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Morgan G. Bulkeley Was the First
President', Taking the Of-
<ice in the Year 1875.
B\ Frank G. Menke.
VORK. Dec. 17.—John K.
Tener is the seventh pres •
.dent that the N'aitonal League
asj , hail since, its organization, late in
His predecessors in the office
Z°' been Morgan B. Bulkeley , Wlt-
am .\ Hnrlburt. A. G. Mills. N. F.
young Harry C. Pulliam and '1 homes
f Mr b Mr. Hurlburt died in Of-
I 1,1 1887, Mr. Mills resigned
„ ... lion in 1885, and Harry Pul-
: anl mmi’.ted suicide in 1909 by
hcitin mself in the bead, after a
. and menial breakdown.
1 'j lr !: ilkeley, the first president
h»;d office only one year, being »UC-
a 1870 by Wllllam-A. Hurl-
burtl A ,10 has been called the "founder
National League." Mr. Hurl-
„urt » aided the reins until he died, m
,v His successor was A. G. Mills,
ho a as succeeded in 1885 by N. E.
Young. Mr. Young was also the sec-
otarv and treasurer of the league,
and ir was not until after the 7\a-
■ „ urut to war with the American
l" a?ue that t’ncle Nick stepped down
and out. This was in 1902.
\ gut essor to Mr. Young was not
.nsen it once, but during 1902 the
National League was run by a. com-
miltpe. of which the late John J.
Brush was the chairman.
In 1003 Harry C. Pulliam, who had
be.n Barney Drey fuss’ right bower as
secret an of the Louisville and Pitts
burg !ubs. was elected president. Pul-
4m's * eer in the league was very
*-orm\ The strain of the 1908 cam-
paign.’ when the memorable play-off
oi the tie between New York and
Chicago occurred, and other incidents
Mi. Pulliam breaking
cown. \t the meeting of the league
in i imago in 1909 Mr. Pulliam's con
dition be< ame so serious that it was
op, iied to put the affairs in the hands
of John A Heydler, who was then, as
now. secretary-treasurer of the or
ganization.
Mr. Heydler. like every other man
viho has held the position or been the
custodian of the office, could not sat-
«fy all of the magnates. He had an
fxcellen* chance to b? elected presi
dent. of the league at the meeting in
December, 1909. until the Philadelphia
Hub was sold to Charles P. Taft, ot
Cincinnati. This transaction lost Mr.
Heydler ihe vote of the Philadelphia
club and the election
For an entire week the two factions
ie eague were deadlocked. Final-
y it was agreed that President John
T. Brush, of the New York club,
Belet : the man and all the
clubs would vote for him. Mr. Brush
sprung a complete surprise by nam
ing Thomas J Lynch, the former
king of umpires,” who had been out
of the national game for many years.
Mr Lynch’s term has been filled
with trouble. He has been repeatedly
at odds with the club owners, but
each year he managed to be re-elect-
ed because those opposed to him could
not agree upon any individual. Until
a couple of months ago Mr. Lynch s
rejection for a fifth year appeared ro
b* good. His opponents—Herrmann.
Ebbets and Drey fuss—could not se-
ure any more votes for their candi
date Boh Brown. Then President
Baker, of the Phillies, began his cam
paign for Tener, which met with such
success :hat in a very short time all
of the club owners were enlisted in
he unanimous ••call” for the Govern
or to accept the position.
Juarez Results.
’IHST- six furlongs: Mav L.. 112
"iroth' 3-2, 1-2, 1-5, won; Hykl. 115
'Loftus.. 7-5, 1-2. 1-4, second; Woof,
klMriishman), 20, 8, 2, third. Time,
■ -- 2-5. A:so ran: Claribel, Pan-
hachapi and Prospero Boy.
SECOND—Mile and a sixteenth:
Jud 8<‘ Walton, 111 (Guy), 6, 2, 1,
" on Downland, 99 (Ford), 20, 8, 4.
y yci Jim Caffata, 108 (Vandusen),
* -. third. Time. 2:00 2-5. Also
I)efv Blll<>,,eard . Oscuro, Zinkand and
IHIRD— Mile and a sixteenth:
‘Mpland. 108 lOrmes), 5-2. even, 1-2,
won; 97 (Haynes), 6, 2, even,
second, c vv. Kennon, 108 (Taplin),
. .third. Time, 2:00: Also
... ' Tliie F-. Robert, Rake, Swede
&am and Jack Laxson.
l . Mj ,tr RTH Six furlongs: The Fad,
,P ln| . 6, 2, even, won; Velia
u, ' 'J.'" 'Groth), 5, 2, even, second;
Tr "' mas ' 115 (Teahan), 4, 2,
ran UV r i d ' Time - 1:05 3-5. Als.)
y, n Ben Stone, Emerald
'' Glm1 '. Uncle Jimmie Gray.
furior.gs: Salesia, 105
y 1 out, won; Herpes. 105
\ .. 1 2 . 1-2. out, second: Shorty
>hird h t 110 <Gar san), 12. 3, 7-10,
n r r ; ni f. 1:19 3-5. Also ran:
Industry, Evelina. Zulu.
