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than Cravath during the short time he
was with the local team in the fall OF
1905 Cantillon sent Cravath to bat exactly
twelve times that season and he struck
out eleven times and would probably have
had a clear record had he not been pass
ed on his other trip to the plate. Cra-
vath looked to be the worst hitter imagi-
nable and yet in year or SO he has de-
velOped into real slugger.
Though Herman Schaefer broke into
base ball thirteen or fourteen years ago,
he hit better last season than ever be-
fore in his career and this sudden inn
provement must be attributed to the fact
that he has but recently changed himself
from right to a left handed hitter.
While during former seasons Schaefer fire.
quently batted left-handed. he alternated
from one side of the plate to the other
a good deal Last season, however. he
batted left-handed exclusively against
right-handed pitchers and turned around
only when a left-hander was facing him.
There have been many instances In base
ball where players have made themselves
good hitters by turning around-that Is to
say, changing from right to left hand.
Miller Higgins of the st. Louis Cardinals
was one of the weakest stickers in tho
game until he turned himself to the other
side of the plate, and since then he has
been classed among the good hitters.
washington mas Deen IN the American
League eleven seasons and has never fin
fshed higher than sixth. which happened
on two occasions, while the last hole
has been the most popular position with
the Nationals.
This state of affairs can be directly at
trtbuted to faulty system which has
been in vogue here but one which is to
be shelved under Griffith. perusal of
the teams records of these years shows
that no effort was really ever made to de-
velop young ball team. For years II
seems to have been the custom here to
purchase players from rival teams In an
effort tc make winner out Of loser
virtually overnight, and absolute fail
ure has been the only result. Just why
the error of this system was not realized
long ago is to be wondered at. Griffith,
however. seems to realize that his only
hope lies in developing ball players and It
is hard to see how he can do any worse
than have his predecessors, and he should
do whole lot better
will be elected to succeed himself as
president of the National League Those
who oppose Lynch seem to have come to
the realization that they are Quitting
against s. stone wall and appear to have
stopped a campaign to defeat him. Lynch
seems to have filled the bill even better
than was expected and with the years
experience he has enjoyed he should do
even better IN the future.
1t would not have been an easy matter
to find a successor to Lynch who could
be elected. The factions In the National
League are always slow to get together
on the matter of electing a president
and the reelection of Lynch will save a lot
OF Wrangling and waste of time.
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AMERICAN GOLFERS
PRAISED BY HILTON

I-tterances interesting and flattering to
American golfers were made by Harold
II, Hilton at complimentary Gunner
given TO the British and American cham
pioh by the London Press Golhng Society
recently: Americans. he said, were
race new to golf. but they were Wiling
and anxious to observe the best tradltlohS
of the game. Hej would like all who
criticised American golf and golfers to
remember that they were sensitive
people and that they were sportsmen:
The crowd on the occasion of the inal
may not have been so well ordered as
the average British crowd. The Amert-
can people were BY nature demonstrative.
but the reports which had been spread
as to their behavior We're exaggerated.
In q match at West Middlesex between
the Pen and Brush" previous to the
dinner, Mr.. Hilton was the victim of an
amusing joke. Owing to the defalcation
of a member OF the artists team. Mr.. A.
Zorn, said to be Norwegian amateur.
was placed against the champion. Haf
Ludlow, who managed the hoax, explain
ed TO some of the committee that he had
a friend staying with him, a distinguish
ed Norwegian sculptor, who might be IN
vited to fill the gap. especially as ne play
ed first rate game. The visitor had
PLAYED around with another OF the
artists team. whom ne had impressed as
being the only one likely to give the
champion hard run. The Norwegian
accordingly came into the team.
lie circumstances were ooiy CAPlaih-
ed and Mr. Zorn' introduced" says Golf
Illustrated. THE picturesque appearance
OF the stranger, with his fair hair, rosy
cheeks and blue spectacles, excited much
interest. and this interest was quickened
into sympathy when 1t became known
that the unfortunate artist was dumb. OF
Mr. Zorn's artistic talent Mr.. Ludlow was
eloquent. making particular mention OF q
ma enificent winged centaur,' which he
declared to be an absolute work of gem
ms hut whatever his DhySical fnf1rrnf-
ties might be. Mr. Zorn soon showed that
he could play golf. and Mr.. Hilton, with
his characteristic acuteness of perception.
at once realized that he had to deal with
an experienced player. AT the turn Mr..
