The evening world. Newspaper, November 25, 1918, Page 12

—— —gehnson and Herrmann Getting Excited Because Offer to Ex- _ President. Taft Endangers | Their Jobs. oom Mie; Yost bnane Wr ‘tooks as though Preskient Ban Be Johnson of the Americtn League ‘m4 Garry Herrmann, President Cincinnati Club and, incident~ Chairman of the National Com- are getting scared. The ef- to secure William H. Taft, for- "Meet President of the United Statos, e606 one man National Commission, is _ tab ative of Ban and Garry excite- meet. They are afraid they are in anger of losing “soft snaps,” which 4 ave held for years. Ban Johnson is a great or- + and that it was due to his ‘that the American League was and made a formidable factor | fy Dasebdall, cannot be denied. It te ‘ true that of recent years he has | inclined to exercise a Czar-like _ ‘Mititade. His overbearing manner Sas been « handicap to the younger league. has been eo tren-handed in his ‘with players and club own- former especially, that a lot to his rule has arisen. dent Taft would be an ‘man to take charee of the big Ddaseball affairs, but, if any- he ts too big to deal with some ) petty owners that have fran- Already he has intimated Mit) be couldn't become an active ‘ut only & legal adviser, which ‘what Mosers. Hempstead and {ntended when they offered ‘the ‘position of National Com- @uring the past two years into disfavor among the fans the country and & man men, Marty will be the Mast- Tepresentative in the wolter- diviston of the United States te & good puncher, but he is of a chap that doesn't ap- ‘te take fighting seriously. If he would train hard for his be would undoubtedly become factor in his class. ie & obief petty officer and a @tx-day rade at Madison Square @uring the week of Dec, 1-7 elr camps stocked with to the generosity of Al- the weil known pig raiser Grenda {s teamed with tn the race and has in for the race, ranch and take year-old tw: on the other side the early hours of the elongated rider his wagon to gather the resturanis to feed are fed break- es, returning to for gym ex- rubdown. A ink of in order, after which the stars take to the Velodrome an hour of short sprints to up their speed, for it will be it will count in winning th: of the purse. After that there ws to do until the next day. started his first race with Pye, taking sixth money in Ta 1914 he won with Goulet, ta the following year he took firet money with Freddie Hill. : HERD is going to be a big cele- bration by our boys on the other side on Thanksgiving Day. Of course, if the weather is @lear, sports will constitute the me- of the most pleasure, Fi as nie sport for the ys Da; lade “and there will be games playet by the U. 8. all over ce, Belgium, ‘Loraine, Itatly, and even on frontier, Knights of Columbus, through overseas director, denal footbaie cortisone to belp along This makes 5,000 p: THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1918, LADIE-ES AND JU THIS CORVER THE GR-R-UNP O! 68 WESTSIDE AND IN THIS CoRNER THE JUSHWOOSH OF THE BRONX ASHWoo! THE OLD RING FOLLOWER WHO FIGHTERS ARE ONLY PAR IMPMEN=(N COSwoosH AND THE REFEREE WHO HANES HI VERTEBRAE ON THE ROPES AND CHATS WITH FRIENDS By John Pollock Fight fans of Boston will have a chanco to witness three very good bouts at the Armory A. A. there next month, as Ivy Lewis, matchmaker of the club, has booked throo important scraps, On Dec. 3 Johnny Dundee will take on Joe Welling of Chicago. Dec. 10 Frankie Callahan of Brooklyn will take on Lew Tendler of Philadelphii while on Dec. 17 Frankie “Young” Britt of New Bedford, Mass, will clash Another suncemtal boring show for the United Wer Work Cempaign Fond was staged by Dick Outtey at New Haven, Conn., on ist Friday eight, There were ton boule fraught and the from receipts amounted to oree $0,000, Curley bee received porminsion from the police authori. ee there to run boring shown at the arena in thad efty expects to stage oie Shame . . Gas dian Hight bearsweight, amd Bartiey Joral heavyweight, are in od eight-round bout at the Beoed to-morrow has been working ou for the Billy Grupp’s gymnasium, while Mad Getting (nto condition at the New ‘The men fought « slashing Pa., several mouths ago, i . E i Fite f : c, 09, e i the Bronx middleweight, who ting oromese with Uncte Sam's promote! for bravery, Augie, ‘Top Sergeant, did uch tr, p £ i ‘ i THLE a i Johany Dundes will fight gain in Phiinds! voila on ‘Thaskagiving Day eftemodn. He has been substituted for Wille Jackwn and will