The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1912, Page 7

Seta UTHER M’ ASK OF A STEAMING GROWNDER, FROM WHE STICK OF CHG MEYERS START NOT -ENCCURAGING ) Park in Bronx, but Manager Billy Jordan Is Confident of Ultimate Success of Venture. ; CLOTH sign tacked on the board fence at One Hundred and Sixty- third street and Southern Boulevard marke the spot where a little band of ball players is trying to convince New York that outlaw Teague basehall is worth looking at after all, The epot is the old Bronx Oval. The ball tossers (there are only about a dozen of them) are the men who wear New York uniforms in the United States League. The cloth sign does not stand out as boldly as it did a few days ago, Wendred, the sign, apparently despairing of making good and wishing Mightily to go away from there, tugged one corner loose and \made other frantic efforts to escape. Not so the players or their doughty leader, Billy Jerdan, fer one and all they are sure the league and team are going to hit it off and wind up the season In a olaze of giory. Anyhow, league and “Of course we'd like to have more sald Jor- of encouragement. It was no go, how dan, “but we'll stay in the pAtendance drops to ten. You ‘nay re- member that the league was mighty ag and lanky a ball pl woul er as one wirling and he held New York to on apzious to have New York represented) 10.4 "0,0 while Reading scored four im. the circuit somehow, That WAS) more times, making the ; largely because of the prestige it would | 13 ¢ nal score give the organization. I g RO ONC! It took only & couple of minutes for ever really figured on dig attendances) the'fans to get out of the grounds, v here, but on the road a team with New! quietly and evidently trying to figure York on the breast of the shirt is bound Ut what there was about the gume to be a big card. The success of the {hat could possibly furnish food for de- league is already aseured, for tn pr ate during the evening. But the same crow b . tleally all the other citles the attendance | pia be back this at has been surprisingly large, notably !n/ ington, for tt wi Cweinnat!, Pittsburgh and Richmond, ‘FRis means that neither league nor team going on the rocks because of small ‘attendance here, for even the ‘big fel: lers’ have thelr weak spots and mai to worry along somehow.” NOTHING PALATIAL ABOUT CLUB'S HOME. There is nothing very palatial about the home of the invading United States . ‘There is no concrete-atadium, for instance. Instead, there is a weather beaten grand stand. The builder evi- dently had an appointment he had to! keep before he finished {t, for, while there are rafters for the roof, the re- maining and somewhat important fer- ture of the overhead protection 1s strangely absent. But there in plenty of hen-yard wire netting in front, #0 the more spectators in the grand stand yesterday wére in no danger from foul t! Several rods of bleach- @f@ adorn the third base side of the fMi4, very much like the grand stand, except that being bleachers, of course, evén ihe skeloton of a roof was never cémtemplated. A press stand with backs to the seats and unwritten per- Milasion, to the acribos to use their knee- capa for desks completes the scenery wound the diamond. In a word, the Park 1s a correct imitation of the ball ff one knew back in the tall tim- its serles with Was! Just baseball and is not ceed not particular what NEW YORK TEAM MADE UP OF SEMI-PROS. The New York team is made up mostly of men who would class as good semi-pros, although most of them have ween service in some of the smaller leagues, They are not men who are blacklisted by the National Commisio insists Jordan, for the United Stati Leagio does not consider itself an out- law organiaAtion and accordingly, he said, conforms with some of the regu- ations of organized baseball, How the United Staters dope it out that the league is not an outlaw while several of tts teams are playing in “protected” ter- thove for which the Sphinx ts #0 cele- brated, but anyhow that's the way Wit- ‘™an and his colleagues look at tt, The pitching staff of the Bronx leaguers is composed of half a dozen twirlers who, of course, have not yet conclusively shown just what abliity