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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15

throw. heaved it about ten feet over
the first baseman's head
Three runs went over the plate and
the game was lost right there
Dexter ran down to me with consid-
cradle excitement, said Joe, Olu you
see that ball take a shoot after II LETT
my hand? 1t was going straight 19r
the glove over there and all of a sud
den started to shoot up. How do you
account for that?"
[ couldn't and when the inning was
finally over Dexter walked III 10 the
bench still explaining. He sat down
next to tell about the ball shooting up
after it left his hand.
Selee listened patiently and then
turning to Dexter remarked dryly;
yes, Charlie. / understand all about
those SHOOTS OF yours And that one
you just let go VIII be your last shoot
on this ball team
And Dexter was released that night
Selee had a wonderful way Of cor
recting a players mistakes without
causing the loss OF a bit of the play
er's confidence That was a remark
able faculty, and l never have seen it
so sharply developed in any man as
il was In this famous character Of
the diamond.
Selee just n Man.
He was entirely just. but he hated
excuses Rather he preferred a man
to suffer in silence after a bObble on
the field than to listen to him start off
long talk on just how it happened.
I've often been asked il there ever
came time during my career with
the Cubs when they were going TO lay
me off. There We're two occasions, as
once under Chance. I'll tell you brief
" about the Selee case and hold the
Chance incident for another time.
We were about to start on an east
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15

ern trip. and Selee came to me the
night we left and said quietly: Joe,
you're in an awful batting slump.
What seems to be the trouble2 III
have TO give you a little rest if things
don't improve, my boy"
I started batting like a fiend in the
east that trip and finished up with a
400 mark before We got home. Selee
never mentioned it again. nor did j.,
but I could tell from his manner that
II was just what he had expected me
to do.
seIee Proved Real Teacher.
As ] look back now over all the
years I have been in baseball, little
and big, good and bad. Frank Selee
taught me more actual baseball than
I ever got from any other source. IN
addition to being a wonderful judge
Of a young player. he could judge the
opposition style OF play in a flash and
seldom made mistakes in counter at
tack
I've seen him sit around in a gath
ering with his eyes half closed and
apparently listening to nothing at all
Somebody would be giving him tip
on some young ball player, but ne
apparently wouldn't be listening at all:
Suddenly. when the subject had passed
to something else, he would arouse
himself and ask How did you say
that young fellow batted-right or
left?' or something like that showing
he had been revolving the thing in his
mind all the time.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15
WILL KAUFF HIT To 400 MARK?
RECORDS SHOW FEW CAN Do It
In A Years of Baseball Only 81 Batsmen Have Ever
Been Able to Hit 400 or Over and Only Three Are
Left in Big Leagues; Tip ONeill's Mark of 1872 in
American Association in 1886 Still Unbeaten.
BY DAMON RUNYON.

