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MSEBALI TRUST
ISWOBSTDFALL,
sffs DAVIDSON
R i itting rules seemed per
[) fcctly satisfactory until they
JLZ began to get into operation,
ml then the little technicalities be
. llt to show up. In the main these
Tties are satisfactory to class AA
, jbs. but there is one flaw in them
that lends an advantage to the ma
that is hardly fair to the mi
nr,r? concerned. The drafting sea
. n extends over a period of five
,ia\s. and disappointments can be
,',,'ned into happiness by what is
known as "supplementary” drafts.
~ drafts that are filed after the
fl st deal. Like poker, you can dis
card and call for more to help your
hand. This would be all right if it
worked equally. But several class
\ X drafts were disallowed this year
because major league clubs were
permitted to cancel some drafts
made and take a new pick. Ver
non and Los Angeles put in drafts
for players from St. Joe. but all
were disallowed because the majors
had filed "supplementary” drafts,
or taken two picks.
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A MENDMENT to the drafting
rules should be made so that the
firs' deal should be the limit. As
the rules now work, the majors
may scramble for the first pickings,
and then if they fail they can
cancel their original drafts and go
back after the class of the rem
nants. By the time they get through
picking the minor league bone,
there is nothing left for the class
AA clubs. Supplementary drafts
should be canned because they de
feat the real reform asked by the
minors, in that drafting should be
allowed only for the purpose of
strengthening, not for brokerage
purposes.
UNDER the present rules, class
A dubs are classed as minors
when it coms to drafting, as the
rafts of the majors count against
the class AA clubs. For instance—
If a major league club takes a class
A player, a class AA club can not
draft a player from the same club.
In other words, a class A club can
lose only one player and there are
the majors and the class AA clubs
, to pick from the class A clubs. If
the majors beat the class AA clubs
to a class A player, the class A club
is exempt front drafts from a class
AA club. In other words', the class
AA clubs have really no more draft
ing privilege than they had before
the new agreement was signed, ex
cept in the matter of drafting
prices.
« *
r\RAI-'TING is a farce, anyway.
It should not be permitted at
all. Instead of an agreement that
permits a raid by leagues of a
higher ela> ideation upon an infe
rior league, right, of private con
tract only should recognized,
every club make its <>V n con
tracts and buy and sell and trade
at will, as long as no violation of
private contracts occurs. This wilt
be the stand that the minors will
take when the present national
agreement comes up for renewal.
I nder the present rules the right of
private contract is prohibited, and
time limits are prescribed in which
minor league clubs may deal with
one another, all in the interest of
the majors. •
* • •
pI.AYERS have certain inalien
able rights, guaranteed by the
'■onstiiution of the United States,
and the right of private contract is
"nr of these guaranteed rights.
Their clubs also should have equal
ghts. Let the minors develop their
pnenoms and sell them, but cut out
the drafting business as a matter
of self-defense for the player and
'he developing dub. Many a mi
"r leaguer is drafted who gets no
'hance to show his class or to
d ’ s " major league salary. Yet his
chib i s weakened in his loss and
' " n 'hei minor league club is the
Stoner, without right and without
e received being given.
y|' 'N'iPOLIES and trusts ate
sometimes permitted to flourish
'■ r‘r aws that are just about the
■'s the rules that prevail in
' i alter of drafting and protec
indet the national agreement
''' p n the majors and minor
■’sw baseball clubs. Private
‘ ‘' men Is of this nature would not
” mated if they applied to any
line of business. Depriving
dividual of an asset without
mp«nse and without his
z«ri ' i,o, h of which are legal-
""'lei the national agreement
" r ' Is Strictly prohibited
Stu ' 'hstitution of the United
but unfortunately it has not
* r -"tempted to apply it to base
band the baseball trust.
B MvBALL of the organized type
lv , 'rust of greater and meaner
v. ,’;" n ' he ,nl,PfI S,eel trus ’ " r
. rs , business organization
*” horn disturbing politics for
> U( _. 'ears. The baseball
I 9 n J. v destroys the right of
• ontiact. but makes slaves
• ir| s and creates and en
' (-.'.'/'i 1 : "I'liout the consent
‘ ontiactual party. Sign
' 'J OI league club and vou
' '"mnon serf becaese of
t> ' '"' l "I tile reserve < lause
i. ' ‘" ls you from iontrad-
L ■'*"<l because g "law”
1 punishes the other part\
' - - to , ontrm i W Ith vou
"biect of the hasehall
"“'i oy the right of pr|.
