Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 15, 1918, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Manitoba Winnipeg 8atttrdayv i emcee j918. Merit is. Luck Dot. Such use life or in or r matter come from Hara. Intelligent work in building up skill or is it a airily the result of a Zood break Soree critical moment.? can the train i ng1 of year be o Vert Crown by a i Unfer tunable that cannot be foreseen or provided Arainah i think that at persons must agree thai to May in one disastrous Ito Crit the work of years Heath happiness 5ven life a Fjeld hut of course this is a. Fact of Toossi bitty nor of a reates to prob in All the Ordinary conditions f must Confer thai the race is usually to the Swift and the Battle to the f Deal abour the of the and indeed it is f very real thins. Have seen warily hit balls lies. We Hava Thorn headed straight for out of and behold they struck 3 one. We have the Tittle White Jones linger on the very of inc bunkers and never drop in. Knoten Loo the inter casual remark wafted have All is. Athletic nines have dates arranged for single schedule at a meeting called by the s unday Choli athletic league of Winnipeg of opt Auve boys work committee Nur Day night at the ., a series schedule was up the Glass a and class b baseball the question of grounds could not. Be Cidad definitely but Sames will com since on grounds to be mutually agreed Ion by the clubs playing until such be a.1 More definite arrangements made. 3. X. Xor Wood phone main who appointed Secretary of the and x. X. Mcelheran. L. R. Baker and a. B. Nasren were appointed umpires. The schedule follows class no Matthews is. Immanuel at Elm Wood is. Westmins1 or at Isanc Brock school. is. Irn Manuel. At me is. St. Matthews it Isaac Brock school is. A est Mansfi at Brock school. Is. St. Matthews. Class b is. Epic Orth. Is. St. Matthews. News. Xor Dod Matthews is. St. John. John is. Epworth. Ity is. Xor Wood. Lib is. Is. I y is. St. John Fly is. St. S. John. . Second series. Across the course Fiat Caine a exam Itzy the wrong moment and destroyed the Good shot. Then again some and not always very g Ood to have the of inspiring respectful consideration in the gallery and their shots Are made amid a death like still Ness while the other player always seems to strike his Ball to an accompaniment of stamping feet and staccato of conversation. Unfortunately All these things Are True and bad Luck does lose Many 3 same but the thing for us to consider is average result. It is certainly True that it is hard to keep a Man Down. All sorts of bad Luck May Suc Cess but skill averages Well in trips in the ions ran of so if As All the important things of life. The player must learn to forget his opponent s Breaks acid concentrate upon his own shots. He must learn to take these thing s they come for Hick is not rtt ways one sided. The player must especially avoid crying Over the vary ins Luck of the same while it is in Progress. Of course it is Loo much to ask that he should not discuss it when inc same is Over for the Smrcin lies the real Charm and Delight of the nineteenth Hole. Base theft Arl becoming past chess pitchers not catchers curbing bulk of robberies on the paths. Draw for the second series of the . Competition was made and the schedule for the remaining frames of the season drawn up. Depot battalion and celtic will meet in the opening same of the second series. Scottish will oppose great War veterans in these con contest and United Weston and presbyterians will Endeavor to eliminate each other in the third. Street railway Drew the Bye. Of the three made two games look very promising the j first and last mentioned. Dan Mackeil s 1 scottish hit an easy snap by drawing1 with the returned soldiers eleven. The second series will wind up on september 7, and in the Grants final the Winner will meet the Winner of the first series which will be played at the stadium by scottish and Weston at 7- o clock next saturday evening. V permission was granted the great War veterans association at their Field Dav. On Dominion Day. To hold a five a Side football Competition. The next meeting of the . Will be held i on june 19. Adams trophy Secretary Coppen. Has received the returns of the Adams trophy Lawn both tins match played at Brandon on thursday in which the wheat City the trophy against the Brandon club on the Rideau Park greets by 37 to 2-1. Skips Barnes and Buch Anan were both successful against skips Dobiins and Mcdiarmid respectively As follows wheat City. Miller w. Buchanan or. Turcotte j. Barnes Lucy battalion is. Celtic Faree. Bowman. July is. Great War sons referee Ritchie. Western is. Presby referee. Lewis. Aus. July 20 is. Winner Fly ii referee Mcgregor. Auy. Auer. Is. Street Lii Way Bowman. Winner Auer. 10 is. Inner Aux. 24 referee. Ritchie. Sept. Bret series is. Win or second series. A last opening s meeting of the . At the Industrial Bureau the Branden. Elsie Johnson Forbes Ucki Barnes Nicoll aus Hon Shane i vice Diarmid Buchanan Sutherland Kinnear Harrold Buchanan. The next will be played Satur Day june 22. When the St. Stephen s club of Winnipeg sends two rinks to Brandon to meet the wheat City club. The Minnedosa club s Challenge comes next in order after which