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TfiE CfHAia^OTTE NEWS, JULY 2, I91 1 11 THE SPORTING WORLD Pittsburg Has A Real Slugger (By W. 8. FARNSWORTH.) | asset either. He is one grand fielder. N>w York. Julv 1.—Old Roman Com- with the batter and usually is 1 1,-,. ^^6 right spot for the ball. He I ke> certainl. landed a live x\lre ^hen studied all the famous batters and he slc-ned France to Sanguineta Pa- knows where each and every clouter zo’ ro. don't crowd men. give him has a tendency to hit. This is one of ai ‘ ir the Kcntleman is none other the things that goes to make a player tbr.ii Tins Hodit'. For the first time famous. *"'hica«^ has had a berth in the. Being fast of foot, Bodie can cover Am rlcan League, the team is posses- any amount of ground either forward 8or of -I real slucglng outfielder. lor backward and he has made many Ht;dle punched .tit thirty home runs sensational one-hand spears while go fer the San Francisco club in the ing full speed with the ball this sea- Coa.st League last sea.son and son. Outside of Cobb. 1 belive he can fi'( from every big league team go back for a drive further than any V. on his trnil. But Comlskey’fi man in the league. hs‘ arMst beat 'em all to it. Then | And what a whip Bodie has! He can th nther scouts l^cgan t6 claim that peg from a deep field right to the plate Pod' wouldn't do in fast company; on a dead line and can throw the ball - ' ■ ;»t ho was a mighty walloper from ?ny angle. He is very ^fast in w h , ' o connected but that, against getting it away and never has to wind f,r. » twirling, he would be an up even for the longest peg. a~ fill IOn the bases he is an exceptionally Hi'die in those days took mi'ghty fast man for one so heavy, for Ping 8^ *n at the pill. It was a ca?e of probably tips the beam around the 190 a - run or a whiff. But Huch mark although rather short of stature, i the young man aside and He hasn't i)erfected the knack of get- i- . 'rd him in the art of chopping ling the jump on the pitcher yej but h’ • . \ . \nd the result is that Duffy, a great base runner himself, is I fi: i . hiuiiiA just as hard as ever sure to impart his own knowledge to ;:nd ill - i' iirre often. Ping before the season is over. T day r-e ,-ne ('f the most dreaded ' But Bodie is not the only outfielder 7 he Big Leagues Are Going Back Says Monty (By MONTY.) New York, July 1.—Whatever the moguls of baseball may tell you, re gardless of how they may boost their own game, there is one thing that stands out notoriously as undeni able fact—the big leagues are going back. WTiere a fev/ years ago—yea, one year ago, there was a wealth of capa- barely a half dozen. ^ accomplished negative results by their Mathewson once more looms up as [ desire to infuse new and young blbod the most consistently effective twirleriinto their teams. Their over-anxiety in the game. Russell Ford, of his rival New York club, is about the next best in captivity. Ed W’alsh, of the White Sox, is again performing like a champ ion, as also is young Adams, of the Pirates. W''alter Johnson, the back bone of the Washington Americans, is another live one, and Harrj' Sallee tne elongated southpaw of the St. Louis Cardinals, is doing great work. Old Australia Is Rowing Touchy ble men fo reach position on the dia- Cy Young, of Cleveland, is also still a mend, when top-notch ball was being j first jater. But, beyond these few, it played by at least half the teams ini would be hard to name any who can ta: Bel: t-' tei in tho .N’ncrican league. Rus- of class that the White Sox pos- '►•'oHi. th*' Yankees’ great spltball ses^es this season. “Come-Back" Jim- !’i, io one of Bodies best boos- my Callahan and Matty McIntyre are) sreat both leagues, there is very littli of the first calibre article being display-‘d in the majors now. The conditions in the National League find their dupli cate in the American. And the line of demarkation that logically should dis tinguish the two larger organizations from the little follows is now fainter than ever. The minors have come up with a rush. There is no getting away r'rom the fact that the real stars of the minors at present are veterans who honestly be placed in the best bet di vision. There are several • heavers winning games with comparative reg ularity, who bask in rellected glory, earned by their teamsters in the field and at bat. Among these might mentioned such men as Earl Moore, Howard