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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OC'TOBEK 20. im. S , Chief Bender, Athletic Pitcher with the Eagle Eyes I : ? ( Alfred Binder. th grim Chlypxa ( chief and star of Connie Mick's world ' champion Athletics, almost elngle-hsnded i m is lilthMi ilfl lii orran'.std baas ' ball. Bonder alone la at the bottom of ho elgnal tlrplng ytm with rWoh the world's charop'.or.s hav been aocoe.t bv ! rtvala for many yesrs. Yet It In all to , th g rest credit of tl' wond'.rful ouor- j lglne, for Ma methods mploy no w. Iiorttmarliv, Illegal or u.nirrharid methods. Exceptional eree'.gM n!on r.,k th a-rlm redskin the m-x. 'eartd of nil t Quaker City Afhtoier. T 1 a CJ'cf Is iin only man base bli !..: ya; prolucd wnj la abla to absolu'''.' j-t-ro'.rate V'.e .1 -guise of tha e1everc r'irr.tl systems l.s vented. Indeed ?lif:-.- rfn bs to ..cerei signals when Km-'"- 'a r.n th? etVgu ment. Ha iby V". noi:t!o't t'i Hie coaching Hneji ytte iii ran i ! pitehlng arm 'f a ri.a!. Vi.e r-a' i 11a slmplv W'tri-i l;:e p. hn!:, ,'.:e rnugclee and pnt'.Vun i t!ie i-l'rh'r.s a::n a olwrly ai hit up to Ma man. ttla powei a of ; to tU. wh:i t'. . I.e r r'g'.it '. In TifinWr In n '.''a !l l 1! .. ''lie- a tha hl! Hint what kin ! Tilhrf th fcat vala' tlfri'i pr tlira ta abnolaie.. !lrlv il'tii JKriil. ju l.icthoJ t-y which ', tha wondP!u'i -road. "Topav" liartse!. fan outfi'itif.r c? KaUnn, iiuus'lv uctu i t ' . rronftt ! lulllr.x i.r:.". Mondcr nlwa' t ':.' hi1; third hii ntd;-, r.a:.i-al!y. ''"y.t him the bent p'! !. ':v o". Ilia ; i v.-1" i IhrowlriR arm. V.''-.in r. iDMlfw ti th ordir I ivM'al. V ftix'l tr'nm!if i Unda al 1!.'j (. ' r .'!": o int'-. tvt v.l . .1 . lie In In ti.o an.no o- 'i Rhr .v 'tiu'o quAliy Mri"'l nii'l c!rr '.vm ! thtre. It la tha il.-.rv T l'artf-ll oi- h' understudy (o fioM th "..! f '?m nanhor i.f 1a ! t', b.it;i- niuv (..cti Pendr tlll !:I i y.trtr.cr ond thr- n;vtTr tlra the lillt:-: . ThU rtory k.JV m rliann.i t t;i oidina,ry fan una-qualitd vlt'ri the In tricate wtrk!r.p of oriantid h la,l!. Aa almp'.s matter of rael. I.oufvcr, tli ljlanat!on la almplLlty Itanlf. Anyone could du. tha aanie thlnit afrcr narefu atudy If lie were provided-with a lroi: field (lar . Th Indian nerda n jiuch Invention hv?au of !,! reinotknlile eye. eltht.' There ar very few tattery el riale In baae ball bacaune there' arc very raw dlfXerent kinda of dellverlea. Molt pltcheta throw only two, or at moa! three, different offerltne. There l tba atraleht. faat bait, the curve ar.d the alow ball: dropa, fade awaya and kindred 'copyright biandn ore var:tJona of tha curve. IOxeept In rure occatlona they are tripped In almost the eame manner. The alow ball, for Instance, can be thrown in any numbar of waya, but tha pitcher usually reata the sphere well toward U-.e jaJm of tha hand. The fajtt ball la arlpped between the first two flnr, tba latter well spread, while for the Curve, tha flnscrs are closer to. aether, with tha ball renting deeper In tlia clutch. ( There la a different wrixt motion for the varloiia dallverlca. none of which tai-t in tndenltoally th eame ftinhloti. For tnstanoe, the pitcher 1a to take a longer trAr.g for- hi.t fnat liall than for tha curve. Not having to ayiate the ball with the tu-iat till ltiemlxir of Die arm reata In a different poslilim. Indrr liaa a.mply mitde uh a keen atufly of the aubject that be I abto to dclrrmlne be fore tha pitcher begin ,la motion ec actly what sort of ball li to be unrvod. Blar.al tipping In aa old m beoe ball. In the big loaguee there have been many acandale aa a result of It. Except In the 'aaa of Dander the methoda omployvd have vaually ' been underhanded.. Fur tnatance. a man may lie ta tloned some, where outildo the grounde with atrong blnoculara; he would watch tha catcher's nlgna and flash them by means of aomo private code to the batters. For the last year or two the heavy hitting Athletics have been eupeotd of Junt such a trick. o positive wera rival managera that 1I) Athletics knew Juat what waa going to b .handed them that wholesale pro tests were lodged with President Byron Bancroft Johnson. The executive of tha American league, without