go! agsinet Jor PWillins, the Phuladelphia tattier, th the star bout of ix rounds at the specia! boxing show to be wiagd et the National A C. oa that day, Thundes is Also wigned up to meat Jaimny Meals, another W"hiwdeinhia lightwaeht, At the eame club oo Saturday evening, Dee, 7. Frankie Buros, the Jersey City bantamweight, was offered & bout wilt Dick Loadman of Buffalo At the Olympia A. A, of Philadephia on Mon- day evouing Dee. An Matchmaker Kagel was only willing to give Burs 20 per cent. of the grem receipts to box for, his manager pamed up Ube offer, Burns was looking for ® guarantee, Another new boring club hae just been oF ganized in Hoston tn opposition to the Armory AL AL of that city! wich Ws the tte kind in New Kagland. The club wil) be known as the Centra A, ©, aud me to be located on Washington Street Johnny MoCann, the well-known sporting promotar af Bostoe who was formerly conpocted with the Arunory A. A., i to be Ue manager By Mieke, whe ie to exchange punches with Jack Dompeey in the star bout of rx rounds, wt the meria} Loring show of the Oisinpia A, A of Philadeiphia on ‘Thankegiving Day afternoua, le getting into conditon for the bout at Herr maon's gymnavum in Philadedpl Bg Jack ‘Thompeov, Ure colored heavyweight who is alo canled to tox Jamaica Kid at the same slow, te belping Miko to got into condition, Bill Brennan, the Ohcago bearyweight who had & narrow eeceoe from Spanieh influenza, will be ready (0 box again i0 about three weoks, Leo Visnn, hie menager, announced way that Bill fe getting stronger every day, amd that be will e00u be abie to get down to work at Grupp’s gymnequm, Brennan still betieve he can de feat Jack Deinpaey in a lituited round bout, and es soun as be ie Uborougiily #trome again be © peste to get 4 math with bim, Three eigbiround bouts will be put op al the wegular weekly boning show of the Armory A. A. of Jeree City Melghts to-night, Mickey Kussell mente Joe Roder of Newark, Kid Keyao dey Kane of Yorkvii, and Bobby Misharls boom up with Babe Sieger of Hoboken qpuheaneetiippessanee FIRST BI-WEEKL HANDICAP RACE DEC, 2. Interest In ico skating i# getting quite Uvely for #0 early in the season in the Metropolimin District. The fire: raves of the season held at the Ice Palace, 18iet Btreet inet Monday night, brought out a good fast field of speed merchants including Bill Taylor of the N.Y. A. C. an4 myny short mark men, making up a field of twenty-vwo skaters, A dark horee in the person of Joe Moore tye flashed on <be field and te looked on by the experts to cut quite swath In foe 6) vente rematch ot | Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publis! THE FIGHTERS SECO APPROACH IN BATTLE FORMATION T OF A FIGHT hing CO. (The New York Evening World), iNOS THIS Poor BuP FROM SANDUSKY WOULD GIVE HIS VEST TO know PROMINENT PEOPLE such AS THE REFERES ® wp ave oneniipamne W. R. Coe’s Two-Year-Old Now the Most Powerful Filly in America. (Special to ‘The Brewing World.) BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 26.—If all foes well this winter with Terentia, the crack two-year-old filly of the year, she will be a starter in the Kentucky Oaks next year. W. RK. Coe, her owner, has decided to send her for the big event. Since her re- tirement she has developed amazing. dy and is now the most powerful filly in America, She has completely re- covered from the skin disease that robbed her of a great deal of strength and speed at Saratoga. Terentia’s chief rival for the three- year-old filly honors of 1919 ts Milk- maid, This daughter of Peep o' Day improved wonderfully while in Mary- land, and won three races at @ mile’ and finished second twice in her other two starts at this distance, War Pennant, her stable mate, and Be Frank each beat her once. In her race with Be Frank she was conced- ing him 14 pounds, but easily beat him twice on two previous occasion: These races demonstrated her high class. It also showed that she could | Wavel a long route. Terentia never raced over six fur- a distance, She is bred to She showed higher quality than Milkmam last summer. If she main- tains this form turfmen predict that |she will be the queen of the fillies next year, Elfin Queen, whose dazzling speed last spring enabled her to beat all the youngsters she met by a big streak! of daylight, will probably be a crack sprinter and nothing else next year. She was troubled with a growth, something like an osslet, last sum- mer, which forced her into early re- trement, She has grown