New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1915, Page 13

M:cros by American Press Association. *.~-8chmidt of Boston. 2.—Daubert of Brooklyn. 3.—Johnson of Pittsburgh. 4.—Mclnnis of Philadelphia. 5.—Lu- derus of Philadelphia. 6.—Pipp of the New York Americans. 7.—Merkle ‘of the New York Giants. 8.—Moll- witz of Cincinnati. By TOMMY CLARK. OOD first basemen seem to be plentiful this season. Nearly Fevery reatil ™~ the " Netioral, | American and Féderal leagues. tdve a’eapable man at the initial sack. Hrooklyn has a gem in Jake Daubert. |; ho latter stands head and shoulders above all others.. Chicago has a good cn2 in Vic Saier, and so ‘has Philadel- phis iniLuderus. Hyatt has been play- ing a good game for St. Louis. Bragin- ard supplanted Fred Merkle at first for the New York Giants, not'because Fred fell off ‘in his playing, but for the rea- son that Manager McGraw wanted to t. good. Merkle will be sent'back to first: a good man in Johnson. ged up that once great weak Spot in cinnati has a coming star in -Mollwitz, while Schmidt continues to put up his steady try Mefkle as an outer gardener and:to [This shows nitial station. . Soi*far he has’ made| If he falis off in his ‘playing Pittsburgh seems’ to have picked up | He has plug- he Pirates” infield in great shape.. Cin- game for the Boston' Braves. that every team ini:the number of stars. give Bralnard a chance to show at .ne | National is well fixed in first basemen. In the/ American’ there are also a Gandil of the Wash- corker. Detroit has a gem in ¥ Philadelphia still has the brilliant little Stuffy McInnis. Chi- cago has a good man in Fournier: Gainer i§ putting up a steady game for the Boston Red Sox. Kirke “has been holding -down bag No: 1 for the Cleve- land Indians:in.fine style all sedson: New York seems;to have picked up a ingtons is a cutter” instead of a fly ball a hit ball nine times ' out of part of the flield he desired. “More bases should be stol league.” That's one of the mottoes: ence Rowland, the Chicago pilot. And he says it with to the catchers, “The odds should all favor ner,” says Rowland “Thai should if he really knows bases. Most base runners steal and don't get away wi know how to steal. “They should be off with of the pitcher. And when pitcher to get his start the, ner shquld watch not the tw) | shoulders or hands, as most ners try to do “There's only one part of i gond man m landed a sisler. «wp, and St. Louis has comer, say the experts, in When John J. Mc- | bunt, the existing method of, sliding so me he was at|as tn perfect stealing a base and a morning at 9 dozen other tricks that made him fa- S0 historians of the | mous. |er's anatomy the base rum ind hatting and bz Early in the history of the game|keep his eye on. That's the and sliding to bases and mak- | George Wright, the famous shortstop | feet, of Newark and Myers of Brooklyn are |ing unexpected but successful plays, | of the old Boston team, with some| “The twirler must have the leaders. with only the boys of the sand lots|pitcher whom he paid out of his own|the direction in which he % playing with him, for hours before the | pocket, would practice for hours at a|hurl the ball, and by wl One thing the old time ball play-|regulars showed up for practice. It|time the batting of a ball until he so|pitcher's feet any b ers had on the present day athletes|was then and there he thought out the . at all sbould 6% : perfected himself in the art of hitting d I was their willingness to practice hard | hit-and-run play, the delayed steal, the | that he could fnvariably hit a "dniu?‘fnr:?s[!:{'ih::!:nll:.'l"‘ould % to hecome perfect. | Graw broke into the 2 | the ball rk The Federal league also well | o'clock say equipped with first basemen. Of the |sf number, Stovall of Kansas City, Huhn |running every the ticed is Pennant Winning Teams, Fresh In Memory, Are Gone; | was ousted as manager of the Cleve- | JHAT great changes can come in a few years in the makeup of pen- |l iant winning ball teams? b Chris Mathewson is the only survivor of the 1905 Giant machine that battled | with the. Athletics in the world series | of that year. Wildfire Frank Schulte | is the “Lost Mohican” of the 1907 Cub machine. But one can move a few years nearer and find that the wrecking of more modern baseball machines has been al- most as corplete. Heine Zimmerman, Schulte and Jim- my Archer are all that is left of the 1910 pennant winuing clubs. Stuffy MclInnis, Amos Strunk, Ira Thomas and | Jack Lapp are the only four men still | on the Athletics’ roster who helped to | win the 1916 world series for the Ath- leti Just five men of the twenty odd play- ers who battied under the Tiger stan- dard in the 1909 world series are still on the Detroit payroll. Those men are: Ty Cobb, Sam Crawford, Os tan- age, George Moriarty and Ownie Bush. The Pittsburgh Virates beat the Ti- | gers in that scries and only three mem- bers of the 1909 Pirates are still in the | employ of Barney Dreyfu They are | Honus Wagner, Babe Adams and Catcher Gibson. Great changes have come in the makeup of the Boston Red Sox team in the past