Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1925, Page 22

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY. JA} UARY 6. 1925. SPORTS. Stanley Harris Went to Work in a Coal Mine When He Was Only 13 Years Old GOT $6.48 A WEEK FOR 9 HOURS A DAY Bucky Cheerfully Ate Cold Suppers In Order to Play Base Ball After Daily Toil Ended. base ball manager staliment of the autobiography of Stanlen Hay in the Listory of the game and the wid one of the outstanding players in the 1925 world series ' bo, big s Ame Chapter 14 years ome day boys year i to follo me to Old Beyond His Years. ear 0 to gether. and he vishing fe that envelope I took Aside not I've doesn Didn't 1 bee Mind Cold Supper. ing b pla e ball from old me " Pl lding dowr rake b won the p —Another ANLEY (BUCKY) before mana; I had an ambition to be a basc when 1 finished the sixth grade in school, T told elp her and Merle make | ) ¥ made t nplat ave | ard bet what tme we @ for plag c Bail, ths at the A Chance for Mo After six ers Mr. Je he The ke it Merle shre May be more bal morrovw—An Chaunce. SHOCKER’S HURLING ARM ST ocker he St. L the Naw nber, pivas emoval of a LOUIS, anuary form tar spit s Brown York Mo. 6.~Urban Al hurler of who was traded to Yankees last De- th on his the HN LEONARD. Januar BOUT TO JO! NEW YOR Leonard, Allent last might Ritchie of the twelfth round of a bout scheduled for that distance. Leonard had gone down in the second from a stiff right, but re- covered and improved steadily after the sixth, 6.——John shtweight, Frankie to undergo an operation | | as saying that | i | d path to travel before reaching my Meanwhile T had to go to work to help | general | ceived by TO BE OPERATED UPON | | row want for the firat time nager in cigit has prodiced. The in vears of the A dramatic moment s was one of the i fro | player, as disti dents whie s Hagris the » de of the Picture. HARRIS. wind-up of the e a world championship base ball ball player. ¥ s professional in the enior, was a ple. EW YORK, Jar dizon land, wh A cused N | famou o | ends meet in the world uled to participate letic enthu; two ¢s of the lad who carried off ( neld to 5.000-meter e which is the event 10:30. 1 mi will make his first runt His activi- his brilliant career to been confined to the out conducted ab; faciliti his N his la sch run meet, t two race effort a ties t Nt out date have doo ning indoor running available. Maki the cream of Ameri at the fident of triu experi strive fo Woul The great Finnish runner will seek to establish two marks in each of his races. In the one-mile has. requested that tim at the 1,500-meter mark he may ault made by Joie W who will he formidable rivals tonight will strive to shatter the ord of 4:14 3-3 for a mile 1 mark h also i In the race requested rs 1 e threc where races ph despite running ecords indoor atter Records. e placed in order that 4:01 s A, C. Nurmi's ar, one of most five-y 1d by Nurmi placed at he will Ritola, Fin two vea 14:54 for was established Ray. 5.000 has that meter tim rk. to improve attempt on e 14:15 4-5 nish- neric A. € Tn this test Nu erase the 000 meters Ray o 16 Bucky couldn He wax up at traveled miles to hix job, worked all day. played base ball after h when the weather didn't pern ball be kept pounding away Ket ball to whi m to record whicl March 7 dent thi capture his Fi city that hoth nnish ad- Nurmi not aces but that to be at that the mirers i only the which a surpasded ofticial ha a wwarded i Whlishec that, ir announced which Tt addition has been to awarded th run, the MeCar- |1 anzed to award whic loving Veri spec- 00 the medal Une fight shortly after voted out of Califc will erect a mew accommodate 50.000 old prize down ¥ burncd matehes Jack Doyl to 20. an nger with the facilitics available armories, the great Finnis) ckey |is said to have adapted hir he ra pres- as had petitior s at Doyle said he hoped to coax Mic Walker and Benny Leonard out a 10 or 12 round bout at the ent Vernon Coliseum floors to a extent running es which surprising o0 experience in the short spi On the SideLines With the Sporting Editor crs declaring a gencrous dividend at their meeting this aite BY DENMAN THOMPSON. VAV e Washington ball club secmed rosy ITH additional athictes com enotgh €oday, on the eve of the departure of President Griffith and Man- ager Harris for Tampa, where the players are to train in an cffort to win another world title. There was just one little fly in the oinment