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Show THE MIDVALE JOURNAL McGraw System Hard to Beat RED LINDSTROM probably typifies the spirit of t1ie Giants. The slim, twenty-four- year-old th1rd baseman-a regular In the National league for the last stx seasons, ha'S become one ot the greatest bitters In the game. His fielding 'lbillty has been unquestione d from the first day be broke In as a brilliant but inexperience d seventeen-year-old . And Lindstrom bas been a better third baseman with ch succeeding year, says a writer in an exchange. After you say Lindstrom is a fine hitter and a fine fielder, he Is still a mighty Influence on the ball team. He has a way about himjoyous, confident and game-that percolates through the rest of the ball club. He loves to win tor the sake of winning. Baseball to hlm ls first a game and then a profession. Flaying ball for John McGraw Is a rather grim business for most athletes. So much penalty is attached to a single slip. But Lindstrom somehow manages to keep his philosophica l balance. He doesn't let McGraw faze hlm in the slightest. He is perhaps the only Giant who eve1· had the castIron gall to kid tils hard botled manager. Here Is one story : The Giants jumped out ot a western city last season just a!ter winning a close final game through a brilliant play ot Lindstrom's which cut off the tying run at the Fred Lindatrom. plate in the ninth. !<~red went over behind thil"d base tor a hard smash, came up with It and, while off balance, threw home to Hogan to nail the sliding runner by an eyelash. Lindstrom sat In the diner that night. Across the aisle sat John McGraw. Entered a newspaper man. "That was a great play you made this afternoon, Fred,'' murmured the newcomer. Freddy wn ved the compliment airily to one side. "It's nothing," he said loudly, indicating his doughty manager, tolling with a steak, "it was the McGraw system, that's all." John McGraw glared. But there might have been just a hint of a twinkle In his hard gray eyes. Other Olnnt players have fallen afoul of what Lindstrom called the "McGraw system" at one time or another. • •• • • Football Officials to Signal Fans Penalties •• • + • ., • • • • • • • • • • • : • • • • • SEBALL1WJI OTES ll'4J ootball officials in the East will use a signal system next tall to tell The North Carollna State league in the fans in the stands what penalties 1885 allowed only the pitcher and are for, etc. In the gathering at Camcatcher to dt·aw salaries. bridge, for the Harvard demonstratio n • arne, the officials were drilled in signs Outfielder Russell Scarritt was by Walter Okeson, chief of the eastbought by the Hed So::s: from St. Paul. ern arbiters of the gridiron. He hit .354 for the Saints in 1928. When an official on the field takes • • • the ball and paces oli 5 or 15 yards When Jack Quinn was pitching. In next fall the · spectators won't have to sk each other what it was tor. the lt,ederal league, experts said he They'll be told by signals. Okeson bas was througlL '!'hat's some time back. • • not hit upon a definite code as yet Penn had won 11 straight ball games but will devise one as simple and before bowing to Yale. Jim Peterson, plain as possible. pitcher, had won four in a row up to Several years ago Pete Dwyer ot then. Syracuse voluntarily used such a set • of signals and he was a ,·ery popular John Frederick, rookie outfielder officiaL But others, the veterans, with Brooklyn, thinks baseball offers frowned upon him and would not fol- more to the young man tban any oth.. to suit. er profession. • • • • • • • Havana Course Lessens 1 • Task of Golf Visitors • • • It Is reported Havana Is planning for a ball club in the Southeastern league, not later than the start of the 1930 s~ason. The Country club of Havana has most Ingeniously arranged score • • ~ard that could be copied to advanLeo Casey, outfielder or New Haven tage b ew•ry "pay-as-you- play" and of' the Eastern baseball league, has resort ayout in the country. been sold outright to San Antonio of The first page has the yardage and the Texas league. par for the links. Nothing unusual • • about that, but on the second and Doc Gnutrean, llfontreal second basethird pages are given an outHne of man, understands French well and will each hole. showing where to aim and know whnt the French-Cana dian fans to place the drive for the short play- are yelling all year. er, the medium hlttel' and the slug• ger. All hazards, whether natural or Connie Mack has four children \ llrUftclal, are shown clearly. For a prominent ln sports, Roy and Earl In .,.; ' person starting out oYer a strange baseball, n son ln high s~bool football, course, such directions are a great and a giJ·I In basket bnll. convenience . • • Carl Hubbell, who recently pitched a no-hit, no-run game, was presenterl Lee Meadows Sold with a wrist wateh by the New Yot•k Giants' manngement for his perform · ance. LISKA HAILED AS BEST YOUNG STER ~ ....