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THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 190¢_ STORIES OF SPORTS TOLD BY EXPERTS Mr. Latest of Freak Twirling Deliveries Invention of Rucker, of Brook- lyn, and It Holds Out Great Promises. BY ROZEMAN BULGER. ERE is the legal and undisputed her to the spit-ball H ball may the same experience, and {t's certainiy on the wi Rucker, of Brooklyn, is the inventor, and throughout the major leag experimental pitchers, or, .ather, pitchers who love to experiment, are t ing to develop the new rurve. “Tacks” The knuc those of a tan who tries to wash his own flawhel shirt while camping Now, don’t get it into your head right off that this is all bull, for isn't. There is something in this new knuckle ball, and the only th necded is for some pitcher to get it out. The same trouble was had w: the spit-ball when Elmer Stricklett first discovered {ts wonderful possib! ties, ake time to grow into sturdy manhood, but all of us had Pitcher Nap Neuer, of the Highlanders, worked on it so hard a few days ago that his knuckles were woru off worse than } Is; kle | ues ry- tt ing | rary HNi~ Bau It ts rsre when an Inventor gets the need {x the opinion or Joe MoGin Renetit of his own device, It is the maa the King of ail experimen (who develops tt. ‘The steamboat was ell have someching to sy fivented before Rolert Fulton took @ rack at {ton the Hudson, but he was ee the first one Who could turn it into comes Washington, ‘The athleti it the “tures, r hae develope new curve x de My Ard OW ot in a pin hia A alg MASSE uns cea @ would pits sre ba Tnatiacecinchrinenoraclice 9 would he str it tw men with the stran, Dender and had the carcher pawing up) yi9 tamer Aiie earth drying to catch It It ci RSeanwaras PA tGr Die pinay Withi-e peel ign toed niotion, and then wanbled to 3n such a ludicrous manner Age Jordon owas the “goat.” actually and it seems a anam Jaurhed aloud. But he struck at ft jut Cet eo the s cot mane © knuckle ball ts atwavs gol i +e} hen Ity, becanse tt is so hard sae eo 1 Very few pitchers hav c plies They Nerve to take a chance with It, As will, fr the afternoon be seen fn the accompanying {ustr4~ | ag pughiandere had rather a bad finan tion the ball fs held tightly between) with the Atheti pay played just the the thumb and little fnger. The other site Kind [of bell from whey they did t loowe for kee fire fingere are doubled up so as 10 | Mitance bad. bean offered the Now Yorkers Now the ball to rest on top of them— / f, Titire them That kind of uel occurs in not beneath them. Try to hold a ase. | the best regulated siliex. a0 ball with the tins of the thumb Yon, tans “foot ulinge little and then slip the Coie enter eet three by It without dropplz and then you will have an {dea of how z Gitficult the knuckle pall will be to ime foxiveas, He ie teying hia Sihirol ung pitchers ovis. Never will Mr. MeGii= As was sald before, the ball reste | Hovidy oe eMiey end of meather.” He against the knuckles and on top of] w need these trusty arms later on in the; them. When the ball ts thrown it is | #0 ° set spinning on a perfectly horizontal | uxts, The downward thrust of the hand) §§ y eauses the knuckles that rest against | the ball to make it spin toward the | HONUS WAGNER thrower instead of away from him, In contradistinction to the drop curve. If eufficiont speed could be mustered, which | $s a palpable imporsipility, the ball would have a tendency to curve upwarl! But there is not such force at a pitcher’ ee command. and therein the batter is (Spectal to The Evening World.) ae The ball spins vp to the plate, ! pipTsBURG, Pa. April 18.