The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 10, 1923, Page 14

HARLEY ae power of leadership + With the S Com men pla brute skey, I bag altogether. speeded up th teams. Anson as one of the famous leaders of the ‘80s, more rength. Comiskey was the first man to stand away from first base while field All the players before ing around the bag. — Comiskey revolutionized p! EMINISCENCES OF As Told to Leo H. Lassen CHAPTER XL that seemed born in Anson, t. Louis teams Comiskey won think, team was a smarter leader work, e work of the infield. recruit pitcher in the majors is the big event of his baseball career. I have seen a “number of re erults come and go, Often the de- but of certain re- Pitchers marks their finish. Meet with remarkable success, Ihave only ordinary luck, and ‘Brest many ft is a calgmity. HE debut of any! most unusual debut I ever ‘&@ recruit pitcher make in the) ‘was put on by Ray Keating, } for @ number of years was a member of the New York pitching staff. was a spit-ball pitcher, had a varied assortment of The umpire and strikes with Keating the pitching always had a ra: & game at St. Louis. The ose pinch hitter was p to bat in the eighth inning pitcher, and Keating was to work the last half of ting had a choice lot of fool- Incked control. Before the ‘was over I was positive that ‘Was correct for once. walked the first man to the count being three balls strikes when 4he final pitch Ht wild. The next batter struck _in Grand Circuit for 1923 Season tings to arrange the sched- ‘of the trotting and pacing tions for next summer are held early in New York, with he Grand Circuit leading in a At Toledo the second week . An effort to strength gn the Eastern end of the cireuit be the most important matter the ¢alendar, Philadelphia and Dp have decided to ‘out, and C. W. Leonard has that he will not finance meeting at Readville. is hope, however, that of Boston and vicinity ‘unite to retain the Reedville It is ponsible that a week may be included in the cra If cities to replace Phil. hia and Poughkeepsie are found during the January ; the Grand Circuit open ‘Will have to be changed from first week in July to the third fourth, where it was before the tracks axked for two meet- CANOES ARE PLANNED sailing canoes will be a Of the equipment of the New Canoe club, which recently held 624 annual meeting. The organ n has half a dozen of the new canoes, and they will be test- on Long Island sound next sum- RINTS WILL BE “SEEDED” In this winter's track sports of the chusetts High A. A., the heats be “seeded” in an attempt to the competition in the various #0 that the best athletes will be grouped in in the same heat, same heat, ¥ YORK, Jan. 10.—Injuries are often the turning point im the career of many pitchers. ‘That is, certain pitchers reach stardom after injuries seem to have threatened to end their ca- Take Joe Bush, for instance. ame back after trouble with arm which kept him out of i “the game for a year. Losing @ ey oe eens 06 8 serait, he ne aoe who’ time I ever saw Keating ie Were leading by a lop-sided| °t- Once again the count being | job? three and two, when the batsman offered at the next pitch and missed. To make a long story short, Keat- ing waikeg the first, third and fifth | batemen to face him. He struck out had been going the rounds|the second, fourth and stxth hitter| what of « disappointment. to step into the batter's box. In | each case the final count was three balls and two strikes. Some debut—fiction couldn't have figured out a more unusual one. TOMORROW—The greatest world series pitching I ever saw. IDETROIT MAY TRY TO GET AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9—What | about Dutch Leonard, former star lsouthpaw of the Detroit Tigers? lien't ft about time some ciub start \dickering for his nervices? Leonard | refused to report to Detroit last sea- |son because of a salary difference | Leonard, who has become very | wealthy in the last five years be lonuse of a big advance in his real lestate holdings on the Coast, held out for a figure that was much too high to sult Owner Navin of Detroit Now that Detroit looks to have such a good chance to win in 1923, It is possible that some effort will be | made to got him back. With a pitch. ler of Leonard's ability, working at | boost for their pennant chances. | Leonard did a little pitching | California Jast summer. It in under. stood he did not play against lineligibles,’so he probably would be | immediately reinstated if he applied | {to Commissioner Landis. | Seems a shame to have @ south paw of Leonard's ability going to seed, when left-handed pitchers are such @ scarce article in the majors. | BRITISH GOLF DATES MIXED Date conflicts between the ladies’ and men's amateur golf meets in Great Britain is causing a great deal of discussion in British golf circles at the present time, according to word received