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James Collins?Third Baseman Without fiqual HE HAD SPEED AND ACCURACY Could IImi to Home Plate and Shoot the Ball to First in Time to- Retire the Ratter. ny JOHN tl. KOSTKR (OwrrWil. 1934. b* Th? AdtiM) ?Th? U~b*U m ?, u ot I'jti a ill b* thr flft) MM Of tUr Vill'Bil Ixarur. In cmiaMl' * (MiWn oi thW iiuuit>*n. Miw ii mi l? ouiai b rMWAi?<l <luMM ? '-"nun* mM) b, lb? limml h rail* U. m lull. J 4in II F??trr. for* rvmatk?t>l. ..tir. >J aitul?. ib>ul lb? Naimoal TIm-m- IHkln v.II <lt?l ?1tb U>? h?? lory ?f Ui- Ins'jr ?tu I III l<und^r? Mad We? lh?I h??i- nrU to Miuliitf It; >1? flr?l teams of Ui* lr*?U. . Hk? IS ?r??trst J<U?* ? wf ?h? I???11?. H* tl?? India? rllih?i; lt? ?ka bv?i Ummi !?? IMlnl PHH>; tl* ratly dkAia HoO?Jii| ? Slid III?' drli|ii|?Wil uf Ulr mil?. | "Jimmy" Collins belongs Among the National League's fif teen most fatuous bull players be ' cause there never wun a third baseman developed lu tho Nation ul League In all Its fifty years Of history who was such a pol player as he was. The National Leiiguc ha? I brought out moat of the great - IKIW basemen of all time. Be ginning back with the days when "Old Deacon" White played third j base with his bare hands and I Stopped ground hits thnt some! ball players gladly would have' side stepped, going on to the: time of Ed. Williamson. who! played third base some of the i time, and to Jerry Denny. Arthur Devlin, and some others, the Na-' ttonal League always lias had a star on the third bane corner. ' 4 Cione of them could quite equal Rollins. Sometimes old timers | think Denny was as good, because Denny could play third base with bis.eight hand, an well as mowt players could play the base with both right and left Others think Pevlin was the great man, bocause Devlin, for two years, wan making plajR al third hnse that raised him ; above all other third basemen.' Wallace Is recalled when be played third before he went over to shortstop but not one of | them could do all that Collins? aid, or do It us easily an Jimmy ? pUyod * Collins was one of the third .basemen of hlstdry who could j ? come up to home plate, pick the j ball off the ground and throw out J fast runners-nt firm base. There' h have been several third basemen! who could get the ball within, say. fifteen feet of home plat?, and b, catch their men at first, but Col kins got on top of home plato it self and made the catcher get out Of the way. How he did It not ev en tho eye could tell .because the | eye had its troubles to fallow him. When Collins wan acquired by j the Boston National League club [' the management was not altogeth er eertaln that it had a good ball : ?layer. He started to play with v Boston but ho slopped now and ? then and Boston was so well ?-Shipped with good men that they were loath to keep him going, j ~ They sent him down to Louls r "ttlle whore ho was to get n year po the infield and dovelop hlm ??lf. One day a certain citizen (Walked Into the offico of the Bos [? ^on club, and said: "You fellows better got that third baseman ot yours back from ^Louisville. If Wanta Fight? A challenge to >11 feminine pugiluu of the 108-pound cUu bts been is ?uedby.HI?. Helen Bran**?. 1?. o( K.MM City. She hu appeared In m.tche. before oevenl cl?t>V you don't they will lynch you when you try to take him away. Hc'n the greatest ball player In baaeball." Boaton lost no time In seeing that Colllnn did nq| net away af ter tint remark. The papers were PUt through to recall him properly from Ijouiavlllo. The fan Had told the truth. Collins wan the boat article In baaehalllhat bad left Boaton temporarUy, since Undo Bill Conant was a kid catching cunners dawn in Boston Bay. After Colliaa had reached Bos ton and had thoroughly warmed up and become accustonied to the city again, and bia position. Frank Selee tho Beaton manager be came ao enwrapt with the play log of hla third baaernaa that ho nat all one afternoon on th& bench looking at him In pop-eyed a? toniahment, and forgetting to give a aingle instruction to the team from the time the game startsd until it waa over. "Hey there," aaid liughy Duffy, who wan an outfielder of the team, "asleep, bosa?" "Yea," drawled Selce quietly, Don't wake me up. I want to re member that boy and this day alwayw. Collin* waa a Kood batter, not ao good when he began as he was after he got atarted. / He could play hall with either hand, run faat, start like a aprlnter and make eome of the moat astound ing atopa snd throws from third that any fan or any manager eve t beheld, no wonder he dassd the spectators. NEW CAMP BOOK STARTS BIG ROW ! But Yale*? Claim Though Backed by So Eminent 1 Authority Not Like Stand Before Public Opinion Nsw York. Jan. 2.?With ath letic competition temporarily at a I standstill Yale and Princeton are [ indulging In a polite little war as to which of the two universities participated in the first Intercol legiate football game. It is a matter of substantiated i record that Princeton and Rut-j | gers played the first intercolleg iate game In the fall of 1869, 6S | years ago. Until now this claim, had been allowed to stand un- j challenged. I But now the Yale Alumni week-j ly has come forth debating this j proud distinction and maintaining that the Yale-Columbia game of | 1872 was In reality the firm in ! tercolleglate football contrst. ? I *n>e New? back up this abor tion by quoting Mr. Walter gamp's book. "Yale: Her Cam pus. Claserooma and Athletics." Says Mr, Camp. "In the fall of 18?t Yale challenged Columbia and the ftrst legitimate game be tween collegea was played." 