flHW'ilKWliWW t EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1919 16 - CONNIE'S ATHLETICS ARE NAUTICAL CHAMPIONS THEY KNOCKED WINNING RUNS OFF SHORE ,t AIN'T IT A GRAND AND GLORIOUS FEELIN'? CF WILLIAMS LEADS PRAISE FOR THE NAME SLUGGERS WITH . 765 . A VERAGE FOR WEEK Elongated Outfielder Connects With 13 Hits Out of 1 7 Trips to the Plate Because He is Not Trifling With Southpaivs This Season WHEN YoU WORK UP A Good SvdfrAT 5eT"riiJG out A FRUIT "TRER -AMD YoU NURSE IT ALONG VAJlTH PRONIUG AMD MULCHtMG -AND YoU .SPRAY IT CAREPULLY To KEEP ' OFF JHEiBUGS kj OF PING, WHOSE AIM IS TO BREAK FENCES Lines That Run, "Ping Busted One," Mean More to the Slugging Outfielder of the Yankees Than Peace to Europe IN THE SPORTLIGHT BY ORANTLAND RICE' (Copyright, 1010, all rights reserved) Sons of Stvat Your pardon Ping if 1 should sing Your fame icith lack of moderation; For who am I to modify An inexpressible claliont Where others yearn for art's rare turn vi K . w. w f R. h ft R. RP iv It. K i i lr. I? I A F fe - x I -k ft t 4 M f? Ci'. rr ft r p; A1'1' "ball E: lr k' i Ily nOBKUT V. MAXWEIX Sports IZriltor Kvrnlng Public 1.,-dsfr CopirfoM. J3.1, bu "nlillr J.ctlocr Co, (lie iorld loves n slugger, wlii-tlirr it i in thr iiiizr ling, tlir lia.e- ball field, mncliino tliop or sonp fnelorv" Tlii guy who Mop1 up nnil knocks 'cm dead always gits n big hand, horaip Hip donr old public 1ops to gaze upon high-class exhibitions of binwny piouo". .liu'k Domp'ry, vhn wag it ham heavyweight about n jrnr ago. living in one nrmpil restiitirnnli. HOT? h kicking at the grub served in mp11 hotels hcniu.e he developed into u slam-bang fighter with a knockout wallop, liahe Ituth. who was considered a good pitcher and a fair hitter, soaked a few home runs Inst year and imme diately stepped into the limelight ns a heavy hitter. His pitching was entirely forgotten, but now he receives n salary or S10.000 a caon. It is the gent with the wallop who gathers no moss but lots of kale 111 thee modern times, and It doesn't take long to horn into the vv el) -upholstered class. Thus wo have with us today Trcd Williams, who is built along the grace ful lines of n healthy string bean, ruus with the grace of n clothes-horse but the speed of an antelope, n certain but awkward fielder, but n real, honest-tp-goodness wnllop artht. Tred hnd been Hinging a nasty wngoii-tonguc this season and nt the present writing has outhit every noisj athlete on the pay rolls In the big leagues. lie his hit the ball like n guv with a grudge against pitchers and right-field fences, and put up such n marvelous pei formatter, that he is the sole topic of conversation tinder tlte I'.ig Top. The lengthy landowner of Three1 Lakes, AVis., slatted out on a slugging spree last "Wednesday, when the Thils made the opening game of the season a success for the Giants, and is still at it. In four games he has been at bat seventeen times and CONNIXTKD WITH TIIIKTHnN HITS: One must do considerable cheating to beat that mark. To make it stronger and introduce some higher muthematics, Williams is walloping nt n .703 clip, which, we might add without fear of contradiction, is good enough for any league. yESTERDAY Fied proved he possessed an unusually keen and uncanny batting eye when in the first inning, with Cadurc pitching, he eased a single into left field. Other players have done this thou sands of times, but nat our noble son of the soil. When 'Williams m at bat the center and left fielders can play a game of pinochle or go out for lunch, for the tall thumper has a groove which leads directly to right field. Thus the left-garden whack tens the first he has slammed since they changed the rules and decided the first bounce tern ito( out. Manager J awn Solved the Williams Problem J AWN COOMHS, the intrepid manager, who benched himself yestetday when he perpetrated an ivory error on the coaching lines. K pattly respon sible for Fred's soaking spurt. Down South Jnvvn had ninny problems to study, and one was Mr. Williams. "What's the mutter with C'y?" he asked one night; "He should be a great hitter, but one cannot prove it by the annual averages. Kvcry time I pitched against him I felt he would knock the hall into the net