| Show t edew 0 new york post service 4 ball player feuds are always sure to be gate tonic AFTER FTER too many seasons overburdened with brotherly love I 1 have been noting recent doings of the e dodgers and giants with considerable glee in baseball as in most other businesses there ever are too many people eager to pat you on the back with a knife it Is much more pleasant to see the boys carrying on in the open and as the magnates should know but always seem to forget it brings far better results at the gate undoubtedly such knowledge added greatly to ty cobbs stature as a ball player so far as I 1 know he never spiked an opponent intentionally and off the field he was a genial citizen yet when he came into a base with high bagh flung spikes glittering you felt that he regarded the fielder as a natural enemy in press box bos or in bleachers that feeling always caused pulses to strum faster it Is just as truo true that john joseph mcgraw would mould never have been the greatest manager ot of all time it if he had acted like a girl scout opponents were opponents to him and he be made no exceptions I 1 indeed no small part of his fame came because when engaged in giving his personal I 1 and undivided attention to a feud he I 1 often went far afield mcgraw to assure the camp followers and the distant kinsfolk kinfolk of his bis enmity once for instance his ancient chicago foes were in town for a series that was in the glowing baseball year of 1903 1908 and feelings were running high anyhow when the chicago baseball writers arrived at the polo grounds press gate they saw a notice pasted there it stated simply and starkly that by order ot of J J mcgraw they were not to be permitted to enter the park perhaps this did not serve any useful purpose in deciding events upon the field but I 1 am not so sure about it at least it convinced both fans and players that there was nothing half way about the famous managers likes and dislikes burleigh Eu grimes Is another who might be placed high up on the list of haters baters of opposing uniforms once frankle frankie F risch frisch bumped into him when the pitcher was covering first base it was an incident similar to the van mungo dick bartell cause celebre of recent date for years after that whenever nevor frisch faced grimes it was to 1 that the first ball would be thrown somewhere in the neighborhood of Fr ankles head by the same token it was necessary for burleigh to take a few extra precautions when arriving in the vicinity of second base the era already had arrived when the game was to overflow with sweetness and light so numerous folks did their meddlesome best to arrange a peace treaty tinker alq an evers rose on mutual hate most other long term misunderstand IBS are ended as quickly when old time foes are united in a mutual cause yet once there was a feud which must confuse the theorists who babble that all the best in sports life Is destroyed by battling I 1 L that was when joe tinker was at shortstop stop and johnny evers was at second base tor for the cubs after clawing at one another as they rolled over the clubhouse floor one day they decided that frequent list fights could i never settle the issue between them p they agreed to quit speaking to one another by all the copybook maxims this silent kent hatred should have shattered them as well as a the team instead tinker outplayed himself each day eo 60 that he might excel evers johnny trove strove to reach new heights so that he h e might tower above his unloved neighbor it was then that the most famous double play combination in history tinker to evers to chance was born naturally I 1 do not advocate drastic measures yet it Is all too true that there have been far too frequent mo ments when the silence of the ball i parks has been broken only by the sighs of 0 tans fans who felt that they had t spent their money in vain in conclusion I 1 will heave some posies in the direction of a guy who occasionally may have been saluted with bricks in this space possibly ford friek frick could have gained undying fame if he had handed mungo and t bartel a bonus for putting one of the best of all feuds back in circulation but I 1 am not complaining NOT N OT in the box score tom yawkey and P K wrigley the youthful baseball bai ebal magnates are be ing ina urged to back a new pro football league the citizens of red bank N J are insisting that mike jacobs become a member of the city council even though his dodgers occasionally give him ample cause casey stengel has not been up in the air since 1916 he went up that time because his teammates dared him to make an exhibition airplane flight with ruth law then the worlds premiere aviatrix jed harris the play producer once was the violin artist in a sal saloon con operated by bob fitzsimmons the colors 0 of john liny ilay whitney will be seen on metropolitan tracks for the first time this year with singing wood likely to be the racing commissioners commiss lonerg best bet the silks are similar to those of his mothers greentree stable except that a alite cap goes along with the pink and black blouse adolfo luque likes ken maynard movies so much that he would almost as soon see one as pitch a no hit game vince coll the celebrated and departed patron of beer running and other allied arts still Is mourned by the lads who sold tickets to sports events no he used to pay bonuses for the best in the house and then slip the salesman 20 tips in addition to being manager of the norwegian turin society soccer club william anderson also alco Is chairman cb airman of the new york S F r association indoor six a side campf it if joe louis ever tours europe r drope it will be strictly os as a paying customer he has been offered big enough dough to perform ou on the continent but having burned their fingers with last winters cuban flasco fiasco his managers will take no more chances connie slacks this Is no gag toes turn up harry danning of the giants will bet that he can finish one two three in a foot race with all the catchers in big time baseball he also likes to inform those who sneer at his speed that he beat the fleet george davis in a special sprint last summer tom baker the very good young dodger right hander wishes for some unknown reason that he was a southpaw recalling C early trials of francis ouimet in 1910 1911 1912 a lean massachusetts chu youngster who once had been a caddy tried his luck in the national amateur 1 golt golf championships I 1 I 1 each time he 1 failed to qualify by a single stroke the next year he scored one of t the greatest upsets in A the history of the game winning the national open la in the playoff with the famous britons vardon and ray ilay ua ills name francis ouimet of course Is francis ouimet jerome D travers rated as one of the steadiest golfers of all time and as a man who rose to the heights under fire played the sandwich course la in 74 on his last round before the start of the british amateur championship the next day when the title play had started he had a 00 there was no alibi the same thing had happened to him that could happen to any duffer for the first and perhaps the only time in his bis life the great champion had permitted his nerves to work themselves up to such a state that he had been awake all night shivering over the prospect of making a poor showing american league players are complaining pla ining that their circuit Is all out of balance they claim that the league should have loaned money to the st louis browns so that they could have taken advantage of some of the philadelphia offerings among other things buddy hassett Is a crossword puzzle fan young alfred gwynne vanderbilt Is so boxing conscious that he haz has named one of his two year olds brown bomber dogs run truer to form in races races than do horses and neither the condition of the track nor the weather has much effect on them brief description of the forlorn athletics they look like money in the bank horsemen are complaining about the amount of attention given to the electric eye at jamaica white this device Is being installed the track Is so cluttered up that they have to break their gee gees from the first turn and then gallop them around the back stretch such antics they say greatly interfere with serious training although his bis home owners downers arranged a berkeley bell pay when he visited d austin with the pro tennis troupe the texas net star has a secret sorrow he envies that sort ot of fame which caused a sandwich to be named after willum T tilden because he departed for home with worth of borrowed baseballs in his valise the braves cut pitcher tack jack scotts salary 1000 one season the average dog racing kennel contains from twelve to fourteen dogs in the four states where racing Is legal five kennels must be represented in each event when he was wearing first long trousers around mulberry bend francis Albert Alber antl tanti the fight publicist was press agent for albert spalding the violinist jimmy wilson might like to know that his phil lies will sit elt for hours telling what a swell guy he Is mickey cochrane says that berres the dodger catcher Is the best thrower in the big time umpire charley moran once received 5 a day for acting as bodyguard for bugs raymond the pitcher who was as great as he was eccentric |