~~~~~~~~~~~~~M·~·~· Submarin e Hurler Favored to Win Out. OMPARATI VELY few maps designate the geographica l location ot Fowlerville, Mich., a towu ot something like 1,200 hlltnans, In Livlngst()n county, but Fowlerville has given baseball one of the best, it not the best, second baseman 11ince Nap Lajoie. When Dan Howley, now manager ot the St. Louis Browns, turned Charley Gehringer over to Ty Cobb and the Tigers in the spring of 1926, the bald and vociferous pilot, who at that time was at the helm of the Toronto club of the Internationa l league, dld the Detroit club a service that scarcely could be measured ln dollars and cents, writes F. J. Carveth in the Detroit Free Press. Gehringer was a high class prospect with the Leafs. He Is a finished ball player and today certainly the best second baseman in the majors. There Is not a surer pair of hands in baseball than Gehringer's. He goes tar to his right or left or even back Into center or right field after drives labelled for hits. lie can throw with the best of them. He is a smooth piece o:f double play machinery and a high class defensive ball player. Gehringer's remarkable fielding tells only part ot his value to the Tigers. Over the greater part of the schedule to date, Gehringer has shown the way to his mates In bitting, and playing with a club that has been clubbing the ball tor a team average of from .316 to .339 since the season started, it Is not difficult to realize the potency in Gehringer·s bat. If there Is anything missing from Gehringer's bnseball makeup, lt is color. Charley is liOt of the chattering type. He cannot be persuaded to bait the umpires or spit tobacco juice into his glove. His even temper Is described by some as a baseball handicap-b ut Char· ley Is batting .378 and fielding .991, which excuses him for lack of what the critics are wont to define as color. There have bean many good second baseman since Lajoie, among them Eddie Collins, Pep Young and Bill Wambsgann s, out did any ot them have a pair of hands as sure as Gehringer's? And Gehringer is unlike Lajoie only because he hits 'em from the other side or the Gehringer. plate. VDIA MDN DV 1\PIJ :K·U PS/\ • • • • • Shortest and Lightest Tiger for This Season Henry (Heinie) Schuble, candidate for shortstop position, is the shortest player on the Detroit 'riger roster. He stands th·e feet eight Inches In height. All the other players are taller. He Is also the lightest man on the squad, weighing 1GO. He belongs to the modern school. When Schuble Is chasing a fly ball, he yells "I have it." No memher of the old school ever yelled: ''I have it." It ~as always: "I got it." • Earl Clark. Boston Braves gardE-ner, set a new National league record In the Braves-Cinc inatl Reds gnme when he accepted twelve putouts In center field. • • • Officials of the Los Angeles club of the Pacitic f~oast basE>ball league announced the purchase of Fred Haney. third baseman, from the St. Louis Cardinals. Jack Moakley bas completed his thirtieth year as track coaeh at Cornell, with a record of winning 82 out ot 128 contests in cross-countr y and track meets. l\Ioakley, who has been at Cornell since 18!l9, has couched nine Cornell teams that won the Intercollegia te track championshi ps and seventeen teams that placed first in the crosscountry championshi ps. The Cornell coach was a great athlete in his day, starring in sprint and distance events and the low hurdles. Won't Quit Dodgers • • • The lndinnnpolis t.aseball cluh of the American association announces that it has obtained Lee Meaflows. veteran pitcher, from Pittsbur.~h of tl National league on an optional n ement. 