—Late last | and s effort to curve upward ft al- 3 Uy evening Hans Wagner, short stop of | most stops: For a fraction! of a| second | cven!n RY Senery ; He vaveee and then waotles to one side. te Pittsburg bageba!l toam, who and drops. been holding out, declaring he would| = 4 not play ball for @ whole year because al of the Highlanders hers 0 been tried it yenterday morning in practice, | 2° Wanted to rest, attached his sign bs eed “" /ture to a Pittsburg contract, and with but on!y the fellows with big hands and in an hour afterwards was flying towa long fingers could throw It at all. Never | Cincinnati, i was aft rd where he will join the team couldn't THE WHIRLING DERVISH. BATTER Dizzy ano CROss- EYED. induce a pug MANES THE The SPINED BALL. WHICH WRIGGLES Lin A FISH TRYING TO GET OFF THE HOOK Jfow T = Tir FINGERS OVER IN FRANCE WILLIE LEWIS IS BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK nuckle Ball Is Introduced as Our Newest Ba HE BALL I5 HELD For THE NEw + WITH THree DOUBLED UNDER IT. - INDEXED GALLOP FORM. At iRAVESEN Gravesend TUF wl track wae ls 8 MCHANTILIAS Six farlones — --—_—_ +4. — 1 « « . JAMES HI Six ; CABLE from Paris says: 5 = “Willie Lewis. of New York, knocked out Harry Col. © SIS EE Bho i ins, the 169-pound champion of E s + HES LD eat) land, here to t In one round,’ ! ! to-uight in one round See Uemooe eahin IE don't think I ever heard of Harry be 0 ve Noe the “160. po 1 champion of url 1 out Curley Watson, the 158-pound cham-| EXPOS i th over in F; mentions L rance, a new Ev bi EWIS isn't the make good land by a mile or American fistic expept that takes it into his head to clean side of the pond usually makes a European reputation for hims nae American to France or Eng- two. s despatch h, usually with K. 0. tacked after the names Eve: 1p on the other 38 When John L, Sullivan, thes In his prime, first went to England, he! mong all the English heavy-weights to meet him gallopin pion of En a $ ago iy SPOONER—One + 43, br Paris. Looks very much as if he DRED Gea ots were working his way up to Gunner |" “Nyro rT One mile In 14S Oreste: | Moir, two pounds at a time hay They must load steamer a if | English champions dump them — vexing | —_—<-—- At Sheepshead Bay s The Eventng World) SHBEPSHBAD BAY, April in 24 3-5, furtones in 2-5, handily 0.12, 0.24, furlongs in 5 ady uv ngs in 0 19 SPORD—Thiree ng and Nice colt ACHTEVE—Four furlongs O51 *H—Fou nes in 0.50, ni Just a galloy \ORSHOT f breezing irlongs 4 YARBORO—E — PLY BALL furlongs in 0.51 2-5, Six furle furlongs — in Wy. Looks wel urlongs in work in 1.19, furlongs in 0 LIGHT Reine THe OVER THE KNUCKLES TO GWE \T THE curve WOOL—Seven furlongs in 3.05, Bact ” Trews” NEUER, HAS INVENTED A™ACKLE" FoR THE KNUCKLES. FRom HE ¢ a UP TO DATE, NEWSY AND WELL WRITTEN CROSS MARKS SECTION WORN seball Frien °%4 : NEVER’S KNUCKLES BEFOR® a NVENTED THE “FACILE” BRA AP BOOKS WHEN DY AND WOODS ° GUY FISHER SHOWS | NTHONY N day just in Ume to put down Fisher, in the first jrace. A 40. 