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UONNIB MACK MAY BE FORCED TO SEND WALTER SCHANG BACK BEHIND THE BAT
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rAKAGKU MACK, of tho Athletics, says that what ho needs most is a
couple of catchers and that when ho flnds them he Intends to shift Wally
Bchftngf to the outfield permanently. Mack says that Schang la lnjuiad too
often behind the bat, and is too valuable a player In all departments to have
l him on the bench half of tho time and ho must And a place for him -where ho
cn play" every day.
Doea Mack reallro what a hard Job it Is to find capable catchers? No team
o.h aver go Very fai without heady, clover catching unless It has a staff of
ttran and experienced pitchers and even then tho work of tho hurlers Butters.
As Mtauk lias to rebuild his pitching staff, a clever, heady catcher Is a necessity
snd there does not appear to be any of this type running loose. Several major
teturue clubs with pennant possibilities aro weak behind tho bat and aro willing
Lt&tpay a big price for a capablo receiver, but they havo not been ablo to find ono.
Will Mack succeed whero the otlieYs havo failed?
It was thought that young Carroll, tho Tufts College recruit, might develop
Into star before the start of tho 1917 season, but Mack Intimated before the
tosVin departed for tho West that ho will not do and probably will bo playing
afeewhero before tho season closes. Carroll is facing a handicap which no other
Wckstop In tho gomo has been ablo to overcome making xood in tho major
lMrne3 without first having served a year or more in a minor league.
Slnco 1900 there has not boon a catcher who was strong enough to be con
idered a first or second string rocelver who has not sorved In the minor leagues.
Recruits from tho college diamond and sand-lot havo broken Into the big snow
without professional experienc'o and havo made good In all other positions, but
Bo young catcher has been ablo to earn a regular catching position without minor
fcaguo experience.
Dope Was Wrong on Catching Marvel
TT!UB" SPPNCER, recognized as tho greatest young catchor tho gamo over
JL produced when ho broko In with tho Browns ten years ago, was supposed to
h&Va entered tho big show right from Mercersburg Academy, but itwas learned
hUer- that Spencer had played minor lcaguo ball under an assumed namo prior
to his graduation from Mercersburg. Ho was a marvel for a few years, but
failed to toko care of himself and drifted out of tho big show. Spencer was
jploked up by tho Phillies la 1911, but ho was all In at tho tlmo and was Boon
cut adrift. Spencer, by tho way, Is taking a now leaso on llfo at Vernon,
Pacllo Coast League.
Several managers have picked up catching recruits of unusual calibre whom
they believed could bo schooled on tho bench, but none has ovor amounted to
i, anything until ho wail- sent to a minor lcaguo for a year or two. Tho duties
of a catcher aro such that ono would naturally think that the pest place to
fichool a catcher would bo on tlio bench, but to data no manager has been ablo
to turn tho trick.
Tho great catchers In tho game today havo not becomo famous becauso
of their clubbing ability or speed on bases; in fact, they seldom aro of much
value offensively. The catcher who Is of great valuo Is ono who studies and knows
tho weakness of tho batsmen, has a quick brain and a powerful throwing arm.
Uven tho latter is not a positive necessity if tho rocolver Is shrowd enough to
outguess tho base-runners.1
Hcadwork Makes tho Reaeirorn Great
BILL SULLIVAN, Lou Crlger, Ira Thomas and several other great catchers
of tho past did their best work after their arms had started to weakon, becauso
they invariably had tho play figured out before it camo off. They learned when
tho runners were going to steal and when tho hit and run play was to bo
used and as a result broke up the offense of tho opposing team. They Invariably
wero calling for wasto pitches when tho runners were stealing and theieforo
were in such a good throwing position' that they did not need a powerful arm
to get the ball to tho bags ahead of the runners.
