BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS

Volume 50, No. 16. Philadelphia, December 28, 1907. Price, Five Cents.

AUTREY, O.F Laague the withdrawals of Beading, Newark who forced the National League to a and Brooklyn were presented and accepted. realization of the futility of further warfare Shamokin and itt. Oarmel applied for admis with the American and the eventual recog WHOOP FOR WAR nition of the organization as an equal in LATEST NEWS sion. They win become members if they pay the admission fee by Januay 10. Thomas the field of major league base ball. The B, Golden, of Pottsville, and James Mc- Detroit team, as Mr. Angus in company with PITCHER REULBACH TO APPEAR Gcehan, Tamaqua, were appointed a commit MOVES AGAINST "ORGANIZED several of his friends took it, was far tee to look after the completion of circuit. from being a good base ball aggregation. Larry Button, of Easton, and Golden were He started in, however, with the announced UPON THE STAGE appointed the Schedule Committee. John W. BALL" EAST AND WESL purpose of giving his home city a winner Dobbin was re-elected president of |t(he and his own league. He was also made secretary and PERSONAL FORTUNE treasurer of the organization, with authority was cast into the breach for the purpose. Jna Play Dealing With the to employ assistants. York, proposed for Lawson©s New "Union League" He lured George Mullin away from Brook membership, was considered to be too long lyn and kept him in spite of sheriffs, writs a jump from any other Atlantic League town. Not Taken Seriously, But Amer and injunctions. He weaned away from World©s Series and Said to be other teams Winnie Mercer, Jim McGuire and other players of lesser note. Had not Prolific of Sensation and Novel ican Association Moves Watch he entrusted the mission to one of his subordinates who quibbled over a couple Decides on Season Opening and Ratifies a ed With Keen Eye by Majors* of hundred dollars he would have had Situations Other News Items* Lajoie, Flick and Bernhard when the famous Franchise Transfer. injunction of the Philadelphia Nationals Special to "Sporting life." made it impossible for them to perform SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." SPECIAL TO "SPORTING- LITE." Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 24. The Direct Chicago, 111., Dec. 24. The report of the for Connie Mack. Mr. Angus was making Chicago, 111., Dec. 24. Chicago is to be ors of the Connecticut League met at New organization " of the Union League in the the old league magnates take notice by this honored shortly by the presentation of ".The Haven on the 20fh inst., and after some dis East with clubs in Philadelphia and Brook time. But along in the closing months of World*T3 Series" with pitcher Reulbach, of cussion voted to open the 1908 season May lyn and the persistent; re the season, when it was evident that he the Chicago Cubs, as the central figure. 1 and close it September 12. Manager ports of American Associa still needed more talent, he unbelted again. This new play is from the Charles Humphrey, of New London, an tion efforts to break into He cut loose down the Eastern circuit pen of Thomas Aldrich Bar nounced that he had decided to transfer this city indicate that a lot himself and corralled Wild Bill Donovan rett, who holds a responsible his team to New Britain, and a vote approv of scheming and plotting has and Frank Kitson from Brooklyn, a feat position on the Wilkesbarre ing his decision was passed by the Directors. been going on for some time which, added to the depradations by other "Record." "The Big Buga Manager Humphrey .will use the Plainville with the idea of forming American League scouts, shot to pieces that boo," "The Merry Morgue" base ©ball grounds. It was also decided that a big circuit that in the one-time champion aggregation. He offered and other plays are pro whenever the schedule calls for base ball at course of time may be able Vie Willis, then a star, $4500, but Boston ductions of Mr. Barrett. In Norwich two games instead of a single con to make a bid for the patron "saw" it. As a finishing shot he sent the latest creation the test shall be played. The Hartford manage age, or at least a part of it, Frank Dwyer, his then manager, to Cin author has conceived and ment made a statement denying any interest enjoyed by the American cinnati with a wad of coin and a bunch of constructed a plot and story by that club in Frank Burke, who belongs to and National Leagues in the bank checks. Frank interviewed his old unequaled, it is said, in the Holyoke Club. friend, Sam Crawford, and Sam signed a modern dramatization. It leading cities. Base ball men contract which he himself insisted should A. W. Lawson who are conservative say breathes the great free air that these outlaw movements be of but one year©s duration, thereby Ed Reulbach of America throughout, is MURPHY©S DISCOVERY losing to the Reds their best batsman, iiy palpitating with American can never be successful on a large scale this time the player market was so bulled Life and American humor, the very counter Of an Ideal Place for Spring Training for the reason that it will require a lot of that Mr. Angus had even his fellow Ameri part of our people today with their greatest money to secure high class playing talent. can League magnates startled. In vain Purposes of Majors. But it is also admitted that if the new popular amusement happily featured. It is organizations stick to the semi-professional they begged him to quit. He kept right on. said that the Frohmans have accepted the Special to "Sporting Life." Offers of $5000 were made to Keeler and play and will be behind its presentation. phase of the game by keeping salaries down Beaumont, but Wee Willie chose to accept Chicago, 111., Dec. 24. President Charles and charging low rates of admission to an offer of about that size from the Ameri TO SETTLE CIRCUIT. W. Murphy, of the world©s champion base grounds it may be possible to live for a can League club in New York, while Beau ball team, announced to-day that the Cubs season or two, with the ultimate result mont was enabled to dictate his own terms have received an invitation to train next collapse. to Barney Dreyfuss. An offer of $6000 Meeting of the Ohio-Pennsylvania League spring at Monkey River, British Honduras, JIMMY, CALLAHAN, was made to Honus Wagner by Mr, Angus Called for January 7. and that the proposition was under consid the outlaw semi-pro promoter, claims that before the season ended and again the eration by himself and Manager Chance. he has been offered an American Associa Pittsburg Club had to dig to save a star Special to "Sporting Life." Monkey River is within easy distance of New tion franchise for this city, games to be attraction. Orleans, and the accommodations there are played at his ball park on Akron, O., Dec. 24. President Morton OTHERS REAPED. has called a meeting of the Ohio-Pennsyl as good as can be found in any part of the the North Side. President vania League at Cleveland, Dec. 7. At this world, with a climate close to the 90-degree O©Brien, of the American Mr. Angus never really reaped the fruits meeting the future of the mark most of the year. The invitation for Association, denies Calla- of his base ball investments. Business re league will be decided. As the Cubs to train in the British colony comes han©s statement, but the lat verses and the necessity for centering his is generally known, the from John Lewis, who is manager of the In ter reiterates it more firmly all in swinging one big deal forced him to Eastern division is dissatis ternational Hotel, at Monkey River, a thriv than ever, and adds that he turn his base ball properties into cash fied with the present make ing city, situated on the Gulf of Honduras. has accepted the franchise. in the winter of 1903-04 and W. H. Yawkey up, and an effort is being It is said that the American became the owner of the Tigers. But the made to have it redistricted. FARRELL©S CALL Association is split on the foundation which Mr. Angus laid for De Secretary Farrell, of the Na question of Chicago invasion, troit©s base ball club proved a strong one. tional Association, will be Indianapolis, Toledo and Of the players he secured three remained to resent to hear arguments For a Special Meeting of the National Columbus being opposed to most signally assist Hughie Jennings ; in foF©or and against redistricting. the move unless the major landing the 1907 championship Donovan, Board in Cincinnati. Crawford and Mullin and a great trio they If he declines to split up Jos.i . D.n O©Brienn.n : - leaguesThfg the bgive American their consent.League the O. and P. League New- Special to "Sporting Life.© certainly were. Other members of the ark and its side partner, Boston, Mass., Dec. 24. Tim Murnane, of has already formally refused and President second Detroit big-league pennant winners Zanesville, may hold the de this city, a member of the National Board Herrmann, of the Cincinnati Club, is out had been secured as the result of deals for Charles Morton ciding hand. If the Eastern of the National Association, announces that with a statement that the National League men whom Mr. Angus had secured. The , clubs find their appeal to the National Board Secretary John H. Farrell has called a meet will join the American League in refusal purchase of Charlie O©Leary from the Des good for nothing, then Newark, by breaking ing of the National Board for January 7 at in which event it would mean war for the Moines Club in the Western League . was away from Lancaster, Mansfield and Marion, the Hollanden Hotel, Cleveland, to straight American Association to place a club in this also an Angus deal and one which cost a will hold the hand which will permit the en out some important matters. This will city. Mr. Herrmann does not believe that considerable sum of money. But it got for Eastern clubs to shake off at least three of be the day after a big meeting of the major the Association has any fixed intention of Detroit a shortstop who steadily improved the towns which they deem undesirable. If leagues, and the minor organizations at invading Chicago and adds that if the Asso until now he is easily one of the foremost Newark breaks away from the Western Cincinnati, where base ball history will be ciation has any grievance it should take it infielders in the game. division and Zanesville is admitted to the made. Mr. Murnane also states that the before the National Commission for remedy. THE SAD ENDING. league, the formation may be as follows: Eastern League will ask to have the Mon JOHNSON BEADY. Since the death of Mrs. Angus, Mr. Canton, Akron, New Castle, Sharon, Youngs- treal franchise transferred to Trenton, and President Ban Jolinson, of the American Angus has paid but little attention to base town, Zanesville, Newark and some other the National . Commission will recommend League, would not discuss the report in de ball or business. Several times last season town. This would give four Sunday towns the change." tail and said that he would ignore it until he was guided to a seat in the stand and and would make a much better organiaztion. brought t6 his notice officially as a member Watched the team which he so helped to The Board of Arbitration will settle the mat CONDENSED DISPATCHES. of the National Commission. He added to build fighting its way to a pennant. Oc ter one way or another. Youngstown, Shar day: "We -will not sidestep trouble with on, New Castle and Akron base ball mag casionally one of the older players would Special to "Sporting Jjife." the. American Association. In fact, we are recognize his former employer, but, as a nates state in the most positive tearrhs that rather courting it. There are two or three rule, he came and went without a word to unless the O. and P. League is redistricted The Wheeling Club,© of the Central Leasrue, has secured pitcher .Rogers from Cincinnati. men in the American Association who have any of his former friends, resting heavily they will play independent ball before con been bad actors for: some time, and it will on the arm of his attendant. During the tinuing with the old clubs. The Cleveland Club has; purchased from Chicago be a good thing for the game in general rigorous weather of the post-season series Charley Hickman, recently turned over to Chicago if these naughty boys receive a good spank he was confined to his home. His ocular CHICAGO INVASION. by Washington. The South Bend Club, of the Central League, has ing, just to show them that they are not affection, added ,tp his physical and mental drafted outflelder Ives from the Freeport, Wiscon behaving as they should.©© troubles, give no ground for the belief that Havenor, of Milwaukee, Intimates Its sin League, Club. he will ever again occupy a seat in ©the Manager McGuire, of the Boston Americans, is grand stand at Bennett Park. Probable Attempt. negotiating a trade of catcher Al Shaw for catcher Eddie McFarlarid, of Chicago. Special to "Sporting Life." COLLINS© CASE. President Murnane has called the annual meet Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 24. Owner C. S. ing of the New Kngland League for Boston, Jan. The Man Who Laid the Foundation for Havenor, of this city,^ who, with George 11, to be followed by a banquet. Detroit©s Great Ball Club Ending His A Player Given Release Because of Tebeau, practically controls American Asso President Pulliam, of the National League, has Salary Arrearage. ciation affairs, to-day prac promulgated the contracts of pitelier Cammitz with Days in Hopeless Blindness. tically admitted that that Pittsburg, and catcher Curt Elston, with Chicago. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 24. A base ball Association will consider go An Omaha syndicate has been organized to pur By Paul H. Bruske. player©s right, under National Agreement, ing into Chicago next sea chase the St. Paul Club, of the American Asso to sign with another club if back salary is ciation, with a view to placing Omaha in that Detroit, Mich., Dec. 23. Editor "Sport son. Mr. Havenor says the ing Life." Recollections of the old base due was given yesterday to Orth S. Coilins matter will be decided at a League. by National Association Secretary Farrell. Albert Miller, of the St. Louis All-Star team, ball war times were stirred up locally by The Webb City (Mo.) Western Association meeting of the American the announcement the other Association in Chicago, Dec. has been signed by the Dubuque Club, of the Club, it was said, owed Coilins for part of I. I. I. League. Miller stands (i feet 2 inches day in one of the local last season. The same will apply to the 28. He avers that applica and weighs 210 pounds. papers that S. F. Angus, tion will be made to the Na majority of the team. Coilins, who was a The Lynn Club, of the New England League, has who controlled the club in former member of the Chiokasaws, the tional Commission on Jan. 6 purchased from the Franklin Club, of the Inter the stormy days of 1902 and crack amateur organization that held forth or 11, for entrance to Chi state League, pitcher . Topham and shortstop Miller, 1903 had been stricken with the purchase price for the pair being $300. in Memphis for several years, went from cago, and should it be re blindness from which there the Columbus Cotton States League Club fused why he don©t know The Boston American League Club has asked for exists but little hope for to Webb City. It was shown in the cor Chas. Havenor what steps will be taken, but waivers on Grimshaw, Congalton, Shaw, Kroh and recovery. Mr. Angus has Jacobsen. It is believed that Congalton is booked respondence that he had applied to the Webb from his tone they may go been in ill health for some City officials for back pay, but was not suc in just the same. Further than that he for Columbus and Grimshaw for Toronto. time and the new affliction A. 11. Kling, of Indianapolis, who has been cessful in qfllocting it. National Secretarv would not talk. The local clu©b owner says president of the Indiana-Ohio Base Ball League, practically shuts him off Farrell©s reply was to the point, and stated it will be necessary to have all the owners has resigned because of lack of time to give to the from the world. Alone in his that Coilins was free to sign wherever agree to such a deal first, but it is very duties of the place. The league managers will beautiful home on Ferry he pleased in face of Webb City©s, infraction evident that, some one must be willing to sell choose his successor soon. . . S. F. Angus avenue, he .sits in perpetual of the clause protecting players in the Na or there would be no necessity of considering Semi-official announcement, has been© made by the darkness, awaiting the end tional Agreement. Coilins led -the Cotton such a proposition at all. management of the "New York National Club that which cannot be far off, when he will fol the National League will next seasan respect the States batsmen. wishes of the American League, and agree to a low his talented wife whose death something ATLANTIC WEAKENED. later opening of the season than was-scheduled last© over a year ago did so much toward hasten Letter List. year. It is probable that the season will ope ing his own physical breakdown. Though April Hi. the base ball world outside of Detroit has We have letters for the following named persons Reading, Brooklyn and Newark Withdraw : Manager Fred Clarke, cf Pitt^burg, has sig never given Mr. Angus credit for it, those which will be forwarded upon receipt of address- for- trial first basosian Warren Gill, o who knew of A. .T. Lawson (3). "Buck" Washer, TBeodore -jlilie©r© From the Organization. Olilahom.i. Club, of the Western Association. .Tack Nugeht- (2), Second Baseman Cuddy H*mlj Special to "Sporting Life." , is six feet tall and his home Is at Arkansas C1 HIS COURAGEOUS EFFORTS Ramscy. Outfielder Johns. August -Moran Gu«- Ep- toward the recruiting of the Detroit base ler. Wlisaler. of Franicford Club; Second Bxiseir-iu Easton, Pa., Dec. 24. At a meeting held About ten miles from Fred © Chirke©s farm at W. Kelly, of Newark A. L, ; .Manager ,T." F. .Quiun. here Sunday afternoon, 22d, by the Atlantic field. Kan. Clarke has been trying for seve ball club are well aware of the fact that Rhortstop William Ellam, Tom Stankard, tiambacher years to sign GilL ! it was he more than any other magnate of Newark A. L. * DECEMBER 28, 1907. SRORTjIJXQ LJFB,

as much of a hit in Boston next seaso: at this time of the year it is going some. the world©s championships; also, for the number of did Hugh Jennings in Detroit. Joe Gus Maker and Peter Kelley are putting games won in a season, and now the same man good manager, and I see no reason whsj he. in some big licks. agement makes a record offer for a man recognized BOSTON BRIEFS should not make a hit in his new »eld. Atlanta gets a first-class catcher in John as the wonder of the decade in all departments of the game. Neither President Munpby, of Chicago, Mr. Dovey is to be congratulated on) the P. Coveny, of the Lawrence Club. John r.or President Shettsline, of Philadelphia, would turn that affairs have taken. I regard] the lives in Natick, hard by Boston, and has discuss the alleged offer. Manager Murray, of the deal as the best I ever knew. Tenne*© is played several years in the New England Philadelphia team said, however, that no offer of. CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR THE bound to take with New Yorkers. *fhey League, almost wholly with New Bedford. any kind for Magee would be considered." have long admired his clever work, and Mc He led the New England League in assists FANS OF THE HUB. Graw knew what he was about when he last season, and was second in put-outs, and Local Jottings. landed him. The acquisition of so much caught in more games than any catcher in It Is stated authoritatively that at least a. dozen of the players on the Philadelphia Club©s roster new good blood by Boston ought to help to the League. will be released before the team roes South next make the next National League, race one of "Jim" O©Connell, brother of the lamented spring. The Recent Dovey Moves to Put the rare interest." Fred, who died at West Baden last spring, has taken the examination for the Suffolk Al. W. Lawson, president of the Union League of TAYLOR©S PLANS. Professional Base Ball Clubs, has established league Bar. Here©s hoping. headquarters at Nos. 921 and 922 Betz Building, Boston National Team Into the I saw President John I. Taylor after his this city. return from Chicago. He expected to get to Waddell has taken himself and his parents to Running John L Taylor©s Ef- Boston by Saturday night, but on his way QUAKER QUIPS. Mobile, Ala., on a visit to a sister living there. to Worcester ran into a wreck and instead "Rube" tells Mobile people that he will make that of reaching Boston on Saturday night at town his future winter home. . forts Also Likely to Succeed. 8.30, did not get there until 7.30 Sunday Reconciled to the Failure to Secure Ten Presidents Shibe and Shettsline. of the local clubs, morning. The president is now installed in refuse to discuss Al Lawson©s "Union League" what are by far the finest offices occupied by ney President Shettsline©s Rosy View seriously. Both regard it as a wild-cat scheme, BY J. C. MORSE. foredoomed to ignominious failure. any base ball association in this country, of the Phillies© Chances in the Next President Shettsline has reserved an option on Boston, Dec. 23. Editor "Sporting Life:" being on the second floor of the Advertiser th» base ball park in Savannah, where the team has George Dovey has a, whole lot to be Building, on Washington street, next door Race Current New and Gossip. traind for the last Uhree years. While it is alto thankful for this Xmastide. I do not know to the Globe building, of which Mr. Tay Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 23. President gether likely that this will be the club©s training that I can express it any lor©s father has been for so long the presid Shettsline, of the Phillies, has become quite place this spring, the management ha» two otbar better than to quote the ing genius. Here three commodious, bright reconciled to his failure to secure Fred Ten places under consideration. opinion of one at the Na rooms have been partitioned off. The rooms ney; in fact, he is beginning Manager Murray, of the Phillies, has decided to send pitcher Corridon to the Adirondack) early next tional League meeting; have been arranged expressly for Mr. Tay to doubt whether Tenney month to put on weight for the coming season. that he now had a major lor, and have been much admired by all who would have really strength Murray thinks that if Corridon would hare a little league team. It came very have seen them. Mr. Taylor returned home ened the Phillies in view more flesh on his big frame be would stand the near being what Joe Vila in the best of spirits and extremely hopeful of the fact that is is long hard campaign better and would be one of the would term a joke team for a first-class team and a first-class season past his prime. In speaking best pitchers in the National League. last season. It was hoped in ©08. of the matter the other day John Coleman, the old-time Philadelphia Club that something would ma President Shettsline said: pitcher, living at 3700 Woodlawn avenue, this city, UNGLAUB IN LINE. "Tenney might have and his brother Walter, have taken stops to make terialize at the meeting in a legal fight for their share of a $30«,000 estate New York, and something The statement that Unglaub would be strengthened the Phillies, but left by a brother, Michael. The latter, two years did, and it did after the out back again at first base received swift con many believe that he has ago, was killed in Houston, Texas. He left no will look for anything in that firmation by the receipt of a letter by Presi seen his best days, for he is and his fortune, amounting to nearly $300,000, re J. C. Mom line was very black indeed. dent Taylor, in which that gentleman was past 35, and not so fast as verted to his wife. Had other contemplated deals informed by Unglaub that the terms of the he was when he won pen been put through Mr. Dovey would never club had been accepted. It will be remem Wm. Shettsline nants for Boston. We are have succeeded in getting what he got. First bered that there was considerable talk that thoroughly satisfied with the WAGNER, WIMER, of all, the deal was possible by reason of the Grimshaw would be given a trial in the posi outlook. We have three good men for first fact that Joe Kelley had been secured to tion, but it looks very much as if Grim base in Deininger, Courtney and Bransfield. The Unequalled Batting Record of the manage the Boston Club. Joe and McGraw shaw would again be possessed of an util- Deininger©s work at the position has caused are very thick indeed old pals. McGraw National League Leader Substantially is naturally very anxious indeed to see Kel ley succeed in Boston. Recognized by the Organization. KELLEY1 S TEAM. In the last issue of "Sporting Life"* we A FEW AFTERTHOUGHTS. pave a necessarily brief account of the . There was no trouble at all in arranging presentation to the National League©s cham terms with Joe. As most of the readers of pion batsman. Bans Wagner, "Sporting Life" know, his term is for two By William F. Kirk. of a silver loving cop st the seasons. He will begin his reign in the Murphy banquet, in honor most auspicious manner, for he has the of his unique record as a proper tools with which to work. Joe could The Cub is hibernating now_, batter. Since the organiza have done little with the Boston Club in With laurel wreaths upon his brow; tion of the National League 1907 had he been its manager. A team The Tiger©s stripes have changed in nne there have been 31 batting without a capable catching department is From orange and black to lemon and blue. championships airarded. Of very much like a ship without a rudder. A feeling of intense fatigue the lot Wagner is the only Iseedham was far below the standard, and Has clutched the friends of Johnson©s league. one to capture the honor Brown was unable to do himself justice five times. Dan Breathers owing to illness. Brown complained all of the Before we leave the ball and strike won it four times; Ansou season of a pain in his side, and I doubt not For gridiron gossip and the like and Burke tt three times that now he has recovered from an opera Before we journalistic slammers each. None of them com tion for appendicitis he will be able to show Have put aside our battered hammers John Wagner pared with Wagner M an the promise he did when he first joined the Let©s light the pipe, take several whiffs all-around man, equally good club. Now that such a first-class man as And dally with the following IFS: at batting, fielding and base-running. Fol Bowerman has been added to the team the lowing is a verbatim report of President club has been strengthened immensely. I If Jawn McGraw had done his best Pulliam©s speech delivered prior to the pres doubt not that Bowerman will do practi To keep his Giants on the crest entation of the magnificent c«p to Wa^nec: cally all of the catching of the team next If Griffith©s pitchers had been "there" ©The best thins in thta world is a good woman, season. He will have in young Ball a Instead of soaring in the air; after that the grandest thing is a nraoJy man/and mighty clever assistant, and I doubt not in IF neither team had made a slip, I am glad to say that we have suci a m«n wiUi ua We might have won the championship. to-night, one of our honored guesta, and I am the least that the youngster will break in proud to say that he is a ball player * professional finely under the efficient tutelage of the ball player. When my days as a base ban official veteran. Then, again, the pitchers are bound If (leaving ont the New York teams) are ended I shall carry with me to my new to do better work with such a man as Jennings had tried no college screams sphere of work the fond recollection of a moot Bowerman as their target, for they will have And dug up less grass from the coaching lines valued incident of my career as a base tnU official Jar more confidence. And cut up fewer monkey shines the fact that I was in some measure responsible i> If Cobb had made-a few more hits, bringing to the Nattooal League its greatest player. THE LINE-UP. I. however, was only incidental to Una great event. The Cubs might now be clawed to bits. "Fifteen years ago, down in my old home, I dM McGann, Ritchey, Brain and Dahlen xrill a favor for a good fellow who was In hard lock, make a first-class infield, and the club has If catcher Schmidt had shown more speed and, strange ss it may seem, be was one at the another fast infielder in Sweeney, who has (Backstops were Jennings© greatest need) ; grateful sort. He never forgot my kindness, which made a splendid impression upon all who If Johnny Kling, the horrid thing, In Itself was very small, and be returned t.hrt favor not to me, but to the National Leagaa. I remem tiave seen him work, and such a fine judge of Had left at home his throwing wing; ber when I started out In a minor capacity with players as Ned Hanlon said the youngster If all these things had come to pass, the Louisville Club, and came to New York with made a great hit with him by his work. The Tigers might have shown more class. the Louisville team. I was new to Now York la Joe will play left himself. Hanlon said those days, and I admit that the glimmer of the that he never saw Joe put up a better game Ah, well! The fight is o©er at last white lights on Broadway fairly entranced me. to The string©s played out, the die is cast. much so that I spent all the time I had after my than he did in Batlimore in the closing duties up and down tliat great highway, for three games of the season of 1907. I can well The Tigers made an awful bungle nights the man I referred to visited the old base imagine that he will be much missed by the In storming the Chicago jungle. ball headquarters In New York, the Stmtevaat Toronto Club. Beaumont will play centre, A ireek ago they snarled defiance House, in order to see me. Two nighta he adaaed of course, and Browne right. That will leave Today they©re as tame as New York Giants. me, but on the third he remained at the hotel until I returned, a very tired yotmg man. He said: Bates as the utility outfielder. Leaving ©You did me a good turn one time, sod I am out the pitchers, here is a team that will bat going to do you a good turn, for I have the great mighty close to .270 on the figures of last est ball player in America for yon in Pxterson. and season, and that is going some. If that ity role. The dope BOW has it that Lord, so many favorable comments that he will his name is Hans Wagner. The beauty of this bunch does not do some tall drawing it will the Providence legacy, -will be tried at third have all the chance he wants to show his man is that not only can he play ba.ll, bat be has during the spring practice, and that Knight worth.©© the best disposition of any fellow yon ever knew.© be a genuine surprise to many. The club "I went to Paterson, saw that what he *aM ought to finish in the first division. In any too will be given a chance to show whether about Wagner was true, and opened negotiations event it is an aggregation that will give an he can fill the position to the satisfaction of The Phillies© Outlook. to get him. The Pittsl-urg Club and the Pb&*del~ argument to any club that comes along, not all concerned. Lord can fill the bill all phla Club, of the National League, were after him. right so far as the fielding part of the _ President Shettsline is quit* optimistic in The owner of the club told me he coold get $2500 excepting Charley Murphy©s bunch of ball- his view of the Phillies© future. Regarding tossers. For two seasons we have turned problem is concerned, but the question is from Pittsburg, which was a big price to pay for a whether he can do the batting part of his the 1908 outlook he said the other day: release of a player in those days. I told him of tha out here to see a club that has been last "We are considerably stronger than last struggle we were having to Louisville to get on o*r and next to last in the race. The same task in a satisfactory manner. Mr. Taylor year, for we have the players who joined feet and begged him to let me have the man. My thing has been chronicled on the American hied back to the coast last Wednesday us late last season, and in addition Deinin efforts were successful, and he sold me the release League grounds, and people have been tir night and will join Mrs. Taylor there, and ger, Clements and a number of others who of Wagner for $3900. I drew a draft on the Louis ing of that sort of thing. The public would will not be seen again until the next ville Cliib immediately for that sum, which I had championship season opens in this city. He have not yet reported. Then again we my doubts was in tha. treasury, and wired Barney like to see a winning club just once in. a start the season with our best infield. We Dreyfuss, the moneyed man of our concern, as ;while. I do hot blame will show up at Little Rock, Ark., for the follows: ©I have purchased the release of the best spring training of the club, which will be did not have Grant at third and Knabe at JOHN I. TAYLOR second until the season was well advanced, player in America and drawn on you for $2000. gin early in March. we might possibly have finished second if Get busy. Wagner and I leave to-night for Louis 5n the least for saying he is opposed to any SPOKES FROM THE HUB. ville.© post-season series between two clubs that we had had their valuable services at the "That was his beginning, gentlemen, TO the are close to the bottom of the ladder. So Manager Jack Carney, of the Trenton start of the race. You may look for Grant National League, and what he has done since then Club, has been around looking for talent to do a great deal better next year. He has been an open book. In the long life of tha far as he is concerned there will be no such joined us in June, just after he had been National League, the oldest base ball organization series in the fall if his club is not in the with which to recruit his club, which was badly torn up since the close of the season. spending all his spare moments studying ii America, he has accomplished the feat never be race. President Dovey has been showered hard to earn his degrees in law at Harvard. fore equaled in the annals of the Leafiiie. of being with congratulations at his success in com He would like to secure Randall. He has our leading batsman for five years. With all his already secured "Jim" Sebring, giving Bar When he reported he was fagged out men success, with all his skill, with all his prowess, pleting the deal. He is certainly highly tally and physically as a result of his pleased at his success in bringing about the ton in exchange for that player. I©.e has remained the same modest, unassuming fellow During his visit here last week Mr. John studies, yet he went in and played very that he was when I met him first in Paterson many first step toward giving Boston a winner ood ball. Next season he will have the years ago. something he set himself to do when he took C. Chapman presented President Dovey fenefit of the spring training trip, and "I have invited Mr. Wagner to be with us to charge of the club. It is expected that with an addition to the collection of souvenir there will be no outside work to worry night as the guest of Mr. Murphy in order that Manager Kelley will be here very soon after base balls. This one was gilded and was the National League might pay tribute in honoring inscribed "1867 July 31 Union 32, At him. Our pitching staff with Sparks, Brown, ©him who stands at the pinnacle of success as a the first of the year. There certainly ought Moren, McQuillen, Richie, Corridon and player, and who stands for all that is best and to be a great turnout when the Boston and lantic 19." Those were the famous Unions Covaleski, is much stronger than a year good in the National game. Mr. Wagner©s his>- New York Clubs play in their cities this of Morrisiana. George Appleton, who hap ago, while we have as good an outfieldd as tory in the National League is one of constant season, and especially in the opening games. pened to be in the office at the time, re any in the league with Magee, McCormick, endeavor and consistent performance. Entered J expect to hear that the capacity of the called the fact that he scored a game here Titus, Osborne, Clements and Thomas to pick the League in August, 1887, played 61 games, with in which the Atlantics defeated the famous a batting average of .344. Batting averages from Polo grounds is tested the first time that from." 1898 on to date: 1898, .305; 189!), .359; 1900, .380; Dovey©s team plays in New York, and there Lowells by a score of 30 to 10. While 1901, .352; 1902, .329; 1903, .355; 1904, .349; 1905. is no doubt that it will be a case of stand here, Mr. Chapman called upon George A Real $12,000 Beauty. .363; 1906. .339; 1907, .350. ing room only the first time McGraw©s Wright and the pair had a very enjoyable "It is the professional player after all, gentle chat on old times. The following story from a New York men, the player the right professional player team plays here. "Billy" Sullivan, a former correspond paper of one incident at the recent Na who has made it possible for our national game to THE BALTIMORE GRADUATES. tional League meeting in New York we can have such a hold on the affection of our people. ent of "Sporting Life" for this city, and Mr. Wagner, on behalf of the National League. What a lot of fun there would be were Walter Barnes are back from a trip to the vouch for as a true tale: I present you this loving cup. Were it filled with Hugh Jenumgs as well as McGraw and Kel Berkshires. Mr. Sullivan put in some big "What Is said to be the largest offer ever made gold it could not adequately convey to you the ley managing in the National League. We licks for his paper at the foot ball games. for one ball player was made to-day by President appreciation of the National League of what you now have the big four of Baltimore divided Barnes has been under the weather and t©l © Murphy, of the World©s Champion Chicago "Cubs© for have done for the organization. Take tt to your Jennings and Keeler in the American trip did him a world of good. outflelder Sherwood Magee, the great all-round pl*y- home and, when the shades of life draw nigh and er of the Philadelphia Nationals. A well authen your hair becomes silvered, you can look upon League and Kelley and McGraw in the Na "The "Journal" is booming the game i: ticated report is that the offer was $12,000 in cash it and repeat this sentiment that I give to you tional. "There is no reason," said "Jack" great shape these days, with cartoons and three young players, who are all regarded as now, namely: "While Republics may be ungrateful Chapman, during his visit of last week to well as with stories. When a paper runj most promising. The "Cubs© broke the world©s record to those who serve them true, the National League Boston, "why Joe Kelley should not make daily cartoons devoted wholly to base bal. of the world by winning four successive games for , was not unappreciative of one who served it best.© ** DECEMBER 28, 1907.

