Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-15
SPORT GOSSIP
BY X. F. POD.

BY n. F. POD.
Cadillac, Mich, OF the Michigan
State league, has established a new
baseball record that will probably not
be equaled for some time to come,
perhaps never. The season opened
just about month ago and Cadillac's
team batting average at the present
time Is something like .345. Nine
members of the club out of Is on the
roster are hitting above the 800 mark.
while Manager Parker leads all with
a percentage of 1852. Some smuggling
thati
/ Jerome Travers, celebrated United
States golfist, has an alibi to account
for his miserable showing in the Brit
ish tournament few weeks ago. Trav-
! ers claims that some of his friends
/ wagered $4,000 that he would win,
I and this fact, according to the Chica-
I yOan, made him so nervous that r.,
! played miserably. This is a rather
I strange alibi, as IL seems that the man
ought 10 have felt highly fattered. If
. his friends had confidence in his abil-
/ y Travers should\ also have bee.
! confident OF himself.
Walter johnson is getting into the
/ hall of fame. Representative Taggart
/ OF Kansas says that every time he
sees a crowd of government officials
surrounding the score board he knows
that Walter is doing the twirIing for
the Senators.
1t was not so very long ago that we
used to see the following names fig
ure conspicuously in the sporting
pages, but now it is seldom that one
OF them appears: Cy Young. Ed Walsh,
Carl Morris, Charles Murphy, Ted Coy,
Harry Steinfeldt, Thomas Lynch, Tod
Sloan, Jack Munroe, Fielder Jones.
Some one made a big f1uke in draft
ing that Three-Eye league schedule
this year DanyiIie raises the biggest
boiler. For example it seems that
Boyle and his crew are now forced to
make trips which are so long and IN
necessary that some hundreds OF dol
lars are lost on each one. The $50
guarantee TO each team has also prov
en- drawback Altogether it seems !
that the old league is really in hard
straits.
Buck Weaver played his first real
game Of baseball with an Independent
team and received 4sc for his after
Moons work. II seems that Buck but
ted into this game by asking Man
ager Dick Devaney, then running the
fast ST. Mary's team of PhoeniXville,
for chance 10 play. Weaver was only
a sandlot player at the time, but the
manager put him in at third base and
he made an excellent showing. After
the conflict Devaney asked Weaver
how much he wanted. 1t so happened
that Buck haid paid 4Sc carfare to get
10 the game ana so he asked that
amount and received it. Devaney then
gave the youngster a steady Job on the
team and he has made good with a
vengeance. That was only in 1909
and today Weaver is pulling down
about $25 per game.
Sir Thomas Upton was in an I'M
usual hurry Friday TO see his new
yacht sail and ordered his chauffeur
to speed.up a bit. This fact cost Lip
ton $50 in cold cash. for the police OF
were on the lookout for
speeders and Upton was hailed into
police court He paid the fine. /.
Less than a month ago the Pitts
burgh Pirates led the National league {
with a one-sided record Of y games I
won and eight lost. Their present rec
ord is % won and % lost. This is a :
slump FOR a smuggling team c
ike the Pirates. and they have won I
Jut two out OF the last II games. At
me time during this slump they
dropped nine games in row.
John y. Cady has heaped honors ga +
ore upon the Rock Island Arsenal L
;oIf club by winning the champion G
shin OF the Mississippi valley at the Il
rrans-AIississippi tournament at Kan '
as City. Mr.. Cady has always been 5
player Of exceptional merit. but he c
.prings a neat surprise by winning the L
tile.
Armando Marsans OF the Cincinnati
leds. one OF the fastest and best hit NJ
ing outdelders in the major leagues, L
as Jumped 20 the st. L afs Feds. The b
eneraI opinion OF the sport loving d
ublic seems TO be that the Reds have V
cen served right Manager Herzog 5
as pulled a bew boners OF late which -
re- NOT calculated 70 keep the Reds @
-ithin striking distance Of the pen X
ant for a very long time. Dissatis-
,ctfon. however, in the camp OF the
fnoinuati Nationals IL by no means ID.
,rnething new. u is responsible for d.
"a miserable showing the Reds have
cen making in past years. 81
T X
Investigation IN North Carolina has /.
own that school attendance In cot -
. s,r an, y,,,ngtfes Il ALWAYS lower