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f THE CMAIIA SUNDAY BKE: AUGUST fi, s 1911. LESS FREEDOM FOR AMATEURS MOVEMENT FOR GOLF CHANGE In the Base Ball Hall of Fame Annual JnnkeU of Crack Runner. Doci Not Do the Sport Good. TIMING IS WIDELY DISCUSSED MM CI oe It era Wl lliaf Ari , rial Kb line Are AmtnH Who Ow Poor Btop .f" W'atrfces. KKW TORK, Ang. Ther Is a feeling among a section of tho followers of ath iotlcs who lov the sport for Its sake that the Atnatcnr Athletic union authorities ought to top Individual permits of ath letes wishing to tour and compete abroad, and It Is no secret that a majority of the national body favors the policy. It Is the opinion of the more conservatively Inclined that the annual Junket of a few crack performers to the old world does no good toward Improving the standard of the American amateur In the eyes of the for eigners, and It Ik better that they kept at home In future. When men go abroad with a team and are turned loose after such an event as the t Olympic games or similar fixture Is over, then It Is their right to go wherever their fancy or pocket might lead them. For a star athlete to go alone and travel about from town to town and take In every rural meet, festival and fair, only create the Idea that he Is out for the money. With men who go across and com pete In a couple of championships and othe big meet and then come home It la different, and they are regarded with no sort of suspicion, but, on the contrary, re mora or leaa admired for their aspira tions to capture foreign titles. Of lateyears It has been the custom for the star sprinters to go to England and upend the season touring and running here and there wherever It was found worth while. After the Olympic games at London one American sprinter had a great time of It for a couple of seasons, but just as he was about to be precipitated Into the profeealonal ranks he quietly walked across the demarkatlon line of his own record. Thla man was a collegian, and another man wearing the colors of the same insti tution baa been going a crone and every fall he comes ' back loaded wfth Jewelry and looking very prosperous. Next year there may be no permits and those of the Olym pic team who might happen to be selected will all go together thfe last, week In Jin and be headed straight, for Stockholm. Qaeatlea of Timing;. - - The question about timing has ' been widely discussed since attention has been attracted to the harm that can be done by the younger brigade of dockers and their Inferior timepieces. "Some narrow minded persons," said one of the oldest timers In the business, "are of the opinion that It la harmful to be hitting at the shortcomings of sport, as It is supposed to. give a bad Impression to the outside world. To my mind It Is a poor sort of Individual who la willing 'to oonnlve at a wrong In amateur sport, and It la thla cloaking of what is not right that Is going to do the most harm to the cause of clean sport one of these days. Every sensible man today knowa that there are things going on that should not be tolerated and the longer they go on the greater will be the smash later on. "A majority of those who go around to athletic meets with their eyes open are wise to the bad timing, and very often still worse starting. Tet, because it la agreeable to a few whose purpose It serves, everybody else is supposed to take these things aa being all right. As to the Inez peiienced chaps you see timing. It la bad enough to be working with a poor type of watch and not to have a sharp eye tor the flaah of the pistol, but the m,pst grievous fault of the youngsters la that to a man they anticipate the finish of every race and click' their watches too soon. Re peatedly I have heard men click their watches a full fifth of a second before I did. On several occasion I have moved back from the finish' line and have seen men , stop their watchea before the fore- moat runner waa within a yard and a half of the worsted. mat i in way tna last timers are made, and every one of the timer who nave butted in of late year Is afflicted with the fault. Aa a general rule they are men who were not athletes them' selves and knew nothing about sport until they bought a timing watch and began to figure, around the finish line of race. It is funny, too, how touchy these men are about their ability. They think they are the beat timer In the world and will awear by what they return. In fact, some of them do not know whether they are doing right "or wrong at times. The Ama teur Athletic union authorities will have to look out or