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,ead All Other:
Favorite I raining Stunts
French Heavyweight
Performed.
Champion,
by Georges Carpentier
Who Is Coming to America
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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
L- ague plans for 1914 were announc
ed to-night by President James A.
Gilmore.
Joe Tinker will manage the Chi-
ago team. Mordecai Brown will
handle 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,
]r : mapolis 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
ansa only will be taken by the third
league. Those holding straight con
tra is for a tern} of years will not be
permitted to sign. The Federals will
light the reserve claus£ to a finish
with the ample funds at their dis
posal.
Tinker to Get $12,000.
All this was announced by the head
• league following to-day's meet-
in the. Blackstone Hotel. Rrepre-
r.r.ng the various clubs were Otto
n St. Louis; Charles Weeghman
! W. M. Walker, Chicago; Ned
Hanlon and Harry Goldman, Balti-
('. C. Madison, Kansas City;
i; T. Carol, Buffalo; J. E. Krause,
Ira! anapolis; W. E* Curr and J. B.
ur. Pittsburg; Barney Hep-
hum. Toronto.
It reported that Tinker’s salary
to be $36,000 for the three years,
or $12,000 per year.
“There will be at least five big
Hague players on each club,” said
1’resident Gilmore. “The others will
ratted from the class AA and
A 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.
Billy 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.
Three Previous Wars
On Majors Recalled
Johnny Dundee Says
Kilbane Is Greatest
Boxer in the World
“What is my personal opinion of
: Johnny Kilbane? I think this about
I him: He Is the greatest boxer In the
civilized world, not barring McFarland
! ° r any other,” said Johny Dundee, in
i Cleveland, recently. “What do I think
! of his punching powers? This: Charley
White, Patsy Kline, Kid Julian—all of
them have bit me- and I never was hit
any harder by any one of this hard
hitting trio than I 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 1 figure my strength would
beat him. I think that I am stronger
I than Johnny
"Do 1 want to meet him again? Yes,
I do. But I couldn't make 122, for I am
j heavier than I was. If I can go in the
rir.g at a weight that would not weak
en rrte. it's my one ambition to box him
a thir^i time, hut it looks as though we
can't get together.”
Brickley Will Toss
Shot in Junior Meet
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Dec. 27.—
“Charlie” Brickley. whose prof) :iency
with liis toe brought victory :j Har
vard during the recent football season,
1 will represent the Crimson in the 12-
; pound shot-put event at the National
junior track and field championships in
Brooklyn, January 3.
Announcement to this effect was
mad** to-day by Manager Squibb, of the
Harvard track team. Captain Storer,
of the football team, an/1 Hardwick,
another member of the eleven, are ex
pected to compete In this event later
in the season.
George Mullin Now
Holding a Political
Berth in Detroit
Food for Sport Fans
NOSE HE CUE
IIIS IIS
Ritchie’s Indisposition Makes a
Place for It in Pugilistic
History.
W ITH so much activity in the
ranks of the Federal League
and rumors of desertions from
organized 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
the Union Association’s invasion
fame 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,
?rhieved 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
National League territory. It offered
alluring inducements to the best play
ers, and in three years, 1901, 1902,
L ,t, 3, succeeded in influencing 109 to
join its standard. Of these 109 play
ers several were assisted in their
" amps” by the clubs which had reg-
1 rly paid their salaries. They were
bounced instantly upon the discovery
'hat, while accepting their salaries
ith one hand, they, with the other,
\ r iv signing teammates to contracts
f the opposition.
In the first year, 1901, there were 55
deserters, and in 1902 there were 40.
Ly the time the season of 1903 rolled
along, peace w$.s 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
hvo years’ war were as follows:
New York.