BEVOTEIS jo sense BRLL mc/v ANSS MERSVRES "WITH MALICE TOWORD NONE nno CHARITY FOR ALL "-Editor Francis c.

fortitude and survived it with marvelous that;; sufficient for the day is the fact that unanimity. Not one of the old established aoth clubs are satisfied. SPORTING LIFE minor leagues failed; not one suffered loss and undebased by moral turpitude. of membership or reduction of circuit; only The National Commission will meet in A WEEKLY JOURNAL a few were compelled to make a tern ineinnati on January 6 and consider Na devoted to porary club shift; and the only wrecks of tional Agreement revision and National As PRESS POINTERS. Base Ball, Trap Shooting and sociation demands. On the following day the most trying season on record were a Why Club Extravagance Should Be Ee- General Sports couple of new leagues whose defective or .he two schedule committees will discuss opening and holiday dates. strained By Law. ganization doomed them to failure under From New York "Sun." any circumstances. Following is a com There will be legislation by both of the big leagues FOUNDED APRIL, 1883. before next season which will prohibit owners of plete record of the 1907 season, embracing PITCHING AVERAGES. clubs which take part in the world©s series from the leagues which finished the season, to donating their share of the receipts to the players. Trade-marked by the Sporting Life Pub. Co. The owners of the Detroit Club, for instance, after gether with champion teams and their mana Father Chadwick recently wrote to Mr. Entered at Philadelphia Post Office Russell H. Ramsey, of Philadelphia, for giving over their end of the coin resulting from tlja as second class matter gers: series to Jennings© men found that they were actually further explanation of his new system of $700 out of pocket owing to about $2000 spent by LEAGTJE. WINNER. MANAGERS. computing an average to show the effective them in fitting up their ball park for the big games. Eastern ...... Toronto...... Joseph Kelley ness of a pitcher unaided by his fielders. The players receive plenty of money from the series Published by It will be remembered that this system was without such, extreme liberality on the part of their American Assoc.. Columbus..... William Clymer employers, some of the ball magnates say. But Southern...... Atlanta...... Wm. A. Smith recently given in detail in "Sporting Life©s" unless there is legislation against the practice it ia The Sporting life Publishing Company Western I/eague.. Omaha...... Wm. Rourke columns together with editorial endorsement set forth that the owners who do not give up Pacific Coast...... Ix>s Angeles.. William Berry of the plan. Following is the reply of the readily will be called hogs by both players and fans. 34 South Third Street New York ...... Albany...... M. J. Doherty inventor to Mr. Chadwick: New England,.... Worcester.... Jesse Burkett PHILADELPHIA. PA.. U. S. A. Connecticut...... Holyoke...... Thos. A. Dowd Philadelphia, Pa., December 6, 1907. My dear Pulliam©s Salary Increase Justified. Central...... Springfield ... John Hendricks Mr. Chadwick: I appreciate your letter of Nov. 9 From "New York "Globe." Ind.-Iilinois-Iowa. Rock Lsland.. John Tighe indorsing my proposed system for calculating pitchers© In one way the National League meeting at the THOMAS S. DANDO...... President Western Assoc.... Wicbjta...... John Holland averages. I should have acknowledged your kind Waldorf was a failure. There were no crowds Inter-State...... Oil City...... J. T. Collopy letter long before this, but I have been very busy around the bars. After the first two days everybody J. CLIFF DANDO...... Treasurer with business matters, which must come before was broke. The league magnates raised Harry Pul FRANCIS C. RICHTER...... Editor-in-Chief Tri-State...... WilllamBport. U. Wolverton pleasure. South Atlantic.... Charleston.... w. Matthews To state my system in a simplified form, elimin liam©s salary after thi* demonstration of the ia« MRS. WILL K. PARK...... Gun Editor Cotton States. .,.. Mobile...... Bernie McCay ating the algebra as you request: The object of my creased cost of living in New York. EDWARD C. STARK...... Business Manager Virginia ...... Norfolk...... Robert Fender system is to find the percentage of batters who are Ohio-Penna...... Youngstown.. Sam Wright retired before reaching first base, or who ought to The " Soiled-B all" Eule. Texas ...... Austin...... M. Morris be so retired in the absence of fielding errors. To From Philadelphia "Inquirer." Subscription Rates N. Copper County Winnipeg..... Edward Herr find this percentage I first add together the legal The rule proposed by President Ban Johnson, of One Tear...... $2.00 Western Canada.. Medicine Hat W. Merritt "at bats," the number of bases on balls given, the American League, to prevent pitchers from soil Northwestern..... Aberdeen..... R. T. Brown and the number of batters hit by pitched ball. This ing new balls when they are put in play is a good Six Months...... 1.25 Iowa State...... Mar haltown. 8. Kennedy gives the number of batters who have faced the one and should be incorporated in the book of Three Months...... 65c Wisconsin State... Freeport...... T. Schoonhoven pitcher. rules. There is no necessity for delaying the game South Michigan... Tecnmseh .... S. Burkhardt Then adding together the number of hits, the from ten to fifteen minutes through such practice. Canadian Postage, 50 cents extra per year. bases on balls and the number of batters hit by With the practice stopped entirely there will be no Foreign Postage, $1.00 extra per year. Penna.-Maryland. Steubenville.. Percy Stettler pitched balls, and substracting the sum of these advantage for any pitcher. President Joe O©Brien of Western Penna... Fainnont..... Joseph Mack from the legal "at bats," I have left as the re the Association, last season notified all umpires PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Indiana-Ohio...... Decatur...... C. Wilson mainder the number of batters retired or who should to prevent the pitchers from putting dirt and tobacco New Hampshire.. Newton...... H. Brown have been retired. juice on new balls to take the gloss off, but it did Gulf Coast...... Alexandria... M. Auslet Now dividing this number of batters who have not work, as the pitchers soiled them just the same. Okla.-Ariz.-K!ans. Bartlesville... F. Daniels been (or shouid have been) retired by the total However, it did stop the delay to some extent. The Maine State...... Bangor...... John lott number of batters who have faced the pitcher, I powers that be might also stop the practice of having Empire State ..... Oswego...... Claude Elliott obtain the percentage desired. the pitcher throw five balls to the catcher after In other words, instead of crediting the pitcher each half inning. It would save another ten tQ This is an imposing array of leagues to with the percentage of games won out of the total fifteen minutes every game. number pitched, I propose to credit him with tho go practically intact through such a bad percentage of batters retired before reaching first weather season as that of 1907. The wonder base (or who should be so retired, barring fielding The Next National Schedule. errors) out of tue total number who have faced him. From Cincinnati "Enquirer." of the record grows when we consider the This eliminates the batting of the pitcher©s own The National League season of 1908 will begin OB physical and financial handicaps all minor team, the fielding of both teams and the base run April 15 or 16. The former date is Wednesday and ning of both teams, and is certainly a better cri is most likely to be chosen, in order to allow the leagues, in varying degree, must inevitably terion of the work done by the pitcher himself. clubs to finish the opening series of four games on labor under, and the many difficulties they I hope this makes my system perfectly clear to Saturday and have a new attraction for the first you, though I shall" be glad to try again if there Sunday. Chicago will open in Cincinnati, Pittsburg must encounter and surmount. However is still anything which is not entirely plain. in St. Louis, Boston in Brooklyn, New York ia PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 28, 1907 Regarding your suggestion that the batters© aver Philadelphia. the permanence and continuous success o: ages should be so computed as to show the percentage these minor leagues is not so much proo: of runs forwarded by base hits, I think your idea most excellent and I wonder that it has not been A Point Anent "Warming-Up." RENEWAL OF CREDENTIALS. of their inherent strength as tribute to th< adopted. With kindest regards from a novice in From Philadelphia "Record." protective power of the National Association both base ball and chess to a noble veteran of both Another suggestion Mr. Johnson might have added noble games, I beg to remain, yours very truly, is to do away with the warming-up of the new All correspondents of the "Sporting Life" into which they are banded. This great KTJSSELL H. RAMSEY. pitchers. Five balls are allowed to be pitched over organization is the real source of strength 472 Bullitt Building Philadelphia, Pa. the plate under the present rules, which takes up re requested to return their credentials for Like "Sporting Life" Mr. ChaoVwick fully a minute or two. If the pitcher can "warm up." of the great array of minor leagues, inas why wouldn©t it be fair to allow the utility batsman renewal for 1908. Prompt compliance with ndorses the new method of arriving at a who replaces a regular to practice hitUng on five much as it not only affords protection to pitcher©s real average as a marked improve balls? Every up-to-date manager has a pitcher this request is necessary in order to facili capital invested in minor league ball, thus ment upon the misleading system now in warmed up at all times ready to go in, and it looks vogue of ranking pitchers according to per like a waste of time to allow the pitcher to throw tate the annual labor of reorganizing the making for permanence, but also compels centage of victories. five more balls when he takes his place in the discipline in the ranks, thus assuring to centre of the diamond. Cut out everything that U correspondence corps, which is, by the way, unnecessary and shorten the games as much al quite a task, owing to the immense number the public the absolute integrity of the possible without hurting the actual play. sport. This deserves, commands and re WISE SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN. of contributors the "Sporting Life" has About What It Amounts To. tains the exceptional patronage which enables * There is no use in running to meet upon its staff. Failure to return the old From Philadelphia "North American." these leagues to live and prosper. trouble. If you only wait long enough it Frank Delehanty says he is going to sue the Cleve* credentials will be considered a declination will overtake you. Joe Cantillon. land Club. Probably he wants to make them show *It doesn©t pay to mortgage your op cause why they were foolish enough to take him ofl of further service as correspondent. IN SHORT METRE. portunities. Garry Herrmann. Clark Griffith©s hands. The two major leagues should by al© *The eleventh commandment might very well be "Mind your own business." Mike THE "CINCINNATI REDS." means get together on the proposition to Regan. PUBLIC OPINION, limit the number of players to be reserved *A deaf mute artist is not necessarily a "Sporting Life" is now engaged and and carried by the clubs this not only Taftville Not Invincible Though Immortal© sign painter. Luther Taylor. ized in Verse. will BO remain throughout the non-playing justice to minor leagues, but to relie kLong engagements have one advantage Brooklyn, N. T., Dec. 20. Editor "Sporting Life." Reason in the publication of specially-ar themselves of a burden which is pressing The longer a man is engaged the less time I have read with interest the poem, published ia ranged half-tone group pictures of famous heaviest upon the clubs least successful by he has to be married. Edwin Hyneman. "Sporting Life" about the Taitville-Jewett City *The Presidential bee will administer many games. I don©t think the games between thesa tase ball teams. The series will comprise reason of team weakness. Let it not be teams havo always resulted as in the article pub the eight National League teams, the eight a sting to proud ambition. M. H. Sexton. lished. The games have always been stubbornly con forgotten that strength lies in quality, not ^he one time when a man will hold his tested and great rivalry has always existed between American League teams, and probably all of in numbers. these teams, but Jewett City has had a good share own is when he holds a grudge. Charles of the victories. One of the biggest games between the champion minor league teams about omiskey. these teams was in the summer of 1905, which took twenty-four groups. To date we have pub The official batting averages of the Ameri *The pugilist can©t complain that a left- placo on the Norwich (Connecticut League) grounds. Jewett City had its regular team of players while lished group pictures of the Chicago National can Association show 17 men who have landed punch isn©t right. Jack McLean. Taftville had players from different towns and a League team, of the Detroit American League batted .300 or better a remarkable showing ^What a cinch it would be for the under few minor leaguers. The game was the first of a in these days of batting decadence. Twelve taker if all the "dead ones" realized it. series of three games for a side bet. Jewett City team, of tfhe Pittsburg National League team, Joe Q.uinn. , ran away from the supposed stars, winning to the of the.se .300 batsmen are major league dis tune of 17-3, and Taftville backed out of the of the Athletic American League team, of the *An ounce of boost is worth a pound of other games and the side bet. I don©t see where Philadelphia National League team, of the cards, which would seem to indicate that the obituary. Tim Murnane. they have anything on the Jewett City boys. Verj truly yours, EDWARD M. SECOB, Chicago American League team, of the New mass .of young players now being developed k Can the leader of an orchestra be ex 645 Willoughby Avenua, York National League team, of the Cleve are sadly lacking jn batting ability. The pected to keep good time when he carries a dollar watch? Siegfried Behrens. land American League team, of the Brooklyn foul-strike rule breeds superior pitchers only. "The Best Ever.©* ^he bum actor is anxious to do Hamlet, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 18. Editor "Sporting Life." National League team, and of the New York or anybody else. Billy Hallman. I have been taking your paper for fifteen years It is a matter of congratulation that the and can honestly say that It contains more interest American League team. In this issue we * Stocks have been known to take a drop ing base ball news than any paper I have read. publish a very fine picture of the Cinciu,- annual reports of Presidents Pulliam and much, even watered stocks. James Pot- Respectfully yours, HARRY PEREGORY, natis, sixth team in the National Leagne. Johnson showed a decided improvement in . 905 Milton Place« Ia our*next issue, January 4, will be found the behavior of the players on the field, *"Shakespeare never repeats," which is which goes to prove that the players are more than can be said of some voters. FANS OF THE HOT STOVE LEAGUE. a group picture of leading trap shooters, in harles F. Carpenter. keeping with the Trap-Shooting Review to realizing that rowdyism on the field is a thing not to be countenanced. The seed M.I Joseph Morfarity. ©be published in that number. In the issue The fans hug close to the hot store of January 11, will be given a group picture first sowed by Ban Johnson has indeed To fan and dope the plays borne goo£ fruit. THE HOLD OF BASE BALL That made the pennant winners of St. Louis, the sixth team of the Ameri And settled championship days. can League. Thereafter the publication of St. Louis "Sporting News." The American League has taken the bull The recent slump in the money market They©ll dope out all the new recruits the group pictures will continue uninter That are slated for a place by the horns in the matter of arbitrarily ly have nipped the edges off many busi To strengthen out the weak spots ruptedly, thus giving our readers something regulating the double-header abuse, while ness enterprise, but it "never touched" For next season©s grinding race. and comment to look forward to each week, 3ase ball, which was hibernating at the time the National League is inclined to balk at i^he trouble came and will come out again in They tell of how the Southern League besides current news. this reform. In this matter the senior ;he spring as fresh and blooming as the Has barred McGraw©s nine roses in June time. "Wonder how many And gave him an invitation league should not fall behind the junior people in this great universe have stopped To keep clear of the Dixie line. THE MINOR SEASON. league by showing too conservative spirit. ong enough to ask themselves: © ©What is They©ll study the official figures Paltering with abuses will not reform or ;h.ere in base ball- that gives it such a Of Secretary Bob McRoy powerful grip on the American people that Of those who found the leather-covered sphere The minor leagues of the country, em even check them. And walloped it with joy. braced in the National Association and ex icthing seems able to remove its influence from them?" There is np foreign element They©ll con the stronger line-up ceeding thirty in number, found the 1907 Nearly all the base ball experts have had such as betting that maintains horse-racing, Of both the Boston teams season a crucial one inasmuch as the late or a personal pride as is the case in college And the signs of something doing something to say about the recent New York- ©ootboll, or an infrequsnt occurrence as In the famous town of beans. spring and almost continuous bad weather of Boston trade of players. The consensus of .vith boat racing, to add to its charm, but Such is the official program April, May and June affected them no less opinion seems to be that no one knows t is simply itself without a definition. It As close to the stove they hug severely than the major leagues. Notwith *an be seen or read about year after year Of the Summer, Winter, AU-the-timfc which club got the best or worst of it. without cessation, and it should be kept free standing, they met the ordeal with calm Base ball Bugs. Results next season will have to determine! rom moral defilement, separate from any Taftville, Conn., December 8. DECEMBER 28, 1907. L,IF*E.

profession and enabling them to secure ade uate mercy of the owners, in that he must plav share of their savings sewed up in the Knicker compensation for espertnsss. f bocker Trust. (4.) Adoption of a uniform code of rulos for for whatever figure is offered him at the Fred Tenney has been in the major leagues for playing base ball. . j ; expiration of his contract, or whatever he is thirteen years, but the deal last week gave him his MILLIONS INVESTED IN GAME!.! offered by a club that drafts or purchases first change of base. him ?©© "Larry" McLean, the Cincinnati catcher, thinks "How much money is invested approxi Hen-inarm made a big mistake in dropping Ned mately in the game in this country?" That is not true. In the first place, Hanlon as manager. "ORGANIZED BALL" IS PURELY I have never given this feature of the every player no matter whether in a club Patsey Donpvan has signed a contract to manage game any special study, but my judgment is of the lowest classification or of the highest Brooklyn again nest season. Donovan is popular CO-OPERATIVE, that it represents from $7,000,000 to $10,- is subject to draft or purchase, thus per with public and players. 000,000. An approximate idea of the mitting him to advance in his profession. George Browne was traded because ths New York amount invested, however, could easily be One of the fundamental rules of the Com outfield is complete without him with Donlin, Shan ascertained by classifying the various mission is that as a player advances in his non and Seymour all in line. The National Agreement System leagues, the number of clubs in each and profession, that is to say, passes from a The PittsbuiTg Club has released third baseman then placing a value thereon. club of a lower classification to a higher, Thomas P. Sheehau to Brookyln, and inflelder his salary must advance with him. On the Harry Hinchmau to Cleveland. is Beneficial and Has Rot Any DEPENDS ON CIRCUMSTANCES. other hand, if the player is one that pos To date the New York Club has secured the "Do, you believe organized base ball is sibly cannot advance any higher through ex- signatures of three veterans to contracts, namely justified in blacklisting players who have pertness of his own than the league in which Donlin, Seymour and Mathewson. of the Noxious Features of a jumped their contract 1'' he is in, it does not follow that a club The former third baseman of Philadelphia and Answering this question in a general way owner can offer him a salary unreasonable New York, Billy Lauder, has been re-engaged as I would say, No. No player, no matter what coach of Williams College base ball team. " Real Monopolistic Trust* or under the average salary in vogue in the Ned Hanlon is quoted as saying that under the league or club he may be a member of, particular league of which he is a member. conditions prevailing in Cincinnati no man can should be blacklisted by ,any authorized au If such a thing happens the player has re make a success as team manager of the Beds. SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." thority, without having been first given a fair dress to the league of which he is a member Third baseman Miko Mowrey, of Cincinnati, is New York, Dec. 23. " If it were not for and impartial hearing, and then only if the nnd an appeal to the National Association or spending the holidays in Baltimore, where he ex facts in connection with each case would the National Commission. pects In time to establish a permanent home, organized base ball," declares President warrant it. As Chairman of the National It is said that during the League meeting Barney Pulliam, of the National League, "players Commission I have been somewhat familiar SALARIES ARE NOT SCHEDULED. Dreyfuss censured Charley Murphy because the© would be working for wages during the past four years With the cases "Is there a working agreement between latter refused to send Artia Hofxnau to Cincinnati. by the day instead of com known as "contract jumpers." In many the major leagues regarding salaries, man "Tim" Jordan is again holding- out for more fortable salaries by the instances there were extenuating circum agement and policy in addition to the Nation money. But there will be no trouble signing month. Those who assail the stances and the players were promptly re al Agreement?" him. The Brooklyn Club is ready to do the right present system of base ball instated. In other instances the violation There positively is not nor has there been thing. government, calling it a of contracts were so deliberate and malicious, since the adoption of the National Agree J. H. McKinney, a likely young pitcher from involving in some instances what in other Oyster Bay, has been signed for a. trial by the trust, do not know what ment. In fact, it is my judgment, and I am New York Club, Ex-catcher Con Dailey ia his they are talking about. Con lines of business would be termed criminal quite sure of this proposition, that the com sponsor. actions that no other punishment, in my bined salaries of the 16 major league clubs ditions were never so good Captain John Ganzel has the inside track for for the ball player as they the position of manager of the Cincinnati team, now are at the present time. that Bresnahan. Tenney and Leach could not be Salaries are generous and obtained. they are always paid in full New York critics are unanimously of opinion that right up to the close of the McGraw still needs and imperatively needs to strengthen his pitching staff to really get into the H. C. Pulliam season, whether the club loses money or not. There next race. is never any welching on the part of the Johnny Kling is so popular In Kansas City that every time he essays to play a game of billiards . club owner. If a player has in his own room he breaks up every other game in CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT the house. s The engagement of Umpire Rudderham, of the all he has to do is to bring his case before Southern League, by President PuHiam has started the National Commission and he is given per rumors of Carpenter©s retirement from the Na fect justice. When a player is injured or tional staff. sick he is taken care of at the expense of House, the new outflelder from the Iowa League, the club, and his salary is paid in full to be tried by tho St. Louis Nationals next season, While he is laid off. Such liberal treatment will be the only Indian in Harry Pulliam©s circuit is unknown in other amusement enterprises. if he lasts. In the theatrical business, if a week is Brooklyn has waived claims on outfieMers Odweil and Kruger, of Cincinnati, and both will be missed, the actors are cut off the pay roll turned over to the Columbus Club along with for the time thev are idle. If a train is pitcher Hltt. late and a performance is therefore called Pitcher Andy Coakley, of the Reds, has put on off the actors are docked a day©s pay, though great deal of weight since tlie season closed. the accident was due to no fault of their The Holy Cross man©s frail build was bla only own. What a howl would go up from handicap in the past. Secretary Knowles, of New York, states that Fred THE BALL PLAYERS. Tenney will not be traded to Cincinnati or any if they©were cut out of a day©s pay every other club and that all of the Boston recruits will time it rained and there was no game. In be held by New York. every way the interest of the player is con Ground-keeper John Murphy has been re-engaged by the New York Club for three years. He will served and protected under the existing go South with the Giants to get the diamond at rules. If base ball law were not enforced Marlin Springs in shape. as it is at the present it would be only a Th* sale of Abstain means that gwadna and question of a short space of time before there Kane will fight it out for first base in the Plratas© would be a chaos and the player would be line-up next spring. Kane is tha favorite for the getting the short end of it. Every intelli place with the Pittsburg fans. 40 gent _ball player knows this to be a fact There should be no question about Larry Doyle©s and is satisfied with the modern system, nationality, for in addition to his patronymic triat which is the best mode of government that suggests the Emerald Isle, the second sackar of the the game has ever enioyed." - ^ Giants was bom at Caseyvflle, ILL It ia said that Pfttsbirrg*s surplus talent will be distributed among Ohio-Pennsylvania League and P. 0. M, Leaguo clubs, where Mr. DreyfuM can con CLEAR AS DAY. veniently keep an eye on them. At Warren, O., Dec. 18, Mis. Mary t7pp was Is Shown the Beneficient Operation of the granted alimony from pitcher Geotga TJpp, whose release was last fall sold to the Cincinnati Club by National Agreement. Columbus. The amount was not named. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 23. Somnaban will yet land a* player-manager of the his "Doves" will be 300,000,000 per cent, strongec the spirit of competition In the conduct of the Cincinnati team. than they wea» last year. The team will be aJ, clubs. PLATERS NOT AT MAGNATES© MERC Luther Tajtar and Christie Mathswson are tao better hitting afflrreszction by lon^ odds and the ef-j (S.) Promotion of the welfare at ball players as "Is it true that a ball player -vrhen h© Giants who got gttznff for tha time being by the fort to win wfll not Do iUoasQiar with tb« piichani "S class by developing and perfecting them in their signs bis first contract is virtually at Unsay ia U» «*»«*.<**! world. Both hove a good ©as teat yeat r SF»ORTIIV DECEMBER 28, 1907.

