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Harry Gilmore Some Difficulties Of C. Mathew son*si And Naughton Pitching No Hit Game Glory Is F adin (By W. W. NAUHTON.) Inwardness of boxing and that a By W. 8. FARNSWORTH. thinks of Tinker when Francisco. Aug. 19.—Harry Gil- knowledge of scientific boxing promi­ (By MONTY.) then In his prime, and he did the deed and Addle Joss—long live his mem- Xew York, Aug. 19.—“A no-hit against the in 1902. ory. Old Cy officiated on the mound New York, N. Y., Aug. 19.—Another the Cubs are playing the Giants. It ,M' rhicas:©. one of the o4d school ses the greaffest good to the greatest occurred less than a fortnight ago I'c int^truclors—or maybe U nuni ber. game.” The' clamor of the crowd, the Tw oyears later grand old for the Red Sox on May 5, 1904 when scintillating star in the hero-worshippers of their idol, the star duplicated the performance and the Philadelphia Athletics trudged The afternoon before the Giants in­ ','f nuMc courteous to say one ■ It stands to reason,” he said, “that firmament is waning. The lustre of vaded the Windy City, Tinker was '.'.irhi-rs^ of old school methods were 1 to teach the crouching iiead-on of the “hum team,” is ever thus brought the Boston Sox into the lime­ through nine innings without one of Half a dozen, two. even one hitless in­ light. ’s Athletics were their number reaching a base. On Christopher Mathewson, the greatest fined $150 and suspended for the re­ i.-'Sue with me over a recent style of combat it would be sadly mainder of the season for alleged ■ of mine deploring the deca- amiss in a street brawl where two or ning, and the fans are up on their toes the vanquished in this game. After October 12, 1908, Joss, pitching for pitcher of all time, is rapidly dim­ the Mace system of fisticuffs. shouting for a column of ciphers in the Jesse Tannehill, also of the Red Sox, Cleveland suffered not one White Sox ming and is apparently a question “indifferent playing.” On the eve of more opponents might face you. On and Henley, of Philadelphia, had turn­ to arrive at the initial sack. the Giant invasion. Chance .ii. ntly things \ made wrong de- the contrary the ability to land a “H” part of the invaders box score. of a short time when Matty’s star And do these same fans realize the ed the trick in 1904 and 1905, Young To appreciate the herculean efforts and President Murphy conferred and - when comparing the rela- straight right on the jaw, and the sets finally, it has been noticeable reconsidered. The result was that the ' ;iry of the present-day fighter magnitude of the task they are de­ came back in 1908 and repeated. Ad- necessary to accomplish what these knowing of how to follow such an at­ in Matty’s last faw starts that he fine was recalled and Tinker was re­ of some years ago.” tack in proper style, would be a great manding and what it means to the die Joss of Cleveland (now dead) two heroes of the diamond did, con­ pitcher—that his name will go down in shared the 1908 honors with Young template that there are twenty-seven has lost a good deal of his old cun­ instated. In the very first game '(I Wolgast was the jiarticular advantage.” against the Giants, which Matty hap­ • wiu' inspired the article ob- baseball history as one of the greatest and again pitched a no-hit game in consecutive times that the batter must ning. The teams that Matty used 'If Mr. Gilmore’s views of things are to handle with ease only a few years pened to be pitching, Tinker made ■ ' ’lis s^iiccesig, following those the i>roper ones, it is but reasonable of them all. It means that he wil be 1910. That same year Bender, of be prevented from reaching first base one among the other twenty-six who Philadelphia, hung up his record per- and that it Is possible for him to do back, seem to have solved the myste­ four hits in as many journeys to the .ii'linson. Sa’u l^angford and to suppose that in the whirligig of plate. He was directly responsible ' I ixi- hHving impressed the have accomplished the feat since the formance. It was the last no-hit game so by any one of nine diflerent ways; rious shoots of the great Giant hur- things pugilistic the “hit, block and ler. Matty’s apparent disintegration for sevQn of the eight runs scored by '• ’i; tho fact that the expon* step away” style of