Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 203, 7 July 1921 — Page 11

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1921.

PAGE ELEVEN

Glamory Soul Stirring Thrill Are Gone From Circuit Clout Homers Have Become Rule Provoke no Thunder of Ap:

plause, no Rapturous Happiness Players Spurn Scientific Hitting and Bang Away at Ball

if the lively ball continues In play. For almost anything seems possible

CASEY STENGEL STAR IN LATEST TRADE

Dy FRANK G. MEXKFJ The expected has happened. The glamor and the soul stirring thrill has gone from the circuit clout. For homers have become the rule in this baseball era rather than the "hip-hip-h-oo-ooray" exception. The lively ball has done It! The unusual and the extraordinary excite the populace; sends it into raptures; makes them sportively fanatical; creates a wild hysteria of enthusiasm. But the usual the commonplace provikes no thrill, no thundei of applause, no rapturous happiness. And home run hitting in this A D1921 has become ordinary, commonplace. Back in the olden days before the

baseball powers "hopped up" the ball the athlete who banged out a dozen homers In a full season was a hero.

a demon slugger, a seasonal champion.

an offensive star to be gazed upon

with awe! All Banging 'Em

But now, with the season only about

one-third over, 10 or more players

have banged out around 12 home

runs each.

A club that averaged throe homers

a week was a wonder aggregation

one that could have been nicknamed

"Demon Clouters." . Nowadays, the

team that can't bang out four baggers

far beyond that-average is regarded as a terrible aggregation. No better evidence of the "lively ball" can be cited than Ty Cobb's record. Th michtv r.cnriHan la tint

averaging more hits now than in his

best years, yet he has made almost as many homers as he did In any complete season of his spectacular career. The answer is obvious. The men behind the national game decided two seasons ago to harken to fandom's cry of "more hitting." They made the bail livelier by the 6lmple process of using in Its manufacture the springiest materials known to balldom. Their aim was to give the players a ball that could be whanged out of the lot with reckless abandon but remarkable precision.

Aim is Achieved

The aim was achieved but now

there is evidence of its boomerang ef-; feet. ! Even the four basing of Ruth isn't provoking any excessive delirium this year. Everybody's doing it this home run stuff so why get excited about it? The fans have become smarted up this season and they know that Ruth's terrific clouting and the great four bagger work of a dozen other players is, in the final analysis, an artificial performance, as compared with the era before the "hop" ball. The new ball hasn't merely increased circuit drives. It ha3 enabled mediocre batsman to cling easily above .300 while a horde of good swatsmits are finding no difficulty banging .350 or better. The year undoubtedly will end with mo're .300 hitters than the game ever has known before. Require 15 Safeties Once upon a time a team that averaged six or seven safeties per game was an aggregation of lu-lu hitters

and did the old home town proud. But a six or seven hit gang now would be fired bodily by the irate magnate. No club is a hitting one now unless it can pound out 10 to 15 safeties per

diem. i

That Tiger-Athletics series again1 can be cited. In the four games the!

Tigers made 33 runs and 61 hits an average better than S and 15 while the men of Connie Mack made 32 runs and 45 hits, an average of 8 runs and more than 11 hits per comhat

Philadelphia fandom saw each davPVa;;hington

on the average, a total of 16 runs and)

nearly ii hits probably a record performance in offensive flay. But it won't remain such for long

with its use. Players, realizing that the ball will sail tremendous distances

when lustily whaled, are spurning the bunt, balking at scientific batting orders and slugging, slugging, slugging The fans wanted more hitting a little more. They got more in huge Quantities. And the reaction is setting in. They no longer go into ecstacles about batting rallies and long distance driving. It's become too common. ' It looks as if somebody ought to start paging Sherlock Holmes if the

How They Stand

NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Clubs. Won. Lost. Pet. Pittsburgh 50 25 .667 New York 44 27 .620 Boston 38 32 .543 St. Louis 38 35 .521 Brooklyn 38 36 .514 Chicago 32 37 .464 Cincinnati 27 45 .375 Philadelphia 20 50 .280

AMERICAN LEAGUE. Clubs. Won. Lost.

Cleveland 48 26 New York 46 28 Washington ,.. 43 37 Detroit 38 38 Boston . .... 33 40 St. Loui3 32 44 Chicago 30 42 Philadelphia 29 44

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clubs. Won. Lost.

