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No Matter What 1914 Mav Bring, the Dodgens Have the Hot Stove League Pennant Safe
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BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
GOLF EMBLEM
‘■Chick” Says Chicago Player
Conceived Idea of Official
Flower in Dream.
By Chick Evans.
C HICAGO, Dec. 23.—The other
morning: as I was seated at my
desk a prominent golfer came
In to see me. His eyes were beaming
snd his whole person seemed an em
bodiment of health, and this fine
physical condition, he assured me,
was the crowning result of two fine
days of December golfing weather,
which he had enjoyed to the utmost.
Not only had he played golf all the
hours of one of those beautiful De
cember days, but he had also dreamed
It through the night, and the dream
was so real that he had difficulty in
separating it from the events of his
waking hour*.
Tt seemed that on a rare December
dav he found himself standing, in
company with all the golfers of all
• * clubs of Chicago, at the last tee of
the Midhomechicedgexview Club. On
this marvelous day that seemed to
have been stolen from late October,
♦he sun—a half-circle of fire—was*,
just sinking in the west and on the
other side of the heavens a big white
moon was coming up
• * *
O N the eastern horizon the soft glow
of the moonlight contrasted with
brilliantly resplendent hues of the
t, while high above the blended
ra of the two great luminaries
the marvelous blue of the sky
; nderfoot was grass of midsum-
■ rrnness. The atmosphere was
clear and every object w r as
outlined, and with the com-
■ f sunset the winds had quieted
I-trees were still. In this
o o ' peace and calm the assem-
•rolfers were standing at the last
f the lust game of the year.
• ' h man walked up to the tee
• ■ ilized the solemnity of the occa-
!. end clayed his final drive with
,ref'd deliberation. One by one the
rives cracked loudly in the clear air
nd by the time the Last shot was
layed the sun had disappeared and
J tie course Wll flooded with the
white light of the moon. Just as the
countless army of golfers were about
to start for their second shots. Mr.
Lone Pitcher of Midlothian, who was
F-anding a little apart from the
group, spoke:
• • •
r:\TLEMEN of the Midhome-
vJ chioedgexview Club, look about
rnu! Above us is all the beauty of
the heavens, and stretching out in
every direction is the Intimate beauty
of the course, but I beg you to ob-
p*»rve at vour feet the shining disks
of gold that strew the green of the
fairway. Here, there and everywhere
we see them. When we begin our
first golf In the spring the little gold
en circlet is there to welcome and
encourage us and In the last game of
the season it 1s still with us. At all
times, in various garbs and various
places, it smiles upon us, and, like the
golfer, it never dies. The English
man has his rose, but i\8 season is
brief. The Scotchman has hi* thistle,
but it is rarely seen; our own little
flower is with us almost the whole of
the year,
Gentlemen, T move that we adopt
the dandelion as the national emblem
of the golfers of America!”
A short silence followed the speech,
broken quickly, however, by B. C.
Sammons and John J. Abbot, who
seconded the motion, which was car
ried with great acclamation Then
each golfer went to his ball to play
his second, and as the last shot of the
last golfer died away in the clear,
bright moonlight, every golfer van
ished. leaving the links alone with
the little dandelions.
This is the dream as told to me,
and 1 ask the opinion of golfers con
cerning it. There i^ an unsenti
mental side to the question, of which
every greenkeeper can tell us some-
* ing We trust the dandelion can be
’aught due respect for the putting
green.
Jaurez Results
1 irst—Five furlongs: Little Birdie,
(Nevlon). 3. 1, 1-2. won; Martin
■ vis. i 15 * Taylor), 2. 3-5. 1-4. pecond;
■tialko, 115 (S. Johnson!. 15, «, 5--.,
Time 1:02 4-5. Hip Van Winkle,
t May. He ford, Kwiftsure, Miss
ITolberg. Christmas Daisy. \ eno
• also ran. ,
' TON'D- One mile: Husky Lad, 10,
ney), 5, 2, 1, won; Cordie F., 103
liman). 4. 8-5, 4-5. second; Joe
112 (McMartin). 8. 3. 3-2, third.
1:431-5. Maggie. Forge, Sadie
I'iro. Marie Coghill, Robert. Frieze,
'.ifferata, Maw r Lad, Jack Lax-
: also ran. ,
IIIRD—Seven furlong 0 : Eye White.