here from abroad Both events are scheduled to take ¢ in the same week, Monday, Ms 7. Efforts have failed thus far to ef fect any sort of compromise, and | matters now stand, golf folle ‘* will have to choose between Burnham, which is to be the scene of the wor jen's tourney, and Deal, where the m en's amateur will Lb vlayed INJURIES IMPROVED STAR HURLERS invented the fork ball, which was largely responsible for his suc cons last Injuries to the pitching arm, an a rule, force the twirler to work more with his brain and depend levs on his natural re sources. An accident early in his pitch ing career caused Carl Mays to suffer much pain every time he threw a ball overhand or side- arm. He went to the underhand Se steer | HURLER BACK} |top form, the Tigers would get a bis | in| any | starting out | Charley Comiskey Rivaled Pop | Anson as Baseball Pilot in ’80s |"& COMISKEY, now the owner of the Chicago White Sox, ranked with Pop altho Comiskey never had the dom- five pennants in a row, and he was one of the greatest first sackers of the period. than Anson, and he had his Anson favored big men who could win by his time played right on the around first base, ay Besides being a wonderful team man, Comiskey was a good hitter and baserunner himself, and piled up an enviable record with the Missouri Comiskey always appreciated players who were doing their best all of the time, whether they were in the spotlight or not. I remember four years ago I was talking game between the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Red Sox. Babe Ruth was just breaking into the home-run spotlight. {| As Babe came to the plate for the first t time in that game Comiskey turned to me and with Comiskey during “ said: “I'd rather have one, player like Harry Hooper than two Babe Ruths.” Hooper ts now with the White Sox and ts «till playing wonderful }ball, being one of the «reat stars jof the game who has always played |good baseball, but who never got the credit that was coming to him Of late yeara Comiskey by had serious trouble at home his wife | @ying recently, and tt has upset him badly. But he i still a great power tn baseball and a man who ts in the game because he loves it. | | nations, Infield, outfield, cateh- ing and pitching staffs of the | early days. ‘WILL MILAN STICK WITH | NAT CLUB?’ j WAS STON, Jan. fans are wondering as to the jstatus of Clyde Milan, who managed | the ationals iast season. Will Mitan be with the Nationals next season? If he does remain with the club will be be as useful as he was before he tried the managerial Seldom have veteran players, who havo tried managing, proapered on | the same club after being reduced to | the ranks. No doubt the fatiure of Milan to be reappointed was some. Many will argue that no manager | could have done any more than he did with the Washington team of Inst year. Possibly Milan feels the same way about it. If he does, he will hardly relish being demoted to the} ranks without getting a more thoro trial. While Milan ts nearing the end of is playing days, he would fit in very | well in the outfield of neveral Amer ican League clubs. Possibly he may figure in a trade before the opening | of the season. BIG YEAR FOR COP SPRINTER Bob McAllister, the New York po- jHeeman, is expected to shine in the} coming Indoor meets. Among im portant events are the Brooklyn col lege games in New York city January 27. The Millrose A. A. sports will take place-in Madison Square Gar den, New York, January 31. The| Roston A. A. events will take place February 2; the Newark A, are scheduled February York A. C. meet February 10, and| the indoor championships at Buffalo| February 17. C. games ; the New Stars Honored on Camp’s Star Team ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan, 10 | m of Michigan's football stars have been honored with || places on Walter Camp's All |] America team. Onty four teams, |] Harvard, Yale, Princeton and |] Pennsylvania, have received more nominations than Michigan For years those teams were known as the “Big Four” and practically dominated football Camp has selected All-America for 33 years and has included 33 Western stars in his mythical lineups, five on South ern teams and two on Far Weatern. The other 323 selec tions represented Eastern teams |] Michigan, with 11 | | one-third of the W to Its eredit Willie Heston Michigan player was in 190%. Harry this year’s eleven, for 4 ms ions, has at's selections was the ted, first That ot hon Kipke was the 1922 oved selection i ball a8 @ last resort and devel- ed of the most deceptive deliveries in the game. Urban Faber of the White Sox and Shocker of St. Louis are two other stars who are much better | pitchers since suffering injuries | for a time slowed them up. | Instead of depending entirely on | their great speed or sharp curve, they now work the batter, mix them up, hence are doubly effective, on and| 9.