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FEDERAL LEAGUE PLANS
Favorite Training Stunts Performed by Georges Carpenlier
French Heavyweight Champion, Who Is Coming to America
CHICAGO; DROWN, ST. LIS
George Stovall Will Pilot the Kansas
City Team and Toronto Takes the
Place of Cleveland in Circuit—War
to Death With Majors Outlined.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27. — Federal
League plans for 1914 were announc
ed to-night by President James A.
Gilmore.
Joe Tinker will manage the Chi-
ago team. Mordecai Brown will
i andle St. Louis, George Stovall will
pilot the Kansas City aggregation.
It is understood that Tinker and
Brown signed three-year contracts.
Toronto will replace Clevleand in
the league. The other seven cities
represented will be Chicago, Buffalo,
Baltimore. Pittsburg. Kansas City,
Indianapolis and St. Louis.
The season will start April 14. and
a schedule of 154 games will be
played.
If interference is contemplated by
big leagues, the Federals will defend
themselves and the players who leave
organized baseball to sign with them.
Players who are held under a reserve
lause only will be taken by the third
league. Those holding straight con
tracts for a term of years will not be
permitted to sign. The Federals will
tight the reserve clause to a finish
with the ample funds at their dis
posal.
Tinker to Get $12,000.
All this was announced by the head
• f the league* following to-day’s meet-
ng in the Blackstone Hotel. Rrepre-
sf-nting the various clubs were Otto
Stifel, St. Louis; Charles Weeghinan
on! W. M. Walker, Chicago; Xed
Hanlon and Harry Goldman, Balti-
uore; C. C. Madison, Kansas City;
I! T. Carol, Buffalo; J. E. Krause,
Indianapolis; W. E. Curr and J. B.
Barbour, Pittsburg; Barney Hep-
hurn, Toronto.
It is reported that Tinker's salary
- t<» be $36,000 for the three years,
or $12,000 per year.
There will be at least five big
league players on each club.” said
President Gilmore. ‘‘The others will
be recruited from the class A A and
\ leagues. It is doubtful if we will
be forced to go lower than that to
complete our ranks.
“The Chicago park will be located
on the North Side of the city. Be
cause Cleveland seemed unable to
find a suitable location, the fran
chise there was abandoned, but To
ronto quickly applied for the place.
Now all teams are provided with
complete ball plants or 'hold loca
tions upon which they can be erect
ed.
“We are not attempting to invite
the organized leagues into open war
fare. We are not going to conflict
with them in any way that is un
avoidable. Chicago and St. Louis are
the only cities in which there is now
continuous baseball. In the other
towns we, naturally, will provide
schedules that will not touch the
dates of the other ball club.
Will Protect Deserters.
“We do not feel that the reserve
clause of organized baseball is bind
ing on the player, and are determined
to protect and defend any man who
has left those leagues to join us.
“The Federal League will furnish
first-class baseball in 1914. Our ex
perience last year was 'enough to
prove that the public does not want
and will not pay for the mediocre
brand.”
Gilmore intimated that he would
not be president of the league much
longer. It is doubtful if Thomas
Lynch, deposed head of the National
League, will get the place, but the
Federals are springing so many usr-
prises that nothing will seem un
usual. Gilmore, it is believed, will
be president of the Chicago club,
which position he held before as
suming the league position.
Killy Phillips, the old Cincinnati
player, will hold the same job as last
year—managing the Indianapolis
team, with which he won a pennant.
Larry Schlafly, the Jersey City boss,
gets the Buffalo club.
The Federals will invade four
leagues. The American, National.
International and American Associa
tion are to feel the talons of the
new organization in their gate re
ceipts.
Johnny Dundee Says
Kilbane Is Greatest
Boxer in the World
“What is my personal opinion of
Johnny Kilbane? 1 think this about
him: He Is the greatest boxer in the
clvflized world, not barring McFarland
or any other," said Johny Dundee, in
Cleveland, recently. “What do I think
of his punching powers? This: Charley
| White, Patsy Kline, Kid Julian—-all of
i them have hit me—and I never was hit
any harder by any one of this hard
hitting trio than 1 was by the cham
pion at Vernon last Washington's
Birthday.
“My opinion of the outcome of an
other battle between us? In ten rounds
he very likely would beat me. Over the
long route I figure my strength would
bear him. I think that I am stronger
than Johnny.
“Do I want to meet him again? Yes,
I do. But I couldn’t make 122, for I am
heavier than I was. If I can go in the
rlr.g at a weight that would not weak
en me. It's my one ambition to box him
a thin! time, but it looks as though we
can’t get together.”
