New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1916, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1916. HEY call Philadelphia the City of} Brotherly Love, but the author or authors of this tender phrase evidently never heard of St. Paul. It is really the latter city which should bear the affectionate title. The reasons are herewith appended: St. Paul harbors two pairs of broth- €rs who have made their mark in pu- gilism. One of each pair is generally accredited with being the champion in his respective division, while the other brother of each is close to the top in n the and here is where broth love comes in. The, near champion in each instance wishes it to be universally known that his brother is hi perior. Mike and Tom— —Johnny and Mike—are e have reference to. Mike as close to the middleweight one can be without champion, but Mi- chael insists that Brother Tom is a bet- ter man than he is. i and the the lads w “Gibbons Ertles Case Similar. The case of the tles is similar, Johnny—nicknamed “Kewpie”—is co- bolder of the world’s bantamweight . title by virtue of a victory of foul over id Williams, who became the legiti- mate champion by knocking out John- ny Coulon, but Johnny “Kewpie” would have it understood that Brother Mike could clean up the bantamweight class with s difficulty than Johnny him- self couid, and Mike Ertle is only a weight; he is top heavy at 108 is brotherly affection. One fice his ring career so the succeed. However, all four well established in the ring game, and their earning capacities are in no wise affected because of their rela- tionship. Mike and Johnny Boost Brothers. i Johnny Ertle are z the prowess of rtle respective- ke Giltons has assumed the man- igership of Brother Tom, while Johnny Iirtle has undertaken to guide Brother Mike into the championship of which joint holder. Ring ! / contains the names of who have earned a hood by slinging the padded mit- tens. Of the old timers the name of Attell stands out promiscuously. Abe Xttell w featherweight champion, brothers Monte and Caesar took jown occasional purses. All three were rtherwei Jim other may when he was heavy- mpion of the world, had a| sther Jack, who aspired to pugilistic Jack nearest approach to| ence was when he fought Jack| Johnson and was knocked out. Mike (“Twin”) Sullivan | of note in their e easily identified by were tithe. Graw’s men three times in one weel pitching. and were before the public for many years. Gardners Great Fighters. George and Jimmy Gardner were but they could fight brothers and were classed among the Nos. 1 and 2 show the Gibbons brothers (Mike and Tom), who have attained fame in the pugil No. 3 shows Harry Coveleskie of the Detroit Americans. No. 4 shows Stanley Coveleskie of the Cleveland Americans, brother of Harry. They are the only two brothers in big league baseball today. No. 5 shows Benny Leonard, whom many pick as the next lightweight champion. line. k. leading welterweights. time held the championship in that di- | the ring, while Mike is proprietor of a vision. Another prominent pair of | gymnasium. brothers in the welterweight c!assl Jimmy Britt, when he was rated | were Mike and Billy Glover. The lat- |among the topnotch lightweights, had Jimmy at one |ter is still doing some good work in|a battling brother, Willus. The latter, never fought professionally, he showed great promise in the cur ranks. however, but ar £ ¥y McGovern, once featherweight v American Press Association i Mike is considered the best middleweight in the business, while Tom is a corlfer, too. A few years ago, while a member of the Philadelphia Nationals, he robbed the New York Giants out of a pennant by defeating Me- Stanley has made a big hit with the Forest City Fans by his brilliant champion, had tewo brothers who per- petuated the name when Terry went on the retired list. Hughey and Phil Mc- Govern possessed the vicious aggres- siveness of their elder brother, but they | absolutely refused to train and passed out of the game without attaining any prominence aside from the fact that they were brothers to the once Terrible ‘Terry. Leonards Promising. Of the present crop of fighters, aside from the Gibbons and Ertles, the name of Leonard is most impressive. Benny Leonard, by his great fight against Freddie Welsh, is looked upon as the next lightweight champion. Benny's brother Charley joined the profession- al clan only recently and quickly gained a reputation as a knocker out. The Moore family of Phialdelphia has no less than flve fighting boys—Pal, Tommy, Reddy, Willis and Joe. In the Cross clan of New York there are Leach, Phil, Dave