New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 5, 1915, Page 14

pHEN Rubs Marquard pitch- t game sgainst Brookiyn . at - the Polo 3 grounds, New York, re- hs aild something which is the .of every pitcher who ever ' (n the major leagues. (It is no , and a no hit game in the loday s a deserving 3 for admisulon to the baseball m-. It is = more difficult task B 2 no Mt game nowadays than ‘ago, ‘Batsmen, while they any ynrdor ‘and in many in- not as much, are smarter and in/the past:dozen or more ‘16 x-significant faét that four ‘pitcher's have realized this Mat “ 'wion ‘stands unique . to pitch two no hit wm ‘the first in 1901 s, and again in 1905 he *ll.u. the veteran wuthp-w.. How. manager of Jersey City, irkable game against the in 1008, when he traveled ten thout allowing a hit. ' Big ®ot into the chiarmed cir- in:1912.in Philadelphia 1~—~Tesreau of New York Nationals. 2. —Hamilten of 8t. Louis Americans 8—~Davis of Boston Nationals. §—Benz of Chicago Americans. Philadelphia, was a rm plecs of pitching for a novice. Smoky Joe Wood of the Red Sox, & courge, is among the mo hit ”-‘:3“ 3 Wood pitched his no hit game St. Louls in 1911, Big Bd Walsh pite! ed a no hit game against Boston 1911, while Chief Bender, formerly | the Athletics, let Cleveland down wi out a hit in 1910, Two members of Chicago White Sox team, Scoft Benz, both have no hit games to credit. Benz pitched his classic Cleveland in 1914, and Scott. pitehed H against Washington last season. Earl Hamilton of the 8t Lot Browns pitched a no hit game st Detroit in 1912, while George the former Detroit twirler, made & no hit game record for himself against " Louis in 1912, One of the great pitchers of the p ent day game who have never been to piteh a no hit game is Walter Johi son, the Washington speed king. A difficult to understand why Johnson had never been able to get within charmed circle. He has come B5.—Scott of Chicago Americans. G—Ruek-r of Brooklyn Nationals. 7.—Bender of B-Ihmou Feds. 8.—Mathewson of New Nation: ut out the Phillles. Red{ . _against Brooklyn forinine withqut ullowlng a hit, but he lost the penl\lt game {n 1909 | game in the thirteenth inning. Nap Rucker ot Brookiyn, who pitched against Marquard when he made his his credit. ‘OF SEASON'S BEST TWIRLER BASEBALL WAR THE most, conspicuous victory achiev- ed by either party to the baseball war was the wrecking of the Interna- tlou.l league and the driving of Jack and his Baltimore franchise ont ot that city. ;Dunn had invested his life savings in the International league Oriole team. ‘He had a pennant winning combina- tion and the presumptive support that priority in any field usually afferds. Yet' in one season he was forced to |eell his stars to pay salaries and to American PuuAmehun. J u l PENNOCK: transfer the remains of his club to Richmond, leaving the fleld to th. Fed- erals. He appealed to the major leagues for assistance. All he received was the re- ply, giving him permissionto sell his players. It organized baseball is %o fight the FUND A MYTH means than holding up the bugaboos of “war fund” and “protection” to frighten away ‘the enemy. The “war fund” and the “protection” of organized baseball are two myths that appear to have been exploded by the developments 'of*the baseball war. Formerly, when an attack was made on the organized game, the corpulent war fund club was brought into play. Or if the minors trembled at the out- law bugbear the protecting wing of O. B. was supposed to stretch out its ghelter. To date no war fund has made its eppearance, although several major league ownets have been in serious dis- tress. Nor at any time has any dispo- sition- been shown t6 give more pro- tection to the minors than that afford- ed by the enactment of futile laws to Feds it will have to. do so by other give expressions of good will. Why Bill Armour Didn’t Land Youngster ——— Tl:ns 18 the story of a young man who had a batting average of .302 and & future of & much higher figure until he met a girl. { His name s !ow. and his nick- name, of course, is Cy. Cy cavorted around the short fleld for the Cadillac club in the Michigan State league last year and was sold to Kan- sas City. But a few weeks ago Armour