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Owner Murphy Says Cubs Have
Fine Chance to Nose Out Giants
By Charles W. Murphy.
President of the Chicago Nationals.
CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—The fight
for the 1912 championship in
the National league is by no
means over, and it would not sur
prise me if the race would tighten
up from now on until tht' last game
is played in October.
The New York club got off well
and secured a lead, chiefly because
the Brooklyn and Boston clubs of
fered little resistance to the <Hants,
and also because the Philadelphia
Nationals, who are now playing
great hall were in a badly crip
pled condition. While the Giants
were meeting with little opposition
during the early part of the season,
we were experimenting with our
line-up to some degree and were
also battling with strong clubs,
like Pittsburg and Cincinnati,
which went verj well early in the
season, and St. Louis.
Tills Hying start put the New
York club In a position where it
semed to have things its own way,
but the present line-up of the Chi
cago club is Mich that we will keep
fighting until the last ray of hope
is gone, and if the Cubs can get
some assistance from other clubs in
the way of downing the Giants now
and then, the race may continue
right through to the end of the
season.
Says Cubs Better Than Giants.
Personally, 1 believe that the Chi
cago club, as it is now lined up.
is superior to the New York club.
I also believe that the Philadel
phia National league club is equal
if not su|»'rlor to the New York
club. We have had the misfor
tune to lose the services of Mor
decal Brown, who sustained an in
jury to his knee, and that has hurt
us some. We have also had the
same bad luck with regard to Che
ney.
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE]
— I I
Qlfk Gilbert has signed articles to tight
Bob Brown, in Birmingham, tabor oar
Gilbert has been boxing in Florids re
cently and Is in good shape for the mill
• • •
Although no title is involved in the fight
between I’ackey McFarland and Ad \V<4-
gast t<» be staged in New York S» p
tember 27. as much Interest is center*.l
on the match as was ever shown about
an>’ championship contest of anx weight,
with the possible exception of the Jef
fries-Johnson fight.
• • •
Promoters of the Orleans Athletic club.
?<• ( ’ rleans - have secured Freddie
x\ eisn s consent to meet the winner of I
the Joe Thomas Leo Kellv fight, to be
staged in that city Mondax If Welsh
is defeated by Ray Temple when (hex
mee’ labor dax. Temple will be given
the match instead of the Englishman
• • •
Mach Cross will tackle Teddy Maloney
in a six-round affair at Philadelphia Sep
tember 6.
• • •
Canny Morgan Is doing his best to
match Jack Britton with Harry Trendall
for a ten-round bout, tn be staged before
the club offering the best inducements
• • •
Patsy Kline, the Newark hoc. who is
picked by many to succeed Johnny Kll
bane as featherweight champion, has
agreed to box Young Abe \tt< 11 In Cin
cinnati some time this month. No date
has been set for the bout
• • •
Al Kaufman, who has beet-, -n the shelf
for some weeks, is going to be taken d. wm
and dusted off about t'.o first ’ ~i.,.e
by a San Francisco sp-rt. who claims o
be Willing to wager »f. 500 th. big >. pe
can defeat the winner of the Jim Fieri
Charlie Miller fight
• • •
The Wabash Athletic club a new hex
ing club at Terre Haute, lie. . will bax.
’Jack Johnson as a drawing < ard t> •re
Labor day No, Arthur »s» -'t •
defend his title The champ’, -n 1 • !
rented tn second Kid Shell* v-
K O. Brown there * n that dat* Shell \
was <>ne of Johnson's sparring p.nti'cr
at Las Vegas when Jack xxas tr.ri : g o r .
his match vxith Jim Flynn
• • •
Bombardier Wells. EnglM. heavyweight '
champion, w ill sail for this ■ untry about ,
one month from today Molls -;ig he!
has been taking on weight m-,1 i- .-pc
daily anxious to get a u-turn mat, h w ith
Al Palter, who knocked blrn out in his
first fight on this side
• • e
Champion Johnny Kilbane. who tights I
Johnny Dundee in New York Wednesday,
In my judgment, the Chicago
team knows more inside baseball
than any team in the country, and
J think we have Increased our
pitching strength materially in
Leifield, Lavender and Cheney.
Reulbach is going fine at this time,
and will no doubt be a big factor
in our success throughout the re
mainder of the season.
I do not think I ever saw Mana
ger Chance manifest more interest
In the game than Just now, and this
is largely due to the fact that he Is
feeling better than he has for some
time past.
