Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1909, Page 29

THE OMAHA SuNDAY Brm DMAHA, SUNDAY, Nu‘\'l M p \ to son TING indeed auletly ereepiug the effect that of the Old Roman, b ownep of Des Moines. Louls fat young man inhert base ball knowledge der mors from experience with his father's | team. If he took hold of the Desx M team he would, of course, have the active | support of his father—something Moines has enjoyed for sevcral y an probably would make a success of the en- | terprise. There appears mere gossip to this rumor nobody's hand when we assert with dor that President O'Nelll would weleome @ change in ownership at Des Moines, Ho does not like John Higgins as a base bali man, thinks he has no ball and regards him as a hindrance fortunes of the Western league O'Nelll and Comiskey are friends and assoclates Chicago. Comiskey is much influence with him. The whole looks quite plausible. Of course Higg aaserted at the close of last season that he would not sell his team and would be back in Des Moines In 1910. But that when he was flushed with the heat of triumph. He had just won a pennant. A | few weeks previous when victory seemed | improbable and his attendances had fallen | off to nothing, he declared his intention of transtesring his franchise to St. Jo- | seph. Possibly Uncle John has had time, | ince the tirst rosy flush of vietory passed | away, to reflect that it is just barely within the pale of possibilities that his| team next year might fall to be a winner in which case he might meet with the same financial fallure that greeted his splendia efforts in 190, and, possibly, after brought to this view of the situation, he may have | been led to belleve that after all he really | knows more about the printing business than base ball and that Its fortunes are | less caprialous than are those of the sport- ing business, And, then, as a climax, how natural it would be for him to accept a good offer for his franchise. We say all these things are possible. Well, if Comis key does take hold at Des Moines, we may all content ourselves in the thought that Des Moines will have a ball team. And | Why should Comiskey not do 1t? Of course the talk is still golng on that Comiskey is 1o seize the reins at Denver and make that city his White Sox farm. It would not, ot course, be desirable for the Old Roman to have two Western league teams, but If he chooses one or the other of these two 1t 1s highly probable there will be no great complaint out here. But one thing Is cer- | tain—he would make it warm for seven other teams. Denver appears to be agree- Ablé to the proposition of Commy's taking hold there. Denver, poor thing, ought to be agreeable to anything in the form of a change. It couldn’t be much worse than At has of late. It has been the foot ball of base ball %o long that It has passed the sensitive point, anyway. this st out of Chicago Louis Comiskey come | " a a s o large, much who has ana nes Des to be more We than are tipping ean | nlle')i And M. | have | th most Higging supposed Intimate Iy to | | was There 1s every reason to believe that the 1910 race in the National league will be Ahe best that league has had for many seasons. This will be especally true if {iNew York succeeds In adding the strength hopes to add to ita team. Pittsburg, it 4t remains intact, will be as powerful, it mot more powerful, than it was this year ‘and it will be even more determined to win another pennint. Chicago, stung to the ‘quick by the defeat this year and the sub- “version of its long cherished plan of equal- ing the Comliskey record of four-time win- | ners, will go after that flag next year as | it never has gone after one before. Its players already are eager for the training | season to begin. This year they entered halt-heartedly upon thelr early season | work, feeling thelr own sense of superior ity more than was good for them. Thelr pride and concelt have been touched. Fur- thermore, the team will be stronger in 1910 | than It was in 1909, and If it is not stronger | than it has ever been or than Pittsburg was this year It will be a surprise. New | York, Cincinnatl, Philadelphia and st. | Louls, in all probability, will be dangerous | factors throughout the season. The team that wins that flag next year will, unless all signs fall, have every right to the honor and distinction that go with a National league pennant. Fhew! Pueblo, admitting the possibility of 8t. Joe being In the Western league next year, adds that there is a deal on whereby Pueblo too, will be kept in the eieult. It would be askiug a good deal| of the poor o.d Western to load it down | with both of these towns, in addition to scme of the witer tanks It is already carrylng. Speak & lttle louder, Mr. Murphy, 1 