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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-21

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-03-21

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

three times-in 1907 with forty nine. in E1909 with seventy-six and in 1911.
 This year he seems faster than ever before. In forty-four games he has grabbed twenty-eight sacks. for an av- craze of .63 bases per game. If he keeps on at that rate he will end the seasons schedule Of 154 games with nfnety-sfx stolen bases, just four short of Lange's mark, made nineteen years ago and the besb record since the in- sta1latfon of the sacrifice hit in 1893!
 In forty-four games this year Cobb has. stolen only. seven bases less than he stole in all of the ninety-seven games he played last year.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28
New Baseball Scheme
 To Speed Up Player.

MANAGERS of both major and minor
 league teams who believe their men are not playing their best might use a bonus scheme, advanced by an expert of the diamond. There are many reasons why a baseball player might not put his heart into his work. One is the. inability of a strange player to associate annicably with his team mates Old men may be jealous of a newcomer, his ability or his salary.
 It is a general complaint that the stars are not giving the best in them, while the young players, outbatttng and outfelding their veteran team mates. are dissatisfied because they are tied by contracts calling for only one-third or one-h half of the salary of the older players. s$ss M
 A. part bonus and part straight saI- ary system in the baseball players contract would help remedy some of the present injustices of baseball, says an expert, who makes these suggestions:
 Fix a standard salary of $1,8e0 or $2,000 year. Then arrange a bonus system applicable to the various class es of players:
 A bonus Of $1s0oo. might go to> all pitchers finishing the season with an Eaverage of BOO or better; $1.500 bonus Fmoneysto the men winning 60 per cent of their games $2,O00s bonus money to the men winning three-fourths of their games. and s4.o00 bonus to the men who finish the season with a mark of zz5O; or better. Thus 9 pitcher would be paid for what he did during the cur rent and not for what he has done in other seasons.
 Out tfelders. tirrfelders and catchers rnight be guaranteed $2.0o0 a year They would earn their bonuses by good fielding and batting. This is stg
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

RENsE GAN. Indian catcher. caught his first big league game in C1eve- land in Sept ternber, 1903. Cleveland was then making it's famous fight for the pennant that # lost to Detroit by half a. game. Connie Mack brought an as- sorted bunch Of players west that trip. Among them were Pitcher FIater. Cen terfe1der Struck and Third Basernan rN1anuzeh. ss.5 <
 It so happened that one of the games had to be declared off because of rain and arrangements were made to play 1t the following morning. The pitchers were Heine Berger for Cleveland and Flater for the Athletics. Ben Eagan reported that morning, and he was sent in tos catch. Tile TsHet that Cleveland eventually won has nothing to do with the story, however,
 Along in the middle of the game La joie came dashing home on a hit to the outheld- It looked as if the Nap man ager would have to slide and down on the base line went Ffa gan ready to tag the GIeyeIander. The throw was late however, and Larry scored easily. Then. before going to the bench. Larry stopped and said to Eagan:
 'I want to tell you something, young ster, that may keep you out of the hos pital If had slid into the plate then T would have ripped your leg open. Now. this is the way you should have tried to block me" and he proceeded to give Ben practical lesson.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

MANAGER ROWLAND VILE DO! THERE is not the slightest doubt
 about Clarence Rowland the man ager of the Chicago White sox knowe ing baseball thoroughly. He is an in- telIigent fellow. who has made the game study for many years and ought to be perfectly competent 10 manage team in any company 1t Is no reflection on Rowland that he was fin the minor Ieagues for many years because that sort of a stay often is en- forced by. conditions. Had 1t been matter of personal choice there is no doubt that Rowland. like most any other man, would have been up in the big show long ago. But the fact that he remained in the minors for years may have been beneficial to zhlm- There have been a good many man agers of major league ball teams. in the past who failed simply because they did not have the minor league ex- perience. and Rowland appears to be well fortified in this respect There is not a great deal of difference in base ball in the minors and sih the majors. so far as system of play is concerned. though. of course. the majors have players who are more capable of fol- lowing instructions than the green fel- lows in the minors.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

BROWNIES REAL HURLERS' JlNX.
 X s a baseball club the St. Louis
 Browns are probably the ultimate gasp in mediocrity.
 They can neither hiE field nor run the bases. and with one exception their pitching staff is the weakest in the American league. There is really no good reason why they should not carry eighth place by storm within the next three or four weeks and thereafter de- fend it against all corners.
 One thing, however, the Browns do well. As wreckers of winning strealks, assassins of record runs, they are all most without an equal. In any ordi- nary ball game they may be depended upon to accept victory only after they have exhausted every known and many previously unknown methods of losing. But give them chance to render nil at one fell bust the labors of perhaps two months and no power on earth is strong enough to stay them l;
 For reasons into which it Is not nec-. essary stos enter here the Tanks have suffered but little at the hands of the Browns in this respect. Walter John . son, however and the Detroit Tigers have felt the baleful Influence of what is becoming known as the St. Louis jinx only too often, The Browns have so often shattered sHughey. Jennings, fondest dreams of conquest that there isf no club in the American league against which he would not rather lead the Tigers while "a promising winning streak is in process of organization.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28
Lajoie Handed Out Some. Good Advice to Eagan

