The evening world. Newspaper, August 11, 1913, Page 7

HOW TO PLAYG ql begins to ¢ell on a 4 expected. Through weare off. The Giants are ina had a slump last week am making vigorous efforts to accomplish In the first place, morning practice| when ment @eneral thing, I insist on the men QUA going out to the grounds every morning and arriving there by 10 o'clock. This is merely a training regulation, because 1 know a man who Is on hand at ten fn the morning, bright-eyed, has not been up all night. The regulars have Not been putiing on thelr uniforms at all, but simply reporting. Hereafter, all hands wéil get into their uniforms and go out for batting prac: * tice every morning, A falling off in the hitting on this trip, combined with some Poor pitching, has been as much to blame for the slump as anything. There | look is gotng to be morning batting practice | when and a lot of it. Another thing I have done is to in- struct ail the players to cut out golf. Several of the team, Herzog, Mathews . won, Merkle and Shafer, had taken up the game recently and had been playing ét nearly every morning. It may be all | i wight for a business man who needa exercise, but tt Is no game for a ball player who has to work for two or three hours each afternoon. Some of the boys were getting up early every morning and playing from elghteen to thirty-six holes, This saps vitality and batting averages and every- thing else. It also affects the batting swing. In golf, the player te hitting at @ stationary object with a Mght club. Im baseball, the bat is heavy. Merkle's batting average dropped from more than .200 to .270 after he began to play golf. NO MORE GOLF TILL PENNANT 18 WON. | “You fellows will have to cut it out) until after the pennant is cinched or Gefinitely lost. The two games don't mix. You need all your energy for base- | K ball,” I told them, Do not think Iam a calamitist. There ig no denying my club Is in a slump, but I do not believe the Phillies will ever eatch us unless the Giants are further |B crippled by injuries, We have run into |B some hard luck on this trip. Doyle and Meyers have been hurt, and Shafer was | RQ out of the game for a couple of days Decause of illness. I also was forced to | RN atay away ftom the park in Chicago by | K am attack of indigestion. Still, I had the substitutes to fill in, kept siking along at ao pace until we hit Pittsburgh, I have been igoking around tately for another experienced outfielder. It ia in this department that w. in case one of the three regulars be hurt. Whether I will land trip their they team his ol hold 1 want I cannot say, but I am after a good one, It was the injury to Meyers which |S forced me to make the trade with St. Louis for McLi We needed « hard- Ditting cat 4 while Wilson is a great man behind the bat, if he should have been injured the club would have been up against it for efficient back- stopping. Catchers are more apt to hurt than players in any other po: tion, and I was not taking any chane Injuries on a ball team come like blo: outs with an automobile. You go along for munths without one and then get three or four in one day, M'LEAN A GOOD CATCHER AND BATTER. sons I liked McLean, | ¢ bs @ good catcher if and he hits them what wins pennants, >med to working with | to be his battery |& and I intend to| emularly now, 1 need a slight again, They are | Mathewson has been | his stomach recently, is in better shape al Fer two H has made & to New York to see nts have been away from me works better with McLean than with any other catcher because blg Larry knows how to handle t Crandall go, He was st earnest ball players f to my club and he was always working for the best interests of phe team, He did @ lot for the Giahts while he was with my club, Roth as @ pitcher ang bitter, But ALEX. SMITH TELLS Loss of Games on Trip Due to Strain Every Flag Contender Undergoes at This Period of the Race —Giants’ Leader Hated to Let Crandall Go, but a Good Catcher Was Badly Needed, and Another Outfielder May Be Signed to Brace the Team. By John J. McGraw. Manager of the Giants. T fe ot this stage of the pennant race thet the strain | which is @ contender for the flag requires the hardest/one game in }| driving. The game begins to pall on some of the men|scored a 3 to at this time, and the enthusiasm for playing every day It fs the strain beginning to tell. “Connie” Mack, when the St. Lapis team, supposed to be| c'#ht bases on balls, ax of these coming. the easiest kind of pickin, took two in a row from them. The thing I've got to do is boost the club out of this slump, and I Begins just as soon as the team reaches| Influenced by sentiment he becomes un- the Polo Grounds this week. As «| *ucceseful. There is no room for eenti- The Quakers have done well on this of eleven some time ago I figured the deserves great credit for aging slide and I admit it 1 yet. Doolin, however, has to’ depend lergely on two pitchers, and he is forcea to overwork th: to tell on the olub again, too, and I do not think the Quakers can possibly more, 4a BVENING WUALD, MUNA, aU Gewese OLF|. Many New Yorkers Patronize DODGERS COMING HOME TO CLASH WITH GIANTS chase horse in America. Meeting at Spa Has Developed Into Big Success—Crowds as Big as in Old Days. eeepc Pitching Only Bright Ray of Fatal | Western Trip. SARATOGA, Aug. 11—The Saratoms Face meeting, now on its second week, | ruird off the turf has deveioped inte @ surprising guecess. Instead of tatling off, as some feared it BT. LOUIS, Aug. 11—he Dodgers are now aboard a train on thelr way home after one of