tipping his hand, decided upon a rigid investigation. Ha put aleutha on the trail of the Athletics to watch for any crooked undertaking, both Inside and without tha grounds. Not the leaat evi dence of a 'bunr or mechanical eon. tiivetire could la discovered. "Wild Bill" Jfonovan. the Tiger pitcher, one of the bi sin lest pitchers in base ball, was as Igned to special duty on the task. It was BUI who finally hit upon the theory uf a sharp-eyed tipster from the couch ing box. The smiling detective had made lor himself a most unique glove that bad a long leather shield attached to the wrist, resulting ' hulf way to the elbow. For a little while this fooled Bender; then tha Athletics besan to hit with all their accuetomed - fury. Ionovan had dojisd out a aoeolal set of 'cioneed-' signals for tha occasion. The usual signs were employed but a separate elgti given by the catcher Just before the itellrery determined t!ie clus to pitch. This Is an old method iia to break up uepected signal tipping. Never once did an Athletic make a bad break. Kvery men went at only the sort of pitching lie Kked and lcmovaii was given a good tlrubUrifc-. Thi Tigers all kept their eyes open and soon discovered the real source nt Philadelphia's information. Old Chief Itender waa getilns ths signs, flashing mem to Ilirisell and through "Topsy" io the batter. arter the game at the Polo gionnds on Tuesday afternoon Christy Mathewson In a signed statement mpenly accused the Athleilce of having bis signs. This wua the day that f rank Baker brcke the Em with a home run drive li, to ti) , light field bleaciiei-a. That clsy iUtliew. eon ud "dummy " slicns Willi Meyers that la a eevret t of f(jt a gimls by Meyeis delermhiiM . the uffti insn. lu; the Athletics continued to hit. They hit Malty that dsy more fiercely than the Mg fellow had ever been salved u a post-season serlex. AIiiim: every ball us met sriusrely. and only thn f id that the ball went Into the hands i f waiting raiders saved "Big Pis'" from oerwhelm line disaster. Matty said himself tint 1 had never had awn trouble In fuollngt a club. Be fue he knocked out the second hum run of the series. Baker i:t uixm a f sd sasy. the hardest ball In all the world to meet fairly, and drove It en a line almost to the left Held stsnds. If the I. ill hadn't g'n rljrht at Murray It would have been a double or a triple for Bi.ker sure. Hut why didn't he Athletics Lit Msttv tr.s fist time and why didn't they clout arqjaid In h.s Crr.T you sk. Matty ss hit hard In the first game, but . u t!:. ai in IHo tccond, good fielding riH'-t rwr-V.1 . , : ;l : . t - . . . V JM ' 2 . Vs & '!-- I , S saved him. The outfield made a num ber of sensational stops. Matty, who usu al! strikes out any number of men, had few victims. In Philadelphia Marquard t.'ri punlnbed more severely than the Lox score shows. At lesst half a Uoicn wicked liners were speared right up against the temporary outfield fences." Fans will remember that Bender was not en the coaching llnea n great denl of the day lie whirled against Mathcw oa. Jack Coombs waa on themsslgnment. Coomb, according to Donovan, In the Indian' tint .man. When Bender la ac- tlvely engaged tha work falla to the "lro;i Base Ball Beyond the Seas BV CAHL CROW. SHANGHAI. Oct. .-Tho first baao ball league ever organised In China has Just concluded Its first pennant race. Kxcltainorit In this city has been at fover heat f"r a month over tho battle. Kven the British, Qermsns, Kicnch, Japanese, Portuguese and Chinese were displaying keen Interest In th raoo before It ended, and, of course, the American colony of about 2,000 talked and thought nothlim ol.se. Base hall had been rather sporadlo In these parts until the league wus organ ised. It was only a four-club offslr, but people In tha Vnlted mates, ana so cially In tha big leaguo cities, can nae no Idea of the wild excitement a bunch of tabid American base ball fans, stuck off lti.OuO miles away from a big league, can get up over a little league of tholr own. This league was organised in the mid dle of th suminor by William U Menl- man, manager of the American Trading company; Thomas r. Millard. editor ol th China ITeea. tna new American Chlnere dally newspaper