may do with Boston. There is a team which Manager Gviffith failed to take advantage will almost surely play better base ball by METROPOLITAN MENTION. of his tip to grab his young outfielder, Pas- fifty per cent, in 1908. It isn©t at all a kert. The Atlanta manager says he gave possibility that the team will win the cham Stil| Discussing the Big Deal Between the Griff six weeks to get the young outfielder, pionship it might happen, of course, al who is now touted as another Magee by tha most anything is likely to happen in basa New York and Boston Nationals Mc- Cincinnati Club, which purchased his re ENJOYED A MOST SUCCESSFUL ball but without a question Brooklyn is lease from the Atlanta Club. up against the hardest season that it has Graw©s Plans Are Sweeping Farrel RICHMOND GETS LOCAL MEN. had since the new owners secured their hold on the club. and Griffith Alive to Their Responsibili John J. McGrath, the well known local 1907 SEASON, semi-professional promoter, has signed the BROOKLYN WEEDS ties. following players for Manager Perry Lipe, more first class players. N» matter if every of the Richmond Club: Vess Sweeney, man now connected with the team is on the By Win. F. H. Koelsch. catcher; Sam Smith, pitcher; Bill Lavelle, The Annual Meeting a Peaceful pay roll and goes South foi spring train New York, Dew. 22. Editor "Sporting outfielder. McGrath has also arranged a ing in 1908, the nine must havn some better Life." The big Boston deal continues t< deal for the Richmond Club whereby out Affair at Which the Old Officers players if it expects to do anything with the be the leading topic among local fans and fielder Frank De May will be transferred Bostons and with the Philadeiphlas and __ speculation as to the prob from the Savannah Club. All these young Pittsburgs in the coming season. Th« weak able line-up of the Giantf players are local boys and McGrath believes Were Re-elected With Thanks spots in the Brooklyn Club are well known next year is being indulgec that they will prove valuable men to the by the manager of the team. The presi in. Despite rumors to the Richmond Club. De May is said to be a and Compliments for Their Work dent and manager should hold a consultation effect that Manager McGraw player of much promise, being a handy and come to an agreement in regard to them. still has in contemplation all-around man. The manager of the Brooklyn team is not a deal with Cincinnati, it is MISCELLANY. the only person who has to do with base believed that no importan SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." ball who knows something about the weak trades will be made. Oni It is said that Harry Niles has ©written New York, Dec. 23. The annual meeting points of the nine. A player who makes report has it that the Chi to the local club on the subject of advance of the Brooklyn Base Ball Club was held four base hits in one afternoon and then cago Club will turn over money. on Dec, 16 in the office of Albert C. Wall takes four afternoons after to celebrate Artie Hofman to Cincinnat George Davis pays the Yankees© sensa 1 Exchange place, Jersey the event isn©t exactly the kind of a mai and that he will be traded tional first baseman this tribute: © ©In City. For the first time on who will bring a championship to any city by the latter club, together all my experience I have never seen the record the gathering was A player who will fail to make any hit in W. F. H. Koelsch with Lobert and Schlei, for equal of Hal Chase as a first baseman. He made up entirely of Brook an afternoon and will mourn the fact for Tenney and Bresnahan. Oi makes plays that no other first baseman that point McGraw said: "To say that I would think of attempting.©© Right you lynites, with the exception o; the next three with plenty of company isn©© are, George. Mr. Wall, who is the New just the sort of man who is needed to play would trade Tenney after making the sac Jersey counsel for the club ball in Brooklyn. rifice that I did to get him would be foolish Mathewson, Donlin and Seymour have The 2,500 shares of stock When I get one man that I need you cai signed contracts for next year. Manager were voted as follows: TAKE CARE OF EAST. bet I am not going to turn him loose." McGraw will make a personal call on Fred Charles H. Ebbetts, Sr. Perhaps this isn©t as fair as making state With Bowerman gone it would be foolish Tenney to bring him into line, while Secre ments point blank, but in the present case for the club to think of tary Knowles has mailed contracts to the 1,499; H. W. Medicus, 749 other players. Charles H. Ebbetts, Jr., 250 it is much more polite. Anyhow, the fact LETTING BRESNAHAN OUT Robert A. Wright, 1; A. C remains that Brooklyn needs and must have Local fans have not yet recovered from WTall, 1. The following of more good infielders and outfielders. It is too. No matter what the Toledo man©s the surprise occasioned by Garry Herr imperative in view of the fact that Boston personal feelings may be, he is of a tern mann©s failure to grab Roger Bresnahan Chat. Ebbetts fleers were elected : Charles H. Ebbetts, Sr., president anc is so much stronger. The game before perament that would compel him to when he had the chance. Just think what and general manager; Robert A. Wright, vice Brooklyn now is to keep up with the East play his best and work to win at all times it would mean ,to the Yankees if they could Let the West take care of itself. Philadel Besides, it is said that Bresnahan©s trouble get Bresnahan. With him behind the bat president; H. W. Medicus, treasurer; C. H Griffith©s men would about figure as favor Ebbetts, Jr., secretary; Board of Directors, phia is assuredly better than it was last was with some of the players who have been traded. It was absolutely necessary ites in next year©s race in the American the officers and A. C. Wall; Executive Com year, even if a player on the nine is noi League. mittee, Ebbetts, Sr., Medicus and Ebbetts changed. New York will be a far more to break up the old combination of Giants Jr. President Ebbetss© report showed s dangerous commodity in view of the fact that .and McGrew knew it full well. For in profitable season in 1907. He announced the Giants another summer will be playing stance, did you notice Frank Bowerman©s plans for considerable improvement at Wash for reputation, and not with reputation, anc reply to Tim Murnane©s query? From SAME OLD GAME. ington Park, including increased seating Boston will be the hardest nut that Brooklyn Michigan the big catcher, who has won capacity, better accommodations for visiting will have to face. That is, the hardest nut a New York uniform for eight years, wirec The Science of Base Ball Has Not Ad clubs, etc. He also intimated that an ef on the base of an effort on the part of both as follows: "I am very much pleased wit©l fort was being made to secure a well known nine to put themselves somewhere in the the change as I like Boston very well. I vanced a Particle and the Sb-caUed outfielder to strengthen the team. first division. If anybody has a good out am glad you have Dahlen. I think he is fielder who is not exactly needed for the a better ball player now than McGraw ever "New Tricks" Are Old Ones Revamped. season Brooklyn can use him. Others can be was.©© BROOKLYN BUDGET. used as well. PRETTY TART, By Elmer E. Bate*. DREYFUSS DEFENDED. and it shows that the former champions Cleveland, 0., Dec. 16. Editor "Sporting were not a harmonious band last season Life." Every few days some adolescent The Recent New York-Boston Deal a. By the way, speaking: of Sheehan, brings critic of the national game bobs up serenely to mind the fact that Barney Drevfuss has George Browne was openly roasting his Warning to Ebbetts and Medicus to Get been immediately blamed for blocking some manager before the transfer was announced with the assertion that base ball is becoming ,r _._ «" and he has expressed great satisfaction so scientific and so mysterious that only Busy and Strengthen the Superbas Also of the deals which were suggested at the with his change of base. Dann McGann is those in touch with the individual players League meeting last week. Mr. Dreyfuss is said to be anxiously awaiting a nice con and those familiar with the intricate prob for the Next Race. entitled to a fair hearing. Not only did he tract from Manager Kelley and Bill Dah lems that confront the rival© captains in deny that he had done anything of the len is maintaining a dignified silence. every battle have any conception of what By John B. Foster. kind, both in the League .me©ting and in Bill©s friends say, however, that he will is really going on in those busy brains private, but he went far enough to state show the Boston fans a few things if he Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 23. Editor "Sport why conditions have placed him in a false down on the diamond. It is, in fact, becom ing Life." Brooklyn asked for nothing and position. © ©Mr. Herrmann came to me in is offered an attractive contract. Ferguson, ing quite the popular thing to refer to the got the same. That©s about all there is to the pitcher who was thrown in the deal for base ball of a few years ago as a sort of regard to the proposed deal between the good measure, has not been heard from. say in connection with the New York and Cincinnati Clubs," said Mr. brainless sport in sharp contradistinction to National League meeting in MANAGER McGRAW the wonderful artistic and mystifying game Dreyfuss, "and I advised him against it. ] that is played today. New York. Perhaps Brook don©t intend to make any effort to deny it. may make a trip to California and has lyn would very much have I did not advise him against it because I lanned for an early spring training trip, ALL THERE IS TO IT. preferred to have been given am an enemy of the New York Club. What Pt is his intention to be in Dallas, Tex., All this is, of course, the sheerest non something at a fair price, ever feeling there mav be between me and on Feb. 29 to meet several of his members sense in all the world as every faithful but there was no one who the New York Club does not enter into my whom he has ordered to report to him there. devotee of the game knows full well. The would say "yes" until the base ball relations. My advice to Mr. Herr By March 1 it is expected that all hands SCIENCE of base ball is limited today as last moment. Sheehan comes mann had absolutely nothing to it except will be at Marlin Springs and quite a is was limited back in the ©80s and the to this city, Charles H. Eb what I thought was advisable from a base few exhibition games will be played in ©90s TO THE ABILITY OF ONE PLAYEB betts having made up his ball standpoint. Possibly I was wrong, Dallas and Fort Worth, and the final games TO OUTGUESS ANOTHER PLAYER, ana mind that he will take him. don©t pretend that I am infallible. I on the exhibition schedule now being that, in brief, is all there is to the whole But listen! The National DID NOT ADVISE worked out by Secretary Knowles will be proposition. It was quite necessary for a League has been given a ter played in cities on a direct route between pitcher to know what NOT to offer up to John B. Foster rific flop. The situation Mr. Dovey to make the trade with the New- Dallas and New York. It is now admitted Brouthers and Anson and Browning as it ia not what it was before the York Club because I have an interest in that while the elaborate California trip of for the modern pitcher to know what par meeting began, There has been a marked Boston. As a matter of fact, I have n_ last spring had its advantages, the long ticular balls to keep away from the Wagners strengthening of one team of which Brook interest in Boston. I wanted to make a trade jumps from the Pacific Coast were neither and( Lajoies today, and the guessing contests lyn should be justly afraid. The Bostons with Mr. Dovey because I wanted Tenney profitable nor of benefit to the players. It between the base runners and the catchers of 1908, if everything goes right with for Pitteburg. If I had known before the is understood that Manager McGraw will be were fully as exciting in the days of Harry them, will be a much better nine that the League meeting began that Clarke would like ON THE FIRING LINE Stovey and Charley Snyder as they are ia Bostons of 1907, so much better in fact that to have Tenney for first base at Pittsburg the days of Ty Cobb and Billy Sullivan, it wil take all the ingenuity of one "Patsy" I should have come to New York fortified next season even if he does not play second Donovan and those associated with him in with every effort to get him. When I found base. The question as to why McGraw PERTINENT QUESTIONS. playing ball in Brooklyn to beat the Bos that New York was after him and© when I kept off the coaching lines last season has Was "Old Hoss" RadboTirne when, tons out. learned from Mr. Tenney that he would like often been asked. It has been hinted that single-handed, he won the flag for Provi . EBBETTS AND MEDICUS to play ball for Pittsburg, and also heard his absence was to prove that his former dence, less "scientific" in outguessong the from Clarke that be would accept Tenney as activity was a valuable aid to the team. great batters of those days than are the nrnst not take a "snooze" with the notion a first baseman, I made an effort to get It is now understood that the magnetic Browns and Pfeisters and Donovans in out in mind that the most important team which him. I went after him just as hard as if little manager will next season get out on guessing the Cobbs and Crawfords and they have to beat next summer is Cincinnati. New York had not been on the base ball the lines and hustle as he did in the old Flicks of today f Boston is likely to take a fall out of both map. I days. The fans certainly did detect a Cincinnati and Brooklyn. "Garry" Herr- Were Kelly and Bennett and Ewing, when, HAD THAT RIGHT. lack of old-time vim and vigor in the work in their day, they nipped the slumbering mann slept while the base ball procession of the© team last season and unless there base runners at second and third by the got away from him. The chance of a life I have the same right as any other mana is a change the club©s popularity will surely dozens, less "scientific" than are the Klings time was lost when Bresnahan was not ger or owner in the National Leaeue to se wane. It has been said that McGraw is cure the players whom I think will benefit and Crigers and Clarkes who nowadays make nabbed by the Cincinnati Club. Don©t care not entirely satisfied with Larry Doyle©s such plays two or three times a season? a sou whether McGraw wanted to get rid of my team. That is all there is to it. I showing at second base last summer and desire the opportunity to state nublicly that What "science" of the game, indeed, Bresnahan or whether he wanted to keep that is no surprise. If McGraw seriously does any outfielder of 1907 possess that him. It isn©t a question whether Bresna I have not been hostile to the New York contemplates playing the bag himself he did Club except as I was a competitor in the Jimmy Fogarty, Billy Lange, Curt Welch han or Bowerman was the most advisable not look the part during the recent meeting. and Jim McAleer did not have 15 or 20 player to be retained on the New York nine. market exactly as was Mr. Brush. When it The once great third baseman looked pretty comes to being accused of treachery I rebel. years ago? What outfielder of today ia Never mind the fact that there has been heavy. There are some here who believe either league would not willingly surrender friction between Bowerman and Bresnahan It is not fair to me. I have made no effort that Danny Shay will be seen at second to do anything which would be hurtful to all he knows of the game in exchange for ever since Roger was assigned bv McGraw to base or short field. It seems that the that particular "science" that enabled Mc catch all the games of the world©s champion New York in the matter of depriving it of trouble with Shay has been that he devotes opportunities to obtain players.©© Aleer to know by the very key in which the ship series against the Athletics. The fact too much attention to the ponies and there crack of the bat was attuned exactly where remains that Cincinnati which might have BARNEY ALL RIGHT. are some who believe that if he cuts ont to go for the ball? got put of the rut in which it has been the racing game he will nil a long-felt running for years failed to do so. There is is. Give Mr. Dreyfuss credit for THE OLD MASTERS. coming out in the open and declaring him want on the Giants© infield. BADLY ADVISED. Base ball is now, has been for thirty self. There are many persons who will think GRIFFITH HEARD PROM. years, and will be, let us hope, for all time Everybody knows exactly what advice was that he was undiplomatic in advising Cincin Word has been received by the local to come the great and glorious American eiven to Mr. Herrmann not to make the deal. nati not to make the trade with New York, American League club that Manager Grif Everybody knows where the information jame. So great and so glorious a game it and it may be that in the long run he will fith will return form his Montana ranch is that it needs no box office boomers, no leaked out in Cincinnati in regard to the regret that he gave any such advice, but soon after the holidays when active work press agents of the clnb owners to con deal, when both Mr. Herrmann and the tie says that he did and gives his reasons will be begun preparatory to the training tribute to its prestige. Especially should New York men who went to Cincinnati to for doing so, and that is about as far at trip to Atlanta. There still seems to be make it in the first place, pledged themselves the men whose fortunes are chanced on anybody can go in the matter. some question as to how the Yankees will the game pray to be spared from those to secrecy. It came back to New York P. J. DONOVAN, line up next ^season. Some say that it is critics in knickerbockers who seek to il within twenty-four hours and it did not Griff©s intention to play Moriarity perman- come from Mr. Herrmann nor did it come the manager of the Brooklyn Club, wishes luminate the present by throwing a shadow that some players may be secured for the ~ntly at third base and that both Njles and over the past. from the representatives of the New York /onroy will be tried out at seco_hd base Club, and after it got back to New York team in 1908. Don©t blame him. He was Fortunate, indeed, will base ball be if it and that whichever does not get The place .ives to see the reincarnation on its diamond it was common property in the Waldorf- one of the quickest of those who were on will go to the outfield. The sale of catcher Astoria within half an hour and that was :he ground when the deal was made between n BRAINS and SCIENCE of Charley Fergu Thomas to Detroit gave the gossips a on, the peerless pitcher and all around more than three weeks ago. Sufficient to ;he New York and Boston Clubs to see what chance to get busy with rumors that the say that the trade was not made and that t meant to Brooklyn, and incidentally to move was only a starter in a deal whereby player, of George Wright, the greatest short- the owner of the Cincinnati Club has been lim. As soon as he heard that it had gone either Matty Mclntyre or George Mullin stop of any age; of Buck Ewing, the master properly twisted in every direction by some through he said at once that Brooklyn must would be added to the Yankee forces. of all backstops in keeping a pitcher at his whom he believed to be his friends. Very get some more strength from some source jest; of. Clarkson and Whitney and Buffin- likely they are, but there are some things or be left in the race so far as the Eastern OWNER FARRELL, ;on, of Morrill and of Comiskey, of Evans in regard to base ball which they may learn division of the National League is concerned. lowever, put an end to it all by announcing and McCarthy, of Dunlap and Denny, and of If they continue in the game long enough. 3e is right. Brooklyn must nave more. tljat Thomas was sold outright to Detroit all the grand old heroes of the game who BOSTON IN IT NOW. Needs a lot more. Lumley and Alperman a cash bonus and that no deal for Mullin THOUGHT OUT AND PUT IN ACTION may come around all right and it is just as even mentioned. Thomas was very THE PLAYS THAT WE APPLAUD TODAY. But that is neither here nor there, so jossible that they may not be able to play ,k on foul balls and when young Blair far as Brooklyn is concerned. Granting that intil the season is half over with anything © ie here and threw out six men who tried What American League trade talk remains la there is a possibility of beating Cincinnati ike their usual speed. It©s a question of steal in a game with Cleveland and also iracticaQy confined to first baaemen. Cleveland. out, which is likely to have a fine ,race jet up and dust, and the quicker that Mr. idled the high spirals well there was no Joston, St. Louis and Washington would like chanca with St. Louis for eighth place, the question of some kind at the «"nger any room for Thomas. According: to has Charlie Carr on tt* JMadi tbam amr fe» sew before the court house is what Brooklyn for Brooklyn. Billy Smith, of th* Atlanta MCt 9t .» dOBl. DECEMBER 28, 1907. IN PITTSBURG TRADE

