The evening world. Newspaper, March 20, 1914, Page 18

§ it tet 3 ined several fractured being bit on the chest by a these slight injuries there ip the world the matter GILMORE of the © Wederals intends spending all of spare time this summer play- It's quite natural that o man se has been accuped of “roiling the time be claimed to have cking one freund's ile for a IK SIGNS NOTED ~ . “PRO” TO PLAY FIRST. eeprom it Charles H. Webets ir. of the mark .club, champions of the Inter- AS NONE ah aL IETS “Be anower, Federal League’s Big Fight Proceedings Started to Enjoin|ot the Chicago Federals. 7 was alleged against Killiter. ‘The bill eet forth ‘tha: one of the ND RAPIDS, Mich., March’ 20. putacipa! peat an ved ia that of catcher; that on account of ita importance aad of the extraordi- nary skill, adaptability and training necessary for the expert playing of thie position it ie more difficult to secure an expert catcher than any of legal ahot of the baseball of 1016 was fired here to-day by Miter $F. foF- line other players.” Philadelphia! 4 paragraph informed the Court “that the fondant is a baseball than the Chicago Federals, | iy y to Philadelphia, and he joined] catcher.” ig former team., The suit involves legality of the reserve clause, long § Federals would suffer irreparable in: Tregarded as one of the bulwarks of| jury unless « restraining order issue enjoining Killifer from playing with clubs other than the Chicago Fed- erais and more particularly with the Philadelphia Nationals, with whom the complainant believed Killifer was pow in active practice in prep- aration for the opening of the base- organized baseball. ‘The eult was Drought in the Western Michigan dis- trict because Killifer is a resident of Paw Paw, Mich. ‘The complaint, which was signed by Charles Weeghman, president of the Chicago Federal League Baseball Club, told of the signing of the con- ‘The complaint closed with a prayer fer the immediate issuance of @ tem- injunction preventing Killifer jolating bis contract with the Chicago Federals and a petition that the temporary injunction be made it im the final hearing of of which was attached to the petition for an enjoining order, expressly stipulated, the Court was informed, BOXING CLUBS PAY Ta aca 5 at as =a $38,781 IN TAXES | $28,000 for twe owns in Hegewisch bt Nd promptly, vee it My saying | Of : n Annual Report of Athletic] would hold on to the lots until be get a better price. Commission Shows Big — Revenue-for State. ek Cals DOS secret, By John Pollock. HE State Athletic Commission in its annual report to the State| Well Comptroller shows that during eee A ‘Two boxing shows are op the card the year odin ad At 1918, the | cor to-night. At the Bmpire Ack Gross receipts of the Ing Shows | One Hundred and Seventh street and held in the State under the Frawiey| Park avenue, Leach Cross and Joe Boxing law amounted to $776,606, and aroung” Sbuarue will meet in ¢ out of this sum the state received | main 761, The grand total of receipts| Jimmy Blute vs. ice the law went into effect figures | Frank Neil vs. You Up $1,994,796, the State receiving $99,- (prs 118 organisations with licenses since \ty-@even surrendered and three can- = | Ritchie Wolgast bout im that city, | (7) which drew $39,005, has made Willle! tackles Bill Wetkina, « er | Ritchie offer of $10,000 fo; ; ton to Jimmy Jonneons stabie, | battle with Wolgast the | of May. Ritchie says he will give) cnet sion ep itelande bis answer after his fight with Tom-!| O'Hagan, the Albany iter my Murphy in Frisco on April 17, have been secured to meet in busy to-night and to-morrow im night, ; ( Pegi Fiaiael x4 a ie | 1@ WORLD, FRIDAY, MARO HAS FREDDIE WELSH STARTED A NEW FAD? Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). Bow, Sreot Ts unpwen’ *"TWE OC@AA “To THe KINGS OF IRELAND + "CHEER UP, I'M GONG “To ENGLAND To MEET TH BOMBARDIER., Disappointed at Failure to Land Red Sox Star Few Years Ago, Mc- Graw Now Feels He Is on Reserve Clause Begins ———— that Killifer agreed to devote bis en- tire time and attention to the apa Bozeman Bul; ‘The Court was informed that $500 Werld’s i From ‘was advanced to Killifer on account, Kilifer P Playing and wan accepted by him and is still i retained. Failure to report for prac- With Phillies. tice, in accordance with his contract, ja Leagi amps.) M'GRAW of the Giants makes the statement—unusual for him—that Sandy Pies, the new man secured from the Richmond team of the Virginia League, is the most promising outfielder he bas seen since “Tris Speaker work at Little Rock a few years ago and offered $5,000 for him on the spot. “If Piex shows any kind of ability hitting line,” says McGraw, “I