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Show Two THE MIDVALE JOURNAL IHUGGINS GIVING HOLLAND FAVORS BASEBALL GAME YOUTHS CHANCE Efforts Being Made to Popularize American Sport. Proves He Is One of Smartest Pilots in Baseball. Characterizing honkba!, or baseball, as "de ideale zomersport" (the ideal sport of the summer), the Dutch ath· letlc clubs are making a determined effort to popularize American basebalf wherever Dutch Is spoken. The pitch· er of the Ajux team, which played a practice game recently against the American football eleven, Is eYen go· lng to Batavia, Dutch !<last India, soon in the hope of introducing baseball there. "Honkbal" was brought to Holland some 15 years ago by an Amsterdam teacher of sports, G. Grase, who had seen the game played In America, but who then had not taken the trouble to famf!iarize himself with it thor· oughly. Returned to Liollund, he sud· denly realized that Holland had no summer game comparable to soccer football for the fall and spring. So he and a group or Dutch enthu· siasts sat down to study baseball from Spalding's rules. They got most of It right, except that the pitcher threw the ball underhanded. One day an American man-of-war anchored outside Amsterdam. 'fhe Honkball Bond (baseball federatlt>n) asked the bluejackets to play them. It was then that they learned how a bali may be pitched. The marines also willingly taught them other fine points. After a few years interest lagged, and only eight years ago was baseball taken up again. Two years ago the United States cruiser Pittsburgh visited Amsterdam, and a series of games was arranged. That gave new impetus to "honkball," so that by today there are some 10 clubs ln Amsterdam with 21 nines, one in Baarlem and one in Bi!versum playing baseball. A Dutch audience reacts di1Iereotly to baseball from what an American does. While in the United States the E1Jectators In the bleachers seem happy when a ball Is hit there, and men vie with one another to catch It, every· bllrly in Bolland within apparent reach of the ball ducks as It approaches, and there is g1·eat commotion. One player with whom ~lilier Huggins has dared to experiment is Shealey, a young pitcher from St. Paul. Without P!pgras, Shealey and Duroch· er, the Yankees wouldn't have such 11 high standing as they enjoy at the present time. He Isn't the only man· ager who ls taking cllances. Forced to do so because his older players did not meet expectation, John McGraw !ws Inserted young )!elvin Ott Into the Giants' lineup. Ott has been with the Giants a full year, looking on from the bench most of the time, so that McGraw, after ali, Is continuing his old policy. Connie Mack made changes for 1928 In the Athletics. lie used the old· timers as his mainstay because they could bat, pitting them against t11e speed and cocksureness of the youngsters who are coming on. And while Connie today is much better off as regards his team's percentage than he was a year ago, the club Isn't yet in a position to stop the Yankees. It wasn't many yenrs ago that the Yankee owner raced about New York telling his cronies that "Huggins was no good." Some of them swallowed all that be said and Huggins was sneerlng!y referred to as "Pint-Size" and as a manager without control of his team. Today the Yankees' manager Is generally regarded as one of the smartest men in baseball. And so he Is. And so he was when he was man· ager of the St. Louis Cardinals and, unaided by money or much of anything else, kept that team In the fight and triumphed over a good many obstacles. The American league grabbed Huggins right from under the eyes of the Nn· tiona! league owners. Garry Herr· mann of Cincinnati knew that Huggins was going to the American league and did not attempt to prevent lt. His col· leagues cen~ured him bitterly when they found It out, all too late. Herrmann at that time was under the thumb of Ban Johnson and also thought he was doing Huggins a good turn. Ile did. Berg Makes Good BASEBALL ~II NOTES l:fBJ Princeton university made oYer $41,. 