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LETTERS FROM AN OLD SPORT TO HIS SON IN COLLEGE
In Which He Tells How the Desire
to Show a Strong Whip Puts
Lots of Good Material Out of
the Business
Wrlttetn and Illustrated Df
JIM NASIUM.
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■alary win* that was cast In an Iron
foundry, kid, but if you don't kwp the
machinery in your cunning tower from
__ , , jumping th* jrovsmor belt you'll land It
BAR BON~Tou say you re on ( jn huub« the first thing you
the shelf with a bum whip. know.
Tour flipper may be In the re t!Jat kids whom th<-
pair .hop all right, kid but I * n l*ht>- has favored by sticking an Iron
want to hand you a tip that J ^ 1^ir
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changing-HISUN|%K
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■ - want iu uauu >uh m uv iiuu . . • !^et ran '
.. . ...e works In your conning tower that : *.?ur,,lop V "lt •yOU mi"" •how 11
hae put you on the ahelf, and not the | ia rr*"
oracktr on your whip. You've got
GO IK' TO
6U5T NO
STUHttOin
lEcn
EASE UP
HTCHER-WHQ-
LETS OUTHld
WHIP ONLYINTHE. PINCHLd-ld-
THE OHEWHO STICKS INTH£
OaTIETHIL LONGEST
time there's a pair of lan^
trimmed your way. 1 Know It's a groat
temptation for a guy with a good *h!p
who la setting a try-out to Jump into
ev.-ryt T!...• . ^ I; in 1,1- j • t ir.-
and tlit k Lie h. ad T>tT in ai vftort t
ahow the goods he is packing, but tlili.
practice a ill blamed f>oon have hltn
chancing hla line of gttoda from structural
Iron work to glassware
You often n«e a kid trotting out on
the lot without any preliminary practice
stuntM and letting hie whip out on the
first ball that cornea into his lunch no ike.
iust to show what he can do. If that
Id doesn't krop down this expansion In
his garret he's going to have a thunder
Ing lot of repslrs to put In on the rl«ht
wing of his structure, and the wh' 1-
blamed thing will tumble into ruins if
he don't get hep.
A ball player's whip Is a thundering
lot like n cahle No matter how strong
It Is. It has got to be tightened up to a
tough pull gradually, and If you yank It
out of a alack und send it up ag.iin*t u
sudden strain with a Jerk It's mighty apt
to go to pieces Mover let your whip
out, kid. till you've loosened up on dinky
flings and worked up a swear, and it'll
he a Warned Right more apt to deliver
the goods than you've got to make the
maro go. The tl^ie to show the crowd
what you've got iR when It oounta on the
tally sheet, and It'll make a blguer hit
With the fans when It gets something.
I don't want to coach you to loaf on a
hit. kid. but even In a game don't let out
your whip unless you've got to to nip
the runnrr. You'll find plenty of chanecs
to show your speed when you nerd it. and
If you keep a little up your sleeve an 1
Judge your runner so as to get the pill
over nicely Just In time to do the busi-
ness your whip is a blamed sight mere
apt to keep out of the glasshouse and
bo there with the goods In a pinch.
You'll find that the guys who stick In
the game the longest and duck the bos
pltal Hat are the ones who use their
noodles and keep a slice of their physical
accomplishments In reserve subject to
demand. The Infielder who throws his
brad off every time h>- gets his lunch
hooks on the pill and plays all runners
up to his limit will *oon he lugging a
glaso paddle out of the game. The base-
runn< r who butls In o sudden stops and
quick starts instead of using hla noodle
by edging up to his opportunities will
KIOTlkJWtfJHIS
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tall timothy Is the foxy guy who plays i
with the swatters like a cat does with
a mouse, piaymg them easy and taking a
- ha ice on a hit when a hit won't hurt, i
and letting bimself out and dishing "P
foolers with the bags populated. He
rusU'F no bally trying tu tool the swat-
ter, and ia conseuoeutiy more grouchy ,
\rlih hja phases and worlds lees in a game
vhan tn*- alob who U> copp'ug tfc? strike- ;
utfl. If he can * tl\ the game ,
«y lobMng a ftyv up to the plate eacV
tnnlQf' Md ifttlog them slam the pilj [ *
lUto the Oyt f***®*!**''*4' fnltlij It'fl a win for ?