can't hear you,” was Brother Brush's answer to the Cub chlef for help in outsting Heydler. Not that New York loves Heyd- ler more, but that it hates him less—than Chicago. Gotch goes up and down the land eating up the Rollers, Zbyscos and other creatures of slazling names, but he hasn't put down the little fellow with the bow and quiver that has chaved him from Seattle. Ty Cobb and Hugh Jennings had a shabby | regard for the long, dull, dreary days of winter, when they signed those contracts | almost before the last shrill sound of Ty's | bat crack had dled away. There seems to be nothing in the report that Pittsburg has swapped Hans Wagner and Babe Adams to New York for Merkle and Arlle Latham. “I'll fight for my assets to the finish,™ exclaims Tebeau, meaning his Kansasa City | franchise. Why, did somebody say he'd take the count? Now that the outlaws ha surrendered, Hal Chase may have to go through a whole season without Jumping a contract, | Can you imagine & dollar getting away from thet Goteh-Jeffries combine? Does Chubby Charley really want a good president, or & good fellow? “Cobs,” ecries Brother Dave, “glve me| wobs or 1 freese. | Come on with that braska. Times Square Automobile Co. 13331384 Michigan Ave., Ohisago, il YHE WORLD'S CLEARING HOUSE WOR GOOD, | BECOND HAND AUTOMOBILES. { 18 enormous quantities from over wtocked | it e " 4 | lr“;"‘.. VOLUME of Nr‘ .'-‘(I:. 1 oller the popular and rells than oae-third of real value. Two oo band for to choose frewm. the TIMES SQUARE Btock Yards Branch e state league, Ne- i water | | tions | piay |t | controv |in the coming intere |and attempting |asking for the appoin WITH THE COLLEGE ATHLETES Doings im the Field of Sport in East and West BASEET BALL SEASON OPENS Changes to Be Made in Water Polo Rules that Will Open 1t Up and Make it More Like Soccer Style o Alt mad hough the chhnge has by the Intercolleglate Swimming m. it is likely that the game of will be altered so as to take the of water chief ange being considered the scoring of goais by throy the board is a dis water fea In addi method of making points the of making goals by touching will retained that the features of both polo 1s the British not yet bheen polo of on s features soccer ix to perm the ball tion at This 10 this old system the board kame will combine slyles. Soccer water version ot Kame Naturaily I8 much easier to make a goal by tossing the ball at the board_than by forcing way to the barrier and then reaching up to touch. It s likely that no goals will be allowed by throwing which 1 from within the fifteen foot will be necessary to “rush the fifteen foot mark. will be made a foot greater from top to bottom; that is, it may be four teet two nstead of four feet by The goal will be eighteen inches from the water The value of a field goal, one tossed to the board, probably will be fixed at points, the value of the other style of goal being counted at five points. The idea In part of this new rule is 10 do away with some of the roughness of 1 the 1 te Ably are mark ball | board pr by one. line three the game and to put more of a premium | This sounds of altera- on speed and good swimming. not u little like prospectus the rules of football from without the fifteen foot score a goal by tossing the ball very top of a four by two board well water will naturally well out from the goal, that the tender, and thus it may do away with the struggles in con- fured mass that characterized the game as It has been played in previous seasons. It is believed that there will be a greater spread players on defense and attack and @ consequent greater amount of open In fact It is the same condition us obtained in foot ball, requiring about the sama remedies. international Games. a the player [ at the above the is, all except a line the defense goal of The apparent willingness on the part of the Uxtord and Cambridge presidents, Hull and Bellerby, (o take part in furtaering an athletic meet in is likely to heip a great deal in the accomplishment of the American des.re for such sports, Of course, the decision matters rests gener- aily heads in the Briush universities, is said, particulacly with C. N. Jackson of Oxford. If he is willing that there should be a meeting i undoubtedly will come off. 1f he doesn't fancy the idea it is lkely It will take a deal of pressure to make him change his mind. The cagerness has been all on (he American side apparently of late, and last spring’s fruitiess efforis to bring about & meeting, whether here or on the other side, probably will be recalled by persons both at Harvard and Yale. There have been no International games since 1904, when Harvard and Yale went to the other side and won, six events to three. Frevious to this meeting there was one In this