fort Rouge will have a Chance. I the soldiers playing a game in a French town not so Long ago and one of the pitchers was pretty bad. A Frenchman who was just setting the inside on the same remarked to a Friend he is a grand Pitcher he can hit the Bat every food will win the War Don t waste it there Are two kinds of summer suits one is the Sloppy ill fitting the other one is tailored As carefully As the highest priced Winter has the Burns co. Cool cloth suits there s a style about them you la like Caps of Eastern Brand Caps Dap and his lad sold at All Good shops fail to enforce the balk Rule managers train hurlers in foxy methods of hold ing runners. What s become of in the rational league the fans want to know and so no Che tie pitchers. Base stealing on a Straightaway basis. That is without a Man on third or without Tho double steal neither of which is meant the inn Speaks of stealing is becoming a Jesu some in the National league and thereby the same in. That circuit has lost one of its most spectacular Lea Max Carey the pit Sui k outfielder an extraordinarily fast runner Lea the National league thieves last year with 63 thefts Benny Kauff was second with 40, and tha aged Bob Bescher of St. Louis recently shunted to Milwaukee was third with 39. Compare those figures with the thefts by the stars in the american league Auch As -b8 for by , Marsans of St. 40 for Eddie 35 for Tris. Speaker and so on. The american league had a total at. 1.425. Stolen bases last year and the National league a total 1 of a Dif Ference on the average e of about eight thefts per team in favor of tie Ameri cans. Balk pardons blamed. One and. All. Both. National and american league players say that the steady decline in base stealing in the National league since Bob Bescher set the record with so thefts in 1911 and followed with ,67 in 1012. After stealing 70 in 1910. Is due to the laxity of enforcing the balk Rule in. The National Leas tie. The pitchers in this circuit say the players Are allowed to set away with murder. A authority on. The subject is chief Meyers because he is the Man behind the plate and Hae to nip the says the. Chief practically no attention is paid to the Catcher in figuring on a stolen base unless if is known that he is suffering from a lame Arm or is Quier. Wise handicapped. It is presumed that a major league Catcher can get any run Ner ban ins wild throws unless that runner has gained a full step or More on the Pitcher. The Pitcher is. The Man who As studied by the whole Ball team. Mcgraw was one of the first if not the first managers to appreciate the enormous value of studying unconscious movements of the Pitcher which indicate when he is. Going to serve the Ball to the Batter. Evcic Pitcher has such a. Movement but we often a Long time finding it out. For instance Brooklyn used to have a Pitcher named Cliff Curtis who had an excellent move toward first and was an hard Man to steal on until the giants discovered that when he was jog to throw to the plate he invariably dropped his head just a trifle As if does thought 1 after that i could steal on him and i am no Gazelle. Pitchers Are foxy. 4to.offset the the runners by studying their unconscious moves that indicate their intention to serve the Batter the National league pitchers have acquired astonishingly deceptive moves that fool the Man on first or him to stand Flat footed in order to escape being caught off. Hia balance toward , if the Pitcher shoots to Flat. This Branch of been developed by leaps and Bounds in the past or four or even the past two years. It is far ahead of anything Bescher had to contend with when he stole 80 bases in 1911. Very exceptional runners who Combine with their Speed the intuition and the mechanical Knack of balancing themselves for a Start to say nothing of adept Ness in May Many bases from year to year in this league but it is becoming More difficult from Day to Day for. The Ordinary player to steal and the fails Are right in say inst that thriving is becoming a Loat to the detriment of the All managers now have Hobby for pitchers deceptive moves. A Lustra Tion of this is Ispa Rwy of the Phillies. He is a left hander which gives him a Bis Advant age in hos Ninfi up runners but to the he Lias had in t he last two be owns _ move that compels any runner to stand absolutely Flat rooted or simply Gamble fifty fifty. When be brings his body around no Man say whether he is going to let the Ball Fly to first when be a half or whether. He is going to continue file Swan of and let the Ball go to the plate. I watched him closely in the recent Zerfea in Brooklyn a it he has improved even since april. Mcgraw too and catching him of ills Fuard Ali ii his one by one y011 proceed to administer t he knockout blow in True Ger Man style. On the other Viand in a problem position there can be no great discrepancy in the two forces. The number of pieces on either Side May show a big difference hut the balance of almost equal the Black i clip is usually in the Phi tin of a Btu scr trying to Points. Having a Good Lead he needs Only to hold off the knockout blow for two or three rounds to win twin contest. Thus in problem. Solving1 there is one Way of setting past your opponents defence to