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The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
BITS OF BASEBALL

The st. Louis club has turned Infielder
Stanley over to the Detroit club.
Jake Stahl is not expected back in
Chicago from his California trip until
January 16
The Dallas CTexas League) club has
purchased 1nfielder Harry Weiser. OF
Shamokin, Pa, from the Charlotte club,
of the Carolina Association.
Joe Berger, the Los Angeles recruit
shortstop. has signed his 1913 White Sox
probationary contract.
Trainer Tuthill, of the Detroit Tigers,
Is Of opinion that major league training
trips are unnecessarily long
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
LOCAL BOY GETS DRAW.
With Kid Tuths in Baltimore Ring
Last Might.

Charley Gardner, substituting for Joe
Thomas, local 1S-pounder, in a six
round bout with Kid Tuths, landed a
draw with the Baltimore boy last night
before a big crowd at the Broadway
Athletic Club.
Gardner, who is local boy, led all
the way, and the majority of the spec
tators declared the Washington boy the
winner on points. Young Thomas, the
local H5-pounder, will more than likely
be booked at the Broadway Club in the
near future with one of the best boys
of his weight In the Monumental City,
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
PAT DWYER TO
COACH ON HILL
Old Pennsy's Center viii Han
die Georgetown's Football
Team Next Fall.
OTHER SPORT COMMENT
George StovaIPs Methods Unique and
Browns Sure to Be Heard
From
BY WILLIAM PEET.

Pat" Dwyer. former center on the
University of Pennsylvania football
eleven, Will be field coach OF George
towns 1913 team, according to reliable
information furnished the writer yes
terday.
Whether or not Frank Gargan Will be
re-enEaged is not known, but Dwyer is
slated TO be the big man on the hill
next fall. and 1t is expected that off,
ciaI announcement to this effect Will
shortly be made.
Dwyer is not unknown to followers OF
football in the District, for Pat" as he
is nicknamed. played the game at Bliss
Electrical School during the days when
Bliss could give and take with any OF
them. This was prior TO his entering
Pennsylvania.
Georgetown alumni in Philadelphia have
indorsed Dwyer, and it is understood
that considerable pressure was brought
to bear, which landed the old Penn CEN
ter the job.
Since his graduation from the Quaker
City institution Dwyer has made a great
success of coaching. During the past
three years he turned out winning teams
at Louisiana State College, at Baton
Rouge, and prior TO this engagement he
was assistant coach at Auburn College.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
VIII BE ..Dry- banquet.

Pittsburg. Jan. 2o.-Old time sporting
writers and many of the prominent poll
ticians In the city are slowly recovering
from the shock caused by the news that
the farewell banquet to be given to VIII
H. Locke. retiring secretary Of the Pitts
burg club, who is to head the Philadelphia
Nationals. is TO be ''dry''-the first dry"
banquet in Pittsburg's sporting history.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
Matty Fined for Speeding.

New York, Jan. 2O.-Christy Mathewson
the famous pitcher of the New Yorl
Giants, was fined SO to-day by Magis
trate Leach. OF Jamaica, L l., for speed
ing his automobile on Hoffman Boule
ward yesterday. The arresting office
said Mathewson was going thirty-on,
miles an hour.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
WILLIAMS WINS MATCH.
Defeats Kelrhner In Pocket Billiards
mt the Royal, 100 to SIS.

Earl Williams, of North Carolina, de-
feated George Kelchner. of Rockville. in
pocket billiard game at the Royal
last night by the score of 100 to IS. WILL
Jams will be at the Royal every night
this week to meet all comers. Charles
Bartelmas. the winner of the Royal
pocket billiard tournament, will meet
Williams tonight. Admission will be
free and all are cordially invited. Game
will start promptly at o'clock.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
FoEIer and GouIett Win.

Paris, jan 0-Eddie Fogler. of Brook
lyn, and George Goulett, the Australian.
composing the American-Australian team
in the stx-day race which closed here last
night, to-day collected a big purse for
taking first place. They covered 2.7S0
miles In IA hours. The best previous rec
ord was 2,7S miles in 142 hours, made in
1908 by Moran and Mcfarland in New
York.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
BOWLING EVENTS TONIGHT,
Colonial League.
tAt Palace Alleys)
Manhattans vs.. Pilgrims