that the aked eye could discern—the possibility that Vean Gregg might upset plans for the pitching corps by refusing t ing to terms' daily and the stockhold- o report to the Nationals. Gregg may be in de up the 1 Gregg has no a carnest about tional pastime unless met, and then again just be trying to raise the Seattle. But it B stremely doubtful E will to return to the big With an outfit having chance t another we miss grievance against | 1is new owners, nor likely he objects to hecoming affi p outfit, but ceedi ispleased with als of the Secattle club ected his sale to Washington, has asserted he will leave the ball flat on its back ted. 15 to do with money. Tt| nest the share of his purchase | at allotted him by Seattle when | the Pacific Coast League outfit trans- ferred his title to Washington fell consider short of what Sylvanus believed he should receive, so he h flounced off to his home in Canac threatening to retire from th am unless his ideas get more consider tion Wade Killefer, is quoted in dispatches fro he the SRR championsh gly s up a e pecially excellont ! sworld series melon o ss he will be grect Bucky Marris the middle month when the vets assembic Hot Springs for preliminary game unless of base he is pla A complaint Unless | gu o migh of hree-fourths of the famous inficld that enabled the Nationals to reach | the heights of base ball is in line | for service with the 1925 edition of the team following a visit to club « | headquagters today of Oswald Bluege. agile young third sacker. Manager and Second Baseman Harris was the very i of all the cast to accept term and First Baseman Josephus Judge completed the necessary formalities s the call on the boss vesterday 1 incidentally Nicholas Altrock alzo wielded a borrowed fountain pen Altrock this season is signed to coach the Nationals instead of as A s been the case in forme This means Harris will be e to carry one more active athlete vear, the full 25 allowed uuder rules, manager of Se 4 n the Wes his club “gave Gregs $1,500 from his sale besides paying his back home, to rule,” and unreasonable if he as a bonus of tol Washington, penses contrar the Gregg Writes to The first intima might be encoun Gregg to wear a uniform with “worid champions” lettered on it was re-| Griflith when he sut | contract some time ago. T 'he strange spectacle of a gift of $100,000 being spurned is what can be secn as a continuous performance in < fainoun southpaw. of the C connection with the project to erect clib:in ailettor to/CrIff asaerted that(™ PIONLMEDL fo Dase hatllin the Hac the Seattle team had not lived up to|Honal Capital. This sum was voted A s made e hap t9|by the American League several years Serian nron ¥ ). it being planned to place a shaft that unless it forked over he would | §F % sign aoproved by the Fime arts nuilify his sale to Washington bY|commission in Potomae Park, with a refusing to report tahlet bearing the names of the most Griff immediately sous | vatianie plavers-claafed o year £o rom the Coast League ¢ e was all about, but vet has! yYester received no answer to h The | sentatives local boss purchased ( condi- | whi tional upon the player T E and if he refused the deal will auto-|irought objections from half a dozen matically be off. Griif says helmembers of that auzust body. Dis knows nothing about the merits of | patches sent out from Washington the controversy between his 40-year-|said that none of the objecting mem- old rookie and the latter's 1024 em-|bers gave any reasons, but there is a ployers, but that unless the big left-|faint suspicion that those blocking hander comes to terms with the Na-|the proposal have the interests of the tionals, Seattle will have to return|National League at heart and are de- the $15.000, or. Ats equivalent, paid for 'termined to prevent consummation of him. any strict]ly American League project. veland | & learn at the House of of several made to call olution accept 1t in the nother been epre. moves up a proffer 1 the world ~eriex: Harrix ste: added aces in his first appearance beiore a gatheri Th and | the | armi | Nurmi also | ) i ~ of the first | ing second on Frixch. Harriy’ glory as an individual anager. wi . NURMI WILL GO AFTER FOUR RECORDS TONIGHT tl world will be fo- Paavo Nurmi, foremost rugner of the at wh regarded as the Garden, an competitive debut. Nurmi is sched- | indopr athletic meet of the Fin- 3 four Olym- olombes Stadium, Paris, last Summer, i