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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
SPEED AND SNAP
OF WRIST WINS
This is What Makes Joe
Woods an Effective Twill
er-Control only Secret.

New York. Nov. 21.-When you ask
me how to pitch championship base
ball | do not like to answe because
| am afraid baseball fans may say
that ! do not know how. said Joe
Wood of the Boston Red Sox. when
he was asked. how he did it," 1 sup
pose 1t is a knack of pitching the ball
and faithful. CLASSY support on tn.
part Of the team that has given me
Il record of more baseball games won
than my other pitcher in the league. |
cannot even tell why the ball I
pitch is better than that pitched by |
other twirlers-if it is-unless it is in |
the speed Of the ball. They say 1 have
speed. l do not pitch it with u snap.
] have watched other pitchers who
rely mainly or a fast ball and I have
noticed much of a snap of the
wrist. I have a theory that l have
more Of that snap than the others.
Seldom Uses Curve.
I do not know that my fast ball is
the one on which ] mainly rely.
seldom use q curve ball and rarely
serve up a slow one. If 1 have more
speed than some of the others, it is
because I give the ball more energy
the way l pitch than it gets from some
something on the ball it is because of
a knack that I have had all my life.
do not try to give the ball any freak
twists. and I do not know why my
ball SHOULD have more speed or any
freak than other pitchers do not have.
The ball I pitch does take a jump
before it reaches the batter. That
comes from the speed, 1 think. al
though it may come from some twist
that l give the ball. unconsciously, be-
fore 1t leaves my hand. That jump
seems to fool them often.
Control Only Secret of Good Pitching.
The only secret that 1 know any,
thing about Is that of control. Con-
troll makes or unmakes every pitcher.
know many a pitcher who has more
speed than I have. and. of course,
there are plenty of them who have
curves, h width of which they can
control. But they are unable to make
the ball break and pass the batter
where they want it to pass him, and
where 1t must pass him to be success
full. They lack control. Sometimes
they have it, but sometimes will not
do. They must be able to do it every
time. or nearly so. AS to the slow
ball. that also comes back to the pro-
position of control. These pitchers
who. have the stuff lack control and
they are not successful.
With control the pitcher can deliver
the ball within a few inches of where
he wants 1t to goa few inches, I
mean. not anywhere within that target
over the plate and between the bat
ter's shoulders and his knees.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
Jim Finn is the Onlv
One OF "Old Time"
Fighters in Game

New York. Nov. 21.-It's a new and
strange crop of heavyweights that fits
past the reviewing stand these days.
Palzer. Wells, McCarty. Mcmahon.
Willard. Gunboat Smith and Charley
Miller belong to a new generation.
the headlines a few years ago have
passed on to the, minor leagues.
Only one of the old line fighters
remains to ruffle the temper of the
reigning squad. He is Jim Flynn. who
recently denied a rib or W for Truck
Horse Charley Miller. upon whom
Flynn had tied the first glove Il few
veteran who %"debutted" u decade ago
that is still able to stand up and
whack with the young blO0ds success
fully.
Flynn Outlivcs Them All.
Flynn has outlived Barry. Kaufman.
Smith. Tommy Burns. Mike Shreck.
Marvin Hart and Sandy Ferguson. 1t
wasn't such Il great while ago thai
al Kaufman VAS being doomed for
the. toga Of the pOnderous class. He
y going along. ripping in h good
nigh: blast Oh all who thought they
stacked with him. His mess of X. O.'s
ting that gentleman back a mile III his
9lstic career. AS a strange coincidence
Eiynn parlcycd with big Al ut Kan
Gus City In May. 1911. and turned the
world upside down for he Californian.
Kaufman was given "a beating that his
memory will recall forever. II not
longer.
The %drubbing drove Kaufman to the
rocks. and nc has not had II good fight
In him since. Luther McCar:y recently
knocked out al In tw" rounds. It's
,,ark 1" the butcher shop for Kauf-
man.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
k[ANK FAv0RS
THE TOE HOLD
Manager of Frank Gotch De-
clares it Should Not
.. be Abolished.

