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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-22

j manager at work.
He always says. I'VE win" and HE
lose" Fought four times and WE win
two; ana HE lose two That is the
only time that the, fighter enters into the
or Il fought him. etc.
Amt it the truth? The fellow who
really does the work is as far in the
rear in conversation as he is when
walking on the street He is led about
by the hand, figuratively. actually and
conversationaily.
The manager is always as fresh at the
end of the battle as he is at the start
No matter how badly the fighter Is
beaten up, it, doesn't hut the manager
particle. There is never Il mark on him.
The manager is either smiling or he isn't
that is the only noticeable change
caused ny a long. hard battle. Other
wise he is the same-we mean by that
still talking.
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DETROIT MEN START.
L.. j; &. ..z--
Club Making Ready to Get in Shape
- at 6ulfp0rt. ).

DETROIT Mich. February 21.-
Detroit American, League base. ball
players today started for the spring
training camp at Gulfport. Miss. A
party of ten. in charge of Jim Mcclure.
battery coach. left here. but the only
active bali player who boarded the spe-
cisl coach was Miles Main, a recruit
pitcher. from the Buffalo club. The
other members of the party were news
paper men and club employees.
Several players are expected to re-
port 10 Coach Mcclure before Cincin7
natl is reached. and there probably win
be a dozen players in the squad when
the men reach ,Gulfport. Manager Jen-
ninSs is already. at the training camp.
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INQUISlTIVE FANS.

Sporting Editor Star: :
kindly state in your pink sheet how
MANY games Bob Groom won and lost
during the seasons Of 1912 and 1913:
FAN.
Groom won twenty-four games and
lost thirteen in 1912. In 1913 he won
sixteen and lost seventeen.
Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly publish in pink sheet the
highest batting average of Jack Barry
Of the Athletics Also what NE batted
IN 1a13 FAN.
Barry's best average with the Ath-
letics was in 1913. when he hit at a
275 clip.
Sporting Editor Star:
, kindly publish Ty Cobbs weight;
Cobb weighs 1870 pounds. in playing
condition.
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WE COULDN'T DO
WITHOUT HIM AT THAT
BY RIPLEY.

You can tell one as far as you can
hear him-or within 4 radius of two
miles. He is feast for the ear and eye
his clothes are as large and loud as
his language, and his jaws, hands. arms,
legs and lungs work in conjunction as
il attached 10 a string like a jumping
jack with 4 phonograph for a head. Just
pull the thread of conversation-then
watch and listen.
A human toy-doesn't need winding or
adjusting. but it requires all of your at
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per Ne1F-tHdt Is, CouHliu5 q SShSoAi
as lasting six months.
7 wanted to play base ball. CHIEF
Neil of the fire department had already
convinced me that a great future ez-
listed in this line. My family gazed at
the base ball proposition with distrust.
The uncertainty of a base ball future
and the assurance that l had life job
as a fireman, with prospects of some
day getting $50 or s7e-considerable
coin then-a month had me guessing
But was crazy over base ball. Then.
as now, the JOY of singing out a hit
in time of need wasamy greatest pleas
ure The day I received the contract I
also received my weekly salary of Sld.
That was the turning point. The
thought of drawing S., one week later
instead OF s14 did the decd. l signed.
Like every kid / was rather proud OF
nv speed and curves. I also had been
an amateur catcher.
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All sorts of opin-
ions are expressed
in foreign coun-
tries regarding the
American national
pastime Of base
bali. as exempli-
fled by the Giants
and White Sox. In
Toxic they said:
THE cyclonic visit
Of the American
stars has left it's
m g m DRY in the
sporting history of
Japan, b e s ! d e s
emo CHI d
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QUEENS PAWN oPtNING.

The Georgetown-Johns Hopkins match
more Chess Association. Oo5 North
Eutaw street. Baltimore, Thursday even
ing. February &C. unless there is another
postponement. Manager n. T. Whitaker
and captain a. l.. Guerra of the C. L.
team say they will have six strcng play
ers and expect to do even better than
las. year when they drew against the
Baltimoreans.
Though numbered among the most
promising OF the younger problem COM
posers Of this country, and though all
his work has been in strict accord with
the rules of the modern school of prob
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Va
Hard Game to Lose.

