Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 162, Hammond, Lake County, 9 December 1912 — Page 3

Mondaw Dec. 9, 1912.

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NATIONAL LEAGUE SECRETARY HEYDLER RANKS BY NUMBER OF RUNS ALLOWED.

In an effort to find some way to record the work of pitchers during a eason with more justice than the joke method of rating them according to the games won and lost while they were I pitching, Secretary John Heydler of the National league Introduced a new system this season. For the basis of his new method of rating twirlers Mr. Heydler chose the actual number of runs made by the opposing team, for which each pitcher was responsible. He adopted a modification of the old "earned run" which was abolished officially many years ago. In computing the number of new earned runs each pitcher was charged with runs which resulted from safe hits, sacrifice hits, bases on balls. . hit batsmen, wild pitches and balks. Runs scored as direct results of fielding errors, stolen bases and passed balls were exempted from the record and no runs were charged against pitchers, no matter how they were made, after chances had been offered and not accepted, to retire the side. This information was incorporated in all the official scores of the old league and from it the secretary, worked out j the new system, the results of which Ifi'GARTY-FLYl GO PROVES PUZZLE TO THE EXPERTS!! Los Angeles. Cal.. Dec. 9. Yesterday was a gala day at the training camps at "Vernon and Venice by the Sea. It was the final day of the big doings In the preparatory line for White Hope McCarty and Destroyer Jim Flynn and vast crowds gathered to watch the rival heavies In action. Interest, of course, centered in the beating up of sparring partners by the championship candidates. This was done to the king's taste, and that the watchers enjoyed it was evidenced by the applause which waited upon each spirited spell of cuffing. When the visitors turned homeward it is safe to say that 80 per cent of the Venice pilgrims favored McCarty's chances in .Tuesday night's encounter, while a corresponding portion of those who went to Vernon felt sure that Flynn will win. This is human nature. A man with no particular fixed ideas In regard to the chances of a pair of prospective opponents goes to one of the training tamps. What h sees there has a onesided look and is likely to lsave a onesided impression. He sees a man who has profited by regular work, good hours and proper fare, buffet a staff of sparring partners who are merely required to report for duty every day at 3 o'clock and who may consume all the cigarettes and beer they have capacity for meanwhile. "Isn't he a wonder?" they'll say later. And he Is but only by comparison. The best antidote for opinions formed at one camp Is to pay a visit to the other. i Then you won't know what to think, and that. If the betting is any guide, is about what aila those who have been making a close study of the Mc-Carty-Flynn prospect. On one point everybody is agreed. Matters have reached a crisis In white hope affairs. And lest there be any mistake about It let us repeat that Jim Flynn rebels with all the force his modest nature commands at being classed a white hope. It pains him. In fact. Jim wants it to be remembered that he has been fifteen years before the public as a glove brandisher; that during that time has met the best In the lists and has been hammered into shape on the anvil of hard usage. If you ask Jim how he would like to be described he will murmur: "Well, suit yerself. kid. but I'm the guy the white hopes have to deal with." "A kind of Cerebus as It were," sug- ' gested some one and then Jim waxed silent and thoughtful. He was won- . dering if Cerebus was another hope that would have to be operated on la- i ter for championship ambitions. Flynn is gracious enough to admit that white hopes are a'l right In their way. But he argues that once you have called them white hope? there is nothing further you can say about them. "They've never done nuthln," said Flynn the other day. He was out of breath at the time, which probably had something to do with rendering his sentences curt and ungrammatical. It was at this juncture that some one fold htm of Al Palzer's arrival. "They met hli m the depot with a brass band." volunteered the Informant with villainous tact. "Sure shot." bellowed Flvnn. as he ! polished his neck with a towel. "They brought him into town lh a band wagon, but they'll take htm away In an ambulance. These white hopes make me tired."

