The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 15, 1911, Page 2

THE STAR—TU: “DON’T WORRY AND EARN YOUR PAY’ SAYS CY YOUNG. DEAN OF BIG LEAGUE PITCHERS HAS KEPT PITCHING The questioner laughed and slapped Young's shoulder, The other A ee DAY, AUGUST 15, 1911. - — se REET oumeenn on pitching as long as I feel jon to stop me, I think I'm ball players smiled, They all enjoyed “Cy’s” joke. He was then 35 years old, and it ts not likely that a man who heard his remark thought Cy Young would be pitching major league ball more than three or four seasons more. BUT WHEN CY YOUNG FINISHES HIS PRESENT SEASON HB WILL HAVE MADE GOOD ON ILS PREDICTION And he will have bec a major league pitcher for 22 consecutive years. He has traveled over 300,000 miles, and has earned clove to $100,000 on the diamond No one ithagines this record will ever be equaled in baseball. When a man who has made it finally does get through playing ball, |which will probably be this year, he will retire to a big, well-kept farm jat Peoll, Tuscarawas county, Obio, to enjoy life for many yoars more. He will go into retirement in perfect physical health, and without leaving an enemy among ball players, umpires or fans, How haw ho done it? Let bim tell it BY DENTON T. YOUNG How have | kept on pitching for 22 years? | haven't any great system, | just mmd my own business, behave myself and refuse to worry Then, 1 work hard. That counts for a lot. I always remember, hen | am in the lot, that | am working for some men who are paying 6 a salary, aud it’s up to me to earn it, and not to try to teach the umpires their business, or to do anything except pitch as good ball as | enn. Ot courne, I take good care of my arm. 1 don't care for a lot of heavy maxsoging, but I always have a ight massage, with alcohol, after every game I work. | know just what I want, and I always fet it Another thing to which I attribute my long stay in the box ts that I do not pitch wide curve balla, Big curves put a strain on the arm that is bound to tell In a few years, 1 pitch short curves that put no sudden strain on my arm. And I use @ lot of straight balls, just inside or outside the plate, that need nothing but strength—no strain at all, In the winter I don’t He around and get fat. I keep my muscles supple by chopping wood and doing other work on my farm, Then it's no great task for’me to get into pitching condition in the spring. You want me to give some good advice to young ball players? Well, if # fellow's got good, common sense, and keeps his eyes open, he docan't need much advice from me or anybody else. But bere are RRA RE Born March 29, 1807, First baseball salary, $60 0 month, for Red Cloud, Neb, 1887, Pitehing for Canton, 0., against McKeesport, Pa, 1890, recorded his first no-bit game, striking out 18, Bought from Cleveland, August, $250, Pitched first major league for Cleveland against . August 6, 1890, and Year, 1890 . 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 Won, as Pet 688 661 783 667 baa Ou 638 631 6a4 826 756 22 Canton 1890, by for Pitehing for Boston Ameri. cana, May, 1904, did not allow @ player of the Philadeipbia Athletics to reach first base. pitehbed to date $11 ma. jor league games, winning 504 of them. The high spots im hin ca reer are his no-bit-no-man-to reach-first game against the Athieticn in 1904 and his 20. inning duel with Waddell, which tho great left hander &) * won, RRRARAREAH Ree aaakeneenheenee “hitless wonder,” but Bill Fisher, the “slug In a game Bunday, jeld fence, a feat never before nde. Seceeeeeeeeeeeee ste ee te tee Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 620 SSSSSESSSESESSSS ES SSSR REE E HE EE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * eRaeane gum ope. . ETWHEN 4,000 and 6,000 fans sat in George Shreed- er's Tacoma park yesterday and watched slick Bill Fisher comb a twister over the right-fleid fence. And be it known, the Tacoma park is uot a cracker: box (with due apologies to D, E. Dugdale). Fisher ts a rather flashy firstsacker—the flashiest in the is known as the “hitless wonder.” In the spring of 1902, Denton Tecumseh Young, then a pitcher for the Boston team of the American hotel in Cleveland, one evening. Hi A friend of Young's, ball players, turned to “Cy’ How long you going to keep ‘That was Young's thirteenth year as a pitcher in the major leagues. ,;| He made a record for length of service which wan then unequaled, “Cy” looked at