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Show Friday, August 2, 1929 THE MIDVAI.E JOURNAL Alexander Tells How G + : + + ! • • + • t~·Pit~h.....i. t+ ROVER CLEVELAND ALEXANDER reeentl.v toll! why he has been successful and, Incidentally, told ambitious ID{'n how to become successful pitchers. Among the things he ad\·ises are: • Develop controL Study baiters. Pitch the ball where the batter does not care to hnve it pitdl<>d. Alexander need say no more. Any pitcher with 11 fair amount ot stuff "ho can control It and who kno~;s whert to put it will succee1l. There are plenty of pitchers with stptr on the ball, but their .stuff Is wasted and they get nowhere. They have neve• mustered con trol and they have not studieu opposlnll' batsmen. Alexander oeYer had what the profession calls a "world or stu fT." He was never endowed with the amount of sturr thnt Christopher Mathewson carried. All he bad was a fast bull anrl a cune. ( Walter Johnson and "Dazzy" Vance had much better fast balls and a dozen pitchers could curve a ball bettPr than Ah~xander. Still, be Is one of the great pitchers ot the gurot' and will always be remembered as su<'l1. No pitcher ever knew better where to senu the bull and no onP ever knew better when. l<'urthermore, no pitcher ever could get It to the right spot us often os Alex ander. He Is probably the greatest control L•ltcher of all time. G. Alexander. ~ ~· -t• + ~ 1.:..• ;~ ~ ~ * + + ~ tt+ t ~'-· + ~;+.H+++++++++4>•1•++•t++++tN<++f+o{•>H>+++-l-+H++++++++++l<++++ Cleaner Fight Game Is Now Sought by England A cleanup of British boxing with a view to cleaner and better sport. Is envisaged hy a scheme which Is to he considered at a meeting or the Brit· ish Boxing Board of Control. The main points sug~ested in the scheme are that disputes will he Rettied by lndepenrlent rnPn with uo ftnancllll interest in boxln_g. Every par· tldpunt must obtain a license. Eaf'b sedion-promoters. boxers, referees, boxers' managers. anu train ers-,vlll nominate their own representative to the board. which wlll de c!de all rules governing the sport Champlcl1Jshlps will be re)rulated and approved contracts used by all promoters. The objects of the board are. arnonA other things, to encourage boxing in the United Kingdom, to raise the standard an<t control or professlonnl boxing, and to net as a genernl board at appeal. Douthit Gets Them BASEBALL ~JI NOTES ~ Heinie Sand's great work at llo<'h· ester has hrought rumors he will he taken t•Y rbe Cllrtls to replace GelberL • • • Why do t he,v say the li\ ely l>all tws rtone awuy with the nld-tlme plac-e hitter? Isn't over the l'i6llt tiehJ wall o p!a<'er • • • We sel'rn to have got to the point where It is consider·e•l less trouhle Ita the tir!'t plaC'e to ma!.;e a bnme run than a t rl pie. • • • Onls the Ginnrs. llraves. Phils unrl White Sox ha 1,. goue ulong with the same man playing shortstop regularly tLis sen!<on, TILDEN TO QUIT AT END OF YEAR Big Bill Says He Is Playing His Last Season. • • • Richard Siebert, southpaw pitcher ot Conc·ordia college at St. Paul, wus sign eel ny 8rout J nck Ryan for the St. Louis Cardinnts. • • • • • Babe Ruth, Goose Goslin, Hnrr,11 Heilmann and !~rank o·noul ure said to be the twst dressed players in the major leagues. • • • Allen Is Clever .. leu~ue. • • • • • • Rumors that Miss Florence Killilea, baseball's only woman club owner. was to sell her team, the Milwaukee Brew· ers or the American association. were shot to pieces "''hen she stated that she was not going to quit the gnme because her boys were not on the top. "Sure, I will be back next year even If the Brewers finish the season in last place," she said. The Mil· waukee team Is In sixth pln.ce to date. Miss Killilea Inherited the team trom her father, Henry Killilea, who 4.led last year, Nebraska vs. Billikens St. Louis