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This is the second in a series of three columns
dealing with lesser-known Incidents !n Stanley Cup
history.
et A popular belief persisting to this day,
is that Lord Stanley of Preston, sixteenth
Earl of Derby, while Governor-General of
Canada, 18884893, became so intrigued with
the speed and colour of Canadian hockey, that in a burst of enthu-
siasm he offered the cup which now bears his name.
Much as we regret to shatter a sports illusion, such was not
the case. Lord Stanley wasn't a great hockey fan, His interest in
the game was academic and detached. He donated the cup around
which there has been such colorful battling for well over half a
century at the urging of Lord Kilcoursie, one of his staff and one
of Lord Stanley's A.D.C's, and possibly too, because of the
enthusiasm of his own son, Hon. Arthur Stanley, who not only
admired hockey, but played it, And by the late P. D. Ross, Ottawa
publisher who had played for McGill,
The Stanley Cup was donated in 1892. At a banquet on March
18 of that year, celebrating the success of the Ottawa team of the
era, responding to a toast to the Governor-General, Lord Kil-
coursie read a letter from His Excellency which said: "I have
for some time been thinking that it would be a good thing if
there were a challenge cup which should be held from year to year
by the champion hockey team. in the Dominion. There does not
appear to be any such outward and visible sign of championship at
present, and considering the general interest which the matches
now elicit, and the importance of having the game played fairly
and under rules generally recognized, I am willing to give a cup
which shall be held from year to year by the winning team."
Lord Kilcoursie stated that Capt. Colville, who was then in
England, had been commissioned by the Governor-General to
order the cup, to be held by the trustees until the end of the
next season, and then presented to the champions.
The Governor-General appointed Sheriff Sweetland of Ottawa
and P. D. Ross trustees of the cup.
That there was keen interest in hockey in Lord Stanley's
immediate circles is, of course, obvious. Mr. Ross, with some
Ottawa men, Lord Cavan, and The Hon. Arthur Stanley, formed
what was called the Reye) Hockey Club, whose members played
in red shirts and engaged in exhibition matches with other teams.
Lord Cavan, who was the tenth Earl of Cavan, commanded the
British Forces in Italy during the First World War, and subse-
quently was Commander -in -Chief of the British Army in 1921.
The Rebels played the best teams of their time, and the pictur-
esque organization doutbless aided in spreading the gospel of
hockey. And aided, too, in securing the Stanley Cup, now the
most prized of all hockey trophies.
Next week: Death Wasn't Alone.
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Willie Hoppe that he doesn't know
how to play 3 -cushion billiards.
* * *
To us the most amusing feature
regarding these criticisms of
Cobb's articles is tat.. he large
Ty '. Cobb, 'received• : `
which he needs about us much as
Lake Ontario needs more water—
for his two -instalment blast at the
game of baseball as modernly
played. That's a whole lot of
dough; at least it seems that way
to most of us; but it was money
well spent for the magazine, as
few pieces regarding sport have
stirred up a greater amount of
controversy—a commodity which
is of much value to a periodical
such as Life.
* * *
From all points of the compass
ball -players, managers and sports
writers are heaving blasts at Tyrus
Raymond, telling him that he's a
has-been, a sore -head and that he
doesn't know what he's talking
about—the latter being somewhat
akin to you, genteel reader, telling
Pensive Mood «-- Matching the
pose of a pensive statue in the
Luxembourg Gardens of Paris,
a hard -thinking Sorbonne stud-
ent applies himself to his studies
A sure sign of the coming of
spring are students who take
advantage of warmer weather
to study outdoors.
,attelies yf#11p, :cadre
rwea rlxe'„: triangulazr' u'1`3•d'er*ear in
the days when the. great ball-
players Ty writes about were do-
ing their stuff. Ty Cobb had a
close-up view of those old-timers;
he battled wtih them over a 23 -
year stretch; and he topped them
all for all-round ability. He has
also seen the modern generation—
the Williamses, DiMaggios, etc.,
in action. And if Ty Cobb says
that, with few exceptions, today's
baseballers don't compare with
those of a quarter-century ago,
even if we hadn't read his reasons
for saying so, we'd be inclined to
put in with him.
*
But we did read those articles,
and with keenest interest. Cobb's
main contention is that the lively
horse -hide, and the magnate's be-
lief that home -runs are what fills
a ball -park, have made baseball a
far less thrilling pastime than it
used to be. He maintains that to-
day's batters, always aiming for
that fence, pass up a lot of hits
that they should be making; and
that your modern manager, bank-
ing everything on that "one big
inning” are much inferior when it
comes to strategy than men like
Connie Mack, John McGraw and
the like. We, personally, agree
with practically everything Cobh
wrote. Which, of course, may ju$t
be a sign that we can't play juve-
nile, or even junior, any more, at
that.