Louisville 47 Minneapolis 42 Milwaukee 38 St. Paul 37 Kansas City 33

Indianapolis 35

Toledo 35 Columbus 31

30 31 35 38 38 40 42 46

Pet. .649 .622 .538 .500 .452 .421 .417 .397

Pet .610

.575 .521 .493 .479 .467 .455 .403

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Casey Stengel, one of the best outfielders in the old league, is now a Giant. He was the prominent member of the latest trade in which he and Johnny Rawlings were traded by the Phillies to McGraw for Goldie Rarp, Lee King and Lance Richbourj:.

Closeop of Casey Stengel and Goldie Rapp in action. Rapp was the leading member of the Giant players in the trade. Rawlinps Is a fair second baseman. King is a fair outfielder and can hit southpaw hurlers. Richbourjr is a college lad who has refused to play with the Phils. Rawlinjts is expected to plav second regularly. Stengel will be used as pinch hitter.

GAMES TODAY. National League. Cincinnati at Boston. Brooklyn at New York. St. Louis at Philadelphia, American League. Detroit at Chicago. Philadelphia at Cleveland. American Association. Columbus at Milwaukee. Toledo at Kansas City. Indianapolis at Minneapolis. Louisville at St. PauL

Games Yesterday

V . t NATIONAL LEAGUE. At Pittsburg R. H. E. St. Louis.. 0OO 000 002 000 0 2 13 0 Pittsburg. .100 001 000 000 13 13 2 Doak, Sherdel. North and Clemons; Morrison and Schmidt. At New York It. H. E. Brooklyn 102 021 11311 16 0 New York 000 000 004 4 7 3 Grimes and Miller; Toney, Benton, Zink and Smith. At Philadelphia R H. E.

i Boston 100 035 20011 17 1

Philadelphia 200 031 000 6 13 '2 McQuillian, Fillimgin and O'Neill; Hubbell, Ring and Bruggy.

PLAN ORGANIZATION OF SPORTSMEN HERE Plans for organizing the sportsmen's league are rapidly getting under way and the proposed meeting will be called soon according to R. E. Graham, who has been appointed organizer for this county. The league is for the protection of square sportsmen, to protect hunting dogs eac, and to eliminate the unsportsmen like tactics that some

people insist upon using.

The newly organized unit in Butler

County, Ohio, is planning for a field trial meet of hunting dogs. The pres

ent plans are to have four counties in the contest, two from Ohio and two from Indiana, including Butler and Preble counties in Ohio and Wayne and Fayette counties from Indiana. It is possible that several more counties will be invited to enter but this has not been decided upon. Several places for the meet are under consideration and no definite place has been decided upon. There will be events of fox and coon hunting by the animals and if enough entries can be obtained a bird dog event will be staged.

Chips and Slips

LEAGUE.

Boston

Second gamf

AMERICAN

At Boston TL H. E.

010 000 0001 8 0 OtTo OCO 000 0 5 0 R. H. E.

Washington 001 000 (K)0 0001 6 0 Boston 010 000 000 0012 11 0 Mogridge and Gharrity; Russell and Ruel. At Chicago R.H.E. Detroit 000 0OO 000 0 4 0

Chicaco 000 002 OOx 2 Dauss and Bassler; Faber

Schalk. No other games scheduled.

DETROIT, -Mich., July t. Heldineri H. Yost, recently appointed director of j AMERICAN ASSOCIATION, intercollegiate athletics at the I'ni-1 At Milwaukee R.H.E. versity of Michigan, and for 20 years i Columbus 001 103 030 8 12 2 coach Of the 'varsity football squad. Milwaukee 200 OOO t013 14 1

YOST OUTLINES PLAN OF HUGE STADIUM

Carpentier's Signature to Gibbons Match Expected NEW YORK, July 7 Hope of getting George's Carpentier's signature today to the articles of agreement for a bout with Tom Gibbons on Columbus Day, Oct. 12, was expressed by Tex Rickard, who said he expected a visit from Descamps, the French boxer's manager, during the afternoon.

