The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1914, Page 16

IT ae Saaaie AINN shedenihatidadamedatamiedeanthanemmemamenenaaenaaeiieeme 7 ¥ " “= ___ TEE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1016 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK UP-TO-DATE LAND NEWSY EDITED BY. ROBERT EDGREN _ |RIGHLANDERS TO < , | FROM EAGH CLUB SIaN. Sin HERE! _ oa POPULAR PASTIME---SIGNING UP FOR NEXT SEASON Copynght, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). Good MORNING American League Magnates May Decide on This Plan to Satisfy Purchase CHICAGO, Deo -Oficials of the | American League ret here tn special | session to-day, The object was not . [made public, but was beileved to be , F jconaiteration of the proposed sale of SNGNI Mi Brookfeds Have Shown Good Sportsmanship in Their Atti-, tude Toward Giants in Mar- quard Case. New York American Baseball as Club to Jacob Ruppert and 'T, bt. Huse Covmiey, 14, 9p trem Ebon 6 \ “oe tis” oe who were scheduled to arrive i . Pal Brame Wont "| from French Lick some time during } not replying to Mr, Ward's letter the day. offering to give up all claim upon The m was supposedly called Marquard'y services if the Glante| by neon, President of the can show # contract with bt ver i ti Aimerican League, to approve the sale | ing next year, the Kaseball Club lor the New York team, and it was t (@ showing the usual quality of big} landersteod there was Ukelthood thet loague professional sportsmanship. | the us clay presidents would To @ more outsider not im the least | give opinions relative to the , interested in any of the Individual | of strengthening the New Bd clubs, it seems that the Brookfed! owner was quite 4 bit more conaider- team Is ate than any “Organtzod ball” mag- the league might be asked to glve @ nate would have been under the same player to the New York team circumstances. Ho claims that Mar- of te demands of the pros: > buyers was said to be th rk Americans be supplte a competent nager for nex! quard came to him, signed an am. | davit that he was not legully bound | -——-——————-——-- to the Giants, signed a Brooklyn! . ony scree “ Deadwood ”? Cost Majors | which binds Marquard for nex: as $200,000 Last Season, bine requests that lis organtzation recently made of Organized Base Says Giants’ Secretary |" wie gees meee fon, then Mr. Ward undoubtedly can prevent Marquard's playing In New A club which releases @ player under an optional agreement —_ on | shall, during the life of the option, pay the difference in salary ‘Submit Walter Johnson’ s |LOBERT CONFERS WITH’ FED LEAGUE LEADERS Contracts to Jury of Three | Lawyers, Gilmore Suggests' Fultz Wants Public to Decide Merits of Players’ Demands. Foltz of the Players’ Vraternity makes public t ‘ President Dave Mans Lobert tudelphia Nar CHICAGO, Der third buseman of the 1 ton arrived hore to Lovis and conferred with James Gino York—or anywhere else—next sur mer. And instead of taking advantage of Johnson's reason tor returning is : | “has no occasion to reply te Intter| writers of whom we take bo cog: | Bigunce.” | ALTER JOHNSON’S jumpn re- | Mother Goose Melodies: There was a man in our town And he was wonderous wise; He jumped (nto a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. | And when he saw Als eyes were out, With all his might and main He jumped into another bush And scratched them in again. Only it looks little as if Walter had reversed the operation. The Feds Were to have paid him $16,000 a yeur, and be has let himself be bluffed into woing right back and signing up all over again with Washington for a measly $12,500, ‘Three years, too! His uncertainty is to o at him $10,500, The fs much @tacussion dust | now over the holding of the| next Olympic Games. It seems possible that they may be held in Greece. If they are not, this country may get the big meet, This is important, of course, But there's one thing of much greater Importance, ' Before this country sends another | team to represent it in an Olympic championship it should carefully weed r out the profess! Many of our wreatest “amateur teu are out- right professionals. Everybody knows it, Officials of the A. A. U. certainly know it. On #0 ne very famous “amateurs” © been ‘caught with the goods” have been compelled to return money, and the affair has been quietly dropped. Many people who run alleged “ama te athletic meets pay certain athletes in cash for competing, This ig usually done so quietly that it ix dificult to get proof, but it's done— often. Some athletes have a certain “pate.” and if they don't get it they don’t compete. They except cham- jonship meets and Olympic meets, [eth these give them advertising and make their services more valu- able in the meeta that do pay. E have the strongest athletic team in the world, With the professionals removed it would