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Show Friday, August 9, 1929 THE MIDVALE JOURNAL BASEBALL VEXED COLLEGE PROBLEM . Holy Cross Stars Making Good Page Five BRITISHERS NOW FAVOR BASEBALL How Melvin Ott Grips His Bat Decline in Interest in Sport Is Noted by Officials. Le!t to right! Ray Dobens and !<'rank Nekola, two Holy Cross oaiJ who made good ln the big leagues. When they dls,•ussed this matter tn sc ool days they probably never thought they would meet as opponents in the YunkPe stadium. The former Is pitching for the Boston Red Sox and the Iutter Is on the Yankee pitching staff. ~layers Tom Shibe Says Lively Ball Fault of Hurlers Shlbe, Philadelphia baseball manufacturer. denies tl;at the ball is lively; that ls, he 1isputes quite vlg· orously the statement made by John M~Graw tile other day that the rnbhlt Is th llvel!t>sl in the history of the game. "There is not one thing wronA' with the ball we make," Shibe said. "There hns bePn no change in the mnnufac· ture of the stthere since WOO. Trouhle Is t.hat the pitchers are not as good as the.v used to be, and the young fellows coming up just take a toe hold and slam for all they are worth. They won't try scientific hitting, nothing but hnst it. "U,layers follow Ruth, Gehrig, Simmons, Fuxx and others, who are ri1Jing the ball far nod wide. Nowadays the placing of hits is unknown. Tha boys just slug. for they like the homers, triples and doubles that ring otT the buts. "That hall Is made nccording to the instru•·tioos of the two league heads and ccm·ding to the rules of l>a~eball. .\ftN it is made It Is shipped to the heads of the two circuits. They are all wrong allout the ball being any JiyeJier than last sens••n or any other sea;;o s· ce we put the ·cork center in it." Tciln Cards' Double 10 Looks Like New Scoring Mark l\Iaking 28 runs and 28 hits in the second game of a duuble-header with '\he ['billies, the St. Louis Carc1innls apparently made only one record, that of S<'orin,g 10 runs In each of two IIi· nings, but they compiled the biggest tot» I of tu !lies made tn a mujor league ·game by one team since the adoption of the foul-strike rule in 1901. The Chicago Nationnls made 36 runs against Louisville, Juue 29, 1897, while the m01.>t hits in a single game by one team Is nlso 36, made by the Phillies against LPuisville, August 17, 1894. The Yankees marie the American league record for mto~;t hits, 30, on September 28, 1923, while Cleveland holds the American league scoring record. of 27, made July 7, 1923. The lled Sox were the victims in both lnst-Jnces. Record for Girl ~************************~ = One He Didn't Hit = = In the Ruth's = * a * years of Babe prowess as homerun hitter only one pitcher has achieved the fame of holding the homerun slugger. Eddie Cicotte, the ~ "scandal" pitcher of the White Sox, is the only piteher working ~ in ten games or more that Ruth ~. has never hit for the "circuit.'' * = = * ~ ~ The Glob~>-Democrat says that Dun Howley. manager of the St. Louis Browns, In third place In the Aruerl· can league pennant chase, will not be back next year. The paper S11ys n squabble between Bowley and L. C. McE\·oy, vice president of the club, Is responsible. According to Howley, the newspaper says, McEvoy has been giving orders as to what players should be used, and Howley claims Phil Ball, president of the club, Is the only one to give orders, and that it was so understood when he signed a three-year contract, which began wltb the Hl~7 season. Ball Is said by the paper to take the blame and that MeEvoy in orderIng player shifts, was merely acting for him. In three .vears one cluh In the In· ternatlouol leazue used 7,7;:)2 baseballs. The cost was f,)11,000. • • Goldsmith. Newark pitcher, hurled one ball and wns charged with a defeat 1!1 n game "ith Baltimore. • • • Paul Zahniser, plteher, has bePn traded to the Toronto club of the In ternational lcag'ne for Arthur Huble. • • • • With Babe Ruth out ot the lfneup the Baltimore Orioles cancelled the annual exhibition game with the Yankees. • • • 'l'he Philadelphia Athletics turned Outfielder Nick :nordelll over to the Bloomington club of the Three-1 league. • • • George H. 1.