Show y 1 KE IKE FATHE T- T HER THER HERL L' L I A J LIK i tI 6 r T I j ii 9 7 LI IK KE E ES S' S S 0 i LC d e ld om in In Yo ng Ed Walsh's s Successful u J p pI I 7 4 Debut in Baseball 4 G 1 C 4 s t I ss S 'S y v of r wr i y 10 aK t w s ti L 7 G r White j Sox One ox of 5 o x Y RF vs s. s L. L r. r y t l y Notable X 1 q J Exceptions i f rF ere Offspring 1 Nry 1 Ly a 1 Y f 5 J 1 Nv Zt t et Idi j 5 tI p p J I 0 J i f. f Sires 1 1 t. t JI X d i ti l nu a ad is oh t. t V Big Ed Walsh v S 3 d and Rd who his f shows son young promise i of becoming as g great a ww H r n f tc O tl his i illustrious ti s father r Big ig 0 F f y Yo tl It coaches cOlches the team 7 0 J. J Rd Ed now i c E t i By y c William Duncan As S HE regularly serves serve up his choicest offerings to the sluggers of the American League young Ed Walsh is diligently trying to toJ J prove the truth of the old proverb Like father like son r For the most deadly enemy the youthful pitcher faces is not Babe Ruth or Lou Lott Gehrig or Al Simmons but an unseen enemy tradition tradition-a tradition which has decreed down through the years that this ancient proverb does not hold good in Edsel Ford may carry carryon on the automobile automo- automo t i bile business of his father J. J P. P Morgan Jr may guide the destinies of the great financial institution made famous by the senior Morgan town small lawyers may follow in the footsteps of their sires and y town big merchants keep alive the honored hon hon- honored ored family name But all that affects not the field of sport for there the son and act is most exceptional Young Ed knows this and as he tries to bane bame Hellmann Heilmann with a fast one or Lazzeri with a curve he must realize he heis is fighting to vindicate the hundreds of sons who in the past have failed to y reach the standards set by their fathers in foo football ball bOxing golf and rowing as aswell aswell well as in baseball There is nothing approximate about this act of young Ed Walsh He occupies the same position on the same team and andin in the same league as did his famous father twenty years ago j The timers old at Comiskey Park Park-in Park Chicago rubbed their eyes in wonder when on July 4 the announcer bellowed bellowed bel- bel lowed BatterIes for today's game Crowder and for St. St L Louis uis Walsh and Schalk for Chicago Across the field of years they could see the vision t of that master spitball pitcher Big s Ed Walsh ranked with Eddie Plank j Rube Waddell Doc White Cy Young Addle Addie Joss and others as the greatest t pitchers of their M J me Big Ed the theman 9 man who took part in sixty five ball t games in 1908 officially winning forty and losing fifteen Big Ed the wonder Iron Man who did si sixteen teen years years' work in eIght There is another proverb which which says c A childs child's first service Is to make his father ather look foolish Young Ed does not intend to attempt to prove the wisdom of that saying He will be well content if he he- can ever equal the feats of his lather father THERE HERE is no sentiment among big big- j. j leaguers who are trying to win ball games for their managers So despite the color and drama of the occasion young Walsh was unceremoniously batted from the hlll hill in that July 4 debut in Chicago The Browns made four hits and five runs off his delivery In four innings and he was charged with the defeat subsequently subsequently sub sub- suffered by the White Sox He showed speed by fanning three In his ti foUr innIngs on the mound but lIkewise r I dIsplayed wildness and nd nervousness by walking five But the boy haS the goods and will J make the grade according to Dan Howley manager of the fighting S St Louis drowns Browns who knocked him out of the box IDs His dad asked me what I thought of the kid after the game and andi 4 i told him I liked him and I meant It e said Howley I believe hell he'll make a winnIng pitcher His dad dac is with the White Sox as a coach and will be a big bigy y help to him Naturally being just out ra of Notre Dame you can cant can't t expect hIm to burn up our league at the start COllege boys even Owen Carroll cant can do that F That Howley's prophecy is apt to come true was demonstrated ten days later in Boston when Walsh won his fist first American League game beating the Re Red t r 4 h s s r vo a T k tw af 4 y r A AkK r L s x S Young Bob Fitzsimmons aspired to the worlds world's heavyweight championship champion champion- ship once held by his dad but could not make the grade Sox 11 11 2 He yIelded only six hits all singles fanned four and walked three a very creditable exhibition even against the Red Sox New Yorkers had their first glimpse of the youth on July 21 21 a Saturday Then he turned back the he croWding years for a short hour and showed the kind of stuff that made his father one of the greatest pitchers of all time For six Innings he held the famous Yank Yankee e sluggers sluggers slug slug- gers without a hit or run Then in the seventh his dream of a shutout and victory victory vic vic- tory was shattered by the illustrious Babe Ruth who hammered a homer over the fence his thirtY ninth of the year Another