1 "Why." plaintively asserts Ed ward M. Kovria, editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, "this first game played by Yale wax any more legitimate than the flvo In tercollegiate games that preceed ' ed It Is not apparent to the lay i mind. I "If." continues Norrls. "this contention should happen to fall * under the eye of the Hon. William 18. Qummere. *70. Chief Justice of New Jersey, who was captain of ; the Princeton tesm that played the first intercollegiate game with I Rutgers In the autumn of 186?J. no douht that eminent jurist would be interested to know the differences between a legitimate and an Illegitimate game of foot ball and in particular to ho In formed as to why after all these years that hlstottc flrnt gamo in which be participated is now branded as Illegitimate." It would seem that pending the vie we of Judge Gummen- it in dls-' tlnetly up to the Yale nlumnl or gan to define the difference be tween legitimate and illegitimate football aa played In the late hIx ttee and early seventiea. It in true that the rule? under which; th* two w?rc r'?reJ tilt-1 fared' somewhat but not so mater ially aa to bulwark the attitude1 Yale ha? taken. In the meantime it Is to be not ed that Michigan claims to have played the first organized foot ball in the middle west having gone in for the game and pro duced at team In 1878. KAPLIN HAS ODDS POK TITLE TONIGHT !Ux? Kraiiicr I? Well (Jiiulifi il to l*ut t*p tttvnly llHttlc for F(utlivi?rltfht King By PAIR PI*AY (CwifUkl. IUH Or 1*9 *?M? ? ? New York. Jan. 2. ? Inlcssj (here happens to be t( draw?I draw? are not very frequent at j the Ma<li?on Squnre Garden? there will be crowned a new featherweight k i it k on tonight la this city. IT.pon this fateful and eventful and otherwise momentous even? ing Luis (Kid) Kaplan, of Merl-1 den. Conn..--originally from Rus sia whence he came to t*il? coun try when he was five year old? J will meet Danny Kramer of Phil? a<!*-lphla. The betting favors Kaplan by' goodly odds and If they don't| switch?they have been known to switch very suddenly before Im portant bouts In New York?a lot of layers will h<> eating at the au tomat 'on Saturday morning If the youth from the nutmeg state loses. Kaplan seems to be the favorite on the grouud of his showing in the two fights he fought in the recent featherweight elimination tourney, especially his clean knockout of the Panama contend-, cr. Lombardo. Kramer on the other hand Is not so well known In this neck of tho woods and thus Is not so highly regarded. But the writer who. had a look at him at Collins Farm nt Summit, N. J., the other day. believes that Kramer Is well qualified to put up a sturdy bat tle and that if Kaplan stows him uway the Kid will be highly de serving of the crown that will be bestowed upon him. LEFT HANDERS HAVE THE EDGE It In Only l?y Small Margin Thul They Outliut Might Hundrd Slu^rr?, Say* Sport Writer. By JOHN B. KOSTMI (C?p*Tl?ht. 195?. br Th? AOvftBr?) New York. Jan. 2. ? Which are the better butters, right hand-1 era or loft handors? The urgu ment has been "settled" many; time? In favor of the left hand-' era, but a glance nt the record* j does not glv?* tho left handors so! much of an eJge. Take the season of 1924 for In stance, liuth. a left hander, won! r*a Vuigue Leafue bat-J ting championship, nut Hornsby, I a right bander, won tin- National. And. leaving out the question of i home runs. It can't be said that t the Ilabe has so much on Hornsby. I The 1924 result?a left hand hitting champion In the American , league and a right hander In the j ?National?merely carries out tthe , PHONE 759 NOW OPEN FOB BUSINESS Bray's French Dry Cleaners and Dyers 10 Waler Street. 0|>|M>?ltr Fowler & Co. DID YOU? Did you get that Gas Heater Yet? If not, why not? Better Stop in today and look at one at least Southern Gas Imp't Co. J. T. STALLINGS, Mgr. "If it's dont with heat, you. can do it better with C!??.' tradition of the two leagues. The American always has been the left hand batting league. with 17 out of It's 25 batting champion* operating from the fleet fcaae ?Ide of the plate. In the National things are reversed, the figures being 26 right hand champion* and 23 left bander?. Totalling the champions of the' two leagues, the left banders have the edge, the figures being 40 left ' banders to 3 4 right banders. Of the right handed champlona. ; Honus Wanner led the greatest j number of seasons?seven?al though It Is doubtful whether hej was a harder batter than Anson.; I who was king for four years In the earlier history of the older j ! circuit. ? _____ I Next to these two among the, ; right handera comes the present | title holder, Hornsby. who has ; won it five tipe* In a row und ?lands a good show of making It j ; six in 1925. It Is far from lm-1 possible that Hornsby may dls-j i place the great Wagner as king of the right hander before his i . star ball playing days are over. ' i One of the greatest batters, < the National League ever had nev-; jer shone very brilliantly In the: championship figures. That was I I Keeler. Willie was called upon I so often to sacrifice that he nev-f ler had the Jine opportunities! Wagner, Anson, Hornsby and i some others had. He was called I to bunt at least 25 per cent of his Notes 0u The Matter O? Being Well Dressed ? Simply mak. a renter ruah for the Society Branch ( lothis Shop antl your goal of being well dressed will lie made on the lirnt down. times at bat. Ty Cobb, of course, stands forth as the king of the left hand bat ters. ami it wan largely due to his brilliancy that the theory of the superiority of left fcander* sprang up. tXine straight years of batting championship and an other stretch of three yeart was i Cobb's contribution to the South paw predominancy in the Araeri j can League. ? Thi? year Ruth won the crown that Heilmonn of Detroit and Sis ter of St. Louis ha?i won after Cobb had lost it. If Huth were not ho far along in his uaseball career, he might pruve a strong factor In boost Ins the left, average of the American But ai %Mt he w*ut ko? a factor for more than fi*a i yearn. 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