Terms for the match were under

stood to include a percentage basis of about 30 or 35 per cent of the gross gate receipts for Carpentier. It was

expected that the bout would be ar

ranged before the Frenchman leaves

for France to visit his wife and baby-

daughter on July 14. No trouble is

expected from the Gibbons side of the contract. Rickard had hoped to arrange the meeting for Labor Day,

but Carpentier's broken hand will

prevent him from entering the ring before the early part of October.

The sharks who dote on consecutive hitting have been having a lot of fun thi3 season, as nearly every team has at least one player who has hit safely in 10 or more consecutive games. A few of the records are: Joe Sewell, 15 games; Bob Veach, Detroit, 15; Sam Rice, Washington, 23;

Jacques Fournier, Cardinals, 19; Tur

ner Barber, Chicago Cubs, 14; Caa Lee, Pirates. Walter Schmidt, Pirates, Rogers Hornsby, Cardinals, and Bob Falk, White Sox, 10 each, and George

Kelley, Giants, and George Whitted,

Pirates, seven each.

Ys, there are colored players In the

major leagues, ope scribbler volun

teers. Sure thing: Brown of the

Giants and Blue of Detroit.

BANKERS GET SECOND

PLACE IN LEAGUE Teams Won Lost Pet. Kiwani3 9 3 .750 Bankers 7 5 .583 Balers 5 4 .55G Mahers 6 5 .545 Press 6 5 .545 Post Office 4 7 .364 Himes 4 7 .361 Police 2 7 .222

The Bankers continued their climb

toward first place when they trimmed

the Maher Meats at Exhibition park

Wednesday afternoon by the score of 5 to 2. The win also put the Bankers

into second place in the league stand

ing, and are only two games behind

the league leading Kiwanis club

Not an earned run was scored by the Bankers, and they took advantage of the loose playing of the Meats, who gave their pitchers very poor support

at critical times of the game. Boyd, working for the Bankers, was in rare form, allowing the Meats only three blows and held the Meats in check in every round but the second ajid sixth when they scored a run in each round, but did not threaten to score after the two tallies had been pushed over. The Bankers started the scoring early and sewed up the game in the first inning, when they scored three runs after two men were down. With the bases full and two down, two errors by the Meats infield allowed three runners to cross the pan. They scored two run in the third on two errors and two singles. Maher started

on the hill for the Meats and worked the first three innings and hurled nice ball, but his support was very poor,

and he retired in favor of Dunham.

Thursday afternoon the Policemen

and Bakers will play a double header at Exhibition park. The first game

will be a postponed game and will bo called at 2 o'clock. The 6Core:

Mahers 010 0012

Bankers 302 OOx 5 Batteries Maher, Dunham Nick; Boyd and Kiser.

SUSPENDERS COME INTO STYLE AGAIN

The St. Louis Browns don't meet Cleveland again until Labor day, and the Browns ought to be glad. Of the 16 games the two teams have played

this season the Indians have won 13

An even break in those 16 games

would have changed the American

league standing considerably.

Miller Huggins departed from his Yankees last week for an unknown

destination and there has been much speculation. One rumor was that he had gone west to pull off a trade that

would land an outfielder for the New

York team. Huggins left Roger Peckinpaugh in charge of Ruth and com

pany during his absence, and Peck

has sure been doing nobly in winning

ball games, according to the box

scores.

Larry Kopfs poor showing with the bat gives Sammy Crane another chance to try his hand at short for the Cincinnati Reds.

Bantamweight Boxer -Wants Matches Here' Jimmy Dean, . bantamweight boxer, from Pueblo, Col., will be in this city for a .few weess and vonld liketo book a few bonts during: his .tiay.ln this city. He is willing to meet any pug in his class and would like to get into action here. Any person desiring a bout write Jimmy Dean, 247 South Third street.

HEADS MEXICAN FORCES (By Associated Pres) MEXICO CITY, July 7. Gen. Manuel P. Elaez has been appointed commander-in-chief of Mexican government forces in the Tampico district. He is very popular in that region, and belief is expressed that his appointment will relieve the situation there,which is a result of the unemployment" of a large number of men."'

Once more the cycle of change decrees the revival of a good ill standby of man6 throuchout tr.2 asres. Indications point to the ureetfv reaouearance of that tried and true and stretched article, the suspender, which we also know as calluses end which our ancestors were familiar with as the gallows.

