The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1912, Page 7

Baseball Fans Are Too Noisy, Says a Scot Noted Scotch Sporting Expert Views Our Diamond Rooters and Finds They Shout More Than Britons — Would Give Many Boisterous Fans “the Order of the Knock”—Million- ' aires Act Like Small Boys at the Game—Yankees Are Not q Considered Good Sports on the Other Side. By CHARLES MILNE “UNO. ® I attend many more baseball matches I am quite sure I shall milevelop baseball ear. an. the disease will take I know fopbut if I were to hazard a gu: wituld say that my aurical orga GugWell to such an extent that ucers glu- on elther side of my face, I } ‘will appear like si . ler at the prospect. wnay do you baseball flends bark #0 ? T wouldn't mind @ decent, hon- Iside when you wish to give ex- don to your views on things in ral. If you slung together @ mel A reasonable and printavle amount tdjectives interspersed, I wouldn't plain. But you simply “wowft.” You “go to blazes.” There's not’ much of course, but you get there esterday I sat beside a man de- American League Park, If he had en juggling with millions he could ét have been more enthusiastic. He houted and he stamped, he thumped nd he thundered. T had a eneaky dy! A man of Intellect run riot with himaeif. In his excitement you could quite easily have robbed him of a thousand dollar bill, You could have done it, but of course, not being an expert. cracksman, I couldn't. He ramped and he raged; he slammed and he sliced. What struck me most about him was this: Had he any re- gard for the feelings of the men whom he se vociferously dashed, damned and Aevilled? T felt quite Ike administering to him “the Order of the Knock.” In| other words, had I had the time would have struck him across “poco”; T would have—as an alterni Aive—stven him a bat in the ear, the Dareball ear, H Bald Bulger to me: “This te nothing; |}, My boy, nothing, You should hear them When the Giants @ playing.” “Well, Mr. B., if their conduct a mob ts @By worse than that fellow's over the T wonla” Bir! Bang! : ° HM buried with baseball hono: . . Tam have recovered. At least I am conve. Méscent. But didn’t that chap do me a favor? He put me in a home. sce there. A block of it wi w. What more enviable retreat in weather! Wherefore, my thanks te hin. ot Bulger, mind you—the ol fellow, He woke the none too 7 t counting house, ( i in’ Like Our Spectatars. No, I don't like your spectators. They w coldly apathetic or imbectli- @nthusiastic, ‘There's no happy} in them and I don't mind tell- this, Were I a resident in New | for any length of time U would nh them thelr manners. It'e a large ler, I know, but the determination opponent of reform would be met a dogged dourness of a dour and 4 rotsiman, icism, especially w: fpes has te be lowered to pe unfurling of the Union Jack ness of this I ask you to study th how many of you know what that is? Put I merely bring to your notice a! em of incontrovertible fac An American, when he attends @ Haseball match, {8 himself, He is L'ripped of such tactical emoluments : re necessary to his existen asa PAusiness man, He is the man natural, Vherefor is my view of him as @ sport truthful portrait, It seems to be Bche province of the American to Gomineer, to lord it over others, and Klevil take the hinmost.”” rned not to say a word in opposition the desires of the particular officer whom I refer, Evidently those on pard the California knew him, But t ankly declined to sink my Indivi- ality. T declined to be ‘subservient Mo the wishes of Lord Tom Noddy. ther. Good thing for us there w padded cell handy or we might have en languishing there still, The priv-| fMlege would not have been mine to jew a baseball game. You people S@ught to demand the demolition of the | é: nificent Statue of Liberty which | wards the entrance to your wonderful) tenment and recreation of yeu to do,” that's his command, amping of Feet Puerile. ———s DOUBLEHEADER ON HILL TO-DAY “I SHUDDER AT “THE, PROSPECT shout, but you fire an absolute ous string of expressive phrases, Purpose than to discourage the oppo! tion wide. Were it not so puerll would be distinctly funny. Do YO) that sport? Iam sure you don't. Fancy calling an umpire @ robber, a — —— damn ishinan would | (Fill in the blanks at the next baseball match you attend.) I have so vehemently condem: mot in private concour: able men I could not wish to meet any- but take them match and they