Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 52, Hammond, Lake County, 6 January 1917 — Page 6

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IKES THE PITCHER Wonderful Record is Made by Grover Cleveland AlexanderNo One Else in Either League Approached Him This Year. (TJaitd Pre Stff Correspondent.) NEW YORK. Jan. 5. The test of pitching jrreatness. lho abiIitv to ho,( run to a minimum, and still k?ep from putting very ounce of strength into thn pflTort. is slarpf-d right up in front of the baseball public and made to stick with greater force in recent pitching records, porhaps more than ever before. Ferdinand Schupp. John McGraw's young sensation, was at the top of the list in the National league for last season, but he scarcely counts in such a computation of figures. But Grover Cleveland Alexander, the real leader of the league, shows what a real pitcher, one with oodles of control, can do. Alexander appeared "in forty-eight games during the season, and he pitched thirty-eight complete contests. Only one man. Meadows of St. Louis, took p:trt in, more games fifty-one but even he did not approach Alexanders record of completed games. The figures credit him with going the distance on pnly eleven occasions. , Xot only did the Philadelphia marvel finish best in-thirty-three of the games he finished, but he pitched baseballs to more batters than any other man. having faced an even 1.500 batsmen. Yet with all these men facing him he held his wild pitches down to just three and hit. only ten men. He lrued only fifty bases on balls, slightly more than an average of one in each game. He was touched, however, for 323 hits, and was the only .National league hurler to pass 300. Other pitchers faced more than 1,000 batters, and nearly every ne of them has a wilder record than Alexander shows. When It is considered that the Xebraskan established a new record for ths number of shut-out contests, his superb method of working Is best appreciated. He kept the opposition away from the plate on sixteen occasions. Not another hurler ran his shut-outs higher than six. Hunters! Paste These Don'ts in Your Hat I The conaarvatlon of human life ic worth while. These don'ts are latended for the mot crop of youngsters who will gro Into the woods and : fields for the first time. Zt Is also ; intended for tho who are careless. ; Don't point firearms at any human j being or domestic animal. Keep the i mnszle toward the ground or in the ! air. Don't take a loaded firearm into ; a house, Tehlcle or boat. Don't set firearms down without unloading'. Don't Jump or climb a fence or cross a stream without unloading-. Tour hunter's license does not give you the right to hunt on posted land, reservations, parks or within the city limits. Iiand.owners have a lawful and moral right to say who j may bunt on their property. KeI spect rights and they will have more i respect for you and your sport and I recreation.

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FOOTBALL HAS MONEY APPEAL FOR G01SKEY CHICAGO, Jan. 6. "If professional football can be made to pay it will be the answer to a problem which has confronted baseball owners since the game started." said President Comiskey of the White Sox in commenting on the formation of a professional football league. "For years we have been going along using our ball parks three months in the year," explained Mr. Comiskey, "only to see the property idle for the other nine. Xow if they can show me where there is any money in the pro end of the college game I will go the limit." That the organization of the league is further under way than promoters are willing to admit became apparent when dispatches confirming the story came pouring in from all over the country. President Xavin of the Detroit Tigers w-as said to have already signed, among others, Johnnie Maulbetsch, the phenomenal player on Coach Yosts University of Michigan eleven. Those conversant with the situation at Detroit claim that Mr. Xavin has the names of several former and promnient University of Michi ALBERT MAACK, er-Tra. EDWARD J. EDER, Manager.

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Indianapolis will have as a nucleus j for its team next fall the Pine Village eleven, which had the distinction of going undefeated for thirteen years. College men generally regretted the boosting of the pro game, fearing that in time it would weaken the amateur end of the sport- in such a way that for sake of self-preservation the pastime would have to be abolished in the colleges. With high salaries as a bait, it would naturaliy follow, it was argued, that college stars frequently would risk their amateur status, while still in college, by playing on professional teams. SCHAEFER BUNTS ON

''Germany" ch;-f r, former major leaguer and later baseball coach and comedian, was inveigled into a panie of .golf over a Philadelphia course. Occasionally he connected with the pill, hut in the main his play was like that of Tie average beginner. When asked what score he had made, Schaefer said: "1 don't remejnber the total, but I got a five oa the seventeenth hole, making two triples, a double and a couple of bunts." Schaefer also is I airly clever with the cue, and while visiting New York engaged in a game of billiard. with John McGraw. At a critical stage in thA play "Germany had some one call John to the desk. He then substituted a painted celluloid ball for the red ivory sphere. When McGraw shot the ball bounced off the table. McGraw joined in the general laugh, remarking: "That ball is like my game flighty."