Many Of the wrestling authorities
are of the opinion that the wrestling
rules should be- revised-that the toe
be eliminated.
Emil Klank. manager for: Frank
'Gotch. worlds champion, believes that
should be revised. or rather. re-
formed. One can stand for Klank's
argument, but really can't see why the
toe hold or anything else should be
barred from wrestling. The game is
necessarily rough. Take away the
toe hold and then we will have the
leg hold. the hammerlock and several
other things that are just as tough.
The argument in favor of eliminating
the toe hold is advanced. according
to Klank, merely because it is the
champions favorite way Of beating
his opponents m the public always
likes to see the downfall of a cham
pion.
In his match with Westergaard in
Kansas recently Gotch worked with
out his favorite hold and threw Wes-
tergaard twice inside of fifteen min
utes. It Is true that the champion
has won a great number of his most
important matches by the use of the
toe twister, but it is equally true that
he also has defeated many high class
men without eve resorting to those
tactics. Gotch does considerable bluff
fling with the toe hold. In his match
with Mahmout in Chicago the cham
pion continually gazed at the Turks
feet, and when Mahmout began wor-
rying about his pedal eXtremities the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21

against Harvard. This season he was
still more unfortunate, being laid out
in the Holy Cross game and not get
ting into shape until the Princeton
game. Bomeisler is Il graduate Of the
Polytechnic Preparatory school of
Brooklyn and has played football for
several years.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
Barry on His Last Legs.


Jim Barry, who knocked out Gun
boat Smith in 1910, is on his last legs.
Ee gets a beating upon each appear
ance in fighting toys. In days gone
by Jim could rattle his fists some.
Once he WHIPPED Langford. Tony Ross
boxinb commission. He doesn't seem
able to get In shape n more. Once
Tony was a fine looking heavyweight
and a truly great scrapper. but his
stomach bulges 10Y with fat he can't
get off. He is rs tough as ever but
slow.
Tommy Burns retired after his
championship. battle with Johnson
was stopped by the Australian police.
but age didn't take away his vim as
In the case Of Barry and Ross. Mike
Schreck and Marvin Hart are through.
Two years 6 this pair helped boos;
Carl Morris record.
O'Brien Good for Fourteen Years.
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien lasted
for the considerable period Of fourteen
years. He retired in 1910. but has
Willie had a surprising winning streak
last winter. but 1t was about the last
chapter. Jim Smith was put out of
the game by Tom McMahon's terrible
wallops a year since. Ferguson and
Kubiak have drawn their obituaries
as far as real purses are concerned.
Savage is IL gutter who will never
moun to anything. 1t is doubtful
II Joe Jeanette Is as good as former
ly.
The successors of these men arc
battling today. Most of them are COM
parativcly inexperienced yet. Wells
has been boxing three years. Mcmahon
four. Gunboat Smith four. McCurty
two. Miller five. Palzer two. Willard
one.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
CORNELL HOPES TO
AVOID IN
COMING PENN GAME

Ithaca. N. V, Nov. 21.-Beaten by
two forward passes executed by Mich
iean. which the Cornell backtield was
utterly unable to solve. Cornell's foot
ball team got back home from Ann
Arbor. and the loyal shouting of hun
dreds Of students who went to the
station early failed to cheer them up.
On the way up the hill the 1thacans
received detailed information of the
great Comeback" by PENNSYLVANIA
in the game with Carlisle. and coach
es and players realize to the full that
the training which begins today for
the final Thanksgiving day game with
Pennsylvania is just the same forlorn
hope business as that which Cornell
teams have gone through for years
past.
The 1thacans hoped to retrieve
something of the waning prestige of
one of the worst seasons in Cornell
football history by holding Michigan
to a tie and to have a fighting chance
against Pennsylvania. but everybody
in the Cornell camp appreciates that
all that can be done is to bolster vi.
the defense. so that disgrace on
Franklin field on Thanksgiving da.
can be STAYED off.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21

champion grabbed him around the
waist and slammed him to the mat.
Mahmout was dumped in a hurry SIM
ply because he was paying too much
attention to his feet. The same ap-
piled to Zbyscko. The Pole worked
himself frantic before the match try
ing to develop an antidote for the
toe hold. and when he started u in
the match he forgot everything else.
Westersaard, however. has felt the
champion threw Jess with the foot
twister and it was a month afterward
before the DesMoines man could get
around without the aid Of a cane.
Later Westergaard came back AMI
held the champion to a draw in a
time limit match with the toe hold
barred. and -Westergaard is. a bigger
and stronger man than Gotch.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
Stages SICK MEN
ARE RECUPERAT|NG
Maroon Hospital List Gets
Into Lineup and Hard
Practice is Staged.

