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Cheering Throng Estimated at
Over 120,000 at the Santa
Monica Course Today.
•ants Monica, Csl<-*Klghteen racing
driver* faced the «tartar when ha sent
a way tha first riir, driven by Ta«l<ly
Tatr.kiSf '»n lb# Initial ta|> of th# fifth
International Grand Prlx rare, ovar tha
hmi In Monica course, at 10 o'rlock lo*
Tint dlatance la 408.24 mile*. A
/cheering throng that lined tha 5.4 mil*
rmirni wm vartouaiy eatlmated at from
120, (tOO to 100,000, mnny of whom had
haan encamped tM’ottglwmt tha night.
DePalmo. winner of th* Vanderbilt
cup ritoe Thursday; Bsrney Oldflald,
and Trtilaff ware favorite*, with Earl
Coopef and Edwin Pullan. aaaond*.
After Talalaff, the enra left at flftaan
eeannd Interval* In the following or
der:
No. I, Spencer Wlahart: No. 3, Oil
Ajidaraon; No. ♦, Edwin Pullan; No.
5, William f'arlaon; No. 6, B. Taylor;
i No. 7, Barney Oldfield; No. I, Earl
Cooper; No. 9, Huntley (lonian; No.
11, Frank tloode; No. It. Ralph De-
Palma; No. 14, J. B. Marqula; No. IS,
Charier Muth; No. 16, Dave I-arwl»;
No. 17, fitly Ball; No. IS. Frank Ver
herk; No. 1», Tony Jeannette; No. 20,
U. Richenbactier.
Johns Hopkins Wants the
Next Intercollegiate
Championship Meet
New York,— John* Hopkins Univer
sity tins Joined Syracuse, Harvard and
Pennsylvania In bidding for the honor
of conducting the next Intercollegiate
champion ah Ip meet. It* desire ha*
been Inspired by completion of the new
athletic stadium, Homewood Field, and
to make the championship meet the
feature of the centennial celebration
In Baltimore of the writing of the Star
Spangled Banner
Should the Baltimore official* fall
to get tsi* Intercollegiate* they Intend
to apply' for the amateur athletic union
outdoor championship*.
The executive committee of the In
ter collegiate association of Amateur
Athletics of America*today declared a
dividend of $3,000 to be distributed
among the members of the association
that were represented Ht the Inst
<humplonshlp games. The executive
committee also decided to submit the
new constitutional amendment# creat
ing an annual Indoor meet embodying
group competlttlon and altering the
point aroring system with the outdoor
. ham pinn*. The aasnetatton today will
decide the contest for the scene of tha
next meet.
Local Baseball Moguls
Pleased at Outcome of
Sallie League Meeting
President Kalbflelsch and Manager
Bmuthees of the Augusta Baseball As
sociation were well pleased at the out
come of the meeting that waa held in
Savannah by the officials of the South
Atlantic League,
The Increase In Ihe salary limit from
$1,500 to $1,750 was very gratifying to
the Augusta players. The eihedule
adopted at the meeting could not have
eutted Augusts any more than It did,
and the orflctgls any It could not Have
been a. fairer one.
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A stubborn, - annoying, depressing
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weakens the lungs, and often lead*
to serious results The first do»e of
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St. Louis-
Johnny McGraw Makes
Farewell London Speech
London. Member* of the American
colony and English athlete* and sport
ing men gathered at the station today
to bid farewell to the American hase-
I nil teams. The player* expressed re
gret that they could not stay longer
In Ismdon. where they had been ex
tensively entertained.
John J. McGraw In n speech from
the train, thanked both American* and
English i>resent for the cordial way in
which t he tourist* had been received
here.
BEATEN.
Ho heat his wife; *ho did not kick—
was used to It. 1 guest*—
For tie for many year* had played a
better game of chess
—Dallas Morning News.
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DODGERS“SOSS"
USED SNOWPLOW
m m
Robinson Has “White Carpet”
Lifted From Track; Didn't
Want Men to Oet Feet Wet.
Tha rn<>w may atop th# ordinary
trend of burlm-aa m Auimata hut It
will never atop Manager Hohlnaon, of
the Brooklyn Dodgers, who now haa
part of hla team In thia ally, from
praaMalng.
"Rob" rigged up a snow plow yaa
terdny and ran It around tha bare hall
grounda at Warren Park ao aa the
"white earpet” would not hinder the
player* In Ihelr little five-mile trot
around the ground*. He alao wired
the rest of the buneh, who are at
present training at Hot Springe, to
lay over there a few da ye until tho
enow mail* here, not that he la afraid
of It—oh, no—he merely doe* not want
"hla material” to gat their feet wet.
