The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1913, Page 24

GIANTS FOURTH IN FIELDING Morris-Willard Fizzle Means a Lull in Heavyweight Bouts for Some Time—Sympathy With Morris, Oopsright, 1918. by The Dress Pudidsbing Co (Phe New Yors World), EAVYWhIGHT bouis won't be ume tu come. The vise Wie lard fluzic, foliowing a Rill, of oth- fans ie with Morris. At least he is a man. He @eant well and did his clumsy best. ‘The less said adout Willard the better. Te really @ pitiful thing ¢! such a magnificent physical specimen can so emtirely lack courage. Imagine a lion with the heart of @ rabbit. That's ‘Willard. F that would have caused any pre- liminary pair to be hooted out of the ting Morris drew down $1,99 and ‘Willard $1,000. And first-class ‘long- @horemen can be hired for $15 a week. Yes, $18 a week and glad to get it! Me wonder these “hopes” etick In the @ame they're unfitted for in everything Out bulk. Ite a eoft snap beside @hevelling coal. Also it's no wonder they travel around the country, box- fag in different places. They get the Money the first time. A necond Mor- Fis-Willard bout wouldn't draw $5 where the first drew $3,500, HE anti-specd agitation weems in ‘& fair way to grow Into an anti- automobile craze. When judges @anounce from the bench the penalties ‘they intead to inflict upon persons not Yet convicted, irrespective of circum- @tances, and when the unsupported gharge pf any police officer te accepted ruth in spite of any evidence that may be brought up by thi cused, ther OR their ten rounds of “boxing” injury to others te @ plain criminal and should ‘de treated a6 @ criminal. Hut that doesa't_m hat every driver of an automobdile is @ criminal, either through fatent or recklessness. There should Ge some way of protecting the rights of the drivers as well as the cishts of the pedestrians, ince the anti-epecd @ghation etarted many instances have Come up in which the facta didn't jus- tity the charges, One automobile man ef my acquaintance was going along with bis aye on the apeedometer—a fine ingtrument which he was testing out— when a motorcycle “cop” rode up be- | @ide Lim and ordered him to stop, As the speedometer had been fe: sey & speed less than eighteen hour the driver was some nig the officer blusteringty, ins him that he was under arrest “going twenty-six miles an hour.” i es, was and charged with driving at errectes twenty-five miles an hour. These are Qnything but isolated instances. AN M'KETRICK writes from Paris that Frank Moran is with Johnson and J: Vangford, the litter bout to tested 2” The Moran-. Jehne nm dout, Mes rick. ya, ie hanging fir; Johngon trying to doudi lelgon the club out of a iittle mor tt he tl down his contract Club has renewed its resolution Sntwereity athletic sport resolu- money. He adds thet while Johnson is Saree ine to fight in France, he'll be brows: to Aight Moran. TT: Oxford University Athletic barring men over twenty-four yeare of age from parorns in the tos te intended to bar American ath lgtes who are in Oxford as Rhodes scholars, taking post-graduate courses etter attending American colleges. This, of course, ia a natural action for an Fngiieh university athletic association for the American athletes have been wether outclassing their English rivals, uch to the distress of t it ghange in pbysique on the twenty- tirthday men no longer need and the competition that exercise a pleasure? ntry athletic sport doesn't ‘an ege limit. What must the think of such kittenish fellows as pard, Matt McGrath, and oth- jeir class ainong champions, to go on forever without ign of weakening? And roll, the great profes- rower, who broke half hammer-throwing rec: y-fifth birthday, and at fifty-five is still heaving ike a champion. old at twenty-four tn not galted that way in " WH I i t E3 1} 8 33 zg* VERNON writes that, as he told hilthle, the offer of a 15,000 purse for a Ritchie-Welsh fight, th England came from leate of fi fant the meeting to tak: they veo ft ‘replied that he couldn't think of giving Welsh a chance after the firet of the year, when to youre fo New York, place | NOTHING Dore! DM Tanita a CHPISTIAN SCIENCE SPIN --- HAVEN'T MOVED AAD INCH IN 3 Hours, THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DEOBMBER 5, 