there will be a great crop of record if these timers are allowed to have their way." t . . Rose is Assured of ; Trip to Stockholm Big Shot Patter is Now Coming Oat of DUi Shell to Train for the Olympian Games. NEW TORK. Aug. (.Desirous of mak ing the next American Olympic team, Ralph Rose, the champion shot-putter at the various welghta, ia coming out of hi shell to prepare for the Iron sphere event In the 1913 Swedish games. The "native aon'a" determination to fight for a place on the big team no doubt will send a thrill into the other shot-putters when they learn of this. A number of them are already beginning to get Into shape for the trials. Hose, who la a member of th Olympto Club of San Francisco, has written to trlenda In this rlty, telling of what a great battle ha expect to wage In hts home town to make th trip abroad. Why he fear th outcome 1 more than anybody can understand. It is an almost assured laci ye Liuimiu ouiiivan warns us no selection have been made a yet that th big fellow can go along again if he so de sires. He haan't really anyone to contend against on the coaat. Joe Horner of Michi gan haa quit athletic and, even if he de cided to com back, he won't trouble Rose. Other believe he will be (elected even if he doe not show hi form In the tryouta. Koss aoia an Kind of record In the hot-put. H established the world rec ord with a put of fifty-one feet in San Francisco back In 100. He won hi event In the London Olympic games without th least bit of trouble. Tb San Franciscan la credited with 7 feet T Inches for the eight-pound. 57 feet t lnche for th twelve, 51 feet 6 Inches for the fourteen, tt feet 9 Inches for the eighteen, 40 feet 3 Inches for the twenty one and 8 feet t Inches for th twenty four, becldes hi world' record put with the sixteen. The trials for th western section win be held In Frisco. That much has been decided by tna American Olympic commit tee. That It. cities Ilk Chicago, Kanaaa City. Seattle and other big town you can think of. will hav to send their repre sentatives to the far coast to lompet in th trjrouu if they expect to mak th - - -vV, - TUe NEVJ Pacific Coast Ball - Brings Big Returns . to Teams of League One Official States that Sacramento Team Will Be Only One to Make Lest Than $15,000. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. $. Base ball Is anything if not on a paving basis In the Pacific Coast league thla season, according to those who are In a position to get an occasional glimpse at the dally balance sheets of the various clubs. "Sacramento will be the only city under the $15,000 profit mark." said a well known official the other day, and Indications seem to bear him out. Take the Vernon club aa a sample of the way the financial breese I blowing. Hogan hall from a 'cltv where the fans are di vided In the support of two teams, yet he avers that he ia past the $15,000 profit line already. ' "Vernon and Lo Angelea went In to gether on the new $32,000 grounds, and I really believe we have paid' our share of the cost by this time," declared Hogan yesterday. "We have a ten-year' lease on the grounds, and pay an annual rental of $10,000, shared equally by the two teams." The Los Angeles club, perhaps. Is not doing a well a Vernon owing to It po sition In the pennant race, but Dillon's crew draws almost up to the Vernon stand ard when playing at home and the Angel backer are quoted In a southern paper aa predicting a neat goose egg of from $10,000 to $20,000 for the proverbial rainy day. Many person are Inclined to take Ho gan' statement of $16,000 clear velvet up to the middle of July with a grain of salt. Portland and. Ban Francisco are admit tedly the best paying clubs In the circuit. yet Walter McCredle says that the Beaver have netted no such gorgeous returns aa yet. He refused, however, to estimate the earnings of his club. Pan Francisco base ball mogul seem to have the one best bonanza of the cir cuit. Base ball In the Bay City Is con trolled by two aeparat corporations, the San Francisco Base .Ball association and the Recreation Park association, both un der the control of Frank Ish and J. Cat Ewlng. "The Seals are at .home for fifteen weeks, during which period their share of the receipts will total close to $400 per week," said Hogan, when asked for a guess on the gate at San Francisco, baaed on the Vernon receipts when scheduled there. "That makes a total of $90,000 for the season at home. "Now, the Seal are taxed 10 per cent for the use of the grounds by the Park association, and this same per cent Is levied against Oakland when playing