the worst trips they ever took West. They'll play @ single eo with the Giants at Pbbets Field after which they'll tackle teams for the third and improved with each day. The that came up for the start ts still here Manager Bill Dahlen went home ahead of his men on eocoun’ of illness. It looks as though Ed Reulbach epoke the truth after being traded for Pitcher Stack when he said the Cubs fo him a real chance, eepectally dall club and » slump ie to be} tm een. tn the Anal with the Car- the month of August a team which, by the way, compared favorably the palmy days,| him at once and not with any Saturday ent. They were seen all over—at the had trom the fact that neither Jim/ day, Reilly's nor Newman's was big enough to accommodate the crowds that mo- tored to the lake for dinner, All night from € o'clock on to mid- night hundreds were turned away and opponents down to two hits Despite the fact that hits were acarce, by thé Cardinals threatened the former slight slump now. The Athletics| Cub several times because of his old which worried the players and| weakness, lack of control, He issued pended for a few weeks. the roads were choked with autos going and coming. The entire absence of night gambling hasn't had an effect the 't to in the first four innings. Despite his wildness, however, he pitched his best ball with men on bases the end. and emerged without having oy funs anager parents timed cored. In @ fielding way, Ruelbech Levy seth BBled was supported in nice style when good stops and throws were necessary to cut with inner. off runs. Red Smith at third and Jake r Daubert, who returned to firet after a ne SPURT PUTS THEM | sriet iliness, alded the former Chicagoan BACK IN RACE, most. cmemedlstaietis M’BRIDE TO MANAGE village, The green cloth gam outside of th ennul for the want of it. —_ best racing of the year. A surprisiis téature of the attendance, siz furlongs hee inches de maker in & racing way. The programme|draw those positions aj Just teoms with good thin; ing line, To-morrow the $1,000 la the feature, and the United States Hotel Stakes for two- ’ BOSTON RED SOX. |vear-oids ts run. An the cracks of the eeeiieeeninnnian East and West will go to the post. On Dooin| MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. 1.—George|Thuraday the Kentucky, « selling stake wine Ket) stcBride, shortstop of the Washington tor two-year-olds, le the attraction. Sat- i . | urday, r, will be the big day, BH 8 te ieiton, Rod ton nat nteaen, | When. the Baratoga steeplechase hand!- of the Boston Red Sox next season, cap, the historic Hopeful and the Cham- accomiing to information received in plain Handicap will be contested. Milwaukee from members of MoBride's poets > family. Penobscot, the best steeplechase MoAleer and GriMfith, accord.ng to this | horse in America, should not have been report, have framed up an elaborate| beaten Saturday by Wickson. Beam- deal. McBride, Ainamith and Milan of| {sh outrode Wolke and put him on the their present pace for two months|the Senators, are to » to Boston in| “wings” of s jump just as Wolke was exchange for Tris Speaker, Carrigan| making his challenge with Penobscot. | and an outfelder, Milwaukee friends of | Wolke had not sense enough to claim | McBride pomted out to-day that the! a foul after the race. Had he do: eiertepbiea cindy 4 and McAleer Slane would have been diequall West and have surprised’ me by tenacity in holding on. When had their slump and lost ten out to be in for the season. lub in the race after » The strain will begin to eee it run into another slump the Westerners visit the East. I (Copyright, 1913, by John J. McGeaw,) ———— an very ériendly and fhat MoBride stops| as Judge Hall made a. complaint to the at McAleer’s home when the Genators|etewards against Beamish, With Al. 402! are in Boston. Jen in the saddle Penobscot would show NEWS OF ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT MORNING BATTING PRACTISE TO CURE SLUMP OF GIANTS}... _ Racing at Saratoga Track) draris "re msorny'ot tne wie what he actually te—the best steeple Te fe quite likely ¢hat some of the men implicated in the Jockey Wilson) 7 2 asieesarce: —_ bribery scandal will be ruled off. Even if Jockey Wilson, who has confessed ie not d@ebarred from the tracks, he likely to have his ilcense revoked for season. The only him from being ‘Thureday when irda meet is the voluntarfly hin would after the grand opening, it has| Dart in the attempt to “fix” the reauit of two races at Belmont Park, He accepted a bribe of $1,000 ¢e pull Working Lad, it te eald, and rode out and othete are coming every day. Bat) 4 racg on Deft atter he had agreed not Urday fifteen thousand eaw some of the! 1, nish one, two or three, The stewards say he should not ry orkere gres-| Weel hed elapsed. But on the theory berg dheggoresige! . that the confession will do general track, on parad Broad: good and that it will prevent other pet cotrtadi bieedhcaedis| jockeye from accepting drives it is hed. ge An idea of thelr pros! certain ‘that Wileon will not be ruled pecity folowing the Gay’ racing may be! of, From all that can be learned to- Nowever, ex-Jockey held and “Dollar John” will be puniehed. Rob ert Mendeleohn may be fined or aus- ‘The racing here during the firet eev- of the meeting has been ® condition of the track rectore of the course could they chose to do so, The ik at the starting be had and nobody seems to be dying Of! oints for the five and one-half and jenat three ith dust, The top soil The coming week should be @ history | ia eo rotten and loose that horses