which 'la being publlahed her, and C. W. Wolalffer of th British-American Tobacco Company. Of four teams entered two wer chosen from among resident of Hhangnsi, njosi by Btandard Oil and writ Uh-American Tobacco men, and two from the Ameri can navy, chosen from the crew of th gunbeat Helena, which waa stationed her all summer. The beauttful greunda of the Shanghai Recreation club formed tho aceno of com bat, -a recreation ground Is on of the most lemarkabl In the world. To the tourists it offers a succession of sur prise. In tha first place. It contains one of the most brautlful race courses In the world, a turf track of on and one-uuarter mile, with a' training track inside of H and beautiful and costly grandktsnds and club buildings. In the uinlei'flrld of the track sr three cricket grounds with grandstands; a polo field. where exciting gnmes ere played every Katurdsy durliia the seaon; a base ball field and a score of tennis courts. On Saturday all buinc.a steps at o'clock aud the whole ihivIkii community repaita UlSVliu recreation field to enjoy the various sports, fhlneso coolies Keep the grounds lit shape. These coolies, by the way, ore very good athletes and are spnislly proficient ut tennis. But to get back to the bas bail league. The .Shanahal and Nay bas ball train have been rivals for several years, but only occasionally get together for games. When it was proposed that a league bo formed there was doubt of Its being pos sible, hut the whole community selxeti upou the idea with the result that a meet ing waa called, and Inside ut a week the lio)e matter had lieen arranged, teams selected and schedule announced. It was decided that the best of Shanghai's ball players should be divided into two teams of about equal strength and that the plajera on the Helena should be appor. tloned In a slmlUr way On the Helena the teama were divided on the basis of above and below decks ctio team being called the Engineers and the other the Kaans. The rivalry between these tv.o teams even before th first game wos sojntense that by the time the schedule brought them agaJiuit ' each other over !?.( had been bet on the one game. The Knglneere won II. One of the Plianghal teama. called th Ked.riox, and the to Navy teama alter nated In the lead, all three being clone together all the time. Finally th Ked tox pulled aheadi but next day th JTCn gtnrcra won both games of a doube header ar-d tied them. The playoff waa the moet exciting gama f tbe whole league race. Th Engineer ''' I "K man." But he In not a clever In Tils craft as the wonderful Indian. Bender acored Tuesday by tipping off with won derful accuracy, all the great Matty's wonderful assortment. Matheusun hum has said himself that ha never .In all his lire pitcnea so juira as in tin two ganiea of the preaent world's rcrlea. He scored four runs in the aecond inning and tha score remained 4 to 0 until the 8 venth, when Shanghai got btixy. The Rc1 Cox In that pining piled up five runs. Neither hide scored after th.it and tho game and pennant Sent to the itcd Sox, 5 to 4. 1 appreciate the excitement, It should be remembered that , about 100 tailors from various Amcrlcun men of ".' In harbor were present at the game and about 1,509 Americans to which mny be added a good sprinkling of other na tionalities. The sailors have a grand stand all to themselves while Pimnghul residents and offttVrs of the navy occupy another stand with tholr ladles. The rivalry between the two grandntuayis to ec which can malt the most noise at a Pink' Tea Boxing Matches BV W. W. AlGIITO. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. I.