The tremendous batting of Zim
merman. together with his all
round play, has helped us largely,
and Manage] Chance recently said
he would not trade Zimmerman for
any third baseman in baseball.
Safer and Leach are both playing
gt<at ball and have fitted into our
machine nicely. Evers, Tinker,
Sheekard and Schulte are going
along as well as they have in for
mer years, ami the catching of
Archer is something that people
talk about every place the Cubs go.
We are well fortified in having
Tom Downey and Jerry Dow ns for
utility infielders, as both of them
are good batters and base run
ners and men of experience who
know the game
Outfield Well Fortified.
<>ur outfield Is well fortified 111
having such men as Good. Wil
liams and Miller for extra men. as
we are practically carrying two
outfields Needham and Cotter are
both good catchers and good bats
men. so that we are pretty well
fortified behind the bat.
If we do not beat the Glints
from now until the end of the pen
nant race. We will at least give
them a battle and a mighty good
scale. Personally, 1 think my club
has more than an outside chance
for tlie pennant.
_
will appear in Gotham again on Septem
ber la. when he meets Eddie O'Keefe in
a ten-round encounter.
• • •
Morris Bloom and Bert Stanley are
scheduled to go ten rounds in Milwau
kee Monday
• • •
Louis IJePonthier. lightweight Cham
pi'iu <>f France, and Tommy clary, of
< hicago, are scheduled to box ten rounds
at the Garden Athletic club, in New York,
Monday night.
DAN P. WINS 2:16 PACE
FEATURE AT MACON TRACK
MAi'oN. GA. Aug 31 Han P,
onhrd by C. Cook, of Atlanta, won
the 2:16 pace for a pu'se of $l5O here.
Th, event was the feature of the sec
ond day of the three-day race meet.
The time was 2:15 1-2. Three heats
were required to decide the winner,
Dan P. w inning the first, Patch, n Heart
th. second and Dan P coming back in
good shape in the third.
Patehen 11. art finished second in the
other two heats, while Lecco Wilks,
own. .I by Dan O'Connell, of • .Macon,
win. f uineiiy held tin Georgia record’
finished third in all three heats. The
-I" pace, for a purse of flan, was
won by Sam Dillon, owned by H. II
Pierce, of Cartersville, in two' st'alght
teats the time being 2:23 1-1
T<■ 1 1 s th* featun will bt ~ free• foi -
all. in which Handsome Bov, w ho broke
th« Georgia tfavk -....rd Thursday and
who is owned by Bill Escoe, of Athens
and Veteran and N< lll< G< ntry, both
owned by Dan O'Connell, of Macon, ar.'
j entered.
SCHEGG STARTS SOUTH:
IS DUE HERE ON SUNDAY
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I S-.'tthpayy Sehegg, the Washington
' unknown ’ s.-. nred by the Crackers for
| a 1 ’ il. has been shipped South by Clark
I I .t ■ :i 1 ‘ Ii• will reach Atlanta Sunday
I.m i : ik. his first workout Monday. He
.will b< stuck in a game either Tuesday
lor M , ,lt , s. | ,y , pi,.yjd,d ho proVeS to
be in tolerably good condition.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31. 1912.
Crackers End Trip to Chattanooga Today, Then Beat It Homeward
WILL PLAY DOUBLE-HEADER LABOR DAV AT PONCE
By Percy 11. Whiting.
rTTAIfIS is the < 'rackets’ last day
I in Chattanooga. They con
clude their argument with
Billy Smith’s team this afternoon
and then bump home over the state
of Georgia's somewhat lumpy W.
& A. to Atlanta. And on Mon
day, the same being Labor day,
they open at Ponce DeLeon for the
last stand on the home lot.
Monday will be a big day. Noth
ing In the world but rain can stop
it. The mere fact that the team is
finishing last, and a hopeless, be
draggled last at that, will have
nothing to do with the case. It's
Labor day, and there's a double
header on tap. That's all the peo
ple want to know.
There are a lot of folks whose la
bors interfere with their baseball.
They would like to see every game
of the season. But as a rule they
don't see any except those of July
4 and Labor day.
Do you suppose that the mere
fact that the team isn't winning
quite all its games these days is
going to make any difference? Nary
a bit. They'll all be there.
« • •
ep HE Memphis bunch w ill furnish
1 the opposition on Monday. Bill
Bernhard lias a club this season
that hasn’t anything to speak of on
the Crackers. And the contests
should be tolerably even.
