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CE HITTING
BY TY COBB
Cobb. in the “October number of
Baseball Magazine. in discusdng
cent great showing. his a word; .
3' 011‘ that favorite old argument
Hitting. Says Ty:
am not overly superstitious. Of
'15 1 pick up pins in the i—trL-et. once 1
while. all players do. And if I
a particularly good day at the1
I am not to follow the same gen-’
i imagine‘
.i'outipe the next day.
one has some lingering recollec-
01 superstition in his cranium. Ile _
ass that it is childish. no 11011111.?
there is this much reason to it All. '
'00 have fool ideas that litter up?
mind, it is best to defer to them
at you can face the problem in
with a perfectly clear conscience
nothing lurking back “there in the
sses of your cranium to trouble
am not scoring so many runs as
d to, but the team isn‘t so strong
big sticks that used to help me on
way, aren i so much in evidence. Ill
running I am not taking quite so
y chances as I did. In the latter
of the season. when I have a com- .
hie margin to work on. I 11111 liable
out loose if I feel right. lint in
rig, to tell the tr.uth I dont think
as ever belt or.
his Is my thirteenth season ill the?
Now I have bccn moderately '
tent.
y those thiltccn 3"enle. I guess I
6 got as much action out of 1113' logs
he next man. I dont regard myself
crippled old man by any mearm.
act I feel pretty spruce for my age.‘
I am not (inning that some of the
ing has gone out of my legs, and l
't recuperate from a hard day‘s
quite
re's a difference between twenty-
and thirty and no athlete was
‘1‘ so good that he could dodge tho
process. But so far. I am bound to
,‘that added experience has more.
' made up for any slowing up. As
0k back some six or eight years
think of the ginger I used to have
“hope days. I c’un only wish I know
much about batting then. as I do
1 I haven't much brains but. I am
ting by ,by using all I huvo to the
I advantage. I know a lot about
3 in; that I didn't use to know. it is
y for me now to get :1 cluster of hits
ll things are breaking right just‘
using my noodle. In lllt old daye.
tit wow 11 hit I would have made
I had had the experience and
wledge of batting that I hove.“
course [how is. and '1111 111». will bb,
lg element of luck to hitting. But
be long mm and under normal con-
(ms 1 am pretty sure of myself
so days and I don't greatly cal-o.
o'ls pitching 01' what he gives me 1
, here to a good deal to this place'
ting. I have observed that many
hitters have a fundamental weak-
,a in their work. Some are almost.
arlably right or left field hitters.
{is bad, for it gives the fieldcrs too
9“ of an edge. 1 early tried to reluc-
that detect in myself and I believe
It truthfully say that i can hit
oily well into either light or left
II and generally at will. Other he‘-
‘have a weakness in that they ale
liar sluggcrs who alwava hit healthy
ilops to the outfield. 0r clue are
:1 hitters who roll out infield 1111.1
w both have their defects, for tho
,ders can lay for either kind of hit-
1;.- I endeavor .to break up
notony. In short I try to give the
are something that they are not ex-
ting so that they can never plot out
ampaign to stop me. I will not claim
t 11113 batter ali1o can drop a bull 011;
y particular square yard of turf. But
so easily as I used i.t).‘
tho :1
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Qpinions and Gessip
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The Giants need to win but four more games to clinch the pennant.
i —o—
1 The Kaiser offers a reward of $100 and a two weeks’ vacation to the first
.‘German capturing an American soldier. The Hon will certainly need the
1' vacation. ,, '
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'1 The White 5011 open a series in Philadelphia today. They ought“ to make
headway. inasmuch as the Red Sox al'c also opening up a series with the
trong Tigers. . .
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F1 PM one wa< mighty pleased with Jimmy Giblin‘ s umpiring last Sunday
James can apparently oh‘iciale just as well as he can play.
~9—
Rumor has it that \l alter .lohnuon has been sold to the Cleveland Indians.
With Spcakel' and Johnson in their lineup, the Indians ought to do something
in xt seagull
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College football is waiting in the wings, ready to take the stage, the min-
ute tho curtain is rung down on baseball.