12 and 5, and Brady and Woods looked happy. BY J. TOD SLOAN BRADY and George Woods got out to the ffack yester- a good bet on Barney Schreiber’s Guy The horse finished second at odds of Mr. Brady always | likes to bet on Schrieber’s horses, and no amount of tips from the knowing Jones will change him when Schrieber has a harse in. He followed up his win on the first race yesterday by beating most of the balance of the card. Shaw's ride on Grapple was In DIE st to his previous performances on James B. Brady and Rockstone | Shaw can ride—sometimes. Sam Doggett is here from Denver looking as fit as he did in his patmy riding days. Life in Denver looks bet Sam than following the races, ter to and after a six weeks’ vacation, dur- ng Whi he will visit his brother, Cadenzier Doggett, he will hie himself | back to the tall mountains, where he 1s established as a commercial man of no mean ability hed his tail and Stone just Gus Straus swite i | tell off. It looked as if Stone ed for the switch to take his t Sen the betting market called | ble, though for nothing of the kind. “Boots Durnell was busily engaged in making out checks. Just what for no one seemed to know. To-day will be a big day if the weath er man. will only be good to the race- uers. The card is the best of the meet- ing so far ROU Met pe Lewisohn {amily were out strong VLA SAVOY-One nile In” 049, | yDRC QS" ina. quit winner on every 4 race but one. ° —— ahha, New Roller Skate Record. Frank Farrell and Davy Johnson for- rook the ball game for the track yes. anh th Previous reconda for the tile on roller | torday, and were well repaid. ax both of RUMIaB OATS Lina Cunyen anna them had good bets down on Aluda and Hd the distance in which is three sec. | Grapple. ends faster than Olle Moore's profeastona — Froonl 21 J. R. Keene's Besum, the noree famed thinks he has mastered tt, and some Of | to-morrow in the opening game of the | within S. The Prince of Wales, had @ lor of t these bright afternoons there is going | serie: | E M lot of fun with the | — i! : here. ries, Who Wanted to see ) action sen oe woadariinaals to be # sensation up on the hill. Harry Smith, catcher, a | the trouble to personally ask Jem He knockea ae ay = Just who will be the sufferer is stil! | will Join the team at C Hea & ape aii heen aac ein a @ inatter of doubt, but you can gamble | dent Harry C. Pulliam, o} Monell |e aye ae ay Hea 5 ee BIR uN Ce ae rnoney | ac (Hel box BOWLING IN CITY EDITION. | that jee will take a chence. He will |League, reached Pittsburg in the morn. | o4 ena te nae the Des pdt & steamer ton! nate Southampton ana ———-- tak chance on anything one time | and heiped President Dreyfuss con-l iq mith nad dust mulahed a season | Maen muc in fnew there) puring the remaining days of Clark Grifftth is of the opinion that this nee Wagner that he was hurting not 2 vip ul ass : ain enat Etta delphi the howling season news of the | something new in. baseball, Willis | game. But that he was hurting pesetes Fee ears aah whe all the | Mit loud camalte |) Gute on ors de holds the same opinion. All we now | to salary e | Ee eee coaldnit seated : aoe | hen he lee peace bad a great “rep.” | tn this edition —— itt, 7 tH IES CRIT 5 TT Burns has ». 7 PEATERE ONO Tota a eo ey. tanuthe ie aren oney “maker abroad. Burn. 1 4 NUGHME Helander aust at a ume ioe Ae ugrit she h a { Reavy-wolkht At to tival Jeffries” Apys i i Pomme! gpherting Club people looked leat hin. Billy ea ousht, Moir wou him. Billy Neall, who stood bac a \ —-— pea ets lah trusively In the crowd wher yen, ———_ o | | nivoalges wd wien Burns ‘Tom Phelan, the Irish champion welght | pace eer 4 CE ye the Englsh- 7 5 PeerecL any Lelie ican cay etET | Gerson ae Teles Oe ced aeanat ony Morriney, of the Meroury a. 61: Lara, of Bnhy salckered ‘when they any BY JOHN POLLOCK. ! r, has bee t garded as one o: ales best | tie Mohawke and Hayes, of the Irish An bi he looked x alll beside theil eens SRT len. hye McGruth ina training st says | sprinter pulied Ae