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STINT) A V AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1913
WELSH HOPES TO FORCE RITCHIE TO A TITLE BATTLE WHILE IN ATLANTA
Castro Figuring Ten-Round Bout
Between Two Champs During
ShrineiV Week.
WOULD DRAW $20,000 GATE
Englishman to Come to Atlanta
for Whitney Scrap Day Af
ter Dundee Affair.
IEDD1E WKI.SH, thft Kmrllsh
"N lightweight champion, who la to
meet Frank Whitney, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, here on January ft, has
wired The Sunday American Sporting
Editor the following from New Or
leans. where Freddie la training for
his bout on New Year’s Day with
Johnny Dundee
New Orleans. Dee. 26, 1913.
W. S Farnsworth,
Atlanta Georgian.
Will arrive in Atlanta day afte r
my fight with Dundee. Will finish
what training I need in your city.
While in Atlanta will issue a
challenge to Willie Ritchie that
the American champion will
either have to accept or admit
that I am his master.
FREDDIE WELSH.
Having no Idea what said challenge
v» i i be, the writer can not comment
on it,
* However. Lou Castro, who is pro
moting the Welsh,-Whitney battle, Is
figuring on h championship bout here
next May. The Shriners will be in the
, itv and the Count figures that he
- an offer Ritchie and Welsh a tre
mendous puree to hook up here. ■
I figure that with the Shriners In
the city I could drfew at least a $20,000 j
house with Ritchie and Welsh in a
ten-round bout," said the genial pro
rooter yesterday. “At any rate, I am
figuring on such a match.’*
-
ERE photograph*. poser/ especially for The Sunday American, show how Welsh delivers some of his best blows. The firs t is a left uppercut that Freddie shoots either to the jaw or
bodu; the second, an overhand right chop to the face; the third, ready to shoot a right to the wind: the fourth, a long, straight left to the jaw; the fifth, working his famous shift.
in-.
moms
Hugh Jennings Was
Hot After Manager
Berth in Brooklyn
Record Prices Paid
For Star Players
What American
League Needs in
the 1914 Season
^fb
i
need*
7
about ax follows:
the American
Very Few Present-Day Ringmer
Display Any Gray Matter
When Fighting,
Philadelphia—A right-handed bat
ting outfielder to replace Walsh, who
Only Five, Including Two Doubt
ful, Remain in the American
i and National.
Baseball Signals H
Joke. Declares Huff major leagues? N?xt
1 Ka Iiic* nla i ln,
OW many more years before the
playing managers will be en
tirely cut of existence in the
season there w‘ll
be Just two playing leaders In the
American League, while there will be
about three or four in the National.
CHAMPAIGN. ILL.. Dec 27.—George
Huff. Illinois’ famous baaeball coach,
aald last night that the tradition thatt Not so many years ago this wa»
Intricate systems of signals are used by i entirely changed Most of the man-
good ball teams la a joke. Huff * remark ! agers for ball clubs took active part
was occasioned by the Interview in ! on the diamond, but at the present
which Dean Small, of Chicago, declared • moat of them do their managing
In favor of retiring baseball ooach©§ to
the grandstand that the players might
p . . . .. I.I mAt a II
play-of their wtj initiative and not as
Puppets moved by a master hand on the
oench. . ,,
’•1 m willing to alt in the atand, said
Huff "but I hate to aeo euch ideas ore-
vail They were fontered by tlie
tific writers on ba*»-ball in the maga
rinr* Tho gcoA teams, hi* Issxus or
. olls K e. don't havs lnii-tcat* systems of
Sipnal? We've been fairly successful
„nd the largest number of signals I ever
l td was three, and that was excep-
tlonal. ... , .
'There is nothing in the spirit or let-
ter of baseball rules forbidding bench
coaching Football Is a different matter
end I think they'd better retire the
roaches from the aide lines first
De Oro Will Defend
Three-Cushion Title
NEW YORK. Per 27 -Alfredo Pe-
Or«r the veteran Cuban cue wtekler, who
was recently relieved of his pool cham
pionship. will defend his only remaining
title in a three-cuehlon billiard match
with Charles Morin, of Chicago, early
next month
The match will be played on January
fc. * and 7 in this city, probably at
Joyle's Academy. 4 ,
Thie match has been in prosnect for
nome time, but as the champion has
under the weather recently he put
off to tbe last his notification on the
challenge bv Morin Morin wanted the
jnatoh played in Chicago, but PeOro ex
ere lead the champion’s privilege to sc
lent the place for playing and chose
New Yorh
from the bench.
