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SMALL RULES
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SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
You Simply Can ’t Escape the Dear Things
Tinker Squabble Proves That
Head of Club Has Right to
Complete Deals.
B\ Frank G. Menke.
\ ’EV\ HillK 1 >.■■ 22 The Tlnkei
squabbl** has brought clear!
to the fore 1 hq fact that tjv-
f»tet»ident of a hall club lias full I "'Y* *
to trade, sell or bu\ a player and that :
his ttetions. in this respect, can not b»*
repudiated by the directors of » club >
It also has shown that the (’ineln- .
nati club directors are vacillating
persons; that tne\ interpret the rules
of the National League only as the;
tend to serve the best mtere»ts of the j
t’incindati club.
The rules of the National league j
are clearly defined on the point of i
who has final and full power to uego- j
tiate for players. That person is th«- j
president and the president alone.
The National League rules take it for
granted that the president of a Hub 1
i» empowered by the directors to act
for them, and that all his acts are
binding upon tnem
Practically the same Cincinnati club I
directors wlm canceled the agreement
made by Herrmann, declaring that his
actions had to be ratified by the di
rectors before they were final and
binding, assumed a different attitude
* in 1910
• • •
AT that ime Manager Dooln, of the
w ** Phillies, entered into a deal with
^ Garry Herrmann involving the ex
change of seven players When Pres- |
bfbpt Fogej, of the Phillies, heard of
the'’deal, he ordered it canceled, de
claring that Dooin had no authority |
to make It.
And how th»* Cincinnati people did
roar! They insisted that Dooin did
have the power; that the deal was
legal and binding They insisted that
a manager's acts did not have to be |
ratified by cither the president or the
directors. They carried their protest
against the cancellation of the deal
up 10 league President Lynch who
correctly interpreted the rules, de
cided in favor of Philadelphia, stating
that Dooin had no right to make such
a deal, and that Fogel alone had the
power
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Way to Minors, Thanks Loyal
Supporters.
INDOOR SPORTS
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By Tad
1 IFE ha* lost about all its sweet-
' news for the St. Louis Cardinal
fans. It whs hard enough for them
to endure the blow' dealt them when
the selling of liquid refreshments was
abolished at the park, but the sale of
Ed Konetrhy to the Pirates is a
crushing blow. What charms will a
beer-less and Konetchy-less ball park
have for them henceforth?
* * *'
ANDY CARNEGIE ought not to
** overlook Billy Gibson, fight pro
moter, when he hands out the next
hunch of hero medals. Gibson de
serves one, for he !s attempting what
no other man in the world would try.
He's trying to find, through process
of elimination, a real, regular "white
hope”—a man who * an put up a bat
tle a la Messrs Sullivan. Corbett,
Fitzsimmons and Jeffries
"1 won't die happy unless I do,’
says Gibson.
Gibson's 1 prettv nl o fellow, and it
seems a shame that tie’ll be unhappy
and miserable wn« n It conies time for
him to make an eartnly exit.
COACH TO QET RAISE.
IOWA CITY. IOWA. Dec The
I'-wa Mhletic Board Las voted Coach
G • B Hawley a substantial raise In
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I < ’ued h 1 ommittee'to proceed at oru-e
with the drawing up or a contract to
bp offered him
NO CHANGE IN UMPIRES.
I’ITTSBI'RCJ. Dec. 22. There will be
no change in the stuff of umpires, ac
cording to John K. Tei er. president of
the National league He said the best
managers bod toid b;u> Hie present
staff is as good as could be found.
RRITONS PLAN CHANGES.
CHICAGO. I »r« 22. W hile the A»nerl-
< ans arc standing t».it on their 1913 ten
nis rules, the Britons are planning to
make some radical changes Also, they
want the fnternai’.omd tennis rules for
1914 changed.
C CHICAGO ILL. De< 22. Doc
White, veteran NV'hite Sox
hurler and until recently one
of the moat effective pitchers on The
South Side organization, to-day ia
wending his way westward, where he
will take up his new berth. White
is heading for Venice, Cal., where he
will be seen in uniform next season,
ami for several seasons thereafter.