t.I certainly felt grateful to Larry ?.
 says sEiagaI. There I was, only a youngater catching my first big league game, while he was the manager Of a team that was having a terrific battle for the pennant. felt so grateful. in fact. that the next time Larry came to bat said:
 < Larry want to get even for what you told me. This next ball is going to be aSfast olle.s
 , Well you can imagine what Larry did with that fast boy He landed on 1t so hard that if Manusch had not dropped to the ground they would have had to carry him off the field.
 That got me to thin king what might have ghapIehed as the result of my showing my appreciation of Earry's ad- vice, and you can bet have never tip ped of another batter during the rest of my baseball career,'
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28
WILDlNcss BROTHER IS ALSO
 GREAT AT TENNIS.

IF ss not likely that the name or
 wiIding. made famous in the annals or international lawn tennis by An- thony F. Wilding. will disappear from the lists Of future Davis cup matches. There 1H a younger brother who is rapidly rounding into the fuIlness of racket skill and who is confidently ex- pected to i'll the gap in the A1lstraL- 1asian ranks left vacant by the un- timely death Of the well beloved Tony WtIdiug. killed in the war.
 The Hon F. M. B. Fisher of Well Iington. New Zealand. who is a. mem- Der of the Australian parliament, has attended the cup matches on the courts Scarborough held not long ago. He fs q friend Of Frederick B. Alexander. one Of fhe first American Davis cup p1ayeEsxto visit Australia When not unpiring matches Fisher tells of thrill ing episodes In the matches which Tony Winding fought
 sThe younger Winding Is every bit as good as his brother Tony" said Fish CT recently, when the rain postponed the tournament He was a bit shy of the game because of the achievements of his elder brother He just needs a bit Of coming on to be the duplicate fellow who knows the science and the strokes. Now that Tony is gone. this young Wilding is sure to land in Davis cup matches, for he is already a great player.a
 Noted veterans did the urnpiring at Sleepy Hollow including WorthiIig- ton Whltehousez and William Cunning ham, the latter the only American who ever woUs the championship of Spain
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28
PLAYERS VIEW OF FEDERAL
 LEAGUE. -s

THE Federal league. in point of the class of ball 1t is furnishing it's fol- lowers, is neither a major nor minor league, according to Milton Reed the reformed independent, who is drawing "a salary from Walter McCurdies'on the Portland .(Ote.) team. sa Itsis a betwixt and between sort of a sprop0sitfon. @.I'd, like to say. the Feds sanea a. real major Ieague.'' said Reed. } -:but F can't conscientiously do so They've got a lot Of players who wouldn't havea ghost of a show get Itfonaf leagues. But, on the other hand
 the many real good ball players they
 have make the league better than any
 minor league I ever saw. It's a little slower than major league and a little
 faster than minor league
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

the youth of the city have converted into a myriad of baseball diamonds
 Down on the Bottou1'-that is where started smiled Magee.
 Every kid in town played bail there My, what a naobI We had to fight for a diamonds and on Saturdays we would all go down there at g o'clock in the morning and camp on one and defend it against all corners in order that we could have place to play in the after noon. The toughest bunch always had the best ground. and my team. the Null doons, never had to complain of a rough diamond. That is where learned the game
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

Eddie Plank, now of the St Louis Federals, was also a Connie Mack find. being secured from Gettysburg college back in 1902. There are, of course, many other college men pitching ball in the major leagues. but they have more or less time in the minors behind them. In this class. among others, is Christy Mathewson, who knocked around quite a bit after leaving Buck nell before becoming a fixture with the Giants. and George Davis of the Braves who performed brilliantly for williams college. though putting in a year at Jersey City before Stallings ac- quired him for the present worlds champions.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

A penalty system could be arranged so that a player who batted under a rninfmuIE5 figure or who he1dede under a n1infrnum figure would. st Ter dednc- dens from the bonus earned in the other departnden For instance, if a player hit .295 he would be entitled to S1000 bonus money. but if he fielded only 300. he might lose $25o from his other bonus.
 If a player earned no bonuses and hit and heIded below the minimum no deductions. would be made. for the $2.- oo0 straight salary would be 1nxiolate. With the bonus system fT1s operation, an tflffelder who batted .525Eand hslded e65 would get s2.0o0 bonus for bat ting and $l,oeo bonus for fielding. making d total of $5,aeo.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