-9.—
The Independents are confident of
if Olson pitches
trimming the 'I‘ig (us next (Sundal. even
The Germans are 00 ntident of winning the war, too.
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awful lot of the advantage the pitcher BAKER SUSPENDED
usually has. Then, too I have learned FOR DISOBEDIENCE
.that 11 hen I am having an 011’ time! ....._._.
with the Stick if I elevated my elbow :1: Because he disobeyed the orders of
litle I can get back nito a truer swing. Manager llill Donovan and ,1]; not
There are lots of little tricks that the come to Blldgcpolt with the New Yo”:
batter can experiment with to break American league club on Sunday, as he
himself of a bad hitting habit. Lots was ordered to do, Plank Baker tho
of things, it he only had some trained Yankee star, was indefinitely suspend
observer to point them out. Of course, ed last night. Instead of reporting to
the manager might do this but he is 111111111111 Ilonotan Sulldu3 morning
“Vt“ ”1 ovcr11olked on the field 33 it is when the team left New York for thcl1
lie hasnt time for everything and , , . - .
can't be bothered with too litany ae_.ga.11e.1t 3“,qu park, Baker rcmam-
mile 1. ' .ed behind. lie failed to olfcr u antis-
' ~ ’factory explanation for his ignorance
. of the order and the decision to suds
ATHLETES BARRED ”pend hint“ was then made known.
FROM BERLIN MEET Tho [allure of llukcr to engage in
1.111111% of. lineup and A. J. Howard, Sunday‘s game was a bitter disappoint
two members of the New Haven A. A, men! 29 tin-2 2,200 1111,11 WN‘ tedncd
111110 barred from competing in the an: the 11111111. No satisfactory oxplana
hptt’l field ml track events at the 81.1%" .tiog for the 111111": ubwnce‘ould be so
MM‘WM Charges were pre- pared from any at tho ' 11m who
flirted 13.111111111111511 two athletes with were here with the team. None of
the registration oommitteo by John C. them soemcd to know anything about
Collins, director of the New Haven A. the matter and it was generally sup
A., and it is quite likely that lndcfinitwposed that the New Yorkers had put
suspensions will follow. lonc ovcr on the local management.
Director Collins when 41111911111111 Official announcement of the suupen
morning as to the wagon 1'01 preferring 8km last night, however. clears the to
the charges against Roche and How-081910111019”-
artl, stated that the athletes withdrcw' ”——
from tho New Haven A. A. and worn After a soc-saw race that covered a
not ln'good standing at the time of the [if r1od of five weeks the. international
Berlin meet, as neither had been trans
fcrred lo unattached privileges.
Mr Collins stated that Roche had en
torcd the meet as unattached, but had
not received notice fmm the registru‘
lion committee of being transferred,
while Howard registered in the meet
from the New Haven A. A. and then
tried to compete unattached.
close the other ultcrnoon with the
playing of the double header between
Pro1ldenco and Newark in the latter
city. The 'l‘nronto Dears succeeded
in carrying of the flag. Nap Luloie,
the former major league star, piloted
the club and victory for the Leafs has
earned [or the famous Frenchman
Einuch deserved praise.
|
l RING REGULATIONS
Maurice lllaterlinck, the Belgian'
poet, playwright and philosopher, 11' as
Financially the International league
.was an unsuccessful one. Even in
‘Providence where enthusiasm was at
once conversing on a \‘al'ictv or
' its hol ht the r -
topics with on American girl when l g p omoters barely clear
she said _ . : ed tleir expenses. Up in the Canadian
cities of Montreal and Toronto the
“1.9. til i. 'l‘s. iht ‘
g P a punt l N t‘g in a rim: morgula had to dig and dig deep Re
What 111111113111 ring is it. Mr. Maetcr-
Pitcher Scott Giyes Up
‘ Baseball For the War
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i BOut in New Haven on
1 Oct. ill—Wilson Will Box
. in Meriden
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i Iiatt ling Guns of New York city at"
‘rivcd here yesterday, and at once start-
‘ed in training Battling lKunz for his;
iifleen- round bout with Chick Brown
of Xew llaan. next month. Kunz will
" > have to reduce about six pounds to get
proper weight.
i
' . ; New Haven in dotting up for the Bat;
tling .Kunz-(‘hic Brown bout that will;
be staged at the Arena there on Oct. 8.1
The. seating arrangement has been so‘
1 altered as to make its capacity to 10,
f 3000. Frank 11. Smith, a New Haven
snorting writer, is holding the stake'
and will act as timer as well. Kunz,
according to a New Haven dispatch,
has already posted his forfeit with
Smith.