Camnitz, Ed Reulbach, Miner BroM'n and George Mullin—all of them passable twirlers, but not the wonders that would be indicated by their per centages of victories. There are sev eral dozen just nearly as good and to make good has worked their disas ter. The young fellows are all right, they are necessary. However, the gambling chance of picking up a possible star has caused the passing o fmany a great warrior of the diamond who fell from the good graces of his boss during a temporai’y slump in his w'ork. The scouting for the youngsters has de- genei^ted into a mad scramble. A manager gets a tip that such and such a youth is playing good ball, and he gratis the $5,000 beauty before he can begin to know what is in him. Nine- tenths of the expensive purchasers of the last few years have turned out to be lemons of the rankest sort. Their work that caught the scout’s eye w-as but a flash in the pan. But, every time a new one was taken on, a veter an had to go—a man who often had several years of good baseball left in him. But the loss of the majors has been the minors’ gain. h;. th^ he pit ’-OvU \' conncrud with my sipltball in N York one day when it broke a ' a-(i " said Ford. “While I have n.- de such great batsmen as Collins ana C bi> nii.-^ ones that were not r't-live. Podie is one of tMo?t n * ■ 'o.Titf .'s I ever pitch- ■ He i.5 a student besides, for i- always trying to outguess the h -r." r '.lie got away to a flylne start with t'' lii'e V and lias never shown flnv '.'V ('f fnlli-;-, off In his work. He P ^ h* f.st “ic league game on Aj il and in U ir times up he crack ed f'-u a double, a triple and two sin- gU n which is sure going some for a Bt.nrtcr. The Fodle ; f today is a sure hitter, and he will not d the fan many times thl. y.;i- ii he sticks to his present forrii at the plate. Pins: is built like an egg, but this fact, taken seriously, in one way ac- counfa for his accurate knowledge of the ball's flight. His eyes, when he Ir, in popltlrn at the plate arc nearly on : 1- vel with the pitched ball, and h^ iUti-‘forc follows Its fluctuations rea'li’y. Bodie has a regular Gibson girl walk, very much like that of Lewis, the for mer Brooklyn shortstop, but when he arrives at the batter's box he digs a hole to plant his feet and. having done ihl.s, gradually telescopes himself, and, with waving willow awaits the pellet. His ability as a clouter owes Itself to the muscular development of the man. His shoulders, chest, and bi ce- . are Herculean—he looks like the back of a hack as he stands at the plate. Pine is a very modest young ni.iU and. v.hen anyone speaks about his development, he says its fat. Although Bodies Is a most happy-go- lucky chap off the diamond, he growls and fumes all the time he is at the plate, very much as Ed Delehanty u?cd to. F'ord jokingly says that Bcfiic's eyes sh(x>t fire while he is waiting: for the ball to be served. playing grand ball. It is this trk) rhat are keeping the Windy City team up in the race. For once it looks as though Hughy Jennings made a fatal mistake w'hen he let McIntyre drift from the Detroit pasture. McIntyre is clouting well over the .HOO mark and fielding his po sition in grand fashion. Callahan has upset all the dope by making good after a six-year layoff. Although a grand ball player when he quit organized ball to manage a semi- professional team in Chicago, critics figured that he would do a “Jeffries." But never In his long career the diamond has Callahan played such ball as he has this season. He started off hitting around the 350 point and has never shown any signs of dropping down. And he is one of the heaviest clouters in the business. Doubles ( triples and hom ers are almost as comman with him as lone-base smites.. While Jimmy’s arm Is not as good as it was ten or a dozen years ago, his throwing hasn’t cost the White Sox a single run so far this season. As a fielder, there are none better. He can cover almost any amount of ground and is equally as clever on shoe-top spears as on soarers. He judges a ball’s filght perfectly. In Bodie, McIntyre and Callahan, Comiskey has about the cleverest out field In the American league, although many will claim that Crawford, Cobb and Jones is a better combination. At any rate, it is a toss up between them right now. Connie Mack has a c’ever garden, too. in I^rd. Murphy an 1 Oldring, and so has Boston in Spea' er, Lewis and Hooper. Also Hal Ciiase has three swell fielders 'n Cree, Daniels and Wolters. But the fact that the White Sox formerly were si.pposed to be very weak outside t''.e infield makes the Windy City ar^regatlon look all the better. The t vo rejuvenated veterans and an early- leveloped yoamgster have And Bodle's batting is not his only I fairly set t^e baseball world on fire. An Exhibition Foi Sportsmen London. July 1.