university will be Included drl Nebraska's 1!)30 basket ball sched· ule, Herbert D. Gl<;h, University of N ebr sica a thletle director, has announced. The Cornhuskers wlll play at St. Louis, Decemher 2i ns part of t teir eastern trip during the Christ· mas holidays. St. Louis unh·erslty wlll J]lay nt Llncolq In a return game, but the date has not been set. The game at Si. Lo•1ls will be the first of the trip. ~ • • • .Jack Hopkins, rig!lt-hand pitclw• with St. Paul of tile Aruerlcun ns~o ciatlon. has been solrl outright to Jer· sey City of the International league. The Columbus cluh has a neighbor· hoo(( star on its pitching sta!T in the per·son of Harlan W~·son~. an elongat· etl southpaw , from • Washington Court House, Ohio. . . .. The) said if Ma~suchusetts got ~un· day ha~ehall the Hed ~ox woul1l finish well up in the stunding, but we guess they ju,;t rneunt well up in the mnney. • • • J ockt-_y C. K Allen has hud ruore than his share of success In ri,Jing winning horses on western tracks this year. His clever ride on Murtiniqnt! landed the Qulcl;step handicap from a high class fielil of horses at Latoniu recently. • • • Another form of "athletic heart" is that suffered · by the speetntor who wonders whether the unreliable young Infielder Is going to get the ball across to first. • • • Howard ("Lefty") Kimball. for the past four ~·ears [litcher on 'Vestern State teachers' collc~e hasehall team, has reporte11 to the Cleveland Indians for u tr~·out. Bill RarldPn. catcher, or Bedford, ln1l. last with Cincinnati In the mn.Jor leagues, Is a speed-hoot enthuslnst. Bill quit hasebali and returned to Bedford to live. • • • :Ollke De Mucchio, Rutgers so\lthpaw pitl'her, hurled a no-hit. no-run game n~ninst Manhattan college. He fanned fourteen, batted in two runs, but wulked one rnn.n. • • • Great Britain boa!:,ts 100,000 worne>n affiliated with golf clubs. • • • • • • "No two thln:;s are absolutely identical," says a New York professor of physics. And how about the pitch the umpire calls a strike, and the next one he calls a hall~ Penn State loses 3G letter wln'!ers in 12 varsity sports through gruduu· tion this year. .. • • • Warren Davis of Hoquiam, Wus!t., has been elected captain of the \YasiJington university crew for Ul:30. Gorrlon ~lade, shortstop of the lending l'lii!';;,ir•n club In the Cou!'t league, probably will he the next Californian to advanee to the hlg show. The Pirates bave bPPn after blru. * • • .. Lafayette, Lehigh anu Rutgers. traditional rivals In all sports, ren•ut ly handed together, and are to be I; nrm n In the ruture as "The lUiddle 'fhret:" group. Tom York, t-'1lardlan or the Yankee stadium press Lo1:, playe11 llrofesslnnal baseha II us far huclc ns 1870 for Troy, N. r., in the olil Nntional association . forerunner of the l'\atlonal league. • • • Columbia crews, under the Olendons, have beuten crews of every col· lege exl-ept Wisconsin. Wisconsin has been absent from varsity competition In recent yenrs. • • • Nick Allen, who has been uppointe<l manager of the Tulsa team of the Western lengue, hns been In organized baseball since 191 a serving as a catch· er linrl manager for \'llrious teams. • • • Roy ~lilford, bnsltet ball conch ot Collluwood and developer of thre~ championship teams, hus been oflielal· Jy declared Western Reserve univer· slty cage mentor. • • • Whlle the umpires l;eep their eye:s gluel'l on him for the first signs of cheating, Duve Danforth, veteran southpaw, continues to turn In \'lctories !or the New Orleans Pelicans. • • • Now another record fgr the hundred yurd dash hus been set, but it is only a mark to shoot at. No ,·econl f'Hn he said to repre!"eot the permanent limit of h_uman endeavor. • • • CQnnle !