Jew YORK. Feb. 15.-Here's some
Of those stories that always
i y causes us to feel long-white
whiskery, and puts a high, quavering
note. as of senility. in the keys Of the
1g1S-model typewriter
We've been browsing around in the
Spalding catacomb Of baseball, that's
where we've been, and that's why We
look so antique and speak so fossilized.
But let us explain why we went and
what we have been doing.
lie began with one Of those hypo-
dermical questions question born OF
the little gun and mental inertness.
No, we did not have either IL was
another fellow. 1t was a fellow with
a vacant eye and sad complexion We
found him hanging on our lapel tho
other afternoon.
What said he, inquisitively, is
the greatest pOssible-and probable
individual feat that a baseball player
can accomplish in a seasons work."
a no hit game, if you call pitchers
baseball players" we said.
Nope" declared the poor chap.
stealing over a 100 bases" we as
serted.
An right Wen give up" we an
nounced. What's the answer What
is the greatest possible individual feat
that ball player can accomplish in
season.
You said possible and probable" we
argued. You are let out on both an
giles"
1T Is possible, he stated, dogmatical-
ly- 1t is quite probable now. You for
get Benny Kauf is with US
So we had; so we had Benny Kauf
says-or Ia quoted as saying-that he
will hit 800 in the National league
some season or other. and Benjamin
may do IL. If he does he will be per-
forming a very, very remarkable feat.
1t is very hard to dO-that hitting
400. We've been looking il up-'way
down yonder in the archives-and L as
no small task. We are half inclined
TO agree with our hypodermical friend
that Il is the greatest possible in
dividual feat for pasumer. We do
not agree, however, that II is probable
il will be accomplished by B. kauff
In a years of baseball-here we go
back there. nOw-only 81 Of the thou
sands Of men who have been in the
same in that period have reached the
400 batting mark. But three are left
son and Nap Lajoie- It has been some
16 years since the National league had
a 400 batsman, and that was in 1899.
Ed Delehanty hit 4OS that season.
Those 400 Boys.
II has been four years since Joe
Jackson. with .4OS, forced Ty Cobb to
a mark Of .420 TO beat him out OF
the batting leadership Of 1911 The
were. A. c. Arson of Chicago; Dan
Brouthers. Of Detroit; Pete Browning,
on Louisville; Ross Barnes, OF Chicago;
y. A. Burch, of Brooklyn; Jess Burkett,
of Cleveland and St Louis; T. p. Burns,
OF Baltimore. r. Carruthers, Of st.
Louis. Fred Clarke. Of Plttsburgi hugh
puffy of Boston. Fred Dunlap, of St
Louis. r. j. EsterbrOol1 OF the Nets; G.
J. Ferguson. of Philadelphia. Willie
Keller, OF Baltimore: Denny Lyons, OF
the Athletics; D. Mack, Of Louisville;
4. AIeyerle Of Philadelphia; J. Z.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15
WILLARD SICK;
FIGHT IN DOUBT
Champions Cold Has Set
tied in Throat and Train
ing is Suspended.

Chicago. Ill, Feb. 15.-Jess Wizards
fight with Frank Moran, March s. NAV
have to be postponed because Of trou-
bic which the big fellow is having
with a cold, which has settled in his
throat
Willard lost several days a week ago
because Of the cold. Then he went at
it again. but lacked vigOr and Monday
he remained at home.
The report that the fight might be
postponed is said to have originated
in long distance telephone eonversa-
ton between one OF the promoters in
New York and his representative here
The latter viii see Willard today 10
learn the latter's views as to the ad-
visibility Of deferring the combat
Champions Voice Weak
New York. Feb. 15-Tom Jones.
manager for Willard. declared that the
champion was so i'll that he might NOT
be able to come to New York until
late in the week. He said that in
talking TO Willard over the telephone
Monday, Wizards voice was very weak
and he could scarcely hear him. Jones
added that under no circumstances
would he consent to have Willard en-
ter the match with Moran here on
March 8, unless the champion IS in per-
Iect physical condition.
We would pass UP our purse and
guarantee" asserted Jones.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15