Departmental League.
tAt Palace Aneyn)
Navy rs. commissionerS
Patent E1nminers' League.
tAt Arcade Ancya)
Mechanics vs Farmers
Individual Tournament.
(At Palace AIleysl
Covert, ". Miller. McKnew.
National Capital League.
TAT Fat Mems cruh)
Fat Men vs. Welsbachs
District League.
At Garrison AIleys)
Garrisons vs.. Resolutes.
Northeastern League.
"a. Northeast AIieys)
CAROLS ". Crescents.
Commercial League.
CAt Palace AIleys)
Evening Star vs. General Baking Company.
Southern Clerks League.
tAt Casino Alleys,
Auditors vs.. Freight.
Arcade League.
tAt Arcade AIleysJ
Sherwood rs. Emmanuel
Departmental League.
tAt Capitol Hill AueyA)
Treasury vs. Pension.
Southwestern League.
tAt Southwest AIleySl
Genoas vs. Grzndes
spaIding Council Duckpin League.
Cat Casino Alleys)
RalphS vs.. Sheeheys. (.
Terminal II. n. Y. NJ. CA. League
CAT Union Aatiou AlieysJ
Auditors vs. Shops
INSTRUMENTATION League.
cat Palace Alleyx)
Sixth ". Kendall, st. Marks Va Bethany West
minister Fifth.
The veteran Fred Lake has again sign
ed to soout fnr the Qstxoit club
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
TO ARRANGE SCHEDULE.
Southern League VIII Adopt Dates
January rs.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Jan. 20.-The
schedule makers of the Southern League
will meet here January 25. League Presi-
dent W. NJ. Kavanaugh will be unable to
attend, but will be represented by Presi-
dent Coleman, of the Memphis club.
Presidents Andrews. of the local club.
and Frank. OF the New Orleans, and
Secretary Colson, of the Mobile club,
viii arrange tha,s smaatinR dateA
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
RACING DATES OUT.
Pimlico to Hold Meeting May = to
May 20.

New York Jan. o.-Racing dates for
the Forthcoming season were announced
to-day by the Jockey Club. The dates
arranged are: jamestown Jockey Club,
April 1 to April II; Havre de Grace,
April Is to May i; Pimlico, May to
May 20.
This makes a total OF forty-four racing
days. The application for October dates
for the Laurel Racing Club was laid over
until certain questions could be adjusted.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
weIch to Captain Carlisle.

Carlisle, Pa. Jan. 3o.-Gustavus welch,
an Indian. was elected captain Of the In
dian football team for next year. He is
ranked as great quarter back. He Is In
his knnbomore- year.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
Sexton to Coach Harvard.

Cambridge, Mass. Jan. 20.-Dr. Frank
J. Sexton, coach of Harvard baseball
squad, to-day signed three-year con-
tract.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
Same Old Boneheads.

Tommy Rice, of the Brooklyn Eagle,
hits the nail on the head with the fol-
lowing:
Hardly had Luther McCarty, a COM
parative novice, beaten Al Palzer. ditto,
in eighteen rounds, in Los Angeles, on
New Years Day. when the same old
bonehead brigade, which has killed every
professional sport in America except
baseball, bulged to the front with talk
about matching him with the discredited
Jack johnson. 1t is absolutely amazing
how people with brains enough to know
whether a street car conductor has given
them the right change out of quarter
can fall for that stun. If ever there was
good ground for making even the pos
session of a boxing glove a felony, 1t
would be found in the State which would
stand for Johnson's appearance again In
the ring with any opponent, black or
white. When the idiotic idea of bringing
him her last winter to fight Palzer was
advanced, II was successfully opposed in
the Eagle. and the State Boxing Commits
sion earned a hogshead of medals by
promptly barring him, despite threats Of
lawsuits. 1t is hardly conceivable that
the California promoters would risk their
present profitable but precarious game by
putting on the negro, and thereby arous-
ing every decent citizen, black or white,
in the State. New Mexico fell for the
Johnson-Flynn hasco, but We do not
think for a moment that even there he
would be tolerated again. and SO with the
other States where boxing is specifically
or tacitly allowed. Australian sportsmen
have announced that they will never
have him there; boxing would undoubt-
edly be killed in England if he fought in
that country, and the powerful influences
in the National Sporting Club of London
will see that he does not spar on English
soil His one last refuge where he might
get a decent purse would be France, and
We are told by the English papers that
even that tolerant country would almost
certainly give him the high sign IL he
lighted on its shores. They don't have
TO appeal to a dozen different boards and
departments when they want to expel an
undesirable from European country A
suave individual touches you upon the
arm, expresses deep regrets that he does
not feel, and requests you to be thence
in twenty-four hours-and twenty-four
hours later you are as far away from
there as you can get Boxing is flourish
ing In France, but Is running counter to
a powerful opposition which would be too
much strengthened by matching johnson
10 make the French promoters comforta-
bic, and the chances that 1t will be the
scene of a fight between johnson and
MoCarty, Bombardier Wells, or anybody
else. are extremely remote. Besides all
this. McCarty is said positively to have
drawn the color line
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
George Stovall's System.