Chicago. Nov. 21-With Paine work.
ing at quarterback and the rest of the
sick list again in battling trim, the
University OF Chicago fotball squad
went through the hardest practice
drill it will receive in preparation for
the Minnesota game Saturday at Mar
shall field. Coach Stages new plays
piers were the central feature of the
session. and the Midway players gave
a air o of themselves with the
tricks.
Paine and Vruwink, who have been
handled with care for the last two
weeks. showed improved condition in
the signal drill. and are consequently
slated to break into the lineup in the
Gopher game. Both will work with
the regulars from now on. although
they will not indulge in the heaviest
mixups. The two stars will materially
strengthen the team.
The injuries which have kept these
Maroons out of the running were re-
.ceived in the Chicago Wisconsin game,
Paine w%renching an ankle and Vru-
wink fr~acturing his jaw. Vruwink APP
last Saturday and has shown no i'll
effects from the effort. Paine is ex-
pected to start the Minnesota contest
and may give way to Lawler in one
quarter at least. Lawler did most of
the quarterback work and is picked
to run the team in today's scrimmage.
He showed the same cleverness with
the new plays which characterized his
play last Saturday at Urbana. KEN
needy and Pierce at fullback. Gray at
life halfback and. Norgren at right
half made up the rest Of the backfield
quartet.
The freshman squad demonstrated
the Gopher plays eficienctly for half
an hour and the regulars furnished u
strong defense. The forwards have
been improving in headwork alons
with their all-around boom and Coach
Stage believes they will be able to
stop n fair share of the complicated
Gopher formations.
The Maroons are in for a lively So
cial time this week. with four events
the program. Coach Stagg and the
players will be the guests of the Mid
way grads" at a banquet to be given
by the Chicago Alumni club this even
ing at the University club. The pre-
Minnesota mass meeting will be held
tomorrow night at Mandel hall. a
purity banquet is listed for Friday
evening. and the Maroons and Go
piers will stage u final fellowship
party Saturday evening after the
game.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
WAS NOT
GIVEN CHANCE
Princeton Made This One
Mistake in Saturdays
Game Against Yale.
(Ry Ted pana.l

Philadelphia. Nov. 21.-Princeton
made n mistake in Saturdays game
against Yale-Hobey Baker was not
given his chance. Baker is one of the
cleverest backtield men on the Tiger
eleven, yet he was not given the ball
to run with on a single occasion.
HOBBY did all the running back of
punts. and did 1t to the queens taste,
but in the lineup he was useless. SIM
ply because the quarterback failed to
recognize the fact that HOBBY might
be able to circle the Yale ends.
To an ordinary spectator it seemed
a big mistake. After witnessing the
remarkable runs HOBBY made after
catching punts, the way he squirmed
and wriggled through the Yale team,
it seemed but natural that he would
be tried in a scrimmage. His natural
speed and cunning would have carried
him through. and possibly a touch
down might have resulted.
Princeton, however. played a defen-
sive game throughout. With a lead
of three points Captain Pendleton fig
ured that the best plan was to keep
the ball as much as possible in Yale
territory. and Il punting duel between
Dewitt and Flynn resulted. This was
good policy. But while the Tigers
we're lined up for scrimmage. why on
cdItIk uIull I luSy tS 11OOcy Will Tic
ball?
HOBBY Baker reminds the writer a
great deal of Harold Weeks. the old
Columbia star. Both are light-haired
youths. both speedy and both possess
that natural ability to run with the
ball. wriggle and squirm through their
opponents line. Weeks was a great
hurdler, but a poor punter: while
Baker is not a hurdler. he is a great
punter. His two field goals were all
the points scored by Princeton. and l
feel sure that had he been tried for
an end run he would have gotten
through somehow and scored a touch
down.
Princeton's interference was bad.
Several times Baker got through most
of the Yale team. all by himself. with
out interference. This happened after
a ctch of Il punt. and with good inter-
ference he would have gotten clear
Of the field. But it was P%rinceton's
defense that surprised her adherents.
1t was reported before the game that
the Tigers We're weak on the defense.
but the reverse was the case. for the
Tiger line held beautifully.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
What's Doing in the World of Sport
G0PHERS. WORKING
Il: HARD FOR CHICAGO
Players Stiff and Sore as Re-
suit Of Gruelling Fight
With Badgers.

