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Great Leader of Philadelphia Americans Has Guilt Up a Great Club.Corn© on, you Connie Mack!”This la th© way Rome 100,000 fans are puHlnjj in the city of brotherly love.And Connie Mark—christened Cornelius McGlllIcuddy—'leader of the Philadelphia •Athletlca, runners up in the American league race, Is coming1 on.The wizard of baseball, they call this long legged, long drown out bit of machinery- It’s coming to him, all right.Connie Mack, with a team of youngsters, with th^ smallest pay roll of anybig league team, la pushing Hugh Jenlead.ninge' Tigers hard for the The 1909 Athletics is the result of a daring plan by Mack.The old Athletics, winners of two pen-CONNIE MACK.Brainy Beader of the Athletics.It Into a great baseball machine, itVduring tho past year the glass backgrounds for the baskets at K. U. had to be taken down and wooden ones were substituted for tbem on complaint of tho opposing team. Tho committee found that the glass back grounds were in general uso and so legalized them.The committee made an important change on dribbling, defining the play more fully- The new rule provides that if a player who i$ dribbling the hall down the field stops and holds the ball .still either in one or both hands, thoball must be thrown to the goal or tolenan Is, always to he figured on In the race, were wearing out. In 1907, aftera hard fight, they Inst ihclr chance forthe pennant In a seventeen-inning struggle with Detroit,In the game young energy ana enthusiasm triumphed against old, seasoned baseball mechanism. The old players*— once the glory of the game—couldn t standi the gaff.And Connie Mack, sitting obscurely under the roof of the players* bench, was thinking, thinking.He could-risk one year of unpopularity he decided—the unpopularity that followsthe manager of a losing team, lie would devote n year—th© year 1903—-to training up for 1909. In the meantime, forget th© pennant.So the old Athletics disappeared, Sox Sc y bo Id went back to tho minors. , The brilliant “Jimmy’1 Collins likewise. Os-sio Sclireck went out, and Murphy to the bench. Rub© Waddell was sold to St. Louis, Mike Powers, the plucky catcher, died. ,Only Harry Davis and Topay Hartaei. In tlia field, and Render and Plank, pitchers, remained. Then on the ruins or the old Connl© built the new. lie picked up players for a song. Some of thorn were nO good, They dldn‘t last, Those who gave promise were nourished as carefully a3 a baby prince. „ „ sA new Collins took th© place of the old—Eddks Collins, a college boy, whocould hit anything. Connie taught him to field, and ho took his place at the head of tho American league batters mlie Picked up Krause, tho pitching find of the season—Krause, who pitched adozen straight victories. ’ ,II* grabbed Gob Ganley from Washington and Ira Thomas from Detroit, Nobody quite knows where ho did set ail his materia!. But he got It and weldedOther managers were spending1 money like drunken sailors, and about as effectively. Connie never paid much money. Hr* bought promises and mad© the promises com© true.Watch out for th© Athletics. is tho whispered word around th© other sevenbaseball towns.ft’s their ttlbuto to Connl© Mack.Thcro nr© a good many conservative judges who think that Hamburg Belle will he the,' next trotting queen. There is no doubt of her ability,.to capture the raceanother player. The only legal way a player can now stop his course down tho field when dribbling, and then to continue the dribble, is to keep the ball bounemg up and down as he stands.A change which Dr. Naismith fears will cause trouble was made in the three in rale. In the past if three play* ers put their hands on the ball at tho santo time a foul was called on the side which had two men touch the ball. The now rule reads that if when two players are strugglm£ for possession of the ball a third player shall enter into bodily contact with them a foul shall bo.called. But if he can Teach under the players and get his hand on the ball without touching cither of them, thcro is no - foul. Dr. Naismith ea.ys there may be trouble in enforcing this rule, but that if it can bo done the game will bo made much prettier.One of tho most important changes was in the boundary ruling. In the past tho line has been inside. Now any player or the ball touching the line at alt is outside, The bait is outside if a player standing on the line reaches in anti grabs it or it is thrown to him.The umpire’s duties are made slightly different in the new rules, lie is notsupposeddo watch tbo man with the ball or Iiis opponent ht all* but tho otherpi 1has become prev umpire and the referee watched the struggle for the ball*In the future the score keepers must compare scores after each goal, and ifihore is any dispute call the referee immediately. Otherwise tho referee musttake the larger score.44 The changes will make the gamo much- clearer and more enjoyable from tho spectator’s standpoint,1' was Dr. Naismith’s comment. 44Tho codo that will govern basketball during the com-ing year hag not been developed as far as I would like, but till_the changes from yenr to year are making the game more nearly what it should be.”ANGEL PLAYERS WORH RARE TRIPLE STEALLOS ANGELES, Aug. 7.—Three of the members of the Los Angeles team recently engineered a sensational and seldom seen play in the Chutes park in a game wHh Vernon. It was In th© sixth Inning, with three on bases, when Dillon, Beall and Wheeler worked a triple ste.il, plllon just nosing over the plate, and Beall anavVhreler Ehooting safely to tn.ro and second respectively.Th© play Is one which la rarely seen. Probably th© times It has occurred tn professional history could be counted on the fingers of th© two hands, and It Is believed, to be the first triple steal In thehistory of the const league- Dillon hadbunted safely and landed on firsti Beall forced Daley, who had landed ahead of the Angel leader at home plate, and thus gained first, sending Dillon to second, Wheeler was hit by. a pitched bait, which filled the bases. Jud Smith went to the bat., and as Pitcher Abbott of Vernon wound up for his delivery. Dillon shot homo, sliding under the Vernon catcher And being called safe hy Umpire Me-Creevy. It was a fast and sensational play, and was greeted with prolonged applause.PACHEY M’FARLAND TO MEET BRONSON
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Salt Lake Telegram
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Aug 07, 1909
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