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IlHlAllOi o ouni/ni nitimnv;An ( a i umi i rt, u.-\ M o» I'lm 1 , i/rjt navi I - * rj n L'*’, 7 /\ unday American Sporting Page ,ead All Other: Favorite I raining Stunts French Heavyweight Performed. Champion, by Georges Carpentier Who Is Coming to America 1 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. * * • 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. I I 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. I * * * 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*. 66 five “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 ESBEI J J