county, but when I looked over the box scores after he left 1 saw he would hit well one day and do nothing the next. He is not consistent, and it is up to me to find out what is wrong." "Keep him away from all left-handers." rcmnrked one of the wise vet erans. "Cy performs against those southpaws like a sardine walking a tight rope. If you ttfeked an American ting on the end of his bnt he could wave it i. three times every time he stepped tip and retire to the bench amid cheers which always go with a patriotic act. Those fork-handers have the lug boj's animal." X'ovv Coombs docs not have to be under a building to prove it fell on him. He can dope things out for himself, and immediate!) decided to cltasp f'y out of the ball park every time a left-hander appeared on the firing line. He ar ranged his outfield with reverse KuglMi, allowing left-handed hitters to annoy right-handed flingers and vice versa with the starboard blokes and larboard peggers. The experiment has been higlil) suciessful. With nothing to worry about Cy made his debut in the opening brawl and miinci-tcd with four singles to right field out of five voyages to the rubber. Last 1'ridii) he worried the right fielder with a single, n double and n homer out of four times, on Monday he bounced n pair of singles and a double against the short wall and .vestctday it was two singles and a double out of four chances. XtJILLIAMS now has been accepted by the fans. He did nut stand " so well last year when he came here to succeed Oodc I'ashert, but as long as he pickles the pill he can carry a cane and still retain his social standing icith the real critics in the bleachers. Our Phils Place the Skids Under Brooklyn FHED and his playmates frolicked all over the visitors from ISrooklvn jes terday and gleefully put the first blot on the 10U) escutcheon, or whatever it was. Up to 3:30 p. m., when Bill Klem sicked the two teams on each other, Brooklyn bad not lost a single game this year. They had trimmed the day lights out of Boston, placed the Braves on the road to ruin and came here with the same foul purpose uppermost in their minds. On Monday they had the Phils looking like second-string athletes on the I'ort Indian Reserves, but their feet slipped in the second engagement. Aided by timely hits, errors, a few bases on balls and the generosity of Lieutenant Leon Cndore, 1. S. A., tho home-town boys finished in the lead, S to 5. The Thils proved one thing yesterday, and proved it conclusively. Give them eight or ten runs and they can beat any team in the world. At the end of the third frame the score stood 7 to 0 in their favor, aud what did they do? They fearlessly faced the foe, used rare judgment aud courage, as Jimmy the Elk would say, scored another run and allowed the Brooklyn banshees only five measly tallies. That's the kind of guys our Phils are. Elmer Jacobs breezed along so nicely for thiee innings that he imagined he was pitching hay on the farm. Then he began to be nice and allowed the aliens to fatten their batting averages and spike the home plate. Klmer took lots of punishment in tho last six innings, being nicked for eleven hits, five runs and placing ten men on base who couldn't score. But Jake cared nothing for that so long as his pals had tallied eight counters. STILL, the Dodgers had to lose some time, and the Phils might n well get the credit of stopping them first. In the meantime. Pat Uoran's Cincinnati whirlwinds have copped sir itiaight and had thr league without a dissenting vote. The lied Sox lost their first game to Washington, to Brooklyn can find solace in that disaster. All Trained Up, With No Place to Fight TEX RICKAItD lost the decision on points in his attempt to stage the Willard-Dempsey battle in Cumberland, Md. The governor has handed down a decision which is that he will NOT promise noninterference for a twelve-round contest. As Rickard wants everything smoothed over before be announces his plans or spends money to advertise the show, the governor's Terdict puts the kibosh on Cumberland for good nnd all. r However, it does not seem likely that Tex's plans have been scrambled. He has had a couple of months to look over the country and select a suitable spot, and probably has one to fall back on. The Cumberland thing did not come up untii last week, but it looked so good and was in such close touch with Washiueton. Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York in the East and Pjttsburfb, Columbus, Cincinnati and other middle western towns, that it was worth looking into. N ..." JBXT Sunday, May i, it the day llickard ts to name the place iciei e -ygf -! -AND You FROTeCT IT FROM Tne hot JCORCHtMC SUM IM , SUMMER (and The FROST IN, WINTER) ut-7ir.,' f If II l.jJaMS sq -ci tV"..." 1 -And You vajorrv viHtM TMe RABBITS rJicK The Bark ' VJITH TMEIR Teeth .- r.,,. Jv ten n Oe 3, iTsT'cr4 ,i(., j- SCi ffl ... i "And THEM-!!- You go out one FINE MORNING AND PICK SOME L-L-L-LUSCIOUS FRUIT- OH-HH- BOY.".- AIN'T IT A GR-R-KAND And GLOR-RRjoys. tFFLIKI ' ?- T Tata IYA CHRIST CHURCH IS Manager Eddie Piercey Has Se cured Fast Club to Repre sent Logan Nine S. P. H. A. HAS A TEAM Haseball in Logan will get n fljing "tart on Saturday afternoon when the Chrit Church Athletic Association will inniiRiirnte the seasou on its grounds nt Tenth nnd ftiitler streets with the Philadelphia Professionals as the at traction. Christ Church lias come to the front in Philadelphia athletics with its football, basketball and soccer I'litbs, but baseball is its strong fotle and it anticipates n banner sea son with the iltib in clinrge of Eddie I'ict cey, who. beside being a clever third baseman, is also an experienced lender. President Hobert (Jetty has made ar ?4 Y GREA TEST MILER i IN TRACK HISTORY Ted Meredith Believes Illinois A. C. Athlete is Capable j of Running Four Quarters in Four Minutes Ten Seconds Better Than Tabcr 4fe Cs jAljrT ", tKjTi.. Ayi AaCSffitfJ mrr P-v I ' 7 T.E.r W GEORGE I'UkHEl , Id rather duck the consequences, And praise the name of one whose aim In life is this To bust doxen fences. Without pretense, to you the Fence Is guile enough for one amfition; And your desire is but to fire A round of fouvjiase ammunition; If they should try to ever tie Your wallop down they'd need a new rope; And lines that run "Ping Busted One" . Ifcan more to you than Peace to Europe. I love the gent with fell intent Who takes each wallop as a bounty; Who yearns to maul the foolish ball And lift it clear beyond the county; Let statesmen sit and do their bit Within the League of Nations' grapple; I'd rather hear the wild crowds cheer "This old boy sure can crash that apple." Enforcing Prohibition LEAVING the ti aining camp area one morning we ran into our old collega chum P.ob Gilkcs, the justly eelebrnted scout, now sequestering down in certain neck of the woods. Into this dark, deeply shadowed woodland there ran a path. By tbli path a youngster of some six or seven years was digging into the ground with a knife. At this point two revenue officers came up nnd one of them spoke to tho kid. j(; Ry TED MEREDITH (World's Greatest Middle Dlstanre Runner) KAY. the wonderful little run- pveatlter anil because Tubei leicutl had set tne record. The late Johnny Oveiton and Ra met in New York in 1017 nnd before the race it was believed that the record III ner from tie 1 linois a. v., nat won nearly every big race in which he has started since lfllC, yet until re cently I considered him a champion in i Butrly would be lowered. l$oth liny liard-lutk circles. When a chap has 'and Overton were racers, however, and n Inni? list of titles after his name and uot ninners. 'ihey ran for victory - r .; numerous prizes, as Ray has, it is not often that he is thought of as being out of luck, but .Toie is. To my mind, Ray is miler of nll lime. T seen a the headvvork nnd stamina not for time. Overton had iitst set his record of 4:1(1, world's figures for n mile run indoors, nnd he was the favorite, but Ray used his head nnd the greatest ' w on in much slower time. . . .... never liau ' ne pent nun conditions in tne in-i man who could compare witii "-""cu mcci. vvuicn win ue m-ni i. T-rnnpp snmn timn in .uinn. rttnlmliK' 1!lll. .. AAiHAH IH I llAAll fjtitnil muiu niwiua i"u, ..,., , ,.