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— om : THE EVENING WORLD, | TUESDAY, " pedewsza- 12, 1911, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK [noseeFeley ROBERT EDGREN AND STILL THERE IS NOTHING DOING. WOLVERTON WILL ON THE HILLTOP Refused to Take the Job Unless Given Absolute Charge of Team. UP-TO-DATE AND NEWSY We ARE CONDUCTING INVESTIGATION = Baio INVERT 500 e wort’ a ' we HAVE S) on perectlv as T Taere (8 OU THA "PR ROBAB wrerceTs Were “4 A! Though Harry Wolverton was really made manager of the Highlanders some time ago, and that fact was announced in The Evening World, the official an- nouncement of his appointment’ was not issued until last night. It develops that the delay was caused by the Inability ed the New York club to get the Oak- land, Cal, club to release Wolverton from his contract as manager. Cal Ewing of the California club arrived in New York yesterday, and after a few minutes’ conversation with Frank Fare r 4 ic. Wolverton < ‘ will com N Y CHARLIE MURPHY (SN'T ae ‘o's > GARRY HERRMANN SAYS —— are the Holidays sad aneutns RGN WORRIED ABOUT SCANDALS eT go IFAT US ITS, AND UF IT ISN'T tT ‘A . Attell Takes Wallop at! Ticket-taker and Has to Post- pone His Fight—Harvard to Drop Carlisle, THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION WILL Question EVERYBopY = EVERYBooy / Goprrieht, 1911, by The Peer poteniag Co, ic (The New York BE ATTELL ad, ad tts bout with One Round Hogan post- Poned until Dec. 29, owing to & He foolishness that he indulged in last y night. On that evening Abe at- Jed the show at the National Sport- Club, Abe walked up,to the gate started through with a care! ve of his hand to the gent! gate. » “Hey, ticket!” exclaimed that official. F In reply to this succient demand Abie and bent a frowning glance the gatekeeper; I'm not sure but it he broke it. In any case he gave official time to recognize his well ang then retorted: “4 t's eatin’ yuh?” “Buy a ticket or beat It,” snorted the etaker—Deing a relative of Tom ke's and having no feeling of awe position. He lives In Philadeiph! MAY NOT BE So » PERHAPS Wolverton, who has had many ups and downs in baseball, was born in Mount Vernon, ©., December 6, 1873, and first played professional baseball in Colum- bus, ©., in 1896, and went from there to Dubuque, Iowa. He returned to Col;jm- bus as a third baseman in 189%, and was sold in the fall gf that year to the Chi- cago Nationals, and played third base for that team in 1899, Wolverton was sold to the Philsdel- phia Nationals in 190, and stayed with that team practically for five years, He DOINGS OF A DAY IN BASEBALL. National Commission fails to solve mystery of the ticket scandal, but will take one more dig to-day, Thomas J. Lynch is assured of re-election to the presidency of the Na+ tional League without opposition. Harry Wolverton ts officially announced as man Highlanders to succeed Hal Chase. Charles Dooin offers $25,000 for his release from the Phillies and backs it up by proposing to post a certified check. Edward Barrow elected president of the Eastern League for a term of five years. made a skip to the Washington Améfi- Name of the Eastern League changed to the International League. cans in 192, but, as he had a dispil Ryan-Lillis controversy ends with a compromise and Ryan is made a AND WHILE THEY TALK = 2 6 557° with that club, he returned to Philadel- free agent. phia. In 195 the Phillies traded him to concerns y caused him to i * Attell let this sink in for a second, at —— ASE oe Welsh to Fight Baldwin i; ce ae pig ht UMPIRE ‘ ‘HANK’ O’DAY DAY REDS NEN MANAGER EROS MINS FROM In New Orleans in January i322)" League thters absolutely refuse to be drawn step into the job on a minute's notic: While playing thind base for Newark fistic discuss SMITH IN HARD cuce beter meciog Hesnedg, © St more exseci- lin August, 1909, Wolverton broke "et any fistic discussion without a» Charley Dooin