country in 101, In which America won by @ 6 to 3 score. A table of Interna- tonal Intercolicklate performances, taking in the Oxford-Yale games of 158, the Cam- bridge-Yale games of 189 and the Interna- tional meets of 1%, 1901 and 1904, has been prepared to show the results In the various events. It shows an advantage for the 1010 at in such older and, it with the British and two-mlle runs. In the three last named events America has still to score to win. The quarter-mile stands three to two for the other The score in the 100-yard run is four to one in favor of America, and the only time the 30-yard race was on the program the Americans won it. America has the better of the hurdi races by five to one, including the extra race on turf in 185, which the Americans side. In the running high jump It is 4% 10 % for America, a tie-in 1594 being Britain's best One first in the broad jump is all the Brit- ish have attained. The shotput and the hammer throw have been clean sweeps for the Americans, Diplomacy on the Const. It has been seitled between California and Stanford after some discussion that D, P. Crawford, the foot ball player' and welght thrower, Is eligible for another on the ellgible list by Stanford, for the ford’s class was 180, but he is back In Stanford. When his name was submitted on the eligible list by Standford, for the foot ball game between the two colleges Californla objected that bad his full four years of intercolleglate competition It was pointed out by Stanford is that he had had three terms in which he played foot ball and three others in which he tock purt in track athletics, so that he had not had metually four years of compe- titlon in either sport. This was objected to by Callfornia as a violation of the spirit of the rules regarding competition and formal protest was made. The matter was settled by California de- clding to take no further steps in the af- fair after a letter had been received by o Assoclated Students of*the University t California from President Jordan of Leland Stanford that If the students could not conduct thelr own athletic affairs with- out referring disputes to the faculties for arbitration it would be as well not to have the athletic at all. Rather than imperil the continua- tion of Stanford-California sports the Berkeley people withdrew their protest, or rather desisted from pressing it A Stanford of a few recalls that competitions between the two universities protests flew about like autumn leaves in a high wind. was always pro- testing or being protested,” he said, “untll tinaliy it was decided to do the decent thing and to leave to each university the certifying eligible those men who it decided were entitied to compete. There have been few cases since the agreement was reached where any player not strictly eligible got & chance to fool the commit- tee. I man years back in the early “Some one as is believed that this argument over {the Crawford matter may hurt the pieas- [the wo ant relations that have existed between these universities. The Stanford pa- per spoke of the California folks as “not satistied with the outcome of the rec ey over the eligibility of players leglate rughy mateh” o re-open the dispute by ment of an arbitra- the decision.” The two tion board to review Palo. Alto said there was no legitimate | reason for opening the dispute. The Daily Californian remarked that it was poor sportsmanship on the part of Stanford, be- | cause the reason giyen for the appeal to the faculties for an arbitration board had nothing specifically to do with the Craw- ford case. 1t is apparent that the meeting (o revise jthe mgreement will be held in an atmos- jphere more or less strained. If the univer- the | The | Enabling | draw all | In the 4i0-yard, 8s0-yard, one mile | reply | sports between the universities | days of athletic | mt | 1 1 THE OMAH A DAY BEE: ®ities had & regulation like that of Cornell that no man may compete In athletics After his ciass has been graduated there would be a simplifcation of this problem at least ‘\ Middle-West Basket Ball, | Although there is no association of col |leges in base ball in the east, the confer |ence colleges are going on smoothly with the game. There an Intercollegiate as woclation In the middle-west, Illinols, Min Purdee, Towa, Northwestern, Chi Wisconsin and Indiana being the big elght of it. The assovlation met re- cently and arranged a schedule which thus far is incomplete. Tt will mean a large number of games If each member of the big eight meet other in two games, one at home and one abroad. This will mean fourteen games for each mem- ber of the conferrnee, Thus far elsven dates have been settled for Chieago—Pur- due, Indiana 1 Minnesota Wisconsin has nine. eight Towa and Northwestern