and sanitation. On top of that every club has an expert trainer, a man who rubs them down, kneads sore muscles, looks after every little allment. They have hot and cold shower baths, rubbing tables and all that sort of thing. Why, I can remember when I went as long as ten weeks without getting a rubdown. If I got one then I was lucky. It was not an everyday thing. Everything now 1is speclalized. We have experts who treat nothing but sore muscles or charley-horse, as we call those pecullar kinks that bunch EVERAL of the veteran players 605-607 7th St. | NATIONAL LEAGUE PINCH HITTERS FAIL TO SHINE Tt cannot be sald that the pinch hit- ters of 1322 in the National League covered themselves with glory and made any new records. The boys called to’ the plate as a game was tottering in the balance or trembling on the brink usually let her totter or tremble, according to the figures gent out this week by John A. Heyd- er. Only seven pinch hitters out of a total of 108 in the fonal eircuit finished the season with ©of 300 or better. Shades of Harry Mc- Cormick! The boys seem to have filvvered on many a falr occasion! The best of the pinch hitters. ac- cording to Hevdler's figures, was a lad who finally got into the game as a regular—Lew Fonseca of the Reds. an average a pinch hitter, was at bat nine times and smacked out four hits. Jack Fournier and George Toporcer of the 8t. Louis Cardinals were second and third, also with .400 averages. up the leg muscles without any warning. We have others who spe- clalize on bones of the body. No- body vet has been able to correct bones of the head, but maybe that will come. I certainly hope so. How Charley-Horse Originated. The word charley-horse originated from the old name given to the fam- ily horss, usually lame or broken down in the legs some way. Those tamily horses were called old Char- ley horses. So when ball players got tied up in the muscles of their legs they were referred to as charley horses. In time this name was ap- plied to the ailment itself. If you have never had a charle horse you may not be able to under- stand what a_terrible thing it is to be a ballplayer. In starting with 2 spring for a sprint to a base the muscles sometimes will kink up in a bunch. No amount of rubbing will put them back into their places for several days. It is very painful. Besides that, the ballplayer is stopped from playing. During the last world series Casey Stengel was suddenly taken out of the game after making a hit. No- body seemed to know why. In going from first to second he suddenly pulled a charley-horse. It was with diffi- culty that he could even limp to the bench. As a result of that Stengel was unable to play again. While we have more good ball- players today than we did in the olden times and while the game it- self has improved, I do not mean fo say that base ball spirit has im- proved. Rather I would be inclined to ISEMAN’S Please note that we are located between F & G S 0.00, $22.50, $25.00 SUITS & OVERCOATS A January Clearance Sale of Lew toed the plate in ten games as | our regular $20, $22.50 and $25 Suits and Overcoats: Sport and conserative models. In neat Gray, Brown, Blue and Green mixtures. Sizes 33 to 42. $30.00, $32.50, $35.00 SUITS & OVERCOATS Overcoats attractively priced to meet the ;qllircmmu of those desiring “Something just a little better.” All taken from our reg- ular stock and greatly reduced in our January Clearance Sale. The late “Pop” Anson, sometimes spoken of as the father of base ball, first infield player to cover ground beyond the base he guarded. say that team spirit was even better thirty vears ago. Toda. the base ball player is more of 4 business man. He looks out for himself. As a rule he is more concerned about his own future than the future of the club itself. There are exceptions to this, of course Back in the nineties a new plaver was looked upon as u lcome addi- tion to the gang—not just a piece of property for the owners. The other | players took it upon themselves to help develop him 50 as to make their organization _stronger. Today the manager gets some help from the regular players in develo ¥ a new player, but not so much as in those days. 