ailable pasteboard ickets. Every has been exhausted <upply permite which den, of experfence will s to be after a Regiment lexpressed satisf | night in ¢t be d on the portable, will used to- but whet this affect his run- seen light workout on Armory drill floor, ction with his physi- |cal condition. Whether he is the con- | queror or conguered toni depends {on his ability to adjust himself to the conditions he w i for the first time and to the character opposition he will encounter. remair <t Certain He Can Nurmi and {theory that he and Teat. his followers scout the will be affected by the | fact that he is running two races in one night. They regard the rest pe- {riod of %0 minutes which will be af- forded the Finn as suflicient relaxa- tion between races for the lad who won seven events, including trial and created three records in ix days at the Olympic Paris Imet July Nurmi last night te al track in Madison which he will run tonight. The wonderful Finnish runner took sev- | eral speedy whirls about the circuit and expressed surprise a degree of displeasure at the springiness of the portable elipse. The border of the track had not been placed in position when Nurmi tested the boards and the Finnish star, in response to in- appeared relicved when inform- ed that the track would have a border | when he appeared there to race to- night Ray heats, | the space | games in ted the quare Garden spe- Jimmy Connolly of the Newark A. C. and Lloyd Hahn of the Boston A. A. stand out as the most formic able rivals of Nurmi in the mile run | The rest of the field will Walter Higgins, New York A Leo Larivee and F. Levendahl Willle | Ritola was scheduled to start in th test but withdrew to conserve h strength for a determined effort to beat Nurmi in the 5.000-meter run The reports which have reached here from Chicago are to the effect that n. running in the form twhich onée made him practically invincible this distance. He is expected to tend Nurmi if the reports are true. | Connelly's feat in winning a mile in 4:19 on New Year night in ffalo indicates that the former Georgetown rumner is in excellent condition. Higgins, Hahn and Lar- rivee also are reported prepared for a keen race. The race between Nurmi and R in the 5.000-meter run is expected to-live long in memory. The race will mark a rencwal of the keen feel- ing of rivalry between the two Fin- nish runners which started at the | Olympic games when Ritola pressed | Nurmi to_a record before the latter won the 5,000-meter title chase by a | stride. Ritola prepared himselt cspecially for this test, in which he will have the advantage of indoor running experience over Nurmi, and the American-developed runner is said to be confident he will beat his famouss countryman. George Ler- mond, Verne Booth, ¥red Wachmuth and Gunnar Nilson also are entered for this event GIRL TOSSERS PLAY IN LEAGUE TONIGHT Princess and Wetropolttan Athletic Clubs meet on the floor of the Wilson ormal School gymnasium at 9 o'clock tonight for the opening game f the serics arranged by the Wom- Basket Ball League. Business High School girls and the shington Athletic Club are sched- led to clash on the Central High [court tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. « ola A henefiy for Bill McBride, all- around athlete. will be staged by the Liberty Athletic Club on Tuesday, January 1 in the Immaculate Con- ception gymnasium, at Eighth and M streets For the occasion the local boys have arranged a double-header with two out-of-town teams Starting at 7 k, the Liberty Club meets the Clinton High School team of Sur- rattsville, and later will clash with the riquois Club of Alexandr An admission charge of 2j cents will be made. ¥ The St. Stephen’s Club is organizing a 135-pound conrt team that hopes to be challenging other junior teams soon. The five will be picked from the following players: Shore, Potts, Zum- bo, Fitzgerald, Warring, Lydon, Schle; Taylor, Green, Griffith, O'Neill, Hig: gins, Garrison, Flanagan and Red- dington. SALES TO AID McBRIDE. Proceeds of the auction of a wom- an's wardrobe held each Saturday night at the Mutual Theater will go to Bill McBride, sandlot athlete, who is suffering from paralysis. ST. Lou January George Makin. third baseman, has been pur- chased from the Syracuse club of the International League by the St. Louls ardinals. COLLEGE BASKET BALL. —Navy. 28; Yale, 22. 345 Birm- At Annapol ‘At Tuscaloosa—Alabama, ingham Southern. 