The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1914, Page 6

—_—— Sporting Writers of England, in »Criticiem on Baseball, Say . “Their Throwing in Is the Most Wonderful Part of the ‘The Prem (abtishing Fork ening Werks UT really, you know, it isn't! cricket!" ‘That sums up the English optaion of baseball. s ‘When the Giants and White scx layed in England every one waited e vq what the King would think of game. When the King was pleneed to applaud and remark that Wap “very interesting,” that set- tle@ {t--to a certain extent. Base- ball wasn't so perfectly rotten; in fact, not half bad, you know. For a Gemi-civilized country like Americaa, the Indians raise their wig- on the outskirts of New York @846 cowboys shoot up villages like beatic, d 66 Chieago, it might even be highly ae It is we ; wi ner development in America, it fan't cricket! rd basel Uke “and the skiil of the players ing “ene-hand catches,” and pidity of ho didn’t even hago 3 when came their way, rather as- the English scribes. Still, was some’ it crude—not ¥ country to its own na- onal game. In England they cricket, and remember- the little noticed performances “Pigiting cricketers in this coun- : ypical paragraphs @ column of comment pub- 2 in The Daily Mirror, showing Kauglish sportemen were is the peculiar fascina- m that rounders—I mean base- ide over the American ? It bas little of the sci- cricket, it iv certainly parts, and the personal it may come into it more, to use an old English phrase, "t cricket.” pitcher throws the ball—a one, and therefore much spin or swerve, and, ale swim or curl in alr leg or of ut so any cricketer if he j develop into stars of the first magni-| 6, 8 owe us thr allowed to throw. it ie Great difference. It is throw. not bowling. to the man on the base, sometimes it in ponsible to ‘two men out from one stroke, quickly does first base transfer ball to second or third or base. clubs, which appear to be it 1-2 Inches in diameter, Ore fearsome weapons, but there im be little artistry in playing Fe alt. it in a swipe with the full arm, and the neat turn of the wrist which will despatch a Lericket ball to the boundary by a @riap late cut, or the leg glide, @r even the full leg hit, or Shot, find no place in the game.” IOM GILLIGAN of the Bronx is wondering what it feelnplike to be manager of a world's cham- vier. ing all about the millionaires hehind the Federal League and thinking @hout what he'd do if he was a mag _ pate, when a trim, ransy looking fel- low stepped into his place and asked where the telephone was “Right down the Gilligan, pointing with one hand and > changing two nickels for a dine with the oth seconds lat led a number and was holding waation over the wir ” he said loudly, “is Jimmy Dime there? Well, hustle out and get him, see? Tell him ‘ant him right away, quic' y. you golid chunk of Chip talking. Yea, Chip, You 14 of Dime and tell him to some money down to tne right Tell him If he don't 4m half an bour a champ, ace? I'm broke and I ranger turned to Tom * Vstening with open mouth, that dough tory for the address, ‘pd it to Cilliga: he ordered, ing vn the p | vasion. A few days ago Tom was read- | | hee the stranger A won't stand for no! an leok for | TRE EVENING ‘ WORLD, SATURDAY, MAROE 7, 1914. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW Y UNERRINGLY » = Ure Meteors”, Owner of Brooklyn “Feds Doesn’t Want All Stars; Ready to Announce Team turned back most of their profits into building new ball parks. “We had hopes of getting all the unsigned. tourists. We made Speal such an offer ti in oF to m it ao-called B. was obliged to pay him twice aa much salary per year as drawn by Ty Cobb, the big star of baseball. “Just think of a man like Speake: who is nowhere near as crack an around player us the Georgian, draw- ing twice as much salary. It is just such cases that are going to male the players dissatisfied, and I would not be surprised to see before long wreat dissension in the ranks of er- ganized baseball. The tourists were offered more money by us than they ever dreamed existed. Just think of some of the stars be Ma: quard, Larry Doy! playing for halt “We'll Have Fast Younsters Who'll Develop,” Says W. S. Ward, “and We'll Finish Higher Than Yankees.” ME time to-night we are go- ing to announce our roster,” says Treasurer Walter 3. of the Brooklyn Federal nd I don't think I am & bit too optimistic in predicting thut will have a team that will finish higher than the New York Amert- cans and one that will show much | {re = wae Cords uy are ree more btrength than the Brooklyn | make a player sorer than the know!