\.Ialnes, fm·mer president of the Michlgnn-Ontarlo baseball league, who has organized more than 75.000 boys under seventeen years of age Into junior baseball teams in New York. Maines directs the activities of 1,500 kid ball teams, who play in tournaments for trophies given by Babe Ituth, Ty Cobb, Kiki Cuyler, Sir Thomas Lipton, Mayor Walker and others Interested In promoting chil· dren 's sports. The Cleveland Indians have pur· cha11ed .John McDonald, pitching ace of the Burlington club of the llflsslssippl Valley league, for delivery next season. • • • The young shortstop had just thrown the bull Into the seventeenth row In the stands. "Oh, well," mused the elderly first-baseman, "youth must have its ttlng." < • • • Johnny Neun, former Detroit first baseman. has been sold by the Toledo club of the American association to the Baltimore club of the Internntlona I league. There are only three registered spitball pitchers remaining in the National leagne-nurleigh Grimes of the Pittsbur:::h Pirates, and Clarence Mitchell and Bill Doak of the St. Louis Card Ina Is. •• • • Joe Kiefer, veteran right-hander, acquired ft·om the Texas league, has been placed on the voluntary retired list by Atlanta. Meanwhlle, Chief Wilkins was acquired from Shreveport (Texas). • • • Erection ot a $7!30,000 stadium at Notre name will be under way this fall. Heretofore wooden bleachers have been taxed hy the crowds that trek to South Bend to see the Rockne teams in 11ction. • • • Leland Hill, third baseman of the Ounchltu college team of Arkadelphia, Ark., has bPen signed by the St. Louis Cardinals to report at the close or school. He will be sent to one of the Cardinal farms. • • • Connie Mack regards Haw" Hans ns one of uable ball plr.,\'ers. He fielder has broken Into the last se\·eral !'f'llsons pare with ''the ~Iule." George "Bee his most valsars no out· the lengue in who can com· • • • ThP Boston £kaves h:n·e the olcle-<t plnyers in the 1\'atic.nnl leag1:e "Hah bit" !\Iarnnville an <I f:eorge lla rp<'r are thirty-l'iX nn•l going !<Iron~ \.Pnr"• Sisler i;: thirt~· live. llnrr.'· ~Pi:wld nl'rl ~ ~ • • • • • • There's going to be plenty o! "color" In the :1\ational league as long !IS Hnhhit ttlaranville ts around. The Hnhblt g:l\:e a regular one-man show ~in the second game of the doubleheader at r·~llbets field recently. He was so funny when he got on first base late in the second game thut he made even the umpires laugh. And that's soruethin~?; to dn when umpires have to work a doul>le-header. The fnns gave the llnbbit a big huod for Ills eapers nt first base and at short. lie wus ns funny as ~lck Altrock nncl ~--.·-.·~--.·: Nicl; Attrock drew less as n pitcher than he now pulls down as clown for the S{mntors. • \. closeup of the strong hant.ls of Melvin Ott, yuuUlful <'Uttlelder ot the New York Giants. showing how lllel grips his bat when he );'•es thmu:;h his famous natural swing on a pitched hall. Ott Is len!lln~ both leagues In home runs. His batting average promises to go much higher hetore the season draws to a close. ............................................ ........ . l . ,........................................................ Howley Not to Manage Browns Again in 1930 ~~ 11 ust Be Husky 1~ * * ~ * * **"****;Hf************-¥--******'* • • • Maranville Keeps Robin Fans !n Splendid Humor Friend of the Boys ~ This year's base-stealing sensation In the American association is Frank Emmer, of Minneapolis. Last year Fred Haney, of Indianapolis, was champion base runnel'. ViYinn Hartwick, sixteen-year-old San Francisco girl, who broke the world's baseball throwing record for women at the recent Pacific Association Women's track nt Vallejo, when she t<>ssed the ball for a distance of 256 feet 6 Inches. Miss Hartwick has been the mascot or the San Francisco Seals for six ye11rs. College baseball has become "an Increasingly vexed prublem,'' says Pror. Ge~u·ge U. Nettleton, chairman of the board of control of the Yale University Athletic association, In bis annual report. "Even friends of college baseball frankly admit the considerable decline In general Interest in the sport," S!lfS the report. •·nouhtless the major reason for this Is the great Increased pnrtlclpntlon ot students in all forms of outdoor sports. wltlt the consequent multiplication of class and scrub teams and crews, and the increased opportunities for Informal nod indl· vidual recrf'll tion in such sports as tennis and golf. "This change, amounting almost to revolution, in general student nttl· tude has, in th" spring at least, largely emptied the grandstands and crowdPd all available playicg fields of every kind. "Yale's early addition and constant development or the pol!cy of •athletics for all' are matters of common knowledge. The general results have been most gratifying even to those who lind them intimately connected with the now recognized decllne of Interest In college baseball No one would countenance for a moment a call 'back to the bleachers,' but especially to various colleges closely associated with Yale In athletics, the