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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. WBW YORK. MONDAY. APRIL 20. 1914.

IlVT Tur liirnm rkw? CnnnTC CHESTY BROOKFEDS ii i iil ft uivLii ur ij 1 3 CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS SUPERBA PLAYER? FANS GUESS RIGHT ting, he ought to be among the first fifteen batsmen of the National league. He Is a fine fielder for grounders. Whenever a ball comes out toward "left" he's gut it, even If it Is far SEMI PRO GAMES AT MANY PARKS ARE THREATENED Resentment of Intrusion by Big League Clubs Menaces All Sunday Sport. POLICE ARE INCONSISTENT. Stop Jake Daubert's Oaklands.

But Leave Suburban Oval Undisturbed. Other Gossip. ON WHEAT'S PICTURE Many Made the Proper Identification, but Otto Jonassohn Wrote the Best "Story." JACK HUGHES WAS SECOND. P. Leveridge Was Third, and All Get Tickets Some Who Deserved Special Mention.

That Bro. klyn fans are experts at the art of picking out baseball players by the shapes or by the attitudes In batting or fielding was proved by the hundreds of identifications of Zach Wheat, hich were received in the mall yesterday and this moruing as the result of the publication of a rear view of Zach as he waited fur his turn at the plate. His pose is so characteristic that it could hardly be mistaken, but one fan thought it was Stengel, and various others made similar mistakes. The Eagle offered a prize of two grandstand tickets for the correct guesser who sent with his answer the est "Oil-word or less essay mi the pe- clllini of the man in the picture. of the answers wen' highly di- la One feature mmiiioned by iters in praising Wheat was titat was always- willing I oblige the fans in the left field stand by telling them the changes in the batting ol der and the names of the pinch hitters and pinch runners.

By his courtesy in that respect he has built up a large personal following among tho left-field folks and they do not hesitate Following are the prize-winning essays, the first being awarded two grandstand tickets and the second and third one each: First Prize-winner. Kditor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Wheal la be is iighih the man shining light. Many a shoestring of his has been saved a terrible whack by his ever-ready glove. When not retiring the opposite side by these means charm tot i as inherit. OTTO SS DIN.

re plate. April 1014. Second Prize-winner. rale he Is going The Eagle reader who does and also writes the best 200-word opinion of the player's abilities and peculiarities will receive two grandstand seats for a game at Hbbets Field. To the next two correct identifications and best opinions will be presented one grandstand ticket each.

hi nl. Mill second by HuKh P. LeverldKe, 4-to f.i Big League Records lasulta Yesterday. Gaines Tomorrow. INVADE BALTIMORE FOR HARD SERIES Manager Bradley Expects Stiff Opposition From the Terrapins in Coming 3 Games.

GILM0RE MAY SUSPEND Leader of the Washington Parkers Told ThingB to Umpire Cross at Pittsburg Gossip. (Special to The Eagle Baltimore, April "o-The Brooklyn Federals, nineteen strong, flushed with two stirring victories over the I ittsburg Itebels, arrived here under command of Manager "Bill" Bradley early yesterday morning, for a series of three games with the Terrapins, and went immediately to their quarters in the Emerson Hotel. Three big battles ure expected here, as Knabe's band Is considered dangerous. Manager Bill decided not to bring the entire squad over, as the team will return to the City of Darkness on Wednesday. Those left behind were Chouinard, Watson, Thompson, Conway, Chapelle, Holt, Sommcrs and Anderson.

Trainer Quirk and Treasurer Walter S. Ward accompanied the team. The players are still enthusiastic ver the splendid i. torv they snatched from the Stogies Saturday. They think that the gameness of the club is of the highest order and that they will win many games under such circumstances on the trip.

They are still leading the league with l.OOu per cent, and are confident of returning In lirst place and expect a great reception in their home "Yep" Owens, tho ex-Minneapolis catcher, made the play which prob-ally saved the day in that eventful ninth. Menosky, who had batted for Elmer Knetzer, was on first through his single to right when one of Maxwell's shoots got away from the catcher Menosky started for second like a rifle shot, but covens mowed him down with a perfect peg to "Artie" Hofman. The latter made a great stop and had the recruit blocked off the bag by a "mile." tireat things are expected of Som-mers, who replaced Tom Seaton in the Sixth. It was a ticklish situation for a recruit to find himself in, but he pitched masterly ball and the Robs got r.ary a hit off him. The youngster went in there the face of a 16,000 crowd and pitched as though he were at morning practice.

