Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 3, 1910, Page 32

e e T — ! - 2 Pt T - BASE STEALlNC 0N DECI.INE It is Well Known !'ut and Good Rea- sons Are Offered. SBTEALING RASIER OF OLD .I’I‘m Were Credited with Steal Even When Ball Was Hit | Days and Absence of the Big Mitt Helped. ol NEW YORK, July 2--The decline of running in base ball has been much bemoaned. Base running has 0 do- Kribed as a rapldly vanishing nd all that. 'That ball players nowadays dom't steal as many bases as they used to twenty years ago s a plain, bald fact, but that doesn't necessarily mean that base running has suffered to the detri- ment of the game. On the contrary, base ball Is & more sclentific and Interesting game now than when many more bascs were stolen. The high development of team work—which Is one reason why so many bases aren't stolen; the hit ard rug_play, for instance—has improved ihe £a06 as & game, even If doing away with some individuality and initiative by in- dividual players on the bases Bass runners are as fast as they ever were; there are just as many of thom and they run with just as good judgment. Aren't Cobb and Collins and Bescher fully @s good es were| Hamilton, Stovey and Fogarty? Or, to put it In another way, wouldn't they steal just many bases it the same conditions obtained? Aside from the subordination of the in- dividual to the team there ars excellent reasons why fewer bages are stolen n the present era of the national game. For one thing, thero is a big difference in the ‘way stolen bases are ored. Once upun & tmo all & player had to do was o start for the next base with the pitch snd he got credit for a steal, 1f he got thers, no matter what happened to the pitched ball. If the ball was hit he got his steal Just the same. The present rules prohibit crediting & man with a steal if he gets to the next base aided by & batted bali, and that in itself makes a difference. But & potent Influence in reducing the number of stolen bases, and one often overlooked in discussing the question, 18 the advent of the big catcher's mitt. Prior 10 18% there wers many more stolen bases thap-later. The big mitt began to be used first in 1889, but was not generally adopted uiitil later. Arthur Irwin was the man who originated it and his first experimont consisted of putting a single piece of leather over the palm of an ordinary fielder's glove. Out of this grew the present big glove. Irwin experimented with the glove through the medium. of Tom Daly, then with Washington, and Pat Murphy, them with the Glants and now 'a policeman in Worcester, Influence of Mitt. And what difference did the big mitt make on base stealing? Just this: It saves valuable time In the" catcher getting his throw away. When catchers used the small fingered glove their hands had to &lve when taking a pitch. The yleld of the hands to swiftly pitched balls meant that Just so much time was lost in launching, the throw, valuable time and a big help to the base runner. Also there were more passed balls then. But with the huge thick padded glove there Is practically no give. The big cushion held out in front serves as a pocket In which the pitched ball stops dead, and the catcher simply picks out the ball with his other hand and makes his throw. The fraction of time thus saved Las been the main reason why base steal- ing has fallen off. In 1857, Ward etole 111 bases, Fogarty 102 and Kelly elghty-four, and thers were five others who stole over fifty bases, all in fower games that ngw constitute a season. in 1889 Stovey stole 115 bases, O'Brien 103, Hamilton 117, Long ninty-one, Welch 92, and thirteen others stole over fifty each Records of the present show no such whole- sale quantities of steals. The record for 1908 shows that Cobb stole forty and Con- 10y and Flick forty-one each. In 1907, Wag- ner stole fifty-three, Chance fifty-seven, Devlin fitty-tour and Magee fifty-five, they being the leaders. But In 100 there seems to have been an improvement in the Ameri- can league &t least, Cobb stealing seventy- six, Colline sixty-seven and Bush fifty- three. Present Rules Stringent. The 1907 gulde contains this brief rule for stolen bases ‘A stolen base shall be credited to the base runner whenever he advances a base unaided by a base hit, a put out, & flelding or & battery error.” In the last two. spasons jthe rule has been changed to perfuit & runner getting credit for a steal on @& battery error provided he makes his start prior to the battery error. It may be that Cobb and Collins have been alert to take advantages of that change, but there has been no corresponding in- creass in steals in the last two years by National lesgue base runners. One trouble always has been lack of uniformity in scor- ing stolen bases. 