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Show SHEELY OF WHITE SOX FINE AT FIRST . OUR COMIC SECTION Classed With Topnotchers in Junior League. The photograph shows Charles B. McDonald of New York, first winner of the American amateur golf championship, chatting with Bobby Jones, present amateur champ. The 'baseball team of Waseda university at Tokyo defeated the Stanford university nine 7 to 4. The last moustache to be seen In professional baseball was worn by John Tyler of the Philadelphia club Charles II. Kbbets, late owner of the Brooklyn club, began as a score card and ticket seller for the team in 18S3. Cleveland was the first city to work out a plan to foster athletics and today is the largest amateur baseball center In the country. Walter Johnson and Grover Alexander are the only two pitchers in the game today who have struck out 2,000 or more batsmen. Jr., 0 Famous Last Words 52 Dykes Sets Record for Freak Batting in Game BASEBALL M. Gregg Hibbs, In Earl Sheely, the White Sox boast one of the best first basemen In the American league. While not an player of the Slsler type, the big fellow nevertheless can handle his position afield with almost any of them. And thats saying a bit, considering that chaps like the Browns manager, Lu Blue, Joe Judge, Lou Gehrig and so on Inhabit the same cirt cuit. This Is Sheelys fifth season In the majors. He joined the Hose In 1921, after the Comlskey outfit had been practically ruined owing to the 1919 world series scandal. Sheely was obtained from the Salt Lake club of the Pacific Coast league, where a batting average of .371 In 1920 had atttracted the scouts. From the start the tall boy made And he hns been improving good. ever since. He was In 113 double plays, and had more putouts and more assists than any other initial corner guardian. Sheely was in 156 games, more than any other American league player participated In. Sheely played his first professional baseball with Vancouver in the North- western league, back In 1912. Sines 8 of Bristol, )as been elected captain of the Rutgers varsity baseball team. Hibbs g Is the catcher. Pa., first-strin- Mike Gazella, Yankee Infielder, holds a degree as chemist which he earned at Lafayette college, but he expects to enter law school next fall. Years ago, President Ebbets of the Brooklyn club provided contribution boxes at the Sunday ball games, paid admissions being Illegal. Only 12 players in the history of major league baseball have served 20 or more years. Adrian Cap Anson topped them all with 26 active seasons. Old John Scitt is still hurling a pretty fair brand of ball for the Giants. Fact is, hes been one of most consistent winners this Mc-Gra- season. Ebbets field, Brooklyn, may be the home ground of the professional soccer club that will compete in next seasons tourneys and national cup ties. In a season marked thus far by unusually few outbreaks. Bill McKechnie, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is the first National league leader to be disciplined. Not a single contest was called off on account of rain last year or so far this season by the Charlotte (N. C.) club. Over 100 consecutive games have been played without a break. A1 Simons of the Philadelphia Athletics uses the longest bat of any major league player 37 inches. Tris Speaker and Harry Heilmann use bats measuring 36 inches in length. t Records for freak batting stunts were put In the discard last season by Jimmy Dykes of the Philadelphia Athletics In his phenomenal hitting against the Yankees on October 2. Jimmy went to bat five times and each time up he safely hit the first ball pitched. Four of the hits were off Garland Braxton and one was off Herb Iennock, and they included a home run and a Five out of five isnt so rare, but when one batter gets five clean hits out of five pitched balls he has done consomething which the cede is mighty unusual. The same player had another perfect day at tiie plate on July 12, when he collected four hits out of that many times at bat. Two months later he fnade good on five out of six trips to the plate in the second game of a double-headeIra Flagstead, Red Sox lnfielder, also had an odd record. On May 8, at Detroit, Flagstead went to the plate six times, made one hit, walked five times and scored five times. 