Minneapolis. Nov. 21.-Dr. Williams
and his assistant cohorts Of the COACH
ing division r working under a
severe handicap this week in getting
the Gohpers ready for the final game
of the year with Stages Maroons.
Saturdays game was a gruelling one
and the players are said to be stiffened
in the joints and muscle osre. Every
regular will play against Chicago Sat-
urday. none of the injuries being seri-
GUS. but It is asking considerable to
require a team to play two such games
In a week.
Chicago looms up somewhat formi-
dably before the Gophers. Stage has
splendid material this year. much bet
ter in fact than mas been the case ut
team met defeat by Wisconsin, but
came back and licked Northwestern
and gave Illinois a decisive beating.
The scouts have reported a great i'm
provement in them in the last three
weeks and while the rooters have gen.
orally thought that the game would be
81 walk-away for Minnesota 1t would
appear as though Minnesota is going
to have just about as hard a fight with
the Maroons as was the case with
Wisconsin. 1t Is by M means certain
If reports coming gu Of Chicago are
true. that Minnesota can lick Chicago
Saturday. The Maroons are big and
heavier in the backfield thar Is Min
nesota and Saturdays battle begins to
loom up as something of IL bear fight.
The Gophers. though. are not loatins
by any means. DR.. Williams has been
doing something Of a hurry up in the
matter of new plays and Is intending
to spring a few with which the Chi
cago scouts are not SO familiar.
age this year in that the Gopher lead
er Is compelled to take his team away
from Northrop field Thursday night
and spend one night on h sleeper.
Friday will see Il light workout in
some Of the more or less secluded
spots in South Chicago. and Saturday
brings the game on Il strange grid
q great deal. but there is never n
telling what will happen with a green
team away from home.
The players realize that they can re-
habilitate their standing to a marked
degree Saturday by giving Chicago 4
beating. The championship has gone
away from Northrop field for a season
at least hold the position of runner-up.
They will make a strong fight of it
and the rooters believe they will be
returned v%ictors. The game. though.
promises to be much closer and harder
fought than it looked three weeks ago.
Chicago is making rapid improvement
If midway reports are true and as
these reports are generally baerish 1t
nay be taken as assured that there
is some color of truth in the stories
coming from that direction. Chicago
feels that a victory over Minnesota
would mae a very satisfactory round
ing out of the season. Minnesota holds
to the same. opinion and these Sigh.
differences of. opinion are what make
great football games.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21

ANXIOUS TO START
AN LEAGUE

Chicago. Nov. 21.-Word was re-
ceived here this week Of a move on
the part Of several western league
clubs to break away from the present
circuit and expand. The invasion of
Chicago and the establishment of rival
clubs in several American association
cities are included In the plans to
form Il new outlaw league.
Promotion Of this plan was started
before the end Of the season, 1t is re-
ported. and the men interested In 1t
Were busy at the recent meeting of the
minor leagues In Milwaukee. Dissatis-
faction with the RELOCATION Of the
Western league to a secondary rank
ing among the minors by the new ma
tional agreement is believed to be the
prime cause OF the move. Its pro.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
. .
ALBANIA FOR .ALBANI.iNS.