1t was once the custom to give credit for a stoal when o runner overran & base and was put out. The rule provided & steal in such case. Btlll that play didn't happen often and effects the polut at issue but ttle, Too much latitude on the part of some scorers always has existed, par- ticularly in crediting a stowl on & palpable wuff by the man taking the throw. The chief reason, however, for fewer stolen bases wre these: The big glove, the wide uso ot the hit and run play and, partly in connection with the latter, not giving a steal when the runner ls aided by & batts ball, The rule in vogue In 1800, od for & 1 even when the ball wias muffed by the flelder. There was nothing in that rule prohibiting the scor- ng of a steal when alded by & batted ball The latitude allowed by that rule, more or less laxity In scoring and the mat- tress mitt have cut down stolen bases, LINCOLN HERE ON THE FOURTH Comes Monday for a Three Days En- sagemont at Vinton Street Park. Pon Despain's ‘' Prohibitionists will be the attraction &t Vinton street park Mon- day afternoon to assist the people of Umalia in celebrating the glorious Fourth. Mr. Porsons Is billed to play n the left garden for Pa In place of Bhotton, who is still on the hospital list, but who has been playing 'I'l{EOM AHA BUNDAY BEE: JULY 3, 1910, WILBER BASE BALL THAM CLAIMS TO BE THE CHAMPION AMATEUR TEAM OF NEBRASKA. RACING GAME WIDESPREAD Nine Hundred and Three Cities Hold Race Meetingn. neial Results. NEW YORK, July 3.~The number of cities and towns where trotting meetings were held during the racing season of 1909 under the direct supervision of the National and American Trotting associations and{racing public, but to the manufacturers the result reported to the officials of the Register association was 908, the majority of them holding one meeting in the entire season. In & number of places extra meetings were given, which brings the total of regular meetings officlally reported and published in- the Year Book to 1.064, the number of extra meetings being fifteen, In this estimate are not included the matinee races held in at least half of the 900 citles where regular or professional races were held for cash purses, stakes and futurities and admission charged at the gate. Scores of harness meetings of one day or longer duration are annually held all over the country, the result of which is never reported to’ trotting officials and not pube llshed. They add greatly to the total num- ber of such meetings, where the generul public of the entire country enjoys the sport. The year book shows a total amount glven by these nine hundred odd racing as- soclations or individual tracks to trotters and pacers last year was a very small fraction “less than 33,000,000, the prizes in cash varylng from $10 up to $5,000, and $10,000 classic stakes and the big futurities, up to the $3,500 handicap at Roadville. Thig total amount brings the general amount of cash premiums for each meeting. large and small, close to $3,000 as the amount given by track managers for the enter- tainment of their patrons, Three Days in Average. A small percentage of trotting meetings recorded are only of one afternoon, while a majority of them last four days. The next largest are of three days, while thos in connection with the two big cireults, the Grand and Great Western, and the state fairs, are of five days and ten days at Columbus and Lexington. Estimates of the past proved that three and a half days 18 a falr and general average for the meet- Ings held, so that nearly 400 days of racing were patronized by the American public throughout the United States, mostly during the months of August, September and October. Trotting meetings are held in different parts of the courtry as edrly as May and as late as November, but these are few in number. cothpared with former years, the general rule being not to start real sport until the latter part of Juno or early in July. Taking June as a racing month, the sport lasts for five months In the year and an average of 300 days in each month, It is hard to estimate, even approximately, the number of attendances in these trotting meetings, yet any idea can be found when it is stated that as high as 30,00 pald admissions to the racing Inclosure of tho New York State falr at Syracuse has been recorded for one afternoon, and the sa stands true for nearly all the big fal where harness racing of a high order Iy a feature, east and west. No feature of harness racing can better illustreto ‘the extent of the horse breed- Ing industry and the popularity of the sport than the estimated number of- trot- ters and pacers that are campalgned each each season, as this is one point in which no falling off Is shown, even if the num- ber of meetings, amount of purses, and paid admissions at the gates or racing in- closures have partly fallen