world so blamed long that thpy get .t
Into their krn t that the Almighty has j
given them a special lease of life In order
to perp> tuute the wisdom of the past ;
ag.'S, and they insist on plugging the ;
present generation full of btule doj>e
which ha* outlived lis useful
ordii
k-ed
tfie dark ag .s
Thfs old <?rld ha? done a f-w laps In
world has
the r\c| uf ptogrvM sin e a hunch of th
eJiiCjmo^til w"-s invented, and U
guy who is hep t > the Li:;j•--* flo liUg'
conu'deri. it a piqllt. Me to«M um>l t f«.
soon he riding out of the game on atthe pinches. Tbese guvs who keen on
Charley horse. The pitcher who speeds j hanging up brackets for their teams year
every ball he flip, up to the piate and after > «r arc the ones who don't get it
^'8 °««1 trying to strike out into their knot tha' they're the whole
the hitters v 111 be going back to pitch-| cnesse and forget the fact that there ore
lag hay while thr- foxy guy with lef>s seven other guM^ scattered around the
physical ability keeps right on pitching lot tor the sole purpose of putting the
"T . ' . i t(iig or. the batlei. Instead of trying to
The sling shover who stands out on the tan every guy who t« .\s the pan the
mound and pitches his head off to hold pitcher who is there with the noodle will
the other guys to s low -hit gane when w - rk the camera in such a way that the
his bunch has a commanding lead and is batter has to hit but can't meet It on the
banging the ball is Khowtng punk noodle j nose, and put it up to the fielders to
work, and you'll notice that tlw habitual do the rest.
low-hit pltchchs usually pitch themselves ! You'll us null* find that ths pitchers who
out of the gnnie after a brief, though | are packing the glassware are the ones
brilliant, car-er. Tlie stayers arc guys , who waste effort. The guy who keeps
like old Cy Young and Deacon Pbilllppl, his salary wing out of the glasshouse
who pitch otdy to win and not to keep and stays right on the job while count
down hits, and only et themaeves out in •leas phenom are beating it ba-k to the
the oQtfinders' miIV* it's a win for
liitn just the saiue. and though It isn't j
<ju;te ho showy H's a Jjlumflfl *!ght easier
win tha ti the sjob gets" who is copping |
the strikeout record", and hla goods win
laat )on2*r because he don't waste them.
These are the guys, kid, whom you aee
getting away with games in which they
give a dozen hits, and the funs up in
rooters' row think they've been out-
pitched and were lucky to cop the vic-
tory. But they keep these hits scattered
like facts in u political speech, and they
get away with the game without put-
ing their salary whip on the blink.
Strikeout heaving Is all right out on the
wheat belt circuit where the ilelders pile
up errors on their Saturday afternoon off
from piling up corn, but you'll notice that
the career of the strikeout pitch* r In
f3St company Is mighty brief. Another
thing. If h pitcher dishes up his le t goods
with every ball pitched they'll soon size
up his speed and curves and drive him to
the stable. If he keeps his best curds
up his sleeve for the pinches they're a
blamed sight more apt to cop the pot.
The reason I'm handing you this bunch
of dope. kid. Is because I wantt you to
get hep to the fact that you'll sti-k iu
the game a blamed eight longer if you put
a cheok rain on your whip and only de-
liver your bets goods when they're ord-
ered. This isn't a tip to loaf, but if you
fjet the runner you're doing all there is
to do and the easier you do It the longer
ycu'll last and the more opt you are to
be there with the api^ed wbeu you need It.
"Constant dripping wears away the hard-
est stone." and cor.statn strain v.-lll put
the best of whips In the g •• smuse.
That's just what has put you on the shelf
•iow. !t len't any flaw In your whip. kid.
it's the expansion lu your conning tower
which prompts you to show th* crowd
the strength of your whip every time you
gat the pill lu your lunoh hooks.
