Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 September 1914 — Page 8
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No Major League Team Has Evaded Hoodoo In Twenty-Six Years.
SIX CLUBS HAVE FELL DOWN
Just Two Managers, Wright and Comiskey, Have Won ,Four-Time Crown—Seven Three-Time
Winners.
Are John McGraw and his New York Giants doomed to lose the National league pennant of 1914?
They won It in 1911 and in 1912 and In 1913. But—
No National league team, no American league team, no big league team since 1888—26 years ago—have evaded the hoodoo that pursues three-time winners.
Anson won three pennants, trie-d for a fourth and failed. Selee won three pennants, tried for a fourth and failed.
Hanlon, Clarke* Chance, Jennings— all tried and failed. Six of the greatest managers the game has ever seen stood in the same position that McGraw Stands today, but could not beat Nemesis.
Just two managers and only two, have won the four-time crown. In the professional association—the first big league—Harry Wright's Boston team won pennants in 1872-3-4-5. Nor was it a fluke. Boston so completely overshadowed the other teams that their fourth pennant was won by a tremendous margin—.899 to the second team .726. Harry Wright might have gone on winning, but the organization of the National league in 1876 made Inroads upon his staff and brought his winning btreak to an end.
In the American association In 1885-6-7-8 Charley Comiskey's St. Louis Browns won pennants. Here again it' was a case of a team so strong that no other aggregation had a look in. Indeed, in 1SRS, Comiskey sold three of his stars to other teams and was able to lead the race to its finish. David Foutz, pitcher, went to Brooklyn, and Bill Gleason, shortstop, and Curt Welsh, outfielder, went to the Athletics, but Comiskey did not miss them.
Boston Club Hoodoos.
Decidedly interesting in McGraw's effort is the fact that the team giving him most trouble is Boston. History shows two other Boston teams humbled three-time winners. In 1880-1-2 Anson won pennants. In 18S3 he made a valiant struggle for his fourth, but was beaten by four games, and it was Boston that had the winning margin.
Ned Hanlon fell victim to Boston. In 1894-5-6 Hanlon's Baltimore Orioles chased victoriously around the National league circuit. In 1897 the Orioles tried for their fourth pennant and lost it by two games. And again it was Boston that had the winning margin.
Boston knows the other end of The string also, for Selee's team won three pennants in 1891-2-3, and lost out to Baltimore In 1894.
Fred Clarke gave Pittsburgh three pennants in 1901-2-3 and then cracked
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worse than any other three-time winner before or since, finishing fourth. Clarke's revenge came in 1909. Frank Chance led his Cubs to pennants in 1906-7-8, only to be beaten by Pittsburgh the following year by 6% games.
In the American "league but one team has captured three successive pennants. Hugh Jennings' Detroit Tigers were the best fig-hters of Ban Johnson's league in 1907-8-9, but their bid in 1910 was far from successful, both the Athlectics and New York beating them out.
Four-Time Wlnnern.
Boston, Professional association, 1872 to 1875. St. Louis, American association, 1885 to 1888.
Three-Time Winners.
Chicago, National league. 1880 to 1882. Lost in 18S3 to Boston by four games. Boston, National league, 1891 to 1893. Lost In 1894 to Baltimore by eight games. New York second, Boston third.
Baltimore, National league, 1894 to 1896. Lost in 1897 to Boston by two games.
Pittsburgh, National league, 1901 to 1903. Beaten in 1904 by three teams. Finished fourth.
Chicago, National league, 1906 to 1908. In 1909 beaten by Pittsburgh by 6% games.
Detroit. American league, 1907 to 1909. Bfeaten In 1910 by Athletics and New York. Finished third.
New York, National league, 1911 to 1914. Beaten in 1914 by—?
Fast Time Looked in Auto Meet
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nishing the best time of the vear owing to the class of cars entered for the two 25 miles events which will be conducted. More than one speedway "hack" has been entered, while a raft of Ford Specials will compete. The little Fords can go some on a half mile liack and are sure to furnish plenty of opposit on tor the heavier machines.
The track is said to be extremely fast owing to recent rains and new marks for the distance are expected. The first race will be called at 2:30.