three years. When the Red Sox defeated the Giants in that memor- able eight game 1912 world series the baseball public figured that the Red Sox machine was one that would be kept intact for many years to come. But it hasn’'t been. Practically half of the 1912 Red Sox have since been sold, traded or released. Jake Stahl, who managed the team, was “fired” the | next season. Heir Yerkes, who cover- | ed himself with glory around second | base, is now with the Feds. Neal Ball and Clyde Engle, utility mere, were let | out. Pitchers Hall and O’Brien were | released, as was Pitcher Hugh Bedient, who now is in the Federal league. Catcher Nunamaker was sold to the Yankees. Nine of the Giants who played in that 1912 series have passed along. Some | are in the minors, some are with the Feds and others have been sold or| traded. i Only one man who battled for the Cubs in the 1908 world series is still battling under the Cub standard—and | that man is Schultz, the last cog of the | 1907 machine. Chance is gone Hvers 1908 has been sc; t Ru Miner Brown is out of b figured and Association team. has quite baschall. The great Cub pitching quartet of Pfeister is in he minors, Over eball, | Ibach is with the Newark Feds, and | ball. Only two of the thirty-five men who in the 1903 Boston-Pittsburgh | world series & ill in major league | baseball. Both pl d with the Pirates. One is Wagner, the other is Tommy | Leach. Only six of the more than forty men who were eligible for duty in the 1905 Giants-Athletics world series are still{ in big league baseball. Mathewson is | stil! with the Giants, Roger Bresnahan is managing the Cubs and doing the | bulk of the catching, Leon Ames Is pitching for the Cincinnati Reds. Those three men wore Giant uniforms in 1905. Danny Murphy, Eddie Plank and Chief Bender are the only members of the 1905 Athletics who are now in the big leagues, and all three are with the Fed Johnny Kling | d Walsh is the only member of the world champion 1906 White Sox team | who is still in the big leagues Jiggs! Donohue, Frank Isbell, Whitey Rake, Shortstops Davis and Tannehill, Out- fielders Jones, Hahn and Dougherty, | Catcher Sullivan and Pitchers Owen, White and Altrock—all of them have passed beyond major league view as players. Jones has come back, but as a manager of the St. Louis Feds, not as a player. Claude Rossman, first baseman; Ger- many Schaefer, cond baseman; O'Leary, shortstop; Coughlin, third seman—that was the pennant win- ning infield of the 1908 Tigers. Killian, Summers, Donovan, Mullin and Win- ters participated in the 1908 world ries battles, and not one of the in- field and not one of the pitchers re- mains in the big leagues. MARATHON RACING HARD STRAIN IPHAT Marathon racing is a strain on even the carefully trained athletes who participate in these long runs is shown by the recent report filed in connection with the Patriots’ day twen- ty-five mile race at Boston. The phy- sicians whe examined and, weighed the | Marathoners before and after the race reported an average loss of six and a half pounds during the road run, al- though there were few cases of ex- treme exhaustion and none with per- manent injurious effects. The report is with the Braves: Tinker is with the icago Feds. Steirnfeldt, the brilliant | third sacker, is dead. Artie Hofman with the Cubs no more! Jimmy She the . clubhouse. The average loss in weight of ‘these thirty-five was six and one-half pounds.~The weight loss of the winner was seven and one-half pounds, of the second prize winner sfx and: oge-half pounds and of the third prize ‘winner five pounds. The largest Crandall Pulls His Snake Ball on The Batters In the Federal Leag loss in weight was nine and one-half pounds, the smallest loss three and one-half pounds. No contestant was prevented from starting in the race and all that finished were in good condi- tion. The condition of the three prize winners was notably good.” Outfielder Burns of Giants The Fastest Man In Baseball EDERAL league batters Mathewson's fadeawa Ford's floaters and similarly famous slow balls will be forgotten, overshadowed to-ob- scurity, if Otis Crandall, the St. Louis Feds’ portly right hander, once masters control of a “snake ball,” to perfect the delivery of which he has been laboring for the last eight years, ys a St. Louis friend of Crandall’s. This year, for the first time, the emi- nent Doc is using this bafling ball to a considerable extent and with marked success, for he prefers, as yet, to use it principally when he has the batter “in a hole”—with two strikes and rdot more than as many balls. Waves Through Air. The snake ball has been so named by catchers who have received it for the sinuous route it takes after it has traveled some eighteen yards through the air. It does not “break” widely, as do most slow curves. On the contrary, it appears to wave or rock in and out, rarely deviating more than six or eight inches from the straight path it starts in to take to the catcher. The ball it- self does not appear to twirl in the last after it begins to “wave.” Fellow mem- bers of the St. Louis club who have stood up