Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-09
AROUND THE BASES

Instead of playing on their nerves
as other sports do. trapshooting
steadies the nerves, refreshes those
who shoot, rests their eyes and they
return to work much benefited by
, the exercise and do their work
properly. This is the conclusion ar
| rived at by William c. Pritchard,
president of the National Store Spe-
cialty Company, near Lancaster,
which does a large manufacturing
or line weighing scales. For years
baseball was the chief source of
amusement during the noon period
but finding that the employees got
so excited that they could not do
justice to their work he substituted
trapshooting. This seems to be
Ideal, steadying the nerves instead
of demoralizing them. Quite a num-
| Der of banking institutions, espe-
cially in the middle west, have fol-
/ lowed this lead by the Speciality
| company, and the idea will grow
every year.
MaumauX appears to be the
| "jinX" for the Fore River Club. "Ar
has lost all the games he worked in.
Late trains bear no hardships for
| Texas ballplayers. Eighteen play
ers of San Antonio. Texas. made a
| 0-mile trip to Corpus Christi in
nine aeroplanes. The trip was made
without mishap and the boys were
on time for the game. 1t was the
| first time for practically all of the
| players to ever travel through the
air.
| Pitcher Gene Wright of the Day
| ton Western Association team in
1901 pitched two no-hit games in
succession. 1t was September 1
that he held the Columbus team hit
| less and without run. Again, on
| September 4, Wright, the giant,
pitched his second hitless game with
/ in a week Grand Rapids players
were the victims and failed to make
a hit or score a run. This record
is unprecedented in the annals of
| baseball. Cy YoIfng, in 1904, came
within an ace of accomplishing the
! feat, when, on April 80, against
the Washington team he held them
| hitless in the last seven innings of
a game he pitched after called in
| to relieve Winters. On May he
/ pitched his memorable game against
| the Athletics-a perfect one. in his
next game, which was against the
Detroits, the great Young held them
hitless for the first six innings, which
made 22 consecutive hitless innings.
| Outfielder Hugh High, who was
SOLD by the New York American club
to the Athletic club, but refused to
report to the latter and threatened
to go to a shipyard If that deal was
persisted in, has now been sold to
the Red SoX, with whom he will
probably play.
| President Charles Comiskey has
a soft spot in his heart for Nick
/ Altrock and when the veteran SOUTH
paw was sent into pitch for Wash
ington against the White Sox in a
| recent game Commy was greatly
interested and even lent hand in
the reception given Nick by his old
time admirers.
'1M always remember Nick for
that game he pitched for me in the
long ago, when the city series be-
tween the Sox and the Cubs ended
and T." said Comiskey. II went
to my pitchers the day of the last
game. The Cubs were leading us
hby one battle and l wanted to Sc
lect the one twirler who would do
the best for me.
whenever I approached pitch
/ er and asked him how he felt Ia
pass him by IL he started to stutter.
II finally came to Nick. do you
feel as if you could win to-day.
Nick?" / asked.
You bet I do" he replied heart
fly. , -.
in IL for you if you do. And he
won it. There were few greater
than Altrock when he was in his
prime"
From the Garden of FL I comes
word that Ichiya Kumagae he's been
eclipsed as the tennis champion of
4 japan. According to Lieut-Col Nor
man E. BroolSes, the Australian staH
who is assistant director of local re-
sources of Mesopotamia, the new
tennis potenate of the land of
cherry blossoms Is shimidzu, Whom
he played at Calcutta. Lieut-Col
Brookes will be remembered as the
Antipodean star of the Davis cup
matches. in which he and the late
Anthony f. Wilding, who died at
the Dardanelles. were beaten by
Maurice e. Mclaughlin at Forest
! Hills. He points out that when this
war is over the Japanese Will have
to be reckoned with in the Davis
cup matches.
while in Calcutta. l INDUCED in
a a little tennis and golf: and was
fortunate in having an opportunity
of playing with the Japanese cham
pion, Shimidzu. l did not have the
pleasure of playing single with
him, as my physical condition was
hardly up to that standard. l was
] much struck by his play and one
of the first questions asked him
was, Have you ever seen Harry
Parker play?' But he said. No. he
had never met him The. reason
why I asked him this question was
because of the striking resemblance
his game bore to Harry Parker's-
\ the same peculiar grip and the same
actions. His service Is distinctly
weak. but otherwise his game is
sound in every respect. His .forehand
stroke has that same deceptive de-
livery which keeps you guessing un-
til the last moment as to which. way
IL is coming.
"He is more at home at the back
of the court, but when occasion de-