THE DA ILY BRITISH WHIG WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1024, SENIORS T0 START: COUNTY ENTRIES IN Dity Leaguers Warming Up Dally--Junior Schedule Will Be Revised, The senior baseball season will get * under way at the Fair Grounds this | evening with Oshawa and Kingston meeting. The motor town' team | - 18 no easy mark for anything in ama- | teur rank® and comes here highly praised. Tt is Oshawa's first league Appearances in the Limestone City . and the fans are greatly interested. No less interest is caused by specu- * Iation as to what team will take the | field for Kingston. There is new ma- | terial on hand this season--some of | it familiar and some strange--the Joyful enthuysiasts will be on hand | to look them all over. The Interaounty League's closing date tor entries in tomorrow and all who have not made the proper entry to Secretary Cosgrove by that time will be out of luck. Things have been slow in 'the county loop--partly because of thie unseasonable weather | --but the exe cutive has decided that | no further le:way can be given and | that all -entriaqs for the Cronk trophy | and the Case trophy must be ro \ on time, The senior city league men are | coming in for { heir share of interest | also. It is runm:ored that the Athle- | tics have about ithe best looking team | of the lot but tthe Hussars will only | admit that aftar being beaten and | they do not thia k that way at pre- sent. Both teams are lining up fast. | SPOR The Live Wires are an unknown quantity but will be on hand for their schedule. Gananoque is an- other unknown quantity and we earnestly hope there will be no trouble in that direction. The junior schedule will shortly be revised in order to get the boys well under way. They are impatient to start and are reported to have much more evenly balanced teams this year. It is to be hoped that every encouragement {s given them to play good baseball and to play out their full' schedule this season. An other week and all will be in full swing. Billy Evans Says-- Batters with an average of .300 or better continue to thrive in the major leagues. Not s0 many years ago if a dozen players were in the charmed circle it was considered a good showing. To-day the weekly averages of the { two major leagues reveal about three times that many {in each organiza- tion. Some are swatting better than .400, others mighty figure, No longer is it considered a dis- tinct honor to be numbered among the .300 hitters in the majors. As a matter of fact the batsman who falls below that figure is figur- ed to have a weakness in his style at the plate. What is responsible for the greatly increased number of .300 hitters? Is the lively ball the dominating | reason or does the trouble go back to the pitching end of the game? During the past month I have asked a score of the leading hitters | of the two major leagues to give me | | | to 23 miles per ga T ideal boait for every member of the fmuily at a rice you eam a ces range from Disappearing P See ws. Your Garage or Accessory Dealer or write te Beaver Auto Necessities, Limited, 33 St. Lawrence Blvd, Montreal. their explanation of the swat situa- tion. Naturally there is a difference of opinion on the question. The lively ball is offered by many as a contributing cause. Some be- { lieve that it is tne root of the bat- ting orgy now existing. It. is generally agreed that the pitching is inferior to that of 10 or | 15 years ago. That partly explains the base hit problem. Of some 20 of the game's greatest batters 16 were agreed on one point. It was this-- In both major leagues there is a decided lack of curve ball pitching. A majority of pitchers in the majors seem to have discarded the twirler's best weapon, a fast breaking curve. "The era of trick pitching has temporarily caused the passing of the curve," remarked a player who has several times led the big show. "For years trick pitching thrived. It was easier to doctor the ball than | | perfect a curve. { went in for the trick stuff. Young "No pitcher will argue for a min- ute that a lively ball cannot be curv- ed. Developing a curve, however, takes time and patience. In recent years the easiest way to success has had the greatest appeal. "A great many of the present day major league pitchers do not even boast a fait.curve. With that knowl- | edge the batsman has nothing to fear | on that point. The fast one, change of pace, and the knuckle ball is the a The Utmost in Cigars GUARANTEED HAVANA STREET CAR FARES UP- BICYCLES DOWN A Few Figures Why You Should Buy a Massey Bicycle Morning and Night, 300 work- ingdays ........ 600 trips RE Allowing only 2 trips other O5days ,.........5c.... 130 trips If you go home to lunch . ..... .. 730 tickets 500 tickets 1230 trips Making yearly car fare at 6c. ticket $73.80 And some Massey's in Ki running for 20 years. ton have been NUFF SED. Treadgold Sporting Goods Co PRINCESS ST. PHONE 529, | Up By Bookies on This close to that | pitchers | repertoire of most pitchers." i Pitching on the fast one is the bat- | | ter's delight... Not until the curve| comes back into its own will the crop | of .300 hitters be greatly decreased, | | say the leading hitters. | | MILLIONS TO GAMBLERS WITHOUT ANY CHANCES Estimated $2,000,000 Cleaned Year's Kentucky Derby. By Joe Williams Gamblers in Important betting | centres cleaned up more than $2,- | 000,000 on the Kentucky Derby be- | fore the race was even run and with- | out risking sb much as a thin, un- | dernourished dime, { They got the "breaks" in the wir | ter books--and got them in rich, | | unending profusion, totally without | { parallel in the history of turf gamb- ling. The three winter book favorites, Wise Counsellor, St. James and Sara- zen, were withdrawn several days be- | | fore the running of the annual clas- | sic. These three colts were heavily played at invit'ng odds by turf bet- tors in all parts of the country. Of the three Wise CounseHor drew the heaviest play, being the top-most favorite, In addition to the "Hope of | the West." ting men that more than $1,000,000 was laid on Wise Counsellor alone. The bulk of this money wag placed in Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati and Cleveland. Wise Counsellor is own- TING | It is estimated by bet-( ed by a Chicagoan. owned and were equal favorites with eastern bettors to win the Derby | Most of the bett'ng on these two | colts was done in New York, Bos-| ton and Philadelphia. At least $1,-| 000,000 was laid on the two at win- ter book odds. Lose Every Dollar Wise Counsellor and Sarazen did not round to fast enough and were withdrawn. St. James pulled a ten- don and was retired for the year. Wise Counsellor was 6 to 1 in the winter books, Sarazen 12 to 1, St. James 15 to 1. Millions were bet at these odds. And every single dollar bet went to the bookies without a contest. That's the catch in the winter books., If your horse doesn't start you lose your dough. 