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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31

(By William G.. Wear. Secretary Base
ball Writer'S .Association.)
1t has long beer admitted by base
ball men thai the method of rating
pitchers according to the number of
games won and lost is wrong. John
a. Heydler. secretary treasurer OF the
National league. has evolved a scheme
whereby credit is given to the twirl-
ers according to the number of runs
earned off their delivery.
President Bar Johnson of the Amer
lean league. who is a progressive from
Progressiveville. declares that he is
opposed to the method Of rating pitch
erS according to the number of
games won and lost. and that the
games won" and games lost" col
umns will be absent from the ncNt
hatch of pitching figures sent out from
his Office.
No Ono Likes Old Plan.
Efforts have been made for years to
hit upon some scheme whereby the
work of the pitchers can he told ac-
curately. Schemes for the working
nut of the averages have been oun
to work satisfactorily regarding field
ers, batsmen and base runners. but all
agree that the policy in vogue regard
ing the twirlers is not fair.
The reason for this is that no mat
ter how good a pitcher is he has little
or no opportunity to rank at or near
the top if he is twirling for a losing
club. What chance. for instance.
would a Walter Johnson. a Plank. Il
M~athewson. or d Walsh have to he
placed among first pitchers il work.
ing for A team that finished last in
the race:
Two Years s the writer puzzled
over the question with many others.
hut the scheme which would come
near to giving a first class rating to
the twirlers was not hit upon. Since
then it has become tho custom TO add
to the records Of the pitchers the
number Of innings which they pitch
and the number nf hatsmen who face
them. This has somewhat sirplitied
the problem.
The scheme advocated by the writer
two Years. ago can he easily worked
out under the plan of keeping track
of the number of innings worked. 1t
is almost as simple as the scheme of
giving a flelder's percentage by dirid-
| ing the total number Of chances Of
fered him-put out, assists and or
rors-by the total number Of chances
acc%epted-put outs and assists.
How IL is Done.
In making up a pitchers percentage
| would charge the twirler with every
base hit. base on balls and hit bats
man. for there are the batsmen who
get to first base through the lack of
| skill on the part of the twirler. On
the other hand. | would give him
credit for every batsman put cut
ny taking tho total number Of
chances offered, put outs (Which can
be secured by multiplying the num-
S---r :,-:~-, :t,L1 he, xl.o> 1,cn
| hits and passes and dividing the to-
tai number into the total numhcr Of
pu outs. the percentage can b.. Sc
cured just as easily as by computing
Il tielder's average or getting the rat
ing of q batsman.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31
Old Pitchers Have Chance
To Shine Under New Rating

For instance, Wood of Boston pitch
ed in 344 innings last season This
was a total of 1882 put outs. There
were 2s7 hits made off Wood and he
hits IL batsmen. and gave IS bases on
balls. This makes a grand total of
1898 chances. which divided into the
number of batsman put out, 1882.
gives Wood a percentage Of .741. In
other words. - out Of every 100 bats
men who faced Wood last season fall
ed to get to first base.
How much better this plan would
he than the present scheme can be
seen by a comparison of the official
ratings of the American league pitch
ers for the past season. I have fig
ured und<r the plan proposed the per-
centage of pitchers who rank at the
top in President Johnson's list and
some of those who twirled for tall
end teams.
An illustration.
By the method employed Of rating
the pitcher according to the number
of games won and lost. hero Is the
way the pitchers stand on the official
list:
Wood. s72: Plank. S13: johnson,
727; Coomhs. 6S7: Bedient. 667; Bas-
kettle. 667: Groom. $40: Walsh. 614;
Gregg. SOC: Ford. 3S2; Powell. $50.
Here is the way he proposed
scheme would work out:
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31

