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RECORD BASEBALL
SEASON FOR ALIBIS
Veteran Players Snicker Over
Explanations of Stars, j
ONE CIRCUIT MAY QUIT
Trouble With Mexico Apt to Put the
Texas League Out of Business.
Scout McCann Boosts Rodriguez.
Connie Mack Is Reconstructing.
This season In baseball will establish
at least one record—that for alibis for
poor hitting. There has been a flood
of alleged explanations for failure to lo-!
cate the elusive pill, and some of them
make old time ball players snicker.
At the Polo grounds In New York
some of the Giants have declared that
they could not hit because there were
too many shadows. Certain Yankees,
Frank Baker among them, have object
ed to the presence of fans In the center
field bleachers. They have alleged they
could not see the bull against the back
ground of white skirts, shirts and hats.
At Boston the Braves have solemnly
asserted that the field Is too big for
hitting. At Philadelphia visiting clubs
have protested that the field is too 1
small for hitting.
No wonder players of other days
laugh at the excuses of the high sal
aried performers of the present. The
shadow of Coogan's bluff has hung
over the Polo grounds every afternoon !
these many years. The fans have gath
ered in the center field bleachers these
many years. New Y'ork batsmen have
hung up some splendid records at the
Polo grounds these many years—even
> since the modern stadium was eon
^ structed.
j Ball players become more tempera- j
1 mental with the passing of each sea
j son. The theatrical spirit is getting
1 the better of the old athletic spirit.
) Truly good ball players should accept
) conditions as they are and make the j
) best of them, for if shadows affect i
) one man they affect all the others.
) Also bleachers were made for fans to !
) sit in. Alibis, after all, do not show \
j in the averages. One kick with the
) bat is worth a thousand with the
j tongue.
War and Baseball.
War with Mexico would have con
sideruble effect on professional base
ball. especially in some of the minor
leagues in tlie south, it is not likely
that it would hurt the big leaguers to i
a serious extent. One circuit that it
undoubtedly will knock out of busi- j
ness is the Texas league, which took
the count at the time of the Spanish
American waF.
When the news that war had been
declared on Spain hit San Antonio the
fans rushed out on the field, and base
ball was over for the season. They
turned the field into a training ground
for rookies. The war excitement spread
through the whole circuit, and it had
to shut down.
War with Mexico would be much
closer to home for the Texas league
than was the unpleasantness of 18!)S.
The Texans feel very strongly against
their neighbors across the Itio Grande,
and Texas woujd have little time for
baseball while the task of cleaning up
Carranza & Co. was in progress.
_A Boost For Rodriguez.
Gene McCann, former Brooklyn pitch
er, Yankee scout and Jersey City man
ager, declared the other day in New
London that in Joe Rodriguez he had
a first baseman who excelled even Hal
Chase at bis best, McCann is manag
ing the New London club of the East- !
era league, and he borrowed the Cuban
wonder from John McGraw.
"Rodriguez makes that bail do tricks,
and he fields better than Chase in his
prime. He is hitting .300 in this league, l
but I am not sure thut he could hit big
league burling. But for fielding he's
unbeatable.” asserted Gene. McCann
ak»o said that Bud Weiser. the outfield
er whom he got for nothing from the
Phillies and who was leading the
league in hitting, was being watched
by a lot of scouts. Bunny Hearne, for
j mer Giant pitcher, is the best (linger
In the circuit
M»ck la Reconstructing.
Connie Mack has begun bis work of
reconstruction in earnest. He has no
hesitation in changing his lineup with
every game and is giving his college
stars tryouts Just as soon as they reach
camp.
Canning, the Wesleyan pitcher. Is be
ing used in the outfield to take the
place of Rube Oldring, who quit for
good July 1. Lanning has been mak
ing good both at bat and in the field
Rowe, the University of Maine third
sacker, is also doing well.
Mack is n wonder for digging them
up. Horry Sparrow tried to sign a
college star not far from New York
some time ago and learned that Mack
had tied the kid up “when he was
about six years old.”
Glick to Coach Mercersburg.
