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TTTF att;anta oeohotan and news. riie Fieri iter Who Can Get a Decision Over John Barleycorn Has Not Appeared Vet COVH2ED 4/ BASEBALL RULES GIVE PBE! SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT You Simply Can t Escape the Dear Things III TOME Tinker SquabbHe Proves That Head of Club Has Right to Complete Deals. Bv Frank O. Monk**. N Y-k'w Turk, n« 32 Th* Tinl • I gquibbl* ha* hronufhl Hear' •,, fori • *• c <• ' president of a hall rlub has full P r > ' • to trad*. sell or buy a plaver and thai his actions. in this respect, can no; Em repudiated by the directors of a cluh It also ha* shown that the Uinrin natl club direi^ors are vacillating parsons, that thev Interpret the rule? of the National League only as the;, tend to serve the best Interest* of the Cincinnati club. The rules of the National League are clearly defined oii the point of who has final and full power to nog-- tlate for players. That person is the president and the president alone The National league rules take It for granted that the provident of a club !s empowered by t hue directors to act for them, and that all h!s act* are binding upon them Practically the same C incinnati club directors who canceled the agreement made by Herrmann, declaring that his actions had to he ratified by the dl rectors before t hey were Anal and binding. assumed a different attitude In 1910 • • • AT that time Manager Dooln, of the ‘ * Phillies, entered into a deal with C,firry Herrmann involving the e> chance of seven player* when Pres ldent Fog*!, of the Phillies, heard of the deal he ordered it canceled, de claring; that Dooln had no authority to make It And how the Cincinnati people did roar! They insisted that Dooln did have the power; that the deal was legal and binding They insisted that a manager’s acts did not have to he ratified by either the president or the directors They carried their protest against the cancellation of the deal up to league President Lynch, who correctly interpreted the rules, de cided 1n favor of Philadelphia, stating tnat Dooln had no right to make such a deal, and tha^ Fogel alone had the power • • • L IFE has lost about all its sweet news for the St. Louis (Cardinal fans It was hard enough for them to endure the blow dealt them when the selling of liquid refreshments was abolished at the park hut the sale of Ed Konetchv to the Pirates Is a crushing blow*. What charms will i beer-leas and Konetch.v-less hall park have for them henceforth? • » • ANDY CARNF?<HE 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 is attempting what no other man In the world would try He's trying to And. through process of elimination, a real, regular "white hope' a man who can put tip a bat tle a la Messrs Sullivan, Corbett, Fltaalmmona and Jeffries “1 won’t die happy unless I do. ' mvi Gibson Gibson » a pretty nice fellow, and It seems a shame that he ll he unhappy and miserable when it comes time for him to make an earthly exit. COACH TO GET RAISE TOW A CITY. IOWA. Dec 22 The lews Athletic Board has voted Coach J**»e B Hawley a substantial raise in *alar\ for the coming season and ap pointed a committee to proceed at once with- the drawing up of a contract to he offered him. NO CHANGE IN UMPIRES. PITTSBURG. Dec 22.—There will be tin change In the staff of umpires ac cording to John K Tener. president of the National League. He said the best managers hod told him the present itaff is as good as could he found BRITONS PLAN CHANGES. CHICAGO, Dec. 212 While the Ameri cans are standing pat on their 1918 te nls rules, the Britons are planning to make some radical changes Also, they want the International tennis rules f< 1914 changed n theses oirt\ wo*k aonj om t*ir UI(r**T I AO*y »OCt Tv*-e OWC.E OVE*. AM) Coo*/*KD ti, 60CKS - h&AS I 7 I JO PROSE THE VO * EE 5(REST m£ voir* THW OCD JT*U_ SkAU-6 AJOV* ,0K inhO<-SMf~ _ V*A THO WAD A LeUCTV**K!OCTL M»VTW IHMOTMCmT > At THAT I RETM T9. *wT 7>OCA)j0»L , wmats . TUnv rm oo* IHeJtwTW A^wt'.eiTMAftV ] AmO ‘A'S *,«.* Ary* A.CN.WIV ATV ev»9- 0 HA-WS-HS- \ ASMS a Poe>* about wnfi ?OIVSWEO NECt>t6 I AHQ THE. \UlPf'* feiseioED wooocs 1 m-a-hs- v> 'BflJIFTT 1 A LHC K r» to O £ K- OOVOO REmE"KiOE^ uON<» A&O HOW SOU caught me ARAAlVt 5j£H 'A> »///, t □ >/- EE — 5 ’ eur I CATO.H j v/oo »w mV ; ?OC|gET-r j m OOC'WHITEIN WELLTD INDOOR SPORTS By Tad HE Former Sox Southpaw, on His Way to Minors, Thanks Loyal Supporters. 