The Turtle (dub stays until Wed
nesday night and then passes on,
to be replaced Thursday by the
Nashville club, which finishes out
the week. Then, on the following
Monday. Rill Smith and his Chat
tanooga club will be here for three
days. And with the departure of
the Lookouts the Crackers will
likewise depart. They hike to Mem
phis for three games and then
quietly fade away.
THE chief interest in the coming
home stay of the Crackers lies
PLAY SEMI-FINALS TODAY
FOR DAVIS & FREEMAN CUP
The scmi-tlnals in the three flights
of the Davis w Freeman golf tropin
tournament will be played this after
noon over the East Lake course of the
Atlanta Athletic club.
Two matches were completed yes
terday. bringing every flight to the
semi-finals stage. They were:
First Flight.
W. R. Tiehenor defeated A. Davidson,
3 up and 2 to plaj .
Third Flight,
R. 1. Gresham defeated A. W. Hod
nett. 3 up and 2 to play.
The following is the schedule of
matches for today:
First Flight.
Dick Jemison vs. H. Block
A. Davidson vs W. K. Tiehenor.
Second Flight.
R. P. Jones. Jr., vs. G \ Nicholson,
Jr.
W. <'. Hollevman vs H. G. Butler.
Third Flight.
T. L. Cooper vs. P. A. Wright.
R. L. Gresham vs. S. Hard.
MILLER AND FLYNN UNABLE
TO AGREE ON A REFEREE
SAN FRAN'TSCO. Aug. 31. There
Is a deadlock on the selection of tlie
refere, for tin Miller-Flynn contest
next Monday. Promoter Jim Coffroth
spent two hours yesterday in consul
tation with Menager I .•mis Parente and i
Jake Curley, hut could not reach an i
agt 'ement. \notl er conference w ill be
held today Five names were suggested
at tin- conference, including Jim Grif
fin. Hurry Foley. .Ink. Welsh, Eddie
Hanlon and Toby Irwin.
It has been know n alt along that Cur
lev would prefer Jake Welsh, but so
far Coffroth has been unable to learn
whether Welsh would be willing to act
in the event of being chost n.
packey McFarland is an
EASY WINNER OVER HIRST
| PHILADELPHIA, Vug 31 In a one
• s-il.-il six round bout before the i tlvmpia
• ■ < lub here, Pa< key McFat land,
the Chicago lightweight. received the
popular d< eision <n er Joe Hirst, of Phila
'elphla In all but on<- round. M< F.ir
an.t landed at vwtl. while the few blows
cf his opponent lacked force.
in the fact that some new men will
be tried out. Schegg, the new
southpaw pitcher, will be shoved in
and given a chance. Sisson, the out
fielder from Columbus, will replace
Lyons in the outfield. And possi
bly there will be quite a batch of
other changes, though they have
not been announced yet.
• • •
C PEAKING <»f recruits, a list of a
dozen rules for the guidance
of those just breaking into base
ball has been recently promulgated
and is here given, with the earnest
hope that it will be of benefit to any
who are trying to smash their way
into the national game:
1. Be sure to call your manager
Roge, Connie, Jake or Muggsy,
as the case may be. Baseball
tacticians dislike a cold greet
ing.
2. If you arrive in the city late
at night, get your manager out
of bed by a phone call and ask
him directions to the park.
3 Tell everybody you meet that
night that you are Bingen, the
new outfielder, and can make
(’ohb. Speaker. Wagner and Bak
er look like lazy picnic larries with
the willow.
4. If you were drafted from a bush
league for SSOO, don’t admit it.
Say you cost $25,000, but your
owner doesn't want it known, be
cause too much publicity over the
amount involved hurt $22,500
(t’Toole.
\» the breakfast table, tell
strangers that your minimufn
base steals a season are around
the 75 mark.
6 On arriving at the park in the
morning for practice, burst In
the (lub house and shout, “I'm
Bingt n, the new outfielder. Say,
Cobn. you play right field here
after. for I want center.”
7 Help yourself to the star
pitcher’s uniform and, when on
the field, make the others go to
the infield and outfield and have
an hour of batting practice.
8 In going back to the club
house for a shower, make some
crack that the team is loafing.
Tell the star shortstop that he
doesn't play deep enough, and ad
vise the spitball iron man to cut
out the moist delivery, as you are
afraid of muffing a wet ball.
