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BABE RUTH'S RIVAL FOR HOME-RUN HONORS. E Reliance in Main Is Still on 7 Veterans. MAJORS MINUS PITCHING PH SPECULATION IS CAUSED What Wilt Happen to Leaders Later 'ir fetandbys GiTe Out, Is :-' Question Asked. ! BV GEORGE CHADWICK. (Copyright. 1921, by The OreRonian.) NEW YORK, May 14. (Special.) t'sually when the middle of May is at hand both major leagues show some thing: which is promising in the way of new pitching talent, but this spring if there is to be a new star, even hrdgh not of the brilliancy of a cer tain Mathewson, the rays shine but dimly out of vernal mist. Here it is the middle of May and ex cept for a candle glow in the Ameri can league, there is nothing in the pitching line which will cause fans to rave or managers to exult and blow horns about their success in locatin a pitching luminary. For the most part, from the start until now, the National league has been depending upon veteran pitchers. Run down the list of results, and up to the games of today, there is not a newcomer in the National who would bring as much as three cheers at a caucus for the nomination of a vil lage pound keeper. i Pertica Found Faulty. Tertira of St. Louis has beef tried out, but he cannot yet be crowned with laurel, even though he has been successful so far. Robin has been in for. the Giants, but he had the fault of a bad inning, which is a depressing sign. In the International league he did' not seem to develop bad innings buS whenever he gets back to the Giants the club which he first joined be doesn't appear to be able to get away from a Gloomy Gus frame. Gibson has used his Indian. Yellow horse, sparingly, so sparingly in fact that it is evident he doesn't consider him to be quite ready to thrust into the' thick of the battle. By and by he may be compelled to use him, but he has been chary about the redskin thus far. ' Evrrl Tnea YonnjCMtrTft. Evers has pushed two of his young sters. Freeman and York, forward, but not so much because of over confidence in the boys as for the rea son that he had to use them because of Alexander's injury on the opening day at Chicago. Both of the kids are wild and will take much seasoning to bring them to winning value. Now and then Robbie lets one of the Brooklyn kindergartners in a game but he has shown that he is not over ly anxious to start one of them. The old:, fellow is being pressed too hard. Pittsburg looked good, but he didn't expect the Pirates would get such a start. McGraw Isn't taking any chances. He uses a veteran pitcher whenever one seems to be ready for his turn. Cobb Vrnturra Boldly. Tn- the American league. Cobb has ventured boldly into the foreground with his young twirlers. His best pitcher has been Sutherland, untried before the war a boy from Cali fornia with some curves, quite a lot of experience on the coast and good pitohing sense. Huggins of the Yanks has dared with the lightning with Piercy. He had to because Sharkey has shown him nothing. Speaker has had Uhle with him for some time and it would hardly be fair to other beginners to rate Uhle . a,.-recruit. He has been started this "year because Mails was a little slow at the beginning. r, Gleason of the White Sox has tried some of his beginners- and has re ceived no results worth while. ,; .With the youngsters generally ,'showing little the question among rthe fans is what will happen to the ".leading teams later if some of their "veterans give out. L-il Jill n ( ill : ' :(m lll , I 1 b9ri a I Wh y j$T ill ' ' y l 7-l tvxb, Photo. Underwoo GIAXTS. d & Underwood. GEORGE KEL1.Y OF THE NEW YORK CONFIDENCE MAKES COLLINS. ONE OF PROMISING TWIRLERS New York American, Formerly With Texas League, Often Has Streak of Wildness, But Is Never Egoistic. iTfiYSTER READY FOR M BY BILLY EVANS. RIP COLLINS, of the New York Americans is one of the most unusual characters in baseball. Collins came to the big show from the Texas league. He has wonder ful natural ability, hence great pros pects. One would Imagine Collins would be delighted at the opportun ity of starring in the big show. But he isn't. Rip is one of those two-gun men you read about in the books but seldom see in action. When he re ported to the Yankees he had both guns with him. . They say half the club beat It the moment Rip pulled his weapons. He was finally made to understand the best people in pol!te society didn't always tote their guns around. He was finally pre vailed upon to secrete them in his trunk. 1. Some members of the team rather doubted Rip's reputation of shooting a mean gun. Tne first trio the club made around the circuit, several boys took Rip to the shooting galleries, that he might make good. Rip made good to such an extent that one gal lery owner closed h's shop the sec ond time Rip came around, claiming he could break too much stuff with one shot. Rip was bad for business. Strangely enough Rip didn't carry the accuracy of the eye in his arm. His one fault last season was lack of control. When he was able to get the fast one and tne curve over, op posing clubs had a tough time beat ing him. However, he often developed a streak of wildness, forcing him to I let up on his rtuff to get the ball or. Usually those lapses of control I resulted disastrously. Collins pitched many a good game last year, the kind of a game that would lead one to believe he was destined to become a star. I umpired a game, back of him at the Polo Grounds In which he had all the stuff of Walter Johnson. Collins lives on the Heights back of the Polo Grounds, and it is customary for the players who live in that neighborhood to cut back through the park and up through the grandstand. This caused me to bump into Collins one day as I was making