are fiends, devils incar- It's all very well to speak of “fair ft when only one is shining in| * but (n the baseball firmament | there would be stare innumerable if the spectators would extend to the players " that encouragement expressive of the| Would expect to meet McCarty Palzer “Do to others at that they should do to you." In Scotland, particularly in Glasgow, We are demonstrative to a degree—in At Celtlo Park, for instance. Speak derisively, of hia Quinn and 0 ‘Wall street magnate ed to me as a Wall stret Gots os ihe talle and more like- to a baseball glance at him once or twice. What @ Walker, but Walker. borne in upon you that you are not a You will be biffed, banged, In short, you wll get what I ar, a thick oar. The fact will bejin the business at the present time. the people dote on good pla tically an athletic opponent if he doe: jomething worthy of their appreciation ‘ut it must be something clever. Thai l wants apeed No, wir, it wasn't Bulger who did it.! Fee i gh Med ly last will and testament is that I othey ane * Las ‘a An American subtleness of ‘something that ts evidence of brain, You You are not sat- should serve up delectable fare. You are a patron of speed merchant and jcoy, unlimited. Much the same a: They are a ni In soccer football the: thankful to Providence that I Fou command to Amurricant ice the aclence ‘That ts typical on this side, you reform? Why don't you give the men a chance of working out their own plan of campaign. to you, more encouraging hem, and, above all, to the sport- ing instinct. I do like your American sports, but I son your American base- ‘They are not sports, of the game for speed. | ball spectators |Keily’s Protege Put Away int Bd) save aie’ cinn's. voit ‘oerween other side we have got the that Americans are not. sports, we know them, they are wildly: bom- tie and provokingly ‘air in their en the Stars and (Special to The Evening World.) PRANOLAGO, Horn, the Mission heavywetght, leffectually disposed of the ‘white hope” pirations of Al Williams, protegee of \Splder Kelly, at Dreamland, The bout had to be stopped by Referee Harry ecause Vill. getting too much of a drub- Horn scored a knockdown in the third, and after that Wiliams couldn't even protect himself, 13%—| until the Carpentier bout, ments on this side anent the events Stock during the past week in far as the old country ts concerned, ersonally I don't care a docken binde of the has Ina Ianictng master'* ring who went to New Orleaus for fights, "been successful in getting on @ oentest, Abearn rays that he |) the | 1 outhern Hgutweight, in ® ten-round bout at the next show of the Orlewus ‘The winner wi) be signed up for @ battle ih ation; Whe d | An illustration mm 3 landed by| Te ringer wll ve a the T. 8. 8, California, I was brought In contact with an individual whom | fhould like to meet in some quiet cor r in the old country, I was solemnly Buck Crouse, the fast middiew who wil make bis firwt appea in” this fetuity on Monday n rived in town to put on the finishing touches to | ! Die training for his scrap with Young Kurte, nce in a the all the topnotch mlddieweigh! a Jess Willard, i . 2 pat lig on next apanied 1 1 7 at the clined to accept Insults and inainua- na as part of my contract in taking trip to "God's own country.” My ife was put in one corner, I in an- fin, 100 yards in 11 seconds, hares Cutler, wh Ropes. Willlad te THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 13, BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK A SCOTCHMAN’S IDEA OF OUR BASEBALL FANS 7 _RUN You 816 Boo It BEAT Ir OUT ‘You FodR. OLD CRIPPLE! AW 1 SAY OLD “ToP! WOULD YOU MIND “You Sey DAMN WHEN AN ENGLISHMAN WOULD SAY- Goo BLAZES * ALPALZERSAYS — HE'S THE BEST OF THE WHITE HOPES Big lowan Thinks He’s Entitled to $5,000 to Fight Luther McCarty. BOXING SHOWS TO-NIGHT. Fairmont A. C.—Young Hickey vs. Al MoCoy, ten rounds, Brown Gymnasium A, A.—Dave Dillon vs. Marty O'Brien, ten rounds. $t. Nicholas A, C.