into a big “sta | Sa | by 1 Up Over Oswald Kirkby and T. V. Bermingham. With a best ball of 74, Alec Smith and GAl Nicholls won by the narrow margin |of 1 up over Oswald Kirkby of Engle- wood and T, V, Bermingham of the hom» club in an exhibition match at the Jured. More than $400 was raised. i Cond!ions were not conducive to low scoring yesterday, but had it not beea for uncertain putting Kirkby would have been round in low figures. As it was, the Englewood man held the professionals, | bis individual eoore of 77 deing the same as that credited to Nicholls, Smith had 79 while Bermingham, who was off his game, took about 84, The professionals got the jump on | thelr opponents going out, reaching tho turn tn 87, where they stood 3 up. Kirk- | by wot two holes back on the homeward Journey, the eleventh and the seven- |teenth, the home hole being halved In 5. feon, unattached, and Jack Hagen of Salisbury defeated Fred Gai- gan of the home club and Jimmy Crossan of Wheatiey Hillis in an exhi- yurball atch af ela Club by « yp and. to play iy ernoon. e winners had ll of 68 to 72 for the opposing pair, This match was for denefit } home-comii wounde and shout $100 ‘Because this course le decidedly on the short side low scores are alway! fay Sek cee tins br Test (ind Mlppery: a vain iI jual score, |Alec Smith and Gil Nichols Win | ;: Terentria to Be Sent Out After | Kentucky Oaks Next Year| a aE a BOWIE SELECTIONS. First Race—Athlone, Square, Sea Way. Second Race — Ormonda, Mar- locker, Young Adam. Third Race—Skeer Face, The De- cision, True as Steel. Fair and Fourth tay into 3d, Gex, Slippery Him ifth taco — Hondo, Bar of Phoen!x, Vyillymooney, Sixth’ Mace — Babette, Dolina, Queen of the Se. Seventh Rac Sister Emblem. Kebo, Sea Beach, filly, but speed ts her forte and she has shown no disposition to go a route at any time, either in public or private. Polymelian and sixtcen mares w\ revently shipped to W. R. Coe’s ranch in Wyoming. Mr. Coe believes that top notch race horses can be bred and raised in Wyoming. He points to the fact that he raises some of the best hay and oats in America on bis ranch, and believes that the climate of Wyoming is not more rigorous than Montana, where the late Marcus Daly bred and raised some of the greatest race horses in the country, Polymelian was the speed marvel of the year. He was without doubt the fastest sprinter in the United States. His track record performance over the six furlong course at Sara- toga with 140 pounds up him “King of T. Y. C. “fT have handied many fast horses in my day, Tenny and Wah Jim longs, but in all her mces she fin-|among tho lot,” said Hilly Karrick ished so revolutely that there i8/ Mr, Coe's trainer, “but Polymelian scarcely any doubt that she will go/had it all on them in the matter of speed. He was a wonderfully fast horse. If he had been thoroughly sound he would have gont a mMe cas'ly, “But his legs always bothered him, nd the pain made him stop, He was lame when he hung up the Saratoga record. No weight could anchor him, He ought to transmit his speed to his progeny. He was mated with some mare, in Kentucky in 1917, and his first crop of youngsters will appear under silks in 1920. Mr, Coe has some finely bred English mares which will be mated with him in Wyoming.” and Tom Kerrigan in « four ball match over the links of the Engineer: Country Club esterday afternoo: The first name: air won by 4 u and 3 to play. Although Hoyt most of hix playing at Siwanoy, a member of the Engineers ‘C. while Strong, who 1s the professional there, le the man who laid out the course, Elijah Horton of St. Andrew's and George Thomson of the Mount Vernon Country Club defeated Al Novak of the home ‘club and Frank Butler of the K ngswood Golf Club, New Hampshire, by 5 up and 4 to play tn oan exhibition Wykasyl Country Club yesterday, This} four-ball match at the Hudson River affair was for the benefit of a former|Country Club yesterday, The winners |clubmate of Smith recently returned | had ® best bull of 71, to 76 for the from the front, where he was badly in- | CPPos!tlon, ee - |\Frank Kramer, Bike Champion, Enters Big Race Frank Kramer has signed an agree- ment to enter the six-day bike race at Madison Square Garden, which be- gins Dec, 1, The seventeen time world’s sprint champion did not make his decision until after be bad gone through a long, hard training grind in order to determine whether ois knee, injured in a spill some time @g0, would stand the strain of a long