on the San Francisco diamond. Therefore, you see, Ish and Ewlng get practically twice $1(1,000, or $38,000, for the rent of the ground alone, in addition to the profit off the San Fran cisco ball team for the season." ROBERT CARUTHERS IS DEAD Faunowe Base Ball Player and Um pire Passes Away la Peoria, Hospital. PEORIA, Aug. 5. Robert Caruthera. on Mm famous base ball player, died at th Bt. Francis hospital her this morning. Robert I ("Bobby") Caruther was in th neighborhood of 47 year of age. H Joined the old St. Louis Brown In 1884 at about 10, and became th pitching wonder of th old American association and one of the great pitchers of bis day. He helped the Von Der Ahe-Comiskey team to beoom the famous "Four Tim Winners," shar ing the pitching honor, chiefly with the elongated Dave Fouts. Their great catcher wa th late lamented Albert J. ("Doc") Bushong. Caruthera' death com plete the passing of this Illustrious trio, Strangely enough, all three men were of frail build, yet giant at the game. Bushong stood 5-$ and weighed a low as 135; Carutn era waa 5-10 and weighed 160, while Foul reached to a height of feet ltt and weighed not more than 161. Both Fouts and Caruthera were famous slugger aa well as pitchers. Caruthers batted close to the original "Tip" O Nell, the Browns left fielder, who shared batting glories In the old American with such Titan as Pete Browning of Louisville and Dav Orr of the Metropolitans (New York), usually leading them all. Th last year Fouts and Caruther were with th Brown they practically did all the pitching and alter nated In right field for "Little" Nlcol, having gone back In hitting, waa taken out of right. Th old line-up of th famous Browns, which Caruthera' death or any mention of his name, recall, was: Comlsky, first and captain-manager; Robinson, sec ond; Latham, third; Oleason (Bill), short; O'Netl, left;. Curt. Welch, center; Hugh Nlcol, right; Caruther. Fout and there, pitcher; Bushong, main catcher. When th dismemberment of th Brown set in, Fouti. Caruther and Bushong were sold to Brooklyn. It was this sale that (are Bobby the title of "$15,000 Beauty." Th cash consideration wa given out aa $11500 and Von Der Ah got om player to boot. Exactly what sum wa allowed for Caruthera, not even he ever knew, at least that 1 what ha aald In Omaha when waa a Western league umpire a few year ago. Caruthera' career had been tragic Bunt ing Into fame aa a mere boy, hi stellar day did not last very long. He I sup posed to hav Inberelted practically a for tune, bur If ha did, he got through with It bout as quickly as he did with being a tar pitcher. Th last fsw year of hi life were marked by deep sorrow, culminat ing In th death at Dea Moines about three year ago of his 17-year-old son. He never survived th shock. It la said. Its affect only. served to tighten th hold any mis fortune had on him v21 500 BEAvTOT Doherty Said to fie Most Scientific in Tennis Court Play A. E. Crawley Discusses Hit Clever ness, Declaring His Strokei to Be Ideal. NE.W 'YORK, Aug. 5. There Is a discus sion now going on as to who was the best tennla player and on tt A. E. Crawley ha the following to say: , "As for tho relative merits of different method-of stroke, the teat Is their rela tion to the conditions of th game. Includ ing both variety ' and economy. That method I best whloh is least . fatiguing, most efficient in pace and placing, most capable of variation, with the least ex penditure of time, space and effort a stroke which is alwaya adapting itself to changing requirements, and yet 1 always th same In principle. It will. In fact, com bine In Itself the merits of all specialised strokes, and will be an epitome of the evolution of the art of striking the ball. With such a stroke a player can hit the ball clean, with over spin, under spin, or side spin, a he pleases, without prepara tion, and can uae shoulder, arm, wrist and finger, either all together or with a spe cial call upon one or more. In other words the connection between body and raoquet Is organic. The principle, of course, ap plies to the four classes of stroke, service volley, fore handed and back handed drive. In the volley, for instance, there ia no change of mechanism, whether th stroke is low or high, hard or stopped, driven or cut.. 