2 THE FEATHERHEADS three-bagge- Their Ears Should Bum old-time- r. Catcher Couldnt Give Name of a New Pitcher Earl Sheely. then he has been with several clubs In various leagues. Outside of a few games which he worked behind the plate during his minor league regime, he has always performed around the first cushion. Paul Shannon tells one on Connie Mack which happened several years ago when the Athletics leader was trying out seven dozen players a year In an effort to build up his team. Fable: Well, well, chuckled the The Red Sox were playing the golfer as he messed up the nine-incMacks and trouncing them, says putt, better luck next time. Shannon. "Connie had sent in about a half dozen pitchers and every one According to Prof. W. T. Waugh of of them had been hammered. Finally McGill university the modern Interest In sports Is nothing new. Tennis was he sent in another. Half dizzy with the number of played with balls like cricket balls, changes that had been made, the um- football, golf and hockey were In pire asked the Athletic catcher for the vogue In the Thirteenth and Fourname of the new pitcher, so It could teenth centuries. be announced. The horses of India being small, the The catcher looked at the ump with a blank stare and time had to be game of polo was played for many called while he ran out to the mound years on small horses. When Americans began playing polo the small to get the name of the heaver firsthorse was found to be too slow, and handed. they began using larger and faster animals. Spart Jates h Grid Practice Is Taboo Until School Is Opened Assemblage of grid meu for preliminary football work under the direction of the captain prior to the opening of the school term, September 15, is taboo in the Missouri Valley conference. This decision was made after a heated discussion by the athletic directors in their meeting at Lincoln. Previous rulings did not permit a coach to take charge of his men until after that date, but the new rule will not allow the football men to begin practice even in an unorganized way until the regular school term opens. Weismuller Recovers The best record for competitive golf in a national event prior to Bobby Jones mark of 134 was made by Jock Hutchinson In the qualifying rounds of the national open championship at Skokie In scores of 67 and 68 for a total of 135. But in doing so he burned himself out and in the main test two days later he slumped badly. Had the tournament been delayed a few days longer Jock might have regained top form. Although he Is president of the Kansas State Golf association, Brig. Gen. Edward L. King, commandant of the general service schools at Fort Leavenworth, spurns the ancient game. Its too slow;" General King said. Golf Is fine for women, children and old men, but until I become superannuated, I shall continue to1 play tennis and hand ball. I have tried a game or two of golf, but I prefer vigorous sports. Nowadays many baseball players make the jump from the college diamond into the big league park something unheard of a few years back, when afi apprenticeship la the minors was the' usual rule. Things looked bad for Cleveland when Speaker lined to Shanks for a triple play in the game at Cleveland on June 14, 1924. But In the eleventh McNulty worked his way to third and then, with two out, he stole home on Murray, winning the game. In a few years to come golf will be the steadiest of sports. This Is due to the South, where everybody can make a complete change and still be in the game. The same may be as true of the West, but there Is too much ground to be traveled. The average golfer of the North can take his bag of tricks and practically overnight be In on his game again. The Interest never dies and the longing lingers. Seven assists at first base constitutes a world record. Kitty Brans-flelcovering the Initial sack for the Pirates, accepted 14 chances at Chicago May 3, 1904, and half of them were assists. Johnny Evers had a big day at short for Chicago, yet his assists were only three more than Kittys. Manager Frank Bancroft of the Detroit club was the first to use the shift hurler was doing when a What Is the toughest event on a track and field program, from the viewpoint of the contestant? Most devotees of the sport consider the run the hardest The quarter-mile Is a mad dash every step of the way. It Is a gruelling test, where- 440-yar- left-hande- d duty. In a game played May 10, 1881, Worcester vs. Detroit, Banny benched Ed Hanlon when he heard that Richmond was going to pitch. It didnt make much difference, for Detroit made but four hits and received a Johnny Weismuller, worlds champion swimmer, has so far recovered from his Illness that kept him out of all national events for the past few months, that he Is again in active shutout training. d in physical fitness, endurance, stamina, speed and ability play Important and necessary parts. In other words, it Is a pace, only twice as far, with no jogging start or letup between tn pistols report and the tape. 220-yar- d MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL A Mystery Here Weil, UAVEur heard RIIA 6AN, BUT ME CLAIMS Yo j BE A COLLEGE: MAM |