Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 251, 18 July 1910 — Page 2

THE HICHMOXD PALLADIUM AD 8UX-TELEGRAM, 3IOXDAY, JULY 18, 1910. DATSMEN HOW TAKE LESS OH CHANCE In Old Days Pitchers Would Go to Extremes to Secure Advantage. IS MUCH DIFFERENT NOW SMALL PITCHING STAFFS CARRIED Addie Joss of the Cleveland Americans One of the Cubs' Reliables Modern: Managers Rely on Fewer, But More Reliable Slab Artists. . IDLENESS IS INJURIOUS

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EVEN WITH THE CHANGE IN METHOD THE BATTER IS STILL IN DANGER BATTERS FEAR BEING INJURED.

When Trunk Chuucu. manager of tbe Chicago Nationals. wis struck on tbe bead by a ball burled by Pitcher Gasper of Cincinnati recently It recalled tbe fact that many star baseball playcm bare lost their effectiveness through belli lilt b tbron u bull. Tbat more batsmen are Dot Injured by being blc by pitched balls speaks well for the skill of the present dny pitcher. In the old days the pitcher would not Infrequently let on go straight at the letter's bead In order to drive him a way from the plate. Bucb a proceeding I rare nowadays Working the dges of the plate seems to have proved more effective. Nevertheless the fire (he batter faces Is dangerous. One of tbt worst cases of bead hitting was that of Uugb Jennings, now manager of the Detroit club, by Amos Rusle. Jennings, witb Baltimore then, was ooted for bis close bugging of the plate and bis wllllrgaess to accept base by helnp lilt by the pitch r. II relied upon his quickness of ye to minimize the effect of the blow. Rusle bad a wide. Jumplug curve ball. Jennings waa willing to turn bis boulder, accept a deflecting blow or let It bit bis shirt front or the slack of bis knickerbockers. He could do this wltb pitchers of average curve, but Ruale's curve was too sharp In the break and too fast for him to avoid. Jennings stood close and got one full In the bead. He fell flat For four daya bis life waa despaired of. but powerful constitution pulled him through, tbougb be never waa tbe am nervy man again at tbe plate, and It was months before be could Pl7. Jennings, by tbe way, Is an extremely durable person. While at Cornell be dlTd face first against the concrete bottom of an empty swimming tank. Tbe man Is a marvel of vitality and energy. He sustained two shocks tbat would have killed the average man, yet be Is aa full of energy today as a dynamo. Roderick Wallace, the famous infieldr of tbe Drowns, bad bis batting efficiency seriously and permanently Inpaired twelve years sgo when be waa bit In the head by a ball thrown by Chick" Fraser, who was then with the Louisville club Wallace was knocked flat, and li many days before be went in I -' nln. A constitution of Iron etiii'... i hi to to withstand tbe shock, but be never was Quite the same hitter afterward. V Dan Hoffman, tbe center fielder of the Browns, was the victim of a fearful blow at the bnnda of Jesse Tsnnebill. then wltb Boston, some years ago, Hoffman was at the time deemed the most promising young player In tbe American league. He was baring bis first season, aud a brilliant one It was. One day be made a triple, a double and a single against Tanneblll In three trips to tt9 plate. The fourth time up Tnnnehlll bit blra a terrific blow over tbe right eye. It almost killed the trsloed snd muscular young athlete, Hoffman lay as If dead, and It was four days before be recovered consciousness. Then bis nerves were rained. From 170 pounds be declined to 128. He could not sleep or eat for tz months, and the following season be bad to get along as best be could wltb only one eye. - Hoffman says tbat St has taken blin six years to get back bis full strength. He has never been able to bit left handed pitchers since tbe day be was hurt. Now. six years after, Hoffman Is nt the mercy of the average left banded pitcher, , Johnnie Lush, the star pitcher of the Cardinals, was bit ly Andy Coakleji on f Kik tilr anil tl till r Ittltfwl ffla a-1? baa never been straight since that Hously impaired. Roger Ttreftnalmn was bit and severe ly hurt by Jack Taylor In 1004. For a long time after this Injury Dresnaban wore a seiul-iuask tbat protected the exposed side of bis bead against the pitcher. ' Hundreds of lessor lights have been bit and Injured to a decree less serlous than those mentioned. It all goes to show that baseball is not without t without ! Ha great dangers, especially to men at tbe bat Most of the lujuries on the eld have come about through collisions between fielders, such as the one tbat cost the life of "Hub- Collins. Collins' fatal collision was with Harry Storey at Boston many years ago. ! Batted balls Injure very few players, though the way men bit them about In practice would often make one wonder that accidents are not more frequent Tbe most notable accident of this sort was when Schrlver of Pittsburg btt William Hart of the same club on the chin with a ball batted In practice. Tbe drive shattered TJart's Jaw. It was wired up again. Xlart Is now fifty years old and Is rated high among tbe pitchers of tbe -Soothers league. la Tfce IHapMwaMat Aa eperstloa lor tfce removal of ths stomach, Chicajco hotpkal rcntly. promoted dlasessloe mmrng Um iMttooi whether Ike stomach cmM be removed sad the pattait be Boat the worse lor it. Bof or tho ditcMcloa had weD died eat. (he Mrioat had died. It damonstrmisa he eoaia aoc uvo wiibom an ttomaco. to keep im atosMcb la rood condition, aad eoro eoaat nattee. tadiraatfoa. ote., aaa tho rraat barb laxalive compound. Dr. Caldwaira Syrup Papain. DreccUta sail It at easts aad ft a bottle. PALLADIUM WANT. ADS PAY -