Hilton was four up, but thereafter Mr.
Zorn played so well that Mr.. Hilton only
succeeded in winning his match on the
| last green. Then the joke came out. Mr..
Zorn was the ingenious creation of those
biithe spirits, Hal Ludlow and Harry
Rountree, and was none other than G..
Ralph Smith. the West Middlesex profess
sional" - SaIx r
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BOSTON CLUB FOR SALE.
Jim Russell Said to Be Anxious "a
Dispose of Rustlers.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CINCINNATI. November I4-One Of the
best prospects in base ball is on the mar
ket. The Boston National League club is
proving too much Of a problem for Sunny
Jim Russell and is for sale. Though tall
enders for the past three years. the Beans
have reached a stage now where they
must be considered some ball club. and
1t is a fine chance for an investment. The
grounds at Boston are the smallest In the
league. and the stands are not at all
elaborate. but the field is SO well located
that good crowds attend the games. even
with the club far down In the race. Presi-
dent Russell is q game sport, but he has
not the financial support to weather tho
storms of another season. and IL willing
to step down and out, IL q purchaser can
be found
There is quite q chance that Charles
Baird, formerly business manager of ath-
letics at the University OF Michigan, will
buy the Boston club and become a Ma
tional League magnate. Mr.. Baird has
plenty Of money and is anxious to secure
control OF a major league club. He is a
first-class business man and would be
credit to the game in every way. II he
buys the Boston club, as seems likely.
the team will be put on firnner basis
and the club viii soon become q winner.
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TO STOP BooKMAK1NG.
Legislation Proposed in Maryland
Which May Hurt Racing.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. November 1.-THE prac-
tice OF taking daily revenue from book
makers on the Maryland racetracks will
be the object Of new legislation in that
state. it is said. Several lawmakers, who
arc not opposed to racing as a sport, have
makers on the Maryland race tracks will
making 1t a felony TO license bookmak-
ing by exacting a revenue for betting ring
privileges. Other reformers are prepar-
ing a measure to prohibit bookmaking, or
rather the display of odds and the record
ing Of wagers. at the same time permit
ting wagers by individuals. If either of
these bills becomes a law the tracks at
Pimlico. Laurel and Marlboro will be
crippled financially. One Of these tracks
this fall limited the number Of books to
thirty, and each paid daily revenue OF
more than $50. This rakeoff offset the
money hung up in stakes and purses
with little or no profit for the association,
as the gate receipts were comparatively
nothing.
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McBRIDE IS MASTER OF
TWO PLAYS AT SHORTFIELD
Has No Equal at Touching Runners or
Preventing Double Steal-Has
Missed But Two Games
In Four Years.

two and half inches tall. who strips at
210 and is perfectly built fast on his feet
and can field his position Why. there is
| no telling how great pitcher he Will
| be. Under Griffith, who knows the art OF
pitching, Cashion should come to the
| front rapidly He has a whole lot to
| learn. He needs different motion. for
| he has too much of it and must learn to
grip the ball tighter. 1t would not sur
prise me in the least to see Cashion the
sensation of the American League pitch
ers next season
Charley Carr, who will succeed Danny
Shay as manager of the Kansas City
team next season, believes he has handed
John McGraw a great player in Burns. an
outfielder who played for Carr at Utica
last season. This is what he says OF
Burns:
John j. McGraw of the New York Ma
tionals bought the star player of my
team. His name is Burns, a nineteen
year-old boy. He plays the outf1eld. Nc
GTaw paid Utica. $4,000 for the release Of
Burns The lad was formerly a catcher.
He bats right-handed and Is a right field
hitter. He'll make good in the big ring.