ever a game is either won or lost be-
You'd recall. . Many of his regulars
made their start with The Giants in
just his way.
No manager could be more patient
than Mc'iraw. For instance, he kept
RUDE Marquard two years after
everyone else WAS calling the famous
sou,hpaw an $1,000 lemon. Chief
Meyers was a raw player when he
joined the Giants, utterly lacking in
baseball wisdom. SNOW on his feet
and unable to throw. He was OF lit
tie real value to McCiraw in 100? and
1910. hut the patient manager hung
onto him and now has a star receiver
AS a result.
McGraw picked up Snodgrass upor
the lots in Los Angeles in tho winter
of 1907. 1t was 1910 before he used
Snodgrass regularly. Now the Cali
~fornian would be known as a pl EFT,
expert player had it not been for his
costly muff during the worlds series
Few managers would ever have
considered Art Fletcher or Shafer as
eligible for Il big league club. Nc
Ciraw. however. is using Fletcher tc
advantage in short field. and will kee.
Shafcr If the latter reconsiders HI:
determination t" luit the game.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31
STAR PLAYERS COME
FROM SMALL TOWNS
Big Cities Fail to Produce
Stars That Hail From
Small Town Lots.

Most of the star ball players" an
nounces a magazine article. come
from the corner lots of the small cities
where they first began tn play. They
are not big city products"
AS for instance. G. Mathewson. who
came from thai, worldwide metropo-
lis, F~actoryville. Pa: ry Cobb. from
that Babylon OF the nations. Royston,
Ca; Nap Rucker. from that teeming
niart. Alpharetta. Ca; Walter John
son.. from that swarn,ing bee hive Of
humanity. Weiser. Ida; Ed. Walsh.
iris Speaker, Clyde Milan. Ed Plank,
Jeff Tesreau. Chief Myers. Frank Ba-
ker. Charley Herzog and so or 40
more who broke in from the corner
lots of big cities" averaging from
600 to 7s7 souls, including CONNER
cial travellers n moving picture
troupes who pause en- route.
A team, for another example. pick
ed from earnest athletes who came
from towns of 1000 or less. would
present the following labby array of
talent: Catcher Myers; pitchers.
johnson. Gregg. Mathewson. Rucker.
Walsh: first base. Dauhert or Chase;
second base. Doyle: shortstop, Wag-
ner; third base, Baker: outfeld. Cobb.
Speaker. Jackson. Milan. Yes. it's a
shame the way the big cities control
! the destinies of class athletes from
| cradle time until they start back for
Terre Haute, Medicine Hat n VIM
| cennes.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31
Middleweight Division Needs
Some Revision of WEIGHTS

McGoorty and Clabby together In a
10 to 20 round contest.
Then II the holder Of the Australian
title could show the proper form
against the Oshkosh wonoder, why
he would have Il right. too, to figure
for the worlds title. There is no
doubt. however. that the boxing world
cornered affair between McGoorty.
Papke and Klaus as the real cham
pion. Others may develop in the
meantime, but We will at least have
a recognized champion to defend the
title against all corners.
Talking Of weight changes. as es-
tablished by the New York commits
sion. recalls to mind the light heavy
weight class. which was brought into
the liraelight by Lou Houseman of
Chicago some years ago. when he had
Jack Root to tho front. Jack was a
hit too light for a heavyweight posi-
bility. So Lou established thu new class
at IFS pounds and under. and he bill
:. 1903. at Fort Eric. in Canada.
across from Buffalo. Gardner scored a
Knockout in the twelfth round and
won tho title. afterward losing 1t to
Bob Fitzsimmons. Jack ORricn had
a crack at it. and Tommy Burns won
1t later. and in fact vas never beaten
for 1t, hut since his retirement the past
year the title would naturally S" I"
Jim Flynn. the Pueblo fireman.. who
beat all the men he met around that
weight the past year and a half. How
oyer. Jim has taken on weight n he
ma not be able to got down.to LIS
now. which would leave tho title open
for WI Of the lighter men to battle
for The lightweight and feather
weight champions howl murder If
they are asked to give away a pound
or two. SO why should men wciEhing
between 1865 and 175 meet fighters
over the 900 mark. When Tommy
Burns fought Jack johnson in Aus
tralia he weighed only 165 pounds.
according to a statement given me-
by W. r. Corhett. the sporting auth.
GRITTY Of that country. who weighed
him the morning Of the fight. AS
johnson scaled at 21o there vas a DIFF
ference of nearly so pounds between
the two men. with height and reach
also in favor Of tho colored' man. so
Is it, any wonder Johnson won. II
there had hccn ~ rule. such as the
New York commission has suggested
that of barring fights between men
where one has 10 pounds the better Of
tho other, in classes below the 115-
Mound mark, and limiting the differ
cncc above that weight to a reason
able poundage. the chances are Tom
my Rurns would never have lost tho
title to the colored man. It was Ger.
tainly n one-sided match. according
10 weights, and 1t is just such mis-
takes that the boxing authorities in
tho various countries are now trying
to correct.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31
GERMANY OPPOSES
OLYMPIC BOXING
Claims Sport is Barbaric; Sew
eral Competing Countries
Favor the Game.
Stockholm, Sweden,

