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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-23
RACING IN CUBA.
Big Meeting Will Start There
Thanksgiving Day.

NEW YORK. July 22-Racing in Cuba
next winter. under the best auspices and
a management that will he a guaranty of
iligh-class sport. is now assured. The in
augural meeting will begin on Thanks
giving day and will continue. for at least
sixty days. Stakes OF large value. includ-
ing purse of $1,000. a derby worth
$4,000 and not less than six races day,
with an added value of $500 each, will
attract the very best horses in the United
States and Canada 1t will, with but the
possible exception of Juarez. be the only
track on which there will be racing after
the close of the season at Baltimore and
the splendid new course almost complete
at Laurel. Md, midway between the cap
ital and the Monumental city.
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Youngsters Making Good in Major Leagues
No. 2-"SC0OPS" CAREY, PrTTsBURG.

The Rev. Max George Canaris, Lutheran
clergyman. is the handle which his
parents wished to hang on the name OF
Pittsburg's fast young outfielder. wAo
now is playing professional base ball as
Scoops Carey.
But Canaris, OF Carey, as we shall call
him, decided early in his career at Con-
cordia College, Fort Wayne, that he was
not adapted to the ministry. AT that time
he had no intention of following base ball
for a livelihood After his graduation
from college in 1909, however. he found
that other jobs were scarce, but that there
were plenty of openings for Canaris the
ball player. So he accepted a base ball
position as the best paying job for the
moment. AS his skill and earnings in
creased Carey continued in the game. and
he now intends to stay, if his skill war
rants, until he has saved enough money
to embark in some business. Meanwhile
this hard-headed youngster has been gain
ing a business experience during the win
ter months by acting as salesman for
the Stephenson underwear mill Of South
Bend.
Carey was born in Terre Haute January
II. 1880, so he is major Lacquer in hi
twenty-first year. He played ball as a
youngster, but first attracted attention al
Concordia. denominational college,
where 1t was planned he should prepare
10 study theology. While good student
Carey specialized more in athletics thaH
in theology. He played three years on the
base ball nine as shortstop and was cap
tain of the basket ball and track teams
On the track he was especially strong il!
short dashes. and never was beaten while
at school, This ability now serves him
we'll in getting to first base and swelling
his batting average by beating out In
field hits. 1t is related that in one coliefe
meet Carey took part in nine events, set
ting six firsts. one second and one third
The name Canaris did not become Care
until the college shortstop decided to pa
summer base bali. TIE motive was III
sam" as in most other cases o: coiie19
DaIl players who triflc ";th Lei ana
teur standine~-tear vf heinS bsiaeG by the
faculty from their cpiieSe b.iie. carey
played Oh the Champagne Nclyets. a To-
cal club i'll hts home town. lie was too
well known, however. or else the faculty
had too long ears for the secret to keep,
but the faculty for some reason did not
bar him from the Concordia nine.
The Scoops part OF the name did not
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After being graduated from COncordia
in 1859 Carey signed with the Fort Wayne
Sbamrocks. but before the season was
over he secured trial when South Bend
was crippled for players, played a Won
derful fielding game and made two hits
al his first appearance. He became a
regular at once, and finished the season
of 1909 as shortstop at South Bend. but
DATED only 100 in forty eight games and
telded .9G1.
Last year Carey was shifted to the out
field, and his stickwork climbed to .29S,
while he fieided $50. By this time his
speed and Improvement was attracting
the attention of major league scouts, who
also were inspecting Shortstop Mccarthy
Plttsburg landed both prizes, and when
Tommy Leach was incapacitated this sea-
son Carey secured an opportunity to be-
come u regular.
Carey's speed makes him a valuable
man in the outer garden as well as on the
base lines although he had much to learp
in both departments when he entered the
big league.
In recent game in Chicago Carey was
roasted by fans and scribes for bone
lead play. With one out and Carey on
first Manager Fred Clarke of the Pirates
nit a long fly to center field. Carey
l'all would be caught and then again went
;oward second, and as a result was dou-
:;.ed before he could get back to first after
he ball was caught.
Wnen asked ABOUT the incidents carey
aid: They got me OF that. but 1 don t
think they Hil, get me again tie same
way. I knew there was one out. and
when l saw the bali would be caught !
lowed up Then it seemed as IL Clarke
hcuted: Run ii cut what's the matter
with you" l looked around and Clarke
VAS tearing for first like mad. and it
seemed to me would better run. no mat
.er what 1 thought, if the manager or
dered me to. So l did. OF course. ii was
not Clarke who shouted to me. but the
Cub coacher. who Put one over on me:
but his voice certainly sounded like
Clarke's. I felt about foot high instead
OF just under six feet. but Clarke never
even called me down for being fooled.
suppose lie realized it was one of those
,r.cks they try TO pull on us youngsters.
nd often successfully. / am sorry TO
. say. -....---....-.
Carey's mother and four brothers are
living in Terre Haute. All the brothers
IRE bali players, and the three younger
than Scoops would like to be profess
sionals but the family council has de-
creed that one professional in the family
is enough. Possibly one Of the trio may
supply the pulpit which will not DO Oc-
cupfed by Scoops Carey.
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BIG SWIMMING RACE.
Twenty Entries Have Already Been
Filed for Event.

