Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1925, Page 31

SPORTS. SPORTS. 31 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1925. riffs and Yanks Rated Strongest in League : Ruth Facing Arduous Spring Toil RE DUE TO FIGHT IT OUT || MY GREATEST THRILL IN SPORT | [MUST TRAIN STRENUOUSLY WITH TYGERS AND MACKS BY OCTAVUS ROY COHEN TO SHED SURPLUS WFEIGHT Popular Author owns Loom as Class of Probable Second Division e Tekdie Papor Ceorge Babe’s Task Each Year Grows More Difficult as With Teams, the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Advancing Age He Packs on Ever-Increasing Indians and Boston Red Sox. KNOCKOUT BLOW FATAL TO SYRACUSE U. BOXER SYRACUSE, N. Y., February 6.— Stanton R. Stever, Syracuse Uni- versity sophomore, dead of a knockout blow received in a bout with Carl Hansen In the university Symnastum The bout was an elimination contest in the welterweight class to decide which would represemt Syracuse University in a glove meet with the Naval Academy. A physician sald that an abscess at the base of the brain contribut- RUPPERT CONFIDENT OF FLAG THIS YEAR February 6.—Col. Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York Yankees, “can’t see” any other pennant possibilities In the American League outside of his former world champlon outfit. When asked what he thought of the 1925 race, Ruppert d: fost certainly the Yankees will re- gain the American League champion- ship, and very likely the world title as well. [ say this in all sincerity and not merecly because I am a club ed to Stever's death. owner. Any unbiased critic will agree Hansen was arrested last night, that the Yankees were beaton in 1924 but permitted to return to his by @ team which was inferior In ever: dormitory. quality but gameness, hustle and ar bition. The New York club fell down because it suffered from the ailment which in time attacks all champions— overconfidence. better ball TO CURB GAMBLING [ctut than the Senators. “mut the van- kees took their time about starting NEW YORK, UT of many years of watching fights, base ball games, golf matches, horse races and other kinds of sporting events, I am perfectly safe in picking in- stantly the great- was all xo sudden, o unexpected and %o froughtful of resultx that mad- nexx reigned in the press box ax well ax all over the enormoux place. And I was ax delirfous as any others, de- apite my effort to remain under con- trol. Amount of Fat in Winter. Jne Associated Press. EW YORK, February 6—Washington and New York will fight it out for American League pennant honors in 1925, with Detroit dogging the heels of this pair, and Philadelphia, Connie Mack's stery team,” looming as the dark horse of the race. This appears ummarize the situation as the teams look preparatory to departing their Southern training camp: St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland and Chicago are uncertain quantities Barring an upset, none of them figures to be more than a threat- g prospect Despite the advantage of several beneficial trades which Washington made during the Winter season, the Yankees appear to be the choice he league at xlm early stage. 3ut Stanley Harris, youthful pilot of the world champions, has not idl He has called to his aid that element which he lacked last n—veteran pitching assistance. e acquisition of the trio of twirl- veterans, “Dutch” Ruether, ob- d from the Brooklyn Nationals In Philadelphia Connle Mack is si- ley Coveleskie, from the Cleve- |lently buflding up a formidable out- Indians, and Vean Gregg, pur- |fit. The veteran pilot made a loud d from the Seattle Pacific Coast | ballyhoo about paying $100,600 for , should bolster up the deflated | “Lefty” Groves, Baltimore southpaw which has dwindled to a trusty |but aside from this hé has been tet headed by Walter Johnson | working rather than talking. Groves i ling George Mogridge, [ will bolster up a weakened pitching 0" Marberry and Tom Zachary. ) staff, while a youthful catcher in the tside of his twirling staff, Harrls |form’ of Gordon . Cochrane, Boston tand pat on his team this vear, | University star, who was obtained h th sible exception of center | from the Portland club of the Pacific But thix night I sxaw cold, collected w Earl McNealy, who made | Coast League, -7iil be a big aid, al- | pewspapermcn rise as much “in the BY JOHN B. FOSTER. N EW YORK, February 6—Babe Ruth from now on faces a never- est thrill which | What a sight it was! Here a man 3 ave | WO Was being rapldly beaten down sport BAVE | and down; who was utterly lacking me. in science at & game which demands great science; and who was appar- ently almost out; a man desperately hanging on to his chance to last a bit longer suddenly coming up from the floor and more suddenly crashing