000 In sports lust year. • • • The Yankees hold every attendance record in eYery American league base· ball park. • • • Andy Cohen, the boy wonder of the is being bothered by trouble in his left ear. Giant~, • • • There were 788 stolen bases in the American league last year, as compared with 640 in the National league. Former Champion Jockey Loses 100 Races in Row Pirate Pitching Star X DIAMDNDX PICK·UP& Pitcher Harvey Reese has been pur· chased by Raleigh from Richmond of the Virginia league. • • • Tiger Stone is making the rounds of the league. Recently he signed with Columbus as a pitcher. • • • Cllarles Martz, Cincinnati, will cap· taln the Wooster college baseball team next reason. Be Is a star Infielder. • • • Art Jahn, Ph!llles outfielder, got his start In baseball by answering an ad tor ball players in a paper at Alverdo, Iowa. ••• Billy Mullen, third baseman, has been purchased by the Kansas City American association club from the St. Louis Americans. • • • John Miljus, one of the pitching stars of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Is more than making good this year, his sec· ond season in fast company. Pld Purdy, who I& playing a nice game for the Reds this year, belonged to the White Sox once, but wasn't thought much of. • • • Young Doc Leggett, whom the Cubs farmed out to Reading, Is still burning up tlte International league. He's leading the cii·cuit. • • • Harvard was the first American col· lege to introduce modem football. ••• Bicycle racing and cross-country runs are still the most popular sports In Belgtum. • • • Billy Bird, a London bus conductor, bas fo ught 175 boxing contests and lost only 23. • • • Benny Touch&tone, heavyweight, has knocked out eight opponents in the &econd round. • • • The first steel and concrete granll· stand in Japan has been built at Wa· aeda nnirersity In Tokyo. •• • Dan I.eary, veteran pedestrian, near· lng the ninetieth mlletotone of life, makes It a habit to walk at least 15 miles a day. •• • Donald Carrick, golfing champion of Canada, has droped golf to train for the tryouts for the Canadian Olympic boxing team. • • • Queens university has advanced a plan to have all members of the Ca· nadian Intercollegiate Athletic union pool their football receipts. • • • Willhtm L. (Little Bill) Johnston, who held the national tennis cham· p!onsh!p in 1915 and again in 1919, has definitely retired from active competition on the courts. • • • Ty Cobb, member of the Philadel· phia Athletic», Is forty-two years old and has been playing major league baseball for 23 years. • • • Jimmy Welsh, Giants' outfielder, still carries with him a card of membership in the St Louis Knotholers' Gang. It Is dated 1915. • • • Del Bissonette, the National league's rookie home run sensa tlon, tried and failed to break in with the big show with Cleveland as a pitcher. • • • Outfielder Snead Jolley was the llrst Pacific Coast league player to reach the 100-h!t mark this season. Major league scouts nre watching him. • • • When Louis ~!eyer of South Gate, a Los Angeles suburb, won the Indi:.ln· apolls Motor Speedway race. he was almost totally unknown in his home district Few people In Los Angeles had ever heard of the youth before newspapers announced his victory. So slight bad been tbe expectation that he would win the classic that newspapers searched their libraries in vain for pictures of the winner. It was recalled that he had entered as a driver in one Los Angeles race and had failed to qualify. Rommel Seeks Record On till' famous golf courses of Scot· land caddies may be seen at the age uf p;;tht~·. TIH•y appem· to know their cnur:o.-~ a~ a m:1riner knows his charts. "'Virginia" lleli, right·hanriPd pitcher with tlte Wllson club of the Virginia league lnf't \'ear. has reported for ~errice with the Na~hville club. llltelli;t<'IH"e tPstP. will be used b" Co,.·lt AI ,-;, -1·pe of \\'a~hin;:ton unl- Del Bissonette. Brooklyn's slugging first ·baseman, regarded as a possibl~ successor to Babe Ruth In home run hitting, is a discovery of old tarry Sutton, dean of Ivory bunters. •• • • • • • • • Moe Berg. playing his first season as n catcher, not only Is doing a good job behind the bat for the White Sox, but he's also hitting harder than ever before. II!s present average is a cool .358, which tops the Sox club. Moe's blows, in addition to being frequent, usually come in timely spots. Athletic teams at Ohio State univer· slty played before 236,000 fans the past year. • • • When told that Pyle and Grange had spilt, some heartless cynic merely asked what. • • • • The Chinese, SUflposedly the world's greatest gumiJiers, are taking a whirl at greyhound t·acing. • • • The motion picture rights for the United States at the Olympic games are placed at $60,000. • • • According to pi ·tures In the paper the last thing a boxer in training thinks of doing is to box. • • Billy Agee, winner of the Baltimort' marathon. is a product of tha Baltimore