This lops*1 of yours Into the principle*
of Wheat belt bar "ball kind of gives me a
hunch, kid. that you're not freezing Into
the Instructions of your baseball coach in
the way that marks the apt pupil.. I
want to hand you a tip that you're rn-
sconded in that knowledge fac'ory t« r
the sole purpose of getting outside of a
bunch of up-to-date 1 ase'oaH wlsdoji, ar.d
not to waste the golden days of your
youth laying in a at oak of ueebss knowl-
edge of the brand dished up by your
moss-grown pedagogues If you aspire
to cut a swath !n mollycoddle society and
become a shining light at pink tea so-
cials by fitting yourself out for a star
conversationalist in lost languages and
an authority on prehistoric palaeontology,
th'n K is dope of the knowledge factory
stiffs ia hot stuff Hut you can take it
from your old dad that the tips you get
from your baseball coach will be a
blamed sight more valuable In a money
making way than the knowledge drilled
Into your conk In the class room.
There Is a thundering lot of musty old
fossils who Unger in this dump of a
$
or
of hH
stock of
uhlcb, ill after yean
blasts ti
kid to in
perlotj of devulojiiji
know ledge from v. I:
he'll have to huytjq Jlke .laz«s to
the prioe of thfoe squarea a day and
extra «ult of glad rag! -
The kid who become J liver-grown and
top-h«;.vy from hunching over hla foun-
tains of knowledge In a ninety class room
and beats it out Into the cold world with
his roll of sheepskin nnd the ability to
- .it out a bunch of different brands of
k'. b that would make the Tower of Babel
a. em liko a Quaker meeting, might be •
more ornamental object and luuk like the
real velvet good; as a pillar In the
world, but the guy who ha* Improved his
youthful days by learning to control the
nplt-|.rtn, or the husky who has acquired
the art of a'ammlng the leather up
against the whiskey ada on the outfield
n-Jljifcs. can put it all over him In the
banK-book balance.
Ho kid. if you want to be there with
the good., that will C>nn§pt wltb the coin
of the realm juil pass up the knowl-
edge bunk of these petrified mummies and
tie up to the brand of goods dispensed
by your baseball coach. .Must cut it out
for this trio, kid, but you let this dope
soak In to wl - n it will act on the propt r
organs and you'll begin to get result*
Bye bye till "eat week.
FROM YOUR DAD.
THE PIRATES LEAD
WAGNER, LEACH AND CLARKE
HEAD NATIONAL'S
BATTING LIST
32 SACREFICE HITS
VicWillies, the Pittsburg Pitcher
Has a Great Record
Chicago, Aug. 10.—Three men of
Fitaburg lead the National league In
buttlug. They are Wagner, Loach and
Clarke. In the order named the three
men have stolen 36, 25 and 2 4 bases
The three combined have tirade 32
•acirflee hits.
Doyle, tlie youngest recruit whom
Mctiray has on second base replacing
t-arry Corcoran, Is really second In
the batting list with .810, but he has
only worked ill twelve games, while
the averages are based on the official
rule of fifteen games or over.
Mdiann, first baseman of New
York, Is hitting with an average of
.272, with 4 stolen basos and 8 sacri-
fice hits. Chance, first for the Cubs Is
batting .276 and has stolen 26 bases
and made 3 sacrifice hits.
Doyle, second for New York, Is bat-
ting .110 for twelvo games. He has
' stolen no bases and secured no sacri-
fice lilts. Against him Is Kvers with
.227 average, 28 stolen bases and 9
sacrifices.
Hill Dahlen at short has .26* with S
stolen bases and 6 sacrifices. Tinker
bats .til, with 6 stolen bases and 8
sucrlflce lilts.
On third Devlin bats .26 8, with 18
stolen buses and 26 sacrifice hits,
fiteinfeldt hits .287, with 9 stolen bas-
es and 16 sacrifice hits.
In the outfield Shannon has .233,
with 21 stolen bases and 4 sacrifices
to Sheckard's .266, with 18 steals and
22 sacrifice hits.
Seymour in center ha? .274, with 12
stolen bases and 4 sacrifice hits. 61a-
gle bats .24 6. with 20 stolen bases and
7 sacrifices. Hoffmsn hits .271, with
17 stolen bases snd 16 sacrifices.
Browne Is right bats .263, with 6
stolen sacks and 16 sacrifices. Sehulte
bats .296. with 4 stolen bases and 9
sacrifice hits.
When It comes to pitching games
with few lilts all the other rubber art-
ists have to take their caps off to Vic
Willis of the Pirates, for the tall pitch-
er has it on them in this respect. Up
to last Sunday Willis had pitched five
games In which not more than three
hits had been made off his delivery.
In three of the five games he has
held his opponents to two hits. His
first fame In which only three hits
wert made was at Chicago, May 4,
when, with Lundgren opposing him.
