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1IKAKXT"s si M)AV a.MKUK’AN. ATLANTA, (l.V. SUN’DAY. DECEMBER 28, 1013.
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RECALLS THREE PREVIOUS
Union Association Made First Fight
Against National in 1884 Without
Success; American, After Two Years’
War, Finally Secured a Foothold.
W ITH bo much activity in the
ranks of the Federal League
and rumors of desertions from
organized baseball going about, the
; ays of the big fight back in 1900 are
brought to mind. As a matter of fact,
there have been three incursion* of
■‘barbarians” into National League
fields during the last twenty years,
only one of which was a success. In
1884 the Union Association’s invasion
came to naught, and in 1890 the Play
ers’ League also failed to gain a foot
hold. But In 1901 the American
League, guided by a master hand,
achieved its object and secured a per
manent footing in baseball.
In 1900 the Western League
changed its name to the American
League, and in 1901, like the Federal
League at present, placed clubs in
National League territory. It offered
alluring inducements to the best play
ers, and in three years, 1901* 1902,
1903, succeeded in influencing 109 to
join its standard. Of these 109 play
ers several were assisted in their
“jumps” by the clubs which had reg
ularly paid their salaries. They were
bounced Instantly upon the discovery
that, while accepting their salaries
with one hand, they, with the other,
were signing teammates to contracts
of the opposition.
In the first year, 1901. there were 55
deserters, and in 1902 there w*ere 40.
By the time the season of 1903 rolled
along, peace was declared between
the warring leagues. But before the
papers were signed fourteen more
players had abandoned the old ship.
The players w’ho jumped during the
two years' war were as follows:
New York.
1901—Pink Hawley, Frank Sparks,
Virgil Garvin and Joe Conners, to
Milwaukee; Winnie Mercer, Mike
Grady and William Carrick, to Wash
ington; J. B. “Cy” Seymour, to Bal
timore; William “Kid” Gleason, to
Detroit—9.
1902—George Davis and Sam
Strang, to Chicago; Jack Warner and
Charley Hickman, to Boston; Albert
Selbach, to Baltimore; Luther "Dum
my’' Taylor, to Cleveland—6.
Philadelphia.
1901—Chick Fraser, Nap Lajoie,
Wiley Piatt, William Bernard and
Joe Dolan, to Phialdelphia; Joe Sulli
van. to Chicago—6.
1902—Ed Delehanty, Harry Wolver-
tin, A1 Orth and John Townsend, to
Washington; Monte Cross, Elmer
Flick and William J. Dugglebv, to
Philadelphia; Frank “Red” Donahue
and Bill Dougless, to St. Louis; Ed
McFarland, to Chicago—10.
1903—Guy Harris White, to Chica
go—1.
Boston.
1901—Chick Stahl, John Freeman,
James Collins and H M. Lewis, to
Boston; Hugh Duffy, to Milwaukee;
Catcher Bill Clarke, to Washington;
Catcher Bill Sullivan, to Chicago; Vic
Willis, to Philadelphia—8.
1902— Bill Dineen, to Boston—1.
1903— Herman Long, to New York;
Eugene Demontreville, to Washing
ton—2.
Brooklyn.
1901— Lave Cross, Dave Fultz, Mor
ris Steelman, to Philadelphia: Joe
McGlnnity, Harby Howell, to Balti
more; Fielder Jones, to Chicago; Joe
Yeager, to Detroit; John Anderson, to
Milwaukee—8.
1902— Joe Kelley. Jim Sheckard, to
Baltimore; Adrian Joss, John P. Goch-
nauer, Eugene Wright, to Cleveland;
Tom Daly, to Chicago; Jim McGuire,
to Detroit—7.
1903 —“Wild Bill” Donovan, Frank
Kitson, to Detroit; Billy Keeler, to
New York; Charley Farrell, to Bos
ton; Jay Hughes, to Seattle; E. John
Newton, to Los Angeles; Charles Ir
win, to San Francisco—7.