Burns has the hest pair of hands of any
young ball player I've ever seen. Then
he can throw to beat the band, and runs
the bases like a fiend. l look for Burns
TO give Jack Murray an argument for
the right field berth in New York next
year
Il managed the Indianapolis A a. team
for five years before going to Utica I
won one pennant with the Hoosiers and
finished in the first division three seasons.
RUDE Marauard and DOME Bush are
two of my finds 1 picked up Vanguard
in Cleveland. He signed with indianapolis
for S125 per month. After playing with
us for one year we sold him to the New
York Nationals for S11,O0O- cash. Going
Some?
Mr.. Watkins made that sale against my
advice. I advised him to send Marquard
to the Boston Americans. John l. Taylor
offered Speaker, Chadbourne Ralph Glaze
and 5000 in cash for Marquard
Speaker was then playing with the Little
Rock club. One year later Speaker de-
veloped into one of the star outfielders
of the game. If we had made the trade
with Boston the Indianapolis club could
have peddled Speaker one year later for
$15.U0.
Il can't understand how the big leagues
passed up Bill Bradley of Cleveland.
continued Mr. Carr. II saw him playing
third base for the Toronto CE L. club
this year and believe me, he's the best
looking third baseman in minor league
ball. A number of clubs tried to draft
him this fall. but fortunately for Toronto
Bradley escaped the dragnet. He's the
best looking ball player that ever was
allowed to drop out of the big ring Bill
is a wise boy, takes excellent care OF
himself and will be playing good ball
when a number of big league third sack
ers 1 could name will be out OF the busl-
ness.
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BY J. ED GRILLo.

Among base ball men George Mcbride
hes the reputation of being the best IN
fielder in the country when IL comes 10
touching base runners with the ball. rms
is one failing which most second base
men and shortstops have, and there couio
be no greater weakness. for 1t not only
makes base running easier, but II mas
a detrimental effect on the catchers IN
f7efders who lack the ability to toucn
runners often lose base stealers on perIect
throws from the catchers and 1t Is hard
60 figure how great a handicap 1t is 10
Q team when this happens
Mcbride. however. has the play down
70 perfection. No matter where the pail
IN thrown b always gets 1t on the runner.
and what is most remarkable is the fact
that he has never been seriously injured
In the four years he has played mere
Mcbride. barring one season, when ne
missed the first two games because Oh
illness has played In every schedule
game for the Nationals.
: In this respect he leads all infieiders IN
The country. for with base runners sizing
into second, feet first, the work OF the
man covering. and Mcbride does most OF
AZ for the local team. Is decidedly dam
gerous and IL requires q lot or ag1ilty. TO-
ketner with nerve. to make the play ana
come out unharned.
! There is one other play in base Dali AT
which Mcbride exceIS and at which he is
considered the master of all others. 1t is
the breaking up OF the attempted double
steaI other shortstops make this play
occasionally. Mcbride has failed but once
since he has played here
: This play comes up very often. Nath a
man on first and third. the man on first
Starts for second to draw IL throw. If
lhe shortstop leaves his position too soon
HE batsman is very apt to hit. through
the space left vacant, SO he must not
start for the ball until it is in the catch
ers hand. He then runs to a spot in front
OF second, and directly behind the pitcher.
and if the man on third starts home Nc
BRIDES throw Is always sure to beat him
there. 1t has frequently happened that
the runner on third has held his base, in
which event Mcbride has frequently
caught the man trying to reach second.
Only small portion of the spectators ap-
preciate ,McBride's ability in this respect,
but among ball players and managers Nc
Bride is considered the best man on these
plays that the game has ever developed.
When Griffith sees Big Carl Cashion
in action he will enthuse more than he
ever has over any ball player is the
prediction made by Mike Kahoe. "Fn
wager that no youngster ever before
broke into fast company who looked
more impressive than Cashion. Think of
q youngster twenty years old, six feet
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-14
BY J. ED GRILLo.