—Local | &® LHe BEAT TLE STAR WEDN SDAY, JANUARY 10, igee. Remarkable Surgical Operation Fighter’ S Arm Is Normal Again BY BOB DORMAN Turning pro, he wan well along | of *, the phyatoal per "40 eam ltion of m bout for the lightweight | faces an opponent in the ring an. ever,'| title, when he dislocated hin right) ‘Then came the acid test. Would mays Jack Zivic,| boulder tn & match at Annapolis. the arm stand the strain of battle as he proudty| Miehting again t * the injury ok elected te make his t displaye & knife.| W8# entirely hen ow his home folks, He ws scarred armand|'t Out of place matched with Dick De Sanders at yulder to his} Apparently Jack w done Pitteburg. friends, |tors gave him no encouragement! For five rouniie he toyed with > wivie te the) until finally Dr, Froelich suggested| Dick, Ho displayed all the peed youngster who,| #8 operation, never before tried,| that he showed fore his opera neveral months| Might restore the arm to ite old|tion, and the shower ty and Ago, faced tho | Usefulnens. rights, hook» and Jabs that he sent end of hin! Zivic was game, He passed jong,| home on the face © non of hoped for ring career, on account of) pain-filled weeks in @ hospital, while *Unny Italy caused that wearied 4 right arm whieh refused to stay|the arm slowly led, Followed) fighter to appeal to the referee to in the shoulder socket dreary weeks of restoring wasted it He had fought his way thru the! muscles, She's just as good an ever,” and amateur ranks untll he was crowned! ‘Then more weeks of hard work in| Zivio is once more started on t featherweight champion at the last|a gymnasium to regain the epeed, way to his longed-for goal, the wir Olymvic games. the nicety of judgment, the timing ning of the lightweight title Calgary y Tigers Open Invasion of Coast With Mets at Arena Tonight Powerful Defensive Team From Prairie Will Battle Local Hockey Team in Inter- league Game; V Rickey lead again. weeks. cently. eattle. , Martin is the best of their forwards, Fraser may start for Seattle on the defense in as Rickey has beon slightly under the weather Otherwise the Seattle gang will start with their regular Iineup, VANCOUVER CLOSES ON PRAIRIE Vancouver will close tts prairie in vasion at Regina tonight. The Ma roons lost their first game tq Cat ry, 1 to 0, and then walloped Ed monton and Saskatoon in turn. CALGARY HOLDS COAST SPOTLIGHT Starting tonight, the Calgary team will hold the spotlight on the const. The Tigers play in Victoria Friday and then complete their coast tour with a game at Vancouver Monday VANCOUVER HERE NEXT WEEK Vancouver will furnish the oppost-| tion here next week, playing here for the first time im several weeks. The champions are stronger than ever now and should be a big at traction, THEN SEATTLE GOES |TO THE PRAIRIE Following the Vancouver game| | here the Seattle Mots take the week's | fought swing around the Prairie league. ‘The locals will find plenty of tough | opposition teams, from that quartet of judging from their showings to date in interJoague games, ‘CONTRACTS MAILED TO REDSKINS NONTRACTS for 1923 were miniled / to the following Seattle players) by the local Coast jeague club: Pitchers: Fred Blake, George Burger, Walter Sitter, Harry Gard: ner, Vean Gregg, Elmer Jacobs, Reynolds Kelly, Victor Pigg, Ernie Schorr, Carl Wiliams, John Tesar, Arthur Leonard, Ff. Bryant and F. erman, Catchers [din, Bverete | ney tntyoide * Doe Pete Ritchie, Frank To. Yaryan, Gilbert Malo. Bud Davis, Bresino, Harold Janvrin, Sam | r, Clyde Mearkle Ray Rohwer, Billy Barney, Brick Kidred, J John Bn ¢ Outfielders Lane, Bd | Welsh. SLOW MOVIES AID PLAYERS The United States Tennis associa tion, as part of educational work, plans to take a series of slow-moving pictures of various leading experts in action on the court, and send them thruout the country in order to allow a broadcasting of the methods styles of the leading players in a manner that will reach all those in. terested in studying the gam STAR SCULLER QUITS CLUB) Paul Costello, champion single sculling oarsman, who won the title while representing the famous Phila delphia club, Is no-longer attached to the organization, He, as well as Jack Kelly and a dozen other mem. bers of the club, resigned recently and probably will affiliate with some other club of the Schuylkill 1 GIBBONS IN GOTHA NEW YORK, Jan. 10 mmy ibbons, St. Paul heavyweight, ar rived here today to push his chal, lenge fora charesionship trent with Jack Dempuey. “I know I'm ready nd I'm willing to do anything the ommissicn suggerts to that I serving of a chance,” Gibbons roy am ¢ said NUNES BEATS SHANNON PORTLAND, Jan. 10.