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10 raras oHAai.om: news ' july i6, I9I1 THE SPORTING WORLD m Plan An Outdoor Swimming Match (By MONTY.) New York, July 15.—Plans for the outdoor swimming season of 1911 are very well under way, and there is promise of more and better conipe- tlon than ever before. The*natioual chnmpionshipp will, as usual. t)e held at ipttM-vals suffloiently lar apfrt to allow every candidate to train specially for each event. The New "^rk A. C. has applied for the Quartef-mile swim and fancy diving contest, which will probably be held at Travers Island on Aiignst 10. The half and one-mil-.' races have been asked,for both by the Pittsburs A. C. and tbo Missouri C. of St. Louis, but the committee has yet to make a decision. Tlie ton-mlie title v.ill be competed for auain in the .Mis-;is- Eippi river on Auuu'^t 19. iiiider the auspices of tlu^ Mi souri .\. ('. The nictraiH lltant cliainphinships will also hav!> several snoufors. Tlie New I’ork C. has; n’quesfed sanc tion for the 44n-yar(h- swim on .Inly ir>. and the ha’f’ :'t- race on SeptiMnber 2; the Deni .«> ii. C . for the I'anoy divine- in .-Vumist l.‘>, and o her event for ^eiitombor 4. .\i^ the \tlanfio Yacht Club als(- in the lichl for one race, however, it is |irohai>le th.'it the tnills will ao t/> tiie Sea (Inre. The mid.'i^' Atianiic ii:h\- will be ccmpftod for in i’hihuielpliia on Sej)- leuiuwr Tm-‘ ’''■>ar(i-. hu'f-miie and mile arc on the pr^’izuMnir.o. As to the I'en'ial and \Ve.iern cl^un- KionsLlp?, tht’;- is sduu- clor.iu ot their ei.n? run off. Prominent oiri;-ials of the two iliftricts have ’. ■ u conva^s- ln«s ''le «i ■’>? for li.'cel}' in nivUvr^. Inu so far !iave fouuJ r.o oiu :'.n,.:ou.' to take the mcec.'. The retirement of Chari.*s ^T. D.’u- iels from competition will add to rath er than dertact from the interest, for it will insure better racing. Particu larly in the east, with such a galaxy of evenly matched stars as Frizell, Nerich, Reilly, O’Sullivan, South, Shry- ock. Mauley, Mantel!, Arnold, Ritter, and Trunbenbach, in the sprints and (Ji)odwin, Cross, Oi)ponheiuj, Auuer- bach, Manley. Reilly, I'Yizell, Nerich, Tobias, Stoddard and Ilallston in the middle and long distances, there slumld be sen fine competition. Experts anticipate seeing most of Daniel’s open water records improved upon before the end of the season. Frizell and Reilly are both credited with STifficienl speed to lower every siandine: mark, and if favorable condi- tiiuis are found there s''Mild be an en tire nvw list O: siandcM(is by October. The entry of (.Je.'TrJe Ikv.lgson. of the Moiifreal A. A. A. of Canada, is pi.)n ised for some of the titular events a:ul there is every prospect of his mak- iu'.’: I ho iDcal uit'u !in.tle. Vie Fwam cltise to r»'Cord Iii.;ures iu the C’ar.a- (I'an. cbauiiiionshii)^ and will take a lot uf beatinsr. His pre' eiu e with that of tho cJcMiiuui crack.-. Hitler and Heh- rens. the Austrian Tobias, and thej Austiiilian Smyrk, will give an interna tional flavor to the bij^ carnivals. ^Maiatl'.on swiinming races do not ^cenl poptidar thii-' year. The annual Chicauo river even?, will take })lace on \uiMist IJ and some easterners pro- pc'.-e starting in it, but no long-dis- tiince swininiins is scheduled for this section of the country, though it is j o3sible thai the American Life Saving- Society will ask spnction for a tive- uiile race in Long Island Sound in Au- ?-,u“t. What Position Makes / 7he Best 7earn Manager ♦ ♦ ♦ NATIONAL LEAGUE ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Name Team Position ♦ ♦ John McGraw Third Base ♦ ♦ New’ York. ♦ ♦ Frank Chance .First base ♦ ♦ Chicago. ♦ ♦ Charley Dooin . Catcher ♦ ♦ Philadelphia. ,♦ ♦ Roger Bresnahan. ... .. Catcher ♦ ♦ St. Louis. ♦ Fred Clarke Left field ♦ ♦ Pittsburg. ♦ ♦ Clarke Griffith .. .Pitcher ♦ ♦ Cincinnati ♦ l ♦ William Dahlen Shortstop ♦ ♦ Brooklyn. ♦ ; ♦ Fred Tenney P'irst base ♦ | Boston ♦ ♦ AMERICAN LEAGUE. ♦ ♦ Name Team Position ^ Connie Mack Catcher . Philadelphia. ♦ Hughey Jennings.... Shortstop Detroit. Tv ^ t English Bo. Found Wanting ■eturns than (By W. W. NAUUGHTON.) j him better What will they say in England? The of stand-away noble art of self-defense, the time-; if cfIt , _ . It IS a revelation bevnnrt , ■ honored British game which used to'it is enough to m’ake ol4 f be summarized in the trite instructions turn over in his grave. “hit, stop and getaway;” the artistic* much c tie. and scientific system of fist plav de- ,s.