George Stovall. manager of the St
Louis Browns, who had such good sue
cess with the Cleveland Maps in 1911,
in the role OF manager, has decided ideas
of his own about handling a bail club,
and these ideas are bound to demand re-
spect, for Stovall has already demon
strated his ability to deliver the goods.
In dealing with newspaper men, espe-
Cially Strangers Stovall is very much
like Clark Griffith. Ask him a direct
question and he will always answer it..
and not beat around the bush or hand
out a bum steer. If he does not want 10
disclose any state secrets he plainly says
SO, but a newspaper man can always in
terview him and be assured of courteous
treatment.
The writer remembers waiting for the
Maps to reach Washington the night be-
fore an important series in 1911. Stovall
had only just been handed the reins. The
train was late, and after a long, hot ride,
the players looked as if they had been
through a battle siege. No sooner had
the men been assigned to their rooms
than Stovall spoke up: Come on, boys,
follow me-" The party drilled into the
cafe and all hands lined up against the
bar.
Bartender. serve twenty-five bottles
of beer in a hurry and give me the
check" commanded Stovall
The beverage was served and drunk
StOvau remarked to the writer: l do not
object to my men drinking a bottle of
beer once in a while. but like to have
them drink it with me. l ordered the
drinks myself tonight so they would not
slide out of the hotel and drink more
than was good for them"
StovalIs straight from the shoulder
methods gained him the good friendship
Of every member of his club last season
His 1913 team may not land in the first
division, but if he is given free rein he
will make a lot of baseball history in old
Saint Looey, Paste this in your hat.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21
c. U.-ST. JOHNS.
Fast Basket-balI Game Booked nj
National Guard Armory.

a fast basketball game is booked to
night at the National Guard gymnasium
when the St Johns five tackle the Cath
o:iC University quint. The Brooklander.
are going at a rapid pace at present. ant
the lads from the Bronx will have tc
hustle to get in the money.
The game will start promptly at
o'clock with Jim Collifiower as the ref
cree.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21

II is reported that Toison, the sensa-
tional finger Of the St. Johns CAnnap-
olis) team last year. will be a candidate
for the hurting job at Georgetown this
spring. Tolson pitched great ball for the
Johnnies last season. and should have
little trouble making good at the Hilltop,
II he goes out for the team.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-21

The veteran Fred Lake has again sign
ed to xoaut for the patxptt club
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-06
Fletcher Much Improved Player
Better Than Wagner, Says Rube'

when Arthur Devlin began to slow
up. He was put in to play third. but
McGraw quickly made up his mind
there were better third basemen in
the world than Fletcher, as he &C
mpliShed the deal which brought
HerzOg to the Giants.
AS a matter of fact, II was generally
supposed that Herzog had been Sc
cured to play short. but McGraw had
evidently decided that Fletcher was
shortfelder, If anything. and switch
ed Herzog over to third. 1t was
a change that made the Giants cham
pions Of 1911, and maintained their
championship In 1912.
Fletcher has long been credited
with the best pair OF baseball hands
in the game or at least he succeeded
to that distinction with the passing of
the great Arthur Devlin. His field
ing during the past season has been
OF an unusually high order, and he
seems to have overcome many little
weaknesses that handicapped him be-
fore.
Fletcher is a great bidder" on the
ball field, and an aggressive fellow in
that he is always fighting for the
game. In the worlds series he stacks
up against a formidable opponent,
and while Fletcher seems to overtop
Barry on the seasons figures so far
as they pertain to hitting and base
running. the Athletic shortfielder is
a marvel in these brief encounters,
and one of the most dangerous men
Of tine Mack clan I'm d pinch.
Barry Has Wicked Way.
Barry is batting about 266, but that
gives you no idea Of the wicked way
he can slip over a hit when ii is
worth something. There are few bet
ter fielders in the land than Jack, and
If Connie Mack had to lose one Of
his infielders for the coming series, he
would probably hate to lose Barry
more than any other man, not barring
Eddie Collins. That's how valuable
BLACK Jack" is to the Athletics
However. Fletcher this year should
not be the unsteady, nervous Fletcher
OF the other series. He has been
twice through the fire. and his ad-
mirers believe that he has now found
his footing.
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*World'S SerieS ToSS-Up'- Crane
+s+
Says Teams Are Evenly Matched

