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.’ivr OTHER SPORT SIN’DAY, MAY 4, 1013. 3G GOLF II IS FAR Hi Jeff May Be Short m c * V * -y kj I j'j bi t He’s Long in California Spirit • • • • • • • • By “Bud” Fisher T By Tick Tiehenor. HE question no doubt has often I been asked why have Southern j players never made any showing j lie Amateur Championship of th. 'NIL'SOH ts-rRNtNfe TO ^vetD WfkR. with IT javye, THfVT THTR£ rb ALREADY one hundeed thousand ''ble bodied Jbps in anverka ■aI Ute >ut . answer to thi thut our players stion and 1111- m t yet in the (. ass of the North-j and Western golfers. If you ■ the handicap list or* the J Ate* Golf Association of are eligible to enter this will readily see that this On this list there arc <1 and forty-two names. If Red who ent you a fact ur hund will wamine it car •fully ou will find that of this number only tv*, enty-flve are Southern players Thus there are nearly twenty players from other parts of the country to one from the South. If you will look further you will see that Nelson Whitney, of New* Orleans, is the only player from the South ranked as good as four, while there are tw enty-four players rated better than four and forty-four at this figure. There are one hundred and' two players rated at five and of this number the South has six. Rated at six are one hundred and seventy- two men of which number eighteen are Southerners. Whitney Only Southerner. Thus it will be seen that in the first sixty-eight players as ranked by the U. S. G. A. Nelson Whitney is the only one from the S. G. A. In the first one hundred and seventy players in addition to Nelson Whitney are found R. G. Bush. Jr.. F. G. Byrd. J. P. Edrington, N. A. Hardie, Ellis Knowles. W. P. Stewart. The other eighteen Southerners, whose names appear on this list and who are handicapped at six are George W. Adair, G. N. Aldridge, J. B. Bush. Douglas Call, Leigh Carroll. R. H. Conneriy, E. W. Daley, K. L. Dalglish, Charles Dexter, Jr., Bryan Heard, Lewis Jacoby, F. M. Lewis, C. H. M unger, George C. Oliver, W. E. Stauffer. J. F. Turner, Milby Por ter, and the writer. In some way the name of Albert Schwartz, of New Orleans, has been omitted from the list. This is very evidently an over sight as he was included last year and is one of the very best golfers in the South as he showed last year, when he won the low score medal in the qualifying round of the Southern championship. It is therefore easily seen that there are few’ players in the South who have much-of a chance to quali fy In the amateur championship and therefore few of them care to make the attempt witli such little chance of success attending their efforts. Only Two Have Qualified. Last year the South sent a team of four to this event, three of whom had been Southern Champions and one twice runner-up, and it was hop ed that some of them would at least qualify, but not a one of them did. Only twice, if my memory serves me light, have Southern players ever qualified In this event. In 1908 Nel son Wtiitney was successful and in 1910 dll is Knowles was one of the elect. But no doubt you ask—why is it our players are inferior? If this condition exists what are the rea sons which cause it to be so? T am of the opinion that there are >everaj answers to this question. In the first place the number of our players are far smaller than in the East and West. In fact,, if w'e exclude the winter resort courses, which are used practically entirely by players from other sections, you w’ill find that there are only about a dozen eighteen-hole courses in the South, while around Chicago alone there are more than this number In J he next place we have not been playing the game long enough. No country or people can take up a new athletic game and at once become proficient in it. It takes time to de velop golfers just as It takes times to develop topnotch placers in any other line of sport. Lack Professional