they possess. They are Peterson of the Bronx Athletics (Billy Jordan’ afternoon semi-pro | bunch); Sammy Hope, a Central Isip 12d; McRobbe, fore meriy of the Trenton Tri-Stato League; Wihinms, formerly of Toronto Kastern CAKE; | the New Bedford New England League joutft, ‘The other players: Brown, third base, formerly of Milwaukee, Western League: Preyer, shortstop, a Menhattan College grad ending the games of crowds duat Hke those Bronx leaguers are tebe found at the Polo Grounds and American League Park in that they Itk the umpire on genera! principles. , the fans at the Oval are bit different from their brethren the other side of the town. Ti ‘mostly youns men and boy: typtcatty a neighborhood bunch, It being Sottal if more than a dozen journe: mare than a mile or #0 to witnos: ‘They enjoy. themsel all the time, for, notably there has been some very ball playing by Jordan's and thoir guests, the Reading team, And tical turn of the Ka: these cd Se cr of bane nol ttlendly aa to call the players by first names, or ones that they think might be right, and yelling for the ecalp of the enemy with as much vigor as the most rabid fan ever let on Coogan's Bluff. Whe Reading team piled up runs quite consietentiy yesterday at the end of the om half of the seventh the gcore stood 9 te Liegainat Gotham. Then the Jorden ‘by the blowing up of the 1s bman, sent six inen across oe and the crowd, immensely ee with Boston Nationals; Bruxgy, catcher, of Fitzabeth, N. J., who has had a lot of sem!-pro experience and some minor leagues; Hynes, second base, for. merly of the Pirat ° field, formerly League; Disb: right fleld, of St. man, middle-aged, bronzed from outd with gray. He follows the Conn! style of running the team, never leay. ing the bench and worrying his men advice, He fsn’t blind to the fact that as well as might able to whip it Into a fast diamond o ganization. He's going to make a stren. uous effort anyhow, friends figure that !t won't be long be fore he will be getting more generou: support. AW= LUORAUS BLEW IH Hom OVA SINGLE OV kT SOME. CLASS TO THE WAY TITUS COUKCTED SHODGRASS FRISKY MINER IN RIGHT FIELD LOCAL U, S. LEAGUE CLUB'S | Team Playing to Slim Crowds in Ramshackle, ‘when {t succeeded in inveigling 2,500 fans into the grounds for the open: | ing game, for yesterday, when the attendance dropped down to a couple of .! team got started on schedule time, which, a while ago, few thought pos-, Pleased, began giving New York barrels | § mo it tho| ever, for Reading uncotled one Schaefer, } see in a day's walk, to do the St! rnoon when or the kind that wants |/ ritory is a secret similar to that or} Sunday | Waco, one time member of Wall, first base, one time | i with Brooklyn and for a time this year |! Manager Jordan is a typical baseball, Yee! New oor | Geer. Bt | life, with black hair slightly streaked fae as little as possible with comment or! as yet the team does not play toxether he wished, but he thinks he has good material and wij he and he and his “ a oes sere tt artes meme i ; ‘ _ SENSATIONAL GIANTS-PHILLIES GAME IN MOVING PICTURES 1F T.TUS HADBVBR KEANED ON CHE OF “THESE HE WHIFPED AT © ne THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1912. rorscattuerns, NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT Outlaw League Baseball as It Is Played rrrery MBRALE WAS Mutt PAEVED WE OLY GOT A CIHOS, HERE ‘eee Pe ROVE. CHE PP OUT TO ENC BNovshass uae A Nap Lajoie So Badly Hurt He May Never Play Again CLEVELAND, May 4.—Nap Lajole, the crack infielder of the local American League team and regarded as one of the best players in the history of the game, is the latest victim of the acckient hoodoo that has been hovering over all the major league clubs since they went South to practise early in the spring. Lajole’s injury ts similar to the one he received last season, and it is the opinion of the physicians who examined him that the Naps are in danger of losing his services for- ever, It was while stooping for a liner that the mighty Frenchman strained himeelf so badly that he fell to the ground. An ambulance was summoned and he was hurried to the hospital. He is suffering intense pain, and as yet the doctors have not been