—Billy Leach vs. Howard, ter rounds, BY JOHN POLLOCK, in Iowa, says he wants the public to know that he is not afraid to fight |\ Luther McCarty or any other heavy- weight in the world, providing he can wet the amount of money he wants for his end, When asked how much he sal I would not think of going against MoCarty unless I was guaranteed $5,000 for my end. I think I am entitled to this amout, for I have won a victory over Bombardier Wells, the English champton, and I am the best white hope “Did you seo Juck Johnson while you were in Chicago?” he was next asked, to Johnson in gard to a match with |me, I would sooner fight Johnson than any man living. While I ma able to beat him, I am sure that I could give him a stiff battle. I have Already asked Billy Gibson to put ur on in a ten-round bout at the Garden A. C., but I am afraid Johnson will ask so much money that I will not get the chanae to meet him here I would be willing to fight Johnson @ twenty-round | bout or te @ finish at Juares, Mexico, | if Tommy Ryan, who ts holding fights there at present, is able to bring off the, battle. “T have engaged Bob Armstrong, the colored trainer, to a: it me in trainin, for my fights, and [ am sure that hi will teach me more than any other man about fighting. As for Jim Flynn, he has no chance of getting on @ match with me unless he defeats some big good men. If Tam unsuccessful in getting on @ bout with Johnson I will consent to fight McCarty, but I must get the | Zeumann, Or $5,000 which I think IT am worth for concluded Palzer, for the fight between Billy Papke American middleweight, and Geor Carpentier, the French champion mtd- lewelght.' They will come together in & twenty-round contest before the Cirque de Paris, the biggest boxing club in France, on Saturday night, Oct, 5. Carpentier will not engage in any fight ‘apke and Leo Houck, to take place in Paris on Aug. 1s, but if the negotiations fall through Papke will sali for home Johnny, Kitbane, feather welght chanplon, ts anotaer fighter wio does pot belitve to fightt Guring. the summer ‘mouths, Although Jo ‘several good offers for bo country, Jncuding notified * his manag ‘any of them. as Garden Timmy Dun, doce aot intend to box again nul September, yn and Jim Jarvis of fugeian the iain Lib. Ciub, 1 0 an) er forfeit to weigh in at 183 val will bring togeth a Fravkie Quinlan, the unde,” The ups hetmean Pe ser ma and Joinay Houck of Hatehelttia aad Chartie Green of Lowell, Mam, sey Haley will referee the bouts, Tominy O'Keefe of P to mect in & tw lari AL AL of Host, Fadie “Morphy, the Tigntweight, was to have fought he injured hie hand w! Contest, tle club officiala wi an offer to meet Baliwin snd ho | will meet rs 8 O'Ke tine tn accepting it, Murph winner, reli tof Ro Vhilatelpnia, to at the ( 4. 6. the colored ma Job) inf wing MeCart jae put the Jeet STANDING OF THE CLUBS. AMERICAN LEAGUB, » PCA Club, We LPO! | Cub, 40 B00) New Yorks 57° 3 0) Pittaburel) 48 ¥ arbor until such time as common Be courtesy is extended to the visitor who | DD seeks these shores—especially with his Wy wife—in search of intellectual en- a ealthy kind. ‘The type of officer 1| Fefer to you find at a baseball match. “Don't do as you do, but do as I tell RESULTS OF YESTERDAY'S GAMES. jcaton, 4: Detroit, natoa, 1; Detroit.” 0. Second gaune, Wasbiagion, 2; Ci GAMES SCHEDULED FOR TO-DAY, jew York, Two gamen, hicago at Washington, that tramp, tramp, tramping of which is indulged tm for mo other NaTIONAL LEAGUR, i Phila'phia, 1 Bt Louis ‘807, rookiyn. !Chloago... 44 siCincinnatt 40 87 (819) Boston Brookivn at Pi! 4 Philadel Boston at | New York at #t. Louts, hicago. GOING To BLAZES Records of all players who h \ Or more games up ty and Ff € L PALZBR, who has just returned | 5 to town from a trip to his home! }* Gardner, Bont ¥ , I did not, but I had @ man talk W bitae cet ee t,o trot Washington Athlets ‘Boston |. Baton een, | Clevelan ty , Waahngiy bes e, Ohicag. . . Mitehell, at. Lo | Gregg, ©) Reflent, Mh Wainy, °C Adame St ell, St. Lowe. CW Brows Athieticn { 7. CHARLES MILNE “ You PEOPLE. OUGHT TO MAJOR LEAGUE RECORDS Compiled by Expert George L. Moreland. yale A. ©. Brooklyn—Harry | American League Batting Average: National Len; Stone vs. Jimmy Paul, ten rounds. ° iiatug Wednesday, 4 Clube, Athlets ZERESEE VESASASESE TAS Downey pemee ace seen Boskates BE akewsSe ESSE! SESSSSLABSENTSTS BESSERS eo, ‘ani SASS2SESS2E a) SS. 228 S528. oa ARES: eas at ‘Athietion, York aleeeweta se ay, duly 1 Ww 0 L, H, Ave 2 100) 1000 | May 1000 | Tear sa 1000 | Crandall, i Gievelain Washingion: veland Maneater ares T-e Re PABST wee EIS eSlVES i id f 7 14 4 uw 12 a ane } T gt 7 4h 4 okt Hh 7 6: 8 f 127 10 oh # 6 oT ‘ BAK . 