1901—Pink Hawley, Frank Sparks,
* ^ irgil Garvin and Joe Conners, to
Milwaukee; Winnie Mercer, Mike
Grady and William Carrick, to Wash
ington; J. B. “Cy” Seymour, to Bal
timore; Wiliiam “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,
M'iloy Piatt, William Bernard and
Jo*- Dolan, to Phialdelphia; Joe Sulli-
Va n, to Chicago—6.
1902—Ed Delehanty, Harry Wolver-
' n, A1 Orth and John Townsend, to
Washington; Monte Cross, Elmer
Dick and William J. Duggleby, to
Philadelphia; Frank “Red” Donahue
;, n<l Bill Dougless, to St. Louis; Ed
McFarland, to Chicago—10.
1903—Guy Harris White, to Chica
go— l.
Boston.
1901—Chick Stahl, John Freeman,
rnes Collins and E. M. Lewis, to
Boston; Hugh Duffy, to Milwaukee;
C atcher Bill Clarke, to Washington;
‘ cher Bill Sullivan, to Chicago; Vic
" illis, 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-
T \* Steelman, to Philadelphia; Joe
- Ginnity, Harry Howell, to Balti
more; Fielder Jones, to Chicago; Joe
Yeager, to Detroit; John Anderson, to
Milw'aukee-^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
Kitaon, 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 Harry Smith, to
Philadelphia—3.
1902— Jack O’Connor, to New York
—1.
1903— Jack Oheshro, Jesse Tanne-
hill, William ("Widow”) Conroy, to
New York—3.
Cincinnati.
1901— Erve Beck, Edward Scott, to
Cleveland; Rob Wood, to Ghicag:>;
James Barrett, to Detroit; Phil Geier,
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 Schrerkengost, to
Boston; Fred Buelow, to Detroit—8.
1902— Rhody Wallace, Jessie «ir-
kett, Dick Padden, Emmet Heidriok,
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 th**n
returned to the National League. The
list contained the fallowing 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 Heidrlck,
of the St. Louis club.
‘Take Care of Lyes/
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
he considers the most important asset
in an aspiring young recruit. Lajoie
sav.s 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 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. Lajoie gives
most all the credit for his wonderful
career as a hitter to the care he has
taken of his eyes.
S AN 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 suppa ed to be for.
It figured in oun -Jndergarten fisti
cuffs, for which oA.ts 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.9
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 inro
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 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 nosf 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 ns 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 ;>n
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 w'hich 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.
Frank Baker Wins
Over Jeff Gaffney
In 15-Round Bout
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, he
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-WeUrh fight on January 6.
Asthma relieved in two min
utes or your 50c refunded.
Lieutenant DeLava! Will Be Pen
tathlon Representative — To
House Athletes in Berlin.
By James S. Mitchel,
World’s Champion Weight Thrower.
N )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 in 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. The
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 Sw r edes have had the
trial for the modern pentathlon,
and the winner turned up in Lieuten
ant DeLaval. This is a record in the
way of preliminary trials. It is re
ported from Stockholm that Lieuten
ant DeLaval 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 the
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.
Lives of owner9 all remind us •
Raseball is a sport no more,
For we left that stuff behind us
In the simple daps of yore.
Rase\mlVs real, baseball's earnest,
And the dollar is its goal.
Hast thou art and, thou returnest
Always to the owner's roll.
Let us then be up and doing
Friend and foeman day and night y
Double crossing and pursuing
All th edust 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.
: The Sox and Giants will celebrate
j New Year’s on water. Neither Ping
Bodie nor Larry McLean is with the
party.
said in justice to Joe Tin-
never exceeded the speed
I .lit when he was driving the Cincin
nati machine.
i It must hi
liter that h
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.
• * *
Quoth Governor Tener: "Anson is
strong, physically and mentally.” And
yet the Cap appears in vaudeville.
\ * * *
Yes, Roll*-; that heavyweight affair in
Paris was a case of too much Johnson.
* * *
1 We gather’that Jack Johnson is ,al-
most as popular In France as a German
airship.