Teaching. But it may be argued that we have been playing golf in the South for ten years or more. This is quite true but it has only been within the l8st six years that the game has really become popular. Then too those who took up the game ten years ago had no opportunity to secure pro fessional coaching and they therefore fell into habits which have handicap ped them ever since. Most of the topnotch golfers of to-day began to play w r hen they were kids, when their muscles were pliable and when it was easy for them to acquire a free and easy swing. Take the case of Nelson Whitney and Ellis Knowles, who are generally accepted as the best players in the South, and both of them began to plav when they were in their teens. No where can better evidence be produced that it requires time to be come proficient in golf than in the ciase of the American professional, who until two years ago had prac tically no showing against the Scotch men, who had come to this country to teach the game. But in the last two years the home-bred pro lias come into his own and three of the team of four, which will represent America in the British open tourna ment as well as the French open are bovs who learned the game on this side of the Atlantic. Our Courses Are Too Easy. Then there is another reasdn. Our courses are too easy. They are not properly trapped and there are too many parallel fairgreens. This gives tlie player an opportunity to make a veally bad shot and suffer no penalty. We have not put a premium on di rection by having sufficient hazards to, catch the player who is off the line with his shots. Take any course of any club, which is a member of the Southern Golf Association, and see how many par allel fairgreens there are on it and > e how many chances there are for a "man to slice or pull his shot far off the line to the hole and yet have a < good a chance to reach the green ns the player who was on the direct line to the hole. Think of the num ber of chances there are to play a second shot wide of the green and vet have an easy unobstructed run in shot for the green. We must tighten up our courses HO that a shot which is bad in direc tion will he punished and we must develop our young players ty^fore we ,-* r expect ♦ • have a chance to cap ture the Amateur Cchampionship ST FIELDING Continued From Page 1. Ing to such a place, Joe admitted he didn’t know. “I gues«s I just drifted there,” says Joe. “I really forget.” Anyhow, Joe stuck around, got a public school education and set out to become a plumber. At odd times, when he wasn’t plumbing, Joe played baseball. He began by playing in the lots. Then he was grabbed for the Beach City team, which played a couple of times a week In 1907 Joe decided to embark on the treacherous seas of professional baseball and applied as a pitcher for a job with the independent team which called Elyria, Ohio, its stopping place. This club lasted fine up to July 4, when it blew up, leaving Joe jobless and with an alternative of organized baseball or plumbing. And Joe chose baseball and hired out to the Lansing (Mich.) club. Up to that time Joe had posed as a pitcher. When he quit fiddling around and went in for real baseball he for got the past and signed as a first base- man. He has not had any reason since to regret the change. • • • THAT year and the several that fol- A lowed were seasons of steady progress for Agler. In the fall of 1907 Joe was drafted by Wheeling. He played out the season and finished with Springfield. The next year he was with Canton in the O. and P. Newark, N. J., drafted him that fall and he was in the Eastern League m 1910 and 1911. In the fall of 1911 the Cubs gave Newark $3,000 for Agler. Frank Chance gave him no real try-out, but instead sent him to Jersey City in the sprjng of 1912. Some hitch over terms arose between the Cubs and Jersev City and Charley Murphy sold the great first baseman outright to