Prank Click, captain of the Princeton
football team last fall, has accepted a
position to coach the Mercersburg acad
emy eleven next season. Glick plans
to remain In Mercersburg a year, after
which he will enter business in New
York.
United State* Imports Many Horse*.
With the Importation of over 200
racehorses from England and Prance j
the American turf has been , ‘ly en
riched, and turfmen are eutbi. .astic 1
over the prospects for a brilliant se*
ton of racing on eastern tracks.
TY COBB AND THE FIELD.
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“I had never seen Ty Cobb
play until this year,” says Lee
Magee of the Yankees. “Despite
all 1 had read of him, I never
thought thar he was as great a
ball player as he Is.
“I think he does everything bet
ter than any one else. To me It Is
the biggest Joke In the world to
talk of a "second Ty Cobb."
“There are many great ball
players. Not one Is In the same
class with the Georgian. That
goes for Speaker, Jackson, Rob
ertson or any one else. Cobb
starts where the rest of us stop.
Y'ou don't know what a marvel
he seems to another ball player.
1 have watched him now in two
series. My hat is off to him. He
stands alone.”
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EDDIE MAHAN HAS PRO SPIRIT
Asks Bonus For Signing With Cleve
land, Says Report.
Eddie Mahan, Harvard's crack var
sity pitcher, is an amateur, but he has
the professional attitude if what comes
from Boston is true.
According to the story, a "represent
ative of Mahan” approached Lee Fohl,
manager of the Cleveland club, and
asked what bonus he would give Ma
han for signing a contract
“Bonus’/” replied Fohl. "‘Get off
your foot Tell this Mahan person to
come out to the ball park and let me
look him over. If he’s any good I'll
give him a trial; if he isn't I’ll take
back the uniform.”
Mahan may be a fine college pitcher,
but there have been other tine college
pitchers who turned out to be bloom
ers in fast company.
CUTSHAW IS SOME PLAYER. I
Brooklyn’s Second Sacker Is One of
Greatest In Game Today.
A star at second base means a win
ning team. So say most of the ex
perts. ami the history of baseball seems
to prove it.
That being the case, then the Brook
lyn Dodgs rs should be winners, for if
Photo by American Press Association.
CtJTSHAW, BROOKLYN STAR SECOND BASE
MAN.
there Is a more callable second base
man in the National league, or any oth
er league, than the gangling guardian
of Brooklyn's keystone corner the dope
is w rong.
Culshaw may not be a handsome fig
ure on the diamond, his style of play
may not have the grace of Eddie Col
lins or the fire and snap of Johnny
Evers, but he delivers ibe goods and In
large packages.
He Is an expansive ground coverer,
a dangerous hitter and a brainy disci
ple of Chadwick. He learned the rudi
ments of baseball at Notre Dame uni
versity, a school that has turned out
many a good one.
Before his college days were over he
played ball with Bloomington in the
“Three I" league under the name of
Stevens, to preserve his ••amateur''
standing. His advancement was rapid.
He went in 1909 to the Coast league
from Bloomington and after three
years' service there advanced to Brook
lyn. where he has since been a fixture,
each season seeing him become more
valuable to his team until today, It is
repeated, there is not a better second
baseman in the game, and doubters
have but to watch his work each day
to have their minds convinced.
Sires of Many Racers.
Five horses now are the sires of 200
jr more trotters and pacers, they be
ing: Allerton. 208: Gambetta Wilkes.
235; Peter the Great. 231; Bingen, 204;
Onward. 200. Three of the five trace
n the main line to George Wilkes,
while Bingen goes to Electioneer and
Peter the Great to Happy Medium, it
b almost a certainty that at the end
if the present season Peter the Great
will head the list, ns the four other
torses named above are dead. Peter
idded sixty to his list last year.
Forty-eight Strikeouts In Game.
Forty-eight strikeouts, with each hurl
>r, Szidon for Ye Old Taverns. Peoria,
■ad Ackerman for Morton. 111., ran
ting twenty-four batters, featured a
iftecn Inning game at Peoria. 111.,
which resulted in victory for Morton.
I to 3 The Morton team is composed
>f Ore Rapp brothers, three Berger
trotbors and Ackerman, a cousin of
he Kipps.
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