\lack, mann~er of the Philndelphla Athletics. has four chihlren prominent In sports. R~y and 1-Jarl play basehnll, another son plays hi~h school ~uotbull. and 11 girl Is a bnsl>et ball star. • • • Fred Hovde of De\'ils Lake. N. 0., fleet quartE>rbaek of the l'nin•rsit\ of l\Iinnesotu football te:"'' hl'<l fo1ll JJ;ts heen nallled a Rhnd · '•nla• t<> U~· ford ltlliversity, ljn;::t; • • • The Boston Hed Sox mulntaln four scouts In th~ United ~tntes tuHI Can· arlu. l'resiclent Hohert tlliinu says sou cannot huy u good plnyer at nny price In th~ bl;; lea~ups today aud us a re suit a cluh must rlepPnrl on what it c:un gel h·o1u the minor leagues. • • • Just n bout the time we had come to the conelusion that pitchin~ signuls were of no more use in basehnll, the Browns accuse the Athletics of st.eullng I hem. Chri,;ty Mathewson's superstition that tn thr·ow the hall to the third baseman wns unlutk~· hns he en taken up by many othPr pitf'hH-5. .. .. The ~uhs hnve reduced their roster to the legal limit of 25 by releasing Ed l.n ul enhacher, rookie pitcher. to the I:P:tding club of the International nlu,;tratlnl! the th(lu~ht that this is not a shortstop yt-ar. Hahhit !llarnn\'ille of the Bn1ves clrovpeJ a fly for the first time In 17 years. iss Killilea to Keep on Running Brewer Team two or three times that they Ct>uld still use u pretty fuir ball player around second hy the name of Frnnt• FrisC'h. • • • • • • .. It must tun-e occurred to the Giants Walter Johnson, mnuager of the Washin~ton American league team, belie,·es hi;; le;lgue nines rnu:;t uo rheir recruiting from the sandlots and in the colleges. • • • .. C • ;t ... •• Charley Stis Played, Man.~, aged and Coached Teams. • • • • : • • • • Senorita Jumps Rope • The !\Jprnphis cluh of the Southern associlltion h:lS pun·hased Frank \\'ilsr,n, nn ontfit>lrl E' r, from ~tilwaukee of the American nsso<:i:Jt ion. Jimmy Dykes, third baseman of the A's, is another athlete whose playing career holds more than the usual run "'bf interest to the fans over t11e coun· try. He probably is one of the game's most versatile ball players. He can play any infield position and Is a capable outfielder. In the final game Q! the 1027 season, whi(•h had found Dykes pl11y!ng almost every position. tlnck listened to the pleadings of the tans and sent DykE's in to pitch the last Inning. He retired the side runless and the fans paclted him off the l'field on their shoulders. 24 YEARS IN GAME LARK ORIFFITH, who as a pitcher was positive that all umpires were blind and as a big league manager even more certain, umplrt>d one ball game during his big league cnreer. Inchlentally, G•·lllith In that. onP game hnrl an experience without preceuent in the unnals of busehnll. We will let Grltlith tell the S\Ory: "Diu you eYer hPar of a munager reYe1·sing the 1:>clslon of the urn• ,.Ire, saiu decision being In his favor? No? well, let me t!'!ll you how It ' once happeneu. • "I wa>~ pitching ror the .;hlcago White Stockings at tile time. The great Cap Anson was manuging the club. The umpires 1or some reason ' faileu t1> show up fo1 the game and each team selected one of its : players to suhsritute. I was the Chicago nominee • and worked the buses. The visiting player selected called the balls und strikes. • "Early In tlle game there was a close play at • tlrst base In which 1 calleu the visiting runner out. • • l felt sure J hntl rendered the !Jl'oper ruling but the entire visitlr g club thou;;bt to the contrary and as a man told me so. They tllreateneu to forfeit • the game. but l stood m,v ground. lmagint! my surl)rlse when I heard Cup Anson say: "Let us quit klcldng nnd sturt the game. It was n terrible decision, the man wus sure unu he Is goin~ to stay 11 t tlrst base.'' Clark Griffith. "The year lO~J sees the end or my International tennis," writes Wllllam T. Tilden II. nine times ranking tennis sta- of the United States ancl mainstay of American Davis Cll[l tenms since 1!)20, In Liberty. Announcing his retirement frorn In· ternatlonal competition, "Big Bill" states he will remain an amateur and continue to piny tennis "as Long ns my two wnhhling legl'l wi!J funetfon and my ngell fiTHl enfeeblert arm will swing. us lon .