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'i'tlhj AI.LAJN 1A WiiiUKU’lAJN AMU JNiiiWH. It Isn’t true That Japanese Ivory Workers Are Bidding on Fred Merkle - 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- Kva Padw1ck SPire, ‘ a ’ ^olgast Expects to St °p Charley White l: ?;-*r fa ™ to give him the once ; ! vaukee s jS, p * mt0 thp rin g at b Charlie White Friday ?’ ^ i..uRnr vil* IS 88 F no<i as * I ,* Nelson and that he will * styling himself llght- ' - r ,. pj. r, ‘/*. n again. He contends J. 7 I" 5 ran not do 135 pounds more and since he was A r , r '\ the title, that honor in The promoters agin 8 • » rtJKf nlaRe of this ancl are n 8ht as a title affair. POLLY AND HER PALS Pa Gets ‘Something Just as Good’ WELL M4,ThE DOclbR M'/5 j i THAWK ,m VWOMT Pt- lXJAFAMTIMED j , (jcoOHf)S MUCH LOW6ER A SHURA fJYCR PAW LL ^Hicktu Rdx li wfarlV Pf /tBCE To 6of FuStwtss /46 Jve /CeTcHeo’EM • j IT 1 1 Ml KeTcheo Em'j (jooo F/47HER^f PAG/' (CElcHFH wny The. /4'COuRSE The Chiotu Pox') Fiddle Vfoo /4iwi 60I Wo MORI Chrkcm Fok j 'EM I H4yt ‘ n ARE VooJ 6ore 1m42J 1 fSmiuwj im Sore! Ho Roar 1 ’. domt y spost i kuovw ML4S/E5 WHEM I Set ’EM • G**- y^nKthr- Harvard Arranges Hard Games for 1914 Football Season « 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 T 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. • * « "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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