Every fan has attended some game in
which the home pitcher has twirled the
most remarkable kind Of ball, allowed a
very few hits. yet been beaten in a small
score game by the margin of run.
Perhaps the following day the home
club piled up eight or nine runs. but
through poor work on the part Of the
home pitchers the visitors made three or
four runs more. One often thinks what
a soft game it would have been to win
had the pitcher of the day before been
doing the twirling and showing q brand
of pitching that netted him nothing more
than defeat the day previous. The man
ager had been unfortunate enough to
pick the wrong spot.
Managers as rule always regard
Walter Johnson the wrong spot for any
pitcher. I know several managers who
figure the odds of victory greatly against
the opposing pitcher Il know some man.
ayers who invariably work one Of the
weaker members Of the staff against
johnson, figuring to use up one Of the
stars in pitchers battle that brings
defeat a great waste of pitching talent.
/ saw Connie Mack use three recruits in
a game against Johnson last year, yank-
ing each recruit as he was about to fall
ter-his judgment In this respect being al.
most uncanny. Then when the Athletics
by a batting rally evened up the score he
rushed the veteran Plank into the breach.
and won the game when in the eleventh
inning the Athletics by sheer hitting
drove the winning run across the plate.
Picking the spots is a matter Of luck and
brains. A game in which a. pitcher al
lows eight runs and manages to win 8
to 8 counts. a great deal more toward
the pennant than fifteen-inning game in
which the home pitcher allows only seven
hits, but loses ] to @. It's the games won
that count when the curtain goes down.
Copyright 1914, ty W. g. EvansJ
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those mementoeS. WINDOWS smashed,
houses damaged and dogs in the street
hit by flying balls in the neighborhood
Of the Keio grounds. The professionals
seem to move like clockwork, and the
umpire's decisions are obeyed silently"
Not always in the United States.
The Italians insisted that the teams
must prove that it was not brutal
game before being allowed to play, and
a net must be provided to protect the
spectators.
The Australian view is hardly as
complimentary. though some of the
language coined by the Australian spec
tators is far better than anything our
best men have done. The Australians
almost unanimously consigned the game
to the category of FOUNDERS and lack
ing in interest, although some Of them
said 1t was a good thing to get a
verdict in two hours. They called the
curved pitch the "swerye service;
spoke of having mo heart behind the
and spoke of the fielder as ''pouching
the bali in his tea cosey." They ad-
vised the batsme1 to .,wobbie 1t at
him" meaning to wave the bat at the
ing a man to get to a base they called
Get your daisy roots on that bag!'
Speaking of the players: ut is hard to
saw which they most resemble band
of arctic explorers braced for a march
due south, or a contingent Of prize
lighters getting ready for the ring"
"Base ball is very much like FOUNDERS
that juvenile game which the young
Australian plays with his sister until
he reaches a certain age. There are
any number of fine points Of which
the rounder player. with his soft ball
and dread Of injurinS the girl player.
knows nothing"
It strikes us from this collection OF
language that the Australian, in spite
of his present views. would take kindly
to the game If it were played often
enough before him for men who see
the picturesque side always like base
ball in the long run.
Courtney's. Comment on Athletics.
The speeches that Charles f. Courtney,
CornelIs coach. has made n the univer-
sity, towns Of the west deserve the most
careful consideration OF every one inter-
ested in athletics. He says that seven
teen men of the foot ball, squad were on
probation last fall ana that six of the
best track men arc OH probation now, as
well us three OF the most promising
crew candidates Perhaps this unusual
condition has somewhat biased his view,
because this number. particularly in the
case OF foot ba J.. seems somewhat eN-
trao.dinary. fte also suggests that some
one in the committee was so Influenced
| by the possibility of a race with the Har-
ward crow i'll Boston as to allow Harvard
| to dictate that 1t ba rowed in the middle
Of the week. Therefore. all his crew men
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Woonsocket Lost Good
Fireman When Lajoie
Broke Into Base Ball
BY NAPOLEON LAJoIE.


thrust contract
fo month in ontof
thought OF the dherence pc
OF the Woon
sock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-22