—An Interest to international Is being held at the Crjstai P«i It is a collection of trophies of tiie chase from every part of the Brit ish empire loaned by men ra aging from King George to the big game hunters and explorers whose deeds have mfde English sportmen famous ■i throughout the world. King George has loaned two heads of Newfoundland caribou, a musk ox from Northern Canada, and a Rusra deer from the Mauritus, all victims I of his prowess. The Duke of Con- ! naught has sent several trophies of his latest trip to South Africa, in cluding a mounted specimen of a lion and a fine Buffalo head from the Seolo river. Lord Kitchener sent the head of a white rhinoceros and a kudu shot on the Blue Nile in 1910, which offer several variations from those usu ally found in that district. Lord Woi- verton’s famous journey in Somali land with General Sir A. Paget is commemorated by an immense lion and a crocodile. F. J. Jackson, the noted explorer and hunter, among his many contributions displays a heartebeest of the species that bears hUi name. Mr. Hersburgh sends the ,head of a male bongo, the only one, far as 1» known, that has been ■hot by a white man. Other exhibits that crowd the Crystal palace show rooms Include every known specie of sporting fish or animal that lives within the bounds of the United Kingdom. The exhibits are said to form the most ex tensive representative animal dlspaly ever seen In L/)ndon. SHERWOOD MAGEE Bherwoo^ M«m«, I fading batsman of the National Loatju*, who Is almost certain to top all th« N. L. sluggars this season, even «• h« did last year. He is being mors ilossly pressed this year than last, h pw«v«r, with Chief Myers of the N«vj» Yor^ Qfants mak ing a fast stsrri chais and Fred Clarke holding >m tenporary lead over him, ClafKe, the Pittsburg Pir ates’ skipper, is r ,ot expected to ksep up the pace, bui Masee has proved his speed ever since he became a member of the *hllidflphia Nation als. Do Not Take Your Jewels When You Go Away, You May Lose Them We have a very large and secure safe and can keep your Jewelry and put it in order while you are taking your vacation. (By W. W. NAUGHTON.) Sydney, Australia, July 1.—I find the Australians are touchy on the subject of world supremacy in rowing. At present the badge of superiority, the world around, is worn by one Dick Arnst, a native of Maoriland, which to me is a matter of surprise as in the old years, the Dominion of New Zea land did not rank with the common wealth of Australia in the develop ment of oarsmen. One has only to re call the names of Trlckett, Clifford, Beach, Stanbury and Searle, all of Aus tralia, to make this fact apparent The last named was, in my way of thinking, the best that Australia ever sent abroad on a world' conquering mission. I was a guest on the press boat on “Old Father Thames” in Lon don back in ’89, when Searle defeatd O’Connor of Canada, in a race which was probably the cause of more money changing hands than any like event the world has known. Incidentally I was in Torrento a cou ple of months before the race and heard enough to convince me that many of the Toronto Indians had mort gaged their homes to raise the where with to back O’Connor. I remarked both men being baked UP to the starting buoys that famous afternoon. The start was by mutual consent and O’Connor, who was quick- ed than a quail out of brush leaving the mark, shot forward like a flash at what he considered evidence of con sent on Searle’s part. Searle had not moved, however, and O’Connor backed water again, looking disappointed and somewhat sheepish. O’Connor was a bundle of nsrvos, alert sensed and sage. Searle was as composed as though just about to start on a practice spin, “all by his lonely.” Suddenly Searle shouted “go on, I’ll follow you,” anrf O’Connor needed no second bidding. His blades scooped the water and his shell fairly leaped to the front. But he did not get very far away. Searle was In motion before the Canadian had gained a lead of a third of length and, hooked up