7 OH HEi I MEET 4- PAU5MCP-r I ONCfc AuJ*" 1 . r rA££T a 1 MILLION A! S.C UKE VO c HU ’AGO, ILL.. Dec. 22. -Doc While, veteran White Sox hurler and until recently one of the most effective pitchers on ihe South Side organization, to-day is wending hie wir westward, where he« will take up Ins new berth. White is heading for Venice, CaJ . where ne will be seen in uniform next season, and for several seasons thereafter. Herb is "Doc’s" farewell. "I would consider it a favor if you can And 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 mv baseball career In this good old town “Father Time lias crooked his tin ker and has beckoned me to come from m> berth as major leaguer to the 'brush' to make my home Ten years and more I’ve struggled, fought and toiled and tried my best to win for (’6mmy and the fans, who'va always stood the test, supporting me when I was had' and giving me their aid when 'Take him out’ Is probably what they fain would have said. It’s hard to leave m.v friends and pals, who’ve been so kind and true The thought of going chokes me up and really makes me blue. "Through future years Pll thank you. fans, for what you’ve been to me You’ve been my judge and jury, and, I say *1t gratefully, it's to you 1 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 ths fan’s good will; It helps a man to hear the rooters' voices, loud ami shrill. You’ve stuck to me through all and helped me capture many a game you've not found fault when I was licked, but cheered me Just the same. "You’ve urged me on to better work by sticking dav by day, not knowing, perhaps, how much !t meant; hut 1 Just wish to say I'd love to grasp you by the hand and tell you, pne bv one. how grateful to you all I am, now that my work *s done. To Commv and the boys T wish success* In years to come, and that they’ll lick the Cubs each year I gums that’s wishing some." Jlv/v/E?" f* o a <f NES I'M (H3'wCr TO TAKE v/iwcent plaltoP oorav MV VACHT SUWOAV- voo know mv old mak \nas the piwr owe vmho EV£!L puTLESi ON CHAlfti - j Mfc L E p-T ME A 8 IT O f C HAV&t - 3 VON MULT MEET A LCrt OF TiKE'R.', 0U1HSJ6- TVt& \ TWe-VDSe FlDD/Aift NOU . ii \H«<-6lVT »LMT£*. M*HV rt* 4/oi/LDA/r yet •y ha-ha- WS OLD MA « LfPT" M/M JOmE CAAW<rE-\ IJ-uH I wPJER. 3AW HtrA-Ajvry4 fAAf-AAE HlHf that HKA Ak A COACHMAN- ) 5,MPLV WTTlWIr IU OH M€ 7P6.T (rO V I**- 1 T>< ^ 6Aa. of A eoRS-CAP JWDOOP iPOC-TS. TE'U-'N'G- TM-e 5-18.L. afr tve€" avewi mxn/n JOME NEVJi- DRUM^e-R. JTOFF Nick Altrock's Last Good Game y§+ +••{• *!••+ Final “Flash” in Minneapolis O LOCAL FANS TO SEE ENGLISH CHAMPION LIGHTWEIGHT ON JANUARY 6 FREDDIE WELSH AND WHITNEY TO BATTLE HERE e Cigarette of Quality Piedmont — the Sc. cigarette that has never been success fully imitated. Day in and day out—Pied mont goes alonj$ satisfying smokers who appreciate the goodness of finest, fra grant, mellow tobacco and perfect workmanship. The biggest selling 5c. cigarette in America—un commonly good—unvary ingly uniform. Whole coupon in each package. % , WljA. W^T’CaDCG Co iO for3< l B,v W. S. Farnsworth. -'REDD1K WELSH, the Knglish 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 l»oxlng fans seem to be all ke>ed up for a scrap; and in Welsh and Whltnev they ought to witness a • •iking mill. W HIT N KY npftrts no i in Atlanta. He has itrod notion been tried time and again and never found wanting He has fought Jake Abel. Battling Nelson, Charley 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 clever and hard-hitting Chicago boy the hardest kind of a scrap. Frank has never been in a slbw bout In Atlanta. You have got to hand it to this lad for making the other fellow travel. If his opponent wants to box, then Frank will box. if said opposition desires to stand toe to toe. then Prank accommodates. lie always gives the fans a run for their money. A xn ** Chat hampion 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 lias fouglu fully 100 fights, and only twice was the de cision against him. Packer McFarland was handed the verdict over him But the bout was in Milwaukee, where McFarland was exceedingly popular until he fought Jack Rritton the other night. After that Welsh met McFarland twice, once In a 25-rounder in Los Angeles and again in a 20-rounder in England. Both sera pa were declared even. Matt Wells earned the decision over Welsh for the English title in 1911, hut Freddie reversed matters and won 1*8 a the crow n in 1912. Just iook over the following list of some of the men that Welsh has fought: Eddie Fox. Jimmy Dunn. Tommy Felt/.. Tommy Love. Frank Carsey, Jimmy Devine. Matty Baldwin, Billy Glover, Young Eri#»\ Willie Moody, Tim Callahan, Seaman Hayes, Young Josephs. Willie Fitzgerald, Dave Deshlcr, Maurice Sayers. Charley Neary, Paokey McFarland. Phil Brock, Abe At tell, Harry Trendall, George Memsic, Ray Bronson. Young Donohue, Johnny Frayne, Jack (Good man, Henr> Piet, Johnny Summers. Matt Wells. Pal Moore, Willie Ritchie, Jimmy Duffy. Jack