sent the youth & contract. It called for more money than the best ball player in the Michigan’ State league ever got, of the Philadelphia |and Bill settled down to wait for ithe ‘Manager Staliings of the |signed papers to come back by return , s & wonder at de- {mail. And when the postman brought erl. "1t looks gs if in Herb |a letter Billyum cliuckled. Th.n he lsplayed . wonderful " He not only shut out the Red iscore of 2 to 0, but it was not , men were out in the ninth in- the visitors made their lone y ‘contest. Then Hooper & single over Pennock's head. de n desperate try for the 8 e&flld fot hold it with one Pennock 10t his chance to; t the opening of the “O'DAY 18 THROUGH. lE haw been no application filed M of the leagues by Y, vu-nn umpire and man- ' was believed that when severe -‘hfi ‘connections as man. ot the Cubs he was going back to|al the ind Hank appar ‘48 going into nent so far 4s’ all is con- d or hé hus some other manageri- position in view waich W nat yet o 1ank would ‘have been botwr off it i hod remained in the umpire end of | i garre’ instead of trying to manag read it and wept. It said: “I'm sorry, but I ¢an’t joln your elub. T've got a girl, and she wasn't crazy about my playing ball in my home town, but when I told her I was going to Kansas City—good night. She says 1 can’t go, and thet's all thers is to it. T'm sorry.” Now Bill. Armour n getting along in years pretty well, but this is his com- ment after reading the letter: “I'd sure 1ike to see that girl.” NEW YORK HAS MANY GOLF COURSES," ACCO!!'DING to, the latest figures, theére are just an even hundred golf courses that are available for the devo- tees of the royal and anclent sport in the New York district. This includes all the Long Island links and some as far away as’ Connecticut, but they are all within an hour and 2 quartérs ride of the city, and it 1s not impossible to play on any of them aftér léaviig the office on Saturday afternoon. These faraway links are mostly pat- ronized by the long distanceé cummut- ers, but, strange to say, there are 'a few born and bred city chaps that are was hual.y cut out for a team iw‘lmnx to go far for an afternoon’s golf and pever miud the trip in the least, Managers Balk On Trading Men With Huggins MILLER HUGGINS, manager of the St. Louls Cardinals, is an example of what sometimes befalls a fellow who ia too shrewd. +A year ago Huggins made a trade with the Pirates whereby he got five ball players for three. Hverybody said Miller had been cheated, and he was such a mice little fellow too. Some folks were for reporting Fred Clarke to the police for hip u:tlon in “cheat- ing” Miller. . . Oh, yes, you remember how it turn- ed out, don’t you? The men that Hug- gins gave away “flivvered,” and the five he got rounded into stars and en- abled the Cardinals to make a great fight for the pennant in 1914. Since then Huggins has been known as the David Harum of baseball.” A dozen times since then Huggins has tried to make trades, and just about as often has he been balked. His most recent trade was Pitcher Perritt for Bob Bescher of the Giants. “Gosh, ' it's awful” laments Hug- gins. “I believe if I wanted to trade Blim Sallee and Catcher Snyder for a pair of bat boys I couldn’t make a deal. Every one of the other managera would think I had a few cards up my sleeve” HAS MACK’S STAR SET? Wanwg champion mandgers come &nd go. Connis Mack appears to be going, especially his eyesight. This has deteriorated so badly that even now the mahout of the White Elephants cannot see: The Boston Braves. Frank Baker at $8.000 per annum. The Feds’ future. Any other American league club but { his. {his. | ¥is own finish. A first clasy oculist is needed here. lE:ven our umpires can s¢e better than that, 9. —~Marquard of New Yerk National record recently, has a no hit game to|low Boston a single hit. 10.