14, At New Orleans—Tulane, burn, 15. At' Morgantown—West Virginla,-38; Salem, 32 33; Au- DEMPSEY MAY FIGHT IN NEW L. . ARENA W YORK, January 6.—That Jack Dempsey, world heavyweight cham- pion, will defend his title in the pro- posed Ilenderson Stadium in Long Island City next Summer was the broad_intimation made yesterday by Dan McKetrick, vice president and matchmaker for Henderson's Sta- dium, Tnc.. the operating name of the proposed Queensboro o de- clared that he spoke ste representative of Ja ma ager of the titleholder. This statement of McKetrick's was made at a dinner at the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce, following the breaking of ground for the proposed arena on the north side of the Queensboro Bridge Pl 1t supplemented later by = telegram mede public by Charles L. Henderson president of the stadium or who announce confirmation phone ta | with the eha too late to the dinne “K message, s of a tel id he had ser, arrived Zuests at McKetr mpion’ communicated with me re long-distance telephone 1r Los Angeles,” the strength of o in a position to den reports that De: Gibbons in the Y | Speing una Harry in the Iall. Iearn: has received no | matches and that tied up with any promoter. sey will fight in New York next Summer. You know my connections and you can draw your own conclusions.” 'LISTS FOR MARYLAND RACING ARE DRAFTED BAL Md.. June §.—Repre- senta Maryland's thorough- bred racing centers met yesterday to | make a tentative draft of the 1925 season. Datas were agreed upon by delegates from Pimlico, Bowie, Lau- rel and Havre de Grace, and each association will send a formal appli- cation to the Maryland Racing Com- mission for them to be granted. According to law each track will be permitted to use 23 days, and three of the assoclations—Pimlico Bowie and Havre de Grace—will di- vide their share between Spring and Fall meets. Laurel, as usual. will confine itself to the month of October. The proposed dates SPRING emphatically fsht 1 um in the Vills in Jersey City told we that he these IMORE, tives ot Bowie 39— Havre de Grace April imlico May 11 o R September Grace October 6. November November 1 Laurel > 11 Pimlico. 16-28—Bowie Total - FAIR MEETS 2 Timonium September 15-19—Marlboro September Total | CENTENARY GRID STARS | SAID TO BE GOING WEST SHREVEPORT. La., January 6.— | cal Hubbard, the “big train” of the Centenary College foot ball team for | the last three seasons, and recently elected captain for 1325, has left the college in response to a message from William Dietz, coach for the Univer- sity of Wyoming and formerly in charge of the Louisiana Polytechnic team at Ruston, La., inviting him and four other Centenary stars to play with Wyoming, according to a story in the Journal. Bard Ferrall, star backfield man of Centenary., also is reported Wyoming- bound. Both men came to Centenary when its foot ball team was placed in charge of “Bo” McMillin, whose re- cent resignation as coach started ru- mors several players, including Hub- bard and Ferrall, probably would not return to Centenary TEAM OF-WOLF HOUNDS ENTERED IN DOG DERBY THE PAS, Manitoba, January 6.— The latest entry in The Pas 200-mile non-stop dog derby to be held in Feb- ruary is the team of seven wolf- hounds belonging to Steve Bjorkman, former owner of a Winnipeg kennel and now a resident of Dodsland, Sas- ketchewan. Bjorkman has arrived here with a newly constructed sleigh, which weighs only 25 pounds and is similar in build to the one used by the late Walter Govne, famous Alaskan “musher.” GREB Toil’lfifi’l MALCOR. ZANESVILLE, Ohio, January 6.— Harry Greb, middleweight champion, has been matched for a 12-round bout with Henry Malcor of Hollywood. *alif., here on the night of Janu- ary 19, . NEW YORK, January 6.—Benny Leonard, world lightweight champion, who collapsed on the stage of a local theater, after completing his act, is suftering from tonsilitis and grippe, Dr. Rottenberg, his physiclan, said The ailment is not serious. Inside Golf By Chester Horton. The average golfer nowadays is m husiness or professional man. He takes up golf for exercise partly and for the love of the wport largely. Because of hix more or less “soft™ means of hood hix muxcles are weak. Par- 2pply to his hands and wrists. muscles heing fiabby, they be- come lary. The hand, wrist and arm muscles, on which the golf wwing depends for its controlling fac- tor of accuracy and delicacy of touch, quit in the swing at the eriti- cal moment when LILIT 4 they xhould work e onraent. . owocinted with this muscle laziness there Ix always found n mental Ingine The wea muscled golfer acldom takes time to PEINT IN SWING WHERE MANDS WRISTS ANO ARMS SHOULD WORK THE exsion of topp~d balls, sclafix, efe. Telling the mind just what Ix to he done ix not “hanging too long over the detalls.” Tt is dixastrous to con- jure up a jumble of details just he- fore making the swing. That Ix con fusion, and ix not to be confused with the detail of definitely and deliber- ately informing the mind precisely what is to be dome. flab--v .