CHICAGO, July 22.-About twenty
entries have been filed for the annual
Chicago river swim of the Illinois Ath-
letic Club. Over 400 blanks were sent
out by DIR. Z. W. White. to whom they
are returnable up 10 July 20, four days
before the race. Permission has been
obtained from the authorities to hold
the race July 80, and the work of
getting physicians and boats TO patrol
the course. which is from the harbor
mouth TO the Jackson boulevard bridge.
practically had been completed. Every
precaution has ben taken against ac-
cidents, the physical examination. to
which the entrants will be subjected
being expected to reduce danger OF
misnaps TO a minimum
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ond base. OH foul Before he retouches
first the pitcher delivers ball to the bat
ter. IT goes across the plate at the re-
quired height. Umpire calls strike
box, claiming he did SO to allow base
runner time to get back to first base
Umpire claims he had no right to step
out Of hatter's box, As that was no pro-
lection 10 baserunner 20 Umpire claims
that If pitcher delivers ball to- batter be-
fore giving runner time to retouch the
base previously occupied he Is not
compelled to retouch the base and can
run "a far as he likes at his own risk.
Oh Batter standing In his position hits
the ball. 1t rebounds and strikes him
before he moves from batter's box. UNI
pire calls foul ball. Catcher claims bat
ter is out for being hit by batted ball.
but acknowledges he was in batters box
at the time. a According to diagram of
base ball diamond 1t appears that one
corner Of batter's box is on fair ground.
Umpire says batters box is on foul
ground. Therefore, If a. batter is hit by
ba tied ball while in batter's box 1t is
nothing more than a foul ball.
c. y MANN
ID Umpire WAS partly wrong and partly
right. After a foul the ball technically
il not in play until the umpire calls
play again. In this case he should not
have called a strike The batter cannot
protect runner by stepping out of the
bstsmans box. f2) Runner can be AL
lowed to advance IL umpire SO rules, but
it is usual to compel pitcher TO wait until
runner retouches his base before allow
ing play to he resumed. 80 IT is A foul
ball. ~ Umpire cannot always tell to
a fraction of an inch where q. batted
ha hits batsman standing In his box.
consequently it is the major league rule
to call a foul ball always unless the
batsman has left his box before the ball
hits him. If batted ball, without hit
ting the batsnan. stops In the corner of
the box which is on fair ground, it is
called fair.
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MAY GO TO FRISCO.
Games May Be Held in That City
in 1915.

NEW YORK, July 22.-Those interested
in track and field sport out on the Pacific
coast have already started to boom the
Panama Pacific games. which will be held
at San Francisco in 1918. out there ii is
said that Prof. William NJ. Sloane got
the International Olympic committee to
sanction the games, and as the fixture
is looked upon with favor by the A. A. L.
there is nothing to stop Frisco from hav-
ing the carnival. Hardly anybody will
object to going there for the national
meet, for there is no more delightful CHI
mate for athletics. 1t is warm in the day
and cool at night. just the conditions that
would give an athlete a chance to recu-
perate in between two hard sections of a
lengthy program. There may be a little
drawback in the shape of an earthquake,
but people out that way are now so accus-
toned to these little landslides and
shakes that they are regarded a mat
ter of course. Even if there were a lit
tie quake on tap during the games it
would be all the more for the boys from
the east to talk of ever afterward.
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ANNUAL REGATTA.
0arsmen to Meet at Saratoga Lake
July % and 20.

