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OF OLD LEAGUE
New President Was Former Player
and Knows the Game From
Every Angle.
BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
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By Frank G. Menke.
rEW YORK, Dec. 10.—With its
L now pilot, Governor John K.
Tener, at the helm, the good
vhlp National League to-day began a
our-year voyage that promised to be
smoother than any ever experienced
a this old and battered, but still sea
worthy, skiff.
rite presence of a new pilot aboard
-coined to have a taming effect upon
» heretofore mutinous spirits of the
row. composed of baseball owners.
The.' promised him to-day that in
t'air weather or foul they would be
with him in bddy, heart and soul, and
hat they would leave the directing of
■he craft solely to him. Perhaps the
promise and submission were caused
hy fears. Goverifors. as most 1 ' per
sons know, have the power to call out
he militia or marines, or whatever it
s they call out in case of trouble,
and no doubt the crew did not care
j. ;i clash with these rough military
persons.
Tener arrived from Philadelphia ,
iring the morning, and was met !
with an avalanche of greetings and]
ongratulations from the baseball as- I
wmblage at the Waldorf-Astoria. Al- \
though iie did not give out any .state
ment of policy prior to his induction
nto office at the afternoon session, lie j
ntimated that lie intends to be the |
r • boss of the National League, and i
i,;11 ho will rule with an iron hand if i
no milder method succeeds.
Before Tener accepted the job. |
en it was formally offered to him
■ month ago, lie stated that 11
p became president he was to be!
permitted to be president—not a fig- !
i .head—and that he would not stand]
inj heckling or subway politics
vith reference to his rulings and I
met hods.
Elected on Four-Year Term.
Tener was elected for a four-year
erm. at a salary not stated, but it is
understood to be $25,000 a year. He
vill not draw any salary from the I
''ague until after his term as Govern - j
>r of Pennsylvania expires on Decem
ber 31. 1914, but will give all the at
trition needed in the interim to Na- j
ional League and National Commis* i
ion affairs.
Of course, Tener’s arrival and bi g
csstiming the job a.s National League
• resident was the big feature of to
ny's confab ht the \Valdorf-Astoria
Next in Importance was the Tinkei
anestion. Just what is to become ot
the deposed manager of the Cincin
nati Reds was an unsettled question
overnight, but rumors floating around
lined to the idea that Josephus
vould land Anally with about fifteen
»f the sixteen major league clubs.
Tener a Former Player.
Some years ago in Pittsburg John |
Kinley Tener. a cle'*k in an office in
ho Smoky City, gained quite a repu- ,
'ation as a bail player. He had suf
fered with ill health, and on the ad-
ice of his physician, .sought outdoor
nployment, and entered professional
baseball. That marked the beginning
•f the career of the man who was to
ater become Governor of Pennsyl
vania, and who to-day was elected to
! presidency of the National League
succeed President Tom Lynch.
John Kinley Tener was born in Ire
land July 25,‘ 1863. At the age of 9
is parents came to America and set
tled in Pittsburg. At 18 years Tener
iad become quite well known as an
• mateur ball player. He had added
1 his small income by playing with
1 mateur ball teams on Saturday aft
ernoons for $5 a game. When it be
came necessary for him to And work
n the open, his friends advised that
• become a professional ball player,
'mong those who so advised him was
'Viliiam H. Moody, later a justice of
° United States Supreme Court.
In 1885 Tener obtained his first pro-
88ional baseball engagement as first
•'sseman of the Pittsburg club. He
ad become a husky youngster,
'eighing more than 200 pounds and
s < ruling more than six feet. Tener
hd not make the tremendous hit tha.
1 m friends had predicted, and before
• season was half over lie was re
used and joined the Baltimore team.