NOR every college twirler who has
 made good in the big leagues a score or more. all with reputation. of. the best. have failed. Today in the National. American and Federal leagues there are only three pitchers who stepped from the college fields into the big show and made good. These. three are Collins. Coombs and Plank. Collins did such good work with Yer
 mont that the Boston Red Sox signed him. and from the first he held his own in topnotch company. CooTnbs' work with. Colby attracted the attention of Connie Mack, and he wore an Athletic uniform for. many years, although now with the Brooklyn Nationals.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

WHY JIMMY SHECkARD DOESN'T
 OWN A HOTEL
 MOST, of the baseball players tn the
 big leagues are boosters for Billy Sunday but Jimmy Sheckard takes his stand with the minority. Hes GOO elo- quent" is the objection voiced by the former outfelder of the Cubs.
 "A few months ago" said Sheckard the other day. "I had fine opp DOT tunfty to buy hotel down near my home in Pennsylvania I talked the thing over with my wife and mother. and they both objected because there was a bar in the hotel. explained that 1t would be pretty hard to run a hotel at a profit without selling liquor and that would not think of buying the place unless I had a chance to gel it's bar business. which was big.
 After a couple of days Of talking managed tosstif4e their scrHpTes agalhst selling rum And the next day Bj1ls Sunday came to town. My wife and my mother went to hear him. and that =Fas the end of all my plans To this day I haven't a hotel to my name SHORTEST SEASON OF THE YEAR. FTsHE Kansas State league will have
 the distinction of playing the shortest season of any organization Iu the game this year. The league decId- ed not to start < zE1u6cHInson and Elm poria, however. had gathered their teams and decided to play series ot five games for the "championshlp of the league After this series the Hutchinson team was disbanded, but ft is understood the Empor1a players vill be taken on an exhibition tour by lLaus aEer Ira BidweI
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28
HOW TIGERS FOUND ROLAND

HOW TIGERS FOUND ROLAND.
 as the real pitching find of the sea son, was almost a member of the St Louis Browns and likewise came near being Louisville Colonel. The Browns had an option on the Nashville team but surrendered it to Louisville as part of the deal for Loudermilk and Sever cid. Louisville looked the Nashville players oyer and chose Outf1elder Call lahan, Roland being considered too small to make a successful pitcher.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28
OLLIE PlcKERlNe STILL ON DECK

OLLIE PtONER1Nl SILL ON DECK TNHoUGH Ollie Pickering says he is
 only forty-one, he is still playing baseball. The former star of various ma 5or league clubs, including Washington, Is now a member of the Winnipeg team in the canadian league. Not only that, but Pick Is hitting the pill as of yore and showing real speed on the bases. He was one of the characters of the game. During the early days of his ca =eer slae was member of the Louisville club. One day he was at bat, with the bases full and two out and one run needed to win. The coacher at first yelled. e.Use your head.<Picl<l's and on the next ball pitched Pick was hit in the head, forcing in the winning run. but going to the hospital for couple of weeks.
 While Pick was a member of the Washingtous he was hurt, and Cantfl- lon decided to let him go down. in the Tirsfnia league and look at a. left hand ed pitcher. It.Was left handlers only that Pick was weak against
 After CantIlIon had given him. fn- structfons where to go and Pick had started out of the clubhouse CantiIlon raid to him. 1ssBy t11e way. take your bat with you. and if you can foul him don't bring him
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28
4oppE TRAINS FOR MATCHES.

EW1LLIE HoPPE. the worlds greatest
 billiard player. says it is just as necessary for billiard player to keep in condition as it is for boxer to be tn shape for a hard bout. Hoppe claims that if ones physical condition fs good ones nerves are bound to be steady It Is clean living that makes the biI- IIard star more certainly than in any other branch of sport and in this re- spect Hoppe holds to a rigid discipline
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-28

r FEE MAGEE is the all around cham
 pion of the Federal league-the Try Cobb of the Feds. All that Ty is to organized baseball this good looking manager of the Brookfeds is to his league. He leads in everything.
 In addition to supplanting Kauff as the foremost of the Feds. Lee Magee is famed as the youngest manager in baseball. Lee was but twenty six on the 4th of June. Don't crowd. girls.
 Magee began at the Bottom and rose to the top. ""The Bottom" Is a section of Cincinnati. the city of his birth. 'sThe Bottom is the sand lots of Cincy-a level waste of land which
The Washington times., 1915-10-13
THE. BROKEN COIN
By EMERSON HoUCH.