, O'Neiu. of st. Louis d. Orr. OF tho
| Nets; Paul RadfOrd, of the Nets. w. II.
Robinson, Of St LOUIS, Harry Stovey.
| Of the Athletics; J. Stencil, of Pitts
| burg; G. A. Turner, Of Philadelphia;
/ Sam Thompson, Of Detroit; Jim White
| Of Chicago, and George Wright, of
Boston.
Changes in the rules from time to
time may have made some of these ac-
I complishments more difficult than
others but hitting 400 seems TO have
been a mighty hard job under any and
all conditions throughout the history
( Of the game, Judging from the small
roll Of honor. It will be noted that
New York has never had a 400 hitter
at least no man hit that during his
New York service in those Organiza-
lions.
some Great swatting.
Few Players have hit 400 or better
in two or more seasons. Ross aBrnes
landed above the mark three years,
Burkett three, Arson two. Cobb two
and Delehanty two, or rather Ed hit
an even 400 one year and above that
another year. Browning, Burch, Burns,
Carruthers. Lyons, Mack O'Neill, Ester
brook. Orr Radford, Robinson and
Stovey did their 400 hitting in the old
American association of the eighties.
Some of the greatest baseball play
ers the game has known failed to hit
400. Some Of the greatest hitters
never reached the Big Roll. King
>
Billy Hamilton, Bill Lange Eddie Col
Inns, Jimmy Collins, Mike Donlin. sam
Crawford, Cy Seymour. Frank Baker,
George Gore, Roger COnnor, Buck Ew-
ing. Glasscock Wagner, Chance, iris
Speaker, McInnes. Mike Herman, Jake
Beckley are a few great all-around
players. or just great hitters Of the
past and present who could not crowd
into the sacred 81.
J. z. (Tip) O'Neilrs mark Of 1872 set
in the American Association Of 1887.
at St Louis, is high water mark in
hitting. and will probably never be
excelled- O'Neill died the other day.
and news OF his passing got a few lines
in the baseball columns. He was about
so years old and quit playing in 1892,
when he was 81 years old. Pee Brown
ing hit the same year O'Neih hung up
his record. There were II men hitting
over 400 in the old American Associa-
ton that year, which might suggest a
lot Of things.
We Feel Dusty.
A man who can hit 400 in any league.
however, and hit il on the level is do
ing a pile Of hitting. In fact II he
hits over 300 in any company he is
doing first rate. When he hits above
200 year in and year out in the big
league he is a real hOnest-to-g good
ness batsman- There can be no flukes
about batting average that runs
about the same from year to year over
protracted period.
So saying, we think we shall desist.
We feel all dusty from our explorations
OF the recesses OF the past. and in adj
ditiOn to that our allotted space is about
filled up but in closing we might
state that If Benny Kauff thinks he is
going to hit any 400 in the National
league next season, or the season fol-
Lowing, or the season after that he can
bet a lot of people in this mans town
The price is 80 to l. or whereabouts.
There are about that many pitchers in
the National league. Benjamin may
poll say, .39S. but not 400 Not quite.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15

4 FER manager Selee. or the
~ Cubs, had told me that my Job
= at short was safe as long as
played it as well as 1 did in the spring
| gained lot more confidence and be-
gan to feel like a regular big Lacquer
That was in 1902.
Selee had a lot of trouble that year
placing his men right, and when he
took me off third to make a short
stop Of me he found a gap in the far
corner that was a mighty troublesome
proposition to him. He had ten in
FEEDERS IN all, but only two Of them,
tharley Dexter and Herman f"Ger-
many") Schaefer, were considered
serious candidates for the place
Bobby Lowe was with the team and
a regular at second base, OF course.
That was before Johnny Evers broke
IN as serious contender for the key
stone sack
Schaefer n Failure at Third.
They tried Germany" at third. but
he was an awful frost. and then Selee
thought he would make a first base
man or Herman. He liked him for
ms hitting chiefly and for the lively
manners he always displayed on the
IieI2, Cong out OF New York one
night after the last game there, we
We're headed for Philadelphia. Selee
told Schaefer to buy himself a first
Daseman's glove, as he intended to
Try him at first the next day against
the Phillies.
We were at the Bingham hotel. and
1 had gone to bed about 1890 when
up through the areaway Of the hotel
came some terrific bumps and pops
ana an occasional ~HOws that2", and
&c, that's great" until 7 was thor
oughly mystified. The next morning
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15
Tinker Learned Baseball With Cubs
-:I- H. -:H:- H. -:1:-
One Warning Made Him Hit the Ball
By JOE TINKER.