^-sreni. Ti pvinches, the couai'-rs veloped and perfected by Broughton, craft generally rin Gentleman Jackson, Jem Mace and pretty to look at, vrhereas a goodness knows who besides, has been championship conresr found wanting. j dog fight. ‘'“'■ablss; It has been superseded by an en- j As things are nov,-, i; , tirely different—and a seemingly more ' boxing Instructions ^vi:^ effective method of milling. The tra-;in their shingles and iurn ditions of the British prize ring, which to something else. The iive^' it was thought would endure for all existing vchampicnr ”fJr;- i ■ ages, like the lion and the unicorn and there is no such thiqi; ns' a ' ' the other things w'hich go to make system of boxir.g. indi-i.i-injrtt"'''' up the British coat of arms, have been style is Vviiat garhers the swept aside. The old English war the purses, tl seeins re be a" whoop, “Keep your eyes open and hit' every man his own menior and straight from the shoulder,” is heard tor. no more in the land. The new shibbo-1 Talking of Wolsast, he ia leth—tliat of the American, is “close | orig:nal of all the naivnal your eyes if you want to, but don’t hit! present ruling ihe roost.' Ke'is from the shoulder. 'fighter pure and simple aivi if New Orleans, La., July 11.—Cotton system of clean breaV.s had ronti-.. Theere is not a champion reigning he would not have been he id ' who has not don his share toward is when squirming around in the^' showing that in pugilism the old way'er man’s arms that Wolgast Is not the best. Just look them over the damage. if you don’t believe me. | one of his greatept JacK Johnson, beat the majority of vim. As v/eic^ht rpa^ir^s rioeV nnr'' his opponents so easily that he did not into his calciila'ions ’vi - have to follow any particular method he is enabled to\oe tli-'sc-'J?''’ of milling, but when he found himself his strength inlact and bPH. alone in the ring with the shaggj ' from' the feverishness ami monster .Teffries, he felt that he had ■ which goes with reducin-' fie^h s '"'* to trot his best looks. And how did Johnson tame Jeffries? i coolness personified v. b.iie i ue?n, he in the rin2 ♦ Hal Chase First base ♦ >■ New York. ♦ Hugh Duffy Shortstop ^ ^ Chicago. ♦ ^ Patsy Donovan Right field ♦ ♦ Boston. ♦ ♦ George Stovall First base ♦ Cleveland. ^ ♦ James McAleer .... Center field ♦ Washington. ♦ Roderick Wallace.... Shortstop ♦ St. Louis. ♦ Total—First, base, four; shortstop four; catcher, three; right field, one; center field, one; left field, one; third base, one; pitcher, one. By W. S. Fornsworth. GERMANY SCHAEFER Germany Sshaefer, the rollicking first baseman of the Washington Ameri cans, who is the prize jo'ciesmith of the league. Schaefer is al-»vnys pulling unlooked for stuff. The other day. first baseman Chase of the Yankees caught a grounder from Schacfer'.'i. bat and was abojt to tag the latter out. Cchaefer right-?bcut-faced and beat it back toward home with Chase pursuing him. Germany did not stoo at ho*r!e. but turned the cor ner and sped toward third, will. Ch?ce hct on his trail. This kept up un til both fell down from exhaustion of laughing when nearly back to sec ond ard meantime the big Waehingtor crowd was in a tumult, spasms, convultions or whatever you like to call them. It is too bad Schaefer didn’t start life on ths stage. He would have been some large hit. But, as it is, he is a prime favorite withe the Senatorial fans, which makes him hore -valuable to the team than his mere Lsseball ability wouia in dicate. fH- BABE ADAMS Babe Adam», robust young twirler of the Pltsburg Pirates, who declares that, If he ever get*'mixed up with an umpire to the extent that he has to punch him, he will lay the arbiter low in «uch a way that said “umps" will not want to monkey with him again. Adams was discussing the Magee-Flnneran Incident on a train en route from one stand of the Pi rates to another, while a newspaper man in the next seat overheard the conversation. Adams declared: “I never saw such rotten umpiring as the National League umpires have been dishing forth this year. They haven’t given me the rough end of it yet, but I have this to say—they will get theirs if thiy monkey with me.” New York, Jtily 15.