not be nearly #0 strong. With- owt any doubt, if something is not done, we will win several champion- @Aps in the next Olympic meet with professional athletes masquerading ag amateurs, We could probably win without them, but mere winning is of no importance whatever beslde athletic hones Professionalism is common in the athletic clubs, The colleges there is a great cleaning up of club professionals the only save thing for this country in the next Olympic will rvicos for the following your. ies the club expresses a desire to exercine that tion the lawy have convin: he must renew his © Une not rs | wat | Each Club to 21 Players. ntract. It 1s understood that Johnson's By Bozeman Bulger. Ather-in-law, a member of Con- MOST oxcellent reason for the) gros, had much to do with slowing new rule Hmiting all ball clubs} the matter to him in that light. ' to twenty-one players is given i by Secretary Foater of the Giants in Uniess Col. Ruppert, Capt. Huston the statement that the "deadwood" |4%d Ban Johnaon hurry things along : . i the Captain will not be able to make | last season cost the two leagues More | yood his promixe of bringing back than $200,000. he franchise as a Christmas pre: rsonally 1 think a limit of twen- . It looks as tf we wouldn't be ty-five would havo been better,” ald | ANI" (0 sol! the Yanks again for at Mr. Foster, “because it would give : the managers a chance to make af} Ronert 8, Ward now declares that rangemonts for the future, but there] jo will not give Marquard back to! je very good reasons for the new]the Giants, which ts a sou limit. reat lament to Sherwood Max cy ee " tawaa:: Hu; Phillies, ‘Ax you know,” he declared, “very et A rquard goes to few clubs ever use more than twenty | orais,” says Sherwood, "T players for actual playing purposes, | have to Ko, too, #0 as to Keep up my The reat, therefore, are curried elther /batting average. Let mo hit againat Aw pronpective youngstors looking for | that, bird right along and Wil lead the league again, experience or veterans too old to be ete of actual Joe, but who have been kept largely through regret at having fo let (hem go, You can ! that no leas than fifty of thes erans were carried last y they were of absolutely no uxe to the clubs, It was inerely burning ap $200,000 for the sake of sentiment and some of the weaker clubs felt that they could not stand it, A sav- ing of that amount of money to or- ganized baseball means a whole lot when we realize how many other pu poses it can serve in these rather pres carious times. Amateur Biliard Pl Players Meet |} To-Day in Finals for National |; Class C 18.2 Balk Line Title. George Temple Moon jr. and George Spear will meet In ths Grat of the final matchos for the national Class C |18.2 balk line billiard championship this afternoon at Doyle's Academy, Ferdt- nund A. and ¢ # P. Mathews of Brooklyn will meet in the evening mate, Tho others players who qualifted for —— w Juat the same, so mach oppo sition to the limit rule ha oe eloped that it iw believed the resolution will he reacinded at the February meeting, The trouble is that if gives the man agers litth chance to protect the flanis for the national title are: Ed- smacives againat future inva [sat T. Appleby, the phenomenal player tne me a a cp i For ine |o% Columbia University, and Louls A cone ee eedrate wott have co [Scrvatium Appleby will muko bts fret | lance. = Mc@raw ave appearance in the Anals to-morrow af- ternoon. The turn loose thirty players by the firat of May, and, as there ts Ut- tle chance of witoading all of {fo noxt spring calls for fifteen gamer, them ‘on the strong minor |none of which will played at hoi leagues, many a future great |oly Croes, to bo met at Hartford ree may be shoved into the Federal {tte to the schedule after an abi co Apa of several years. A new opponent ts rine ae i Anas no other Hall of Bouth Orange, No J. Th a trip for the Kuster The return of Walter Johnson to organized baseball tx a severe jolt to the Federals, They had counted | recess ti The schedule follows April 14, Holy Cross, at Hartford: 17th, arelon Johnson being such a drawing , Marsachur at practically free from it, And unless card at Chicago as to offset the re.) Hartford, ; 4; newed interest in the White Sox enj 2th, ste at Hoboken, Bocount of Bddie Collins and the J ry, at Hartford. ube under the management of | p Salia ny Sante Biosnahae, | May 1, N piveralty, at Ha be to send a team of college men, An Arnheim Dress Suit | he | Has Style That Attracts [24 er, ry, English drapes, silk lined, made to your measure, silk waistcoat, $40. The price is with white or black ith, N 2d, 26th, Spring- at Hartford ny at Middle pas, at Worces: At Medford. ment of its kind in this country, pheld on the courts of the venth Regt }ment Armory, Park Avenue and Sixty- cixth Street, Beginning Monday, Dec. 