-,,, r TO COACH KM Former Pitt Star to Handle Football, Baseball and Track Squads STARTS WORK NEXT FALL Ray is s-o will be right for a new lecord. but here again .loic is out of luck. lie is intigemcnts with Williani Scargie to toss .good that if Noinmn Taber can tun n;u past master in suip.wml woik and il the championship battle is ole staged on July . in job with the goods, for Tex never bluffs icheithe sti Ho will be on stages a big bout. lie fiat something up his sleeve, and the chances are shine town in the West xem oe nonorca. .? , QDN&AT baseball has been accepted by the Aldermen in New ''-i O and tho first jame will be played on the Polo Orgtinds this co Tork city, coming Sab- i.. it. n,,v tmi win tira tlm honors with the Giants in raisins the curtain Alainis't&Quld" profit greatly thereby. Aapacltycfbwd is expected to attend -Ui4 gjTQ tno game a great senu-ou. .uuu inero uu a. tami w rauuuny Uie A'a'Tvculd bare beea.the other part of tho act with the Ynnks. Philadelphia hka taea hi much demand in the big town. , S ,"'! M erii.ldt day nl racing at Harro de Grace and the ecene shifts to I up ijii n r vTbe jjhif uanuicai,,4ue i:ieKumsK iu yc mu ou , ; . -JvtM iv.-.H JV-J. 'v &i l out tne lirst ball mm a big crowd is ex j peeled when either "Art" Drew or .1. I Keller go to the pitching mound. The .latter is n newcomer to Christ Church I fans, having formerly ped with , Olney. I Manager Piercey bus lnunded to gether a fast club, many of lust, year's plajers having returned from military duty. Among these nre Rill Mngee, tdin enlisted in the marines, and L. I'leik, the hard-hitting catcher, who will again be seen behind the plate. Charlie Schroder, of Kentucky 1'nivcr sitj, has been picked to pluy short and Johnnie Ray will hold down i enter field. IM Piercey himself will be stationed at the far loi-ner nnd Louis Schroder, for mer I.inilley star, will be seen in one of the outfield positions The South Philadelphia Ilelnew As sociation has decided to place a first- i class semi-professional team in the held. "Dick" Williams, formerly of Southwork Y. C , is manager, and has a wealth of material from which to pick a lirst class nine. Although this is the "Sphu's" first endeavor in the baseball line the players comprising the team nre well known in local circles, i and promise to put up a flashy brand of j baseball. Numbered among them aie Kt.'ivit., Chester Ship; "Chick" Passon, Cold blatt, Recker, Smith & Page ; Celian, formerly of the Tnstnte League; (loldberg, Southwark V. C. : Wntnion. Towandn; Cnnadj , Rubelbunk nnd Scheifj, of the Cniverbity of Pennsyl vania ; Runin, Abrams and Sigel, of the Three-1 League, nnd Klein, of Camden A. C. lu addition, the follow ing will be on hand for Sunday games: losephson. Camp Dix ; Fisher and Cnttlieb, David Lupton's; Penrlman, Pitman, and Harry Passon, I'niversitj of Pittsburgh. The management would like to hear from Stetson, Straw biidge i Clothier, Harrovvgate, Ililldale, Purkesburg Irou Woik, etc., offering it good gunruntec. Address "Dick" Wil liams, 037 Ritner street. HARVARD CREW SHIFTED Vendell Davis Moved From Seven to No. Three Cambridge, .Mass., April 00. Coach Willinin Haines replaced Captain Whit mnu ut No. 4 in the Harvard varsity crew jesterday nfternoon, receiving an opportunity to size up his charges and to eradicate faculty rowing on the part of the Crimson sweeps. The Harvard captain followed the rowing in a launch. As n result of his observations Coach Moines will make several shifts when the crew resumes practice this afternoon. Sherman Damon will row bow instead of seven, Wendell Davis moving from seven to three, replacing John Linder, who was slated for seven. into the seivice. lie has ship) aril woik for many never went been doing years. Chance (o Come If he can go ahead for another .venr, and I see no lenson why he shouldn't, he will hnve his chance in the Olympic games in 1D-0. In the international meet he will have the incentive and the right field, and, I hope, the right Pittsburgh, Pa,, April ,10 George McLaren, University of Pittsburgh's All-American fullback and captain of the Panther eleven last year, has ac cepted a position ns coach of football, basketball and track at the Kansas State Normal College, Emporia, Kan., and next fall will assume his duties. McLaren is the second Pitt man to laud a good coaching position, us Dr. .1. 