don't see bow he can be kept out of an outfield job in the bit; league. He is a better fielder in some respects than any man on my club, with the possible exception of George Burns. This young fellow amazed me ti first time I saw him come in on a ebert line hit and handle the ball as if he had been an infielder. Very few | fielders can play a ball that way. going back fora fly ball he can cover | 8 much ground as anybody. The fact t he stole 72 bases last year is enough to show that be can run bases. He knows how to tako a start jand has the hook slide down perfect-| IF HE ONLY DEVELOPS AS A HITTER I FEEL THAT I HAVE, DRAWN ONE OF THE BIGGEST PRIZES IN BASEBALL.” It ie very rarely that McGraw ex- presses such an opinion of a recruit, but he is immensely pleased. In the opinion of the Giant leader, Piez will be able to hold down a regular job if he hits as good as .275. MoGraw always bas been disuppointed over the fact that he missed Speaker that day at Little Rock, because the Boston Red Sox had a@ prior claim, and he he has got even. The two other new men who have attracteg the attention of McGraw intielder,‘and Emilio n pitcher. Dyer has played shortstop in several pract: and gets better every tim Le HAVE EVE! LAL A_MAN MAKE AS FEW|~ FUMBLES,” says the manager. —to wh, @ catcher of anique Gigned @ three-year con-|andq extraordinary skill and expert- the Chicago Federals, but ness, and of such persunal and intel- was persuaded that theliectual character ihat his lose can- clause in Me ol4 contract/ not be substantially compensated for the Philadelphia Club held him by the services of some other baseball The bill set forth that the Chicago feels that in Pi t fare Dyer, the b only Spanish speaking McGraw atands screen, back of the Gatiner, and yells’ GOV. TENER NEVER SAID THERE’S ROOM FOR FEDS. Promoter Tom McCarey of Los Ap. ie conan to meet either Willie ry key MeFarli Conte, the Havana base- Cu. 3 land in a iter, acts as interpreter off the The other day McGraw came to the press box and asked Conte to that he was break- all too far inside for right-handed batters. make the curve break from the outer corner so tiat the batter cannot Also tell him thai pitching too many low ball then Palmero came up and in a spray . Mr. Conte explained to him what McGraw had sald. “Si senor,” he said to McGraw, and with a respectful bow, so common to Cubans, went back to the box. wd |Graw returned to his place behind ” McGraw said y be fears t on comand too much money to meet say to Palmei HARRISBURG, Pa, March 20.-Presi- dent John K. Tener of the National does not believe there fs room for the Federal League or demand for He made that plain to-day in an intertiew in which he was asked about ory emanating from Pittsburgh to it of ten rounds. This will ugrue’s last ,° five per cent., which amounted to Fe agree be as chy AGS Harry Glenn ‘and A match was ‘arranged to-day be- 199.40 of thie sum, The Commission | tween adie Wallace end Phil Bloom, | 3c claims that between Nov. 30, 1912, and eo Iialy eavw stants of Ervokize. Nov. 80, 1918, they issued licenses to | They will cl 2S ‘mn -romné bows twenty-four clubs, making @ total of | 0? Brooklyn on the night of Maren a1, At the same club on March 28 Otto the law was enacted in 1911, Of thie| Kohler meets Young McGowan and Bumber five have been revoked, twen- | K. ©. Brown tackles Patsey Callahan. There is just a chance that Jack celled, leaving seventy-slght licenses! Blackburn will shortly be esen in ac {nm existence, under the law. j ton here against Bam Langford, . Negotiations for the match are now | Tom Andrews, the fight promoter of | on. Langford makes his first appear- Milwaukee, who conducted the recent | ance !n & bout here since his return | ¥ pope FORTY-SIX SCHOOLS IN PRINCETON CLUB GAMES. ‘The Princeton Club of New York will the fourth annual Interscholastic track and fleld games at the Seventh Regiment Armory to- Seven hundred entries ha cetved, making it the largest high sch cot, EBBETS ORDERS CUT IN STAFF OF DODGERS. AUGUSTA, Ga., March 20.