G his own request, he was released
o the Naverhill (Mass.) club, where
finished out the season, to return
“ business again, obtaining a cleik-
■ J! ip with a Pittsburg house. He <on-
• iuietl to play amateur baseball, bow-
Tener's brilliant record as a pitcher
" and around Pittsburg brought him
tiie attention of A. G. Spalding and
p d to a job with Captain Anson’s old
'hicago White Stockings. This time
l'ener more than made good. H p at ‘
red a national reputation 1
“tie of the men chosen by Spalding
o make the famous baseball tour of
the world with the White Stockings
•tid All-Nationals in 1888-89. and act
ed as secretary as well as plavtng
great ball.
In 1891 Tener abandoned profes-
'tonal baseball and settled in 1 Uar-
erol, Pa.., where he again entered
business, acquired interests in sev
eral large corporations, became presi
dent of a. bank and head of a street
1 ail way system. His fortune is esti
mated at close to a million. In '•(.
Mr. Tener became a Congressman,
'nd at the expiration of his term " as
nominated for Governor of Pennsyl
vania by the Republicans and elected
His term will expire on January i
#15. Governor Tener made a good
record as Chief Executive and enjoys
diuch popularity in his State.
CAMBRIDGE RUGBY WINNER.
LONDON, Dec. M -Cambridge
University vesterday won its an
nual Rugby football match again?
°xford by 13 points to 3. The mat •
•'as played at Queens Club.
POLLY AND HER PALS
And Now Pa Is Scared for Fair
Sporting rood
By GEORGE E. PHAIR
Apple Used to Hypnotize Boxer
Smith Tells of Funny IncidentiSCHEGULE GIME
WITH QUAKERS
Sidelights on Sports
By A. H. C. MITCHELL |
By Ed YV. Smith.
(Famous Fight Referee.)
D ID you ever hear how an apple,
munched calmly by an oppo
nent’s second, hypnotized a
fighter into a defeat .’ It s a little
thing, this apple and the story of it,
but it goes to show tiiat small things
can turn the tide in a glove battle
just, as It frequently does in weight
ier and more important affairs. It
came off in Denver when Steve
Ketchel, of this city, was battling
Stanlev Yoakum, tin* hardy Mexican
from Las Vegas. First, let it be
known that Yoakum is much tlie-
same order of a fighter as Cazeau,
the Italian, is a wrestler. Ferocity
is his middle name.
In this Denver scrap Barney Lich
tenstein. who was handling Ketchel’s
affairs, bethought himself of some
thing to distract the attention of the
opposition fighter. After the gloves
had been tied on the. fighters’ hands
Larnev possessed himself of a large
red apple and with a penknife began
calmly to slice off bits of it and chew
them vigorously as he stood in the
center of the ring listening to the
referee's instructions to the 'men.
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VOAKUM'S eye all this lime was
1 riveted firmly tin that apple.
Ynd l.arnev meant that it should lie.
■ Must think this is going to be pretty
-of! for vour man. *itine an apple
scornfully remarked somebody in the
opposite camp. "Yep, just like eating
this apple.” remarked Larnet, smil
ingly. waving the apple in front of
Yoakum's face.
To further corral the Yoakum goal
Ketchel stood in the center of the
ring instead of returning to his cor
ner after the instructions had been
given and us the hell sounded he was
on top of the Mexican before he could
get out of his corner. A sharp clip
on the jaw completely "goi" Yoakum
.ml the remaining ten rounds lie was
completely at sea. Larney sat with
his head close to the ropes munching
that apple and Yoakum just couldn t
keep his eye off of it. He was beaten
handily. , . .
T HERE have been other goat-ge:-
t erg in the ring, but none of them
ever was more successful titan this
apple-eating trick. It was so cont-
oietelv out of the ordinary that the
rather inexperienced Yoakum never
got it completely out of his mind.