1918. “SPEEDING!” Copyright, 1913, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York World.) Donlin Will Be On Giant Payroll Next Season as First" Emergency Hitter McGraw stil Wt Former Captain Had Understanding When Players Started on the Trip}t Around the World, By Bozeman Bulger. T is practically a sure thing that Mike ] Donlin, the one-time idol of New York fans and the permanent ido! of Joe Humphries, will succeed Harry McCormick as pinch Iitter for the! Giants. Such @ rumor was given slight space in thesé columne on the day that the Giants sailed for Vancouver, but we know about it now and can state it as @ fact. As soon as MoGrew agrede to let McCorinick go to Chattanooga as man- ager he began to look araund for a man who could walk gut from the bench {n squatly moments and hit the ball. He accidentally ran into Dontin at an up- town restaurant and spoke to the old about it. 1 oan arrange for you to come MoGraw said to Mike, it is only @ question of the money. “Never mind about that,” |. “Take me on, Mike re- and I'l! leave the ‘This sulted McGraw, at that Donlin go on ¢ world. In other words, ip Mike ts taking the trip as a real member of the club. He will be kept on the payrool when he returns unless he should fall off ter- ribly in his hitting while in foreign climes. This conversation between MoGra' and Donlin was repeated to me by @ which ought to ave little room for doubt about the deal. It Js further confirmed by the fact | that McGraw bas sought no other play- jer to take the place of McCormiok. McCormick, in the mean time, will work his Chattanooga club in conjunc- tion with the Giants as a sort of try- out ground or farin. He alr has the promine of a few good players from the Glants when the weeding out pro- favorite with the 3 the fact that he ts saain to at role of pinch hitter will be hailed itn loud cites of Joy, On pretty gool auihority ft Ie an- nounced that John K. Tener will be Dresent during the meeting of the Na- tional League next week and for the firet time the mysterious magnates will have as a star attraction a real, honest- to-goodness Governor. According to the programme, Gov. Tener wit take the chair as soon as elected, but will not return to it often until his term expires a Governor of Pennsylvania. That the people of Pennsylvania are delighied with the selection of thé Governor as President of the National League is evidenced by a postcard §° received by Mr. Tener. It is from sone enthusiast, who has had printed on it in boldfaced type: “JOHN K. TENER, for President of the National and Amer- foan Leag for Grand F: ed Ruier of the Elka and for Prealdent of the United Statgs."” aera ‘id the Governor, “aa he showed the card, pase two of the marks. Grand Exalted Ruler of the E! ba the head of the Naitonal jot be President of with a T have ‘Why is that, Governor’ “Because,” he replied, im Ireland.” It begins to look as if Bili Sweeney of the Boston Club had a chance to ve- come manager of the Reds, after all. ‘Owner Jim Gaffney has given him per- miasion to go ahead and negotiate. Mr. Gaffney knowa it would be a big | ¢o th but saya he would willing to stand the Joss to see Sweeney wo a Ittia further toward the top of his profersion, Got to hand it to Gaff- ney for being a good sport. Pop Anson saya he inay not be able to figure much on the diamond now- edaye, but he te going to give Rube Marquard and Charley Dooin a tussle for the honors when the three of them appear on the same vaudeville bill at one of the Broadway theatres during the meeting, The "Cap" is over at Portchester trying out his baseball lec- ture on the natives over there before hooting it in bulk at the gang t attends the National League doings. I asked. “I was born “Why, they don't start playing unt) next week,” I informed him. “I know,” he explained; “but I thought there was @ month's difference in time between here and that country. Ain't there?” hana at McFarland Has Easy Time With Harry Trendall (Special to The Frening We RT. LOUIS, Mo, Dec, 6. racky Me- Farland of Chicago gave Harry Tren- Louls a showing up in an last Gail of St. Sanieoeed Sening Akt affair here 7 pussied that whioh angle he ing next. Packey would bewilder his with feinting, and then shoot over lightning lefts and