• Xevlon), 3 1, 1-2. won; Sister Flor-
f . 108 (Jones!. 8. 3. 3-2. second;_Pnn-
r Industry, 108 (Gentry). 4. 7-5, 3-5,
Time, 1:20 1-5. Amity, Bonton,
Quarter, Zulu, Ormonde Cunning-
^hortv Northern, Ben Uncas, Sijin-
f 7 also ran. , . .
»l UTH—Five furlongs: Bright-
110 (Ford), 8-1. 2-1. 3-2, won;
' 'T Elk. 119 (Cavanaugh), 20-1, 8-1,
\ econd; Parnell Girl, 110 (Gargan),
1 8-5, 4-5, third. Time. 1:03. Ida
l ovinia. Yelie Forty, Sir Ballinger, The
'' Buck Thomas also ran.
!FTH —Five and one-half furlongs:
110 (Kirsehbaum), 8-1, won;
110 (Molesworth). 1-2. second;
father -os*p
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. ! 'I!‘ Tempie Focht. Tigrolla. Ro-
' ■ Princess Janice. Sir Harry also
tan.
, 'l\'TH—Seven furlongs Swede Sam,
Gentry). 8-1, won; Oeean Queen,
, 'Renton) 2-1, second; The Monk,
’ ' i Hill), :i-5, third. Time. 1:23. Mi-
V, Saiesia, Rose of Jeddah, Acumen.
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KELLY BESTS BURNS.
IN'KAKEE, II.I n-c 23.—With
<ight left and n right cross. Spike
" of Chicago, defeated Jimmy
of Kankakee, in ten rounds
£ef e last night.
POLLY AND HER PALS
Pa Is In For It Now, All Right
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Cincinnati Hit Up Again—Help!
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B. Smith Gets Catcher No. 5
By O. B. Keeler.
T T 7E view with alari» the dire
W fact that the Cincinnati Base
Hit—so called—Is up again.
Heaven hellup us; we had an idea
it was going to requiescat In pace.
But no. Like the bad penny; like the
noted Feline of Fiction; like the—
Like the—you can fill in the blank
•—it is here again.
It is up; up to the scattered mem
bers of the Baseball Writers’ Asso
ciation of the U. 8. A.
* * *
T HE wav we understand it, this
bogus base hit thing is nothing
very new'. Back in 1899 Nick Young,
then president of the National
League, sanctioned It on the sugges
tion of somebody whom we recall as
Harry Von der Horst. Harry Pul
liam repudiated it, and for years it
slumbered ignobly, disturbed only by
the bloody battles fought by Jack
Ryder over its alleged uses
Then Ban Johnson put the weight
of his power and prestige back of this
quaint little friend of the feeble hit
ter.
And it became a go. being oathed
resoundingly, but nevertheless scored
for a couple of seasons.
• • *
T he Baseball Writers’ Association,
having adopted it en masse out
of deference to B. Johnson's well-
known tender feelings, repudiated it
individually, to a grievous extent.
To be plain, they knocked the C. H.
much harder than any frantic bats
man in a pinch lambasted the hit that
was so scored.
Rut at the recent meeting, with
about 10 per cent of the membership
present, the B. B. writers* ducked the
issue and decided to take a vote on it
bv mail.
• • *
T HIS Is, indeed, sed. but we decline
to lose any sleep over the mat
ter. Properly administered, the C. B.
H. probably is a pretty good thing,
though from what we have s<-en of its
operation it is utilized in about 30
situations in the 100 !o dodge the old
fielder's choice, which most people
fancy it has superseded.
Our idea of the thing is that in
stead Of voting on the subject the
rules committee ought to get its
skulls together and publish once and
for all the true meaning and working
,,f tip* thing, and pul it up to the
scorers to use it that way.
» * »
E simply haven't the time nor
I he space to go further into the
matter just now, and. besides, our
email opinion wouldn't cut any figure
w
before the B. B. writers say their
will—or after it, either
Personally, we don’t care for the
Cincinnati wallop.
• • •
117F. not© with mixed emotions the
W acquisition by the Crackers of
Julian Munch, a youthful backstop,
who also should be a corking good
table man, and the reasonably fair
chance for B. Smith to capture Jim
my Esmond, formerly third sacker
for the unfortuhate Cincinnati Reds'
* * •
pLARK GRIFFITH slips us Munch
with the official O. K. of Mike Ka-
hoe, .Senatorial scout. The young
ster was a debutante last season, and
played great ball with the Syracuse
team. Billy has much faith In ICa-
hoe’s judgment, and will give the kid
a thorough try-out next spring. As
he has only four other catchers on
his crew, It may be seen that the
youthful Mr. Munch will fall into a
flowery bed of ease when it comes to
scrapping for a Job—what?