Ono would think that a schoolmaster of tho Mack typo would bo ablo to
teach a youngstor all of these things on tho' bench much cosier than ho could
' be taught In a minor league, but Connie has never been ablo to do it. Mack is
s.vcrso to senSlng a player to a minor league, believing that more players aro
ruined In the minors than are developed there, and If ho onco decides that a
player 'Is not of the typo who can be developed right on tho bench he cuts him
Jooso for good.
Schang Alono Came Directly to Majors
THE great Mack catchers of tho post wero in tho minor leagues for a few
years bofore Connie picked them up. Wally Schang Is tho lono exception.
Schang played In Buffalo less than a full season when Mack drafted him.
Ira Thomas and Ossle Schrcck wero purchased from Detroit and Boston, respectively-,
after those teams had decided they would .not do; "Doc" Powers was
with Connie In Milwaukee and had previously played with Louisville, while Jack
Lapp, played minor league ball for two years and was sent to Newark by Mack
and recalled before ho started to make good.
Tho Mackmen havo had no other catchers of merit Blnco the organization
of the American Lcaguo. At the presont time, Mack is dickering for two
catchers In the minor leagues. Harry Davis recommended them. Davis feels
certam that ono will be a star. If this proves true tho development of tho new
pitching staff should be rapid, but unless ono or two catchers of merit are found
Bchung must, return to his old position, which leaves another outfield post to be
filled.
Mack Built nis Old Machine in Two Years
QUERIES have bean received concerning the construction of the famous Mock
machlno and ,also on. McGraws connection with tho famous Baltimore team
of the middle 90s. Tho following should settle tho arguments: In tho first place it
did not take Mock four years to build his famous machine. In 1907 tho Athletics
finished second to Detroit after a driving finish with tho some team that won tho
pennant hi 1905. In 1908 the season opened with virtually the same team, and It
was not until this aggregation of veterans went to pieces that tho development of
' the new team was started. As the pennant was won In 1910, the actual length of
time spent constructing the famous machine was two years.
A number of fans want to know if John McGraw ever managed tho famous
Baltimore Orlole3 when they were winning pennants, as has been.clalmed. The an
swer to this is that the famous Orioles never won a pennant under any other man
ager than Ned Hanlon, who handled the team until the franchise ias forfeited In
order to cut tho circuit from twelve clubs to eight. The players were sold to St.
Louis and Brooklyn, Hanlon handling the latter team, which won the National
League pennant In 1900, Tho first pennant winner ever handled by McQraw was
New York In 1904, which refused to meet the Red Sox In the world's series.
Phillies Make No Gain on Dodgers in West
IS a remit of yesterday's defeat In Pittsburgh, the Phillies returned home this
morning in the same position as when they departed for the west four
IUH behind Brooklyn. It was thought that the champions would pick up a
(MM or two on. the Dodgers In the West and after the splendid start It seemed
certain that such would be case, but the excellent finish made by the league
1 dara and the Phils' failure in Pittsburgh yesterday proved an unpleasant sur
yri to the champions.
Th Phillies bad little chance for a victory yesterday unless Moran's hurler
bad pitched a shut-out game, as young Al M&maux had one of his good days.
TS had the champions at his mercy, and if he had not eased up after being
given a- large lead probably would have shut out the Frills. Judging by the
XMUlts and scores of the lost game In Cincinnati and yesterday's game at Pitts
burgh It might have been a wise move to have saved Alexander to work against
Mmrsftinr. but as there was no assurance that the latter would hurl for the
Pirates yesterday, Moran played it safe and clinched the final game with the Reds.
A Demaree was batted to all parts of the field by the Pirates, while Mayer,
wha rleved him, also proved easy. For some strange reason the Pirates always
iouni pmaree easy, despite the fact that Callahan has many right-handed
fc$frs "wha usually are marks for a good curve ball, and Demaree -when right
ba an excellent hook.
Jfanager Rowland, of the White Box, refused to use Jack Ness on first
when right-handed hurlers were on the mound for the opposing team.
