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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-22
BY
HENRY TEN EYCK WHITE
Copyright, 1910, by The Tribune Co.

OF Cresceus. was made when he was 3.
and was 2:11i, whereas the eighth heat
OF the race that beat the average OF the
event won by Cresceus was done In 2:12
after nose finish between Nutbearer.
Wentworth and Dulce Cor. all of which
had records better than 2:10.
These arc the side lights that reveal
the real greatness of the horse. Another
example is the half mile track record.
Other trotting kings have not been look
Ing for honors on two lap course. and
since the days OF Rarus none OF them
has been allowed to go mile at top
notch speed on a small ring. But Cres-
ceus. on an exhibition tour OF the west
| found only a half mile track at Kansas
City-and he put up new worlds rec
| ord A Few weeks previous, at his home
town. he had placed the half mile track
record to sulky at 2:09}. and as II that
were not enough the stallion came out
later In the afternoon and went mile
to wagon in ZIP. another worlds mark
for half mile track.
Blood Lines Are Creditable.
The blood lines OF this Incompatible
racehorse trotter are OF the good old
fashioned sort, his sire, Robert McGre-
Gor tracing to Rysdyk's Hsmbletonian in
the male line and TO American Star
through his dam. The dam of Cresceus
was by q son Of Mambrino Chief AL
though Cfesceus had size, ne was not, un-
less at speed. an impressive looking
horse, going with a low mead, and when
Jogging never would have attracted at
tention. But when squared away on the
flying trot his nostrils dstended and his
eyes fairly bulging from his head. no
more inspiring looking trotter than Cres-
feated The Abbot at Brighton Beach
track he was at his best, and I never
have seen another trotter TO rank with
him as racing machine as he appeared
that day scoring for the word.
He outfooted The Abbot coming to fine
wire. and wnen the word was given
rushed away at such a clip that at the
eighth pole he was a length ahead. He
reached the quarter in :30s. four lengths
to the good. Making his own pace. the
stallion did the first half Of the mile in
I:01i, and the three quarters in 1925. II
was dizzy rate for even champion trot-
ters to maintain. but Cresceus never
faltered. coming the last quarter in al
and winning by half length II was
the supreme day OF a supreme horse.
and no man who saw Cresceus go that
mile but put him down as the racehorse
trotter of the century,
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morse trotter ever seen. In six wears of
racing. making siNty-one starts, he never
tioNs MaS oenind Z, & the money. Including exhibit
more snaed whieh ,h a victory often called for
quired TO beat field OF horses-Crescens
was iorty-two times first, fourteen times
SSeeonq' Sso Iour times third and once fourth.
pairing with this.
o. ne got every worlds trotting record
lie tried FOR, and had over two score OF
mem 20 ms & credit when he retired.
v. ne held the worlds half mile track
record; noth TO sulky and TO wagon
~, he could trot any sort OF track
5s,V a,aie or nall mile. hard OF soft, wet or
and the weather made no difference to
nim; He trotted the half mile track at
,aan naeannlson. Tex, In 2:l64 on January {.
1si,;,. rsvI, ana he later went to the Canadian
lers look common. Also he performed
az tucson, Ariz,. where Ii is warm. AS
Tor travelling, he put In over IL, 600 miles
Oh railroad riding in one season, 1901.
Stays Sound Under Work.
II; He was OF fine size, good color In
ms later years, well bred and had bone
of wonderful quality that enabled hin,
10 be trained year after year from infancy
Tor extreme efforts and still stay sound
He had willingness with his courage
NOT refusing to try even after the effort
pained him,
IL. Although not a marked success as
sire, neither is he a failure. as at the
age or 10 he has To his credit sixteen
srottefs with records better than $50.
one OF them In the 2:10 list
1t would take. book to tell In detail
the extraordinary feats of Cresceus In
the trotting line, and bare recital of
the facts can in nowise give the picture
All the colorings that belongs 10 Il, be-
cause in more ways than one the horse
that eventually held all the other trot-
ters In the world safe. and had all the
records worth having, was hampered by
circumstances that TO r. nag Of anything
but SURPRISING speed and endurance
would have proved a crushing burden.
For example. as three -year-old he
started in a race at THIN o., against
aged horses. getting third money. Two
days later he was In another like event
and finished second. Then he was shipped
to Springfield. o., where he started
against aged horses and was three times
second. This made three races In seven
days by colt trotter against aged horses,
but II was nothing to what followed. as
half an hour after Cresceus had finished
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Anecdotes and Incidents of Decisive
Struggles On the Diamond; Signs and
Systems Used by Championship Teams

the crowd, and then came up with the
sphere clinched in his fingers.
