The evening world. Newspaper, February 7, 1912, Page 12

— | | THE E UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY ole ry J BY BOZEMAN BULGER. FRANKLIN BAKER, the man who ripped a couple of home runs into the vitals of New York last fall and mado us ehiver all winter, is uns dall- yer who has the ight Idea, Instead of fluttering und in the £1 tight of farne for tho brief edittva-| on of elty fans he waa contented to go back to the old | home town fn Maryland, where he ta sure to be @ hero) for Ife, In the I town of Cambridge, Md., and che adjoining town of Trappe, the memory of thuse two ft was in Now York tha day | follow trains | Packey’s Pride Hurt by Black Eye He Received in Trounc- | Ing Burns. i (Vie New York Worl), | Coprriant, 1917 be The Moene Muttiattng Me, HPN the winti round at the Malemont \ I t nicht think Vockey MePariand's left fe colliled with Kid Burnes righ) L Cam’ iA fie Pow later the eve ana halt closed wae twoe thirde of ty lexan te toom cheek tone under the] sts eye MePariaw |) Btekly emile a wet th yan Ww nning nort of} ora when he "We teen a Lor wald. yok ima, “Ist between chmhen, t6 at tne ring with hie good aye tre Hoamiles of were inclined to think the him, Even Referee Bity teed mound the ring, at Vachey, And F tually blushed On, tt w darrassing When the end of tre ninth rege! cane Vackey turned end tinned nenchelantiy to ble corner, Hut that en ) and note | friends, wh C Res Gidn't aller the fact of the eye, Th was Waite there, closed tight mow, meat but not gaudy, nicely colored. As Packey eat around 8 deal down he derived what eatiafaction and comfort he could from looking aero the way at Burne, whose left eye w al80 In mourning. (Lo 4e the tenth he lto thet me out quickly and began hammering at Runs an Sard SYou Anon Bm THE Man WHO PUT THs | touched he could, Burne was weil battered tw. | Bow ww THe Business * fore the end of the fight. He aarrted a! Just ho dosen marke to Vackey's one, Mut Burne didn't care. A lump or two w) @ mere Incident to him. To Pack A catastrophe. Vor MeFaria Rodustomed fo evifghting his mon eo Cleverly that he comes through without no matter how muoh the oiher fellow may be dace | rated. Turning out bis Joba in this nice | "You i | | and workmanitke manner has became Mef fud. He han e@ bit of : | Corbett view of ihe zh The brother tenn ov other Collow | It takes a long time to get to Cambridge, but it ts well worth the trip, After being bumped erennd on accommodation trains sees anything of tnterest—the incesreniences of the almply because he pereonally knew the man who put Cambridge and Trappe on the tap. “Remember,” | conductor who had been talking to ine about Baker dun ing the thirty-mile ride from Seatord to Cambridge, “we treat him right.” shore of Maryland. the Mg Chop Tank River ts frosen over end boats cannot wet there from Baltimore. NATIVES FEARED DEAL WAS ON FOR HOME “I used to like It," he repliet. gunning tome on up to the house,” he | By this time eevernt of the lending oftizena had gathered | go to New York, They are awfully etrong for the Athletics |down there, end revere! proud fathers ara looking forward “Just @ minut the tan who put this boy in the business, | block another Cambridge citizen told me the same thing. |GOT $5 A WEEK AND BOARO ON HIS FIRST TEAM, | here just the same as you do T did get m big start her VERING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, PEBRUARY 7, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK 1912. EDITED BY | jana a coal de al “Home Run” Baker Talks of Famous Pitchers He Has Faced | and Tells How a Pair of Good Eyes and Nerve May Beat Them Story ot Baseball Hero's Home Life in Maryland Smatt Town Far Away From Big City’s White Lights, His Wife, Baby and Village Friends, Who Are Proud of His Baseball Achievements With the Athletics. Ing the downfall of the Giants. me batting the SaN around. That's where I got my start.” “How tong did pou play the