out with a blow which lifted the greatest of all fighters off his feet and through the ropes out of the ring. Such a spectacle as this is to be found nowhere else in history. ever ceasing fight to keep in condition, says an expert on physical training, who had an opportunity to look the infant over before he left for the Ozark Mountains to begin getting ready for the coming season. “The Babe,” says this expert, “is naturally given to taking on fat FTS and he now has reached the age when every Winter’s relaxation after a VEECK DRA B“'L hard scason on the diamond will be more serious than the preceding one. The fat will stick more and more maliciously to Ruth’s ribs, until it finally gets a strangle hold on his flesh tissues. in dead earnest, Washington got “The Babe was up at his farm in| iround his knees He laughed—but T s fauko; and Tiia: Daamer Sudbury, Mass, this Winter working | suddenly he discovered that he could | gy tne Associated Press. trom the opening day, The Yankee: on the wood plle and doing other|not hit ‘em around the knees as he| A 'bii designed to cufb the gam-|figured they could overtake them any chores calculated to keep & man's|-nce had. He could not find the ball |ping 1n Len® o Car. e | 01d time, but soon the Senators gath- welght down, but despite that fact, he [ because there was an obstruction In | eien sentene Tor any onh mao | o e o omentum. and got . the took on 30 pounds. When I saw him | the line of his vision. The obstruc- adv. ag psychology which can here, ‘as he atarted for the Ozarks.|tion was firmly attached to his| Yioced ,of BeLHINE on & professlonal|advantase of a peycholofy ¥ ety he looked healthy enough, but he had | middle, and he could not remove it. |Veeck, president of the Chicago|sore about losing the pennant, but the appearance of a man who is be-| Dan did not retire iImmediately, but | Nationals, for submission to the|right now I realize that it was a good ginning to find that there is more| more and more the fight against the | f)iinois legislature, now in session. |thing for the game and that the Yan- than mere luck in being a 200-pounder. | increase of avoirdupols was a 108in8 |~ veeck patterned his bil] after the|kees are in a fine position to begin a His is the kind of fat that he can|one, and finally he had to give it Ub. | new York statate “|new string of victories. work off from time to time until It 4 e S oG Lles - o N The players know that they lost : annals of sportds {hrows higy: completaly. shus, It aide Toodeer e ot M. Col._Jacob Ruppert, owner of the|by their iackodaisical attituds and with them; their eves wide open and portdom. Is the kind of fat that brings about| Ruth is now 30, just about to turn|New York Yankees, will be among|will pussue different tactics thls time their minds always calm so that TE some physical weakness in the process | the other way of the road as athletes | the missing when the league presi-|] believe they held a meeting late la every observation can be accurately | ~Anrd $o I say it was my greatest | of reduction. turn. When a ball player gets to 30 | dent, Byron Bancroft Johnsor, calls|season and made some fine reso recorded. | thrill and it is hard to imagine how | " “I'q say that one of these days,|he may continue on until he is 40| the meeting of the Amert circult| tions” any other onlooker can think of any | when old Mr. Fat gets his strange | with considerable success. Anson did | to order in 8t. Louis ne-s Fuesday.| o other happening which could have af- | nold on Ruth, the home-run king will | that. But the player knows that the Ruppert was a member of base ball's And that when Luis Firpo knocked Jack Demprey out of the ring in their amoux battle. 1 cannot imagine any happening or any event from which the specta- tor could have had more of n kick than I had at thix time. wan And with that blow eame a reign of panden nfum. Men tralned hy years of effort to withhold exhibi tions of excitement went mad. With them thousands without such train- Ing completely lost all thoughts ex- cept of that terrific blow and its ef- and naturally could not miss this | fect. 8o it became a mob house with tremendous thing. All my life [ have | Bt i¥ing in the alr; hoarse shoutx been a writer and an associate of \""'" every mouth and dissiness in writers. I know newspaper men every. Read. . It was stupcndons: It trained to keep their enthusias NERS fmr. A Awny the mont wmex- under a. basket; their wits alway pected and stirring happening in the ICTAVUS R COHEN O'Rourke looks to be the probable St It happened that 1 was in the sec- ond row, just back of the press stand, (Copyright, 1925.) more apt to suffer During the last 20 years the writer has frequently warned fishermen through the outdoor