at the breakfast table 7 asked Jack
Iaylor, the old pitcher, what that hor-
ri0le racket was
He laughed heartily. 'Schaef and
L were doing little practicing," he
said You see, he's going to play
1irst today, and last night he discov-
cred that first baseman has to shift
his feet around pretty lively SO we
got big washbowl for a base, and
'Schaef got his new glove and we
went at il. I threw at him from a lot
Of different angles. and 'Schaef' got
his feet"
But Germany" was little better at
first than he had been at third. so the
situation was not solved in the least
Charley Dexter. who was a dandy
boy. personally. saw his finish come
with Selee one day in St. Louis. Char
ley is now in business in Des MOines
and ] hope this little incident catches
his eye.
Dexter Had An AIibl.
Dexter could invent more plausible
alibis for erratic work than any man
ever met in baseball Never the
steadiest player in the world he
would instantly explain 10 YOU in
most convincing way just why il was
this throw went bad or why that
grounder wasn't scooped UP or how
IL came that he went for five OF six
DAYS without getting a hit.
He was playing alongside Of me at
the time and he hadn't been going
very well for several days We were
i'm st. Louis at the time and having a
pretty tough game with the Cardi-
nails. Tt was a tight fit in the eighth
inning and they had runners on the
bases with two gone when a batter
hit q sizzling grOundeF down TO Char
ley. He picked il up Clearly enough
and with plenty Of time TO make the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15

WALTER M0NAHAN, chief trainer
in the Willard camp near Ysleta
a year ago, is in charge of the
champions preparations for the
Moran bout. what l want is speed"
says the champion. He'll hardly get
1t from Monahan but report says
that Jack Hemple is to join the Will
lard party. Jack was the only real
boxer in the Ysleta camp and work
ing with him may give Willard some
speed.
0UIS DISBROW has quit the auto
racing game. Miss Harriet Henry
said mo" four times to the racing
driver but Louis wasn't a gutter
and popped the question the fifth
time. Her answer was "Yes-but
you must quit risking your life on
racetracks" Louis realized for the
first time that his life had some
value and now he's going to be fac
tory engineer.
ARL u. M'QUAlDE, a Tree lance
sport writer who has been a resi-
dent of FL Paso for the past two
years, has departed for Churchill
Downs where he will act as manager
for a big racing stable. Anything
that has speed takes EsrPs fancy
and he was as keen for an auto race
as to see the ponies run. His friends
in the FL Paso sport world will wish
him success in the east.
x >
NEW YORK state boxing commits
sion has made Jack Sicily, fight
expert of the Yonkers Herald, an
official referee. Jack was mentioned
as a probable official for the Will
lard-Moran fight and his appoint
ment NAV have been brought about
so that he could work in the big
fight if he was chosen. Charley
White, however, drew the Job
Whether Whites appointment as a
referee under the old boxing COM
mission will still be in force IS not
known and he may have to be re-
appointed.
=
CACTUS club plays Mines in the
- City Basketball league game at
the ''Y'' on Wednesday night. 1t IS
likely that the Cactus will use Its
second string men, which should re-
suit in an interesting contest. Tn
first string Cactus team IS too Iast
for Mines but the second bunch
should put up a good battle with the
students.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-02-15
Willard-Moran Bout May Be Slow
H. -;I:- -:II:- -:II:- -:I:-
Should Be 20 Rounds To Decision
BY FRANK C. sIENKh

EW YORK. Feb. 15.-It doesn't
n seem to US that 10 round bout
i between Jess Willard and Frank
Moran will be worth the price OF ad-
mission.
A 20 round bout between the pair.
in some state where decisions are per-
mitted. would mean real battle, but
a 10 round scrap probably would prove
a disappointment.
However, there were at least five
promoters who we're anxious to put UP
from S45, 900 to S55.00O for the fighters
share in a 10 round mill They were
willing to gamble that the receipts VIII
20 beyond the total expenses OF stag
ing the bout which Will be about S1C,-
900 beyond the price they give TO the
fighters. ana Tex Richard has landed
the chance.
Big Prices for Seats.
Who wants 20 pay So for a seat SO
far removed from the ring that the
heavyweights look as sizeable as light
weights? Furthermore, who wants 10