Pitcher Bill Graham. who once had Il
trial in st. Louis after making record
in the Southern League, but lost out be-
cause of his wildness. has been signed
by New Orleans. Graham essayed a
comeback with the team Of his home
town, Rome. Ca, last fall ana looked
% good that Manager Dobbs OF. the Feli-
cans went after him. ,-,.-.., !.
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Charley Cars base ball school re-
ceivcd knock or a boost, as you see tit
to call il. by the announcement that Bill
Doyle. Nap scout. would open free base
ball school at Portsmouth, Ohio. April
!. He charges nothing for tuition. but
reserves the right to get, the moneS
minor league clubs get for his candidates
who make good. So -
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mis- Association, after two years Of con-
sideration, has determined to attempt to
define an amateur. Nov whatever is the
final decision. let us note how the at
ceivcd. There are plenty Of headlines
which said that its adoption would mean
combining tennis to the idle rich. Otner
expressions were like the following:
If mans expenses are paid to any
important match at which only the elite
and Jerry Walsh ere permitted in the
grandstand. the contestant is a Simon
pure amateur. If. however. a mans eX-
penses are paid. be it only nickel car
fare 70 a little picayune no-account
fessional and no tea or sandwiches VIII
he served him on the veranda OF any
reputable tennis club: neither will he be
allowed to wear a silk sash with his
tennis trousers. Let our amateurs stand
ing be strictly preserved.
It is wise selection that the Women.s
Metropolitan Golf Association has made
in accepting the offer Of the Essex
County golf links for the Metropolitan
CHAMPIONSHIPS May - to 20. Mrs. E. F.
Sanford offered the links for the club
unconditionaliv and at any time. 1t IS
a good course to test out the play. al
though a9H yards short of the standard
This will he the third time the women 8
Mrs. Manice winning in 1852 and Miss
Georsiana Bishop in 1903. :.
The golf course owned and run by the
hoteikeapers of Atlantic City is trying a
ne,- depa rturc. When similar courses
Observation-Disclosures and the like-become
crowded relief IS obtained by adding
course No. = and course No. 3. The
standard links fee at all such courses is
SEQ L DAY Atlantic City meets the
emergency by doubling the charge. thus
Theoretically accomplishing two results.
doubling tie revenue and decreasing the
number OF players
In golf you often wish three to the
green and three to hole out made 1--WE,
and some count 1t THAT way.
Again the English Stroke.
W. road alas how muri, VIC read.
The iamhied strifes of crced and creed,
With endless conf rOyersies feed
Our grooming tables.
The poor old English stroke! Vivian
Nicsalls, PENIS coach, is quoted as say
ing 81 don't believe in the way they row
in England. I believe it is very bad. The
average Poughkeepsie crew would beat
the winner of the Oxford-Cambridge race
every time. EngIand's rowing system is
nearly as good as the one here Yet
Harvard has twice attempted it in vain
and Penn, Cornell and Yale have each
in turn sent winning American crew
over to carry off that grand challenger
cup at Henley, only to finish with view
OF the English rudder.
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BY BILLY EVANS.

Base ball managers, big and bush
league, have their share Of trouble in
the good old summer time. When a
team is winning the manager usually
gets very little consideration. Most OF
the credit for the teams showing is at
tributed to the superb work Of the pitch
ing star. the hard hitting of the slug
gers. the excellent ail-roUnd work in the
field and a Willingness to take a chance
ON the bases. In truth, much of the
credit belongs to these different assets
When the team is slipping, getting trim
med with regularity, the poor pitching,
weak fielding light hitting and bad work
ON the bases are lost sight of. The fail
ure TO win is invariably placed at the
doors of the manager, who is freely
charged with all Kinds of errors.
While the manager plays big part
in base bali, often he is unjustiy
criticised because of the failure OF his
club to win. No manager. no matter how
famous. could win a big league pcanant
with bush league team. OF course. GER
tain managers could get better r-sults
with the same team. but a manager, to
deliver. must have the stuff TO work with.
Managers cannot make base hits in a
pinch, fan batsmen when hit means a
run ana the game. or MAKE a sensational
catch of q fly ball in the outfield that
will save the game. The managerial job
may look soft from seat in the grand
stand, but it is a lot different from the
bench.
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FOREIGN VIEWS
OF BASE BALL
Peoples of Other Lands Have
Different Ideas as to Char
!. acter of the Game.
MANY COLLEGE MEN ARE.
TO PLAY WITH BIG CLUBS
St. Louis Will Take No Less Than
Fifteen to Training Camp
This Spring. =.
Copyrighted by O,is-F. Wood,
BY WALTER CAMP.

goodbye. proud World, I'm going home.
THOU art not my friend and I'm not thine.
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Wanted to Be a Pitcher.