Chicago.
1901— Clark Griffith, John Callahan,
Sam Mertes. Roy Patterson, to Chi
cago; Bill Bradley, John A. McCar
thy, to Cleveland—6.
1902— David Jones. Barry McCor
mick, to St. Louis; Fred F. Hartzel,
Ed (“Rube”) Waddell, to Philadel
phia; Danny Green, to Chicago; Tom
Hughes, to Baltimore—6.
Pittsburg.
1901— Jimmy William*, to Balti
more; Fred Elv and Harry Smith, to
Philadelphia—3.
1902— Jack O’Connor, to New York
—1.
1903— Jack Chesbro, Jesse Tanne-
hill, William (“Widow”) Conroy, to
New York—3.
Cincinnati.
1901— Erve Beck. Edward Scott, to
Cleveland; Rob Wood, to Chicago;
James Barrett, to Detroit; Phil Geler,
to Philadelphia; Hobe Ferris, to Bos
ton: George Rohe, to Baltimore—7.
1902— Dick Harley, to Detroit—1.
1903— Sam Crawford, to Detroit—1.
St. Louis.
1901—John J. McGraw. Wilbert
Robinson, Billy Keister. Mike Donlin,
to Baltimore; Denton (“Cy”) Young,
Louis Criger, Ossie Schreckengost, to
Boston; Fred Buelow, to Detroit—8.
19Q2—Rhody Wallace, Jessie Bur
kett, pick Padden, Emmet Heidr'ck,
John Powell, William Sudhoff, Charles
W. (“Jack”) Harper, to St. Louis;
Dan McGann, to Baltimore—8.
In 1901 the American League pub
lished a “blacklist” of players who.
it claimed, signed contracts and then
returned to the National League. The
list contained the following names:
Christy Mathewson, Roger Denzer
and Luther Taylor, of the New York
club; William Dineen and Victor
Willis, of the Boston club; James
Sheckard and “Leyt” Davis, of the
Brooklyn club, and Emmet Heidrick,
of the St. Louis club.
SPORTING COMMENT
By Ed W. Smith.
I UST offhand and without any
further preamble we should
say that most of the trou
bles in the boxing game could
and would be avoided if decisions
<-i>uld and would be rendered in
all of the contests that are held
in different parts of the country.
There is every reason in the
world to believe that a great ma
jority of the petty annoyances
and some of the graver troubles
ihat threaten the game are due
to tills very same no-deeision
rule that prevails so generally.
' N no other branch of sport does
3 this thing of not deciding of
ficially who has won a contest
prevail. As a matter of fact, in
every other line of competition
that one can name there always
is a winner and a loser and the
matter is not left to a bunch of
newspapers. Mind you, we’re not
saying that a newspaper man’s
decision is not often as capable
as might be a referee's, but when
as many as a dozen papers are
deciding the same thing there is
bound to be a wide diversity of
opinion.
J E'VE always maintained that
fighters might do a whore
lot better in the ring if they were
forced to face the verdict of a
good and disinterested arbiter in
i he ring. As it is at the present
time, many a fighter goes into a
scrap in indifferent condition that
is not readily apparent to the eye
of the examiner. He goes in be
cause he needs the money and
hopes that he can stall along
through a contest without mate
rial damage to his reputation be
cause there will be no "official”
decision. Afterward he can al
ways claim that an adverse de-
Ision was all wrong and that he
really won the.contest.
'THERE is much of this sort of
k thing going on right now. A
•rtain opinion is expressed by a
newspaper and immediately there
a big howl from the fighter
who is hit by it. He presents
i' h a favorable looking alibi
■t usually h« Is given the ben-
efi' < f the doubt and thus ■'
> without getting a great deal
the worst of it, when as a mat-
'V s uf tack a referee might then
and there have registered a de
feat against the fle-hter.