Here is "Doe's” farewell:
"I would consider it a favor if you
can find space in your columns to
publish these few lines that I may
express to the Chicago public my
gratitude for their part of my suc
cess during my baseball career in this
good old town.
"Father Time han crooked his fin
ger and has beckoned ine to come
from my berth as major leaguer to
the ‘brush’ to make my home.
"Ten years and more I've struggled,
fought and toiled anu fried my best to
win for Pommy and the fans, who've
always stood the test, supporting me
when 1 was ‘bad’ and giving me tlmir
aid when 'Take him out’ ia probably
what they fain would have said. It’s
hard to leave my friends and pals,
who’ve been so kind and true. Th*'
thought of going chokes me upland
really makes me blue
“Through future years I’ll thank
you. fans, for. what you’ve been to me.
You’ve been my judge and Jury, and,
1 say it gratefully, it’s to you l owe
what small success I may have had,
for you’ve encouraged me although
my work at times was sad. The play
ers realize what It means to have tha
fan’s good will; it helps a man io
hear the* rooters’ voices, loud and
shrill. You’ve stuck to me through j
all and helped me capture many a
game; you’ve not found fault \vh°n
I was licked, tyut cheered me Just the |
same.
"You’ve urged me on to better
work by sticking day by day, not
knowing, perhaps, how much 4
meant; but l Just wish to say I’d
I love to grasp you by the hand and
j tell you, one by one. how grateful to
you‘all I am, now that my work *s
done.
"To Tommy and the boys I wish
success m years to come, and that
they’ll lit k the* Cubs each year 1
guess that’s wishing some.”
Nick Altrock’s Last Good Game
Final
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By \Y. S. Farnsworth.
F FREDDIE W KLSH. the English
* lightweight champion and
Frank Whitney, the Fighting
Carpenter, are going to open the 1914
boxing season in Atlanta, when, on
the evening of January 6. they will
tie up in a 10-round session.
Our genial friend. Count Lou Cas
tro, has decided that the time is ripe
for another mill, and I guess he is
right. The boxing fans seem to be all
keyed up for a scrap; and in Welsh
and Whitney they ought to w itness a
corking mill.
• * •
YV HITNKY needs no introduction
** i:i Atlanta He lias br^n tried
time and again and never found
wanting. He has fought Jake Abel,
Battling Nelson, ('barley White and
a dozen other tough ones within the
boundary lines of the Gate City and
always gave satisfaction. True, he
didn’t beat White, but he gave the
♦ lever and hard-hitting Chicago boy
the hardest kind of a scrap.
Frank has never been in a slow
bout in Atlanta. You have got to
band it to this lad for making the!
other fellow travel. If his opponent j
wants to box. then Frank will box; !
if said opposition desires to stand toed
to toe. then Frank accommodates
He always gives the fans a run for!
their money.
• # •
\ ND now for Mr Lightweight
Champion of England Welsh. He
started battling way back in 1905. His
debut ended with his opponent tak
ing a big sleep in the third round.)
Since then Freddie has fought fully
100 fights, and only twice was the de-
cision against him
Packey McFarland was handed the
verdict over him. But the bout was
in Milwaukee, where McFarland was
exceedingly popular until he fought
men that Welsh has
Jack Britton the other night. After
that Welsh met McFarland twice,
once in a 25-rounder in Los Angeles
and again in a 20-rounder fta England.
Both scraps were declared even.
Matt Wells earned the decision over
Welsh for the English title in 1911,
but Freddie reversed matters and won
back the crown in 1912.
Just lool^ over the following list of
some of tlie
fought:
Eddie Fox, Jimmy Dunn, Tommy
Felt*, T >mmy Love, Frank Carsey,
Jimmy Devine, Matty Baldwin. Billy
Glover, Young Erne. Willie Moody,
Tim C iliahan, Seaman Hayes, Young
Josephs, Willie Fitzgerald, Dave
Doshler, Maurice Sayers, Charley
Neai-y. Facke> McFarland, Phil
Brock Abe At tell. Harry Trendall,
George Memsic, Ray Bronson, Young
Donohue, Johnny Frayne, Jack Good
man, Henry Piet, Johnny Summers,
Matt Wells. Pal Moore, Willie Ritchie.
