The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-13
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BY Dan McCarty,

| Americas cup, either for acceptance
/ or rejection in the hands of a commit
tee of twelve members of the club
If the committee votes to accept the
challenge the committee is empowered
/ to arrange the details of acceptance
and the conditions of the race.
! Manager Hugh Jennings of the De-
| troit Tigers is using all his recruit
| pitchers in the early part of the base
ball season because he believes they
can do more damage then than when
the race gets tight. He thinks that
the ambition of the youngster, strug-
Cling to be retained with the team,
| makes him more valuable in the spring
than the cautious veteran.
Eighteen players are enough for any
frst-class baseball club, declares
Manager Topsy Hartsel of the Toledo
Mudhens. He maintains that the
present system of having a young
army Of players on the squad encour-
ages them to be lazy and loaf at
times.
Buck O'Brien, pitcher for the Bos-
ten Red Sox, struck out twelve Wash
ington players in seven innings the
other day. Then he blew up and the
Senators won the game.
Because his new owner had no lik-
ing for prize fighters, Battling Nelson,
trotter, that cleaned up on the half
mile tracks last year and now is en-
tered on the Grand Circuit now is
known as Star Winter Star Winter
although officially marked PA, is so
fast that he is proclaimed a certain
2:06 trotter.
Who says that prize fghting's bru-
tai? The boxing clubs of New York
took in nearly a million dollars dur
ing the year ending November 80,
1912. The states share was $4,000
More power to the pigs.
President Woodrow Wilson Is an
ardent baseball fan, if ever there was
one. He closed up his engagements
on the last day the Senators played
at home and saw all but one of the
games the team played during the
first home series. The White House
attaches have the craze as violently
as has the president Majority lead
er Underwood of the House opines
that congress will be able to get some
business done now that the team has
gone away.
There never was a b3llplayer viii
ing to pass up his turn in batting
practice. That is the main reason, it
is said, that golf appeals to players,
for there's no fielding in the Scottish
national game-one can just zwhack
away. When asked if he didn't like
batting as we'll as fielding, first base
mar Miller, of the Pittsburg Pirates
said: "Oh, leave that to the caddy."
George Stovall hooked on to a COM
ing pitcher when he put Baumgard-
ner's name on his recruit books The
tall Missourian got a bad start, but
he has been going fine lately.
After the beating he got from
Trainer Simmons a month ago. one
would think that Manager Johnny
Evers of the Chicago Cubs would be a
bit careful of what he said to his
leading medicine man. But Johnny lit
into the new trainer-Dr. Axel Hart
last week in one of his fiery fits.
Hart, however, proved too much for
the midget manager, his repartee car
rying a deeper sting to it, Evers may
soon decide 1t is bad business to mon
key with trainers.
The critics have been boosting Ray
Schalk of the White Sox and Henry
and Ainsmith of the Nationals, but Joe
of Cleveland thinks he
has the finest little catcher in the |
league in Fred Carisch, the a. A. i'm
portation.
Butte Montana, is the boxers para
disc. Jimmy Duffy of Lockport, n. !
Y, and Ray Temple, of Milwaukee. |
played to a $4,000 house there last
week. The boxing lid has been on in
Montana ever since Stanley Ketchel |
issued therefrom. But now it is le- |
galized and the miners pay well to see
the mitt-men in action.
The same as last year. Hugh Bedi- !
ent the Falconer On. W pitcher. is |
games for the Boston Red |
Sox. Bedient helped keep the cham |
pions in the running in 1912 and ther
he came back and outpitched Mathew |
son in the worlds series. With Joe |
Wood incapacitated, Bedient is the |
only winning finger Boston possesses
this spring.
Joe Rivers, the coast lightweight, |
was offer I'd a match with Jack Iris
ton last week, Britton offering to ma he |
1873 pounds at the ringside. but Iay-
ers passed up the match. Britton, |
who has been winning with great con- |
sistency for month. is considered too
tough for the Mexican.
Neither the Red Sox nor the Ath- |
etics are playing UP to the form that |
won them worlds championships. |
Mack's pitchers are not to be depend |
I'd upon. Stahfs men are crippled.
Mathewson says his long and sue
cessfuI career is due to a 'tconserva- |
ton of natural resources" When |
Matty first went TO New York he had
wonderful speed and used 1t all the
time. So anxious was his manager to
win games that he made his young
nurler work when his arm was very
sore. Seeing that if he did not pro-
tect his arm nobody else would, Mat