* • *
/'COMPETITORS in every other
line of sport are forced to
stand before the public strictly
on their merits. Not sV> in the
boxing game. The man with the
price of a telegram can at the
conclusion of a boxing bout in a
distant city make the home folks
feel good by declaring that the
papers in the town in which he
was fighting gave him very’ much
the worst of it because the man
h*> was fighting was a strong lo
cal favorite, etc., etc. It’s a tire
some situation, but one for which
there is little remedy.
♦ * *
T HE claim often has been made
that the no-deeision plan
does away with a lot of betting,
etc. We don’t believe it. There’s
just as much betting to-day as
there ever was, because the bet
ting men merely leave it to,this
critic or that one and decide their
wagers on his printed reports.
‘Take Care of Eyes,'
Advises Nap Lajoie
CLEVELAND, Dec. 27.—Napoleon La
joie say’s that young baseball players
pay too much attention to developing
speed without giving a thought to what
he considers the most important asset
in an aspiring young recruit. Lajoie
says a perfect pair of eyes can do more
to mak^ a player successful than any
other adjunct. Plenty of nerve, intelli
gence and strength enter into it, but the
largest item is good eyesight.
The veteran star says that when he
first began to play professionally he
shunned chances to read at night or on
fast moving trains. Lajoie recalls sev
eral players of great promise who were
inveterate readers. One by one they
lost their batting powers and dropped
out of the big leagues. I^ajole gives
most all the credit for his wonderful
career as a hitter to the care he has
taken of his eyes.
WOMEN IN POLO MATCHES.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Dec. 27.—
Society women of San Mateo and Bur
lingame, suburbs of this city, have ar
ranged to play a series of polo games
in the San Mateo J’olo Club's field.
The first of the contests will be played
about the middle of January.
PURDUE ELECTS CAPTAIN.
LAFAYETTE, IND., Dec. 27.—H. S.
O’Brien, of Wabash, Ind.. has been
elected captain <»f the Purdue foot
ball team for J914. He played half
back on this year’s eleven.
I
Favorite 7 raining Stunts Performed by
French Heavyweight Champion, Who
Georges Carpentier
Is Comins to America
Only Five, Including Two Doubt
ful, Remain in the American
and National.
Food for Sport Fans
THREE PITCH
QEOROB ft. PHAIR.
Ritchie’s Indisposition Makes a
Place for It in Pugilistic
History.
S AX FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.-—In the
grand scheme of pugilism the
nose is coming into its own.
Time was when it was an unconsid
ered trifle. Not that this prominent
feature did not bear more than its
share of trials and tribulations, but
from Its resiliency and its adaptability
generally to wear and tear, that was
what it was supposed to be for.
It figured in our kindergarten fisti
cuffs, for which of us can not recall
with pride the school scrap in which
the other fellow’s nose bled? When
fighting became one of the arts and
crafts, the nose was recognized c.»
the first stopping place for the gloved
hands of those who were learning
their pugilistic pothooks and hangers.
A reference to the pink sport sheets
of 50 years ago will show that so com
mon were assaults upon the nose the
ring chroniclers of those days had to
invent synonyms to avoid falling info
mistakes of tautology. Hence the nose
came to be known as the bugle, the
conk, the beezer, the beak and the
bazoo.
A boxer was shy on credentials :t
his nose bore no evidence of having
been through the mill. At Important
sport gatherings the bench show of
noses was one of the incidentals. You
saw noses with a list to port and oth
ers inclined to starboard; some that
were slightly dished and many that
were completely spreadeagled.
A damaged nose was such a com
mon spectacle that it was compelled
to associate with the cauliflower ear,
the black eye and the split lip.
Now this is all changed. An In
flamed nose has been the cause of a
world’s championship being post
poned, and now the nasal appendage
has attained the dignity of the solar
plexus, the ulna and the os magnus,
points of the anatomy which leaped
from obscurity to prominence in a
single night.