- Nationals. edge that somebody with less ability “If we wanted to we could have! than himself is drawing more mone: signed up an entire team of major] 1 wouldn't like to have all the troubl league players; but that is not what! brewing for that is brewing for we want. We want a lot of young, | the Nationals and America: speedy, heavy hitting players wio'll| rhe tourists that signe up with raises in salary: one that they got from O. B., the one from us and the last steady} one from O. B. I think that it was up to the Players’ Fraternity to tell n with us, for the tude, All that is necessary is to! ¢ have a veterans | throughout the lineup, 80 as ungaters. te aoe that a lot of people have criticised the lineup that Joe Tinker los announced for his Chicago Federals. |, “get the biggest’ salaries ia. the I know that Tinker knows a £004] history of baseball, We're detormined player when he sees one, and I bet! to win out, so Just, keep your eyes the bunch of youngsters that he has] on us." —_——_>—_—_. fine ature powmceeed by e's ial © SWIMMERS WIN INTERCOLLEGIATE TITLE. ite Box. Tinker could have had ics team of veterans, but, like the Brooklyns, he wants a bunch of youngsters that will develon into ——- Yale won the intercollegiat ming championships in t' awim- ming pool of the College of the wtars. City of New York last night, d “you know that the American featmg Pennsylvania, Princeton, Co. ue when it first started made reper sy of getting nothing but lumbla and City College. The Blue ampbiblans piled up twenty-three major league players, with the result more than twice ue many as that in a few years some of the clubs had to completely reorganize, yivania, their nearest competi- ‘and lost first place in only o1 “Phe Federals are in the game to stay and that is why we are count- event. The Quakers got nine points and second place, ing on developing a lot of young | stars, All we want is a year's time) Princeton took third place with only t lens than the Quake: Co- to wet things running in perfect or- | and nd then I think that we will) fer auked upon as kn even greater City College was last with one point to its credit. ali GIANTS IN DALLAS FOR FIRST EXHIBITION GAME. ‘Home people don't think that we DALLAS, 'Tex,, March 7.—The team have enough money behind us to fight the majors, Barney Dreyfuss and nelectod by Acting Manager Kinsella to meet the Dallas club of the Texas e of the other magnates, T guess, ean vouch for the fact that’ we have plenty of capital behind us, The gen- veal impression ta that the majors League in the firat exhibition games arrived in Dallas to ‘The players were! Snodgrass, ex, It tleld; Harrison have all ki of money behind them. Tt in believed that they have millions resérved with which to fight the in- of a third major league. The truth of the matter is that they have Ing the town for a couple of . and T got to find hustler 1 ould find se oe one ting, too. old. better, Dime ia ee Wish I could run across some live guy handle a champion right. I'd und the world with him, fight | London and Australia | nd jollare. jot wouldn't mind being a manager,” ‘auegested Gilligan diffidently, but w we aleam in his eye. « Ke v td the he | stranger. "Tell you what ri Dent OF Woing toner | gamble with you, If Dime i rammete io | show up or have that money h al play, with thirty minutes (ll sign with we'll Ko out and ¢ money on earth.” Thirty minutes the stranger stood looking at the clock, ‘Then he shook \hands with Gilli jand a cigar and up. We do busi | gna Pil run down to Hill and come back with my j then we'll Nx up the contract, Ten seconds later the stranger dis- ound the corner, a new 1 tucked carelessly into PERDUE AND SWEENEY TO REMAIN IN BOSTON. Hub Perdue and Bill Bweent Mand the re fy few days to decide w nun recompense | tobe piven to the Chicagé el lub, Kddte Smith G YANOUGA, March 7.—Jake Abel tie Sinith of New York fought olcht furlous rount last night to a draw ith bei Mand had edge in the frat Abel * | me $10} Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). Baseball Situation As: Viewed by Leaders Of Warring Leagues DIDN'T come herg to talk baseball,” esys Gov. Tener, “but to at- tend the Banquet that will be given to the world’s tourists to night. 1 am glad to see that the National and American League clubs have signed up their globe- trotting stars without any trouble. 