Hoffman was the only one to connect,
the aJl-round man for the Cubs crack-
ing eut the only hits. Willis lost the
game, as Chicago scored the only run
ef the engagement. Chance walked,
stole second and scored on Hoffman's
hit.
Victor's other twe games In which
be allowed but two hits were victor-
ies The Moond twe hit game was
^against Brooklyn at Brooklyn In the
se.-ond game of ths douhlehealer. He
wes opposed by Ifcjntyre, Pittsburg
winning 1-0 Llk* the Ohloggo game,
but one man. Hitter. sc<yed ths only
hits ,one of them a doubfi. Ills third
twe-htt game was also on foreign
grounds This game was the one lj
which Vlo dofN< w York by k
•oore of l-f Like the other two games,
but one fcariAr, fiewermin. was abls
to eonnaot with the tall fallow's slant!.
DONTLfJT OAT DIG STIFF
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"Big Alike," like Hitter, in the Brook-
lyn game, made a single and double.
Besides the three two-hit games, Wil-
lis hss pitched two three-hit games.
At Cincinnati April 28, with Mason as
his opponent, he held the Reds to a
trio of bingles. Davis, Mitchell and
Fowery getting all singles. His second
game of this description was at home
against I'oston, June 6, when lind-
mnn put the record for baaes on balla
at eight in five innings. Tenney, Boul-
tes and Dorner getting a single each.
Thin is the best pitching feat perform-
ed in either league this year. The sec-
ond man has not done as well by two
points.
Big Jeff Preffer of the Bostons
comes the neareat to Willis' work of
at lthe others. He has a no-hlt, the
only game pitched In either major
league In which no hits were made
and two three-hit games. His one-hit
game was against Cincinnati May 8, at
Boston, and, by the way, the only no-
hit game ever pitched on the Na-
tional League grounds In Boston.
Pfeffer allowed three men to reach
first. Ganzell In the third, when he
was hit by a pitched ball; Schlel, who
raced to second when Brain threw the
ball wild to Tenney, and the same
player when he was sent to first via
the walk line. In tlie third. Not a
player reached first after the third
Inning, one-two-three was the order
In which they walked right up. went
right out, and walked right back
again. HI Bother pair of games were
three-hit affairs. The first game of
the season he held Brooklyn to this
number, which he won ngalnst Ttuck-
er. while five days later ugainst New
York, with Amer opposed to him. he
held the Giants to three hits but lost.
AMVHUCAX LEAGUE TALKS.
The Tigers are playing about as
fast ball as the leugue affords and
show as much sign of being crippled
as a jack rabbit at a coursing match.
Chase, by the way. has established
his lead In the batting l*st of the Yan-
kees, and Is crowding the .800 mark
hard He Is now batting .298 and hit-
ting hard In every game.
Wld. Conroy has slipped way back
to .226. but he still holds the base-
stealing belt with twenty-seven bur-
glaries to his credit. Chase is his
neareat competitor with 18.
Chase has grown to be quite some-
thing of a slugger, lie has one home
run, three trippUs and seventeen
doubles to show In tlie way of extra
base walloping.
A Cleveland expert comes out with
the statement that, painful as It is to
realise It, Cleveland needs a manager.
Many of us felt that way about It
sometime go. but we didn't want to
hurt the feelings of those Cleveland
chaps by tipping them off on what
their team needed.
As the Athletic won In 1902 and
1905 they are not due again until next
year, but the team Is going so fast
now It may get ahead of its system.
A Ft. Louis expert savs that ©very
club that comes to St. Louis Including
tho Prowns, haa from two to six play-
ers who do not belong in fast com-
pany. Just breaking a lance for tho
new league, we ars compelled to re-
mark that most clubs In the National
that have been hero have only from
two to alx players who do.
It Is reported that tho Rt. I^ouls
club will get Catcher Blue of the Co-
lumbus team In the American asao-
olatlon It Is perfectly obvious to re-
mark that be will probably feel at
home with that namo on tho St. Louis
team.
A western paper eeya that Frank
Kltfon^ late of the Yankees, has a
two pA&f*' contract with Tebeau ef the
Kaciaaa City team calling for $4 26 a
month. Mexican or Chinese d illari'
SOME BASEBALL SJOKII*.