—What position on the diamond produces the most bateiiall managers? A glance over the list of big league generals shows that the shortstop and first base positions ftirnish baseball with ^ majority of the national pastime’s directors-in- chief. .\not!ier peep reveals the fact that there is little to choose, so far 33 material ability is concerned be tween the men that have advanced from the playing firmament to the leadership stage. Of the sixteen major league mana- r.^ers, four had gained renown as first basemen; four had made their mark as shortsto))s; three were formerly or are. catchers, and one each has grad uated from the ijight field, center field, left field, third base and pitchers. I’here is m.issing in the managerial list only a second baseman. The first baseman who are now man agers are: Frank Chance. Chicago; Fred Tenney, Boston; Hal Chase. New York Americans, and George Stovall, Cleveland. Tiie shortstop delegation include.®; Iltighey Jennings, Detroit; H’tgh Dtiffy, Chicago Americans; Rhoderick Wallace, St. I^uls Ameri cans, and William Dahlen, Brooklyn. The catchers who have made their marks as big league leaders are; Con nie Mack. Philadelphia Americana; Charley Dooln, Philadelphia Nationals, and Roger Bresnahan, St. Louis. As the.se three positions have given baBeball moat of its managers, it v, onld not be amiss to enter a discussion on the respective merits of the men u-pon whom hinges the success of baseball. Taking the first base division; Of the array , L^rank Chance is the one who stands out most conspicuously. "Husk” has proven beyond a perad- venture that he is one of the greatest managers that has ever been associat ed w’ith the game. Chance has per formed the unprecendented feat of pi loting a team to the National League championship three years in succes sion. Ever since Chance has handled the Cubs, his team has always been in the thick of the fray. This year is no exception and the Cubs are the ones all the other teams figure they must beat ih order to carry off the Na tional gon falon. There is every indi cation that Chance is through as a player. Repeated thumpings on the head by pitched balls have been the cause of the Cub headgear having dizzy spells. This condition has seri ously impaired his playing ability but it has hardly affected his thinking ca pabilities. Chance figures to direct his team from the bench hereafter. Hal Chase, manager of the local American Ijeague aggregation, follows Chance in so far as success is concern ed. Chase had had his gritty team fighting it out with the leaders all the time, despite repeated isruptions in his team on account of Injuries and ill ness. The Yankees have put up a game fight. Chase, in the time he has been at the helm, has shown himself to be possessed of much baseball acumen. George Stovall nnd Fred Tenney have yet to show. For a while aft^r tocall wag entrusted with the mana- FIVE LEADERS Tho five men whj are leading the main pennant contenders of 1911. Above are Frank Chance, manager of the Chicago Cubs (on the left) and Johnny McGraw, who guides the destinies of the Mew York Giants. Below, from left to right, are Robin Dooin, fighting skipper of the Phil lies; Hughey Jennings, the prancing bcrr of the Detroit Jungle band, and Connie Mack, quiet but shrewd chief of the world’s champion Athletics. Chance, Dooin and McGraw are having a battie-roya! for the National League banner, while Jennings and Mack, whose real name is Cornelius McGillicuddy, are