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1ST CHICAGO BOWLING LEAGUE SPARKLERS (Special to The Times.) K A ST l-IUCA;o. Jan. f.. The Whiting laundry rive won two of three gajnes played with the Hubbard Steel Koundry- five on one and two at the Lyric alleys last night, while lo!las and ilarber did likewise with the Calumet Lumbers on three and four. Ld Quinn, anohor for Hollas and Carber. shot tire high gam-; of the evening, 231. Pete AVhelan, anchor or the Hubbard Steel Foundry five, was credited with high series for the evening; counting 21."., 17S and 223. totaling 1 fi. ; These games concluded the second round or first half of the schedule, two more rounds to go. StiindlnK of l liiha Toil ne. W. L. J" 1 IT Prt. .643 .Sit.. .476 .4."..' .4.".2 .31 .31 Hollas and Garber . . . Fife K, Chicago Oarage .... 2Ti Nassau & Thompson .. 20 Homo l a Whiting Laundry ....lit Calumet laundry ....It". Hubbard Steel Fdy. ..It; 23 2; 2fi Next Monday night January Sth the Fife's meet Nassau & Thompsons on one and two. while the Whiting laundry and the Homo's fight for at least the odd game, on three and four, as these two teams are tied. HUB TAKES LOWELL (Special to The Time?.) 1VELU IND.. The first and second teams of the Crown Point high school convinced the Lowell teams that they could teach them a whole lot about basketball last evening, at the local high school gymnasium, defeating the five from the south end of the county in convincing manner. The second teams played off tiu-ii contest by a eore of 31 to X. and th big game ended in a complete victor for the county seat team, the score being 31 to 12. The Crown J'oinl team played a hard fast game, an1 won by good consistent team play, excelling the Lowell lads at everx stag and phase of the game. In the first half Crown Point n :uly shut Lowell out. making 26 points to their 2. Two substitutes were put in THE GOLF COURSE

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the second half which weakened the team somewhat and the Lowellites were able to run up ten points. The frame was clean and fast throughout. Keferee Glover having to penalize but few men for fouls. In the second team contest Harold Burr played a wonderful game for his size and experience and the high school has a "comer" in the fast little player. Kisselberg, Brady and Krost played a star game in the main performance in throwing baskets, while Fagcn and Fach were .stars of the first water on the defense lines. The lineup was as follows: Crown Point. Fa gen R. F 1 Bisaelberg L. F...F. Brady O C. La oh It. G Krost I G Lowell. . .. McKay Minninger Minninger . . K. Baker . . K. Little LES DARCY ASKS TO FIGHT M'COY IN FIRST BATTLE XBIV YORK. Jan. 6. With ail due respect to what Tex Rickard and Sammy MeCrackin want Lester James Darcy to do, little les wants to tight Al McCoy. Said Darcy in all seriousness, with especial emphasis on the fact that he was not boasting: "T will give Mr. Rickard a little while longer, and then if he cannot indue, the French government to allow carpentier to come here. I will devote all my time to Mr. McCoy. I want to get to the bottom or the top of that middleweight championship, and the rooner the better. Of all the men who have been suggested as an opponent 1 favor McCoy." McCoy Is extremely anxious to fight Darcy. Al Is sure he can whip the kangaroo. RICKARD CALLS $30,000 DARCY BLUFF JSY REISLER NKW YOKK. Jan. fi. Tex Packard ailed John Ileisler's $ .10,000 bluff yesterday tor bluff it proved to be. Keisr went to the Waldorf at 3 o'clock md the tall Texan was there to meet lim. When Rickard asked Hcister if he hail come prepared to offer I,e? I'arcy 30,0'fi0 to meet the winner o! the MisUe-Weinert bout Reisler balked completely. He said that after a long sleep on that $30,000 he had decided to ofTer rarcy just $13,000. Tex told Reisler he was wasting both breath and time. WELSH TO TACKLE MITCHELL AT MILWAUKEE MILWAFKKF, Wis., Jan. 6 -Freddie Welsh, lightweight champion, has been matched to meet Richie Mitchell of Milwaukee before a local club on Jan. 16, according to word from Xew York. The boys are to weigh 135 pounds at o'clock on the afternoon preceding the contest.