the Cracker club. • • • Y\7 HEN Agler came to Atlanta he W succeeded an awful me9S of first basemen—Mert Whitney, Dick Rohn, Jake Henn and goodness knows who else. In fact, in the memory of living fan, the Crackers had had no real first baseman except Jim Fox. And James was a raw country lad, who never knew more of the game than Bill Smith taught him, and who finally slumped so badly that he was sold. Agler not only succeeded these rum my first basemen, but he joined a team so largely composed of lemons that any first-class player stood out like a whale at a tadpole convention. Joe. played great ball la3t year. He had to stop the awful throws of field ing mistakes like “Humpty” McEl- veen, “Dug" Harblson, Pete O’Brien and the rest of the motley 1912 col lection, but he took them all alike. The league has never seen a better man on low throws than Joe Agler. He doesn't seem to have any set method of getting them, or any rule for it. I asked him the other day how he went after low heaves "I’m sure I don’t know,” said Ag ler. “I just stick my hands down and the blamed things bound in.” “Have you any particular way of claying throws to the bag?” I asked him. ’ Naw, ' was Joe’s reply; “I just play ’em. J stand about 20 feet from the bag in playing an ordinary batter. I always try to judge my man and to ‘get right’ for him. “There’s one big thing a first base- man has to learn, and that’s how to shift his feet. If he’s way inside and a ball is thrown on the outside of the bag he has to cross over. Now, if he hapnens to cross his feet it’s all off with him. He must learn to shift :n a case like the one mentioned, so that his right foot, instead of his left. Is touching the bag. When he gets this down, the rest of it is just a matter of playing baseball.” * • * I N our private opinion, Joe Agler deserves about as little credit for playing good baseball as any man who ever lived. He plays well because he plays well—and that’s the only rea sonable explanation. He doesn’t give the game a thought. It all comes nat urally to him. If you should write out a puzzling play in baseball and ask Joe to give you the way it should be played he’d probably give up. But let the play come up in a game and Joe would perform it perfectly—just because he is a natural player. * * * u\!THAT about going back to the big W leagues. Joe?” I asked him. “Oh, I’m not worrying,” was the answer. ••You see. it's a pretty tough game up there.” is the way Joe put it, “and I’m not hankering for it. Atlanta SENATORS, 2; RED SOX, 1. BOSTON, May 3.-*-It was too much Johnson for the Red Sox, and Wash ington defeated the world’s cham pions. 2 to 1. Engel, who started for Washington, gave ten bases on balls, but not a hit was made off him w’hile he worked. Bedient pitched his best game of the season, and if it were not for Engle’s costly error would have been returned a winner. Johnson relieved Engel in the fifth and struck out four men. Washington ab. r. h. po. a. e. Moeller, rf. . . 4 1 1 0 0 0 Milan, cf. . . 4 0 2 1 0 0 ALnsmith, c. . 4 0 0 7 1 1 Gandil, lb. . . 2 0 1 7 0 0 Williams, lb. . 2 0 0 4 0 0 Laporte, 3b. . . 4 l 1 1 3 0 Morgan, 2b. .. 3 0 1 4 3 0 Shanks, If. . .4 0 2 1 1 0 McBride, ss. . 3 0 0 1 5 0 Engel, p. . . . 2 0 0 0 3 0 Johnson, p. . . 1- 0 0 0 0 0 Totals . . 33 2 8 x26 15 1 Boston Ball, 2b. . . . 3 Speaker, cf. . . 3 Lewis, if. . 2 Gardner, 3 b. . 2 Engle, lb. . . . 2 Janvrin, ss. . . 3 Cady, c. . . 2 Nunamk’r, c. . 0 Hendrix, If. . . 2 Bedient, p. . . 3 xxYerkes . . . 1 xxxThomas . 1 ab. r. h. 1 0 1 0 0 po. 1 2 0 2 0 1 lb 0 2 Tot&ia . . ..27 1 4 27 12 2 Score by innings: Washington 000 000 110—2 Boston 010 000 000—1 x—Speaker out, hit by batted ball, xx—Batted for Cady in eighth, xxx—Batted for Bedient in ninth. Summary: Two-base hit—Moeller. Stolen bases—Ball, Shanks, Milan, Morgan. Gardner, Hooper. Double plays—Janvrin to Ball to Engle; Mc Bride to Morgan to Williams. Base on balls—Off Engel, 10; off Johnson, 1; off Bedient, 1. Struck out—By Engel, 3; by Johnson, 4; by Bedient, 9. Hit by pitched ball—Janvrin, by Engel. Time—1:53. Umpires—Con nelly and McGreevey. NAPS, 11; BROWIS, 8. ST. LOUIS, May 3.