He is the only southpaw on the club. Bradley May Draw a Gilmorean Suspension. The fighting spirit of the team asserted itself in the ninth when Umpire Cross called AI Shaw out for leaving the bag before the long fly of "Hap" Myers was caught by Davy Jones. The left fielder juggled the ball I He glove, and crossed the pan long before the ball reached there. Croat was his surprise wh.n h- found that he out, and greater still that of Man- Bradley ho as alter th" mplre on the jump.

Almost the en- tire team followed the boss, and he had a great time trying to keep them "Brad" was ordered from the game and it is probable that he will draw a Cilmorean suspension for his oratory, together with the usual fine. The aim was one of the greatest ever "pulled" at the old park. Myers hit the ball on line for the left field bleachers, but Jones started at right angles ami mopped the living sphere with his bore hand. The ball jumped nut and lodged in the crook of his right elbow. He got a tremendous ovation for the per- The weather here is Ideal, a good strong sun and high temperature, just the kind of weather for the boys to take tho kinks out of their limbs result nm from the rajnv weather experienced in Pittsburg.

"Big Ed" Eafltte will probably be ihe choice mound dutv today. The. big Ceorgian is generally a late starter, but this year he is in good condition early, and will probably be used often. Gossip From Terrapin Town. "Ed" Cagnier, the former Newark Indian shortstop, has a record that is probably unique In ball playing annals.

"C.ag" has never played a ball game his birthday. Not that the frenchman is adverse to performing on his natal day, but the Fates have so decreed that he is not to play. April 16 Is the day of his birth, and many things have hindered him from working on that day. In Pittshurg on this trip on that day it rained; several times while a member of the Newark Club rain and traveling caused him to keep his record unbroken, while on another occasion It took a train wreck In which the tenm had run to aid him in maintaining the novel record. The Pittshurg fans are already counting on the Brooklyns to land on the top of the ladder when the end of the season rolls around.

In a poolroom in the Smoky City the odds of 7 to 5 nre being offered that the first I ed. ral bunting ill he Hung to tne breezes from the top of the Reliance mast at Washington Park. Manager Bradley has already re ceived several applications from aspir ing bat boys Several smoky 117 youngsters fairly begged the boss of the Wardmen to carry them around the circuit with tho team. "Bill," how. ever, will probably keep the all-Important position open for some Brooklyn youngster.

The Emerson Is housing a large number of race track men. They are on here for the meeting which Is being held at Havre de (iraee. Of the other pinch hitters. was walked, and "Art" (irtggs got a life on McDonald's horrible inufT of a pop fly The team Is strongly fortified with pinch hitters. Hofman got a fine "hand" when he appeared at the hut In the first Inning The ex-Cub made a spectacular catch of McDonald's long fly In the eighth, nanny" Mure by made another when he pulled down Robot ts' long drive when Ihe Intter batted for Berry In the tlnul frame.

Claude Cooper Is playing a fine game In left field. How ono Mr would like to have the youngster now; SUNDAY S0CKER SCORES. BOXING BOUTS TONIGH. SHIRT-SLEEVE GOLF GETS HILTON'S 0. lyn Eagle Views on Playing in Coats.

HITS NATIONAL PREJUDICE. Splendid Sportsmanship by Great English Golfer in Taking Up Eagle's Suggestion. One of the most striking exhibitions of broad sportsmanship is given by-Harold H. Hilton, the British amateur golf champion and editor of Golf Illustrated of London, in connection with the visit of the American golfers this spring to England. It will be recalled that on March 10, the day before the United States amateur champion, J.

D. Travers, sailed for England, attention was called to the British prejudice against playing in shirt sleeves and a suggestion made that as this was merely a sentiment of antipathy that has no basis in logic or common sense, it would be unfortunate if the American invaders should feel constrained to bow to It and thus affect their game Injuriously. At the same time it was suggested that Mr. Hilton, who on account of his visits to the United States in 1911 and 1912, knows the way the American golfers play, should ask for a waiving of this prejudice this season so that American golfers would not find them selves handicaped in stri.iug to adjust themselves to the British idea of tho proper golfing garb. Mr.