are interesting and indicate a step tn the right direction. ! For the sake of comparison the pitchers are numbered in order accord- ! ins to the new system of rating and also according to their standing in the old-fashioned way of ranking them by games "won" and "lost." The first figure is their standing under the hew system and the second under the old. Tesreau of the Giants Is the leading hurler of the league by the modern method, although Hendrix of the Tirates had the highest percentage of victories in which he pitched. Tesreau was third in the matter of games won and lost by the Giants. Mathewson of the Gotham team is second to Tesreau under the new system, although he finished eighth according to the old. The value of the Heydler method appears in the third name on the list, which belongs to Nap Rucker of Brookdivision team all season. Hucker's work in holding opponents down to low scores raises him to third place, although the Dodgers did not win enough games for him to get him higher than twenty - eigntn piace in me oiu waj m figuring. UNUSUAL SHOTS. By Chick" Kvaow. A big controversy Is raging in Great Britain over the "push" shot. It is hardly known in this country, at least under that name. George Duncan, the amous British professional who tour ed this country a year ago, told me that played It, but It Is very certain I was I not aware of it. An English writer and British professionals agree In the most positive manner as to the way in which this mysterious shot should be played. I hope to expertement with it in order to dispel my own ignorance and to give the result to the readers of , the Examiner. Mr. A. J. Mason played one of the freakiest strokes imaginable on the ninth hole at Homewood.- This hole is heavily flanked by trees; at that time more so than now. Mr. M ason "sliced his tee shot and it caromed against the ; branches of a tree, bounded on the ( green after running the bunker with ' speed almost great enough to reach the creek thirty yards away, then hit the flagstaff, ran upon It, and dropped b.Vck Into the hole for a one. The little god of chance was certainly out for a frolic that day. j Mr. C. F. Thompson has also made the ninth hole at beautiful Homewood In one, but this was done without any of the grills, so to speak, of the other shot. This ball flew straight, never touching the flagstaff until It reached the bottom of the hole. To make It more remarkable the green is sloping, and the hole was situated high on the lnclosure. Mr. W. A. Lynch once holed his brassie second shot going to the seventh hole at Reverly. The green is just at the base of a hill. Inclining somewhat away from the player, and It Is difficult to keep a short iron shot on it, much less a long brassle. In addition the home Is a boomerang, and Mr. Lynch was obliged to play a slight slice around the trees. At the time the shot was made he was playing In a fosome and he could have tripled his score and yet have, won. ' Judge A. L. Sanborn played a most remarkable shot on the Maple Bluff Golf club's links at Madison, Wis., a short time ago. He was playing a 100yard third shot and holed out for a three. The chance to do that Is not one in ten thousand. In most of these shots skill and chance combine in proportions to produce remarkable results. To Mr. Evans list of unusual shots j the Hammond Country club has one to offer. No one who has played It will admit that the second hole at the country club links is an easy hole, because the fair green dips from the tee only to rise to the edge of the green and then fall. Dr. T. W. Oberlin after a drive of some 150 yards holed out in two with a midlron. His shot was some 75 yards and he could not see that he had made it until getting on the green he found his ball In the cup. Several Hammond players have had almost as remarkable shots. INDIANA KEEPS JIMMY SHELDON Bloomington. 111., Dec. 9. Following a two-day .conference official announcement was made today that Coach James M. Sheldon, the former Maroon star. Is to return as football coach at Indiana next fall. "Cotton" Berndt, a 1911 graduate, has again been employed to assist Sheldon, and will become director of athletics here next year. He will coach the basket ball and baseball teams. wmie in school Berndt was captain of three teams and was awarded eight "I's." THE TIMES IS TRYING IIxRD TO JIEKIT THE SUCCESS ACHIEVED. IT HAS