race. When Kraner gave his name to Jimmy Johnston as a starter, he told bim that he would stick the entire distance, With bis wonderful abil'ty to sprint, Kramer was much sought after asa partner, He made ouly one request, chat he be teamed with gor. oe ee crowned Tencrvtine, 3 Bowling Alley By Chatter tack Louis Stein, of the Broadway Arcaty Bowling Alleys, Broadway and 66th Street, Is almost certain that he has « coming champion in the person of Joo Sabbi, who will represent his alleys in tho Wastern Championship Bowling Tournament which will get under way shortly after the holiday season. In practice and in match games at the Broadway Arcade, and on foreign alleys a8 well, Sabbl has shown good form and if he fails to live up to expecta- tions Mr, Stein will be very much mis- -| taken, Washington Heights bo are pinning their faith op the ability of “Little Jack” To itlen to carry off first honors tn the Eastern Individual Championship Bowllng Tournament. Jack will rep- Fewnt the Metropolitan Alleys, St. Nicholas Ay ASist Street, for Billie Cordes, this judge of form says that with the absence of such stars as Jimmie Smith, John Gengler, “the 7 Glena Hiddell from the twoumey ois man has an excellent chance of bringing home the bacon. “Little Jack” was one of the Quintette a thy olden days. Mrs. J. r the T ‘04 ‘Thompson, o Riverside Ladies. Bow!- jub, informa ""Teck’’ that her bowling club will no less than three teams in the Eastern Ladies Bowling Congress Tournament that is to start at Alloys after the first of whe year, This club boasts of many very good bowlers, Members of the United Bowling Clubs of York ate taking preparations for the opealn thelr annual Head’ Tournament at the White Elephant Alleys, 1241 Broadway, where the annual events of this plouerr bowling organizalon have been ‘held ever sino the alleys were built. At the meeting of the body which will bs held at thelr club rooms on Sunday afternoon next, a schedule Wil be submitted for the approval of the delegates Fypreweating the varlous clubs that claim member The New York Bowilag Association | Fesented at Camp Hancock, Auguste, following five old-time. bowlers: C George Glakas, Chris Schutt, Diet Uiruno Rupprecht, better known Uppy.” ‘The first four are in’ the Machine Gun Com | the latter ts with the Signal tion ts well known tn the : | Part ln many touruaments and match game oter tournament staged w, Borden Company John Busch was returned the medal winn Much interest ts tn the Childs Co. U Which ts being rolled on the Vifth “Avenue, New York. Assisted the bowling division of the Sports Com- itive in ralslag funds by holding Victory Tourna- fag by the competito on “Pa Pe’ Niglutech, geventy-three, 1s sponsor for bis nephew C.F. Niglutech, forty-three, in the Gotham Bowllug Club. ‘The’ elder Niglutsch de. clares thet the addition of his nephew to the Gotham list of stars will help the Gothams very much in the United Bowling Clubs Tournament, The thanks of she, bowling scmmittee of the Sports Division of the U. W. W. C. are extended to Hille Hal Miss Helen Bein, Miss rs who ws sisted Secretary 0 week of the drive, Receipts of the Wrestling Show Go to War Fund The championship wrestling matcb botween Wladek Zbyszko and Joe Stecher, which is the feature of the gigantic matches at Madison Square Garden to-morrow night, is an ap- propriate wind-up of the Greater New York Sports Committee in their ef- forts for the United War Work Cam- paign, ‘The wrestling show is an especially attractive one for the for- cign element who go in for wrestii for their entertainment, and this wil give them a chance at the same time to patronize a real topnotch show, where all the receipts will be turned over to the war fund and not one penny will reach the wrestlers or promoters. With the war over, the season should bring forth a genuine, recog- nized champion to take the place of Frank Gotch, No doubt several of the Buropean stars will soon hit these shows, and it is a cinch bet that Zoysrko, Stecher, Lewis or Caddock will wear the undisputed champlon- ship crown before the end of this season. The managers, Jack Curley and George Bothner, who are looking after the talent in this show, promise the public the best mat affair ever staged in America, Both are experts in the game and know that such a card, al! in all, could not be staged at one public show, for the house would not hold enough money to pay all the talent, This of itve!f pro how anxious and willing al! the