continues 7 ge ec oare By m8 in an accident oh the diamond, while} we attached. It's not considered good | Ter > H A Fe ee eee to ak injuring ne Meat tienen | Garry errant To-Day An-| forts to et away trom the Phities. It! Rumored That Tick Ticket Scandal ms So Good Tha That Britisher |, ota cee ren, | seted we saree foe at selene ¥ & ‘ Fi , i ¥ will go aga rerreuy, tte iusk ; Pe oe pacha incu ounces Appointment of | sings soemaly at it ie tnet ne de) Will Go Up in Smoke— Lost No Time in iia La cere ent fie A er rounds, | Oe, Ht Stenson te piloted the team i : Fogel. Dooin declares that te will give < i =| hecepH | Fe pene will retumm to his hom fo emphatic. ‘Ftreet: Aghting Is. no Veteran Official. $35,000 to secure his release from Foxel, Evidence Needed. ccepting. er of the New York into third place, and was regarded as one of the ablest managers in that Ore Packey McFarland, Who wi ization, i tn ee Sait a sortines, cheat, Covenant teat ; of $5,000 for lia end tor meet Ms SAWoiverton 1s a real leader and will be ; Sit desired. It is sald fenvoumd boule! the Sasori a en absolute charge. He refused to 44 ARVARD intends dropping its Hank O'Day, the umpire, is going| that if Dooin gets away ed di he off x yd ny the Phil-| had signed @ contract as manager for| Leach Cross, the dentist pusilist, BY JOHN POLLOCK. | been ibe Weight demanded by Gintens a accept the position under any other con- Qnnual footbail game with Car- ; nds ela ae “Ate \ isle from future schedules, ‘Thye| ite the managerial end of baseball, es he may become the man yeep Sree Ie aM bat Ca Be te Would fougnt another great battle last night, went AVELSH. ihe exagne:| frat ‘ibe too hoary jietaland fe | Sitters. —_—_— el fl 1 weight, yt because the Indians beat Harvard, [According to Garry Herrmann, owner| the Boston club, as he has said. It is| play again. Clarke is one of the great-|OutPointing “Cy” Smith, the Hoboken! ight champion of England, an Bowllne Allevs em, who ts conducting | ant Willard Patines Ata Ale & Mendes Because they play too rough a game, |of the Reds, the umpire has been ee-| known, however, that Dooin has @ lot | est bail players in the business and the|"Usger, in a ten-round bout at the Matty Halawie. of Boston) wil) iat aan - You Be EX Olympic A. C. The fight was one of we in a twenty-round bout before the some other reason lected to succeed Clark Griffith as|of money behind him and that he could| fact that he was one of the five best e ; i x we the pebile. Tapeeed ae enue manager of the Reda next season, No|s@t & block of the Boston stock if It] hitters last season makes it pretty tough|the best of the year. The men fought) West Side A. C. of New Orleans on|(?,c77e aout s, lewelgit. and hy AM ene } : ; Were so that he could be made manager. | for Pittsburgh to lose him as @ player. | hard every second of the contest. Smith) SUNday ofternoon, Jan. 14, All detalis| ir tas authored” Dan Morgan, 4 2, ome, with Vanderbilt may be played, | contract has as yet bean tlened. but! Fred Tenney has already been made| “I think 4c la best for me to retire as|was the aggressor in the melurity oc] fOF the contest were arranged. to-day, | Noone Bunny to vie ERAN you. TURY, Seach, fats OS It being the strongest of ‘the| that formality P Pefore! manager of Boston for 1912, but {¢ the|a player,” sald Clarke last night. “Iltne rounds, and repeatedly rushed at/ Welsh wiring his acceptance of the|sel'to eve 0 Race ee ee CEN sete | on Soar ithern colleges. the end of the week. Dootn crowd should get a majority of| might go in there and do fairly wel Fou oly the dissatiafaetion with Car-| As an umpire O'Day has commanded | the stock that little matter could be ad- fests.in the fact that the Indfans| a large salary, and he will receive an| justed. i cuterd under conditions unlike those in| even larger one in his new capacity.| Probably the most interesting an-| the young fellows a chance. 