• ♦ •
AS to Mr. Esmond, he undoubtedly
** would' be a good player In this
league. The trouble Is, Billy also is
angling for Cozy Dolan, if the big
leaguers will waive on him, w’hich is
uncertain. And if Bill should hook
both Esmond and Dolan there would
be the making of a highly mingled
situation, to say nothing of old friend
Salary Limit kicking in.
We wish Billy luck, however
Kilbane ‘Crazy’ to
Get Another Scrap
With Johnny Dundee
CLEVELAND. OHIO, Dec. 23—“When
Johnny Dundee and I clash again, if It
should come to pass that we are
matched up for the third time, the pest
fighter will win.”
“It was my own fault that I did not
win last time I boxed him for nine
teen rounds, and in the twentieth put
on a fighting finish, lie kept mixing
with me, and it was such a good round
that the referee saw’ fit to call the con
test a draw. I made the mistake of
fighting in that last round. If I bad
boxed him the same as in the preceding
chapters the decision would have been
mine without a doubt. If I did any
real fighting at all and planned to win
that way I should have started the slug
stuff earlier
“That’s the only way to beat Dun
dee decisvely by fighting, and fighting
as fast and as hard as you can. You’ve
got to whale away with him, tight him
coming, fight him going, and mix liber
ally. The harder hitter and the faster
hitter will come out best. And that
will he me. Dundee hits any old way.
1 don’t.”
Kilbane expresses himself as being
crazy to get another crack at the Ital
ian, the only fellow he has not whipped
by a healthy margin.
Indianapolis Club
Sold for $175,000
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.— .lames C. McGill,
owner of the Denver club, three times
champions of the Western League, has
purchased the Indianapolis franchise. In
the American Association. The deal,
which has been pending for several
months, was consummated here when
Mr. McGill, through Jack Hendricks, the
Denver manager, paid a heavy install
rnent of the •fl75. / >00 purchase price to
Sol Meyer, former owner of the In
dians. In addition, the new manage
ment comes into possession of the
Springfield, Ohio, club, of the Central
League, a holding of the Indianapolis
club.
TERRE HAUTE GETS EX-CUB.
TERRE HAUTE, IND., Dec. 23.-
Harry Pavnter, a Chicago pitcher, has
been signed by Terre Haute. He was
with the Uubj? on the last soring
training trip and later when Evers
told him to report to Montreal and
he refused to dn so, he was suspend
ed Recently told Evers he was
w iling to play wherever sent next
seajgrn.
$100,000 Insurance
Policy for Johnson
WASHINGTON. Deo 2S.-Walter
Johnson, the Senator’s great hurier. will
be the most heavily insured hall player
In the history of the game next sea
son. At a meeting of the directors of
the Washington club recently it was tie
eided to make application for a policy
covering Johnson to an amount said
lo be. $100,000 against accidents. Illness
and death.
DENNY STOPS LONG.
MEMPHIS, TENN., Dec. 23.—Jack
Denny, New Orleans lightweight,
knocked out Bobby Long, of Indian
apolis, in the sixth of a scheduled
eight-round bout last night.
KANSAS SHADES COFFEY.
YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO, Dec. 23.—
Kid Kansas, of Buffalo, shaded Jim
my Coffey, of New York, here last
night. Coffey got in many light
jabs, but Kansas did all the dam
age.
ROCK ISLAND PICKS HEAD.
ROCK ISLAND, ILL., Dec. 23 —
Arthur Selzmann was unanimously
elected captain of the Rock Island
independent football learn st a meet
ing held yesterday. Reports showed
a successful season financially.
Augusta Wants to
Place Ball Team
In ‘Sally’ League
AUGUSTA Dec. 23.—A committee
has been appointed to solicit funds to
get a berth for Augusta In the South
Atlantic League in 1914. At a meeting
of the committee last night it was de
cided to see what could be done to
ward raising funds for Augusta plac
ing a team in the league. Mr. C. B.
Garrett is chairman of the solicting
committee.
Olympians Triumph
Over Marietta, 13-3
The Olympians triumphed over the
strong Marietta eleven, 13 to 3, yester
day afternoon.