Ex-Central Pitcher is Sensation of National
B'U Doak, the former Central leaguer, now with the St. Louis Cards, has made a remarkable record his first year in the big leagues. He is at present leading all the rest of the National league's twirling talent. When DcaK was a joungster of 17 and in high school he made up his mind to pitch for a living and he told his dad about, it. The oici gentleman had determined that the boy should be an engineer and lie frowned on the baseball tea. Bill, however, had already signed with a minor league and soon made hi.i *tarc in professional circles. After ^-»veral years of tair success he was grabbed by fet. Louis, where his slende.- physique mwlt at first no great impression. Huggins, tiie Cardinal manager, likes the argo, broad-chested bovs in his box. Doak wss given an early trial, pitching the i.i^i i.o innings a gam^ againrt he Giants, and with some succoss. A day or so later he worl-o-.l two more final innings against New York, showing even better, and so Huggins sent Hm in for a full game This time Bill lost a hard 1-0 battle to A1 Demare", but he looked mighty good to Huggins throughout. This was last heason. And this year, in spite of his slight stature and unformldable appearance, he has made a record thai Marcjuard, Alexander or Larry Cheney would be proud show.
De Fauw to Tackle Michigan on 30
GREENCASTLE, Ind., Sept 3.—
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Heber Ellis, graduate manager of DePauw university athletics, lias announced that he has booK.ec. a. gc.ie for the Methodist football team wuh the University of Michigan clevtn, to be played at Ann Arbor, September 30. The game was made possible largely because of the fact that Thomas A. I Bogle, mentor of the local football men, I is a former lineman and mainstay of
Yost's celebrated machine. The bookI ing of the game is considered quite an achievement by local gridiron followers, as it alw.iys has been difficult for any Hoosier team to get a game with the Wolverines. The Michigan game will be the hardest on the old gold schedule, and, coming as it does, virtually at the beginning of the season,
Bogle will do well to round out a team that can compare favorably with the enemy from the north.
Captain Thomas, of the DePauw team, has arrived In Greencastle, after spending the entire summer as a iife guard at Cedar Point, O. He states that he Is in the best condition of his life and that he expects to play the best game of his career during the coming season. Thomas states that Coach Bogle also has been at the Ohio resort for several days, and that he will be there to "open camp" next week.
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Barney Drey fuss, of Pittsburgh, has at last accepted the grand laugh, and has sold Marty O'Toole to the Giants— isrice not stated, but probably something like $3,000 and acceptance of O'Toole's high-salaried contract. For tv. years Barney lias had frequent small offers for O'Toole, but has always passed them up, for no other apparent reason then the unquestionable fact that everybody would give him the horse-laugh the moment he parted with the pitcher. The O'Toole story is one of baseball's romances—with the reverse English.
O'Toole was with the Cincinnati Reds long, long ago, but was sent back to the minors, where he remained several years. In 1911, he-» did some clever pitching for St. Paul, and there was much competition for his services. Pittsburgh at last came through with an ofl'er of $22,500, which the St. Pollywogs grabbed like a small child grabbing cake. Mr. O'Toole, a middle-sized right-handed gentleman with cayenne hair, came right along, and pitched all of five games for Pittsburgh during the last six weeks of 1911. At that, Barney got back a lot of the $22,500 before the season closed, for lots of people went to
DILLON PREDICTS KNOCK OUT VICTORV
Hoosier Bearcat Declares Intentions Are to Stop Einert As Quickly As Possible.
By Right Jab.
"I am in good shape,' writes Jack Dilion, the Hoosiar bearcat, who will box ten rounds with Sailor Einert at the ball park Monday night, "and I expect to win by the K. O. route. I'm going to weigh in at 160 pounds and I'm going to show that gang of Chicago critics that I can make that weight and be strong. 1 intend going after Einert from the start and don't be surprised if I tuck him away in about five or §ix rounds. He's a good, tough lad, but I expect to stop him."
The critics mentioned by Dillon claim that Jack cannot make the legitimate middleweight limit, 158 pounds, and seek to class him as a light heavy, while rhe Hoosier champ refuses to ior-s-ake the middleweight division. He .claims he can make 158 pounds, but will not do it for "small" money. "Let anv of those ginks put up the dough if ihev think 1 can't make the weight," s^id Dillon when the subject ceme up dtiring a recent fistic bee. "I will make 158 pounds for any of the gocd boys if there is enough money in sight. It means work, and lots of it, but I can do it. If they think not, well, money talks."
So it is evident that Dillon will be in good shape when he faces Einert Monday night. He. has agreed to weigh in at 160, two pounds above the customary mark, and in order to reach that figure he will be compelled to work hard, both on the road and in the gym. This the bearcat is doing at h.'s Indianapolis home and fans should see the champ at liis best when the gong calls him to the front on the night ol Labor day.