The crowd. as he imped back to his
place, paid the Pittsburg leader one OF
the greatest tributes ever given a foe
man, cheering for minutes. While the
cheers still were echoing Clarke again
smashed into the crowd and hauled
down Hoffman g hard drive, and then,
sprinting far out TO left center against
the crowd, he caught Tinker's smash
which deserved to be a home run, and
the inning was over
Those rows Of straight marks In
Pittsburg's eleventh inning tell the rest
of the story of how Brown, worn down
by the fierceness of the struggle, pitch
ing desperately, wavered and how,
helped by fumbles and failures of the
broken infeld, Pittsburg pounded the
way to victory.
Now, honestly, isn't that almost as
much fun as paying so cents 10 sit in
the sun with pop peddlers crawling
over your back and policemen jabbing
you in the ribs with clubsl Wouldn t
you rather sit at home by the FIRE
and see it all over again in scrawly
little marksf II you would, then take
book next summer and store up some
games against the hard winter. 1t s
easy if that fat man in front will only
sit down and let you see what is being
pitched.
And then, next winter. when the
missus says she thinks you might at
least stay home ONE night in winter,
when you GO gadding around ball games
all summer, you can dig up the score,
and get big, easy chair and toast
your shins, and Just root, and root and
root,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-22
W0LGAST AND WELSH
ARE OFFERED BIG PURSE

Jimmy Coffroth the California fight
promoter, has telegraphed to Tom Jones.
manager OF Ad Wolgast. Offering to hang
up a purse OF $50 600 for a forty five
ROUND bout with Freddie Welsh. TO take
likely that wolgost or his manager Will
accept this amount. as Wolgast demands
that much for his end alone,
However. Welsh is coming to the
Unlted States after his fight with Packy
Mcfarland In London. May 30, In all
likelihood Welsh will be beaten by Nc
Farland and " this is the case, Facky
viii demand battle with Wolgast on
the Pacific coast about the time of the
Jeffrles- Johnson fight. In that case.
Freddy will have TO content himself with
second rSters.
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history of the National Game; Its De-
|seopment Into an Exact Mathemat-
bal Sport; Records of Great Plays
lad Players.
TOUCHING SECOND a9i Il gss Sci

Copyright, 1910, by
The Reilly & Britton Go.

downward at the end, line fly. If
the ball goes between the shortstop
and third basemau / merely mark the
way it bounded. and put 6 on one side
and on the other,
1t is the same with pitched balls.
The curve symbol curves in the direc-
ton the ball curved. If the curve went
low. little scratch at the bottom Of
the symbol shows that it did. If it
on that side of the curve mark at the
height the ball went. a slow ball is
a law o. fast ball straight line.
The little marks indicating strikes are
put in the upper left-hand part of the
scoring square, the little marks mean
ing balls in the lower right-hand space.
IF the first ball was a strike, a minute
figure ] reveals that fact. If the next
was a ball there is a minute 2 after
the symbol indicating what kind OF
ball was pitched and where IL went.
The sign for the spit ball slobbers down
in triple curve.
The accompanying key, together with
the explanation, ought to enable any
one to read the score without much
trouble. 1t simply is picture writing
and anyone can make their own PIC
lures of wnat hit looks ike. 10
those who know the game full score
foul sometimes is almost as excitin" as
watching the game. The foul strike
rule disrupted my scoring system rt.1d f9a
round "o' at the top of a strike 1t
became simple. There are times, too
when a person wants to know whether
the batter struck at the ball, or tne
strike was called, and little (Which
means strike in baseball, for some
strange reason), placed after the strlkt
at which the batter swung, clarlhes IL
One really gets interested IN ADDING
to the system whenever any play tha'
comes up seems to need recording. Fol
instance, if there is a mark. WAVING
down to >, and after that the ia fatal n,nf. iet
| 70 know whether he fumbled or threw
wild. 4 line making an inclined plane
the sbortstop scooped the the, s6s1 ball, baso nu'
made a high throw over the hrst pase
mans head. HB b. of course, car
mean nothing but bases on balls, espe
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HARD TO KILL
HORSE RACING
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TO Louisville. In the lot are Polls. who
ran a mile in 1:3S al Aqueduct; Mon
Grief. who ran we'll at the meeting, and
number that were successful at Jnck-
sonville.
o, A. Bianchi purchased Keep Nov
ing from II c. Bedwell few days ago.