wrestler danee BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK By Thornton Fisher ORIGINALLY CALLED “SECONDS” BE CAUSE OF THEIR QUEER MOTIONS DURING A Bout (tren FRom "SECOND THE MOTION”) WHo SLIPS HIS Man Fintan lH, AND THE SPORTING WRITER. WHO HAS SEEN 36597 %— FIGHTS IN HIS LiFe Limiting Clubs to 18 Men Insures Good Baseball, Re di Better Teamwork and a Higher} General Average of Sport} Will Result From Plan to} from tho soldier players as they re- | turn home, Not only will it be a popu- lar move but tho teams will high ia physical condition and in abil- ity, With a tew veteran players on xpert Fullerton rank their team to steady und instruct the BAN JOHNSON MUM REGARDING OFFER American League President, Who Is in Town, Refuses to Be Quoted. TAFT’S CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE. HA, Nov, 25, —— Former iam W. Taft. in revly to av inoulry retarding the proposition made t» him to act as arbitrator in bie leaeue baseball dixoates.!revited ax follows: “WATERBURY, Conn. + 2——Mr. Hempstead and Mr. Fra: called on Saturday to ask me if I would consider acting as arbitrator between the Nations! and American Baseball Leagues in mot- ters involving the legal construction of contracts between the leagues and their application to transactions between them as they might arise. “I sald to them that I did not practise law as an advocate in court, but that 1 had acted us arbitrator in several cases 1 gold that Af they, would write me» de- worl kind of arbitration in whieh ( ed me te wet and the var Heular function they wished to. ver form 1 would consider it and advise then, t * cacent as 0 Judge ol ny Way part i thelr associations. — Ht rie Drofes- 1 sald. that ed to consnit my byrot! Hews. t usnured by him that te interest in baseball propertion. © t Hd T become arbitrator ne ates Lon could arise us to my impartiality be- tween varties contending before im WM. He TAP Harry N. Hempstead and Harry Frazee, Presidents of the New York Giants and Boston Red Sox, respec tively, unquestionably started somo thing on Saturday when they wal'od on former President William Howard Taft and mado him an offer to ser 4s a one-man National Commission. | Whether or not the former Presi dent sees fit to accept the position, there is no question that it has aug mented the agitation in baseball for H Jos, . ug! o be apie Reduce Major League] foes, tue sninory oust (9 bo able, The rinoval Mot -August Herrmann g | present Chairman of the National Squads | baseball, |» ‘ 2 oo oq Y It i ior nonsensical to argue} Commi sion, & Baa . Johnvo See acvanet | giitee e vs ‘ough, President of the American Leag By Hugh S. Fullerton. made trips tease “when only | held as the governors of baseball, Orr, HE major baseball leagues are making a wise as well as a necessary move when they de- cide to place a limit of eighteen men on each team. 1018. by the Pree Publishing Oo, ‘New York Evening World) It means more good baseball than we have years, seon better team work and a much higher gen- fifteen of us star. on a long trip, as secretary, and myself. Even in “modern” baseball squads have won. Athletics of 1902 carried only four- small grabbed a championship, and that in- cluded three second busemen. Bos- ton won the pennant in 1904 with but fourteen players, and carried only tive pitchers, It was after 1905 that the custom of carrying understudies for each position and a swasm of pitchers in and that included the manager, who| played, managed, captained and acted | For instance, the, teen players during the season and Ban Johnson was in town yester day, stopping at his asual hotel, the Wolcott, but he refused to be inter | viewed. Inquiries for Mr. Johnsor brought word that he did not wunt to be disturbed. Charles Ebbets, President of the Brooklyn Robins, early indorsed the plan for Mr. Taft to serve as base ball’s supreme justice. He sent a telegram to the former President yes- terday, saying that he and his assoc! ates on the Brooklyn Club hoped that Mr. Taft would accept the office, and assured Mr. Taft of his unqualified eral average of| and catchers came to be the common SUPPOT, a oe the wae sport. The truth] thing. tional League, Hmited his statement to a is that during| Up to about 1880 it was the cus-|fow' remarks that “baseball Would be the last decade|to™ of one pitcher working all the | congratulated if it could induce # man of games—Spalding pitched sixty-three| the calibre of Mr. Taft to serve it in any the custom of! games