HArt's Opponent Fit.
Jack's brother, Tommy, who battles Eddie Hart, the local lightweight, in the semi-windup of ten rounds, is working daily wiih his brother and is said to' be in great shape. Tommy will try and wipe out a Hart stain Monday night, and the semi-windup should be a rattling good contest. The toys will weigh in at 135 pounds.
Bud Purrcll, a south side glove artist, is rounding into shape for his go with JoeV Nelson, of Indianapolis. The two wili mix it in the prelim, which is slated to go eight rounds. Purrell is working with Einert and Hart, who are doing their stunts at Germania hall.
Several parties of out-of-town ring followers have-secured seats and a big crowd is expectcd to take in the Labor day boxing show.
TJHT LANDS FOURTH
SIOUX CITY, la., Sept. 3.—Joe Wolters, of Joliet, 111., won the 250-mlle sweepstakes motorcycle race held at the auto speedway Wednesday afternoon. His time was 3:43:52 2-5, an average of about sixty-seven miles an hour. For the first forty miles he averaged eighty miles an hour, but sprocket trouble prevented him keeping up the pace. Don Klark finished onlv a fifth of a second behind Wolters. William J. Briar took third prize, Ray Creviston fourth. Carl F. Goudy fifth, and Rex Edmonds sixth. The remainder of the twenty-six starters finished outside of the S1.000 prize money. Carl F. Goudy won a silver cup for driving the longest distance without stopping, traveling 102 miles before he was compelled ~to draw up at the pits.
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yefs Held to Long 1-1 Tie
SAGINAW, Mich., Sept 3.—"If Holmes had that club of his in the Central league, my boys wouldn't be sauntering along with the pennant cinched."
This comment from Manager Johnny Nee, of the Dayton Vets, champions of the* Central league, reveals his opinion of the ability of the Holmes Ducklings. It was made after Nee's Vets had battled against the Ducklings for thirteen innings in an exhibition game to nothing better than a 1-1 tie.
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The Southern Michigan may be a Class league," Nee added, "but there is at least one club in it that plays bang-up Class ball and that could finish one-two-three in any Class circuit in the country."
-Moid Brown pitched one inning, the .st, for the Brooklyn Feds yesterday, es, he was successful, although the ame ended in a 12-inning 5 to 5 tie.
The Giants took the lead in the National last Memorial day by defeating the S'uperbas in two games. Yesterday that same aggregation aided in ousting the Giants from the leading by winning, 6 to 2, while the Braves were mauling the Phillies twice in the same place.
Fans in general believe Marty O'Toole will be a bear with the Giants. Why?
With the Vets next in line, the TerreIrs face a hard fight to keep out of last place in the Central league race. The pack opposes the leaders today, while the Waynes, who took third place from the Terre-irs yesterday, will stack up against the Evas.
Don't forget "Quinlan Day" at Athletic park Sunday. A double bill will be staged with the Evas.
Looks more like the Hoofeds every day in the Federal. Thev gained some yesterday by trimming Chicago, 2 to 0.
Joe Connollv, former Terre-ir, tore off three hits for the Braves yesterday.
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see Mr. O'Toole, glare, oper. their faces as wide as the law allowed and say: "Why, he don't look no diffrunt from no other red-headed guy!"
In 1612, the glamor and advertisement having worn off. Mr. O'Toole was put to work regularly, but couldn't keep up even with a .500 gait. He won f:fteen games and lost seventeen. In 19iS his arm went bad he won only six james and lost eight. This year his record is the cutest little thing—accent on the "little"—that you ever saw. One won and ten lost to date!
It is often said that the St. Paul club, after the O'Tocie deal was safely closed, stalled some weeks on delivering him to Pittsburgh, and, during that time, worked him so hard that his arm lost its elastic vigor, and has never come back during the succeeding years. Bail players, everywhere unanimously astert that O'Toole is even now a pippin of a pitcher—a formidable artist with a dropping curve almost impossible to hit with any certainty. His control seems to have been wrecked ever sinco he got into the fast comp#ny, and his bares on balls have lost game after game, but the bovs still claim that h.j has the goods and is really a wonder.