maga- zines of the danger of touching a fish with dry hands while unhook- ing it before returning it to the water. “All fish shouild be handled with | overheard a catcher keep the ball se. The kegstone sack will be a 'the bat are the only ones sure|MOist hands to guard against remov- blem for the Tygers. O'Rourke. z‘r":nf»‘l‘r jobs “with the Indians this| n& (he body slime. Slime is a i mer Boston and Toronto player: | coming season. Fohl has the Red|rdl protection against fungus and a hringer, product of the Michigan- | Sox — considerably strengthened by |3craped portion may result in an infec- tario League, and Burke will be|Winter trades, but for the most part deethyor e fan, leading candidates for it, but|the Red Sox wili build for the future. SARGHTARTR M NE BOY TO MANAGER Fifty Years of Base Ball One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National League This Year. tion, causing the says a noted authority, Jone: Many fishermen are given to gut- ting their fish on a stringer and fastening it to either the stern or de of the boat. This practice can- not be too harshly condemned, be- LVII—CHANGES IN THE RULES—PUTTING THEM OVER IN 1876. cause it is causing needle e e AT o S have secn fianer- | J N the first year of the National League's career the pitching distance ])prcnng His Meteoric Rise in Base Ball to Leadership of | |men hauling their string of fish about was 45 feet and now it is more than 60. That does not imply that the :ull;‘rh:[t?!dl:’:“}.,’:u::\}:‘e:o:{r ‘\\h(‘:‘:: e pitchers of the present day are stronger than those of the days of the Undoubtedly the humane thing to|dads. Phere is little difference between them. Possibly there were some fellows in the old times who towered over 6 feet and were big in pro- the World Champions. BY STANLEY (Bucky) HARRIS do is o kil the fish it you intend to keep it. You have had your sport, 4 s 2 portion, but there are some in these days who rise above the 6-foot mark and who could cut logs for a day if they were compelled to work Chapter 33—The Pennant Bee Buzzes. the fish has given you a good fight ” £ x A g and it is no more than right to in- ASHINGTON started off on the right foot by beating Philadel- | stantly kill it. A trout fisherman Pmais hia. Walter Johnson was the winni 3 ; always kills his fish before creeling |tha y. )p. Neoith: J = s 5 “”"’f”‘g M. § AR mentil T vl Matiieen dhebt @i The ] fiie ratgvie wh e pliciin dhe ka0 B i yarn " him North from Tampa to be rea.dy or the opening game. I|same. ; tance was 45 feet in the old times|and be covered with leather. The j't want him to take a chance of catching cold or injuring his arm | It is a scientific fact that a fish} =, L, 0 o0 00 g tch. He|Quantity of rubber In the ball was barnstoriing teis il hadiitd e R d to him in | Xllled at once after being netted has Ditche e limited to one ounce and the rubber grastopmng thp. adnt forgotten what had happened to him in |, grmer and sweeter meat than one|did not take the ball in his hand,|to be used was vulcanized and In p on the long trip with the Reds. He caught a cold then that hurt his | permitted to dfe by inches. A good|throw his arm around his head two or |mold form. Some time ago that L e e plan to follow is o place the fsh in |y e imey Iike a man swinging In.| Wa8 abandoned, because in experi- 4 s % menting to find g better center than I realized that a veteran twirler has to be handled with care. So I if it is possible to secure it |dian clubs or turning flapjacks, and W 2 | forded him a greater thrill % = : p Tncle | fi s be c: d to e $50,0 in the final game of | though “Cy" Perkins Wil serve 88| niew ma (he wildent of momcinn ang | acquire a girth that will make Uncle | ight is being carried to him when he | peace committee at the warm meeting GENARO TO FIGHT TWICE ithern Association hitter last s Tomorrow—Eddle Rickenbacker. It is an odd thing that many of | upon their ability to keep down to a visory board. The Yankee magnate's ‘ . because they were the victims of fat.{to get off the surplus weight of the Genaro, American fiyweight champio R coiineat Cneago, Lee Foni at| | THE CALL OF THE OUTDOQRS | |bectuns they were the victims of tae > A ter in a place which is seldom thought | vear it hit him pretty hard to get|five days after they had been maliled,|either encounter. Genaro will meet Kid exchange for three pitchers—Joe | Will experiment with several combi- President Izaak Walton League of America. closely. It makes him so great|it without weakening himself or|is understood to have pledged his|he will fight Eddie O'Dowd of Cotumbu. Combs broke his | the St. Louis club fully as much as Dan Brouthers was one of the best | e are that he is ready to step into | teams which do not fisure to be in 