After reporting to Marston at Fall
River the first shock came when he re-
fused to think Of me as pitcher.
Was used behind the bat, played every
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PITCHERS THE CRYING NEED
OF NEARLY EVERY BALL CLUB
Perhaps the Hardest Task of the Average Manager Is
So to Select His Twirlers as to Get the
Best Possible Results

Collins was destined to shine as secon
| sacker. Through faith and persistence.
! the great leader Of the Athletics had
finally discovered, the position at which
Collins is now rated as supreme. Many
. managers, discouraged. at the early fall
ures of Collins to show. would have
turned the youngster adrift. but not Con-
ME Mack. The tall tactician looks the
recruit over slowly and carefi.'ly. and
II he has chance to show, Mack will
bring out that chance. That is one rea-
| son why other managers are loath TO pick
up a player. who has been turned adrift
by the foxy Connie.
In the making of great second base
man of Collins. Mack also displayed his
versatility in making a crack outfielder of
a classy second sac1er Collins was IA
vored over Danny Murphy because OF his
ability to cover more ground his greater
speed on the bases ard his ability to hit
! for Collins early showed that he could
Waliop the ball Danny Murphy has al
ways been noted for his sluSgine ability.
When Mack decided Collins Was to play
second, he also decided that Murphy
should be kept in the game as :, regular
What Mack would DO with Murphy was
puzZlng question to many people Mack
had perhaps decided tho question. even
! before Collins made it apparent that he
was the man for second. -Aiways n
sure man on 4 fly ball, Mack shifted
Murphy to r:sht field the very day Col
SG,x
an outfelder Danny Murphy was as big
a success as he had been as second
baseman. Mack had picked two spots,
and both correctly.
Using pitchers in their regular turn is
a system followed by many managers re-
gardless Of the success tWirlers have
against certain clubs. 1t is Il well known
fact that some pitchers beat certain clubs
with case. While other teams give them
constant trouble. Very often some star
pitcher is up against tougher proposi-
ton when facing a tail-end ciuo than
when opposing one OF the leaders. Since
the advent OF Walter Johnson into the
American League the st. Louis club has
been the hardest team for him to beat.
vet most Of that time the St Louis club
;.as held undisputed possession OF last
place. Recruit pitchers and old-t;ners on
the Washington staff got away With the
Brow"s with ease, but the great johnson
was always given the toughest kind Of a
battle.
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lem composition. Mr.. Mitchell is of the
opinion-and in this he is not alone
that the problems Of fifty years ago We're
superior TO those OF today in these cs
sentials, beauty and difficulty, upon
which a problem should really be judsoG.
lie considers the pure mate" now look
ed upon as the ''sne qu;. nom of a
good problem. more in the light of 4
dognat.c fallacy than an artistic need.
To illustrate this point MIR. Mitchell has
composed FOR The Star = problem cut
in the latest style. which he nodest!E
wishes to compare with the origin:ts
Bristol" which he considers the finest
three-mov problem ever published.
PROBLEM By DAVID 4. MITCHELL.
Specially composed for ard dedicated to
Tie Sunday Star.
BLACK.
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Manager Larry Quinlan of Teme Hauts
announces the purchase of Pitcher Louis
Loudermifk from Fort Wayne and Pitch
eri Marion rdmnMilMaukce.
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Worked Hard With Eddie Collins.

1t took Mack some time to discover
that In Eddie Collins he had the markings
Of one Of the greatest ball players in the
world can wen remember how Mack
tried Collins at shortstop. third base and
the outfield before deciding that his posi-
ton was second base. Mack needed d
shortstop and third sacker when Col
Inns Joined the club. for Lave Cross and
Jimmy Collins We're about through and
Monte Cross was slipping fast. Harry
Davis and Danny Murphy were taking
care Of first and second in the most APP
proved fashion. 80 Mack had no worries
over those positions "A trial covering .
tew weeks CONVINCED, Mack that Eddie
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Have Much to Worry Over.

