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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
BAY STATE GOLF THRIVING.
More Than 6,O00 Players to Be
Handicapped This Year.

A barometer OF the increased amount
of golf being played hi Massachusetts,
II found in the returns being made by
Dan Koran, Handicapped for the Bay
state organization. Up to a short time
ago Koran had heard from twenty-six
club secretaries out Of the seventy odd
whose clubs belong to the state body.
without exception these lists of men
to receive q state rating contained
more games than was the case a year
ago. Then few less than 5000 golf
ers were Handicapped; this year the
number will be far beyond that mark.
More interest than usual will be taken
this spring in the list Of men ranked
at five or less. for 1t In probably only
those who win be eligible to take part
In the national amateur championship
ct the oakmont Club, Pittsburgh. List
year there were only sixteen men In
Massachusetts with q rating Of four
or less.
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II has always seemed to me that
no feature of base has has been
more overdone than the stunt OF pull
ing left-handed batters out OF the
lineup every time southpaw pitch-
or is the opposition's selection There
seems to be no plausible reason wh!
left-handed batters should not hit ieil-
handed pitchers as well as right
handed batters hit right-handeo
twirlers. Some logic may be attached
to the theory that ieft-handed batfers
are handicapped by seeing so much
less of that type of pitching. There IS
some truth to that, and incidentally
most managers refuse to take a
chance on them when southpaw is
working.
pscantlv the two major leagues
nra ctically decided to curtail the
player limit. In days past there We're
usually twice as many men strung
on the bench as were acticely ehsaseu
in the game. Few benches were apie
to accommodate all the players AT
the same time. The intention to move
conseryatiyely, in the readtustment OF
the game, which is sure to come Will
in the next two or three years means
a more businesSlike poiicS 70 W @
nursued. relative to the men that are
absolutely ne cessary TO keep the play
of the teams up to major league
standard.
In years past. any number OF clubs
carr;ed at least one player because
he was regarded as player able to
hit Very often in no other way did
he measure up to big league caiiber.
Axcept as a batsman. To be used as
q ninch hitter, a number of athletes
were carried merely to NIL that role.
At best 1t is a trying position. IN
cidentally no man, unless he plays
real worth at tho bat Thus In
great many cases. players who really
have considerable hitting ability. have
failed to deliver to any great extent
a. pinch hitters. simply because they
do not see enough real major league
pitching. True they indulge in bat
..ssssS practice eycrS day. .s:a sssss tss.:.
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varying more than a pound above or
below, yet he dropped to 145 pounds
on the result of the strain. So sternly
did he devote himself to his duties
that it wrested considerable disap-
pointment among the workers at Hog
Island, most of whom wanted to see
him pitch for the team. He obliged
a few times. but his answer was that
he had gone to the shipyard to work
and not to play ball.
Following his collapse the attend
ing physicians informed him that he
would be unable to return to work for
three or four months, as his nerves
needed complete rest They didn't
know Bender. He took a short hunt
ing trip, visited a few trapshooting
contests and broke enough blue rocks
to make the average man talk about
il for the rest of his natural life-and
returned to work at the Merchant
shipyard. still feeling the effects, but
the Bender Of old. Now fandom is
wondering whether he will come back
on the mound next summer, pinninE
its faith in that cunning wing that
used to stand the best of them on
their heads. in case he decides. to
make another try.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
RuTH,s F1vE-YEAR BATTING RECORD

Babe Ruth has taken part in two
world series with the Red Sox. dur
ing which he pitched and won three
game against the Cubs
Ruth in the second contest of the
1916 set Of games took the Robins
measure after fourteen innings, not
allowing a run after Hy Myers home
run in the first inning; in his next
weird series game Babe BANKED the
Cubs, to 0, in the opening clash of
the last big games. and left the fourth
game with the score in his favor dur
ing the ninth inning, in which he held
the Cubs runless for seven rounds.
this making record for Ruth Of
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BASE BALL ON THE INSIDE
! WITH BILLY EVANS
Being His Opinions on Interesting Features c.:
SideIghts of the National Game.
WITH BILLY EVANS

