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SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
You Simply Can’t Escape the Dear Things
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Tinker Squabble Proves That
Head of Club Has Right to
Complete Deals.
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Rr Frank G. Menke.
JHW TOKK, IX- 22.— The Tinker
aquabhie hn* brought clearly |
fo the fore the fact that th*
pr*ff.<Vnt of a ball club baa full powe
to trade, irell or buy a pfayer and tha
hla arflone, In this respect, can not bt
repudiated hr the directors of a dub
It also has shown that the Clncln
natl club directors Are vacillating
persons; that they Interpret the nilej-
of the National Tyeagfue only as the\
tend to eer-re the best Interest* of the
Cincinnati club.
The rules of the National league
are clearly defined on the point of
who haa Anal and full power to ne*o
tiate for playera. That peraon la the 1
president—and the president alone I
The National I.eajpie rules take 1t for |
•rranted that the president of a club
is empowered by the directors to act
for them, and that all his acts are
binding upon them
PractleaJlv the same Cincinnati club
directors who canceled the agreement
made by Herrmann, declaring that his
actions had to be ratified by the dl- j
rectors before they were final and I
binding, assumed a different attitude i
IP 1910
• • •
AT that time Manager Dooln, of thej
' * Phillies, entered Into a deal with
Garry Herrmann Involving the ex
change of seven players When Pres
ident Fogel, of the Phillies, heard of
the deal, he ordered It canceled, de-
« larlng thnl 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 act* did not have to he
ratified by either the president or the
directors. They carried their protest
• gainst the cancellation of the deal
up to league President Lynch, who
• rrectlv interpreted the rules, de
ified In favor of Philadelphia, stating
that Dooln had no right to make such
n deal, snd that Fogel alone had the
power
• • •
I IFF hna lost about all its sweet-
ness for the St. IjouIs 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, but the sale of
FX! Konetohy to the Pirates Is a
•^rushing blow. What charms will a
beer-less and Konetchy-less ball park
have for them Henceforth?
• • •
AND? CARNEGIE ought not to
** overlook Billy Gibson, fight pro
moter, when he hands out the next
bunch of hero medals. Gibson de
serves one, for he is attempting what
no other men in the world would try
He's trying to find, through process
of elimination, a real, regular "white
hope" a man who can put up a bat
tle a la Messrs Sullivan. Corbett,
Fitzsimmons and Jeffries
'1 won’t die happy unless I do,"
sara Gibson
Gibson's a pretty nice fellow, and It
seems a shame that he'll be unhappy
and miserable when It comes time for
*1m to make an earthly exit
COACH TO GET RAISE
OWA CITY. IOWA, Deo 22 The
*»*wa Athletic Board has voted Coach
.lease B Hawley a substantial raise In
salary for the coming season and ap
pointed a committee to proceed at once
with the drawing up of a contract to
he offered Mm.
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NO CHANGE IN UMPIRES.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 22 There will he
no change In the staff of umpires, an
cording to John K Tener, president of
the National League He said the heat
managers hod told him the present
staff Is as gixvl as could be found.
BRITONS PLAN CHANGES.
CHICAGO. Dec 22 While the Ameri
cans are standing pat on their 1913 ten
nis rules, the Britons are planning to
make some radical changes \lso. they
want the International tennis rules for
1914 changed
Former Sox Southpaw, on His
Way to Minors, Thanks Loyal
Supporters.
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AGO, ILL., IX. 22. — Doc
fhlte, veteran White So*
hurler and until recently one
of The most effective pitchers on ihe
South Side organization, to day Is
wending his way westward, where he
will take up his new berth. White
Uj heading for Venice. Cal., where he
will be seen In uniform next sertson,
and for several seasons thereafter.
Here Is '‘Dock' 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 has crooked h1s till
rer and has beckoned me to come
from m.v berth as major leaguer to
the 'brush' to make my home
"Ten years and more I’ve struggled,
fought and tolled and tried my best to
win for Tommy and the fans, who’ve
always stood the test, supporting me
when 1 was 'had' and giving me their
aid when Take him out' la probably
what they fain would have said. It’s
hard to leave my friends and pals,
who’ve been so kind and true The
thought of going chokes me up snd
really makes me blue.