1 am glad to see that the players who toured the world.stayed with their old teams without auy Lick- ering over terms. We've got all our stars in line, and are now ready for the season to open. We'll give the fans the best base- ball they ever enjoyed next sea- son, and I think that in the Na- tional League the fight for the pennant will be a close and in- teresting one. I think that the talent is more evenly distributed now, and teams that were weak in certain positions last year are . how better fortified. The talk of baseball all winter long is good for the game, and baseball throughout the country will be better attended than ever this year.” TT" last chance that the Johnson Says Feds ee wtae Thy =’ Have the Dead Ones. made a great hullabaloo about the world’s tourists that they were going to sign. We've got all of them fn line, so where do the Feds come offf They are, making a great deal of talk—but that ts all they're doing. They felt sure that they were going’ to land such stars as Crawford and Speaker, but they got sadly left. They've got nobody signed but a lot of dead- ones or youngsters who haven't got ahy big league experience. The wise players have all signed with us. Can you blame them? We're thoroughly organized and have the money behind us to pay any salaries that we have con- tracted to pay. You'll hear little from the Federals from now on; their jest chance to make a splurge has gone in their failure to sign the men that have just returned here from the globe trotting trip.. A See Gilmore Determined To Win Within Year. a | F course we are disap- Pointed in not landing Speaker, Crawford and some of the other stars of the worlds’ tour, but the failure only has served to make us more d termined than ever to win our fight with organized baseball. This time next year we'll have developed stars ourselves whose reputation will probably be al- most as great as that of Cobb, Wagner, Mathewson and some of the National and American Leaguers. We're not after con- tract jumpers, but if we were we could get all we wanted from the other two big leagues, We have more money behind us—or much, at any rate—as the Na- tional and American organiza- tions. Don’t let them tell you that Ban Johneon and John K. Tener are not taking us seriously. They're all taking uS seriously, olae why should they have to'pay such exorbitant salaries to get their own players to sign new contracts, ‘To the Sporting Falitor: Draw. poker—A says any five! hearts, five diamonds, five clubs) five spades aro a flush. 'B says no. Aheve'a hand the bob Bushy Playing poker with the joker: A holds four nines and joker: B holds CONTANT READER, || Any five of any suit lee flush, A it flush ref the need: jena nigh royal Mush, What, hand The jo! ean only be used to act places allow it now. Better go by few the er custom in card use dive ne. Th v6 the main 01 od To the 8p THE ENGLISH VIEW OF BASEBAI' "Recniess ONE “HAND CATCHE or BAUS hare Leap ure a LAGHTNING FLASHES. Going to Jail Was Adjusted—Other Inter- esting Incidents of World’s Team. By Bozeman Bulger. AYING aside such trivialities as the new ownership of the Cubs, fighting between the Feds and organizeds baseball and argument over salaries, the ball players, re. turning from their trip ground the world, have given themselves up to merrymuking until the | for starting South. Rune Sceoss | Last night the tourists were the guests of honor at the Palace Theatre| and responded to the cheers of wel-| come with as much ease and self-| Posseasion as if they had been used to it all their lives. Even Bill Klem,; the umpire, smiled biandly when al few fans discovered him in a box and) gave him the last cheer he will prob- ably eive until the World's Series is over next fal EGAN HASN'T SIGNED YET WITH BROOKLYN. Every one of the players, those who have signed was approac by th agents during the afternoon and night. Dick Egan, recently bought from Cincinnati by the Dodgers, was} & particular object of attack, and |both sides kept him on the jump. Upon leaving the Lusitania, Charles Ebbets announced to a party of news: paper men that Egan had signed fo three years. even contrac’ Fedet n the matter thorough consideration. Egan admitted, however, that he had the contract Ebbets had given him in bis pocket. The globe circlers had their busiest time in explaining to their friends th beauties of their trip, and that was much more enjoyable (han wrangling over