'Today he has to depend largely on the coach and his other assistants engaged for that purpose. It is rather difficult to express just what I mean in that respect—the dif- ference In the way a newcomer is regarded. The best illustration I can give is that a young ballplayer in the old days was taken in very much as the new man is received on a college foot ball team today. Everybody ltakes a interest in" him. That ¥ we did in base ball thirty vears ago. when ballplayers were not 50 numerou: Players Now Business Men. Nowadays the baliplayer is a busi- ness man trying to sell his wares. If he doesn't ‘make good the players know pretty well that the manage- ment will get another in his place. He can go back to the minors for improvement and return when he is better developed. Tt was that spirit of every player working for the interest of the team —every player taking a personal in- terest " in it—that 1 found when I joined the Orioles back there in the early nineties. I was mighty voung and fresh. Just the same they gave me a helping hand. Before 1 had got going good, though, the National League consoli- dated with the American Assoclation and formed a twelve-club league. This forced me to the bench. Our club was not going 8o good and there was & change in management. Right theres I got my first impressions of constructive base ball—of how to build up a team. (Copyright, 1023, United States and Canada, by { he C b Syndicate.) 1923. NATIONALS ARE POOREST INEXTRA-INNING GAMES The champion Yankees were the best extra-inning club in the Amer- ican League last year and the Griff- men were the worst, according to ,figures on long games and shutouts | Just made public by Irwin Howe, of- ficlal statisticlan. The Hugmen took part in elghteen overtime games, winning eleven and losing seven, for | & percentage of .611. The White Sox, with sixteen victories and twelve jsetbacks in_overtime battles, were | next with .571. Cleveland, with eight victories against seven defeats, and r’hiladel- phia, with an even break in ten | extra-inning contests, were the other clubs which were able to win at least | half of these long battles. Other| i clubs stood as follows in victorfes ;and defeats: Boston, 9—10; Detroit, ‘Washington, The extra-inning habit really won | the pennant for the Yankees, as they played four overtime games with the | St. Louis Browns and finished on the theavy end of the scoring in all four. 1 In 76 of the 618 American League ! games of last season the losing team drew a blank, and in 12 of those the winners made a virtue of necessity and lcft the field happy with a total of one lone run to show for the afternoon’s labor. Washington blanked rivals thirteen games, in three of which the N tionals were held to one run by op- i posing pitchers. All of these games were won by Walter Johnson, the ‘speed king being the only pitcher in the league to win more than one 1-10-0 game. Washington in turn blanked twelve times, four of these battles being one-run victories | for the winners. Shawkey, Pennock ;A\lur\nn and Plercy were the winner: { Plainiy, failure to “hit in the pinches {was a glaring weakness of the Wash- ington team. {"The Cleveland Indians blanked op- ponents fourteen times, five of these ories going to the credit of | George Uhle, three to Coveleskie, three to Morton and one each to | Mails and Boone. The White Sox were tied with { Washington for the second largest number of victorious shutouts, 13, | and led the league In percentage, | being blanked but elght times. SPORTS. 2% GIBBONS TO PROVE CLASS BEFORE MEETING DEMPSEY National Boxing, Association Meets in New York. Harry Wills, With Hands Sound Again, Plan for Bouts with Colored Fighters. BY FAIR PLAY. ! EW YORK, January 15—In line with the present activity in the N heavyweight division Tex Rickard and his matchmaker, Frank Flournoy, today declared they will immediately proceed to clean up the light-heavyweight situation. Tommy Gibbons now is in this city all primed to make a match with Jack Dempsey, and behind his claims exist a lot of solid logic. But the powers that be in New York state can- not see why Gibbons should not first prove his right to leadership in the light-heavy class. N This means that before Tommy gets any the athletic commission as a contender for D to demonstrate that the bad fi Greb some months ago, was m est of Lis reai abilit Nearly twenty-five states and sev- eral foreign countries were repre- sented when the National Boxing A soclation of America convened this af- ternoon at the Hotel Astor. Of the states which sanction boxing., New York and Masachusetts were not of- ficlally represented, but all the big fight lights of those commonwealths | were in the group. It would not su prise any one if both joined before the sessions are over. A natlonal registration system. de- fending of titles by champlons, a central recording bureau of all box ing activities, and a drive to open up other states were the prin numbers on the program. serious consideration from empsey’s title, he will have ght he made at the Garden against Harr ercly one of those things and not an carny gerous Harry will be sidetracked in favor of the plethoric Jess. | Harry s his hands are now in firs: lass s pe and that he will shortly enter the ring against some | fighters of his own color. He had nothing to say about Dempsey and Willard. 