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START SIX-DAY JBIKE GRIND New York. Dec. 9. (1 o'clock a. m.) At 12;01 o'clock this morning fifteen riders left the starting tape on the huge saucer In Madison Square Garden on the first lap of the annual six-day race, which will continue uninterrupted until midnight Saturday. It might have been midday instead of midnight as the crowd was one of the biggest first night gatherings on record. Following the custom the stars of the teams got away first, leaving the ' second string riders to finish up the first twelve hours. This will give the' stars a chance to perform before the afternoon crowds today and perhaps again near midnight tonight. The first hour was like every other first hour in the long grind, the riders merely trailing each other to get used to the new saucer track. No sprinting of thrilling drives are expected before tonight. The riders at the start were paired as follows: American team Frank Kramer and Jimmy Moran. Australian-American team Jackie Clarke and Fred Hill. German-American team Walter Rutt and Joe Fogler. Australian team Alf Grenda and F.rnie Fye. New York-Melbourne Root and Paddy Hehir. team Eddie Irish team Grassy Ryan and Lloyd Thomas. French team Oscar Egg and Andre Perchicot. Swiss team Paul and Frank Sutter. Iowa -Long Island team John Bedell and Worthlngton Mitten. Dixie-New York team Bobby Walthour and George Cameron. Boston team Pete Drobach and Elmer Collins. California-New Jersey team -Percy Lawrence and Jake Magin. ISew Zealand team Jumbo Wells and Gordon Walker. Provldence-Jamalco team Loftes and Clarence Carman Alvin Franco-Italian team Marcel Berthet and Maurice Brocco. BANQUET FOR TEAM. The East Chicago Tigers will be banqueted by the business men of East Chicago at the Reiland hotel in East Chicago on Saturday night. Dec. 21. The Tlppr. T-t i -i h a i . 1 1 , .... , a pirnaiu recora this j season, not being defeated once and only scored upon twice and both of these scores were by way of the air route. Kirgis, the quarter back from Chicago Heights, booted a goal from the 35-yard line in the first game of the year and Miller of Hammond booted a goal from the field from the 45yard line on Thanksgiving day, the last of the season. Their goal line was never crossed and they have an undisputed claim to the championship of Lake county and also claim the championship of northern Indiana. The "E. C." sweaters will be given to twelve men at this banquet, the following players receiving them: French. MacDUlon, Slst, Downey, Gibbons, Groat, Keegan, Sneddan, Jimmy McShane, Pat McShane, Reil and Stern berg. The Tigers are giving their sixth annual ball Thursday night, Dec. 12, at Prof. Da Pron's dancing academy (Orpheum hall) at Hammond. WIN 12-MILE TEAM RACE New York, Dec. 9. At the Bradhurst Field club games in the Twenty-second Regiment armory Saturday night Hannes Kolehmainen, the Finnish Olympic runner, and Harry Smith of this city, paired, established the first world's record In team racing at twelve miles in 53:53:03. Two other features of the games were the running of Howard Drew, the colored Olympic runner, representing the Springfield, Mass., high school, and the defeat of Ben Adams and - Piatt Adams, Olympic champion standing high jumpers. Drew twice equaled the world's record, 7 1-5 seconds in the seventy-yard indoor dash. He started from scratch ! in the semi-final and had little dlfficul ty In winning both. The defeat of the Adams brothers was accomplished by Leo Goehrlng of the Mohawk A. q.. who cleared the bar at 6 feet 3 Inches. .CALENDAR OP SPORTS FOR THE WEEK. M OX DAY. Start of the six-day bicycle race, Madison Square Garden, New York. Annual meeting of the International League of Baseball Clubs, New York. ' Annual trials of the Southern Field Trial club begin ,at Letohatchie. Ala. Dick Hyland vs. Steve Ketchel, 15 rounds, at Saskatoon, Sask. Tl'ESDA Y. Annual meeting of the National 1 League of Baseball Clubs, New ' York. 4 j Opening of championship season of Pacific Coast Hockey League of d ' Canada. d Jim Flynn vs. Luther McCarty. 20 rounds, at -Vernon, Cal. d Packey McFarland vs. Harry Brewer, 8 rounds, at St. Louis. d , Dave Deshler vs. Clarence Eng- d ' lish, 10 rounds, at Atlanta. d , WEDNESDAY. d Jack Dillon vs. Gus Christie, 10 d rounds, at Tndianapolls. d THIRSDY. d Johnny Kilbane vs. Tommy ' 4 Dixon, 10 rounds, at St. Louis. d SATURDAY. Finish of the six-day bicycle race, Madi?on Square Garden, New York. d One thousand dollar 15-mile professional marathon race, at Boston. Annual bench show of Delaware Valley Krnnel club, Princeton. N. J.