Henceforward there will he a dis
position to regard the nose as the seat
of the emotions. Landing a punch on
the nose will be recognized as a great
er achievement than formerly, and the
possession of a battle-scarred nose
will he more of a badge of distinction
than ever.
All of which is In no measure an
argument that Ritchie hasn’t a sore
nose. It’s simply a line of thought
suggested by the fact that this is
about the first ime in pugilism the
nose has had a chance to assert itself.
GIANTS KEEP SNODGRASS.
NEW YORK. T>ec. 27.—One who is in
Manager McGraw’s confidenee says:
“There is no chance of Fred Snodgrass
being released or used In a trade, as
John J. thinks he is one of the best
gardeners and baserunners In the busi
ness.”
GRIFFITH RECALLS SPENCER.
Manager Clark Griffith has recalled
Spencer from the Los Angeles club in
an effort to fortify his outfield. He
has also signed up Muesel. an outfield
er of the Los Ar.geles club.
CARRIGAM BIDS FOR HOME.
ALBURN. MAINE. Dec. 27. It has
become known that the bidder who of
fered a Tittle rr. ;re than $23,090 for Au
burn Hall, the bid being rejected bv
the city wn« Manager Carrigan, of the
Boston Red Sox
Bender, Plank and Coombs Were
in Nineteen Out of Twenty-one
World’s Series Struggles.
I N 21 world’s series games, spread
over the stretch of eight years,
the Athletic leader has made the
remarkable record of using only five
pitchers. They were his three great
veterans, Bender, Plank and Coombs;
Bush, the youngster who won the
third game from the Giants this year,
and Andrew Coakley, who twirled a
losing game against the Giants in
1905. That means that for over a
period of eight years Plank, Bender
and Coombs divided the other nine
teen games.
Jack Coombs is tne most consistent
world’s series pitcher in the land. In
two series he won four games with
out a defeat, taking three from the
Cubs in 1910, when he was backed
by terriflic hitting, and winning one
from the Giants before he broke
down. Chief Bender has won six
games and lost three. Plank has
been the hard luck world’s series
pitcher for the Athletics, and for that
reason his brilliant showing this year
was welcome to his teammates. Plank
has had fewer runs scored against
him than any of the Athletic pitch
ers in the four series.
Manager McGraw has participated
in 23 world’s series games and has
called upon eight pitchers in that
time—Mathewson, Marquard, Mc-
Ginnity, Tesreau, Crandall, Ames,
VViltse and Demaree. Mathewson has
pitched more games than any other
pitcher of either team, yet he has
won only five and lost fly**, one being
tied. Three of these vi-tories were
in the 1905 series, each b ing a shut
out. The records of th*- pitchers of
the two teams in the world's series
follows: $
G. W. L. T. Pet.
Coombs 5 4 0 0 1.000
Bush •. 1 1 0 0 1.000
Crandall 5 1 0 0 1.000
Bender 9 6 3 0 .607
Mathewson 11 5 5 1 .500
Marquard 7 2 2 0 .590
McGinnity 2 1 1 0 .500
Plank 6 2 4 0 .333
Tesreau 0 1 2 0 .250
Ames 3 0 1 0 .000
Demaree 1 0 0 0 .000
Coakley 1 0 0 0 .000
Wiltse ....• 2 0 0 0 .000
HUGHES MAY UMPIRE IN VIRGINIA
Maybe Torn Hughes will still land a
job as umpire. Griffith having failed
to land him a job handling the indi
cator in the American. National, inter
national and American Association, has
given up the task, but now comes the
Virginia league offering the right
hander a job as ump. There is a chance
that he will accept.
BIRMY GETS GAS CART.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 27.—President C.
W. Somers, of the Naps, to-day ad
mitted that he had presented his man
ager. Joe Birmingham, with a new sev
en-passenger automobile. “It was in
appreciation of his great showing with
the Naps the past season,” said Somers.
DE ORO TO PLAY MORAN.