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E IN FIRST GilE Hammond high school couldn't hold the pace it started its first Lake County Association basketball game at the Irving gym in Hammond last evening and was defeated 23 to IS by Kmrson. The score at the end of the first half was 17 to 14 in favor of the Gary team. Toward the end of the second half Kmerson dropped In four baskets in a row and malted the game. Ca.ptain Kyle, guard Szold, center, and Harris, a forward, starred for Gary, while Hickman mada the most points for Hammond. Oltz and Hudson played the guards; Gavit, center; Hickman anil I'otts. forwards, for Hammond. Hammond plays at Lowell next Friday. HARNESS RULES MADE UNIFORM COI-I'MBF?. O., Jan. 6. All trotting race tracks in the country will work under uniform rules this season as a result of the work of the joint committee of the Xational and American Trotting Associations, which has finished its w;orlc here. Weight-making by drivers under 150 pounds is eliminated, time allowances for nonwinning races are limited to two seconds, a horse is given one second allowance for each year he didn't race, and in three-in-five-heat races there shall be no winner until one horse has won three heats. Worses outside the money are barred after four heats. . Indiana Defeats Rose Poly. BI)OMIXC.TOX. IXP.. Jan. 6. Indima defeated the Rose Poly basketball team, ?', to S, here lasj night. Fight Decisions. l llostoii Walter II u tier knocked out Invr- Ueshler 7. t f Urk Willie Astey l.ent Corona Kid )IO; Pal loore heat Johnny SoUherg (lot; Jack Sharkey bent Mickey Dunn IO(. TRAPSHOOTINC MOST

"Trapshootin?." f-ai'i r. v.ell-known author, "knows no caste and refuses to rreognm focial distinction it accepts a man as a man. His success cr failure ;t the sjiort is entirely in his own hands. "The game appeals to all ages and conditions of men and is one of the few sports in which both sexes meet on equal terms. "Look at a squad of shooteYs and you will perhaps recognize the most eminent member of the bar standing beside a clerk whose income precludes membership in a country club. "His neighbor is a successful manufacturer, whose fondness for the gun has never waned, but who no longer can stand the exposure of days afield; the next man is a physician whose professional duties permit hut. a short .pe-rioj of relaxation, so he has driven his car to the club grounds for an hour or two at li e trups; the fifth shooter is a woman who loves the great out of doors and its pastimes."

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B PILOT one sox Former Mack Star Succeeds Carrigan as Manager of the World's Champions He Will Play Second Base Position. BOSTON. Jan. 6. Jack Barry Is tronow manager of the Red Sox. He has accepted the terms offered by President Frazee to handle the team next season, and although the figure has not been made public. It Is known that the star second baseman has been given a big salary. It is .thought thcontract will call for $10,fi0ij a year for three seasons. Barry will Iiave Heine Wagner his second in command. Harry wii! continue to play ,but it is expected that Janvrin will get more chances to appear on the second bag than he has had in the past. The arrangements for the signing of the new manager were made thif afternoon when Barry called on Fiazee in Boston to talk matters over. He left for his home in Worcester in the early evening, telling Frazee that he would give him a definite answer by telephone promptly at 8 o'clock. At that hour be called Frazee to infor:.i him that the answer was "yes." EAST CHICAGO IMS WHITING Fast Chicago high school, with. Captain Thomas at guard making eight of her baskets, defeated Whiting. 37 to 'r., last evening at the Twin City. Coach Murray used second string men toward the close of the game. At the , end of the first half the score was Z'J to 31, Jn favor of East Chicago. B1jmenthal aid Smith played the fo:wards; Brozcnvsky, center; Thomas and McQuown, guards, for East Chi cago; .Sugar and Kunradt, forward--: Gill, center, Fischiupp and iSenhain, guards, for Whiting. Thomas made eight baskets, Brozowsky 5. .mith :;. Sugar and Gill, five each, and Kunradt. one. Thomas threw five free throw.-, Kunradt 6 and Gill 1. BOSTON. Jan. S. Walter Butl.-r stopped I lave Deshler in the seventh rotind of a scheduled twelve-round boiit here last night. Deshler was in such a bad way that the referee stopped the bou$. DEMOCRATIC SPORT