and whiffed at the peculiar ball in batting practice say Crandall's declare | sundry occasions. But last winter, be- tween plover hunts in the vicinity of Miami, Fla., Doc Crandall went on ex- perimenting with his hobby ana came close to perfecting its delivery. Throwing “Scap Bubbles.” In a recent game at Buffalo Russell Ford was heaving hosts of slow ones, and Crandall, for a time, served some of his knuckie balls to each batsman Finally, on a protest over his calling of balls and strikes, Plate Umpire Jim- my Johnstone addressed Crandall, who was at bat, and Ford, who was pitch- ing to his rival boxman, “If you guys would quit throwing soap bubbles I'd be missing none of them,” Johnstone | complained. ror slow balls, and those | with freak curves in particular, are| about as hard for umpires for batters. i Crandall'’s chief difficulty | snake ball, aside from com to conceal the fact he is g sphere for a knuckled del has been proved on two ocd only two times Otle’s slow of hit safely. In Buffalo, se ago, it was perceived from box that Crandall was fooll ball behind his glove, and &'} dicted before the ball | “Here comes a slow one”, came, and the hitter, evjds had his eyes as wide open g8 of the press coop, straighten twister, and it went for a clout. War Hasn’t Hurt Boxing In En THAT the war has not deprived Eng- |of the controversy arising lish sporting events of interest is|bout it is likely that the Bnj indicated by the controversy regarding |tem of counting will be chisi the Bombardier Wells-Sergeant Dick | The boxing expert of the Smith heavywelght battle, recently | NCWS attacks the whole /& : ] [timing at the British rify fought in London. Public prints have | metyog e characterizes af devoted considerable e to the ques- | yngatisfactory and unrelfable tion to whether Wells not | point of view of every one &8 knocked out by Smith previously to|He continues the round in which Wells was awarded Boxing is the one grand pet fooler “looks as big as a balloon, |the fight. |lish sport that ought not t& but ‘feels’ as fine as a French pea.” In the eighth round Smith sent the |gered by pandering to the § Heretofore Crandall has not attempt- | Bombardier to the floor with a right to [the contending parties, B ed to throw his odd one more than a |the body, and the referee, who was ought to know that when he dozen times in a season. It is inclined [outside the ropes, according to the|ed off his feet he must get o to travel high if the delivery is wild, | English custom, had to enter the ring | within ten seconds or lose, and in the early years of his experi- [before beginning his count. Wells |of the ten seconds ought to menting with the snake ball Otie threw |arose at nine and in the next round |in only one way, and that past his backstop on numerous and |knocked out his opponent. As a result |gong.” Confidence Is Half the Battle In Baseb: FRANK CHANCE used to say that; confidence is half the battle in baseball. It certainly means a lot to a team to feel that it is going to win and to go into a game with the idea that it cannot be stopped. Oftentimes a weak team that happens to get on to a winning streak is much harder to stop than a stronger team which is in a slump and has lost confidence in it- self. This was never better illustrated than | as only a little over two months, that they did not see how they could possibly be beaten. They went to Philadelphia just sure that they were going to win series as they were that they had ready won the pennant in their league For three days before the series open- ed the team had this air of perfect con- fidence. It quite doubtful Braves could have heaten the | Joe Tinker made against Chri |ewson for several years. Joe| | ordinary .200 or .270 batter dui of his career as a Cub. His was the season he was man; Reds, when he hit .317, but was several points below the | Yet he could hit Matty all @ He was convinced that he K number, and the great pite seemed to think so, too, for hated to see Joe come up to Athletics | In one season alone Tinker as the al- own is whether the Photo by American Press Association. is as follow #The Wi all the men starting | ight of race the | and after the s taken, - i, pasp been howrd from sings b |welght @ e Sk BAS-Ave man ’ A[ANAGER JOHNNY fastest man in baseball. GEORGE BURNS. M'GRAW says that He is George McGraw abaked Burps can trim 'em all in & Ruadied yard dash- gn if both |games from New York stmpl ague, but | individual batting against Mal rried them te an in the world's series last fall, when the Boston Braves, contrary to all the dope, went in and established a record winning the in four LARRY M'LEAN OUT The ¥ had had sucl t ctory \I ARRY M'LEAN # he ful suce in the r Another illustration of what confi- | "4 fined $5,000 in three yeais &oing from last place o flrst in | dence can gccomplish is the record that | ous baseball clubs. — last year in clubs had been in the same by ! their confidence « rvily through a ing L season’s campai; supreme series stra ne short series $5, the . Burns, New York the Giants have the Giants' an raves outfielder. | wonde