jobs. “I'll give you one bit of news,’ George Wiltse, “that has not published. Every man and woman on the trip has become a tea drinker!” George looked around to see if any ‘of his New York f ds were listen- yn the level,” he whispered. aid 0 no. About this time McGraw came in nd confirmed Wiltse's startling state- . "Not only have we become tea drinkers,” said McGraw, “but we are trying to fix a plan by which we can havo the beverage served at 4 o'clock every afternoon at the Polo Grounds, We had tea all the time while playing ‘on the cricket grounds abroad." By the way, Sir Thomas Lipton to the ball players was the real big man, In their eyes he is of even more impor- tance and held in more esteem than King George of England. They are all strong for the King at that, but Sir ‘Thomas is the apple of their 6 GERMANY SCHAEFER HOBNOB! WITH SIR THOMAS. It seems that Germany Schaefer made the hit that got Sir Thomas At a little luncheon party immensely tickled at the familiarity. After that they always called each other “Schaef” and “Tommy.’ y. as ard needed te fill or build up A opens in poker with a pair, He] hand, but it cannot mal i breaks in order to buy & stra’ Five nin he. hand. are impor ‘an he do this legally? M. A. \The royal flush wins. vest pocket, Tom received the lations of severe friends to re @ Occurrence, basp't returned yot., ni id ened feds. Baars iherseding Sop Why don't you watch ti ueries? 2 All three jee call wee wary been enewered aat| a nol your. queri ore sass benefit that Gr ot) ¥ An amusing incident of the arrival was when an English newspaper man, Ship Held in Port Until Matter} the home ried to induce some eager for a little sensational news for of the to say eo! EDITED BY ‘ROBERT EDGREN COULON POSTS $500 | TOBIND MATCH WITH | WILLIAMS ON JULY 4 Merkle Narrowly Missed in Yokohama For Taking Billiard Ball SPEAKER SHOULD WORRY Tris Speaker, the crack out- fielder of the Boston Americans, {s now reputed to be the highest salaried player in the business. He has afMxed his signature to a two-year contract at a salary ported to be 000 a year, Not only that, but he is also reported to have been given $5,000 as a bonus for signing. This makes Speaker's ry about $20,500 a year. Manager McGraw of t Glants is probably the only in baseball getting such an enor- mout lary, although Joe Tinker, manager of the Chicago Feds, is supposed to be getting somewhere around that sum. It was only a few years ago that the Boston Amer! a the minors to the Little Rock (Ark.) club as payment for the use of the latter's grounds. It is said that Speaker wot $9,000 last y: stand for the baseball reporters fak- ing some stuff during thi doesn't hurt, but nothin, George goes fellow and a nd pElauded us until dark. And, mind you, that was the first show he had seen to a since his father's horse won the Derby.” McGraw says that one of the ad- vanta, the trip was that it proved to him that Jim Thorpe was & ballplayer. “You would be surprise he sald, ‘to see how Thorpe hi improved, The experience was worth as much to him in a baseball way two years on the bench at home. He is getting iat where he hits well, can cover an immense amount of in the outfield and, of course, ees bee knows that he can run. ike Donlin ts in a very happy frame of mind over the fact that McGraw has signed him as a m ber. of the Giants, Mike, the old Polo Grounds star, will be pinch hit- ter to succeed Harry McCormick, He leaves with the team for Marlin to- morrow night, The biggest laugh on the trip, ac- cording to the gang, was when the Japanese authorities tried to arrest Fred Merkle in Yokohama for taking away a billiard ball. Merkle told it himself, The boat was ready to sail for Manila when the Jap officers came aboard and woke Fred up to demand the billiard ball, geen a billiard ball even, know what it was them from his stateroom. ins! nt, however, and the ship was not allowed to leave until the affair was finally straightened out by an explanation from McGraw and the! being American Consul. “We have never been able to un-| negotiating for Char ” gata| trolling inter thone! .), 4 derstand what the trouble wa, Merkle with a laugh “unle Japs had been reading the w papers and took my miasing piece of ivory. To-night the big banquet will be held at the Biltm by will be 600 guests including prominent men in nearly every walk of life, Judge McCall will be the toastmaster, The White Sox leave for Chieago to-morrow night to be ready fot - other big dinner Tuesday night. Mc- Graw and the Giants are also ex- pected to atop off there for the din- ner while on thelr way to Marlin, vhead for the —————>_—— ‘Thomas te Lead Athletics, PHILADELPHIA, March 17. announced at the office of the was hitadel- phin American League Club last night | ined | Catcher Ira Thomas had his 1914 contract, and that he had been elected captain to succeed Danny Mur- Champion to Receive $5,009 Guarantee and a Bonus welght champion, and Kid Will- {ams of Baltimore are really go- ing to fight for the bantamweight champion title at Vernon, Cal., on the afternoon of July 4. The match was clinched to-day in Chivago by Coulon ponting a forfeit of $500 with Ed Smith, the well-known referee, as @ Kuarantee that he will go through with the match. The articles call for the lads to battle at 116 pounds, weigh in at ringside, and Coulon is to re- celve & guarantee of $5,000, transpor- tation for two, and when be enters the ring Sammy Hartis, manager of Williams, is to hand him a bonus of $1,000 for making the match. Coulen is permitted to fight two battles be- fore he tackles Williams. Joe “Young Shugrue, the Jersey City lightweight, who meets Leach Cross at the Empire A. C. on March 13, hi cepted terms from “Snowy” Baker to engage in five fights in Aus- tralia, and his manager, Tommy Lee, is to meet Promoter Baker to-day and sign the contract for the contests. Jim Coffroth of San Francisco, who is in town for the purpose of signing up some topnotch fighters for battles at his club on the coast in the future, announced to-day that he will see the battle between Jim Coffey, the “Dub- lin Giant," and Battling Levinsky at the Gar ‘A. C. on Monday night, and will sign up the winner to meet some heavyweight of California, Eleven clubs hold shows to-night. t Fairmont A. C., Bobby ‘Walter Brooks; Sharkey AC. Johnny Marto va. Bert Keyes; Brown Gym. Young Rector va. Willie Mant- ler; Atlantic Garden A. C., Jimmy Murray va. Johnny Keyes; Broadway Sporting Club, Brooklyn, Batti! la- vinsky vs, Jack Keating; Irving A. C.. Brooklyn, Knockout Brown va. Rie | Lustig; Queensboro A. C., Long City, bayer tered va. Young Stacey: wanus i Harry, ‘Thomas vs. Young McGowan; Vanderbilt A. C., Brooklyn, Red Ames va. Larry Desmond; West Brighton (8. L) AC, Al Britton vs. Smiling Kelly; Olympic A. C., Red McConville va, Joe Malone, The following matches have been KO. Sweeney vs. fag evidences Be 1. fariesville A. C., ence, le March 19; Eddie Moy of Allentows, Fae Te ailotawis Pee oa Jock ten roun jen McCarron va. Young Nelson ten rounds, Easton, Pa. 11 Cross, the welterweight, has his his mind about giving up jo game becoming an artist. He is of the ee that he can make more mon the five-ounce gloves than he cas with the brush, and is to fight Bull Cassidy at the Empire A. C, next Friday night. Joe Manat, the New Orleans light- weight, is coming back here for mere fighte next month. In a letter to the writer Tommy Svan. ome jot, says want ghow eye t the local clubs and pects to have him matcbed up two or three fights in a few days. Young Fitzpatrick, the 106-pound fighter of England, who arrived in America several weeks ago, will make his firat appearance in @ contest in this country at the Garden A. C. show on Monday night. He will go against Young Zulu Kid, another bantam, of Brooklyn, in the first ten-round go, Scotty Montieth, who handles the affairs "ot Johnny Dundee, the fast local lightweight, to-day received « telegram from Tom McCarey, the fight promoter of Los Ai Cal., offering Dundee a bout with the win- ner of the Young Ketchel-Frank Picato fight which takes place at Ver- non, Cal., Tuesday night, Montieth says he cannot accept the bout for another month, ee, CONNERY LEFT CHICAGO TO BUY CUBS HERE. CHICAGO, March 7.—John T. Consern, Not having in this city that he wi he didn't | York to endeavor to about and drove | for a © They were| Roger © kK a part of the stock, coal dealer of Chicago, informed friends joing to fiane the Cube oO syndicate, according tw Sullivan, former Ilinois Deme ocratic Notions! ‘ommitteeman, who ts nected with the Connery family by rriaKe. ‘Sullivan gave this information after shown New York deapat which sald Connery was reported to be lea P. Taft's con- 1 take a hand in he deal, bi willing to buy en the oppor- tunity, PITTBBURGH, March 1.—Exposition m4 home’ grounds of the Pit fonal League Club for « seo! of years, will be taken over Pittaburgh | Fed ‘The first act 4