~t as mr age-dimmed e~·es can see a ball." navis cup compe't!tion will know no longer the smashlnr,: cnnnnn-hn II servke ~m<l amazing nll-nronnd tennis of the greatest plnyer of modern tlmel'. In the future. Tilden sa~·s. he will piny a!! un Individual. not as n mem· ber of any Ameriran team. • • • • "I ha ,.e hnd a grand time. hut l must herenfter write and speak of my triumphs and failures In world tennis In the past tPnse, for I am thr!'llgh," the Phllndelphlnn writes. "l'\ot throu~h with the gntne, hut through with lnternn tiona I cornpetl· Readin~: hns ohtained 01:nn:v Ta~·lor tlnn . . M:v future st'atus will centirme rrom the ( 'hif'ago Cubs. He can pluy to hi' nmlltPnr. l have nn thou~ht or the intielrl or ,.,rtfield. Intention of turning professionaL" • • • Til den, who has hel'n rnn l;ed No. 1 Fr·etJ 8c1Hnldt. old time leftlland~o!d in American tPnnis sinr·i> tn::o: hal' had fref]nent srtuahhles with the United pitcher for rhe J'l;ew York Giant!'!. is 1!oing s11me sc·outing for hlana:;er John ~tllt!'s L:nvn T1~nni~ assoC'iatlnn. and McGraw. f:pent the wintPr of 1!1~8-2!l In ln\'olun • • tary retlremPnt. lie rnnkes humorous. Sarnmy D;.-er, pitcher for the St hut ruther di~nifiNI, referPn<·e to his dift'erE>ncrs with the U. S. L. T. A. in l~dwurd'::; ·ollege team of A us tin, Tl·x announcing hi;; "''ithdrawal from inter- us. has signed 11 contract with tlle St. Louis ~arc!Jnals. natiflllal competitron. • • • "I hope to he ahle to play for years Ralph ".Jo<~" Dawson, pitcher, ha~ in exhibitions at schools :llld colleges neen relea~<>cl by the Pittsburgh Pior in puhlic parks where I feel I am '· rates to the Bnlthnore club of the lnnidin~ In the cl~,-elopmPnt of our futerun tiona! league. ture champions. • • "~ot only haYe I no chance hut I Hob Pat·harn, slur athlete of Geor~u have no burning dei'ire to sit in the Tech, has signed with Atlanta. He seats of the mi,ghty In the councils of the U. S. L. '1'. A. l\Iy views ore :nu1le ttnite a reputation as a hitter at variunce with the traditions of the during his college career. • association but not with Its et'illcs. I George Bur·ns, veteran of mnny fear I \\'<lUld want to see too much progressiveness and liberalism In Its ma.Jnr league bagebull cnmpaigns, hns urlmlnlstratlon. l am for the players, been sl~ued by the l'hlladelphln Athfirst, last and all the time." letics us a substitute first baseman. Lawtnu "\\'hiwy·• Wi:t , former Yan kee and Athlt>tie outlielrll•r, is to plu~· with Heading. He has been on the \'Oiuntary retirP!l list. Jimmy Dykes Is Game's Most Versatile Player Anson Changed Ump's Verdict • • • • WhPn Douthit goes after them he gets thmn. That's what they say In St. Louts about tine ~ardlnnls' great little center fielder, who Is out a hen d of most of the major league center gnrdcnt>t'S again this year. Taylnr Lee Douthit huR been a central figure In the splendiu defensh·e play of the Hed Birds during their re· ruarkaLie showing of the last four yeurs. WHITE SOX SCOUT • • • t Los An~Pies hfS lf>,t)IIO memlwr;. or prl\·ate golf <'iuhs, us num,t .nure un puhllc or semlpuhlic ('our><es a total of 3,4-17 acres of lln!;s: :;~.ll.IHl!II)()O In golf, polo, tenn~ and cl uh Qousel:l. .Johnny Neun, first baseman for the Detroit Tigers, who was traded last \'Pur to the Toledo 1\Iudhens, hns been ~ol 11 to the Baltimore club of the In· ternutianal league. • • • Atlanta has placed Rube Rollinson, veteran pitcher, on the voluntury •·c· tired list, until he regains his pitching fMm. The old fellow has not been rt;;!1t so fnr this season. • • • Prpslrlent Lee Keyser