-theyhs etao eta shr shrdl ~(Copyright, 1925.) was | Tiveli- | ticularly does this | These | definitely imstruct the mind ‘what ix| (0 he donme, and =0 we have the sue-) i M'TIGUE AND WALKER | T0 FIGHT TOMORROW NEW YORK, January 6.—Fov al time boxinz titles may be expected to | remain where they are, with the| champions waiting for the outdoor | scason before facing worthy oppo-| nents. Mic pion, the row = ger of althoug | welterweight cham- | ce McTigue, the King of eavyweights, meet tomor- | it, in Newark, with little dan- any crowns changing hands, | the battle should be in- | and light- There is nothing for McTigue to| win, for he is far beyond the welter- weight limit, while Walker professes to see an opportunity to annex an- other championship. As the matcl is of the “no-decision” type, the only kind permitted in New Jersey, Walke must knock out his man fo realize his_ambition Kid Kaplan of Meriden, Conn., who rscently won the featherweight cham- pioushin in the ey Sta clay several under he will therweight (Cannonball) Martix who recently captured title, has elected ; champion, but icates ' that waiting for the large asse out of doors before sign that might distu has de- intention to participate in matches fic coast 1 law, in which will the over o hi he blie honors. : Dempsey, heavyweight chan | promises to fight in New York | summer, probably in the mew | um being erected in Long Island ich is expected to seat 110, d for which ground was broken sterday Be Leonard, lightweight king, cmains on the stage, and has 1o ap- ointments of fistic nature sched- match OXFORD’S BOXING TEAM | TO REACH U. S. MARCH 20 | NEW YORK, January 6.—Oxford University's team of 10 pugilists will arrive in the United States March 20. They will meet Yale boxers in a se- ries of thres-round contests de- cisions. Edward Eagen, an A. E. F. and for- mer Olympic champion, 1s captain of the Britishers, and among them are the Marquis of Clydesdale, Viscount Lord Knebworth and the Emir of Erao, the last named said to be a | son of a former ruler of Arabia mateur tland The marquis is middle- weight champion of SOME CHANGES DUE IN HARNESS RACING CLEVELAND, Ohio, January Several radical changes in rules gov- erning harness horse ra which it | ia declared will improve the sport, | were submitted to the stewards of the | grand circuit at their final meeting today. The schedule of racing dates also was submitted ! The rules and schedule committees declined to announce their mendations pending action stewards. It was learned source. however. that recommenda tions of the rules committes provide. among other things, for claiming | races, handicaps in which 5 will be clagsified by their money winnings instead of time ords and for dash and heat races at various distances. | Steps also will be taken, it is under stood, to ®ive judges more po There will be more grand_circuit racing this year than in 1924, with the addition of two cities, Aurora, II and Atlanta 1t | will be Aurora’s first m £ while in Atlanta it will be the first since i of the a reliable Indications were that the season would open at North Randall, June 29, and end at Atlanta in October. Plans for erecting a memorial to Ed (“Pop”) Geers, veteran driver, killed last September, were con- sidered Louisville has the largest concern in the world engaged exclusively the manufacture of base ball bats. Fifty Years of Base Ball One of a Series of Article: memorating the Fiftie National League, to Be Celebrated Next S XXXIV.