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DAVIS IS ATHLETICS' STANDBY Mask's First Saoksr One of Best Players and Field Generals. There Is Just one Individual of Mack persuasion, not even excepting the Incomparable Eddie Collins, whom tbe Philadelphia American league team cannot spare without irreparable loss. Tbat man Is Harry Davis, Msck's captain, who today Is one of the best all around first basemen In tbe fast set Hal Chase of New lork Is sprier and. younger In years than Davis, bat for actual good to a team Davis Is the king of all fast basesmltbs In ths big show. The oldest man on tbe team, Davis Is today one of Its leading pacemakers In batting and run getting, while, lr addition, he Is the whip of the club. ' Davis' worth to the Athletics cannot be found In tbe batting and fielding statistics Issued each year by President Johnson. His value does not end In driving a brother Mackman borne with a base 'bit, although be performs this office as much as anybody else on the team. It was Davla who aided Mack in tutoring the young players Into stars and BARRY DAVIS. who is keeping them on their toes all through the game. He is to tbe team on the field what Mack is to them on XDe wn:D- MacK ou ine Dencn cannot K1 lDt0 tD P"7 a " comes up. In Paris he has a man who carries out Mack Ideas ou the field. Mack on tbe bench and Davis on the field form the combination that has put the Athletics where they are today. There Is only one first baseman who excels him In fielding. Hal Cbase Is the greatest CelJIujr first baseman of tbe age. Davis is the equal of Chance and the superior of all others. When bis batting ability and generalship are added to his mechanical ability It. Is easy to see why he is often called the king of them alL For nine consecutive years Davis has batted bard and conscientiously for the cause of Mack. Not one season In the nine has be failed to show uncommon ability. If the Athletics win. the championship this season it will be mainly due to this reason Mack on the bench and Davis on, the field. Monuments of Wee. "Did . you notice Mr. Jones new teeth r asked Mrs. Sbarpeye. "1 oever saw anything so ghastly. They look like gravestone." -Yes.? said Miss Sionle Cal; Tl pre lSi? sume be bad them placed to memory

BASEBALL

NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. LoBt. Pet

Chicago 48 28 .632 New York 43 31 .681 Pittsburg 39 32 .549 Cincinnati 40 37 .519 Philadelphia 36 38 .486 St Louis 34 44. .436 Brooklyn 33 44 .429 Boston 30 49 .380

AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Won. Lost. Pet Philadelphia 52 24 -.684 New York 46 31 .597 Boston 46 32 .590 Detroit ..44 36 .550 Cleveland 33 39 .458 Chicago 31 45 .408 Washington 30 47 .390 St Louis 23 51 .311 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won. Lost. Pet Minneapolis 62 32 .660 St. Paul 53 38 .582 Toledo 51 38 .573 Kansas City 42 42 .500 Columbus 39 46 .459 Milwaukee 4. 38 49 .437 Indianapolis 36 54 .400 Louisville 32 54 .372

YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. National League. New York 5: Cincinnati 0. Philadelphia 6: St. Louis 3. Chicago 6-7; Brooklyn 0-4. American League. Detroit 1; Washington 0. American Association. Milwaukee 1-5; Indianapolis 0-6 (1st game 10 Innings.) Toledo 1-0; Minneapolis 0-5. (1st game 13 innings.) Columbus 3-5; St. Paul 2-1 (1st game 12 Innings.) Kansas City-Louisville Rain GAMES TODAY. National League. New York at Cincinnati. Brooklyn at Chicago. Boston at Pittsburg. Philadelphia at St. Louis. American League. St Louis at Xew York. Cleveland at Washington. Detroit at Boston. Chicago at Philadelphia, American Association. Minneapolis at Toledo. Milwaukee at Indianapolis. Kansas City at Louisville. St Paul at Columbus. First English Book on Sport The first book 00 sport ever printed In tbe English language was a rhymed treatise called the "Boke of St. Albands." its author being a woman. Dame Juliana Berners. Its second edition was printed by Wynkyn de Words in 140C A descendant of her family. Lord Berners. was tbe translator of Froissart "Chronicles, It is true tbat old manuscripts existed, such as the "Veuerie de Twecy" of tbe time of Edward II.. but it was Dame Juliana who was the real ancestress of sporting literature in England, for she also composed an essay on hawking and another on "Fishing Wltb an Angle. tbe last being of such excellence tbat Ixaak Walton himself did take a hint from Its pages. Banks In Mexico. When a bank falls in Mexico all the officials connected with It suffer more than tbe depositors. Tbe depositors may lose their money, bat tbe band of tbe Mexican law descends heavily on every one of importance connected with the failed bank and slaps bim Into Jail before the pas'e t dry on tbe nottca that is stock up on the closed

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ED TO WAGNER'S OLD GLOVE. Erer see tbe old glove which Honus Wagner wears on bis big left hand? No? Well, here It Is. Many another would be & ashamed of It but not tbe only Honus. Wagner would not part with It for love or money. There Is a history to the glove. Wagner himself has forgotten just when he got It but be thinks It WAOKSB'S OLOVE was back about 1002. Honus knows that Herman Long, once the greatest of all shortstops, then playing with the Boston team, gave him tbe glove. It is a fact that Long always used a glove with a big bole in the center of it He would buy a new glove and at once cut it to pieces, leaving an open spot in the center about twice tbe size of a baseball. Long handed over one of his old gloves to Wagner. It suited him. and be has used It ever since. The glove now is a wornout relic, but Hans bangs to it like grim death. He figures It would be tbe worst luck in tbe world for bim to lose it Fans have time and again watched Wagner take that glove off his big left band and throw it down toward third base.- And they could always see the hole in it for it Is too big not to be noticed. Time and again It has been asked why Wagner doesn't buy a new glove. You ask Hans that question and be will only say that be has no money to pay for one. But back -f that there is the one fact 'bat remains always promln4&Wagner Is just as superstitious or sentimental as any other ball player, and he has always Tlt that the Herman Long glow has brought bim luck. That's why he bangs on to it It Is worn to a frazzle. There is nothing to it but tbe bare edges. Tbe center is all worn away, and Wagner grabs those hard line drives really witb tbe bare band. At Local Theaters Cannibal Maids. Tom Linton and his Cannibal Maids is a musical comedy production witb beautiful scenery, elegant costumes and extravagant electrical effects. The act throughout is entertaining. Lola Milton Co., present "That Girl. Charlie Hasty, the original "Hoosier Boy" is a character comedian, who has made good in leading comedy companies. "Domsetic Troubls" is the title of the comedy sketch presented by Wagner and Gray and the title is indicative of the entertainment in store for the patrons of the Murray this week. The motion pictures are the very latest and best ' Jupiter. ' Jupiter baa a mas nearly three time as great as tbe combined mi tars of all tmr afhr i

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FOOLISH TO HAVE MANY TWIRL- , ERS WHILE THE MAJORITY OF THEM SIT ON THE 'BENCH FOLLY IS REALIZED..