Stockholm. Sweden. Dec. s1.--Mr.
Diem. the general secretary of the
Olympic games to he held in Berlin
in 1916, has been spending some
time in Stockholm to gather informal
ton from the Swedish committee
which conducted the successful meet
ing of 1912.
Mr.. Diem told the correspondent of
The Associated Press tina the German
games will he conducted on the same
lines as the Swedish we're, With one
central body and different committees
for various branches of sport.
The stadium in Berlin, which is
nearing compilation. will contain IL
running track surrounded by a cycling
track. The running track will he 6e6
meters long and there will be plenty
of room on the green inside for field
sports. The Berlin stadium will cost
$500. 900.
At the next Olympic congress Ger
man. will propose that fancy cycling
and figure skating in an ice rink be
added to the Olympic program and
will oppose the inclusion of boxing.
The Germans do not understand box
ing at all. said Diem, and consider it
a b%arharous sport. Germany prob
ably will he opposed on this point 10y
England, the United States, Sweden
and Denmark.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31

New York-If n certain biblical
character known as Job should return
to earth and get a job as Of
a big league baseball team the chances
are he would gain no greater reputa-
ton for patience than is already en-
Joyed by John j. McGraw, manager
of the New York Giants.
During the years hat Mctiraw has
been piloting the Giants he has al
most completely re-made the team.
and he has done ii almost entirely
with material which at the beginning
seemed hopeless. Christy Mathewson
is practically the only member OF the
big club who does not bear the stamp,
made by McGraw."
John j. McGraw knows how to de-
velop a player and get the best there
is in him. And he has a way that
is all his own. Other hig league man
ayers get promising material and farm
it out to the minors. Not SO McGraw.
With the exception of big jeff Tesreau
he has farmed out mighty few. He
prefers to let the player adorn the
bench. thus absorbing some Of Nc
t;raw's caustic pointers on the game,
and to fill in now and then in utility
roles. He sends the new man into
the fray whenever possible-when-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31

Under the old method there is a Diff
ference of .572 in the percentages ut
Wood and Powell. Under the proposed
plan of letting the pitchers work
alone count the difference is only
.O41. which is far nearer a good CONF
parison than under the old plan.
The scheme of rating the pitchers
according ~ the number Of games
won" and games lost" finds Wood
leading Walter johnson by las.
whereas the proposed plan shows that
upon individual merit johnson really
led Wood by OF. With a champions
ship team helping him Wood certain
ly had a far better chance to finish
first under the ancient plan OF rating
the twirlers than johnson.
Going through the National league
averages for the past season, the rat
ing of the twirlers under the prOpos.
ed plan would be:
Mathewson, 72S: Rucker, 720; Tes-
reau. 713: Marquard. 706; Saliee, TOO:
Cheney. 7O5: RiXey, 705; Richie, 700:
Hendrix. 7Ol.
This plan nay not he the ideal ono.
but now that many persons are try
ing to develop a better scheme han
the old one Il more satisfactory solu-
tinn Of the pitching problem is i'm
sight.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31