The Smoky City Friends of Joe Kelley Look for a Success for WM.G. the Veteran Local Ideas of HARK National League MeetingEvents. Base Ball Shoe BY A. jp. CRATTY. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 23. Editor "Sporting Life." Joe Kelley, the new pilot of the is ready; highly perfected and incomparable. Bostons, once played in this city. He has a clientele of friends, mostly Democrats, who stand by Twenty-six years© experience and suggestions from him. This band is a base ball going set. They are be ginning to predict a snappy nearly every great base ball player, have made this shoe race from the bean-eating crew for 1908. They take the stand that Kelley has at the limit of excellence in base ball footwear. last realized the ambition of rears. That is to play near Vis Boston home. On this Strength and lightness combine in .;asis they look for the vet eran to put every ounce of energy in the battle for 1908. Claflin©s Base Ball Shoe. Its extreme light A. R. Cratty Kelley besides has been shifted around so often, tried as a pilot, that he will have to dig in. ness and elasticity render adaptation easy He is going to do it and friends of the old league who desire to see a better race than has been presented for some years will get to the multitude of complex foot move it. Kelley will have a pretty GOOD BALL TEAM. ments required in base ball. Snug fit The recent deal will help. Joey will be surrounded by the kind of men he likes, McGann, Bowerman, Browne, Dahlen and without the slightest sacrifice of the, others, to say nothing of the old guard re tained by the Boston management. The club will be run on the principle of fight muscular activity of the foot for every game. With Tenney out of the way Joe will not be afraid of having any one take his job as manager. He will work untrammelled. From reports we have here Sprinter, $7.50. Professional,, $5. Minor League, $3-50. only one man of the cluster Boston secured from New York is inclined to be going You can buy Claflin shoes by mail by drawing outline of your foot on paper and enclos back. Sorry to say that Dahlen is the man. Rumor tells us that McGraw was dissatis ing sketch with a memorandum giving size and width of street boot. Remit with order and fied, almost disgusted, with Bill last season. save C. 0. D. charges. DAHLEN©S ARM kinked too often, besides Willie was churlish and would not run out hits, etc. It is are hand forged and fin hoped for the sake of base ball that Dahlen ished at the vise. Built will be able to stand the pace. Every bit helps towards a better race. Of course, to throw; off dirt without clogging. Riveted to shoe. that New York-Boston deal had its inning Spikes similar to those on our $3.50 shoe may be had at headquarters. There was some regret that the Pittsburg team did not land Tenney as for 50c set; similar to those on $5.00 shoe for $1.50 it certainly needs a first bagger, but the feeling was by no means universal. It- was set and similar to those on $7.50 shoe for $2.50 set. the impression of a number of the boys that while the veteran had ability, neverthe less the fact that he would be a dethroned . CLAFLIN, 1107 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia leader in the ranks might bring some sort of a feeling not conducive to good team discipline. •?,-. LIKES HIS RECORD. There is one Pittsburg man who isn©t satis if he can only play first base one half as ing. Bill was a base ball scribe when he the annual meeting of the league, which will be fied that Tenney would be unselfish. He good as he covers up and shoots for the left bachelor ranks the year of the Atlanta held at Beading in January, the limit will be chatted with members of the Boston team raised. Commenting oa the salary proposition he cage at basket ball he will win the struggle exposition and took in the fair on his said: "The days of ©the $400 player la the Tri- right after that awful slump last summer. for the goal on the Pittsburg team, ivane wedding tour. The Atlanta fair was memor State are at a close. Two years aso and even last As has been insinuated it was ui to the boas was covered up by Utica and it will be re able as a mecca for newly-married couples. season a bunch o£ players were receiving $400 and of the ranch several times to lay the ball called Pittsburg did not get its hooks on John McGraw whispered to a local friend even more a month for their services, but that has down, yet he looked for that base hit and him until the final day of the drafting season. last September that he would like to get all been changed now. Figuring on a limit of hit it out. Men with an eye on the average $2600 your average per man would have to be Kane has Swacina to beat out for the -Mace John Lobert for his club. He thought well about $200, as each team carries about thirteen men. column are hardly suited for a team whose as Bill Abstein goes back to Providence. of the Beltzhoover youth. Of course, there could be some $300 men in the owner desires it to be in the race. The Duft©v liked the man so well that he was Tommy Sheehan was well liked by the list, but that moans that others will have to fall story is an old one. Few men can put willing to put up a neat figure for the Pittsburg management and every effort was below the $200 mark." aside personal self when bingles stare them giant St. Louis athlete. Pittsburg tried to made to land him in a good berth. He in the face, at least when they think that should show well at Brooklyn. Clarke is News Notes. they can swat the ball safely. This is one DISPOSE OF SWACINA. convinced that Storke can guard third bag point where Fred Clarke is far ahead of at New York, but it was in a trade with a well enough for the big union. A York club, to be backed by the York Railway. manv. team managers. More than once since view of getting a better man. The Pitts Company, is to enter the outlaw Atlantic League. he donned Pittsburg togs F. C. C. has side burg management is known to be disap Arthur Irwin, late manager of Altoona, can©t keep tracked himself in the interest of the team. pointed .with the batting display given by THE TRI-STATE LEAGUE out of it. Tte veteran will manage the Newark There have been times when Ularke sent Swaeina. Still, the man will get. another Atlantic League team next season. up a pinch hitter in his place. He was chance. Frank Donnelly, of Springfield, 111., Mrs. Thomas L. Owens, aged 27, wife of "Red©* convinced that he could not meet them on the may be responsible for this further test. Don- Lancaster Club Men in Rather Pessimis Owens, of the Reading (P.), Tri-State. League Club, twirier then on the slab, that he was off in nelly has written the local club saying that died on December 12 at her home in Toledo, O. his clubbing and it was folly to try for he cannot understand Swacina©s let-down in tic Mood Owing to Loss of Valuable Tom Daly, the former pilot of the Johnstown team, has passed up 4ihe game. Tom says his eyes a base hit when men on the bench were batting in the National. He is Convinced that Players by Draft. are O. K., but his arms and legs won©t stand the better- ©able to meet the emergency. The Harry can bat and will be able to demon training after 25 years of service. move wasn©t a quit on Clarke©s part. Cir strate this fact if given a chance to get Lancaster, Pa., Dec. 23. Editor "Sport cumstances showed that. Clarke knows that ing Life.©© It begins to look very much jts Harrisburg has lost by draft or purchase out- into the running. though Lancaster would have no team in the flelder Miko O©Neil, second ©baseman Paliee, pitcher : he isn©t the best against soine right-handers, NEALON©S CASE CLOSED. Campbell, third baseman Kirn-merman and short but where is there a left-handed batsman Tri-State League next sea stop Foster all hard to replace. son, and one of the direct who can do more with southpaw twirlers The fact that Nealon is playing with an Harry Wolyerton will manage the Wflliamsport than the Pittsburg pilot? outlaw club and has also agreed to join a ors expressed this view. The Club again next season. He has secured hia re California team is taken to mean that there past season closed with a lease from the claims held by Cincinnati, St Louis NEIGHBORS WILL DO. isn©t a chance of the big man coming back debt of several thousand and Boston Nationals. The manager has already Maurice F. Danahey, of Rochester, N. Y., to Pittsburg. Thus closes the career of a dollars, and the management signed all but six players for next season, writes me that one player sure to make good player from the glorious climate whose com has no wish to see the A controlling interest in the Altoona CUrb has next season is Neighbors, of Memphis, Tenn., ing was certainly emblazoned on the outer amount grow through another been purchased by P. L. Morrison, a hotelkeeper, walls with more strength than any similar season. Both they and the and Cornelius MaHaie and George T?. Taylor. A last year and Burlington, la., in 1906. reorganization was effected by the selection of Danahey declares that he is one of those um case the writer can recall in years. Neal people who supported base Morrison as president, and Taylor as secretary and pires who sees some good, in ball players, on©s capture and first season will form a ball here last season think treasurer, with Morriaon, John R. Bocfeel and J. T. a la Tommy Connolly. © ©I worked and picturesque end to the season of 1906 in the Lancaster got a raw deal at Cassidy as directors. No manager has yet been umped with Neighbors in the Iowa State Pittsburg Club. Joe should write a narra Harrisburg last week when selected. League," says Danahey. "I know what he tive of his sky rocket life in the East. It Lancaster lost two men by is, all right. Neighbors is a ball player, would makfe good reading. C F. Carpenter draft and only received $250 ©THOSE POOR REDS." hi©tter, fielder and run-getter of the dashing, NEW YEAR©S BITS. for them. The drafting of gingery, wild west type who made the Raub and Downey may be all right, but why Southern League go last race with a zizz Harry Ackerman, well known as a friend Odell should be returned to Lancaster and Deal May Yet Be Made to Brace Them and a boom. It is too bad that you did of Max and Julius Fleischman, also other $750 given back to the New York Associa Up. not get him and his Iowa side partners, base ball men, has just won a handsome tion is not clear. Plenty of Lancaster sup Dailv. Breen and Bills, who also go in the silver cup, emblematic of the polo champion porters of the team were solid for pro New York, Dec. 21. The report will not bull ring or big show in 1908. Ned Eean, of ship of this city. Harry can certainly handle tection last year, but the sentiment has down that McGraw will soon make a deal Burlington, is the introducer of the wild west the cue in that game. veered so that outlaw ball is now talked of. with the Cincinnati Club by which he will style of base ball. It is fast, snappy and "That will stop the Cincinnati Club from It is very doubtful about Lancaster having trade Teniiey and Bresnahan for Schlei, Lo gingery. I almost begged on my knees of a favorite pastime," said one of the boys any- team, however, but if the old manage bert and Artie Hofrnan, who may be turned an Eastern League manager to engage Bills, when he heard that the new law prohibiting ment intends, trying another season the over to the Reds in a few davs by owner Daily ,House Green and Neighbors." Dana- clubs from recalling waivers had been fans here think it about time for them to Murphy, of the Chicago Cubs. Hofman is a hey fteiates how he chased Neighbors off the adopted by the National League. After all get to work looking up players. good first baseman, batsman and hustler, field and clapped a five-dollar fine ori him at there was some result of the growl made by but can be«n.easily spared by the world©s Waterloo, la., in 1906. "I only tell this the Boston management because that waiver Heckert©s Salary Say. champions. McGraw wants Schlei and Lo story," says the writer, ©©to shov that even on Bridwell, Brain and others was made pub bert, for whom he offered Bresnahan, Mc- lic last summer. York, Pa., Dec. 20. George W. Heckert, matiager Gann and Browne recently, but Herrmann umpires forget their run-ins with players erf the Harrisburg Tri-State Club, Is dissatisfied be after the game is over, unless the offense Being under the surgeon©s knife, for ap cause of the $2800 salary limit which has been wanted Tenney to manage the Reds, so the was bad language or assault." pendicitis, Sam Brown, the Boston catcher, adopted by the Tri-Sta,te League. Hcckert- is of deal did not go through. Tenney says he will have to go slow on the spring training he opinion that $3000 would have been a better does not care to play in this city but is ©... © , KANE IS ACTIVE. © tour. No, doubt much danger will have |orking limit to adopt. He has been busy with anxious to go to Porkville, so now that Mc Jimmy Kane, of Utica, kept by Pittsburg passed by "that time,, but Brown will need to jpcf and pencil since the Tri-State session and Graw has secured the Boston first baseman ys that he has been unable to ©get within the for a try-out at first base, is a basket ball use care. The veteran feels sure that. 1908 lary limit Imposed. By a little more economy, it is rumored that he has re-opened negotia player of renown. He is a member of the will not be a repetition of the past race, for declares, lie could strain the Capital City team©s tions with Herrmann. South Side five which is running way up in he ailed all summer. iry list down to $2800, but he does not see the chase for local honors. Kane is an Secretary Lbeke enjoyed the 12th anni it is possible to reach $2600. This has led Pitcher Frank Owen, of Comiskey©s White Sox. trtist© at Hthe floor game. People say that versary of his wedding at the League meet to suggest a. $3000 limit and he thinks that at la on the market. SRORTUNfS DECEMBER 28, 1907.

ciation for $12,000, and that work begins next month on a new grand stand- Pitcher Otis Stocksdale, of the Memphis Club, has SUNNY SOUTH been appointed coach of the North Carolina base ball team and will report at Chapel Hill, N. C,, February 15. The league has decided to pool receipts of holiday ENTERTAINS ITS BASE BALL games as usual. It was provided that two games must be played July 4 and either a morning and an afternoon game or a double-header Labor Day. MEN AT ATLANTA. Jimmy Byan, Montgomery©s new manager, attended BASE BALL the Atlanta meeting. Ryan traded with Billy Smith, giving pitcher Walsh for Sehopp, Burkitt, or another left-hauder Atlanta has secured, whose name has never been announced. The Annual Meeting of the South During the league meeting Manager Taughn. of Birmingham, stated that he had purchased outflelder Houtz, of Montgomery, and Jfanager Smith, of ern League a Successful Event, Atlanta, stated he had secured pitcher Walsh in a trade with Montgomery. From Nashville comes the news that Curtis Gard Topped With a Banquet to ner, who played in the outfield for the Nashville team last year, has taken a clerkship under the government in Panama, and if he likes it down Delegates by the Champion Club* there he will not play base ball next summer. President Chambers, of the Montgomery Club, has booked the Chicago World©s Champions for Mont BY EGBERT MORAN. gomery on March 14 and 21. The Philadelphia Americans will play at the Alabama capital March Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 23. Editor "Sporting 17 and 18, and the Chicago White Sox on March 23. Life." The annual meeting of the South A second Bill Lange has been discovered, accord ern League was held on December 14. ing to Charles Dexter, the old-time National Leaguer. Everything passed off with Charley discovered the boy in the Soutiiern League. out hitch or jar. At the He is John Owen Wilson, 6. feet 4, and fast as meeting of the Board of Di lightning. Dexter says he will set the big league rectors the pennant was for fans on fire. Johnny Dobbs, the old Brooklyn player, who mally awarded to Atlanta. managed the Nashville team last season, his resign A number of protests were ed. He and Sammy (Strang) Nicklin were in At settled. It was decided that lanta making an effort, to secure the franchise of THE BEST BALL! a game won by Memphis Little Bock and transfer it to Chattanooga. No from. Atlanta© and protested successor to Dobbs has been announced. by Manager Billy Smith The bottle will remain on Southern lots. Thi: must go on the umpire©s de is the center of the coke industry and when lobbyists with reform in their base ball brains alluded to cision. The $300 fine as legislation against the sale of bottled liquors inside sessed against Nashville be Southern League enclosures to prevent flings at um cause Manager Dobbs took pires or players from infuriated fans they found W. Kavanaugh his team from the field at many champions of the million dollar coke combine Montgomery will stand, and near. the Nashville Association must pay. Mana ger Charley Prank, of New Orleans, with SOMETHING WORTH HAVING.. drew his appeal from the fine of $300 in flicted on the Pelicans for their having for feited a game at Memphis, July 2, claiming Group Picture of the Cincinnati Club, of the Tulip and Palmer Stfs., Philadelphia. that the batters© box had been "doctored" National League. and paid the fine. A protest that Atlanta On the first page of this issue we publish carried more than 14 men during the season a group picture of the Cincinnati Club of was dropped for lack of evidence. 1907, of the National League. For the bene PACIFIC COAST BRANCH THE GENERAL MEETING fit of our readers who desire to frame the was without special incident. President picture, we have had same printed on Phil B. Belteart Co. San Francisco, Cal. Kavanaugh was re-elected. Capt. W. T. heavy plate paper, size 13x14 inches, a Crawford, of Shreveport, succeeded Lowry copy of which will be sent postpaid to any Arnold as vice-president. The address securely wrapped in mailing tube request of Mobile that the for five two-cent stamps. Particular at Southern League pay $2500, tention is called to the clearness and bright amount necessary to draft ness of our framing pictures. No guess- the Mobile territory from the work about who the players are. Each one Cotton States League, was posed specially for these groups. The trade in this location now is en politely but firmly declined. We also have 1907 group pictures of the tirely confined to day business, or from The players© limit was raised following clubs; a copy of either one will be about 12 o©clock noon until 6 o©clock at from fourteen to fifteen men. cent to any address for five two-cent stamps: CREAHAN©SCHAT night, with perhaps the exception of hotels, The salary limit remains Chicago Club, National League champions and the hotel trade at night in this location $2700 monthly. The presi for 1908; also world©s champions. can be counted on the one or two fingers dent©s report was read and Detroit Club, American League champions ABOUT MEN AND AFFAIRS IN of one hand. Under these conditions is accepted. Judge Kavanaugh for 1908. it surprising that the business is so thor pointed out that the year Pittsburg Club of 1907, of the National THE BILLIARD WORLD* oughly demoralized as we find it at the W. A. Smith naJack Pfiester, so hotels, as a rule, are not worth a cent on the dollar as an investment, and are practi honestly and legitimately that it did not come fer with various committees representing "Steinie" beats Jack to it by a day. sooner. There is not a leading billiard theatrical organizations, and if necessary to cally as bad as the . "Gold Mines" and bowling alleys in this city. It was General room in this country today, whos« owners go to Washington and appear before tV* KELLEY©S OBJECTIONS are legitimate business men, who should Interstate Commerce Commission with a Grant who once said that the best way to not be getting 75 cents per hour for the usa view of getting the old club rate of two repeal an obnoxious law was to enforce it. To the Soiled- Ball Rule Fathered by Presi After property shall be depreciated in Dela of billiard tables owing to the present prtco cents a mile put back in force. of billiard goods. In this city the price is The Western Union was voted the rieht dent Johnson. ware for a few years the freaks of that but 50 cents, with a result that four-fifths "to ran wires into base ball parks. The State, or those who blindly vote for pro From New York "Sun." hibition without thinking, may change their of the rooms here are but resorts for spring meeting place was given to Little gambling. Were they not that they would Bock. After the meeting the league officials Joe Kelley, Boston©s new manager, had something mind later on. interesting to say about the proposed rule to prevent be obliged to retire from business long were entertained at a banquet at the Pied pitchers from soiling new balls, on which the since. mont tendered by the Atlanta Club. The American League has just expressed itself as favor It is said that misery likes company, banquet was a brilliant success and attended able. "The scheme is all right when it comes to consequently it is consoling to know that President Comiskey, of the Chicago American Club, by the visiting moguls, a number of promin preventing unnecessary delay," said Kelley, "but Eighth and Chestnut Streets, which has has received a letter from Manager J. R. Woods, ent fans numbering some of the most in there is another side to it, and an important side. about seventy-five tables in a radius of one of the Honolulu team, writing him to take the fluential men of the city, and representatives A new ball with its gloss is harder to control block, is not to enjoy this mercantile sort White Sox to Honolulu for training next spring. than one which has been rubbed a bit and all the of monopoly (?) all by itself. A Chestnut Comiskey has declined for the reason that his team of the press from several cities. harder to control in hot weather when the pitcher©s would have to spend eighteen days of continuous hands are moist. Therefore the resulting lack of Street room-keeper west of Eleventh, who travel by rail aad water between Chicago and control increases the danger of the batter being opened there less than a year ago with ten Honolulu. News Notes. hit. Baiters would much rather have the pitcher tables in "our room" and who, like Ban- Bernie McCay, last year©s manager of Mobile, soil the ball a little. The umpire can see to it that quo©s ghost, has had abundant time to li now the property of the Montgomery dub. does that without much waste of time." perambulate his locality, assured me re Mike Finn has seen Billy Smith©s Texas League catcher McMUrray wark, and thirties him a good cently that there were "125 tables right man. around our room.©© Manager Babb, of Memphis, has received fafonn*- tion th-.t Schwenck, one of his sextet drafted from This statement to me at first thought Columbia/would refuse to report. would seem wild and visionary, but I am not prepared to contradict it although it is Jersey City has offered Little Bock $600 for possible that it covers two or three squares. Bockenaeld* and Finn will sell. "He did not play Cards of eighteen words or less witt be inserted for fifty the kind of ball I liked." says Mike. In the location where Sol Allinger©s new cents each issue. AU over eigiitee* words three cents for plant is, including the tables there, I take The Shrereport Club recently traded ontfielder each yjordj juitials and figures counting as one word. King and first baaeman Clark to Sioux City for first from my head at random 105 tables, to baseman Jim Hart aad outflclder George Noble. GOOD PLATEBS OP CLASS B EXPERIENCE make no reference to rooms in the same Chattanooga, delegates were on band at the league the following positions: first base, third base location practically unknown to me. This COMBINATION AND POOL meeting with some money to buy a franchise, and pitcher (left-handed) can flnd employment by makes about 300 tables or more in public Orders from all parts of the world promptly with Sammy Strsng for manager. But no franchise dressing C. H. H., care "Sporting Life." use here in a very small business section attended to. was for sale. GOOD trnUCTY PLAYER DESIRES P of this city, not, of course, referring to the Tho Nashrflle dub officers announce that Athletic with minor leagu* team for MEt year, multiplicity of tables in the same location, John Creahao, Green©s Hotel, Phllad©a, Pa, fade, at Mutaffll* ha* bM> boucbt by ttar Atto- Soott. TtetoMM OMM " ia practically dott«d wiife dab hou*«k Orw UOOfluOOO Moia* SoMaca SeUk DECEMBER 28, 1907, SRORTtlNG

Doyle, Danville .....131 490 52 117 133 38 32 .139 Hett©ron, Richmond . . 135 480 66 114 137 22 54 .237 Hicks, Danville .... 121 409 40 97 106 15 19 .237 SEASON©S WORK Dingle, Norfolk ..... 24 80 10 19 22 1 3 ©237 Kirkpatrick, Rich.-L. 104 337 34 78 103 13 20J.231 Moss. Portsmouth .,..102 337 23 78 91 11 221231 Clark, Roan.-Ports. . 92 295 21 68 79 10 151231 Croughn. Portsmouth. 15 52 3 12 12 1 101231 AS EXEMPLIFIED BY VIRGINIA McKevitt, Danville ..101 379 32 87 112 9 14 .230 Reegy, Danville ...... 95 335 43 76 100 9 12 .227 Cooper, Danv.-Roan. . 39 110 4 25 27 4 3 ,227 LEAGUE PLAYERS. Fender, Norfolk .... 75 252 23 57 72 20 5 .226 LARGEST MANUFACTURERS Bert-rand, Norfolk . . 25 54 7 12 14 1 7 .©222 Carroll, Richmond ..16 50 3 11 16 2 4 .220 IN THE WORLD OF OFFICIAL... Cowari, Richmond .... 93 303 22 66 79 7 7 .218 Powell, Danville ....130 475 65 103 145 21 54 .217 Individual Work of the Men in All Loos. Portsmouth .... 74 232 16 50 61 5 11 .216 Butman, Portsmouth. 69 236 20 51 61 9 24 .216 Titman, Richmond ..137 529 67 113 128 14 40 .214 Departments of the Game as Rubland, Norfolk ..109 346 33 74 94 21 33 .214 Stewart, Lynchburg .. 37 103 15 22 28 8 4 .214 Gettig, Richmond .... 70 231 20 49 52 7 17 .212 Shown by the Official Averages Rickards, Dan. -Roan. 43 132 3 28 34 9 19 .212 Anthony, Lynchburg. .131 474 50 100 123 15 30 .211 Bowen, J., Dan. -Rich. 60 210 20 44 55 6 8 .210 Prepared by Secretary Gregory* O©Connor, Danville . . 15 43 2 9 9 2 1 .209 Hinton.Rich.lloan.N.L. 68 202 12 42 47 4 6 .208 O©Neil, Rich. -Lynch.. 55 202 11 42 45 7 4 .208 Reynolds, Koanoke . . 52 155 10 32 32 9 5 .2»6 BY E. N. GREGORY, JR. Cooley, Roan-Norfolk 19 63 9 13 19 0 1 .206 Following are the official 1907 batting, Warren, Ports. -Rich. 129 459 42 94 121 21 32 .205 Cummings, Po.-Rich. 101 337 39 69 107 12 38 .205 The fielding and pitching averages of the Vir Morrison, Port. -Roan. 54 197 14 40 45 5 12 .203 ginia League, as compiled by Secretary Gre- Fox, Norfolk ...... 26 69 3 14 18 5 0 .203 Spalding ,gory. These figures cover players who par Reave, Richmond ... 137 496 56 100 111 64 32 .202 ticipated in ten or more games. Edwards, Dan. -Norf. 101 307 27 61 79 5 14 .199 Trade Rhinehart, Danville . . 40 138 8 27 34 9 2 .196 Club Batting Averages. Cassldy, Richmond . . 19 51 7 10 0 .196 Mark AB. R. H. 2B.3B.HK.Pct.SH.SB. Evans, Norf. -Lynch. , 95 309 25 60 30 .194 Spalding©s Danville ...... 4242 450 1)89 126 44 24 233 1U7 220 Long, Richmond .... "7 98 6 19 0 .194 Norfolk ...... 3633 394 820 100 35 ©J 223 175 275 Houghton, Norfolk . . 17 62 9 12 7 .194 on any Athletic Richmond ..... 4355 433 9t»T % 42 6 222 176 252 Sullivan. M., Ports... 11 31 3 6 0 .194 article, stamps Roanoke ...... 4308 396 896 76 29 6 208 162 263 Holt, Lynchburg .... 87 295 14 57 70 14 11 .193 Lynehburg ..... 4167 398 853 86 38 15 205 149 194 Cote, Roanoke ...... 66 202 19 39 45 11 6 .193 it as official and Portsmouth .... 4067 324 831 88 31 6 204 142 246 Walsh, R., Richmond 82 252 16 48 54 11 4 .190 McMahou, Roanoke .. 81 262 20 49 64 10 12 .187 correct in all Curtis. Roanoke .... 27 96 13 18 18 6 11 .187 particulars Individual Batting. Vermiller, Roanoke . .- 37 104 8 19 24 3 2 .183 Athletic.... Name and Club. G. AB. R. H.TB.SH.SB.Pct Bowen. A., Lynchb©g 130 467 53 86 96 31 24 .182. Griffin. Norfolk ...... ll 40 3 15 15 1 4 .37 Manion, Norfolk .... 100 340 37 62 71 20 30 .182 " If It Pertains Matuey, Norfolk 10 27 3 10 14 0 2 .370 Fishman, Lynch.-Po. 109 351 25 63 75 13 13 .179 Fisher, Danville . 49 177 23 59 86 4 5 .333 Carter, Lynch.-Ri.-P. 27 68 7 12 15 0 0 .176 to Athletics, Bentley, Lynchburg .. 59 179 94 6 16 .313 Martin, Portsmouth . . 72 242 22 42 11 .174 Brodie, Roanoke .... 72 238 87 11 20 .311 Chaffee, Norf. -Roan.. 10 23 2 4 0 .174 We Make It" Vail, Rich. -Ports. .. 20 48 18 0 0 .306 Burns. Portsmouth . . 78 231 15 40 3 .173 JIcMahon, Nor.-Ports. 34 118 26 .305 Rhoades, Lynchburg. . 24 82 4 14 4 .171 • •••• Loucks, Danv.-Norf... 21 56 18 3 1 .304 Smith, Roan.-D.-Ri. 16 401 6 7 3 .170 Library Buesse, Norfolk ...... 10 3 13 1 1 .297 Fish, Ports. -Roanoke 64 228 19 38 42 10 16 .167 Henn, Danville. .©...©.©. 130 462 58 131 202 15 38 .284 Morrissey, Roanoke .. 63 180 17 30 31 12 ,167 Walsh, Ports.-Dan... 39 113 12 31 44 4 3 .274 McKeon, Roanoke . . 33 120 8 20 26 0 ,167 Lawrence, Portsmouth 37 133 19 36 40 11 17 .271 Ham, Danville ...... 10 30 7 5 6 ,167 Sullivan, Nor.-Ports 114 415 55 112 140 5 34 .270 Revelle, Ports. -Rich. . 41 111 6 18 26 1 1 .162 Shatter, Richmond .. 57 196 11 53 57 8 7 .270 Bateman, Roan. -Rich. 31 99 6 16 19 3 6 .162 Hooker, Lynchburg .. 132 480 55 123 156 12 19 .267 Heverier, Portsmouth. 53 194 13 31 33 15 10 .160 The Standard Athletic Library of the World Cook, Portsmouth .. 61 220 -19 58 70.. 6 22.. .264.... Cassidy, Portsmouth. 31 103 5 17 23 5 7 .158 Hessler, Dan.-Roan.. 125 446 56 117 135 13 47 .262 Hankey, Norfolk .... 13 46 5 7 0 1 .152 Hobbs, Richmond .... 25 73 _ 19 29 0 0 .260 Salve, Richmond .... 34 86 9 13 1 .151 Clayton, Roanoke ... 79 257 32 66 74 11 15 .257 Fox, Portsmouth .... 47 154 11 23 19 .149 Books on All Sports; Each Book Complete in Tydeman, Danville .. 34 121 10 31 40 3 12 .256 Wynne,© Norf. -Lynch. 43 131 9 19 9 .145 Jackson, Norfolk ....121406 56 102 129 21 30 .251 Murray, Lynchburg . . 27 62 9 9 0 .145 Wallace, Richmond .. 130 492 61 123 168 11 37 .250 Shuman, Portsmouth. 22 62 1 9 0 .145 Itself and an Authority in its Line. Jordan, Norfolk ..... 30 89 6 22 25 1 2 .247 Flowers, Lynch. -R.-D. 20 49 2 7 0 .143 Eustace, Roanoko ....103 374 47 92 109 23 23 .246 Betscher, Lynchburg. . 33 108 9 15 4 .139 Raley, Roanoke ..... 99 358 88 93 9 14 .246 Willis, Roanoke .... 36 102 8 14 4 .137 Henninger, Lynch.-Po. 39 126 34 3 3 .246 Thomas, Roanoke .... 16 45 4 6 0 .133 Kiernan, Portsmouth.. 24 86 23 1 1 .244 Cominger, Danville . . 13 38 0 5 0 .132 Group 6. No. 6. Spalding©s Official Ice Hockey Guide Fetzer, Dan.-Nor. .. 62 222 59 2 7 .243 Hallman, Portsmouth. 31 97 4 12 1 .124 Lohr, Roanoke ...... 60 239 79 10 27 ..243 Sturdevaut, L.-D.-P. 25 68 3 8 0 .118 McKenna, Lynchburg 130 495 50 120 150 21 19 .242. Lavinder, Danville . . 37 105 5 12 0 .114 Group 7. No. 7. Spalding©s Official Basket Ball Guide Haas, Lynch. -Nor.. Ill 384 93 111 18 23 .242 Dobson, Portsmouth. . 11 34 2 4 2 .113 Biebrie, Richmond . 92 322 78 103 10 25 .242 Otey, Norfolk ...... 40 107 4 12 2 .112 Heisman, Roanoke 18 13 14 0 2 .241 Kline, Lynchburg .... 31 93 5 10 0 .108 Group 7. No. 193. How to Play Basket Ball Seitz, Norfolk .123 446 63 107 125 22 51 .240 Walker, Danville .... 24 65 2 7 0 .108 Ryan, Danville .... 99 313 . 35 75 86 19©12 .240 Oakley, Lynchburg . . 30 80 0 .075 Harmoa. Roanoke . 13 50 8 12 13 4 10 .240 Eekstone, Ric. -Lynch. 11 31 0 .065 Group 8. No. 8. How to Become a Bowler , Pitchers© Records. Group 13, No. 209. How to Become a Skater Group 14, No. 236. How to Wrestle Name and Club. Group 14, No. 162. How to Box