c him. All other moves Falline through Lack of Tiro or Force. We Aro divine an example or an end Frame which one. Our correspondents is struck with. It is we believe one of a number of simultaneous Blindfold games played by or. Blackburn the. Veteran player. This make All the More remarkable the Sacri flee with Lio wound up the same. We will not sift t he play and some of our readers May hit an t he moves . At qb1 q at kh5 is acc i and kits at qb4-and k.b4 it at q5 is at qr2. Qb2, kkt2 and k t5. At Al q an is k at qr.1 is at Al and 7-Cbl it faqs is at q.r2 cjkt2. Q-b4-, q3 and kkt6. Lac Kurji k. Takes lit and Blade iia Velnp replied a Xiv he announced mate n averages Atton Gest hit Ting team in the american league last in team batting the cards with their supposed slug gins Power last in the National the cubs who Fig ured to be weak at Bat leading in team the St. Louis. Browns at the top in the american league when during the Winter the scribes declared Jones was liable to have another hit less wonder club. Look u t the cubs Merkle practically at the head of the league Mann hol Lacher Vaug Han and Hendryx up _ _ _ among the 300 batters. There is throughout the country this same As i something wrong somewhere mean and England. In that there will be More upsets and Bradley. Score by in runs 22090 St. Xohnjs_._-.0001000 Bernow. Coming Back to Canada v Fred smith1 former physical director of Cert ral ., Toronto and at present Gen eral supervisor of the Work in England who will return to can Ada to become National physical director for the by t. S. Andrews pm i 1 Waukee. June Are being made to bring Johhny Kilbank featherweight Champion of the world and Tendler. The sensational Philadelphia to Gether in a ten round Ratcli on labor Day either in Cleveland or of the receipts to to the red Cross or fund. A. Match Between these boys would at tract a lot of attention As Tendler has been Many sensational stunts in. The ring of late acid is considered one of the hardest hitting now before the Public Benny Leonard not excepted. There would be Little difference in weight Between Kilbank. And Tendler As Johnny would like 1h5 or 126 thai 122 and Tendler can do us without bother this would make it about an even thing As to poundage and the Bard hitting of t he Quaker City lad would be off set by the cleverness of the Cleveland Cham Pion. Tendler has been after a match with Beginy Leonard for some time bit Only at the Lief Altweis it limit which Many claim Benny can not make now. It is possible that the c Hampton has taken on during his tour about the country but the chances Are that with proper training he. Would be Abie to fiet Down to the. Required Iti a Pound at which he beat Freddy Welsh. If Matt Hinckl can Tendler and Kilbane he will have a swell card and one that will create interest among the Al Gilt followers All Over the country. It will be a proposition a Power boxers and their followers in a political u a if they were Well organized and desired to mix in hat line just imagine the thousands of soldiers and sailors who have taken in Box ing sine the United states into the Bis scrap my of them will be boxing fans if not boxers when the War ends taken As a whole would be a mighty Factor in any political argument that would arise. However As boxers sportsmen they seek Only to Benefit the noon in a Arne and to have it legalized it is in . France too Lias Ernt nent Sanction further big is Over. Writers and others interested in the boxing s ame have advocated the for mation of a National organization on the lines of the Amatoru athletic Union with branches in every state of the Tinion but there have always been enough knockers within their own ranks to Hurt such a movement. The time is Ripe now for those interested to get together and organize for their own in new York slate it was politics that killed the game and there Are thousands of boxing faj3s in attic Empire state who would gladly come Forward now and help put it Back on the May. It is tile same in practically All the states that is where the Sra me is not1 Al ready legalized and the movement if started have plenty of sup porters. According to advices just received from the other Side of the Atlantic the National sporting club of Lon Don. One pc the oldest Boom a head quarters in. The world has thrown open its doors to All the Yankee sol Diers and sailors who Are quartered Over there or near by. With invitations to attend the boxing shows driven every week Cor their Benefit. To Only goes to show that the leaders of the old tooling club Are not asleep and realize that the americans in .105 real sport not the Pink Tea of several boxing tournaments have already been Given for the tanks and More Are being on a bi5.