five | Al the |are to be sandwiched in |14 ana Mareh 12, or, rouenly, at months. There does not seem to be Any by the conference athletic com- mittee to a certain amount of traveling by the members of the basket hall teams, It I8 an odd thing that hasket ball has shown #0 much more hardihood In the west. When It was at its height here in thig section it a sickly point in the conference nefghborhood Thera are folks who Colnmbla defeated Minnesota consin one season. that ls easl play, although the visitors ear points on fouls. Tt contract style of play that many fouls were lumbla. Apparently the gentler of play was the more lasting, for now in this section busket ball is In dlsfavor becaunse of its roughness, whereas out west It is seemingly as popular as ever mon might be preached on Its effect on the life of the game, 1t 18 a feature. Changes in the rules of basket ball as made in the conference include the follow- Ing: A 'dribble shall refer to the con tinuity of the motion of the ball and not to the continuity of motion of the man. This fs almed to prevent a plaver from renewing a dribble when the ball has once come to a stop in his hands. The field of the referee’s duties has been increased by permitting him to call fouls on the eight players, exclusive of the man with the ball and his opponent. The advantages of local playing floors have been minimized by the additfon to the rules of a section to the effect that the ball which returns to the court from out of bounds without having touched any player shall be considered dead. This rule almed to prevent a player from deliberately making a carom off the wall and thus taking advantage of his opponent’s unfamiliarity with the floor. Plate glass backgrounds to the goals have been legalized. It is legislated also that to run with the ball is to advance more than one foot. If both feet are ad- vanced the pass or throw is illegal Is to each | Minots six games the conference hetween January | objeetion was only recall how easily and Wis- on actual ed a lot of of the.no was hecanse In the =0 ealled on Co style roughness and in which ATHLETES MUST LIVE CLEAN Long Experience. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—'There is one way above all others for a fellow to be- come successful as an athlete, and that s to live clean,” sald George Bonhag, the greatest middle distance runner ever pro- duced In this country. “Ever since I won that ten-mile cham- plonship and clipped a few seconds off the American record athletes and other people have been after me with the idea that I can divulge the supposedly ‘one secret' of how to become a great runner. I am a bellever in Christian Sclence—yes. Some say that I bring it into use in athletics, misunderstanding the whole proposition. When 1 train or compete T try to get out the very best there Is in me; only accomplish that end by living cleanly and dolng nothing which will upset my mental serenity.” | For years and years George Bonhag has | been breaking all sorts of running records. | When a fellow has been at the game for {such & long perlod people get the impres- |slon that he must devote all of his time |to training and competing, having little or no time for anything else. Bonhag one of the few exceptions. “I am very fond of athletics, and when |you realize that they are responsible for my live physical condition it is easy to see | sald George. ‘‘But there are other reasons. | For instance, I have been able to'pick up {a great deal of knowledge of different |countries and peoples. Through athletics |1 have been able to travel and see many things which otherwise would have been impossible. 1 have met splendld people wherever 1 have gone to compete, which in itself has been one of my greatest pleas |ures. By hard work T have been able to |study many interesting subjects. T have | not neglected efther study or work, when the time comes | irely forget ath- |leties and concentrate my mind on what- ‘P\m is before me.’ Walking has taken up a great deal of the time Bonhag has given to training, and {he says that it 1s one of the very b stunts possible, Some days he travels | more than twenty-five miles, always plck- ing out some route which will take him |into the country. Had he used a pedome- |ter on all of his walks the total number i..r miles would have been up In the thou- | sands. | After | the indoor championships were |held In 1907 Martin Sheridan was asked to | |glve the name of the man who had done |the greatest work In athletics for that| |year, and he said: ‘“‘Bonhag 1s the man, |In this indoor meet he came in the first | night and won the two-mile run | he worked until late, came to the Gar- den very trled and won the five-mile run finishing off the night by making Sam | Liebgold walk ae he never had before in order to win the two-mile walk. That was the greatest achievement T have ever wit- nessed.” | WRESTLING GAME IS BOOMING Wres | ers Seem Aunxious Also to En- ter Boxing NEW YORK. Nov. 2.