Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1924, Page 30

SPORTS. Big Leaguers, Astounded by High Price Tags on GRIFF BALKED IN EFFORT TO PUT DEALS THROUGH Negotiations for Shocker and Petty Fail Because of Exorbitant Demands—Tom Taylor and Wade Lefler Are Sent to Memphis Club. | BY DENMAN THOMPSO | Sports Editor, The Star. empty-handed. Ba'ked at every turn in his efiort to | talent for the Nationa's by what he terms the ridicu- | G lously high prices demanded by club owners of the lesser circuits, | President Clark Grifiith of the Washington club today returned from tl"'i scene of the minor leagu annual convention at Hartiord, Conn., minus any talent to strengthen his American League title olders. All of the Capital de'egation 2t the confah in the New England city. ! which included Manager Bucky Harris, Assistant Secretar Billy Smith and Scout Joe Engel, returned with the local mignate cing completely | iled to frame any deal that conld be consummated on reasonable terms. Attention of the 'oca’ board of strategy now will be centered on the meetings in New York next week, where a joint session of 1 and Natisnal circuits will be held following separate meet- | 1 whe it is hoped to put through a couple of dick- | ers now under cons’deration “We tried bost plavers who fi to strength next sea the demands made question were out RIF back. obtain new onr 2 coupt to X, a sail G the in of all veason. These | and has be ut top-noteh prices | association who have yet to they | ceuson. He suce ed this year, tur good in fast eompany ng in some 20 victori but there is ton club is nat no assurance he would win half that thut way We any gi for next Summer. to pay Nell we | Overtures Petty will be re- will not up. | sumed by me* - bushwha e De- Insteud adding to ui E-SLOTORl TE0 o0 OUF | he had hoped, Griff reduc: elSparkStusrate while in Hartford, Tom nd Outflelder Wade Lef- ler nger being memBers of the we champions. Both of these atl re turned over to the Mem- | his ciub of the Southern Association as part of the debt incurred in deals gotiuted with the Chicks last sea- | on of which was the acqu B Carlyle. the h outfielder, and the turn to Kelly 3 fered o d be and “but the terms voungster, be mark. He was up falled to make the grade nging avound in the trying to get in a good | not He is 1 the 30 at he | n,’ for “but was of P men w players = mulcted ir v willing wanted. We mes for be held wirhout on 1it by two Infielder | the Sought § i Gritf s no | 1a | Manager “tes | club In an & ker, start has been placed the t that Washington could not e up the materisl demanded inge for him. The local boss anxious 1o zet. Sho to A1l th cancy that will be cicated in his Corps if Walte som fai's to - 1 but asseried t wou heaver market. | attord t. i ex- Wi va hur spitball one Roy coun olving the soe Prothro ftle to Har runded hurlér. 1t eeessiry ro was returned <on to sell him k a new ther iu- | Washington of | | with obtaining a youthtul right- irn, ns like bt had to materially na' he Ten lix ¢ nd that he bringing She Pro- last B at time to Memphis atright, and t deal had to be was t other tains tried the t n A con i Man Iiared Nuti R squawking Lefler mdulged of the world series pot | ved to have been a factor legation to the bushes. >mising youngz outfielder-first nun, cbtained from Worcester of lastern League in September, helped in game for Natlonals by naking (wo hits in four appearances a4 pmch hitter. and when voted | 1.150 of the melou accruing from the | which he was not eligibl wssumed an aggrieved elped lon ted that h. als hin | were entirel; the vete as el as Nem e one 1 eibole wite of bill 1 big facto land- d in the Ameri is year. bt Grift worth ay in, titude and ye 3.2 a ed. threa stand for such that he has be river indicates he thlete that Bucky cing for him en the mo; in the Hou Associatic t to inj shunte is not tae Harris couid not se s demon former who s yot to prove hi ihe We would to w0l Cobb Created It— Fooling the Opposition— Nothing to Chance. xxxnn The Threat 3 BY H. G. SALSINGER. HERE aiways was a reason ficld 3 ail in Cobl’s ER third b bunted hit at quickly in batting. but also did Cobb eate renta ard In the opposition. al- | 2O CC ways with the idea in mind of hav- | foolish. | ing them build their defense to take | cars of a similar play the next time | ha got on: but the next time he got | on he worked an entirely