"Through future years I’ll thank
you, fans, for what you've been to me
You've been my Judgre and Jury, and,
I say 1t gratefully, It's to you I 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 the
fan’s good will; It help* a man to
hear the rooters' voices, loud and
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 day by day. not
knowing, perhaps, how much !t
meant; hut I Just wish to say I’d
love to grasp you by the hand and
tell you. one by one. how grateful to
you all I am, now that my w T ork
done.
"To Tommy and the boys I wish
success In years to come, and that
they'll lick the Tubs each year I
guess that’s wishing some."
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LOCAL FANS TO SEE ENGLISH CHAMPION LIGHTWEIGHT ON JANUARY 6
FREDDIE WELSH AND WHITNEY TO BATTLE HERE
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By W. S. Farnsworth.
F ''REDDIES WELSH, the English
' lightweight champion, and
Frank Whitney, (he Fighting
Tarpenter, are going to open the 1914
boxing season in Atlanta, when, on
the evening of January t>. they will
tie up in a 10-round session.
Our genial friend, Count Lou Tas-
tro, has decided that the time is ripe
for another mill, and 1 guess he is
right The boxing fans seem to be all
keyed up for a scrap; and in Welsh
and Whitney they ought to witness a
corking mill.
• • •
\17HITNEY needs no introduction
** in Atlanta. He has 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, hut he gave the
clever 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
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 Frank accommodates.
He always gives the fans a run for
their money.
• • •
A ND now for Mr Lightweight
Champion of Kngland Welsh He
started battling way hack in 1905. His
debut ended with his opponent tak
ing a big sleep in the third round.
Sime then Freddie has fought fully
lot* tights, and only twice was the de-
v ision against him.
Packey McFarland was handed the
verdict over him. But the bout was
in Milwaukee, where McFarland was
exceedingly popular until he fought
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 In England.
Both scraps were declared even.
Matt W ells earned the decision over
Welsh for the English title in 1911,
but Freddie reversed matters and won
back the crown in 1912. *
Just look over the following list of
some of the men that Welsh has
fouglvt:
Eddie Fox. Jimmy Dunn. Tommy
Feltz, Tommy Love, Frank Carsey,
Jimmy Devine. Matty Baldwin, Billy
Glover, Young Erne. Willie Moody,
Tim Callahan. Seaman Hayes. YoAng
Josephs, Willie Fitzgerald, Dave
Deahler, Maurice Sayers. Charley
Neary, Packev McFarland, Phil
Brock. Abe Attell. Harry Trendall,
George Mernsic, Flay Bronson, Young
Donohue. Johnny Frayne, Jack Good
man, Henry Piet. Johnny Summers,
Matt Wells. Pal Moqre, Willie Ritchie.
Jimmy Duffy, Jack I^angdon, Grover
Hayes, Young Saylor and dozens
more.
• • •
\UKLSH gave Willie Ritchie a
merry trimming in a 20-round
go in Los Angeles just tw’o 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 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.
• • »
\\ T ELSH s now after Ritchie again
bin Willie is going to take on
Tomnn 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 »« Orleans. Im
mediately after tharscrap he w'ill set
sail for Atlanta to prepare for his
battle with Whitney.
♦ * *
WK wish to congratulate Count
vv Castro on starting off the win
ter season with such a corking bout
Carrigan Will Be
Only Playing Leader
BOSTON, Dec. 20.—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, however, will
differ from all his rivals in this respect
It has been many years since Connie
donned a uniform, and yet he has been
by far the most successful of the lot.
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 \YTiber! 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
club 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 1 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.
TUTHILL IS OUT AGAIN.
WEST POINT, N. Y.. Dec. 22 —Harrj
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 haj< 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 be had
arranged to play two games with the
University of Pennsylvania team next
spring The games will be played at
Shibe 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.
I’RBANA. ILL.. Dec 22. Robert A.