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Your Xmas Shopping Will Be a Pleasure - If You Use a Lion Store Guide Book NEW YORK BOXING NOTES New York, Dec. 9. Fred McKay, the Winnipeg giant, came a little closer into the limelight as a prominent white hope last night by knocking out Bill Tate at the Queensboro A. C. The work was done In the eighth with a left to the body and a right to the jaw. This is the seventh knockout scored by McKay in a month. Meeting Cy Smith's rushes with snappy rights and lefts to the jaw, Johnny Waltz of Jersey City won a ten-round bout at 'Brown's gymnasium, j Tom Gibbons, brother of Mike, knocked out Tom Nelson in less than half a round at the Falrmount Athletic club. It was hardly a fair test. Nel-, so nls an old boxer and practically a ! "has been," and had no show against his younger opponent. Jack Driscoll stopped Eddie Hanlon in the second round of their bout at the Brooklyn Beach Athletic club. In the semi-final Red Wilson knocked out Young McMahon with a ring swing to the body. Johnny Keyes and Bob Twin Collins fought a slow draw at the National Athletic club in Brooklyn. BADGER FIVE SWAMPS RIPON Madison, Wis., Dec. 9. Ripon was easy for the Wisconsin basket ball five in the opening game of the training season last night, the Badgers winning. 40 to, 13. Wisconsin was first tcc score, Van Gent tossing the initial basket after three minutes of play. SPOTTING NOTES. Boston, Mass., Dec. 9. Marty O'Toole, the $22,500 pitcher of the Pittsburg Pirates, Is to be marired on Dec. 30 to Miss Rose Katherine Heffernon of Saxon ville, Mass. Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 9. Willie Hoppe won his fourth victory and first honors in the local tourney Saturday night when he defeated Koji Yamada, the Japanese cueist, 400 to 244. Robert C. Zuppke, coach of the champion Oak Park high school football squad, has painted a picture which will be exhibited at the Art Institute this week. The picture is a marine view, but It has no name. Urbana, 111.. Dec. 9. J. P. Llchter ot Chicago yesterday equaled the world's

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record In the plunge for distance in the j club of Chicago has followed suit on University of Illinois tank when ha i behalf of his organization, plunged sixty feet In :22. Llchter won Detroit, Mich., Dec. 19. "If Cobb and the plunge at seventy feet In :S0. Crawford desire to quit baseball rather Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 9. Sam Ro- j than play for the salaries we paid them bideau of this city probably would ; last year, let them quit," said Presihave knocked out Grover Hayes of i dent Navin of the Detroit Tigers last Chicago at the National Saturday night ; night. "It has been said that if they

had not the referee stopped the bout in the third round when Hayes was lying helpless on the ropes. Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 9. Al Palzer, the New York heavyweight "hope," ar-

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2JE EAST CHICAGOThere wiii be a called meeting of the Home Economics section of the East Chicago Woman's club at the home of Ml"s. George H. Lewis of Baring avenue a 7 o'clock this evening. Mrs. John Haugh and Mr.. Z. B. Campbell entertained at Mrs. Haugh's home in Magoun avenue Friday evening. Whist was played. About twentytwo couples were present. Harry Bloomberg won the gentlemen's prizze of a book and Mrs. C. K. Wallace received an embroidered guest towel by winning the first ladies' prize. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. James of Chicago were the out-of-town guest. Miss Ida Phillips of Beacon street returned Saturday night after a couple of weeks spent at the home of her sister, Mrs. C. R. Dunlap, in Cairo, III. She is much improved in health. The Congregational Ladles' Aid society will give a chicken supper In K. of P. hall Thursday evening. The Men's club of the Congregational church will meet this evening at the home of Gus Jacobson, In Tod avenue. Rev. Alexander Monroe, pastor of the Congregational churcfe, Is attending the ministers' " meeting In Chicago today. Mrs. Monroe accompanied her husband to the city. First-class dress-making, Mrs. Lesser, 4228 Magoun avenue. tf The literary section of the Woman's rived here yesterday and began hunting for training quarters In which to prepare for his bout on New Year's day with the winner of the Flynn-Mc-Carty battle, scheduled for Vernon tomorrow night. Bldldng for the next amateur championship of the Western Golf association Is getting brisk. A week ago the Kent Country club of Grand Rapids extended an invitation to the W. G. A. to hold the 1913 tournament over Its course, and President Charles F. Thompson of the Homewood Country were out of the lineup the Tigers would be a chronic second division team. They were not out last season and the Tigers finished sixth. So that theory is ex- ' ploded." "

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club will meet tomorrow afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clocjc at the home of Mrs. W. E. Jones, on 145th street.

