The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1913, Page 6

7 Fans Objecting Of Highlanders’ Games). CHASE EXECUTES oem epee ney THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1913. to Length verage time for games at the Polo Grounds inst year was a little PLAYS AT SECOND BASE NEVER BEFORE ATTEMPTED Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World) BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK jhave to allow it. Leach Cross Has Decided | To Rest for Several Weeks Se Rin aR! at ie w some ROBERT EDGREN ITED 'BY MURPHY-WOLGAST WINNER WIL GET OUNCE ATE Important 20-Round Lightt- weight Boyt Takes Place at SAN FRANCISCO, 1.—Ttte at- ternoon at Jim Coffroth’s arena A@ Wet- Gast and Tommy Murphy ave to mest in Hf @ twenty-round bout. A chance for a bout with Willie Ritchie hangs on the ~ result of the meeting of these ln@a, and ARS “ape TREE He for this reason, if no other, each & gure 7 Another play that can be made swiftly by a left-handed second baseman, |to fight himself out to the last ounce which would be tmpossibie for « right hander, is thts: Runners are on first and | to win and thus insure himeel © q@amece poo second with none out. The batter rots @ grounder toward second. A right | later #t the title. i ot , | Bander, on account of having to turn around would throw the ball to first and let | Fans morte when Ghawan on eile lhe fH atpecgetny Guew | beth runners advance, The left-hander, heivever, ie facing third base when he|cech lad and have ony ot are cov. bayr B Te RIL: ‘Wor instante, bet & | gets the ball and can shoot it to the third baseman without @ loss of time by 1 Yrorena, morning the wagering favered » having to take « turn. In other words, he oan shoot it to third as quickly as &| Woigast “at 10 to & and unless these te Withows having fight hander could shoot tt to first. The result is, however, that the left-|a big influx of Murphy money betere physic ry Wiiuh Set Whore risnaiwande ‘handed second baseman will prevent an advance, while the right-hander will |ring time the price will remain stetion- ary. Phe Wolgast people are mood to lay any bet thi at this point they hi willingness to bet. The Murphy has been short in the market right along, but a rush of Murphy money is expected, and there is a chance it Murphy will advance in the bet and |o a point higher, or may be as as money. Murphy's admirers figure that be Is in much better shape than Wolgas, and > swen jNo Excuse for an Ordinary |e Quan one hour and forey. minutes East Side Dentist Then Cone crater 2 Stee "ase 8 {her guar D4 TiEht in this calowation, wea. . More Contest Running Two Hours | one hour and a naif. It is hard to ex- After 20-Round Bouts With wil sa coal Baie, = et = Pore wren Vee me cee (OBLOVSs } ie ince ah ro oe Nera cee aan oem . Bub beeeeheary enghcsts bo a0 Ritchie and Rivers. mame sit ben Warde INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. ina No and Forty Minutes. Ry Foreman Bulger. ORE may be an excuse Hightanders not being able to hit Tom Hughes when it came to | & Pinsh and there may be an excuse for | te ser tore taking us {n tow for an- » but there Ro excuse j for an ordinary ball game of nine fanings running two houre and ferty hours, which would indicate that some- thing ts radically wrong. It may be the slack work of the umpires or the Gilatory tactics of the players, but un- lean the powers that be get together and geo that ball games are hustied along | Frank Farrell, good sporteman that he Over the stands last night—I say “last night” afvigedi~—there ‘was a constant protest ai SCHOOLBOY. OOK MIN: WANE AT TRAVS | wame for the most part w: the answer. The umpire cou! help some, Seeing the harmful effect of long drawa out games the foul strike rule was proposed by the magnates some years ago, but even with that time- saving device the games are now longer than before the rule was adopted, Frank Chance had the one chance of his ilfe to make himeelf solid with fane yesterday, but he gave the oppor. unity to Ray Caldwell despite the if the crowd for “Chance! Chance!" ‘The bases were full in the