Hilton, in the issue of Golf Illustrated of March 27, prefaced his reprinting of The Eagle's comment with these words. "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle has some interesting remarks on the question of playing golf in shirt sleeves. As everyone knows, it is the custom on American links, whenever the temperature suggests, to take off coat and waistcoat. Over here the coatless golfer is a rare sight and he always excites comment." But in the following issue Mr. Hilton went still further and published a two-lage editorial In his manner under the title, "The American I oilier and His Curb." Referring to the amateur championship of 1411 at Pivstwiok when the weather was very hot, he spoke of "Chick" Evans who, when bunkered on the last hole and compelled to make a supreme effort to save the match, threw off his coat and rolled up his sleeves.

Mr. Hilton then recalled his play in a tournament at North Berwick in when the, day was piping hot and he took the liberty of playing in flannels, a thin serge coat and thin white gymnasium shoes. "This somewhat unusual garb," the British champion said, "was the cause of wonderment (not to say nsternation) among the denizens of the East Lothians. Even the press commented on it." Then Mr. Hilton proceeds to say: "The action of Mr.

Evans in doffing his coat was an unconscious protest against our insular prejudice which dictates what a man should wear on our golf courses. If a man wishes to play the game without the incumbrance of a coat, we cannot see that there should be tne slightest objection to his doing so. Other games are played without the wearing of coats and why should the player of the game of golf be exempted from this privilege, for to main, and particularly ou. trans-Atlantic visitors, it does amount to a privilege. "American golfing garb is unusual for the game of golf as we are accustomed to it and in consequence it is apt to offend tho susceptibilities of some of the more prejudiced and prudish.

But are the susceptibilities of the few worthy of consideration? Personally we think not, and why the game of golf should not he played In much the same garb as other athletic pastimes are played, is a matter which is a little beyond our cm prehension. "And we trust that our American visitors will take their courage in both hands and don apparel which they consider most suitable to their requirements and in which they are able to do their game the lullest justice. Surely we do not wish them to labor under any disadvantage, particularly when such disadvantage is due to the promptings of traditional usage which In this ease may almost he said to amount to narrow minded prejudice." No one can read these words, know- ing the stubbornness with whnh 11. British cling to without feeling that Mr. Hilton endangered his own popularity by making this severe nrraignment of his countrymen.

It may he asked in how many countries would the national champion thus go out of his way to make It easier for loreigners in search or his laurel snntch the crown from his brow? this view Champion Hilton displays a spirit of unselfishness and good will that stamps him as a true sportsman In the highest sense of the word naflV ftlUr wm lint's PARK GAMF 7 1 mllX UNITIL PREVENTED BY POLICE uun r.rfL 0., Word Went Forth Saturday Night-Two Others Up A crowd of several thousand persons, Including a liberal sprinkling of women, surged around the outside of wood, yesterday afternoon, but that wns as far as they ot. for the irates not thrown open. A game be- tween the Royal (Hants and the Bush-wleks had been announced in good faltb, hut lata Haturday night word was sent out that If an attempt to play was made arrests would follow. As early as o'clock yesterday morning policemen were around the en-iranee and the place was well guarded until o'clock last evening. Several of the men reviled the police for what they termed their arrogance in stopping the harmless sport and al- 1 lowing In the In, mediate vicinity something of a more harmful nature, 'and one man Improved the oppor- lnllstlc speech.

Manager Max Hosner about the comer, almost with tears In his eyes, fln'1 depressed hy his I Inability to play a game He was the recipient or mm sympathy from the No assurance was given that there would be a game next Sunday. hut It Is probable that sooner or later I the public will b. allowed to see what the large majority favor, Sunday baseball. At Arctic Park. Hushing and Wy-ckoff avenues, at the morning game between the Empire city team and the Inerseals, five sum mouses were served by the police, and a like number In the afternoon on members of the New Eote nine and local phi vers.

At St. James Park. Clem' the Murrays and All Avnnlas, In the morning, were not moleeted. Zach is almost perfect In throwing He ratsman of what might to have hen two-baggers, Wheat is pretty fair In base-stealing hut Cutshaw has him beat in that department. Because of his good running he has stretched two-baggers to three-baggers three-baggers to home runs.

lies a nice fellow. He will tell you who is pitching, who is catching, who batted for so and so, etc. I never heard of him being put out of a game by the "ump" or anybody else. When Kbbets got Wheat for $7o' he was getting something. Whenever he Is out of the game It la a great loss to the team.

JACK. HUGHES. 6u7 Sixth street, Brooklyn. Third Prise-winner. Editor Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Zack Wheat, the Brooklyn player, whose picture appeared in The Eagle on Saturday, April 18, had for the past of the' Brooklyn National League.