CHICAGO. Dec. 27.—Alfred DeOro, of
New York, champion three-cushion bil-t
liard player, to-day accepted the chal
lenge of Charles Moran, of Chicago, for
a match here January 5, 6 and 7.
HARTSEL GOES TO LEXINGTON.
Topgy Hartsel. former member of the
Athletics and who managed the Toledo
Mud Hens the greater p«xt of last sea
son. will m.mage the Lexington club,
of the Ohio State League, next season. 1
Lives of owners all remind us
Baseball is a sport no more,
For ire left that stuff behind us
In the simple days of pore.
Baseball's real, baseball's earnest,
And the dollar is its goal.
Dust thou art and thou returnest
Always to the owner's roll.
Let us then be up and doing
Frtrnd and foeman day and night,
Double crossing and pursuing
All th edust there is in sight.
* * •
The Tinker deal, we are told, will
stand, but Cincinnati will net players
instead of cash. Tinker's share, we pre
sume, will be a couple of outfielders.
• • •
Whatever may be the outcome of the
National League palaver, there Is a deep
suspicion that Tinker will be presented
with a perfectly good specimen of citrus
fruit.
• • •
Mr. Murphy arises to remark that the
Cubs are due for another shake-up. He
works on the theory that every little
shake-up gets a column all Its own.
* • *
Sometimes It Is the expected that hap
pens. For instance, the National
League announces that It will not pen
sion Cap Anson.
* 4 •
Quoth Governor Tener: “Anson Is
strong, physically and mentally.” And
yet the Cap appear® In vaudeville.
• * •
Yes, Rollo; that heavyweight affair in
Paris was a case of too much Johnson.
I We gather that Jack Johnson Is al
most as popular In France as a German
airship.
...
■ Charlie Herzog nvers that at this time
next year he will have plenty of expe
rience. Not to mention plenty of tin
ware.
We thought Colorjel Goethals had a
big job on hla hands, but here we have
Tommy Burns tryjng to make a boxer
out of Art Pelkey.
* • •
Oh, many a time on a Christmas
morn
In the winters of hmg ago
I greeted the day with a heart forlorn
And a soul that was heavy with
woe.
And all day long J was deep in the
blues,
And I wept till the day was done.
For all / got was some stuff I could
use
When I wanted a knife and a gun.
• • •
Handing a kid a useful present at
Chrlstmastide Is much like handing a
man a ham sandwich at a banquet.
The Sox and Giants will celebrate
New Year's on water. Neither Ping
Bodle nor Larry McLean Is with the
party.
* • •
It must be snld in iustice to Joe Tin
ker that he never exceeded the speed
1 in 11 when he was driving the Cincin
nati machine.
One Is vividly reminded of the high
c >st of lemons when one reads that New
York boxing shows have drawn $2,200,-
0K) to the last two years.
• * •
Ivan Mamutoff claims that he once
threw the Russian Lion. He Is now
learning to throw the American Bull.
* * *
You may beat him and flay him and
clout him all day.
You may plaster him flat on the
floor,
But the battered ex-champion always
will say:
“I am better than ever before!"
George Mullin Now
Holding a Political
Berth in Detroit
DETROIT, MICH., Dec. 27.—George
Mullin, the well known American
league pitcher, and once the pride of
the Detroit Tigers, is now an entry
clerk in the office of County Treasurer
Stein at Detroit. He went to work
last week, but Instead of a baseball or
a bat, Mullin used for weapons a com
mon or garden variety of pen holder
and lead pencil and his first duties con
sisted of the adding of a column of In
terminable figures.
“This is worse than pitching in front
of 30,090 people,” was all the comment
George made as he buckled down to
work again. Since he Jumped the Mon
treal team, in the International League,
the former Detroit pitcher has been
playing some independent ball. County
Treasurer Stein, who is an old-time ball
player himself, received an application
from Mullin some time ago, but did not
recognize the name at first. When his
attention was called to it he soon found
a place for the former Tiger.