1\Ieadmvs has been in the · major leagues for years and was one ot the first players to wear spectacles while In unifonn. John Evers Restraine d From Baiting Umpires Luke Sewell, A. B.. B. S. (Alabama), is the most educated player on the Cleveland Indians' roster. Be has thi"ee months' work between him and a master's degree. • • James Renny, of the Delmar col ored cluh. fell while rounfllng second base tn n game at Lnurel, Oel. Jle was not slirli ng nor was he struck. The fall brought a broken IE>g. • • • Back home there wus alwavs a lad of eleven or so who was allowed to ~lay rlgJ,r field on conrlitlon that he g~1 af~E'r the ball. ln case of it rlrop pmg mto the old lad.v·s zinnias. Johnny Evers, first lieutenant to Emil Fuchs, otiidnlly Is captain of the • • • Rra ves, and as Sltch Is permitted to Tony Plansk.v. the grent-nll nrotm<l disc·uss the decisions with the umuthletlc stnr of fleurg~>towB, failerl to pires, wt this s lilllitPrl. \\'hen the mnke good with Prnvirtt>nce. Plnnskv Drnve\ are at bat and EYers is on the wns taken South h.\' tltE' BrnvP!'I nn~l third ba!:e coachin~ line he may talk Inter turne•l twer to King Ua!ler at to the umpires, hut when the Brnves the Hub cluh's farm. · • n re In the field and he is In the dn~ • • out he may not come out. Umpit·e .Tim ~loore, ynung rlght·hnn•lt>d 1\IeCtn·mick restt· ined him when he pitcher. was rl'turned to !.itt IE' Bnek bobbed up out of the dugout recently c.t th<' Southern n ·sociation bv the nnd when Ever~ took the matter up Cleveland !11rlians. !lfoore wa~ nh with President .John A. Heyfller of tnineu from Lit tl~ Rock last fall on the league. HeydiE>r upheld the umpire. a conditional purchuse. • • • • • • • • Roy Grimes, utility first baseman with Kansas City of the American association, has been sold outright to Buffalo of the Internationa l league. • • • Hollis Thurston, veteran pitcher who was In the major leagues for a number of years, is pitching very · effect!vely in the Pacific Coast league this sea· son. Lawrence (Larry) Woodnll, for nine years a rnP.mber of the Detroit catch· ing staft', was sold to the Portland club of the Pacific Coast league. It was an outright sale. The Charlotte club of the South Atlnntic association has relE>nsed Johnny Jones, hard -hitting outlit>lder, as one of the first movel! to come within U1e player limit. • • • Behind the perfect p!tch!n~ ot AI Niehols, Amherst defeated Williams 4 to 0. The star Lord Jeff. twirlei", enjoyed a perfect day on the mound. allowing no hits in nine innings. Clark Rowley, a caddie, ~::~cored a hole-In-one at the Sand Point golf course, In Seattle, Wash. • • • • • • '.fhe AmE-rican Record for water plunging Is 84 feet 6 inches, made by Ted Abrams, in Pittsburgh, March 8, . George Cook, Austrnl!an heavyweight boxer, has not been !mocked oft his fePt in more than eight years of scrapping. • • • Dul"ing tile last twenty years, tlle .::lea~•·nm brothers of Waterloo, On· tarlq. have won more than $1,000.0UC In turf prll'~S. • • • It is declared disdp!ine. 'fhe enfor<•e discipline b:tll coach would tellectnal a<ljunet that youth needs erllwntor who can as well as a roothe u valuahl~ in· tn civili7.ntion. • An E-astern flier has succeeded In dil'l•!l iu;.: fro !II an airplane to a steJ;o;.:T>tph\•r In llis ofTke. It is to he hoped that tlw ucvice may he usee! in till' c;nme way fl'llm ~;"Hif courses for that Is the real need. More Boxing Titles Two baseballs, used by the Toronto baseball club 24 years ago, are the prized possessions of W. 1<' . Kress ot Preston, Ont., a veteran fan. • • • • • • .. .. "The two greatest managers ln baseball are Connie .Mack and John McGraw, and the greatest ot these Is Connie Mack," declared Jack Bentley, a !ormer star ot McGraw's New York Giants. "Record books may show that McGraw has won more pennants in recent years than Mack, but winning pennants is not the sole task ot a successful manager," added the man who Is now pl· luting the York Roses to a passlble pennant In the New York-Pennsy lvania league, writes Tom Shriver 1n the Philadelphia Record. "Connie Mack has developed more ball players and given more rookies a chance to make good than any other manager in the game," said Bentley. "On the other hand, McGraw has never been content to develop a single ball player, being content to buy stars when they were needed. That system Is always easier, but does not indicate any great managerial ablllty," continued