Aa you know, he could not afford to
let a alngle one of them get a case of
"Charlie Horae," when It la so near
the beginning of the aeaaon.
Manager Brouthera, of the local
team. *aya that when the umpire call*
"play h*H” hla team will be around
hare, and It won’t lie late, either. A*
thtnga look now, our beloved elatar
team, Columbia, will be given one of
the hardest fight* at the opening game
In Auguata that ah# will ever come up
againat during the aeaaon.
It la now only a matter of one month
and six dwya before the flrat game
will be played In here. Manager
llrouthara la due great credit for cor
rallng hla team In mi few daya na
waa allowed him, aa he. had but a little
pver two month* to turn the trick.
HELP!
Now- “thirty button hoots for
girls,” I*'fashion latest crack
Friend Wife won't wear a pair, un
less
They button at the back.
—Houston Tost.
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Open toniqht until 10:30.
“UELUGEOENCy
IS RECOGNIZED"
Organized Baseball Men “Sit
Up" For the Federals. Wait
ing to Pounce on Returning
World Tourists.
Chicago.—Follower* of baseball bo
Ileved they read between the line* ol
a story published here today nows
that organis'd baseball virtually had
"remgnlxed the belligenercy" of the
Federal League. The story said the
Fodorals and tho American Associw
tlon loaders had agreed to arrang*
the| r schedules bo that conflicts In
tho two towns In which they both are
represented—Kansas City and Indian
apolis—would he avoided, an
agreement would Indicate that the as
sociation had decided not to war on
the Federals, but rather had conclud
ed to enter into a working agree
ment.
President Chlvlngton, of the asso
elation, denied that any agreement
existed, but Charles Weeghman, pres
ident of the Chicago Federals, declar
ed he talkd with Joe Canttllon, the
Minnesota association owner and
George Tebeau, the Kansas City
owner, ant that both had virtually
promised there would be no conflicts.
Neither league has prepared Its sched
ule, the association's plan having
been upset by the transfer of the To
ledo team to Cleveland,
The Federal league will withhold
Its list of players until the arrival
of the ship hearing the world’s tour
ists at New York. President Gilmore
who reached Chicago today to prepare
for tomorrow's Federal meeting, said
there were four or five “stars” on the
ship who might be signed by his
league as they landed.
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THE GHOST THEY DO NOT SEE
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
The American League )/\/ill Use Same
Managers As They Did Last Season
Quite a Difference is Seen in the National’s Managerial
Situation; Here Three Now Men Will Bo Seen at the Helm;
All But Two of the Ameri/mn Heads Have Gone Through
Full Season Under Present Charges.
SPORT
BY MONTY.
N#w York— Th* opening of th* com
ing season will find th* American
League alandlng pat on every team
manager In ,tbe circuit who was In
charge at the end of the last cam
paign. Quite a difference Is seen In
th* National league managerial situa
tion. where three new men will be at
the helm. 4
Hank O'Day succeeds Johnny Ever*
as leader of the Chicago Cubs, Wil
bert Robinson supplants Bill DalUon
as chief of the Brooklyn Dodgers and
Charley Herzog will he In the place
formerly held by Joean.l Tinker aa
pilot of the Cincinnati Bed*. Thus we
notice Murphy, Ehbets and Herrmann,
the three windy magnates of the cir
cuit, making the upsets of established
order, which is imore or less fitting.
All hut two of the American League
managers have gone through a whole
season at the head of their present
charges. BUI Carrlgan, commander of
the Boston Braves and Branch Rickey,
the new head of the Browne are th#
exceptions.
Other Manager*.
Of the other American League man
agers, all have had imore than one
full year at the head of their present
clubs outside of Frank Chance, who
took charge of the New York Yankees
last spring. Joe Birmingham got his
Job as Cleveland manager in the mid
dle of the 1912 season, when Harry
Davis threw up the Job in disgust and
went hack to Connie Mack as the lat
ter's assistant In running the Ath
letics. Jimmy Callahan, the White
Sox leader, was put In charge of
Comlskey’s teami at the start of the
1912 season, the same time that Clark
Griffith became the hors of the Wash
ington Senators. Connie Mack is the
real veteran of the American League
managers, having heen in charge of
the Athletics evfr since they Joined
the league in 1901, and Hughey Jen
nings is the next oldest in service. He
was placed at the head of the Detroit
Tigers at the beginning of the 1907
season and has been there ever since
Real Veterans.