Perry, the Illinois freshman motorcy
clist. who holds the dirt track record
for a mile on the old Indianapolis
Speedway, yesterday entered the 300-
mile race at Savannah, Ga.. on Christ
mas Day,
Pratt Resigns From
Players' Fraternity
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22.—Derrill Pratt,
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 hi» 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,
course these reports were untrue,
for the good of the Players’ Union 1 am
going to resign. I have the fraternity’s'
good will at heart, and will do all I can
for Dave Fultz’s organization
By 0. B. Keeler.
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 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 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 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
before, and had knocked about In the
big minor league until Dan Shay
picked him up In 1911. Carr 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.
I 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 up the beds, Nick
came along to my section and sat
down and began to talk.
• * *
ICK told me the stor yof his life.
^ He told me the story of sixteen
years in professional baseball; the
first tryout; the failure: th^ partial
success; the tough luck; the hard
times; the dawn of fortune; the first
"regular job;” the prosperous times
In the big showy
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 fly.
"1 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. I reckon!"
it.
and if it w’asn’t very literary, it
caught up in force and smashing
metaphor. And some way T felt pret
ty solemn, listening there in the dark
ening Pullman to the life-story of
the grand old southpaw’ who w f as far
along on the dun-colored back trail.
* * *
'M’ICK 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 ter
years. But I kind of felt like loosen
ing up, you know, and—aw, well—
good-night! ’’
• * *
M EXT day we opened in Minne-
i> apolis, and Carr elected Old Nick
Altrock to pitch the first game aga inst
the Champion Millers of Joe Can-
tillon.
W ELL. Nick told me all about
THEY were i
* veterans.
i hard-hitting bunch of
those Millers, cham
pions 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
Minneapolis ball park; their mas
ter’s w’hip cracked, and they jumped
through, rolled over, and played dead
T N a fairly comprehensive term of
L 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 la at good game that old
Nick Altrock pitched will do very weil
to keep me from mourning my lim
ited allotment.
In rtlne full innings, precisely 27
Millers walked from the bench to the
plate. Twenty-five of them walked j
back to the bench. One Miller rear: - j
ed first on a single; one drew a bas
on balls; both died stealing.
V.One fly ball was caught in the out- j
field. The other Millers went softly !
out on gentle grounders, pop-up flies. I
or on jumping, darting third strike?, i
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 showm. The other
eight Blues might as well have been I
high school players. There wasn’t a j
hard fielding chance In the game
On the other side, the Blues made
three runs for Nick, all In one ex
plosive inning. That was three times
as many as he needed. No team on
earth would have hit Nick Altrock
that day.
• * *
\17ELL, that was Nick’s last good
’ ' game—the last sparkle of the
falling flame of a great, pitching
genius.
Three days later, 1n St. Paul, Nick-
pitched again, and was found for
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 make
sport for the fans by his clownish
antics on the coaching lines
* * *
T7 T r do not remember Nick a§ a
clown, though he undoubtedly wa a
one of the funniest men In baseball
T recall Nick as the serious narrator
°f b. long, hard, adventurous baseball
life.
And T recall him as s. grim, cold
and dominant figure, mastering with
the final flash of his failing arm the
slugging champions of Joe Uantillen
and pitching the best game of ball T
ever saw—and the last good game o!
a milv great slabman.
YALE ARRANGING DATES.
NEW HAVEN. CONN.. Dec. 22
While the Yale football schedule will
not he^ formally announced until after
New Year’s, it was learned last nigh’
that all the games but. one have beer
tentatively decided upon. The schedule
Includes: University of'Maine. Lehigh.
Washington and Jefferson University of
Virginia, Colgate, Brown. Princeton and
Harvard. All of the games exrept that
of Princeton will he played here
MACKMEN WANT "BUZZ."
LOUISVILLE. KY„ Dec. 22.—Theo
dore Brzozowski. a local semo-pro south
paw pitcher, has been offered a con
tract by Connie Mack, manager of the
Philadelphia Athletics. ‘‘Buzz.’’ a? h«
Is called, pitched a no-hit game at Car
rollton. Ky., against New Castle last
summer
Cure d
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Of j otis Clvmer—oh. they could hit, those
but 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 230 miles of rowing for
the fall season. This is 80 miles more
than was rowed in ary other fall
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