rights, getting away without any return in every in- tance. acieiliiaatl Chicago University May Meet Yale Next Year on the Grid- iron—Camp in the West. NEW HAVEN, Conn., 5. Walter) Camp, Yale's athletic adviser, is here, and it is understood that ne will arrange | the preliminaries for a Yale-Chicago game nest season if after mature ree flection thin 8 advisable to bimnelt and his old of th find tthe two aduate question, Bince dropped the Army from the schedule there is only on game away from home, that against either Princeton or Harv, The De Witt Clinton High School Gefeated the Commercial High School aquatic meet in avenue baths, Hrooklyn, | of w& to 1. The Shnton d premier honors in nd in the fitty-yar for form and the plunge for The feature event of the aft hh} will be eligible to o aged to draw away and win by several yards, The frat wrestling show of the sea: A the big Finn, who 8 easily Won every bout in which he nas tak: ince his arrival in this his is Aberg’s firet visit here @ 1s aaxious to make a fine im- rresaion in order to force Frank Gotch, the world's heavy telght champion, Into @ match. He has defeated rere! sae he has ever met, Ave Only about half the number of golfers inpete in the this year at Garden City conimittee of the Tnited a| States Golf Association has decided to malt the fleld to those rated at ul lous in the national handioap list. Here- it. tim: In the last let announced by the as sociation there were 42 names, with a doxen or so additions in the summer, The Glimination of the the let, according to the calculations of last spring, to. 110, but some of the men at present rated at 6 will be ad- vanced to the 5 division, The ist of jen will be brought down to not many More than 200, The Net of entr for the natona! championship to-morrow at Van Cortlandt Pam, cont une the name of only one outsider, 8. Root ee Great, ie was tg by a ef Commercial, but at the of Phfladelphia. The event is ‘Geen to all Amer Kolehmal pees seme name ap- maa- pears, but be ts & doubdthul starter, There’s No Such ‘Wi Yeu awe MG Al APFIDAYiT That What a. cunice ee wo wave ! Thing as the “Batting Eye,’’ Says Cobb moment the pitcher delivers badly mistaken,” says Cobb, ye “A man hits a baseball by inetinct. hand, of course, butdoesn't keep his ¢ hie batting average would be minus » “A man hits by stinct in the the chap who doesn't have to worry; about hitting the ball. up and biffe away. The light bitter does to increase his efficiency.” Cobb hes applied his baseball hitting methods to golf. the gutta percha from a tee, he has EOPLE who think @ batsman keeps his eye on the dail from the it until he conne: , or misses, a He sees the ball leave the pitcher's slued on it until he hits If he did, ero or thereabouts, of baseball. The natural bateman ‘+ He simply et seldom improves, no matter what hc Instead of 4riving his caddy throw the ball to him an: when it bounces an inch or. eo above the ground, swats it. Ty eastly drive the ball when it is thrown, but finds it Carpentier to hard to hit when it is resting on @ tee Get $13, 000 For Battle With ‘ells French Heavyweight Is Best Paid Boxer of Europe—Britons Betting That Wells Will Be Knocked Out. By John Pollock. EORGES CARPENTIODR, the ight G heavyweight champion of France, who |e barred from boxing In France for nine months, le the only foreign fighter who demande and gets big money for hie services for fighting. In 0 letter just at hand from Al Lippe, the American manager of fighters, who is in England, Al saya that Car Is to receive $13,000 to fight Bem! ‘Wella for twenty rounds et the Netional Sporting Club of London on Dec. & and that Wells ta to get $5,000, TAppe also says that the prices for tickets to see the mill are from $% for general ad- miasion to $7 each for ringside seats, and even at those steep prices every’ feat has been sold. favorite in the betting at odds of 2 tol, the Engiteh sporting men figuring that Wells will be knocked out again by the French champton. By offering Jess Willard and George Rodel % per cent. of the gross receipts for a bout, the manager of the Netional Bporting Club of New Ha) Conn., ‘hes matched the big heavyweights to battle for twenty rounds on Dec. 29. Tom Jones, manager of Wierd, has had the