fighting will take something wonderful in doing that to until Wood’s recent great exhibition A hit. the Browns, or any other team for tliat Among these twenty-one stars, only A . at this stage of the close baseball the Cubs and he assisted in the pro­ u- straight hitting style were precedence over what Freddie Welsh campaign casts a dark cloud over the duction of the other . These runs ■ rhe fore as world’s champions calls the unorthodox style again in the chances of the Giants to win the were needed for the Cubs to win, :-o’.n—it is Wolgaat to whom future. pennant this year. as the Giants made six runs off • iilmore pays hisparticular re- At present all I can say is that the McGraw has always cofiteaded that Miner Brown. says: While the recent men v^ho are the champions are not if he could get another winning pitch­ Nov/ that Brown has heen men­ Mnran battle was an exceient straight hitters. How to free a glove ers to work with Matty, things would tioned it Vi'ould be well to say a t' the modeln slam-bang and cut loose with an upper or a loop- be quite easy for the Giants. McGraw v/ord or so about the illustrious Cub the clever boxer, it was the-Ioop is an acquirement that is of has always felt that Matty would be twirler. Brown, always Matty’s hated ^et^een two men of equal more service to a modern ringman, good for at least another decade. rival on the diamond also appears i and enruance. Wolgaet is apparently, than a jinowledge of New “Rube” Marquard comes along to be slipping backwards. While the - nlth tremendous power and straight lefts and right crosses. It and more than redeems the $11,000 Etill retains his old speed. Brown has .iiiinH, and this is the secret was different when Jim Corbett, Tom- pledge paid for him by John T. not the old control 6f the ball and v'M-if.rrul accomplishments. lay Ryan and .loe Gans were the fore- Brush, Marquard to be the saving at times has difficulty in serving the - levernesii and straight punch- uiost men in their respective cl>isses; grace of the Giants these days. To ball his catcher calls for. eiv.' ’neffDC'tive because his but Mr. Gilmore must admit that the counterbalance Marquard’s great per­ Reverting to Matty; The big ^ . ’.nftlctf'd little injury on the blue ribbon men of today are all mix­ formances, Matty is pitching far blonde hurler has been the main cog [ consrruciion of Wolgast’s ers rather than standaway boxers. below his standard and has been los­ in the Giant machine for years and | I nant to commend Wol- I dcm’t want Mr. Gilmore to think ing games with amazing regularity. years. His great pitching has bi'ought | hmhl'- for his great work that I am an advocato of the present This rabble about Matty going a couple of National Leagvie banners t his coail'’ent and cnura- ty^teni of milling. In the article back may be a bit premature, but and a world’s championship to the t . 1 ut ' ru i>ut me on re- which he criticises for that matter, I this work during the past month or Big tov,-n. His. pei’centage, except th a t). 1 t h ! In the case of t^^ o | reniarked tiiat, v/hereas a rail’ of bo::- so presages such a gloomy outlook of his first year with the Giants, s ith equal natural.ers of the Mace school furnished in- to him. when he lost the three games he re;;-^trcnp;tl;, stamina, and terestiug glove play, and were a de- If Matty, has really gont back to pitched, has always been higher than r ' I ;• he one kn«>\'ins the iighi to watch, the modern glove com- such an extent that he is nc longer the team average. uf ne p.a’ue v.lll lead the bat resembled a dog tight more than a winning pitcher, then the game will Matty only recently made the hcud-dovn !• I'le;- mile.” anyihing. have lost the best twirler baseball statement that, unless a pitcher can e >'l'.'! ^'rl'e?an inlerealln^: "The cll’ich" Hghters, as an .Vustra- has ever produced. It will be one of attain a percentage equal to that of t Ii?n critics calls them, have certainly the rare cases w’nere a ball player is his club, he could hardly be consid- I* ''r>v e to the top. It remains to be i a star one season, and a dismal fail­ ered a good one. It looks as if Matty j* s.ren whether the old style of fighting ure the next and succeeding seasons. wUl Imve to retract that remark, ^ will take the precedence again. It once more revives the time-hon­ umess he takes a decided brace. : Gl!:r.cre points to Bob Fitzsimn'ons ored question of why star players ::=.