on the nose at such times, but the
pitching in batting practice. and the
stuff served in regular game. par
ticularly in a pinch. is whole lot
different.
Some managers with peculiar ideas
went almost to the ridiculous In the
belief of the inability Of left-hana-
ed batter to hit south paw pitchtug-
One major league manager had Two
outfields. one composed Of rtgnt-
handed hitters. the other OF ter-
working. he would use all the right
handlers and vice versa 1t was not
unusual for all six players to get TITO
the games. because the moment tAefe
was a shift in the style Of pitching q
similar shift was made In the out
field.
There are a lot of left -handed bat
tiers who come to the majors regard
ed as good hitters. able to bat equally
well against either style OF pitching.
In the minors, because OF the small
number of players. few extra men eeo
carried, so that to be taken out OF The
game was rarity. Let some isst-
handed batter come to the EnaSees
and, regardless Of how well he hit
sou,hpaws in the minors. a few bod
days, e. the bat against such pitcht0g,
and he is F-garded as weak against
that type of twirling. The next thing
he knows he 10 doing bench duty
when southpaw works for the cp-
position.
Many batterS who can really hit
are soon rendered uoelooo,
because they lose their conf3denoe.
conscious of the fact that
they are regarded as weak against
they play under . strain
A couple Of removals from the gama
because of inability to hit soon makes
them believe they can't hit such
pitching. In pinch they expect -
be taken out. Prior to the start Of
the game they are wondering who -
going to pitch. The trouble u lekt-
handed batters are not given the
proper Opportunity - pr0ve tAe1r
worth. speaker. Collfn1 Cobb and
Rousch are not taken out Of the game
when southpaw works. They htt.
81 :s;ads Of pitching. $3.50
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RUTHs BIG LEAGUE HOME RUNS.

that ever have been hung up. provid-
ed he got into the game with fair
amount of regularity. Yet. this man
who had laced out three homers dur
ing May and eight during June was
unable to crack out a single four
Dagger during July or August. He
got doubles during that time and
triples galore-but not one home run
was he able to add to the May-June
record of eleven.
The Red Sox obtained Ruth from
Jack Dunn's Baltimore team on July
S, 1914, for a reported sum of $4,000
one of the biggest bargains in base
ball history. Ruth made his debut
three days later against the Indians
and lasted seven inings. being re-
lieved by Dutch Leonard. who got
credit for the victory. the Sox win
ming out. to 8. From that time on
Ruth engaged in 141 games. winning
so and losing 40. giving him a grand
averaoe of EST
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HERE'S ONE ST1IPYARD ATHLETE
WHO DESERVES ONLY PRAIS
Chief Bender Breaks Down Under Hard
Work After Futilely Trying to
Enlist In Marine Corps.

Passing around knocks to the ball
players who left the great old game to
work in the shipyards became q pastime
last year. but there were a few who de-
served bouquets instead Of taps from
never been sung. II any man deserves
credit for the part he has played In aid
ing Uncle Sam slip across tho sleep pro-
Queer to the kaisers legions it is Phila-
delphia's old favorite. none other than
Chief Bender. the great Indian hurier,
who brought championships and world
titles to the Athletics in days not so far
past, probably the greatest money
pitcher of all time, and. who il now the
property OF the Phils. according to re-
cent national commission ruling In 4
controversy between the Phils and
Yanks
A few weeks ago the sport world was
surprised and shocked by the news that
down from overwork and all sorts of
wild rumors hoated around. The truth
of the matter is that Bender did
suner nervous and physical break
down and he earned It. earned II
in way that entities him to all the
way. That breakdown was the result
OF work for the greatest cause there
ever was and when anybody starts to
pass around the anvil chorus for the
shfpyard Jumpers they can well af-
ford to leave Bender out of it.
Worked Much Overtime.
For seven months he labored at the
Hog Island and Merchant shipyards,
to- 80 Ia. -
ers who were striving to get out
ships in answer to the worlds urgent
appeals, and he worked as few other
men have worked-from s o'clock in
the morning until 10 and IL O'Clock
at night packir.s his lunch along-and
and athletics for the workers to buoy
up their spirits and keep them at their
work, to eliminate the constant turn
over OF labor as much as possible.
And he went about it without any
blare of trumpets, without any pub
LEFTY or special favor and conces-
sions.
The whole story Of his work has
never been told-how he tried to en-
list In the Marine Corps and was told
to go back to his work at the ship
yard, where he could do vastly moro
good than carrying a gun. Despite
this. he wanted to go and intended to.
but Mrs. Bender became i'll, and this
fact. along with the request that he
continue the good work at the ship
yard, swung the scales. and he stayed.
This fact preyed on his mind. for the
Chief is the type who wants to be
where the action is thickest, and, COM
bined with his work, 1t resulted in
the breakdown.
Down to 145 Pounds.
In all his base ball career Bender
constantly averaged ITO pounds, never
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26