Queensberry A. C. of Ruffalo put Willard’s bout with “One Round” Davie ahead to Dec. 12, Eddie MeGoorty, the miidleweight, of Oshkosh, Wis., who te on hie way to Australia with Ray Bronson and Young Saylor, the Indianapolis fighter have Dave Smith, the Austraiten mid- dleweight champion, for his first oppo- nent tn that country for twenty rounds at " etadtum at Sydney on Dec, %. McGgor- ty ‘knocked out Smith in one round at the Garden A. C. here several montha ego. Jett Brith, the American middie- weight, who esatle from England to-day with his manager, Al Lippe, for Austra- a, where he is signed up for three fights, got $2,299.00 for defeating Hernard, the French middleweight, in a twenty. round bout in Parle a few weeks ago. The gross receipts amounted to $7,452.50 and Smith received % per cent. of this eum. Smith made over 96,000 out ef t: two fights In Paris with Georges Car- Pentier and Bernard. Two boxing shows are slated fer to- (m Her- Carpentier te the | 4 main bout of ten rounds. At the Ca- thedral A. C. of Brooklyn the semi-final and finel bouts will be held. Tom O'Rourke, who will resume hold- ing boxing shows at the National Sport- ing Club on West Forty-fourth street ‘will bring off his show on Monday night Frankie Burns, the Jersey City bantam weight, and Edile O'Keefe, of Philadel. phia, who has given champion Johnny Kilbane three hani fights, will be the principals in the star bout of ten rounds. Wille Beecher, the loval ahiweizh: who made a big hit py ooxing Jima: Duffy, the crack Buffalo lightweight, « ten-round bout at Syracuse on Nov. 10, has bean signed up to meet Fighting Zunner of Buffalo before the Buffalo A. A. on next Tuesday night. Beecher was to have fought Duffy but the latter's mother ie very il). If by any chance Joe Rivers refuses to ge through with his match with Johnny Dundee for ten rounds at the Cushy. A: . of New Orleans on Chri a it le almost that already nanager o flattering offer to fight Dundee, AML of Cleveland's exhibition game: to be played in March and April have been practically arranged, according to E. 6. Barnard, vice-president of the alub, whe hae just returned from Athen, Ga., the Naps’ training grounds. The echedule follows: March 9 and 8: Aor 1 and 2. at Atlante; April 8 and janooga; April & open; April Ciacinnati; April 8 and 9% at Me; April 7 and 8, second Dayton; April 10 and 11, at ©.; April 12, Are second equad at League Park, Ole Joe Tinker never will get out of the National League. If Johnny Bvers faile to get the former Ned manager, Charles a president of the Brookiyn oly>, to make Joe nice offer to Py on ha lub, Chick Gandil, firat sacker for the Na- | tlonals, te suffering from that injured | toe of his and will vistt Bonesetter Reese in the near future, Chick hi eked Griffith's permission to go to ‘West Baden before the team starts on the training trip. RiP FUL Ao Doven 10 PAY Fines! Not a Regular on Giants or Dodgers Leads League in Fielding His Position: Phillies First in Club Fielding; @Ghampion Giants Are Only Fourth. Jake Daubert, Captain of Brook- lyn Team, Second Among First Basemen, Ed. Konetchy of Cardinals, Reported Slated for Giants Next Season, Being| on Top. averages of the National League A CCORDING to the oficial flelding for 191%, tesued to-day, there is | not @ regular player on either the New York or Brooklyn clubs who stands at the top of tne column in his position. Jake Daubert. the Dodger captain. comes nearest to be the king in his among first basemen he with a percentage of .W1. hy, the Cardinal, who ‘s re- ported to be slated to play first for the Glants next xeison, ranks best. He hae 4 mark of .995. Fred Merkle of the Mante is Afth, with .986, Although sixth in the list Fred Lu- derus of the Phillies haa the credit of having made more putouts and assists than any firet-sacker in the league. He played in 185 games—every one on the schedule (the extra one being accounted for by the fact that the Glants and Philtes played off a tie)—made 1,533 utonts, 02 asstets, but made 26 errors. Miller Huggins, the Cardinal manaxer eada the second basemen with .977, Harry Groh, the former tant, was trrled to the Reds, stand: Johnny Evers, manager of the Cubs, Is Afth, while Cutshaw of the Dodgers is clghth, Larry Doyle