Milwaukee. WIS.,. Dec. SIT is to
be regretted that the New York Box
ing commission did not change the
weight in the middleweight division
while they were revising the scale of
weights.
Had they made the weight 100
pounds instead Of 15S ringside. as at
present, 1t would ave met with gen-
eral approval and would have con-
formed with most of the foreign coun-
tries as regards that class. 1t would
also have made it easy to select a
worlds champion. However. the ar
guments and battles which have been
waged for the past two years by
claimants Of the title left vacant by
the late. Stanley Ketchel are nearing
the end and it is likely that a cham
pion will be developed within the next
six or eight months.
All the forengn boxing authorities
recognize the weight for middle
weights at 100 pounds. weighing in at
3 o'clock, while the American limit
is still left at 1853 ringside weighing.
Despite this fact the two foremost
claimants to the title in the states. or
We might say three claimants-Eddie
McGoorty. Billy Papke and Frank
KIaus-prefer the 16O pound mark to
1913: IN LaCt. bOtn MCS5ooLtS ouu AOf
kc have declared for 100. although
the former has demonstrated that he
ran make 1853 pounds ringside when
he SCALED 1s5 for Mike Gibbons In
New York recently. AS a Legitimate
middleweight for tho American title
~icr;oort has the lead. for he a
make the weight. while Papke a
practically admitted that he cannot,
thc illinois thunder bolt stating mat
lie will not change from the brit1sh
and French scale. which is $50 pounds
at 3 o'clock. .
Panke and Klaus are matched to
fight for the European title on Marcn
= next In Paris. Both Of these hgnt,
ers have beaten Marcel Morean n
Georges Carpenter. the French claim
ants. and Fapke has beaten jim. SuI-
Ivan. the British champion ~ wv"
ago. hut who lost his Ensiish
crown later to one of his own ccun'
tryncn--Jack Harrison Eaa!c ~
Goorty has knocked out Harrison lie"
latest British champion ana
knocked out Dave smith. IN" Anstra.
tan n,iddicwcight. who claimed the
,i.ia mt which in reality.
~ Jimmy Clnbby, as Smith did no
make The weight limit hen '"rs
fought. However. McGoorty mas ms
much right To claim the title as zap
nr while Clabby ais" has n lonk III
", crown. with Mike Gibbons look
~ "r therefore. the winner Of the
,,ahrTc. Klaus tight should by all means
,"r, NrC;oorty in n twenty roun" nh,,
'nn''tr Gar the worlds title. which WIZ
,'ms 81 real worlds championship ,", ~
te.t I'm the meantime " w""in ~.
n nood Idea for the promoters '" -"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31
Here and There in the World of Sport-WinterS Season Gossip
Battling Nelson Decides to
Try Again for Championship

posed in the miners 143 pounds. He
had thrown the miner back in sheer
test of strength, and tossed him to
one side, had pulled him forward. and
at the end of the 10 rounds had thor
oughly subdued him. Sharp and clear
as a college yell his blows had beat
en- the miner to the floor.
I was satisfied thai Nelson was still
the greatest lightweight in the world.
and the greatest Of all time. After the
battle he had busted himself with his
In the morning was sound asleep. !
had finished the business enc of the
match. and had gone to bed. Our
rooms were connecting.
But the occasion vas too great to
allow sleep to interfere. l could gee
the panorama Of Nelson fighting
Richie. and could sec what I believe
u be the result il the men ever
met. l could sec the Dane. fighting
the best Ritchic could give for round
after round. and never faltering. Then
tho champion must give. as other men
have faltered before. and the on
slaught of the Dane would start. Per-
haps I gave a cheer-anyway, Nelson
awoke and came into my room.
Ritchie."
why. there isn't a doubt Of it," he
replied.
Outside the wind drove great gusts
of the seasons first snow through the
bleak streets. The window panes.
frosted. cracked and groaned under
the strain. The dim electric light
shed down a deathly glow. as the hat
tle-scarred Dane outlined a fighting
plan to take back the title he had
hOnored and held.
Perhaps 1t is all the dream of a
pair of optimists. Perhaps the dream
will V come true. but life is made
up OF dreams. and a chariot hitched
to a star sometimes rides rough-shod
ove the rest Of earth. If we V
dreamed and planned great things,
We would go on in an oven groove and
forget. Empires have been won
easier than Battling Nelson Is plan
ming to win back his old title. It's a
hard road to travel. but the Dane has
been over 1t before. and ended in that
same chariot of triumph. When he
won the title from Cans he was re-
garded as a faint hope-dug out of the
pugilistic graveyard to make a holi-
clay for San Francisco. Today he is in
the prime of life. a monument to clean
living. high ideals and ideal morals.
And stranger things have happened in
real life than would happen if Nelson
again became lightweight champion
of the world.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31

of hand-paintcd china. And we could
save the soap coupons. So l pay for
the privilege bH having every one OF
my married friends ask me why 1
don't settle down and "hc happy"
Jus, as though l had never thought
of II before.
"Someday hope I'll meet II girl
who isn't Il girl at all. but a sort Of
H~eaven-sent angel. a unique species.
Maybe some kind of a fairy gift. l
will begin to wonder how l had ever
struggled through the past SO many
years. Had l ever been really hap
Ply in all that length of time And
then in the warmth vt my ardor and
my freshly-creascd trousers l will get
down ON my knees and her mothers
best Rokhara and pop the query.
See Figure -"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31
There are several things that n