different | pisy. And the opposing team never | wa < prepared for the nlay he worked Cobb was constantiy working out | new plays, surprise moves. But | | lie first set stage for his_drama He. who «upposed to leave | evervthing chance, 1ft less to| ny man in the game. out every detail, he| out his plans to the last He figured out all matters| with mechanic: ]l precisio He build- | ed upon his own mechanical ability, | but also uvon that of the men that opposed him, chiefly upon them. (n- consciously they aided him in work- | ing_out his plays. Unconscioushy | {they were instruments in his hands. | He always liked intelligent play- | ers. The more intelligent they were the better he liked them. He could| |always tell what an intelligent ma would do under ecertain circum stunces, but no one can tell what a | s*upid player will do—he is likely to| {do anything, especially in a delicate | | situation The intelligent player| offering. Just. about thelfllows a certain le, a certain| pitcher was convinced that |syetem. e will do the thing he | he never intended hitting at the irst | should Sl ther e iR R AR one he would cut the plate with it |cobi actly what should be| to put over a strike and get done, knowing the flelders, he| advantage over Cobb. But that = new the intelligent ones| xactly what Cobb wanted him to do. | would Knowing that, he had| I'he ball would not cross the plate. |the Kkey to the situation—he knew In running Lases he wottld o down |exactly what he would do. | on the first or second pitch quite Reviewing Cobl’s career, we there- often. He would try to impress the |fore find that most of his dazzling 'pposition that he had decided on a [plays were made ogainst the smart et system and just about the time |intielders and outfielders. He could this opinion became established Cobb |figure them to a fine point would cross it up. Where a game or a han 1 m tear can He field a it cannot switch Not base that unning, Cobb's mind I the playi the | secined | cid on Ma plays but they were neral scheme He was and he made psycholo st wezpon. 1t “n’t s just new his to you do entirely what thex that counts.’ iden to mal going to do casy cnough to ant to pull completely cro Liz thing in base ball uncxpected. If vou do the i the chances are zenerally aguinst you, for thare are too onposed to you. But if they caught flatfooted the advan is all with you, no mattech how are against you carry out this idea’ he he called the “threat.” a mental ha what much to da think e goin sald i puil then - is to in the vou up. do ex- a nk 3o hing it a have he he peet » rou for them many can tage many To what really b created it Cobh first pitched without time the at and let the hall go by a few times do knew and, what o, | Tomorrew: Chapter XXXIV—Ty's | Best.” | (Conyright. Br.tain i Tinn was won by a big| lead or hopeiessly lost and where the | run would not help his team elther way, Cobb would set about to create these mental hazards. That is where the plays regarded as “fo al- ways were made. His object was to s the opposing team that he the play that way. The next time tiey would be set for it and then he could do exactly the opposite. At bat he used the bunt to great advantage. Cobb always believed that the bunt was the most effective weapon of the offense 1924, in T. S, Canada and Great Nofth Ameri‘an Newspaper Al ALl rights reserved.) WTIGUE TO FIGHT TWICE BEFORE FACING WALKER NEW YORK, December 4-—Mike | McTigue, world light-heavyweight | champion, will engage in two bouts| before meeti; Mickey Walker, king | lof the welterweights, on January 7. | McTigue will meet Young Marullo, who recently outpointed “ Battling | and | Sisl, for 10 rounds in New ! Orleans | with | December 22, and four davs later he is scheduled to Effect of the Bunt. f a pitcher is going good, you are unable to do anything | him, bunt,” says Gobb. “A bunt will | throw a pitcher off his stride. Bunt | to either side of the bux. He's got to 0 after the ball. It's an entirely dif- ferent fielding chance than those that have been offered. It doesn’'t make any difference whether he throws you | out or whether you are saf You' accomplished your purpose &nd that is to get the pitcher off his stride. Many batting rallies have been start- face Jack Middleton in a 12-round battle at Miami. Both will be no-decision contests. CUEISTS PLAY TONIGHT. Palmer Sower will be matched | against Henry Roorke at pocket bil Iliards tonight at the Grand Central | {parlors. Drew Thompson fell before . 