* * *
i 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
big job on his hands, but here we have
.-Tommy Burns trying to make a boxer
lout of Art Pelkey.
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j Oh, many a time on a Christmas
morn
‘ In the- v-inters of tony apo
i 7 prerted the day with a heart forlorn
And a soul, that was heavy with
1 And all day long 7 was deep in the
bhucs.
And 7 wept till the day was done, |
| Fur all I got was some stuff l could '
use, ,
When 7 wanted a knife, and a gun.
• • *
Handing a kid a useful present at
' Christmastlde is much like handing a
man a ham sandwich at a banquet.
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One is vividly reminded of tVie high
|cist <>f lemons when one reads that New
(York boxing shows have drawn $2,200,-
I 00 to the last two years.
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I Ivan Mamutoff claims that he once
threw the Russian Lion. He Is now
learning to throw the American Bull.
* * *
j You may beat him and. flag him and
clout him all day,
You may plaster him flat on the
floor,
Rut the battered ex-champion always
will say:
“I am better than ever before/”
DETROIT, MICH.. Dec. 27.--George
Muhin, the well known American
League pitcher, and once the pride of
the Detroit Tigers, is now an entry
clerk in the office o9 County Treasurer
Stein at Detroit. He went to work
last week, but Instead of a baseball or
a hat, 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 w«>i>e than pitching in front
1 i • waj all the comment
George made as I e buckled down to
work again. Since he jumped the Mon
treal team, in the International League,
tl *• former Detroit pitcher has been
playing some independent ball. County
Trr a t.rer Stein, who is an olxl-time hall
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.
Johnny Reilly Not
To Play With Giants
NEW HAVEN, Dec. 27.—Johnny Reil
ly. declared by mliny to be the best
third sacker in college circles, denies
that he will play that important posi
tion on the New York Giants team
next season.
Reilly has been approached by the
leaders of many clubs, but thus far
ha- not put liis 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.
PLAN INTERSECTIONAL POLO.
! CHICAGO. Dec. 27.—Organization of a
r.< w po o club In Chicago was perfected
I Wednesday arid an option which the cluh
! olds on an NO-acre tract on the lake
shore was considered. Besides the polo
j field a race track will be laid out for
; amateur contests. The club plans to
I bring together East and West In polo.
I Challenges will be issued to the polo
clubs <>f Cincinnati, the Meadow Brook
|Club and others.
Endorsed by Governors, College Pro
fessors. Physicians and Ministers.
Licensed under special law which
gives it same standing as rftate Instl-
I 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
I been devised for those who can not
visit the sanitarium. Patients treated
nt about same cost as their accustomed
drug.
Address Dr. POWER GRIBBLE, Supt.,
Box 892. Labanon. Tenn.—Advt.
Away Above Everything”
Biggest Railway Engine m the World. r|
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 1(5 drivers, a fire-box 10 feet long and feet wide; is 95
feet 2 inches in length and weighs 586,300 pounds.
English Stroke Not
For Crews of Yale
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.
NEW HAVEN, Dec. 27.—Although
matters have not been finally settled, It
'seems to be an assured fact that Yale
i crews will not use the English stroke
ir.ext season.
i 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
OTTAWA, ONTARIO. Dec. 27.—Ralph
i Britton, the Cananoque sailor, Is again
■ seeking the international canoe trophy.
; lift challenged last year, hut failed to
lift the cup and is now preparing for
; another assault upon the defenders,
j He has given a contract for the con-
| struetion of a craft that he hopes will
capture the trophy.
American Asthmatic Co., At
lanta, manufacturers. 50c pack
age.
A
'■•ut the can;
itln. breeding.
n.-n .ionlu.' UUl
FREE TREATISE.
_ The I^ach Sanatorium,
i lncilanapoJJi, Ind.. has
published a booklet which
given lnt« restlr.x facta
of Cancer: also telle what to Mo for
•dr. etc. Writ* for it to-da*.
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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.
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