fighting a duel to the death in the American. Of this premier quintett. Mack was and Cooin is a catcher, McGrav/ was a t’.ird baseman, Chance is a first basemsn and Jennings was a shortstop. All five exceiled at their particular stations vvhenMn their prime. gerial back of the Naps after McGuire resigned, it appeared tliat he would make good. But since then the Cleve lands have been going poorly and it looks as if Stovall will have to stick at the first base job in order to earn his livelihood at baseball. Tenney has been a rank failure and his displacement is icoked for next season. It is not Fred’s fault that he Rustlers do not win more games. Ton- ny knows as much baseball as any one in the game, but it is entirely a differ ent matter to inject that know'ledge into players who cannot grasp it. fflovo—at etaoin shrdlu hrdiu shrdlu Of the shortstop graduates, tw'O are successes, while the other brace have yet to display anything Avorthy of men tion. Hughey Jennings is well known. The fiery manager of the Tigers has copped tfee American League bunting many times and his team is in the struggle this year as muoih as ever. Hugh Duffy has made an exceient showing with his bunch of Chicago “come-backs.” Bill Dahlen and Bobby Wallace have been tampered with in the direction of their minions. They have tried and failed, although Dahlen will probably hang on another season. Wallace is booked for his old position at shortstop. The catching department has been responsible for three of the baseball geniuses of the s^eason. Connie Made, Charley Dooin and Roger Bresnahan have all made good. Mack and Dooin have their Quaker collectione showing the way in both leagues, and bid fair to have them around the topmost rung till the end of the season. Mack is almost certain to have h^ WHiite Ele phants occupying the highest notch, when the season closes. As for the Phillies, it is a question if the pitchers —especially Alexander and Moore— can hold out. Dooin has been working this pair unusually hard, and, if tha veteran and chude youngster can with' stand the pace, tlien Sleeptown will have its representatives fighting it out for the world’s championship in Octo ber. ^ Bresnahan and his Cardinals have been a revelation thus far this sea son. Roger can boast of only one or two stars outside of himself; yet he had directed his team into ths first di vision. Patsy Donovan and Jimmy McAleer, two of the old sehooL both fielders in their time, cannot strike it right in managing a team. Both are classed among the wise heads of baseball, yet they cannot get the material to he a contender. McAleer has declared that! ne will resign after this seaBon, aH though his contract has another year to run. Fre;l Clark, of the Pittsburg Pirates, one of the finest left fielders in the game, has been a great manager in the many years he has liandled the Pitts burg team. Clarke is at present whanging the ball for way over .300 and is giving Hans Wagner a close ar gument for the batting supremacy of the National League. Tliird base has offered but one man ager to baseball, and he is ackwnl- edged one of the shrewdest that ever directed a team. John McGraw. man ager of tlie Giants, is the one that h.is done honor to that position. McGraw baseball knowledge has gone a long way toward giving New Yorlc success ful teams. Clark Grifllth of the Cinnati Reds, was once a pitcher, while with the Yanl^ees at the beginning of his mana gerial career, Griffitli had his hirelings up in front. With Cincinati this year, Griffith has been in the ruck all the time and promises to remain there. ^ . . ., T , Apart from that, he to nr,-.V, By dodging mside Jeffs breastworks, i ideal fighting temneram.