—Cleveland won from St. Louis this afternoon, 11 to 8, in a long drawn out struggle, in which nearly every kind of a fluke play or miscue known to baseball fig ured. It was a burlesque, which kept the spectators in roars of laughter. Triples and doubles were scattered s u frequently that base runners got leg- weary. Cleveland. ab. r. h. po. a. e. D Johnston, lb. 4 1 1 10 0 0 Chapman, ss. . 3 1 1 1 2 0 Olson, 3b. . . 4 1 1 1 1 0 Jackson, rf. . . 6 1 2 2 0 1 Lajole, 2h. . . 3 3 1 1 2 0 Blrm’ham, cf.. 4 2 t 1 0 1 Graney, If. . .4 1 2 4 0 0 Carl ah, c. . .. 5 1 1 7 0 l Baskette, p. . . 1 1 1 0 3 0 W. Mitchel, p.. 2 0 0 0 1 0 Gregg, p.. . . 2 0 0 0 2 0 Totals. . .37 11 11 27 IX 3 St. Louis. ab r. h. po. a. e. Shotten, cf.. . 5 2 2 1 1 0 J. Johnston, If. 5 1 2 0 0 0 Williams, rf.. . 3 0 0 0 0 0 Pratt, 2b. . . 5 0 0 B 2 0 Stovall, lb. . . 3 1 1 8 0 1 Brief, lb. . . 1 0 0 3 0 X Mustln, Sb. . 4 2 2 4 2 0 Wallace, ss.. . 4 1 3 1 2 X Agnew, c. . . 4 1 3 5 X 0 Hamilton, p. . 2 0 0 0 3 0 Adams, p. . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 Stone, p. . . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 xMcAllister . .1 0 0 0 0 0 xxBalentl .1 0 0 0 0 0 Totals .38 8 13 27 12 3 xBatted for Allison in seventh. Ccaompton ran for Wallace in sev enth. xxBatted for Stone in Ninth. Score by Innings: Cleveland 011 107 100—11 St. Louis 001 222 100— 8 Summary — Two-base hits — J. Johnston, Lajole, Agnew, Baskette, Shotten, Jackson, Austin. Three-base hits—Agnew, D. Johnston, J. Johns ton. Home runs—Shotten. Double looks mighty good to me. I don’t *>e why anyone should want a better place.” "And what about after you’re through with baseball?” I asked him. "Are you going back to plumbing?" “Me for the farm," said Joe. "I've got a nice home up there In Beaco City that I’ve refused 83,500 for. By the time I get through with baseball it will be worth a lot of money. Then I’ll sell it and buy a farm. Once you get hold of a nice Ohio farm the money mighty near makes itself. "I’m salting away some money.” concluded Joe, "and when the man agers decide I’m through as a ball player 1 don’t suppose I’ll have .o pass the hat to get back to Beach City—or to live comfortably to the finish." play—Chapman to Johnston. Balk— Gregg. Stolen bases—Birmingham, D. Johnston (2), Chapman, Graney. Hit by pitched ball—By W. Mitchell, Austin; by Adams, Lajoie: by Alli son, D. Johnston, Chapman; by Gregg. Agnew. Wild pitches—Gregg Allison. Bases on balls—Off Bas kette 2, off Mitchell 2, off Gregg 2, off Hamilton 3, off Adams 2. Struck out—by Mitchell 2, by Hamilton 3. by Stone 2, by Gregg 4. Hits—Off Baskette 7 In 3 2-3, off Allison 0 in 1, off Hamilton 10 ill 5 2-3. off W. Mitchell 3 in 1 1-3, off Adams 1 In 1-3. Left on bases—Cleveland 7. St. Louis 11. Time—2; 50. Umpires—Fer guson and O’Loughlin. WHITE SOX, 6; TIGERS, 4. DETROIT, May 3.—To-day’s game between the White Sox and Tigers went into extra innings, the former winning 6 to 4. The Tigers put up a much harder fight than usual, twice i coming from behind and tieing the count. A rally in the seventh gave them three runs as many as the Sox had compiled in the second. The clubs started into the overtime 1 rounds with the score 3 all. The Sox took a run in their half of the tenth, but the Tigers came right back. Russell relieved Benz in the eighth, and pitched excellent ball, allowing but one hit. A pass got him into trouble in the tenth, hut he would not have been scored upon if Bor- ton had been aWe to hold Lord’s throw on Cobb. The Sox put the | game on ice in the eleventh when | Schalk singled and was forced by Russell. Rath walked and Lord scored Russell with a single to right; Rath took third on the’ drive, and counted while Collins was forcing Lord. Chicago. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Rath. 2b. ... 5 1 2 3 4 0 Lord. 3b. ... 6 0 2 3 6 0 Collins, rf. . . . 5 1 l 1 9 0 Borton, lb. ... 4 1 n 14 1 1 Mattick, cf. . . 4 0 3 1 1 0 Schaller, If. . . 4 0 l 0 0 1 Weaver, ss. . . 5 1 2 3 4 0 Schalk. c. . . . 5 I 3 7 3 0 Benz, p. . . . 3 0 1 0 5 0 Russell, p. . . 2 1 0 1 1 0 Totals . . Detroit. Bush, ss. . . . Vitt, 2b. . . . Crawford, rf. Cobb, cf. . . . Veach, If. . . Rondeau, lb. Deal, 3b. . . Louden, 3b. . Stanage, c. . Glbs»on . . . . McKee, c. . . Hall, p. . . •♦High . . . House, p. . . •♦•Mullin . . ''♦♦♦Dubuc . . .43 6 15 33 ab. r. h. po. 10 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 ft 0 0 Totals .39 4 9 33 23 5 •Batted for HfUJ in seventh •♦Ran for Stanage in seventh ♦•♦Batted for McKee in eleventh, ♦♦♦♦Batted for House in eleventh. Score by innings: Chicago 030 000 000 12 — 6 Detroit .000 000 300 10—4 Sutrlmary: Hits—Off Hal! 9. in 7 innings; off Benz 8. in 7 innings. Two- base ihits— Weaver, Benz, Stanage. Veach. Bases on balls—Off Hall 2, off Benz 3, off Russell 2, off House 2. Struck out^-By Benz 3#(Louden, Ron deau. Hall), by Russel] 3 (Cobh. Mc Kee. Crawford), by Hall 1 (Weaver), by House 2 (Borton. Weaver). Passed ball—Stanage. Wild pitches—Hall, House 2. Balk—Russell. Stolen bases —Rath, Schaller, Bush. Cobb 2. Veach. Sacrifice hits—Mattick, Vitt. ATHLETICS, 8; YANKEES, 6. NEW YORK, May 3.—The. Athlet ics trimmed the Yankees 8 to 6 to day in a slow and uninteresting game. Schultz pitched good ball until the fifth, when his support blew wide open behind him and two doubles, a base on balls and three errors count ed five runs after two were out Barry started the inning with a scratch hit to right field, which M< - Kechnie went after and failed to get after a hard run. The hit went for two bases. The next two men were easy outs, but Walsh drew a pass and Oldrlng doubled against the left field wall, scoring Barry and Walsh. Col lins was hit by a pitched' ball, and Baker got a life on McKechnie’s fum ble. Collins and Baker then worked a double stea\ and Collins Scored and Baker reached third when Sweeney threw the ball far into left field. Der rick hooted Mclnnis’ tap, and Baker scored the fifth run. Keating relieved Schultz, but was ineffective, and the Athletics scored three more runs, one in the seventh and two in the eighth. Philadelphia, ab. r. 4i. po. a. e. Walsh, cf. • 3 2 0 2 <> ft Oldring. If. . . 5 1 *2 4 ft ft Collin?. 2b. ... 3 2 1 2 3 ft Baker. 3b. ... 5 11 1’ 3 ft Mclnnis, lb. . 4 0 1 9 , 2 ft D. xMurphy, rf. 3 ft . 1 ft ft ft Barry, ss. . . 5 I I 3 :: ft Thomas, c. . . 4 1 2 4 ft Houck, p. . . . " ft " ft 0 Bush, p. ... 4 o 1 1 3 ft IN BID GAME By J ini Glover. L AST Tuesday afternoon Peacock sprung the surprise of the local Prep League baseball season by defeating Tech High. 9 to 8. Previ ous to that game Peacock had won but one game and had proved easy against all comers in the Prep League. Various excuses have been offered by Tech High players but the real reasons for their defeat were overconfidence and lack of practice. It is hoped that the result will be a lesson to them and that in the fu ture the team will he ready at all times to go in to do its best. On the other hand great credit is due the Peacock hoys for winning the game. They went into the con test with the feeling that they did not have much of a chance to win, but at the same time they were de termined to make a fight for it and by sheer nerve and slugging ability were able to come out ahead. Callahan Back in Form. Callahan, of Marist, appears to be back in his early season form again. For a while “Cally” was not pitching his usual game, especially in the Tech High affair when he was touch ed up for a number of hits. That he is going well again there can be no doubt, as he pitched a no-hit con test against G. M. A. at College Park Tuesday. Marist and Boys High will meet on the Marist diamond next Saturday in their second game of the season and the Prep championship may be decided then and there. The previous meeting of the two nines resulted in a ten-inning tie and there is little to choose between them at this stage of the season. The local Prep schools are looking forward anxiously to the annual track and field meet next Friday. It ha« not yet been definitely decided where this meet will he held, hut Marist wants it held «»n their Ivy Street campus and no doubt that will be the scenfe of activities. 