seventh inning with ¥ at the bat when it was seen that oe was going to make a change. Weil did the fans re- member how they used to dread a situa- tion like that with the big bear coming ‘up for the Cubs. Then came the ‘ certainly he wanted one of his players to the honor. Therefore he sent up well, and the former telegraph operator was called out on strikes without ewing- ing at @ ball, From the stand it looked called appea least a foot inside the plate. next was over the middie and the third wns near enough the edge to be ques- tloned. At no time was Marston up. His long Ment, ‘Dut he steadily showed nervousness on the greens, They halved the first three holes, then Marston lost the next three in succession. At the turn, however, he was only 2 down, The spectacular per- formance came on the 13th, when Travis Jumped the stymie that Marston Ini BT The ieft-handed «econd sacker is a great innovation in baseball as a preventive e | Ot the double steal with runners on first and third. Hal Chase works it this way: ‘There are two out and it ts well known that the play ts going to be attempted. Instead of sticking to second dase and taking @ throw so as to get the runner there, Hal runs up behind the pitcher and intercepts the throw to second. In- etead of throwing that he can shoot t! the plate he ts Go set, on account of throwing left-handed, ball to the plate or to third. If the runner starts off third, e's quick arm.can nail him before he can scramble back to the bag. This lay is frequently mede by a righ! the batters, The twirlers to steam up because of the and as a result the American League ‘ecords show twenty-eight players nit- ting ‘em out at better than @ 300 cli! The National has twenty-five batting over 300, Janke Daubert, the Dodgers’ first base- man, leads the local clubs as well as the 2; Which prevented Hartzell from getting it cleanly. Jake Daubert Leads League and Local He season's first averages of the big leagues show that the piteh-| ers are running a poor second to ven't dared 1d weather ander when he has plenty of time, but the it a second in time. This play was tried ington Thursday but for a low throw, ° ° Teams in Batting | National Lengue with @ great batting average of 636. Daniels is the High landers’ heaviest slugger, with a record of 364, while Larry Doyle tops the Giants with 294, The Dodgérs boast of three players hitting pett a hi two and Sterrett, on first base, just noses in this select company with a figure of 300 per cent, The alm of Frank Chance to speed up his club has resulted in two Highland- ers—Daniely and Wolter—being placed ‘The Giants, noted for with the league's ten best base runners. ba By John Pollock. "AVING decided that he needs & against Joe Mandot and Joe Riv- ers, the Mexican lightweight, Leach Cross has instructed his brother, Sam Wallach, not to clinch any matches for him for several weeks. He will not be ready to fight again until the middie of ext month. Leach could battle every Week if he cared to for he has received many offers from clube both in this gity and out of town, When he is ready to box again Leach will take on « few good fighters and then go after bouts of twenty rounds’ guration w Me Ritchie and Joe Rivers, Carpentier, the Preach . 1m @ tweaty-eound bout pelore the Cirque ce i’ars on the eve of ule {Grand Pris, which will be held the last Saturday |im June, Wells has agreed to acept $1,000 and transportation for him and his manager, Jin Maloney, it cham. te Johnny Coulon, the bantamwelsh - , who has not fought since he met Kid | Williams ta a tentound bout at ule Garden A, ago, ls ready to fight learned from a reliable source to-day that a tht, 9 far from being « well man and thar it will’ be months before be will be able wo enter the ring agein. Palser oul- feres from severe attacks of disaines and, although ‘been to eee ait doctors since he retumed sae of them seems to be able to the good lightweight of New Five boxing shows will be st $t. Nicholas A.C. Mike le A. C., Se | Rar cree tee AMUSEMENTS. WINTER GA fare Rte WHAT Mappeaen Ye ii thelr daring him tn wonderful fashion. It