New Britain herald., 1915-06-08

It was an inspired bard who wrote: "As this old world goes roun' and
 roun' Some go up-and some go down"
 Only to judge from the printed rec ords up to date more have gone down than have come up. Tn fact, we can hardly recall a past campaign which presented so much slipping and slumping in high quarters; past campaign in which the aristocracy of balldom mas suffered such heavy losses.
 Only a partial peek at the casual ty list is necessary to show the nor bid an rnorose trend of affairs. AS follows.
 1. Rudolph, James and Tyler-the, triple sensation of I914--out of tweu- ty-three starts have failed to win half their games, with only clever, victories against twelve defeats. Last year their mark was over 700.
 2. Christy Mathewson has won only one game out of six starts, for an average below 200 His fifteen year average is above $50
 g.. Iris Speaker. rated next to Cobb, normal 1850 hitter, is struggling down around .262.
 4. Clyde Milan, holder of the base stealing record ia the Americen league, and rated one of the flee.nst of them all, stolen six bases, against twenty-six for Cobb and nineteen for Maisel
 5. Walter Johnson has been hit harder and oftener than in any y,re- vious campaign.
 6. Charles Albert Bender, the re- nowned Chippewa Chief, has beer unable to wrench off an average of one game out of three with the Feds
 [. Hans Wagner, the Prime Mir ister of Swat and the Grand vizier of Bingle, is padding the ozone below .210.
 There is a large amount of priceless baseball flesh listed in this prize ee- ficit, which isn't very far from being record crop of casualties.
 Ty and the Top Mark.
 Will this be Ty Cobb's greatest year? Not unless he is a superma1., reinforced to the thirty-third de- gree.
 zHere is Tvs record year, esta ablish ed
 Here is Tvs record year established maker:
 146 games, 591 a. b., 147 runs, 243 hits, s3 stolen bases, APO bat av..
 Cobb so far, in forty eight games, a trifle less than third of the sehed- uled spin, has piled up fifty-thtee runs, sixtynine hits and thirty steals. If he should maintain this clip for the rest of the season he would hcve 163 runs, 215 hits and 92 steals He is beyond 1911 his greatest year, and the greatest year on offence any plav- CT ever knew in run making and base stealing, but is a trifle shy in lit making. He has a good chance to break his old mark in runs and stol- en bases, but only faint chance to break his record of base hits. Very few sons of swat ever compile 900 safe blows year and a mark of PAS is one that will likely stand for number of dry, feverish summers. Ty needs 179 hits in 106 games to even tie this old mark, and this would re- quire .446 gleam in the candle pow CT of the Batting Eye for the rest of the season. There nusct be d limit somewhere to what even the highly miraculous MT. Cobb can accomplish. ' Or isn't there?
 The Fury Record.
 scorned.' z
 Well, how about some tennis star,
 all set,
 Who with an easy shot before his
 glinn,
 Steps up and slams the pill into
 the net?
 No wonder a lot of us can't play good golf. Walter Travis, in his r>- cent match for the title against Joh IT. ny Anderson, had two butts of less than two feet. He looked up on bctll a record for him, and missed both. Yet a lot of us look up on butts of eight feet, n1ashie shots of 140 yards or full drives and wonder what the ba1lyel happened.
 If a lookup makes Travis miss a 2-foot putt. what will it do to the l average golfer on a 140-yard shot? The answer is absolutely unprinta ble. Where Some Else Was Worse. 1 This is true story. Absoutely. l There is a certain golf course .lo- l cated near an asylum, or Sirnp Home l stead Over this course two ladies l recently were playing a club match l One was playing we'll and the other badly. Tn fact, the latter had been playing badly for some days, worry ing over the unkernpt tangles of her l game.
 l Near a certain tee on the inward l Journey there Is a small lake. Al ] the two ladies stood upon the tee I here a frenzied Nut dashd from the I asylum and dived. suicidally, into ths I lake After the rescue was pee. formed the two ladies went on with