South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-30
TESREAU, GIANT
TWIRLER, OUGHT
To LEAD LEAGUE
"Big Jeff" Having Won His
Bride From Stiff Opposition,
Should Pitch Better Ball
College Crews Out.
By FRANK G. MENKE.

NEW YORK. March 3O.-"Big
JeffT Tesreau Of the New York Giants
ought 10 have a wonderful year as
a pitcher in 1914. JEFF didn't do so
well last y ear, as ne did in his first
year out, and not half so we'll as many
predicted for this huge bundle OF
mankind? But there was a reason.
as they say in breakfast food circles.
Jef was very much in love last
summer with a sweet and dainty
New York maiden who had many 9TH
er admirers beside the Ozark Bear
JEFF wanted her for his very own
and so did about "a half dozen other
youths. It worried jeff night and
day. and the worry affected his work.
Jeff's heart wasn't in his labor-it
was with Miss Helene Elizabeth Blake
Of New York.
But things viii be different this
year. Miss Helene Blake is no more.
She now IS Mrs. Charles Tesreau, and
the ozark Bear" is so happy now
that ne won her as his bride so care
free and go eager TO show his lit
tie wife that he is one of the greatest
pitchers that ever uncoiled a wing.
that he gives promise OF hanging up
a pitching record that viii stamp him
as the greatest pitcher Of all time.
JETS Record.
Tesreau. i'm his first year out in
1912, won I and lost only seven
games for the Giants-an average of
07OS. Last year, despite his worries.
he grabbed off . 2Out of 80 cOmbats-
an average around $3.50.
Before Claude Cooper. the recruit
Giant outfelder hurdled to the Feds
he was called "the second Ty Cobb"
But since then ne has been called
on. but what's the use Of being too
bromide?
The O. 3. people have stated fire.
quently that the Federals' pitching
STATS are made up principally Of
bushers. while ours are made up Of
stars Whaddaya think OF the
star staff OF the PhiIlies are toting
around this spring? Here they are:
Alexander, Chalmers. Mayer Mar
shall. lineup, Gaddy, jacobs and
Haislip.
Not TO be outdone by the Ameri-
cans in frenzied finance in athletics.
our English relatives have Just an
uounced TO the world at large that
Dawson, the famous forward center
OF the Heart of Midlothian soccer
football team, has been sold to the
ROvers club for $4,000. while Shea
and Simpson. two other Midlothian
stars have been sold for S10,0 600 each.
All OF which listens substantial like
but we'd like to lamp the checks
just to sort Of convince ourselves
that little "moonshine" didn't creep
into the figures. We used 10 think
those English folk not only went to
church every Sunday. hut chung to
the Bible-and its teaching-on week
days but
Before the world tourists landed
cables used to trickle in telling Of
soccer games played in the British
Isles at which the attendance was lin
teXcess OF 100000" That listened big
And we believed il But the day the
touring ball players cavOrted in the
presence Of the king. the English
newspaper persons Cabled across that
the attendance was "in excess Of TO-
600" However. the tourists tell us
that the crowd was less than $4,000.
although It TANNED the park. And
the tourists ought TO know. They
demanded gaze at the turnstileS. so
as 10 arrive at the amount Of their
divvy.
College Crews Out.
Now that the ice has disappeared
from most OF the lakes and rivers.
the college oarsmen have deserted
the gym rowing machines and are
spending their afternoons padding
around in the water SO as 10 loosen up
their muscles in preparation for the
big doinss - Junetime.
p IN New Haven. Conn. there's
n lot OF optimism concerning the
Yale crew OutlOOk-but the optimism
seems to be purely local Harvard
this year promises TO nave a crew as
good. II not better than last year. and
what that 1913 Crimson crew did to
the Eli outht on the Thames was a
matter that called for action by the
humane society.
The POughkeepsie regatta promises
70 be even more Of thriller than
last year. Every college that Will
ningle In the Hudson doings reports
that II has some mighty wonderful
oarsmen In the recruit list. and that
their squads this season viii be bet