* '* 1 and It has het n In
'’l'""l'm f,, r aeveral
No Channel Swim for Pitonof
Girl; to Try Again Next Year
London, oct. u.-women
waiting for an opportunity
to swim the English channel
this year have grown stout and ro
tund in the dolce far niente of anx
ious expectation.
In the particular instance of Miss
Rose Pitonof. of Boston, who spent
six weeks at Dover gazing upon the
irate sea. this compulsory indo
lence brought an increased weight
of 26 pounds.
But Rose did not grieve. She
thinks that a little extra fat will
aid her in duplicating the magnifi
cent performances of "Bill" Burgess
and Captain Webb.
Rose figured upon losing part of
her avoirdupois between Dover and
Calais and continued to enjoy the
tender roast chickens that were
provided by Papa Pitonof every
evening in anticipation of a possi
ble attempt.
Nor did it affect this young Amer
ican girl's good humor to see her
self gaining in width rather than
height, and when she finally Yound
the scales tipping at 144 pounds and
looked up from her four feet eleven
inches into the face of a grinning
reporter, she merely laughed and—
asked for more chicken.
Experts in gastronomy all along
the Dover Promenade were agreed
that the mountains of sandwiches
and cases of bottled refreshments
furnished every day or so by Pito
nof. pere, for the delectation of the
cross-channel swimming party,
would have been a total loss if it
had not been for the devotion of
fishermen and seamen.
But the Iragedy of the thing lay
in other quarters.
Alas, Food Costs Money.
Week after week passed in end
less waiting, a waste of .time and
money, but not of matter. Papa
Pitonof, who had abandoned the
fortunes of his grocery store to the
cares of Madame Pitonof in a Bos
ton faubourg merely to pilot his
daughter into aquatic fame—poor
Papa Pitonof became gloomier
every day. His face grew melan-
PIPE DREAMS
By GEORGE E. PHAIR
Knockout Brown modestly admits
that he is the greatest middleweight
extant, but they do say that he is preju
diced.
* * •
Just to show his versatility, John
Evers passed up the umpire in a recent
game and started a fight with Joe
Tinker. Reports from the ringside con
firm the impression that he is not
built for a white hope.
• » *
This is a disastrous year for base
ball. Dr. F. R. Carson, president of the
Central league, threatens to quit and
leave the game flat on its back.
• » •
Job sat alone and emitted clouds of
gloom.
"What football team is he coach
ing?” they asked, wondering.
GENIUS.
O laugh no moie at the mental stunts
That are taught in the highbrow
schools.
Nor think the student is but a dunce
Or the college the home of fools:
1 met a talented rooter once
Who deciphered the football rules.
• • •
No. Oswald, there is no truth to
the report that Mr. Murphy will
give Mr. Chance a pension.
♦ ♦ ♦
Would it not be exhilirating to see
Mordecai Brown hurling against
the Cubs? Or would it not?
Theodore Roosevelt is a great lit
tle manager, but Roger Bresnahan
and Hugh Duffy can hand him some
valuable information on the futility
of trying to get team work out of a
suffrage movement.
♦ ♦ »
Another way to get a line on the
world's series is to read all the ex
pert dope pertaining thereunto and
then forget it.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. OCTOBER /I
choly as the skies, as he pointed his
new binoculars from the French
window of his furnished room upon
the dancing waves of the channel.
He could see the coast of France,
beckoning sadly through a veil of
gray, but the longer he looked and
the more he sighed, the wilder
danced the treacherous currents of
the Scylla and Charybdis.
And Eli Pitonof gave up at last.
Even Rose, smiling through a tear
but losing none of her buoyant
spirit, threw up the sponge and
bade au revoir to the good things
and bad things of Dover. She vow
ed to return next spring when she
will be just eighteen years old; and
Rose will keep her word, provided
father and mother agree up'cin the
expediency of leaving the weather
proof delicacies of the Dorchester
(Boston) grocery store for the un
certainties and perplexing problems
of channel swimming, to say noth
ing of the enforced chicken diet.