Fe Aaah ae fan | Gunner, Tut Burns gat id e MMY BURNS, the heavyweight ever set eyes on, and that the aamme |“ Yale Jor the meetings eid in the Hu next Monday. | lot since he lost to Burns in armed 8 | ‘ Fee ea A eae ne Weight and strength, to pull the ham-. iald up as the result of a similar injury Toston’ Marathon. # ea In Europ I mets — teat for the Olympic Marathon ILLY NEATL tells a easy mark to-night. He will have fo: mer ne eight usual! n hin t len may > well 1 Pr, but Q " ory + “7 oY Smith r The weight 1 eal timeeie/to be Men cmay It in colt weather, bat iaase | about Tommy Burns sean Aor | nis o ut this time ‘Jewey" Smit : en Phelan believes that he can Tf A Very poor showing under ® hot sun Tommy has a at trek of tind.| & heavyweight, of Austra CUA Risnate the) Ametiean) welehty to) ave mit all about any man h Oy | been challenging “Gunner’ Motr for h as e has be accustume ° when he even had mov pictures of Baie mn m iz him for a Sionmiporjhennasyvesn ascusiomad Thee ip his training quite, seer e Saute | of $2.50. Burns and Smith will come to SDR GLO I ROOUALEY eh TE f M8 leer a ei MURLERTTAR eI Krai | gether In a ten-round Bout Tee ai/ahon t youths for] When Burne ant gu sat make. to be brought off In Paris, which Is ’ | | England Moir Was about ty Sityed| ngnt mad just now, since Wille Lewis } ) | Bate wexhibition Wonderland, | Walter Stanton, Frank Erne an: i and wet ae anxious to see him box | McVey, the colored heavyweight, al ie night of the exhibition he bought] American fighters, have been defeating R snend ee sult of clothes a cap and| the E ) pugilists in quick time | aneaked out | 1s hotel ins disguise, | Burns. will probably get $5,000 or $5 004 bea OF u a} RRUAROOA TA eae In the arena} for lis end as he is no cheap fighter } h parated ant Hurng went up into| and wil) surely degand this blz sim and silding into a seat In na) ‘ . I evel le mrepeens Uistenaeltel sak fee i jh ck row hud ‘Wh and kept | Kaufmann Picking Out ‘Easy Marks. 7 mission” to he te Tyna enone cary Ant boxed, and | Al Kautmann, the California heavywelght oteh, the wrestling champion, | Frounds, ap p to Cele Park —-—__. \ inovement: keen now be accused of bel nother’ of Frank Gotch, the wrestling champion, | Et° for tiie auilee, who desires to be fe obokneyaiwere)|(atcta® (em Sree ce eeey tari gays he has three brothers, all i Y aby Kiri, who en ates Noes A x Aimerkean, | ose fighters who are picking a iid ot peer ay eaoatathiate A the firat. inp of life's race ubour tw aiclen Rerolle, the Molrit ave ts |to fight. Le has just signed article of than himse } athletes, ies ago. Sheppant han dot est amateur player of France knocked hoff w'en ‘e| Agreement ot Joe Grim, of Philadel- they are ne match for him, He #2 aining recently. is recent 5 a fe anes Bes Rar Mine he bas mac iMacs then wrestling) maesuern non ase ree ternationa teur billiard tournament iharinited arcana eeetyed | tweon ste) nna a2. ver be! en President Rooses n¢ ‘ SELES i Habaaianel nun Meir) murder | ony tight bas hee CANS eG) Bee eee Oe omer eeaanea oper pltivand at 182 ba to start at the Lieder- | lm") he said. in his best Imitation of| Sattaily hy every man that has fought. hin dime on hin n the last lx yee 0, . ot ‘admiration | rang Club, Kas ty-elghth stre english ling 4 beNortine tine: her aldlmnakera cow | RA man Of) the stBip (Buck llpwecaneterenineek ieee eee a WOU yelled the cockney, “wot do| Jeffries Finally Secures a Bout. wa Hie also says he hus never ad-| and the dincue handler ‘ A passenger on the French Mner la | BEQWA