15. (Jock) Sutherland, famous guard of the 1SI17 team under Warner, has been made head coach of the Lafayette College team. ttQAY. Buddy, where'll this path take usf" U "It'll take you to my daddy's still," was WOX'T IMIXG YOU BACK." the reply, "BUT IT TN NAMING those seven American League stars," asks R. R. F., "what's JLthc matter with Scott Perry, who won tweuty-one games last year with Connie Mack's tail-enders?" We should say there's very little the matt'er with n pitcher who can win twenty-one games with n tnll-cndcr. Judging from his start against Walter Johnson he probably will qualify this season. MpiIAUNCKY M. DEPEW has attended 3257 banquets." News item. J This is undoubtedly a world's record. The uvcrngp system begins to revolt nt the 1000th banquet nnd is in n staje of utter collapse at the 1200th. This is one of the few records that will stand for nil time. THE peneh crop was jolted a couple of times this spring, but the California tennis crop is reported to be in excellent sbupc. A number of promising youngsters fiom this state nre said to be after Vincent Richards, an indica tion that considerable fur will fly in the August melee. I T'S a cinch, anyway, (hat after this Peace Conference is over President Wilson will never pan an umpire. He understands nt last what that worthy is up against in the way of regular trouble. "10LF," says an exchange, "is over DO per cent a matter of putting." VjT Not if you are slicing your drives and topping jour iron shots around a well-trapped course. MA II. Cobb's lowest murk was .3-4, in 1908. His top murk was in 1011. His fourteen- ear average is around .300. 420, FK. J. You wiu. Chase was playing ball for New York at least four mouths before Cobb joined Detroit, although both ntrived in 1005. ?rOL can lead a horse to water aud he'll have'to drink it nfter July 1. mile in 4:12 15-5, the world's record, then .Toie can do 4 :10. He is a few seconds better than the best. No Real Record My reason for saying Ray was a hard luck runner is that he never has had a race where he has had n field good enough to push him and at the same time had the conditions just right. Cnncpnnentlr Ttnr hn't Yin mirHnnr record rhnr will n,nke "him stand out iii the I weather to show what he has had stored books in nfter years as the great miler I up since 1015 he is. Ray first came into national promi nence in 101J5 nt the A. A. 1. cham pionships, which were held that jear in conjunction with the Panama -Pacific Exposition in Sau Frarftisco. At that time he beat some of America's greatest inilers, but be never was given the credit he deserved. There was n strong wind the day of the race and most of those who saw the event figured that Ru.v's ictory was a freak. Norman Taber had just established It is hard for a man to keep in the game year in and year out and still retain his punch, but I hnve confidence in Ray and I believe he will come through and prove to the utmost !u time just what ability lies in his little well-developed body. NATIONAL LKACUr. PARK PHILLIES vs. BROOKLYN GAME STARTS 3:30 P. M. Smt at r,lmbfl' nnd Siinldln' his world's record, Men he set up with PMPIRF 1419 BAImiridok street ; the nid of pacers, andJie was the favor- V, TiiIUVSI'Acij!A-1n itc for the event. It was believed Hint the only other man capable of beating the former Oxford runner was Kiviat. Ray was figured among the leaders. Victory Discounted Ray showed his heels to both the stars, but the time was slow because of the weather and his victory was dis counted, discounted becnuse of. the Neil Coogan vs. Harlem Eddie Kelly 4 OTIir.it iiuuin. iiuuf-i out. ,3c. si RACES TODAY AT HAVRE DE GRACE 7 KAUbB ijiiji, inriuuinc a BieiebaM Special rennsjlvonla Itallroad Train Leave is: .. iu-i tvcHE a una., into i' m, Illrrrt to Outrun ADMISSION RANISTAND & PADDOCK, l.noi Xjii'ir.n. i.i v nciuninc War Tax. FIRST BACK AT 2:30 I. M. fgJliP Jersey Tennla League Formed Emit Oram. April S.l Six clutm will romprlM the Nw Jcrney Tnnl AiiocUtlou. They are Mantrlalr A. C Eaex County c'ountry Club. Ornre Ijiwn Tnni Club. Ulenwood TentiU Club. Plalnfleld Country Club and Elizabeth Tnwn and Country Club, Want to-Run at Sixty-four April 80. 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