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‘ I, George E. .\‘ott, who is managing
Frankie ll ilson of this cil1, announced
last night that he had matched his pro
logo with 'Young Mack of Merldcn for
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dim Scotrtdlwogg one of the. best. a 10 round bout at the-1.1111011 A C. of!
pitchers Of the Chicago White $03. that city on Sept. 28. T110 days later;
who have just about will the per: Wilson will
hunt of the American engue, an . ‘
will soon be in the throes of the World ””3“" 0‘ Battling Lahn. ”19 “‘01
championship series with the New lllooklyn fc,atlic'r111igllts at the Mill
York (llama, has quit baseball to go tarv club In pr Yotk
to 1111115 ’lhe other tinv he enlelcd
the Reserve omccrs’ Training Camp . ) I"
at the l‘l'csltlio San' Francisco He. 50” has betn 0“" With 11 Ch“ ”’5'“
twill plot have time to pitch in the {01 59W! 1‘1“ Of ”It“ local boys. hlll (le-
w'01hi series. spite the promises made by a local.
. ~. matchmaker that \l'llson would
PENN’S FOOTBALL
1givtn :1 crack at one of his opponent»;
PROSPECTS GOOD “HO. nothing had been lcard up to
hm night Aitcr trying to gct in
I’BII.ADELPH,IA, Sept. lS.—-Al- touch with the promoter Notl dccldcd
though the college your docs not begin to grab the “with!!! offer.
until September 25‘, several football
colleges of the UKVI'I‘HHV of Ponnsy]. ’ fillet-lugs are pouring in for a match
Vania have reported to Captain Bennie “Willem N Hwy. the world's middle»
1111119er h‘rpnklinfleld weight champion, 11nd Ted l.011is.tl1e
lmvson Robertson truck coach will world'w welterweight champion The
have chutgo of 11111 gridiron candidates New Haven M11191“: club ”10 National
until Bob Falwell reports for work A0 A 0 0' Mlerlllt‘, 1R. l. and tho
cording to an agreement at the 11111111111 fimadwm‘ Sporting club of Hrookbn
meeting of the national collcgiatc ath~ are the clubs that huvc mode the bout
lut'lc dilcctors. professional couches Om'l‘s so for for this content
must not who charge of the aquuds un- ——‘
til the college your commences. Jack Sharkcy. the New York bantam
pr'obahI3 meet Dutdll
_. This means that Folwcll will not. is confined to his bed from asevcrc
111111111 111 Franklin Field until Septcnl cold and won't be ablv to box as sched-
b... 23. and with the first game schcd uled Joe Wagner his manager forhls
league championship stories came to 11 “led for OCIDDFP 23 and “I“ Southcrr. other promising bantaln Ph" Wagner. ‘
trip on to meet agar-gin Tech the “Elli. hitherto known 1111 Phil F1 uncblni to
week Penn has 11 hard task in front of WW Shurkey 5 91““ against Bl”?
1391 an.
Sum Langford and Harry Wills, the
best or the colored heavy-Weights. will
renew their loud at the Clermont
NEW ORLEANS BOY‘
Sporting club next Thursday night.
”I” “DELPHI“ SN” 1g~pme Matchmaker Silvcy Burns has prom-
Herman,tl1e recognized bantamweight ised to match the winner with Fred
champion of the world, last night claw Fulton The latter has declared he
erly defeated KNOWN? E339“ 9’ bins no heavyweights in the game and
Br'ldgepott in 11 six round bout, which, he must take on Langtord or Wills 111
although one sided, was productive of order to make good that assertion.