-Ttala la the way It reada; "NEW YORK. "Oct. 1 Hereafter In all fights tn th etar of Nw York th con toaisnts must break clean In th clinches. This wa decided upon yeelerday by the New York Stat Athletic commlsalon at a meeting held in this city. Tn com mission no longer favor th old practice in which fighter could protct themselves In th clinches." Can It be true? If so, farewell to loop. de-loop and th breast graslng upperrut. For, with th loop you must hav some thing to cling to before you can mak It sffectlv. while with the breaat-graier tha only man you could hit under the clean breast syatem would b yourself. Furthermore, exit the Ad Valgus! and th Battling Nelsons and enter Matts Wells and the Freddie Welches. Welcome th straight left and ths aweeplng right, and bid (food by to th hundred and one little poke and prods that can only.be Seltverod when n flfhter has his face flattened against an opponent's chest. ; It waa the way they boxed years agt, and tho New York Ptal Athletic com nilsslon hss ordered a returnto th first principles. But Is It fair to the generation of American boxera that has built up a new system of glovecraft a system that has overehadowej the old stralKbt-from-the-shoulder method of boxing as completely as inag-islns rifles have superseded the muxxlH-loader of fifty years so. It wss the "fight yourself loos" style of milling that gav tia Terry MeOovern. Battling Nelson. Ad Wolsaet. BUly I'npke and others too numerous to men tion. If the cleun-breQKt system, which has never been rigidly observed since th dtia if the old California Athletic club, had been Insisted upon rtiiht along,' there would have been no Battling Nelsons, and consequently, no Ad-Wolgasts. Joe Cans under the rule In question would have kept In the forefront of champions until outlawed from th game by Increasing years and declining health. Then some clean-break specialist would have usurped tho premiership of ha lightweight division and held the Nel- aona and Wolgasts successfully at bay The newa of th clean-break renals- aauca will bo heard with Joy In Kngland, wne.ro every """ '"-"- his maater'a voice." and disentangle himself from clinches with lightning speed, so as t minimis th prospects of disqualification. - And It Is not fear of tha refsre-Talon that breed In th English' bruiser a hair-trigger readiness to break when called . upon, liuch breaking and much stepping away means th Introduction of many U UU reals that ar not ttaerwte could not account for the manner In which he was solved. . Bender - Is the ansr.cr, say Donovan and Ban Johuson. On the fact of It the theory looks most possible. .If vo what a winder pltclu-r and valuable asset Is Chief Charlos Al fred - Bender to Connie Mack and his world's champions. crisis In the play occasionally stops every other sport on the grounds. ., Next year there will be an eight-club league In 6hanha.'. In th season just closed, thcro were four game a week. The games started pit - Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5:20 p. m. and on Satur days there was a double-header, the first game starting at 3 o'clock. So tat-as phiylng ability' Is concerned tho teama could alwut hold their own In any of the smaller minor leagues. The fans nt homo may think they have sern some, teams with the , true fight-to-the-tnd spirit, but until they have sen one of the American navy, teams In ac tion they will, not have seen tha real thing. It Is easy to understand the spirit of. the Ameilcan navy once you have seen ono of tho Helena teams fight out a base ball game. They are the flghUng est losera that ever lost. . The Shanghai bunch gnvo them three cheers and a tiger when It waa. all over. provided for In a three-minute spell of )oxliig. Moreover the system due not require a boxer to wast his strength in wrestling and wriggling and striving to blanket free-arm punches, to say nothing of th battering It saves him from If he happens to be holding and the other man is engaged In fighting himself loose. Th break-at-th-order-of-the - referee style of b6xlng I the one that has always found favor with English ring men and there will be widespread satisfaction over th water when the news of the action taken by the New York commission reachea there. It was announced re cently that a amall band of th pick of th British boxers Intended Journeying to New York this fall. When they hear the glad tidings they may (all for this country sooner than the proposed. With a revival of the "hit. block and get. away" method of milting. New York, will seem "Just lolke 'omo" to the transMtlttntlc pilgrims. ' Wonder what th dear public will think of the restriction of refined fisticuffs. There Is much to be sold In favor of clean-break boxing. Where the princi pals are anywhere near equal In the matter cf cleverness, a contest Is much Xmore Interesting to watch than ono of the "go-as-you-pleane" bouta that have found favor In recent year. But In a case of mixed company that is, where one fellow Is clever and the other a prod uct of th flght-yourwlf-lnose school It Is easy enough to Imaglno where the credits would go In a limited mntoh. And. from tho wide divergence In the atyle of opponent. , It la not clear how the spectators can derive any particular enjoyment from the affair. When In hi heyday. Battling Nelson spoke once or twice of vl.