Fred Clarke Was Getting Lower ami
Lower According to Phllli))!.
Fred Clarke, the Pittsburg captain,
according to Deacon Phillip!, the
pitcher, must have been getting pretty
close to nature last spring just before
It was time for hlni to report for duty
with his club, for the deacon, calling
at the residence of .Charley Leever in
order to accept Leever's invitation to
dinner, said as he came in the door:
"Why, I just heard from Fred
Clarke. Charley, and from what he
writes me lie must be getting lower
and lower in the world every day."
"Why, how Is that?" cried out I>ee-
ver, who was genuinely alarmed at the
news.
"He Informs me In this letter,"
calmly replied the deacon, as he
brought forth the missive from his
pocket and prepared to unfold It,
"that he Is at present engaged In the
arduous task of digging a ninety-foot
well on hla Kansas farm." z
And then Leever cried "Oh. fudge,"
In so loud a tone that his wife came
hurrying In, and declared that no
swearing was allowed on the premises.
Fred Glade of the Rt. Louis club Is
a native of a nifty little place called
Grand Island, Neb. According to Fred
they have queer happenings at times
out in his bailiwick.
Two seasons ago Fred was telling
of a lightning storm which playfully
blow Into town, and while wandering
up and down the village street hap-
pened to spy through an open door a
young lady seated at her melodeon,
and engaged In grinding out melo-
dies. Not even hesitating, this chesty
storm entered that peaceful abode and
circled about the head of the village
maiden with so much force that it
drove the hairpins clear down Into
her brain, killing the fair musician
instantly.
Glade ns*d to tell this story with
tears and at the risk of putting dents
In hla reputation as p. person of verac-
ity, for brutal p'?Ara used to hurl
harsh sayings at when he would
spiel about the .r.uslcally Inclined
maiden who had met so hard a fate.
Glade's latest narrative Is In line
with the popular nature stories, which
have been so well advertised through
the recent controversy between Presi-
dent Boosevelt and the Rev. William
Ix>ng.
The members of the Pt. Louis and
Washington clubs were dlscusalng this
unpleasantness while seated out In
front of the Planters hotel telling the
Nationals' last trip west, when Fred
Glade, taking a hitch in his belt strap,
said:
"I don't know which of these men
is a nature faker, but I do know that
any man who studies animals and
their habits closely will come In for
a good many surprises, and will no-
tice things that will not only amaze
himself, but will also cause hia word
to be questioned at times, when ho
relutes to his acquaintances some of
the things which he has seen with hla
own eyes."
These opening remarks cauaed all
to *lt up.
"Now, out In the vicinity of my
home a few years back." continued
Fred, ns he proceeded to li«ht a cigar,
"I was hunting one day. when my at-
tention was attracted by the terrific
fquealing of a hog. The agonising
sounds coming from the direction of
the river caused me to hurriedly make
my way in that direction.
"Arriving on the brink of the
stream I discovered the unfortunate
animal about ten foot from the shore,
but being rapidly carrlod out on the
bosom of the stream.
"Shedding a fow tears at the un-
timely fate of poor piggy I was about
to' turn aadly away fram the apot
when my attention was attracted by
the aounds of hurried scrambling In
the busliA* near me. and the next mo-
ment s whole drova of hogs dashed
uuidlv on the acene
"Weil, iron tie men." pro ceded Fred
as he blew a cloud of smoke in the
air, "those hogs, who seemed to be
under the leadership of one big. fat
fellow, whp directed their actions by a
series of grunts, didn't do a thing but
form themselves Into a lifeline by put-
ting their tails in one another's
mouths, and in this way the string
reached clear out into midstream,
where the pig at the end of the bunch
caught the tail of the drowning hog
in his mouth, and thus," concluded
Glade, "was effected the most com-
plete animal rescue it has ever been
my pleasure to hear of."
When Glade finished, a deep and
dark silence fell upon the group of
phlyere, which was finally broken by
Stone, that prince of batsmen, and
who, from his own account, is also a
student of nature. Raid Stone:
"Yes, there are indeed many sup-
posedly Incredible things happening
among the lower walks of animal life
that, when told of by persons who
have witnessed these same things with
their own eyes, causes the narrator
to be clawed as a nature faker. Al-
though." continued Stone, as he look-
ed fixedly in tlie direction of the se-
rene Mr. Glade, "there are no doubt
many nature fakers in existence.