the former big league pitching star. "Here at York I am going to try and follow Mack's system. I will give every youngster a chance to make good, and it we can produce a pennant winner while developing young stars e~erybody wlli be far happier," was Bentley's final observation • "Right now the York team looks good to me, and I am hoping to get the boys into the thick of the fight for this year's league championsh ip," added Jack . lt seemed strange to see big Jack Bentley far from the noise and excitement ot Broadway, but the popular star of the big leagues seems perfectly contented In one of the best towns of the New York-Penn circuit. Bentley has had a strange career In baseball. At one time he was right on the top of the heap, and his praises were being sung on every hand. Then came an unfortunate day at the Polo Grounds, "\\·hen two throws from the outfield snapped the arm that had been hurling winning basebaH for many years. It meant a trip to the minors tor Bentley, an<l his spirits sagged, and his play became listless. So he jumped at the chance of becoming a manager. "I want to get up to the top o,nce more," said Jack. "My days as a big league star are over, but If I can pi- ' lot the York team to a championsh ip it will mean another taste ot the glory that comes to a winner," he added. • • • The second annual tournnment for left-hander.J golf players will be staged In Toledo .Tune 24. .. Former Giant Star Would . Give Rookies a Chance. • • • • • Hl24. BENTLE Y FAVORS DEVELO PING MEN Frank Gilhooley, who manages the Rochester Internationa ls, believes he has a future big league star ln Selkirk, rookie outfielder. Dale Alexander. rookie with Detroit, is the biggest first baseman in the mnjor leagues. []e stands six feet three Inches tall and weighs 215 pounds. • • • Jim Scott, former major league pitcher and now an umpire in the Southern league, spends his winter months working in a Hollywood studio as a carpenter. • • ~ • • • • C ... ...... .. • • High Praise for Gehringer The season has t·een onder way long enough to offer the conclusion that Ad Liska, the twenty-two- yearold submarine chultker with the • Washington Americans, Isn't destined to have the tag "bloomer" fastened on him. On the contrary, Liska seems well on his way to earning the distinction ot being the best young • pitcher to reach the majors this sea• son. Manager Walter Johnson, one of • the greatest pitchers basE>ball ever • has known, boosted Liska. "He has impressed me more than •• any youngster I have seen in years,'' • be rommented. • It has come to paRs that no one • • was wrong. Or, at least, isn't yet. • • Liska has pitched almost perfect ball • tor Washington. One or his games • was a two-hit aft'alr against Cleveland. Ile lost that, e.nd was credited • with losses ln the two &ther games, • • be<:ause the Washington s made only • one run for him In them. Bill 1\IcGowan, veteran Ameriean • league umpire, was roaring gleefully about Liska after the two-hit game • In Cleveland. McGowan officiated at • • the game. "That kid has one ot the most puz• zling deliveries I ever have seen," • • he said. "It Is hard to get next to. • "It's a lot different from the way Carl Mays pitches. Mays sweeps very • low In his swing and a batter can • follow the ball easily as he seems to • hesitate just a little at the bottom • of the swing and then push It in • • there. Not like Liska. Ue whips the • ball. He doesn't · swing low and he • • • hides that hall so nicely that a batter •• ••• ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • •• can't see it until It is almost up to the plate. I sweeps up and hops. "Joe Sewell has just about the best Position in Outfield pair of eyes In baseball. And those Luring to Bullet Joe eyes, and the fact that he crowds the "Bullet Joe" Bush, famous as a plate and is a little fellow, mnke him pitcher or the Philadelphia Athhard to pitch to. But Sewell, as well letics and other major league hase· Eight years ending this fall will as the other players, . was topping hall clubs, has deserted the pitchet·'s have brought Babe Huth $470,000 In 'em. The Infielders get plenty o:· mound for the outfield and now Is salary from the Yankees. work when Li ska works. • • • playing right field for the Portland Dazzy \' ance says "there is no "Liska looks like a great