Whenever any one connected with the
Athletics has occasion to give vent to any
opinions regarding the recent world S
series it's dollars to doughnuts that some
reference will be made to how Mack s
players solved the pitching of Christy
Mathewson. Now the fact of the matter
is that Mathewson gave a great exhibit
ton of pitching in that series, and if he
hind him that he faced he would have
scored another signal victory. He won
his first game. and with any sort of hit
ting behind him would have Won the
second. for it was not until the ninth
inning, with one man out, that Baker
made his home-run drive which tied the
score. Had Mathewson's team been able
to hit at all that one run would not have
cut the slightest figure: as it was it tied
the score. Notwithstanding the fact that
Mathewson has been pitching major
league ball for eleven years, and is per-
haps no longer as good as he was former
~, give him as good a hitting team as
the Athletics to play behind him and he
would lose decidedly few ball games. All
this talk about how Mathewson was solv-
ed sounds like rot. 1t was simply a case
of a good pitcher being up against the
best hitting team in the world which also
got one or two very good breaks
Carl Morris victory over Jack Geyer is
not apt to throw scare into Jack John
son. While the Oklahoma Giant show ed
to much better advantage against the
Denver fighter than he did against Flynn.
II is evident that he still has lot to
learn. In their efforts to teach Morris
the art OF boxing his trainers seem to
have robbed him of his punch. for accord
ing to the reports sent out of his fight
with Geyer he was lamentably weak in
this respect. He did appear, however, to
handle himself less like a novice and yet
he did not give any Indications Of en-
dangering Johnson's claim to the cham
pionship title. Morris may be a great
fighter one of these days. but for a time
at least he will have to be content with
IL he expects to add any victories to his
string.
Bill Cunningham Of the Nationals prob
ably struck out more often last season
than any other player in the league, COM
pared with the number of games he play
ell. and yet other players have had this
falling In their early careers, who have
later developed into great hitters Good
judges of ball players proclaim Gavy
Cravath, who was with Minneapolis for
the past few seasons one of the best hit
tiers in the country and several major
league clubs were anxious to secure him
the Phillies finally succeeding and vet it
established greater strike-out record
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only thing that will alter the state of
anaIrS is revolution, and just the same
IN college life where cruelties are nerpe-
trated on the younger and weaker men,
GERS the only remedy is swift and sharp
revolution by these self-same younger
members. Therefore. 10 the hazers 1 saw
go on and light To those who are hazed
or who are about to be hazed / say, go
tor the hazers for all You are worth, and
knock them out the first blow II they
are too big. so that you cannot tackle
them with your fists. knock them out
with chunk OF wood, a bar Of iron. or
anything that comes handy. Knock them
out good and hard
Twentyseven years ago ] was a mid
-snipman I'm her majesty Queen Vic
III. NJ. s y. In the gunroom mess we
had altogether some twenty-four men,
bers. consisting of eighteen junior men,
bers and six senior members. The presi
dent OF the mass was young sublieu-
tenant twenty-five years old. He was u
big. husky fellow. and looked more like
. prize tghter than a naval officer, and
was the biggest bully | ever came across
He with the five other senior members
proceeded to make the lives of US young
sters miserable.
To show the type of man he was | in
stance the fact that at a certain large
naval seaport in England there was a big
circus visiting the town during the time
tor offered a prize of Go TO any one who
would sit In the cage OF lions and be
photographed Sublieutenant u promptly
took up the challenge. sat among the
lions. stroked their boards. and was duly
photographed. Sublieutenatn L. promptly
whole ships company.
Certainly the man was brave, and if
you get a brave bully II is a worse COM
bination than a cowardly one. He was
continually fogging the younger members
OF the mess. for practically nothing at
all, except the sport torturing young
fellows afforded him. After we had been
a few days In commission he called me
up one day and for some imaginary Of
.fense said he was going to fog me.
looked him straight I'm the face and told
him that II he touched me he would die
within the next twenty-four hours, and
had he touched me I most assuredly
without compunction, would have carried
out my threat. He could see the truth
Elittering out of my eyes. and he never
attempted to fog me again.