-lting Ixindon and tackling the British boxer on their native heath it 'was pointtd out to him that when fighting under th direction of an Eng lish leferee he would be a harmless as a mussled' bull terrier. Th Battler thought It over and stayed at home. Now,' In a way. Kngland la coming to us. Now the favorite way of fighting, according to Lcndon standard, la to pre vail In New York, and Wolgist would be In the position Nelson would have been In had the Battler Invaded London. It the order of the New York commla- 00 t as definite as It appears on na- l pr, Tom Jonea may well be trembling ror me rai of ni cnamplon. for In a ten-rourd bout with clean breaks It s-amm as though Mat Wells of London would be a top-heavy favorite over Wolgast of Cadillac. A Life lealear of auffering with throat and lung trouble I quickly commuted by Dr. King' New Discovery. 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HE HAS A WONDERFUL ABM Oa Base Kvera U l His Old Trick a ad H Keep the Op. peslnar Batteries Gaeaa ! All tbe Time. CHICAGO. Oct. 28. Johnny Ever has a new ambition. He wants , to be the fastest fielding third baseman th Chi cago Cub team ever has had. Ever waa regarded as a wonderful shortstop while a member of the minor league and semi- profecslonal teams In New York State. The Chicago Cub signed him because of that reputation. After . he entered the major league ranka he was turned into a second baseman. . His ambition then wa (o brat Bob Howell out of his place and become tn greatest fielding aid quickest thinking Inflelder the Nations! league ever pos sessed. For nearly ten years bis ability was never questioned. Now he Is de termined to establish the same record tt the far corner, where Harry Steinfeldt was recognised aa among the best the league ever had. Cntll this season Tver never occupied third bSs with any regularity; In fact, he had played only one game there In hla entire base ball career. Thet single Vnetanc wa with th Cub in l'M against the Giants.. Then he did not finish the game. He played aeven Innings and was taken out by Frank Relee, who waa then leader of th team aid who was afraid Ever would be "killed" by the vicious drives Sandow Mertes, tian McCann and Roger Breanahan were amashlng through his territory. Kvera waa several pounds lighter, thnn he I at present. He waa credited with two atopa that day that nearly knocked him over, but he was so agile that he recovered and got both runners at first. Tha same day Qeorg Brown laid down a bunt. Ever came up fast, acooped th aphere and struck the runner In th neck. F.vera mad no ttmpt to play third base after that. When Chance asked .th Trojan If bi could play third baa. Ever hesitated, al though b waa anxloua to get back tn th gam. 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Chance ' kf.cw what Ever oould do In throwing, aa he haa a won derful arm for a man of Wa size. The manager convinced Mm that he couM cover the sack and should try. Kver found that he could throw the ball Juht a easily as I.e. did Vihen he was at second. His throws may not hav the speed, but the rapidity with which he gets the ball away offset this. Besides, It is a straight undeilia-.id throw, and little lime Is lost. Being out of th game practically four month has not dimmed Evers' batting eye In the least. He feared his eye sight would be affected owing to th many sleepless night he eut while ill. Since he has been back he say he can follow th ball a well aa ever. In tha first game In Cincinnati he hesitated about standing up to th plat, but when be cracked out a three-bare hit his con. fldenc returned. 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