—Johnson of Washington Americans. Last year the the collegian of the Boston Braves, ball luck which helps out on such In 1908 Rucker didn’t al-lperformance of young George Davis, | when he pitched a no hit game against ' mentous occasions. close to it a number of times, butvE never had quite that little bit of .: Mack Declares Baker Is Not Indispensable days about it being a money ques- tion with him. I have just heard from a person who read that ‘Bake’ said he would play ball again If some club would give him a salary of $10,000 a year. If this is what he 18 walting for, then I think he won't play in the bls leagues, and he can't get that mon any other place.” “Would you pay him $10,000 a year?” Mack 'was asked.” “Positively no. He has a contract with me which still has two years to run. I must respect that contract, and I expect ‘Bake’ to do the same or stick to his retirement. But ‘Bake’ never brought up the money question with me. I won't believe he is trying a holdup game until he tells me personally that it is a question of money with him. If this is the case ‘Bake’ will get the greatest call he has ever had in baseball. “l am not counting on him reporting. No man is so. wonderful that he can- not be replaced. It may take a little time, but the right fellow comes along sooner or later.” Baseball Is Popular Sport In Australia|: DICLAMG that he will take a cou- ple of teams of major league ball players to Australia next fall or at least the year later, J. 8. Barnés, owner of the Aberdeen club of the Northwestern league, said recently that Australia soon will be noted for star players. “Baseball is making a go of it in Australia,” sald Barnes. “I was over there some time ago and found that PITGHER APPLETON LIKELY TO PROVE - STAR FOR BROOKLYN Photo by American Press Association. HOME RUN BAKER. “THERE is no such thing as not re- placing & man in business, and it appliés to baseball, too.” is the open- ing broadside Connie Mack fired in | commenting on J. Franklin Baker's.re- | tirement from the ranks of the Ath- letics. “Has Baker communicated with you in any way since his ultimatum that he had quit the' game?" Mack was sk’ ed recently. “No, I haven't heard a line from him," was Mack's retort. “You know I am off ‘Bake; Sure, I would like to ses him back in the lineup, but I have done about as much as I can do to bring him around to my way of thinking. “Much {s appearing in print these the cricketers were realizing it. “To stop the inroads of the baseball players the cricketers formed a big as- sociation and manipulated it so that cricket was allotted for the warm months and baseball for the winter time. Few persons attended the ball games, for it was cold when they were played. “There i6 no way the cricketers can stop the popularity of baseball in Aus- tralia, and tours of that island will make money.” MWFARLAND NOW A WELTER. PACKEY M'FARLAND, the Chicago lightwelght, doesn't know where he's going, but he's on his way “back.” When Packey {8 seen in the ring next they will probably call him Kid Mec- Farland, in deference to his having at- tained second childhoed. Could it be that all Packey's talk of returnifg to the ring has some re- mote connection with the fact that he has broken into stage life? Packey's latest is a bout with Fred Gilmore at Kenosha somé time or other, probably 2 o'clock next year. The color of truth is lent to the mateh, however, by the statement that Packey hag agreed to welgh 147 pounds at 3 p. M. Alded by a glove fitter and shoe- horn, Packey ought to get within this limit. But nix on that lghtwelght stuff, Packey. Photo by American Press Assotiation 4 PITCHER APPLETON. . = Pitcher Appleton, who played wi the Newark team of the Internati league last season, is making good wit the Brooklyn team of the Na league. He has plenty of speed, and i the spring training he showed |form. Great things are expeoted o this new Brooklyn: twirler. 'y DELL, DODGERS' NEwW YOU STER, A PROMISING PITCHE ROGER BRESNAHAN says that Brooklyn Nationals have secured promising pitcher in Dell, who tried out by the Cardinals three.y: ago, when Bresnahan was thelr ager. 1 Dell was drafted from the 8 club of the Northwestern league, which club he played in 1913 and He won eighteen games and lost v last year, his record showing an age of 2 runs, 5% hits. 2% bases o balls, 4% strikouts a game. Dell lives in Butte, Mont. for Edmonton in 1910 and to the Cardinals. He is twi years old, six feet four tips the beam at 210 pounds. han, says that it Robinson of chronic laziness the latter sensati . T / f