This is the third time Marietta has
been defeated this season. The Mari
etta boys were slightly handicapped by
the absence of one or two of their play
ers, but their substitutes played a good
game.
The Olympians, by steady line rushes
and forward passes managed to keep the
ball away from their own e'al line.
For the Olympians Sullivan, Smith,
Morgan, Robertson and Simon starred.
Hawkins, I’armalee, Klein and Clay
showed up best for Marietta
Williams Accepts
Offer to Box Campi
NEW YORK. Dec. 23— While
awaiting the decision of the National
Sporting Club of London regarding a
match between “’Kid” Williams and
Digger Stanley, bantam champion of
England, Sammy Harris, manager of
Williams, I ms acctpUd an offer of a
$3,000 guarantee for a bout between
his man l nd Fddie Campi in I Am An
geles Febryary 22 Harris and Wil
liams will start for the coast Janu
ary 10.
for Sport Fans
KAUTZ BEATS ENCK.
RACINE, W1A. Dec. 23.- Bill
Kautz. of th • city gave Freddie
Enck, of Aurora, Ill., the beating of
hik life in a ten-round wind-up be
fore the members ‘if the McCue A C
last nighL
Joe Tinker Becomes
Property of Dodgers
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Joseph B Tin
ker, former manager of the Cincinnati
club, officially becaVne a member of the
Brooklyn National League club yester
day when hi* release was formally pro
mulgated by Secretary Heydler, of the (
National League, Secretary Heydler j
received word from President Herr
mann, of the Cincinnati club, that Tin
ker had been sold to Brooklyn, and
Tinker’s name was accordingly placed
on the fenerve list of the Brooklyn club.
CHESS TOURNEY ON.
NEW YORK. Dec. 23. Harvard and
Princeton yesterday won the honors
over Columbia and Yale In the first
round of the twenty-second annua! in-
♦ ercolleglate chess tournament. Har
vard won from Columbia, the winner
of the chtmpionxhlp last year, three
garrm:* to one, ;qpd Princeton defeated
the Yale pla>ers^ 2% points to I 1 *.
HUERTA SHOULD WOR^Y.
Tell tne not of Zapatistas, Carranzis-
tas, Mad aristas;
I rati laugh at old John Truer,
though / hare a fearful jolt.
1 cner has his HerrmanniBtas, Mur-
ph gist as, Ebhrtsistas.
And I thank mg stars l do not have
to handle, such a mob.
Horace Fogel hints that he may be
the next president of the Reds, leading
one to believe that the worst Is yet to
come.
TbLs Charlie Ebbetn Is an unreason
able ous*\ He warns Charlie Murphy to
keep qple! on the Tinker case, just as
If the said Murphy could keep quiet on
anything
It Is easy to explain the decline In the
attendance at New York boxing shows.
The game Is suffering from an over
supply of beef.
The report that Jess Willard drew
$1,462 In Buffalo does not necessarily
mean that Buffalo Is proud of Itself.
HERRMANN TO HERZOG.
Come work for us and be our gnat
And try to keep the ship afloat
At least, until the Flnist limans vote
To tie the tinware to your coat.
/ know that they will rock the boat,
Hut come with us and be our goat.
Shortly after he signed his contract to
manage the Reds, Charlie Herzog an
nounced that he could see a pennant.
Never having tried the Clncinnal brand,
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
our visions have been confined to lizards
and pink mice.
The optimistic scribe who wrote that
“Herzog will probably manage the Reds
a8 long as he desires,” evidently has
never heard of Tinker. O'Day, Griffith,
etc., etc.
VIVA FREE LUNCH!
*7 am ruined/” said the fighter as he,
read the fearful news.
Anti his In art became so heavy it de-
seended to his shoes.
7 dm ruined/” he repeated. ‘7 am
gone beyond all hope!
There ifi nothing now before me, but j
a rafter and a rope.
u There is nothing noir before me but
ti pistol or a dirk,
For the free lunrh game is dead and I
I!HUS 11 to go tt> work!"
Levinsky Defeats
Coffey; Flynn and
Rodel Fight Draw
NEW YORK. Dec. 23.—And still the
“white hopes” come and go. A gen
tleman by the name of Battling Levin-
sky Is a candidate for the “white hope’’
crown to-day as a result of the defeat
he administered last night to Jim
Coffey. Levinsky was outweighted 26
pounds, but put up a rattling good
scrap.
Jim Flynn and Georg** Rodel fought a
draw.
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