Another An- An other run went over later on Walsh's balk and he was taken out for a pinch pinch- hitter In those first three games in the major leagues young Walsh showed plenty or of natural stuff courage and stamina It looks as though Dan D n Howley O l y was right I i t. t if 5 v i t f x ra Y r. r I r Y P a. a tl F r o v rv 1 i u a r A y av J 4 r Ly I iv fa Mf hf ti fk I Ip t d p 7 C L y J C I f I I i t t tt t z s i ja V i i ar N 5 T Y rJ Y M MS Md d S a p z ie Sr 4 Yg r yi S SH rR k ca K r 3 H r arAx Christy Mathewson of pitching f fame me and his son Christy Jr who has n recently gone into aviation a The so son n is here shown e entering his pla plane e vitas k h a af f pi SI r y Ty Cobb Jr does not follow in his fathers father's footsteps but is' is isan an exceptional tennis player and hopes to make his mark in that sport when he predicted a bright future fo for forthe r the youngster Ty Cobb was hovering near when Howley Howley How How- ley was discussing Walsh's prospects TY has seen them all come and go for th the e last quarter of a century He has three thre e boys of his own He should know just jus t why fails to produce many sons son s who can equal Dr surpass their fathers father s in ability inI I fear learned to love and play baseball back in a l tle town said TY s where the ball players are made After r supper the boy grabs his glove and runs run out on the lot for a few innings innings' before it ge gets dark When he gets good enough i he plays on the town home team Then hen It If he improves still more he goes int o the professional game ame That was as what happened years ago and nd is still still happen happen- in tug ing to to a lesser degree back in the rura rural 1 districts But you have asked me why the so sons of big leaguers seldom equal the y Dont Don't u se see what of t their e lathers fathers you o l 7 1 I h Jit J ri happens When the father is a big big- leaguer he doesn't live in the little town during the summer months He moves to Philadelphia or Detroit or st. st Louis Louisor or wherever he happens to be playing His son becomes a city boy He doesn't run out on the ibis l ts to play baseball but Instead takes up tennis or golf Those two sports have cut into baseball greatly in the l last t ten years There is no question question ques- ques tion bout about that Ty should know whereof he speaks His oldest son Ty TYCobb Cobb Jr Is an exceptional exceptional ex- ex tennis player and hopes hopes' to get somewhere in that sport But he shows no inclination to follow in his lathers fathers footsteps C COBB OBB and Howley who have been friends for many years racked theIr brains to think ot of sons who have made the grade in the maJors Now Kow lets let's' see Theres There's Foster Ganzel of the Washington Washing Washing- ton club HiS dad was w s Charley Ganzel a great ball player in n his day said How How- ley the only one I can think of who is making the grade now in the majors excepting young Walsh Scan the box scores of today and you will find no pitchers by the name of Young Joss Donovan Mullen Plank Bender Mathewson Coombs or Waddell Eddie Plank Jr son son of the famous southpaw whose death a few years ago was a a. great shock to the sporting world lives with witti his mother in Gettysburg Young Eddie Is a very bright boy with a cheerful disposition and winning personality per per- but shows no indication of becoming be- be coming corning a ball b pla er Christy Math Mathewson Mathew Mathew- son Jr ir son of that sterling right right-hander who battled ba Plank many tines times on college college col- col lege and World Series dIamonds recently announced announced that he would follow the trend of the times d' d and take up aviation Surely not Like father like son In the boxing world we have in the person of young BOb l Fitzsimmons a fight fighter r who mad made a game attempt to r reach ach the pinnacle once attained b by his father at er a former or Worlds World's l heavy eight right F L n f LX l X champion and one of the best of a all 11 time But at his best young Bob could coui d be rated only as' as asa as a pretty fair boxe boxer r In Trenton there is Tommy Kid Murphy Murphy Mur Mur- phy a good lightweight whose daddy a aone at atone t one time was claimant of the bantamweight bantamweight bantam bantam- weight championship of the world But the famous Jack Dempsey of toda today I is not a son of the old Nonpareil TOday there are no sons of the real top top- of other years John L. L Sullivan Sulliva n Jim Corbett Jim JeffrIes Tom Sharkey y Battling B Nelson Terry McGovern an and d who others are carrying on I believe this condition is due to th the e fact that a fighting father does not no t want his son to follow the same callin calling f fand and take the bumps he took says Frank Fran k McCracken popular Philadelphia referee who has been Intimately connected wit with h 1 the bOxing game for the thelast the last dozen years A fighter would not sell his experiences experiences for any price but at the same sam S time he doesn't want his own flesh an and d blood to go through them He wants want s his boy to be a doctor or a lawyer o oa