The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-04-24
SPORT REVIEW
BY HAL SHERIDAN
Weekly Letter of United Press Sport
Authority Gives Fans Look at
Their Favorites'
Getaway.
R1TcH1E IS WORRIED
Small Boys to be Employed in Big
Leagues to Chase Foul Balls
in Order to Hurry the
Game.
by Hal Sheridan, written for the
United Press

by Hal Sheridan, written for the
United Press.l
NEW YORK April 24.-Already
there is a Let OF talk in baseball cir
Giles about training plans and ante
season methods which may be inaug-
urated in 1914 The accident to
Chance in the exhibition game with
Brooklyn two days before the real
opening, and injuries to Wagner and
Paskert, of Pittsburgh on the eve OF
the big day, together with numerous
other accidents to players of lesser
fame, have made the managers think.
They are wondering If the exhibition
game Is worth the candle after all
They frankly admit that heavy train
ing expenses have made good exhi-
billion dates look doubly good to them.
but with minor league teams or cellar
contenders in the opposite big league
straining their heads off to make
rep by beating the champs the
real wonder is that more Of such ac-
cidents don't occur. Then, too, man
ayers have been too ready to take
chances to fill exhibition engagements
regardless of weather conditions. Wit
ness the Observation-Disclosures affair
which was ushered in by a light fall
of snow. Imagine what the tempera-
ture on such day will do to a pitch
er's salary arm, unless, perhaps the
pitcher halls from Greenland The
point is that exhibition games have
begun to assume too much the propr-
tons OF the win-at-any-cost type And
it's big question whether such
chances ought TO be taken when so
much depends upon rapid getaway.
Willie Richie has something more
to worry about Joe Rivers is the
cause of it The Mexiean's work
against Leach Cross entities him to
highest respect and no small consid-
Grafton as The logical next opponent
for the champion Richie Is good
but he will do well 10 be very careful
in preparing himself for rising Rivers.
II Ban Johnson carries through that
scheme of his for making the games
shorter and snappier il will make a
big hit with the fans, and bigger
hit with the patient or otherwise ones
who wait supper at home. Johnson:
plan is TO have new ball thrown il
every time a batter knocks foul thus
saving the minutes consumed in tbs
catcher chasing wide ones that dom
go over the grandstand johnson sug
gests that two boys in uniform be
employed TO retrieve all such fouls
There will be no trouble getting anc
keeping such help. And no club vii
have to pay more than million
minute for the work
Up at South Bethlehem, Pa. the,
have chosen a captain Of the L,ehigi
wrestling team. His name is Franz
Gotch, 140-pounder from Baltimore
There must be something in nam.
after all
McGraw, according to the headlines
will retain Jim Thorpe Of course h
wilfs And that's no big surprise
Even II it takes Thorpe years /
show that he belongs he will probabl
be given the best chance a Young ma
ever had to break in. McGraw is to
much believer in publicity not t
work it for all it's worth. Then
Thorpe does turn out to be onlv a
average PLAYER McGraw will get il
per cent on his investment.
It remains to be seen whether ii
proposed rule regarding the suspe
sion of players for profane and yicio,
language without the Formally of
hearing is a good one. If it is
fragrant case of GUESSING the rule
good But otherwise it gives the III
pire too much power for on the III
pire's word alone player could
ruled out with no possibility OF
comeback. The rule is along the lin
of making the greatest of games clea
er but as suggested, it makes no pr
vision for human frailty on the pa
of the umpire.
1t seems to be generally conced,
that the Yale team this season W
demonstrate Old Els right to the CT
lege baseball championship as clear
as the crimson eleven demonstrate
Harvards supremacy On the gridirt
last fall. The New York sportil
writer's, without exception, declar
That In the exhibition game Yale pla