NEW YORK, July 22.--The annual re-
gatta of the National Association of
Amateur Oarsmen is to be held at Sara
toga Lake July Is and 29 II. T. Ward
well of Boston says every amateur oars
man Of note in the United States will
enter in the different events. In the
eight-oar race the New York \. {. crew
will be against crews from the Detroit
r. c.. and Fights from Baltimore Phila-
delpbia and Canada. O'Neil of Halifax
the sipgle-scull champion of 1909. will
row against Fred Fuessell, who is regard
ed as the best scuIler in this country.
Fred Shepard and Fuessel will compete
in the senior doubles.
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KICK AMONG SWIMMERS.
Do Not Want Twist Eliminated in
Fancy Dive,

NEW YORK, July 22.-All through the
west there has been a big kick among
the swimmers about excluding the twist
in the fancy diving. Some time ago Otto
wahle OF the New York Athletic Club
offered an amendment to the present A.
4. l.. rule. which viii do away with the
twist Wahles Intentions were good
and lie wanted especially that the rule
should conform as nearly as possible to
the Olympic games rule, which all COM
petitors will have to follow in future
international competitions. Among those
who do not agree with Wahle is F. A.
Bornemann of the Chicago a. A, the
American champion
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team claims two overthrows entities the
runner to go to third. Which is right?

team claims two overthrows entities the
runner to go to third Which is right?
\. j.. LEE.
II ground rules are agreed upon. allow
no use in making the play to cut the man
off at second. If the ball is considered i'll
play all the time after the overthrow.
there's no sense in having the ground
rules. IL. the umpire abideS by the ground
rules he should send the runner back to
second base! If he bases his opinion on
the fact the ball was in play all the time,
the runner should be entitled TO many
bases as he can make. AT least there was
no reason for calling him out.
Sporting Editor Star.
% Runner second. Pitcher, stand
ing two feet to the left of slab, facing
batsman. starts motion a s II winding up
to pitch. then throws 10 third base to
catch runner. Ia this balk? e, Ground
rules prevail. one base Oh an overthrow.
Runner on second. AS the pitcher delivers
the fourth ball TO the batter, the runner
starts to steal third, the batter taking
his base on balls While the fielders are
chasing the runner between second and
third the batter runs down almost to sec
ond and stops. Finally the ball is heayed
over the third Saseman's head and the
runner reaches third and scores. The bat
ter reaches third on the play Is Inc en-
titled to third or must he return TO sec
ond? DIXIE.
% Yes. ~ He is entitled to third
base
Sporting Editor Star:
% When the umpire calls a baIk does
he also call ball on the batter? (2l A
Is on second. B on first Il gets caught
off the bag and runs to second. a start
ing for third. B is touched with the ball
while on second bag while A is only
about half way to third. which he finally
reaches in safety. Is q out? 90 Had B
any right to hold second before a had
reached third or been put out?
G.. r. JONES
a Sometimes. There are nine kinds of
balks. 90 No. (0 According to strict
Interpretation of the rules was not en-
titled to second base until A had reached
third or been put out, but major league
umpires give a runner a tentative right
to a base under such circumstances, and
would not call B out unless A came back
and reclaimed second base
Sporting Editor Star:
"a Man on first base. Batter hits a
foul. Man starts to go from first to sec
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today are 10 better than those of his day.
John GARRISON, Nichols Of Boston. Tim
keefe, Big Jim Mccormick, Jouett Nee
kin and Amos Rusie. who both twirled
for the Giants when they Won the world S
championship back in 1894. were as mar
velous pitchers as ever lived, says Ward.
I'm my time as a ball player many of
the players entered professional ball be
cause they would then have a chance 10
travel about and see the country. Some
of them went into the game with the idea
or remaining only year or two, few of
them giving the least thought to making
the profession life occupation They'd
take any possible chance on the diamond.
Meekin was that sort of fellow. He came
from Indiana and was a great pitcher. At
times he seemed careless because OF the
desperate chances he took. We were all
that way then.
'Ty Cobb is built along the same lines.
He will take The most desperate chances
imaginable. Why. only the other day I
was reading Of his scoring from first base
on a single Some day he's liable to break
a leg and be out of the game for good,
but it's ten to one Cobb has never given
the proposition thought, else he would
long ago have taken a couple of reefs by
pulling up a bit. He could do that and be
sure Of remaining in the game for many
years to come.
Then there's Hans Wagner and La
joie My, what ball players those two
like old wine, they improve with age.
Some day, of course, they'll have to re-
tire.
Cork Center Ball Adds Attraction to
Game.
Hitting is the keystone of base ball.
We used to hit big Cy Young just as
hard as they can hit him now. The bat
ting averages of today are about on a
par with ours, but it is only since the
cork center ball has been brought into
play that good hitting has become one of
the attractions of the game. When the
ball is hit hard there's chance for the
fielders to show some fine work. and
then. with the new ball. a game is never
lost until the last batter is out. The score
may stand to in the ninth inning and
still, II the scoreless team is possessed OF
good batterS, it has fair chance OF
pulling out a winner.
Ward says that Buck Ewing. the IA
nous old catcher. was the first man to
1889. Before that time catchers wore
small gloves and the fielders none at all.
There's two things I'm going to say
before you GO remarked Ward. First
it Is very noticeable to me when ] sec
game in which either AIcGraws OF
HnRhey Jennings team is engaged tina,
both these managers are trying TO teach
learned years ago. McCiraw and .Ten-
nngS are masters of the game The
other thing is this Mike Kelly was the
greatest ball PLAYER who ever engaged ir
the profession. and Buck Ewing was the
greatest catcher I have ever seen
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Closing Dates for Base Ball
Leagues of America for 1911