situation In bnsebull has become an lncr.enslngly vexed problem." Feature of Recent Contest Was Latham's Umpiring. Yule will have eight coaches for the 1029 season. football • • • ... The new polo field at West Point Mliitnry academy cost $100,000. " Capt. George L. Rollln of Los Angeles, Calif., is training his dogs to retrieve golt balls. Limit Number of Ducats for Army-Illinois Game Anticipating a sell-out of seats for the Illinois-Army football game Sep· tember 13, the university ticket committee has decided to limit the number ot ducats available to Individuals. Paid-up stadium fnnd subscribers, eligible for one ticket for each $10 given the rund, listed In class A, will not be restricted. Stadium subscrib· ers, who already have used up their quota ot tickets under the "one for each $10" plan, wiil be limited to four tickets eacb. The latter are listed ln class B. Class C. alumni of the university who are not stadium fund subscribers, wlll be limited to two tickets each. Of the 67,000 seats in the stadium; 15,000 have been allotted to the umy. Likes His Chew • • • • • • • Girl \Vins Medal DiamondNo~s The Buffalo club asked for waivers on H ball players in a single day. • • • Bullet Joe Bush pitched n four-hit game in his debut with the Kewurk Bears. • • • James (Zack) Taylor, veteran catcher of the Boston Brnves, was acquired by the Cubs on waivers. • • • Tommy Conolly, dean of American league umpires, has been calling balls and strikes for 3G yea1·s. • • • Alhert Sachs, outfielder, has been named captain of the 1930 1\fichfgan State college basehnll team. • • • Sam Dailey, pitcher for the Des Moines Western league club, has been sold to the Philadelphia Nationals. • • • George ("Shorty'') Rosan, catcher. was elected captain of .Northwestern university's baseball team for 1930. • • • Radbourse, one of the greatest pitchers of. all tlme, received a salary of $4,1i00 when at the height of his career. • • • One of. the longest home runs ever hit by Babe rruth was In the ball park of his home town. Baltimore. Dale Alexander, now with the Tigers, hit one that some !ans thought was even longer. • • • New York high school boys play golf, tennis, baseball, lacrosse, hand ball, track and field and rille shoot· lng in the spring. • • • Here is Art Shires, the much talked about White Sox~ ball player, who, It seems cannot play ball without a good chew. Large-Fisted Boxer Is Given Big Advantage In the matter of mitts, Berlin box· Jng experts have struck a snag. At the last bout between the Ger· man heavyweight, Ernst rroesemnnn, • • In spite of any current agitation, and the Italian giant. Primo Carnera, for whom gloves of a special size had lmet"ti~ation, etc., It is our firm imprPssion thnt not so many younA' men to be made, It became apparent that now leaye home to aeC'ept positions the hig italian's opponent was greatly handicapped. on fnot ha II tPn ms. For the larger gloves of Carnera, j • • DPspite mnn:v attempts on tracks weighing fiye ounces, accor!lin.!; to the tlli>' year. the record of 14 2-:'i seconds regulations, naturally had less pad· fllr 1ht> 1~0 ~·nrrl high hurdle event ding than those of the otl1er m·an, .·till st:lll• :s. It was e~tahlishe!] In 1920 whert>hy the Italian's blor\"s were UhHle h~· Earl Thorupson. now track coach at more tt'lling than those of the !'maller mao witt ll\f$ fints eurased in thicker • ~ ··::•::•::•::.;:•::+::•::•::•::~:·::..::•::·:~::•::•::•::•::•::•::•::•::•::.:: Middle age Is that time in life when the subject suddenly realizes he knows more about the Red Sox lineup tor 1904 than he does about the Athletics' personnel !or 1929. Pinehurst, N. C.. with sl.x golf courses within a two-mlle radius, claims to be the golr capital ot the world. • ~ •.. ~ :*: ,+. • • • • • • Arne Borg, recently established a new world's record for the 1,000 meter free style swimming in Bonolulu. when he covered the distance In 13 :6. ~.. '•' ' • Miss Peggy Meaney, nineteen-year· old Sao Francisco girl, who recently won the medal for the 1i00-yard freestyle swim of the Pacific Athletic association. She wit! take part ln all the swimming meets of the season, nod Is expected to win more honors. • • • • • • • • • or Sweden, .'.1. ~!~ :~ ;•; ~ .