hurting twenty-nine consecutive score
less innings in world series games.
Ruth's world series pitching record
follows: Games, 8; won. 8; lost, O.; per
posing batsmen. io1; earned runs, 3;
hits. 10: bases on balls, 10: hit bats
man. 1 wild pitch, 1: struck out. 8;
batting average OF Ruth, lis. Ruth
in ten official times at bat made but
one hit, triple of Tyler in the
fourth inning of the fourth game,
scoring two men and winning the
game for the Sox. This gives Ruth an
average of LOCO in the fielding line.
Ruth accepted twelve chances without
an error.
Copyright, 1872
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
Capt. Eddie Grant II Buried
on Top of dead Mans HIP

Capt. Eddie Grant, former
Philly, Cincinnati and Giant
base ball star, killed I'm the Ar
9onne Forest while leading q
company of the 1O7th Infantry
to the rescue OF Coi. Whittle-
sey's famous ~Lost Battalion
was buried in q German Gene
terry on top Of nm isolated knoll,
known N dead Mans HILL" ac-
cOrdinE to Sergt. John Burn1 Of
Riverdale, New York, who reach
ed home recently on the trans
port Pueblo.
"a whitening machine gun bar
rage caught M I'm the hank,o
said SerEt. Burns sT saw Capt.
Grant fall and eFnwled over to
his body, but was unable to get
him to the rear at that time be-
cause the Huns were concen-
tratfnE their fire ON that section
Of the terrain. That night, how
ever, three douEhboys and my
self went out and recovered the
captains corpse. We buried him
Mt midnight on Dead Mans hiIl,'
his grave lying I'm the midst of
hundreds Of Slain Germans. Il
hope that now the war In over,
Capt. Grants body will be re-
moved and given proper burial.
A German cemetery Is no place
for n gallant American like him
to lie at rest1
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
Hope for Chevy Chase Event.

Chevy Chase has not fully decided
what it will do about its spring tour
nament, which was held annually
prior to the war. starting late in April
or early in May. Edward w. Dom. jr..
chairman Of the tennis committee,
said that an invitation tourney most
likely will be held, providing that
enough out-of-town players Of. note
can be secured to compete. 1t is
to be hoped that the event will be
staged. 1t was the big feature of the
tennis season here for years, and its
resumption will be hailed with delight
by the players and followers of the
game.
Spencer Gordon. former District ten
mis- champion, who was in the air serv-
ice. as a balloon observer during the
war. is In Washington. Gordon left
Washington three years ago to take a
position in Chicago and enlisted in that
city. He was one of the leading racket
ers in the District for many years, being
remarkably successful for a player of
his slight build. He made a name for
himself here for his ability to make i'm
possible rgets." His sheer determine
ton often turned apparent defeat into
victory. Gordon is not certain that he
win remain in Washington permanently,
hut he win be here for some tennis this
spring. at least.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
STATISTICS PROVE BABE RUTH
! LEADING SLUGGER OF ALL TIME.
Figures Explain Owner Frazee's Claim
That Big Southpaw Is Greatest
Drawing Card in Base Ball"
BY Al MoNRo ELIAS.