4 i i five up for U Finer coliege. They have no “four-| All told, O'Day has served as an umpire] nouncement of the day was made by| the spring and fire of youth and that 4 In the first two rounds Cross had a/ t ee them in action the club quickly bad front at clause,” but go on @laying year| for about twenty years. In 18% he and| Fred Clarke when he declared that he! what Is needed in baseball.’ narrow escape, Smith nailed him on|#éned up Baldwin. The inducement] {113 %q" Pri aod Hien ‘Case, year an long as they can mnke| Connie Mack, the latter now manager of the Jaw in the first with a wild right-| as #0 good for Welsh he lost no time) azailan midileyeuit, for ten runds at Teton, , hand swing which dropped Leach to, ! accepting. a, On this account the hy ag) are| the world’s championship team, the PP led in some quartei prac-| Athletics, (were the battery of the old JEANETTE WINS EASILY. BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. jes foot, where he took the count of| Y professional footbal: pabere Washington team, The Washington aR - bs Sa (Sea nine. Leach got up dazed, but quickly pity, for all that, to see| team was then in what was known as| MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 12—Joe Jean: Cross, compelling the latter to send in terme bee aay officials. Welsh and | isd oe ee THE ERROEN FLA his punches quickly an order to stave) Baldwin have both made good in fights! Panny McKeirick i ceratsiy nowping tis stabie | | | PL him oft. [in the South, and as the fans wanted | of, fighters, working. Besides he jean Dade LLACK’S © 933, ill ARLISS BY "DisRAELI tfewis satel Latin of aie ses $150 inthe musiea, Frank Moran, the hearweaht of Pittbures, || HO TC aHese x K ‘ heb winow Carl Morris, fights Tom K. the Oklahoma hearyweight who | who has been over in England and Paris A year, woo his fourth battle .in SxeCOHANS tre, 1 recovered. After reaching “Cy's" face) cub on De Taat night, kocking oui Charley” Win, “It would be At Brown's Gymnasium A. A.— club on Des 2 iret English hears weight, Ine the second. round ot aie ‘ # ette, the New York negro heavyweight, | 4 n . A— Tland jaw with lefts and rights, he sud- hears aight > bbb tgpatpe Pe SaaS CI AENREIORD ARROEIBN | 1S nd | amused about two thousand persons and |] Willie Lewis va. Billy West, ten |/denly ripped in a short right-hand up-| | ed to meet + bier hare CON ie ine toisteoton @ ts Thal “uo he and Bill Terry played in the| Mmaclt for three and a halt rounds at |] Tra" |Percut to Smith's jaw. “Cy” staggered) A! Williams, the Western heavyweight, for tweive | Storbeck Bo ; e and ‘erry play 4 Mar and interesting of the year, Pie! In At Irish-American A. C.—Finals of | several fect and finally dropped te the) muss before the Clevelamt A. C. tonight. Mors I ewenty. rounds next month. s always have some novelty ty/ world’s championship game with the helene rch Re Lig then |] boxing and wrestling bouts, {floor. In the secoua round the. men against Harvard—and they ce,-| Louisville club. The question of who sensing ‘ fought like wildcats, both exchanging - \ y do play great football, "| Won that series was never satisfactorily | Young Jack Johnson, @ Boston middle Matehes Arranged, the hardest kind of blows to the face| ] Hagnerstece, $s; dit. ' decided, ae the Brotherhood trouble was| Welaht, to the land of Phe beautiful. Tommy Coleman, the colored || and_body, Smith landing a left hook! Dally Mat, 28-50-78e, yu AHEARN, whore action in| trou sy ite height Inthe three rival| Although the end came in the second fighter ot Polladelphis, will meet }jon Leach's chin which nearly floored | . the ring resembles Jack Duns-| jeaguer. | Later O° half of the third chapter, it required |] Joe Stein at the Olympic A. C. on |! him again. a ues. ater O'Day became star Saturday night. After this round Leach b > = Ss mure's Highland Fling more thas] pitcher with the Giants, On account of| about one-half of a minute for the ||Saturday night round Leach began to xo] of S, Morris, 349-353 Fifth Ave., Cor. 34th St., else, came in with his manager) te failure of his pitching arm eight| Gotham negro to accomplish @ purpose y to file @ grievance. Ahcarn's| years ayo he had to give up pitching, | that he apparently could was weeping before the 844) nen he became an umpire. Ngee | Said he: it's) During the last world's serlen of ba — be ate te None of! pai) games some question in regard to twelghts a: 1 . 