"But, anyway," prooeeded the
heavy-hitting outfielder, "I want to
tell you a little nature story concern-
ing a dog I used to own. and If any-
one doubts its truth It can easily be
proven, if only in the Interest of sci-
ence.
"This dog," went on Rtone. "was the
most intelligent animal I ever heard
of. and to show this I will tell you of
an Instance which I think will bear
me out.
"One day I took my dog out walk-
ing, «nd when we had gone only a
few blocks a tremendous St. Bernard
an'maJ Jumped on my pet and gave
him a rolling In the mud. Of course. I
went to the as tance of my dog. and,
when I had chased the other brute
away, what was my astonishment to
find that my d<>j wos running rapidly
back in the direction of my home,
with his head cocked up at the build-
lngs along th^ way, Just as If he were
reading the bu-iiiess signs on tliie
houses.
"Well. I to<'k after that animal as
fast as I could, and I had almost
caught up even with him when I saw
him dart Into an office building
"Wondering what he could want in
such a place. I followed him, and
was Just In time to see that dog holt
Into a police magistrate's office, and.
without hesitating a moment, that dog
of mine leaped upon the table and
from among the papers scattered
about he selected a bl*ink warrant,
and .catching hold of It with his
teeth, he presented It to the magis-
trate. and then, with the tears rolling
down his little cheeks, he started pull-
ing the official toward the door.
"Of course. I immediately tumbled
to the fact," concluded Stone, "that
my dog wanted to 4iavc the big dog
committed for asxnult. But wouldn't
you call that rare Intelligence on his
part"" queried the big outfielder as
he looked complacently «t the awed
facts of his brother ball tosaers.
KLT/ISOK VI IT PARLAYING.
Plunger Hfon.rt to Win $02,000 on a
Combination.
Charlie Rlll-'on, the plunrrer, who
nowadays will . id In a* high as
HO.000 ob the thing he thinks looks
right, but who In the old days, used
to play 'em around the old Rt. Louis
alleys on the four-bits basis to a race,
once stackced himself up sgalnst s
slow-music very E-ftat combination
ticket. This. Mo, after he \vas going
good and was there with at least the
superstructure of the Immense bank
roll he has now scraped together.
Fill son wu5 playing them In a pool-
room In Helen < Mont., for a spell that
summer and iM*na poolrooms never
were plkerJhb dumps One morning
there were eeverftl thlr.rs on various
racing cards fhet looked prettr «*n*y
and gluey le Charles. Throe of them
were to run at SUeepahead Bay that
day—Thomas Cat, Kinnikinnic and
the mighty Ornament—and at Louis-
ville May Hempstead, that tremen-
dously f «t mare, was to oontest the
Louisville Oaks with a fast crowd of
her sex.
Frank Hoskins, the proprietor of
the big store poolroom of Helena,
glanced over Ellison's little list.
"I'll lay you 30 to l," he said to
Fllison. "How much d'ye want of
it ?"
"Guess I'll bet about $2,000 men on
It," said Ellison.
Hoskins wasn't a man to show sur-
prise at anything, and It didn't take
him five seconds to scratch Ellison his
$60,000 to JL'.OOO ticket.
Thomas Cat. Kinnikinnic and the
wonderful Ornament all darned by
on the blackboard in beautiful rota-
tion, and then something happened
that gave even the Imperturbable
Hohkins a shock. Most of the real
contenders were scratched out of the
Louisville Oaks because rain had
made the track a sea of mud. Only
two were left in it, May Hempstead
and The Rush, and, naturally enough,
May Hempstead's price came in at 1
to 8—which was what made Hoskins
look chagrined for a minute or so.
Hoskins walked over to where Ellison
was standing In the room.
"Selling, Charlie?" he asked Elli-
son.
'Th-liuh," replied Ellison, non-
chalantly, "I'll sell you the ticket for
$61,000."
"Nice mare. then, this Muy Hemp-
stead. eh?" said Hoskins.
"Bully," said Ellison. "Rhe's home
now."
Hoskins walked away, and then the
operator began to call out the race:
"The Rush in the lead. The Rush at
the quarter by five lengths. The Rush
at the half by ten lengths. Tho Rush
at the three-quarters by fifteen
lengths. The Rush in the stretch by
fifteen lengths. The Rush wins,
eec-easy, by fifteen lengths!"