There are several things that an
noy me excessively" said the Aver
age Young Man, AS f'rinstance the
stiffly startchcd button-holc in back
which defeats every effort to insert a
collar button: as well as tho haher-
dasher's clerk who wears that kind
of sock himself. But the apcN "f
annoyance and the height of heinous-
ness il that pucrilc. fatuous. bone
beaned boob who accos YOU on the
street with a slap on the back and
''Old nan why don't You get mar
ricd?
lat such times as these 7 want to
kick in his a%ir-crates and do n waltz
clog on his clavirlr. II makes mo
s%orcazell. should l obey the impulse
of the moment l would fix him SOS
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31

he'd have to have his features reas-
sembled. Because I'm agin matri-
monN:-blcss you, no.. I'm for it As
different Ways and I have an awful
horror of chronic cclihacy. Eut the
part that n'e,es m" is the way nc
do is tn go out during his lunrh-hour
and get married the same az he would
buy Il hat. See Fig. 1 in the accom-
panying u Doesn't matter at all II
he's In love or not. Makes no differ
ence II he even knows a girl or not.
Mere triHe. Get married. that's the
idea. Perfectly simple. Rot!
Now I'm an unusually good mark
for that class vt simps with the col
luloid ccrebellums because I'm half
way through tho EOS and I could af-
fcrd to meet the payments on a set
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-12-31

Columbus, Dec. 31.-In q dimly
lighted room. deep in the recesses Of
the famous Panther Greek Valley, the
richest anthracite coal mining spot On
earth. Battling Nelson made the deci-
sion to again go after the worlds
lightweight championship. The scene
was Observation-Disclosures. Two young
fellows, both tired out after a hard
nights work. planned and schemed in
the early hours of the morning for a
battle which would mean a hundred
in a triumph.
Battling Nelson was one. the writer
the other. 1t was after Nelson's bat
tic with Jim Bonner. To satisfy him
self that he was still a pugilistic fac
tor. and to stifle the jeers of critics.
Nelson had just completed the third
crucial test of his career He had
come off with colors flying. the en-
fans in his ears. He had finished 10
terrible rounds with Leach Cross. the
hardest hitting lightweight in the
world. He had demonstrated that he
still retained the durability that made
him world famous. Then he had
whipped Teddy Maloney. the man who
only a month before had stood off
Champion Wolgast. holding the Michi-
gan lighter 10 d uIdW. 4AcIl 40 9AoN
tackled a hardened lightweight to test
his strength. Cross and Maloney had
been lightweights and Nelson had
tossed the pair all owe the ring. But
they were his equals In size. and Bat
wanted to slam into a man 10 pounds
heavier and find out if his strength
was still unimpaired.
We selected Bonner. Jim is a grad
uate of the coal mines. the hardest
schooling on earth for a mans
strength. His muscles, developed by
years of fighting and working, were
like pieces Of flexible steel. He had
beer trained in the rough and ready.
twisting. dragging. tearing art Of the
fighter of the hills. He outweighed
Nelson by 10 pounds. stood head and
shoulders over the Dane. and was re-
garded as one of the fastest boxers in
the east.
He stepped on the scales over
weight. taking advantage of the last
unce of flesh and strength. Nelson
refused to take his weight forfeit.
I'm am here for a test. not to take
a mans forfeit. " Bat told me when /
wanted to force the coal miner to dis
gorge. Let him keep his money. If
he gives me the test tonight I'm salts
fed to let him keep the forfeit"
The test had been given. Nelson
has whipped Bonner. forced him to re-
treat. had outgamed and outroughed
him, had proven that there was more
human endurance and resistance in
his 1913 pounds OF muscles than re-