9 (’all the manager aside and
sa\ : “I.ookahere, you let me bat
in fourth place, as 1 am the clean
up kid and have a better chance
to drive in runs.”
I
Ihe Big Race
He>’e's the latest on the race for bat
ting honors in the American league,
right off the bat, as it were:
PLAYER— AB. H. P. C.
COBB 457 187 .409
SPEAKER 487 196 .402
JACKSON 464 171 .369
COLLINS 437 148 .339
LAJOIE 331 106 .320
Yesterday was a hard day for Cobb.
By scoring the only run off the hitless
pitching of Hamilton, of the Browns,
he acquired a certain amount of honor,
but by failing, as did all his team
mates, to get a hit, he dropped back
two points in the batting race. Speak
er made two hits out of five times up
and that rather useful performance
netted him a loss of one point. Jack
son and Lajoie each made one hit out
of three times up. Collins, like Speak
er, made two out of five times up.
HAMILTON HURLS-NO-HIT
GAME, RUT COBB SCORES
I>ETR( c’l Mb H . 31 Earl Ham-
’lton held Detroit hitloss yesterday, but
ta i <1 to keep Cobb oft the bases.
' S: Louis won. 5 to 1. In the fourth
; ‘ ‘bb walked, took second and third when
I ’ratt booted Crawford s grounder, con
t’uued ho»m wb.cn Austin attempted to
■ at< h (Tawford at second and beat the
return to the plate by sliding around
Alexander
St Lottis gave Hamilton splendid sup
port. Hamilton failed to retire a bat
ter on -tr’ki'S, but his tine cintrol, puz
zling delivery and excellent curve ball
kept the Detroit players for the most
art popping fins or rolling grounders to
the infield.
HYDER BARR SUSPENDED:
GASTON REPLACES HIM
CHATTANOOGA. TENN Aug. 31.
Hyd, : Bair v as placed on the ineligi
ble 'i-t today by Manager Billy Smith,
and Dav e Gaston. formerly of the Co-
Intnbu- F n.ts signed until the
' tin » .0-011 Bai rls suffering
with a wrenched knee.
10. Should the manager surprise
you by asserting that he would
stand pat on Cobb in center field,
snap your fingers at him and de
clare that he Is a bum and not
fit to run a squad of washer
women. For a final thrust yell,
"Either you go or 1 go."
11. A'iew it philosophically. The
best get It.
12. Just explain to the boys sit
ting on the chairs in front of the
Dewey hotel in Maysville that ev
erybody had it in for you and
they wouldn’t give you a chance.
Anyway, you like Maysville bet
ter than Detroit.
• • •
r J'HE fact that the Mobile club
has been unable to hold the
Barons in their big series now in
progress seems to indicate that
Mike Finn and his merry men are
done. If they could win today and
tomorrow and then perform a
string of miracles, the Gulls might
win the pennant yet. But nobody
would regard such a happening as
at all probable.
The race is over and the best
team will win. it isn’t the best
team the league ever saw, by tenor
a dozen. But it’s a well balanced,
well managed team, and it is a
moderate credit to the league.
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JNTEREST in baseball from now
on will largely be directed to
ward the world series. The Amer
ican league race is as good as over.
There is no chance that the Red
Sox will be headed. The Giants
may yet be overhauled, though it
is not highly probable. The South
ern league race Is as good as over.
In the Sally league it is neck and
neck, but the closing games of the
regular season come Monday.
The end of baseball! s drawing
near.
And there will be no great out
burst of sorrow in Atlanta when
the finish comes. A tail-end team
for two years running is something
that few cities, outside of Boston
and St. Louis, can stand with
equanimity.
'AMATEUR GAMES GALORE
TODAY AND ON LABOR DAY
Following are some of the important
. amateur games scheduled for today
and Labor day:
’ TODAY'S GAMES.
City League.
. I Moose vs. Southern Shops.
) • Southern Bell vs. Bean * McGill.
> I Inman Yards vs. Company A.
j , Saturday Afternoon League.
Atlanta Top Company vs. Fulton Bag
’at Fulton.
) i Continental Gin Company vs. Inde
, pendents, at Piedmont.
3 : Center Hill vs. Piedmont, at plant.
Whittier vs. Exposition, at Exposl
’ tion.
> Commercial League.
t J M. High vs. Rich Bros., at Fort
( McPherson
Smyrna vs. Keely Co., at Smvrna
LABOR DAY GAMES.