pitcher. club of the Pacific Coast league. He His delivery has a nice hop and is a follows a trail left by a number of toughest batter In baseball-al l are fast one. Ills curve Isn't so bad, other pitchers who becamE> effective tough unless you bear down." either. If be keeps hiding that ball outfielders, another Joe being promi• • • It the worst comes to the worst, the the way he diu against Cleveland, no nent In the number. "Smoky Joe" club will beat him easily." Wood. after finishing his career as a management might try out the idea of star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. hiring a guest pitcher now and then. • went to Cleveland with Trls SpeakLong Stay for Moakley Joe Shatlte, Cleveland southpaw, has er and did great work in the outfield learned a new twist in winding up and ror the Indians. thinks it is going to make him a betJoe Bush goes to the Far West with ter pitcher. a fine major league backgmund. He • was with tbe Athletics from 1912 to If "Bo" Cuisluier, noted Wisconsin 1917 and then saw service with Bos· athlete, decides to play professional ton, New York, St Louis and Washingbaseball, It ton in the American leugue and Pitts- the White Is believed he will join Sox. burgh In the National before drifting • • back to his first love, the Athletics. He Even so great a baseball player as was In five world series with three Walter Johnson shares the necessity clubs, the Athletics, Red Sox and of common humanity in requiring ocYankees. casional sick leave. • a Page Five Wilbert Robinson, president-ma nager of the Dodgers, denies that he is willing to quit the Brooklyn tenm. "I did not say I was willing to quit, and I have no intention of doing so," dE-clared Robbie, when asked about the stntement he is credited with making recently. ltobinson was quoted as telling a news11aper man that he was willing nnd eager to resign ImmediatE-ly as the Brooklyn's manager. To Play in South ('oach Paul Stewm·d. !l<ot·t111vestern univl't'!'ity•s new baseball mentor, will lend his team into the Southlanrl fnt u seven game series stnrtin~ August ?.7. ThP opening game is with Little ltock. Arl>., of the RonthE>rn league. <Hhet· tt•ams tu he met on the trip arl' Unin•rsit~· ot Texa~. Wee Institute and University of Arkangus, guas Funk, outtielder. has been purchased from the !';ew York Yanl ees hy Hollywood of thE' Pacific Coast league. [<'nnk was with St. Puut of the American association last season. • • • It is learned that Paul M. Shellenberger, star shortstop of tile Lafay· ette college Dn<lefE>ated ba!'lehnll tE>am. will sign n contract wi~h the Phllar!PI· phin Athletics at the close of the col· lege season. • • • .Jersey ('lty has 1!tree [Jitchlng recruits from the eoiiPg-e rank;:; In Manfredi, of Xew York university; Hmith, of Columbia, and l\Iiner. or Hyraclll'E'. All th•·ee were on the mound in one gnme. • • • !';o playing manager in the history of hnsehall hns heen ahle to ap()roaen the fellt of Capt. Adrian C. A11son In winning five pennauls in the National i<'n;!ue. IH•• Chicago club cnme in fir:st In 18 '0, 18M, lSS:?, 1883 and 1886. A proposal to create seven additional boxing championshi ps will be submitted by President Paul Prehn to the National Boxing association at Its September meeting. "The great problem C!Onfronting boxing promoters is that ()f acquir· ing championshi p attractions," Prehn explained, "and official junior champions In each class would rlouble the attractions now offered. This would bring more boxers Into prominence, too, and give the unfortunate performe!' who Is between the classes a chance." The first boxing tournament ot glovt>d contestants was held in Englund In 1872. • • • Jim Thorpe. famous Indian athlete, Is said to be muscle bound at the age of forty-four. • • • Georgetown university students, 75 per cent of them, find golf the game which gives them the greatest thrill. • • • A total of $1,300,000 was risked on the eleven entries In the recent Pilll· lico l'reakness. It was a new mark in money bet. • • • Frnncis Ouimet, leading amateur golfer around Boston, won·t be active In gulf meets for a number of weeks because of a recent operation. • • • Luis Fi:-po, Argentine heavyweight , has resumed training again and annt>\ln('e<l that he ec-.-pectl'l to go to New York before the end of the year to return to the ring. |