Jimmy Duffy, Jack Langdon, Grover
Hayes. Young Saylor and dozens
more.
% • * •
117 ELSH gave Willie Ritchie a
inerts trimming in a 20-round
go in Los Angeles just two years ago.
And Willie can’t see "Welsh at all
these days. Only a few months hack
Welsh and Ritchie were to meet in
Vancouver Roth men were on the
ground, trained to the minute, and at
last Welsh thought he was going to
get a crack at the American title, but,
alas
Ritchie found an out.
He valimed that he had been out
talked of $500 by the promoters and
he immediately caught the first train
leaving the Canadian town.
It was a case of chilled pedals of
the lowest degree.
* * •
\\? "LSH is now after Ritchie again,
** but Willie is going to take on
Tommy Murphy. However, Freddie
says he will stick after the American
title holder until he corners him.
In the meantime the European
champion is going to tour the South.
On New Year’s Day he will meet
Johnny Dundee in New Orleans. Im
mediately after that scrap he will set
sail for Atlanta to prepare for his
battle with Whitney.
• • *
U/E wish to congratulate Count
Castro on starting off the win
ter season with such a corking bout.
Carrigan Will Be
Only Playing Leader
BOSTON. Dec 2^.—Bill Carrigan will
be the only playing manager in the
American League next season. Six of
the other seven teams will be bandied
from the bench by former players in
uniform, allowing them to visit the
coaching lines. Connie, however, will
differ from all hi# rivals in this respect.
It has been many years since Connie
conned a uniform, and yet he has been
by far the most successful of the lot.
TUTHILL IS OUT AGAIN.
WEST POINT. X*Y . Dec. 22.—Harry
Tuthlll, trainer of the Detroit Ameri
can league baseball club, and more re
cently of the victorious Army football
team, left here for his home in Detroit
yesterday. Tuthlll has been confined to
the hospital here since the day after
the Army-Navy football game.
MACKMEN TO PLAY PENN.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec 22.—Connie
Mack, of the American league Baseball
Club, announced to-day that he had
arranged to play two games with the
Fnlverslty of Pennsylvania team next
spring. The games will be played at
Shibe Park on March 30 and 31.
JOHN HENRY TO CQACH.
AMHERST. MASS, Dec. 22 —John
Henry, catcher of the Washington
team, of the American League, has been
appointed coach of the Amherst hockey
team Henry, who was graduates! from
Amherst in 1910. was prominent as a
hockey player while at college.
PERRY IN MOTORCYCLE RACE.
I’RBANA. ILL. Dec 22—Robert A
Perry, the Illinois freshman motorcy
clist. who holds the dirt track record
for a miel on the old Indianapolis
Speedway, yesterday entered the 300-
mile race at Savannah. Ga , on Christ
mas Day.
Tinker’s Demands
Are 0 Unreasonable,"
Declares Robinson
CHICAGO. Dec. 22.—The salary Joe
Tinker demands from the Brooklyn Na
tionals was termed unreasonable yester
day by Wilbert Robinson, manager of
the club, in a long-distance telephone
conversation. Robinson went to Indian
apolis to meet Tinker, who was not cer
tain the Brooklyn manager would be
there, and so did not leave Chicago.
Robinson immediately got into com
munication with Tinker here. After the
talk Tinker said he believed the differ
ences between himself and the Brooklyn
dub could be adjusted despite the at
titude of the club toward his salary
request.
"Robinson told me the $10,000 bonus
was mine as soon as I signed, and
wanted to know the salary I expected.”
Tinker said. “ ‘Unreasonable.’ he re
plied, when I told him. He promised to
think it over."
Tinker would not name the salary
figures, but some time ago he said that
$7,500 would be satisfactory. He said
he expected to meet Charles Ebbets,
president of the Brooklyn club, before
long.