thusly, they started on the race on which so much depended. O’Connor, it was said, always beat his men in the first mile, and he made valiant efforts to dispose of Searle the way he had disposed of many others But it couldn’t be done. The Canadian face suggested both desperation of de termination. The veins on his neck stood out like cords and I’U warrant there wasn’t a fibre of his sinewy frame that wasn’t working to Its full capacity. We are here to serve you. mand ^s. Com- Lineback & Flam / “JEWELRY OF QUALITY” West Trade Street, Near the Square. ' THE BEST PITCHERS IN ACTION Action photographs of the pitchers who stand head and shoulders above the rank and file of the heavers in the *' big leagues. Above is Russell Ford, sensational splt-ball artist of the New York Americans, whose moist delivery breaks farther than that of any other flingeF-japw doing time in the big arena. Foard can make his wet twisters bend in three different directions. Big Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox (below) also has the splt-ball in his repertoire, but has largely forsaken It this year and now relies almost entirely on his speed and control. He is one of the steadiest men under fire in the business, and never ovrworks himself unless circumstance demands it. Christy MatheW^on (on the left) the pride of Johnny McGraw and who is expected to land the National League rag for the New York Giants, is till the best all-around boxmaii in the game. His pitching is not marked by the phenominal speed that characterized his work when a newcomer in the'majors, but it is not because he has lost any of his steam. Matty has learned to conserve his strength and now pitches more with his head than with his hand. Twirlers such as these are rare birds nowadays. There are probably three or four others who compare them In prowess, but the usual score or more of really first calibre pitchers cannot be found this year. were let out hy the big leagues. It some better ones who own marks far The other man, so far as I could see, was neither flurried nor extended. He seemed to be holding his man safely and biding his time. Possibly he had heard that if O’Connor couldn’t win in the first mile, he couldn’t win at all. Then something happened. O’Con nor’s left oar—I think it was—made a peculiar curl. Some said he caught a crab. Others said his heart broke. Others again said that the cruel pace did it all. Whatever It was, Searle shot to the front and the race became a procession. On Ihe Australian launch, bookma ker Joe R. Thompson and a band of Colonials were acting like urchins juv^t let loose from school. On the Cana dian launch the occupants were silent and motionless ag statues. It was ail over and the shouting ixas in full blast. ^ They say there Is ever^’^indicatjon of a revival of interest in single ecul ling in Australia. For the Paramatta Hundred, a race for which the prize was one hundred pounds and which was rowed recently, there were no less than 54 entries. There may be some Beaches and Searles in that lot. “I kiiow of at least twenty single scullers of promises where there were not two a year ago,” said F. A. Nash, secretary of the New South Wales Row ing Association. “When Arnst could become champ ion, no good rower should De discour aged,” said G. F. Upedward of Mel bourne, who is called the father of row ing in Victoria. “Why, Dick, who used to be a cy cling champion, learned the rowing game these last few years. I’d hate to tell you of the number of times hefell out of his boat while practicing. The Tesmanians think there will be a return of the piping times of a score of years ago and that their man, C. McVillle, will be one of the Searles of the future. “He has won the amateur champion ship twice In two years and hasn’t been fully extended yet,” said Hobart rowing enthusiast. “While winning the big prize In Tasmania last year, he rowed a quarter of a mile further than the others through bad steering, but he was first p,t the finish.” And in the meantime Australia Is to make an attempt to recover the world’s professional championship with the oars from Ne'^ Zealand. A race be tween Harry Pearce, champion of Aus tralia, and Dick Arnst of New Zealand, the world’s title sculler, has been ar ranged for the near future and if pres ent plans hold, the result wlU be known before this article appears In print. urn FLIGHT EVER terday and repeated the feat today. His distance this morning, estimat ed from the map, is 122 miles and his time 3 hours and 20 minutes. Weymann Won Interna^ tional Championship London, July 1.