of Des Moines has suspended Infielder Johnny White tor fa11ure to report to his team after he had been sent there by Columbus of the American association. • • • Uncertainties of a baseball player's rnreer are reflected In the fate of metn· hers of Dallus' 1926 Dixie champions. Only one, Hap Morse, Is sttll with the dub, and only flve remain ln th" Texas league:. • • • National league players last year re corded 11Jl01 safe hits, Including 2,0'.!1 two baggers, filS three baggers nnd GlU home nms. In 1912, before the entry of the "live" ball, hit-s numbered 10,. fli:i; doubles, l,G42; triples, G83 and b01ner:i, 314. • • • !lcHraw salt! the Cubs lackeu pitchprs- Hendricks said they dldu 't ha ''e ••nou~h hitting-Lou Gehrig eats fried P.~ls-Lefty O'Doul Is bitting many homers over the l'hiladelphia right liPill fence--Lena Black6lurne's eye b u II right now. • • • Jimmy Ring, National league veter· w who recently drew his release from Toledo, marle Ills bow with Newark In the Rending series. He was not ahle to go all the way, but the Bears by dint of some real batting, pulled t.l.irougb tor vlctor.J:• SerHH'ita D' AI vnrez wearing a charm· ing bathing costume ns slle jurn(lS rope in the sunshine, her favorite methoil ot keeping in shape for the lntemn tlonul tennis matches. It was a dis· tinct surprise when the Spanish cham(J was heaten hy Mrs. l\Icilqnham, an un· known English player who triumphed through her terriflc driving power on the court. Discomforts Involved in vVatching G9lf Game Golf Is the ouly game wbPre the spectator has to work. 'fhe galleries ut golf tournaments work as hard, if not harder. th:J.n the men engaged In com pet lti on. It Is one sport where 1t Is just as easy to play as to watch. The only people who '(iew u major tournament with any deg:·ep or physical comfort are the playet·s mHI officials. The on· lookers ure pushed, shovefl, jostled, tramped upon, herded together, driven npart. \Yllen you consider the discomforts im·olved in wutchin;; a championship match you stop to wonder why anyone atten1ls gnlf tournnments, but each year the galleries seem larger and more Intense. In Charley Stis, big league baseball has one of the most ambitious ivory hunters connected with the national pastime of today. Stis, who Is now a member of the Chicago White Sox scouting- corps, bearil an excellent reputation for his achievements In scour· lng the brush for available high-grade timber. He is one of the best jud~res of ynung ball players In the game today, writes Charles 1. Dartley in the St. Louis Globe Democrat.. In the 24 years that Stls has been connected with organized baseball 113 player, mannger, coach and scout, be has found and developed numerous players. Stls. for many years, sened as mnnu;::er of various minor league cluhs In all parts of the country, prior to his becoming a big league scout. ' Stls started his career as a scout with the Cardinals as an undet-study to Ch:uley Barrett, now dean of the Co rdinals' scout starr. In 1023, he wM appointed scout of the Philadelphia 1\'n.tlonals by Arthur Fletcher, then mnnager of the club. Stis remained with the l'hillles for two years, being releuse<l In the fall of Hl25. The following 10prlng, Stls signed with the White Sox, where he has remained !'