and Marty. All have earned some money in the ring. Joe Chip and George Chip are both middlewelghts, George baving held the championship a few years ago. In Philadelphia there is Young Jack O’Brien, a brother of the original Phila- delphia Jack, the first light heavy- weight champion in the game. The eld~ er Jack retired nearly five years ago. About three years ago he presented his younger brother—about sixteen years younger—to the boxing public. The lad started promisingly, but was rushed along too fast and recelved many se- vere beatings. He dropped out of the game for a year, and now he is fighting in his old form again. SOME GOOD “WHIF” RECORDS, THE record of twenty-four strikeouts in a nine inning game, credited to Pitcher Davis of the Klilleen (Tex.) high school team in a game against Belton, calls to mind other remarkable strikeout records. The American league record was made by the late George (Rube) Wad- dell, who fanned sixteen in the contest between St. Louis and the Athletics on July 29, 1908. Pitcher Dailey struck out nineteen in a Union association game between Chi~ cago and Boston on July 7, 1884; Tom Ramsey turned seventeen batters back to the bench in an American associa- tion contest between Louisville and Cleveland on June 2, 1887, and this was a remarkable performance as at that time the four strike rule was In ex- istence. On Aug. 21, 1909, Willlam Mitchell fanned twenty batters in a Texas league game involving San Antonio and Galveston. During the year 1912 Frank Davis of the Knoxville, Ap- palachian league club, and Fred Ap- plegate of the Blue Grass league, also fanned twenty batters. A. A. Stagg, now coach of the University of Chica- go, while a student at Yale struck out twenty Princeton batters in the Yale- Princeton game of May 26, 1888, and this probably is the best college record to date. Why Managers Cling to IN a game between Cincinnati and| 5 B Hinck ! the Piratc it is that mana- s ¥ to the hit and run Twice in one game—indeed, in| *cessive times at bat-—Bill advanced base runner from t all the way rd by dinky hits placed he drove the ball 1gh to right field just as Louden zoing to cover second base, ner on first having started down if to steal. Hinchman is more apt t to left field, and for that reason den was signed up to cover second ttempted steal. an outgu both times, cleverness »od for a run on each occasion. nce of the hit and run s, and is a valuable if the batter is able the infield. such a good hitter as Hinchman u often looks extremely good. If tke batt c enough to discover which n bing to cover second nd then hit the ball through his se over a it win the game for his team. The Hit and Run Play When successful the hit and run is y more valuable than any other form of attack. A sacrifice simply puts a runner on second at the expense of an out. A v, and if it goes through the runner has advanced only one base. But the hit and run, when going through just as hoped for, ad- vances a runner from first base to a scoring position at third, and at the same time puts the batter on first, without the expense of an out. It is small wonder that some mana- gers go nutty about this play and at- tempt it over and over again to the ex- clusion of all other forms of attack. The trouble with it is that the per- centage of times that it really goes through as attempted is very small. The main objection to it is that it as often causes the batter to hit foolishly at bad balls which he has no chance to drive safely and that takes too much responsibility off the runner, who does not try to steal for himself, but relies too much on the batter to help him out. When used with judgment and only with a batter up who knows what he is doing it is a valuable form of attack. When used too frequently and without regard to the caliber of the hitter it is a delusion and a snare. IN BIG SLUMP. NO SUCH THING AS PITCHER’S BOX NEARLY every baseball writer and fan talks of the pitcher's box, al- | though there is no such animal. Many years ago the pitcher used to work from a parallelogram, which was called his box, just as the batter's box is laid out today. But the pitcher's box was eliminated long ago. There are no lines in the diamond to indicate where the pitcher must confine his efforts. : The modern hurler pitches from a slab or plate and not from a box. Slab- man is, therefore, a much better term for the hurler than boxman, though the latter term, for historical reasons, is used. The pitcher's plate is a slab of rubber 2 feet long by 6 inches wide sunk into the diamond at a distance of sixty and one-half feet from the rear corner of the home