Fred Clarke and John McGraw are
the real veterans of the National
League managerial array. Clarke In
charge of the Pirates and McGraw In
charge of the Giants both have been
on the Job without Interruption for a
dozen years. George Stallings got the
leadership of the Boston Braves only
last Spring and Miller Huggins was
placed at the head of the St. Louis
Cardinals at the same time.
For new managers, fYDay. Robinson
and Herzog seem to be about a* cap
able a crop as that of any year O'Day
who Is giving up the woes at an um
pire for Qi« second time, showed real
ability In 1912, when he wa* In charge
of the Cincinnati Red*. He did bet
ter that year than did Clark Qrlffltk
before him or Joe Tinker after him.
landing the team In fourth position.
As Ji# takes hold of th# Cub*, hs finds
the latter outfit minus Johnny Evers,
but yet with a much better layout of
talent than hi* Cincinnati gang.
Receiving Credit.
Robinson I* receiving credit In
many quarters for a large part of the
Giant's success. In 1904 and 1905,
when McGraw piloted the New York
ers to pennant*, Robinson was the lit
tle Napoleon’* assistant. The follow
ing year Robinson retired from the
game again. It may be Just a coin
cidence. but It is a fact nevertheless
that the Giants did not win another
pennant until 1911, when Robinson
was back on the Job helping McGraw.
He stayed with Mac the next two
years and the Giants won the pen
nants of 1912 and 1913. Now Robinson
gets a chance to demonstrate how
'much of the Giants' success was due
to him. In the Brooklyn team he has
what appears to he a promising array
of young players, and good handling
of them 1b likely to net greater results
than ever were achieved with the club
In the past.
Herzog seems to be Just the type of
man needed to make thing* go In Cin
cinnati. He never has had any mana
gerial experience, even as an assistant,
and he has not even held the honor
of being field captain on any team.
Yet he seems to be imbued with those
qualities whldh will keep all around
him on their toes and fighting at their
best every moment.
When the Giants had hlrm in the
game at third base, he was the life
of the team, always shouting words
of encouragement to his mates. He
Is really about the “pepperiest” player
in the game today. If he can make the
Reds try as hard as he always does,
somebody may be in for a surprise be
fore he gets through.
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The Raiding Federal Leaguers Have
Already Cost Organized Baseball
More Than $1,000,000 So Far
BY FRANK G. MENKE.
New York. —The raiding Federal
Leaguers already have cost Organized
Baseball more than $1,000,000 accord
ing to the best estimates at hand. And
the playing season still Is six weeks
away.
This Joss has been occasioned to Or
ganized Baseball through, players who
remained loyal and through the fact
that every major or minor leaguer who
Jumped to the Feds meant a monetary
loss.
If Otto Knabe, the second sacker,
had remained with the Phlliea they
could have sold him at any time for
something like SIO,OOO. Brennan, the
Phillip, pitcher, would have brought at
least $4,000. Russell Ford, the Yankee
twirler, could have been sold by Frank
Farrell to the CievelandNaps , or to
any one of several other clubs, for
about $7,000. Cy FHlkenberg, the elon
gated Nap twirler, would have brought
around $7,000 —perhaps more—had he
been placed on sale. Blanding and
Kahler. the other Nap twlrlers who
Jumped to the Feds, would have
brought at least $4,000 esch.
Tinker Worth $15,000.
Tinker's value was fixed at $l. r >,ooo.
George Stovall, Mordcal Brown, Pitch
er Hendriz, Catcher Simon, and the
others who jumped from the major
league ranks, were valued at amounts
ranging from $3,000 to $6,000 or $7,000.
More than 40 players from the Class
A organizations have Jumped to the
Feds, and each of these, at a conser
vative estimate, has a cash value
around $3,000.
Included In the ranks of the Feds
are some players from the Class A and
Class B teams, many of them diamonds
in the rough, that same day may have
had a value of $2,505 or more.
President Gilmore, of the Feds,
states that his organization already
has corraled 142 players and that be
fore the season opens he will have at
least 200 players lined up. On this
number about 130 will be players that
that have been taken away from or
jjju.ized Baseball. Placing the
Igge value of each of these
*2,ooo—a low estimate—lt will be a#en
that organized baseball has lost some
thing like $340,000 worth of players
during the two months of Federal ac
tivity.
High Salaries.
The other great loss suffered by the
organized baseball magnates is ih the
high salaries they hare had to pay
their men not only for the coming
season, but for the next two and three
seasons. The Brooklyn club furnishes
an excellent example of this.