BOSTON REALIZES ITS TOP PLACE AMBITION
Braves Take Lead By Beating Phils, 7-5 and 12-3, While Giants Lose, 6-2.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.. Sept. 3.—From a battered and torn tall-ender of eight weeks ago to a real baseball Goliath is the transformation that has taken place with George Stallings' Boston Braves. Their ambition to climb from the bottom of the National league heap to the highest pinnacle on the championship lander was realized Wednesday by the Braves. By twice asserting their superiority over the Phillies while McGraw New York Giants fell before Brooklyn the Braves climbed to the top As the scores of 7 to 5 and 12 to 3 indicate, there was not the slightest question about the Braves being the masters of the Phillies. 1 he first place bee has been buzzing around the Braves for two weeks. Ten days ago they tied New York for tiie seat at the top. Since then they have been fighting desperately, but it was not until Wednesday that they gained undisputed possession of the top round.
Stailings a Modest Hero.
George StalUngs, miracle man of baseball because he has performed what often was believed to be impossible, wiped the trickling perspiration from his brow as he walked from the Boston ciug-out at the Phillies' park. The first person to meet him was President Janies ft*. Gaffney, of the Boston club. congratulations, George," said president to manager.
In his modest manner off field Stallings accepted the compliments of the owner of the club. He merely pointed to the members of his team, who were rushing across the diamond to the club House.
I hey are the fellows vou want to praise. They have accomplished what baseball critics two months ago believed was impossible."
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GIANTS DROP NOTCH.
Defeat By Superbas Ousts New York From Lead. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Once in awhile the worm will turn and with disastrous result, too, when It happens to be the army worm in force and appetite. Rube Marquard bore mute testimony to the fact at Ebbets field Wednesdav afternon as he departed sadly for the club house at the end of five painfully fraught innings.
The young man who started in the full Hush of pennant hope verdure was f'tripp'd of every leaf and twig of glorv and borne down a tattered hulk of withered limbs. Tho revered southpaw, primarily responsible for the 6 to 2 reverse of the champions, carried down In his ruin a lead that the three time pennant winners had maintained since Memorial day. This lead had been established through a two .ply holiday '/ictory over the same Dodgers that Wednesday sent their rabid supporters into ecstacies of delight.
A little knot-of loyal friends occupied the boxes close to New York's benclh to encourage with voice and for the dwindling leadX^ Before the champions got into action their eves were riveted sadly on the left field score board, which bulletined the progress of the double-header in Philadelphia. The story showed too plainly that nothing but victory could conserve a technical advantage for the legion of McGraw.
Evers Out of Game.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 3.—Captain Evers, of the Boston National league team, was unable to play in Wednesday's double-header with the Philadelphia team because of stomach trouble. His substitute, Dugey, split a finger in practice and Whitted was called upon to play second base.
Rain Stops Rnces.
SYRACLSE, N. Y., Sept. 3.—Rain interrupted the racing at the grand circuit meeting held in connection with the New York state fair Wednesday afternoon. Five heats were contested, but no one of the four numbers on the program was completed.
Casual Comment
It fell to the lot of Jeff Pfeffer, former Central leaguer, to humble the Giants yesterday. He outpitched Marquard, tvho was jerked in the fifth after allowing 11 blows.
Rudolph, although being declared a victor for the Braves yesterday, was touched up for 13 bingles by the Phillies.
Hats off to the Braves!
Anyway, the Cubs and Cards didn't ga^n on the Giants, the first named club losing to the Reds, 4 to 3. and the Cards blowing before the Pirates in one and tying the other.
The Saints exploded but eight hits In a 3 to 2 fourteen inning defeat by Columbus, four of which were made by Capron.
With Joe Jackson idle. Ty Cobb clubbed at a .500 clip, thereby gaining on the Nap slugger.
Walter Johnson found the White Sox tough again yesterday, but the great (linger managed to gain a draw, a ninth Inning rally good for three runs, knotting the count. After a runless tentn the game was callfid-
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DAYTON, O., Sept 3.—Edward Gharrity, Vet catcher, will join the Minneapolis team of the American association at once. Ed was recently sold to the- Cincinnati club and the latter has used him in the deal, whereby the Reds secured Outfielder "Red" Killifer from "Minneapolis. Wednesday the management of the Vets received word to have Gharrity report to the Minneapolis club at once and Ed will leave today to join the Millers at Cleveland. Though many friends of the popular backstop will regret that he does not get hiu chance in the majors this season, there is no doubt a season in Class AA ball will bo a good thing for him. Ed is just off the lots, and, while he has shown wonderful improvement, there are a number of little th'ngs which he can still learn and he will be under an able teacher in Joe Cantillon, thff veteran manager of the Millers. Ed will surely get plenty of chance up there, as the Millers r.eed a catcher. Rondeau being used much of the time in the outfield and also being slated to report to Washington soon.
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