When the 1914 campaign opens,
there is a possibility that only Joe
Birmingham, of the Naps, and Bill
Carrlgan, of the Red Sox. will be play
ing managers. The other six will act
from the bench Carrlgan, being a
catcher, and with good understudies,
may not participate in a great num
ber of games, while Blrmy also may
be kept on the bench owing to a bad
leg
If tUie is the ease, there will be no
playing lead n In th< \ L. Frank
Chance and Jimmy Callahan, not so
long ago, were playing managers, but
retired in 1913. and there Is hardly a
chnne© they will return in 1914.
This is altogether different from the
start of 1913. when George Stovall,
Jake Stahl. Jde Birmingham, Jimmy
Callahan and Frank Chance were the
playing leaders But times change
everything, and the national pastime
is no exception to the rule.
1! will be a little different in the
senior body There were four playing
leaders in the organization which will
be presided over by Governor Tenor,
while in all proba-
Carpentier to Accept
Gunboat's Challenge
f Pennsylvania
Doyle's Academy. blllty there will be a like total durln
This match has been in prospect jor
Those who t<»ok active part on the
diamond and also handled ball lucsb In
the National during 1913 were Miller
Huggins, of the Caidlnals; Johnny
Evers, Cubs; Joe Tinker, Reds, and
Charley Dooln, Phillies. At that, the
latter did not play so very regular,
letting Bill KUllfer. the former
Brownie, do most of the catching.
Unless the unforeseen happens.
Miller Huggins, Johnny Evers and
Charley Dooln will again manage
from the field in 1914. while the Cin
cinnati club has secured Herzog to
LONDON. Dec 27 -Georges Carpen- la kf Tinker’s place
t;er. the French pugilist, has advised ^he managers for major league
clubs in 1913 and 1914:
Bv Otto C. Floto.
D ENVER, I>e<\ 27.—Probably no
branch of sport suffers to the
same extent as does boxing in
the matter of brains. We don’t mean
the ordinary amount of gray matter
that we all possess, but the quick-as-
lightning thoughts that often bring a
battle to an end at the psychological
moment, or the kind that work so fast
that, an apparently defeated man saves
himself from defeat. It is the latter
kind of goods that are lacking in the
make-up of our fighters to-day. The
same thought germ that prowled about
In the noodles of McAuliffe, Dempsey,
Kid McCoy, Peter Jackson, Tommy
Ryan, Jim Corbett and others is not
visible when we view a contest now
adays.
Thinkers Are on Top.
It is a sad commentary on our
fighting men’s mental caliber, to say
the leas;. And yet those who have
the intelligence are on top, viz: Wil
lie Ritchie, Johnnie Coulon, Packey
McFarland, Eddie McGoorty and a
few more of that type. None of them
Is of the slugger variety, and yet
whenever they face one of these hay
maker products they make him ap
pear like a wooden man.
Rut in the period when the first-
named bunch thrived it was not only
a battle of strength, skill and hitting
powers—-It whs a fierce contest of Wit
vh Wit, <Sf bruin pitted against brain
as well. The fellow* who could think
the fastest—providing the men were
equal In all other particulars—won.
No false moves crept into the fray,
and every mother's son of them knew
why and the reason for every blow
they aimed at the top-piece of the
adversary or could give a grand ex
planation why they sent home "Bet
sy" to the mid-section when they
learned that the weak part of the
ramparts was in that spot.
Science Should Rule.
There was no throwing away of
strength, gameness or stamina just to
busy and chance to fate that one
goes to New York.
Washington—A hard-hfttlng out- >
fielder and another right-handed
pitcher.
Cleveland—a right-handed pitcher,
a catcher and a right-handed batting
outfielder; first base could be Im
proved by the acquisition of a better
batetr than Johnston.
Chicago—Outfielders of more all -
i around ability than Bodle and Col- (
< |ins, and a better second baseman (
( than Berger.
Boston—A second baseman, a reg-
i ular first baseman and an under-
> study for Shortstop Wagner.