they turned; for no one knew that OF
all the ships company these alone
knew what manner OF animal was be.
ioW: u was necessary to silence such
The boat now was far from the dock
In the lower bay OF Grahoffen harbos
me executive officer came. 10 the cap
tain W his office. and the latter turned
upon him an inQuiriny eye.
Steam yacht on our starboard quar-.
mrs, sir, said the latter. going fast.
ryinr signals for US to slow down 80
he may come aboard
Come. aboard-when we are under
WY and two hours back Of our calling
hour? pest take those little States
which are lighting this cat-and dog
war! We have nothing to do with that
and warrant II yonder stranger
What orders. sir,"
Straight ahead, and full spe-d"
Very Rood. sir"
What Is the hour. Judson:" demand.
ed the captain es the executive turned
away.
"Fio,lr bells. sir"
Make 1t 60" And thus in nautic al
terms the vc!ni-r CT the Prinz Adler
VAS begun
Begun. but not ended Besun, but
soon t. b. broken, The fast yacht
nrslc as would intercept the liner 3
cnuisc. She sailed a splendid gait. her
cl,nn-cut bows risIns black above the
waves as now and again she !eaped
Il ON on" crest 10 another In her des-
r"rnte speed. Some man ives driving
hrr " no hn,' q purpose: that vas lain.
The captain himself went on deck As
hc heard the sound 81 a 'lstan. shot.
II had come from the yachts bow run.
formidable looking black riocc which
loss liner.
"'rhe damned pirate" exclaimed the
sptain. a second report second
plui re of white ahead CAV him warn
ing that Il wrs time TO taE
He'll sink US II we don't a'n~ down.
muttered the captain. His hand went
out TO the enRinc.room s~itohbosrd. A
third shot eeve evidence enough ~ the
ynchts intentions. Once moro the en-
rire bells jansied far below. The order
giant liner trembled. half paused. slow
" Stacked her snccd. snd a. last ley
pl rring. oven as the yacht swung swift
~ s,onsside.
tain Of the Prinl Adler. addressing q
tall figure which stood ~ the bow OF
tho yacht What DO !ou mean by
stopping my ship.
Send me a boat al once =" wss h's
on'v answer. y wiil -xnl.'n when ]
com. aboard Hesitate and YOU may
Feeling under this the threat which
NAV or NAV not have been meant In
faith. but which served none the less.
,hirs boat put out 10 the Yacht ard
brought Count Frederick aboard. He
AZ once msde his way to the captain.
whom he addressed hrusduely.
you have persons aboard this sh p
who are fusitives from Justice. come
In our kings name to search YOU before
you leave the three-mile limit OF our
own waters. Perhaps YOU are ignorant
Of these facts Yourself. Lay to. Will.
we try to get the information confirmed
for YOU know they are on board"
They were. indeed. on board. but none
knew Of their presence. Far beneath
the lowest deck Of the ship the guilty
deck hands had met their prisoners and
sought to use such arguments as they
could find to induce their silo nee.
As for Roleau. he would hear to moth
ing. The tov Of combat once more came
to his soul. He fell upon these seamcn
and. weak as he still was. waged such
hattie that AZ last they aed. KITTY and
The Washington times., 1915-10-13

himself followed them. Almost they
gained the freedom Of the upper air.
But what could weak woman do
against such odds-or even Roleau?
Even as Count FredcricHs boat came
alongside. and as he stood conferrins
with the ships captain, the two pris-
oners who made the subject of the con
tfoversv were left In such case as nigh.
very well prove the captains assertion
inst ne had on board no passengers
save such as the ships passenger list
sbowed, and had n right to show.
Nether Kitty nor Rolesu had knowl-
edge Of what went on. Both had been
laid senselers.
Continued Next Sunday.)
The Washington times., 1915-10-13
Drinking Among Girls
On Increase in Phila

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. l3.-Drunken-
ness among young girls is on the In
crease in Philadelphia. This assertion
was made by Mrs. Albert Smith. head
Of the city police matrons, before the
members of the Women's Social Union
Of the Reformed Church, at their au-
tumn meeting.
Something Is wrong with our family
life to bring about zach conditions as
the police matrons are finding" she
said.
There is a most decided increase In
drinking among young women OF tho
better class families. One police dis
tiNct's records showed that 81 one
month there were sixtyfive arrests OF
women for drunkenness to thirty-two
arrests OF men.
They are not ignorant and poor
girls. Very often they are girls from
the better families and live In the good
streets OF the city"
The Washington times., 1915-10-13
Hazing at Annapolis
Is Abolished by Middies
By GARDNER MACK.

ANNAPOLIS. Oct. 13.-By the voiun-
tary action Of the midshipmen OF all
three Of the upper classes. the hazing
system has been ended. In the Ian
guage OF q member OF the first class
who spoke OF tho matter. hazing Is
abolished: It does not now exist at the
national academy.
The midshipmen are anxious that no
special. encomiums shall be passed on
their conduct In the matter and were
hopeful that no publicity would be given
to II at all.
The members OF all three OF the
upper classes consider the action taken
as binding and the authorities of the
navy and the academy will get loyal
support from all the midshipmen in this
matter.