his questioner hat, pushed up bis under lip defiantly, and replied, in a sort of au off. hand manner: ho had been talking with some of the other and jokingly asked league, was sitting In front of a ie had won from Cleveland that day. on pitching, anyway, Cy?” ander the broad brim of hin felt & few maxims that look good to me, from my own experience: Be earnest. Cut out dissipation. Keep in condition the year Remember that your mind has to succeed. Form regular habits, round, #ot to be on your work If you are Never let the tmportant fact escape you that you are in the game to play ball, not to help with the umpiring. salaries, and you earn yours, Rear in mind that you will probably live some years after you quit playing ball, and save your money, Let the umpires carn their | Pitcher Cy Young—Characteristic Poses of Him as a Pitcher Wood Chopper, and His Pleasant Farm Home at Peoli, 0, ee erm oe rman one seme nme SRRMRARREAMAAAR REN AR ARERR CPORTING SPARKG: (By United Press.) Pv ee eevee eeeneneseueasvenga| NEW YORK—Maurice F. Mc-| wins tonight's bout Moha will be Loughlin today is the holder ot the| matched with Prank Kiade before New York state tennis champton-|‘™* "me club August 2%, a bi Californian had no| NEW YORK—A re tn disposing of the former!the bout tonight at the champion, T. R. Pell, the scores in Century club between their match standing 61, 64, 62 ford and Philadelphia J; : PERLE BARNES REAL NAME; “CASEY” BASEBALL HANDLE: Perle Casey, bas a stage name.|~ | we real name is Perle Barnes, but pape ee one psd e leaders al! won y' |as we know by the Irish handle, |ang the cellar division champe lost. Casey goes. He doesn't come from! So we are still six and a half games Mudville, either, as did bis famous | behind the Tigers, and eight anc sinesesehte 4f.° . ab | half behind the Beavers. Howev- jer, we should have easy picki though thousands of fans, who have} this week, with the Islanders, whil watched Perle wwing his trusty war! the Pippine ought to kick up a lit- stick on timely occasions, would be/ tle trouble for the Beavers. Also ® willing to swear Perle had it on the | Spokane is due to pull the Tigers PRESSES EERE EERE EEE Three Leaders Win SPE REREEE ReeKKEEEEE THE SCORER SAW IT #) * on Fisher's remarkable feat, Tacoma last night, are still talking has bought two blackface It Bill Fisher could only Se aaaene s for jet ne Who coached the University of Washington bal] team in the number and caliber of | trouble and even the big brush. oun left-fleider, who went then to the Cleveland Naps for . Then there is Clem with the Victoria club, management is fallink season opens. Everett incidentally a few He reported nolsy President Lindsay. The police put say, and the president will likely tell the Spo- | “In Tacoma, where the Indians play this read what Joe had done in Vancouver, and laid ing Be toe Tacoma police station sergeant on the wersation took place: will be in town next week; prepare for the worst— pe talking.” “Who's Joe Cohn?” asked the sergeant, who isn't a bug, and never sheets. weads the pink “Why, Joe Cohn is the boisterous manager of the Spokane bunch @f troublesome ball players. They can’t make any trouble in my park,” said Shreeder. “They can't spoll my town,” Bob Brown told the Vancouver chief. “He's spoiled his own, and now he wants to spoil the others.” Looks kind of bad for Joey, all right. He is sure in bad with the profession. Brothers of the DUG ALSO PEEVED AT JOEY Also Joe Cohn has a pernicious habit of saying pernicious things to Dave penne - Dave, take it from us, doesn’t like it a bit. Some ef these times is going to ‘it Joey on the noge. “Nice game, spd it, Dug? But I hated to see you lose—It's really too bad,” patronizes Joe when the Indians beat the Giants. “Good sort of game, all right, Dug, and, believe me, I'm glad to see |, your team getting ahead. Seattle's the biggest town in the league, and have simply got to win,” again from patronizing Joe, when its beat the Indians. “Al |, do you know,” says Dug, “that right down in his heart he rather lose a leg than a game? Of hard losers, he is the real hard one of the bunch, and yet he tries to peddle that bunk to me about being giad when I win and sorry when I “Why. your Giants have simply got to win, don't. sputtered Joe within the chamber of chambers, once, when the magnates were in secret . “You are in a big town, ‘we'll have to let you, that’s all.” Of course Joey didn't mean it, and if you don’t win pretty soon, but when Dave tried to swing on Joe's jaw, Dave did mean it—but Bob Brown had hold of one of Dav posse arms, and Shreeder was holding the other. “AMERICAN LEAGUE At Chicago ‘Willett and Sianage; Waish and Fount: ven ing ‘Warhop and Biair phia, Cleotts and” Carrigan; Morgan and as ‘®t. Louis eg i Mitchel and Fisher; iditchelt and ste-| N. ¥ ns. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Fiest Game. Becker and Street. fen Philadelphia Be Noe York ‘Twelve innit Alexander and Spencer; Marquard and Moyers. rookiyn “8 ‘chard, Season, ‘Burks ‘and Brwins Griffin, Tyler and Lata 6 Headquarters “Anti - Thomson league. 1114 2rd av. Call for peti- tons. Northwestern League BASEBALL TOMORROW AT 3 P. M. VICTORIA V6. SEATTLE Take Yesler Car. Admission 26¢ and Tic. STANDINGS NORTHWEST Yanc'vr ir fi Portind 68 Victoria 39 NATIONAL W. L. Pot 1| Chicago 62 Pittsy e 64 1 ‘ Phila.” 68 Bt Lovie Cinein. Brookin Boston, Wagner sad Cobb at Top CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—After hav ing finished his 100th game, Hans Wagner of the Pittsburg club to- day leads the fancy stickers of the National league with an average of -859. Schulte of the Chicago Cubs, who is famous for his home run swats, is now at the 227 mark. In the American league Schmidt holds the highest average for willow work but has participated in but 16 games, while the old reliable Tyrus Cobb, who has engaged in 104 bat- tles to date, has the record of 419. and 84. ts assured, the 8. RO. ali hating — | boca bung out some dary. gen CHICAGO—Experts with the bow and arrow from all over the coun-| CHICAGO—It ie probliile | that try today commenced the annuai| Billy Papke will meet the winner meeting of the National Archery | of the Tony Capont-Phil Schloss | association of the United States. | bere fight some time in September. |Papke has given bis promise bi Hag ncuemer Wi—Elmer Loder, no papers have been signed.” Ca- the 19-year-old right fielder of the poni and Schlossberg clash August Kewanee team of the Central as 19 at Kenosha, Wis, sociation, is today preparing to) leave for Los Angeles to join tho Angels. The price paid by the Pa cific coast team was $1,000. BOSTON—Bob Mohs, the Mil! SAN FRANCISCO—Jack Britton, jest possibility for the fight promot jerms here. Britton, some months) ago, went eight rounds with Packey waukee “wild man,” and Buck McParland to « draw. N. he te Crouse will moet at the Armory in San Francisco looking for Athletic club here tonight. I he, bow! Another lady fan sends in an all-star team to The Star today. is Mra. George BE. Mons, of 2426 First av. W.. and she picks a team that is a hummer, She picks the same infield as Kd Boule, 3824 Third av. W., except that Mr..doule picke Mundo-ff instead of Scharny, and in our opinion Soule has a little the butter of the argument. Mrs. Moss has probably a little better outfield and a better battery Editor Evening Star. Being a, Casey, second base: Art Bues, third constant reader of your paper, 1| bas ‘Cones: shortstop; Pettigtew, | thought I would send the following | \*! ie! ynch, center field list to the All-Star contest rage right field; Shea, cate First base—Bill Fisher, Tacoma. | *!!. eae pitcher. vil Second base—Bill Leard, Seattle h EDDING, ‘i? 481 Blewett Ay. me rd base—Bill Goodman, Vie} virst base, Lou Nordyke; second vi ie base, Bill Leard; third base, Bucs; —— Scharaweber, hortstop, Tealoy Raymond; left Right fleld—Dode Brinker, Van-| fd, Ten Million; center field, Jess | PB aon i. od Stovall; catcher, Dan Shea; pitcher, Center field—Ten Million, Vie-|J!m Wikgs. 33RD DEGREE FAN Big Meet Opens at Park Today With a card of Bhe oria. Left fleld—Kippert, Spokane. Catcher—Burns, Tacoma. Pitcher—Willis, Spokane. Yours, MRS. GRO. BE. MOSS, 2426 First W., Seattle, Wash. two harness Sporting Editor Star: Thts team looks best to me. Just a matter of my flinger being on edge, for he fs the class of the bunch. And I can't see how so many can pick Fisher to be of more value to a} team than Nordyke. First base—Nordyke Second base—Leard Third base—Bues, Shortstop—Mundorff Left field—Cruickshank Center fleld—Brinker Right fleld—Kippert. Catcher—Shea. Pitcher—Wiggs. and three running events, the days racing meet of the § Blood Horse assgetition gopet Madison Park today. Some best known racers in the West are on han for them there will be plenty of entri each event. Following "ts card: First race, 2:15 pace, —Mabei Hal, Cap Appe: Spirit, King Seal, Ella Terfekso McKinney, Road Bird. Second race, 2:30 trot, purse ~Doc McKinney, Bonnie Van Winkle, Sweet Adena, seal, Yosemite, Oregon Bun Cantatrice. Third race, four and @ half fur longs, selling — Phosphorus, | Cruzola, 112; Redan, 114; Zelina, 112; Birdie P., 112; Bal Reed, 107; Minnedocia, 107; Philanthropist, 114; Gelico, 114; Bummer III, 105, pe, three-fourths mile, SJantem, 114; Lord Rossing- . 