for Boston in 1875, Tommy | capacity.” Boe vapk managers of car-| Iiund pitched all the games for Bos-| Judging from remarks by, Vi ost rying great num-|ton in 1877 and 1878, In. 1881 Chl: | SNP wr zee took them complotely Par cago carried only cleven players and [Ord Wrarce tok toon earal of Yast bers of players! Corcoran and Goldsmith pitched all| Pub owners seemed to be In on the sv has been one of the most fruitful the games for Chicago's champions in 1885, and after that each club began | great hitter, the strength of the team ae Breas cause, th |: sources of bad baseball, indifference, and it has burt the sport generally. With a player limit of eighteon the clubs must se- lect carefully, and a player who is going to hold a steady job will have to hustle and work bard all the time to do it. Further, players will be in the game ali the time, which makes, for good baseball, there will be less switching and jockeying by the man- agers, pitchers will be kept on the mound longer instead of being taken out the moment a few base hits are made, and the game will be better. The fact that the major clubs have decided to reduce the number of} players rather than to reduce salaries | to a Class B basis makes a major league job worth working for and, as| the minors will have to cut salaries | in order to live, the minor league | players will work all the harder try- ing to win big league berths. There will be a wail, of course, from some of the players that the pitchers will be overworked. Yet here is an odd thing: in all my baseball experi- ence | never have known but three pitchers who could not work much oftener than they did, and with few exceptions the big complaint of pitchers has been not that they were overworked but that they could not get enough work You will hear stories of certai pitchers who were “worked to death Kid Walsh ts the favorite example o this, yet Walsh never complained that he was overworked, always wanted to pitch oftener than his man- ager would permit, Nor did he hurt hiv pitching arm through overwork. He hurt it by careless work in prac- tice. He was tossing the ball to Father Joe Quill, a well beloved priest in Chicago, who has for many’ years been a great lover of baseball, and snapped the arm by making a careless side arm throw, It never recovered and his friends claimed he was pitched to death. HE player limit of eighteen men will permit each club to carry one extra infielder, one extra out- fielder, two catchers and seven pitch- ers, which is quite enough. In fact, it would be well for each team to re. duce the number of pitchers to six and use the extra man in some other capacity. Of course, if a club has such @ man as Babe Ruth, who can play infield, outfield, pitch and hit, or Ray Caldwell, who promises to be a great outfielder with more practice, and a may be shifted to other departments. Baseball talent is going to be scarce for several years, unless the big league scouts go into the army and navy teams and grab the players who have developed during the war, [t will be a long time before the minors | develop many youngsters, and they threaten to hold the men they develop instead of delivering them over to the big fellows in a green or semi-ripened condition as they have been doing I hear from both Hank Gowdy and Johnny Evers that they ar@ astounded at the number of first class ball players who have discovered their playing, asi snes they went into e army. eo minor leagues wing they will peoruit their dk cate: Ihe to carry three instead of two pitchers. cret. Heydler admitted last night tha he had no inkling that such an would be made to the former Pre Lovett, “Adonis" Terry and Bobby] “li! he read it in yesten’ ite ho Carruthers pitched all Brooklyn's} ,/ine men immer ate Ay A games, and Terry and Carruthers) tne two owners who brought the offer to played outfield when not pitching. | Taft's attention; Dreyfuss of Pittsbure Then, about 1895 the clubs com-| he original agitator for « new Nationa menced to carry four pitchers. then |e nme er of tho Washington. Club five, and so on until last spring on Gonnie ‘Mack.. manager, and halt American league club had twenty-six sna eS elias pitchers on the lat before the spring re _practicn imitted on Sat: ih tarted, urday night that would accept training trip start the baseball offer, the other club owner HE truth fs that pitchers.as a rule do not get enough actual work against batters. Dozens of them have told me that they would pitch better if they were permitted to get in there and work regularly and know when would have no other alternative but to O. K, their action “Wormer President Taft would render such a dignity to baseball and help u so much in getting through our recon struction period that all the club owner be only too glad to welcome h ‘and would hardly qui first was brought at} as to how the matter t» Mr. Taft's attention.” was the’ sub they are to work | Stance of Frasee's Site aay th ‘ a Oe es hot- Frazee is the ringleader of the anti qt ts tone thetn, aitenee ty prac .»