'Now. in lawn tennis such a stroke or method of hitting has been evolved for the volley and the two drives. The man who haa this and also possesses strategic ca pacity and a 'winning' temperament, to gether with a reasonable amount of th closest and most extended competition and a proportional list of the highest results, Is the best player. I have been lengthy on the subject of the stroke because It Is the best test of the development of the game. "On that test and on the other require ments combined I base my opinion that the best lawn tennis player yet seen la H. L. Doherty. His stroke cam nearer to the Ideal combination I have roughly sketched than that of any player I have seen or. heard of. A good judge once said that he did not believe there waa anything that H. L. could not do with the ball, and he was nearly right. "I saw him play and played against him and with him both when he waa a boy and when he waa at his best. Only four men can claim to be considered his possible rivals for the honor of being the world' best .player-i-W. Renshaw, Plm, R. F. Do herty and Larned. I have studied their play and have played against them all ex cept. Larned. H. L.'s volley waa better than that of any; Pirn's cam very clos to it. Overhead H. L. waa far th best, and ha never been approached In this de partment. In the forehand and backhand drive ha wa slightly th superior of Pirn, his method being more organic and mor certain. Th sam applies to its (light superiority to R. F.'s method. "It would take too long to give an anly ls of th living mechanism of H. L. Do herty's drive and volley. It Is. of very great interest in connection with th evo lution of strokes and is as yet hardly ap preciated. In technique and finish,' I con clude, H. L. Doherty was th greatest art ist th gam ha seen; on this qualifica tion, combined with tb other qualifica tions of generalship and character, compe tition and achievement, ha wa tt greatest player." Only Few Boys Take v Up Golf With View of Being Experts Some Have Tried it with Idea of Having Good Time and Found it Anything bat That . Not long since s golfer asked the ques tion. What becomes of the caddie T Th m timet that there ar 600,000 golfer in th United States has given rise to th remark that there must b nearly a many eaddles. Many golfer, who began' play In th United State back in XBM. ar still making their rounds of th ., links. , but several generation of caddies hav com and gone,' Where ar they? Schoolboys mak up a large percentage of those who carry clubs, and most of them do It for a Httl extra money for themselves, while other hav been a help In their home where help waa needed. But not th economic or social aide of th question I th on that It la Intended to throw a little light on her. Schoolboy give up caddylng and go their way, torn of thera having developed a liking for th gam which their circumstances In life allow them to play aa member of club. Some of th leading amateurs In th coun try first became skilful at ths gam In Interval between carrying clubs. But golf aa a profession has bean taken up by comparatively few boy. Soma hav tried It with a view to having a good Um. and have found It la anything but that. Of all tha professions th sporting world presents, golf is th hardest of all, calls for th strictest apprenticeship and for more intelligence than la green to the average boy. Only by study of th busi ness and good habits Is It posalbls for them to mak even a living. Much Energy Lost in Walloping Ball at the Top Cord , Most Popular Method of Service, Ac - cording to Spectators, it That of Larned's. NEW YORK1, Aug. 6 Mostly all forms of amateur sport posses some feature or other that appear to the spectator as being oddly ridiculous, th one in tennis being th persistency with which players endeavor to execute a hard drive with the first serv ice ball and fall. Not 1 per cent of the players engaged In active competition at the present day can' get a hard swift ball across the net on the first attempt, and yet they keep on trying, walloping, smash ing and clouting at the net cord without re sults. It 1 worth the while to take a chance of getting a hard one over on th first, some of the cracks say, but there 1 no attention paid to the amount of vi tality lost In this continuous walloping at the top cord for nothing. Very often one sees a player nearly ex hausted and with the heat devils dancing before- hi eyes . slash away at his first ball and In the effort to Impart some sting to the stroke sting himself nearly half way Into the middle of the court. Then he would have to stagger back to the base line, and as has always been the case put over the softest and most babyish service imaginable with the second bail. In one of the big local tournaments this season it was Interesting to watch the play In the final round, which went to five sets. One of the contestants, who