Albania for the .Alhanians" ma!
be one outcome of the Balkan war
The Italian duke of the Abruzzi. tn.
intrepid Polar explorer. has been su.
gested as reigning prince of this BRAY,
peoples Austria may have other plans
Like the Welsh in Britain and til.
Basques in Spain. the AlbaniansG are 4
native stock. They speak the onl.
original Balkan language. The Turks
have not been permitted the Albania,
tongue to be taught in schools. Their,
is no literature. no agreement eve "a:
to how 1t shall be written. Of t..
few who a write. some use Greet;
letters. some the Roman. The Al
banians themselves are nearly al.
Moslems. but 100000 Greeks. Serb,
Vlachs and Bulgarians in their lant
belong to the Greek church. TIL.
famous even highland clans of tn.
north known as the Malissori are R,.
Catholic.
Flood feuds. lack of roads and Tur
lkiSh misgovernnent make tie interiu
the only part of Europe where ordin
airy travel is unsafe. One-quarter @
the deaths in the country are vic.
lent. either in clan warfare or il,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
HANS WAGNER ENGAGED?

Pittsburgh. Pa. Nov. 20.-It is said
on good authority that j.. 'Honus''
Wagner. the illustrious .Dutchman. is
engaged to we'd Miss Bessie Smith. a
beautiful society girl. who resides
with her mother in a handsome home
in West Pittsburgh.
why. who eve thought of a thing
like that?" said Miss Smith. when
asked about the report. Now. look
at me and then think of Mr.. Wagner.
and tell me. honestly. do YOU think he
and 1 are thinking of such nonsense
But. there! must not talk any more.
Go ask Mr.. Wagner. would rather
he tell you just what may happen
some day."
When Wagner was questioned he
smiled and said:
How should 1 be able to tell you
n more about it than Miss Smith?
She and I have been very friendly for
several years. | really can't tell you
any more than she did"
1t is said on the authority of a good
friend of the Smith family that the
famous ball player and the pretty So
ciety girl have plighted their troth
and will wed soon.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21

clashes with Turks. Much of the
country is as independent as Mon
tenegro. The Turks never cowed or
taxed it's rugged hills. The Balkan
allies may be willing not to under
take it.
OF all fallow and backward races,
says the New York World. the AL
la nians have perhaps the greatest
possibilities. Haeckel said that they
have the best-shaped heads in Europe.
Their natural ability is great. Emil
grant Albanians in Greece and Italy
have carried with them their love of
liberty and their valor. If an indie
pendent government could introduce
schools and check feuds. there would
soon he another wonderful, progress
isive little nation in the southeast.
quite capable OF existing for its own
sake. and not as Il mere catspaw for
Italy and Austria.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21

motors in the Western league expeo
to be Joined by disgruntled American
association owners but in case this
does not occur the plans are to locate
rival lub in such towns as are neces-
sary to. make a compact and paying
circuit.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
BROWN MAY TURN UMPIRE.
Veteran Chicago Pitcher May Be Given
Position by Ban johnson.

Chicago. Nov. 2O.--Mordecai Brown,
former star twirler of the Chicago
National league team. may he an um.
pire in the American league next
season.
President b. Il. johnson has two va
cancies in the staff of unpires to I'LL,
due to the retirement of Jack Sheri-
dan and Jack Egan and it Is said that
Brown is being considered for one of
these positions.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-30
NAMES
ARE ADDED TO
LIST MEMBERS
HOWEVER, ACTIVE WORK MUST
BE DONE DURING NEXT TWO
DAYS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN
MEMBERSHIP OF 900 FOR COM
MERcEAI- ASSOCIATION.

Through the efforts Of = number Cf
tbs members of the Pensacola Com
merctal Association who have inter
egted themselves IN the campaign for
new members. seven names weFs
added TO the list during yesterday and
some OF the members reported thai
they had others IN view whom they
hope to secure bafore the first of tho
month.
Only two more days remain IN
which 90 secure the number nsca&Dary
to havs ca enrichment OF 400 by Feb
rvaxy ist, and, Is Secretary Hender-
son Says In an interview pubiaAhed
elsewhere In this mornings paper, II
Is absolutely necessary that some very
active work be done during these two
days II the number 80 obtained within
the allotted time. There arc yet about
40 to be secured In order to reach
the desired enrollment.
Those added to the list yesterday
were: DR.. Chas. w. Fain, p. v. Stout.
L. Earle Thornton. John II. Christie.
DR.. C. Ray Mitchell, DR.. @. 81. Heck
man and the Banks Transfer Co.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-01-30

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