3 Smyrna vs. Agogas.
’ Sunday School league team vs. Trol-
• ley league team.
t American National plays Fourth
. National. The American National has
already practically won the pennant
of the Bankers league.
Sunday School League.
The Sunday School league closed its
season last Saturday, Capitol View
. winning the pennant, with the St.
> Philips team a close second.
CAPTAIN BRIGGS WINS
WIMBLEDON TROPHY
i
RIFLE RANGE. SEAGIRT. N J..
, Aug. 31.—Seven important events on
the program of the Seagirt shooting
tournament were completed yesterday.
The championship company team
match of the I'nited States wan won
by Copany K of the First District of
Columbia infantry; the championship
revolver team match, by the First cav.
airy of New York. Wimbledon cup
match, by Captain A. L. Briggs. I’. S
A ; the Spencer match, by Corporal H
E. Major. I*. S. marine corps; the Gen
eral E. P Meany match, by G. W
Chesley. of Connecticut; the all-com
ers squadded revolver match, by A.
R. Lane, of New York The champion
ship company team match was open to
teams of four, each member firing ten
shots at 200 yards and ten shots at
600 yards.
Gotham Clubs May Play Sunday
Baseball on New Jersey Land
By Monty.
NEW YORK, Aug.*3l.—Sunday
baseball for New Yorkers
would be quite an astonish
ing development. Yet. such a thing
has now come within the limits of
possibility. It will become a real
ized fact if plans of a certain New
Jerseyite materialize. Professional
bail on the Sabbath is forbidden in
the Empire state by enactment of
law. The law not only is on the
hooks; it is enforced. New Jersey
has a similar law, but by mutual
agreement of all, it is not enforced.
So the idea is to have the Giants
and Highlanders—whichever hap
pens to be in town at the time—
traipse over to the Skeetetland on
Sunday.
The inceptor of this novel, not to
say revolutionary proposition, is
President Lillis, of the Jersey City
club of the International league.
Oddly enough, his hold project finds
inspiration in adversity.
Grounds at End of Tube.
The new home of the Skeeters,
according to present intention, is
to be on what is known as Jersey
Meadows, on tlie direct line of the
"tube," which passes under the
Hudson river from New York. Rid
ing on the “tube" trains the exact
running time to the new park from
the.heart of New York city will be
thirteen minutes, from the heart of
Jersey City four minutes, from the
heart of Newark seven minutes.
Thus a tremendous population will
be tapped by means of the "tube"
alone.
President Lillis has tlie idea work
ed out in a most interesting way
that should prove a money maker
|| FODDER FOR FANS
Lou Castro's career as manager of the
I ortsmouth team has been one long riot.
The .club president went over Castro’s
’ head to release players. Then Castro
went at him in the papers. What has
followed since can easily be imagined.
• • »
Joe McGinnity quit the Newark team
while it was at Montreal and gave out
the news that he wanted to "get out ”
Apparently the “Iron Man” is almost done
as a mogul.
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It has been reported in Virginia that
Lou Castro would manage the Richmond
team next year, but this report is denied
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I’iti ’ter Eugene Moore, •-led out by the
Reds, will be returned to Galveston
Moore was said to have promise, but no
curves and less speed.
Charley Dryden says the folks of White
Sox Jim Scott, the famous moose hunter,
have a moose chained to a tree fur him
in the front yard at Lander. Wvo He
will shoot it this fall
* * a
College stars continue to look good to
the big leaguers. The Pirates are nego
tiating for Tommy yuiglev. of Notre
Dame, who Is now playing center field for
Gary.
♦ * ♦
Mystery! The Giants are being fol
lowed by a mysterii us woman or lady
they don't know which She followed
them throughout the entire Western 'rip
She was never seen ar the hotels nor on
the trains, but was at all games If
anybody knows the answer he hasn’t told
yet.
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It is noted in the Chattanooga papers
that President O. B Andrews “is satis
tied Mr. Elbctfeld will make a satisfac
tory manager."
• * •
Wh«n Tubby Spencer, former big league
backstop, appeared before Judge Collins,
of the police court in Indianapolis
charged with tigh’lng a losing tight with
| John Barleycorn, his honor remarked "I
I don’t know whether the boss • ut at 'the
works' needs a ball player or not. but vou I
are »n your way." And Tubby wen'
The White Sox have bought Pitcher
Harry Smith, of Lincoln
* * *
Rochester fans are willing to wager a
little two-toone that .lack Lelivelt will,
never stick In the big leagu, ... fie can i
hit—but he’s flat-footed.