Club, notn at the bat and in tne field. When Wheat broke Into the big leagues, not many years ago, many Brooklyn fans who were friends and admirers of Al Huron were disappointed to read in the spring notes from the training ramps that their idol was being beaten out of his old position in the outfield by a bush-leaguer who had only had a few weeks experience In the big show the previous fall. But they soon became reconciled to the change after seeing the newcomer play In a few games, in which he dispiaved form hitherto foreign to the majority of Brooklyn outfielders. For some seasons in the past, when the team's success has been none too great, many of the spectators have been attracted to the tames by the playing of Wheat and a few Other stars, such as Daubert and Bucket-, rather than by the hope of Brooklyn win. He has shown that his sensational playing during hat season was not a case of luck or flash in the pan, by a steady Improve- eacn year, and he lias always ages.

Recently, Zack. who, by the wa is a teri-naiul. .1 halter, has contracted dang, puis habit of sending the ball over the rightfield fence on an average of one- a day, whether it Is needed not Here hoping he will keep up the nun. ior and tm Brook yn- L. p.

I.EVERIDCE. 440 Last Nineteenth street, Brooklyn. Special Mention. Following are a few selections of cor- fication that deserve special Edlto The Eagle has siartcf its "identification series, with a splendid reur view ui uulk wneat. i hi- pose, swinging is a one.

tor suggests of the game in which heat's work has most endeared himself to the Brooklyn fans. There are few that can excel the Stiperba when a solid wallop is needed. "Buck's" value does not depend on willow work alone, however, for as a fielder he is second to none. He is death on a fly ball anywhere from fifty back id the base line to the fence. I Wheat has none of what might prop- erly he termed "peculiarities, but he has dualities that would look well In any ball player, lie Is always "in the game." working hard: he never gets flustered in a pinch; despite his wonderful work of the past three seasons still wears the sanio size hat that hen lie was a husher; and.

ever playt to tho grand -at Is a hall player, not an author looking for a chant: sy money during the off perhaps these days thia is a peculiarit; 303 Prospt THOHl'E. latent reader The i rba player which you pi mi in today papei is none other than the redoubtable "Zack Wheat," who in to he picking out the spot, In bis nun. Is ev where his next wallop Is going. Stack's, abilities can best be de scribed by the various pitchers whe oppose him during a season, and perhaps they can collectively speak 20( words on thai subject, but The Kaglo helm: a I mi ii ly paper, I "he's a bear." As to his pecuhat i'i. it gives great pleasure to slat, that he can assimilate every knvvnn form of batted ball ihat omes within a radius of a quarter of a mile of him, after reading which I am sure ou will agr with me that old boy "Buck" Whe Is In a i lass all his own After seeing Zack hand the Master" Ins in today's game the Is nothing left to be desired.

UTS HECK. Brooklyn, April 18, 1914. Dnlv Eagle Mv reason for entering this contest was principally to secure the tickets, but while writing this I would like to congratulate The Engle on Its fine sporting page and the fairness In which it sizes up the various questions which come up In baseball. ih" pa "in. This photo the left fielder in the Na- iional League, in regards to hitting and fielding, the peer of them all, "Zach" Wheat.

Ever since he has been with 'he Brooklyn team, he has done much to earn this title, but the climax ofi ail occurred ill Saturday's game with the To begin with, he made himself solid' with the fans In the first inning l. knocking out. that two-bagger and sending ill the first two runs of tho game; then by getting four or five fine files, all of But the thitiR that outshone that, was the accomplishment of ihe almost Impossible, obtalnl hu off 'Many'' in a pinch and a home run at that. The roar that went up after this thing had actually happened, and the hand he got, when, after the Inning was over, he took his position In left, was one never to be forgotten. But the one thing that dampened this occasion was the retirement of "Big Six." which 'his blow caused Although a "lllant." "Matty" Is the one plaver the fans hate to see humiliated get back again to Wheat: al- though he is considered the "Superbaa, we wish him, as a wonderful plaver fine fellow, many more years of successful playing such as Ihe game played im Saturday L.

HARROW. 1430 cienwond road, April 19. 1914 CRESCENT BOXING ENTRIES CLOSE TOMORROW EVENING. "lit Athlel "it. 'M tomorrow nighl with the entertainment committee, at the clubhouse, with Heninmit, i.ovlne Warren street.

