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tilhotajdotioailawmrommmellononaliato iaik4ftwoameolowswoftnahmtAmWalkiblhoimasI'll V4eiP1104 400Poik1r1iLP "4u 4 balk 41 THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Sunday Jun 14 1759 THINGS RUSS FORD REMEMBERS: ite 'stand Stole In Reverse Johns on atter Then Cleared Gr I it Co I Hill I II li- (1 vvv 31i lk --u'A --Pcy-'4-40- et 4 (1 7 A4017 ct: A 41X 0 it t-- ok ''1t ::4 N3 I I 2 9 01-0'44iolt 'g s2 g- kit 4 issmuta1 -4 4 4 4 k- ::00 0 4 11 4: 4ii r4 4 1 -li -''ets'' 1f01' 44 -th -Alifttt7-6' -i V44-- -3n- -4 is': 4 is 1:: Iftskt kli )iiiuhtlittk-' 20 Nit CFL'IT l'L''P'''Nt'''I 0 r' 4 '44)1! t440 tvtor ALV117414s A 4 A it: i 4 k'i ot Attiod: i 1 NA0't 'rlf 11 oompg01S4kOrt4-' 4 101-1 CFA tT VA "4 4 t4 At ilitt440: 44r 4tois proved to me the quality of the man ''We had him trapped in a rundown and I was making the putout at first The throw pull ed me directly in front of him and I just knew he was going to give me those spikes and cut me to pieces I got i out but he slid around roe made no effort to make contact "Later I told him 'Ty you could have hurt me and been excused for it' But he said intent on killing him with line drives Ford was pitching fur old New York Highlanders He's a little hazy about the year but he fixes it at about 1911 It was a game at Detroit and the Tigers were miles ahead Cobb got a single and then went into the wildest bit of base-running in the history of the game "lie stole second and third" recalled Ford reversed his field and stole second and then first It was cm 1'v 1'1' CS i) barrassing to us We tried to get him on every play but the rascal was too quick "When he had made he rounds and was back on first he called time and held up four fingers to the press box 'Put that In your book' he shouted" "As an opponent Cobb was a devil" said Ford "He'd fight you every inch of the way call you all sorts of names Yet I can recall one instance which RUSS FORD Ace Of New York Highlanders OK STILL UNEQUALLED Ford Posted 26-6 Recoird As Rookie swami lit: 4 il 0 r'" i It 4 i 4-- 11- cit 44 4- I i In j' A py iee -'f -44444 i 0 4 1 -44 i 41 i te 1 'V t'''' )i'' 'A Si)a mo A(o i-i 4 4 "4 11' 7 :4 me 410 Xe''' -r sr 1 4 )0t 1q 4 4) FN''- i 1 4 'ii1 :1 :004:4:: 444 1 5- i X''- 1: 4414' 1 i 2 ''4 pe :054 tte 4 I I kef1k444 11 '1'''V 4" 4'e S')f'-? -S: 1 470i ''---u''------ 4 49::) 7 :4 k7'45't str- O'S'' '-'n1WOW 'sWa36t An 4 0 Ali aft 11-0 t'1fiss14 -I 4 i' ''''''''q 'kt i1 1 :5: MMUMI 11 444 Sally League Averages CLUB BATTING Ab Br 1634 213 420 42 1771 280 446 34 1762 247 438 24 1872 222 414 39 1688 243 411 31 1540 189 370 30 1689 216 414 30 1770 239 41 37 Rbi Pet 180 257 250 252 215 249 190 249 204 243 ISO 240 199 239 209 234 A sheille Charlotte Knoxville Jacksonville Savannah Macon Columbus Charleston CLVB FIELDING Po A Knoxville 53 1402 548 77 Jacksonville 50 1339 541 83 Columbus 51 1357 573 73 Macon 43 1265 541 67 Charleston 54 1323 588 98 Charlotte 54 1418 617 70 Asheville 50 1304 524 101 Savannah SO 1327 521 76 Ave To 963 467 958 446 964 432 964 421 951 474 967 472 948 434 961 442 INDIVIDUAL BATTING old Cobb beats out those slow hoppers' "The next time he came to bat I could see the veins standing out in his neck I pitched him outside but he reached across the plate and hit a cannonball at me I caught it on the first hop but it turned me all the way around" Ford who was quite a pitcher himself speaks with reverence of Walter Johnson "There was no meanness in him" said Russ "He could have made all the players fear him if he had wanted to It was wicked to stand lip there at the plate and see his sidearm coming all that speed behind it But he never threw at a batter in his life "However I recall a time when he acciOentally hit a man in the head and I taought that was surely the end of the poor devil "We were playing Washington at the old Highlander park at 168th Street a Broadway In 1911 The grandstand had only one deck to It It was about as high as the first deck In Yankee Stadium "Bert