Btackpole, Richmond ...... 5 34 Group 14, No. 166. How to Swing Indian Clubs Bertrand, Norfolk ...... 20 121 Walker, Danville ...... 24 189 Otey, Norfolk ...... 40 327 Group 14, No. 191. How to Punch the Bag Ham, Danville ...... 11 83 Moore, Lynchburg-Norfolk ...... 3 24 Reynolds, Roanoke ...... 25 171 Cassidy, Richmond ...... 19 144 Ktewart, Lynehburg ...... 30 249 Walsh, Portsmouth-Danville ...... 37 283 Morrissey, Roanoke ...... 31 256 Jordan, Norfolk ...... 31 235 Fox, Norfolk ...... 25 216 Shuman. Portsmouth ...... 22 183 A. G. SPALDING & BROS. Kline, Lynchburg ...... 31 25S Hobbs, Richmond ...... 18 133 Lavinder, Danville ...... 59 307 Oakley, Lynchburg ...... 30 230 New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Still. Richmond ...... 05 Send your name Howard, Danville ...... 5 39 and address for Boston, Baltimore, Washington, Rickarda, Danville ...... 3 18 McDonough, Danville ...... 2 8 a copy of Spald- Pittsburg, Buffalo, Syracuse, Long, Richmond ...... 31 255 ing©shandsome- Vermiller, Roanoke ...... 36 372 St. Louis, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Willis, Roanoke ...... 35 286 ly illustrated Flowers, Lynchburg-Roanoke-Danville.... 20 140 Minneapolis, New Orleans, Carter, Lynehburg-Richinond-Portsmouth 27 .215 catalogue of all Salve, Richmond ...... 34 242 sports- FREE Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, tioos, Portsmouth .....,...... ;...... 29 251 Murray, Lynchburg ...... 24 172 San Francisco, Montreal, Canada Revelle, Portsmouth-Richmond ...... 33 268 Hallman, Portsmouth ...... 31 259 Smith, Roanoke-Danville-Richmond .... 12 98 Fender, Norfolk ...... 62 88175 14 .949 Lavinder, Danvillo ...... 37 Heisman; Roanoke ...... ^...... 11 58 O©Neil, Richmoad-Lynchburg.. 55 120 149 19 .934 Jordan, Norfolk ...... 30 Ludwig, Lynchburg ...... 3 25 Bateman, Roanoke-Richmond.. 31 50 68 9 .929 Salve, Richmond ...... 34 Comlnger, Danville ...©...... 14 109 Hankey, Norfolk ...... 13 3-0 32 5 .925 Cominger, Danville ...... IS Loucks. Danville-Norfolk ..;.,...... 18 137 Clayton, Roanoke ...... 45 75 122 17 :921 Loos. Portsmouth ...... 33 vail, Richmond-Portsmouth ...... 18 136 Bowen, A., Lynchburg ...... 38 108 87 18 .915 Long, Richmond ...... 37 Matney, Norfolk ...... 10 72 Houghton. Norfolk ...... 17 20 43 6 .913 Eekstone, Richmond-Lynchburg 14 Cummings, Norfolk-Lynch burg ...... 9 44 Flschman, Lynchburg ...... 13 31 32 6 .913 Willis, Roanoke ...... 36 Leonard, Portsmouth ...... 6 50 Stewart, Lynchburg ...... 31 Brkstone, Richmond-Lynchburg ...... 14 104 THIRD BASEMEN. Hallman. Portsmouth ...... 31 Barrett, Lynchburg ...... 24 Rhinehart, Danville ...... 40 78 99 4 .978 Matney, Norfolk ...... 10 Kenny, Portsmouth ...... Reffgy, Danville ...... 13 17 25 1 .977 Shuman, Portsmouth ...... 22 Durby, Richmond-Lynchburg ...... Fishman, Lynchburg ...... 41 49 87 16 .958 Walker, Danville ...... __ 24 Temple, Portsmouth ...... Ruhland, Norfolk ...... 109 132 242 17 .957 Murray, Lynchburg ...... 27 Krebs, Lynchburg ...... Eustace, Roanoko ...... 108 129 217 25 .933 Smith, Boanoke-Dan.-Rich.... 16 Sterger, Danville ...... Gettis, Richmond ...... 70 86148 20 .921 Vail, Richmond-Portsmouth .. 20 Armstrong, Norfolk ...... Warren, Portarnouth-Rlchaiond 116 114 192 28 .916 Oakley, Lynchburg ...... 30 Schmetsky, Lynchburg ...... Hicks, Danville ...... 43 58 84 14 .910 Cassidy, Slrhmnnd ...... 19 Wallace, Lynchburg ...... Kirkpatrick, Richmond-Lynch 104 141 180 40 .889 OUTFIEXDEttS. Perdue, Roanoke ...... Betscher, Lynchburg ...... 33 30 58 11 .889 McKevitt. Danvffle ...... 59 Morrison, Roanoke ...... Hessler, Danville-Roanoke ... IS 17 33 7 .877 Curtis, Roanoke ...... 27 McCormlck, Norfolk ...... Hennager, Portsmouth ...... 17 30 28 9 .866 Morrissey, Roanoke ...... 13 Thomas, Danville ...... Cowan, Richmond ...... 14 16 22 G .864 Seita. Norfolk ...... 123 Slmmins, Lynchburg ...... Fetzer, Danville-Norfolk...... 37 35 17 .852 Brodie. Raanoke ...... 72 McMahon, Norfolk-Portsmouth 23 33 16 .838 Anthony, Lynchburg ...... 131 Club Fielding Averages. McKeon. Roanoke ...... 33 152 26 Clayton. Roanoke ...... 19 30 14 .827 McKenna. Lynchburg ...... 130 G. PO. A. E. TC. Pet. FIRST BASEMEN. SHORTSTOPS. Tydeman. Danville ...... 34 Norfolk ...... 123 3222 1526 180 4928 .963 Haas. Lynchburg-Norfolk ... Ill 1174 44 Moss, Portsmouth ...... 102 220 291 Hooker, Lynchburg ...... 132 Danville ...... 132 3490 1663 227 5380 .958 Shaffer. Portsmouth ...... 57 629 17 Manion, Norfolk ...... 100 204 334 Fish, Roanoke-Portsmouth.... 64 Roanoke ...... 134 3461 1707 251 5419 .954 McKevitt, Danville ...... 42 400 25 Fisher, Danville ...... 49 75 138 Jackson, Norfolk ...... 121 Richmond ...... 139 3604 1742 270 5616 .952 Raley, Roanoke ...... 99 986 46 McMahon, Roanoka ... .. 81 194 243 Powell, Danville ...... 130 Portsmouth ...... 132 3375 1625 259 5259 .951 Holt. Lynchburg ...... 87 783 47 Reeve. Richmond .....*..... 137 262 440 Dingle, Norfolk ...... 24 Lynchburg ...... 134 3442 1593 273 5308 .949 Pender, Norfolk ...... 13 124 7 Reggy, Danville ...... 82 154 254 Rickards, Roanoke ...... 40 Evans. Norfolk-Lynchbiirg ... 12 146 7 Hessler, Roanoko ...... 36 110 U)2 Hessler, Roanoke ...... 59 Individual Fielding. Clark. Boanoke-Portsmouth .. 28 284 7 Clayton, Roanoke ...... 10 30 21 Hennager, Portsmouth ...... 17 Martin, Portsmouth ...... 12 100 4 Bowen. A., Lynchburg ...... 92 117 221 Cassidy, Portsmouth ...... 28 CATCHERS. Cowan, Richmond ...... 26 315 12 Fishman. Lynchburg-Ports.... 55 103 123 Lohr, Roanoke ...... 60 Name and Club G. PO. A. E. Pet. Cote, Roanoke ...... 13 130 7 McMahon, Norfolk-Portsmouth 11 24 35 Reynolds, Roanofce ...... 21 Chaflee. Norfolk-Roanoke .... 10 25 4 0 1.000 Bowen, J., Danville-Richmond 60 635 24 Sullivan, Nor.-Portsmouth.... 114 Edwards, Danville-Norfolk ... 101 539 79 11 .983 Butman, Portsmouth ...... 69 644 46 PITCHERS. Wallace, Richmond ...... 130 Ryan. Danville ...... ©..... 99 529 136 12 ,982 Hicks, Danville ...... 42 463 13 Carter, Lynch.-Rich.-Ports... 27 Hicks, Danville ...... 36 Cote. Roanoke ...... 53308 78 8 .980 Cummings, Lynchburg-Norfolk 24 223 6 Heisman, Roanoke ...... 12 Loos, Portsmouth ...... 40 Cowan, Richmond ...... 53.258 58 7 .978 Cooke, Portsmouth ...... 23 222 18 Fox, Norfolk ...... 26 Harman. Roanoke ...... 12 Burns, Portsmouth ...... 78 396 94 12 .976 Warren. Richmond ...... 12 99 5 Bertrand. Norfolk ...... 25 Henn, Danville ...... 130 Martin, Portsmouth ...... 42223 54 8 .972 Carroll, Richmond ...... 16 152 5 Revelle, Portsmouth-Richmond 34 Heffron, Richmond ...... 135 Walsh, R., Richmond ...... 82395142 16 .971 Reynolds. Roanoke ...... 23 For. Portsmouth ...... , 47 Hinton, Rich.-Roan.-Nor.-Lyn. 68 324 96 15 .966 SECOND BASEMEN. Otey, Norfolk ...... 40 Commings. Norf.-Lynchburg .. 57 Bentley, Lynchburg ...... 56245 75 12 .964 Rhoades, Lynchburg ...... 24 69 64 Flowers, Lynch.-Roanoke-Dan. 20 Titman, Richmond ...... 137 Sturdevant, Dan.-Lynch.-Ports. 20 93 26 5 .960 Dayle, Danville ...... 131 317 377 Vermiller, Roanoke ...... 37 Kiernan. Portsmouth ...... 24 Thomas, Roanoke ...... 16 53 18 3 .959 Siebrie, Richmond ...... 92 178 235 Hobbs, Richmond ...... 20 Cooke, Portsmouth ...... 38 Cooper, Roanoke-Norfolk .... 39167 37 9 .958 Hessler, Roanoke ...... 21 39 59 Morrissey, Roanoke ...... 27 Fetzer, Danville-Norfolk...... 25 Evans, Norfolk-Lynchburg ... 68 342 94 9 .957 Lawrence, Portsmouth ...... 37 98 94 Loueks. Danville-Norfolk .... 21 Morrison, Portsmouth-Roanoke 54 Buesse, Norfolk ...... 10 61* 14 3 .956 Wynne. Norfolk-Lynchburf .. 43 88 109 Kline. Lynchburg ...... 31 Cooley, fioanoke-Norfolk .... 19 H., Portsmouth .... 11 24 » 2 .941 dark. Boanote-Portemoata ~. 63 109 147 Ham. D»nvill» ...... 10 Dobson. Portsmouth ...... 11 U 94 SI t yis - M 133 1M - - u 10 DECEMBER 28, 1907.

the interest taken in Frank Herschede©s b^>kstop in America. "Kling, of the Cubs, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Newark, Paterson, Fourth Street front this week. The hand is a great catcher," said Davis recently, Reading and the Bronx are the localities some charms cubs of gold each with a dia © ©but Sullivan has him beat. When the Sox mentioned in connection with the Union mond between its teeth the trophies of the wo* the world©s series from the Cubs League. The concensus of the best local World©s Championship, were therein dis jesf ago Sullivan showed beyond a doubl base ball opinion seems to be that there is played. They attracted wide attention. thaf he was Kling©s master in throwing, in Harry Steinfeldt was the first member of the baekstopping, going after foul flies, hitting NO PROBABILITY MADE THEIBUTT AND MARK OF Chicago winners to receive the handsome and everything else. I never saw a better of an outlaw club being placed here. On» souvenir. The Texan is a different fellow man on foul flies than Sullivan. He©s report had it that Charley Hickman and FREAKS. from the lad who wore the red. At Red simply a wonder." Harry White had been approached in the headquarters the other day. Frank Ban interest of the new league, but these players croft was moralizing over the wondrous deny that they know any thing about the change in the infielder who was present FROM THE CAPITAL matter or have been asked to sigii with the President Herrmann Deluged With well, strong and a handsome specimen of Union ar any club connected with it. Of physical manhood. "I©m going to tell one course, it is a cinch that neither player on Steiny," said Old Hoss, "and it©s to Washington©s Non-Representation on the would consider such an offer while in the More or Less Ridiculous Pro his credit. I congratulated him on the League Committees and Directorate- employ of a man of Charley Comiskey©s change that had come over him and he caliber. position From Unknowns With replied, ©I don©t deserve any credit, give Spring Plans of the Club News of it all to my little wife!© " A flush of contentment passed over Steinfeldt©s face the Club Rumors of Outlaw Invasion- AMERICAN LEAGUE NOTES. Managerial Aspirations* and Bancroft continued, "Life©s a queer game and it©s marvelous the influence wo Gossip of the Players. The Chicago Club la as much In need of 3 man has in the way a man plays it. A catcher as Detroit. BY WILLIAM B. HANNA. god woman is the making of many a man By Paul W. Eaton. There is no chance for Cleveland to trade Flick. New York, Dee. 23. Editor "Sporting and a bad woman can drag him down." Washington, Dec. 21. Editor "Sportinj He is too valuable a mail. * Life:" Garry Hermann is still looking for Marriage has not proved a failure in Stein Life:©© President Noyes returned from thi First baseman Bob Unglaub has accepted tha a manager for the Cincinnati Reds. He feldt©s. case. He has proved devoted to American League meeting at Chicago just toi_ 1908 teems of the Boston Club. has been surfeited with ap the pretty little woman who became his late to be quoted in Ias1 Columbus Is trying hard to eet "Bunk" Con- plications from all sorts of bride in romantic fashion some years ago. week©s "Sporting Life." galtou from the Boston Americans. * cranks. One man offers to He made the best play of his career when With regard to the gossip in "Jim" McAleer©s veterans will be given a pre handle the Reds on a scale he accepted that fair chance. , some quarters to the effed liminary boiling out at West Baden. of wages: $80C if the team A BILLY EARLE REMINISCENCE. that the ©failure to re-ap Manager McAleer, of the Browns, still hopes ta finishes fifth, $1800 if point Mr. Noyes to the Rule; laud pitcher Case Patton, of Washington. . Not half the candidates for Red manager Committee, and Washing The Detroits will do part of their spring training fourth, $2800 if third, $3800 ial honors have been groomed in the public if second and $5000 if first. ton©s not being represented at Hot Springs and wind up at Little Rock, Ark. eye. If the Red Chief desired to write a on the Board of Directors Ira Thomas, who is wintering in New York, is He also tells Herrmann that book he could contribute to the literature not particularly pleased with his transfer to Detroit, he has another scheme by of the League in its regula: of the game a humorous volume. ISome of turn, was intended as a re John Anderson says he "is tickled to death to which $100,000 can be made. these numerous applications have broken buke to the local club fo: get awgy from Washington and to join the White Another applicant states into print. At the Bug Club the other after not acquiescing in every ac Sox." that he has a magnetic noon President Herrmann declared, "All tion of President Johnsoi Comiskey wants catcher Eddie« ?n, of Wash power over ball players, that hope is lost. I©ve an application from a Thos. C. Noyes affecting its affairs, Mr. ington, and Jennings is after pitclie* Jkenberg, of A. Hurrmann he is 35 years old, is a manager with hypnotic power. He says he Noyes said that he was of the Senators. wonder at the bat and in the can land the Reds in first place sure." fered the chairmanship of the Committee 01 President John I. Taylor, of Boston, has returned neld and will assume the management if "Who is it?" was the chorused query. Rules, but declined because he will be un to San Francisco to spend the holidays with his fcrarry will send him transportation and a "Billy Earle." Bill was the one star dis able to be in New York at the time of the wife©s family. $10 bill; Herrmann has no idea who will ciple of rnesmer who ever broke into the Joe Cantillon has five left-handed batters for his manage his team and the Cincinnati fans are game and there were players who looked February meeting. President Johnson©s ap Washington outfield, Ganley, Clymcr, Pickering, up in arms. He was evidently afraid to upon him as one of the Devil©s aid-de pomtment of Mr. Comiskey in Noyes© place Milan and Kay. make .any deals at the recent League meetu^ camps. I©ll© never forget one demonstration was probably intended as an intimation that According to President John I. Taylor, of Boston, here, believing that an error of judgment that Earle gave at a Sycamore Street home t.u Washingtonian©s non-appointment was the American League will open next season on would cause some warm criticism, for which stead one evening. Two of his subjects not due to any disposition to discriminate Tuesday, April 14. Porktown is noted. were girls, and after he put them under against Johnson©s The Washington Nationals have been ordered to control he took them steamboat riding up ALLEGED OPPONENTS. report in Chicago March 5, and that night will HERRMANN©S DILEMNA. the river in their minds4 "I©m afraid board cars for Galveston, Tex. It is believed that when it comes to something©s wrong with the boiler," said Mr. Noyes explained that service as a Direc Frank Isbeil declares that southpaw pitcher cases Herrmann will make either John Gan Billy. The looks of distress on the faces tor is considered rather undesirable, and Dick Spear, secured by Chicago from the Western zel or Miller Huggins manager, neither of of the girls was not simulated. They those who can avoid it for legitimate reasons Association, will surely maJfce good. whom can be compared in point of ability to seemed glued to their seats. Bill planned are not sorry to do so. He was therefore glad Detroit had its first Sunday games for many that arrangements could be made by which years in 1907, and President Yawkey will ask the Edward Hanlon. In view of the fact that a mental explosion and when the boilers American League to schedule home games. Hanlon developed such players as Lobert, "let go" the girls all but hit the ceiling! Boston served instead of Washington. Mr Kane, Mitchell, McLean and others, now Base ball and .hypnotism, however, is not Noyes© business engagements are very num President Comiskey has decided to yield to tho erous. Echoes of the meeting connected wishes of his players and secure a trainer to succeed considered valuable by Cincinnati critics it a good combination and the mesmeric pow Jimmy Bardell, who handled them last season. appears to outside judges that the release of ers of Earle never did him any good as with player-transactions are still floatin around. Washington could have landed The American League meeting over, Abe Nahan, Hanlon was a serious mistake. Cincinnati a player. the secretary of the Yankees, has ordered the pin- has not been a success in the base ball world Charley Carr, but finally concluded to a< nochle tournament in the Flatiron Building; resumed. ON THE "HOME GROUNDS." cede to his petitions to be allowed to retai lor many years, although such men as Com Jimmy McAleer says he will be captaiii as well iskey, Ewing, McPhee, Kelley and Hanlon When I gave my base ball evangelical his agreeable berth at Indianapolis. The as manager of the Browns next season. This is takea have managed the Reds in turn. Ball play study "Running Life©s Bases" at Ivanhoe confidence of the local magnates in Jerry to moan that Jack 0©Connor will boss some minor ers say that it is impossible to do satisfac the other night Frank Bancroft was close Freeman as a first baseman appears to be of league outfit. tory work in Porktown because of the rabid to the front pew. "I came early," he the rock-ribbed kind. Apparently they en President Farrcll, of New York, says that catcher criticisms hurled at them by persons who do whispered to me, "and am taking the tertain no doubt at all as to his complete Thomas was sold outright to Detroit for a cash not know that it takes time to develop a whole course. They rung me into the Ep- success, and it must ba admitted that Free bonus, and that no deal for pitcher ilullin was. winning team. Herrmann is under a severe worth League meeting!" It was Frank man is convincingly and unanimously touted. even mentioned. Bancroft who hung the title of "Deacon" According to President Hedges, of St. Louis, handicap because of this fact, so that he on me back in the old sporting days. CATCHER EDDIE HEYDON Hobe Ferris is booked to play third base nest cannot be blamed for his present attack of season, and Billy Dineen is down to pitch 30 games rattles. The night was miserably cold and sleety, is said to have been an object of interest to but sometime before the time to begin the some of the other American League clubs, in Ills old form. spirit of the game brought from "Old and reports have been in circulation that he Pitcher Rhoades has secured a Cleveland city Hoss" the remark, "We©ve got in the ©guar would play with the Sox next year. This position. He is on the payroll of Mayor Johnson, A REDNEGATIVE* antee© anyway!" It was the first time I is not President Noyes© understanding, and doing clerical work and also some outside inspecting, ever played the game on what the Veteran for a good salary. he thinks he has waivers on "Mae" from It has developed that outflelder Jones, of Wash Garry Herrmann Talks on a Vetoed Deal- called the "home grounds." all the clubs, in which case Heydon will be ington, was traded for Picketing, of St. Louis, be The Five Giants Cincinnati Turned THAT SPECK 0© WAR. released to the Kansas City Club. St. Louis cause his relations with Manager Cantillon were Undoubtedly the American Association is one of the numerous competitors for Case strained to the breaking point. Down Harry Steinfeldt©s New Lease would be glad to swoop down on Chicago Patten©s services; and the southpaw will have Washington will have catcher Charley Street next and take whatever meat they could find on to revive Tony Pastor©s old melody season. Street never should have been permitted on the Life Useful A Managerial the North Side. Funny thing this base "They©re after me." It is hard to see how to leave fast comps-riy, as he is as good as the a trade could be arranged with the Browns, second-choice backstop on any team. Hypnotist. ball. Ban Johnson couldn©t bring himself Billy Keller is expected to show his old fast to rally around the expansion banner in although it has been suggested that a tri clip with New York next season. If he doesn©t By Ren Muiford, Jr. another fellow©s vineyard! Of course not! angular affair with New York might be do bettor than the last he will be traded to some . Cincinnati, O., Dec. 21. Editor "Sport Base ball cannot thrive without organiza framed up. Garland Stahl is reported as other club in the American League. ing Life." In that recent New York pres tion and while the Joeobrienites are gazing being glad to play with the Highlanders, Branch Rickey is going to take a law course at entation of "The Scalp Hunters" our own wistfully on the Chicago fruit there is no and it is said that he will place his Soutli the Ohio State University . Griffith would be discounting the fact that they cannot afford Chicago Club on the market at once. mightily pleased if Rickey could show up next spring Garry Herrmann was cast to tear down the fabric of organized ball to with an A. C. (able catcher) degree. for a prominent role, but he run a little tent show of their own. We THE SPRING PLANS President John I. Taylor will order resumption of came back to Redland with are not playthings of Fate, but sometimes of the Washington Club are about complete. the historic red stockings by his team and favors out enough hair to make a I wonder where I©d be had I accepted the Manager Cantillon has already issued orders the "Red Sox" as a new title for Boston. The toupee for Aleck Wolf. proffered Presidency of the American As for the players to report to him in Chicago original Boston team wore red stockings. Funny thing," remarked sociation a few years ago ! The problem of on March 5 next, on which date they will start Like Barney Dreyfuss Jimmy McAleer has no use Garry to me, © ©this game of the Saints© unrest is one that seems puzzling. for the spring training camp at Galveston, for very wealthy players. That is the reason why ball. Two years ago had I The Association can©t "vyin in in a revolution he traded pitcher Glade to New York, as the latter returned from the East with Tex. Four Sunday games have already been has annually raised the retirement bugaboo. Roger Bresnahan, George ary fight as the American League did. Is arranged for .during the month of March, Mr. Yawkey, owner of the Detroit team, is now there a Charley Somers in that crowd? It with the New York Giants and the St. Louis searching in the Northwest for the "biggest and Browne, Bill Dahlen, Dan was Somers with his money bags that Nationals, who will train at Dallas and the finest" pennant pole in existence. What the McGann and pitcher Fergu- enabled the American League to weather Houston, respectively. This will be the flag-day exercises will be has not yet been de son the fans would have the fiercest gale which ever blew over dia Washington©s first clash with John Mc- termined. met me at the. depot with mond fields in Yankee Doodle-land. Graw©s cohorts, and will be awaited with Manager McAleef is confronted by a problem in Ron Mulford, Jr. a brass band. That©s the arranging his infield to the best advantage. He has sort of a player-trade propo FRED ODWELL©S FAREWELL. considerable interest. The Washingtons will the following men to pick from for the four sition I turned down. Those five players Fred Odwell©s departure will be -regretted leave Galveston about the end of March positions: Wallace, Feriis, Williams, Yeagea% Brown were offered to me for Hans Lobert and by more than one enthusiast and no matter playing at Waco Mar. 30 and 31, and at and T. Jones. George Schlei. The more I looked at our where he goes the good wishes of all who Wichita, Kans., April 1 and 2. That Eddie McFarland will never again don a : two the better they looked and I put on admire pluck and faithfulness will follow SOME DESIRABLE DATES White Sox uniform is the ultimatum of President the lid." Of the Giant discards not more Comiskey; hence "Mac" is on the market. Here©s him. In official family it was believed that in other cities are: Kansas City, April 3 4 a great catcher for any manager who thiaks he than one would be accepted as good cham Odwell was not quite strong enough to © ©fill can handle him. pionship timber. They are past the Great 5; Springfield, 111., April 6; Indianapolis© in" as a regular arid the policy is to get April 7 and 8; April 9, Cincinnati; April Jimmy McAleer will remain manager of the St. Divide and, while under old Redland rules a youngster who will improve immeasurably Louis Browns despite the rumors of his removal. they were eligible to membership in the Cin for the role of extra man. 10, Columbus, and April 11 and 12, Louis ville. That is about as attractive a pre- President Hedges is well pleased with McAleer©s cinnati team, President Herrmann turned MULFORDISMS. work, particularly the judgment he has displayed in his back on temptation. "It©s Funny What season schedule as is often seen, and it making the various deals. a Difference Just a Few Hours Make,©© runs © ©If Roger Bresnahan cannot control him wouldn©t be surprising if it more than paid Harry Howell, of the Browns, and "Lefty" Lei- the song. Cincinnati would have been self what kind of a cross-eyed chance would the expenses of the club uu to the date of field, of Pittsburg, have been playing indoor base moved to frenzied joy over such a haul a he have of running the Red Club?" was opening the regular season. It is expected ball with a St. Louis team. They have been too few seasons ago, but now the eyes of the the subject of a Bug Club debate a few that the team will reach Washington on foxy, however, to do any pitching with the big Bugs are turned toward the Mitchells and nights since. April 13, in time to open the season on the ball used in the indoor game. the Paskerts, seeing in youth the improve If it©s true that Mike is to succeed 14th or 15th of the same month, with the The five Donohue boys wiH Christmas week hava ment that comes with experience, the hope Joe the Toronto fans will not have to shelve Bostons or New Yorks. Manager Cantillon a reunion at their mother©s home in Springfield, O. their 1907 comparison "Like Kelley did." There will be on hand the famous "Jiggs" and bis long deferred -of rallying around the Flag expects that by the time he reaches Wash wife. Pat. of Portland, and George, Frank and Winner. .If Hank O©Day kissed the Blarney stone ington with his team all problems as to the Martin, all good natural players. IN THE ROLE OF SANTA CLAUS. while in Ireland next time Tom Corcoran regular position of every player will have crosses his path he may be kinder to the been settled permanently, a very desirable Joe Jackson says in the Detroit "Free Press" Just what is in store for the Bugs of Sage of New Rochelle. Jiat Cleveland need not worry about Its first condition and just opposite to that which base problem in that it has a star first sacker in Redland in the way of managerial goodies If it is $100,000 in real money that prevailed last year. Joe is not expected here Bill Hlnchman. Jackson figures that Hincliman is is not certain. The average enthusiast be George Tebeau wants for the Louisville a better fielding first baseman than StovalL lieves that the team as now constituted franchise Dr. Frank Hahn©s chance to be in the immediate future. with, merely a captain commanding would The Washington Club has decided upon Gulveston, come a Kentucky mogul are as small- as OUTLAWS IN WASHINGTON. Tex., as the spring training placa Manager Cantil- land farther iip in the race than did the those of a Georgia distiller after Jan. 1. Reports that the Union Base Ball League, lou has practically closed all of his dates for tho Reds in , 19Q7. Garry Herrmann "is going With House in the outfield perhaps John Al Lawson©s new outlaw organization, re spring exhibition tour. Two games are to b» to .pi-ay Kris Kriugle. It wouldn©t be sur J. McCloskey hopes his Cardinals will have played with the New York Giants in Dallas. prising to learn that the prize of manager cently launched at Philadelphia will put a the Indian-sign on the other teams in 1908. club in Washington, have been given a great Fred Tenney says the the best slider head first had been slipped into Captain Ganzel©s Way down South the heart of the pro deal of space this week in some of the local he game ever had was Gammons, who played base stocking. All of the Captain©s friends be hibition country Frank Hahn would help >a!T and football at Brown. Another Brown bftsa lieve he©d insist on discipline. No manager most any of the teams into the first di papers. The chances are that this will not ball and football product, Dave Fultz, knew morf can succeed who gives the. profligates free vision. . happen. There are too many obstacles in about sliding than anybody now in the game. the ,way, one of which is the almost im rein and* then winks at their betrayal of Arthur Kruger will probably find more Arthur Brown, the young first baseman, who was their generous employers. Cincinnati has plums in the American Association puddin possibility of securing suitable grounds. One sold by Detroit to St. Louis, is a Pennsylvania ,boy, his ; the high plane in lavish salaries and than He would dig out of the dessert serve report is to the effect that E. C. Landgraif, ust like Tom Jones ; the man he displaces. Brown rtfyal- treatment. Ganzel believes that, it is by National League twirlers. -*io formerly owned the Pottsville, Pa,.©, las seen service with the Wilkesbarre team, arid it possible to win the boys to a better apprecia lub, will have the local franchise. Your s believed that he will make good in the fast set:© tion of that fact. This would help some, Irrespondent knew something last summer Manager Clark Griffith will arrive in New York A Compliment For Sullivan. lout this plan to form a new league (or ©orm his Montana ranch early in January. Griff has HARRY STEINFELDT©S ROMANCE. George i>avis, the star shortstop of the yhsps it was the idea formerly contem- :ept in touch with his men and ought to be brim Windows filled with the baubles and trap Chicago Wliite Sox, thinks that Billy Sulli Ited, of forming a circuit including three ful of news when he arrives. He is the only pings of Christmaetido did not detract frara van, the catcher of his t»*zo, is the best "-State cities). Philsdelpthift, Washington, one who- knows what Hal Chase intends to do nest DECEMBER 28, 1907. SRORTIIKG It