Several Of the young middies We're littl,
chaps. and for the first fortnight after W.
Joined the ship they were hazed and buf
lied in the most dreadful manner. NJ.
heart bled for them, and determined t,
put a stop to It. i called meeting o
the eighteen Junior members. but SOM
three or four tiInid ones refused TO join
However, all the rest agreed to follow m
"a whatever i decided TO do. l went t
the place where Subl'eutensnt 2. kept
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KNOCK OUT HAz|NG
Queensberry Says Evil Should
Be Stamped Out.
LEADERS USUALLY DULLES
Tells Good Story Of How Abuses
Were Stopped on British
Battleship.
LEADERS USUALLY DULLES
BY the Marquis of Queensberry.

Copyright. 1911. by the Marquis Of Queensherry3
? During the last three months I have
been in the United States I have read of
the hazing that goes on at the colleges
and naval and military schools. Hazing
Is a thing that should be Immediately
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The Manchester chamber Of commerce
that made an offer for the franchise of
the Fall River club of the New Eng
land League has received no notice as
to the acceptance or rejection of the
offer made. There is feeling that Fall
River parties will secure control OF the
team and keep II there.
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Navy Coaches Encouraged.

ANNAPOLIS. November 14.--With all
but one Of the leading candidates for the
Naval Academy team available and on
the field for practice. there was much
satisfaction here yesterday afternoon.
While the changes in the backfeld. due
to injuries and also to the failure OF
some Of the players to come UP to ex-
pectations. have given the coaches a diff
fcult task during the coming week. the
general increase in power and speed in
the backfield is notable. and there is only
q feeling OF encouragement. The cripples
who were back in the game yesteray are
Nichols. McReavey and Sowell, all OF
whom are backs, and Davis. one Of the
best candidates for tackle early in the
season.
The coaches believe that Gilchrist, for
merly right end, will make good at quar-
ter, and he played there yesterday after
noon. However, as he has had no expert
ence In the position against a strong
team, Sowell and Leonard will be work
ed at the place, In order to have compe-
tent substitutes.
The midshipmen are raising the pool
which Is annually staked on the game. It
is expected that 1000 will be raised, and
1t will be placed on even terms.
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stamped out once
and for all. and
there is only one
set Of persons who
can do it. and that
Is the hazed. 1t is
useless to argue or
try to put decency
into the mind of q
bully.
School life IS in
all respects the
same as the life of
a nation. When
abuses and cruel
ties are performed
by the government
OF any country the
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was satisfactory, and this deficiency.
which should have trebled the score. was
accounted for by a comparatively slight
injury sustained in the first period.
The second eleven had a hard-fought
workout yesterday, and in the absence
of the varsity men from the field new
plays were studied and worked on to
prepare the scrubs to provide the regu-
lars with good practice for the rest OF the
week.
Quakers Have Easy Time.
PHILADELPHIA. November 1.-the
University of Pennsylvania foot ball team
had a light practice yesterday afternoon
on Franklin Field. There were two rea-
sons for this-first. the hard game against
Lafayette Saturday. and. second, the
coming game with Michigan next Satur-
day Most of the time was taken up with
signal practice, following which the line
men were drilled in charging and the
ends in tackling. Piekarski running with
the ends and giving the men an object
lesson in bringing runner down.
The second varsity had a stiff scrim-
mage with the scrub. At the start the for
mer rushed the ball down to within 10
yards OF a touchdown, but lost it on a
tumble. That was the nearest they got. as
every time a tumble marred their
chances.
The squad to be taken to Ann Arbor
Wednesday was selected yesterday. as
follows: Mercer. Jourdet, Bell, F'indeisen.
Morris. Wolfert. Dillon. Younger. Ken
nedy. Thayer. Minds; Keogh, Fisher
Spruance, HARRINGTON, Barr, Hill, Mar
shall and Chandler.
Pennsylvania feels confident OF Mich
igan victory after the showing made in
the Lafayette game. and will go west ex-
pecting to win as decisively as on Satur-