—Nunes of Sacramento beat Eddie Shannon of Portland in an alleged featherweight fight at the Armory last night. ‘The scrap went ten round~ and | BY LEO H. LASSEN 1 Victoria, 2 to 0, and play The locals snapped out of their long slump at Vancouver Monday when they wallope! ed their first real game in In Calgary Seattle is meeting one of the best hockey teams in the bus- iness, a defensive outfit that rivals Vancouver in strength. took the measure of the Maroons, 1 to 0, The Tigers in an overtime game re- Calgary brings one of the best goalies in hockey in young Binney, who is playing fine hockey for the Tigers. Gardiner and Dutton, their two defensive stars, will start against on- Courage greatest asset in Concerning Johnny McTaggart. And also Fewster and Wo BY HENRY L, FARRELL beat jockeys on the track. one of the lending riders of reat demand. One day in 1918 he went down tn & spill and was badly injured. When he got back tn neath he found his nerve had parted. and he didn’t like the risks. Succeastul jall aport, have to to take chances |sllpped from the successful clan. Ho was oti game in that tt ae have the himoelf. Leaving the big tracks, he went jaround to fous ant fougne Mine pO) Le eerees Gin’ aad wine oie | BY HENRY L. FARRELL jo ire Seturned: ta the big time| fuined. Tis head was all cut up and| NTEW YORK, Jan. 10—Showing a late tn the last weamen nt rade |h@ Was generally reduced almost toj +N tot of fight for one-time little fel- with bis former cians. Trainers | 240% peg geen Shas: eo gered |erith, hie former clase. nera|“"fle recovered, but hia eyes were |UP today and openly defied the big] j " apere AMONE| kod and his shoulders were bound, | fellows of the majors, It’s all about | themselves: “Johnny's got Hix comet ja contract his nerve back.” k was rewarded with to ride next season for eee mes years ago the New York / ankees took South with them | for spring training @ young infielder, [Chick Fewster, one of the most Promising players that had come up from the minors in years. The Yanks and the Brooklyn Rob- jins had arranged an exhibition tour jon the way North and tn one of the games Fownter wan hit on the head by one of the Jeff Pfoffer'n fast balls, one of the speediest deliveries jin the game Fowster lingered between Ife and death for weeks. Operations were necessary and hig career in baseball wan denpaired of, because old timers jeaid: “They're always gun-ahy after W YORK, Jan. bog, with Its half-dozen or more in to become taboo on a num N clubs, | ber of major league teams, if the | managers carry out thelr present in- tentions During the recent major league meet here, the golf question as |given Inuch consideration by cl Jowners and managers | On a number of clubs golf i* be. ginning to seriously interfere with baseball, Too many stars are pay ing far too much attention to making SCHAEFER IS FAR IN LEAD IN CUE PLAY (riicaco. Jan, 10.—Jake Schaefer / held a commanding lead Roger Conti, French billiard cham- pion, today, in their match here to dotermine who will meet Wille Hoppe for the world’s title, Schaefer, with an unfinished run of went out In the second K of | the three-block match with a lead of | 1,000 to 650. Schaefer last ticked off his 500 points while was struggling to mark up 313. Both players resorted to a def game thruout most of the game this resulted in lower averages. Conti got away to a good start, but failed to hold the pace, over Conti oe years back Johnny McTag gart started out to be one of the) He was the country and his services were in the maddie Hoe had acquired a family riders, as successes In heart | and MeTageart the belief would come gack to him and he was courageous enough to| fight the worst of ali battles—with the smaller ones and| jthe atable of Mra, Payne Whitney.| pyeryone believed he was all in, | Big League Managers May Bar Game o’ Golf 10,.—The golf} night | | naive | sports. fe. that.” | Recovering, Fewster came tack | to the Yanks and instead of show. ing timidity at the bat he seemed overdaring and the pitchers were) almost afraid of him. surely was there and his courage ever had been weakened, but the Injury left him physically weak and he was unable to play in hot weather, dizzy spells seizing him when the sun boiled down on his head. Fewster ts stilh tn etill fighting te come clear back. He of the Boston Red Sox next seenon | and if his heart bas anything to do| with it, he will. ACK KID WOLFE, of Cleveland, used to be rated sevaral years ago | an one of the greatest bantamweights jin the ring. He was a near cham. | pion and waa going good with feath- orweights. The kid went out of his class and Friends patted him on the back and } told him it was too bad. He had a } family and he hadn't saved much money j bat the Kid himself, gave him the laugh when he wanted to work for them, but finally Tommy McGinty took him and the | Kid ts back | He may never be a champion now, Mut he's got the heart of a cham pion and he's @ first rater making | money—ons of the main fdeas. | During the past sammer he fought Frankie Jerome in New York Jerome knocked him down seven |times in the