L jwrtwrin Jack Fpurnle(v But an Injury to the latter made it necessary to use
KM against the Tigers on Sunday. Rowland always has claimed that Ness
fe smM not hit right-handed pitchers, but in bis first game against four star-
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! gingers of Jennings's staff the former Pacific Coast League star made two
'ftagCw,, two doubles and a triple, a single-game record which has been surpassed
H-Miy fef Roger, Hornsby, of the Cardinals, this season.
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OF BIG CIRCUIT
TENNIS TOURNEYS
Then Follows Play at South
ampton, Seabright and
Newport and Nationals
JAPANESE DUO ENTERED
The Longwood tourney, which wa3 be
gun yesterday at Boston, Is the first of the
big circuit tennis events. Individual show
ings In this and the oents to follow,
Southampton, Seabright, Newport and the
national championship, are what count most
when tho Hanking Committee of the U. S.
N. L. T. A. gets busy late In the fall
For tho first time In a decado thcie will
bo no challenge round at Longwood. Mau
rice McLoughlln. who defended the Long
wood Bowl successfully a year ago against
R. Norrls Williams. 2d, of this city, will
stick close to business until tho tlmo comes
for tho preliminary national doubles at
Chicago.
" All doubts of McLoughlln's appearing In
the national classic at Forest HIU.i wero
swept nsldo when tho "Comet" and Ward
Dawson qualified for tho national doubles
by winning the Pacific Coast eent at Long
Beach, Cal , recently.
Four of the eight teams which will rep
resent several sections In tho preliminaries
at Chicago on August IS have already been
selected.
McLoughlln and Dawson won the Pa
cific Coast doubles; H. C Breck nnd C. B.
Doyle Washington, tho latter runner-up
to Willis Davis for the national clay court
title, won tho Middle Atlantic; Nat Emer
son and Louis Hardy, of Memphis, won the
Southern doubles, and Jack Cannon, Kan
sas City, and Albert Llndauer, Chicago, won
the Mississippi Valley Tho Eastern and
Southwestern doubles are now In progress
at Longwood and Dallas, Tex.
Tho Northwestern Is scheduled to be
played at Lake Jllnnetonlta. Minn , July 29
and the Western at Onwontsla, I.ako Forrest,
111 , August 5, whero the following week the
preliminaries for tho national title will be
played. The survivor of tho eight teams
at Onwentsla will earn tho right to chal
lenge William Johnston and Clarence Grif
fin for the national championship.
Tho Japanese twain! Ichiya Kumagae
and Hachlshlro Mikaml, will play In all
the events right up to and Including the
national championship This week thoy
will mako a bid for the Eastern doubles
title.
Kumagae owes his first or given name to
tho fact that he was tho first born of his
parents "Ichiya" being literally first born.
Mikaml Is tho eighth child of a family of
four girls and four boys. Hachlshlro means
"eighth-fourth child" tho eighth In point of
birth and the fourth boy Mlkaml's name Is
pronounced as It Is spelled, and as for Kum
agae, siy It "Koom-a-guy."
The first tournament this pair entered in
the East was the New York State champion
ship at Utlca. Not knowing how to pro
nounce tho Japs' name, the Utlca galleries
and newspapermen called them "Itchle and
Hashy" and these names are likely to
stick.
And as "Maude" Is coming East for his
eighth successive yearly Invasion. It might
be well to get his surname right. Don't
say "McLocklln," as 99 out of 100 do.
Say "McLoflln."
VESPER NOT TO C03IPETE
IN-THE DULUTII REGATTA
Seniors Fail to Mako Time for the
Championships in Trial
After woek of atnnuoua training, tb atnlor
Ifht-oared ahall of tba Veapar Boat Club failed
to maka tba required tlmo In tta apeed trial yea
tarday and conaequently tho craw will not b
aent to Duluth to competa In tha national chatn
plonahlpa, which will bo held on Aucuac 11 and
"in lieu of tha elht a aenfor cantlpeda will
bo nt wot by tha Veaper Club. It la expected
that Kelly and Smith wl.'l row In tha quadruple
MUlte. and tbla will necaaaltato only tha taklng
of two other men. Tho latter two. no doubt,
will bo William McCjeary and ''Ed" Oraef. who
row bow and No. 2. respectively. In tho aenlor
cantlpeda.