off during the last few years. Expenses Are Heavy. The trotting year book for 1909 devotes elghty-four pages as index for trotters and pacers that were started In races last season once or twenty times, the case might be. Each pages averages a fraction over 120 names, and at that figure It Is a falr estimate that a total of 11,000 were reached last year. While racing a: soclations offered the sum of $3,000,000, yet compared with the money spent by owners for training, fecding, shoeing, wages and transportation, and . harness, sulkles; and other paraphernalla, which go with the racing stable, this sum seems almost like a small cupful in the bucket of immen: expense, No trotter or pacer of even third grade can be trained, fed, cared for, shod, har- nessed, hitched and engaged for its Initial start for less than $1.000, and added to this Is the cost of transportation and the numberless incidential expenses, so that some idea can be formed of the cost and expense of racing a single horse or & big stable. 1t Is, an. established fact that the numbef of horsemen who own and race two or more horses &ach séason on the harness turf is infinitely spall compared with thoso who own and race but one; a fact which proved beyond & doubt that the American's feeling for his favorite light harness horse Is general all over the country, and the ambition of breeding and owing a fast'trottor or pacer is inborn and universal fn spite of the uncertainty which always goes. with racing horses and the great cost of gratifying this one desive and ambition. When the amateur end of harness sport is taken into consideration, the facts and because of the shortage of men. Lincoin comes for three days. The Rourkes wil le & morning game at Lincoln and will come to Omaha for the afternoon § .uu on the Fourth. The line-up: flgures will show that In number of horses, outlay of expense, popularity of the sport and attendance, it more than equals the professional end of racing totterg and pacers. Magnet Oornell Captain, ITHACA, N. Y, July 2—E. B. Magner was recently elected captain of the Cornell base ball team for next season. He has played shortstop on the varsity for the last two seasons. Amerioan Assoclation Prospects. This is the \ast year of the American a. soclation contract agreement. Are we to haye that invasion next spring and a re. organisation of the western Iumu; consequence ? il b i Another Big Auto Race Planned for Brighton Beach henty-!ou-!o:;we ‘Will Be Un- dertaken with Twelve Entries July 15 and 16, NEW YORK, July 2.—The Motor Racing assoclation has decided that it would bold another twenty-four hour auto race at the Brighton Beach Motordrome. The fact that the assoclation has selected July 16 and 16 as the dates on which to hold the event is not only of interest to the auto- as well, who are desirous of equaling, if not eclipsing, the record established by the Lozier last autumn. The well known speed pllots fully expect to see their am- bitions realized. From time to time rumors have been afioat to the effect that interest in “‘twice- around-the-clock’ contests is booming. At the contest held at the race course by the sea last May there were sald to be more persons in attendance than at any other auto race of this kind held within the vicinity of New York. Over 2,000 per- sons saw the cars linéd up at the start, The field stands were filled to their ca- pacity, and this {5 one Indication that tells of the interest in the sport. The National Racing association has made the announcement that the entry list wiil be again limited to twelve cars, a fact that will please the drivers, With a so- called small field the drivers think they can make greater speed and that a certain amount of danger attached to the twenty- four hour race is eliminated. With a large number of cars the drivers lose much time slowing up on the curves for fear of col- listons. Several changes in the track will probably be made so as to insure faster time. Within & few days men will begin to work on the course. Musical Announcement. Because the Barkers were always doing ridiculous things In a ridiculous way no- body was surprised at their sending out a mysterious Invitation to something, pre- sumably a musicale, because the 'notice consisted of just four bars of music; but everybody was surprised that the invi- tatlon should have been malled several days after the printed date, which was June 15. One man who never liked to miss anything called Barker up and told him how sorry he and his wite weré that they didn't get the invitation in time. “Invitation?” sald Barker. “'Yes, to your musicale. morning.” Barker sent back an embarrassed cough over the wire. “l am afraid you didn’t understand,” he sald. “That was my wife's way of letting you know it's a boy. From ‘The Messlah,’ You know—'Unto us a son is born.’ It just came this “Oh,” sald the other man, Then he added, “Those crazy Barke: un. “Gala Day” at the Rod and Gun Club is' Planned Boat Racing Will Be Big Attraction| Amusing Canoe Races Be Held. The Omaha Rod and Gun club Wil hold its annual “gala day” of July Fourth this year in somewhat the same as has been pursted in the last few years. The events begin early in the afternoon at the club grounds on the shore of Carter lake, some of them being on the water. The big amusements of the afternoon are the different boat races of thd club boats, or boats of the club members. All kinds of races are held, two classes of sailboat and two classes of motor boot races, row boat and canoe and comie races with handicap One of the most amusing of these last is one where one man in each canoe paddles while the other, armed with a long bamboo pole does his best to upset all the oppo- nents. The motor boat race this year promises to be Interesting, as there are several new boats which look as ‘if they might be the dark horses to take the prize. The “Carle,” owned_by Billy McHugh is said to be one of the fastest of the smallef boats, and many are betting on it to take the first. The “Trio,” another new boat, fs also speedy, and Bedford claims that he has one which will just run away from the slow packers. Both the Caroline boats, the “I” and “II" have already shown that they can go some, as they were among the leaders in the Memorlal day races, The prize for the fastest traveler is unique, even if the winner may not appreciate it, this season. It is a ton of the best hard coal, to be delievered to the winner's coal cellar. The second prize is a box of cigars, the smoke guaranteed to choke & mos- quito. In the sallboat race there are still the old “Omaha” and the “Trio” competing, with several of unknown prowess, in this class also. The cup will have one of the closest competitions this season that it ever | had, according to the students of sailboat racing. Besides the rowboat and canoe races there is some chance for new competitors, as the Morris, which has always took so many honors in this line in previous con- tests, will not be on hand to compete this year. After dark the usual exhibition of fire: works will be given from a boat anchored out on the lake, Future for Grand Island. ‘When Grand Island gets the state capi- tal it ought to be admitted to the Western league and let Lincoln have its place. TENNIS MEN ARE CTIVE Young and Soribner Go to St. Louis to Enter Tourney. WILL BOOST CLAY COURT MEET Prizes for the Big Event to Hecome the Personal Propesty of the Winners Regardless of Future Events. With the closing of the women's cham- plonship tennis tournament the interest of Omaha tennis enthuslasts has centered on the city championship tournament which opens at the Field club July 9. This tourn- ament is attracting much attention and promises to be one of the most interesting in recent yea Any player in the city i Invited to enter, whether & member of a tennis club or not. Names are to be submitted to Wil M. Wood at the Fleld club by the evening of May & Filne prizes are to be given to winners in both sin, and doubles, and also to winners of consolation prizes. About sixty ocontestants are expected to enter for the singl and about twenty teams for the doubles, | Arthur Scribner left Saturday for 8t | Louts, where he will enter the Central champlonship tournament given under the direction of the national association. Con- rad H. Young wiil leave for St. Louis to- morrow and will play with Scribner in the doubles, but will not enter the single: 1 Although Mr. Young goes to take part in the tournament, while there he .will agitate the national clay court tournament to be held in Omaha this fall. Players will attend the St. Louls meet from all states of the Mississippl valley, giving Mr. Young an opportunity to get in touch with players representing a large territory. The principal work now being done in connection with the comlng clay court tournament is arranging for entertaining the visitors. It is planned tq have “some- thing doing” every night. There will be the regular semi-weekly dances and on one other evening a banquet to all the players. Plans are belng made for the re- maining three evenings the visitors will spend in Omaha. Prizes have been selected and will be on exhibition as soon as the engraver finishes his work. For the winner of the singles there is a large solid silver cup purchased by the Field club for $150. Bach winner of the doubles will recelve a cup, smaller in size than the prize for the singles, costing $76 each. The cups are given by the Field club and will become the permanent prop- erty of the winners regardiess of future contests. 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