Southwestern Texas, August 20.
Cotton states League. August "3.
Western Canada League, Sep
tcmber =.
Central Association, September 4.
blue Grass League, September 4.
Kansas state League, September
Carolina Association. September
Texas-OkIahOma. September 4.
Texas League, September 4.
Ohio State, September 4.
Southeastern League, September
Nebraska State League, Septem-
Der &.
Washington State League. Sep
TENDER 8.
Tri-State Association. Septem-
her q.
Virginia League, September 6.
Canadian League, September 9.
Mink League, September y.
Appalachian League, September
o.
New England League, September
south Atlantic League. Septem-
her D.
Observation-Disclosures League, Sep
t6mOcE ~.
Union Association, September 10.
Ohio-Pennsylvania League, Sep
TENDER 10.
Connecticut League, September
10.
Central League, September 10.
Southeastern Kansas League,
September 10.
Illinois, Missouri League, Sep
TENDER 10.
Mountain State League, Septcm-
Der 10.
Minnesota " iscOnsin League,
September 10.
Northern State League Of In
diana. September 10.
Southern Association, September
Is.
Michigan state League, Septem-
Der II.
New York State League, Septem-
Der II.
Three-I League. September IL.
Southern Michigan Association
september IL.
Eastern League. September -.
Northwestern League. October I.
American Association, October 1.
Western League. October 5.
Central CaltfOrEia League, Octo-
Der s.
American League. October =.
National League, October IL.
Pacific Coast League. October e.
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THREE CLUBS ENTERED.
Will Compete for Polo Champion
ship at Point Judith.

NEW YORK. July 22-Three clubs have
entered for the polo national champion
ship. to be held at the Point Judith
Country Club tournament, which begins
July 81 and continues throughout Au-
gust. The senior title and Astor gold
cup are now held for the third year by
the Meadowbrook club. which, repre-
scented by No. 1, J. S. Phipps: No. .,
j. NJ. Waterbury. jr.: No. 3. Malcolm
Stevenson, won In the final last sea son
from Bryn Mawr. Alexander Brown, H.
". Harrison, r. Z. Strawbridge and c.
r. Snowden. by 1871 goals to 3.
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INQUISITIVE FANS.