able to determine Just how severely he ts hurt, OR ‘LEAGUE RECORDS Compiled’ by Expert George L. Moreland. (These Statistics Will Ap; National League B: wumes up to and incl AD. = ye baie Prinnel By aagh-Secnsssaaticue:: Dose, ‘Tooley, Danbert, Hert EST SasMsiarTssSssasaces x Fancast sesemensseny BESS Tac SUSU SWS ate SiariescehssaSss aewehowe wocees sae: 1 i i if eSSnSraSasadraesSenhesslscee! Syrkeeotessretanct gee ooliinereSiasaehsec a sassiSSeee: SETEih pacscoeneet oS -a-ae na nenntienl te! acre cate ottisrneaneen Same SSSaawielse: H i ; i 4 ul 4 F ucecstsnsone ‘00 " Records, vitebed in i fou 1000 1000 Brooklyn. nt League Pitchers’ Record ho have pitched ta n as mds of pitchers who NY a z Hy 2 1 1 1 1 } 1 1 4. including ae | Ties eit NN Kork | Wonton i | pues ¢ vitae, N NaxTEse~=: SSEENTSNSEE ws Phillies Win in Tenth Inning of Game in Which Even Umpire Gets Excited. BY BOZEMAN BULGER. HE two and one-half hours of scrapping ¢hat finally broke the Jong winning streak of the Giants and gave the fans the largest number of thrills in once chunk ever dispensed at the Polo Grounds carried enough eidelight and queer angles to keep one writing @ month, Whether it had any bearing on the ing lost his bearings throug! citement, went up in the alr and pulled Giants’ Long String of Victories Broken in Thrilling Contest decision in the tenth inning that will do to cut out and paste in your hat. It offers grounds for an interesting pro- test, but there will be no protest, and the best we can do is to play the game over in the papers. ‘Titus of the Phillies wae at the bat and had two balls and two strikes counted on him, when a foul ball was thrown Into the diamond, Matty walked toward third and picking up the ball tossed it to Merkle, He then walked to the box and started to pith. “That counts as @ ball against you!’ yelled Kiem, and the count was run up to three balls and two atrikes on Titus. “What's that for?” asked Matty. “Delaying the game,” anapped Kiem. “You were in the box when you tossed that ball to first.” Though Matty was not in the box, he took that decision and went on pitch- ing. The change in the count kept him from pitching a curve, and he was forced to lay @ fast one squarely over the middle. Quiet John smashed it to deep right for two bases and that was the opening wodge that finally resulted in two runs for the Phillies. MATTY HAO RIGHT TO THROW BALL TO FIRST. ‘Whea the inning was over Matty w: to Kiem for an explanation of his qu: decision. There is @ rule by which an umpite can call a ball on @ pitcher if he deliberately takes up time by throwing the ball anywhere but to the plate. Klem forgot, however, that it was a foul bal, and thet Matty had not got back to the box. He had the right to throw the ball where he pleased, as it was not in play until he got back on the mound. It wasn too late then, but Kiem was confronted with the sudden Doolin was on knowledge that tho warlke duties of the 'time snes lt suffered thet a the peries, 1 Hes tt | Herts. toa \ expecta to be jast night, “except that it put me in the , 1a frm the afternoon had sent him up in the air he had pulled a bad one. "I wouldn't have cared," said Matty : hole and forced me to groove the ball to Titua instead of trying him with a curve. It shows, however, that umpires can sometimes lose their temper as well as the players.” ‘The most epectacular play of this his-| | 4 toric game was made by Herzog, for qulok thinking and daring in a! yin pinch it was a world beater. The Giants needed one run to tle fn the ninth and the bas out. There were two strikes and two balls on him, Alexander took « big wind up. Suddenly the crowd gaspsd. Herzog had made a@ flying start from third as Alexander began to wind up and by a great slide beat the ball to the plate by inches. It was a clean steal of home and tled the score. While the Phillies were dumbfounded over this unexpected play Meyere lit out for second and Sha- fer for third. On the throw to second Shafer should have scored, but he didn’t think quite quickly enough, and when he Md start Knabe's throw nailed htm at the plate. PLAYS CAME TOO FAST FOR THE CROWD. Plays were being made so fast that the crowd war all tangled up, and the side was out before they knew what had happened. For tho third chapter we will take an b| interesting move mado by Josh Devore in the tonth, when he figured wrong and allowed Lobert to score on Cravath's two bagger. With Lobert on second sctsatincts ee emeees om, wo om 0 on Sie 2 — = G8) Ciena, Boston . on 7: 0 Caldvell a 00 - Powell, Bt, ae | = jocker Wi on 1 - = QUO Faye, Bostou...... 