'The bookies keep it, smile blandly and remark, "Better luck next time." D¥dn't Collect on Zev. Of course the pale-face fish who play the winter books know this in advance, so they have no legitimate | Squawk coming. The bookie explains | that the possibility of withdrawals is | his "edge." that's why, he tells you, | he can afford to offer 6 to 1 on a horse that may be held at 5 to 3 on the day of the race--If he starts. Last year Zev was heavily played in the winter books, opening at 20 to 1 and closing at something like 6 to 1. Zev sentiment ran especially high St. James and Sarazen are e. stern | in New York, and a tremendous play | was made on the Sinclair colt. Zev | started and won the race. But few | of the winter book layers collected. moved to parts unknown! Beating the big-hearted bookies at | the track 'is tough enough. i The bird who tries to beat em in| the winter books is three parts goof | and one part simp. MEDAL PLAY BEST TEST OF ABILITY Demands More Exacting Than in Match Play and Penal- Y ties Deeper. (By Joe Williams.) Whether medal or match play is the best test of skill will probably be a debatable point amang golfers | as long as the game is played and! misplayed. Medal play is unques- tionably more exacting, since every bad shot represents a separate and inescapable penalty, which is reflect- ed in the total score regardless of how well all the other shots were played, In match play it is. possible to make four or five bad shots in suc- cession and yet suffer on!y the loss of a single hole. The element of im- minent disaster is less pronounced in match play. In tch play you can dismiss a badly prea hole with the philosophy t 'you will surely do better on the subsequent ones. You have no such reassuring men- tal balm to apply in medal play. You know full well that the topped bras- sle at the third hole, the missed putt at the fifth and the out-of-bounds drive at the sixteenth have been charged against yom -and that you will not be able to get away from them in the posting of the total: scores. This does not prove, of course, that medal is a stiffer test than match play but it does show that both phases demand a different and! distinct working of the mental pro- cesses, Perhaps this explains why some of our stars are unbeatable medal players but poor match play- ers, and vice versa. Bobby Jones, for example, is bet- ter at medal play than match. At least he has been more successful at the former over a stretch of years, having improved his standing in the ' GEJ/ERAL REVIEWS TINELY COMMENTS Almost a record crowd witnessed the sixty-fifty running of the King's Plate at the when Maternal Pride won the Jil | Fi snl Bobi tii iy I mim i! fit ind Woodbine race track last Saturday coveted guineas. Above is shown the running of the King's Plate at the Woodbine race track Saturday. | Canadian' classic was a great surprise to the 25,000 horse lovers as an outside horse in the The bookies had packed up and | home two lengths ahead of Thorndyke, while the favorite, | is the first time round showing the horses well bunched. two lengths behind, and Maypole third, a length and a half behind the second horse. Thorndyke second, open championshipg yearly until fin- ally he arrived at the top. Max Marston, on the other hand, is one of the finest match players in the country but an ordinary scorer at medal play. The Philadelphian won the amateur championship last summer at Flossmogr, beating Jones among others. In the finals he de- monstrated his fondness for the man-to-man game by winning over Jess Sweetser, defending champion, after going two extra holes. Marston's uncertainty as a medal player was shown at Brookline two years ago when he failed to qualify, Marston is entered. in the open at Detroit next month---a medal play test. We'll be more than mildly sur- prised if he finishes among the first ten. B ASEBAL SCORES TUESDAY'S AMES. Noir "ayracse 5, Torostoae Baltimore 15, Jersey City 2. Reading 6, Newark 0. Rochester 4, Buffalo 3. National League: Pittsburgh 22, New York 3. Chicago 7, Philadeiphia 4. No games in ican League ow- ing to rain. A oe Stars Pull Tendons., Allan Woodring, the Olympic 200- meter champion, is laid up with a pulled tendon So is Les Wittman of Michigan University, one of the greatest sprinters in the middle west. "Booth Tarkington is the only 'su- thor who has twice won the prize of the Pulitzer School of Journalism for the best novel of the year. The boll weevil bug is estimated to cause an adnual loss of more than $2,000,000 to growing cotton in the United States. The sixty-fifty running of the betting, Maternal Pride, romped Isoletta, was unplaced. The top picture is the start, the centre The bottom tells the story of the finish, Maternal Pride first, -- Maternal Pride and smiling trainer in Woodbine paddock after winning the King's Plate. | The Ukraine 1s the richest and most' densely populated part of Rus sia, , Great Filly Through. ing well this spring anc will be re- Untidy, great little filly of the] tired for all time. Untidy has always Whitney stable, has not heen train-{ suffered from a bad knee. ------. i nnd,