New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1916, Page 10

a4 ERY.. N BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, JULY ~:n Conampionship Tourney ' wiings Together All Classes of Gol.ere 4 Photos by Amertcan Press Association. 1.—Gil Nichols. 2—Louls Telllen. 3.—Chick Evans. 4—Tom McNamara. 5—McDonald Smith. 8.—Alex McDonald. SOME STAR AMATEURS AND PROFESSIONALS WHO COMPETED IN THE OPEN GOLF TOURNEY HERF are & number of rea- sons why professionals who in their hearts know thatthey have no:chance for the title end golf championship gatherings. the case of the foreign born players is the keen’desire to renew, the ndships' which ' were started in the ountry and to swap stories of the which they had had together over inks which were quite likely with- the sound of the roaring sea. % It tps has not been a matter of rec- d as yet, but if you will go over the list of the professionals of this coun- | try who have made a name for them- selves you will find that they come from the links which are by the sea— | from Montrose, Carnoustie, St. An- drews, North Berwick and others of the seaside links whose names are fa- mous In our own country here. An open championship means, be- | sldes a gathering of the clans, a chance | | to talkk over the business activities, to | | compare prices, to give opinions con- cerning the merits of stock, to hear of | new openings where an advance in | salary perhaps may be attained, and in a hundred different ways both ma- Jor and minor to become acquainted with the doings in the golf world else- where than their own perhaps secluded spots, To those golfers who always have a distinct chance for titular honors the open championship is something in ad- dition to all this. Many of the golfers have been striving for a title for years, only to be balked time and again by a single stroke or two. The greatest honor always goes to the man who MANAGER IAEE FOHL, who has become an ob- ject of much attention smince the Cleveland Indians began to make;a like a ball club, is thirty-six ears old and has been making his llv- 1% from baseball for thirteen years. He started as a catcher for Des Moines back in 1908. For a couple of seasons thereafter he played independent ball n Homestead, Pa., and in 1906 landed with Youngstown, Then followed a couple of seasons with Columbus. In 1909 he was appointed manager of the Lima club and won a pennant. In 1910 and 1811 he managed Akron and FOHL I in that circult until 1899. During the eleven years of the second venture Cleveland was the runner-up in three seasons, but couldn’t grab the bunting. In the Johnson league the best the | Indians have accomplished was to fin- ish second in 1908, when Napoleon Lajoie was at the helm. N THE LIMELIGHT annexed the flag both seasons. Later he managed clubs in Columbus and | Waterbury, and he was then chosen to‘ pilot the Cleveland Indians by Charles | Somers. According to those who have closely observed his career, Fohl is a “born manager” and one of the best developers of baseball talent in the | business. Although Cleveland has been on the blg league map since 1879, the Ohio metropolis has never achieved a pen- nant in the majors. It was in the Na- | tlonal from 1879 to 1884, and during | the six years the best the club did was to finish sixth. In 1889 Cleveland was restored to the National and remained SOCCER PAYS WELL., (ONSIDERING the abnormal condi- tion under which soccer was play- ed in England and Scotland the past season, the balance sheets which have been issued by some of the clubs con- | tain some striking figures and satis- | factory profits in spite of greatly re- duced attendances. Fhoto by American Freea Associution) JAKE D A[ANAGFR ROEINSON says =+ the gamo ever prod t Jake Da come back, and with such golfing fury that they may make up for all their past failures. | One doubts very much if a first round | of 80 bothers Gilbert Nichols, for he | realizes that he has it in him to turn‘ in a 71, if not less, over almost any | course in the world, and do it just as | easily, or so it would seem to the on- | looker, as when he made an 80. It has been noticed, however—and this is well worth mentioning at this time—that | there are few brilliant last rounds | turned in by the professionals whom | | we deem the brilliant players of the | g that it is the steady golfer who the most at this stage. There | a number of reasons for this, of | course. If the brilliant golfer knows that he must make a 72 in order to win ' he is impressed with that fact a bit wins a title. A golfer who is first one vear out of ten usually will be accord- ed more praise and honor than a golfer who was second six or seven times. Why this fs so may or may not be | the | yards or ¢ unduly, and past uistory teaches us in this country that in tight contests of this sort we very seldom see the Th In the case of a steady golfer, hows ever, who gener: the careful plays er, he exerts just a trifle more care and perhaps saves himself through what we might term brilliant head- work, a stroke or two