first round and five {times more in the second, but the Kid kept bobbing up and then he started. The judges gave the decision to} | Jerome, but it was the best draw lany the 18 holes under par rather than | thinking of their base hits. No club in either major league suf- red more fre pif craze last | year than the Yank With a very few exceptions, every member of the w York A ricans is a confirmed r It seems the germ hits the | pitchers hare one else. a fhe star pitching staff of the Yan kees, composed of Shawkey, Hoyt, Bush and Mays, are all golf bu With this quartet 18 to 36 holes is a daily diet during the summer Last season Huggins several times was placed in an embarrassing post tion by calling on some pitcher for relief work, who, not expecting to pitch, had played 18 or 36 holes be fore coming out to the ball park It looks very much as if a num of clubs would put the ban on during the playing season, parti larly when the race tightens up, BLOUIN LEADS CHICAGO, Jan, 10.—Jimmy Blou- in, world’s bowling champion, out- | classed Joe Falcaro, of New York, | the block ‘of their nly watch here last night. Blouin leads, 4,510 to 4,067 | second SCRANTON, Pa., Jun, 10.—-The ex. | plosion of an oil lamp blew out the | front wall of her house, but failed to injure Mrs, Edward Davis, who sat six feet away from the lamp, His heart | the business, | | is expected to be one of the regulars | Managers all | Great Catcher Now on Philly Team Was Giant ction | Receiver Who Holds National League Mark for Three | Homers in Game Figured in New York-Philly Swap Two Years Ago against the The first of t inning off Les ond in the right-hander, ing off Bill Sherdel, left-hanc Hits Nos. 1 and 2 for the ci on and the swat No. 3 with t inning of the first game the not much, thought of in 1921 ;so much trouble for Miller four-bagger from the delivery number of his round trip blow itors Have Great Goal Tender; Fraser May Start Instead of up to four. | All managers make mistakes, made one when he made up | jeatcher one hears little of these day the Seattle Mets can snare a win from the powerful Calgary Tigers|™ore good than Henline, who had taken the Southern trip in their inter-league battle at the Arena tonight, the local club will jump) of 19 into second place in the Coast race and should Vancouver take a beat-| ing from Regina on the prairie, the Mets will be tied for the Coast league | 21 with lingered around the {Grounds until the little Na |poleon made up his mind that lhe must have for his slipping team Emil Meusel. John J. got Emil from the Phils for cash, for Curtis Walker and for Walter Nenline. |ning in his first year on the Heyd ler cireuit, but im his second he | released 14 blows, |iyn on April 29 off Waiter Ruether, jtember 27, off Fred Johnson. | MeGRAW NOT FIRST John McGraw wasn't the first manager who failed to discern pos- sibilities In Henline. Walter's first |pastiming was done in his high school days in Fort Wayne, and in that efty and in Defiance, Ohio, he played some semi-pro ball. Bade Myers, commander of the Fort| Wayne team in 1915, signed Hen- line and soon canned him, where- upon the backstop who had such a large day against Branch Rickey's pitchers went to Cleveland and be. came a member of the world’s ama- jteur champions—the Telling Stroll ers Napoleon Lajole, quite a hitter Cardinals on September Huggins, them and who® — Polo | Henline, who had hit .294 for Jack Hendricks’ Hoostera tn 1920, hit 304 for the Giants and Phils in his first your of big league servi tude, an he hit .316 In his ond, Walter's 1922 batting percentage topping Aleck Gaston's by 124) Points. He didn't do any home run g004 for all four | | Daves, the first being made at Brook- | and the last at New York on Sep-| OHN McGRAW often has let a player go to another club, then has repurchased him after he had made a reputation. It is doubt- ful, tho, if the Wittle Napoleon ever will be able to again acquire title to a backstop he had in the spring of 21, the Phillies now owning that performer, and the said per- former — Walter Henline——now owning a modern National league record by having helped himself to three home runs in a game 15 last. hese was made in the fourth ter Sell, right-hander; the sec- venth inning off Bill Doak, and the third in the ninth inn Tr. reuit were made with two men he bags empt In the sixth next day, Henline, apparently by the man who has caused helped himself to a of Wilbur Cooper, running the s for two consecutive contests and apparently McGraw 1is mind that Aleck Gaston, a would do the Giants tho he never was able to ree homers in « major |league game, signed Henline for the |Indianapolis team in 1918, and be- fore Walter had a chance to show much he was in the army Not having done much with the |Cardinals in 1918, Jack Hendricks returned to Indianapolis in 1919, and one of his first acts was to let