creates DRAWN card fdentfe with base
ASK
thrill of anticipation and
bat with the same
unquionaby is the greatest
of
lived o is he
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among CGe IWlftiHS pHGlIcIilS.
That's what Babe Ruth's boss thinks
of hin-and when one calls to mind
the comments made concerning the
powerful Bostonian during the sweep
OF the last two seasons of play. it
would appear that Frazee's sentiment
Is practically unanimous.
Ruth's ability to hammer the horse
hide farther than any other man ever
hammered it before in the long his
tory OF the game makes him man
apart Other athletes have flashed
across the big league sky in the past
forty years who could Inland hit
them far-hut none can outrange the
BostouiaH. There is something al
most miraculous in the power that he
develops in his arms and shoulders
when he swings a the ball.
In he days SINCE base ball began
hundred thousand or more have ca
vorted on professional diamonds-and
legions of them could hit the ball
with tremendous power. But in all
those years only one man has gained
the distinction of scoring a runner
from second base on a sacrifice fly.
And to Babe Ruth sgoes that added
glory, gained in Boston last April
against the Yankees. when he
smashed out fly to right field that
scored Scott all the way from second
base.
Whats the secret about 1ong-dis
tance hitting?" l asked Ruth.
We'll, he replied. slowly. IT get my
self a big heavy bat. and then I walk
to the plate and when the pitcher
throws a ball step in and bust it."
Ruth compiled a remarkable and
unique record in the home-run line
during the abbreviated 1918 season.
In the period extending from May
to June 80. inclusive he annexed
eleven home-run drives. 1t was fig
ured at the time that the demon
clouter of the Red Sox would be able
to eclipse all other home-run records
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26

Babe Ruth. by hitting home runs in
four successive games from June to
OF last year equaled the record
set fifteen years ago by Bill Bradley.
the Cleveland slugger. Ruth, starting
on June by slamming homer off
Eric Erickson, repeated the stunt off
George Danes the next day, nicked
Bernie Boland for a round trip the
day following, and wound up his
string of consecutive home runs the
Cay after IN Cleveland. when he poked
fsur-bagger off Johnny Enmann.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
HOME-RUN KINGS.
Babe Ruth vs.. Gavvy Cravath.

Ruth is the absolute home-run king
In 259 games he went to bat 67S
times, and poled out twenty home
runs for a home-run percentage of
.8z94sS. The only player anywhere
near this figure is old Gavvy Cravath.
the Philly slugger. who began shoot
ing them over fences for the Phillies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
AGREE BASE BALL
HAS BECOME MUCH FASTER
Keller, Jennings and Gleason Compare:
Players of Present and Past and
Pick an All-Star Team.
BY BILLY EVANS.


of
distant
three 10 n
Kid brilliant
with her
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Widely Known Yachtslnan Dead,

PHILADELPHIA, January Is
Mitchell Stead, widely known
yachtsman, died here yesterday Of
pneumonia He was seventy-one years
old He was member OF the Key
stone, Trenton. Wissinoming and Co.
lumbia Yacht Clubs Mr.. Stead was .
native Of Bradford, England, where
his father operated the f1rst power
loom ever run in ENGLAND.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
Hap Myers a Great Card.

Hap Myers. the tall and angular
chap who used to play first base for
the Boston Braves, has been overseas
with the 1920 Field Signal Corps, and
is said to have been the life of the
marty otherwise q card
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-26

In all his base ball career Bender
averaged ITO pounds, never
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04

dence of the use Of large sums of Boil
,hevk money in the United States had
been found, and that this Will be
thoroughly sifted before the concfus~
ion of the legislative investigation.
State Senator Clayton r. Lusk, head
Of the committee, was in Buffalo yes
terday, directing an Investigation that
will take in half a dozen upstate cities.
1t has been agreed, however, that the
New York City sessions, will be con-
cluded before further hearings are
held upstate.
When the Rand School papers were
impounded by orders Of Chief Magis
trate McAdoo, pending decision as to
! the right of the committee 70 make
use of the schools documents, il was
agreed that the fullest investigation
of radical operations in the United
States depended upon free use of the
information thus uncovered. Just what
use will be made of the school papers
nobody connected with the investiga
ting body would say yesterday. 1t
was admitted, however, that opera
tives had been sent to various cities to
question persons whose names are men
toned in them, and that new list of
witnesses probably will be prepared as
result of this investigation.
Because Of the mass of new material
now being sifted by Lusk investigators
no sessions of the committee will be
held until a week from next Wednes-
day. At that time it is intended TO
hear as many of the New York City
witnesses as possible.
Following the conclusion of hearings
here sessions will be held IN Buffalo.
Utica, Albany, Rome and other cities
in which operatives of the committee
now are working.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
VIC. King g Demands
Removal of Jersey
Utility Commission
Charges Failure to Remove
War Surcharge OH Elec-
tricity Until Manufacture
ers Asked for Action