which counts for him mightily in the end. A glance at the records of the championships dur~ ing the last ten or fifteen years proves the point that it is in the second and third rounds where the brilliant scores are made. It would be unwise and & trifle unfair for one to judge a bril- liant last round over a course which was not of championship caliber, where ball off the drive would go 300 and it will be found that nds made in the last usually have been made course. brilliant eighteen H over an easy hard to fathom, but it is well known, | of course, that Americans love a win- | ner. It can be added whenever it hap- pens that one of these steady players, | \W/ESTMORE WILCOX of Harvard like Tom McNama for example, | has certainly been a child of mis- sains the highest honors there is ad- |fortune in his experiences in athletics. ditional praise because the students of | This fleet, Virginian was thought to the game realize that such a golfer has | have an excellent chance to get the through the stress of the moment risen | captaincy of the track team, and his to heights which many a time have |defeat by Eddie Teschner, the sprinter, seemed to be only for the golfer who |came as a surprise. was capable of a brilliant streak. Wilcox passed up baseball this year Perhaps to the brilliant golfer there |in order to devote his time entirely to comes the least of dismay at failure.|the track team. His defeat undoubt. Like almost all golfers, the profession- | edly came as a sore disappointment tc als in viewing a match of this kind see ' him, for this young fellow has tasted | themselves capable of playing only | deep the bitter dregs of misfortune and their best shots. A bad round does not | adversity while at Harvard, though he distress them as it does the steady | has given the university athletics his | golfer, for they feel that they may |best. ATHLETE WILCOX'S MISFORTUNES Wilcox's feat of running fifty yards for a touchdown through a field of Penn State players, which placed Har- vard within one point of the visiting team, with three minutes to pl a feature of Harvard’s football sched- ule With the aid of Ted Withington the crimson was saved from the humilia- tion of defeat, the former kicking the goal after the touchdown, which made he score 13 all Yet Wilcox did This was not receive his “H” that season. 1l he fumbled several kicks in one game, and he in- curred Coach Haughton's displeasure. At any rate, Wilcox, on the bench ' | during the Yale game, was forced to see two sophomore halfbacks get the letter that should have been his. During the winter track season he suffered one misfortune, a spike loosen= ing in his running shoe during a race with the Boston A. A. and causing him to fall, INVENTS NEW BILLIARD GAME, THOMAS FOLEY of Chicago has in- vented a new game for profession- al billiard players. It consists of drawing a line between or from the two spots on the table. After making one “free” shot the players must drive one of the object balls across the ling during his turn. HERE is a matter pertalning to baseball which has been paining us for a number of years, and this seems to be as good a time as any to get it | off our chest, writes Baseball Expert Harry A. Williams. For many seasons it has been the custom for umpires to put ball players | out of the game when they become un- duly sassy. We opine that this cus- tom, while ancient and honorable, is | all wrong, or largely so. | Getting down to tacks, can you im- | agine anything more harmful to the ! general interest in baseball than the universal rule that gives umpires the | right to put ball pls out of the| same ad libitum? B 1 is merely a form of public entertainment. Peo- ple o to the games, not to see players | fired, but to see them play bail. They | put down their money at the box offic in the expectat both clubs | their by their full | strength in the field. Fine, Not Punishment, For Panning Umpire | worthles: from the sport. Players must have a|banish players only when such an act Vverbal outlet. Some of them are fight- | is justified in the interests of the ing for their very baseball existence.|spectators, who do not want rowdy All of them are under a tremendous | baseball, prolonged squabbles or sense- tension, ’less crabbing. However, the average When called out on a close or ques- | fan has not the slightest interest in tlonable decision, a decision which they | any remarks which the player may sometimes know to be dead wrong, it |address to the umpire sotto voce, but is but human for them to explode and | he does want a fighting, scrappy game | ay something. The umpire, generally!| and a real run for his money. being the party nearest, usually is| There is only one thing to be said in made the target of these explosions.