^ a fat:- sample of th*) old style boxer. to not retire in their prime. The game : Ht t«vr. that, if it v.-ere possible to possess some magnetic influence to I p!?.ce Fltzslnimona In the lists again, keep men in tlie game until they have , he would demonstrate plainly the su- fully exhausted their usefulness. j [rerlorlty ot i.he old and the present There are but one or two cases on 1 >nyle of milllns. record where a star has quit the I It wil be ae "”eli for 2»lr. Gilmcre to game w’hile still possessed of his ' rerriember tiiat Flt.^rlmn'.ons changed best capabilities. his style airuost entlrelv after hs had Should it really come to pass that j fought a few contests In America. In Matty will have to retire from the ! his early middleweight tights, those public glare because of his inability I with Billy McCarthy. Jack Dempsey to deceive opposing batters as of land Arthur Upham, Fitzsimmons was yore, Christopher will always be re­ I a Mace boxer pure and simple. When membered as the peer of . : he began to mingle with heavyweights, Christy, admittedly, has a mighty! u i he invented tricks and thumps of his right arm, but it is more than his ; own and did hlo uioEt deadly v>-ork arm that has placed him on the ped­ I with peculiar short arm punches, the estal he has enjoyed for many years. like of which was probably never seen Matty has gray matter and has I In cither England or Austria. always made use of it; that is why he w'as a success for a decade. 3 ‘.inrly Won Out. Matty could nearly alw'ays out-guess Southamplon, 1-. 1., Aug. I'J.—Out­ the batter, and he never extended playing his opponent, both at the net himself unless the occasion demanded and from deep court, Thomas C. Bun­ it. Matty never strived to keep the dy, the Californian, today justified his opposing side to a minimum of hits. rating of number 2 by defeating his On the contrary, the opposition fellow "Native Son,” Melville H. Long, could get as many hits as they by a score of (i-3; t'-lovs; 3-*?: 4-7 and wished oft Matty so long as they were not of a damaging nature. (j-1. Bundy’s victory was well won and Matty’s specialty has always been to tho majority of the gallery it seem­ to prevent the enemy from scoring. ed as though lie could have brought He got in his best work in the off the result in three sets had he pinches; that is how he acquired a wished to do so. Critics are satisfied nation-wide reputation. He could tor-lf.ht that no misrake has been made tighten up quicker and more effect­ ill the selection of Bundy tor the ively than any pitcher in the game. American international team. His work There is only one player in the FRANK C. COFFYN will be closely watched next month game who has had Matty’s “number”. when Ihe British Isles team and the Said player Is none other than Joe C. Cotfyn. the Wright Aviator, Aii:e:icans meet in New York. Tinker, the last of the famous Cub \^ith five others of the squad infield machine. Excluding one y^ear. •’■^rge of the pioneer flyers, ha* AGREES WITH GEN. SHERMAN. Tinker has rapped Matty for an aver­ age of something like .700 in the .n ,r«r«d at the la.t mom.nt in | , again, where last six years. This is a notable rec­ - 'nternationai aviation meet at , uorthers never rage, ord for there is no player in base­ George Morarlty, captain and star third ' :agc. Coffyn has been steadily ball who has a pitcher’s "goat” as !'Where we never see tarantulas un- baseman of the Detroit Tigers, who -c -vi-3 38 a pilot of the Wright I less they’re in a cage; much as Tinker had Matty’s. Christy 'h a-d some remarkable work ^''^y from Texas gumbo,, on has always tried to evolve some was seriously Jnjured in the game Lake Erie’s placid shore. method whereby he could outwit with the Tues­ pectfd cf him in the NO HIT PITCHERS Where the rattlers cease from rattlin’ Tinker while the latter .was at bat. day (Aug. 8). Daniels, the Yankee But somehow or other Joe nearly and the greasers grease no more: outfielder, made a fierce slide into Where we'll never see a cactus plant The only oitchers wh-? have pitched mfore than one no hit game in the history of modern league baaeball. always outguessed Matty. Tinker has left to right—, of Clevland (now dead) Christy Matthewson,of the New Yoi^ Giants, and old Cy third base while Moriarty was block­ ■thr - too ionc: to qi'.ote i nor feel its thorns again. broken up many a game on Matty. Young, of Cleveland. Each of these men has two hitless games to hia credit. Joss and haiiL One game especially the play-ofi of ing the bag with his right leg. The tha' a knowledge of , Then old Diaz and Madero and the league twirlers who ever pitched a game in which no man reached first base by any method, hit, base-on-ba is, .. asr for r>thrr puroo- i rest can go to—well, the famous Merkle incident, a day Detroit captain’s right leg was badly j.i;- - {'f in th« I f never was a hand to swear; but, errors or otherwise. , after the regular season closed in lacerated above the knee and it is Curiously enough, it seems that all three of these figures of the diamond wil! pass.from the game w ith in a year or 1908, will long be remembered by certain he will not be able to play h''iie'<^s hai '~vcvy surely, war hell. each other. Addie Joss died two months ago. Consistent report is now going the rounds of the big ' • ' s'irietliin? of the* I —New York Sun. Matty, who will ever consider him for more than a month, possibly not cuits that Cleveland is about to release old Cy Young, whose age has at last begun to tell on h im , and Christy ker his Nemesis. Early in the game again this season. Mathewson’s work has fallen off to such an appreciable extent that New Yorkers are ® Tinker made a three-base soak that the question as whether their idol is Just In a temporary decline or whether he has really lost his aoiiity. started a Cub rally that eventually “Why don’t your daughters take won the game and the pennant for their vacations together?” event of the twentieth century—an three have achieved a no-hit game An error. the Cubs. This smash took the heart “They prefer to pool the false hair average of less than one a year in more than once in th^ir careers. They A third strike missed by the catcher, out of the Giants. Matty was the and thee lothes and each girl has each of the big leagues. And consid- are Mathewson, Young and Joss, each whose throw to the does pitcher at the time. the use of the entire outfit for two not beat the runner to the bag. . ^ er the “great” pitchers who have hev- of whom uncorked two spotless per- Here’s an instance of how much weeks.”—Louisville Courier-Journal. er turned the trick. formances. Batter hit by pitched ball. When Joe Wood twirled a no-hit Several times this year pitchers Batter interfered with by catcher. game against the St. Louis Browns in have done faultless work for a number Fair ball hitting an . the last series between the Boston of innings, so that it seemed more First baseman blocking the base line Red Sox and the cellar champions of than likely that a no-hit game would when he has not the ball in his hands, 1 the , many passed result. Exactly 'a, month ago George or the pitcher doing the same. over the performance with the re- “hooks” Wiltse, of the New York Any pitcher using his cap, glove, pro­ mark: “Oh, there’s nothing wonder- Giants, held the St. Louis Cardinals tector or other part of his uniform to ful in doing that to the Browns.” hitless for six innings. Then Roger in catching a ' ball when the These people are mistaken. There Is Breesnahan came to bat and cracked glove, cap, etc., is detached or not in matter. Every year the champion out a two-bagger that spoiled an oth- its proper place. . clubs have met the tail-enders. The erwise perfect performance. A day None of these things must happen. best have opposed the worst some 20 later , of Brooklyn, prob- Is it any w'onder then there are only odd times each season. And yet not ably the greatest southpaw^ in the two no-man-to-the-first-base games in once a year, on the average, has the game today opposed Cincinnati. For history? Long live Cy Young; long under-dog failed to register a hit. eight innings he kept the hard-hitting live the memory of Addie Joss, an­ Wood’s no-hit game at St. Louis red-legs from counting a safe clout. In swer we. broke a tie between the two leagues the ninth, gigantic Larry McLean w^as that had existed since May 10 of last first at bat. He struck out. So did JUST FOR FUN. year when “Chief” Bender of the Ath- pitcher Prank Smith. Bobby Bescher’s ietics, pitched hitless ball against turn came next and the Dodger fans “What caused Plunjer’s down­ Cleveland. Wood’s performance made were preparing to score a no-hit game fall?” the count during the last twelve sea- for Rucker. Bescher was all that “He lost his balance.” . sons eleven for the American as stood between him and the coveted “His balance?” against ten for the National. j honor. What did Bescher do? He “Yes—at the bank!”