24 by a bunted ball on a pitcher that | William Parsons, 100 to 97, last night. | nat T s D couldn’t be reached before the bunt |~ | TROUSERS Cobb employed the bunt to create To Match Your Qdd Coats his threat. After he bunted a few EISEMAN’S, 7th & F timcs the first and third basemen would come in. They would be drawn toward the plate by Cobb's threat to_bunt again. As soon as he had pulled them toward the plate, he zlashed the badl in either direction. [hopes win i relief to | Acres, | Walker | shade demonstr | firs THE EVENING S DEMPSEY BECOMES MOVIE STAR’S PILOT LOS ANGELES, December 4.—jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing cham- nion, has added another voeation to his strine of activities which he keep him busv between now and his next fight. He became business manager for kstelle Taylor, film actress, to whom he has fre- auently been reported engaged. So. at least, it was announced by Miss Taylor's prese agent. who quoted the actress as saving: “It is a great have some one to turn to, for. frankly. T am a very poor busi- nese person. The announcement Dempsey to the effect give out any information” abont the reported engagement, but might be able to “in two or three week<" also quoted that “we can't May Fight Gibbons. YORK and meet rden or Jermey 3y Dempeey Paul will Square ¢ in matehed The verhal ager. the —Jack of St December 4 Tom Gibbons either in Madison | at Bovles Thirty | City. if they are Tex Rickard has declared promaoter said that he had the assurance of Demps man- arns, before he left for | Pacifi st. that Rickard will | auy hostilities between the | and Gibb Square place on acerted that he would such a bout as the fin and is ready to outbid all other oters Jac e Madicon lew's ‘ast fight | will take May and Rickard ke to have | | Miami Bout for Gibbons. MIAMI, Fla. November {.—Tomm Gibbons, heavyweight tiie contender has been signed to cither Hugh of Kansas suilor | Maxted of New York Febru- | ary 16. OLSON GIVEN RELEASE BY THE BROOKLYN CLUB | NEW YORK December Brooklyn Nationals the unconditional ilson. vete odach during 1 ville. Ark., started his major league areer with Cieveland in 1811, He also played with Ciucinnati before | oining the Robins in 1915, SHADE PROVES RIVAL | FOR WALKER’S TITLE| BY FAIR YORK, here on 4.—The | anncunce Tvar Who served 4 today release of an inflelder 4 season n Favet the LAY ember ted that he rival as a b he wark NEW 4. —Dave s Mickey ult of Philly last Walker's nearest he past wh Krug in N aizht The fans had an ide taking quite a Krug. but it pretty the Armors Dave that chance in e zuys mueh as it happened, is to say, Shade piled up a mi roints on the Jersey man doing iim no harn 2oth ting but carefnl leash. gore s to It no xit keep their right was jabbing kayo—just bout FULTON DE&I.ES FAKING FIGHT, IN COURT PLEA LOS. ANC Fulton, Minnesota who, with three others, is charged with conspiring to violate the State | boxing law, pleaded not guilty when in Superior Court here, an rted immed thereafter fo last. Minn was believed to be his destination His manager, Jack I is on his way zuilty when ary The trial date for both defendants was set for January 15 Tony Fuente, Mexican heavyweight, | and his manager, Fred Windsor. other defendants in the ¢ have not been gned TEes against the of an alleged fake fight City last month in whic “knocked out” Fulton in | SPEEDIEST TROTTER | IS SOLD FOR $18,000 prety hands in No iittle f e cember 4 -—Fred plasterer-boxer, tely ~ddy. who aiso 1s0 pleaded not | four grew out at Culver Fuente 5 seconds. NEW YORK, Brooke, holder time for the December 4 the best harne m this season, 1 and winner of every race in which she was entered on the Grand Cir-| cuit, s been sold for $15.000 tq the Walnut Hall Farm of Lexington, Ky. | The mare was consigned by John G. Elbs of Rochester, N. Y. From the bid of $5.000 the offers increased | rapidly to $12,000, the hammer going | down finally at a record price for a trotting-bred mare for breeding pur- | poses. { Til Brooke i< by fthe great <ire, Jus E oke. out of the Miss! Stokes, sired by Peter the Great veral vears ago the Walnut ¥ aid $21,000 for Gu to which Tilly Brooke v —_—— MALONE-WALKER SCRAP WILL BE THEIR THIRD| MILWAUKEE, Wis,, December 4.