sylvania. The Southern Michigan adopted CABINET SIZE PHOTOTYPES OF its predicted course in re-electing Joe S. Jackson, of the © ©Detroit Free Press© © as WAR©S CHANCES president. It decided this year, however, to place the immediate details of -manage ment in the hands of a secretary who would HEDGES© IDEAS OF MEETING be able to devote his entire time to the job BASE BALL PLAYERS. and elected for this purpose James Rey "Sporting Life" has had reproduced cabinet size phototypes of celebrated base ball nolds, a Jackson newspaper man. Mr. Rey POSSIBLE REVOLT, players and offers to send to any of its readers, by mail, postpaid, photos of their favor nolds will be expected to appoint and super ite base ball players for ten (10) cents each; by the dozen one dollar (fl.OO), assorted vise umpires and take charge of all dis or all of one kind. \ putes which arise, as well as the disciplin ing of players. Several Ways of Beating The Rev The photos are regular cabinet size (5x7^ inches) mounted on heavy Mantello mats and packed carefully to insure safe delivery in the mails. olutionary Element in the Amer Here is an opportunity to ornament your room with photos of your favorite base ball CUBA©S CHAPTER. players at small expense. Each photo in a separate transparent envelope to protect and keep it clean. The Net Result of the Visit of the All- ican Association Should It Go to The following photos are now ready for immediate delivery. Others will be added. Extremes Says St. Louis Chief. Leaguers to Cuba Under the Wing of NATIONAL LEAGUE OF 1907* AMERICAN LEAGUE OF 1907. Manager Hank Ramsey. CHICAGO CLUB Frank Chance, manager: Joseph DETROIT CLUB Hugh Jennings, manager; Herman By Ben Kinnsy. SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." B. Tinker. James Slagle, John Evers, Carl Lund- Schaefer, Samuel Crawford, William Donovan, St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 24. Several methods gren, John Kling, Mordecai Brown, Frank Schulte, Claude Kossman, J. W. Downs, Tyrus W. Cobb, Havana, Cuba, Dec. 7. Editor "Sporting for squelching the American Association if Harry Steinfeldt, James Sheckard, Patrick J. George Mullin, Matty Mclntyre, William Coughlin, Life." Hank Ramsey ©s All-League base it invades Chicago are suggested in an in Edward Killian, Charles O©Leary, David Jones, ball club finished their series in Havana on Moran, Edward lieulbach. Arthur Hofman. Orville Ed. Sicver, Charles Schmidt, Frederick Payne, December 2. The All- terview given out today by Overall, George Howard, Charles Fraser, John Edgar Willetts, Robert L. Lowe. Robert Lee Pledges, presi- Pflester. 1 Leaguers won five games and PHILADELPHIA CLUB Connie Mack, manager: lost six during their three © nt of the St. laouis Maurice 11. Powers. Daniel F. Murpliy, Ralph O .5rowns. © ©If the Eastern PITTSBURG CLUB Fred Clarlte, manager; Hana Seybold, Harry Davis, Edward S. Plank, Ossee J©. w eeks© stay in Ouba. It League and the Southern Wagner, Thomas Leach, Samuel Lcever, Charles Schreckengost, George Edward Waddell, Frederick was not as good a showing stand by organized base Phillippe. Homer Hillebrand, George Gibsou, Vic T. Hartsel. Monte Cross. Charles Bender, Briscoe as Ramsey expected the team ball," said Hedges, "the tor Willis, Joseph Nealon, Edward Phelps, Ed Lord. James J. Collins. James H. Dygeit. Keubeu to make. When the Leaguers American Association will ward Abbaticchio, William Duggleby. Oldring, Edward Collins, Simon Nicholls. first arrived they looked have slim chances of accom CHICAGO CLUB Fielder Junes, manager; Edward strong, but after the third PHILADELPHIA CLUB William J. Murray, mana McFurland, George Davis. William D. Sullivan, game fell down badly and plishing anything. The fact ger; Charles Pittlngor, Frank Sparks. Roy Frank Isbell. Koy Patterson, Lee Tanuehill, Frank that Columbus, Toledo and Thomas, William Gleason, Charles Dooin, William Owens, G. Harry White, Nick Altrock, J. the pitchers went to the bad, Indianapolis seem opposed Brausneld, Sherwood Magee, Ernest Courtney, ("Jiggs") Donohue, Frank Smith, Edward A. which put Ramsey in a hole. to the war will also greatly Michael Doolin, Fred Jacklitzch, Charles E. Walsh, Edgar Hahn, P. A. Dougherty, George Following are the scores of cripple the chance of the Brown, Frank J. Corridon. Rohe, Harry Hart, Charles Hickman. the games played. All- Association living through CLEVELAND CLUB Napoleon Lajoie, manager; H. D. Ramsey -Leaguers 7, Havana 1. All- R. L. Hedges NEW YORK CLUB John J. McGraw, manager; Leaguers 1, Almendares 4. it. If those three towns Joseph McGinnity, Christopher Mathewson, W. P. William Bernhardt, Harry Bay. Elmer Flick, and one other in the West would combine Shannon, D. L. McGanu, lioger Bresnahan, Harry Bemis, Adrian Joss. William J. Bradley, All-Leaguers 9, Havana 2. AU-Leaguers 5, with four of the strongest clubs in the George Browne, Frank Bowerman, Luther H. R. S. Rhoades, Will L. Lush, Otto Hess, Almendares 7. All-Leaguers 3, Havana 12. Eastern League and form lay lor, William Dahlen, Michael Donlin, Leon Terrence Turner, George Stovall, Justin J. Clarke, All-Leaguers 0, Almendares 5. All-Leaguers Ames, George Wiltse, Daniel Shay, Arthur Dev- Walter Clarkson, George Nil!, Charles Berger, 1, Havana 5. All-Leaguers 0, Almendares A NEW ORGANIZATION lin, Samuel Strang, Cecil Ferguson, J. Bentley William Hinchman, Harry Hinchman. 10. All-Leaguers 8, Havana 0. All-Leaguers Seymour, Michael J. Lynch. NEW YORK CLUB Clark Griffith, manager: James 1, Almendares 0, All-Leaguers 7, Havana 5. the prospects for the outlaw association Williams, Ira Thomas, William Keeler, Jack Ches- would be gloomy indeed. The big leagues BROOKLYN CLUB Patrick J. Donovan. manager; bro, Norman Elberfeld, William Conroy, Albert Total: All- Leaguers won 5 and lost 6 might aid in forming such a league. Or it Oscar Jones, William Bergen. Louis Hitter, Harry Orth, John Kleinow, William Hogg, Harold Chase, games. would be possible to use Columbus, Indian Lumley, James Casey, William Maloney, Henry Daniel Hoffman, Frank Laporte, Eugene Moriarity, apolis and Toledo, with one other city of Batch. Elmer Stricklett, Harry Mclntyre, Charles Earl Moore, Frank Kitson, Joe Doyle. THE VISITORS. that locality, and put a club in Kansas City A. Alpennan, James Pastorious, John H. Hurn- ST. LOUIS CLUB James R. McAleer. manager; The All-American team was made up of against Tebeau, get one in Omaha, Des mell, Tim Jordan. George Stone, C. Hemphill, Kobert Wallace, Harry Schlitzer, Welch, MeArdle, Minnehan, Clark, Moines and one other Western city, and the CINCINNATI CLUB Edward Hanlon, manager; Howell, Frederick Glade, Thomas Jones, John Duffy, Mclntyre, Quinlan, McQuillan, Ahearn outlaws would be broken up in a short time. Jacob Weimer, Kobert Ewing, Miller Huggins, O©Connor, Barney Pelty, John Powell, Roy A. and Eley. The last-named led in batting in Tebeau is not liked by the public in Kansas George Schlei, Andrew Coakley, John Ganzell, Hartzell, Harry Niles, Joseph Yeager, Oliver Pick- the series with .333 closely followed by City, and a club could go in there and John Lobert, Charles Hall, Michael Mowery. ering, William Dineen. Ahearn with .311. Ramsey©s pitchers were soon run him out. I would consider it a BOSTON CLUB James Maguire, manager; Denton a disappointment to him. Young Mack, of BOSTON CLUB Fred Tenney, manager; Daniel Young, George Winters, Frederick Parent, Hobo good investment to put money into Needham, Irving Young, Harry Dolan, David L. Ferris, Louis Criger. Jesse Tannehill, Myroa Grim- the Philadelphia Nationals, failed to Ditch Brain, Frank Pfeiffer, Vlve A. Lindamau, Albert up to his true form, for a pitcher of his A NEW CLUB shaw, Joseph Harris, Charles Armbruster, James Bridwell, Claude Ritchey, Clarence N. peaumont. Barrett, John Knight, Robert Unglaub, W. W. ability should never lose a game to a club In Kansas City, even if Tebeau is there. I Patrick J. Flaherty, Samuel Brown, August like the Almendares or Havanas. Mack did Dorner, Joseph Bates. Congalton. think he could also be run out of Louis WASHINGTON CLUB Joseph Cantillon, manager; not seem to have any speed or control and ville. The Association will also find itself ST. LOUIS CLUB John ,r McCloskey, manager; Case Patten, Thomas Hughes, John Andorson, when he did get the ball near the plate the hard up for players, for the big leagues will William R. Marshall, John C. Barry, Fred L. Charles Jones, James Delehanty, Edward Heydon, Cubans clouted it for fair. Mack pitched © not let their surplus men go there, if it is Beobe, Peter Noonan, John J. Murray, Edward J. Warner, Frederick Falkenberg, Robert S. Gan- four games, winning one and losing three. an outlaw organization, and I don©t think Kouetchy, Arthur Hoelskoetter, Justin J Bennett. ley, Michael Kahoe, Otis Clymer, Peter O©Brien. Minnahan, the big "pitcher from the St. the Association clubs can pay salaries big Paul Club, pitched three games, winning enough to get many of the players to jump. OTHER NOTED PLAYERS two and losing one, all of his games were We would distribute our players among the pitched against the Havana Club which is minor leagues in good standing. If the Harry Arndt, Harry Eels, William Keister, Thomas Raub, the weaker of the two here. Schlitzer Association has its forces united and if the Harry J. Auurejr Claude Elliott, William Kennedy, Frederick C. Raymei, pitched two games against the Almendares, Eastern and Southern Leagues should join Charles Babb, John Eubanks, Joseph Kissinger, William Reidy, G. O. Barclay. M:\lcolm Eason Malachi Kittridge. Clyde Robinson. champions of Cuba, winning one by the them in the break from organized base ball Harry Barton. Charles FarrelL Otto Kruger, James Ryan. score of 1-0, and losing the other 7-5. He they would have a good chance of carrying W. Beville. John S. Farrell. Bernard Koehler. Frank Roth. pitched two games against the Havana Reds, it through. But the way matters seem to Jacob Beckley, Tom S. Fisher, Joseph J. Kelley, Harry Schmidt. breaking even. stand I cannot see where they have a James T. Burks. William Friel. Louis Laroy, John Slattery. chance.©© J. Barbeau, David L. Fultz. William Lauder, Harry Smith, SCHLITZER© S FEAT. Herbert Briggs, Michael Grady. Herman LODE. Jesse Stovall, Wirt V. Cannell, Virgil Garvin, John McCarthy, William Sudhofl, Young Schlitzer, of "spit ball" fame, did Lafayette N. Cross, Philip Geier, Barry McCormick, Joseph Sugden, the best work for Ramsey©s crew. This DETROIT DOTLETS, James J. Callahan, Norwood Gibsoa. Mike McCormick, Albert Selbach. young pitcher is all to the good and made Thomas W. Corcoran, Harry Gleason, Charles McFarland, Alexander Smith. a great hit here. He won two games and George Carey, William Gochnauer. Louis MoAllif.ter, J. B. Stanley, lost one, shutting out the hard-hitting Al The Result of the American League Meet P. J. Carney, Daniel Green, Herman McFarland, Edward Smith. mendares Club by the score of 1-0. The Charles C. Carr. E. W. Greminger, John McFetridge, Homer Smoot, ing The Deal for Catcher Ira Thomas Joseph Cassidy, William Gilbert. George Magoon, James Sebring, Almendares team have boasted of the fact Louis Castro, James Hackett, John Malarkey. John Thoney, that they were never shut out, but after Pleasing to Detroit Club©s Constituents. William Clarke. William Mailman. John Menefee, John Taylor, Schlitzer got through with them they were Richard Cooley. Richard Harley. Roscoe Miller, John Townsend. heart-broken and could not quite understand J. Cronin. Charles Harper. William Milligan. G. Van Haltreu, By Paul H. Bruske. how it happened. There were 3000 people Charles Currie, Weldon Henley, Fred Mitchell, Fred Veil. on hand when the Americans humbled the Detroit, Mich., Dec. 24. Editor "Sport Thomas Daly, Hunter Hill, Charles Moran, Ernest Vinson, Charles Dexter. William Holmes. John Morrissey, Arthur Weaver, Cuban champions. The best the Almendares ing Life." Well, the American League met Frank Dillon, John Hulseman. Eustace J. Newton, Frederick Wilhelm, could do with Schlitzer ©s delivery was a ing is over and ©the Detroit Club magnates John Dobbs, J. E. Heidrick. John O©Brien, Otto Williams, single in the first inning and two solid come home with one more Frank Donohue, Jay Hughes, John J. O©Neil, Harry Wolverton, cracks in the ninth. player than they had in their Thomas Doran, Kudolph Hulswltt, M. J. O©Neil, William Wolfe. William Douglas. Berthold Hustings. Richard Padden. B. Wood, INDIVIDUAL WORK. possession when they left. John Doyle, Frank Hahn, William Phillips. Eugene VVright, The purchase of catcher Ira Louis Drill, Otto Jordan, Wiley Piatt, Robert Wicker, Hughie Ahearn caught every game t>ut Thomas of the New York Edward Dunkle. Harry Jacohsen. Edward Poole, Howard Wilson. one and did good work; in fact, he was _ the Club was at a figure not an August Dundon, James Jackson, Ambrose Puttmann. David Zearfoss. most aggressive player on the American nounced, but nobody believes John Dunleavy, Robert Keefe. Heiny Peitz. Charles Zimmer. team. Hughie also hit hard and did some the price was very high, even Hugh Dufly. clever throwing. "Nig" Clarke was on though Comiskey, of Chicago THE ABOVE IS OUR COMPLETE LIST. WE HAVE NO OTHERS first and Larry had better try the "dark was also bidding for the boy" out on the initial sack. He put up man. Thomas has always a great game all the time the Americans impressed the writer as a let me come to the scratch -with good health The fans are not bothering about the were here and his one-hand stops and pick player of much greater abil and a few intact fingers on my throwing catchers, however. ups were the feature of nearly every game. ity than his average would Welch at second was troubled with a sore hand and I©m not afnaid of all the Thomases WILD BILL DONOVAN arm and had hard work to keep his end up. Paul H. Brusk* seem to indicate. His im that ever were whelped." posing size is certainly a is looking forward to another great year. Captain Lawrence Qninlan, of the Louis great advantage, and in this city he has al A WEAK SPOT. He weighs over 190 pounds and that is ten ville Club, did nice fielding around short ways batted and thrown well. On the sea The general opinion of sporting experts more than he ever scaled before. Bill has and hit the ball timely. Larry has been son, however, he thumped for but .192, ,that the Detroit catchers lost the club a always been aggravatingly light and his here before and is very popular. MeArdle while his fielding was next to the worst in chance to really get into the game to the physical prosperity this year is regarded on third played well in the field and whole the league catchers© list, Rickey, of his own extent of real competition in the world©s as extremely promising. Like Umpire Evans, he is weak with the stick he more than club being the only one whom he beat out on series is unquestionably true. To those Addie Joss and some of the other lights makes up for this by his clever work around the basis of the official returns. It is writers who had not seen the Detroit catch of ©base ball, Bill has become smitten by the the third corner. If Mac improves in his understood locally that the catcher did not ing corps in action during the main season journalistic toug and is likely to do some hitting he is sure to land in the big league get along well with Eberfeld and one or this doubtless seemed conclusive. The newspaper work of the syndicate variety in a couple of years for there are few third two other veteran members of the New York writer is strongly inclined to the opinion, before the winter is over. His fame as baseman in the big show that have anything Club, and that this retarded his develop however, that the catchers of the Detroit a story teller is known wherever base ball on him. He is good, don©t forget that. ment to such an extent that Manager Grif club were more unlucky than incompe©tent. nourishes, and he ought to make a huge suc MATTY McINTYRE fith decided to let some other club take All through the season until his index fin cess of it. in left performed as only a champion can a whirl at the process. The ger was smashed Schmidt had caught the THE SOUTHERN MICHIGAN perform and his ankle did not seem to bother ADDITION OF THOMAS highest grade of ball, and Payne, in the clos him when fielding except that he limped and ing month, while the team was battling its held its postponed meeting at Lansing re did not have the speed he did before he to the local club©s staff makes its catchers way to the finish on the eastern trip, did cently, and formerly ratified the transfer was injured last May. Matty did not do number five. Schmidt, Payne and Archer more than his share. As for Archer, there of the Mt. Clemens franchise to Saginaw. much base runnine and he will have to remain from last year, and the club still are at least two pitchers on the Detroit This puts A. S. Burkhart in a position take the best of care of has injured ankle holds title to Mike Erwin, of Texas. The clu

BEST AMATEUR POULTRY SHOOTS AT EDGE CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY GOES HILL AND CAMDEN. TO BOSTON. Ballantyne Bags Fowl at HigWand Gleason Wins Dickerson Cup at Meet Newcomb©s Feat Across New York Annual Big Entry the Ferry Meadow Springs and List Ford and Sanders Get Gearview Content at Home* Club Cups*

Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 23. The Christ New York City, N. Y., Dec. 18. Gufl mas shoot of the Highland Gun Club Satur Editor "Sporting Life." Dr. E. F. Gleason, day last, on the Edge Hill grounds, brought of Boston, and a member of the Boston out thirty shooters, and the three traps were working steadily all the afternoon. A A. A., Palefaces and the Crescent A. C., of system of points governed the shoot, 10 Brooklyn, won the amateur championship points being allowed for straight scores at clay target shoot of America held yesterday 5 targets, 15 points for 10 targets, with 5 under the auspices of the New York Ath to second gun, 5 to third and 3 to fourth letic Club, at Travers Island. He broke 95 As all the scheduled events had to be de targets out of a possible 100, and established cided before the prizes could be awarded, it a new record for the event. O. N. Ford, of was well after dark before the point system Central City, la., finished second With ft was settled and the winners were given their total of 94, and W. M. Foord, of Wilming- trophies. ton, Del., last year©s champion, J3. $!* Captain Ballantyne, judging^from the num Reed, of Manchester, N. H., and J. B. ©ber of turkeys he took home,* was the top Sanders, of Albany, N. Y., tied for third notch winner of the day, and he secured his place. The shooters contested for the $500 fowls by making consistently high scores in cup offered by A. H. Dickerson, of the nearly every event he entered. He tied for New York A. C., and two cups for second a number of the extra prizes offered by the and third donated by the club. club, but in the drawing to decide who The tournament was one of the most should have some souvenir of the occasion he successful ever held in this country, 122 invariably lost. Davis, Tansey and MeCarty men, 16 of whom were professionals, par made a creditable showing. With the excep ticipating. Each shot 100 targets from 16 tion of the nasty wind -that blew over the yds. rise and the percentage broken ex grounds and caused the targets to "jump© ceeded all previous records. Out of the in their flight, a more perfect day for trap 106 amateurs who lined up for the import ant race 11 shot 90 or better. Six of the shooting could not have been desired, and 16 professionals Who were allowed to take there was no end to the merriment over a part in the competition were in the charmed miss or ©©dusted" target. Following the circle between 90 and 100, Lester German shoot and while waiting for the counting of leading those who make a business of shoot the points the gunners indulged in several ing with a tally of 97. G. W. Maxwell, the miss-and-out shoots, of which no record was one-armed crack shot, broke 94 and waa kept. Scores: second to German. Events.... 1 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 So numerous were the competitors that Targets .. 5 5 W 10 10 10 5 10 10 M M 10 10 Pet. although the shoot started promptly at 10 Boyer ...... 0453882370159 5C.1 Rogers .....3467992881568 74.5 o©clock in the morning the last man had Dr. Wenti.. 4458883781069 72.4 not finished until after twilight had set in. Herman ....44788 10 3890 11 9 983.3 During the morning sessions the reflection Ballantyne.. 3496 10 957902 71081.8 of the sun on the waters of Pelham Bay, Perry ..... 1245864560186 57.1 ANNIE OAKLEY, over which they sho-t, interfered somewhat Crooks ....136598189.... 59 67.4 and the scores were not as good as those Fontata ...435698068.... 9 970.5 Who Has Made Fame and Fortune With Her Shooting Talent. Riuggold ..157. 6660685069 63.7 made later in the day. Davis ...... 1 5 8 6 810 4 2 8.... 8 871.7 Few celebrated shooters can claim one-tenth the fame and reputation enjoyed by the lady whose The men shot four events of 25 each. MeCarty . .43 10 77929 10 1089 80.6 picture is shown this week, Annie Oakley, who, in private life is Mrs. Frank E. Butler, is known and In the first string O. N. Ford and "W. M. Landis ....2577985750077 71.1 admired on more than one continent. Her daily exhibitions in connection with Buffalo Bill©s Wild West Foord broke straight, while Dr. Gleason Tansey ....3 410 9 6 6 3 810 110 5 9 77.7 ©Show earned her a lasting fame in the English-speaking world and she has, of recent years, made friends broke only 23. But in the next block W. Shew ...... 1 4 7 7 7 10 0 8...... 6 767.1 for U. M. C. ammunition oh several lengthy shooting trips. In these she is always accompanied by her M. Foord and Dr. Gleason each made a Welnert ....2 2 8 9 6 8 2 ...... 67.2 husband,, himself a worthy traveller for the Union Metallic Cartridge Co. Miss Oakley©s eye and hand Hoover ....3463452470445 50.0 are quite as steady now as years ago when she startled the public with her many excellent feats, using clean score. J. B. Sanders with 24 made Firth ...... 3253330332343 36.3 shotgun, rifle, revolver and pistol with eaual ease. Few of her old time audiences would, however, the best showing in the third event. Dr. Harkins ....13736604702.. 8 52.8 recognize her, with this snow-white hair, the change from flowing brown tresses being directly due to the Gleason counted 23, while Ford »nd Foord Lohr ...... 4 3 7 7 7 9 2 ...... 70.9 big railroad wreck in a Southern State where more than a hundred of Cody©3 horses were killed and scored 21 and 22 respectively. Hamel ....2 3 7 6 7 7 2 6...... 61.5 much of his Wild West property destroyed. It would appear somewhat in the nature of a confession Beginning with the final string Dr. Glea Cooper ...... 9 8 510 7 0 5 6 880.5 for both the subject and writer of this story Were the actual figures to appear in print covering the son and O. N. Ford were tied for first place Denham ...... 8 10 0 6 5 0 1 .... 62. years of friendship between the two. Since first meeting in Boston there has been the occasional visit on Pflegar ...... 10 9 5 7 8 0 2 .... 83. either side to strengthen the congenial acquaintance. During one of these periodical visits we were with a total of 71 out of 75, with several Roatche ...... 5603-6 1 .. 4 .. 43.8 privileged to hoar tb.3 story of early struggles ere the name of Oakley grew to be synonymous with fair others in a position to win. With great Dalton ...... 9 7 4 6 9.... . » .. 77.7 dealing and skillful shooting. It was a story of hard work, yet full of interest. Miss Oakley, though accuracy the Bostonian broke target after Clark ...... 8 0 2 6 8 70.6 competing with men in a man©s sport, never jeopardized her gracious ladylike manners and in blazing the targets until the twentieth, which he missed. Correa ...... 7 0 3 3.. 52.0 trail for women trap shooters her name will liye long after others are forgotten. He finished with a score of 24 and a total White ...... 9 2.. 77 75.7 of 95. O. N. Ford missed two and finished NOTES. second. It was bay rum, not the other kind. Newcomib .. 13 15 14 14 14 13 13 13 12 16 115 out of 125, Eames 111, Newcomb 93 W. M. Foord, who won last year©s con French .... 12 12 10 14 12 11 13 11 .. put of 100. Landis and Mink succeeded The turkeys were dead this time, but the geese 11 12 13 13 13 10 11 13 8 test on a score of 94, was only one behind Cantrell ... in breaking straight 25. his record this year and he had two worthy and chickens amused the people hi the train. Fleming .. 12 10 11 14 11 .... 11 The grounds selected by the Stenton MeCarty took one good look at his goose and Taylor ...... 13 12 10 12 11 .... rivals for the third cup in Mayor Reed asked the clerk if he would please send it in for Bates ...... 12 12 13 9 13 9 10 Athletic Club for trap shooting are situ and J. B. Sanders. In the shoot-off for the him. KUiott .... 14 12 12 7 11 10 .. ated at Westmoreland Station, and are equal trophy Sanders broke 22 out of 2_5, beating Robinson ....._...... 11 11 to any in the State of Pennsylvania, the Pflegar led the late comers with Cooper a good Newman ...... 12 10 his two competitors by the margin of one. second and Dalton, Fontahi and Clark next In background being excellent. Totals: F. W. Moffett, of the Crescent A. C., order. Sh. Bk.l Sh. Bk. runner-up last year, was able to tally only The clerk had to stop the shooting before the sun Stenton Athletic Club. Maxwell ...... 125 HSPratt ...... 125 73 84 and was far down the list. went down to enable him to sort out the fifty-six Butler ...... 125 100 Davidson ...... 100 72 J. R. Martin, the winner of the Metro prizes. Trap shooting has been taken up by the David 150 126 Tansey ...... 150 130 Stenton Athletic Club at Westmoreland Sta., MeCarty ..... 150 133 Ringold ...... 100 82 politan championship last April, accounted Of those who shot through the entire program on the P. R. R., and the first shoot of the Eames ...... 125 111 Mink ...... 150 138 for 83. G. S. MeCarty, who won the Pale Herman was the leader, closely followed by Bal season was held Dec. 19. Among the Brenizer 100 75 Newcomb ...... 100 93 face championship last week at Boston, was lantyne, MeCarty and Tansey. visiting marksmen were Geo. Maxwell, the Metzser ...... 100 53 among the 87 per centers. Notwithstanding Stanton White, one of the original members of the perfect weather other crackerjacks found the Highland Club, turned up after an absence of one-armed shooter, and Frank Butler, both several years. Did well, too. of the U. M. C. Co. Maxwell©s remarkable Clearview Gun Club. the conditions a bit puzzling and were shooting under so severe a physical handi unable to guage the targets with, their Sixty-five per cent, on "incomers," "rniss and out" The regular club handicap shoot of the usiial accuracy. Scores : and No. 1 trap working poorly was good. Sevanty cap was the subject of much admiring com Clearview Gun Club was shot last Saturday or better excellent, and eighty per cent, grand. ment. Local celebrities present included Amateur championship, 100 targets, 16 yds. rise. Messrs. Tansey, Newcomb, MeCarty, Eames, on the grounds at Seventy-second street and Targets ...... 25 25 25 25 Tt. North Camden Gun Club. Landis and Mink, all of whom did good Brewster avenue, the conditions being 25 Dr E. F. Gleason ...... 23 25 23 24 95 work considering the strange grounds. Mink targets, with added handicaps, all scores of O. N. Ford ...... 25 The North Camden Gun Club©s poultry broke 13S ont of 150, MeCarty 133, Maxwell (Continued on the fifteenth page.) W. M. Foord ...... 25 tournament was attended by twenty shooters E. E. Reed ...... 23 J. B. Sanders ...... 23 including the renowned marksmen, Lester S. Scott ..j...... __ ... 20 German, of t9e du Pont Powder Co., and A. Llndley ...... 24 Charles Newcomb, of the S. S. White Gun F. V. Carlough ...... 22 Club, succeeded in winning the major portion A. Ballentyne ...... 22 of the merchandise and his difficulty at the G. K. KouwenhOTen ...... 20 J. Castle ...... 23 end of shoot lay in carrying off his spoils. Dennis Upson ...... 23 His burden included four turkeys, one small LAST CALL FOR COPY F. W. Howard ...~~...... 21 pig and a pair of ducks, about 65 pounds of W J. Sorter ...... 21 dead weight. N. W. Wynne ...... 20 G. F. Pelham ...... 21 Newcomb won his prizes from scratch and F. Truax ...... 20 was practically invincible when it came to E. C. Mayer ...... _...... 22 shooting off the ties. Added target handicap The Annual Trap Shooting Review for G. S. MeCarty ...... 20 was of some assistance to the weaker shots H. A. Grossback ...,...-~..... 22 and boxes of loaded shells served as second H. Waters ...... 19 1908 will be published in our next issue .1. S. Remsen ...... 23 prizes in each event. B. S. Wickes won two F. S. Sorter ...... 20 turkeys, Chalmers and Coleman each one. J. H. Hendrickson ...... 22 German made two straight strings, but (January 4, 1908.) T. Decker ...... 21 Elliott did not appear to be in the form he L. H Schortemler ...... 22 has showed lately. The club passed C. H. H. Sooth ...... __ .. 21 Advertisers are earnestly requested to for A. Betli ...... 20 Newcomb a, vote of thanks for his able as H. B. Tuthtn ...... ——— . 23 sistance in the office. Scores : ward their copy at the earliest possible A. V. Suydam ...... 20 Events ...... 123456789 10 O. S. Sked ...... 22 Targets ...... 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 F. W. Moffett 22 German ...... 15 12 15 14 13 14 12 ...... moment. J. A. Anderson . ._ _...... 20 Marcy ...... 13 13 13 14 12 11 11 12 12 9 R. Biddle 2d ...... 16 Wickes ...... 13 13 13 12 14 12 9 9 12 12 F. B. Stephensoa ...... _ ..... 23 E. Coleman ...... 13 14 14 12 14 11 13 12 .. .. Last forms (outsij^ pages, 25 to 32) close F. C. Bissett ...... ____ .~ 20 Stratton ...... 13 9 8 11 9 ...... E M. Hurd .... _ ..~..-.~... 24 Wiley ...... 12 U 12 12 11 ...... John Martin ...... —— .. 22 Finfe ...... 12 12 13 13 12 13 10 10 .. .. on December 28, 1 ( W, I. Breman ...... 21 Severn ...... 12 14 14 13 12 11 13 11 12 11 T. Tamey ...... ! . .... 19 Chalmera ....— „.... 10 13 14 13 9 14 10 19 1* 10 Dr. JD. L. Culvw ...... —— ... 23 Pratt .. ——————... IS 13 12 11 13 13 8 8 .... <;Co&ttnnod on the fifteenth DECEMBER 28, 1907. 13

ment of an open season on deer which] owing to the short time limit, has be© one of the snappiest and most unique game seasons ever recorded. The open date©s N. Y. A. C. were the first fifteen days of December ©which included three Sundays presumably ©close" season) when deer must be killed with shot gun only, using buck shot ndt less than a quarter of an inch in diamete©r. Now, that it is all over, the "Granite State" can with good grounds claim the rec ord of having been the scene of the merriest won by Duck shot slinging for a period of fifteen days. It is pleasant to chronicle, however, TRAP SHOOTING REVIEW. that there seems to be no accidental shoot-" Dr, E. F. Gleason, of Boston, Mass., ^ith 95-100 ings recorded from this unusual carnage, "Sporting Life©s" annual Trap Shooting the few injuries and one fatality in con nection with the sport, being attrib using Review for 1908 will be published in our utable to other causes. The use of buck issue of January 4, 1908. This review, like shot for killing deer is rather repulsive :o many fair-minded sportsmen, as, while its eleven predecessors, will contain a con deadly at short range, it increases the "NEW SCffULTZE" densed summary of all important doings at number of fatally injured animals that get away to drag out a lingering death. the traps during the previous season. The Should the hunter decide to be guided Mr. O. N. Ford, of Central City, la., won second best individual work of the noted profes jy moral scruples and use the rifle as a means of despatching the game contrary sional shots, also records of the leading ama :o the rules as formulated by the State prize with 94-100, Mr. Ford using teurs will be shown. solons, he places himself in a position :o be penalized to the extent of a fine The actual record and average position not exceeding $200, or spend a six months© in each day©s shooting, of nearly all the apprenticeship at "stone-cracking," or other manual labor with which the State prominent professional and amateur trap entertains its involuntary guests within shots will be found in comprehensible tables. "ts prison walls, or even both. Much valuable matter, data and records, One person at least paid a fine in adopt worth preserving for future reference, will ing the more humane method. The buck SMOKELESS hot clause gave splendid opportunity for be found in "Sporting Life©s Trap Shooting inventive geniuses to devise ways and Review" for 1908. means for keeping within the letter of the law as it read, yet over-reach its inten There will be no extra charge for this tion, and some knotty problems were put grand holiday review number. The price is up to the authorities for solution. five cents the copy and it will be found on Buck shot not less than one quarter Inch The World©s Amateur Record sale at all news stands, or will be mailed is very explicit and there can be little quibbling on that point, but the limit For a team of five men shooting at 100 targets from this office to all who enclose five as to maximum size, especially when not cents. Advertisers desiring extra space in pecifically mentioned, is surrounded in per man is this number should notify "Sporting Life" doubt, and furnished the basis for more than one argument. One enterprising at an early date. dealer commercially marketed a "chained" buck shot shell wherein the nine pellets of the charge were wired together. © In 484 out of 5OO dividual experimenters tried many meth NEW ENGLAND NEWS* ods, antiquated and otherwise, of fusing or attaching the pellets in a mass in AN AVERAGE OF 96.8 PER CENT. Practice at Paleface Grounds Crompton hopes of attaining that feature. Incident ally the buck shot supply of New England This Record was made Nov. 11, 1907, at Wilmington, Wins B. A. A. Contest Peculiarities of was cleaned out, Boston being minus some New Hampshire©s Deer Season Rea few days before the season closed. Such O., by the team of the Wilmington Gun Club- was the demand for a special article in sons for Maine©s Declining Record. the sportsmen©s catalogue. Messrs. Stephens, Lewis, Sabin, Sayers and The heavy influx of non-resident sports By Will Kirkwood. men desirous of getting a full complement Dr. Gaston. In making this record Boston, Mass., Dec. 23. Gun Editor of the game that New Hampshire©s deer "Sporting Life." With the strenuous annual season offered, is evidenced by the fact each member of the team used barely on the record sheet and only a prac that the game commissioners issued 573 tice and prize shoot scheduled for Dec. 19, licenses in the southern counties at $10 an attendance of one dozen at the Paleface each, netting the State $5730, and fines grounds, Wellington, Mass., was hardly ex swelled the amount by $285. pected. The real trappist©s enthusiasm The list of deer killed, though incom knows no bounds, however, and the after plete, runs over 600, Hillsborough county noon shoot was a smart affair with no end leading with 184, and would have been of fun for the shooters. P. E. Osborne, of larger had there been the amount of snow Bangor, Me., paid Wellington one of his necessary to make good hunting conditions. periodical visits laden with a full stock of Under protection the deer have thrived enthusiasm and ammunition to cross swords well, and in many cases have become ;a with such powder burners as Frank, © "Buf menace to the farmers, and as the latter©s for the outfit, all of which foot up a lirely falo," Stone, Hassam and Kirkwood. wooing of fortune from the rocky soil of expense bill for a two or three weeks© trip. FISHING TACKLE In addition, the game-shooting absentees New England is not considered a rose And sometimes on the top of that the back are returning to the target fold, now that strewn path under most favorable cir woods is not far enough removed from am) the law says "no birds," and to-day Tom cumstances, be welcomed this festival of civilization that the abominable tip system Horrigan was tuning up, and gradually decimating the free lunchers of his garden is unknown, and a crisp "V" or an "X" getting back into form. "Jack," besides patch. The prunning out was more notice has to be forthcoming ere the guide©s lamps SPORTING GOODS. changing game habits for trap style, was able during the first week of the season becpme duly vigilant and his game hunting breaking in a new gun. He had gone back as the game were more easily approached instincts properly whetted. A few years J. B. SHANNON & SONS, on his old favorite single barrel, which by the hunter, but as time wore on and back under a less expensive regime it be shrunk the day©s average, though spells of the deer learned the oft-repeated lesson came a fashion of the hunting calendar to 816 Chestnut Street, Phila* successive breaks augurs well for the .future of the human biped being a dangerous include a trip for big game, many districts New Gun Catalogue sent for the asking. when the combination settles to business. enemy, the thinning of nature©s zoo in this enjoying an increasing boom in the fall and Interest was created by a neat silver cup particular section took place a little more lots of easily-earned money incidentally fell FOB SALE being offered as high-gun prize in a 50-tar- leisurely. ___ to a class of people whose dollars ordinarily get match, 16 yards, added target handi were garnered in comparatively small quan Strong Beiected Pigeons cap. This little trophy left the grounds in Maine©s Declining Becord. tities and by dint of long and laborious For Shooters. Order in Advance. the Maine shooter©s grip-sack, who, after All of th« statistics accessible so far work. M. K. BERGeV, SoiHferton, Pa. jollying the boys as to how he was shy of elative to the big game shot in Maine show THE INEVITABLE RESULT. practice, proved the victor with a handicap j. marked falling off from previous years© The increased expense of such »trip of of 2. Fred Stone made an elegant bid, 38 records. Individual opinions, © however, in this last year or two may have had an in setts championship will be decided In the breaks out of the last 40, landing him the variably voice the fact that game is plenty fluence in swerving people to the other forms morning, and the New England champion honor of high actual score. Frank looked in the many noted hunting regions of the of hunting, where unalloyed pleasure can be ship will be contested for in tbe after good until the last 15, and he finished Pine Tree State. This would tend to show had without scuttling the individual strong noon. The Stone trophy match includes with Kirkwood and Horrigan on 43. The that the decrease in the amount of game box. Hunters do not grumble so much at 100 targets with a bird handicap, and the appended score table includes the results of killed was due to a lack of hunters rather being forced to hire a guide provided they Massachusetts championship is a 5O-blrd regular events, though a number of extras than to the gradual wiping out of the game. are assured of a competent, energetic and match from scratch. Mayor Eugene EL were shot. Kirkwood made top score, 86; A more correct judgment will be possible conscientious one, but there are many . com Reed, of Manchester, has won three legs, Fred Stone, second, 84; Osborne and Frank when the returns appear in answer to late plaints heard, not all by any means from dis and Henry L. Edgarton, the Connecticut tieing on 83 for third. Scores: requests for full information made by the gruntled, fault-finding unsuccessful hunters State champion, has won two legs on the Events .. .. 12345678 game commissioners as they can then readily as to unsatisfactory service in this respect. championship during the year, and botli Targets ...... 10 15 10 15 10 15 10 15 Shot. Bke. determine if there is a noticeable decrease There is, however, a strong feeling that the will contest in the final shoot of Decem Kirkwood .__ 10 10 9 12 10 11 9 14 100 86 in the number of non resident hunters who ber 31. Stone 7 11 It 12 6 14 9 15 100 stiff license fee which seemingly has a Osborne ....,~» 7 12 9 12 9 13 7 14 100 visited the State this fall. tendency to climb rather than descend is Frank ...... 9 10 9 12 8 13 10 12 100 THE PROFITABLE VISITOE. surely straining unduly an expense account The New Haven, Conn., Gun Club holds Buffalo ...... 7 9 9 11 5 15 9 13 100 Through the requests sent for full in that is burdened to the limit. It would be a tournament New Year©s Day. Ten Hassam ..._. . 8 13 9 13 5 10 9 10 100 formation on the sport they have the inside more consistent if it were changed to a events, 150 targets, $10.00 entrance, Jack Hetbard , .. . 7 11 8 12 7 11 6 18 100 track as to the reduced number of visitors reasonable license fee for the privilege to rabbit system. Ten merchandise and cash: Horrigan .-. 5 11 4 9 8 11 6 14 100 prizes go to high guns shooting the entire Jack .... 6 10 8 11 7 8 7 11 ion in quest of sport, that big body of visitors hunt with extra fee for each animal brought 5 5 4 3 5 5 7 8 100 who heretofore have unloosened coin in out by the successful hunters, not to exceed program. 1 4 7 4 5 3 3 .. 85 quantities sufficient to make them a very present limitations. Wfflard 8 10 7 10 7 14 75 desirable source of revenue. These requests Appleton 12 7 11 50 Ne-w England Briefs. Shatter ...... 6 ...... 10 for information by the commission are in Special cup match, 50 targets, added target the shape of compulsory orders to registered At the Worcester, Mass., poultry exhi TRADE NEWS, handicap. guides to inform the commission the number bition Mr. M. H. Coffin, a Whitinsville, Bke. Hdcp. TU. Eke. Hdcp. TU. of days worked, persons guided, whether Mass., devotee of trap shooting, cleaned Osborne ...43 2 45 Buffalo ....42 0 42 residents of State or not, number of animals the board of all premiums with his par Peters News. Stone ..... 44 0 44 Hebbard ... 36 2 38 killed, with definite list of all big game tridge Wyandottes. Mr. Coffin was elected At West Alexandria, O., Dec. 10, Mr. Tease John Frank .... 43 0 43 Hassam ... 34 2 36 son, of West Alexandria, won the cup and the Indi Horrigan .39 4 43 Jack ...... 33 2 35 killed. A thorough digest of these returns president of the Partridge Wyandotte when tabulated will help materially in get Club of America at the annual meeting. vidual championship of Ohio wltfe a score of 114 Kirkwood .43 0 43 Fay ...... 25 10 35 ting at the real state of conditions of the out of 125. He used Peters .22 caliber Stevena big game hunting and will probably prove J. H. Brinl-ey, of the Big Red W. bri Pope Armory cartridges. B. A. A. Gun Club. that the visiting sportsman pays a pretty gade, is to spend Christmas at home. Jack The Peters Cartridge Company Is now msrartsctnr-. Eleven members of the B. A. A. Gun Club penny for all the deer and moose meat he missed the Thanksgiving celebration ing and supplying the trade 30-30 Remington auto «ompeted for the cup in the weekly 100- brines otrt. through being down South on business. loading cartridge, which is giving especially fine target handicap at the Riverside, Mass., If thei reports reveal any reckless killing results, having high velocity, low trajectory and range last fcTaturday. Compton was high gun of big game, they will probably show that During P. B. Osborne©s sojourn at the great killing power a* long range. with a score of 81, to -which was added a blame should rest on the shoulders of the Hub, there have been many impromptu Peters Spreader Loads as recently put on the mar handicap of 17, making his total 98. The resident hunters, either on the heads of matinees at the Paleface grounds. ket have won the approval of sportsmen wherever weather conditions were sood. * The scores: mercenary persons who only see so many they have been tried. When used in a full choke expected dollars dangling in antlers or on gun they give identically the same penetration at Score Hdp. TU. those who supply home larders forgetful of The Palefaces will hold a big all-day 25 yards as ordinary loads in a cylinder barrel, and Compton ~~...... 81 17 shoot on December 31. The program in if anything an improved pattern. They are just Oilman ...... 74 17 the fact that they are robbing the State of cludes 200 targets, and includes, besides the thing for a sportsma.n who wants to use hia Tucker ...... ~ . 70 20 features that attract those who spend dollars the final shoot for the Stone trophy and trap run in the field. Any dealer can supply them, scratch in plenty for every head or pound of meat the final shoot for the Massachusetts cham or will get them. Owen _...... --. . _..._-..-...... - 81 7 they take out. Faye ...- . -...... 86 scratch pionship, a shoot for the New England The Big Red W. BHnn .. . -«- ...... 74 H) BIG EXPENSE ACCOUNT. championship. Six silver trophies have Whitney . .- -- 65 18 been put up by the association. There Complete reports from the Paleface shoot show that M.vrcy ...... 67 15 The expense of a big game hunting trip in addition to the Paleface New England Cham Barnes ...... -- ... 69 10 with its never ending outlay of coin from will be 10 events of 20 targets each, pionship, which was won by Henry Powers with scratch 8 the initial outfitting to the close of the re which will constitute the day©s program- Winchester shells, these shells came in for other Silver cups will be awarded for the honors. The Paleface 18 and 21 yd. championship turn journey has greatly increased of late was won by G. S. JtoCarty, Jack Martin second, vears, largely due to legislative enactments. fvinner of every second event, and a both using Winchester ©shells. The Fred A. Stone New Hampshire©s Deer Story. Transportation charges, $15 license fee for silver trophy for the high amateur gun trophy for high amateur average was won by New Hampshire and its visiting sport&- the privilege to hunt, compulsory company of the day. Jack Martin, G. S. McCarty second, both using nave lately finished, tasting the excite of a guide at $3 per day, and board bills .The Stone trophy and the Massacbu- Winchester shells. r fen apoplectic expression filled the air with oaths and blasphemy. "Oh, for one of my swear wheels," said THOSE WE KNOW the clergyman, shuddering, © ©to put in thai bad old boy©s hands." NOT TOO PERSONAL BUT JUST Your Moneyback at Chicago. Dead Few would suspect Chauncey Powers ol aspiring to be a show-man. But he volun- PERSONAL ENOUGH. tairly served in that capacity at Chicago last June when so many requested to see his famous "single sticker" that he came to Bits of News, Gossip and Comment the conclusion that it was a put-up job. In order to test the sincerity of many in quiries he decided to have some fun him Is justly proud of the Record made by About Men Whom Lovers of self. Mink, of Philadelphia, was one of the early birds to be touched for a quar Shooting Know in Person or ter ere a look at the hidden beauty was per ED. O©BPIEN mitted. Mink©s pocketbook was pretty limp by this time, but he produced the quarter Through the Medium of Fame. and quickly grasped the original features of at all the shoots of Kansas-Missouri League for 1907 a hand-made single gun built to order for a man who knew what he wanted. There were March 26 and 27 St. Joe., Mo. Broke 374 of 400 Snot at BY MRS. WILL K. PARK. others who paid for front seats, but the May 10-11 Fort Scott, Kans. Broke 376 of 400 Shot at "You have "Sporting Life©s" best wishes show was run on the Squier moneyback July 8-9 Lexington, Mo. Broke 388 of 400 Shot at for A happy New Year. system and everybody got their entrance Aug. 10-11 Joplin, Mo. Broke 386 of 400 Shot at back, Mr. Powers not even deducting for Sept. 17-18 Coffeyville, Kans. Broke 389 of 400 Shot at the targets on which the arm was trained Nov. 19-20 Kansas City, Mo. Broke 392 of 400 Shot at At the Boston shoot of Dec. 11 and 12, by each admirer. the experts refused all right to the Paleface 2305 of 2400 Shot at trophies though eligible to win the first day. An Automobile Chaee. AVERAGE 96 PEE CENT. They also preferred to shoot from 18 yds. In the Western portion of Pennsylvania rise in the Paleface Handicap at 100 targets lives a trap shooter of considerable skill the morning of Dec. 11. Those on the roll who prefers occassionally, rather than go Anybody can improve their scores shooting of honor with better than 90 per cent, were along with the crowd, to hunt up some little gun club where his 90 per cent scores Geo. Maxwell 99, J. A. R. Elliott 95, Lester scintillate in contrast with less brilliant per German 92 and Jack Fanning 91. formances. This more for the sake of being a big frog in a little pond than a little At the Sandusky, O., tournament, Dec. frog in a big po.nd, and not because of the 21, John R. Taylor was high gun with 195 sweep consideration for many times the little Manufactured by out of 200. R. O. Heikes second 192. L. shoots were for targets only. Some of his cronies "caught on," as the saying goes, J. Squier and Fred Le Noir were third pro and decided to surprise him the next Satur AMERICAN POWDER MILLS fessionals on 173. Lon Fisher was high day. Piling into K ©s motor car with amateur 182, A. Madinson 179, C. D. Hane- guns and shells they visited surrounding Chicago, 111. Boston, Mass. St. Louis, Mo* ham 169. gun clubs until finding the hero of th< story. Then they kidded him about running Fred Coleman, Pennsylvania State cham away in order to get first average, but the pion several times over, writes a Philadel sequel turned the joke on the jokers for the roving trap shooter won out just the same A GUN WITH PERFECT BALANCE phia friend as to his season©s game shooting sconng better than the automobilists who near Hegins, Pa. He corroborates the re sought to "show" him. ported scarcity of grouse and killed the limit only on Thanksgiving Day. There was never An Unappreciated Feast. a day he flushed more than ten birds and his total for the season was twenty. This is Few celebrities have more friends that small picking for so excellent a shot. Annie Oakley, the well-known marks-wo- _*?, s lonS connected with Buffalo Bill©s Dr. E. F. Gleason added one more cup to Wild West. Show. Annie never knowingly his immense collection last week. His score neglected or forgot a friend and her unfailing of 95 in the New York Athletic Club©s open courtesy has kept intact her circle of ad amateur championship entitled him to the mirers, increasing the list each year and in swell cup donated by Mr. J. S. Dickerson. each city she visited. On one of her some- The cup was a magnificent affair, worth time-ago shooting tours a friend, from out $500. ot town insisted on both Annie and her husband, Frank Butler, coming out to dinner Poultry shoots were popular with Quaker Knowing the difficulties of reaching the place City trap clubs last Saturday, both North all possible excuses were made but regrets Oarrden and Highland having special tourna proved useless in this case and they finally Best Selling Gun in 1907 consented, simply because such genuine hos ments with bird prizes. Charles Newcomb The American Sportsman©s favorite gun for field or trap was a winner at the former and his bag pitality refused to be shook. After a lengthy included four turkeys, one pig and two ride into the country on a fiercely cold day shooting is the A. H. Fox Double Hammerless Gun. Super ducks. A. Ballentyne was the most sxiccess- thev reached the place and from the wide- ior merit alone accounts for its popularity. At every point fel at Edge Hill though McCarty, Tansey, open door came the unmistakable odor of of comparison, the Pflegar and others took home souvenirs of boiled cabbage. Both these world-wide the occasion. travelers, though they have lived in a mess tent with cowboys, cossacks, etc., and have FJX-Commodore A. C. Bostwiek captured successfully roughed it with the roughest two important events at the Larchmont Yacht of rough riders, nevertheless abhor the dish Clnb traps Saturday last. Dr. Smith led the ot corned beef and cabbage, which proved marksmen for the Pisani monthly cup with the piece-de-resistance of the feast that day. & total of 49 out of 50, including handicap Only hoping that they might live to tell the of 4. Four special events were shot off tale Annie and Frank worried down the . and won by E. G. Unitt, A. O. Fleischmann, unpalatable New England dinner and mildly you see the genuine A. H. Fox Gun. Ask your dealer to s Stuart Scott and J. Ross Collins, respectively. vowed Never again." Their dreams that and convince yourself by test and proof that it actually is night rivalled those of any rarebit fiend. The Finest Gun in the World. AFTER DINNER TALES. A Story Credited to Lave Cross. Outside of base ball, the onlv , sport that A booklet sent free upon request. appeals to Lave Cross is duck uunting, and Stories Relevant to Prominent Idols in for this purpose Lave bought himself a farm A. H. fOX GUN COMPANY, 4666 North 18th St., Philadelphia. Pa Shooting World The Clergyman©s Idea on the Delaware Bay, which has a clear sweep of water, and in the off season it is A Moneyback at Chicago A Pitts- really the talk of the neighborhood the man burg Man-Hunt Via Autos. ner in which Lave shows all the other na tives how to bag the biggest number of When Mr. Thomas Marshall writes his web-footed fowls. "book of the 1901 foreign trap shooting tour, Lave is also a jokist, whose wit is in some which he captained in such exemplary fash manner always flavored with ducking stories Missing ...... 18 10 5 14 5 11 5 17 the Rockies, but there isn©t another place ion, we expect the following story to be in lie said to Charley Jones the other day in O©Donohue,.T.J.17 10 5 20 5 23 5 22 5 24 to equal the Alaskan peninsula. cluded. In the smoke room of a Highland " T. O.Donohue . 4 2 24 1 24 1 19 1 22 Inn, on the occasion of their Glasgow Pelham ...... 4 2 20 2 23 2 20 2 23 "Big? Well, I©ll tell you. Those bears , Greiff ...... 4 2 21 2 20 2 20 visit, one of the party expressed sincere "Haven©t any medals," laconically repleid up there are the largest in the woild. A reeret over his inability to speak Scotch. Tilt. B...... 10 5 20 5 16 5 22 '5 20 tne^Silent outfielder, "for guessing." Reynolds ...... 0 0 14 0 20 full-grown male weighs from 2,000 to 2,500 "Hoot mon," answered the pretty rosy- "Well, I want to ask you one," cried Howard ...... 0 21 0 22 pounds. The skin of the largest fellow I ebeeked barmaid, "ne©er mind that so laug Lave. What is the difference between a Cobden ...... 0 14 0 24 ever killed measured 13 feet 4 inches long »s ye can swaller it.©© successful duck hunter and a thief who Morrison ...... 2 38 1 16 1 18 1 24 and 13 feet 3 inches spread from toenail to steals an oil painting?" G. W. Kuchler.. .. 4 21 4 24 4 16 Lawrence as Perfumery Expert. Club championshipis at 100 targets: toenail. I can lift as much as the average "( Give it up," replied Jones. men, but I©m teiiing it straight when I "Black powder," sniffed a man in a Why.^ that is an easy one," replied Targets ...... 25 25 25 25—Ttl Billings ...... ,....22 21 19 22— 84 say that with Mrs. Chase to help me I Tenth street trolley car as it passed over an Lave. One brings the canvasback and couldn©t turn that fellow over on his back excavation for a, new sewer. "How do I the other doesn©t." A. Tilt ...... 23 22 21 22— 88 Dugro ...... 20 21 16 18— 75 to skin him. know? Well, it©s easy. I know it by the Klias ...... ,21 16 21 18— 76 "Mrs. Chase and I got a scare once, smell. The blast they have just set off in NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB. Hodgman ...... 20 18 20 19— 77 though, in rather a ludricous way. I had that trench was of black powder, which Held ...... 18 21 22 18— 79 three camps in a lonely region where for has its distinctive odor, as have dynamite Cates ...... 15 18 13 17— 63 Tilt Wins Majority of Honors at Trarers Lenane ...... three years Mrs. Chase never saw a white and smokeless powder. I learned the smell .14 12 16 16— 58 woman. I had put up ©bavraias,© or of black powder in the army, where it was Missing ...... 7 9 6 12— 34 Island Shoot. J. O©Donohue .17 15 18 17— 67 houses, of drift wood, the only kind available. used until lately, and of dynamite in the T. O©Douohue We were going from one camp to another mines out West. Since then I©ve been em Travers Island, Dec. 21. Gun Edi .17 22 23 18— 80 tor ©-Sporting Life." Twenty guns report Pelham ...... 20 18 21 18— 77 when I brought down a bear. ployed in a concern that makes smokeless Grieff ...... 22 19 18 18— 77 "We were in no hurry, so we stopped, powder, so I©m acquainted with that. Each ed to-day for the New York Athletic Club©s regular weekly shoot and good scores B. Tilt ...... 12 15 11 17 55 built a fire and had some lunch. After has its smell, and, like the rose, would lunch about an hour after the shooting have that smell by whatsoever name it might were made under favorable conditions A Tilt carrying off the honors of the day. In ALASF A BEAR HUNTING. we went down into the gulch where the bear be called." Philadelphia "Record." was lying. Mrs. Chase was carrying an L. Z. Lawrence was in Philadelphia that addition to the regular events the first day. leg of Club championship was run off. An Energetic Prospector Accompanied aluminum teapot. I got her to help me turn Mr. A. Tilt was high gun, with 88 breaks the bear over, and I was about to remove by His Wife Hunts Grizzlies. the hide when the big fellow suddenly came The Swear Wheel. out of the 100. First event practice, Hodgman won. Second Event, Dec Cup, According to Grant G. Chase, hunter and to life. The clergyman retreated from the gun won by Dugro after tie with Elias. Third prospector, who for 11 years has spent most You should have seen Mrs. Chase go up club platform, shaking his head and smiling Event, for gun, leg won by T. J. O©Dono- of his time in the Alaskan wilds, there is that hillside. The best of it was, in spite in a shocked way. hue, after tie with Dugro, shoot off 24 good bear hunting on the Alaskan peninsula. of her haste, she took time to rescue her "I think," he said, "that I shall get out to 19. Fourth Event, Hunter Cup, Leg Talking to a Chicago reporter Mr. Cha^e teapot. I believe I jumped about 20 feet an invention for shooters, a swear wheel. It won by N. J. Elias after tie with Held, told of getting seven grizzlies in one after myself. If that bear had been in shape to seems badly needed here. T. J. O©Donobue and Kuchler, shoot off noon, all of them within a quarter of a mile do damage there might have been some "You know the Burmese prayer wheels," 21, 20, 19, 20 in the order named. Fifth and not over half an hour©s time. trouble but there wasn©t. As a general he went on. © ©The Burmese have prayer Event, Powder Cup. Leg won by A. Tilt For corroboration there was the testimony thing there isn©t much adventure it©s too wheels that resemble pin wheels, and it is after tie with Billings. Tilt broke straight of Mrs. Chase, who for several years has pasy." by turning his wheel that a Burmese always in shoot off and also won Sixth Event, a shared her husband©s life and who has kept prays. trophy shoot. a diary wherein is faithfully recorded the FORTHCOMING EVENTS. "Now do you grasp my idea? I should Targets. 25 Hd 50 Hd 25 Hd 25 Hd 25 Hd 25 number of deer, carfbon, sea otter and other equip all these explosive and profane trap Targets . .25 Hd 50 Hd 25 Hd 25 Hd 25 Hd 25 fur bearers brought down daily and careful The Grand Canadian Handicap at twenty-fire llva shooters with swear wheels, and then, when Billings ...... 22 246 122 120 123 123 measurements of the biggest skins. birds will this year be a $500 guarantee. $100 to a man missed a target he could give his Hinds ...... 20 0 .. 0 19 0 21 ...... "I suppose I have killed 500 or 600 high gun and balance divided Rose system. The swear wheel a few angry turns, and in si Hamilton. Out., Gun Club, where the event will bo Tilt, A...... 19 2 42 1 23 1 22 1 23 0 25 bears altogether," continued Mr. Chase. "Of held Jan. 14, hzs this >ear added a $50 cup, which lence, with no offence to reverent ears, his Dugro ...... 16 848 324 319 321 3 7 course, a good deal of my time has been outburst of profanity would But hark!" Blias ...... 19 6 48 3 19 3 24 3 21 2 2£ goes to the winner. The balance of the program is Hoflgman ....24 040 018 020 019 019 given to some copper properties I am in the same as In former years. Live birds and An elderly, red-faced participant having terested in or the number might have been targets are this year to be held on alternate days, missed an easy left-ouarterer, threw his gun Held ...... 441 223 224 220 2 2« beginning with targets on the first day. The club Gates ...... 201041 523 523 522.. .©.. much larger. At one time and another I has arranged for 5000 pigeons and win have tt»» on the ground and with clenched fists and Lenane ...... 191035 517 521 521 520 have hunted bear pretty much all through sets of live bird traps. J. J. Lawlor, secretary. DECEMBER 28, 1907.