II is Mr.. Sianchis Intention to breed
this mare 10 Bearcatcher. at one time one
OF the fastest horses campaigned on the
western courses. Keep Moving is by
the Hanover sire, Yankee. out of La
Polka. AS her height and general con-
formation are all that could be desired
by the most discriminating breeder. il
Is likely that her foals Will prove up 10
expectations.
Donau. the son Of woolsthorpe. with
which William Gerst of Nashville won the
Kentucky Derby at Louisville the other
day. was purchased as a yearling by
James Blute, Mr.. Blute paid $3.50 for
the son OF Woolsthorpe. Mr.. Gerst never
saw the old colt until Blute shipped him
TO Nashville In the autumn OF 1908, Last
year while Bute trained Donau the colt
started thirty-two times, Mr., Blute sew
cred his connection with the Gerst sta
BILE In Canada In August. and after Do
nau passed out OF his control he won
three or four races Donau was a re-
markably hardy campaisner, and Blute
always contended that he was a good
horse.
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The Science
of Baseball
All Rights Reserved.

what does he do but think the ball has
gone to the stand and turn and chase
after il and let Wilson 90 to secondl
Wouldn It that-oh, what's the use ?
There he goes TO third while Schultz is
clawing Gibson s line drive out of the
crowd. Great catch, that, frankie, old
boy! You re the child wonder who
can do the stunts, eh2
They III never score now. Say, who s
this coming to hatl Hyattl Never
heard of him Wowl Brownie s got
him. Two strikes,
Rottenl rotten! SAFEY Why, he
was out as far as from here to the
lake front What DO you think of that
umpirel Letting them score on that
after Tinker made that stop and throw
TO the plate, Say, if they haven't got
the worst bunch Of holdup men, yeggs
and sandbaggers for umpires [ ever
saw! Well; anyhow, they only tied 1T.
Wen lick 'em now.
Do you see those marks in Chicago IS
tenth inning7 Look at them closely,
for never again Will YOU see them In
that inning Fred Clarke made three
of the greatest catches ever a man
made, and he alone stood between Chi
cago and its fourth championship.
Steinfeldt hit low. vicious line drive
down the left field line. Like mad
man Clarke came racing down along
the wall of humanity banked around
the field, almost brushing against the
spectators, touching their feet as he
sped 10 save Pittsburg. At the last
moment, as the ball was going into the
crowd n few feet inside the foul line,
Clarke lurched. threw himself through
the air, dived at the ball and turning.
rolling and whirling, he crashed into
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and it was one of the greatest plays
of the day Hoffman IS square says
"F 8, and you can tell by the length
of the curve over it how far Holman
hit that ball Leach got 1t FIVE feet
from the crowd, or the game would
have been over right there, but Leach
did not have chance of throwing
Chance ont at the plate, being too far
"Sac' over that "F s. Don't for
get that the rules give batter a sacri-
fee on flies when runners score.
Now look over in that Pittsburg IS
eighth inning, IN Wilson's square, and
if you love the Cubs, weep. Brown had
the game won TO 0 in spite of all that
great playing of Wagner, and here was
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-22
BY JOHN J. EVERS AND HUGH s. FULLERTON

cially with those four odd little marks
down in the lower right-han space.
The number of times at bat / mark
alongside the numbers of innings at
the to- of the score blank carving
forward the total each inning, TO make
certain the finals are correct. If pitch
ers change, | carry the total at bats
on one side and the total at bats against
the second pitcher on the other. Also
it is imperative that a scorer credits
felders with their put-outs, assists and
errors at the end Of each half inning
and Immediately checks off that inning,
so that. in case of error, 1t may be
discovered In an instant.
The sample ecore chosen to illuminate
the scoring system is not the most per
feet score possible because that GER
tainly was an exciting game, and ex-
citing games Sometimes disturb even
scorers. It was the game that really
decided that the Pittsburg team was
to be the champions of the National
league in the 1909 season. II Chicago
had won that game, which it many
times came near doing. as the score
will show, the moral effect of the vic.
tory upon both teams probably, would
have reversed the final result. The set
back. coming Just at the moment when
the champions seemed finally about TO
pass their rivals, was a death blow TO
Chicago's IS hopes, and revived tho ap-
parently waning courage of the Pirates.