— | Jack Malone, §t. Paul middleweight, | who boxes Mickey = Walker, world | champion welterweight, next Monday has arrfved here. Walker will arrive toda The meeting *wiil Malone gained the firs Walker_ and the champion defeated Malone. Hall be their third.| decision over | recently | G. U. ALUMNI TO MEET. Georgetown University's alumni will discuss an athletic poliey at a meeting tonight at the City Club,| starting at 8:15 o’ ! The only car with the one ion system. Ilm;nmn 1800 T4th Bt Y. W, | ric | beginning of the r | they denounced the organization, and TAR, WASHINGTON, D. MAJOR OWNERS TURNING N fessedly astounded by the prices demanded for minor league play=- ers, are deserting Hartford and returning to New York for next annual sessions Among those who have arrived are Garry Herrmann and Jack Hend- a deal for First Baseman Bill Terry of the Giants, needed to take the place of the late Jake Daubert. They admit that Rube Bressler, their him. The Giants, undoubtedly, could use League champions had made no offers or Pete Donohue, one of their lead- | had been made. ing pitchers, and Bubbles Hargrave, The moguls brought from Hart- EW YORK, December 4—Major league base ball magnates, con- week’s combats, when the American and National Leagues hold their of Cincinnati, who bring the information that they are considering utility man, is a good, first baseman, but argue that age is creeping over Eddie Roush, the Red's center fielder, |at Hartford and that no propositions satcher, has | ford a rumor that Scout Bob Connery the discussion of what looms as the | Paul club, American Association cham- | sarly son's greatest trade. But|pion, which has drawn the names of neither Herrmann nor Hendricks | Walter Johnson and Secretary Mac- mentioned any names other thun that | Minick into sales rumors. This sug- of Terry gests to New York base ball men the Secretary Tierney of the |possibility that the Yankee manage- ants the National fment is seeking a “farm” in the West. JOHNSON IS DUAL LEADER IN OFFICIAL SLAB FIGURES | : that the committee in charge of selecting the player most val- | uable to a club in the Johnsonian loop made no mistake when it named Walter Perry Johnson, mound ace of the world champion Nationals The.Big Train not only bagged the honors of the highest percentage of victories of any pitcher in the league, but he also was the most cf- fective, allowing fewer earned runs per game than any other hurler classed as a regular perforiner. . Johnson was credited with 23 wins against 7 losses. giving him a win- ning percentage of .767. He pitched a total of 278 innings. cqualing not quite 31 nning games, allowing &4 carned runs, an average of 272 rurs to each 9 innings. | i average of 4.39 runs 9 innings Zuhniser's won and lost record was and 7 und he gave up 4.40 earned runs per regulation game. Martina won games @nd lost 8 and averaged 4.68 earned runs for each 9 innings. Three Lalks were committed by Na- | tional pitchers. Zachary was guilty of two of them in the first game his club played in Cleveland this vear. Spe-ce committed the other. Fred Wingfield, who sent out of the | league by tionals and later | brought back the Red Sox. did| {tittle pitching for Washington. Sli McGrew toiled fn 6 games as a tional to a record wi 1 lost. Nick Altrock | nings against the Red game of the season Ranking next to games won and Herb Pennock, v lost 9 and was run average. S ner of the Athictics was third in both respects. He won 13 ga and lost 6 and the runs earned off him aver aged .88 per game. The Nationals did much to keep Baumgartner from achieving better records. But four pitchers won games »r more, those breaking into that | class in addition to Johnson and Pen- | nock being Joe Shaute of the Indians and Hollis Thurston of the Whit x, with 20 victories each.’ Sherrod Smith, veteran Indlan southpaw showed great control. issuing but 4 passes in 248 innings. He ranked fourth in effectiveness | Howard Ehmke of the Red Sox was the busy bee of the league, toiling | in 315 innings. Thurston of the | White Sox pitched the most com- plete games, 25. The wild men of | the circuit were Alex Ferguson of the Red Sox and Joe Bush of the Yankees. Ferguson gave 107 bases | on balls in 235 innings and Bush 109 | in innings James J asserted that FFICIAL pitching statistics of the American League for 19244 com piled by Irwin M. Howe, official statistician of the circuit, reveal | = dean of major league mounds- 38 R 1 started. He 233 Riving the opposition a batting rage against of He led cague with 158 strikeouts, gave passes. hit 10 batters and made 4 hes. Walter was tapped for e hits und 10 base thefts committed while he graced the nound. All told. the opposition got 97 tallies as he worked Other National yitchers who uch service were Jez Zachary George Mogridge, Southpaws 15 zan 1 lost % for mark of placing hin he circuit on that basis. while Mogridge wen 16 games and lost 11 for 3 average that placed ham i a seventh position tie with Bob Shaw- key of Yankees. Zach's earned- 23 and Mogridge's to was in 20 he told. finish- vielded 233 es 5 hits av the wild 20 sacrific hin 1 | saw | and Zach win- sixth the by won ning 62 6 Na- | n and few in % in the last Johnson both i effectiveness was o won 21 games and hit for a 253 earned- anwood Baumgart- the Nat n Jess than 10 co; Spes pmal pitchers who t wlete games e was the lead, He was in 34 innings for an earned-run average of 7. Wi n Ogden’s combined ef- he Athletics and Nationals second in thix class with | arncd-run average of 2.83, but nueh better than that after to Washington from Phila- delphia. All told, he won 8 games and lost 8. and 3 of the defeats were as an Athletic Fred Marberry demon relief hurler, | )k part in more games than any other slabman in the circuit. Fred was in 30 and pitched a totai of 1 innings, but was in only 6 game: that he started and finished himsel His earned-run average was 3.09 telieving other pitchers as well as | hurling his own games, he got a won and lost record of 11 victories and 12 defeats Allen’ Russell, Paul iniser and Joe Martina were not effective Russell had a winning percentage of aund 1 loss. but yielded an Fifty Years of Base Ball One of a Series of Articles by John B. Foster Com- memorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National League, to Be Celebrated Next Season. IV HEN the National League was organized the first contract with the play ade in base ball. Prior to then the players had agreements with clubs or they were members of the clubs by membership certificate. They had a habit of deserting the club with which they were connected every now and then if some one offered them more money to play. That was called “revolving.” To put an end to that practice and to make base ball a substantial game and one that would command greater respect and confidence the contract was agreed | upon as the best method to control players, and the contract system has | been in effect ever since It was determines that a player jidle words in later years, but they | could be expelled and if he were ex- [learned that they meant exactly what pelled he lost empioyment with any |the promoters had in mind when other club until he was placed in|they organized the association that good standing again. That was the | was to supplement the National As orous discipline | sociation. which been a part of organized | In the first year of the league the se ball ever since. Of course there | entrance fee for membership was were- players who raised objection to | raised from $10 to $100 and some one the new way of doing things and |who noticed it reasoned that base ball must be developing into quite an indus- | try when the large sum of $100 could b asked for a membership in an organ- ization that would have to depend upon pald games. as 1 the owners, and vowed they would ce revenge, but they failed to elicit much sympathy because the public had become disgusted with the jumping around of the players| No club could be admitted from an, from club to club. No one volun-|ejty of less than 75.000 population, teered to put up the money to effect |nor from any city or town, within | another organization and the players |less than five miles from the locale who were desirious to take part in|of a league club. That rule never base ball had to go on with the new | was changed. For the first time in league. | base ball a club was given proprie- It was decided that all players who | tary rights in a city, a monopoly, in could be proved dishonest would be | other words., of any patronage that forever debarred from playing with | might be derived by reason of mem- any club in the National League.