« •« •
Nap Rucker has confessed that h’;- real
name isn’t Nap at all. hut Go.,rg' Some ■
ribald sport writer hung the "Napoi. ’
on him. and it lingered
If anybody with rno‘ne\ could have
guessed tb.it the Reds aero to Hiu:
out the G'ants two games In a rou he i
could have gambled bls wat up to a i
million dollars at least
King Cole may go to the Celumbu; team ;
on a trade.
for all concerned. His Jersey Crty
club would play all its home games
in the new park, including Sundays.
When they had a home game on
th? Sabbath It would form the
opener of a double-header, with
Giants or Highlanders providing
the second one. When his team is
out of town on Sundays the at
home New York club could have
the grounds for its game alone.
Lillis has in mind an arrange
ment by which the New York clubs
could pay him either a flat rental
for each Sunday's use of the park
or a percentage of the receipts. He
believes that a record bunch of fans
could be herded inside the grounds.
The “regulars" would come over
from Gotham in addition to base
ball lovers who tiow do not see any
big league hall because Sunday Is
their only "day off." Besides, he
eonsideis several thousand fans
from Jersey who would enthuse
over tlie chance to get the big
league article close to home. He
can't sec anything to it but a big
bunch of coin for all concerned.
He has mentioned the thing to
President Frank J. Farrell, of the
Highlanders, and President John T.
Brush, of the Giants. They are
non-committal as yet, but Lillis
says they are favorably disposed
toward the proposition.
Philly Clubs May Try It.
If the innovation is tried and
goes through successfully, it may
lead to the Philadelphia clubs do
ing a like stunt—moving across
into Camden, N. J., on Sundays.
Pennsylvania has a law similar to
New York's that prohibits the
Phillies an i Athletics from work
ing at home on church day.
_il the Lookouts lose Saturday to the
Crackers, Bill Smith might as well pack
up and move away. His popularity in
<’l ananooga is at a low ebb right now.
• * •
exchanges contain the news
that \l (.’hamjiicn has received a 10-cent
‘l'ratii-n i<> the Lew Richie automobile
fund and that Lev\ has demanded an ac
counting.
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I’he debut of Dan Griner, former Moon
ey school star, with the Cardinals, was
stormy. After # a couple of homers and
some other stuff had been made off his
delivery he was retired. At that, the
lad is only just out of prep school.
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I'l.irk Griffith's suspension has been
lifted and he is back on the coaching
lines again.
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Ihe charge that Handiboe had received
more mono.' last year for playing with
\ ap Lees than is allowed under the
.'ally leag ;e rules (which say that no man
year who made more
than MgO a month last year) was proved
false by President Consh. of the Sally
league. Apparently they don't pay such
nigh salaries on the Yank team.
The ‘Tibs have a new pennant pole—
■'f"l''lO hng to put " n !t but the ras
I !l ." .' league magnates have en
tci-o.i into an agreement, it is said, n' t
Vi ' ' ' I, 1 ? ' 1 Oi ir players to big league
e . ,lb . s ’. . have to lose one a
draft, but will keep the rest.
I.his sh'inld make for faster ball in the
r but is unfair to the players,
for it b.< •■:<> their hance of advancement
to the big league;;.
Well, anyhow the Cubs have won the
< onversation championship.
Derrill Pratt had hit safelv In more
tban a score of games in a row when
swats'' 11 in 'errupted the flow of
I Ban Johnson Ims made Hank O’Dav an
A er J n Ker , Vt ' " n ' he umpiring staff of the
i American league. It is obfvous that he
can t go back into the National league.
\VLe sayings of baseball: “It is pos
sible for a ball player to be great with
out shooting off his mouth.’’
1 Heinie Zimmerman, big stick man of
"•' .' tt’.nal league, started his hitting
'.Jtf'i ;,s a gi.lfer He developed from
■t ■ ’. <!> into a rather presentable plaver.
still drive an awful ball „ n th"
’• ’ii’ 1,1,1 ,l ' lt ’>»► a pretty cre<l-
itabie all-round game.
f'espitj. t) f. irt thaf Washington has
, 1 I* no '.' t ' untender, it is reported
I ’ L,!l receipts have shown m
i material advance.
I tie ‘ loveland and Toledo teams mat
i together at Pensacola, Fla., next
J ear.