otter you half) yin, Jeteries has finally landed a bout for Vised any one asked any one to bet] py, cgi, He See Ay raul were a cs pat Burns 'sn't ‘alf as big as the Gun-|the opening show of his new club Juat out- on him. He says he names price | sprinter, qua . ae an amaten Louraina, reaching port to-day Thle|ner,’ explained ‘Tommy, —“"E's a little] aide of Lox Angele J, on April 28. Atter | Fe Bee aware ana itas accumutated | {28 Be has been invited to officiate at aev-| In addition to his games in the French Cockney | grinned | derisively. | signing Jimmy Gardner, Lawell, @ fortune — | Curnaments, Rerolle defeated Wilson sven’ oleiers of vith. Hit “mei | Mew" Eneitnd. weltse-wolaht, for twonty> s He says he has made more money in apne Pastime A. C., hors have Geciied to) P. Foss in a match contest in Paris Dig across the back as a bloody five rounds, at 1 pounds, welah In at 8 Ma eating cen Wan SBRY port new colors: The sombre black and |; 2 phant —'E 01 0 eon the day of ‘the battle. ight living, He ts now He exhibitions in! blue of the Bue’ Side organization wiliene | @vOUt & year ago, and any amateur who ) of inark my words & Molr's block | FM. iw puated a fortelt of 8000 for the @he Northeast for three weeks. After bravest athletic tlag ever | tit on our ner champion is! Burns stil argued, and the cockney | match: that he. will come 1 or five weeks, | tiime at the Pastinie however, at that time rand vie | pelligerently: offered’ to “punch your Club to Change Name. three of w will appear in ay youre * a | bloomnin’ ‘ead off’ Abor 1 é. i . Ne» York, After a week in PSN RANI Meee ep hepa aes gli Hs | match during Rerolles stay here iw! ¢ Mtelye Metre tutte wis ria, me: | charley Harvey, matchmaker of the Na: @nd one in Boston he will then return | erome on chest. The Vale colors robable iscreetly made his get-away, | tional A. C. of America, mitch intends © 0 hi arm in nbol a rest ne Pastimes, empeciaily in indoor eae se ‘| change its name to the New Broadway merida on Shi jit wae atticin ¢oalnetsas the piyvitatigns are baing sent out by che ki after" the "next show. Meany mis had fe oy ss 1c, Company for areception in the new ot oxen people . talk with the manager of Jack Goodman, I need a rest and Tam & take! 1. a try-out for the Marathon race in Eng | quarters In West Thirty-second street, wh BOUT A dozen people have writ-| the taat local laht-weteht, last night In re: it." he said. I am. gor hunt | iand,” ALB. Thompson, a veteran waiker, | a6, Deng ovoupied today. The floor spac ten asking me to publish my | ard to matching Goodman against Fighting through September, and no man can in-| son! “The diet * Was about ity {2;| covers 86,000 square feet and the layout cost ‘decision’ in the Leach Cross Mek Hyland or Tommy Murphy for six velgle me into a maich before then un-|and the winner's tima BD hours ands me $530,000, “making the finest exhibit in the/ pos, Keyes battle, As I. didn’t Founda at the club's stag, to be held the less he gets me Within the next two] uter, was nothing wonderful, Another Mara. | WOT |that fameus encounter, Tam sorry to| tte Par »monthe.” thon trial the previous week was much faster | John Horgan and John Daly will play a/ Say that Tam unable to oblige with a Donovan to Fight Killeen. are ——— goieeuahion. inaish "for the, emblent shelf | decision ANY bets that may have been| sim ponovan, the ex-Enallsh midah | Baseball To-Day, 2 P.M. Americal Baseball, Polo Gds4}To-Day, 3.20 F. M.