«onto voty interesting scrapping. Tho
Bridgeportacrapper foughtazame bat- The winner of the ten- round bout
tie but the 13“ from New 01'1““ between Irish Patsoy Cline and Willie
know too much for him and victory Jackson in New York on Sept 24 may
W l
EGGERSH BOWS T0
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flihllll is IIIEI
cently. Another pan of singers will
mingle in the other ten- round bout. in,
which miner Lumen. the 111,111 .111.“
welterweight sensation, will oppose V
Silent Martin the hard hitting Brook
‘ fillEliil’i‘ESilX"
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THE. STANDINGS.
"3“”‘3‘ ”3%,?“ L new YORK Sept. 18—1119 Clank?
New York ____________ 90' 49‘ tii" .incc they established a pronounced.
l hila‘ lphia ......... 77 59 .566 lead for the pennant. ha1e experiencm.
St. ouis ............ 86 66 .535 two periods of play of clearly defined
(Tintinnati ........... 72 71 .dlfl - '
(hicago ............. 71 71 ‘5 00 contrasts. Their second 111p west was.
Brooklyn ____________ 63 71 .470. the period in 11hiLh they put in their“
‘Boston ............. 60 75 145 most effective pennant licks. That;
Pittsburgh ........... 46 3 .331 period, it has since been demonstrated-
Amerlcan Lug?“ L. told the story. The second period was»
Chicago ..... .1.......94 48 .062 the time between their home coming:
Boston ............... s4 5;; .613 and their departure last Week. They
Cleveland ............ ‘1’8 6?. .553 didn’t play nearly as well then as on
1130110111. """ $2 2': 1 '19" the Western trip There was a dis.
Washington W65 71 :478 tinct diffelence in the quality of their
St Louis , ............52 9;; 35¢ team play and a distinct deterioratlua-
Philadelphia . ......... ~19 . 88 .358 They wercnt within" -5 per cent of than
American Assorfittwnl.‘ P.c' same team
111.11.111.11111111 . ......... 89. 62 .589 The ’“umg 1“ ”‘9 80°“ pm“ ““5“
Louisville ...........87 65 .572 timely and together. the base runnirr:
St Paul. ............. S7 65 .572 was done with good judgment. New
£13333; """""" $3 (31: i2: such mistake of judgment as durum:
Minneapolis.'.........'.::::6'I s: 411' ”‘0 "0m" 5“” “as ”we“ Th“
Kansas Cir. .......... 65 85 ,4311 fielding 11115 slightly inferior during:
’I‘olcdo . . . ............ 54 94 .365 the home stay was manifest. The new
;ing was slightly inferior during tin“-
National League home stay. but. that wan not a point a!!!
New Ymk 5; Chicago, 0' consequence. The pitching was ma:
Boston 4; Pittsburgh, 1; 15 innings. 0f matctial difference
I’lliladclph" a, 4: Cil1cinnzlti,l 1 Tile fact is the Giants on the wlroice
Only ”1"" games scheduled. have had excellent pitchers, from the.
Amcncan League. time they spurtcd to the front. They
‘are still getting ic—dchraw has 111m-
dled his pitchers with rare judgment»;
and a continuation of the form they:
have shown for the last two monilm
will give the Giants a butter chances
in the big series than ability in any:
other one department. It is. of course”
quite possible that the White Sox will
have better pitching. but it will have»
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS.
Only one game scheduled.
American Aasooiltlon.
Columbus, 5: St. Paul, 4: 10 inns.
l ‘lioulsvillc, 4; Kansas City, 3; 10 ill-
pings.
\llldiunapolis,
Illinncnpolss,
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3: Milwaukee
5: Toledo, 4.
1
2 GAMES TODAY.
N 1110119! League.
1 New York at Chicago.
1 Brooklyn at St. Louie.
' what present developments indicate:
1 WI“ be forthcoming on the New York
'side.
The‘Giants, in their best form, have
inn equal chance with anyplteamltln that
:game. but they have been 1111111111111
crowd. See them on their good days-'1,
and you‘d bankon them to beat any“-
body; see them on their poor days our?
you'd think mighty little of their
chances in a big series. You can an—
alyze
lloslon at l’lttuburgh.
Philadelphia at t'incinnatl.
American League.
Chicago at Philadelphia.
Ilotrolt at Boston.
Cleveland at...\'ow York. 1
St. Louis 111 Washington.