3 F Josh decided tt better to play in close so that {f Cravath happened to hit a line single there would be a chance of throwing Lohert out at the plate, As ja result Cravath drove a long fly far over Devore's head and not only scored 'Lobert, but made a two-bagger as well, | Had Josh been playing @ deep field he ‘eguld have gathered in the long looper were full, with two! Arthur Wilson was at the bat.! ure and, th ugh he shouldn't be se verely blamed, he took the wrong one. After the game he said that he should have figured on Lobert night ever the judgment of Merkle in trying to steal third in the fourth two run: and the Phillies would have been held to one run. DID MERKLE USE GOOD JUDGMENT IN TRYING TO STEAL THIRD BASE? There was a big argument last inal With Tt_ so happened, however that ff he hadn't made the attempt the Gaints wouid certainly have got and maybe more. Shafer followed with a two-bagger and Meyera with ingle. The players took aldes in the discussion, some of them upholding Merki Judgment and the others arguing that he should have played it sa: Thero were two ways for Josh to fig- being faat enough to score on an ordinary single and consequently should have gone back to prevent a two-bagger. Lober one of the fastest men in the leagu could have scored on most anything. wi of ball player the wild pitchi throwing of Shi Four bases on balls and two errors ga being That Is @ pretty good ill thinking powers a After all ¢ and the wild e firet innin, them five runs without a sign of a hit. a ell of were Armes, probably taken out to give McCormick a chance to bat, Without those five runs they ould never have won, Anyway, the crowd got it's rorth from the jump and the two and half hours were jammed as full of ex- tement as they would stand. For the first time unch hitters, , Wintse, Marquart and: Mathewonn, th Matty only pitehed i Tue "Lobe and. Cron After Witee relenea Ames inthe flee tna mMched. a. wobledti eran aad "beet made oft Me when he. Mana, ack lay | Merkio mas agnin, the higting hero of the inate fe three oe ome “un, m tongee sar tute Polo Gromndn, it went lato the Tah fiat YWeachers ons line newt where the five cept seats are 4 fter ¢) the Giants ea NS Wee “toa wl ure for neatly 's 5 4 ThP ll makes sectal mop for thew st ‘One Mundred and Pitt: Men, he w he hour for at: he ne att tw east to-day, Tt" looks ike a ‘cisoh hats 30 wilt win, ¥ 7) Newark 1, Walters Re Jervey City ‘Toronto, Montreal at Jer ons aS the © Peso 1Bb * 1.000 Octane Pee oan ©1000) Waaty : 1 WCievdand | 2, ind, 4, Ma) flaca i, Bit innings, Called ‘ darkness. Kchmoud, 13; Washington, 10, ed for To-Day, Games Sehe: Washington at ading at Kichiend, gh et Cincinnatl, Hie at ‘Clevelaad. ; | exterminators who flock to Dominick’ | similar tnstitutions, where {¢ y | 1 i nena) TT TT eee es EDI7ED BY {4 ‘ ROBERT EDGREN | in New York [RANDOM BIG GAM BLL, THERE WERE NO MOVING PICTURES TAKBN in Square Garden lest aight because there wae nothing moving. truth, I never saw @ more mossbunky exhibition of the was given by Frank Klaus and Jack Dilton, the “stars” of the engagement went tho full ten rounds for which It wee carded, and they “foughtt” the two dubs could have gone 417,319 rounds and have been nothing doin: It wae a fool match to put on in would have been beaten out of tor that they were slobs should have been from Mayg, who booked the eard for that the phir in « recent engagement exhibition that they narrowly escaped H it Hy at the" i 6 intaplay broushi the thevitable—a house with only a few kopecks in the cash drawer, ful in the selection of presentable cards in future, be found at the Garden when the eight sort of mete! HAT CONTRIVANCE, CONTRAPTION, APPARATUS, fh everinell {t !a that was used to weigh Klaus and Dillon amileo—I mean laugh—of the night at the Garden. It