| PY Daly at the Mispourl 4... Apri ‘ade on conditioi hat my decisic x et Maague Park,N. ¥.Americane ve. Waah'we. %6* N, thietie Club va, Ya! ‘They ‘play ¢ifty points each night, There should rule are naturally to be de-| Weight, who changed his mind about making ‘ r Y, athletle es dy, 200, %68 EN aide Vet ‘ot dead oft ,)0 tip to Parla, wee clgned up last night oy SHU a ue LueKe us mUEeED Ce TRUE Comyn Jimmy Joni righ middle to meet Jack Killeen, n the eight champion, for six rounds MONEY FOR TOMMY URNS Stanley Ketche!, the Montana middle- weight, & thirty-five-round battle at, Colma, Cal., on einain bout at the stag tobe held by the Olymple AG. of Harlem. on next Thurs: | Saturday afternoon, May 9, 18 so confident Ate ina awl) ver ileeniaati that he will beat Ketchel that he has al- ker. and. Charley save Killeen ready made the announcement in San Fran We hope 89. cisco that he is going to wager $1,000 on Jack will I) Again Clash. nees of beating bis man. OE RET Sean Cee CIEE have no {rouble in-wetting tie money, cov- 1 Crown and Sammy Smith, the east| cred, as Ketchel has @ big crowd of ad- aide fighters, are going to battle again, and| mirers on the coast. Ty GN Gn reiaen aoe GaN GeR (eel ec? Che) Geer (CHT six rounds at the next stag of the Grand| | Harry Lenny, the ex-Quaker City light Union A. C. of Hariem on April 28, This] Wel@ht, who has not fought a battle In Wil be thett thind serap. In. tnele first | long time, has been matched to meat Frankir Teach won by a mile. In_ their recent | Madden South Brooklyn fighter, for #ix scrap Smith ‘cade ja’ great tinten, Smith | rounds at the atag of the Dry Dock A. ©. on Young Otto Back in Game. “Young Otto,”” the local lightwelmht, has not fought sinoe he boxed ‘Young Shea who Monday night. Lenny, was a clever man when he fought at the local fight clubs, but whether he is still the ame fast, shitty boxer he was then will be shown when he faces Madden, es sharky A Oo several Pentaa ae, “Young Donohue” Has New Manager sill be een in action again on Thursday i night, He will meet Dave Deshler, of Bos-| , Jack Blrroco, who hae taken “Young Don tun, for six rounda In the main bout at the | hue.” the Boston fighter, under his manage cee ee he Long Acre A. (Deshler ta a | Ment, 1s anxious to clinch a match betwee oukh cumomer, ant If Otto can beat him | his nan and Tommy Quill, the Brockto: he can get.a fight in Boston or with Billy | fighter, who has @ decision’ over Donahue Glover in this: Vielnity ‘The verdict given to Quill waa an unjust - one, as the referee wa* a great friend of Jack “Twin” Is Betting. Quiil's, and besides the battle was fought Caen ta Just outside of Providence, where Quill” is Jack ‘Twin’? Sullivan, who ts to tigas| {2ty popular. ae wigan Y Ly Y Z Z 3 3 Z Z IILUSITANIA SONG Yrcrwmmmmmmmmannnananitiiiitillde 6 cents each, 9 for 85 cents, Yn, Vf ff, eb boxe : 7 USITANIA CLUBTT, PEABODY @ COMPANY, Trey, H. ¥. last season as the only one Keene had @ bet on all year, won his race like a real good gelding. He acts as though ne were another Raceland. Starter Mere Cussidy had a frith the flag, and) got) his fel away in splendid shape. | “Dodgers” at National A. CG. | The only boxing stag to-night will be | that of the National A. C. in its club- | aou: at Nos. ll and 13 Cedar street, | Brooklyn. The principals in the etar bout will be Billy Glover, of Bomon, and Marty Rowan, of Brooklyn. They will ibox at catch weights. The Brooklyn ational League team hi been invited by the club to attend the stag, Jim Stewart, the young heavy-welgl wilh referee tha contests. 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