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Four Events Scheduled

on Grand Circuit Card ( R v Associated Prs) CLEVELAND, O., July 7. Four events were on today's grand circuit

harness racing program at North Randall, with the $5,000 Tavern Stake for 2:14 trotters as the feature. Twelve starters had been named to go in the Tavern, most prominent of which was Galli Curci, .Teanette Rankin and Hilda Fletcher. Because of her mark of 2:03 last fall, GalliCurci was overnight favorite. The other events on the card were the 2.20 pace with ten probable starters, the 2:06 pace with six, and the 2:10 trot with ten.

Sevastopol Playgroand

Team Defeats Warner!

The Sevastopol playground baseball! team defeated the Warner baseball! team in the Twenty-second street dia-j monds Wednesday afternoon by the

score of 14 to 8. The winners sewed up the game in the second inning when they scored nine runs. The score: Sevastopol 390 200 0 14 Warner 000 015 2 8

KEYS DEFEATS RODUTSKY Keys defeated Kodutsky in their match of the semi-finals of the singles and earned the right to play in the finals. Rodutsky won the first match 8-6 but dropped the next two, 5-7, and 3-6 after a hard fought match.

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Nicholson and Edwards Win in Tennis Finals

In a hard fought match Nicholson

and Edwards defeated Rethmeyerj and Rethmeyer in the finals for the city championship on the Earlham ; courts Wednesday afternoon. A small but very enthusiastic gallery witnessed the match and good form was displayed by both teams. The winners won the match by three straight sets, one of them being a deuce set. The scores were: 6-1, 10-8 and 6-4. J

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Heinie Groh has been made captain of the Cincinnati team, Jake Daubert gracefully withdrawing in Groh's favor. The presumption is that some sort of a bonus goes with the honor that will provide Groh with a salary more equal to the ability he possesses.

4 0 and

told the Michigan club some of his

department's plans at a luncheon here yesterday. By the first of September, Yost announced, Michigan would have the third largest football stadittm in the country. It is to seat. 44,0(i0. he said, and will be dedicated when Ohio State niseis Michigan on October 22. The stadium will be KurpiiFsed in size only by Princeton and Yale. Many colleges, Yost said, have under rated the importance of athletics as a part of higher education. Hid i.ew department, he added, would seek to train students in "playing the game of life," as well as in attaining high standards of physical fitness.

GRIMES ONLY BATTER TO KNOCK OUT HOMER

(T3y Associated Press NEW YORK, July 7 Tight pitching nnd perfect fielding marked the American league games yesterday, while hits were frequent in the National league contests. Grimes, of the Brooklyn Nationals, poled out the solitary home run of the day. Two baggers wt-re the longest American league hits. In an errorless double header between Washington and Boston, Russell of the Red Sox. and Mogrodge of the Senators, battled 12 innings before Boston won. Erickson of Washington, shut out his opponents with five hits in the second game, while the Senators could make only one run and eight hits off Jones. Dauss, of Detroit, and Faber of Chicago, each struck out five men and allowed four hits, but passes by Dauss paved the way for a White Sox victory. In the National league, Pittsburgh defeated St. Louis in a thirteen inning game, in which each team made 13 'hits. Boston won by outslugging PhilA adelphia 17 hits to 13, and scoring almost twice as many runs as the Quakers. In Brooklyn's one-sided victory over New York, Grimes, the Superba's twirler, made' a home run, a double and two singles. It was hi3 seventh straight game won.

Clark and Wilson; Northrop and Gossett. At Minneapolis R.H. E. Indianapolis 000 030 0003 11 0 Minneapolis 010 000 0001 9 0 Rogge and Dixon; Smallwood, Schauer and Mayer. At St. Paul-i- R.H.E. Louisville 0O0 000 0000 6 0 St. Paul 110 000 00O2 8 1 Estell and Kocher; Merritt and Allen. Second game R. H. E. Louisville 110 000 002 i 6 2 St. Paul 001 112 lOx 6 11 C Cullop, Sanders and Meyer; Shea and Allen. At Kansas City R. H. E. Toledo 001 000 1002 9 3 Kansas City 100 003 23x 9 15 0 Wright, McColl and Decker; Bono and McCarty.

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