The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-29
IF TIE
 GAME 'OF BASEBALL
Connie Mack Says Game Is
 Growing in Favor
BONUSES TO PITCHERS
Several TyyirIers VIII Be offered Extra Money for Winning Certain Number of Games Pitched
 During the Season

New York, March 2S.-(special.)-
 Connie" Mack the veteran baseball
 player, who knows all about the sport
 and has a speaking acquaintance with every player of note, thinks that the
 game has not evolutionized in recent
 years in any manner except in point of
 attendance.
 "The evolution of the game in the
 last 20 years is more remarkable in
 point of patronage than in the way 1t
 Is played" says Mack.
 "There were marvellous players in the
 old days and there are marvellous play CTS now. It was guessing contest be-
 tween the pitcher and batter in the days of Radbourne and of Anson. It IS no less guessing contest in these days of Mullin and Lajoie. It was battle between the catcher and base-runner in the days of Ewing and of Hamiltoni It is still battle in the days of Sullivan and 'Ty' Cobb. The fan who believes there are no Clarksons or Kellys or Stoveys or Fergusons or Fogartys to- day is just as firmly set in his belief as is the fan who considers LaJoie, Mathewson, Joss, King, Cobb and Crawford greater players than were in the game back in the SOS"
 l The question of offering bonuses to I pitch CTS who win a certain percentage of games through the season bobbed up this year, but few financial promises | have been made. Charley Murphy of Chicago has already offered Overall s50G if he wins 30 games this year and at first dash this looks pretty good, but consider. Joe McGinnity won 30 for Brooklyn in 1900, but not until three years later was this mark touched again. Christy Mathewson reached 30 | in 1908 and in the following year the Iron Man" won S5 to Christy's 33. In l 1905 Mathe ewson was the only twirler to pass the mark. Last year Mordecai Brown led all corners with 27. This year fans will have to keep watch on Babe" Adams, the young phenom with the Pirates. It will be re- membered that Adams virtually won the worlds championship for Pittsburg by pitching two winning games against I Detroit last fall. l understand that Adams is in great fettle.
 l If Manager McGraw can possibly stretch a point he will give Birming ham, Ala a chance to see one of it's native sons, Pitcher Dickson, in action on the up-trip from Marlin Springs. Dickson was a member of the Birmng | ham nine last year and won 16 games out of 31.
 | McGraw in looking over the Southern league material thought Dickson worth a. trial and decided to give 1t to him. | Dickso Is not much of a batter, but guess the Alabama fans will wager their boots on him if they ever get a chance.
 The ban against Peerless Mel Shep-
 pard, the all-round athlete, who was
 sentenced" to 60 days suspension from participation in athletic meetings, will be raised on Monday, and from that
 date "MeP will seek vengeance.
 The verdict of 50 days suspension against an ordinary athlete means lit- tie if anything, but to man of Shep pard's standard it is serious thing. | Sheppard, a delegate from the Irish American club, has taken part in
 numb erless contests and has won many laurels for America in Olympic meets l and other international gatherings.
 The history of Sheppard's case, of
 course, is now old, but it would seem
 strange if the Military Athletic league does not continue its crusade against padded expense accounts and other forms of infringement upon the athletic laws of the body.
 Tt has hurt me a great deal" said Sheppard. T did not expect suspension, and when the sentence was put into force I immediately took steps to fight it. It is true that my temper got away with me in Philadelphia, that I used nasty language, but, of course, that could not affect my standing. It was | the expense account matter which caused all the trouble"
 I The great runner may turn profess sional, as result of this unpleasant episode. Sheppard will not admit this, however. The keenest rivalry at the fourth an- nual tournament of the National Bowl ing association in Baltimore, from April | 8 to the S0th will rest between New York and Chicago. The entries closed today. New York has always claimed to be the bowling center of the United States, and Chicago is exerting every effort to capture that laurel for the Windy City. The New York Bowling association has a membership of 75OO, and of this number more than 800 are sure to participate in the Baltimore meeting. If this same percentage of at tendance Is maintained in other cities throughout the country the Baltimore tournament should be the biggest ever held.
 | There is no branch of athletics, ex- cept of course, pugilsm, which pro- duces more champions and sets the old fellows into discard after they have en- jcycd their heyday for a brief space, than running. Just now we are hail. l ing Gustav Ljungstrom. the pert little red headed Swede, as the original Pe- ruvian Gustav is now the champion twenty miller" with record of 1:b0:5S 3-5, which is 55 2-5 seconds off the record formerly held e. Crossland. But Gustav had better make hay while the sun shines, for before very long Q new man will bob up with a pair of shears on the record.
 | Jerome Keogh, the champion pool player, delivered little dissertation to me upon the art of being a cue cham pion. The text is Keep your temper and keep cool" f s-eS l. As Keogh says: "A man can't dissi- pate and be crack pool player. He
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