--The sporting pub lie Is finding that with the sudden rise of | Interest the gl and squared-ecircle | pastime, caused perhaps by the Jeffries- |Johnson agreement, a similar boom has struck the wrestling game. From all over | the country rep of wrestiers, |their doings and their counections with the boxing worid. Dr. Roller has again |wade mention of his fistic hopas and de- talls of the proposed agreement for the | Kaufman-Roller match are eagerly awaited {in many quarters. The ambition expressed | by the good herb dispenser is for a try at d's heavywelght champlonship the pugilistic line. let that ambition ame. come ris But he 18 not going to interfere with his at- | tempt to lower Frank Gotch's mat laurels | Goten, too, by the way |to appear in the boxing camp and heip | Jettries round into condition. However, | the blg wrestier is too busy defending his |ewn title and taking toll fr 0x offices in the thester lobbies He bad an offer {under eonsideration to appear with Jef- |ries benind the footlights as well as in |the training auarters. Zbyszko's record is being placed before the public to warrant his entering any class of contests held in the country, He has been victorlous in every heavywelght bout he has undertaken during the last five years and has met and defeated 30 wrestlers has got & chance | league two | conference | A little ser- | Thus Says a Man Who Knows from | nd I can| is | | why 1 have kept at the game for so long." | took, as well as the other one that year. | and | The next | Wm BRAIN 0N DIANOND. Bonehead Players Great Detriment to Any Strong Team. ABSTEIN GETS HEAVY ABUSE Magd chat Mo ta the P ror Has Cost the Pira Many Games During the Last Se Clatm Who | NEW YORK, Nov The path of a big | league base ball player is anything but | one of roses. The latest man to come un- | der criticism of an unappreciative body of | fans is big Bill Abstein, first baseman of | |the Pittsburg Pirates and world's cham- ( plons. If reports from the west are (o re- ceive credence, Abstein is very much in | distavor at the present time. As a matter of fact a report has it that the big initial | sacker has been so criticised for errors | |made in the recent world's champlonship | series that it is probable that when' the Wagnerites trot out the field in the |spring Absteln will not be among those | present. Just whether this fact can be | taken as gospel truth Is a question that | | major league base ball followers are ask- | |ing themselves at the present time. | |. The closeness of the fecent champlogshid | |series between the Pittsburg Pirates and | |the Detroit Tigers is attributed to faulty | play. displayed by Abstein, Pittsburg fans | claim. The weak spot on the Pirate team | this year, Smoke Towners assert, was first base, and it was partly due to this fact that the premler serfes was so hard to win. The weakness of the position eropped out In every game, it is asserted, and was | responsible for several of the Plrates' early defeats in the struggle with Hughey Jenning's men According to one of Abstein's erities the | first baseman is but a fair and mechanical base ball player. He is considered a good | man to cover the sack, but when it comes | |to using his brains in tight places, it s | sald, he does not use good judgment Abstein Hit Hard, The following is a sample of a Pittsburg | fan's attitude toward the Wagnerite | “It is a gatt that Abstein would not have played in the final contest of the world's champlonship serles but for the infury to | Bobby Byrne. When the umpire announced the batteries in the deciding contest he stated that Hyatt would play first base for Pittsburg. However, before the Pirates Eot & chance to take their first turn in the field little Bobby had been hart and |Clarke was forced to make a shift in his lineup. Even then he was loath to use Abstein. He announced that Abbaticchio would cover the bag. A moment later, | {however, he again changed his mind and | |sent Leach to third, Hyatt to centerfield and Abstein to first. | ew Yorkers named Fred Merkle | Bonehead' for his fallure to touch second | {base in that memorable contest between | the Glants and the Cubs in the fall of 1%08; | |but some of the plays pulled off by Ab- stein in the world's serles this vear wero | tar worse than that of the New York sub- stitute. “He lost several games for the Pirates by Intercepting throws from Wilson to the plate, with runners on third base. Wilson fs noted for his ability to peg. and any time he started a heave toward the pan It was almost certain to go on its course | without mny deviation and land there ahead of the runner. But Abstein seemed unable to let the ball go past him. On at least flve occasions Abstein intercepted the throws and allowed runs to score for the opposition.” on JOCKEYS RETURN FROM ABROAD | Report on Racing Conditions They | Find in Germany. NEW YORK, Nov. ®.