Charles H. Ehbets, the Dodgers own
er, was in Porto Rico when the news
of Tinker's desertion and the raids of
the Federals came to him. He jumped
the first boat for the United States
and Immediately upon landing set out
to las9o his players and tie th«*i so
that they couldn’t get loose.
Ebbets found many of his players
very coy about signing. Ebbets knew it
was v a case of paying the men the
salaries they demanded or leaving
them open to jump to the Feds. Eb
bets didn’t parley much. He paid the
men what they wanted —and that
means that he paid many off them
from SI,OOO to $2,000 more than they
got last year and Just that much more
than he would have paid them this
year if it hadn’t been for the activity
of the Feds.
Not only did Ebbets sign up his men
for one year, but he got their signa
tures for two and three years. He
wanted Ed Ruehlbach, the big pitcher,
to sign up for five years, but Ed turn
ed him down. It is said that Ebbehs
even went so far as to go to players
who were under contract for 1914 and
thus 1 immune from the Federal attacks
of the present, and offered them con
tracts for 1915 and 1916 at Increased
salaries.
Ebbets admit* that the signing up
of his players this year cost him be
tween $50,000 and $75,000 more than
he expected it would cost. Ebbets
perhaps lost more money this t#ay
than did the other 16 magnates In the
big leagues, because he had more play
ers on the reserve list than did thg
others. But from all tho information
that can be gathered it seems that it
cost each major league magnate about
SBO,OOO extra to sign up his players
this year. There are 16 magnates, so
Che total is $480,000.
$12,000 More Apiece.
The slxten magnates of the twoL
Class AA organizations are said to
have paid out at least $12,000 more
apiece to sign up their men than they
did last year, which adds about $192,-
000 to the total. The smaller organi
zations lost but little —$30,000 perhaps
will cover their total —because the
Feds passed most of their players by
directing their efforts to getting the
major leaguers of the Class AA men.
These figures totalled together, will
show that the "Joke” Federal League
has cost the organized baseball people
Just about half of the combined profits
they looked for in 1914. And from ajl
that can be noticed just now. It looks
as it the Feds are going to cut into
4ATURDAY. FEBRUARY 28.
the attendance oE organized baseball
In such a way that organized hasebwlt
vast profits of the years gone by will
be a thing of the past.
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National Motorboat Show.
Chicago—Yachtsmen and motorboat
men from, all sections of the United
States congregated in Chicago to at
tend the first National Motorboat
Show which opened today.
Plans for the trial races at which
will be chosen the American team
which will go to England this summer
to participate in the International mo
torboat races, will be completed during
the meeting.
Tonight’s Events.
New York. —Hannes Kolehmainen,
distance runner, has gone to Buffalo,
where he will try to break the one hour
running record, held by Jean Bouin, of
France, against a relay of four men
tonight. The American imark, held by
Sid Thomas, Is 10 miles, 1,182 1-3
yards, made on Nov. 30, 1889.
The team that has been selcted to
oppose the Finn is made Stuart
and Joe Allen, of Hamilton,
Joyce, of North Tonawanda, and d|th<h
Gressel or Whinthan, of Buffalo. Kole "
limainen was accompanied by Abel
Kivlat, who will meet Joe Driscoll, the
three-quarter mile American record
holder, in a match at the distance.
Want Aviation Cup.
New York, —America Is to make an
other attempt to capture the Interna
tional Aviation Cup. The Aero Club
of America announced today that it
had cabled entry of one aeroplane for
the contest vmich takes place In
France in connection with the interna
tional meet In September. It is likely
Chas. T. Weymann, who won for
America In England in 1911, will he
asked to represent this country as pi
lot.
Only Pentathlon Sports.
Berkeley, Cal. —The Greek Penta
thlon sports are to be tried at the
University of California as a substi
tute for the usual indoor gymnasium
exercises. Dumbbells, clubs and
other apparatus will be entirely dis
carded. The pentathlon consists of
running, jumping, wrestling and jave
lin and discus throwing.
Feds to Divide Players.
Chicago.—Division of about 200
baseball players among the eight
clubs of the circuit will be male to
day by the owners and managers of
the Federal League, announcement of
the apportionment will not be made,
however, until after the arrival in
New York week after next of the
world touring Giants and White Sox
from whom the Federals hope to get
several stars.
Off for Athena. Ga.
Cleveland, O. —Regulars of the
Cleveland Americans left today for
their training camp at Athens, Ga.,
where the recruits and Manager Bir
mingham preceded them several weeks
ago.
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