Daniels a former football player who was as hard as nails was batting for us Johnson lost control of a fast ball and struck Daniels in the head Ile fell like he was dead and the ball bounced on over the grandstand "Daniels lay there as still as death for a lew minutes thert he leaped to his feet and shouted to Johnson 'Put something on the ball you big Until this day I don't know how a human head could have absorbed such a blow" Russ Ford was born in Canada 76 years ago But Rockingham has more or less been his home since 1922 Just a few months ago he moved into Room 208 of the Rockingham Hotel (which he once owned) and he says he wiil spend the rest of his days here It is a small room a small town a small woril for a man who has such a history behind him But he never gets lonesome Memories are fine company for any man and Russ Ford has collected so many POSITION WANTED Man with 20 years experience in sales and management (tangibles and intangible sales) College graduate seeking challenging position with lucrative opportunity Successful -record as I) ranch manager covering for national office machines company and owner of business handling specialized industrial a business equipment Prefer commission comp ensation Own Charlotte home not interested in moving Call Ellanklin 5-4087 or write Executive 1503 Charlotte 1 for resume or appointment As a rookie with the New York Highlanders in 1910 Russ Ford won 26 games and lost only six It still stands as the best record any rookie pitcher has ever chalked up in the big leagues He finished all 26 games that he won and finished four of the six games that he lost He won 15 of his first 16 starts in a sensational get-away Ford won 22 games for the Highlanders in 1911 collected 13 wins in 1912 and posted 11 ictories for a last place club in 1913 He switched to the Federal League in 1914 and won 21 games against six losses for Buffalo He closed out his major league career in 1915 winning five games and losing nine for Buffalo He returned to the minor leagues and post brilliant records but the American League would never accept him back his 21-6 record at Buffalo in 1914 was the best turned in by a major league hurler that season Ills team finished sixth lie is 76 years old now and lives at Rockingham His wife the former Mary Hunter Bethel of Reidsville died in 1957 He has two daughters Mrs William Carson Brennan of New York City and Mrs Frederick Nies of Chapel Hill BATTER Ford hands bat to young friend Elizabeth Sechriest age two and onehalf of Chapel Hill The former 'Russ I never hurt anybody 1kho hasn't first tired to hurt me' ''But there was one man Charlie Schmidt a catcher for Detroit who was forever flieding with Ty This was back in 1908 I was playing for Atlanta and Detroit was doing its spring training there "I was having supper with Schmidt and he placed his order and then was called to the telephone Cobb Iv had planned the whole thing walked in sat down and ate Charlie's meal while the man he had paid to do It kept Schmidt tied up on phone 'When Charlie came back to the table Ty was Fitting there licking his chops Schmidt did' n't say a word but I knew he was smoking "When Ty left he told rue 'As soon as I get him out of Georgia I'm going to break him to pieces I'm afraid to tackle him now for two reasons a minor and he might be carrying a gun' "This Schmidt was some man Ile had muscles in his eyebrows Sure enough the Tigers stopped off at Birmingham a few days later for an exhibition game and he worked Ty over Some of the Detroit players were telling me about it "They said Charlie just walked over to where Ty was sitting in the dressing room picked him up and slammed him on the board floor three times And they said for the first and only time in his life they heard Ty say 'I'm licked' "But two years later I was talking to Schmidt about it and he told me 'Russ that's the gamest little rooster that ever lived I almost killed him but I know he'd fight me now without a second's if I crossed him' Ford places Cobb in a class of