pavements, ,,·here he formerly sold newspapers. • • • Although he los~ seven crack mem liers of the 1027 eleven, Coach Pat Page at Indiana expects to have u strong football team this fall. • •• • •• Lou Magno! a, New r ork boxing ref eree, recently had the honor of ofll· elating as third man in the ring at three championship bouts in four days. After engaging In several exhlbitlun bouts, Kld Williams, former bantam· weight champion, now thirty-five, has decided to take one more fi!ng at the ring game. • • • Lloyd Hahn, tbe twenty-year-old sprinter of Falls City, Neb., holds th~ record for tl1e half-mile. His time Is 1 min. 52 2-5 sec., the fastest ever re· corded for the distance. • • • George Il. Tipling. Cle,·eiund sports man. announced recently he had closed negotiations with W. H. Cane, Goshen, N. Y., for the purchase of the trotter, Sam Williams. The reported purchase price was $!:!5.000. • • • Eddie Rommel, "'ace•· of the Philadel pllia Athletics, Is anxious to win 30 games this sea~on. This feat bas not been accomplished for many years and Hommel believes it would bring him Into the world's series. He is hurling great ball for Connie Mack. Tough Proposition Joe Dundee, welterweight champion who ran out or a match with Ace Hudkins in Los Angeles last vear when Ace wns in the ring, is n'kely to meet just as tough a proposition this time ln Sammy Baker. Buker Is a fierce body puncher. "The fellows who stay to a decision with Sammy sometimes drop out of sight after· ward. Dundee wouldn't be missed much. He was a rough fighter hefore he berame champion, and be's been a cautious business man ever since. . '" . A sport critic says the home run Is losing lts popularity in certain clrci!"S. He ought to quit talking to pltclterll. • • • Baltimore's streak of seven straight pennants in the International lengu~ Is n record unequaled in organized baseball. • • • MilO'S Beatrice S ears, sixteen-year· old champion swimmer, is believed to be the youngest aspirant to attempt the Engii~h channel swim. She is now in training for the ordeal. •• • • • • • •• Lee Fob!, former major league manager, has heen appointed pilot of the Des Moines Western league baseball club. • • • Cy Young, pitching Immortal, hurled 'em over the plate for 22 ye11rs, and during tbat period had three no-hit, no-run games to his credit, ant! one perfect game. John McGraw has four former base· ball managers on his starr this sea· son-Hoger Bresnahan. Bob O'Farrell, Larry Doyle and Bill Terry. '~'r<t,\ ns :·:1 ui1l ill Sl'letting- his foot· I. 'I ru:; : ... t • ·.)P<·i:tP\' quarterback~ fo1 L!l-! ''·.t:t. I,P:XI [:til Louis Meyer Unknown in His Own Home District • • • Wilford Il. Ketz, holder of the West· t'rn conference record for the hummer throw, will captain the Michigan track team next year. • • • Construction of a $6.)0,000 field house at the University of Wisconsin has been assured by Go>ernor Zimmerman's approval of a lease for t11e site. The University of Wisconsin Building corporation, a pri\·ate group within the unf\·ersity, will borrow $326,000 from the state teachers' retirement fund to pay for building material and labor. When the building Is completed It will be leased back to the board of regents for an approximate rental of $20.000, the lease running for fifty years. • • • Perle Casey has been connected with the Pacific Coast league since It began as a six-club organization in 1903. He bas seen service as player, scout. coach and umpire. • • • Wisconsin U. to Build $650,000 Field House The new Oxford dictionary has 414,825 words. This includes all the known words ln the English language, except the ones used by basebaJl writers. When Bob Fitzsimmons fought Pe· ter Maher about 400 miles from El Paso In 1800, there were exactly 132 paid admis>·ions al $20 apiece. Forty· nine newspaper reporters were admit· t ed free. • • • The champion jockey of England for many )lears, Steve Donoghue, has struck a poor track this season. On April 10 at Birmingham he won on Au Revoir, nnd when he was beaten with Tactics at York recently the world-famous rider chalked up his one hundredth consecutive loser. During the years 1014·23 Donoghue headed tbe list of winning jockey~ In England, and the slogan, "Come on, Steve I" was heard on eYery course. It Is no longer heard. The originator of that catch phrase is said to have been J. C. Galstnun, an Indo-Armenian, who used to visit England earh summer and back, selling platers heavily. Bennie Oosterbaan, Michigan's fa · mous