110; Trocha, 107; Jessupburn, 14; "Black Fiuld, 114, Fifth race, one mile, selling—Spe- cial Delivery, 106; Frieze, 114; | Reene W., 114; Abella, 97; Con- |federate, 109; Old Mexico, 117; Dene, 104; Nebraska Lass, 109; Matador, 1 Races at Madison park, five days, starting Tuesday, August 15. clean meet. five tile at the | sree c. LEIGH, 216% Union St First base——Bill Fisher. Second base—Bill Leard Third base—Bill Goodman. Shortstop—Howard Mundorft. Center field—Crulckshank. Left fleld-—Ten Million. Right field—Jess Stovall. Catcher—Danny Shea. Pitcher—Zackert. ED SOUL 3324 Third First base—Nordyke Second base—Leard Thipd base—Bues. Bhortstop—Cooney Left field—Cruickshank Center field—Brinker Right fh Meichoir. Catcher—Whaling. Pitcher—Gordon. Respectfully, LESLIE REWE, Tracyton, Wash, Seattle, Aug. 12, 1911. Bill Fisher, firat base; Pearl the Chicago lightweight, is the lat-| eeeeeeeeeeee events, a $500 pace and a $400 trot,| -|the game will not be permitted to! “|lowing four Mudville Casey six ways from Sunday. Perle Casey first saw the light) of day In good old Missouri some | |thirty odd years ago-—he won't) |way just en because he doesn't) want t mage to get next to the fact that he getting old | moved to Denver in bis early youth and claims that city as his home. He began his baseball career un i der the tutelage of Mique Fisher,) when Mique held out at Tacoma, | and was a member of that old Ti-! \ger band, which t» generally fig-|« \ jured as the best team ever assem | bled on the coast. It included Nor. dyke at first, Casey at second, and Lyneb tn the field, of those who are stil in this league. Tommy Sheean, now with the Portland Coasters, was at third, and Truck Kagan, who plays around the Call fornia bushes, was short. Charley ‘Graham of the Sacramento Sena- tors was catch jall and Hobby Keefe, of big | tame, were two of } the pite j Leone CASEY | Moonshiners Beat Storks Rete we eee eee ‘AR LEAGUE Piayed. The Micke ited the East |lakes 7 to 6 Sunday on the Wood jland =Park grounds The sod of Davenpeck the # bitting wou Giants Lincoins . Brown Bears Al-Stars Warrens Storks Newsies . Fastidos Moonshiners. 6 RRR vy-hitting Bast Micks—Kapan castlakes—Knapp | and Stubbs. The Mohawks, the clever little |team of South Seattle, defeated the O'Brien Pirktes, the champions of the White river valley, by a 6 to 5 f about as as has beon -y |score in ten innings must Immediately | fast a game of bail of all their players! played in the South End for a long icipating in any more|time. The feature of the game was eral times in the past/(he battery work and the fielding who were not on team of the Mohawks, not one error be were “run in.” If in any imstance|ing made. They will play the fast |a manager puts in a player not on/| going Ross Athletic club team next [the list he must forfeit the game| Sunday at Woodland Park. Batter |to the opposing team. If the of-|ies—Ponce and Lang for the ficial scorer finds, when getting|hawks; Sharkey and Coocoran the batting order, that a player is|the Pirates. other than a member of the team, or Before a crowd of several thou- sand people the L. E, Evett Red Sox won a double header at Wood land park Sunday, In the first game they trimmed the Seattle Gas Co. 8 to 7, and in the second the Green Lake Cubs, 9 to 6, The Rvetts want & game with the Green Lake Cubs or Pantorlums or the Jacobs Bak ery team, go on, Ry walloping the Storks 16 to 5 in a one-sided affair yesterday, the Moonshiners stepped into fifth place on the pennant ladder. Perey Slaton, the Moonshiner twirler, had the losers baffled throughout the whole seven innings, allowing therm only one hit. Eleven Moonshiners crossed the pan in the second, fol hits and two errors. Rose's tossing for the Storks was & trifle wild and received poor sup: port. Fielder Messenger played a wonderful game in the center pas ture Score by tunings: ma defeated the fast team by @ score of 13 to 4, before a large crowd of fans Sunday. Ingersoll