fielding alone that Fletcher has shown
Improvement. At the bat, too, no
other Giant has come to the front
with the rapidity OF Fletcher. In fact,
he has been the most consistent bat
ter on the team. He has batted time
ly and steadily, and no player on the
team has done more to enable the
Giants to win this years National
League pennant than the game.
plucky ana always gingery shortstop.
Gained Much Experience.
Experience has done wonders for
Fletcher. He has now settled down
to one OF the most reliable players
on the team. There is no doubt that
nervousness, due solely to inexperi-
ence, was responsible for most of the
errors Fletcher was guilty of during
the 1911 and 1912 worlds series. But
now he has steadied DOWN to a vet
Grams attitude, and he can be de-
pended on to hold his own and pos
sibly be a shade over Barry, his very
worthy rival
The big majority Of those experts
who have taken upon themselves the
rather dangerous task of predicting
the winner in the series have harped
on the superior pitching staff OF the
Giants and the Athletics supremacy
in batting. The seasons dope" war
rants those comparisons possibly
but such short series as the worlds
championship takes all the giSt of
the arguments pro and con that have
been made for either or both Of the
contesting teams.
Giants Not Hitting Hard.
Of what earthly use can the Giants
acknowledged superiority of pitchers
be unless the Giants can hit the bal
often enough TO manufacture more
runs than can the Athletics? The
Giants inability to hit with any win
ming degree of sequentialty for the
last six weeks has got me guessing 5
to what the outcome OF the series will
be.
Then, on the other hand, one might
argue that the Athletics have been
most successful in their run getting
against pitchers who, in the majority
of games, have hardly been up to the
class OF Mathewson, Marquard, Dem
aree and Tesreau.
There is warrant for the belief that
the Athletics will not be nearly as
nifty with their bats when up against
the Giants great pitching quartet
as they have been of late against
their pitching rivals of the American
League.
to worlds series emergencies, al
though he failed to win game
against the Boston Red SoK last year
But nevertheless Matty came out Of
that series wearing the halo. He
pitched the best ball Of any bounan
who worked in that series.
Matty is as good now as he was
last fall Marquard is better than
then, and Tesreau's recent work
shows that he's primed for the
coming contests Demaree is In splen-
did form. and his style Of pitching
may be just what will be most eff
fective against the Athletics. He
can surely be depended on to have
his head about him all the time.
The result of the series will de-
pend. Of course, whether the Giants
come back into their batting stride
or not If they DO not. then all the
good pitching the Giants boxnen may
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-06

do will hardly compensate for the
Giants lack OF the punch.
. Luck has figured largely in all
past worlds series. as 1t Is bound to
in such short series. Luck was
surely against the Giants last fall
although the games the Giants
lost we're due to costly errors. Bakers
home runs were lucky, too, in 1911,
for any player who gets a circuit
clout Is very lucky, and we all know
how Bakers homers figured in the
1911 proceedings This is not writ
ten to take away any OF the credit
due TO Baker. and he is a wonder
full batter, but still home runs are
lucky, made by any player.
Taking the coming series from all
angles, l can mol see where the
Giants have any the worst OF the pros
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-06
RUNYON CANNOT
DECIDE WHICH.
TEAM IS BEST
By Damon Runyon.