8 bo Oo" BAY, CAN TOU BEE by the dawn’ “AN AMERICAN WANTS SPEED + HE DEMANDS IT |" = BUT HATE LIKE POISON YOUR_ AMERICAN BASEBALL SPECTATORS" SHE FAMOUS "UNO" OF DUNDEE , SCOTLAND DEMAND “THE DEMOLITION oF -- ercn-- oucH! TRIO OF AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS HAVE A GOOD DAY. ‘The three leaders in the American Teague race and the Athh yed Jo fiitee | | Records of alt players who bave played tn fifteen mee up to aud including W Washingtonians didn't do as we!l as the other two, for they only won a@ single game, while their two riv doutleheaders. champtons took the White Sox into camp in two contests, Ed Walsh b ing one of their victim tons won two good battle heavy Detrott hitters only got nine hits in twenty innings, Kame going eleven were Karner twirled the closing duel fo Sox and in th on the mount jeven innings he was jeld the Tigers to five hite and no runi the Hilltop outer: trimmed the Naps in a clo Sa BREEAESE. oe, Ps i 1 8 3 a c PNSNSSSSAAENHTSLASSBSENTSe AMATEUR LEAGUE ILE AT STAKE Englewoods Will Win Fourth Straight Championship if They Win To-Day. — 2 re: ms: ESANES! SrBNS. SNES ALLAH SE mupbell, Boston. Sitter bi niet, Chicago, cher, New. Yi jackeon, Boston, ee ene-pe~ SSSHASEUSAARTEM’ 25 weSSSi2Se o BSE: SSehSa 0 socom: SEE SSa0 =e A game of baseball will ‘be played the grounds of the South Ofange Field Club, which has aroused considerable interest among the fans of The contesting teams ma which decent boxing has flourished an never before in this State, oF ‘arth Mi Bi 65 5 Miller, bo Oo Wingo, 5 4 30 a8 a ae iakary hy 5 F fuker Chicags FA 4 Be NiSpenalae } kes, I Eat rer Bal 3 =i New Jersey, be the Englewood Meld Club, which hi won the Amateur League baseball ser- for three years in succession, and Fiold Clud. At pre ent the Englewood team has won five Ss oom, the South Orange SENetES 8: outh Orange four victories latter team can defeat th the teams will while, on the other hand, a v: RESIS 4 champtonship. Englewood, while Wilidinson will do the finging for the South Orange Field Club, BELTS Py Mendrix, Tits an ‘The Lincoln Giants have captured the) ooin. Phila firat game of the serias with the Smart | Field yesterday the Lincoins had no trouble in beating thelr pponents by @ score of 7 to & = cee tse! oe eonSnwa4 eee 24> pitched another ins the Smart Sets three hits, ‘The teama will play thelr second game | e eo scE nee! Kamond, Ch Ne Erwin, Wr Pinte hia Motorcyclists in Big 25-Miie Race oo National 1 * pitched in games| | Hecont of GREAT PROGRESS IN ATHLETICS {RANDOM SHOTS AT BIG, CAME Detett early light those dandy American flags, three in a row, holsted on the battlesround of Stockholm FIVE TIMES in a weok, wile al} the other nations went around the barn to kiok ‘emeelves good and plenty? Getting firat, second and third in the 100<metre dash, the 110-metre hurdies, the %0-metre run, the shot-put and the pole vault {a conclusive proof that we have the speed, the endurance, the atrength and the agility that are attributes of progressive civilization, And won't we give those boys, who are making kings and dukes and plain civil servants grit their teeth, @ good hand when they come back to the only country on earth. WOW! And again WOW! I'll be down on the dock to meet them if I have to stay up after 9 at night. PATHETIC SIDELIGHT of the great contests now being waged tn Stock- A holm t# the shamefaced way in which Finland gets the oredit for her points. It ts the custom at Olymplo meets to holst the flag of each coun- try that figures one, two or three in any event. That alone has kept Ireland out of the contents because, oddly enough, her nationhood ts not recognised by ¢! powers, although C South Africa and Australia, all three British colonies or provinces, are recognized by the holsting of their flags on the rare occasions that they dintinguish themaclves, The a ite elimination of Tretand ts hard indeed, but # has its recompense in the fact that Ireland's possible points cannot be scored for Engiand, The Swedish ofMficiala with @ curious conciliatory idea, hotst the Russian flag, acrose which ie sewn in small letters the word “Finiand.” But, maybe, the Rooshuns may be the ones that are hur¥ HEY WERE DRINKING THN “CHARTER TOAST” when I made @ ati friendly call on some of my Orange friends, who were still celebrating the Uth of July to-day, although it ie @ day late. Ever bear the Charter Toast? Well, f's a beauty. Here it is: Here's to the glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and food King William the Third (not forgetting Oliver Cromwell), who saved ua from all Popes and Popery, knaves