J Detroit—One outfielder, three In-
( fielders and three pitchers.
> New York—First baseman, a pltch-
) er, a catcher and at least two out
fielders.
! St Louis—A catcher, a right-
handed pitcher, a first baseman, a
second sacker, a shortstop and an
outfietder or two.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 —It leaked out
during the National League meeting in
New York that Hughey Jennings, man
ager of the Detroit team, of the Amer
ican League, came within an ace of
landing the Job as manager of the
Brooklyn team.
The story goes that Jennings got the
idea that If he were badly wanted in
the National League Detroit would let
him go. Hence he made certain under
ground overtures to Charles H. Ebbets.
The Brooklyn president was willing to
hear what he had to say, and Jennings
telephoned him from Manhattan that he
would visit Ebbets Field right away. He
hung up before he could be choked off.
What made the situation embarrass
ing for Ebbets was that in the office at
the time was Bill Dahlen, who had not
been officially informed that he was to
go, and who entertained hopes that he ,
would be reappointed. Ebbets slipped ,
the word to Bid MoKeever, who was also i
Joe Tinker, Cincinnati, bought
by the Brooklyn club, National
S League, $25,000.
Marty O’Toole, St. Paul, Amerl-
i can Association, bought by the
; Pittsburg club, National League, j|
j $22,500.
Larry chappeii, Milwaukee, Runyon Declares West Can Never;
American Association, bought by j j J
Chicago club, American League, j
$18,000.
Lefty Russell, Baltimore, Inter
national League, bought by the
Philadelphia club, American
League, $12,000. '
Fritz Malsel, Baltimore, Inter
national League, bought by the
New York club. American League,
$12,000.
Rube Marquard, Indianapolis,
Protest Again—Michigan Is
Suitable,
present, and McKeever headed off Jen- American A«nriatinn hAimht
nirgs. Ed proved a good scout, and American Association, bought by
’' the New York club, National
League, $11,000.
held up Jennings, who was in an auto
mobile. They went to a restaurant and
talked business. That talk continued on
and off for ten days.
Meanwhile, Manager John J. McCraw,
of the Giants, Is said to have been j —
tipped off about Jennings' negotiations, j
and to have determined to put Wilbert VT 04-^ rn 1
Robinson in his berth Wherefore, says ^\| Q UuOCJK X £Ll£6Il 111
N":
Hs manager to accept Gunboat Smith's
challenge for a twenty-round bout at
the National Sporting Club here short-
tv. th** stake* to be $10,<V>0 a aide
Elated over his one-round victory
over Bombardier Wells, Garpentier is
willing to fight any man in the world.
Hmlth Is in San Francsico at the
present time preparing for his twenty-
round contest with Arthur Pelky on
New Year s Day.
ItlS.
Btorsll. p
p
Mark. b ■ •
Griffith, b
Jennings, b
Birmingham, p.
Chance, p
Callahan, r
American League
Team.
Bt Louis
Boat on
. Philadelphia ...
\V sold niton
Petrolt
. Cleveland
nvm i ork
. Chicago
1014.
. ..Rickey, h.
. .Carrtsan. n
Mack, h.
. . Griffith, h.
. Janulnga. b
Birmingham, p
Chance. r>
Callahan, b.
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
B tiffin* • P-
Ever*, p
Clarke, b. ..
Tinker. V> .
McGraar. b
stallings, b
Dahlen. b.
Dooln..
National League
. St Lou la
.. Chicago
.. Ptttaburs
.. Cincinnati
N ' I r*
.. Roatou
. . Brooklyn
. Philadelphia
1’laytnf manager; b Bench manager
.ITuggns. t*.
. . Kver*. p
...Clarke, b.
Heraog. p
IffrOraw. I
Stalling*, b.
. Robinson. b.
.Dooln. p.
“THE OLD RELIABLE"
Motorboat Race to
Bermuda on June 6
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CAPSULE
REM EDY.onfvlEN
PHILADELPHIA, Dec 17.—The an
nual motorboat race to Bermuda, which
it wmi U o Ifl I for u tltns wool. 11
abandoned, will be run as usual next
year June 6 it« the date that has been
announced for It
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RYAN. ANGRY, QUITS GOTHAM.