Not only had tlie great May Hemp-
stead been unable to untrack herself*
In the deep going, but she's been un-
able to even sprawl In the mud, so to
speak, nnd she was beaten from the
first jump.
The blow may have healed, to n cer-
tain extent, but still even folks who
know Ellison quite well never venture
to become reminiscent about that nice
little mare. May Hempstead, when
he's around.
NATIONAL LEAGV'E GOSSIP.
It was bad enough to be hammered
twice by a minor league club, but to
have the "sorappy" leader of the
Giunt* licked iu u punch was worse. It
knocked another one of our Idols out,
that punch. This goos both ways.
A Cincinnati correspondent says
that the Giants played like amateurs,
meaning that they wore the worst
ever When you consider the kind of
bane ball that those Cincinnati chaps
are used to seeing from their own
team, you can understand how fierce
the Giants' play must luive been to
call for a crack like that.
If McGraw had to be walloped we
are glad an American did it. The
chup who copped him is a true son
of the ww' and formerly gained a
livelihood by his proficiency with
his fists. He still seems to liuve the
knack.
The Dodgers are not faring as well
as their friends had hoped lu the first
Western series, but there Is no ground
for complaint. Tliey broke even with
8t. Louis In the doubleheader and
that Is the general rule of double-
headers excepting when the Glanta
and Reds play-
All of the regular Glanta slumped
badly last week and Seymour heads
the list with .984. The team batting
Is down to .SI6, low water mark this
gear.
J 'ACTS FROM l iSTI W A,
Like Peter Jackson, ULH' Ahjiuh"
Johnson Can Find no Opponent.
Jack Johnson, the conqueror of
Fltzsimmons, is in a position simiuar
to the situation Peter Jackson found
himself when he offered to fight any
tnan for the heavy weight champion-
ship In the early '90s.
Jackson had a trial In Frisco with
Joe McAuIiffe and whipped him In a
liurry Jim Corbett took the big ii"-
gro on and the p:;ir buttled sixty-one
rounds to a draw. Jackson then went
gunning for John L. Sullivan, the
champion, but Sullivan gave Corbett
the preference, because be was white.
When Corbett whipped Sullivan, Jack-
son, who could fight like fury, tried
to arrange tnoth"r match with the
! Califurniun. but Jim drew the color
line and ignored Pig Peter.
Fitzsimmons also turned dow n Jack-
j son, and the big negro was barred un-
til Jim Jeffries came along and beat
| him. Jackson was down and out when
| Jeffries fought him, and their contest
was hardly a true test of the negro's
ability.
I Johnson has mor • trouble arranging
j matches than he lia.s winning fights.
All the big white men seem unwilling
j to take on the negro, for two excel-
lent reasons. The principal one, of
course. Is that Johnson Is a dangerous
customer for the best, and ugain,
Schrcck, Burns. O'Brien and the rest
of the big 'uns have heretofore side-
stepped Johnson because he was not
considered a drawing card.
The situation is different now.
Johnson secured prestige by his decis-
ive victory over Bob Fitzsimmons, and
the white men will have to reckon
with him. Burns claims to be "the
champion of the world, Jeffries ex-
cepted," but his claim will never be
acknowledged until he has disposed
of tho gigantic Texas black.
Johnson is entitled to consideration
at the hands of Burns, Gunner Moir,
Mike Schreck or any man with heavy
weight championship aspirations.
The -negro is a condition, not a the-
ory He stands out in the light and
will have to be disposed of by some-
body. Mike Schrcck said some time
ago that he would "punch Johnson's
head off" If they ever entered the
squared circle. Now Is the time for
Mr. Schreck to come forward and
make good his boast.
Tommy Burns says he will not fight
Johnson, because his wife objects to
him meeting a black. This Is all rot.
A pugilist who lets his wife dictate
whom he shall meet In the ring is a
mbllyooddlc and will never be recog-
nized as the champion.
Some of the best fighters the ring
has produced never drew the color
line. Corbett established his reputa-
tion and secured a chance to win the
championship of the world at the ex-
pense of a black bruiser. Tt was Cor-
bett's great draw with Jackson that
forced Sullivan to make a match with
him, and the outcome of this match
gave Corbett the championship of the
world. Corbett drew the color line
on Jackson afterwards, but he had no
scruples about fighting the negro
when ho needed prestlgo and reputa-
tion.