of the Giants tenth and Tillle Shafer, who covered the bag when Doyle was on the injured ist, is thirteenth. Doyle had a mark of .6h, having made thirty-one errors out of 621 chances. LOBERT IN FRONT RANK OF THE THIRD BASEMEN. Lobert of the Phiilfes is in the tront rank of the third base Ar- . who was turned loore by the Braves, is second, although only part in sixty-ni mes, Charlie Herzog, who didn't cover third regularly tor the Giants, fa fifth; Red Smith of the ighth and Tillie Shafer of the Played in elghty- one rames In that position. One of the surpriees is that Heinle Zimmerman, the hard-hitting third- sacker of the Cubs, is thind from the thirty-six errors, more han anybody ese in th's position. In locking over the records one fs not surprised that every ciua In the country the deposed leader © casily heada the who third. left in the veteran right- ‘Bix players of the San Francisco club in thé’ Pacific Coast league were ar- rested in Medford, Ore., recently tor shooting too many deer. The players were Jerry Downs, Harry Hughes, J. Clark, H.-@undorft, Bill Hogan and Louia’ Sepulveda. Jett Overat the former Cub hu! come-back," but to pitch in the Midwinter {n Southern California until around, Then he'll attempt to stand the Pacific Coast League batters on their heads during the 1914 campaign. Jim Thorpe hae handed out some ad- vice to his brother, Tom, who has entered Cartiele at the age of fourteen. Jim has advised his kid brother never to turn professtonal. It sure would be awful if the kid turned professional and get 0 or $5,00 a year playing ball. Ta ue the apring roll Payton (Otto) club has signed a catcher named Malcolmson, who !s six feet two inches tall and is twenty-one years old. He probably will be a rival for Larry MoLaan if ever he gete into , he @ fair batter, good 223 putouts, 30 assists and only made 18 errors. His average is .%8. Hana Wagner, th annual reports breaking down of rheumatism, fe ty doesn't vort about the infleld—anywhere from firat to third you'll find him—ke any pole, tians only made of M1 chances. His average John Hummel of the Dodgers, third. is eighth, with a mark of ts 36. Shafer of the Giants, short in 16 games, is absolutely last. Maranville, the midget Boston fielder, made more assists shortstop—475, He ranks fifth. FIELDER IN LEAGUE, Tommy Leach, the ex-Pirate, Cubs, is the real leading outfielder, a though Booe, who played in but twent, two gam Leach has a mark of .990, Zach Wheat tenth, with .978; Fred Snodgrass of 3 York, with .28, eignteenth; “ me, whieh raved Max Carey prtoute, the hy the organizat George Burne of the G well for a newcomer: the nost of any mes. He made twenty-two assiats, His average is #3. Will Killifer of the Philites 4 the leader of the catchers, although Ta eae Bert Whaling of Boston tops by 2 points, the latter's mark being .990, essence and 6 Whaling only caught 77 gam Killifer worked in 120—more other backstop in the league, tleally means that number of bases, 4) is seve ye Dodgers elev men who tried h, Otto Miller of th Buy for $25 A Suit or Overcoat For Which Fifth Ave. Ask $60 to $125! Made to measure from the last of an importer’s stock bought by us for less than he paid in duties. 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He threw! qut twenty-four men, mont of them at/ GHants many of the Pirates made! outfleider inte felded He stands twenty- second on the list. having played in 150 really while an any Killiter has the most assists—156—whico prac- 1e threw out that to steal ‘over Hartiey of the Giants hon the list, Will Fischer of $13,000 PURSE CUBAN SOUTHPAW SIGNS CONTRACT TO PTH FOR GANT: Palmero, Who Wil. Will Join Play ers in Marlin Next Febru- ary, Has No Hit Record. Emillo Palmero, the young pitcher ot Cuba, will join the Giants in Marte Springs next Febru: The youngsters signed contract wae received yesterday Palermo has been performing in war erful form against the American teams ‘that have visited Cuba, and nearly everp Club in the big Jeagues sent scouts attet him. Palmero is only nteen yeart old and stands 5 feet $ Inche The young Cuban first attracted at- tention by shutting out the Birmingham team of the Southern League without @ hit. 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