Henline go to the Bloomington Three-I club, which was managed by | himself, make th now manager of Birmingham. Dunn let Henline catch 111 of the 120 games played by the Bloomers and spurned several invitations of John C. to return “Walloping Walter” to | Indianapolis before it was time to do no. Quick JUMPS Henline was the first string catcher for Indianapolis in 1920, and was the first stringer catcher for the Phillies in 1922, becoming prac tically their first string catcher in the closing days of the 1921 cam }paign. Henilne's name goes into the ree |ord books as one of the few major leaguers who made three home runs in one game and it ought to go in {there again as one of the few | minor leaguers who, behind the bat, perpetrated two unassisted double | plays in one game, Walter did this |in Indianapolis. | Charles Lincoln Herzog can claim with truth that John McGraw has nothing on him when tt comes to [letting noble home run hitters es jcape, for when the Marylander managed the Reds In 1916 he sent Ken Williams back to the minors. | ‘Baseball War some more of th ing. The minor leagues want to sell their players on the open market and The minors say they wont do it and the majors say they will, Thero it | stands The latest move of the majors, | whieh the little fellows claim is a direct violation of agreement. was to | decide that no players would be sent to the smaller leagues unless they at the draft price. * * * | CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—Action of the, | major leagues in raising the optional | limits was justified, K. M. Tandis, high commissioner of base-/ |banl, ruled today In @ telegram to President win! jam H. MeCarthy, president of the | Pacific Coast league, Landis stated} it ‘was his belief the major league clubs acted within their rights when | they raised the optional player limit jand forced a modified draft on anti-! | draft leagues, The minors had charged the ma-| fors broke faith with the mafjor-ml-| nor league agreement by soleasing player |RUNNING TRACK FOR YARD FIELD A feature of the Yankees’ new sta. dium in New York will be a cinder | path 24 feet wide thruout, and meas: uring 400 yards to the lap. It has 0 yards straightaw: It will not intedfere with baseball, A. tempor ary curb for the running path will be installed when n jed for racing. It will afford New York a chance to stage real track carnivals KRAMER BEATS RIDL LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.—Danny | Kramer, Los Angeles, today was featherweight champion of the Pa fific coast, having defeated Bud Rid- ley, of attle, at Vernon last night. The decision was extremely close, | KIRKW ‘00D W SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 10.—Joe Kirkwood, of Australia, today held the California open golf champion: | ship. He won yesterday from Mac- Donald Smith, of California, by two | strokes, in an 18-hole match. | ‘Ss WASHINGTON W The University of Washington basketball five swamped the St,| Martin's college quintet under a 58} fo 15 count at the varsity gym ast | night. League and Minors Looming t old draft quarrel- | the generous major league club own- ers want to get them for next to! | nothing could be brought back to the big time | * * % Between Big The Pacific Coast league, American association and the pics national league, the ranking leaders |of the forces opposed to the draft, |took an emphatic stand today and declared they will have nothing what- erer to do with the big fellows, Thomas Hickey, president of the American association, said no elub in his clreuit would be permitted to take players from the big league John C. Toole, “head of the Inter- national league, took tie stand that the only way the majors could send players to his league would be under the optional agreement plan. While he is trying to restrain himself, Wil- |tiam H. McCarthy, president of the Pacific Coast league, has let it be known that his organization is pre- pared to go it alone rather than bow to the will of the big leagues, * * * players by agreement between the clubs and not in accordance with » league agreement, lis wire follows: “Under conditions stated in my telegram last night, I consider the major league action respecting op- tional player limits justified, “In my opinion, it ts the right of a major league club that is pro: hibited by the major-minor agree ; mont in veleasing a player to a mie nor league club by agreement with that club, to protect the player in his right to advancement, as against the selection exemption policy of any club.” MAY DEAL OFF W YORK, Jan, 10.—Inability to secu the players demanded by the Vernon club has caused the New York Yankees to call off the deal for Jakie May, star pitcher of the Pa- cific Coast league, Their demands were “impossible,” Ea Barrow, busi+ Noss manager of the Yanks, said. 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