That lous pitching strings ure no longer necessary and that four or flv dependable men ure worth tvo or three times that 'number of ordinary twirlers is- a fact , Previously the ' neceBSity of having seven men. each One ready at all times to take his turn tit box. was a point that was empbastzed" by managers And during- last season, too. tbe major league manager who did not have at least six uvailable men for tbe box figured tbat be was heavily handicapped in tbe tight for the coveted bunting. ' Things have changed, however. The wonderful work of the Pittsburg pitchers last season und tbe now very patent fact that four twirlers practically did tbe brunt of tbe work for the Pirates have given managers and owners cause for believing tbat too many pitchers are worth hardly as much as none at all. Last season, wltb Camnltz. Willis. Maddox and Leibeld performing In their turn, the Pirates were up in tbo race throughout the entire season, and they finally drew away easily from all other competitors at the end. In previous years it was the pitching of Mordecai Brown. Pfeister, Overall and Keulbacb tbat won for tbe Cubs. and every one for years has realized that Christie Matbewson has been the real mainstay of the Giants. This only goes to show tbe value of one good pitcher to a team. Wltb four dependable box men tbe ordinary man ager should be reasonably well satistied. In 1909 the Red Sox bad one of tbe biggest strings of pitchers in the countryThey bad Hail. Karger, Wood, Cicotte. Matthews. Arellanes, Pape, Wolter and Schlitzer at the season's end, while previously there were Ryan, Chech, Steele and Morgan as members of the pitching corps. And yet had Morgan pitched tbe ball for Boston that be did for the Athletics and Young had been retained, these two. witb Arellanes and one other reliable man to take bis turn lu the box. might easi ly have beaten out both the Athletics and Tigers and brought tbe pennant to Boston. The better part of tbe pitching for Connie Mack's club was done by four men. Plank. Bender. Krause and Morgan, and tbey are doing the same thing this year. Four or five regular men on any team would be worth double as much as a string of nine or ten men wltb only one or two of them in first class pitching condition. Too many pitchers are a hindrance instead of a help. If Cicotte. Wood and Wolter bad been in shape to help out Arellanes last season the pitching staff of tbe Red Sox would not have been tbe - weakest in tbe American league. But tbe wildness of Wood, tbe Injury to Cicotte and tbe bad start that Wolter got in tbe spring handicapped tbe team so heavily that Arellanes was forced to do pretty nearly half tbe pitching for his team. Managers and owners both are beginning to realize tbe folly of keeping five or six ablebodied men upon tbe bench while tbe bulk. of the work is left to a couple of good men and a lot of second stringers. Traveling is ex pensive, and salaries today are at a pretty high figure. If the work could be got out of five men the saving both in traveling expenses, salary and general efficiency would be considerable and owners would be willing to tack a snug slice on to tbe compensa tlon of the five dependable men who could go in and do their regular stunts. LONG TRIP IN LAUNCH. Chicago Woman and Son Travel &312 Miles In Groat Cruise. A remarkable river, ocean, canal and lake motorboat Journey was concluded recently when the Catherine M.. a thirty-five foot cruising launch, carry, lng Ralph M. Pearson and bis mother, Mrs. Kate Pearson, came into dock in Chicago river. May 8, 1909, tbe boat started from the spot at which she docked and completed tbe crnise down tbe Mississippi to the Atlantic, along the Gulf coast north along the Atlantic coast, up the Hudson, through tbe Erie canal, across Lakes Erie and Huron, through the strait of Mackinac and up Lake Michigan to tbe river 612 miles. Will Row For the Championship. Ernest Barry, tbe English champion, has left England for South Africa. whence be will travel to tbe Zambezi, where on Aug. 18 be will row Arnst for the world's sculling championship. Barry was In splendid shape when he left England and very confident of making a good race for tbe title. He is a fine oarsman and has created new records on the Thames during bis training fcr tbe forthcoming trial. Throw a rmypPU and iliuoa cathartics which are vtoieaf ta action, and always have oat hand cor for constipation and all 1 Tom ttomaca troabia. Tears of experience nave given me the right to use the term EXPERT as applied to Watch and Jewelry Repairing. FRED KENNEOY, New Jeweler. 52 Main.