plate. The slab is placed with its longitude extending across the diamond, and the front side of it is just a shade more than three feet in front of a direct line connecting first and third bases. The pitcher, therefore, does not work from a point exactly in the center of the diamond, but he has the advantage of about three feet, being that much near- er the batter than he would be if the pitcher's plate was laid right in the o B AYRIRRL mon h Photo by American I M’INNIS, ATHLETICS. One of the season’s surprises is the big slump of Stuffy McInnis, the Phil- delphia American’s first baseman. middle of the field. The only restriction on the pitcher in working is that he must keep one foot in contact with the plate until the ball leaves his hand. The plate is two feet long, and he can stand on either end or in the middle so long as one foot is touching the rubber. The pitcher used to work from a point much nearer the home plate than he does now. If the effectiveness of pitchers ever threatens to injure the game seriously by reducing batting to a minimum the simplest remedy will be to move back the pitcher’s plate three feet or more | | | Fans Watching Work of Matty iy Photo by American Press Assoclation. Baseball fans all along the National league circult are deeply interested in the work of Christy Mathewson as manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Matty is one of the most popular players that ever wore a uniform. Wrestlers’ Pay Poor Compared With Boxers THE difference in dollars and cents| This is but a trifling sum when co between boxing and wrestling as a pared with $70,000 paid to Jess W vocation s fllustrated by the amounts [lard and Frank Moran by Tex Rickard paid to leading boxers and wrestlers.|for their ten round bout at Madison Joe Stecher and Strangler Lewls re- | Square Garden last winter, and the cently wreatled a no fall draw, which | $25,000 collected by Jack Dillon and consumed. five hours of hard work.|Moran for their ten round set-to. The For their efforts the grapplers each re- | top rankers, in;pugilism, demand more e than $5%900-an appearance. At Number of Baseballs Used In Game Varies Greatly HE number of balls used in a cham- pionship game varies greatly. Sometimes only two or three are used ire contest, while on oth- ! er occasions a dozen or even more may be called for. thing for a single ball to go all the | way through a game. To baseball writers' knowledge this | has happened only once at the Cincin- | nati ball grounds in the past ten or | twelve years. One afternoon in 1913, when Joe Tinker was manager of the Reds, a full nine inning game lasting nearly two hours was played with only one ball. Hank O'Day' was umpiring, and he called Manager Tinker's attention to the unusual incident after the contest was over. Tinker kept the ball which had lasted nine innings as a memento | of the occurrence, which, he said, he had never observed before. The reason so many balls are used is not that they are worn out or torn to pleces, but that so many are batted out of the grounds or into the stands. A league ball is guaranteed by the man- ufacturers to last for a full nine inning game and retain its shape and sub- stance. If it does not do so it will be replaced by a new one without charge. But to avoid delays the rules provide that the umpire in charge of the game shall always have at least one ball in in play. As a matter of practice the umpire is always provided with three new balls before the start of the game. As soon as a ball is knocked into the stands or over the fence he at once pro- vides the pitcher with another ball, which becomes the ball in play. * If this ball is also knocked out of the grounds before the other is returned he asks for another ball from the man- ager of the home team or whoever is j acting as custodian of the balls. So he always has a fresh ball in his pocket, | and the game is never delayed by walt- |ing until a ball i{s returned from the stands. The official ball is five ounces in weight and nine inches in circum- | ference. The same ball is used in both the Na- tional and American leagues, though it goes under a different name. Both of- ficial balls are manufactured by the same firm, the only difference being in the stitching. MTHE habit contracted by many well known golfers of dropping out of the beaten divisions of the various six- teens is not beneficial to the game at large or to the golfers themselves in particular. When a player enters a tournament he has usually made pro- visions for remaining until the last day, in the expectation or the hope of get- ting into, the final round. The