Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-07-14
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NEW YORK, July Apparently
Connie Mack, manager of the Phila-
depha Athletics, has at the age OF
~ undertaken the task of building
another winning team for
shibe park. Because of his record OF
SIX American league pennants and
worlds championships this latest re.
construction work On the Athletics
baseball machine will be watched
Nill unusual interest by fans in all
pans Of the country.
Following the -four straight game
defeats administered to the Mack.
mon by the Boston Braves in the
worlds series of 1914 there were
many reports 20 the effect that the
Athletic combination would be bro.
ken up and a new team formed. The
sale of Collins to the Chicago White
soN; pennock to Boston, and Shaw.
KY O New York the release OF
Coombs. Bender aud Plank: the drop.
plrs Of Baker from the payroll and
The passing of still other players TO
the minors indicate that the work Is
well under way.
Now rumur has 1t that still other
stars OF yesteryear are to change
tfeir Athletic uniforms for those Of
other American league clubs while
Mack viii fiji their places with prom.
ing recruits from minor and college
diamonds Grounds for these reports
are found in The signing of Crowcll
liraley. Haas. Sheohan and Johnson
and the statements that Mack has
lines our for some promising material
IN southern and western circuits.
The ability Of the veteran manager
10 develop stars from Youthful play
ere recruited from varsity and bush
fields is well known. Plank, Collins,
Coombs and Barry all joined the Ath,
letics without the formality of minor
league experience while Baker Nc
mns, Bender, Strunk aud several
Others served but short period in
tn minors before being gathered in
hy Mack II he can repeat his pre-.
yous record in this respect. in these
days of close baseball competition
and fine comb scouting. his position
as the greatest manager of baseball
history will be beyond dispute.
Grover Alexander of the Phiadel-
phia Nationals twirling stan, prom.
Uses to complete record this season
equaling in interest Honus Wagner's
hundred home runs. If he maintains
bis present strike-out speed Alexan.
der should round out one thousand
whitis of opposing batsmen before
the curtain falls on October Z
At the beginning OF the 1915 cam
pAign his record showed that close
10 $50 batters had been turned back
TO the bench during AleXander's
league career. as result of failing to
connect with Growers curves. When
the season opened he needed about
PA strike-outs to complete his one
thousand and as July saw him well
past the hundred mark II appears rea.
sonably certain that Alexander will
fan his one thousandth opponent in
the next thirteen weeks.
Adyices received from Austria-Hun.
gary by members of the American
olympic committee indicate that ath-
leties and sports generally are at a
standstill in those countries. Rife
shooting and football played by
youths too young to bear arms, APP
pear TO be the only forms of competi.
lion INDUCED in by those not serving
at the front.
Racing, track and field athletics,
swimming, fancy and competitive
skating, tennis and cycling have all
been dropped for the time being at
least Fencing and shooting have
have ceased to be sports and are now
regarded as serious business. The
latter has become very popular and
rife ranges have sprung up every.
where Even before the war the gov.
eminent began TO encourage training
in rife shooting in the big schools
and the war office afforded special
facilities in this direction The fenc