New Britain herald., 1915-07-30

cess. He can put that fast one around the knees, over the inside or outside corner, better than any man Tn the game, and with the stuff he has IL IS almost i'm possible to hit him safely. A spit @baller who can break his cuve We'll below the waist is next to unhit- table.,'
 ss Another Record.
 Preference to Cobb brings to mind another record this estimable young athlete has set-for Ty Is still shy his twenty ninth year
 Tn 1911. while he batted APO and scored 14s runs he drew but 37 passes. This season, with over so games left to play, he has already arrived at first over 22D times which accounts for his remarkable record in runs and steah
 ] For while he drew but 37 passes in tsl1, 1915 finds him with 70 free trips to first and the campaign only three -fifths over. Tn addition to his arrivals at first by basehits and bases of balls, he has also landed there thirty times via the error route.
 This makes total of 2So at first base before August, By October he expects to have battered down to first at least 400 tinlesa record never ap- preached in the fifty-year history of the sport. For this will mean arriving safely at first base over twice game. for a run of 154 contests
 Several ecstatic fanatics have writ ten. in to request that we don't give Cobb so much space. But what the ballyel are you going to do with a guy who is smashing three or four records at one and the same time
 Stallings Dope.
 when the Braves started West they still had se games left before the end of the campaign. Or these 66 games Stallings expected to win 50, pans out the World Champs would end the season with 94 victories, ex- actly the number required last year by the same club.
 While Stallings' computation sounds g trifIe steep, the Braves moved at the same pace through the last two months of the 1914 cz1npaign, and once under headway no assignment seems to be beyond the limits of that club.
 Useful Dope. s Germany is, beginning to prove that .Colonel Hurry-Up Yost wasn't very far from being correct when he an- n'ounced that "a fine offence is a great defences'
 As long as you are pounding the sotlier sblpke he hasn't any vast amount fef me left tp come bounding back s Another East West Debate. N Western athletes are planning an- snt Ter x strong defence against the ss.astern invasion at the track and, field Ghampfonship scheduled for the first week or August. Heretorore the East has maintained fair. supremacy at this sportive diversion, pus the West IS launching it's supreme effort for the coming occasion having mobilized the finest output Of ta1enI ever de- veloped beyond the Allegheny Range. Another Protest.
 Seven National league clubs are pianning to protest to Governor Tener that they will henceforth consider the ritching of Alexander against them d deliberately unfrien6ly act.''' The governor will consider the charge sometime after October.
 Always at the Ball.
 Sir: T see where mary Englshmen are practising golf shots back of their trench line. Now in case golfer starts his swing at the same moment big shell drops from directly over head which should one do-keep his eye on the ball or on the falling shell PLATO PETE.
 How sleep the Braves who sink to rest, sang MT. Collins--William, not Eddie. He should have written a sequel entitled How wake the Braves from their long sleep.'
 1914 Over Again?
 The Braves were last at one stage of July this season, just as they were a year ago. And just as they did a year ago, they have now started one of the greatest upward drives ever wit- ne ssed in the game.
 The Braves smashed a record last season when they came back from the bottom in July to a worlds cham pionship in October. If they repeat this trick the double upneaval will propaOly SIdHu forever as lHe Iecoru recovery of baseball. They came at lively clip a year ago, but even that tremendous effort was something short If the smashing pace they have set in the last three weeks, where they have cut through thecontending field almost N Nithout a check. And just as they came to the front last season, so this season they have risen upon the best pitching of the year in, either league ,. It has been a great thing for the old N. l. that Evers was crippled back in April, and that Rudolph, James and