George Mullin Now
Holding a Political
Berth in Detroit
Food for Sport Fans
■ y OEORaa K. PHAIR.
Three Previous Wars
On Majors Recalled
!
Ritchie’s Indisposition Makes a
Place for It in Pugilistic
History.
\ I 7ITH so much activity in the
V/y ranks of the Federal League
and rumors of desertions from
rganized baseball going about, the
days of the big fight back in 1900 are
brought to mind. As a matter of fact,
there have been three incursions of
barbarians” into National League
fields during the last twenty years,
only one of which was a success. In
1S84 the Union Association’s invasion
ame to naught, and in 1890 the Play-
rs’ 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
hanged its name to the American
League, and In 1901, like the Federal
League at present, placed clubs in
N ational League territory. It offered
‘During inducements to the best pfay-
ers, and In three years, 1901, 1902,
1903, succeeded in influencing 109 to
loin 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
Biat, while accepting their salaries
'vith one hand, they, with the other.
v ■ ere signing teammates to contracts
: the opposition.
in the first year, 1901, there were 55
deserters, and in 1902 there were 40.
By the tiine the season of 1903 rolled
Long, peace was declared between
Lie warring leagues. But before the
papers were signed fourteen more
layers had abandoned the old ship.
The player. 1 # who jumped during the
• wo years’ war were as follows:
New York.
1901— Pink Hawley, Frank Sparks,
^ icgil Garvin and Joe Conners, to
Milwaukee; Winnie Mercer, Mike
Grady and William Garrick, to Wash
ington; J. B. “Cy” Seymour, to Bal
timore; Wiliiarn “Kid” Gleason, to
Detroit—9.
1902— George Davis and Sam
Strang, to Chicago; Jack Warner and
Charley Hickman, to Boston; Albert
Srdbach, to Baltimore; Luther “Dum
my’ Taylor, to Cleveland—6.
Ph iladelphia.
1901— r, hick Fraser, Nap Lajoie,
Wiley Piatt, William Bernard and
Joe Dolan, to Phialdelphia; Joe Sulli
van, to Chicago—6.
1902— Ed Delehanty, Harry Wolver-
Ln, A1 Orth and John Townsend, to
Washington; Monte Cross, Elmer
Click and William 5. Duggleby, to
Philadelphia; Frank “Red” Donahue
nd Bill Dougless, to St. Louis; Ed
•McFarland, to Chicago—10.
1903— Guy Harris White, to Chica-
go—1.
Boston.
1901— Chick Stahl, John Freeman.
Limes Collins and E. M. Lewis, to
Poston; Hugh Duffy, to Milwaukee;
' atcher 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-
r * Steelman, to Philadelphia; Joe
L Oinnitv, Harry 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 Williams*, to Balti
more; Fred Ely and llarry Smith, to
Philadelphia—3.
1902— Jack O’Coiinor, 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 ChlcagD,
James Barrett, to Detroit; Phil Geie*\
to Philadelphia: ITobe 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. McGran. Wilbert
Robinson, Billy Keister. Mike Donlln.
to Baltimore; Denton (“Cy”) Young,
Louis Criger, Ossie Schreekengost, to
Boston; Fred Buelow, to Detroit—8.
1902— Rhody Wallace. Jessie Bur
kett, Dick Padden, Emmet Heidrlek,
John Powell. William Sudhoff, Chari 0 ?
W. (“Jack”) Harper, to St. Louis;
Dan McOann, to Baltimore—8.
In 1901 the American league pub
lished a “blacklist” of players who,
it claimed, signed contracts and th°n
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: Jarrms
Sheckard and “Leyt” Davis, of the
Brooklyn club, and Emmet Heldrick,
of the St. Louis club.
‘Take Care of Eyes/
Advises Nap Lajoie
CLEVELAND, Dec. 27.—Napoleon La
joie says that young baseball players
pay too much attention to developing
speed without giving a thought to what
lie considers the most important asset
in an aspiring young recruit. Lajoie
pays a perfect pair of eyes can do more
to make 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 nigh* 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^ajoie gives
most all the credit for his wonderful
career as a hitter to the care he has
taken of his eyes.
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! r«AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.—In the
grand scheme of pugilism the
nose is coining 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 wan
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 s
the first stopping place for the gloved
nands 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 imo
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 :f
his nose bore no evidence of having
been through the mill. At important
sport gatherings tlie 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 Up.