GOMPERS OFFERS
All) '10 FORM AN
EMBPLOYERS’ UNION
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. «A! the
opening session here yesterday of the from now until doomsday, but 119
convention to form a national federal amount of analliis can forsee Whether
employee union, president Gompcrs a team will be at its best or worst in
of the American Federation of Labor, [the P054 58330" series” The whole
iwclcomed the delcgotcs and offered question “"1395 largely on that Which
his personal assistance and that of the team W1” be the {908913 the tighten.
federation in perfecting their organiza the more OVBTWTOUghl. and therefomn
tion the less likely to play its. normal
Delegates from local fedeml em San”? 01‘ Will they be equally afflict~
ployes union throughout the countr3 9“ 0" neither afflicted They are both
were present and it is expected that high strung, nervous teams
the national union, when organmed' The White SOX IIIIVO b6?“ 11 Sh'ldl?
will have 11 membership of 15,000 gov stronger in lhell‘ league. than the
eminent employee. The convention Giants have been in theirs, and are im
unanimously adopted a resolution that a Fl‘l‘onfiel' 1888119- Yet no team in 1'91
the local unions organize into 11 nation- cent years has had in if the ability tri-
.111 body affiliated with the American “86 to greater heights than this year's.
Federation of Labor. Giants. They are of potential great-
Representathe Jeannette Rankin 0f ness. but uncertain. Mental attitude:
Montana, addressed the delegates and will go far toward deciding this, series,
urged that the national union support and especially the first game or two,
lthe cause of ‘15an suffrage Women and in thematter of temperament am
to be high class all the time to cclima- ,
Ill claim that when I am going right, linck? You are an athlete and so
an drlvc four out of five last balls' you ought '10 “10‘1“"
thin fifteen feet of where r wantl The poet, pushing back
,m to go. That is to say within poppcr and salt hair, smiled
teen feet 01' any given spot on the pliedi
old. 'I cannot guard against hitting; “In the ordinary
unders or popping up high ilies. limited to ~1evcn or eight rounds, an
"cent in bunting there are seldom engagement ring is used, but when
customs where a butter wants to hit it‘s a fight to a finish. they always
ponders. anyway... And 1110 neverlemploy :1 wedding ring."
j tsto hit flies unless they are very‘
hi1; thick
and r1»;
sparring match.
chestt-r and Buffalo also f(\‘ behind c-r me fairly easy
as did Richmond. Baltimore and Now Herman went after Egget‘s in the
Mk. “OWNER made a little “MGM lilrst round and succeeded in flooring
‘ the former New Yorker. The second
session saw Eggers come back strong
The fans are heartily in accord with
the desire of President Johnson of the
American league to see the games
spccded up. Since President Ban has
issued his instructions to umpires to
avoid unnecessary delays the games
have seemed to acquire increased pop.
Beginning with the third and on to the
sixth Herman had little trouble with
the Bridgeporter. his speed and cleviir-
mean being too much for his opponent.
and he managed to get an even break,
'meet Benny Leonard in a fifteen-round VOWI‘B» She said had supported labor
contest for the world's lightweight p1rlnciples. and, It was now time [01'
title, as n promotel of Baltimore has labor to reciprocate and “WING the
declared that he will give Leonard menfrachisement 0‘ women.
guarantee of $15 000 a box. Other speakers at the opening ses-
lsion were James 0' Council. vicepresi—i
K 0. Bill Brennan will try hard to dent of the federation; Frank Morri-
knook out Bartley 'Madden at the P10 sen. secretary. and Thomas F.Flal1er--
neer Sporting club of New York to ty, secretary of the National Federfla
night in order to accomplish what Jim tion of Postal Employee
nervousness and that sort of thing the:
,Whito \Sox seem to6 be much the some
sort of team as the Giants. 1n the:
mood, they. too, are capable of great
things.
‘-
DAILY OI’TIMISTIC ,THOUQHT.
The infinitely little have a pride:
that is infinitely great.
‘ and potential home runs What:
aims to do is to hit the ball square.
w I cannot be certain that I will
the ball square, but I can be certain,
hr times out of five. on a fast hall.
HANK AND PETE
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