was the remarkable because Marston's ball was close on the lip of the cup, where the slightest motion would huve knocked {t in, giving him the hole. Travis's pitch came 80 ir that the balls almost WOULD ABOLISH ATHLETICS THROUGHOUT COLORADO. BVULDER, Col,, April 1%,—A resoiu- on urging the people of the State to demand abolition of all Interscholastic Athletics was adopted last night as a compromise measure after an all-day session of the Colorado High School and College conference with more than 2” educators present. ‘The sentniment of the entire confer- ence was against baneball, football, ba: ketball and ajl other athletic The committee in whose hands plans for elimination of high school athletics had been placed became so divided before the close of the session that the compro- mise measure was substituted in place of one directly abolishing athletivs, base running, Jennome| im tw’ ready to take om any 126 of ‘in the busines, ° He himeett, under the management of Dave qh soaking around’ fore fettable opponent clever . to meet in round go at One of tos '*2!This and Seniots’ 'Handicap| out toe , Fumish Golf Double-Header ; for Big Gallery. (Special to The Krening World.) LAKEWOOD, N. J, April 19.-——A AMUSEMENTS. Biggest nd Best Exhibition BUFFALO BILL Has Ever Presented. With More. People, More Horses, More Animals and More Astounding Attractions. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN APRIL 22 FOR THREE WEEKS ONLY, AND TWICE DAILY THEREAFTER—2.15 AND 8.15 P.M. AMUSEMENTS. he'll , mateh ‘Weish, Rivers or who- r the beat offer trom any | double header tn golf was on to-day at for a championship match on JuIy/ the Country Club of Lakewood, the epee ‘to gut thatdete in Los! wingup in all divisions of the spring . tournament and the special handicap for| termative, Nolan says, it fo. New bh ana tet the seniors, which was postponed from last | bere @ chance, He pointe| Saturday. For the latter there were 7 fact that where Los Angeles | about fifty entries, including a acore of @ thousand fight tane New York | tne veterans who have given the annual ‘York | tall Axture at Apawamis country-wide fame. r twenty, with In the semi-finals of the firat eet in a are 9 ap the regular tournament Walter J. Tra- it Ukely ‘opponent in| vis, Garden City, oppored Max Maraton, at ieete ‘a a] Ba! rol, while BP. All! not Cross, then! was against Horace T. Cook, Trenton. ‘pegetiate for Bisile ae . ThAt] Cook and Maraton.are scholastic play- Presenters ahecid. And. eur whother | °"0,0% 120 cage of collog CHICAGO, April 1.—Orvie Overall, ‘moane it or ta'merely talking to/, 01005 ine’ handicap for contestants| tte DIE pitcher who aided the Chicago how. i seniors’ age limit of ffty-| Nationals materially in their pennant ma even’ mouey on| five years | winning goasons, reported | here for " Allis 1 i of the| work to-day. vera weighs (his proper weight within two weeks ani lay mostly in tte closenen Renee Siem, shia se meabe og iter” which he says he will practice the local park daily. He will not he team on Its present trip, => __ Cc Gat FANNY -S FIRST ‘AN fou itty 8 THE econ Carpenter, Yale, 3 and 2. Percy Platt, unattached, beat 8. Y, Ramage, Ol! City, 2 up. ‘Third set--H. A. Sherman, Apawamis, Beat George A. Dixon, Shinnecock Hills, 1 up. Philip Randolph jry Philadelphia, beat Arthur Whitney, Nassau, 1 up, 20 holes, Fourth set—B, B. Fit,» Lakewood, beat H. B. MoClellan, Fix Hills, 3 and 2. C. W. Harman, Wykagyl, beat W. A. Engeman, Naseau, 1 up. ——_—— OVERALL REPORTS TO CUBS. | Big Pitcher Back tm Game, Ready te a Twe Weeks, STARTING TUESDAY NIGHT ‘ he COHAN’ Sve girwie iY TRWIN or Wide br Bes Marverd, uni SALLIE Fisit Mas OnPOr: WONDERFUL ELE: UMBU 4 *%,, Burios Chou TE WILLIAMS &3 Crates BROOKLYN AMUSEMENTS, “CLERMONT ROLLER RINK OPEN DAILY WITH A WORLW Ge sew, Gros, oh BCL ACULAK EFFECTS, THE GREAT DRAMA OF CIVILIZATION From the Pyramids to the Prairies Under the Stage Direction of Mr. R. H. Burnside, the World-Renowned Producer, With a Typical Cast Selected from All Parts of the Wide, Wild World. 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