"oaw,'v 0ne m lle: Ida Lavinia,
H I Guv al y e >- ‘ to 1, won; Art Rick,
Brown 1 - * „ t’ second; Charley
T. :il . ' McBride), 6 to 5, third.
W d. , Also ran: Ortyx, Aia-
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Harvard Arranges
Hard Games for 1914
Football Season
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS.. Dec. 17. Har
vard’s varsity football team of 1914 %vill
have the heaviest work of any Crim
son eleven in recent years, if a tenta
tive schedule made public last night is
carried out.
The list includes a game with the
University of Michigan, October 31, and
^Georgetown, October 3. both to be play-
p ed here. Nine games, the same number
as last season, are proposed. Michi
gan will displace Cornell on the sched
ule and Georgetown will take the date
lately occupied by Holy Cross.
Except for the Yale game, which will
be played at New Haven on November
21, all of Harvard's contests will be in
the stadium. The schedule follows:
October 3—Georgetown University.
October 24—Penn State.
October 31—University of Michigan.
November 7—Princeton.
November 14 Brown University.
November 21—Yale.
Valuable Prizes for
Motorcycle Demons
In Savannah Race
SAVANNAH. GA.. Dec. 17.—The finai
arrangements for tir# 300-mile motor
cycle race on Christmas day were com
pleted last night at a meeting of the
contest committee of the Savannah Mo
torcycle Club.
At this meeting it was decided that
the winner of the race will not only be
awarded the first prize of $500 in gold,
but also the Mayor and Aldermen s
trophy, a solid silver (tup, 20 inches
high, valued at $200. The second prize
will he $250 in gold and the third prize
$100 in gold. There will iOso be a spe
cial prize of $50 for the first Savannah
boy who finishes the race.
LEVINSKY HAS TWO BOUTS.
NEW YORK. Dec. 17. Battling I>>-
vinskv will take pari in two fights
next week. On Monday night he will
take on Jim Coffey, the Dublin giant,
for ten rounds at the Garden A. and
on Christmas afternoon will go against
Jack Driscoll. the heavyweight of
Brooklyn, in a ten-round go at the
Irving A. C., of Brooklyn.
KELLY TRIMS WALTERS.
ST JOSEPH. MO.. Dec. 17.—Spike
Kelly of Chicago, gained the decision
ove rSailor Bill Walters in aflfteen-
round bout here last night. Spike was
the aggressor throughout and had the
sailorman guessing from the I*}®
first round started until the hot finish
in the fifteenth round.
DIAMOND OUTFIGHTS TRACEY.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec I 7 "Harry
Diamond the sensational Southwark-
featherweight. outfought Leo Tracey,
of Tioga in six hard rounds at the
Fairmount Athletic Club last night
SHUGRUE DEFEATS SMITH.
NEW YORK Dec. 17 Young .loe
Shugruc defeated Cv Smith at Brown s
Gymnasium last night in ten fast
rounds. Shugrue won because he dis
played beter cleverness and landed the
cleaner blows.
The Georgian’s Expert Golfer Picks Sixteen Greatest Performers
EVANS SELECTS OLIMET AS BEST L. S. GOLFER
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Bv Chick Evans.
"MllS is the seasdn of the year
when golf writers are busily
engaged preparing lists of the
best sixteen players in America and
the peculiarity of the lists is the wide
divergence after the first three names.
This fa,ct immediately brings us to
the question of standard and it shows
us that without a generally recog
nized standard lists of players are
likely to become mere registers of
prejudices and unstudied opinions. I,
being a practical golfer as well as a
theoretical reporter of the game, have,
spent the last few weeks painstak
ingly devising my own little rating of
players and T hope it \viU contribute
something to the entertainment of
golfer#.
In preparing my list I determined
to make intrinsic merit as evidenced
by sound golf my standard of meas
urement. I have used medal play as
the basis of my judgment in deter
mining The control of shots. and
match play, freed as far as possible
from circumstances over which the
player himself has no control. The
actual value of m.v standard depends,
of course, upon what my judgment of
golf strokes is considered worth. As
I progressed with my list* I was con
fronted with the fact that several
players? occupied so nearly the same
niche that only a golfing Solomon
could determine which ones to eject,
and not being any sort of a Solomon,
I have boldly bracketed them. While
this may weaken the list, it has the
virtue of squarely’ presenting tho
merits of the players.