Seka Breaks Stenton Golf Record
Joeeph Seka. tha youns solt .profeaalonal of
Ilia OlimOU I.WMUM -U. uWMaB.at-vt?4
his -volt ability vrhon pUytn yesterday In a
four-ball matctt vltb Mear. Walab, HcCalllp
ana .ijaviaian j cjwv. ,, wviuaa
la 72 which br-aka hU own prtvioua record by
two atroke.
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THE PASSING OP MATHEWSON
BRINGS BACK MEMORIES TO
VETERAN BASEBALL WRITER
By GUANTLAND RICE
THE Baseball Writer that day went to
work with a feeling; of heaUnoss and
depression. Apparently soma queer chaneo
had drifted across his philosophy, for on
this day ho had tho feellnsc that ho was an
old man and that the machinery about had
run Its course,
This was decidedly unusual. For base
ball writers, whether they aro 19 or 61, as
a rule work on in tho morning of life. Their
heads may bo eray, but tho spirit of tho
game, which knows only tho spirit of youth,
takes good enough caro of their hearts.
And tho heart Is tho measure of tlmo.
No man could follqw baseball year In
nnd year out nnd ever grow old Unless,
posilbly, ho had to follow tho Mackmen or
the Reds or tho Browns as they hao beon
going In tho past.
Tho Baseball Writer was beginning to
find that his work camo harder and hardor.
Ho couldn't underetand It, becauso physic
ally ho felt as well as over. He was still
under forty, and ho apparently should havo
been In his prime with 15 or 20 years left.
And then ho began to look back over
his career. Ho recalled tho day ho broke
Into tho big league. Just 17 years ago. Ho
was assigned to tho Giants nnd he had
been with them over since. Ho recalled,
too, a certain big blond younjster that had
started Just about that tlmo. His namo
was Christy Mathowson. and tho Baseball
Writer rememborpd predicting at tho tlmo
thnt tho Olants had landed what looked to
bo a promising recruit.
No Longer Dreary Tale of Defeat
At this point tho Baseball Writer began
to :ca!l Just how much of his copy
thro. Eh 17 years that Mathowson had taken
up. When the big pitcher onco got going
thore wns no longer a dreary and dally talo
of defeat to relate. There was Inspiration
and cheerful copy at last. Ho recalled how,
In 1901. with a bum ball club around him,
Matty had won 20 out of 37 games. These
victories helped a lot In .he compilation
of dally lore And there was tho campaign
of 1903. Pittsburgh that year had a grand
ball club a pennant winning machine, with
Wagner at his best a ball club good
enough to romp In with tho pennant.
Yet Matty that year beat tho dreaded
Pirates seven times out of secn starts,
rolling them back with ease. Those wero
all great games to write. Ho was doing
much better work because Mathewson's suc
cess was making his copy easy and was
giving him a big featuro to handle about
twlco a week. Matty that year won 30
games and lost but 13. That meant at
least 30 storlc3 that ho took great pleasura
In giving his paper.
And the next year, 1904, Matty won
33 games and lost only 12, and by his
great pitching gave the Giants their first
pennant In over a decado. That was the
year tho Baseball Writer fairly reveled in
his copy, because he always had a hero to
lead the drama and who was more than
making good.
Athletic Ilitters Baffled
And then came 1905. That year Matty
won 31 out of 40 games, and the Giants
were sent against the hard-hitting Ath
letics, with Sox Seybold, Ossle Schreck,
Harry Davis, Lave Cross, Topsy Hartzel
and others who could hit. But the Base
ball Writer had no fear of the result.