4 Dundce Shades O'Leary. Hockey Ga: Mghew etx round here want any! nis work as umpire was raised In Cin-( yynny Duntee, the fort reamareiet wal CAMERTRCE IE boy's game. The promote: a Pi are} cinnat!, through an anonymous warning} fomwed to show his best. a stated upon excellent authority here ect } but nobody'll fight him. When 0G a yer too D Mevariand ‘ngupatar ts Abed sent to McGraw, but McGraw never took .| might that the third game of the Har- ean arras Renee, after Smith, staggering him with left | heavyweights, meet for ten rounds || hooks and right swings to th, : ve done ini} at the Olympic A. C. on next Mon- eco es any other one-half minute of the pre-|| day night. vious three rounds. to retire from business gives us an unusual DE ORO TAKES LEADS IN opportunity to offer you this season’s finest ie THE BIG BILLIARD MATCH,.| imported Winter Suitings and Overcoatings to beet keel Alfred De Gro, the champion three.| measure at $25.00. This price was $75.00 to ° cushion billiard player, took a big lead] $400.00, Sale on second floor. ooo 4 a 8 : any notice of the matter, which was wigs to gat bome path Fata: nook tes, if tt ti on John Daly, the challenger last night A i Qut in the seventh round, after] without any foundation. O'Day's ap-| fue fram start. 40, finish. both bore RATES HOOKET BS s Reces-! i, the first block of fifty points. Th ii Dov of Abearn had. him J'sked.. they. were. al eae MaceUntger ok mG ORe cise iad Bary, 180019 00R wae Taree 0 88 sears ae dharanrotl plat aan chy Broadway & si fewer a on t ut he we " nd| cluv pleases his many “* i : ! 0. Th ! : Matinee Wed. & 8: Thon few, and now’ they Quah ‘when| qiaisanser 2 MANY Mende and 48+] ta rre| Seth Lest Cntr, Mavonant arate | inedentliy’ they tre” blaine “or a Ag Ninth St. [ne Sai wok ‘they see him coming. Honest, we'll have| Just veture the National Commiesivi| cpat a the seuee, Join Glover ot Regton ice came will be played againet Masag. | Purse of $2000, which Is the targest | $ to go to work pretty soon if we can’t get| Went Mito executive session this morains| Al Dewey of Wilkes! pols . amount ever offered for 1 three-c Aight.” And Darby wiped away his| tl & second crack at the tleket seandai| Nonvard! (tap, 8 ee Tech ena 06 Weto | Sor ‘and started for the ele Mr. Herrmann spoke to # few news-| OM — ushi a High aie AMERICAN, TEEN vous, 25 & 12,30 to 4 9% 40 f Bieras, "AMUSEMENTS. _ AN u EMENTS. 2 ——— 5 ————— ay = —— —— } . Gontianows the way, how did {i feel Paper friends as follows: bb ‘out by ‘McFerianar't toes| vit any Of you Bowspaper boys know mE INEMACOLOR hea G : anything that will throw. light on this 7 n hee, Bey ¥3"% WATURE'S WONDERS Rs "t feel at all, ticket business we would be awfully " m1 Pi eee. 2 alk" repiied ha mith a) gig to have you appear betore the Ethel Barrymore 5.14. 8%,» C ACADEMY iG, Sstieer Delp, re . commission, We are sinking th ry . 