various clubs aré only too generous in provid- ing separate trophies for these beaten divisions, and a succession of defaults is not calculated to impress upon the tournament committee the advisability of purchasing similar unappreciated trophies on future occasions. The more golf each man plays at a tournament the more successful the tournament is and the more enjoyment the individuals derive from it. It is for this reason that the usual handicap event is played Withdrawals From Beaten Sixteens it has been noticed far too ofven that many who neglect to play in the beaten divisions are ready and willing to try for the handicap prize. The only solution of the mystery of the many withdrawals must lie in the stigma, however slight, which is mis- takenly supposed to attach itself to a prominent golfer who loses in the beat- | en division. On the very face of it| nothing could be more ridiculous, for | not only is the second best golfer in the fournament often beaten by the ultimate winner in the first round, but on more than one occasion the best player of them all has been eliminated at the start by a poor round or bad luck. Max Marsten, Gardiner White, John M. Ward and other players of like caliber have not scorned to play, and even lose, in the beaten dfvisions. Their example should be followed by all on the last day of the tournament, and the other well known golfers. Dope Wins Fo OE STECHER, the phenomenal young wrestler, brought from ob- livion by the revival of the mat game, says many of his matches have been won for him by newspapers. “On account of the dope written about me I am known as the chap with a wonderful leg scissors hold,” says Stecher. “It has been written that I have a squeezing pressure of several thousand pounds in my legs and that the hold I use is deadly. In fact, the leg scissors has become as famous as the Gotch toe hold. “Consequently, every wrestler I meet is on the lookout for the scissors 8rip, ana he leaves openings for other holds. “I have not used the scissors in half my bouts. I know and use other holds, just like other wrestlers do. Half the time$T do not have to think about us- r Joe Stecher ing the scissors, because my opponent, in protecting himself from the grip, lets me slam on the half Nelson or some other good hold.” ' He is just a big boy, only twenty-two years of age. In street clothes he looks like a schoolboy, but beneath his little checkered cap there is gray matter. STONE DUST IDEAL FOR COURTS. {STONE dust has been found to be the ideal surface for hard courts as a result of the experiments made by a number of lawn tennis clubs in Chi- cago. The stone dust was secured from duarries at the cost of cartage. It is spread three or four inches deep over the court. It never cracks. Rain im- broves it, and a court playing surface 800 HITTERS IN SOUTHERN LEAGUE. HE Southern no longer is the pitch- ers’ league it once was. It used to be that a .300 hitter was a rare bird, but latest averages show that a score of batters are at that mark or above it now. One wise expert who has fol- lowed the Southern for years says the pitching is worse this year than he has ever known. Other critics alibi the flingers by saying the uncertain weath- It is an extremely rare | his possession besides the one that is|er has prevented them rounding into form. As a matter of fact, there are players getting by in the Southern now who were considered dead ones in that circuit several years ago. BIG REVENUE FROM YALE ATH- LETICS. REVENUES of the Yale University Athletic association for the year ending Aug. 31 last totaled $190,208, ac- cording to the annual report made pub- lic recently. The balance of the re- serve fund is $90,257. The greatest rev- enue came from football, $106,765, with baseball next, with $40,574. The ex- pense of the crew was nearly $25,000, and the receipts but $5,500. < The ex- penses of the track team also exceeded the revenues. JOHNSON WOULD HAVE MADE GOOD AT ANY POSITION. l ]NLIKE most pitchers, Walter John- son would have been a star ball player if he had been developed in elther the in or outfield. He plays in the outfleld during the batting prac- tice and demonstrates that he can go as far as the most finished outflelder Photo by American Press Association. WALTER JOHNSON OF THE WASH- INGTONS. for long drives, is a sure fly catcher and, what is more, would be one of the greatest throwers the game has ever known if he cut loose with his arm any distance from the plate. Johnson also S0 treated can be played upon soon aft- | would be an exceptionally good batter ©r any heavy fall of rain. it W_ere played regularly.