8 Jim Corbett tried his best to con
fuse lack Johnson in the famous
Reno fiasco, but his trickery utterly
f died Between rounds Corbett went
half wav across the ring and tried to
hypnotize the black by glaring at him
steadily But Johnson accepted all of
this laughingly and even invited Cor
bett to come closer and hear every
thing that was going on in his corner,
tbe tttell used to use ..ne .hat was
h bird and sometimes it worked beau
tifully. During a hot mixup Atteil
would start a conversation with an
imaginary friend in the crowd. Abe
speaking something like this: 'Yes,
you bet J want to see that last act,
because they say it’s a corker. What
time did you say the show was over?
All right. I’ll be through here in just
a couple or minutes aim then we’ll go
over to the theater.” Of course, At-
tell wasn’t talking to anybody but
his opponent and naturally it was ex
tremely disconcerting.
Ray Bronson, now on his way to
Australia, uses one that is a peach
and seldom fails to get on the nerves
of an opponent, especially if that op
ponent is a bit inexperienced, dom
ing to the center of the ring for in
structions. May hums the latest pop-
ular melody and hums it in such a
way that lie never fails to attract a
lot of attention from his opponent.
It’s a good trick and more than one
of his foes have gone straight up in
the air over it.
Harvard Brands Yale
Request as Childish
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. Dec. 17.—
'File Harvard (Tftnson editorially in
timates that Yale is acting childishly
I in seeking to have its football contest
i next season held a week later than
has been the custom, (’omirrg from
the Princeton game battered and
bruised is nor a sufficient excuse for
the later date sought. states the
Crimson. The assignment of a later
date for the Harvard-Yale game in
the future would turn football into a
near-winter sport, according to the
Crimson, and for tHe best interests
of the game this is not to be de
sired.
Mitchell Will Lead
Brown Next Year
PROVIDENCE. R. I.. Dec. 15.—The
Brown Varsity football team has
elected Seth Kimball Mitchell, ’15,
captain of next year’s eleven. Mitch
ell has played center ori the Brown
team for three years. He prepared
at Phillips-Exeter, where h*» was also
a member of the team for three years.
His home is at Exeter, N. II.
BASEBALL DEPENDS ON FUND.
KKWANEE. ILL.. Dec. IT —At the
annual meeting of the Kewanee Central
Association club, after reports had been
received showing expenditures were
equal to receipts this season, it was
voted to make league ball here next year
contingent upon raising $4,GAO in cash in
the next two **eLs».
McGugin’s Team Is After Battle
With Chicago and Either
Georgia or Tech.
N ’ASHVILLE, TKN.V. Dec. In
Onee more the Commodores
are contemplating an invasion
of the Eastern football world. This
tyne it is to be Pennsylvania, against
which a sample of the McGugin sys
tem of football will be pulled off. That
is, if the present negotiations of the
Vanderbilt schedule committee pan
out, with tlie Pennsylvanians.
Should sucji a meeting be arranged
it will mark the fourth time the
Commodores have tackled on Eastern
eleven, previously having met the
Navy, Yale and Harvard. The Mid
shipmen and the Blue were held to a
lie. while the Commodores, after a
bitter fight, bowed to the Cambridge
team by a small margin, .lust enough
to justify Lite belief that another
Eastern match would draw like flies.
The Commodores have been the only
strictly Southern eleven to carry the
football standard into the Eastern
country, and their remarkable show
ing on their three previous visits has
given them sufficient advertisement
to insure a big crowd in Philadelphia.
The schedule committee is also
dickering with Chicago for a game
in the Windy City, and Coach Mc
Gugin is pulling all his wires for the
success of a meeting being arranged
with the Conference champions. Mc
Gugin and Coach Stagg are old-time
friends and the Vanderbilt pilot is
hankering for a crack at the powerful
Chicago machine.
There is talk of bringing either
Georgia Tech or Georgia up to Nash
ville for a game Either that or tak
ing one of this pair on down in At
lanta. which is some football city
itself. McGugin figures that Tech
will be far better in 1914 than the
Heisman team was this year, and by
the same token that the Athens crew
will be weakened greatly through the
loss of the wonderful McWhorter.