cutfieid? I askea. for ten houre or more—those| not jon; run by sighs and stop whenever the engineer {s out in the count was the parting Injunction of the 014) ana ica We @ lot of this boy down here end you want to mock on tho door and hie Iittle egineen-months-old arma and fot her to eleep while he talked baseball, “Yes,” he resumed, ward came over them @ mile then and the town was forme Many‘s the 1 have walked down that street to the ball bridge te a Mttle burg hidden down on the Eastern It t@ difficult co And in the winter, as RUN KING. “I don't know,” he repite hat the way you spend the “You say you ware always a vod hitter,” I sald, NeW Hine of thonght suggested itself. | {# needed to make @ good hitter? “T really believe that hitters are born and not nude, deciarel. now, We wore out yeat Ay and «ot @ wild ly T had vistons of the possibility of getting « yped It short by adding that he left “Tha main thing,” declared Baker, Nerve. Uniess a boy has that he can nevi is emphattcatty, ented, “whore we can to the plate and let the pitch. and they openly expressed a fear that some kind of was comme off by which the home-run hitter mighe| ee step up and dare him to do it again. If the batter Revous and hacks away through fear of being hit hi EUR ime when their sons will be grabbed by Connie Mack. sald @ distinguished looking man as he nm and tovk ne aside, “You know, I'm 1 could tell you Before we had gone a half me on the over the ralddie.” w he learned to hit league an in the big league?” I asked, “Oh, noj not as much,” he explained, got. to have his nerve with him ip the minors Just the @: Decnuse they are nearly all ‘bean-ball’ pitoh he meant that the minor leaguers wore u: were Mable to hit @ batter at any time. -STER, MUST NOT sae: _ REPUTATIONS eee,” laughed Baker 3” By ly wild ne in Ridgely, Md., where I played the outfield re Charlie Herzog's team. Before you leave here you'll run PITS {into a dozen men who will tell you they put me in the busl-] “To get atons preiddd rl his bis league,” he ‘ness, and they honestly belleve tt. tinued, man Who stacted mie, however, was Mr. Day, whose! just the same as he would a fellow in Herzog's father-in-law, I was on a little country | You can't afford to be afraid of them." at at ‘Trappe, where I was born, and Mr. Day saw “Ip that why you were to hit Mathewson? England’ Ss Flyweight f manoged to land a glove on iin, UT asite from that eya-decorat-| Hurna did very Mitte worth! ntion during the ten rounda | jand teat him easily all the wey At the heginning of the aighth Burns! Nave’ top 180% ‘shen Made « few quick and Ineffective dina, _-_so " | HOCKEY LEAGUE STANDING. fa the direction of Mofarland, wh ; vay, |} BOXING SH TO-NIGHT. |) 1, " “aippet or viseked hie vows of ofeee| Sid Smith Is Matched With G SHOWS TO-NIGHT: || Hockey Club Make Opponents|| cm lis \ mem with ewift Jada After fealing ~ | Ve ToUng <a : > ate "3 1 Bie man out for a round, Mackey eei-| Johnny Daly for Local Club |] sro: umpire Ac. | Extend Themselves in Hard- |] cSt Oe 4 Be down to work, In the third and! ’ ; ten founds: Trving Ay ©, waroowiyas (| Fought G Now York A. Cid 2 fourth rounds he di4 sume heavy nit-| on Washington's Birthday. J Wells va," "Battling ought Game, Boekey CuBr. § ting, | And apparenuy wae tryt w put b, - Brooks, ten rounds, Bharkey A, C. Burnie out. Burne wae tough, And he - Young Reilly va. Joo Wagner, ten ie emo \twelve minutes of play, Six minutes had a trick whenever Packey fought rounds, BY JOUN POLLOC Ip him back to the ropes of bending over and crossing Bloves before his faca, SMITH, ot ampton ba S) teur Hockey League, th Tn tho last minute of play the Wane Fetiring into thia olum-lke defense aitd| England and hol ire kk. BUY Tito the ate clubs ees in the | @orers Kot busy, and ‘Tarmon and Me- , fe “ep date's flyweight eat at the Long Acre A, . \anpaect th each scored @ goal tn quick suce { : tim Kendrick vs. Eddie Sherman 0. 