1 of the air that was pitched to him. ¥ Cobb’s fighting team of Ben-|of the White Sox to build up a team|from contact with dry hands than other fish. MEN S the fence and lift the low ones over tion, with the exception of second |recovered from that disastrou tell the pitcher to been given his unconditional re- [short, Jamieson In left and Myatt be- LAY ortd o . oA | (o, O "Pericing will seres wa| uleds The wiides 38 purttuams and e Zastm 4 mers a1 ey ot i huat depend | son shangenred. o tase Solls 84-| WITHOUT RISKING TITLE h. Others Will Experiment. the champion batters of the major|certain weight has opened hostilities. heaith will not permit Nm to make Winter at Hot Springs, ai £t N ‘Siants’ squad | has signed for two matches this month. T e : Boston and Tris Speaker at Cleve- prings, and he knows ix of the New Yorx ‘Mantw squ ol of by the man who does not follow | into condition, and this ye but Capt. Frank Frisch still hesi-| Woife at Philadelphia February 16 in sh, Giard and Gasi A shift may |nations. The deal which sent Bush. 4 year he is P! sch around the belt that he cannot see the | falling ill. NErvicss providiis Be recsivis aBodtliOnio] ati Noungstown, Ohio, i % le sliding into home plate early |it dld the Yankees. Of the quartet, B F ; FTEN one finds trout and black bass bearing ugly scars on their sides, an stly s - i 2 3 batters that the game ever saw, and Sliocal CCeanien b TRt W te i s nmbie ides, and mostly this is due to ignorant handling on the part E D High or low, it was all the same to s will ke the field this season|which was shattered by the scandal the wall. e, Where a new face is sure to be | Speaker at Cleveland will O V E R : : ! T S petition with Carlyle, leading | paztracnt. EC S Tn Yk R aky e ness—seem & mere wraith.” enemy of all men who must depend |son disappeared from base ball's ad- eagues vo bee ced to retire| Ruth will have NEW YORK, February 6.—Frankie Huggins Also Standing Pat. George Sisler at St. Louis, Eddie leagues have been for : have a long, hard slege | the journey. man slower, but it also hits the bat-|It. That's why he started early. Last | for 1925 signed their 2o \racts within| but his title will not be at stake in Bk et etio Jeare it Yankees | land have gone in for youngsters and BY WILL H. DILG, e o i ‘ a h, while on February the training side of base ball very | taking more time, hopin ith officials Frisch|a 10-round match, while on made in center field if Earl Combs |Glard and Gaston to the Browns alded g slde ping to achleve |tates. In a talk with officia sc! low balls. 2,000 more than last seaso: 12-round match. t season, but reports from his {the Browns look the best of the four $ e ason. i J, at his best could pick anything out = e of some angler. Notably trout and bass are . him. He'd slam the high ones out to hilar in every respect to the 1924|of 1919 and which never has fully One day he n. Derrill Pratt, veteran inflelder, | several college youths. Jc 48 of This S ’s Models and Shad spot, covering it with swamp rubber, which was getting scarce and e my plans for Johnson before leaving Tampa. only in turn. He would have no relief work to do. I determined to work The only game which he relieved a pitcher all year was in the final contest of the i series. nce, however, I came near weak- i on my plan in a close game of ritical series in Detroit. Both s were hitting the ball hard. re was a parade of pitchers. The on the bench begged me to send fohnson. He wanted to go him- But I stuck to my guns. As it jhed out, we won the game in stion hnson came back the next day beat the Tigers. When a team hitting the ball savagely nearly pitchers look alike to them. nson might have had a hard time hning had he gone in as a relief her. The chances are he couldn't e, come Dack the next day with fvinning effort, anyhow. ‘hen I made up my mind, before opening of the season, to use nson only in turn, I also deter- ned that 1 would take out any cher when a ciub begam to hit hard. Sometimes, if a pitcher 't yanked when he falters, the me ‘is lost beyond recovery. The ly way to protect a game is o ange twirlers when one is going a. Has Praise for Marberry. manager must have capable re- ve strength to use this system. ashington was especially strong in is respect. It is doubtful if there er has been a better relief pitcher an Frea Marberry. I iook to him stcceed Johnson some day as the instay of the Washington pitching rps. He has a wonderful fast ball ld the heart of a lion. He relieved fhnson in nine games and saved Ve of them. He relieved other tcders in 36 games. He finished games started by others. Marberry's feat in the ninth inning the second game of the world ries with the Giants will not soon forgotten by the thousands who w