modern athlete, made 24 hits in 49 times at bat for an average of .48!) during the last Conference baseball season. Fred Francis, the Giants' new an· nouncer at the Polo grounds, developed a st rong \'Oice as a kid shouting in Mammoth cave, Ky., just for the fun of bearing the echoes. . Judge Emil Fuchs of the Braves tells of the batsmen who felt Insulted when the catcher hollered, "'l"wo down and nobody up." • • • "Lefty" O'Dou!, now with the Giants, has three times equaled the feat of walloping six h!ts on six trips to the pi ate In a game. • • • Cle,·eland has announred the release of Pitcher \\'alter Brown to the ~ew Orleans club of the Southern association on option. • • • William Steinecke, catcher on the Waterloo club of the Mis~issippi Valley league. has been sold to the De· troit Tigers for S3,rJOO. • • • Jack Dunn of the Baltimore Orioles paid the tine of a youngster who was arrested after trJing to "pocket" one of his baseballs at Oriole park. • • • The Cincinnati Heds are a team of comparntiYe midgets-whic h is in line with Manager Hendricks' belief that short men are faster than tall ones. • •• The Waterbury club or the Eastern league announces the purchase of Walter Kinunick, former Cincinnati in· fielder, from MoiJile of the Southern league. • • • Babe Ruth says the umpires are fair. square and 99 per cent right. The Bam I~ conservative, of course, as he may have to growl at a decision some day himself. • • • • • • The fungo-hitting record in baseball is 110 feet % inch, set by Ed Walsh, now coach of the White Sox. at Comb'l<ey fleld on September 30, 1011. • • • The Babe and Lou mny tour Japan next fall. A certain Ilii!e;·uke rwa saki, editor of the Gendai (The ~fod ern A~e) of Tnkyo is In :'lew rorl< seeking the services of the swat twinR. oft'." . "What?" ••I said: 'One more word from yob and I'll knock your !lead off.'" "Oh, yol' will, will you?" "Yes, I will." "What7" ~what?" Sauce lor the Goo•e '!'here was another man who was hen-peeked.. His wife eornered him one day and said: I'm sick and tired of hearing you t·efer to the car as your car. HereaftPr 1 wnnt you to calf it our ear. I've got a half interest In every· thin&: you own." Tbat night he said to her, "Please, won't you patch our pants?" IN THE BEST ROOM .. • Hubby (constant smoker)-Can you believe that all that remains of a man Is a little dustl Wifie (pushing ash tray toward him) -No bls remains are principally ashes, I'd say. The Camera Mea1ure1 Dignity Tbe ptcturea tint caught blm un. wary And left an uncertain Impression. His photographs now sbow a very Serene and uplifting discretion. Better Still Kate-You ought to have heard M1·. DPnrlove's ringing speeclL last night. Annie-Why, I wasn't aware he could make a speech. Kate-Well, he has made one, just the same. I can't repeat the E1Jeech, but I can show you the ring. Came in Handy Vi~itor-1 suppo~, Eddie, that you are glad that the doctor brought you a little sister. Eddie-Bet yer life! She can wipe the dishes now, instead ot me. SOMETIME S REWARDE D The sexton softly tolled bls knell, Speeding Sam on hla way to-wel! It he'd only stopped to look and IIAten He'd be llvln" now Instead of mlsatn•: · understand • If she ha<'! an Ideal, 1 girl would. Also a Bumper Crop ::;he-r ou must be very fond of motor cars. He-What makes you think that? She-I heard you haYe a truclr farm! Wrong System • • • • • • One more word from you and I'll knock your head off." "You wi!!?" "Yes, I will. I'll knock your bead First Bachelor-! can't why you don't like her. a lot of mont>y she"d be suppose. Second Ditto-Well, any -Washington Star. • • • • • • DIALOGUE Coin Count. Babe rtuth is believed to have the he:wlest bat made. While the m·e1'1J.ge bat used !Jy other players is from 28 ounces to 40 ounce~. the great homerun slugger uses one weighing 52 ounces. Jersey Joe Stipp, Columbus third baseman and leading hitter of the American a~~ociation, bas been sold to the Cincinnati Heds. Ed "Stran):(ler" Lt-w!s rlalms to hn,·e made more than ~1.000.000 out of thr wrestling game. Ile has heen a stead\· performer for a Ion):( time and on~ year he engaged in 104 matches. New Catcher's Mask • • • Great things are predicted ot Lefty \Veilman, pitcher the White Sox bougl1t from Moline. Wellman attracted the scouts when he fanned 39 in three straight games. He reports this fall. • Once more the megaphone man will announce the name of ''Big Ed" Walsh as tbe day's pitching hope of tiLe Chicago White Sox. l'iot the "Big Ed" of