—Jockeys Walter Miller and Willle Shaw recently returned from Germany, where they rode during the season with a fair measure of success. Shaw rode for Baron Oppenheim, whose horses were trained by James H. McCor- | | mick, the well-known turfman who de- veloped the speed of the great Hermls and Alcedo. The king of Wurtemberg had second call on Shaw's services. Miller, who went abroad as a free lance under | no engagement, tried his skill on the Eng- lish turf for a short time, but failing to recelve recognition, went to Belgium. It was while he was in the latter coun- try that Herr Von Weinberg, who had Joe Nottor under contract, became dissatistied with his riding, and Willlam Walker, the | trainer of Weinberg's horses, on the ad- | vice of McCormick, sent for Miller. In a | few days Miller proved that the change in riders was beneficlal, for he won several races for his new employer. Herman Radtke, once Miller's greatest rival for the saddle honors here, won al:o A number of races in Germany. He re- cently met with an accident, and his lat:st | picture shows him with his arm in a sling, | But the Injury 1s not a serious one, and he | will be able to ride next season | Shaw and Miller were enthusiastic re- | garding the German turf. They sald that | | each season shows increased crowds and | more* interest taken in the port. Both| said they would return to Europe next| year to ride ! ““No," sald Shaw, In reply to a Qquery whether he had carried off all the rich | prizes offered by the German racetracks, | “I finished fourth on the winning list of | Jockeys. I was able, however, to win a| 100,000 mark race and a 74,000 mark race, | One was called the Hangze and the other the Berlin Prize. For Ever, a horse owned by Baron Oppenheim, won both events. 1 was too heavy to do all the riding for my | employer, and Jockey Sumter, whom Me-, Cormick took abroad with him, filled my place when the horses carried light weight | McCormick had great success abroad ana | frequently won from three to six races a day.” |PENN STUDENTS ON THE MAT! Are Not to Be Outdone Devotees of Boxing. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20.—Wrestlers at the University of Pennsylvania are not to be outdone by the mutt wlelders, cently formed & hoxing club of fact, wrestling was never as popular at | the Quaker City university as it is at the present time. In the first call for candi dates, who wish to try to make the varsity team, over fifty men responded and, judging from the material which r ported, the team probably will be one worth possessing. Last season it appeared as if the sport might be sidetracked, as there were bu( few Interested in the game. Now, how- ever, there appears to be no end of good | by the | who re- team, despite the fact that of last year's | team there are but three regulars and one | substitute left. The men who remain are Captain Grabam, Schwarts, Pike and | Stewart Ralph W with the prospects. Walte was former fn- | tercollegfate champlon of the 145 poun class. A fine schedule has been provided for the team and Includes dual meets with Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Cornell, An-| mapolls, State and probably Brown. The | intercolleglate champlonship, it was an nounced, will be held in Weightman hall on | March 26 There will also be & novice meet for the candidates In the latter part of November. 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SPIKED SHOES HERE T0 STAY No Suitable Substitute Found Which Will Answer for Base Ball Men | LEATHER SPIKES ARE NO GOOD They Give u Player Sore Feet and Lay Him Off in the Middle of the Season, When He is Most Needed. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The spiked shoe will continue to be a part of the game of | base ball. Of this there is not the slightest | among magnates and league offi- | some lime past there has been a great agitation blade, and many trying to mean the doing kinds of things have answercd the same spike. And It is to stay. One of the latest nventions Is the chain arranged triangularly on the sole of ‘the shoe. But this will not do. The ball player has to be on his feet, running about engaged in actual play for' about seven months out of the year, and unless the &rips on the shoe are made in a manner to cut into the ground with but little re- sistance, the sole of the player's foot will become 5o caloused that in & short while he will be lald