Sporting Editor Star:
\ is on third and on second. a starts
for home and E for third. TIE pitcher
throws the ball home and A, seeing he
cannot reach home safely. returns to
third. r. who had already reached third,
returns to second. The catcher holds the
ball and neither is touched with it.
claim neither runner is out. Am I right?
G. N. D.
Right, o.
Sporting Editor Star:
% Runners on second and third bases.
Each tries to steal base and the man
that was on second reaches third, but the
runner that was on third base sees that
he cannot make home. 81, he tries to get
back to third. Is this runner entitled to
third base If he reaches IT safely? CD
What becomes Of runner that advanced
from second to third STORMY.
% The runner who wa. on third is en-
titled TO that base until he touches home
plate or is touched out ~ He is at the
mercy of the fielders. and can be put out
unless he gets back TO second untouched.
Sporting Editor Star:
Three men on bases, two down. three
balls and two strikes called OH the batter.
Runner third starts home during
Wind-Ip Of pitcher. who delivers the ball
to the catcher, who steps In front OF bat
ter and tags runner, but the bali was
runner out? GEO. RJTTENHOUSE.
Runner is not out. but scores on the
catchers balk and the batsman goes to
first for interference
Sporting Editor Star:
Did Ty Cobb ever pass Duffy's batting
mark of 1882 (2) How tall is Ty Cobb?
go Who is considered the best catcher in
the American League today?
% No. ca About feet IL inches. 90
Matters of personal opinion cannot be
answered.
Sporting Editor Star.
Ground rules-One base on passed ball
or overthrow to first. third or home plate.
1t is understood that the runner Is liable
to be put out before reaching the one
base, as the ball is in play all the time.
A bats a grounder to infielder, who over
throws first base. but in an attempt to
cut the runner off at secopd the ball is
again overthrown, continuing on to
third. Ball is returned and held on sec
ond and the umpire calls runner out,
claiming he, should have stopped at sec
ond under ground rules, but manager of
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CAN BEAT JOHNSON.
Morris Manager Thinks He Can
Turn the Trick.

CHICAGO, July 22.-"I am confident
Carl Norris can beat Jack Johnson" So
spoke Frank B. Ufer recently in this
city. The manager Of the blooming
white hope was there trying to arrange
a bout between Morris and Jim Flynn.
Such a statement was to be expected
from a man who Is spending money
his own or somebody else s-to make a
champion of Carl Morris. 1t may be
taken at its face value.
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TRIPLE PLAYS.
Detroit On VS.. s.. Lonis.
Detroit 81 Us. Athletics.
New York IL rs. Boston.
st. Louis III ys. Athletics.
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manner. That's why it Is so hard for the
batters TO hit it.
Ward is convinced that the pitchers of
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having no particular center of gravity.
wabbles and Careens first to one side and
then the other i'll the most irregular
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The race In the league has frightened VI
and there is no way telling
now who will be in the forefront whef
the season ends September q. The night
at this time appears to be between Nor
folk, Lynchburg and Petersburg.
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The Richmond News Leader says I>f.
Fielder MATHS is a terror to the pitcher.
of the circuit, but this has not proven to
be the case with the Lynchburg pitchers,
for Maths has hit at only .2n5 ia the
games he has played in against the Shoe
makers.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-02

received from the Madero party, they
refused 10 obey its commands because
they did not understand the full mean
ing of such an order.
Not one Of the insurrectos denied
that they had refused to allow the
federal appointesS to resume their pO-
sitions, but they admitted that after
receiving the message they had pre-
pared themselves and as fast as the
old employees reported for duty they
were arrested. The insurrectos deny
that there was ever any violence con-
templated; that their only object was
TO keep the insurrectos in office and
that when mayor Medina offered to
take the 81 federal employees. who
had been arrested and we're under
guard, off their hands and turn them
loose in the United States. they were
only too glad to accept
AT the customs house matters were
as quiet as usual; the chief Of police
was conducting business in the same
old way and II 1t had not been for a
group Of 20 insurrecto soldiers parad-
ing the streets at o'clock a stranger
would have thought that Juarez was
the same old peaceful town Of yore,
but that group of 20 mounted and
armed men, apparently bound for no
where, showed that the present in
surrecto forces, despite their small
numbers are determined that one rem
nant of the cause for which they
fought shall be left to them
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-02
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