Now this is all changed. An in
flamed nose has been the cause of i
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 be a dis
position to regard the nose as the seat
of the emotions. Landing a punch m
the nose will he recognized as a great
er achievement than formerly, and the
possession of a battle-scarred nose
will be more of a badge of distinction
than ever.
All of which is in no measure an
argument that Ritchie hasn't a sore
nose, ft’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.
Frank Baker Wins
Over Jeff Gaffnev
In 15-Bound Bout
i Lieutenant DeLava! Will Be Pen
tathlon Representative — To
House Athletes in Berlin.
By James S. Mitcheh
World's Champion Weight Thrower.
t >T only have the athletic coun
tries of Europe been absorbing
the advanced American ideas
of sport, but a few have even shown
inclinations to go the Yankee plan
one better, especially fti the line of
making a timely start for big events.
Sweden seems to be foremost in
this respect, as can be demonstrated
by the manner in which they regard
the Olympiad at Berlin in 1916. Tfye
fixture is more than two years off,
yet the Swedish Olympic Committee
has started to make arrangements to
house its team at the German capital.
They are first as far as a definite
move toward preparation goes, for no
other country has yet bothered about
how the teams will live or eat a
couple of years from this date.
Already the Swedes have, had the
trial for the modern pentathlon,
and the winner turned up in Lieuten
ant DeLaval. This is a record in the
w'ay of preliminary trials. It is re
ported from Stockholm that Lieuten
ant Del^aval is to train steadily for
the next two years, and is sure to be
returned a winner.
By the way, nobody feels certain
that the modern pentathlon will be
included on the German program.
The Swedes are out to win the
point championship from the United
States at Berlin, and they are going
to leave no stone unturned in the de
velopment of point winners.
The Swedes were confident of win
ning the point championship for Un-
track and field items at their own
Olympiad, and were thunderstruck
when they saw their champions
smothered by the Americans.
They couldn’t understand it, and
only in the end did it dawn on them
that running against a champion op
ponent is a totally different game
from running records against an
eight-day clock.
The Swedish runners broke all sorts
of records against fake watch-hold
ing, but failed miserably when it came
to duplicating the times against the
Yankees.
It looks now' as if the Greeks would
be left alone in the Athenian Festival
next spring, except that here and
there some patriotic athletes and big
clubs might help them out in the way
of stars. Several months ago the
Greeks asked the International Olym
pic Committee to help them out, but
nothing has come of the request. The
governing bodies of the different
countries figure that the Grecian
meet is too close on that at Berlin,
and that big teams can not be mus
tered every year, or at least so soon,
on top of each other.
Frank Baker, the clever featherweight,
returned from Savannah last night,
where he shaded Jeff Gaffney in a fast
15 round bout. Although Frank was
forced to give away several pounds, lie
had little trouble in piling up a big
margin on points. No decision was ren
dered.
Baker is anxious to meet some boy
here in the semi-wind-up to the Whit-
ney-Welsh fight on January 6.
Asthma relieved in two min
utes or your 50c refunded.
I jives of owners all remind us
Rase ha ll is a sport no more,
For we left that stuff behind us
In the simple daps of pore,
liasrfaiir* real, baseball's earnest.
And the dollar is its pool. •
Dust thou art and Hum rcturncst
Utraps to the owner's roll.
Let us then be up ami doing
Friend and foeman dap and night,
■ Double crossing and pursuing
All th (dust there is in sight.
* * *
The Tinker deal, we are told, will
stand,- but Cincinnati will get players
instead of cash. Tinker's share, we pre
sume. will be a couple of outfielders#
m * •
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.
* » •
Air. Murphy arises to remark that the
Cubs an duo for another shake-up. Be
works on the theory that every little
shake-up gets u 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.
* ♦ •
Quoth Governor Tener: “Anson I?
strong, physically and mentally.” And
yet the Cap appears in vaudeville.
* V *
Yes, Rollc; that heavyweight affair in
Paris was a case of too much Johnson.
• * *
We gather that Jack Johnson is al
most as popular in France as a German
airship.
! Charlie Herzog avers that at. this time
next year he will have plenty of expe
rience. Not to mention plenty of tin
ware.
*. * *
We thought Colonel Goethals had a
bis |ob on his hands, but here we have
, Tommy Burns trying to make a boxer
(out of Art Pelkey.
* * *
j Oh. many a time on a Christmas
morn
fn the winters of long ago
I greeted- the dap with a heart forlorn
And a soul I hat was heavy with
woe.
i And all dap long I teas deep in the
Id lies.