Jew YORK, Oct. 6. = Having
N clearly demonstrated by a Sc
ries Of unique deductions and
comparisons that a worlds series is
impending. and that it Is a very Sc
rtous matter. there Ia really not much
more that we can say on the subject
without fully exposing our hand. A
recapitulation and close analysis of
our testimony proves conclusively the
following facts:
(a) That we do not know who is
going TO win.
CD That we hardly even suspect
anything.
The above is confirmed. in part, by
our conscience.
We wish we knew, of course. We
wish we knew who is going to win
the worlds series, just the same as
we wish we knew why King Man
uels bride left him so fat having
a deep interest in all items OF public
veal or woe; but we repeat we do not
know. Alas, we do not
Players Do Not Agree, Either.
AS a matter of downright fact. the
only writers who positively know
which team will win in the coming
disorder are the ball players, and
they do not agree, which makes 1t
all the more confusing. Messrs. J.
Tories, Meyers and Richard w. Mar
guard, Sr., for instance, intimate that
the New York Giants will be the VIC
tors, whereas Messrs. Edward Col
Inns and J. Franklin Baker allege that
the Philadelphia Athletics have what
the slang whRngers call a lead-pipe
skinooch
Personally. we might be inclined
to string with Messrs. Meyers and
Marqcard, having frequently been on
the very same page with them in col
umns of comparative equality, but
you never can tell.
That's the whole trouble. You
never can tell Not for worlds would
Messrs. Meyers and Vanguard or
Messrs. Baker and Collins mislead the
reading public, but there is always
that grave danger of them misleading
themselves. You never can tell.
Not Much in Figures.
We have tried to solve the problem
by means of figures. We have taken
a lot of ones and twos and threes
ana SnONeu tneEl AROUND tNls way anu
that, like anybody. and mixed 'em up
with decimals and fractions and ad-
jectives and such, but they always
came out looking just like ones and
twos and threes. There are some
people who can take the same figures
and make them lie down, roll over
and speak, which proves that It is not
the figures 50 much as the handling
Of the figures.
As we have glibly mentioned be-
fore, the Athletics. on paper are
stronger in some respects than the
Giants, and the Giants are stronger,
on paper, in other respects than the
Athletics-it depends entirely on the
paper and where II Is published. The
Athletics will win, or Connie Mack is
mistaken. and the Giants will win, or
John J. McGraw has not been cor
rectly informed.
There you have the situation in
nutshell, with the accent on the nut.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-06
By Sam Crane.

\ FEW YORK, oct. Elm sizing up
VI the respective merits OF the
Giants and Athletics for the
worlds championship It will be well
to take into consideration that the
Giants are much stronger in the field
or what is called defensive tactics
than they have been i'll the last two
years
One reason OF this is that George
Burns is about so per cent superior
to Josh Devore as guardian of left
field. Josh was always an uncertain
factor, so much 80 that Giant root
ers would shake in their boots for
fear the little fellow would pull some
mum or tumble that would result in
disaster.
On ground balls Josh was very
weak 1t seemed as If he never could
stop a ball scooting at him over the
turf, and many a single was turned
into a triple by his inability to get
his hands in the right place at the
right time. The sun also bothered
Josh not a little, and he was not alb
solutely sure of any difficult fly that
went out into his territory.
1t was Josh, though, who sent in
the majority CT runs the Giants made
against the Athletics in 1911, but
still there was always a feeling that
he was not dependable.
But still 1t can not be denied that
Josh almost invariably made good in
important series, especially against
the Athletics, but the form he showed
then he did not carry last year or
this.
Burns . Real Star.
In Burns the Giants have one. Of
the best outfielders in the country
bar none. He makes easy work ont
of fly balls that Devore would hardly
try for, on account OF his poor tudg-
ment. Burns starts after a fly much
quicker than DeVore, and being, too,
just as fast a runner and a sure
catcher any ball that is hit out into
Burns field can be considered as
flelded.
On ground balls Burns is nearly as
good, il not quite 80. as an infielder.
and as he can throw with great speed
and deadly accuracy, he will be in
every way an improvement on De.
wore.
Burns, while he has not batted con-
sistently this season. still the many
batting spurts he has had gives him
more hits than any other man on the
Giant team. While he was enjoying
his spurts with the bat he would
stick" with the best, but unfor-
tunately his sumps were almost as
frequent as his rallies. and at those
times he would fall Off most disas-
trously.
Sure TO Make Good in Series.
There is a good chance, though. that
he may accumulate another squirt
during the big series, and il he is
that fortunate. I look for him to be
one of the heroes Of the coming con-
tests. He Is sure to make good in
the field. and with Snodgrass and
Murray, both Of whom have improved
In their work as outfielders. I am OF
the opinion that the Giants's Outfield
has a shade on the Mackmen.
At another point, and a most i'm
portant one, have the Giants also
shown decided improvement - and
that is at shortstop. Arthur Fletcher,
from being a rather doubtful propo-
sition in 1911 and 1912. has developed
into one Of the stars in his position
His work this season has been SEN
satiOnal. and his many startling stops
and ground covering ability have
made him famous. And II is not in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-06
Mcneil Benefit Races
Set for Tomorrow

After being postponed a number Of
times. the motorcycle races for the ben
eft of the family of Jock Mcneil. the
little scotchman who was killed during
a practice spin at the local Motordrome,
will be run or Tuesday night.
The riders. all the officials and the
newspaper men are contributing their
services free Of charge and will also
pay their way to the meet to insure its
success.
Riding in the form that they dis
played Friday night, local fans viii con-
tribute to a worthy cause and at the
same time see some excellent races by
attending tomorrow night