was into the ring by a uniformed lackey, preceded by the ever Joe Humphreys. The machine was about as big as « he’; and painted a pale, anaemic white, Each contestant balanced dinky 4x? folding platform while a solemn hush gloomed the Was a wrangle, some more weighing and some more wrangle. “Going to be a fi right. Ki," sald Piper, the Setauket never misvos a scrap. “When they begin to argue on weights it's a hot fight.” Can you beat that for cracker barrel philosophy? It was, ae sure ign of a cold frost instead of @ hot scrap. Commi highly interested In the whole proceeding, but resolutely held and didn’t try to m) inate the ropes. “What right has the Athletic Commission to weigh those in the ring,” asked Yurky Yenny, the only iiving authority on t! Oooper fight on the Curragh of Kildare the day before the “MN! Wind." ‘ney have no right, Yenny. All of that stuff should be es ui i f i | i i ' i i tf H i >a i i i . iil alg nf nif ; i i it i | H the limelight to keep as much in the background as possible to convert a mere boxing exhibition into a prize fight. D'ye understand, Yenny? Yias? Well, tell !t to Muret and ¢! SEE THAT CARL MORRIS hes been bowled over again for ] Goo'by, Carl, Come around sometime whem you get a day your engine. LOUNDERS ARE FLIPPING a-plenty these days. That F Raunt, at Sheepshead and at Canarete will all “go out’ expect the Nomad equipped in every locker and icebox vutiny of her skipper, Justice Dinnean, will sail laden with i i Fi f i i Mid on, will have “Pommery Bob" Vernon and his valet midnight crew with the usual “bu®bles aboard. The Goose led by Commodore Loule Biederman om the Buckwuret, will oh yea, bo! Go at it you fishers, UT WATCH OUT for the sea base! Oh you sea base! 1 B ‘at Oliie’s, Boiled and served with butter sauce—just bolled—net frloassed, nor roasted, nor Daked, nor broiled, but just plain butter sauce io dab all over it—and—get @ mens of it. Then “Pi whom all bleesings flow!” open the buttons of your weekit and PEAR WURRA WURRA-—1 nineteen y of age and would 11 to become @ boxer. Please state through your paper soi whoo! where I could tearn and not be hit too rough? JOHN HALEY. The manly art of self-defense, John, fe taught at Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Smith College, Wellesley, Barnard a ra i il id it i open arms and teach Under the “Daffoditl* can only slap on the wrist in Vudge is served between rounds as all ws during the “Dados 6 af orgenisati bush known as the “Butterdy by which may be still in existence, had an Instructor aust: jt side line. He retired o1 I re bit too roughly by some husky rah-rah girl t would be plenty of smelling salts to revive you and downy cuehions on which to lay your battered ocak. qT the giris’ glee club would maroh 6 you back to pleasant con- H i oe E 4 a } In and eclousn You fail to fe in your letter just how hard you can stand being hit, 7 is a Young Men's Daffodil! As- sociation of the Bronx, which turned out three ping-pong champions tt fons in Asticufts, in the middle, can sing and learn to say “Oh, stuff!" with an Gi. AT THE PHONE: # ce It might be the safer for even among those ping-} “Daffodilis” you } iin t you Wurra? “Yes. W jo Bowe 7 "Tt And ‘it did not make thar itis say, moving picture stuff atterward g that. “And say, Edward wes all te te © per cent. of the split. He trie® te give 5 Didn't I beat Ireland fair shake and his son gesma’ with George’ to break clean, too, for him even, ‘m ked the i¢ he did shake hands with Oscar, Gea! oe in the National Club in Lor bye. 4 HI8 18 ONE OF BEVERAL INQUIRLES on a» question that ls ag ol6 a8 the blooms of spring WURRA WURRA: What is the right date to begin wearing a straw hat? WHARTON WILTOM, Any durn date you want to rit, Wharty, If the bat is yours, but I'm thinking Wharty, it wouldn't be a very as a hat !f some of my houm see It atop of your conk before, say, May But dates aro no lon of Foxford tweed of @ pattern ti Re Gould worn around Eighty-fourth street when the snuw was on the greum@, Sad) the wearer didn't mind the Jeers of those around bim, Well envious they were and, hush, ft was auch well made tweed ike that it wae snow, water, dre and wear proof, 40 he didg’t mind ™