-.nt h tV;: hy clinging to Jeff in the same way ^ of ^artPrs and at the same time sending in upper- never a prey to exoiterner - shoots which made Jeffries head roil means much‘to him. I have and which placed dents in Jeff’s ccud- oughly game boxers who tenance. There was not “hit, stop and stamina through the excitement of‘hr getaway” about that; ‘no straight from ; i„g than through their exertions olS the shoulder.” i punishment thev rece.’ved; but AI”v The trouble all seemed to come from | Ad is not built that wav. The S the direction of the floor. ■ hand does not ^;et on hia nerves If £ Sam Langford, than whom I suppose ,,-ere less intelUgpnt, I would cescr£ rio cnc is better entitled to be callvJ him as sioiid hut ir's not that light heavyweight champion, is anothe’’ j^st loves the game and his .who gives a lie to the laws of punch- ology laid down by the late lament ed Mr. Mace. Sam’s most deadly punch es are those he inflicts w^hile pdumb up against lais man. Billy Papke, the best of the middlew^eights at present, presumably, is another close workei' and employer of lifting punches who has helped to show^ that the old-style fisticuffs is obsolete. And last, but not least, we have Ad W'olgast, whose one object is to have his arms partly entwined with his an tagonist’s. Soihething to cling to. Ad w’ants, and, when he twists himseif into a position to suit himself, he serves out the hreast-grazing uppercurs and loop-the-lcops, which seem to brin? DEATH KNELL TO THE FLY WAS SOUNDED IN ATLANTA ^i-joyment of the Aiill in all its phases keep.s!iiai in such good humor that \\ovry andte are strangers. How does Wolgast compare aBttling Nelson, is a question frecnent- ly asked. He is of an entirely differ- ent stamp. Nelson’s face was liis for tune. He usually stood battering i:nl!l the other ma ntired and then beat’nia dowm. Wolgast does not present hiffiaell to an opponent’s fire any moi’s than he can help. He has a way r:f coverir:? from attack that is effect've, ar.1 he remains covered just long enough lo start the other man fighting and tiia he loosens up l.'ke a w’hirl ,vind. NATIONAL HIGHWAY. Atlanta, July 1.3.—A splendid na tional highw'ay, in the form of a , „ „ . ., . military road connecting Cliickamau- tell nor can any figures give an idea j McPherson and Waco, is tha Iioped-for object of the resolution Atlanta. July 15.—No statistics can' of the decrease in flies in Atlanta since the rigid screen ordinance has been put into effect. Atlanta has been literally delivered from the usual summer plague of flies, and the method, which has proven so splendi3T^' effective, should be of in terest to every other tow'n and city that has not already adopted some thing similar. Last year and for many years pre vious all fruit, vegetables, meat, and other fly-drawing produce and mer chandise, lay entirely exposed so far as any law to the contrary w'as con cerned, and every butcher-shpp, and every green-grocery store, mado a neighborhood center for the swarming of innuemarble flies. WINN CONDEMNS FORCE. Atlanta, July 15.—Mayor Courtland S. Winns, has- put the stigma of of ficial condemnation upon the Atlanta Violice force by a report in which he delares that one indictment by the grand jury in which the prison er subsequently escaped, tw'o negroes bound over to the higher courts, and one convicted of as-sault and battery, was the sum total of w^hat the depart ment had accomplished during the past eighteen months to stop the continued series of murders and boody crimes which have blackened the city’s good name. passed by the house mpmorali:ir.3 congress- for a tlioroushfaro betweei those points. / 4 Thep rice of umbrellas seldom fluc tuates, in spite of the fact that they always go up when it rains. JAMES R- :EEN£ James R, Keene, oie of tnc racing rr^sn and finar’CierCr v.'l-o «-• cording to reDo:*tj i£ Gsrici^r.'y ‘' j-' the Carlton hotel, London. st:ted that the Nev/ York spec- har. been for several itsrium in itaiy. jgi's m a I Amcrica'c c'lamplon polo team In Bronze. This bronze grcup, by Mr. Hubert Mszeltino» is now on exhibition at the Saion des Artistes »‘®pre8ent9, from left to right, Mr, Mr, Deveraux Milburn, Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, ' Wont© Watorbury, tho American team which,won the International polo irom tno Brttlshi ^ in L3wre"=- icnshi? hamP' --V.
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