and knavery, slaves and slavery, Draee money and wooden shoes, And ail that refuse to drink this toast, may they be rammed, stammed, cramined and damned into the great gum of Athlone, to be blown over the Difts of damnation. May their teeth be converted into paving stones, to pave the way of the Croppies into hell, and thelr bicod into train oll te light thetr souls to damnation. May I be at the end of the gun with » fery flaumbeau to send them burring round the earth, the moon, the stare and the sea, Ike files round a sugar cask on @ hot summer afternoon; may they be blown against the rock of biastation and come down in @ shower of innumerable plecas, and may those pieces be picked up and made into parables to mend the soles of Orangemen’s bouts to walk on the ifth of © July. For more than two hundred yeare that tost has been drunk tn Derry, Dowa, Tyrone, Monaghan—aye, and Cavan and Armagh on the 12th of July. The eting of the anathema !s moderated by tho genuine far-down humor that ripples through it, and, instead ef provoking the resentment of the hated Papieta, It drawe the smile that is ever ready with the Irishman of all creeds or factions, in to-day’s papers about the Orange-| tried to restore order, both sidee men's parade in Belfast? Well, air, it] ought them furiously. tells how 60,000 gallant Orangemen “Scores of persons were hurt by marched in fiyiny ‘Then the cables of my native sod: “An attempt by 200 youthful Na- tlonalists to tear down an Orang arch led to a sharp confilet, The desperately resisted re- Is to break Meir ranks, Wild acenes of atone throwing and window smashing ensued, and when “torrential downpour.” stones, and two policemen ve us this rare touch no badly injured that they were taken to the hospital. Now, what I am sorely pussled about fs this: Granting that 60,000 Orangé- men are attacked by 200 “youthful Ne- tional how does It happen that two policemen were taken to the hospital? A_VOICE-—Who licked the cops? ANSWER—Not the Orangemen. And, say, Ajo eve that piece of } the police, with a baton charge RCHIE GUNN, my old : white hope, get that name Luther cricket friend, writes indignantly | trom? INQUISITIVE O'HARESKI In criticiam of my note last wook that the cricket game this arason will] Jim Rosenberger ts American of Ger- not be as long as I aaid tt would. He|man Catholic parentage, Georgie Cohan thinks It will be finished about tnree|!# American of Dublin Irish parentage, weeks earlier than usual, Iam glad to| Luther MoCarthy is American of Irish seo that the ortcketers are bucking up, | Parentage. He was christined Martin what? Iaither MoCarthy after @ Ufelong friend By the way, Archi of his father, tired of bowling ov ‘What's (he matter with Luther? It's vowling undah th @ good name for a fighter, for certainly the original Martin Luther did put up some fight when he started things, But I hear MoCanthy wanted to change Derger, the 1. A. A.C. runner? Ten‘ |'t f0 Luke Mls manager, Billy, MoCar George M. Cohan an Irishman? | was too close # shave from Luke Mo- Where did Luther MoCarthy, the “Glook, So I guess Luther will stick says ho has grown ind style, He ts season WURRA WURRA: What nationality is Jim Rosen UST ABOUT THE TIME that the boxing game gets on an even keel some {il-advined proposition comes along that {s lable to jeopardize tt. Those acquainted with the Inside situation know that Gov. Dix is in @ very hoe tile frame of mind as to boxing. That is why he has declined repeatedly to complete the State Athletic Commiasion by the appointment of a third member to take the place of James E. Sullivan, who resigned. In fact the Governor hag given @ strong hint that he may call for the resignation of the two Commis- sioners now in oMce and recommend the repeal of the Frawley law under therefore, too bad that any step should be taken that might hurt thé Governor's corns, The proposal to have Jack Johnson box in this city ts just the very thing to start something that would paralyze the game for fair, Not that Johnson ts of worse character than many other pugiliets, but he hi been no often and so unfavorably in the limelight that the proposition to exploit him. ‘eld Club has ‘captured | here would meet with an instant howl of protest from the goody-goodies and then good night boxtin, ' And I beg to remark in passing that there 1s no White Hope now in aight who can stand up against Johnson. Neither is there a Black