or ora r business a man GOLF G OLF Is a real son father game came Dad and the boy walk arm in arm the greens from coast to coast Man Many Y country clubs stage father and ather and son n tournaments Yet these are for th the e average and slIghtly more than average e players We have not heard of a second d Walter Hagen Francis Ouimet ChIck Chic k Evans or George Duncan preparIng t to 0 startle the world with long drives arr ard I sensational approaches es That great college sport sport football football football- undoubtedly produces more mare father and randson and r-and- son acts ac than either eimer baseball or boxIng box box- log Ing A case is being closely followed i ithe in inthe n the East right at the present time T T. Truxtun Hare was I American All guard guar d at the University of Pennsylvania fo for r four consecutive years at the dawn o othe 01 f the twentieth century Thos Thos were th the thed e days d ys of the old guards back and Hares Hare s ability co ld be seen and a appreciate p e t d A 1 ii L i ID j 1 tw rr y Rowing has produced a famous J father and son the Dick iThe I IThe The senior Glendon is now rowing I coach at Annapolis and young Dick i above is the Columbia crew coach more than thaI is possible at the pres present nt time Hare ras as the apex of Penns Penn's flying wedge and timers old tell teIl us t It wonder This fall another Hare T. T Truxtun Trux Trux- tun Hare Jr will try for a varsIty tackle not berth on Penns Penn's eleven but at Yale Penn lost a a. great prospect when Ha Hare Jr decided to go 0 with his school prep 4 comrades to Yale but she can caI call It Ita a draw with Eli Eh because ot of the success suc ess of Foster Sanford as a baseball pitcher Years ago the elder Sanford was a great football and baseball player at Yale This year Penn just graduated ted his son who was captain of the baseball nine at Penn and ard a pitching mainstay for Coach Walter Wal Wal- ter Cariss for three seasons Judge Eugene Bonniwell of Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel- Philadel phia an ardent University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl- Pennsyl vania alumnus has done e his best to prove that an athletic father can produce produce pro pro- duce athletic S In his day the Judge was a round all athlete and has maintained his interest in sport on through life being the present president of the Veteran Athletes of America He He has five sons all athletes one ot of them being a a varsity basketball player at Penn at the present time HAT Is true at Pennsylvania is true trus VY at many other universities universities- and col- col leges Some sons have upheld the stand stand- ards set by their fathers But they are ex- ex i captions As the general rule the o t- t standing hero of the late nineties or ear early y years of this century does not have aboy a 8 boy in school equaling or exceeding him bins himin in his own particular sport Rowing enthusiasts will te tell l you ou and justly so so that their sport has produced ed eda a great the pair Glendon For many years Dick Glendon Sr was rowing coach at the United States Naval Academy Acad Acad- emy at Annapolis His team won the Olympic championships in 1920 His Hisson son succeeded him there and then the later went to Columbia Now the father i I. I back at Annapolis and the son at Columbia Co Co- lumbia where his crew won the intercollegiate inter inter- collegiate championships in 1927 Another Arother instance In rowing is that of the Wrights Joe Wright Sr was one of the greatest of all Canadian His son has actually exceeded hIm by winning the Diamond Sculls this year and achieving the greatest honor that can ca come to an individual in rowing The younger Wright was a leading eon con tender for honors In the Olympics at Amsterdam this year There are no such outstanding examples exam exam- ples of son father successes Sn in ten ten- nis One lesser instance Is that of Jai Joi- eph W w. Wear chairman ot of the Davis Da Cup Committee whose name was flashed around the world during the recent r cent controversy r. c over the eligibility of BIll i Tilden He once heirs heia seven national championships in court tennIs racquets and nd lawn tennis His son Potter Wear Is s a pretty good tennis player and with his father won the national father and son lawn tennis champIonships And so 50 these are some same of the outs out out- s standing t anding instances instance throughout the country where the boy has emulated hiS dad ad with success or partial success Many more will flash Into the minds of f other sportsmen when the question is 15 brought rought to their attention attention- But considering the thousands of of i young u g men participating In all kinds of sport Ed Edor tOday a ase like that of young youngho W Walsh is truly exceptional Let us ho hope P e the grade young Ch Chicagoan 0 makes make the and by 1930 will be ranked with Uhle Uhl nde e Pennock Grove and Quinn and nd b prove to some degree at le least st t that ase all duce as well as business can cae prof proe pro pro- those f father ather who prove actually Like like son c. c J by br Public IO Ic a r SS S i r |