Is remarkable for a strong reverse service slashed away at his first service ball with all his strength. It was worth re membering that he did not win a slnglo ace on service and that out of the entire five sets only eight of hi first ball served hard landed on the other side of the net. The rest swatted against the top cord, and the man won hts match on his cross court back hand volleys. If a popular method of service waa to be decided by the spectator the one to be se lected would be that practised by William A. Larned,. the national champion. It is not a very swift ball nor has It any top spin delivered with any terrific wallop, and very rarely does he need to serve tho second, for hi first ball lands every time across the net, and Just as It does he ad vances to a position where h can effec tively parry, kill, or volley almost any kind of a return. Larned loses very little vitality serving, yet he is the most successfu player America has ever had. Nobody of course, who wanted to be an expert with the rac quet would ever think of copying the nice 11 tie, soft service of. Harold H. Hackott, yet It has puzsled more player to handle It than all the ripping, smashing, swatting, walloping drives of the whole brigade of the followers of the swift American serv ice. Hardly anybody ever saw Hackett miss his first service ball. If a man cared to practice service for accurary and to cure himself of walloping Into the top cord of the net It would not be a bad plan to try the method followed by Dr. Joshua Plm, winner of the English championship and undoubtedly a wonder ful player In his day. He generally prac tised at the Flt-Wllliam club in Dublin. He would place a clrcuar piece of paper four inches or so in diameter on th op posite court and try to hit It with th that object for a full hour, and a his strokes grew accurate he would mov nearer to the opposite side of th net so that he could learn to shave the top cord. In practice he would always Ilk to play against he best man available, but when possible he would play against the profes sional employed by the club, and the doc tor would agree to pay him a crown for every set the "pro" could win. It wa then Plm was properly extended, for th "pro" was out to make some coin and he un covered all his best shots and tactics that would not otherwise be brought into execu tion. A ' -.CD mm Different Conditions to Govern Next National Amateur Championship. ENTRANTS ARE TO BE REST R1C TED narrative Committee of fatted state ' Golf Associativa Woeld Al Shorten Toaraantent lo Five Days, NEW YOnK, Aug. 5. Through the tn ergy of a member of the executive com mittee of the United StaUa Oolf asfoc a1 lion an effort Is being made to bring abouf different conditions to govern the nexi rational amateur championship tournament to be held at Apawamis In Beptembtr. Thl committeeman favors restricting entran. to those handicapped at six or less at tneir home clubs, and lie would like to see th tournament limited to five Instead of all days. 1 In doing this two more match rounds would have to consist of eighteen holes, In thjs country the Idea has grown year after year that all championship rounds should go the double route.' It is polntel out, however, that only the' final round in the British championship Is continued to thirty-six holes. There has been considerable correspond-! ence on the subject of late, many of . tho leading amateurs of the country bslnj communicated with by Robert C. Watson, secretary of the United Oolf association. At the office it waa stated that the'-mat ter was under consideration, but nothing positive had yet been decided upon. Following Is the communication that a will known amateur recently received from tna secretary's office: ' Dear Sir. A suggestion has been made by a member of the executive committee of tne United Stales Oolf association to chame the method of playing the amateur championship at Apawamis this year. Hefore any action Is taken the executive committee has decided to write to all the leading golfers tn the country to get their opinions of the matter. 