more than a decade ago, but his son. who Is almost as large and who the Sox hope can get along in the majors as well as his father. Young Wuish came fresh from a great season at Notre Dame, where he won sewral games and lost one. Oe is twenty-four years old, stands 6 feet 1 inch and has pitched excellent bali for the Notre Dame team for Hen(leckt (passionately) - What rethree years. "I believe my son bas got the stuff." ward ,has a mao In marrying these remarked his famous father, who Is daysl Friend-Well, sometimes he's glveD now coaching the White Sox. "It may take some seasoning, but I think he'll a divorce. be ln there winning games before long.n Failed to Look Dick Wade, a memiJer of the ~ash· v\lie Vols in the Sout11ern league, established what is believed to be a world's rec'ilrd at Nashville when ue hit four consecuth·e hon1e runs. Richard Williams of Petoskey, Mich., a mldtlle distance runner, was re-elPCt· ed captain of the University of Chi· cago's track and field team. • • • Ed Walsh's Son Now on Staff of the White Sox • • • R1·uce Caldwell, Yule's greatest foot· ball player since •retl Cov and one of the best right-handed batters that e>er represented the Blue on the baseball field, has dec-ided to join the Cleve· land Indians. Betty Carstairs, of England, will hrlng two speed boats to this countn ln an attempt to lift the llarmswortl1 trophy at Detroit. September, 1·3. Good caddies do not just grow that way but must be trained with mnch care ln order that they may give ac· ceptable ser.,..ice for their employers. At no district club are better caddies found than at the Detroit Golf club. The reason there, too, is that the boys are drilled and Instructed constantly. Vincent Dolan Is caddiemaster at the big North side club and holds classes for the little bag toters almost daily throughout the season. Sometimes as many as 100 are taken out on the course and drilled on how to hold the flag, where to stand and other fea· tures of their work. A caddie Is no important adjunct to good goff and the player having an experienced and capable ope at his side is most fortunate. Unfortunately caddies come and go. It Is estimated that more than 75 per cent ot those who report each spring are new and know little or nothing of golf or caddying. '!.'hey must he taken In hand und trained, which makes the caddlemastet··s job especially important during the early weeks of the season. Although the general impression pre· valls that Tom Zachat·y, Washington hm!er, is one of the oldest men in the big lt>agues, the reco1·d book shows he was horn on March 7, 1897. Coach "Pop'' \Yamer of Stanford university footba!l team will no doubt be ready to gil·e the West Point grid· men a real battle wJ1en they meet for the first time in New York city December 1. \Yarner says: "1 believe that I have more go9d material on the present squad tban I have had In any squad in my thirty-three years of coaching. However, I have had squads \Yhich contained eleYen bette~ players." • • • Caddie Is an Important Adjunct to Good Golfer r This new clear-visilln baseba 11 catcher's mask worn by Bubbles Hargrave. of the Cincinnati Reds, has just made Its appearance. Points of vantage claimed for this mali'k are unob· structed vision and a steel construe· tion which will ward off the hardest of foul tips and eYen blows from the bat. Large Crowd at Derby The Kentucky Derby crowd at Churchiil Downs this season was the large~! gatllering in 54 years, almost 70,000 paring admission. Approx· imatel~· $1,SGO,OOO was wagered on the seven race;-. with allout $620,000 bein;; bet on the famnu~ race alone. It Is estimated th:H Sl~O.(XIO was \\'Ug~red on HPigh !'onnt. this >·ear·~ winner. ancl many hooktuakers hurl practitally thr·ir r•ntirp f·•rtuno' ll";!ll'rl out n~ " r~sult o:f tile detor.1 of tile <'hitago 0\YIIPd hor~P. Friend-Did you have your hushand see a speciu!iH, as I advised? Sporting Wife-Yes, and hP snfd John's system was all wrong, which, of course, was no news to me-J oLn never touched a winne1 all last sea son! Law ol Supply a;rd Demand '•There are more sucl;e1·s than there ever we1·e.'' ··r ~~. there has to be-the1·e are so maus more tltings to sell to sucker~:· Literary "Looks like my wife is out for a tit· erary afternoon." "I thought she was going to a bridge gnme." "\Veil, she has two boof;s of ruler and a cher!; book." · Risky "Why are all coun clerJ;s solemn t·• "On account of the judge." ''Ileh ?"' "It Is so easy to laugh at the 1vrona time." • |