And / wept HU the dap was done,
| For all / pot was some stuff I could
use
When / wanted a Knife and a gun.
* * *
Handing a kid a useful present at
Christmsstide 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 said in justice to Joe Tin-
ike r that he never exceeded the speed
' 3 mil when lie was driving the Cincin-
jrati machine.
* * *
I One is vividly reminded of the high
c >st of lemons when one reads that New 1
lYork boxing shows have drawn $2,200.-
I 00 lo the last two years.
Ivan Mamutoff claims that he once
threw the Russian Lion. He is now
learning to throw the American Bull.
I * * *
You map beat him and flap him and
clout him all dap.
You map plaster him flat on the
floor,
But the batten'd ex-champion alwaps
will sap:
*7 am better than ever before!"
TROIT, MICH.. Dec. 27.—George
n, 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, hut 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 30.000 people, ’ was ail 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 hall. 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.
FLAN INTERSECTIONAL POLO.
CHICAGO. Dec. 27.—Organization of a
I new po'o club in Chicago was perfected
j 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 he issued to the polo
clubs of Cincinnati, the Meadow Brook
Club and others.
Brickley Will Toss
Shot in Junior Meet
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. Dec. 27.—
“Charlie” Brickley. whose profi.iency
with hid toe brought vlctorj : j Har
vard during the recent football season,
will represent the Crimson In the 12-
pound shot-put event at the National
j junior track and field championships in
j Brooklyn, January 3.
Announcement to this effect was
I made to-day by Manager Squibb, of the
I Harvard track team. Captain Storer,
of the football learn, and Hardwick,
j another member of the eleven, are ex
pected to compete in this event later
;in the season.
Johnny Reilly Not
To Play With Giants
NEW HAVEN, Dec. 27.—Johnny Reil
ly. declared by many to be the best
third sacker in college circles, denies
that he will play that important posi-
| tlon on the New York Giants team
! next season.
Reilly has been approached by the
leaders of many clubs, but thus far
' has not put his John Hancock to any
document offered by a big league or
ganization.
MORPHINE
WHISKY AND TOBACCO
Habits Cured Without Pain
or Restraint at Cedarcroft
Sanitarium, Lebanon,
Tenn.
Endorsed by Governors, College Pro
fessors. Physicians and Ministers.
Licensed under special law which
gives it same standing as tftate insti
tutions
No deposit or fee asked until cure is
effected to satisfaction of patient.
A successful method of Home Treat
ment based on a gradual reduction has
been devised for those who can not
visit the sanitarium. Patients treated
at about same cost as their accustomed
drug
Address Dr. POWER GR1BBLE, Supt.,
Box 892. Labanon. Tenn.—Advt.
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English Stroke Not
For Crews of Yale
NEW' HAVEN, Dec. 27.—Although
matters nave not been finally settled, it
seems to be an assured fact that Yale
crews w ill 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.
Britton Will Try to
Lift Canoe Trophy
Away Above Everything’’
Biggest Railway Engine in. the World. n
A TRAIN of 50 freight cars is considered a pretty good load, but this
giant of the Frisco line can pull 277 cars each of an average weight of 120,000
pounds. It has 16 drivers, a fire-box 10 feet long and 7)2 feet wide; is 95
feet 2 inches in length and weighs 586,300 pounds.
<&eu i4 66 flue
€i
Away Above Everything”
It would require many engines of the “Mallet”
type to haul the annual shipment of Lewis 66 Rye—
so great is its popular demand. For nearly 50 years
Lewis 66 Rye has been the accepted “Standard
Whiskey of the South” because of its purity and all
round goodness.
Case of Four Full Quarts $5.00. Express Prepaid.
For Sale by all leading mail order houses and cafes. Never sold
in bulk. Sold only in glass direct from distillery.
The Strauss, Pritz Co. Distillers Cincinnati
HUGHES MAY UMPIRE IN VIRGINIA
Maybe Tom 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.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Dec. 27.—Ralph
Britton, the Cananoque sailor, is again
seeking the international eanoe trophy.
He challenged last year, but failed to
lift the cup and Is now preparing for
another assault upon the defenders.
He has given a contract for the con
struction of a craft that he hopes will
capture the trophy.
American Asthmatic Co., At
lanta, manufacturers. 50c pack
age.
CANCER
FREE TREATISE.
The Leach Sanatorium,
Indianapolis. Ind.. haa
published a booklet which
riven Interesting f iqt
’ Cancer; also tells whai u
rain, bleeding. etc. Writ* fur It to da*,
minioning Jos . r.
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