* *
In one of his articles Ty Cobb
speaks of Nick Altrock as one of
the most deceiving pitchers who
ever toed a mound, and one of the
hardest to steal bases on. We can
remember sitting at the old To-
ronto ball park afternoon upon
afternoon, watching that same
Nick and trying to discover
whether he was going to throw
to the batter or over to first in
an effort to pick off a base -runner.
Once or twice we thought we had
solved it, only to discover that
we had done nothing of the kind.
For old Nick had a balk motion
that wap a honey, and you may lay
to that.
* * *
So it was extra interesting to
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Knocked His Block Off?—No, Harold Drucker didn't decapitate his
seemingly headless opponent, Mike Gilio, nor are the boys part
of a ballet troupe. Drucker "kept his head" throughout the six -
round middleweight bout and was awarded the decision.
notice, quite recently, that the
game Altrock had been sounding
off on the pititful plight ,Of the
pitcher today. Maybe you'd like to
see what the crafty southpaw has
to say. on the subject. Anyway,
we're passing it along herewith.
* * *
"Why don't they let the poor
pitchers alone?" Nick Altrock was
asking a friend. "Every time you
pick up a paper these days, they're
legislating against the pitcher.
What are they trying to do,:,.drive
him clear out of baseball?
* * *
"Everyone of the rule changes
in the past two decades has been
directed at the man on the mound,"
continued the veteran coachof the
Washington Senators and himself
once a real good southpaw hurler
in the American League. "The,.hit-
ter gets all the better of it -the
lively ball, shorter fences, 'closer
watch on the pitcher.
* * *
"It looks to me as if the Mag-
nates aren't getting enough ,home
runs, so they are again working
on the pitcher," Nick went on.
"Nobody has figured that maybe
some of the long -ball hitters aren't
producing the way they used. to
—fellows like Joe DiMaggio, Bill
Nicholson and Ted Williams. There
aren't as many big fellows aqund
today as there were five years 'ago.
* * *
"The American League a ';Now:
out to stop pitchers fr*.,
in their moves toward 'fir"
he said. "Some of the boys-. ve
formed the habit of not steptiing
directly toward first before throw-
ing over there. They have stepped
halfway between first and home
plate, and completely fooled the
base runner. The rule, they say,
clearly defines this as a balk, and
the umpires this year have been
instructed to watch pitchers close-
ly, particularly left-handers.
* * *
"But what would von do if you
were a pitcher?" Altrock asked.
"Put yourself in their place. As
the pressure mounts against them '
in the rule book, they have to look
around for loop holes in the law. .
* ,e *
"If the rule makers won't give
them a break, they have to make
a few for themselves. They can't
tamper with the ball, but they
work in an occasional spitter. They
can't deceive base runners with
moves to bases, but they manage
to cheat a little there, too. I say
that if the magnates gave them
a fair shake, there wouldn't be any
cheating. Under present condi-
tions, the boys have to look around
for ways of .beating the rules.
k * *
"I have to laugh every time I
think of one day Bunip Hadley,
then pitching for the Washington
club, worked against the Yankees
at Griffith Stadium," Nick recalled.
"It was one of the slickest jobs
I have ever seen and it was done
in full view of everybody in the
ball park, including the Yankee
bench. *`
"Well, Hadley had about a two -
run lead by the end of the third
inning and was looking pretty
good," the veteran coach went on.
"I-Iis fast ball was really popping.
But you know the Yankees, and
everybody was expecting them to
blow the game wide open at any
moment.
* *
"But Bump was thinking ahead
and was determined there would
be no big inning," he said. "So
in either the fourth or the fifth
—I've forgotten which—he suddenly
looked faster than before. Yankees
were swinging and missing as if
they didn't even see the ball. I
got suspicious and began to figure.
What was he doing? I watched
him for an inning without catch-
ing wise. But the next inning I
caught on. He had moved up on
the mound and was foot and a half
or two feet in front of the rub-
ber.
"Why the Yankees didn't notice
it, I'll never understand," Nick
said, grinning. "Earl Combs was
coaching on one side and Art
Fletcher on the other, two of the
snarpest guys in baseball. But
there was Hadley, throwing that
much closer to the hitters and
getting away with it. I guess the
Yankees were too busy trying to
sweat out runs to notice Bump's
feet.
"Well, everything went along all
right," Nick said. "Hadley had his
lead and nobody was wise. So as
he went out to pitch the ninth,
I told him he'd Netter get hack
on the rubber. 'Don't push your
luck,' I warned him. So he stepped
back to where he .should be and
still got then out. T. suppose if
you tried to tell some of those
old Yankees about that today they
wouldn't believe you. But Hadley
really did it."
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