l^angdon. Grover Hayes, Young Saylor and dozens more. \U KLSH gave Willie ** merry trimming in Ritchie a i 20-round go in Los Angeles just two years ago. And Willie can’t see Welsh at all these days. Only a few months back Welsh and Ritchie were to meet in Vancouver. Both 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 a way out He claimed that he had been out- talked uf $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. n • • \V T ELSH is now after Ri\chic 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 feuropean 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 battle with Whitney. prepare for his W F ; ter season with such wish to congratulate Count astro on starting off thp win- corking bout Carrigan Will Be Only Playing Leader BOSTON. Dec. 26.—Bill Carrigan will be the only playing manager in the American league next season. Six of the other seven teams will be handled from the bench by former players in uniform, allowing* them to visit the coaching lines Connie, how r ever, wriM differ from all his rivals In this respect It has hren many years since Connie donned a uniform, and yet he has been by far the most successful of the lot. TUTHILL IS OUT AGAIN. WEST POINT, N. Y.. Dec 22. Harry Tuthill, 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. Tuthill 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 University of Pennsylvania team next spring. The games will be played at Snibt Park on March 30 and 31. JOHN HENRY TO COACH. 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 graduated from Amherst in 1910. was prominent as a hockey player while at college PERRY IN MOTORCYCLE RACE. URBANA. ILL. Dec. 22.— Robert A. Terry, the Illinois freshman motorcy clist. who holds the dirt tra>1^ record for a mile on the old ludmnapolis Speedway, yesterday entered the 300- mile race at Savannah. Ua , on Christ mas Day Tinker’s Demands Are'‘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, w ho was not cer tain the Brooklyn manager would be there, and so did not leave Chicago. Robinson immediately got into com munication w r ith Tinker here. After the talk Tinker said he believed the differ ences between himself and the Brooklyn club could be adjusted despite the at titude of the cluh toward his salary request. "Robinson told tne the $10,000 bonus was mine as soon as T 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 lie said that $7,500 would be satisfactory lie said he expected to meet Charles Ebbets, president of the Brooklyn club, before tong. Pratt Resigns From Players’ Fraternity ST. LOTTS, Dec. 22.—Derrill Fratt, second sacker of the Browns, has re signed as his club's representative in the Players' Fraternity. Unpleasant notoriety during the fall series, when he was accused of having divulged the secrets of the association, is the reason given for his resignation. There may be other causes. He ex plained his action thus: "Uncomplimentary and unfounded things were said about me last October when I was accused of telling the se crets of the Players’ Fraternity. Of course these reports were untrue, but for the good of the Players’ Union I am going to resign. I have the fraternity’s good will at heart, and w’ill do all I can for Dave Fultz's organization. By O. B. Keeler. N a sport page of The Sunday American there was a big pic ture of Nicholas Alt rock 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 T thought of old Nick’s grand performance of 1906, when he 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 1 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, * in Minneapolis. Nick was pitch ing for the Kansas City Blues, of the American Association. He had not shown much stuff since he left the American League a couple of years i ,»re, and had knocked about In the big minor league until Dan Shay picked him up In 19II. Carr took over the Blues in 1912 and regarded Nick as a valuable veteran, though he knew the old fellow was nearly done. Well, T 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. 