his own as a ball player but for sheer batting power he never saw the equal of Sam Crawford "My brother Gene went to the big leagues a couple of years before me" said Russ "and he warned me about Crawford 'The ball will hardly stand what he gives it' Gene told me I always pitched Sam outside and our second baseman Earl Gardner would dig himself a toe-hold and get ready for the shock 'But I said the wrong thing to Sam one day and I think he tried to kill me for it Ile and Cobb were the bitterest of enemies "I thr ew him one that didn't get far enough outside and he slammed a vicious liner back toward the mound It caught me on the right foot and the pain was terrific but I managed to recover It and throw him out "It made him real mad and he shouted something to me as he started back toward the dugout I went over close to him and I said 'Sam you're getting 41 vs 11:: g--- 14 1k ct You I Of: for LI 'Ft I 6 i 6N mil puil Hitt a I cli Sitp 'l 0 1 0' 667-4 ''''4'!) )ig 4 '4 1 y' 4 e' 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Spurrier vs Sawyer and Sawyer VETERANS SINGLES 4:30 Llew Cordle vs Bill Watson JR BOYS' SINGLES 1:30 Grant Knowlton vs Davis Crawford Russell Jones vs Ralph Reid 2:30 Bill Moseley vs Barron Stroud 3:30 Steve Watson vs Ben vellet Jim Causey vs winner of Knowlton Crawford meth MIXED DOUBLES 2:30 Stacey and Stacey vs William eon and Williamson 4:30 Copley and Strayhorn vs Wyche and O'Rourke XVititthead and Cooper vs Woodard and TR GIRLS SINGLES 2:30 Alma Cordle vs Gay hams 3:30 Ann Cordle vs Nancy arm Durbin Takes Carmel Bogey A 66 brought Reid Durbin first prize in Saturday's weekly blind bogey golf event at the Cannel Country Club 11ason Smith wa5 the only player to hit the second number of 69 Four Bergman Bill Felts Charles Hines and Homer the third number of 85 By HERMAN HELMS Observer Sports Writer ROCKINGHAM Russ Ford belonged to an age when baseball players by necessity for the sake of survival were as hard as stone lie closed his career over 40 years ago yet these things are still crystal clear in his memory at the age of 76: Ty Cobb stealing four bases on one time at bat without scoring a run A teammate trailing Cobh over several Southern states choking back his anger for fear that Ty might turn a gun on him finally getting I chance and giving the Gear gia Peach the beating of his life at Birmingham A fast ball fired by Walter Johnson striking an opposing batter in the head and bounding all the way over the grandstand A powerful hitter named Sam Crawford who actually seemed NO YOU'LL LIE 3 N't YOUR FIRST DRIVE WILL st COUNT THERE'LL GE TWE PENALTY STROKE 1 FOR A LOST GALL AND 1 Your Rules Teat Dan Crump Horace Hart Albert Flowe and A Mx Over MO entries are expected from the Carolinas Georgia and Virginia Gates open at 1 pm for time runs and eliminations will begin at 3:30 Those two important words "adequate insurance" "Our 27th Year" Those two important words "adequate insurance" "Our 27th Year" I 1 14I LA 'SA- Vv Li- i 1 v0uR n4tPD p- 7 --N- t) A I 111fP 's BALL WILL BE YOUR TLIIRD -rwArs A PROVISIONAL FIRST BALL ILL LIE 2 I NOW COUNTS NG II 's TWE PENALTY STROKE A Know Golf 4 A0 '-1 VA I all 1 l' wide tennis tournament went as expected Saturday in Men's singles play but 15-year old Sally O'Rourke pulled a major rprise in Women's play by handing Helen Mayer a 3-6 6-3 6-2 defeat Mrs Mayer was not seeded in pre-tourney ratings but was considered a contender until her defeat at the hands of young Miss O'Rourke Top-seeded Lacy Keesler got a good workout before subduing Ralph Petree 6-1 6-2 in a match which was closer than the scores indicate Second seeded Gil Stacey also was pressed in defeating Claude Brown in his opener 7-5 6-3 The rest of the favorites Chick McClure Jim IV It ehead Dewey Keesier Ylubert Moseley Ralph Rockett a Finley Lee advanced with little difficulty Play resumes on the Freedom Park clay courts today at 1:30 with 26 matches scheduled I even divisions Lee Stacey Rockett and Dewey Keesler all see action today Among the