However, Miss Pitonof. plucky
little lady that she Is, was not the
only disappointed woman swim
mer.
Hard on Lily, Too.
Miss Lily Smith, the champion of
Britain, was quite disenchanted and
absolutely angry at the unconcilia
tory attitude of the elements. She,
too, was ready to swim, waiting pa
tiently and gaining in weight, but
the day never came. She returned
to London just in time to witness
Pitonof’s record swim of sixteen
miles in the glacial waters of the
Thames. Indeed. Rose swam the
longest distance ever swum by
woman’and stayed in the water four
hours and thirty-four minutes,
w hile the men in the accompanying
launches lay burled in blankets and
overcoats.
When the girl emerged from the
water under the darkness of London
bridge, she was as fit as a fish and
ready to jump in again.
"1 am going back to America
now,” she said, “but 1 will return in
the spring and carry this eagle here
on my swimming suit from good old
England to sunny France."
WHILE THERE IS LIFE THERE
IS DOPE.
They stood at his bedside and hope
lessly sighed:
"He soon will be under the clov
er.”
"Oh. not by a jugfull!" he gal
lantly cried;
"At least till the series is over.”
• * •
Being a fan in St. L°uis during a city
series is not without its compensations.
One can always get a good seat.
WHITE SOX LINE-UP.
(October 8. 1912.)
Walsh, p.
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PARTED.
' An Unpopular Song.)
It was a balmy autumn day, the sun
was in the west.
The foundry whistles all had blew, the
birds'had went to rest.
He whispered in the maiden's ear as
gentle as an ox:
"Tomorrow I will take you, dear, to loot
for them there Sox."
The maiden turned away'
And to him she did say:
CHORUS
"You have broke my heart, you low
brow.
My feelings you have hurt.
All is over now between us.
You can get another skirt.
For the lovelight in your blinkers
Is nothing but a shine:
I loved you once, but not no more
(tremulo)
The Sox don't go for mine."
AM ID PLAY
YELLOWJAGKETS
TOMORROW
The. first teal game of the college
football season in Atlanta is set for
decision tomorrow afternoon when
Tech and the University of Alabama
meet.
The game will start at 3 o'clock.
These two teams seem peculiarly well
matched and the game between them
should be a corker.
Alabama is coming to Atlanta with
a much stronger team this year than
that which held Tech 0-0 last fall.
The new grandstand that tuns paral
lel to the field and directly opposite to
the present one. is practically finished
and will be ready for use Saturday.
This new stand will seat 1,500 persons.
The entrance will be from that side of
the The view there Is really bet
ter than from any other seat.
Alabama will be in the game minus
the services of her captain and quarter
back. Moody, while Tackle Elmer, of
the Tech eleven, will also be out.
The probable line-up of the two teams
is as. follows:
Alabama. Tech.
H. Vandegraaf. le Hutton, le.
Hamilton, It. . . Leuhrman (Capt.). It.
Gandy. Ig. ..Montague or Welchel, Ig.
Ridley, c. Loeb. c.
Hicks, :gMeans, rg.
Gibbons, rtColley, rt.
Jones, reGoree, re
Joplin, q. McDonald, q.
McDowell, IhbCook, Ihb.
A. Vandegraaf. rhbFleldei. rhb
Long, fb ..Thomason, fb.
TECH HI LOSES PLUCKY
GAME TO G. M. A. ELEVEN
Though heavily outweighed, the Tech
nological High school football team put
up a plucky game against the strong
Georgia Military academy eleven yester
day. Although the score does not Indi
cate it, both elevens were about evenly
matched, and each made first down an
equal number of times.
Georgia Military academy scored in the
first quarter after a stubbornly contested
march to their opponents’ goal A fluke
forward pass in the second quarter,
which bounded from the bands of Simp
son, the Tech High school quarterback,
who tried to intercept it, into the arms
of an a waiting opponent, resulted in Geor
gia Military academy' ssecond and last
score. Georgia Military academy missed
both tries at goal.