—LEADING PITCHERS—D HERE came to the Cleveland club many vears ago a stalwart six- footer of Ohio who had been raised down in the Tuscarawas Valley l of that State, a hidden in the hills. National League cver had and ther greatest taken 2 ball He pitehed more nore games in his a long time—than any pitcher of his organization in a game in Cleveland he pitched to his old partner, Charley Zimmer, who caught him in years gone by, and the | team against which Young plaved could do little with him Young is retired now and farming again in the Tuscarawas Valley, as his father did before him. He is re- spected of his neighbors and has held office. He is such a lover of the open and of nature that he would listen to nothing but a return to the old home and the old blue sky when he had finished with his base ball| career, He pitched 22 years for the major leagues with various ofubs. He won more than 500 games and he lost a little more than 300. He pitched three no-hit games in his time. One was against Cincinnati when he was with the National League, another against the Athletics and the third against the New York Americans. A great many ghost stories have been written about Young. It is re- counted that he reported to-his first club in_overalls. He didn't do any- thing of the kind. Young was not a fool nor a simpleton. He was very clever and a keen observer, and he had not been in the National League a month before he had taken the measure of most of it. He was very fond of the owners of the Cleveland | club, with whjch he first signed, and ally of George W. Howe, who valley of fer pitcher, all things mes and won] ga time—which was and only the other day | v Your Old Hat ' Made New Again Cleaning. Blocking and Remodeling by Experts. Vienna Hat Co. N He was the pitcher of greatest endurance that the into TROUSERS JOHNSON STILL SEEKING COAST CLUB FRANCHISE ppointed, But Not Disheartened by His Second Failure to Get Oakland Team—Pitcher Likes Washington, But Wants to Retire. Di ENO, Nev., January 6.—Back at his home in Reno after his second failure to purchase the Oakland Coast League base ball club, Walte star hurler of the Washington team, declared that he wa Johnsor isappointed, but not disheartened “I'm not going to give up yet,” the big pitcher said get a club in the West I'm going tc suits me keep trying, and perhaps I in that beiore Spring.” : Johnson said his deals on the Pacific Coast has served to spread 1} impression he did not wish to return to Washington because he wa aggrieved at treatment he had received thing could be farther from the | el he declared. Washington has | string in been home to me for 17 years. ve | to look the old town its people. Some|some m of friends are there. The | when my 1} h good old ball club meaus as much to “It seems “But T as wel story can e end of m ball. T'm just trying ahead a few years and fin¢ ans (o provide for my fam ig days are over, me that now is That is the W NATIONAL LEAGUE PROBE IN KELLY’S CASE LIKELY EW YORK, January 6.—President Job League and Manager John J. McGraw of th word from the Pacific Coast before ta every ¢ Nationa await further n regard the reported membership on the same bas} nell, barred from base ball, and George Kelly Bohne of the Reds New York base ball circles were disturbed and President Heydler immediately sent a telegra for details. In the president’s opinion, the Nation the matter if the office of Judge Kenesaw M. I base ball, fails to act coast League take ur commissioner of Although ©'Conn MARYLAND REMAINS |t i ON YALE GRID LIST rediate = basket bal dent when word ell was im situation endangered the | base ball careers of Kelly and Bohne | reached the National League president said that he would co tinue with his investigation Kelly, who w ntioned | O'Con: as one of the men who ay proached him in the attempted ery of Heirie Sand of the Phillies throw” a game to the Giants late the season and was later cleared Landis, was, according to reports to play in the city games, while O'Connell's contract called for on! out-of-town appearances. a W HAVEN, Conn,, January 6.— ersity of Maryland occupies No- ember 7. the same relative position | has held for several years, on the 5 foot ball schedule of Yale, which has been just announced The list, with two exceptions, tains the sama teams as last Fall Pennsylvania_will play Yale on Oc- tober 17, in New Haven, taking the| Manager McGraw, who ordered ace of Dartmouth, which faced the | second baseman, Frank Frisch, to re Blue cleven in mid-October last sea- | frain from playing basket ball during son for the first time in many years. a Winter :nonths, said that with The Yale-Pennsylvania game will| Kelly it was a different matter. be the first between the two univers-| “It was diferent with Frisch” he