it. We had lost a heart-break- g 12-inning battle in the opener. e peore of the second game was SZachary was weakening. The come hung in the balance. Two re out, there was a runner on sec- hd and Travis Jackson, always dan- brous in a pinch, was up. Marberry tched three balls. Every one was sttike. He set us such an example at] we, put over the winning run our half of the ninth. Few old, let alone young, pitchers uld be as depegdable as Marberry, believe it a q&g plan, as a rule, work recrui twirlers largely in tting practick— until they have ovie® “%uir worth. They should be structed to get the ball over the ate and let the batters hit it. They rn control by this method. They 0 help the batters in timing their ings. It is the best sort of pitch- g and batting practice T seldom order a pitcher what kind a ball to give a batsman. I figure s catcher knows better than I do w the twirler Is going and what can do—though, of course, there e times when I will signal instruc- bns. The same holds true for bat- s. Sometimes I tell them what a when to hit. The stage of the me and the immediate situation vern the method to be used. In neral, players should think for lemselves. Otherwise they become bre machines. They may make an cient club, but frequently the vital ark of enthusiasm is missing. n't sacrifice initiative. k Out the Weak Spots. 11¢@hed early in my first year as ol Beer the value of ploking an bponent’s weakest spot and making drive against it. Foot ball teams llow suoh & system. Base ball clubs can. When yvou find the spot or get your rival in a bad position, you must make the most of your op- portunity. You may have only one chance in a game. Then is the time to put over the winning drive. I found some clubs in the league were at a disadvantage against certain Washington pitchers, so I made the most of the situation. I wasn't al- ways right, but on the whole my idea worked out well. T tried to pick the proper spots for my pitchers. Victory often depends upon making the right sort of a match A team of .300 hitters couldn’t land a pennant unless they had the pitch- ers to hold the opposition in check Washington had the twirlers in the successful drive for the champlon- ship. We were full of fizht. We tried to make the most of every ad- vantage. We kept in fine physical condition. We met with few accl- dents. We were brimful of confi- dence. We acquired the winning habit. But more than all these, we had true team spirit. We ed, ate and slept base ball. If we made mis- takes, we tried not to repeat them. We didn't play orthodox base ball. We verled our style of attack often. We took chances. We were a hard club for the opposition to figure. There is a big advantage In keeping the other fellow guessing. These qualifications of a champion- ship club didn’t show all at once. We were below the .500 mark when we started on our first Western trip. My friend, Morse, met me. “You're doing he said. “It doesn’t look as wll finish in the cellar. Ve've just started,” I declared. “We're going up, not down.” I knew then we had a good club. I couldn't see, player for player, where any outfit had anything on us. The pen- nant bee was beginning to buzz in my bonnet. It made a pleasant sound. (Copyright, 1925.) Tomorrow—A Hard Drive—And the Pennant! —_ DOLAN WILL CONTINUE FIGHT TO CLEAR NAME NEW YORK, February 6.—Cozy Dolan, blacklisted former coach of the | New York Giants, announced yesterday | following a visit to the offices of the local National League club that he in- tended to renew his fight to clear his name from connection with the bribery attempt of Jimmy O'Connell Dolan, fn a brief talk with Giant officials, insisted he is innocent of | any connection with the deal, as charged by O'Connell, and declared that he Intended to pursue his case with Commissioner Landis In an at- tempt to gain reinstatement. Asked about the suit he started against Landis some time ago and then drop- ped, Dolan said he would not resort to legal action, but hoped to convince Landis of his innocence. Although the recent report of the district attorney’s investigation into the scandal pointed out that the im- pression of Dolan’s evasiveness in the case had not been removed, Dolan in- sists that this inquiry added further strength to the clear record he claims BOXER HURT IN BOUT. NEW YORK, February 6—FPepper Martin, Brooklyn junior lightweight, who was knocked out in the eleventh round of & bout last night by Mike Bal- lerino, is in a hospital suffering from the effects of a body blow. Doctors eay he is not seriously injured, otherwise cool leaves will answer The stringer habit is a bad prac- tice. Once while on a Northern lake the writer saw a splendid string of bass attached to the landing whart. Theé next morning every fish was half eaten by turtles. Any one with an atom of pity, after once seeing such a sight, would never be guilty of put- ting his fish on a stringer again. The common belief that fish have no sense of feeling Is scientifically untrue. 