Juarez Results
FIRST—Six furlongs; Evelina. 112
(W. McIntyre). 15 to 1. won: Mary
•Emily, 107 (McDonald). 8 to ’. second;
Emily. 107 (McDonald), 8 to 5. second;
Time 1:20 1-5. Also ran: Bashful Bet-
tie. Maselo. Galley Slave, Ursulla Em
ma. Balronia.
SECOND—Five and one-half fur
longs: Pay Streak. < Cavanaugh t. 3
to 2. won; Fort Sumter, 95 (Neylon). 3
to 1. second; Mack B. Eubanks. 109
(Groth), 1 to 4. third. Time 1:12 3-6.
Also ran: Parlor Boy. Barsac. Ladv
Rillie.
THIRD—Five and one-half furlongs:
Milton Robles. 98 (Neylon). 2 to 1, won;
Redpath. 10S (Taplin). I to 3. second;
Os&ple. 106 (W. Taylor*, out. third.
Time 1:114-5. Also ran: Janiel, Em
ma Gem. *
FOURTH—Seven furlongs Just Red.
105 (G. Carroll). 4 to 1 won: Brook
field. 102 (Neylon). 6 to 5. second. Berl
Getty. 98 • Marco). 3 to 5. third. Time
1:31 3-5. Alsa ron: John Reardon.
Cousin Puss. Voladay. Jr.
FIFTH—Five and one-half furlongs:
Ceos 108 (Gentry), 8 to 1. won: General
Warren. 95 tXeyloft). 3 to 1. second:
Kiltie. 100 (R Guy). 3 to 1. third. Time
1:12 1-5. Also ran: May Buena Trans
act, Colonel McDougall. Stevesta, Woof.
Durin.
SIXTH—Mile and a quarter: McDee,
100 i Neylon). 6 to 5. won Defy. 97
(Haynes), even, second: Sir John. KG
(Gross), out. third. Time 2:17 1-5.
Also ran Rake. Wise Mason.
O N a sport page of The Sunday
American there was a big pic
ture of Nicholas Altrock and
a little story of how the once great
southpaw’ was shoving lumber in a
yard near the White Sox ball park
in Chicago, the scene of many of his
past triumphs.
As I read that story I thought of
old Nick’s grand performance of 1906,
when lie faced the Cubs and the
peerless Miner Brown, and set them
down in the first game of the world s
series—and pricked the bubble of
their confidence and virtually won
the championship of the world for
the “Hitless Wonders.”
And then I thought of the last
great game old Nick ever pitched, or
ever will pitch, I’m afraid.
I saw’ him pitch that game. This
is a little story about it,
* * *
IT was in the early summer of 1912,
1 in Minneapolis. Nick was pitch
ing fo rthe Kansas City Blues, of the
American Association. He had not
shown much stuff since he left the
American League a couple of years
before, and had knocked about in the
big minor league lil Dan Shay
picked him up hi .uL C&rr took
over the Blues in 1912 and regarded
Nick as a valuable veteran, though
he knew the old fellow was nearly
done.
Well, I was traveling with the Blues
as war correspondent for The Kansas
City Star, and we set out for the first
Northern invasion of the year, in
May. I think it was.
1 have since thought it was rather
odd—in fact, I thought it was odd at
the time, for Nick wasn’t in the
habit of talking much about himself.
But along about the time the porter
started making lip the beds, Nick
came along to my section and sat
down and began to talk.
• * *
"M CK told me the story of his life
He told me the story of sixteen
years in professional baseball: the
first tryout; the failure: the partial
success; the tough luck; the hard
times ;the dawn of fortune; the first
“regular job;” the prosperous times
In the big show\
great series of 1906; how he beat
And then Nick told me about that
Mordecai Brow r the first day; how
he pitched out a heart-breaking
struggle against the three-fingered
wonder on their next start—0 to 0,
inning after inning, until Hahn, of
the Box, misjudged a long, high fly.
“I pitched Brownie the game of his
life." Nick said, with a queer, wry
grin on his rugged, homely face. “And
if Hahn had caught that fly I'd been
pitching him yet. 1 reckon!”