Manhattan There 110 pound divisions Ihe preliminaries will be held on Wednesday night and the on Saturday night, i the latter nighl the big Inter city matches be. tween th best hoys in the tT, and hlla take place. The club In offering for all the bouts the most valuable prises of the season. Solid gold watches and gold medals will go to first In each event and gold wati lies to second men. The losers In the semi-finals will bn awarded sliver medals.

The club Is looking forward to the biggest boxing feature of the seasou. BY "RICE. Big Pill Haw.ar.1. head and front of the I Won't Works, threaten a general Urike If this country goes to war. As his organization is composed mostly of non-English-speaking foreigners, who take such methods as this of express ing their appreciation of the as; Steaded to then In this country, when conditions In their old homes became unbearable, it will be interesting to note how the regular people of the I nited Slates treat William and his followers if it comes to a show-down.

A redeeming feature of the situation the I W. agitation as a means jimmying their way Into notoriety. And, speaking of seizing ties, Inspector Dooley of the Coney Is land police district grabbed one wltl both bands yesterday afternoon. I was the occasion of the game ached tiled between the Brooklyn team the nam. 11 11 started, and that if the went to the statlonhouse and were bailed out, only to return to resume the contest, he would kc mi pun hint the athletes until midnight.

That sort uf discouraged Daubert and Dr. Scan-Ian, who seemed to have most to dc with the affair, and the two thousand Of more fans assembled at tho Park-Way Driving Club grounds went home Trouble Sure to Come. That Daubert would have trouble in his efforts to work In the Brooklyn team as an attraction in a held where the semi-pros have reigned was freely predicted, and the predictions were verified esterday and on the previous Sun. lay, when ho was ar- tested and held under io their promoters was i Brooklyn team of the Whether tins attitude on the part of the ve managers and backers in choking off opposltioi allowed to wiggle a bat thousand fans were sal edified by a game at Su mile, or a mile and a cene of Daubert's pro! the game-and there was no start. May Close All Games.

Daubert and his associates have expended several thousand dollars, it Is said, fixing up He 11 in i. i if ihe say nothing 0 and young mi throwing off firm establish Lose Chance for Workout. Aside from the money that had Uj oe rturned yesterday, the Brooklyn Na- lonals lost a chance for a work out. rhen hurt, and one of the obji ultng games with the i Sundays was to give the rartlce. Speaking of substitutes look th fa.

that ir the vv. (Hotly unpopular Brooklyi oncning the mflelders Kid playing good ball the South' in ocjtion lust itaaun, until a pit mil fractured his skuii He tin whet in dim the ho that he wax nil in hut h. barreling ho chipper tins year there telling When Old Man Tlmi will In that ti.Hk.s nun the d.i.pair lUUhrts Tough for the Olante. Reports front New Ce be out I I Hi .1. Hi I from the coaching by veteran catch-Are the Athletics Slowing UpP Griffith Hopeful.

Jitahle re-mlls III tin- percent- FEDS STILL INSISTING THEY'LL BLOCK KILLIFER India iprfl 20 Ron night between Janus A lillmoie, president of the ague, and Edward Ontox, counsel for the organlaattftDi i ns deckled to fie application in the United state com i at once for a permanent ln i. in WHO'S WHO IN SCHOLASTIC SPORT the of the followers of the 1 Erasmus nine, Sydney Toole, the Buff and Blue baseball player, is the best utility men developed in Ihe local scholastic ranks In some tune. He has been tried at practically oven position on the Hold and he has alw.vs given a good account of himself. Poole started his baseball career at Public School No 131. In IM9 He played u.

ld 00 Hi" school nine and was considered of the best players In the elementary ranks. S.l" entered Krasmns in September, 1911. and the following spring he took part in the intergrade baseball tournament. Last vent- Poole was Ihe utility man on the championship Buff and Blue nine lie played ill the outfield In a niunler of the big games and he always did his share toward bringing victory to Erasmus. Coach "lludle" i iorsch is trying to iki a i it.

her lit of POOie this sea-son. The youngster, besides being a and Judgment. With a lit- ll, II IO expenen.e he should make I behind the hut. Poole was bom in Brooklyn on Janu-II, MM, He Is reet inches In height and weighs IN pounds. Tomoirow, Frank Becker, Commercial MURPHY AND WELSH NEXT.

San Francisco April 20-" flat hush Murphy, who was defeuted by Willi" Ibtchin, the lightweight cham-plon. last Erldny night, has lieen matched for a twenty-round bout here In June with I'leddy Walsh, the Brit Ish champion. The date will be fixed Inter. i TVS iL SYOlNCY' POOLE..