7 : T 0 h: YA SCORDING to Git Boag, One-Rouna | Ae? B® We can, but we are still without e ew a LYCEUM jist as , inter Garden | 10,20&30 4WO Urphans Hogan |y enjoying the atroncous | te definite information that would tx by cf Fi ake bh ia . O48 | the blame. We have spent $1,580 on de- i hfe, “Ho boxes wiih Al Kaufman “every Gay now,” vald Mr, Boas, “and|funds to continue thelr Investigation, yoo ought tu see them ot ':. Hovan| tt anybody knows anything about it hit ae bard as a heavyweight, and |now is ihe time to come forward, We } lama back and tries to knock hlm| want to get at the fi The only thing I'm afraid of is cnat| Prom this crowd of old timers ghay land one mums day, Wie ilvgan {0 are beating around the meeting it : £ wot the tn toctives and they are asking for more Nazimova MARION, AM K fits OLONIAL (LILLIAN RUSSELL, e . a Aiat" Day, Be inure, Hasmend °& ‘Gates We & > #1 5 >. \ymone rest | fe SERA Tor ome Ane FOUR MORTONS, 0 x Cc ASINO aay, ibe . Pa ME a He dane PEG G RON X Bet ie & Get it From The Bottle That Can’t be Refilled Me 140th st, |Uiirla Cheyenne Day of the basebalte: that 1 Av . a DA LY’S } RF it, tat Daily, 2he,! \exander & Scott, Oth GALE EY Geode Be Gite ILLINGTON «!t. eindine ; ROLLER Meiropolilan Rink 3,74 : Tuk vneanta a ELSIE FERGUSON |<"; ai Ha ite SEATING HE “BAND CONCERTS t scandal was oxing with Kautn : ey noke and that nobody would fight Attell. Susgesis | man practising for a pigeon ehout by | ° lends Of Ban Johnson were very ed over the fact that y y ne TH'A \ 5 ILLIE LEWIS writes a long jet nd his ave ce had not i BROADWAY. Hy gad dist. Rees ih ary Dally Mat \ f oo sonsation that Was ex- 9 y oO aA, F3 “ Cogent ki perrene’ vid that Johnson 4 Step into the next saloon you meet and ask the man for PARK ; é sat . HELDS THE NEVER. renin LUMA Pan BURLESQUE Ro J ’ er £ submit proof a little old “Wilson” from the new bottle. The Saker Gi Eee Mana lpia a Boa TH ty To-day, 13e,, *% knew from Western reports that to show that there had been 7] Pl eyhouve Ey, Ky, Mat.” Ton Mat. 2 the Towne Xi was A Ww ion between th » q A * = thes Kane vs aithttoietre | took |and the pe Puen feta ie ners Pour yourself a drink—and then think this over. a a5 URRAY ih ui i set ore ’ on at once. I was wulpped, d fon had been empl F Par Z ! 9 Willan Come tvs, Be, . ah tab tie SANc Parent ant toutive amency envits punt int eset hiskey that is just as pure. as can be—put i Rast ts, Mabeee, re TY PULLS 1 THE STRINGS” = —— ‘a the reason, I started felnting in |& DIE | urprine, but the operat.ons 2 into a bottle that nothing can be put back into—so it must ne . ren | 7 first round and he did the samo, | Mtective agency ore still shrouded tn be always the same, always good. ce = 39TH ST. of us showed what \¢ hed. In| "Another report had it that Mr. Johne . ‘ ‘ i Second round I was of the opinion | gon sutterel from a sadden attack ot A guaranteed drink, in fact. And that’s more than iy Sp Red wens eft hand—thle cold feet when he learne a that the Phila. the highest priced whiskey in the world can be if it comes eo einter | delphia ciub was also to be invest ed, i i the best man on his feet since Joe | That club, by the way, submitted in the ordinary bottle. I made the mistake of thinking | NolumInoUs report showing Just how the Alan't have a right band, and thon | Uokets Were distributed. “As Mr. Jot Gropped one right over and knocked | [m)'",5 Member of the Commission aa ‘me cold. The first thing I rem yered thy d York ol @terward was ‘seven.’ From that on 1. pat) DUSTIN ro fouttiatt eh Fannin Wilson Whiskey 9 {fez : ir 4 nothtr could see him, I was in sort) wou pe sald a mi Gaze. T couldn't sew wharp cnoagh to | el) be ald as had done | «Hi GLOBE and get close to him, T stuck wut | Lake to Manage Browns, | MTOuh OW MATINEE BOs to # f the t u 7 ¥ Be to bie af a spelen close. He af pe of the nom official announcemer ts | (In the New Bottle) f |] the Stusisat Com Thy Thiee Roine 3 fim 1 ri it ed t | oa t a ¥ as that Fred Lake would | Sunday World Wants Work my knees even. everything made mana of the St Louls East 34th Bi. or it apearances it would A That punch inthe eoband tound | American Ltsave Club sone time to- OLYMPIC From, prmsept 8 Bie Thies ot be eake-do't_assin, | Gay. Alief the crronpamecte hee pay SOLD EVERYWHERE ie Ni Shimon Ria Way ap tht od a a (Bete tor > en 1 hope he gives me @ other chance, compicted, and Fred is prepared to Monday Morning Wonders,