• * *
W ELL. Nick told me all about it,
and if it wasn't very literary, it
caught up in force and smashing
metaphor. And some way I felt pret
ty solemn, listening there in the dark
ening Pullman to the -life-story of
the grand old southpaw who was far
along on the dun-colored back trail.
* * *
N 'lCIC was sort of sheepish about it
as he finished. He sat silent a mo
ment; then he got up abruptly and
slapped me on the shoulder.
“Gee,” he said, with an embar
rassed sort of laugh. "I haven't talked
so much about myself in the last ten
years. But I kind of felt like loosen
ing up, you know, and—aw, w’ell—
good-night! ”
N * *
“M 1 EXT day we opened in Minne-
^ apolis, and Carr elected Old Nick
Altrock to pitch the first game against
the Champion Millers of Joe Can-
tillon.
* * *
T HEY W’ere a hard-hitting bunch of
veterans, those Millers, cham
pions the last two years, and cham
pions again that season, by the way. I
Claude Ros«mar. the two Delehantys,
"Gavvy" Cravatli. now’ the home-run
hitter of the Phillies, Hobe Ferris,
Otis Olymer—oh. they could hit. those
Millers!
But they faced their master’s hand
that bright May afternoon, in the new
Minneapolis ball park; their mas
ter’s whip cracked, and they jumped
through, rolled over, and played dead
« * •
T N a fairly comprehensive term of
4 service, I never have hern privi
leged: tc see a regular no-hit, no-run
game. It wasn’t in my luck, it seems
But that last good game that old
Nick Altrock pitched will do very we!
to keep me from mourning my lim
ited allotment.
In nine .full innings, precisely 27
Millers) walked from the bench to the
plate. Twenty-five of them walker,
back to the bench. One Miller reach
ed first on a single; one drew’ a base
on balls; botli died stealing.
One fly ball was caught In the out
field. The other Millers went softly
out on gentle grounders, pop-up flies,
or on jumping, darting third strikes.
When that game was over, I real
ized that I had seen a game in which
an absolute mastery' of pitching arm
and brain had been shown. The other
eight Blues might as well have been
high school players. There wasn't a
hard fielding chance in the game.
On the other side, the Blues made
three runs for Nick, all in one ex
plosive inning. That w'as three times
as many as he needed. No team on
earth would have hit Nick Altrock
that day.
* ♦ *
YJfELrL,, that was Nick’s last goo:,
game— 1 -the last sparkle of the
failing flame of a great pitching
genius.
Three days later, in St. Paul, Nick
pitched again, and was found for a
dozen sounding blows, though the
Blues, pounding even harder, pulled
him in a winner.
He did not win another game, and
in a month he was given an uncondi
tional release, going promptly to
Clark Griffith at Washington to
sport for ^the fans by his clownish
antics on "the coaching lines.
* * *
R T I do not remember Nick as a
1J clown, though he undoubtedly was
one of the funniest men in baseball.
I recall Nick as the serious narrator
of a long, hard-, adventurous baseball
life.
And T recall him as a. grim, cold
and dominant figure, mastering with
the final flash of his failing arm the
slugging champions of Joe Cantilloii
and pitching the best game of ball l
ever saw—and the last good game of
a truly great slabman.
YALE ARRANGING DATES
NEW HAVEN, CONN.. Der 22
While the Yale football schedule "ill
not be formally announced until alter
New Year's, It was learned last rig'l'
that all the games but one have been
tentatively decided upon. The schedule
includes: University of Maine, Lehigl
Washington and Jefferson. University
Virginia, Colgate, Brown. Princeton an
Harvard. All of the games except that
of Princeton will be played her.
MACKMEN WANT ‘‘BUZZ."
LOUISVILLE, KY., Dec. 22.—'Theo
dore Brzozowskl, a local semo-pro south
paw pitcher, has been offered a cor
tract by Connie Mack, manager of tHe
Philadelphia Athletics. “Buzz,” as he
is catted, pitched a no-hit-game at ('nr
rollton, Ky.. against **
summer.
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