•. ~ :•: ~ ;•; .,•, Ed Baecht, pitcher, formerly with the Philadelphia Nationals, has been signed by the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast league. Coach Glenn Thistlethwaite has scheduled six games for his Wiscon· sin "B" team next fall. • Basket ball, introduced In France by Americans only a few years ago, now claims 15,000 enthusiastic players. • • • ~ ;~ ;•; Eddie Woeber, outfielder with Bloomington, was sold to the Du. buque (Iowa) Mississippi Ynl!ey league club. Thirty nations are represented ln Davis cup c.lmpetitlon. Only twentynine played this year. Bruno Sznpes, the tall Magyar, who \Vaa second In the Olympic javelin throw at Amsterdam, Holland, also is an artist. a ski jumper, a dancer and a linguist. ~~ :.: ;:; ·~· ~ :•: Babe Ruth, the famous lady baseball player, receives an an· nual salary equal to 500,000 marks. She also has an addi· tiona! income from other sources. Besides this she receives a vacation lasting a quarter of the year.-German newspaper. • • • Jack Ryder, track author!ty, picks Leo Lermond to be tbe greatest roller in American history. • • ;~ ~ Britishers are beginning to take a perfectly ripping interest In the jolly old game of baseball. T!Jis Is the eighth conseeuth•e year that the Anglo-American aRsociation has been In operation at the Statnfor<l Bridge grounds near London and the season promises to be a record· breaker, aecor(}ing to information ret>elved In a letter from Lonsdale Green, a Chicagoan, visiting in London. Green writes In particular concern· log a game between the Akron ( U. S. A.) nine and the London Americans, which was won by the latter by a score of 18 to 17. A feature of the contest was the umpiring of Arlie Latham. wlw played with the St. Louis Browns and New York Giants many years a;.:o. Latham must be dose to seventy years, but he bos!!ed the contest with the autocratic au thorlty of n Brick Owens. Despite the fact that Kiracofe, hurl· er f<Jr the Akron~J, struck out the first nine men to face him. his t£!am lost. This probably was due to th\! fnct that his support was wabbly, the Akrous committing no less than ten errors. A glance through the program revel•ls the fact that although baseball 1:;~ being played In ~ngland the British have Invented some entirely new features that should hand the American tans some laughs. The programs are numbered and after the game Is start· ed a drnwing Is held and the lucky numbers pulled from a hat are shown on a billboard hnck of the outfield. The holders of programs bearing these numbers win prizes furnished by leading London tlrms. On one uf the program pages Is printed a diagram of the diamond showing the position of the players and the dimensions of the fleld. Below this Is an explanation of hnsehall terms, a few of which \Yere the following: "Attaboy"- meaning "'l'hat's the hoy," a general term of encouragement. "13onehead"-A stupid player. "Hazz"-To talk sarcastically to " player. "Solid Ivory"- \Vhat a fan thinks 11. stupid player's head Is made of. George 1\fuehlebach, owner of the Kansas City Blues or the American association, announces the purchase of Infielder Harry Riconda from th Pittsburgh club of the National league. Surf-board polo ls the aquatic sport in Waikikl. newest • • • Gene Tunney has been the only hen vywelght boxing champion to retire undefeated. • • • Despite his 70 years of age, Dr. Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, England. is an active hockey and ten· nis player. • • • Dr. Taku Iwahara, medical officer of the ministry of education of .Japan, is making a study of amateur ath· letlcs in America. • • • • • • Los Angeles wlll entertain the great· est number of European athletes In 1032, for the next Olympic games, thnt has ever gathered previously in tbe United States. Manager Frank Snyder of the Flouston (Texas league) club, a St. Louis Cardinal furm, has been given his unconditional release at his own request and the veteran outfielder, Gene Bailey, named manager. Kid Chocolate, Cuban bantamweight, has four times achieved the distinction of knocking out two opponents In one week. As an amateur he bas scored 86 knockouts in 100 bouts. Jimmy Walkup, Fort Worth pitcher, is refuting the theory that a southpaw is shy on control. In 1J complete games this senson, the former Oetroit slabster i"sue•l only 1:1 pn~ses. He finished eYery one of thP games. "Pittsburgh Phil" Smith, one or the greatest plunger!'! in the history of horse racing, Is the only outstarlll· ing gnmbler who beat the game und died in the possession of more thno two million dollars. Ir.dianapolis, minor league cham· pion last year, hasn't m1wh hitting power In the Hl2ll race. Spring. new !'atcher, and P.arnhart, veteran out· flelrter, are just a little over the .300 d t sluggf:s. O::;car !\Iathicson of • ·orway, who twenty years ago and later was In· vincible as amateur speed slwtiug champion of the world, recently made a new world's recorrl for 500 metres, whlcb he covere.1l in 4~ !iCConds tat. • • • • • * • • • • • • • • • |