!nee. \\'hlle with the Phillles, Stls unearthed Pitcher .Jonnard and Wll· lou~o:hby, one of the mainstays of the Ph ill ies' !lUrling stutl'. He also was respon~lhle for developing such former hl~-leu;::ue stars as Walter Holke, first ba.:;emnn of Indianapolis last year and nt present manager of the Quincy club of the Three-I league: Ken Wll· linms and Jack Smith, now members of the Boston Red Sox and Braves, respecti,·ely; nob Veach, of Toledo, Leo ColliPr, of Minneapolis, John Mokan, Bul'fulo, of the American association ; Arthur Weis, of Los An· ;eles, George Wuestllng, Portland, of the Coast league: Joe Klugman, Mem· phis, of the Southern association, Max Flack, a former Cardinal outfielder, and Charles "Chuck" Ward, an infit>lder with Brooklyn several years a;::o. The latter two have been placed on the voluntary retired list of the roajur leagues. La'!t fall, Stls purchased some very promising recruits from the minors, and is confident they will make the Sox. Arthur Shires hails from the Waco club of the Texas league, while Jimmy Watwood was a member ot the Shreveport club, also . of the Texas circuit. Bob 'Yelland is from the Moline club of the Mississippi Valle;y league. Sewell Still Playing Never Throw Slow Ball to Any Young Batsman Jnc-lt Quinn, forty-four years old, and with 2fi yenrs or pitching behind him, was asked to give some auvice to pitchers who hn,·e not had the benefit of his years of experience. Ue was glad to oblige. "::-<'ever throw a slow ball to a young fellow," was his pre· script ion for life extension on a baseball mound. The 'eternn, who has been pitch· ing longer than any of the present day hatsmen have been batting, had ju:;t tossed a slow ball to an ambitious rookie and had seen the slow one converted Into ·a fast one against the fence. An unwrittpn law among pitchers has long heen to avoid throwing slow balls to fellow pitchers, and old Jack's kindly nd,·ice makes it even more sweeping. Value of Ball Ground Increases $1,600,000 Just before the war the owners of the Philadelphia National League basebn.ll club had an option to buy the {.(round on which tlley play for $400,000. !'\ow this same real estate Is vnlued at $~.000.000. The Phillies' park Is owned by Charles Webb Mtll'[lhy, on<'e the owner of the Chicago Cubs. There is much talk now that Ty Cobb, bending a group of Phlladelphla sportsmen, will eventually buy the l'hlls and abnndon the grounds if an anang-ement can be made to pllly in th& park of the Athletics. Emory "Topper" Rigney Plans Early Comeback I<~mory "Topper'' Higney, former Detroit and Boston shortstop, who was hampered by an alllng hip hls last two years In the majors, is restln~ at his home In hopes that he may return to the diamond next year. It1gney, who started during his college days at Texas A. and l\1., played with Dullas and Fort Worth In the Texas leag1le and then went to the American league, where he worked at shortstop for Detroit, Boston and Washington before the Injury forced him to quit. Joe Sewell, guardian of the hot cor· ner for the Cleveland Indians, has pluyed hls one thousandth consecutlva game for the Indians at St. Louis and gives promise ot going on indefinitely, The rliminutlYe third baseman joined the Indians late In 19~0. coming dl· rect from Titus, Ala, A tennis court at Hampton Court Palace, In England, bas been lD use 400 years. • • • Seventeen of the twenty-five members of the Purdue varsity football squad were lost by graduation thls year. • • • Jack Renault, a few years ago one of the foremost heavyweight challengers, Is now fighting for the smaller clubs in New York. • • • Idaho hns produced three-fourths ot the leading jocl,eys In the United States, including Earl Sunde, the three Faton:1, Albert Johnson, Ivan Parks anrl 1\fonte Edwards. • • • There are 18 dltl'erent sports at the Na\·al academy during the school year aud every midshipman Is required to compete in at least one, even It he Is not eligible for varsity competition. • • • Mrs. Fl. Roland Harriman of New York Is reported to be a very capable und natural trainer and driver of har· ness horse~. Her fastest mile to date was with Gny Ozark, 2.CY.l~, a strong, vigorous going trotter. • • • Renny Leonard has made the diJ· covery that Fidel La Barba Is a oatural southPQW. Ilis left hand and forearm are bigger nod he throws with his left, but was advJsed qalnat Qahtln1 southp'!w _sty_!e. |