I give Francis Ouimet the first
place on my list. Although I do not
believe that anyone seriously be
lieves that he is intrinsically a better
player than Ray and Vardon. his vic
tory over them at critical moments
deserves the greatest possible credit.
It is founded upon sound golf and
there is nothing freakish about it. I
played with him in 1911 in the second
half of the National Amateur quali
fying round at Apawamls and my
opinion of his future was formed
then and it was not altered by his
failure to qualify at Wheaton the fol
lowing year. In the National Ama-
teur at Garden City T saw but few* of
his strokes, owing to the fact that
the Eastern players started early and
the Western players late, but those
few strokes confirmed my former
good opinion. He uses every club
well and there is throughout a sub
stantial soundness to his game.
I give Warren Wood the second
place on m* list and Jerome Travers
third. It may seem strange at first
reading to see a Western champion
placed ahead of the national one, but
T watched both players play in their
respective championship and the po-
Evans’ Lis! ol U. 5. Golf Leaders I
1. Francis Ouimet, Boston.
2. Warren K. Wood. Chicago.
3. Jerome Travers, New York.
4. W. J. Travis. Garden City.
5. John C. Anderson, Boston.
6. Fred Herreshoff, New York.
7. W. C. Wownes, Jr., Pittsburg.
R. A. Gardner, Chicago.
Oswald Kirby, New York.
9. P. W. Whittemore, Boston.
10. Harry G. Legg, Minneapolis.
Chandler Egan, Medford, Ore.
sition given is the logical result of
the application of my standard.
Garden City Record Poor.
Mr. Travers is a marvelous match
player—his winning the national
championship on four different occa
sions emphasizes the constantly re
peated fact.
He ha» two very fine shots—a
beautifully long, straight iron, and a
good putting stroke, achieving the
last with a Schenec-tady. The great
est defeat 1 ever experienced in my
life was at the hands of Mr. Travers,
and conceit might lead me to say that
I considered him in consequence a
very great player. Bin the truth in
the weather on that day and the
course were marvelously adapted to
those two perfect strokes of his and
that is a very different thing to say
ing that a man lias adapted skillful
strokes to untoward weather condi
tions. As Mr. Byers has pointed out,
match* play rounds at Garden City
were not very good this year.
I except the Travers-Ouimet match,
of course, the others being generally
a little ragged and only brilliant in
spots.
Warrent Wood has mastered the
secret of wooden club control that
constantly evades Travers. The lat
ter, no doubt, can* play more con
sistently than Warren, the longest
iron shot, and he may have a trifle
the edge on putting; yet Warren is
an excellent putter and from 200
yards down to the green he is un
doubtedly the better player. In re
covery from trouble Warren is also
the better of the two. and I have
never known him to “shank” a shot—
something Travers did several times
at Garden City.
Travers is assuredly a better match
than Warren and he has the ad
vantage of more constant practice.
Warren is a business man with a
most exacting business. Indeed, few
Western players, after their school
days, have the leisure of Eastern
golfers.
Last June, for nearlj a month, I
had an opportunity to watch War
ren’s game under conditions of leis
ure during the tour of the tnid-West-
ern team, and the result satisfied me
as to his great ability When he is
11. Jack Neville, San Francisco.
A. V. Macan, Victoria, B. C.
12. Fraser Hale, Chicago.
13. Heinrich Schmidt, Boston.
Mason Phelps, Chicago.
14. Paul Hunter, Chicago.
B. Warren Corkran, Balti
more.
15. Nelson Whitney, N. Orleans. ,
16. Stewart Stickney, St. Louis.
Donald Edwards, Chicago.
really going he has all the^ shots in
his bag.
Travis Given ^Fourth Place.
The fourth position on my list be
longs to Mr. Travis. He is still one
of the greatest golfers in the coun
try, and a dangerous opponent for
any player in the world, for time lias
not destroyed his skill, but merely
lessened his endurance
-J. G. Anderson has the fifth posi
tion on my list He plays a good,
sound game of excellent golf.
Herreshoff has the sixth position
and I bracket Fownes and Byers for
seventh and two well-known Chica
goans and an Eastern player fori
eighth place. P. W. Whittemore. a
good fighter and a good player, has
ninth place, and I assign the eleventh
to ('handler Egan and Harry Legg,
twelfth to Fraser Hale and E. P. Al
lis, and the unlucky thirteenth to
Heinrich Schmidt and Mason Phelps
Heine’s showing in England made
him deserving of a better place, but
his continued ill luck here rendered it
impossible to give it to him
Number fourteen. Warren Uorkran,
of Baltimore, is a sound player who
will doubtless give a better account
of himself next year. Nelson Whit
ney. the Southern champion, de
serves a place omthe list, and I place
Stewart Stickney, the trans-Missis
sippi champion, and Donald Edwards,
who has played particularly well
about Chicago this year, at number
sixteen.