twirled swell ball for the cleaners, allow: ing only five scratch hits and fan ning 13 then. Batteries, Ingersoll and Perkins for the Pantoriums, R &N. \good enough for Seattle, when he and Orvie Over-} | Future Greats | + @ pitching of Kapan and te bacivy | Kapan pitched a good games! Mo} Gown a few games. Old Teammates. Ko Manager Watte- let of the Victoria club cut the strings on Pitcher Sage, saying he wasn't fast enough for the Island- ers. Dug promptly signed bim. Fans wondered how he could be wasn't for Victoria, but the per- formances of young Mr. Sage re-| McCreery. cently would indicate at D. EB Dugdale is a better Judge of ball flesh tha w perform AK: incidentally, it was at the expense of the team that cast him off. Holding them scoreless for sevea |, © innings, he eased up in the eighth and six runs were scored. In the leet inning Manager Raymond let Mclvor, a high school twirler, go in, and one more run came over, MeCreery opened for the Islanders and Helmecke finished. The Gi- nts reached the duo for 19 hits and 13 runs. Vietoria, ‘ Mome runs—De rune and 7 hits innings; 9 rus rtiand At Vancouver Pata b Sih afternoon, but when it Was all over, the Tigers had tory tucked away. Geor er trotted out bis curve Blaine Gordon, one of wy maining unsold beauties, in that James McGuire, Nap might east his optics over | -| phenom, and the former p-jelvetrician got away Also a young heaver ‘named whom Joe Cohn eS out bushes McGuire Watches Gordon Win, [retired 11 of = Tom It took 11 innings to. settle the| whiff route, dispute over in Tacoma yesterday nine. Vancouver Stil! Winning. Lefty Tonneson started for the) Pippins at Vancouyer yesterday, but the Beavers scored ie rd jim the first three inui | way to Maxmeyer, southpaw, who ihe to « single run th, re: der of the de it aae rf pits were unable to land on Ger. | wuda, they lost, 6 to 2. S i ‘et a * .Helmecke, who is new in the game, proved the surprise when he met the ball squarely on the nose and the pill went the right-garden fence. The fans “kidded” the “Rube” tosser out the game, but the young southpaw has got the “makin's” eee Ort got two singles, a double, a triple and a walk. When Sage weakened, in he eighth, Mclver, the former High tosser, went to the mound in the next spasm. He walked De and Grindle got a single, but the next three men were retired order, 2 e Thanks to Mr. Morse, the Tiger who drove in the winning causing the defeat of the Indians yesterday, gee Eleven batters faced McCreery in the: second. rae es Three hits, one a two-bagger, and not a Giant scored in. the tomeh | With Bues on first, Weed hit to left and Bues was rel ~~ The Bees discovered Mr, Weed ambling to second, and our hero was sent to the morgue, Mr, Raymond's retirement double. : . When Weed sent a high fly above the pitcher's box, the Iaflalé lected around the descending pill, Helmecke, who is a lanky dias and Goodman had to walk right over the “Rube's” frame to grab the pill : Backstop De Vogt gathered all the Bees’ errors. Tw ine tte catcher couldn't hang outo the sphere. RK. H 1101002—-6 17 Moonshiners .2720056%—16 9 1 Rose, Codeman and Godman; Slaton and Filber, Mannie Messenger, the Stork center-fielder, made two sensation- al catches out in his garden. Mes- senger mado a fine run after one fly and made a great one-handed stab of another one over his head. Six of the Moonshiners’ tallies came over on passed balls. Twelve batters faced Rose the second, In the fifth, Pitcher Slaton fig ured in every ono of the outs, On two of the outs ho assisted and re- tired tho third maa by catehing his high fly, B,}and Smith and Riley for the rail roaders, Kirkland defeated the Rainiers Sunday, 9 to 3. The features of the game were Kirkiand’s batting and the work of Woodruff, now pitching for Kirkland, striking out 15 men. Kirkland is looking for games with any fast teams. Broadway. >| Spangenibe 1100 First. Av., Cor. § ‘Hack k Wants ° Match to Go CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Ar rangements have been made * to cover the wrestling arena * at Comiskey park with a tar- paulin, so that in case of a *! drizale or regular rain, the */ match between Frank Goteh *| and George Hackenschnildt need not be postponed. Word *| from Hack today says that neither rain nor cold weather should be permitted to inter. % fere with the test TO ORR | F ad ~ FISHING TACKLE | Shot Guns and Ammunition, Grinds E Makes Keys wk SORE RESe EEE