—Chicago Tri­ Hahn, of Cincinnati, was the first knocked a slow one over second base bune. pitcher of the countdy to be credited that the sluggish Brooklyn infielders with a no-hit game. He did it against could not reach, and Rucker’s remark- “It must cost ag reat deal to run the Phillies on July 12, 1900. Next able work was set at naught, so far as an automobile.” year came , then ' getting a no-hit game was concerned, “It cost more to keep it standing in his “teens,” who retired the St. { It so happens that all no-hit games still if it smokes.”—Detroit Free Louis Cardinals without a bingle. No in the big leaguee have been shut-outs. Press. National Leaguer achieved the feat in That may seenl like a waste of words 1902 but in 1903 Chick Fraser, of Phil­ —the average fan always considers a Mrs. Wellmeant—Are you married? adelphia. made the Cubs victims of a no-hit game a shut-out as a matter of Tramp (indignantly)—Wot! Do perfect exhibition of slabscra..t. Math­ course. Far^be it from such. Several yer think I’d be relyin’ on total ewson repeated his 1901 performance instances in the minor leagues can be strangers for support if I had er in 190.'j and in 1906 saw Billy Lush, of cited where a team failed to get a sin­ wife?—Boston Transcript. Philadelphia and Mai Eason of Brook­ gle hit, but yet won the game. Errors, lyn, enter the honor list. In 1907 Fred bases on balls and the like did the Prospective Boarder Do you set Pfeffer, of Boston, and Maddox, of work, although the opposing fiinger a good table here? Pittsburg, were the heroes. George was not hit safely during the entire j Rural Landlord—Good table? Great Wiltse, of the New York Giants, held game. What the above-mentioned fan ’ Scott, man! Look at the size of YOUNG CORBETT ttie Phillies hitless for teo innings on is really thinking of, although he may I those flies!—Puck. July 6, 1908, and Nap Rucker, of not know it, is a no-man-to-flrst-base. ------9 Corbett, one-time peer of all lightweights, who has Joined the ranks Brooklyn, was the performer in the While the no-hit game is surely rare I “Hubby, you have a lock of my 0^ the comebackers” for the expresa and only purpose of hooking up in last no-hit game pitched in the Na< enough bird, the no-man-to-first base hair, haven’t you?” ’ ‘grudge fight” with Jimmy Britt. The latter is the man who took from tional League when he downed th e' game is almost unheard of. Fact is, ^ “Of course.” » Corbett the title he had won from Terrible Terry McGovern. It was in then fairly strong Boston team on Sep-1 there have been only two such per- j “See if you can match it In some Miller Huggins, star second baseman of the St. Louis Cardinals, who at this twenty round bout at San Francisco, and Britt was given the decision tember 5, 1908. {formances in the history of modern puffs when you go down town.”— time looks to be as good a second sacker as there is in the National over Corbett after a fast fight. The recent persiflage about a scrap being Jimmy Callahan, of the Chicago j league baseball. And the authors of Pittsburg Post. League. Huggins, the smallest roan in big league baseball, is hitting tween .290 and .300 and is fielding his position almost to perfection. Be­ arranged between Britt and Battling Nelson has led Corbett out of his White Sox, was the first no-hit pitcher them also have another no-hit to their i ------ing the shortest man In the business, it is hard to pitch to him, and he '^tirement. He has “blood in his eye," according to Sailor Burke, who of the American League. The man credit—just to show it was no fluke. George Grosmith, the English com gets many bases on balls. Last year he created a new world's record for started training the little old fellow at Johnson's Road House, near who is now hailed as the greatest They are Cy Young, the “grand old edian, is to appear with Madame ^