The third quarter saw honors about
even, with the play confined to the mid
dle of the field. Tech High school took
the aggressive in the last quarter, car
rying the ball almost the length of the
field to within six inches of Georgia Mil
itary academy's goal, where it rested
when the whistle blew
Tnere were no particular stars on the
Georgia Military academy eleven Each
man played a good, consistent game
Meeyrs, Barton and Colcord showed to
advantage for Tech High school
CARDINAL PLAYERS COP
ANOTHER FROM BROWNS
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 11.—Singles by
Mowrey and Evans and Stovall’s error
in the eighth inning gave the St. Louis
National league club the second game
of the inter-league series for the city
championship with the local American
league team here yesterday, 3 to 2.
The Americans got a run in the sec
ond inning on a hit and two errors.
In the fifth the Nationals took the lead,
scoring two runs on three passes, a
single and another pass. Austin's dou
ble. a wild pitch and a single in the
same inning tied it for the Americans.
ATHLETICS COP AGAIN;
STUFFY McINNES STARS
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 11.—The Phila
delphia American league baseball team
made It three out of four in the local
interleague series by winning from the
National league team yesterday; 4 to 3
Mclnnes, the Americans' first baseman.
scored two runs and got a double and
single off the delivery of Moore, who
started pitching for the Phillies Eeaton
relieved Moore In the seventh inning
and Brown, who started for the Athletics,
was succeeded by Bender in the fourth
inning
BREWER BESTS ROWAN.
SALT LAKE. UTAH. Oct. 11.—Har
ry Brewer got the decision over Martin
Rowan at the end of the fifteenth round
here last night. The fight was the
fastest ever seen In this city.
PACKEY M’FARLAND FIGHTS
WINNIPEG. MANITOBA, Oct. 11.—
Paekey McFarland and Tommy Kil
bane clash in the ring here tonight.
Local fans look for the Chicago boy to
win handily
The Boston Rooter Speaks
' By MORTON BIRGE
OH. maybe they’ll fight in the Balkan States and maybe,
• again, they won t.
And just this minute there’s nobody here cares much if
they do or don't.
But there IS a scrap that is on today that is regular heart
throb stuff.
I’he same is the thrilling Pennant game in the shadow of
Coogan’s Bluff
Oh, the wide, wide earth is a big, fat place, with a whole lot of
people, too.
But only one spot and a blamed few men mean anything to you.
And that one place is the Polo Grounds, where the Giants and
Red Sox play.
And these two teams are Ihe only folks that interest you today.
Os these two teams—well, there's one we know—Oh. go it. you
Red Sox boys.
And here is a Qloom for Muggsy’s men; for the Red Sox only
Joys.
With our fingers crossed and our breath held hard we wait for
the news to break,
And everything else sits down way back till we hear from the
Boys and “‘•lake.’’
ED KETCHELL WINS.
LANSING. MICH. Oct. 11—Eddie
Ketchell stopped Fred Langham in th?
third round of the eight-round final
here last night.
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The things that must have your attention a bit in
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'l’he same thoughtfulness is of great value to the
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CYCLONE JOHNNY WINS.
F( IND DU LAU. WIS., Oct. 11.—< v
clone Johnny Thompson made a chop
ping block of Art Godfrey, of Minne
apolis. here last night.
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• Attendance 34,624; :
• Receipts $63,142:
• •
• BOSTON, Oct. 11.—The na- •
• tional commission figures for at- •
• tendance and receipts at yester- •
• day’s game show: •
• Total attendance, 34,624. •
• Total receipts, $63,142. •
• National commission's share, •
• $6,314.20. •
• Players' share, $34,096.68. •
• Each club's share, $11,365.56. •
• With one tie game already, and •
• with a fair Chance that eight •
• games will be played in the series. •
• the receipts ought to run above •
• anything ever known before. Here •
• is a comparison of the receipts and •
• attendance last year and this •
• year: •
• 1912. 1911. •
• Attendance . 100,502 101,783 •
• Receipts. . $196,638.00 $195,714.50 •
• Players . . . 106,183.94 105,793.83 •
• Clubs .... 70.789.96 60,529.22 •
• Commission . 19.664.10 19,395.45 •
• Each winner 2,895.92 3,022.68 •
• Each loser . 1,930.60 2,015.12 •
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STEVE KETCHELL WINS.
AURORA, ILL., Oct. 11—Steve
Ketchell decisively defeated Jeff O'Con
nell in their six-round bout last night
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