-g-er. Scale James h. Douglas one of the oldest members of the National sporting club in the course oof. His remarks to the american of scars and men attending a show recently. Said Tou May find the British people a Little a demonstrative but you will find their hearts in the right place and the warment kind of. Welcome for the american people. Sport is part of the British make up the same As it is of the american and we want to you boys everything possible in that line and then More. It is my honest belief that the Streat difference in the Frenchman of. The 1s70 period and today has been wrought larg Ely by is Freer participation sports. Excises and sport in the world Aid Hie Best training a Soldier can set. It makes a real Man of film and that is what is necessary co get a. Fighting Man. Boxing has been of great value to the army and Navy and i Trust the time will when we will have International tournaments of Boxin i Between the states France and boxers All Over the Tomici y Are doing their bit in ways than one. There May be some of them who Are of the slacker class but on the whole they have been very prompt in coming Forward with their help for patriotic shows Etc. Benny Leonard has been the Leader in this respect from a financial standpoint but there Are Many others following Gibbons Gibbons Packey me far land Johnny Kilbane. Harry Greb George Chip Cli Arlio White Eddie Mcgoorty Freddy Welsh. Johnny Dundee Richie. Mitchell pal Moore. Ted Lewis Jimmy Duffy. Soldier Bartfield. Pete Herman Johnny. Ertle and Many these boys Are teaching boxing to the Al Diers an sailors and. Doing a great Deal of Good in. That respect but All them Are subject to Call at any. Fey the government and. There fore ars not in Shell proof positions. George a. Schneider of the Cleve land athletic with the assist Ance of the sport writers of that City and Matt i Hrkel promoter have arranged or a big patriotic carnival of boxing to be held at Cleveland Ohio. July 6. Among the ibo Xera who have already signed to appear in four round exhibitions Are the Fol lowing Johnny Kilbane. Johnny Dundee Ted Lewis. Harry Greb. Pal Moore. Jimmy Duffy. Battling Levinsky. Matt Brock and Jack Britton. Richie Mitchell has promised to attend if he can set away from the great lakes station and will permit of his boxing by time alike o Dowd May also attend and efforts Are being made o set Benny Leonard there to help swell the proceeds. The will Ibe devoted to athletic equipment for the same line among them Miko soldiers and sailors abroad. Minutes then 5 suit. Came out and the teams pm Back to finish the games the ukr grave boys had an comfortable feeling. The new us forms were shrinking rapidly. The runners took their placet n the bases and the next Batter hit i2 Cril Down to the Short Stop fumbled Aall Owea the Ball to Raj past him. And a yell rent up ft3 the Hargrave retainers. The file chased after the Ball Reo Vered and to his amazement saw runner going Horn from third Thum half to the plate. He r there., the Catcher whirled and the Batty Strug piling toward and threw him out completing double play. The uniforms shrunk until Tho players could t in them and were doubled up. That they agreed to u they might As Well have tried in straight jackets. T j. Copyright the Bel Cate inc hit baseball dope somewhat 1 upset in major leagues several teams playing above form while others Are away Hugh Fullerton figures it out interesting sport gossip by Hugh . Ball. One Day he was Riding on. Top there is something upside Down of a. Wagon loaded with Hay and his in the dope. Just look at the official was throwing a Ball around l he same gov will even later when the teams steady to work if they Ever do. 9 then there Are those surprising on the ground. He made a motion As it to throw and called Eddie to catch the Ball. Then lie threw. Eddie tried for it and broke a Finger. That discouraged him for another year. Then he discovered that he could throw and commenced playing. In All the years that he pitched after that he never injured a Finger seriously. There is considerable discussion in golfing circles which May result in Good inasmuch As it May bring to a Cris is the idiocy of existing rules governing amateurism. In new York As in Many other places it has become a custom among athletic champions past and present to turn Over the Gold medals wone in com petition of various Fields to be melt Yankees who fought to the top up and used for the ked Cross the american league and then went fund. Such sacrifices have become Over it. Here is the slowest Chib a the league covering All its Lack of Speed by Long and timely Wallops while Detroit s greatest batters Are falling Down almost every time they need a hit in the Pinch. The season figured to be one of surprises and upsets. Tout the . And upsets Are coming from the writing direction entirely., the War has done one thing of baseball it has made a lot of players Spring the old family Bible and admit that they have been cheating numerous and Many famous trophies have gone into the melting pot. Now along comes an ass with the declaration that to use the medals in this manner automatically takes All right to Amateur standing away from the athletic and makes him of Lier a pro. If there was anything needed to prove the Assi Rity of some of the Rales governing amateurism it seems to too furnished now. The other Day at the Van Cort Landt links in new York there appeared a Bunch of police officers who on their Ages. Some of the age go Over the course Stop revelations Are a big players arid inquiring of in and american at any rate this War has shown the to toe stickers to a Man and splendid fighters. I think boxing one of the greatest sex had known i since he pitched Down