junior matches slated for today the top match is 1 star pitcher now makes scheduled between Bill Moseley and Barron Stroud state igh school negro champ this a st srping at 2:30 RESULTS MEN'S SINGLES Joe VI hit del Thomal Watkins 44 61 6-3 Gil Stacew def Claude Brown 4 633 Ralph Rocket def Chester Landes 61 6-4i Howard Nivea def Charlie Connelly 6-4 6-11 Llew Conlin few Jack Pare 6--0 6-31 Jim Millie head def Erie Clark 6-1 60 Jack Lowe def Ralph Emerson 64 6-11 Hubert Moseley def Russell Harris 1-1 6-2 Dewey Kees ler def John Speer 6-2 6-0 Chirk McClure def Grey Lewis 04 6-1 LUCY Reeder def Ralph Fettle 6-1 6-2 Finley Lee def Russell Jones 6-2 61 Howard Mendel def Sam Davis 6-o 6-1 MEN'S DOUBLES Sm the and Dustier def Mahan and Dellinger 6-2 42 C0110111V and Moseley def Bumgarner and Diggs 6-2 1-3 Woodard and White del Didenhouse and idenhouse 4 8-6 Lewis and Petree def It Atkins and Jackson 6-4 0-6 6-3: ETERANS SINGLES 'Ralph Rockett def George Sawyer fel 6-4 Rill Watnon def Chester Landes 6-4 64 Claude Brown del Clint Buller 64 81 WOMEN'S SINGLES Joanne Cooper def Nancy Barnes 6-0 6-01 Sally O'Rourke def Helen Mgr Cr 34 6-3 62 JR BOYS SINGLES Bra Wynche def Robin Reid default TODAY'S PAIRINGS MEN'S SINGLES 1:30 Steve V4 vs Bill Woodard Edward Dowdy vs Roland Jug Baal DeWPY Iteesier vs Joe Sthilei Ralph Beckett vs Archie Nivel 2:30 Paul Jones vs Jim Mahan Jack Lowe vs Hubert Moseley 4:30 Gil Stacey vs Howard Mendel Finley Lee vs winner of Dowdy-Jarksos match of his Br RS1 Pet 12 32 1 12 372 2 13 0 5 351 13 27 2 21 342 20 2 7 339 12 26 2 6 338 9 22 2 12 333 24 40 2 25 331 16 28 2 11 329 7 23 2 11 313 32 58 5 33 307 35 53 7 31 306 26 51 1 17 305 17 37 6 18 303 22 43 6 24 301 11 30 3 15 300 27 51 0 17 295 23 57 2 14 292 14 44 2 18 291 24 32 2 12 291 25 45 3 19 287 18 46 1 21 286 22 24 0 4 279 27 51 0 15 276 31 51 4 22 273 31 47 2 14 273 14 44 1 16 270 31 54 10 31 269 27 49 4 20 269 23 51 1 18 267 23 51 3 19 266 27 51 9 23 266 22 35 1 IS 265 14 45 4 15 265 26 40 9 31 263 7 25 3 10 263 26 34 2 20 262 18 32 4 23 262 22 36 6 15 261 29 50 2 19 259 17 42 1 20 259 23 41 3 22 258 31 47 1 19 257 42 44 5 18 257 31 46 4 25 2543 25 42 2 15 256 23 37 2 25 255 16 38 3 16 253 15 30 0 10 252 17 22 2 14 250 10 22 4 20 230 Geho Mac 162 VanDerVelde 159 Whitley Jax 183 Warner Char 171 Gaines Say 180 Logan Atha 164 Valentino Char 145 Williams Cbus 150 Hairston Chas 119 Rodgers Knox 88 ShoWn Attie 88 PITCHERS' Jimenez Cbus 7 Daviault Mac 4 Botz Jax 6 Rowe Mac 7 Taylor Asbe 5 Lemaster Jax 6 Greenwood Ashe Thomas Knox 4 Dustal Knox 6 Basque Knox 3 Spell Mac 3 Maroto Char 4 Derrinzton Chas 4 Butler Jas 3 Mc Dwain Chad 5 Sprankle Say 7 Krop Say 4 Fur low Char 4 Brantley Chas 5 Tho Bander Ashe 5 liodarse Char 5 RECORDS 1 lo Se Era 7 1 84 49 91 181 4 5 134 54 74 246 6 2 77 57 38 255 7 2 77 62 54 256 5 5 62 47 34 258 6 4 65 53 65 262 7 6 93 83 78 289 4 5 76 59 40 296 6 2 71 64 45 301 3 6 79 73 54 308 3 5 63 54 39 325 4 4 66 67 28 355 4 5 87 79 72 361 3 4 66 63 39 368 5 5 83 68 51 369 7 4 87 77 46 349 4 7 87 87 75 380 4 3 59 69 31 497 5 4 80 73 60 435 5 6 78 93 36 458 5 4 61 59 26 487 Tigers Bow In 12111 3-2 Starts on Page 111' day at 3 pm Charlotte time Another loss would eliminate the Tigers Either Cline or Hendley will pitch CLEMS0747 ARIZONA A AB 4ewe1ls8 5 0 211I'manef 3 Rmanef 5 0 l'e-Wamelemf I DeBerrylb 4 1 2 Rult313 6 Cokem 3 0 1S1Vmakersa 5 a-Poe 1 0 O'EneinasII 4 1 0 0 Helix 4 Benctleyet 4 0 0 Lewis 3 Suags313 3 0 0 DWilsonab 3 L'der313-213 2 0 0 e-Moraao 0 Burnetteato 4 I 4 Wallacelb 0 d-Norrisab 0 0 0 Fendersonrf 2 IBryant30 I 0 0 bDWilsonet btowem 1 0 0 Wardm 2 IPookmp 3 Totals 40 2 10( Totals 40 3 a-Struck out for Coker in 8th b-Struck out for Fenderaon in Ilth le-Walked for Hoffman in MIL d-Ran for Burnett in 9th a-Walked for IVilson in lith f-P000ed out for Noma in lt2h Clemson 000 MI 100 000-3 Arizona 100 000 100 001-3 Shoemaker Suggs Bagwell (2) Hendley Bagwell Lewis 354 Arigona 36-18 (2) Wilson Vt'amsley (2) Hall ley Suggs Wilson 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