that practically | mired in, the loose soll. With one or two exceptions every horse that haa 4a, 4915 EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN: drawn the outelde positions at these| has a great advantage over hie oppo- | Bi Points hae been beaten, Three nota. | nents to — rr View in the Travers Saturday colt in the Belmont Jefferson Livingston, the Cincinnati | And, defeated . c ta ners of the dash races have drawn the| turfman, who won « fortune on his nelly san bir "ts eeentede went Is also negotiating for the ago, purchased Harry Payne! sprinter, Iron Maek, the property ‘a three-year-old colt, Prince Mr. Whitney, inside positions. The soil next to the! filly, Florin, when ehi he: ft rall le hard and fast. It daye mi HMarry Payne wht Tomorrow, Tuesday, to Mark the Second Anniversary of this New Hind of © Clothing Store for Men We Shall Offer 447 Men's Suits at $8.75 Not One Suit in the Lot Was , Made to Sell for Less Than $15° “A new kind of clothing store,” we called it when we opened it two years ago; a store where a man could always depend upon finding his size in a sensibly cut and properly made all-wool suit at a moderate price, that price the lowest for which the suit could be bought. . “A new kind"—because the city was full of cheap stores paca, ae clothing for sale to men who couldn’t tell wool from cotton. It‘ is: still “a new kind”—for the YI flood of flimsy clothing still runs its ‘| miserable course, from sweat-shop to poor, deluded man. BUT it doesn’t flow through this NEW KIND OF A STORE We marked the first anniversary with a similar sale to that here an- —_S A fe I a * -s A New Idea in Tailoring —MITCHELL OR the past two months the curiosity of the public and my help has been aroused by the extensive alterations I ha ade in plant. A small portion pif hale interior above tee pn Ant, (A smell per the front store has been taken awa the tions torn down, others ted, ‘ le pens was but the start of the betteriaen me ve taken $10,000 off ¢! expense in my nese. I have increased my floor —_ many thousand feet. My ‘shops are prepared today to make two hundred sults a week more then i wares s eee fast veer ceed ition of Sve fwd stores to my ‘abate will mean that this entire in cut and trim for t-of -town stores, as the entire gost wil be charged to the ot er atone, A) on ne Te SNR ae eae lembers of the tailoring craft realize for the past ten years that the id f the ready- people have been creating destructive inroads in their business, eo that to-da: ite seconnn tal postr) tailor is almost a thing of the past, wholly on account of the lost motion ied on in his business. The accoun! system an ir for get! 6 foley rar a i tadetane In past, ve been competing with t! ly: clothing concerns. All tha their efficiency. I have a better class of tailors; I have better woolens; he woolens cost ey gee bs to bury UH Fad expense was lighter than theirs; still up to the present they have had something on me for efficiency. ' For the past two years I have given this matter very serious study. I have had f ~ ants going through the various high-priced ready-made houses in Besion, New York ‘and Chicage, oe what I think I have at last obtained—the best designer in the country. As all clothing men know, the designing of men’s garments today is practically in the hands of eight or ten of New York's leading de- signers, and I have engaged a man who stands high up in the councils of this body of men, and I might well say he is the best in the country for the pur, for which I wish him. His salary with me will be $10,000 a year. This, when you consider, is to livided between seventeen or eighteen stores, brings his salary down to the price I would have to pay seventeen or eighteen different men (in line with my sit of highest efficiency at the lowest cost). i eae th el . erisinally cary from New York Citys starting vith the, master mind Teen the mntive ens ail tha Cie falls ns eats lew 5 siniciency man, and he comes to me with the understanding that’ha ls to preduee the beet Poeulble nasser nee aaiener and uw cost. pe ey pored tapi pd roy shenae of plane wilt be announced the first of next week. Starting August 16th | am new; inside and outai freshly painted) every ald idea brushed from the walls. Every end in my stock until that time will be sacrificed. Blue Serges, Cheviots, $ Tweeds, hundreds of styles, as low as suit, to order ASEH A iy, 7.75 $1.65 MITCHELL m0 143] Broadway, N. Y. I don’t want a yard of my present stock to be displayed after August 16th. Frem Beston. Corner 40th Street. OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK. SATURDAY, 10. now I am ready to satisfy the aforesaid curiosity. is wi of my organization. I ha 4 over! going ement. Every yard of goads displayed that dey will be brand , nounced, and we had all the business we could take care of for two days, We have done better. this year —conditions have helped us. Pat- terns and styles are far finer than we have or ip, < seen at $8.75. “Ice Cream, Cake and Peaches Compared with Last Year” said the chief of the New Store; and since that is the way he expressed it, we pass it on. “e has examined the suits. He has-looked at the hidden workmanship; tested the cloth; tried on many for fit. He knows. The suits are in all sizes; worsteds, fancy serge, cheviots, crashes; stripes and mixtures; light and dark effects; half and full-lined; some of them good for Fall wear; not one below $1§ standard; a number of $18 and $20 grades: Tuesday morning, $8.75 each. 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