II not the deciding game of the sea,
son, it was one of them, and as an in
dividual game it was one of the most
thrilling and sensational ever played,
Look on the Chicago side in the sew.
enth inning. See those marks? Read
them. They mean that Schultz opened
against Camnitz with slashing line
drive and that Chance followed with
long fly into the crowd that hemmed
| in the field-a two-base hit under the
rules putting men on second and third
and no one out. Notice that scrawly
| indlstinct "5-2' in the upper left hand
corner of Schultz, square? Know
what that means? 1t means WAGNER
consarn him! That was when, diving
forward, he scooped of the ground q
slow, high bounder hit by Tinker and
with wonderful throw TO Gibson, cut
bv the high curley-cue over that F {
which means felder's choice in Tin
ker IS square, how that ball bounded
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Wilson at bat, Humpb, Wilson can t
take it in his own hands and hit 200.
Bullock at that mark. Straight as
die, a line single to the right Of
center. Wouldn't that jar youl And
he had two strikes on him, too, and
was fishing after that curve! Never
mind. Brownie will get them yet. Vow
Wowl Punk Punkerinol! Rotten plus
four!l! Did you see. what happened 2
Needham-What do they let that fell
low catch for. anyhow? On. Archer
and Moran both hurt, eh9 WHY don 7
King come bacht What DID happen,
eh7 Why, Brownie pitched high. Need.
ham knocked the ball down all right.
II fell right at his feet in front of
him and Wilson never moved. Then
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Clarke Crashed Into the Crowd.
BALL PLAYERS
GET BIG MONEY
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rowing programme thjs season, which
Will furnish some good sport. or course
the most interesting and most important
OF the regattas is that OF the American
August. when many foreign crews Will
compete. II was hoped that the famous
Belgian eight might take part, but the
ethletic activities connected With the
The programme OF the most important
regattas for the balance of the season
follows:
May SO-Harlem Regatta association al
New York. on Harlem river.
June lS-Schuylkill Navy at Philadel-
phia.
June 25-Mohawk and Hudson Rowing
associa ton at Schenectady, n. Y.
July 4-People's regatta at Phtiadel-
phlas
July New England Amateur Rowing
association at Boston.
July i-ConnectiCut Valley Rowing as
sociation at Springfield.
July 9-Long Island Rowing association
at New York on Harlem river.
July 9-Central States Amateur Rowing
association at Quincy, III.
July l6 and Southwestern Amateur
Rowing association at ST. Louis,
August u and 13-National regatta
American amateur championship at
September 3 Q.abor day)-NIiddle
States Regatta association at either Phil
adelphia or Baltimore.
September tLabor day)-New Eng
land Amateur Rowing association at Bcs'
ton.
Baseball War.
According 10 one rumor a big baseball
war Is brewing between the National ana
American leagues and II is scheduled to
break at the end or the present season,
II Is said that the National league VIII
break away from the American next fall
and instead OF the two working In har-
mony there will be keen competition be-
tween them.
II this should come TO pass II might
furnish better and cheaper baseball. but
IL would not last and eventually would
natures invariably fail and some master
haId gathers Ia all the profits.
Followers OF lawn tennis are impatient
ly awaiting the national clay court cham
pionshIp meet which is TO be held on
the courts of the Kansas City club. The
figure which westerners arc To cut in
lawn tennis promises 10 set n new stand
ard for the game. The wcsternors de-
clare that the Kansas City meet VIII far
outshine that at Newport this summer.
pion In singles, and Frederick 3. AlcNan-
der and Harold H. Hactett. the doubles
holders. seem 10 be in for the trial of
their lives, 1t Is predicted that Larned
is due for q defeat this year, The hope
is that younger American Will save the
title from foreign invasion.
II is feared that there VIII not be- any
New England and few New York athletes
take part In tho A. a. U. championships
at New Orleans next October. Pessmls
ready predicting that tho meet in New
Orleans Will prove a frost
| believe that the United States Will
he sectionally represented as well at
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show path speedway and. according to
the story of his ownef,, George III. keych-
am OF Toledo, @, succeeded in beating
the beat of the Toledo horses"
never have heard OF any other trotter
being taken out on the show before his
second birthday had arrived and stepped
against seasoned nags. Cresceus was
trained as q 2-year-old. started in two
races in one OF them beating field OF
fifteen. and the next winter. to quote his
owner. "he worked steadily on the show
and won many a brush"
Other unheard OF tests to which this
giant among horses was subjected might
be given, but enough has been said to
emphasize tho point that Crcsceus was
the game because ne was especially fitted
for such efforts, but because he was a
horse OF such overwhelming capacity as
a race nag and a speed machine that he
accomplished these feats merely as part
OF the days work
Retires With Many Records.