INDIANA HARBOR. Jimmie Galvln, who has been for some time assistant superintendent of the open hearth at the Inland, left Saturday for Alton, 111., where he will take charge as superintendent of construction of the open hearth furnaces at the Alton Steel company's new plant. After the plant Is completed he will be Installed as superlntendentof the open hearth department. Jimmie has been with the Inland Steel company for ten years and as well as being a good man In his calling, is most popular socially in Indiana Harbor.' His many friends are sorry to lose Jimmie and his smile. Alderman John Galvln says, however, there Is no great loss without some : gain and he has an Idea that he may be able to run the auto himself once in a while, now that Jimmie Is gone. ' Mrs. Sue Carnahan of Guthrie street Is spending today In Chicago doing her Christmas shopping. The members of the Baptist Sunday school will meet at the church' at 7 o'clock sharp this evening to practice for the Christmas contata. t The Jewish dance at the South Bay hotel for the benefit of the new synagogue to be erected by the Ahavath Sholem congregation Saturday night was a brilliant success both socially and financially. About 200 persons were present. Sergeant Frank Barker was master of ceremonies and Dave Barker and Gazella Marcovlch led the grand march. During the evening Miss Marcovlch was presented with a solid gold medal with the inscription "To G. Marcovlch by the Congregation Ahavath Sholem," as a testimonial to her activities in behalf of the new synagogue. The presentation speech was made by Attorney Hymen Cohen of East Chicago. The hall was decorated with colored streamers, as was also the dining room, where lunch was served continuously from 11 o'clock until the dance was over. WANTED Dining room girl. Sternberg's cafe, Michigan ave., Indiana Harbor. Telephone 661-J. HEAR THIS! FOREX iXXXX) Keatncky Plug; Cut is made of the beat Kentucky Barley tobacco. o choicer or more delightful moke for the pipe. It'a dad's choice. Save the tickets. McIIIe-S. Tob. Co Adv.

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fi MERRILLVILLE. Mr. . and Mrs. J. F. Stoltz wish to tender their heartfelt thanks for the friendly and timely assistance rendered by their many friends during the direful conflagration of the Elbert Hotel, which would certainly have destroyed their store building and contents, but for the promptness and interest taken by so many willing workers, including the Gary and Crown Point fire laddies. LABOR NEWS Jewish immigrants are agriculturally developing Palestine. Seveteen per cent of the money lenders in India are women. There are said to be- 2,500 women ministers In the United States. Hamilton (Ontario) firemen will next year enjoy a salary raise of 15 per cent. The General Confederation of Labor of France voted recently to stay outside the socialist party. Miners' wives in South Wales are la revolt against the new system of payment under the mines act. Of 18,606 men who got shelter at the municipal lodging house rn New York city In the last year one-third wet skilled laborers. The American Federation of Music ians has at present a cash balance of $89,000 In its treasury and 688 locals on its roster, all In good standing. The movement for compulsory uniform reports of industrial accidents and diseases made distinct progress during the last year ln many sections of the country. The Illinois Manufacturers' association has decided to form a casualty In surance company to write accident ' surance under the new workmen's com ; Pnsatlon law, In Germany, electrical apparatus and wires carrying high voltage currents are marked by a' warning sign consisting of a startingly., realistic lightning bolt and the German word for "danger." Several thousand - organized hodcarrlers and building laborers In Chicago, are now seeking affiliation with the international organization which is affiliated with the American Federation of labor. ' Painters, blacksmiths, machinists and shopmen who have been on strike since last fall against the Illinois Central railroad system are still determined to win their fight for recognition of the system federation. An English social worker reports that one-third of the girls in the dressmaking and millinery trades in her country receive no pay at all. They are classed as apprentices, but they do a great part of the actual work. Instructions were given toy the Wrapper, Kimono and House Dress Makers' union of New York to its kimono makers' branch, which has 000 members, all women, tq take a vote on the question of , declaring a strike for a fifty-hour week and higher wages. Uellmann, Pater son (.coach),