Hope. So what's the use of bothering about the Big Smoke. Let hin oy himeelf in his new $4,000 Chicago cafe, LORY BR! but It was a lovely sight; movements were !dentical with those of ( ; to see Young Philadelphia Jack] the cunning Jawn when he was the O'Brien wallop the dickina out of (ine boxer of his dey The young i sat ade ent-omeative ribe| W-4-ad #howed everything-epeed, rer that aspiring oh8t Sie: $ah-om) reaped source, #kill in blocking, continuous of- ratuer, Young Brown, up | fenae, lightning Jabbing, ewift right chops den A, C. the other night It was loves} ig the jaw and ability to move around ly not alone for the fact that it halted) iightly and nimbly that woukl shame Young Brown, who {# one of @ large] Mme. Genee. Young O'Brien surely has class of rough house boxers, but for|the feather foot, It was @ treat to see the treat for the eye the young Phila-| him do that rare thing nowadaye—step detphian afforded while he was busy] lightly aside and send home @ stinger the Job, When he atripped for] # the other chap rushed past. He has with ted a miniature re-| everything Packey MoFarland and Mike the fray he presen| Gibbons have to show, and when h plica of hia famous brother, Whose! pity on Iittle more ‘expertence vame he haa assumed. His hatr was! Weignt he will make all of t split like brother Jack’ He had the! notohers take notice, He’ same bud on w sinaller plan, and his! bit of a man, so he te, top. a fine tittle Hat tacluding Wedue To-Morrow Night H: ANYBODY HEARD FROM ¢ ‘To-morrow night the twenty-five mil Metropolitan swee iT | Ames. Noy Y . with eight of | competing, | of the arena at| adium-Motordrome . This event Will be the mort spec- has been staged yet, Soetatssssta:! CoAieewe= 8 tacular card that ‘bringing to Beth four Gotham pil ever offered searesine for the richest stake comprise the Quaker ¢ Stine nese. Mercier and inder of the fitness for a beer crowd like that ‘A new recount is looked for bars don't get mo right, Heinle, Beor ain'ti8) Bierbauer'a name had been over: «to the riders, and S Albright will form the Dyuan ct ring serious aceld \ tion for thei Yingling, Brooklyn race between Johnny | Willis, Denver he is guilty of the statutory offense In| stuck, Perhaps this is a Ute pease SON SCE TOME DO ER ATAE ASAT OREN S Island course with the We: sue ae reee erence who has not the track opened. ‘igg | been defeated sin KER? This ts the time of year that noted old has-been comes across with an Interview telling us what we ‘should do politically, Thus far we have escaped {t, Wonder {f the polltt- cal oditors have ut last woke up to the fact that Croker as @ political ¢mector in this burgh is as dead as One Eyed Connolly? ‘And, d'ye know, it looks t- me as 4f hig successor, "C. F."* {8 riding for a 1. Take it from me, it needs but @ sudden start with @ good deal of logd ie to shoo “Fourteenth Street” along on the skids, And there are 4 many ‘Tammany Hall men besides hundreds of thousands of other Democrats who would welcome @ change, ake not , : on “Pirates” was tacked od a member of} on to the Pittaburgh Clud at the time Yo they “stole Second Baseman Biler- “U1 bauer from another club years ago. EINTE HASSPFEPFER of the, burgh atmosphere and pass for a Die H Culinbacher Verein writ that I have been @ that organization, Wherein con Too vapid and Alling, Guess! looked by his club officials when the " reserve list was made out and the CONSTANT READER.—It you have! pittsourgh Club took advantage of the not seen or heart fom your husband for} fact and signed Bierbauer, for whioh seven years you can secure a divorce; | action they were called “Pirates” by but not unless you procure evidence that) the negligent officials, But the name an- this State But with your experience! cient history and had evidently slipped Why should you care to give ther | “you, GEORGE O, MoGLYNN, the man a chance to run out ep you? ‘Springfield, Mass, ‘Thanks, George, It had gone clear over RRA WURRA: me. But I wasn't worried @ bit, Any In your column recently you an- oid name will do for the Pittsburghs, swored a query from “(Miss) F, R. FP." And they play mighty good ball at that. regarding nicknames of various W. 8. F.—The President i# not obliged teams and wero right on all but that | to ride in a “white steam car” or any travellin| one of the “Pirates,” True, any flag |ecar when he goes may turn black in the smoky Pitts: [walk if he wishes, Siew Sak a be