8 in a bard-fought game, In second period Britton went hie head Lack and shoot rights throu | dn" Faye to at the Sharkey A, C. Saturday The victors had to extend themselves | through the entire W | d Whatever opening he could make. Wis arrival in night in order to win, for at It looking | and scored a goal aft Reduce Ta the early rounds Burns struck two) fer he already doen matehed by b Smith, England's bantam [to the spectators as thou: hard blows, one of them a ewing into! Manager, Billy Ames, to meet Johnny vs. Johnny Daly, Na-T}Ciuy would emerge Ww the siomach. In the seventh Vackey Daly, the stunty local bantam, ta a ©, Washington's Birthday, ut looke again and tried to put ty tue sige bout at a te sleep producer, but couldn't du it. He, tone Birthday, Feb. 2h Daty te tn the Te. Baty Club caused Sraat 6% Was hitting with extreme deiideration, ¥ ve we a citement by the manner fn which they 5 ‘tional golf oham pio: eneeria Nonken oe hear champlonel!p class among our ba started proceedin Jimmy Britton | $Me }° li Bosiaa, vlans to sal for gland fa a surely De put out, Mo-;tam* and | th can “get awa scoring the first goal of tho nme after suid in June be ced Varland wasn't sparing of heavy right) With him there will be Ite doubt of a whale ltl _ —$———— hooks tand upperouta 'lbwehe wan take | ¢* ability to make good here, ing & bad boating, in exchange. nd wiviig very Uttie | SiSoesvery Uitte Franhle, “Malden Ach in the ninth came when aland had slussed Murns up the ropes, He wa tliting Burns's head back to o Tg@t over when Burne suddenty ewung Mort right mecif. landing hie glove | tquarely on Packey’s left ey me: |» diately there wus a cheer frum the! Burns cohorts. All through the fight MePariand was nd confident. He boxed w ave of a champion, Bu: lord by this, and e kind of w M&ht he has thown against other, boxere with, leas and. Wi not box Young a to-nleht. He ean't| a clover fellow tke andioap av a clone wed left eve. And benider het Packey's pride wit! har Bilow him to appear tm publte sporting his novel deroration, | 2 a ALTUSROL AWARDED BIG AMATEUR GOLF TOURNEY. SRS DSA BS + a Dave amity the Auetreltan. midlewelght, who toted ih . wlaniug att — Geld Nacyunet “Prett The prelimivary round for che gait racquet hamplonshin wii probabiy begin ts the eit ff the Tusrde Ciub on ¥rida Champion to Box Here Long Acre A. A. Matches Arranged. Wilson is the Drink now l[e- cause the New Bottle tees You the Real Wilson— - Wilson Whiske Old “Wilson” !—New Bottle!—Everywhe PIM A Ree a eR m CRN NER |Wanderers Now Leading Amateur Hockey League’: Noh ra Fhe qoe ane 00 an aver to Ridgety and join Herzog’s team. 1 was paid @ 8 ware end my board. he eaJ4. “But before I played third baee Tf ‘was also n pitcher, One day Hersog told me that he though’ 1 could pimy third, and he agreed to teach me the fine points of the job. I started tn on that corner and have stuck tnere myself are viniting her people. I live over at Trappe whic: T don’t think you ever would have go | shere on a day like this.” The ground wae covered with enow nt into the parlor, and fust as Baker was about to | resume his talk of how he ‘tyoke in” there was a faint wanted to get in. This big athlete took the oniid up in his 'l Aid 90 well for Herzog that 1 after. ‘@ and played in Cambridge 1 was hitting ant” pointed down @ jong thoroughfare lined with immense water oaks) ‘hoping that some day J would got to the big leaque. “But ‘they always look out for Hitters, and 1 guess that ts what he thought of first.” “What do you think “But they can be tmproved. The first thing @ hoy hope to succeed. T delleve the most nerve required in baseball 1s to stand up throw falls at your bean. ‘The food hitter will let a pitcher throw one at his head, and gone. “and Baker began to «et enthusiastic, “there are « lot of pitchers whose wole stock in trade ts thelr ability te drive batters from the plate, and then when they fet them ecared shoot @ couple of atratght ones right “DAd you have aa much trouble with pitchers in the minor | “But a batter has | ip ame, | that ad i td and | \ 1, “a @atter has got to look on the famous pitchers in the buth leagues, Champ Conklin BILLIARD STANDING, “Z think tt helped. tHe cortainiy ts a great pitcher, vut I) \fmew enough about him to know that he wouldn't hit ms. | That made me confident, and f walted until 1 got a Koud ene. Luckily 1 cracked it at the right tine.” ‘How about Marquard?” “Well, Marquard 1# @ good pitoner, but { don't think he is @ settled pitcher He doesn't know exactly how to figure batters like Mathewson, Bender, Walsh and that ciass of Pitchers. He's got the stuff, though, and ought to make a Sreat one.” Jit then there wae tne tinkling of «@ be! 1 Baker) and marted to tise he noticed that the baby was sound asleep. Mre. Baker came tn to tell ue that dinner was ready, (Tc Be Continued in To-Morrow’s Evening World.) Hamitton Club, averaged trip were forgotten by seeing the emiling face of “Home poopetoen Jehe nineteonth while Cok' | Run” Baker, the Glant-kifler, at the station In fact the} ris ts our house.” he oad, as we reached « pretty Mttle Javernge was bem run 0% visitor was given a little more than ordinary attention | eottare, “You know, I don’t live here, but my wife and |Dr. W. G. Dougias of the Amatenr Biitara Club won Nis first match tn jtourney by defeating Dr, W. | i | DY @ sensational rally in the lust | innings, the score veing 400 to 399, iG baby ‘ae \{ Bvening Worid’s ie ‘ ‘|| Headpin Tourney Tr ares casa i time Nene To cer | Last Night's Results, he | Te erteven tune © tallien tstschngs By tet cath os, Bais at your sean” Nerina yates at “That eenson T hit over 400 and we wun the champtonamp be 1 tT HLS | @tpe and falls down th a mud puadie | or TMH Gov “Have @ tough trip?’ asked Baker with @ emile as he|of Maryland. The next year I got @ chance to go to Read- vated H) ta full wew « younk indy of hie! Down, wea’ =- indicated by @ nod of the head the long inland ride, ‘Wome ing, Pa, and it wae while playing there ehat Connie Mack | “Barre Uh | acquaintances, Vin and what to the bush, ent and he Inughed. He hed in mind | got ma” | bins RS ARE : me 4 4 Ne. is i big league i Nor it. An Mei vns cary to. sees inal Paokey Sra bail teams uate around the circuit ts |NERVE AND GOOD PAIR OF EYE® MAKE HITTERS.| crs Minternagel, Wr filled with a feeling of chagrin, ‘This Across the way @ largo party of boys were skating on the Pte’ you think he wanted you because you were « good| xs Hho! & in hun- | froren river. Baker pointed out one who ho baseman or because you were euch @ good hitter?” 1 ork hadi eres, 4) 4 5 r wen pre a ‘bear. “Beat skaters in the coumtry down here” be) M#ked. and we both emilet, 8 nm by Tommy Murphy. eh L-Ceniol ase . Read, 40;" Clough. Clube Mtuebieek, 925 Rea 49, Scherr, 102; Calengn ca so teeny i, Bate at iu: White he| ° if Eichmops —Scher, 08; | shooting «rounds and would go there no more necause a lot jeeea i ® ood pa of even Then he must have nerve. It He of excitable fellows were shooting army ‘itis, and. the | fom withuil aaving that he needs strength, but nearly ail | Mate Bron—Pik, 68: Rove Athletics atood @ chance of losing @ third baseman by \ ae ‘ Breloke 75: Smith, 8, Total. 4 auinn (Coytepetite No. Bi Keuna, 96. Twelve— (ood wirth, Neole, 65, we “ane of Heater rhe, RS: Spat . Cor aeino, No. nit! Sad ‘Sor ga Jor a jaht’s Schedule, T warren UNTL 1 Got ory A Good one”, . Last et: Hise Savare Garten oext The sent @ telegram to con- jo! at Ohio F Paneeton a at "ila at Oldo | Field. Batt it 18 PA Wo Vinte t dling CENTURY jowel, Wo Was AL Obie Fle Sine 1, THatty, tt Schebertady, ‘late. Tos Jack, (Rid), Gieqon, fom formerly of the ri maueger "by Mavager” Caliah HE Wanderers now have first place all to themselves in the later Carter of the same team scored T another tally, scored the first two goals of the game. RU. 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