—Manager Robinson had his athletes going at top speed yesterday, as quick as their manager to take ad- vantage of the good weather, and in ad- y | dition to playing a rattling nine-inning *] game in the afternoon, playere were they had two who arrived tate tarted to! rs before | Pitchers Penning- _-—— Crese-vountry Race. The West Harlem A.C nd “Buteh” | five-mile invitation cross-country run | ‘The race will start from the | mi clubhouse, One Hundred oust of Eighth avenue, at farkinxon, winner of ‘the on, has been obtained Manager Robinzon at noon, cut down the number of pla tarting for home. Nghtweight |ton and Ring, both Brooklyn semi-pro- | jonals, will leave here hext Tuesday for Brooklyn via pitchers, Andrews and n | round bout before the S’srling A, ©.) latter also a Brook! Part of Roh Clarke's stable geta'of Schenectady on neat londay |Keagete otha he with the local club for # little more s eoning. Biggest Baseball Prize, Enthuses And Second Tris Speaker, McGraw’s Opinion of Piez Lis Over Fielding Ability and Speed of —_—_—-— Better Fielder Than Any Man on Club Right Now, With Possible Ex-, ceptionof George Burns, Says Giants’ Leader. broke every curve on the outside of the plate and kept every ball pitched above the batter's waist.” That is the kind of an athlete Mc- Graw likes, and the Cuban is likely to stick. His anxiety to learn has made him very popular with all the ft. ‘They have made a t of im because his inability to speak English makes him app®ur so help- less. They have taught him a few English words, such mi ‘too high” and “ 6 regulars in the meantime have picked up a lot of Spanish expressions, such uy bueno” (very good), “muy m or “‘moocha mala” (very bad), and they keep things humming with these queer words of encouragement or condemnation when Palmero is in the box. ‘The young Cuban light-blue eyes, near-red hair a: florid com- plexion. But for his ch any one ‘ould take him for an Irishman who nid just come over, He boasts of the fact that his ancestors several generations back were Irish, «and that his family name originally was Pal er. And maybe that doesn't @ hit with McGraw! anibition,” Palmero said through /hia interpreter, “ix to learn enough lish to tell McGraw how proud f am of my Irish blood.” Right away Larry Doyle, who was near, exclaimed: “Bravo, el toro “Hurrah for the Bul a in ® second, blushing pro- Heddon Doesn’t Have to Play Billia Latest Sensation Among Ama- teurs Is Bank President, and Owns a Newspaper and Few Other Things. T can be said without fear of con- amateur which he owns goes to amabh, Heddon ts a millionaire many times over, but he ia one of those demo- cratic fe! during the champtonehip playing at York this week have been the newsa- aper men, and apparently it hasn't nm because of @ desire on his part to get some publicity, If it waa only publicity he wanted he could get plenty of that, newspaper of his own? “Homerun” Baker ia given credit for putting Trappe, Maryland, on the 0 DE KING OF Danomer, SEND ME SOME Rear FI@QHTERS - AH DONE CLEAN ‘EM ALL HERE ~ SAM LANGFORD: TAFT HAS REFUSED $770,000 OFFER FOR CHICAGO CUB Connery Tells of Syndicate Ef- fort to Buy National League Team. who announced Wednesday night he would retain hie in the Chicago Na- all Club for at least controlling inteve: $ ording to John 4 \ d-Splegel sy ndicat ‘aft'n solicitation we ni 900 to bind the deal. “When we met in ¢ ago Mr. Taft vaid he alrea quite a little mone hese expenditures x} bse weer reir measure we increas dollar, caught rds for Money map; Tria Speaker put Hubbard Cit: Tex., before the Nelso: firat informed us t! @ place as Hegewisch, Il Gast let us know that there was such a pet ae Cadillac, mained for Charlie Heddon to im- Dart the information that there was | such @ town in this country as Do- | (And it has a daily paper, too, don't forget that—and it ia owned by Charlie H styled the Dow. Owes s6ucc Mich., but it re- | wagiac, Mich, eddon and is | TO TEACHING, OF PROF. PERKINS. “Ever alnce I made that high run | on Wednesday,” suid Heddon, “th all been telling me what a great bi lard player I am, tradiction that Charles Heddon, who set the high run record in 1. | the national class A 18.2 balkline bill- | {ard tournament, will never desert the nks. If he does it will be because he loses his job as president of one bank and vice-president of another, his daily newspaper burns down and the fishing tackle concern I don’t think that 1 am such a wonder at it, but any ability I have shown I owe to Prof, Perkina of Chi It was due to acquired sufficient clase to compete in @ national tour- “I firet took up billiards four years ago as @ sort of recreation from my Many business taken about fifty lessons from Prof. | Perkins in that time, and if I only had taken twice as many from bim just twice as good a That's what I think of Prof, Cochran is about 10 or 15 ‘9 who act as natural as though they did not have a nickel to his name, Hia particular friends the Amateur Billiard Club of New! P Over a year ago I played him and gave him a fifty-point handicap, and. he beat me. Only recently we played & 800-point match on even terme, and he won, He is the coming atar of the r doesn't he own a \Broadway @ 9th St. The Arnheim JUMRIA, 8. 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