|pership in the National League. Some players thought those were (Copsright, 1924.) Christmas Is Coming Dress Up Of course, you will want your Suit or Overcoat hand- tailored by Omohundro’s Clever Designers and Custom Union Tailors. *39 . Omohundro---514 thh' St. —is our Special Christmas price to you for a garment taped (o your measure from high-grade all-woo! fabrics, our own reg- ular stock. Come in and look them over. Fit and workmanship guar- antead. URSDAY, DECEMBER 4, Minor Players, Quit Hartfordg also found his way intoiof (he Yankees is angling for the St. |3 M { their handfuls of shot 1924, BRITISH PROS BEAT JONES AND OUIMET ASHEVILLE, N. C, George Duncan and British pros, won their 36-hole match here at the Asheville Country Club against Bobby Jones, amateur cham- pion, and Franc Ouimet. Mitchell dropped a 20-foot putt for a birdie on the thirty-fourth green dormie, and it ended with halves on the next green. Following a morning round that left them 4 down, the amateurs started off with a 'rush in the afternoon and cut the lead to 1 hole on the eleventh, but were unable to maintain the pace. The cards: MORNING ROUXD. December 4— Abe Mitchell, Ouimet . Duncan Mitehell ones Dulm H Jones 5 Ouimet ARGENTINE POLO TEAM TO ENTER TITLE PLAY BUENOS AIRES, December 4-~The Santa Ines Club, which won this year's Argentine open polo champion- ship. will d a team to take part in the British and American matches next year, The 1 4 4 3 & of Dan With composed Louis Kearney Kearney und Charles N. Land. the exception of Lacey, who rep Brook Naylor, the team is the as that wh for the S MACDONALD BARELY " MISSES GOLF MARK Bob MacT Link Clu! with ame h won the championship Ines Club, former pro at Bob icago, now connect- Club here, shot urning Tree. with to practically its oL ed a €8 the stretehed maximum length MacDonald Diegel and Chris J out in 33 and back bunkers on the eleve wccounting for the is one stroke above mark for the course Diegel and Fred was play Dunphy. He in trout th and fifteenth, 35 back. His card the professional held jointly McLe A. Barnex of New York. won “ker's handicap tournamen terday at Columbia Country the Washington branch of ety of Engineers, with a card 1 Competitors played handicap, against a envelope. Second prize was won by F. J. Cotsworth of iladelphia, with a card of 114—20— 94. The score of 96 was sealed in the envelope @nd Barnes' score was closest to this figure M.« the held Club the Soc of 110 their scores, less figure sealed in a THE CALL OF THE OUTDOOR BY WILL H. DILG, President, Izaak W alton League of America. but it's funny what fool tri We got our heads together A fine article fc game that could birds on the wing. e for shootin | looked on.as lacking mental balance if h a rifle. firing at the birds with oie Ii Of course, the man who uses the shotgun for shooting game for which the rifle was ‘invented is not quite so open to suspicion as te his mental status, but he is notable for his poor sportsmanship, and 1 believe 1 can even go far enough to add “and his poor common sense” He will more squirrels with the shotgun th be will with the rifie. But if the idea in the first place was to get more game the riflc would never have existed. Neither would the shotgun ever have existed. We would use pitfalls and traps and set guns The idea is to have sport in flelds and woods. That is why we have rifles and hotguns, The man who shoots gray squirrels with a scatter gun is just as Poor a Sports- man, 1 think, as he who uses nets to catch sfish, 1t really amountk to about the same thing in even the purely physical sense. I have seen cordons of n ad- vance through the woods, blasting the squirrels from the treetops with This basiness is simply dynamiting a little bit of a quorrel. which requires not the least bit of skill, cannot be classified under the head of outdoor sport. Laws providing that squirrels ma not be killed with shotzuns are be- ing con lered in some States, but 1 hope tlrat the necessity for passing the Ask your haberdasher for 'i'RUHU Shirts and Mufflers JERSEY SILK MILLS, Inc., 25 Madison Avenue, New York City to make the | AN is supposed to be an intel SPORTS. | MINOR HEADS TAKE ISSUE WITH LANDIS AND JOHNSON B Demand Proof of Ban’s Charge of Gambling in Pa- cific Coast League and Show-Down With Judge on Dispute Over Optional Players. ¥ the Associated Press. ARTFORD, Conn.. December 4—The National Association of Pro fe Base Ball Leagues, representing 28 circuits outsidegfof the majors, has taken issue with Commissioner Landis and Bfck dent