1 think it was. T have since thought It was rather odd— in fact, I thought it w r as 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 up the beds. Nick came along to my section and sat i down and began to talk. * • * N 'ICK told me the stor yof his life. He told me the story of sixteen years in professional baseball; the first tryout; the failure; the partial success: the tougli luck; the hard times; the dawn of fortune; the first “regular job;” the prosperous times in the big show. And then Nick told me about that great series of 1906; how he beat Mordecai Brown 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 Sox. misjudged a long, high flv. "T pitched Brownie the game of his life," Nick said, with a queer, wry grin on his rugged, homely fare. "And if Hahn had caught that fly Ud been pitching him yet, I 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 ICK was sort of sheepish about it as he finished. He sat silent a mo ment; theft he got up abruptly and slapped me on the shoulder “Gee,” he said, with an embar rassed sort of laugh, “T haven’t talked so much about myself in the last ten years. But l kind of felt like loosen ing up. you know, and—aw, well- good- night! ” I * * * VTEXT day we opened in Minne- | ^ apolis. and Carr elected Old Nick j Altrock to pitch the first game against ! the Champion Millers of Joe Can- i tillon. • • • THEY were a hard-hitting bunch of * veterans, those Millers, chain- piqns the last two years, and cham pions again that season, by the way. Claude Rossman, the two Delehantys, “Gavvy” Cravath, now the home-run hitter of the Phillies. Hobe Ferris, Otis Clymer—oh. they could hit, those Millers! But they faced their master’s hand that bright May .afternoon, in the new ROWING CREWS BREAK RECORD. MADISON. WIS., Dec. 22.—Crews of the University of Wisconsin broke all rowing records at this institution when they completed 220 miles of rowing for the fall season. This is 80 miles more than was rowed in any other fall FIGHTER DIES. LONDON. Dec. 22.—Jimmy Burrows, the lightweight boxer, died here after a bout with George Freeman, at the Ju dean Athletic Club. In the sixth round | Burrows was pressing Freeman hard j when he suddenly collapsed and fell. ' Efforts to revive him faded. DO YOU ITCH? ( II us * Tettcrtne It ccr«* rrmind (. Itch, ringworm. Itchln* piles. Infant sore head C anil »U other skin trou lies ResJ what Q R v Ii aianspolis. says Encl.Kd «.*»., s.nd m, ,h,i . in Tetterln, 0n« b., ,.f T.tt,rlnn ha. In my family than ISO worth of other rt mod Ira I have tried. Use Tetterine ’ II r.ll.T— ,kln trouble thai ha. ha!Tl.cl in. br,f mndlral akllL I, .Ul ™ 5,^ ' to-dsjr—Tetterine. 11 50c at drusglais. or bv malt 6HUPTRINE CO. SAVANNAH GA. Minneapolis ball park; their mas ter's whip cracked, and they jumped through, rolled over, and played dead. 0 * • T N a fairly comprehensive term of 1 service, I never have been privi leged to 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 well 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 walked back to the bench. One Miller reach ed first on a single; one drew a base on balls; both died stealing. One flv 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 ^ight Blues might as well hav* been high school players. There wasn’t a hard fielding chance in the gam*. On the other side, the Blues made three runs for Nick, all in one ex plosive Inning. That was three time* as many as he needed. No team on earth would have hit Nick Altrock that day. • * * \\IEJLL, that wag Nick's last good game—the last sparkle of th« falling flame of a great pitching genius. Three days later. 1n Rt. Paul. Nick pitched again, and was found for a dozen sounding blows, though th» Rlues, 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 (’lark Griffith at Washington to make sport for the fans by his clowniso antics on the coaching lir-es. * * * LJ T T do not remember Nick as a clown, though he undoubtedly was one of the funniest men in baseball. T recall Nick n° the serious narrator a long, hard, adventurous baseball life. And T recall him as a rrim. cold and dominant figure, Mastering with the final flash of his failing arm the slugging champions of Joe Cantillon and pitching the best game of ball T ever saw—and the last good game of a truly great slabman. YALE ARRANGING DATES. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Dec. 22 While the Yale football schedule will n T °t be formally announced until aft^r New Year’s, it was learned last night that all the games but one have been tentatively decided upon The schedule includes: University of'Maine Lehigh VVashington and .Jefferson. University Virginia. Colgate, Brown, Princeton and Harvard. All of the games except that of Princeton will be played here. MACKMEN WANT “BUZZ.” LOUISVILLE. KY.. Dec 22.—Thee dore Br/.ozowski, a locaj serno-pro south paw pitcher has been offered a con tract by Connie Mack, manager of the Philadelphia Athletics “Buzz." p c he is called, pitched a no-hft game at Csi - roliton. Ky., against New Castle last summer MEN Cured Forever By a tme prertallst who pommscr thft experi ence j of years. The right kind of experience—(ioir.g the same thing the right way hundreds and per haps thousands of times, with unfailing, permanent result*. Don't you think It’s time to eet the right 8 treatment? 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