said. “Frank was very fast end a ities since 1893 tive, He was more likely to get h The opening date has been giv to Middlebury, replacing North Carolina, | One of his base ball assets was speec v and he was liable to destroy it if he which has opened the list in the Bowl Z e et Souniet scRsens played baskst ball. Kelly gets arour g : 2 b pretty lively with his long legs, bu Yale will play Brown in Providence | ;o jen'¢ any Frisch on the base paths xt scason, this being the first time | r°gon't thini basket ball weuld & long history of foot Ball be-|yin gany harm. As far as the O'Cor the two universities that the | na1l end of it goes, that is up to Judse bas not been plaved here i The schedule = s October 3. Middlebury; 10, Georgia; | SAN FRANCISCO . Pennsylvania; 24, Brown at Provi- [ 7Y O'Connell AT s tional League base November 7, Maryland; 14 e ton; 21, Harvard, at Cambrid e o e e not be permitted to play on a nal basket bal according of the league. which O'Connell. ©'Connell yesterday upen receipt ¢ A. Heydler, pres Al League con- n in tween game January 6.—Jim former New York Na ball player, sus zed basa ball o Prince- o CAP JOYNER IS DEAD. ATLANTA, Ga.. January 6—W. R. (“Cap”) Joyner former mavor of Atlanta and widely known as chief of the Atlanta Fire Department, died|Protests from Johr vesterday at @ hospital here. He was|ident of the X, Well known as a sportsman and once| The team i professional baske headed the Atlanta club of the South-|ball circuit which O'Connell wa ern Association expected to play in a season beglr ning next Saturday bears the title — . the “Adam and Eve” team, named |atter @ perfume manufacturing com FLOWERS STOPS BRITTEN. |00l Sih bt it fnanciane. o January 6—Tiger Flow-|it also were signed George Kelly, firs middleweight of Atlanta. |baseman of the Giants; Sammy Bohne al knockout over Billy | Cincinnati infielder; Bert Cole, Britte ity, when the|Detroit pitc Wee Ludolph Teferee stopped the bout in the middle rnon the Pacifi of the fourth round last night. Brit- Kel 4 ten was groggy and bleeding from and Imp the nose. ncinnati Prompt action by cight-club commercia ket ball cir cuit in response to the protest from the president of the National League means that 0’Connel base ball and basket ball star in a college near San Francisco, will not be able to take part in professional baske ball games in his home town this Winter. { president | signed dropped rer Club Ran £ the Texas formerl Bezles the officials of the s by John B. Foster Com- th Anniversary of the eason. NTON T. YOU tility in the soil and rich resources ¢ are some who think he was the cousideration, who ever threw T W was a father playe For name of “Cy to more than one ball RN a i he went by the nick- It happencd to have been given him by the writer, and had nothing to do with his rural boyhood nor was it suggestive of h appearance. Tt referred to his speed, the description of which was given as cyclonic. He became “Cy” from that time on In his first against Anson presented a q cause there enough for him in the club lockers. He ad on a short-sleeved jersey knickerbockers that were short and dangerously tight, and he was cramped that it a wonder that was able to pitch Anson, usually decorous, saw this| long sinewy farmer on his way fo the pitcher’s plate, and for once the nd Old Man" {hought fit to play | the part of the buffoon. It took | much to excite him to that condition,; but Anse got out on the line and| proceeded to make a profound ass of himself. Young Struck him out I% tailored as you want it b Omohundro’s master union g tailors and designers | & Omohundro oo OUR SEMI-ANNUAL Clearance Sale And It Mcans Bargain Time for Men— e game. which and Chicago, ueer appearance as no uniform wa Young Dbe- big R AR Twice vearly we hold wch-looked-for event—an event when men save them- selves many dollars on tai- lored-to-measure sults and overcoats of character and distinction. this I P so | he | o YOUR CHOICE OF MANY PATTERNS AT *39 Your garment will be hand- dered prodigious in those davs, when a dollar_would buy a pienic lunch for a Sunday school class of 20. Young characters base ball. the broke one of ever finest into was® who 0 W R R (Next—Chrinty Mathewson.) R fered the Cleveland club $1,000 for BELOW To Match Your Odd Coats el 400 11th Street EISEMAN’S, 7th & F the player, a sum which con- F ST, E the game, and that night Anson of- Custom Tailors Since 1907 514 12th St.