PLAN INTERSECTIONAL POLO.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Organization of a
new polo club in Chicago was perfected
Wednesday and an option which the club
holds on an 80-acre tract on the lake
shore was considered. Besides the polo
field a race track will be laid out for
amateur contests. The club plans to
bring together East and West in polo.
Challenges will be issued to the polo
clubs of Cincinnati, the Meadow Brook
Club and others.
H OW many more years before the
playing managers will be en
tirely out of existence in the
major leagues? Next season there wbl
be Just two playing leader* in the
I American League, while there will be
about three or four In the National.
Not so many years ago this was
entirely changed. Most of the man
agers for ball clubs took active part
on the diamond, but at the present
time most of them do their managing
from the bench.
When the 1914 campaign opens,
there is a possibility that only Joe
Birmingham, of the Naps, and BUI
Carrigan. of the Red Pox. will be play
ing managers. The other six will act
from the bench. Carrigan, being a
catcher, and with good understudies,
may not participate in a great num
ber of games, while Blrmy also may
be keipt on the bench owing to a bad
leg.
If this Is the case, there will be no
playing leaders In the A. L. Frank
Chance and Jimmy Callahan, not so
long ago, were playing managers, but
retired In 1913, and there Is hardly a
chance they will return in 1914.
This Is altogether different from the
start of 1913, when George StovaU,
Jake Stahl, Joe Birmingham, Jimmy
Callahan and Frank Chance were the
playing leaders. But times change
everything, and the national pastime
Is no exception to the rule.
It will be a little different In the
senior body. There were four playing
leaders in the organization which will
bo presided over by Governor Tenor,
of Pennsylvania, while In all proba
bility there will be a like total during
1914.
Those who took active part on the
diamond and also handled ball lucsb In
the National during 1913 were Miller
Huggins, of the Cardinals; Johnny
Evers, Cubs; Joe Tinker, Reds, and
Charley Dooin, Phillies. At that, the
latter did not play so very regular,
i letting Bill Klllifer, the former
Brown!#, do most of the catching.
UnZ)f8 the unforeseen happens.
Mill*» Huggins, Johnny Evers and
Chartyy Dooin wdll again manage
from the field in 1914, while the Cin-
| clnnati club has secured Herzog to
take Tinker’s place.
The managers for major league
clubs in 1913 and 1914 .
American League.
ISIS.
| Stovall, p. ...
Stahl, p
: Mack, b
Griffith, b
Jannlng*. b. ..
j Birmingham, p.
Chance, p
Callahan, p. .
Team. 1914
..St. I-ouis Hickey, h.
..Boston Carrigan.
.. Philadelphia “ '
.. Washington
. Detroit,
. Cleveland .
. New York
. Chicago ...
Mack', I
Griffith. V
...Jennings, !>.
Birmingham. p.
Chance, h.
. Callahan, b.
National League.
Huggins, P Ht. I«ouls Huggns. p.
Kvers, p. ........ Chicago Evers, p.
I Clarke, b Pittsburg Clarke, n.
Tinker, p Cincinnati Heraog, p.
McGraw, b New York McGraw. b.
Stallings, b Boston Stallings, b.
Dahh-n, b Brooklyn Robinson, b.
Dooin, p Philadelphia Dooin, p.
p Playing manager; b Bench manager.
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English Stroke Not
For Crews of Yale
NEW HAVEN. Dec. 27.—Although
matters have not been finally settled. It
seems to be an assured fact that Yale
crews will not use the English stroke
next season.
It seems to be the intention of Rich
ard Armstrong, graduate head coach, to
return to the former system of Old
Eli’s great success on the water.
HENRY TO COACH AT HOCKEY.
AMHERST. MASS., Dec. 27 —John
ITenr.v, catcher of the Washington
American League baseball team, has
been appointed coach of the Amherst
hockey team. Henry, who was grad
uated from Amherst In 1910, was promi
nent as a hockey player while in col
lege.
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