NEW YORK, Dec 27 -Paddy Ryan,
champion weight thrower, who resigned
from th© Irish A C.. may go to Chicago
and oompete for some club there, his
friends declared to-day Ryan and J
J Cahill. Metropolitan champ, resigned
It is said, because <'f failure of club of
ficials to show proper fraternal spirit
Ask Jacobs’ Pharmacies or
other leaders about Thomason's
famous Asthma Remedy, two-
minute relief.
>f the wild swings on rampage might
land in or on h vital spot and win the
ntest, heaven knows how. I have
en probably ten bouts in the last
month, and not in any single one of
thorn has intelligence been used. The
ame old slam-bang stuff, the same
old chances of landing, the same (kid
clinch and struggle for freedom, the
same old dragging about the ring, but
not once a move that suggested an
iota of science of the game or a clever
maneuver with a straight lead, or a
cross-counter, or a blocking of some
lead or swing for the head or body
Just chance pure and simple, both in
the offensive and defensive, consti
tuted all the work 1 saw, by which
they hoped to bring about results
When the hue and cry to abolish
the London prize ring was heard al
over England, the venerable Marquis
of Queensberry, then a graduating
student from Oxford, framed a code
that had the effect of removing bru
tality from tho fracas. Under this
new set of rules science was promul
gated and we graduated from the old
school of Sayers and Mace to clever
er men with the fists, and Jem Mace
himself became the craftiest of the
whole lot Men Improved in boxing
skill for years after, and it is only
recently that we present the new
school of wallop without science and
trust to luck to win or lose.
the story. McGraw and Robinson faked
a quarrel and McGraw released Robin
son. so he would be at liberty to bor-
gain with any club that might need a
manager. Ebbets heard that Robbie
was a free agent and made a deal which
put Robinson in charge of the Dodgers
for next year.
!W YORK, Dec. 27.—It appears
that John Harvard was just
bound and determined to bat
some Western college into a football
argument next fall. Never was such
a fussy old party loose In the land
with a schedule to fill. Being haught
ily repelled at Chicago, the Cambridge
institution began picking on Michi
gan, with the result that it will in
veigle the Wolverines into the Har
vard arena along about October.
Therefore, let us al! exude one long,
subdued tear for the team!
We have been hearing a great deal
of conversation about what some of
Daring American Player Picked to
Succeed Harry Payne Whit
's, ney in 1914 Clash,
POfTfil. SaVR fl-rifF: these Western football teams would
do to th0 Kaatern Dig8kln rol]ers Jf
“Horace Fogel’s comments
Uhlan Makes Last
-rw -l I • a jmost recent outburst is to the effect
ruDiic Appearance !that he has been commissioned by the
** Fleishman interests to have some one
they could only get a chance to do it;
„ on j9rr > in fact, we felt that wav about it our-
Herrmann are entirely unfounded, and j 3eIves . We felt that j h( , Easterner
can not be seriously taken for a min- were obstinately depriving the under-
ute,” says Clark Griffith, rallying to the ; takers of a lot of work by not per-
defense of his former employer. Fogel’s I mittirg the Western football teams
Continued From Page 7.
pretty much over all the United States
on that little jaunt, and yet. when he
walked Into The Georgian’s shop the
other morning he remembered me so
readily that I felt enormously flat
tered.
Possibly unduly flattered, I decided
later, when I heard somebody saying
he would bet Chick Evans knew bv
face and name at least 5.000 people
he had met casually in his travels.
1 never saw such a facultv for re
membering people.” said this unwit
ting informant. ‘’Chick ought to be
a politician.”
Nix on the Politician.
1 except to the politician. A poli
tician is a good follow from policy—
usually. Chick Evans is a good fel
low because he can’t help It. He en
joys living as much as anybody I
ever saw', and lie doesn't care who
knows how good a time he is having.
Chick Evans enjoys playing golf,
and he enjoys talking about golf. In
the clubhouse after his match Sat
urday he was promptly the center of
a group of golf bugs, all (it seemed)
off in their game, and wanting to
know if Chick gripped t^h* club with
his palms or his fingers if he broke
his knees in Driving; If he thought
there was anything to the open
stance; if he kept his right elbow
close In on his hftlf swings, and sixty-
five other questions of similar tenor
and import.