B. B. Johnson of the American League on two separate matters. + A committee will report to the meeting today a method of pro in an investigation into Johnson's charges that gambling prevails in Pacific Coast League. .This action follows a demand made upon the eof vention by the circuit against which the charges are made, that the Amer can League head be asked to prove his words by reputable witnesses The conflict with the commissionertaken of ry ar over the rule governing the | rell”; that placing of optional players by major | Landis league teams, | had abrogated the agreement by President John fusing to meet the higher leagues. i the Internatiol open. meeting to discuss a change matter to th the agreement which wou E early in the each c tional play | (Jashed with stead of § tary of the asociat The Boston Braves a clared that the maj were over- they had given a large stepping their allotments eight | cash and Pitchers St options to a club, and demanded to| gin for Outfielder James D. Welsh know the number under o on in the | Seattle. The price is figured at $5 International Secretary Farrell | 000, A deal whereby Outfielder Arn | could not give the number and said ny “Bunny” Brief, Third Basema | the matter was in the commissioner’'s | Armstrong and Catcher William Ski | hands. ‘Of Kansas City will go to Milwauke ! Yesterday the association instruct-|for Pitcher Edward chack O ed the secretary to inform all clubs | fielder < McGown and Catcher 1 under Lis jurisdiction when the al-| E. Shinau!t awaits only the sancti lotment of an major league team |of President Mu of Kancy | had been exhausted. This action was Great Plays in World Series And Why They Were Great By Monito! iona Comm ruled that the min oole alled “onway of the d convention's » week and imme John M. Farrell vker and Yea hlebach Bluege’s Dive in Game No. 7. HE The starry catch i ning or the half of the the most ways the real rcason A League e innings of the » little things cou champions the t the ruggle to the That last game wa start. Every remembered. but in the second Harrls i thro Rrounder to s« ed a v last mer fron, Al the meritori the victory first the * for - i been orgotten snd may have the whole procee player may have bcen wildly for the m spectators may have the next thrill in a gripping Tha is the ¥ was in three occasions in orla R big, really the teams Oswald Bluege, the [ of the Washin remarkable work seemed, stop through It ow e the two series yree Nation praise paug was Riue Pe wer great plays warmed up of these con n team for infie'der whose really it on a nnoti went alm because he 1t the right time and the flaring headlines The doings of Frisch and Peckin- paugh, of Harris and Kelly, have heen chronicled. Here is a dashing strole ak- t teat r the big t batted it to his feet and caugz whizziy was ¢l crowd ha things stop Bluege to other Th for \ sion ga ¢ then went « mpionship Ashine e ne up w con. He his hand ban vered & the re; throw ent animal, and 1 guess he pl and inve broken bo: asor to hie cks we on ourselves someti ne mad dids cd a shotgui for shooting | !4 hird v that purpose. We also invented a not fly. Of a man would be were to go quail hunting with ttle lead pellet as they flow such laws will die much faith in 1t Am man to think that he our squirrels with the lit elevating squirrel huntin red-blooded sport exps ence and giving chance for his Jife course, wh thr 1 can is going to let stalk . thus fine and squirrel away 00 thi left. the Wilse e <ports : Had have had |in the sixth ave won famous do. the Na onals . one out MINOR LEAGUER SOLD. L ueRenadiay | PARr Ky.. December 4—Pete ‘::'1"')’;5"“‘;“;_; s Monahan, first baseman on Paris | inpaugh in four o Club of the Blue Grass League last|sarios and taken season, has been sold to the AIbany, | wostomed. plac |N. Y. Eastern Le Tab.. SThe | hery Lrsen, | price was 51000 baseme these fou At the Sign of the M Wonder What Wert Will sas Today ¢ W th re skil St play i ad a he « only injured Pe games of t from his = na the Mill games STRIBLING IS BOOKED. | GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. D |#—W. L. “Young" st light-heavyweight. for a bout here De officer: of the Olympic Ath Associatio announced. Stribling’s opponent not been selected mber on. has engage has ER Close Da . CHARLOTTE, N. ", Decembe 1 W. P. Goebel and F. II. 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