When Cresceus finally was retired he
held the following champion records:
Worlds trotting record .....,......$2 50 .02k
Race record, 3-year-old stallion .2:lI3
Worlds race record .2:03i
Fastest heat by stallion In a race. 9 :03l
Fastest first heat In a INSTRUMENTATION
Fastest second heat t..........2.0
Fastest fourth heat by stallion. q. q 2:o71
Fastest ii.tl1 heat by a stallion 2:0Sa
tahIeSl eigntn neat ..s..ss.-..r....r 2.1l5
Fastest two heat race ...s... .2:03i, 2:06i
Fastest three consecutive heats IN
race by stallion .,.....2:07l 2:0e, . .06
Fastest five heat race.
Fastest eight heat race.
Worlds record, half mile track, @ .09i
Worlds record, half mile track, 10
wagon 900. -...~..>s,s... .2:12
Worlds record. two miles ..........4:17
Once more II is we'll to call attention tc
the fact that the figures do not tell the
whole truth. For instance, Cresceus Is
credited with the fastest eight heat race
ever trotted when he was at his best
but the record does not show he was
only a 3-year-old trotting against aged
horses, or that he took the last three
heats OF the eight. The following sea
son n faster eight heat race was trotted
but the winner. Nutbearer. was an aged
horse. as were all his competitors, IN,
occasion being n $4,000 purse for I'll
trotters, so that none but nags OF proved
speed and stamina started. And again
the fastest eighth heat, still 20 the credi
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Greatest Harness Horse of Ali Time

..,,.inr stallion Jresceus, 2:o2t.
siSi''i s!sSt sired by Robert McGregor,
Z hsM sMsmbrlno Howard. propapiy
by elected by lary Oh horsehnen
% psss.qtest harness morse Oh al 1.Il,e'
y g. ess,sndards by which a supreme
q ~ ,orse must bo measured ana 10
~ pt pvn,,st in high degree conform
ns IL the foremost ilgure III trot-
~ history for these reasons:
noTSu r. was natural trotter;
'silnH nHs was a phenomenal colt trot-
Ic1u mile over a haii,miie track
talns ,r.old : In 2:2ot, WIN iittle tram
~. - In his 3-ycar-oid torm ne won
rnl.o rsmnrkable race ever credlted
-, 49, Of that age. taking nrst non,
1o..' ieht-heat contest from a neid
an an-a,ters of the 2:iI class, the bat
r. .s,nr mg over two days, Cresceus
slenI,,".i three heats. and his posi-
me me, .Se entire race were a :, 2; :.
~ ~" ,hs time OF the mile being
,,,i 4 q:i2;. 2;12i. 2;l2i; 2:l2t. 2:12i.
10y. ..ycraGe of 2:12i. That perform
~ ,.s would give any 3-year-old un-
uons hut Il was only an incident
'an snresr OF Cresceus-
,,rssateu After Maturity
u. res nm unbea able race trot-
sN-i imsfnred. defeating horse after
fseu t 6nally he was matched
un.n worlds champion trotter, The
y y, Wy s.Gsi Cresceus won in 2:033
- heat ever trotted In a race
s'.L ,In,e and the performance stood
~ ss-..nd until last summer, when
.IensIR R,l,e put 2:0li In It's place.
Ike lowered the stallion record
p1sI 10 2:02.. where IL stands to-
Having beaten all other trotters.
= siarted against time and OBJ
fastest record OF his day.
ssst,nc @ the best previous mark
a Ne lowered the two-mile record
.s.s from 4:2S to 4:17. the only
.,,rted at that distance, and
"a Eli il the best This was done
rrssocus was past his prime, and
. = sneclal preparation for such a
s,;il cresceus always a horse
,,,insnces, stepped the first mile
. ~ d ard the second in 2;062. That
,Sen @ far short of his top speed
t,rn by the fact that three days
4 shs TWO miles test Cresceus was
N hat 2:0i, and the best he
4. was 9:051. To come back the
..t and 20 two miles at an aver
s.ss; shows what n whale among
4 rs:ccus was in the matter of
= sag the most consistent race