Chick Told Them.
And Chick Evans, smiling away, an
swered them, evt.-v one. Answered
them painstakingly and thoughtfully,
and all the while fairly bubbling over
with good nature and good fellowship
and the old Joy of life that O. Khay
yam sang al>out and could have given
a new slant to if only he’d known
Chick Evans.
Honestly. I’m sorry for Omar.
Chick Evans is something
Uhlan. 1:58. holder of the world’s
record and the only trotter that has
beaten 2:01 without the aid of a wind
shield, has made his last public ap-
I pearance in harness, according to re
ports from Lexington, Ky., where he
trotted a mile with running mate in
1:54 V*.
His owner. C. K. G. Billings, of New ays Griff
York, has decided it is said, to retire % The whole truth of the matter Is that
him from the trotting turf and here- Herrmann was forced to get rid of Tin-
after use him as a saddle horse. , ker, and after having several bum
Uhlan is a bia. strong, handsome trades offered which were ridiculous In
fine fronted black gelding, with riding extreme, let Tinker go at what he
shoulders, a strong back, plenty of ac- thought was the best price. Players, It
.. '• ^ ' "" * *” should ,\ 9 understood, were not available
purchase their interest in the Cincin
nati club.
“Herrmann Is one of the squarest men
in the game, has done much to put
baseball on Its feet and keep it there,
and has suffered much adverse criti-
!cism which was entirely unwarranted,”
tion and
disposition which
make him almost a model horse for the
saddle.
Uhlan is nine years old. and. begin
ning as a four-year-old, the gelding has
made marks that can not be appreciated
to tlje full extent at this time.
The more important world's records
credited to Uhlan are:
Record—-Hitch. . (
1 , -mile Milky i
v^-mlle—wagon
one mile—sulky
( me mile—wagon
Mile (trot, mate)— wagon..
Mile (run. mate) wagon...
Mile m. tr ) sulky
4-year-old gelding sulky..
6-year-old gelding—sulky..
Gelding in race- sulky !
Two-heat by gelding -sulky 1
Age.:
si
Time.
; :56V4
! 1:56
i 2:00
2:03V*
, 1:54V*
2:02%
2:07
I 2:02%
2:03 V*
(2:03>£
i 2 :04%
and
those that were offered were in every
way undesirable.
Cashion Must Show
Underhand Delivery
Tommy Murphy Is
Only Real Vet Left
When one recalls that Tommy Mur
phy has seen three champions in his
division come and go it begins to dawn
on you just bow wonderful a fighter
the little Harlem lightweight has been.
Tommy was fighting when Joe Gans
was champion, and he saw Bat Nelson
.. n 1 \ .-I ah..., * M.l'n .. (V. A ♦ I f 10
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.—There is one
r hance for Carl Cashion. the big right-
han4er remaining with the Nationals.
If Cashion can develop an underhand
delivery he has a chance of sticking as
a flinger. If he fails, he probably will
be sent to the minors.
Cashion is a big right-hander and
showed lots of speed: but little control,
when he was able to work last year
and the season before. During the 1913
campaign he injured his shoulder and
was of little use to Griffith He played
a few contests in the outfield, being a
fairly good hitter.
to impinge upon the Eastern sched
ule. We felt that the Easterners were
a mighty nefarious lot for not allow
ing the West to horn in somewhere.
When Harvard recently suggested
a willingness to play Chicago we an
ticipated a mad rush from the insti
tution that stands for the all that Is
Westerly, as well as for the name of
John D. Rockefeller. We had gath
ered the impression that the West
erners were simply pining away for
an opportunity to leap on the poor
Easterners, but it soon developed
that such was by no ingans the unan
imous case. Some of ffce Chicagoans
may have wanted to leap all right
enough, but they wanted to leap with
reservations.
Whereupon John Harvard set about
stalking the proteges of “Hurry-up”
Yost, which is a Western college all
right enough. Michigan was willing.
Michigan always seems willing, and
so we are to have a great intersec
tional clash.
Harvard is the acknowledged foot
ball champion of the East. Maybe
you disagree with that view, and
maybe we disagree with that view,
hut that's the way the Crimson is
rated by the football sharks. It will
open 1914 as champion, and any team
that licks Harvard licks the cham
pion.