32 PLAYERS LISTED FOR DODGERS’ CAMP NEW YORK, February 6.—Thirty- two players, including 16 pitchers and pitching prospects, will be taken to Clearwater, Fla, by the Brook- lyn National League club, all men to report at the training camp Feb- ruary 28. Only five outfielders are named in the roster just issued, and the list included J. E. Cox, from Santa Monica, Calif., who will attempt to pry the veteran Tommy Griffith of Cincinnat{ from the right-field posi- tion. Eddie Brown, once with the Giants, will have Dick Loftus, pur- chased from the Lastern League a year ago, to aid him in center. Zack Wheat will roam in left, as ual, and care for the team’ interests until Manager bert Robinson is fully recovered from his illness. While in Florida the Dodger: play several exhibition contests, s ing March 11, against the Browns of the American League at Tarpon Springs. The Phillies, Senators and Yankees also will face Brooklyn the Florida games March 28 will ¢ the northward Journey under w with the a8 opponents on the way up to Eb- betts 'n_April 12. Emslie, veteran of umpire: “avill handle all exhibition games. CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 6.— Norwich University polo team defeated the 10th Infantry team of Fort Thomas, Ky., last night, 20 to 18%. require occasional repairs, and in such cases it is good to know just where to send your ma- chine for expert treatment, where it will easily and quickly get the necessary attention without having to pay exor- bitantly for the service. We are noted for giving good serv- ice. Sheridan Garage, Inc. A. A. A. Service Btation 2518 Q Street N.W. (Q Street Bridge) Telephone West 24423 Yankees | then slam it at home plate at a mile a minute. As likely as not he did not swing his arm once and when he let the ball go he sent it strictly under- hand to the batter with a motion like that « the bowler who delivers a ball dowr n alley hoping he may make a Ke" Toe ball had become standardized. The hard and bitter fight that had been started by Albert C. Spalding to make all base balls uniform had heen won and the dimenslons of the ball were the same as they are to- day—welgiit not less than five nor more than five and one-quarter ounces avoirdupols, and measure not less than nine nor more than nine and one- quarter inches In circumference. So well are base balls made In these days that more of them weigh almost exactly alike than vary between the five ounces and five and oOne-quarter ounces, which are permissible under the rules. Spalding had waged a war against indiscriminate base ball in which each home team could choose its own ball and the game would be pl with a dead ball, or with a lively as the opponents happened to be good or poor batters. It revolutionized base ball to achieve this and it probably was the greatest achievement of the early days of the sport and perhaps the most important thing that ever was done in the history of the game, as it made base ball a contest in which the measure of physical ability on the part of human beings was matched against the uniform accouterments with which the game was played The old rule said the ball must be MADE BY THE MAKERS OF ARROW COLLARS Upstanding, smooth and permanently whlte collars. They will not wilt,crack or sag. They are pre-shrunk and are mly laundered CuurrT, Psasody & Co. Inc. Makers Troy, N.Y. which did not always give the results that were expected of it because of its llabllity to chemical change, Ben- jamin P. Shibe of Philadelphia found that a base ball could be made with a cork center and that the cork cen- ter responded to every demand that ever had been made upon rubber and produced, on the whole, better results. The first trial of the cork center ball was astounding. The players could hit the ball better and could handle it better than they could handle a ball with a rubber center and the base ball men and the base ball manufacturers were wonderfully gratified over their success, because they saw as good a ball game for the future, or better, with no worry on their part as to whether the rub- ber supply might exhaust itself. Rubber still {s used in the ball, but not in the proportion that it once was, and the ball without so much rubber really gives far more satisfaction to players, who find that it catches eas- 1ly, handles smoothly, keeps its shape, and bats beautifully, and all those things help to make base ball more enjovable as well as more accurate. 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