my way for the elevated. "How did I look today?" asked Collins. "Walter Johnson never was any better," I replied. "When I have control, I can give most of them a battle," he answered. It was confidence not egotism. "Keep on pitching like that, and they never will send you back to the old Texas league," I replied. "That is what is troubling me," said Collirs. "I'm not so crazy about the big show. It is too serious. Say, if I pitched a game like that down in the Texas league, the manager would let me go hunting or flsh-ing juntil it was my turn to work again. Up here they are liable to use me as a relief pitcher tomorrow because of the good showing I made today." That reply Is Collins all over. He isn't so sure but that he would rather be back in Texas. (Copyright, 1921, by W. G. Graus.) POIAT-TO-POIXT EVKXT POPC LAR IX KXGLAXD. CRACK 3-YEAR-OLD COLT TO RACE AT PIMLICO. Preakness Stakes Classic Bids Fair to Outshine Great Ken tucky Derby. BY SPARROW McGANN. (Copyright. 1921. by The Oreeonian.) NEW YORK, May 14. (Special.) Everyone will watch with interest the showing of Harry Payne Whitney's rack i-year-old colt Tryster in the valuable Preakness stakes, which Mill be run at Pimlico Monday. The colt, in company with his stable mate Broomspun, was shipped to the Mary land track from Louisville today and will be sent over the mile-and-an-eighth course in preparation for the big event. Kummer, who will have the mount on Tryster Penman will be up on the Whitney colt is anxious to prove - to the sporting world that the show ing of his horse in the Kentucky derby was no true indication of the 3-year-old's present form. Charles W. McClelland had- lim bered up Leonardo II and Bon Homme for the Preakness and thinks well of the pair. There has been so much talk about the Kentucky derby and so little about the Preakness. that the general public perhaps does not realize that this ranks next to the Churchill Downs classic in point of money value. In fact, considering that Mon day's feature is a i 40,000 added-money event, things might work out so that it might be of greater value to the w inner than the Kentucky derby. The most interesting thing about the changes at the Belmont park -track, which opens May 27 with the famous Metropolitan handicap as the feature, is the fact that for the first time the management has shown deference to turf opinion in so ar ranging the track that the horses will race to the left, the American way. English Soccerites Costly. LONDON, May 14. All past records for prices paid to secure the services of star soccer players have been femashed by the Everton club of the English league, which this season obtained three crack artists for (62. 800 David Reid from the Distillery club of the Belfast league, for $22. .100: J. Faxaokerley from Sheffield United, and W. Davies, the Welsh In ternational, for (20.444 each. The Bolton Wanderers' club received a lecord sum from gate receipts this season, (213,500 being taken at the turnstiles. NOTRE DAME HURDLER WHO BROKE WORLD'S RECORD AT PENN GAMES. :t j v-tafti vxrv if f . s ' ' f . ' f " '" 1 j . St 'r ;- Li t '4 , I J ' I " ( " 0 Photo, tTnderwood & Underwood. ARNOLD DESCH. Sep that smile? You can't blame Desch for amiling. For thia picture was taken just after he had smashed the world's record for the 440-yard high hurdles. .. .. Running, on a damp track, on a soggy day. at the Penn relay carnival on Franklin f'eld, University of Pennsylvania, the Notre Dame star led the field from the crack of the gun and broke the tape in 63 4-6 seconds two-fifths of a second faster than the world's record set in 1920. Old-I'ashioned Steeplechasing in High Favor Under Patronage of Prince of Wales. NEW YORK, May 14. Point to point steeplechasing under the stimu lating patronage of the prince of Wales and his brother. Prince Henry, is making great strides in England this year, more than 100 meetings having been held there during the winter and early spring. Both princes have shown themselves to be accom plished horsemen, and each has won a race. Rifle Grenade, one of the prince of Wales' best horses, is a genuine army charger. His star performance t aUIMS CUUIILlf HUB IHBUe HI a JUIUI to point meeting ii. Leicestershire, where he finished second to Lieuten ant M. S. Close's Red Seal :n the race for the Earl of Haig's cup. Pet Dog, the horse that won the Welsh Guard's challenge cup with the royal jockey up, is the prince s favorite hunter. A point to point steeplechase is de fined in the rules of the National Steeplechase and Hunt association as "a race across a natural country and over natural fences, from one desig nated point to another; no flags or other insignia being used to designate the courses or jumps other than at the start, finish or turning point or where danger is to be indicated." This is getting back to first princi pies in steeplechasing, which is com monly believed to have originated in Ireland nearly 200 .years ago. An old manuscript records a match made there in 1752, in which the course was marked merely by the steeples of two churches, one at the start and the other at the finish, leaving each rider free to take a line of his own from goal to goal or from point to point. The sport, of course, 8riginated among the fox hunters, who some times wagered large sums on the ability of their horses to cross country. Hunting folk are sponsors in tne revival ol point to point racing, but the betting nowadays is almost negligible at English meetings, com plaints having been made this season of the unwelcome presence of the bookmaklng fraternity at a few of these amateur sporting events. Seattle Has Sew Boxing Stadium. SEATTLE. Wash., May 14. 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