|Johnson faction in the American ter the minute he is made a “regular.” | Zonnson | faction on ney be sions Each manager, of course, desires to than at frat appeared, “he app Ket three pitehérs in top condition and |ance of Connie Mack in the recent cv then pitch them in rotation. To be | f5t, nee, would t jot with th classed as one of the regulars gives a|/hiadelphian bh aintee, ert piteher confidence in himself and he pitches better immediately. The sad fact is that more pitchers| worn out and ruined in varming | than in pitching. Watch the!) warm up squad during any game. |r Mack had been regarded as ® jargest kind of an evening, and the The pitcher who is sent out to keep|up at the Polo Grounds the next diy ready to rush to the rescue if the ri ular pitcher falters pitches twici | many balls as the fellow who is pitch-| ing the game does. Bi hard, perhaps in the fi ne sits down, cools off, the third or fourth warm up again expecting to be summoned to mound. The active pitcher steadivs, gets out of a bad situation and the ides, he pitehes t inning. Then and He warms up hard, | warm up fellow sits down and cools; W43 no time off again. five times during a game and never pitch a ball to the batter, Traincrs| Uniforms, and when a sna 0 | # Si, Mgnal {P| Dahlen got into a row with the wop the | and He may get ready four or| those days the sult was that just ten men showed lind some not in the pink, to say the aa | least Griffith was pitching and winning in spite of the patchwork team. Dan ny Friend, a left-handed pitcher, Naps in| Was the only sub on tho bench, a Jone? ta| along about the sixth toning Bill put off the field Was not in uniform, bav Friend ‘ing pitched the day before, and there for him to dress. In Chicago team worr ong Mackinaw ulsters over the) Dahlen was put and the pitchers themselves will tell| Of the fleld Anson argued for time you that the fellow who is warming up needs more attention than the|! active pitcher does, One day I met Bill Duggleby, grand veteran, who was “slipping. He was then with Pittsburgh. “Not working much nowadays, Bill,” { remarked, “30” said Bill, “I've pitched ftty- four games this season—fifty-two of them in the warm up pen. Lurp Tew Richie, “the Giant Killer,” who, while with the Cubs, could beat the Giants and few other clubs, hated warming up, and because of this he drew from Frank Chance one of the loudest explosions I eves heard. Reulbach was pitching and was starting to get wil Chance, who alvays watched pifchers closely, saw Reulbach’s arm dropping lower and lower, and knowing that when he ceased to piteh overhand and began to pitch sidearm and underhand he was done, turned and remarked: “Get ready, Lew,” Richie took a ball trom bis pocket, placed it in the palm of his hand, | rolled \t around two or three’ times | nd said: “All ready, Frank,” Then the fireworks started t PEAKING of small basebat! squads, | Anson once was caught with per- haps the smallest on record. He had | twelve playors, Inclucing himaelt, tn | lew Yo one night met a of Chicago spent the! 1 AN MUGS Ned A OA,D | to let big Mackinaw and out to left fle came in to she kicked, uniform and while the argument was going on Griffith to the press box and dragged me ou! sgh SERNA IO OND A iB Aaa oats ete Friend dress. Friend sudden y rolled up his trousers, donned the the cap and Fan while the left fielder t stop y the New York ning Friend was not team in Immediat el came Tunning up “Go The get a uniform on,” he ordered ump finally decided that Friend was not properly uniformed Anson wrangled In uniform on and sprinted for left feld The game was resumed and the in ning and fought for time less than five minutes I had a finished without a ball being hit toward me and, before the teain took the field again, Friend had or a uniform and Chicago saved the game. And they refused to put me in the official averages. 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