That talk about the game not be
ing for the championehip of anything
in particular Is all very' nice, but you
know, and everybody knows, that it
will be just about the biggest thing
in the football line that will be staged
next season.
N
Brooklyn Secures
Cuban Shortstop
NEW VORK, Dec 2C.—The Brooklyn
club, of the National league, announces
that negotiations have been completed
with Tommy Romanach. the young
shortstop of the Almendares club in
Cuba. Manager Robinson says that the
player has accepted their terms When
the Brooklyn team was in Cuba last
month Captain Jake P&ubert was very
much impressed with Romanach s play
ing and tipped President Ebbets off to
the player. Romar.ach Is only 18 vears
old.
HANDS IN RESIGNATION.
SAN FRANCISCO. Deo 27 Billy Jor
dan, veteran announcer of ring contests,
handed in his resignation as a market
inspector to-dav. He retires at the age
of 82 and will spend the balance of his
days in tk© Yountsvili© {Soldiers' Horae
than a wonderful golfer—a good deal
more. He is one of the most genial,
happy, optimistic and altogether lov
able chaps on the top side of terra
flrma to-day. He has a marvelous
genius for the greatest of all games—
and for the game of life Chick Evans
is equipped with a personality that
will serve hi« turn even better than
his miracles of the links aid him in
the Royal and Ancient Game of Golf
Leaves Atlanta To-night.
Mr. Evans’ brief visit to Mr. Adair
ends Sunday night, when he departs
for his Chicago home, and his busi
ness—for Chick is a business man. He
will play morning and afternoon
rounds at East Lake Sunday.
and Ad Wolgast win and lose the title,
and still he is in the game and many
believe righting better than ever.
Murphy was In the ring when Young
Corbett. Jimmy Britt, Eddie Hajilon,
Benny Yanger and scores of other great
fighters were in their prime, yet he
alone remains of the lot to-day. And
during all those years he never got the
opportunity to fight for the lightweight
title True, Tommy' was a feather
weight during the first half dozen years ]
more j of his ring career, but even at that
BIRMY GETS GAS CART.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 27 —President C
W. Somers, of the Naps, to-day ad
mitted that b© 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 th© past season.” said Somers.
DE ORO TO PLAY MORAN.
CHICAGO. Dec. 27.- Alfred PeOro. o
New York, champion three-cushion bil
Hard player, to-nay accepted the chal
lenge of Charles Moran, of Chicago, for
a match here January 5. 6 and
time he never had the chance to get to
th© top.
GIANTS KEEP SNODGRASS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—One who Is In
Manager McGraw’a confidence 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 th© 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 Angeles club.
catarrh;
wwv*
OW that an international polo
match in 1914 is practical \
mired, the American spor -
loving public may look forward with
keen anticipation to witnessing again
thi* most thrilling and most wonder
ful sport in tho world.
The American “Big Four" won over
the English invader* last June, but
only after nlaying the grandest, mor
death-defying game ever gt&ged or.
any fleJd. Only after they were forced
to the end of human endurance, fore
ing to the limit their powerful ponies,
riding with the speed of a whirlwind,
unmindful of life or limb, were they
able to triumph over the wonderful
Britons.
What are the American*' chance#
of repeating the victory in 1914T
This Is the big question poh> tm
thualasts are asking, to-day, and it i*
'one that will be difflrnlt. to answer
The team that represented the BritlJh
last year has been scattered to th*
four points of the compass; an sr
tlrely new quartet of invaders win
make their appearance.
The chances are that the old *1*?
Four” combination, which has bronftr
so much glory to the Americans from
the polo battlefields, never will piay
together again. A*,new team will b«
chosen, and Devcrenx Milbum, re
garded as the greatest poloist ths*
ever swung a mallet, will be the ©nit
member left of the famous *BI«
Four.’* *
The new American e* until natt©"
probably will be: 1, Rene Ia Mod
tague; 2. Devereux Mllburn: 3,
E. Stoddard; back, Malcolm Steven*
son.
The Pblo Association, udrlch name*
the team, figures that with MTberr
playing forward and Stevenson
goal guardian, the American team
would be noticeably stronger Mb*
burn is a wonderful player at anv pc
sltion, while Stevenson’s greats**
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