Picking the spots was the terse reply
made to me one day last summer when
asked famous big league manager
what part of the job gave him tie most
trouble. Perhaps to the avers ynan
picking the spots is 4 ra.her ;l:llb' Il. ;;
expression. To the base bail man i. near
selecting pitchers so as 10 get the be-
possible results. suhstitu ing pitchers al
the right time to save 4 tv-i.le: w.o :
faltering, calling on a pfnoh bat = -.
the use of such a man may -,
Of. the game. These are il. go
the situations when the ma. :, I, e.
forced to rely ON his Judgment III is IL
ing the spots. He lays himself onen to
criticism and ridicuie every the he
makes shift. IS
II he makes the change and the play
er substituted comes through with the
needed assistance. little credit is given
the proper display OF judgment If he
fails to make a change. and the player
he, fails to remove Goes not deliver. then
all kinds Of criticisms are directed at him
For his failure to sh #. If a change is
made, and the substituted PLAYER falls
down. another opportunity is offered to
Hay the manager. it is pointed out that
the regular player was going pretty well.
and at the very worst could have done
no worse than the substituted player.
Perhaps no one feature has contributed
more to the success Of Connie Mack
as manager than his ability to pick
the spots. His judgment in the handling
Of players. youngsters in particular. is
indeed marvellous. He gets results in his
own particular way. and makes others
wonder how he turns the trick. He
seeks to inspire confidence in his re-
cruits. Instead Of sticking them into
a game as soon as they arrive from
some bush league. as many leaders are
wont to do. Mack as a rule adopts just
the opposite tactics. He let's the young
player indulge in batting practice and take
part In the fielding. but when the game
starts his work for the day is usually
ended. For the rest Of the afternoon
he plays and absorbs base ball from a
seat on the bench. In fact. so quietly
does Mack develop his players that
often he springs some athlete on the pub
lie and players who few know is actually
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-22

PROBLEM Ely r. HEALY Original Bristol -
BLACK.
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What Is a Tennis Amateure
The Uaited States National Lawn Ten.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-01-16
LOCAL BREVlTiES.
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The skating and dancing party Civ
On last evening i'm tho Colosseum hN
the Clerks OF the TamaracG Cooper
ative store WAS largely attended and
proved highly successful
Members of the kno> Memorial Ri
Bile class of the First Presbyterian
ohurcn last evening. There was 20
good attendance.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Albert
Ruttcnbcrg was held this morning,
the remains being taken on the South
Shore train 10 Marquette where they
will he Inferred. Public funeral scrv-
ices VIII he held i'm that city.
Lieut.. Henry MacDuT, OF the Calu-
met Engineers, has arrived home from
the school OF instruction for national
guard officers at Lansing this week.
Joseph Suite has left for Flint.
whcr" he will spent n short lrae ON
business.
Mrs. \. h. penniman, sister of Mrs.
j. +. North, is at Rochester Mimi.
II. r. Lowcry has arrived home from
st. Paul and Minnesota points,
Miss Bernicc Odds of the 500 is Wis
ting with Calumet friends and rela-
lives for short time.
Mrs. \. j. Anderson has gone to
Rochester. Mimi" where she will un-
derpn treatment in Mayo Bros. hos
pital
Mr.. and Mrs. II. l.. Freeman, who
have been visiting here, have left for
their home in Milwaukee.
Henry Shea and Con Douglas of
Flint have returned To Calumet To re-
sumo their residence.
Duncan Mackenzie, cashier in the
local express office for several years.
has left for ST Paul where he viii take
Il position under \. Il. Chuhb former
local manager.
Anton Blota Of Acorn street, who
has been in kenosha, Wis. for some
time, has returned To Calumet.
General Manager James MacNaugh-
ton of the G. ~ H. and subsidiary
mines. has arrived home from II bust
ness visit to Boston and other eastern
points.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fa2ckas of Kcar-
sarge are the parents OF daughter
born this week.
r. J. McNeigh. agent of the Metro
politan Life Insurance company of
! New York, will leave this afternoon
for that city, where he Will attend tho
annual meeting of the agents.
MIR and Mrs. Herman Arnstam, who
It was announced left yesterday fo;
Chicago. will not leave until SUNDAY
G.. w. Abbey of Fond du Lac. Wis.
Is business visitor among friends in
Calumet.