28, ntinuing for four consecutive days. very low whan you consider that the quality, style and and. doubles: the events. tobe “open to fit cannot be improved. Tuxedo Suits, same high | boys under eighteen years of quality, material Broadway Ready for @ 9th St, Christmas and workmanship, $35. | Smith will act as referee. ‘Thi ment Committee is Ro FP RK. Tom! Kenny, G. eh man fw King Smith th sympathy with the the intercollegiate |e races to th es nay be gleaned | Bes @ statement made public to by Bayne Denegre, captain of the ur a wh an expoct emit in th Unger of the Montelatr Chub | ilo waa expected to result in the Trinity College baseball achedule | | the winter meeting at Charleston, H. D, will be | * ' i ——— terested persons. “Tf tt is the opine | Prortdent of the Pe * at he was convinced that he was tween that previously paid by said club and that paid by the pur- : ; Man, ‘Prenident. of the C this Mr. Ward offered to release ull Foster Declares That Necessity! woraiy, toraa tment ye cate chasing club. : Federal L President Sends | cab sicineas contcase the tel eee ad Phil Tally Veo Pr | claim on Marquard if the Giants [tr t with the Senators, By thi av- 2. A club which relenese a player outright shall pay the differ eral League President Sen@S) was justited,” continued the tele owls Federsis. It wa | prove that they have a legal right to to Economize Was the Real! ier Jonuson gives up something Hise} ence in salary, if any, n that previously paid by said club and Fickle Pitcher a Telegram Re-) 272%, lace vou in the prop: [ted thik io, the, ot ce ; hia services. Rathor sportamantike, | When ‘we wan paid 910000 & year that paid by the purch: lub for @ period of five or ten days, fe Pitcher a Telegra er light before sport loving pervs. with the Ste Louis # Ke wasn't it? Quite a bit more uports-| Reason for the Recent Deol=| jie man’ vit, pitld, $250 veariy aceordiny to the length of notice of unconditional release to which |, ting Hi Visit Chi fon ete onteAry, HE 1b te thelr 0 al —_——————— manlike than the statement of @ | showing that $3,500 of that money | the player is entitled questing Him to Visit Chicago} ion that your action was not hong Giant official that the N. ¥. batt club| —810N Of Big Leaguers to Limit Wan tn payinent of an option on iis 3. A playor drafted, purchased or recalled by a club in @ higher jeation shall report to the th jon of the releasing club or immediately thereafter, and shal! { be put upon salary. | 4. A club re! jing a player, either outright or optionally, shall serve upon him a written notice, containing, in addition to the dat He Is Legally Bound. ia Chicago, Dee, 21, | AMES A. GILMORE, 1 esident | of the Feds, says that Walter | * be Whish ehall be a reasonable salary fer the classification. 5. A club releasing @ player, either outright or optionally, shall furnish him with his travelling expenses to the point at which hel Li jumped to the Ontiaws recently and jjumped back to his old team, the Senators, on Saturday, hasn't yet r agreement, mean railroad fare, Pullman fare and price of meals when either or both of the 6. A transferred player shall be allowed forty which to leave ie agreed upon in writing between tl 7. Minor league players shall receive their traveling expenses from their home to the training camps incurred in reporting for his organization paid him, Jobnson had been wrongtully por- suaded by attorneys for the American League that the to Decide the League to Which: buat ane smifact ‘sin ve | ROBERT GOELET PLANS pes I will then know it was the Johnson, the famous pitcher, who} was salary and $2,500 {Vices to the #enators, Gilmore said. tturned the $6,000 in advance money | withdrew their offer of $20,00u to Johnson," Gilmore reiterated his betier tnae | pounera ney were through with hia, lan offer made of $16,000. This released John- Hgned on Saturday, you will forever! arry on your eauulders a burden of} ishonor. “It you TROTTING RACES ON 4E . OY, Dee. he Kobdert anged to entertain mang come to Chicago as 1 re- lunfaitly employed influence of older at hie home at Glenmore, tive {men which overpersuaded you" ‘i New Year's Day | more said he now held’ John- mare! on's 1914 contract with Washington Liane pieee one the Ls Alling for $10,000, of which $7,500 pee option. | Local stables will b esented 19) Johnson complica with the terms of | the contests, including 1 Detar lthe option in first offeriag his ser- | feld's 1 farm ho} ‘A. Bulke “When the St. Louis Federnis ‘Jorn, M Many hov je Farm, to Stable, he continued, enter the “and an- hey were. reputed’ tovncvo| WINNERS AT ‘CHARLESTON. ; erve clause of the son on the option, He telegraphed} puRST RACE iden two-yeate spring practico, ; ‘American Loegue contract would hola |? he was unable to make terint]}oiqs; ve furl Toe Lark, 109 Aa ad iked upon a@ player, the fraternity is to be this, with Washingt and it (Walstenholm), tort 14 (i month before wo Anally to 1, first; Miss ne gu ‘That the commitsion and beard furnish the management in |} @ilmore has sent Johnson a long | ter laus), 3 tol, 6 to 5 and 3 the various organizations over which they have jurisdiction respec- legram ur he pitcher to come to} Gilmore declared uniess Johnson |}, . Davis), ly with forms of rel of information required by making provi jo agreement. T| VALE HOCKEY PLAYERS, reecagges WSEME OD SORES “seers stare in the middler in for the [Chicago at the expense of the Fo, ° Jerals and to submit the contract tot three lawyers to be chosen by di ai no of the crew neat June on crew of 1915) whieh will ro the Thames f t and other — | ets igued artic Capt. Frank Dean of the Thirteenth |». + - 7 for them to expe tor Couat “Artilery Corps, one of the| The Great Rivals Meet in the | Ra, . members of the Miltary Athletic ben i men ed to hav H Leagu Athletic Committee, an hy tle promoters of tie coat Nicholas Rink To- Morrow Night. nounced yesterday that the much her- alded mix-up between the M.A. L. and the Amateur Athiet! Union, either be 154 pounds, weigit in a S pounds ai the rings, The wine king of the alliance betweon the koverning bodies, had heen de- Mesa off, Yale, despite its defeat at the hands | — the Crescent A, C, Saturday night, he ba anes . negro heavyweight, won a de ion | orgies MoNell Jr. w seventeen - | in looking forward to settling some old bs over Fiarry Wille another negro, in | } Brownsville Field Club to victory qa iacores with St. Paul's School when CASE OT et tan the | ie Gods the three and three-quarter mile road | the hockey rivals meet tn thelr an- y outfousht his oppanen nn) run for novices, held under the cu-! on the ice at une St. Nicho- spices of Trinity Club, Brooklyn, yers | J, Hunkenburg of the Lironx | * Hak to-morrow night. The Biue lurch House. who led the wreater/#0Ven Dut Up & good game against art of the way, Was second, and Ku- tho Creacents, and but tor several | tatsey cline, the Hostim fghter, it Warnecke of Richmond fgh School was third H111)) breaks in the game would likely have | beat@® the Amateur League team, ac- The Cuba-American Jockey Club wit} cording to Coach Tom Howard meeting at Orl-| Howard, however, was well pleased Cuba, from Jan. | with the showing made hy the col RL ven dave ot & m- jlegiina. Several of the Yale regular spo were kept on the side lines by Ho Inenee in Cubs shortly after the close of | Piatanttiat ha might aeraelan an ne-of the new men, Capt. Sweney, New Haven m, has an injured ankle, and got | in the game only for a few minutes. | Howard expecta to play him againat | leave for Columbus, 0. Friday, where bo is matchel to meet Kaockout Mara, the hart, Witting lisheweighe ot Ci before u conding. to Wille Mob guarantee of SU) and Ciwe ts Working out at x (Curly) Brown ts the moving spirit and | ehfef promoter of the Cuban courdy, Meeting tn a champ! the frat divici nship guine of New Yor St. Paul's, but says he will take no chances on baving his star man in- jured. i Fordham Plays Yale To- Night uf Speriing eiternoan, While Joe Mandot f ak ret + turned then bia wile ant Athlete host yest ia howe in e Pastime A. C. were dot will’ be ree of a seri mury runs dover the route, and ind # negro Tad, Aaron Morris of the Smart Set A.C. an easy) from the ne est runner, © or, of the bh ganization, A. rmateh was arr je twat ot rect a ner an ati eines at cand ony rdham will play Yale to-night in| Twelfth Reg ent Armory in the second home basketball game of the season, While the Bronx boys were In poor shape in the opening games with pri ne «nm and the Army, the Mn streak, | the 1 straight ) eleven by 6 goals to 1 at Chelbse: d improvement againg: Park, " owt when they defeated their | gi, rival by a fair margin In a New Couch ¥ was picased with his York State Oval, men in the Georgetown Kane and wil Brooklyn, Yesterday, the Clan Chiao the seme line-up against Yale Won Hom the Chin Menus, Watahcamd Duane will play. forwar Patt 0 while Kelleher and Capt, Dale wit nldo Grose won the three guard Fordham’s basket, ‘Tom Me- gamit ait Ri a th shandicap Ty will be at centre, Capt, Dale sialon, of, Brugia | firgt (Will be pitted against Capt, Stackpole, a da ia me wey pond Epbearance of the’ conven’ as the dui” Yale's qrent gorward. i es ame to Chicago in response to hi! 1 to 6, elegram he would immediately >i Blackthom, rourt action to prevent che pitc’ing bury and Ry re serving, the Washington Clab, simie) cI) eeteral Wee make’, slohnny Wetmnran te FOF got he . ten tay ‘The fact e cla amt the Teferoe pave elfeet tha? thoy did wat tink mia!'y Meant to fout was what | foe time, wat turlomas, rr , reline: mix “bor Br c Maat Mate MeVey Wine Ov. 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