"Matty," he recalls writing at the time,
"will mako them look sick." There still
remained In his memory those three games
that Matty worked ; the fast ball, the f ode
away, the perfect control the final word
In perfect pitching.
Twenty-seven Innings through three
games, and not a run I Twenty-seven in
nings against a hard-hitting club, with
nothing like a tally I He could ha e written
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TUESDAY KVKMNQ. JULY 85, 19lfl
ten columns n day about each gamo Ma
thewson pitched. There waa everything
that any pitcher over had flno speed, per
fect control, a splne-brcaktng curve, brains,
courago nnd absolute polso.
Copy was too easy to wrlto then. Tho
main troublo was in quitting through lack
of space.
Was Matty Slipping?
AND then enmo tho years boyond this.
XJLTho great campaign of 1908, whero
Glnnts, Cubs and Pirates swung Into tho
last day or two on oven torms. That year
Matty won 37 games nnd saved a dozen
others. He recalled the play-oft against
tho Cubs and tho misjudged fly that brought
defeat to Matty's overworked nnd weary
nrm. And then thero wero-tho flag-winning
campaigns of 1911, 1912 nnd 1913,
whoroln tho Old Master won 75 games, still
moro than holding his own against the
field as ho mado copy easy along tho way.
In 1914 nnd 1915 thero wero thoso who
said that Matty was slipping. But the
Baseball Writer didn't bollovo it It was
ono of thoso things that couldn't be. It
wns precisely tho samo thing as saying
that tho world was coming to nn ond.
So the Baseball Writer remained cheer
ful and bided his tlmo, waiting for tho min
ho began with 16 years ago to get started
again waiting for tho hero to ro-cnter
tho plot.
In tho meahwhllo there wero others to
wrlto about. Not Mattys, of course, but
fairly good substitutes against tho day of
Matty's return. Mathowson through? Ho
was willing to admit that John D. Itocko
fcller might bs down to his last kopeck, but
tho other was too much of a Jolto to bo con
sidered. All ho needed was a llttlo tlmo,
and then the rnmo old Matty would bo
back again with about the same old stuff.
0SB0RNE-SWAYNE
SPRING SURPRISE
WINNING DOUBLES .
Defeat of Tilden and Coffin,
the Champions, Was Un
expected Result
FIVE SETS ARE PLAYED
NOimiSTOWN, Pa., July 28. Percy ft
Osborne nnd Norman W, Swayne became
doubles champlonn of the Schuylkill Val-
ley by defeating William T. Tltden, 2d, and
Boy Coffin, the title holders, In a ctrenuously
contested match, 0-4, 1-8, 9-7, &, 8-3, In
tho postponed flnahround of the tournament
on tho courts of the Plymouth Country
Club yesterday. ,
Tho result wns In the nature of an upset,
as the majority of those In the gallery
expected a rather easy victory for the title
holders. Tho first warning of the chang
In champions came In tho first set, when
Osborno nnd Swayno began to display team
wero of a high order. Tilden and Coffin
captured tho first three games with such
caso that a short nnd declslvo victory was
predicted. Then followed n chango of form.
Osborno 'and Swayno braced and won the
next trio of games wltlr- unexpected dis
patch and followed up their advantage by
running out tho set.
Tilden and Coffin had little opposition
In tho second set, dropping only ono gamo,
which, as It happened, was lost with. Tilden
serving. Both Swayno and Osborne were
nble to handto tho Cynwyd man's service
with apparent ease. Tilden had 14 service
games and out nf that number tho winning
pair capturod six.
The third set furnhhed the best tennis
of tho day. Tilden and Coffin tried hard to .
follow up their victory of tho second set, but
Swayno and Osborne improved In their
team work. Tho tltleholdcri wero worried t
by tho lobbing tactics of their opponents,
and a period of wlldncss followed.
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