1In the way of shooting off mouth Harry Wills should stand as an example for all fighters for ai! time. He is modest and retiring and black—brown, rathe though he be iners could be copied to ad a lot of white fighters Keep your eye on Steve Latzo. a | welter who originally hailed from Hazelton, Pa. When the writer firet him he was one of Jack Demp. stablemates at Freddy Wele farm at Summ A 3 attracted the attention of | Judg who were camping Dempsey's trufl. " Some day he was hanging around | Weiter eeenckey Walker for Square Garden e "‘;R”‘l"r crown, and will be recelving consider- | . able attention from the onlookers and apparently not at all worried |y by Willard's presence in the ecit, Yet it appears as though the dan- Benny Gould, who says he will desert Toronto for New York her after, left a $2,500 forfeit with the boxing commission here today to bind a match with any featherweight in the world. upon will the 4 real Harry Wil s the Madison nasium today. it With Lew Tendler growing into the elter class and lor Freidman, an- {other good light ight, working up |to that weight dvision. the outlook }llth{nrla busy'yeur among the weltera, e class is steadily ta 3 - el y taking on im. (Coprright. 1923) MINORS UP AGAINST IT . . WITH NEW N firmly establishing themselves far on clamor over what the minors called the big boys. The minors realize today that if they accept players frém the majors | under the so-called trick optional agreement they are not improving their condition at all, except for the moment. Instead, they belleve they are merely strengthening the grip of the majors on each season's output of the apparently high-class players. Each major club may have forty players on June 15, when the number must be cut to twenty-five. The re- jected fifteen players, If they go to the minors, must be carried through July and August, and possibly Sep- tember, and then go back to the majqrs without having done the minors much good. “To get right down to hard pan to the writer today, “the method means that fifteen players are loaned to us on or before June 15. We haven't the slightest desire in them, because if they are not recalled they are subject to the draft, and are, therefore, not ours unless no one wishes to draft them. In that case, why should we want them? If they are not good enough to be drafted they are not good enough to win games for us. “The majors have decreed the new arrangement by which we are to as- sist them in a monopoly of the best 640 players in every evidence at the beginning of the ball year. We may get a few pennies for developing |some. Wouldn't it be far better for us to go in unexplored regions for our players, bring them up the best we can, and, remaining aloof from the draft, get what we can for them? It is a cinch the majors are not go- Ing to give us anything for the 640 they already own. If this new ar- rangement is to be continued perma- nently we are to be the nice little fall guys who help big brother con- tinue to wear his white flannels summer and sealskin coat in winter. Clearance Prices "COATS 19 Values up to $45 Materials.and style are of the same high lity that continues to please over half :“l:illiun well-dressed New Ycrkm" 10th and F Sts. Open Satar- day E ings 2nd Floor BY JOHN B. FOSTER. EW YORK, January 15—Hardly a day passes that it is not more and more deeply drilled into the minds that are directing the des- tinies of the minor leagues that the majors are more and more | By whatever arrangements it may be described, it has grown upon minor league owners that the majors mean to control each year a total of 640 of the most prominent ball players in the United States. This fact was mentioned previously in this column, but it was overlooked in the and facts,” said a minor league owner | DRAFT RULEjMOORE AND TAYLOR BOX FOR THIRD TIME TONIGHT CHICAGO, January 15.—Pal Moore | of Memphis, Tenn., and Bud Taylor of Terre Haute, Ind., will face each other for the third time tonight in a ten- round, no decision, boxing match at ast Chicago, Ind.” They will weigh in at § o'clock this afternoon at 1 pounds. The winner tentatively has been proffered a match with Pancho Villa, the American flyweight cham- pion, at Milwaukee, W top of the pile. | KEARNS AND JACK COMING | EAST TO DISCUSS BATTLE NEW YORK, January 15—Jack Dempsey, world heavyweight, champlon, and Jack Kearns, hiv manager, wil leave Los Angeles Iate this week for New York to confer with Tex Rickard about n title bout with Jess Wil Harry Willis or any other le heavywelght, the promoter announced violation of the draft agreement by | That statement voices some Inter- natlonal and American Assoclation sentiment. There is no doubt of the gTip on the 640 players by the six- teen major league clubs. Particular] is this "true in California and cer- tain American Assoclation cities where there is a feeling that they have the true American right to have their great players just the same as New York or Chicago. 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