• KNOCKOUT" WINS WITH K, O.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17 "KnoAoUt"
Brennan of Buffalo. caught Hughie
Ross, of Chicago, on ihe point of the
jaw- and knocked him out in the eighth
and last round of their fight here last
night
FAMOUS TROTTER DEAD.
MOUNT .STERLING, KY De. 17
Bill Highland 2:19. one of the best,
trotters on the half-mile circuit was
found dead in a pasture to-day ’ The
colt was valued at $5,000 and owned
by I R. Tattle.
DAVIS BEATS GOODWIN.
KIRK8VILLE. MO. Dec 17 Andy
Dans, of Monmouth. Ill . easily heat
Kid Goodwin, of Quincy, in a ten-
round bout here last nighL.
Boy Scouts to Hold
Big Tournament at
'Drome' Saturday
Nine troops, aggregating about two
hundred Boy Scouts, are to give a big
tournament. The first of Its kind evei
given in the South, at 2:30 o'clock Sat
urday afternoon at the Motordrome
The tournament is not to he an ath
letic meet. In the ordinary sense of the
word. The contests are to be In the
things taught the Boy Scouts -tent-
pitching. signaling by wigwag and field
wireless, bugle calls, drum corps work,
special drills and first aid relief work.
A handsome silver cup has been of
fered to the winning troop, and there
is plenty of rivalry among the various
commands.
Veteran Announcer
To Retire on Jan. 1
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 17 Billy
Jordan, veteran announcer of ring con
tests is about to retire He has turned
in his resgination as a market inspec
tor to the health board after thirteen
yearR of service. He goes out of office
on January 1 at the age of 82 years,
and expecis to spend the balance of
his days with old companions at the
Youtsville Soldiers’ Home
Jordan is widely known among the
followers of pugilism. In every fight
that has been held In San Francisco for
years Jordan has been in the ring and
Introduced all the celebrities who were
gathered a» (be ringside, as well as the
referee and the contestants It is un
derstood he will make his last appear
ance as announcer in the fight on Janu
ary 1.
MORAN LOSES ON FOUL.
OAKLAND, CAL.. Dec. 17 Owen
Moran was disqualified in the sixth
round here laRt night and Jog, Azevedo
given the decision' on a foul.
[ FODDER FOR FANS
Hats off to Lou Castro. His speech
at the Southern League banquet the
other night was a bear. Charley
Frank happened into a spell of hyster
ics during the Count’s oration that
finally ended with the chubby Pelican
falling out of his chair.
* * •
Matty Matthews is geting into con
dition for the hard season he expects
at Newport News. He takes a ten-
mile jaunt every night in a 60-horse
power automobile
* * *
A\ e always had h hunch that O B.
Andrews, president ot the Lookouts,
and L, Castro were as friendly as the
measles, hut it is a long alley that has
no ashcan.
* * *
As a successor to the popluar Charley
White. “Chief Wahoo is traveling
grest guns The Indian was a great
football performer, a great baseball
player, but since he joined the Mexi
can athletic ranks he is a scream
* * *
As payment for Paul Musser, former
Cracker 1 wirier, George Clark, the
southpaw' sent to Montreal last sum
mer by Manager Griffith, of the Na
tionals, has been recalled and sent to
the Des Moines club, of the Western
League. Musser last year was the sec
orid best hurler in the Western T^eague.
♦ * *
Bob Baugh invited all the "fellows ’
at the banquet the other night to the
same sort of a feed "when the Barons
win the penam next year Qui-et, Rob
ert. you’re tipping the boat.
any plan to reassemble the Natfongl
League in a special meeting to give
Cap Anson that $1,200 which the league
voted to vote him.
* * •
Baseball ChronoIog3 r —-Dec. 14 1913--
Ebbets pays $25,000 for a shortstop
Dee. 14, 1.914—Baseball bonds listed
in Wall, street.
Dec. 15, 1915—Morgan loots National
League.
• • •
Sometimes when we are enfeebled
by listening to a baseball mag
nate for several hours w'« feel that
Samson’s favorite old w r eapon is as
potent as ever.
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"Governor Tener Is very happy over
the fact that he will soon devote
all of his attention to baseball affairs ’
Yes. but—ah. well, let him be happy
while he may.
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