The Commodores took Georgia on in
1912 at Ponce DeLeon Park, but
slaughtered the Black arid Red eleven
so horribly that a return match wa-
not considered. It is probably just
as well for Vanderbilt that the Geor
gians were left off this year, consid
ering the Commodores' miserable
showing and the gallant work of th€
A t henians.
SOME DISCOVERY
il Inn Chris Co lmnbua Id mini hrrr
lif f/fiincfl n I tl of fam*:.
Ami historj! since then has pruixiil j
his good Hiii till in n name.
When fUwrji landed a I I lie Cole (o i ;
wan il Old hoe Cool:f)
11*' caused the innld to pause au hile. l
Io listen ami to look,
liu! each of these discoveries was an\
uniniporlunf quest.
Beside I'rofessoi Waller l-amp's dis i
cover if of III*' West.
Walter Camp denies the rumor that |
Yale will meet Chicago, but it was a .
good story while it lasted.
We are not surprised at Mr. Camp’s j
admission that Western football is |
strong on the offensive. Western foot
ball has always been offensive to him.
Dick Hoblitzel comes to the front
as the most eccentric man on a base
ball team. He actually wants Joe
Tinker’s old job!
With Mike Doolan in Japan. Red
Dooin is attempting to trade him to
Cincinnati. But he wouldn't dare to
do it if Alike were only here to de
fend himself.
The report that Garry Herrmann
has not picked the manager of the
Reds is a gross misstatement of fact
He has decided on the manager, but
has not named the messenger boy.
After listening to Joe Tinker’s story
we can readily understand why Hank
O’Day deliberately resumed his job as
umpire.
A study of baseball statistics re
veals the fact that a team’s fielding
average is almost as important as the
color of its uniforms.
Harry Payne Whitney, speaking of
the captaincy of the polo team, says
he "does not wish to again take the
responsibility.” A man who splits his
infinitives has no right to run a polo
team.
Besides being the champion con
versationalist. Torn Jones is the most
intrepid manager in pugilism. 1U
hits matched Jess Willard two more
fights in the East.
If it is true that Carl Morris butted
Willard in their alleged fight, why has
he not been indicted for assault with
a deadly weapon?
A youth named Ruben won a
wrestling match yonder eve, but as a
rule the rubens pay at the gate.
SHAFER TO RETIRE.
Til lie Shafer says that the yarn
! that he is to retire is true. But he
j says that he won’t retire yet as he
will wait until his contract with the
i Giants expires.
Man Who Piloted Chicago Sox to
Pennant Is Satisfied With
Present Status.
o AX HKA.N'CISCO. Dei . III. l-'teld-
cr Jones, once pennant - w inning
manager of the Chicago While
Sox, now president of the Northwest
ern League and prosperous Oregon
apple grower, will never again man
age a ball club. This was his positive
statement yesterday afternoon, during
a haphazard conversation at the St.
Francis Hotel. Eastern magnates
have made him tempting offers. He
believes that had he listened to the
blandishments of the baseball powers
that be a season or two back lie would
have profited more financially than
he has by quitting (he game and
growing apples. But be lias quit the
game for good: he is doing well in
the business world, and lie is not to
Oe persuaded. 4
"You are not to be tempted .”’ sug
gested the interviewer.
"Indeed, I have been templed.” was
i lie answer. "Don’t think f have not.
Don’t think that with all my present
prosperity I have been supremely
happy or supremely satisfied. No man
who has spent as many years in base,
ball as I spent Is ever satisfied to quiL
When the springtime comes and the
boys report for practice, the old fever
gets into a fellow’s veins and the
longing to be back in the game again
comes and comes till it hurts all the
way through.
"But when I quit the game I quit
for good. I made up my mind that I
was reaching the age when a man
must do something to provide for the
future. Possibly I might have con
tinued successfully as a bench man
ager. but that is hard to tell. The
bench manager holds his job in base
ball as long as lie succeeds. I would
rather have it said that I quit t he
game when I was a success than that
I quit when J was a failure and was
no longer wanted.