1 Inclose a copy or the letter as submitted to the commit tee. The present method of playing tne championship is as follows: Monday, eighteen holes, medal play, sixty four playersjo qualify; Tueeisjty morning, eighteen holes, medal play, thirty-two players having the best scores for thirty six holes shall qualify for the championship;- Tuesday afternoon, elghteen-hole match play round; Wednesday, thirty-six-hole match play round; Thursday, thirty-tix-hole mntch play round; Friday, thirty six holes, match play, and Saturday, thlr-ty-six-hole final round. Then comes the suggested change, which appears in a letter to the executive com mittee, as follows: "I think six dnys of golf In our amateur championship Is entirely too strenuous, and that it makes the championship a test or endurance rather than of skill. - Elabora tion on this subject is unnecessary, be cause it Is so perfectly patent the quality of golf in the last days of the alx-day tournament is very much Inferior to that at the beginning of the week. This Is true not only here, but In the British cham pionship as well. There, as you know, they have only five days, yet, notwlth rtandlng the champion, Harold Hilton, was at the very top of his game this year, he was so tired the last day that he was ten strokes off the game he played earlier in the week. ' ' There is another consideration: If we begin the play on Monday it necessitates members of the committee being In attend ance too long, and they are away from their homes several days longer than they should be. We will agree that the cham pionship should be pleasurable and not laborious, either to the committee or to the player. ., , "I know this subject has been discussed many times, and that the present plan Is the result of much careful thought. To my mind, however, the reasons for chang ing the existing arrangements are much stronger than those for retaining it. "I have no fixed opinion as to the plan we should adopt, but respectfully suggest that each member of the committee give the matter very careful consideration, and that we make It the subject of a vote either by mall or at a meeting to be held In New York at an early day. I suggest the fol lowing plan for consideration: "Commence the play on Tuesday morn ing; limit the entrants to those who have a handicap of not more than nix strokes at their respective clubs; eighteen holes on Tuesday, medal play, the lowest sixty four scores to continue at thirty-six holes, medal play on Wednesday; the lowest six teen scores In the fifty-four hole quali fying rounds to qualify for match play; one elghteen-hole match play round Thurs day morning; one elghteen-hole match play round Thursday afternoon, and' one thlrty-slx-hoh? match play round Friday, and th final thirty-six hole on Saturday. "It must be remembered that all th rounds except the final In the British ama teur are at eighteen holes, and the two elghteen-hole match rounds suggested will shorten the contest. "It may be that some of you have better suggestions to make, and I make this sug gestion only as something to work from, being convinced that we should not hav more than five days' play Instead of six. FRANZ WHEATOii WORKS HARD He I After Base Hall Material tn ths Fourth Clna. ANNAPOLIS. Md., Aug. 6. Frank Whea ton, the tall athlete who haa been the field coach of the naval academy teams for the last year. Is working hard to develop the base ball and foot ball material in the new fourth class. According to Wheaton. the new class does not promise much In the foot ball line, though two fairly good men hav been found In Harrison, who wa back on the University of Illinois, and Collins, a im pounder, who was the quarterback of the Roxboro High school, Massachusetts. A strong class base ball nine I being de veloped. Mowings of an Old Sport. Whimpering I wasting win-out time! Be sure you're right; then get corobora tlve evidence! We often wonder Just what the he-person thinks about who fools around in a bowl ing allev during the forenoon hours! New York World. . 30 Delicious glass of Jetters Gold Top beer, pure, sparkling and invigorating, is at once an appetizer and satisfies the appetite it provokes; it is nour ishing and both meat and drink. For lunch eon, dinner or as a bracer and pleas ant beverage be tween meals or as a night cap to quiet the nerves, there is nothing like a glass of Jetter's Gold Top beer. rmny iraae supplied Ty r ttoo -r KTT.e I1U w" Xougls at. Pltons Bong. 1644, Auto A-ieea. Bo. Omaha Wm. fet ter, gftoa ar mu U ms. A a to. r-1668. Council Bluff Ies Mich ell 1013 Mala St.. Both Phones M. "Lookin Backward" This Day Twenty Ten Thirty From day to day in The Bee A column of pungent items com piled from the files of The Bee tell ing what was going on in Omaha on the same date of each decade year. The items are specially selected with a view to their interest for pres-.... ent day readers, and illustrate graphi-: cally the life of the community of which we are apart at these different stages of its career. 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