50 Athletes to Compete. There will he at least fifty well trained athletes entered in this meet and there will be plenty of competi tion for first place in each event. Some nftw local Prep re cords will no doubt be made and some new ‘finds’ discovered. Th * following are some pretty sure point winners in this meet. Allen, of Marist, Bedell, ot Tech High. Parks, of Tech High and Johnson, of Boys High in the 100- yard dash; Allen, Lookridge and Be dell in the hurdles; Holtzendorff, of Boys High, in the pole vault £%id Fowler, Bedell and Meyers (n the weight events. Oheeves, Downing and Covington look good for points in the distance runs. Everything points to tfie most suc cessful meet ever held. Numerous prizes have, been offered and a cup will be given to the school winning the greatest total number of points The odds favor Marist, but it is not at all certain that Marist will cop. At any rate the event will be worth witnessing. ♦Orr 1 0 0 0 0ft E. Murphy, rf. 2 0 1 0 0 0 Totals . . 38 8 11 27 17 0 ♦Batted for Houck in third. New York. ab. r. h. po. a. e. Daniels, rf. . . 5 l 2 0 0 ft Chance, lb. . . 5 0 1 7 ft 0 Hartzell, cf. . . \ 1 1 3 1 ft free, If. ... 3 1 2 2 0 0 Mldkiff, 3b. . . 3 ft 0 3 1 1 Sweeney, c. . . 3 1 1 7 1 2 Derrick, ss. . 3 0 1 2 4 0 McKechnie, 2b.. 2 0 0 1 2 1 Schulz, p. . . . 1 0 0 0 ft 0 Keating, p. . . 1 ft ft 0 1 1 * Wolter 1 0 ft 0 0 0 Stumpf, 2b. . . ft 1 0 2 ft 0 ♦♦Lelivelt ... 1 ft 0 0 0 0 Kleipfer, p. . . 0 0 0 ft 0 0 ♦♦♦Caldwell . . ft 1 0 0 ft 0 Totals . 31 6 8 27 10 5 •Batted for McKechnie in seventh. ♦♦Batted for Keating in eighth. ♦♦•Batted for Kleipfer in ninth. Score by innings: Philadelphia 000 050 120—8 New York 110 100 012—6 Summary: Sacrifice hit—Midkiff. Two-base hits—Barry. Oldring, Thom as. Daniels. Three-base hits—Col lins, Daniels Stolen bases—Walsh 2, Hartzell, E. Murphy, Oldring 2. Dou ble plays—Derrick to McKechnie to Chase. Hartzell to Chase. Baes on bails—Schulz 3. Houck 1. Bush 3, Keating 1, Kleipfer 1. Left ori bases— New York 5. Philadelphia 10. Hit by pitcher—By Houck. Sweeney; by Bush. Derrick; by Schulz. Collin?. Hits -Off Houck 2. In 2 innings; off Schulz 6, in 4 2-3 innings; off Keat ing 3, in 3 1-3 innings. Struck out — By Bush 4. by Schulz 2. by Keating j by Kleipfer 1 Wild pitch Houck. I injures Dlneen and Hart. ‘Finn Is a Real Irishman’-Bean Q © © O ® © MikeLostjob, But Men Were Paid Bv Joe Bean. T HE fact that the "Mobile Club under Mike Finn is playing such fine ball and showing some class brings to my mind my experience as a member of Mike’s team during my early playing days. The story will also show that Mike is some Irish man. During the season of 1898 which was the year of the Spanish-Ameri- can war, Mike started as manager of Newport, R. 1. team and 1 was a member of the Rochester, N. Y. team of the Eastern League. This year was a hard one on baseball and many teams went to the wall. During the excitement of busted leagues and teams. Mike was secured to manage Rochester and soon after joined the team. Along about July 1 the East ern League began to go bad and salaries were cut and players releas ed. The Rochester Club was transferred to Ottawa. Canada to he taken over by some Canadian backers. We were shipped over to Ottawa and opened the season and played for quite a while when our new’ uniforms w'ere assigned to us. Well, the pants and