"1 have done well fn the Northwest.
Business associates have been good
to me and the future looks good. I
could never be persuaded to go back
to baseball management.* I know i
am out of touch now with the game.
A few years ago I knew nearly every
player in the country and all about
him. Now r know comparatively' few
of them, 90 I know' I am no longer
as well qualified. But say. it would
be happiness to be out there lighting
for a pennant once again, believe
A FEW baseball critics are
r\ >aying \\ doesn’t pay to
‘tange managers of base
ball teams often. They point to
tlie record of such leaders as
t’onnie Mark and John McGraw
to uphold their contentions. i
No club owner would change
managers if he had such a mana
ger as McGraw or Mack on his
pas roll. There may be other
managers just as good, but none
has had tilt* success of these two
rlebrate.l leaders of big league
teams, except possibly Fred
< I i rk of Pit t sburg.
Napoleon Bonaparte (not i,a-
joio) said lie couldn’t afford to
haw unlucky generals, no mat
ter how brilliant they’ were. It
is the same way with club own
ers. They can not afford to have
losing managers on their staff.
* * A
j^iIT in the Ions' run the good
lJ managers will get the good
team. It takes time and owners r
are sometimes impatient. The pub
lic is partly to blame. The fans of
every « itv want a winning team.
If the team doesn’t win they will
not attend the games. The club
owner is constantly looking for
new material. He employs scouts
to scour the country and spends
large sums of money for play
ers He does all lie can do. and
It is then up to the manager to
produce a winning combination.
* * *
'THE principal trouble that un-
1
ter. or rather the chiefest fault
of the unsuccessful manager, is
the fact, that he doesn’t know’
how to organize a ball club.
Man-, of them have not the
proper authority to organize a
ball dub even if they knew how
to do so.
As an example of a great or
ganizer. the writer would men
tion George Stallings, of the
Boston Nationals. In the first
Place. Stallings has absolute au
thority to make all the deals and
swaps «»f players that he likes,
if he decides to buy a player,
he simply notifies the owner of
the club and the transaction
takes place. if he desires to
**wap Smill . Brown and Jones of
his club/ for Green and Gray of
another dub, he tells the owner
of the club of the deal and the
proper papers are passed. Not
many managers have the author
ity that Stallings has. And if
they had it. many of them would
not know how to use if.
A .MANAGER max realize that
a \ itcher,
and he tells the owner of the
dub about it. perhaps suggest
ing a player or two that might
be had. The owner starts ne
gotiations and may or may not
land one <>f tito two men With
Stallings lie knows the man lie
wants. and. futhermore, lie
knows whether he can get him
or not. He does hisr own nego
tiating. and when the deal is
completed an announcement of
the fact is made to the public.
* * +
AX the other hand, take the case
^ oi Manager Evers of the
i <’hicago Nationals. He probably
knows more about baseball than
Charlie Murphy, owner of the
«lub, <an ever expect to know.
Yet Murphy will not give Evers
authority to make trades for
players. Murphy has to be con
sulted even before negotiations
: can begin, anti it is Murphy who
conducts the negotiations, not
Evers, in the cases of McGraw
and Connie Alack, they do their
own business the same as Stall
ings does. It is the only proper
wav. BUT first you must, find a
manager clever enough to make
Ills own trades. There are only
a few of them left.
• * m
A u.\ME MACK himself save
I ^ that no manager can do him
self justice or the club owner
justice or trie public justice un
less he lias absa lute authority—
and time. But first the manager
must demonstrate that he is en
titled to absolute authority.
There isn’t a club owner in the
big league® unless it be Mur
phy, or Kb bets, or Mrs. Britton
—but would be tickled to
death to be able to find a man
ager to wnom he could turn over
all tue turmoil and the bother
and ’.rksnme detail of hiring and
firing and digging up ball play
ers 1) of them, with possibly
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