at Shreveport in 190s, and watched him for several years when he did t have a Lila de of i air on his head so imagined he had served the usual apprenticeship in the minors and then come along at a Ripe age. Where do you get that old he inquired. I m in the if you re in the draft Bobby War lace and. I will be grab bed on the new 21-year-old then to b his card showing that he was 29 years old. I never was in the minors excepting two he said. I went to Shreveport in March and. Canic into the Fig. Leagues late in Mayr the first game of professional Ball i Ever saw in my life i life added. And the first major league game i Ever saw in my life i pitch which is considerable record. Compare Eddie. I Plank who was he started to. Pitch baseball than Harmon now is. Plank Rby the has one crooked Finger and there is a yarn connected with that Finger Eddie had a younger brother Down at Gettys Burg who played a Little baseball but Eddie Busy on. The farm which is at the Edge of tile Battle. Field and he was top Busy pitching Hay to think Jie that up to., that time. He. Never. Even had attempted to catch a base the Golf the theory that is holes of Golf is idling time must have originated in the mind of. A policeman. They would have done better per ape to Call the offices and inquire there for tie majority of. Golfers work harder on the i its. Than in their offices. Much the of argument is pursued by a enthusiastic Eastern Angler who declares that fishing us the National sport rather Ball thereby proving that he a Good True tried Fisherman. Any real Fisherman who regards it As a. Sport does t take it seriously enough to be a. Real Fisherman. The real Fisherman takes a two week vacation fishes four Days and spends the remainder of the Here is the toughest Luck baseball aim. Of recent years. One Day last week. A team called the Hargrays. Composed of boys living out in the fat Bush. District of. Brooklyn. Was playing the Ocean avenues. The Hargraves were wearing their new uniforms Lor the. First time and they had the bases filled with one out and they needed two runs to score in the ninth when a sudden rain storm stopped the game. There was no shelter near the two for the residence nearby but before they reached it All Wees soaked. The rain fishing tackle to Advance in Price this year All lines of fishing tackle Are hither this season. Last season Tecklt was higher than the Yser before and if the War in Europe continues Price will be still higher next yen Many lines of broods off the silk and certain kinds of gut at Heing used so extensively by the ical departments of the army tackle manufacturers Are within supplies. Imported Trout Nies Hooka Are As scarce As hens Teeth and the dealer with a Complete ext of Trout flies this season will be tic exception. It looks to us As if the Dollar Rod and the two bit reel were map for some time to come. Rods of All varieties have advances in leaps and Bounds in the last two years. The reel that sold in 1916 for is Soinger Over the counter today at or More. Many tackle manufacturers gained in the manufacture of War Tup. Plies and have been for months have their salesmen off the Road before the first of the year. The most of this season s supplies ordered last fall have been shipped to the s dealers. There is not much in the Way of Woi old beaters being offered this Vear. All the old numbers Are being shown in rods reels lines sunken Hooks bombers Etc., but new Vances Are noticed in Price tags. Most notable change is the Ai Tentoa some makers Are giving to tie development of pork Rind Bass in Etc due to a remarkable Success made by on manufacturer. Each warm Day of Sunshine brings the fishing fever to the of the Angler and that sport u to Day and has Ever been one of the Brett and cleanest of outdoor a stint. Even with the Advance in of ii season fishing is one of the expensive pleasures and one that is enjoyed by everyone. V local dealers saw the pries Advance coming and stocks were ordered Early so anglers Here Are still fit Ting their supplies at nearly ea6 prices. Sharp advances Are expected before the end of the my ordinance to Adow sunday Ball up to new York Alderman new York june Effort u. Veins made Fay Mem there of the of aldermen to legalize sunday Bau locally. The tar lib committee is considering an Amend ment to the code of ordinances thick would permit playing the game on the Sabbath on Conditi that a percentage of the Gate Reno Vita. Is divided Tinong recognized Funi organizations. The sunday baseball ordinance fathered Aid. John j. Brooklyn. It reads Asj the playing of baseball on Day after the hour of 2 o clock in afternoon shall be lawful. During period of the War Between the unit tit states and Germany whether. Mission fee is charged or not. Video however that where an Sion is charged 25 per cent of i Oss admission fees paid or Recei Vii shall be paid by the persons associations or clubs giving such same or gapes in equal proportion to american red Cross the knights of Colunious War fund and the t. It c. A. War fund and the Young hebrew association War fund distribution and payment to be within five Days of the receipt batteries Kef Lynn a in Munler and Kip. Seel package cigarettes beautifully Cool and Sweet smoking ;