New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-18

Comment and Gossip
on Sports of the DAY

sporting chance that the victory OF wal
for I Travis far back in 1904 VIII be
duplicated. and that the highest honors
of golf will rest I'm this country
Ran Johnson may rave. organized base-
ball may assume an air OF sausheu
security. but the Federal League is eS'd"-
lished on n sound enough basis TO All
annoarances TO be not only fixture put
in due time certain power in the sport
The president OF the American League
saws that the outlaws have done all the
damage they can possibly accomplish
Ban Johnson may be right, but Just no"
great that damage is can be apprecia'eu
only by the owners themselVeswheh io''ou
TO sign the largely increased payroiis cav"
month with the income hardly so o's a.
was the case a year ago. But ban 1ohI
son is wrong in assuming that the feo-
oral League has shot its bolt There are
quite too many hard-headed business
mon behind the organization TO give UP
tho fight at the first sign Of momentar|
losses These men appreciate the won.
dcrful growth OF baseball. and realize i",'
we'll that the food is far from feac''eu'
Baseball may not be I'm its infancy ny
Charley Ebbets would have it. but II Is
not yet out OF its teens.
If can lie said without fear of contra
diction that old Washington Park not
so long ago the abiding place OF the ="
ro,rae mas been transformed IN the
e,o,t snace Of two months into a nome
g., tho Tin Tops Of which the WARDS
can well be proud. The stand IS spa
cious enough. the seats are conlortdule'
and while il is not so imposing as f."
ho+s Field Il is distinctly homelike ana
g. sunerior TO several major league
marks that could be mentioned organ
izod baseball secuted the suggestion III
,,arcb that the field would be ready III
May hut beyond few finishing touches
everything was completed on scheouio
time. while the enterprise ana ilocrai'S
Of tho Wards were plainly manifest
Naturally the opening day crowd 'ou'u
rot no accented as n fair test. but AT
least an indication was furmshed una
tho fans across the bridge arc READY anu
,,.,1irq IN supnort two teams If the quail
49,. of baseball is as near the standard
as was shown in that opening game
Mark these words-the Feds nave come
to stay.
IIurbov Jennings has finally whipped
the Detroit Tigers into team that Is
e,ro 20 take a lot Of beating before the
American League pennant race Is over
Tho infeld has been materially strenE'"
oocd with Kavanaugh AZ second an"
r,urns AT first. while the pitchers IN ther
nrosont form make up staff second TO
none in tho league. 1t is not likely 'i'dt
tbov can hold their present pace. put
lust at present Hughey Jennings ana MS
clan are held in high respect
7, canturing three straight games from
tho Yankees the Tigers proved concur
sivol, that their roughshod rldc over
H. Western clubs was not merely
aa.h Il, the nan. The Yankees played
good baseball. but could not mahulac'u'
enough hits to be really dangerous III o"e
of the three games. IT was hdru p'o"
70 Chance and his men. from which, no"
o,.or they are quite likely TO recover Al
tho cxncnse of St. Louis and cleveland
49,, ,,ossiblv even the Chicago White SoX'
rrho, wager referred 10 last week AT
o,.o,, money that the Giants wouid oed'
.bo pirates in the National League race
Though based largely on sentiment mas
NON, reached commercial basis Slo"N'
,,t none the less surely, McGraw mas
driven his team 20 within easy surname
distance of the leaders, and neeoless W
saw. the fans are less uneasy '',s,li ;e d. n
lime since the season opened. bolIs ny" y;
p;t,ehurgh and winning three games u,
a row from the naughty Pirates; WV "at .
been rushing along almost Mltl.". ~
or hindrance, showed the plah'S AZ W,
hest and changed the whole coIhpleN'oi'
of the race.
Thu indoor swimming season oHered
rather conclusive evidence OF the SUPER
o~,tv NJ the trudgeon- stroke over
~ o,bors now used in this country Tor
q enabled Harry Hebner' ferr! nc
,,U,vrav and Joseph Wheauey to create
n number of national and world RECORDS
Furthermore, they were the only ones
to establish new marks. To the casual
obsar,er there may be striking as
similarity in the action OF the three men
I'm, the careful analyst will realize al
orca that this dissimilarity. due to vary
inc individual characteristics, is matter
81 detail and not OF fundamentals.
If is now generally admitted that IN
the several types OF crawl obtaining the
action of the arms is identical, and that
Tho distinguishing factor between them
. the leg drive. Considering. then that
Hehner. McGilivray and Wheatley all
three show a we'll marked scissor KICK
al rho end Of the top-arm pull. then iol-
low il with a more or less vigorous nut
tcring of the feet, kept up until the
t;r'e comes for another scissor. IL be
comes obvious that i'm spite OF seeming
differences they really exhibit the same
rrinciDles The trudgeon-crdNl was de-
YeIoped a few years ago by Frank Suill-
van. of Chicago. who thought that by
tntroducing a narrow scissor KICK uiKe
that of the trudgeonl into the even leg
tbras h of the true crswl more speed could
he obtained Everything now points 10
mo correctness of the theory
Jeff Tesreau deserved better fate than
10 lose the honor of a no-hlt game AFTER
two men were out i'm the ninth inning.