—Charles F. Wey mann, America’s only ^trant for the New York, Jiilj' 1 Ons of , international aeroplane championship most spectacular flights in the history j won the great race today in competition with the crack flyers of with breaks the heart of a major league magnate to take back- players who had been «banished because, in the mag nate’s opinion, the man had become a has be6n. Result—the good ones stay ^here they have been sent, and the minor league club Is in consequence almost, if not quite as strong as the big league outfit that is missing out because of the narrowness , or false pride of its leader. Who would be willing to lay 10 to 1 that a team like the St. Louis Browns or the Boston Rustlers could beat Co lumbus, of the American Association? Not many. At best, it would be even money, whereas even these tail-enders should. In the natural order of things, be topheavy favorites over any team the minors could put forward. One thing that strikes the veteran Woman Roasts English Golfets Paris, July 1.—A scathing article of English golfing men and women appears in the Figaro from the pen other thingsf lt may” h^ that next of Mme. Clemenceau-Jacquemaire, less impressive. Biit, after taking a look over the whole bunch, you ara forced to concede that the pitching has retrograded more within the last year probably than any other depart ment of the game. You can't blame it all on the lively ball. The law of rise and ebb holds forth In baseball the same as It does In all year will witness one of the greatest seasons in the history of the national pastime, and such would not be con trary to precedent. Often a bad sea son is followed the very next year by one completely the reverse. If the magnates would forget all this personal pride thing and would admit a mistake when they see they we^ wrong, we might have some old famil iar faces cavorting around the green fan, this year is the tremendous dif-{ again. But, if there is a more egotis- ferences between the stars and the|tical animal in the world than a base rest of the bunch. Ihe good ones look better and the bad ones worse. And there are mor« of the latter getting a way with the lucrative berths than ever before. It‘ Is the contrast that makes the good ones look better. The few really high-class men—and they can be counted on your fingers and toes—are made by the comparison to look like veritable man-mountains. Ty Cobb is the goods. So is EJddie Collins; likewise Hagee, Wagner, Chase, Bresnehan, Joe Jackson, Kling, Mclnniss, Byrne, Gibson, Grant, Hof- man. Speaker, Crawford, Chief Myers, Bodie and a few others. These men are all gems of the first water, equal to the top-llners of other days. But, where 'there are a dozen .now, there were fifty then. This leaves out the pitchers. The genuine star fiingers i.i the two leagues at present number ball manager, It has never been put inside a “cage. Frank Chance saw clearly his error in letting Steinfeldt go. There was a constant weeping and wailing and gnashing of teenth in St. Louis for many moons after the demoralization of the Browns when McAleer turned loose the men who almost landed a penant for him In 1908. Those same Individuals, Hobe Ferris and Jimmy Williams, went to Minneapolis of.the American Association and delivered a class of goods that far surpassed anything te new Brownies displayed And, even today, they are good enough for any man’s team. But they stay burled so far as the Honorable Hedges and his lieutenant on the field, W^al- lace, are concerned. Dozens of other such cases could be cited, all going to show where the builders of teams have \ who Is the daughter of the ex-pre mier. She says Parisian women will never take kindly to golf, which re quires an inconceivable dre&s. How can she be pretty in a cap, wielding detestable clubs, wearing hideous jerseys and spiked boots? she asks. ThQ beauty of a Fafisienne is a work’of art, and she cannot spoil it under such disgraceful conditions, ex- pos-ed to the sun without a veil or umbrella. Clemenceau’s daughter was amazed when she saw a man golfer pick up a little damp earth and give it to a lady player, who accepted it in the hollow of her glove without an ex pression of surprise. Then a gen tleman informed Mme. Jacquemaire that the ball had