shirt were made from Scotch plaid with the bright red stocking? and white yachting cap. Now that w r e were dressed up the official open ing day was held and everything was ready for the parade. Both teams lined up with the city and club officials and marched through the principal street behind a band of Scotch bag pipers. The games were always advertised as the Baseball Match. We ’were not allowed to do much on Sunday, everything was closed up. The club officials had in mind the playing of Sunday ball and this was allowed in a little town across the river, called Hull, which was in another province. At last the game was advertised for Sunday at Hull and we went to this little town, which was a lumber town. Inhabited mostly by lumber men working in a large mill on the banks of the river whieh divided the two provinces. The ball gi^unds may have been used at some remote time as it had a fence around It and #a place for a few hundred people to sit. The fence was not a very tall one and had many boards missing which were af terward replaced. The ball grounds were a fright. The owners just took three bases and a home plate and threw them out in the field. Where they landed they remained. The first day was a dan dy. We had quite a crowd and things looked good for the owners. The next Sunday while driving through this little village we saw a lot of men carrying a frame made solidly and wondered what it. all meant but we were not long in ig norance. After getting inside the grounds we could see these home made grandstands sticking up along the outside of the fence and covered with people. Then it dawned that they hid made their own grandstands. We had rijore people outside the grounds than we did inside. This did Option On Club Nearly Up. The time of the option on the club was soon up and if it was not taken over by the Canadian backers, the flayers were going to be thrown on the hands of the league and where salaries were coming from wag a mystery at this, stage There were many meetings of botl the representatives of the club and the Canadian people. At last Mike Finn hit upon a scheme that is truly characteristic of him. He said at the meeting if the new owners would put th • salaries of the players in the safe at the hotel for distribution among the players as was then due and then reorganize he would take apart interest in the club and put up much money as he thought It a good thing. To this they consented and we were paid our salaries. The meet ing was then called to reorganize and when Mike wa*s asked to put up what he nad promised he had noth ing to put up, and he immediately lost his job and we got our salaries. Sox-Giants World Tour Is Mapped Out Both Teams Complete Arrangements at Conference; Tourists Will Leave Chicago Oct. 14. NEW YORK, May 3.—The world’s tour of the baseball teams represent ing the Giants and the White Sox was arranged this week at a conference between Manager John J. McGraw and a representative of Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the White Sox. The tourists will leave from Chi cago on October 14, and will plav through to the coast. Honolulu will be the first stop after the players embark on their long sea journ-'v. The outfit will then p’- its way to Japan, and will give exhibitions in four of the biggest cities in the land of the slant-eyed inhabitants—Tokio. Yokohama, Hakodate and another large city. Two games will be played in China, at Pekin and one 1n Hong Kong. Ma nila will be the next destination of the pilgrims, and then they will show the natives of India how the Ameri can game is played. Then will come a trip through Europe. Exhibition games will be played at the capitals of the various nations. The junker to Australia has been abandoned. The sojourn will consume four months, the players getting back to the states in time to go South for spring training. 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