|favor of the system of permitting the The player probably would just as soon | wholesale firing of ball players, unless | somebody els Seldom 1s any- | their acts are of a character to offend | personal intended. the fans. In the case of a manager athlete Who could emulate a|who continually runs amuck and by and keep his trap closed on a|word and action leads his men to the play in a tight battle would be | verge of mutiny, overriding rules and and a dead joad to any ball | regulations in the hope of bullying his D, in a way, by acting|way to an undeserved advantage, to the shock absorber of these verbal | set down a few of his star performers outbursts, is serving as sort of | would have a salutary effect and be in fety valve for baseball, and therein |the interests of baseball. When a & one of his real functions. |manager of this character finds him- Right down in his heart the average thing An clam close No other form of professional amuse- | | ment wouia b its own game in this | manner. (et the idea? Magnates | spend fortunes for high class ball players. It is these which draw the | fans through the turnstile. They want to see these men in action, just as they line up at the box cffice of a theater in the belief that they will see the actors who have been billed. | 1t certainly would be a shortsighted | theatrical impresario who would give any employee of the house authority to fire the star performers off the | |stage. To attend a ball game in the | hope of sceing your favorite player in | action and have him canned in the | | first_inning is not unlike taking the | family to see “Faust” only to have | the orchestra leader or stage director | chase Florencio Constantino off the | stage almost before he has opened his | vocal pipes. | This is written largely on behalf of |the fans who pay money to see the | best that the magnates in turn have | invested money to provide. At the | same time it may show up the crude- ness or shortcomings of the present system. Going to the marrow of the question, what end is gained by ejecting any player from a ball game unless he is guilty of some overt act which is di tasteful to the spectators? The main result, it would seem, is to detract AUBERT. st sacker well too, | Giants self losing ball games through Having umpire know a rule, that there is | his players benched he will immedi- nothing definite or personal in the rav- | ately calm himself and act the part of ings ited baseball player. & real sportsman. Th are as old as baseball| However, as a general proposition, it Most of the umpires once were | the interests of baseball would be bet-. players. In those days they said the | ter served if the players, instead of same things to the umpires that they | being fired, were made subject to a are penalizing players for today. heavy fine for misconduct, the same Per contra, there is much to be said | to be collected from them personally on behalf of the umps. They, too, are | instead of being paid by the manager under a terrific tension, and their|or club owner. ability for self control and repression| Naturally the umpire must be al- Is really remarkable. That they do|lowed some latitude in deciding not “crack” oftener under the com- | whether or not a ball player shall re. bined criticism of fans and players is | main in the game, but for them to act a human phenomenon in itself. too arbitrarily or develop a strain of A much better plan from the public's oversensitiveness can result only in standpoint would be for the umpires to | harm to the sport. Only Pair of Managers on Same Clubs Ten Years JDTRING the last ten years in base-[ ball every team in the National and American leagues, with ception of the Philadelphi nants in 1904 and 1905 and the world's title in 1905. They lost the National the ex- |league champlonship in 1908 because Athletics | of Merkle's famous “boner” and fin- and the New York Giants, have had |ished third in 1909. In 1910 the Giants two or more managers. | finished second and were first in 1911, Ten years ago John McGraw was|1912 and 1913. managing the C nd Connie Mack | Connie Mack organized the Athletics was leading the Athlet These twoein 1901. They won the American men are still piloting those teams and | league championship in 1902, 1905, bid falr to do so for many years to|1910, 1911,. 1913 and 1914. They alsq come. | captured the world's title in 1910 from McGraw started his career with the | the Cubs, and from the Giants in 1011 In 1903. Under him the New |and 1913. Last year they finished last Yorkers won the National league pen- | for the figa Umo 1n thals cazser. t o e kami, appear in both singles and dou bles in the American championship | greaf intarast hyall PITCHER SALLEE IS WANTED BY M'GRAW Photo by American Press Association HARRY SALLEE. MANAGER M'GRAW says that with " win this year's pennant. Pitcher Sallee the Giants would surelf’ time ast will make a bid for premier honors he coming autumn, when the Japanese acket stars, K. Kuma and H. Mi- | | the orjent are alres | this country for APS AFTER TENNIS HONORS FOR the first in the history of | tournament at Forest Hills, N. v., 1aff international lawn tennis the far;in Au 1st. e two leading tenni s players o 1y on their way # a three months' o came paign on the United States courts, a2 - | their invasion will be awaited wi followerg of fen