Jim Jeffries, the greatest fighter
that ever lived, never balked over
color, ttnd was always wiling to fight
white or black when he was In the
ring. Jim beat Bob Armstrong and
Peter Jackson before he won tine
championship from Fitzsimmons.
It wasn't Jeffries' fault that Jack-
son was going back when he met and
beat the black from the antipodes.
Jim would have preferred Peter at hla
best that night, for Jackson at his
best would have been as easy for Jeff
as Corbett, Fits, Rharkey and the
rest were. Peter was a great fighter
In his day, but his beat form would
never have stopped the huge Califor-
nia alfalfa farmer.
Johnson will bo wfse to let Jeffries
alone He talks at tout wanting a
fight with Joffriea. Wull. th*." all
lie will ever get, for Jim will end him
In Jig time if they ever meet in the
roped arena.
England offers Johnson the best op-
portunity for the display of his fistic
talent right now. The British have a
champion named Gunner Moir. who
would probably be easy picking for
Johnson. Negro fighters have always
been popular In the British empire.
Johnson could pick up some soft mon-
ey over there. M or would hardly
stand much show with the man who
put Fit '/.out with a punch. Unless tho
far western pugilistic promoters coma
to the front pretty <*ulek with an offer
for Johnson, the negro will probably
go abroad.
WANTED TIM!}! TO MAKE MONEY.
\ Good Story on Hob Pltzsln&mon*
and His fjoys.
"Bob" Fitzsimmons lately hit on •
plan to tech his sons the rudl tent
of busino. s training He had worked
over the idea until at last it seemed to
him he had perfected i truly wonder-
ful scheme. Hern is how it worked
out:
lit/.
going to N-w York f..r a
week Just before leaving his Durat-
ion farm he called the two boys to
him and, to their delight, handed o . h
of them a brand new Si gold piece.
"N. !" he expl-unei. cutting 'h .rt
the protestations of thanks. "It Isn't
for you to spend, hut to make moro
money with 1 went you lads to get
some business sense. Ro when I'm
gone each of you must think of some
way of l. yiug out your money so a i >
get more. You can buy son*ethin.;
and sell it at a higher price or make
any Investment you choose. I'll brin«
something nice from New York to tha
boy who has mude most when I get
back "
A week later Fitz returned. Sum-
mon lug the two boys he Inquired as
to the outcome of their investments.
.Beginning with the cider, he asked:
"Well. son. how much did you lu.ike
out of your $F>? A week isn't u very
long time, but—"
"I made $.r, more!" proudly boasted
Bobby, Jr. "I have $10 now "
"Fine!" shouted the delighted Fitz,
aglow with pride at his offspring's
financial genius. "And how about
you. sonny?" he added, turning to the
voUnger boy, who stood aloof iu rue- J
ful silence.
"Didn't make anything." confessed
the latter. "Ixist the whole five "
"Lost It?" gasped Fitz. "How In
the world-—"
"Matchin' Bobby," grumbled the
luckless loser.
FARM SOLD FOR A FORTUNE
Special to The Times-Journal
Tulsa. I. T. Aug 10 The Hammett
ft Gillespie farm In the Glenn pool,
part of the northwest quarter, section
7-17-12. was sold Thursday for $165,-
000. The farm embraces 72Vt acres
and has five wells on It which are
producing R.OOO barrels of oil per day.
The purchasers are the J M. Ab-
bott Company, which Is composed of
J. M. Abbott. W. P. Illnyou and E R.
Perry. Mr. Abbott Is from Reguln Tex.,
Mr. Binyonu from Beaumont and Mr.
Perry Is from Tulsa. The articles of
Incorporation were filed today in the
federal court.
This is one of the biggest deals that
has been made In the Glenn pool. The
new company in addition to the prop-
erty also takes over the tankage con-
tract entered into by C. ii Hammett
some time ago by which four 37,60*
barrel tanks will be built at once and
the others as fast as they can be put
together.
The American Society of Wqulty
may still be holding Its wheat at $1.2S
but what it appears more In need of .
than a price ia a market
There Is nothing particularly strik-
ing about the man whose mind has
b*on a blank for 88 years—unless it Is '
that ha admit* it.
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