BOUND BROOK, N. j., Aug. 3.-War-
rem c. King, a candidate for the Re-
publican nominasion for Governor,
wrote to-day to Governor Runyon,
demanding that he remove from office
all the members of the Board of Pub
lie Utility Commissioners if they re-
fused to resign. They should be re-
moved, he said, because they had
failed 70 remove the war surcharge
for electric power furnished to pri-
vate consumers until the Manufacture
ers' Council of the State of New Jer-
sey had asked them to do so.
The members of the board are: John
W. Slocum, Alfred S. March, George
F. Wright, Andrew Gaul, jr., Harry L..
knight. Mr.. Kings letter to the
Governor says:
THE decision rendered by the
Board of Public Utility Commission
ers in the matter of the war sur
charge for electric power, is clear
and conclusive evidence of the alb
solute incompetency and negligence
of the board. The fact that it was
necessary Tor the Manufacturers
Council of the State of New Jersey to
bring action to secure a remedv which
should have been forthcoming on the
initiative of the board itself, nasmuch
as the board was in possession of all
the facts and figures, points to but
one method of safeguarding the in
terests of the public-that you de-
mand the immediate resignation of
every member Of the board and upon
their failure to give you such resigna-
tion to forclbly remove them from Of
flce, If necessary preparing charges
against them"
"The conditions disclosed by the
boards own report in this instance
indicate a situation which demands
the most drastic and immediate ac-
ton. If these facts are true what are
the real facts as relating to the much
greater interests Of the Public Service
Corporation along other lines"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Rugs
CHANGE OF NAME

SUPREME COURT or THE STATE OF
New York. County Of New York.-In the
matter of the Application Of the EMPIRE
PRODUCE & EXPORT CO. INC. for
authorty to change' It's name to GIL.
LETTE & L1VESEY, INC
NOTICE is hereby given that the En-.
pire Produce & Export Co. Inc. a do
mestic corporation, having its principal
place of business in the Borough of Man
haitian. City. County and State OF New
York. will apply to the Supreme Court OF
the State Of New York at Special Term
Part l. thereof, to be held in and for the
County Of New York. at the County Court
House. in the Borough of Manhattan
City. County and State OF New York, on
the 1%th day of August. 1919, at 1o:l5
o'clock in the forenoon OF said day. OF
as soon thereafter as counsel can be
heard, for an order authorizing said cor.
poratlon to change its corporate name 10
Gillette & Livesey Inc
Dated New York, July Nth 1919.
EMPIRE PRODUCE G. EXPORT co
INC.
BY ANTHONY s LtVESEY. President
CHARLES NJ. RUSSELL Attorney for
Petitioner. so Church Street, New York.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Humidity
Other Peoples Weather

Other Peoples Weather
WASHINGTON. Aug. 3.-Relatively high
pressure obtains on the Middle Atlantic
Coast and pressure is falling generally in
the Mississippi Valley and the lake region
attending depression Of moderate intens;tv
central over northwestern Iowa. During
the last twenty-four hours the weather has
become warmer in the middle Mississippi
and Missouri valleys. and the temperature
has fallen over the Canadian Northwest and
the north Rocky Mountain region. Showers
and thunder storms have occurred during the
last twenty-four hours in portions of the
South Atlantic and East Gulf states. in the
upper Mississippi Valley and at scattered
points in the central and north Rocky
Mountain region.
The outlook is for showers and thunder
storms Monday in the Lake regions the
South Atlantic and East Gulf states. and
on Tuesday in the lower lake region. the
North Atlantic South Atlantic and East
Gulf states.
1t will be warmer Monday in tho A.
lantic states north of Virginia. and In the
east lower lake region. Elsewhere through.
out the country east of the Missssipp;
River temperatures will not change de-
cidedly.
Forecasts for Special Districts.--Western
Pennsylvania and western New York partly
cloudy. probably followed by showers and
thunder storms. Monday afternoon and on
Tuesday.
Southern New England Generally fair
Monday and Tuesday, warmer Monday
Eastern New York. eastern PENNSYLVANIA
and New Jersey-Fair and warmer Mondays
Tuesday partly cloudy. probably showers
and thunder storms
Internationally fair Monday and
Tuesday with rising temperature.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Transports Due the Nest TiU0 Days
To-day

To-day
iE Al1 the Transportation
st. A
The Parker casual officers
Ammunition
3@s Service b
CompaniessA B and c.
Upton);
nth Field Artillery
comple Service Corps
18th (amp
Upton); ss7th
MI
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