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Jack Pfeister, one of the old reliable twirlers ot the Chicago Cubs, who has won three out of four ga-nes this season. Pfeister has been on the side lines daily and is warming np in good Bhape after a slight sickness. Pfeister is here shown winding up to hurl one of his puzzling curves.

A FATAL JOY BIDE Woman Comes Home Intoxica ted and Her Jealous Husband Slays Her. HE THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF Columbus, O., July IS. "I'll have to kill you some time, and I might as well do it now," Carl J. Cly told his wife in their flat on Chittenden avenue a few minutes after 1 o'clock Sunday morning. Then he fired two shots. Mrs. Cly threw up her hand and the first one went through her wrist. The second went through her heart, but she opened the door and ran across the hall to the apartments of Mrs. Charles Murphy and fell dying in the arms of a lodger named John Stonehouse. As Stonehouse laid her stiffening form on Mts. Murphy's bed he heard a third shot Cly had shot himself through the right lung. He then ran downstairs and stood on the . curb. when neighbors attracted by the shots arrived. He then went upstairs and fell across the bed. He was taken to Protestant hospital where it was said he had a chance 'to recover. He also said bis wife shot him. The quarrel was one of many in tbe three years of their wedded life. Mrs. Cly as Alice Donaldson of Newark, married a man named Heckert. She met Cly, they became infatuated and Cly provided the money with which she secured a divorce. Then they married. Once they separated, but recently they lived together again. Saturday night she went out, ostensibly to call on a girl friend, and - was to return at 9 o'clock. Cly Bat on a second story balcony and watched for her until 1 o'clock in the morning, when she returned intoxicated In an automobile with two men and another woman. When she got upstairs he taxed her with infidelity and after brief quarrel shot her. The testimony of both Stonehouse and Mrs. Murphy discredits his story that she shot him. Cly is 25 and she was 27. Her family came from Newark, where it is said her father was once coroner of Licking county. Cly's family has lived at Lancaster for several generations.

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A Pleasant Surprise. A smsll boy or Washington squire, brought up by a fire eating father to bate anything connected witb ftng laud or the English, was conslfrum recently to eut dinner In the kltcuen witb bis nurs while the family entertained a genuine M. IV in the dlMng room. Tbe grownups meal bad cvm to tbat "twenty mluutes past" sfjge where conversation battit dlrefnliy when a childish treble fell upon tbe horrified diners' ear piping up the dumb waiter haft from tbe kitcten. Tbl was what tbe ustuniiibed M. IV beard; . . F. fl. to. turn. I soill ths blood of an Kngllshmuw New I one 8uw.. nrj taw. A traveler getting omide of St. Petersburg discovered wlieti he tried to re-enter the tity Hint he had left bin passport In the bedroom of his hotel. The guard refused ti let' lillu pans and refuged tu feud for I be ptiftH)rt. "According to you." wild be. -tbe only thing for me M do U to throw myself in the Neva." "So," MMld tbe Hentry: iulvide In , Russia 1h strictly ngnlnKt the law." . ELECTRIC IRONS "THE QUICK HEATING KIND" At Point and All , Over Except the Handle. 8, 6 and 7 lb. Sizes. MEERHOFF, the Plumber ' Phone 1230. 9 South 9th St. FIRE INSURANCE E. D. KNOLLENDERG Room 6, Knollsnberg's Annex. New Murray Theatre APPROVED VAUDEVILLE WEEK OF JULY 18TH a'Seenlc, Singing and Dancing Tropieal Oddity TOM LINTON and His CANNIBAL MAIDS Matinee, any day, 10c Night par-' formances, 7:45 and 9. Prices 10, IS, and 20c Logs seats 25c - strictly confidentlaL Address