up for about as long as though he had been spiked Football players, who are engaged in actual work for a period of time covering | more than ten wceks, twelve at the outside, are often troubled with this| calouse, caused by the resistance of the leather cleets. And it is to avoid this that the ball tossers file their spikes. In the fall of' the year and in the early spring when the ground is hard and ever a steel spike which is at all duil, falls to penetrate deep enough into the turf to permit the foot to rest flatly on the ground the players feel it and frequently are forced to limp, the paln is so intense. Back In 1904 when the Boston Red Sox won the champlonship of the National league, Jimmy Collins was troubled so badly that each afternoon before going on the field he put a raw plece of beef in his | shoe to act as a sort of cushion insole. This was necessitated by the unusual hardness of the ground in the Infleld at Boston. | against the harm-doing men have spent much time the problem which would with the epike. All tried, but none purpose solve away have been as the Legislation Needed. However, the chance of injury would be materially lessened by a little legislation | on the part of the rules making bodies of | both bjg leagues. There is probably | club which has suffered so much from | spiking as the Cleveland Blues. It will be | recalled that in 1906 when the Ohioans were making a runaway race of the Amer- ican league marathon and enjoyed a lead of 100 points by the first of July that Na- poleon Lajole was spiked in St. Louis and lald up for the rest of the season with blood poisoning. The club fell off and fin- ished fifth. | E. 8. Banard of the Cleveland elub re- cently expressed his views on the spike question. He sald that he had studicd the situation for some time and reached the that the injuries could be re- duced to a minimum without doing away with the spike “Why not compel slide head first?’ said Banard, “and then attach a penaity for the blocking of any base by calling the runner safe if the tielder blocks him in way. If the runner slides feet first call him out. By theso two very simple changes in the rules much good would be done. Of ecourse, there is another question which must be given tion,” continued Mr. Banard. ‘‘There are ball players who In thelr desire to make the bag safely would run out of the line a foot or and slide into the Under conditlons the base umpire should be forced his Judg ment and rule accordingly “At the present time there are many turned asld are spike shy \ | | | all base runners to side of the considera- | two the to use tel in- They they playe | who jumps into the bag feet S.S.S, Not only its proven abilit first." | y to cure, Ocntagious Blood Poison. 8.8.8.1s barks of the forests and fields. potash or any other harmful mineral system, impair the digesticn, corrode and irritate the lining of t! | or in any other way injure the health, ite, captain of last year's (eam, | Darmless in its action and certain in its good result; who is coaching the men, s well pleaseq | P0iSOn from the circulation, enriches the blood, and safely and surely cures It builds up and strengthens the system by its 4| fine tonic eflects and leaves the patient not only cured of the disease, but | stronger and in better health in every Contagious Blood Poison 8.8.8, is your most cerfain reliance; an Oontagious Blood Poison. | vice-presiden, |the skating assoclation NATURES CURE FOR BLOOD POISON It does not contain a particle of mercury, We will fill your orders if your home deal- er cannot suj ply you, or if you are in a “dry” territory, write us for prices of “Quaker Maid.” Price List and Catalog Free Upon Request. 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Ross; president, James A. Taylor; first vice-president, Major Freeman; second Frank White, 8t. John, N B.; honorary secretary-treasurer, Louls Rubensteln; executive committee, Sir Mon- tagu Allen, Dr H., B. Yates, Major W O. H. Dodds, W. C. Finley and P. D. Ross, Ottawa. It was also announced that medals will be awarded for events decided at indoor meets held during the season in the various rinks. Medals will also be given to win- ners of events held under the auspices of It was also de- competions in figure skating may be held on the style adopted in Europe. The champlonship meet of Canada may go to Toronto this year, but as yet the association has made no definite de- cision in the matter, BIKE MEN TO TRY FOR HONORS Six-Day Race As one grows old the bowels grow less active. Some then take harsh cathartics, and their bowels barden. Then they multiply the dose. Some take candy Cascarets. They act in natural ways, and on- (ablet & day is sufficient. 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