to be placed on the summ.i» of this little cone of earth and that it had to be manip ulated by the player kneeling on the ground she could not under stand why the English people, who hJast of their cleanliness, should re sort to such practice recalling the gam^s forbidden to well-reared chil dren. “If we have not sufBcient resour ces to enjoy ourselves according to the genius of our race,” she con cludes, “let us Imitate the beautiful games of Greece, of American aviation was ended at Governor’s Island Jthls morning by Har ry N. Atwood, with a wonderful circle about Singer lower, almost grazing the roofs of the craggy skj’’ scraper. The baffling cross currents'! from the ciis- cross of commons and cliffs of lower Manhattan island had hitherto daunted all American aviators, Atwood rose from New "London, Conn., at five minutes pa'ot seven this morning with the intehtioa of Hying down the Connecticut shoi\= and cross ing Long Island sound to the avia tion field at Mineola. Wl>on he got into the aif he found his motor humming so steadily and the air currents so favorable that his confidence grew and, instead of crossinsr the spund, he turned inland off Mount cVrfion, tow ered like a f.'^Icon to reconnoiter and headed for Hell Gate and the mouth of the East river. Below him stretched, the narrow course of the liver crowded with traf fic and s^an-iod by four lofty steel bridges. As if playing with his per ils, Atwood crossed the river to Long Island city, ;iear the Williamsburg bridge, turned back to Manhattan is land, crossing the river a second time, flew over the city to the lower end of the island, circled the Singer tov.’er, passed the Trinity ciiurch and the new Bankers’ Trust building, on his way to W’^all street and hovered m the air for a moment over the amazed curb brokers in the street 'oelow. The demonstration was declared by aviators to be as complete as it lay in the power of human achievement to make it. Hitherto it has been a principle strictly held to by all avi ators that whenever there was a dan gerous spot to cross, the higher one could rise, the safer. It has been cal culated for every foot of drop, a properly executed biplane would carry the aeroplane forward three feet. Thus to glide safely out of danger to a proper landing place it w'as only necessary to rise high enough. But Atwood made his turn of the Singer tower at a height ot 525 feet from the street, a little more than 80 feet belo'v«^ the pinacle of the tower and barely above the Jag ged* Gothic roof of the City Invest ment building, directly below and beside the tower. The fluttering flag at the top of the tower showed there wa& a wind of perhaps fifteen or twenty miles an hour, but not enough to bother Atwood. Atwood’s flight today Is really a continuation of his flight yesterday from Squantum Field, Boston, to New London, where he cut fancy fig ures above the winning Harvard shell as it drew to, the finish line in the eight-oared varsity race. His distance then was 135 miles, covered in two hours and ten minutes. The best previous record wa& 106 miles made by P. C. Parmalee, a Wright pupil, with a passenger. Atwood carried his mechanician for a companion yes* the world. The American covered the full distance of 94 miles in 1 hour and 11 minutes, 56 seconds. This is at-tUe rate of 78 miles an hour. This is the second time America has won the cup. First it was won by Glenn H. Curtiss, at Rheims, in 1909. He was the only representative of his country, while all other clubs were rep resented by numerous entries. The American champion won the trophy with a Nieuport machine. This craft is a monplane, which, for many months, has been regarded as the swiftest craft of its kind in the world. Weyman is an American mainly by adoption. He was born in the West In dies and has lived most of his life in France. He never has been in Ameri can since he began to fly. The wilinlng of the International cup means that the trophy, which was lost to America at Belmont Park last year, when it ^'as captured by Gra- hame-Whl^e, must be competed for next year in America. In the course of yesterday’s race Hamel, the English cup defender, was thrown to the ground when his ma chine upset in a strong and gusty wind. The craft was wrecked, but Ham el was uninjured. M. Chevalier, Eduard Nieuport and Alec Ogilvle were likewise British cup defenders
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