A Good Introduction George W. Maxwell This famous one armed shooter of Hastings, Nebraska, made his debut in the East at the recent Paleface Shoot at Boston. On the first day, in the 100 target individual match open to experts and amateurs, he ran 99ex With l£MC. Shells from 18 yards. Lester German also shot U. M. C. and was high gun for the tournament with 349 ex 400, shot from 18 to 21 yards. Mr. Maxwell was only two birds behind him with 347 targets in the same handicap. Mr. Maxwell©s shooting under very bad weather conditions on the first day was one of the most superb shooting feats ever seen in Boston, Mr. comes in for no small amount of praise, also. Write to M, HARTLEY CO., Sole Representative The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. 313-315 Broadway, New York City

J. F. Prait ...... 19 17 18 20 74 and most too cloudy, to be a perfect day ments devoted to motor boats, motor bi TRAP AT BUFFALO. W. A. Hearne ...... 18 17 20 18 73 F. E. Butler ...... 19 22 15 17 73 for target shooting, but the temperature cycles, bicycles, sail and row boats, last Audubon Club Shoot for the Year Shoot-off for third cup; 25 targets J. B. Sanders was just right to chill the targets suffi canoes, guns, fishing tackle aud in fact 22, W. M. Foord 21. E. E. Reed 21. ciently to make them break all to pieces every other branch of sporting endeavor. of 1907. when fairly well hit by the load of shot, The association has opened room No. 21o Buffalo, N. T., Dec. 21. Gun Editor Crescent Athletic Club. and this feature added more enjoyment to Odd Fellow©s Building for the transaction © ©Sporting Life." The last shoot for the TSTew York, N. Y., Dec. 21. Gun Editor the afternoon©s sport than the lack of sun of business connected with the show and year 1907 was held today and a splendid "Sporting Life." Excellent shooting weath shine took away from it. all information can be obtained from Man- afternoon©s sport was thoroughly enjoyed by er brought out the largest field of the year It was the unanimously expressed hope ager Beck at that address. at the new traps of the Crescent Athletic of those who took part that the club would the 21 members present. The weather was Club on the grounds of the Parkway Driving be favored with just such climatic con ideal for this kind of sport, but only fair Club today. In the shoot for the moonlight ditions on New Year©s day, in which event, Point Breeze Shoot. scores were made. .The badge event was won prize, as the shadows were .beginning to it was forecasted that there would be Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 21. One of the by Mr. Cox in A class, Mr. Seymour in B steal across the traps, F. B. Stephenson some record-breaking scores chalked up, most interesting live-bird shooting events broke 25 targets in succession, making the and a large list of entries in the tourna ever held at the Point Breeze track took and Mr. Reynolds in G. The merchandise ment that is scheduled for that date. event was won by Dr. J. B. Croff, with 18 best run of the afternoon. place to-day when 16 gunners faced the F. C. Raynor scored a leg on the December Parry, the amateur champion among traps in the ten-bird open handicap shoot. out of 25, to which was added his handicap cup in event 4. With a handicap of five the club- members, again carried off high av and four of them tied with straight scores. of five targets. Scores: gunner scored a possible. F. B. Stephenson erage honors of the afternoon. He had to Among the visitors \uas "Chief" Bender, targets ...... 10 IS "25 10 f25 15 and L. M. Black were high guns in the shoot some >ito keep from getting the star- pitciie©r of the Athletics, and he Gox ...... 4 It 20 9 21 6 weekly shoot for the Sykes trophy for two- "sacked" in his first string of 100J>tar- showed his skill wii.L the gun by scoring Seymour ...... 9 13 16 8 21 .. gets, but in his last sixty he had every Sidway ...... _...... 6 14 17 10 19 12 men teams. The scratch shoot, which was at nine out of ten birds losing his secon." Hammond ...... 8 11 22 7 22 .. 15 targets, was taken by L. M. Black with thing his own way, except* that be could bird on a difficult shot. After the Wright ...... 9 15 20 10 21 12 a straight score. Several of the shoots ended not pull down a much desired "straight" Bender divided first money in a flvj Beyer ...... ,...... /...... 6 5------9 IB in ties and in each incident the prizes were in any of the several events. His record shoot, and was matched to shoot Mesinger ...... 1 4 10 2 5 divided. The scores: of six nineteens out of eight times up is birds for $50 a side with A. A. Croft ...... 7 13 16 7 18 very close to a parallel for the unique Christmas Day. Franklin, Killij Alward ...... 3 12 8 Events ...... 1 23 4 5 67 Burke ...... 7 6 16 io Targets ...... Hd.15Hd.15 15 Sd.25Hd.25Hd.25 25 score he made two weeks ago, when he andiS. Bender divided first moni Wilson ...... 5 10 21 6 18 F. C. llaynor .. 3 15 3 13 .. 5 25 5 18 ...... had to his credit seven nineteens out of handicap by killing all their birl Bibcock ...... 8 12 19 8 19 A. Hendrickson. 2 14 2 14 .. 4 24 4 22 4 22 18 seven times up which for good, consist finished with nine and seven Wootton ...... 9 15 19 8 20 F. Stephenson.. 0 13 0 13 ...... 0 22 0 IS 25 ent, uniform shooting is but very rarely with\eight kills to their credit, lieinecke ...... 9 14 14 9 15 C. A. Hayward. 1 13 1 10 2 17 2 16 2 16 17 \ Yards. 5 20 .. . . excelled by amateurs. The scores: Hund ...... 5 5 .. 1 .. R. W. Haft .... 3 13 3 9 Targets . |20!20|20120)20 20120 20 Ttl Bk|Pc Franklin ...... 28 Kirtiover ...... 11 22 9 21 L. M. Black .. 0 12 0 20 0 20 23 5 16 19 5 12 5 25 .. Parry .... 19117119 19 19 19118 160 149 9©i Killian . Moll ...... 10 20 L. C. Hopkins . 0 12 Hawk 18 18120- 17 16 15 16 160 138 86 Felix . .\ Young ...... 9 17 8 16 W. C. Damron 1 11 11 Hillis .... 14116 S. Bender" Reynolds ...... 13 J. H. Ernst .... 2 Zl Barrell ... A. Bender 1-iebler ...... -, .. .. 2 D. C. Bennett. . 0 11 14 17 13 15 Pr. Orr ...... ~ .» .. .. 6 H. Vanderroer. 2 11 Brennan . . 16 15 11 17 Aiman ... *Badge. tMerchandise. W. J. McConvill 2 11 Felix, Jr...... O. C. Grinnell.. 1 11 Platt . Slllll 1213 Kyle .... L. Stephenson...... 1 Trigger Lee ..... F. M. Patterson ...... 9 4 18 4 19 Smith .., BEST AMATEUR, S. A. Sykes Murphy . C. Chapman ...... 0 10 ...... Work ... PHILADELPHIA, Paul .... (Continued from the twelfth page.) Sykes cup Team Shoot; 25 targets; handicap L.. Haynes . 20 22 M. Black and F. B. Stephenson 42, C. A. Hayward W. H. Coleman ...... 23 17 and Lv C. Hopkins, 7, 40; A. E. Hendrickson and (Continued from the twelfth page.) Tough ill S. Gibson ...... 17 21 23 24 N. Felix 21 21 W. C. Damron, 6, 40; W. J. McConvill and R. W. 25 and over considered as tics and decided G. H. Piercy ...... 19 21 Haff, 9, 37. In the five-bir C. W. Billings ...... 18 23 20 21 in a shoot-off. B. M. Rambo, scratch, tied Paul killed five i G. S. K. Kemsen,...... 22 19 21 20 Holznagle, a handicap man, for the club prize -W. C. Damrow ...... 21 20 20 20 Cincinnati Gun Club. and got a good slice of the money in the J. S. Dickerson ...... 23 22 15 21 Pigeoi P Pfleger ...... 19 19 23 19 Cincinnati Gun Club, December 21, Gun sweep-stake events. Darkness prevented the G. Lyons ...... 17 22 19 22 Editor, "Sporting Life." Six members shoot-off. A. J. Umholz won the miss-and- Penn Square, F. W. Lydecker ...... 22 20 20 18 out. Scores: "Sporting Life.© S. S. Adams ...... 23 21 17 19 faced the traps to-day and took part in the T. Philips ...... 19 18 21 21 weekly prize shoot. The day was raw Targets ...... Hd. 25 Tl. 10 10 15 M from Philadelphia F. Hodgman ...... 21 21 18 19 and disagreeable and not favorable for Rambo attended a live H. D. Bergen ...... i..... 17 22 20 20 trap shooting. Bonser, who has not been Holznagle Square Gun Clul H. M. Brigham ...... 20 22 18 19 Fisher ... an expert Philadt C. J. Wsfetervelt, Jr...... 20 15 20 23 at the grounds for several Aveeks, was high Elwell .. high gun of the L. A. Schofleld ...... :...:.. 23 17 18 20 gun, breaking 43 in the prize event and Ferry will shoot a 1001 E. S. Ballou ...... i.... 22 19 20 17 42 in the 50-target match, a total of 85 Norristown, at tj Dr J. C. Ayers ...... 21 19 22 17 out of 100. ». J. Burtis ...... 20 20 22 15 Miss Altherr came second with 39, not The birds were _ A. Tilt ...... 21 20 16 20 men behind the tr J.: Roper ...... ;..:.... 20 19 19 19 up to the average she has been making Kdwafds ... Cowan won the 15- A. E. Hendrickson ...... ,-.. 22 17 19 18 lately. The scores: TJtnholz© ... event, from Sharp W: J. Ellas ...... 19 21 16 18 15 15 20Ttl 25 25TtlShotBke Freed ..... 15 20 MeCullough also landed a miss H. W. Richardson, Jr...... 21 18 Bonser ...... 14 12 17 43-22 20 42 50 42 Farmer .... Thomas won the W. Claffka ...... 19 16 21 17 Miss F. Altherrll 12 10 39 ...... 35 28 D. P. Moeller ...... 10 21 19 23 Cowan by one bird. Herman ...... 10 12 13 35 ...... 40 28 15 bird match, purs O. C. Grinnell, Jr...... 20 20 16 17 Oflner ...... 10 8 11 29 10 9 19 GO 31 Meadow Springs Gun Club. F. Maier ...... 21 21 13 17 Sommers 12, Pattersonl D. H. Panning ...... 20 22 16 14 Minses ...... 10 7 11 28 14 10 24 65 34 The Meadow Springs Gun Club held a Bickel 10, Clark 9, Thcf G. Lembedi ...... :..... 20 15 17 20 Twitchell .... 9 8 10 27 16 13 29 40 24 regular weekly shoot last Saturday at Fifty- .8, Krier 8, Meyers 7, OL, E. C. Eickhoft ...... 18 19 19 15 sixth and Lancaster avenue. Beyer with Miss and out, sweeps.,... B. F. Smith ...... 16 18 18 19 Montclair Gun Club. Green 4, Thomas 4, Weitzel Dr. R. J. Held ...... 15 17 21 18 84 was high gun on the 100 targets. The 3, .Tamison 3. J. Dugro ...... 19 18 18 16 Montclair, N. J., Dec. 21. Gun Editor scores: Final miss and out, sweepstake Dr. E. Belts ...... 17 19 13 22 "Sporting Life:" The regular weekly shoot Targets ...... 10 15 10 15 5, Kate 4, Green 4, Weitzel 4, W. A. Wilnoski ...... 19 17 18 17 brought out eleven members to-day, some Howard ...... 10 3, Hempstead 3. Gracely ...... 24 15 18 18 five events being run off. Event 1 was Gothard ...... 8 Bechtel ...... 19 13 13 23 Ben ...... 8 12 W. Kuehler ...... 21 16 15 18 for practice, Allan breaking 23 targets. Kane ...... 8 Stonersville Gunners C. Bostwick ...... 16 16 20 17 Event 2 was the third event on the Dupont McKane ...... 5 Stonersville, Pa., Dec. Pennell, Jr...... 18 20 17 14. Trophy with Bosall high man and a shoot Beyer ...... 7 8 11 B. Adams ...... 22 14 14 19 of 44 out of a possible 50. Event 3 was E. Hansell ...... "Sporting Life." The Stc T. Hyland ...... ©...... 12 IS 19 19 won by Soverel, who got out of a sick Lucas ...... Club held their fourth L. McClave ...... 19 17 18 14 Snelling ...... 9 tournament amidst suc< Chalmers ...... 20 19 14 15 bed to win the prize turkey that went Munzar ...... 9 faced the traps. V. W. Mathews ...... 15 16 17 20 with the event. Event 4 for a box of cigars Pierce ...... © .. .. 20 18 Malloy ...... 14 19 17 17 was also won by Soverel, while Event 5 Laws ...... 15 17 handicap, II. Ryder ...... 13 17 19 17 for another prize turkey went to Benson, Fish ...... 13 14 trios, of whi W. H. Mathews ...... 22 16 14 14 Johnson ...... 18 brook 18 17 who had not shot over the traps for nearly :yan ...... 12 18 a year. Scores: Alfred ihr ...... 17 13 16 19 Club, Julian ...... 15 18 15 17 Events ... 1 2 3 4 5 Philadelphia Sportsmen©s Show. Blandford ...... 20 11 17- 16 Targets . 25 H. 50 T. H. 25 T. H. 25 T. H. 25T. and ©Donohue, Jr...... 19 13 14 17 Winslow .15 8 31 39 3 19 22 3 13 16 5 16 21 Philadelphia, Dec. 21. The Quaker City first :aush ...... 14 17 17 13 The secol Elopkins ...... 15 14 14 15 Boxall .. .16 6 38 44 1 23 24 0 21 21 0 15 15 is acquiring the show habit. The great :rewerton ...... 16 16 13 13 11 Carlough .20 33841 12021 21921 22022 success of the recent Automobile Show in dicap rise, ietrich ...... 15 17 14 10 Dean ...... 8 15 18 43 5 10 21 (i 12 18 ...... this city has induced a number of the lead entries, nohue ...... 11 11 13 16 Allan ... .23 24143 02020 01818 02222 ing men connected with the sporting goods Schmoyer, oi hr ...... 13 11 12 13 Soverel ...... 3 21 24 2 23 25 ...... trade to organize The Philadelphia Sports of Jacksonwn ...... 15 9 13 11 Moffiet .. . 0 22 22 0 20 20 0 20 20 with four st clsn ...... 19 7 10 11 C. Batten ...... 4 19 23 4-15 14 men©s Show Association. Papers of incor poration are being drawn up and. a charter Weaver (25) 4! kith ...... 9 12 13 9 ftould ...... 9 9 18 12 10 22 W,olf (27) 3, Dri! lial .scores: . , . Benson ...... 5 19 24 4 19 23 will be applied for early in the ©flew year. 5, Edward- 1 ...... :25 25 25 22 Todd ...... 33.. 22 It has been, decided to hold a show, in the ( 26) 3. Prutzmmi Lwell ...... 21 24 .25 24 First Regiment Armory, the week of .©. 22 25 22 24 (30) 4. NetHes : ( 23 23 23 22 Indianapolis Gun Club. March 9 to 14. This will be the week im (27) 2, Coldren ... 23 22 23 23 mediately following the Sportsmen©s Show (27) 4. ..22 21 23 24 Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 23, Gun Editor at Madison Square Garden, New York. J. Weaver (27) 2, 23 .22 "Sporting Life." The attendance at the M. Beck, who so successfully managed the Wolf (281 3, Drur 18 24 regular weekly practice shoot of the In last two automobile shows here will occupy HauntzhHvm (2(f) 2 19 23 Mward Te©.nplhr (2! 20 17 dianapolis Gun Club Saturday aftfernooi the same .position at the coming Sports :©>, Dank©el (2P>) 2. Pi 22 18 was somewhat larger that it has beeh\fo man©s Show. The show will be a com Schaeffer (2G) 3. I 20 22 the last few weeks. It was rather prehensive one and will include depart 3, Groff (28) 3, Rho SRORTIIN< LJFB. DECEMBER 28, 1907.

A Fitting Finale for a Year of Tritimphs W The New York Athletic Club©s Amateur Championship This coveted honor was won by Dr. E. F. Gleason, of Boston, Mass., at Travers Island, N. Y., December 17th, in an exciting contest, which brought together over one hundred of the best amateur shots from North, South, East and West. The winner a gentleman shot par excellence shot his favorite and time-tried load Winchester Factory Loaded Shells, whose superior shooting qualities, coupled with his skill, made his record score of 95-100 possible. Hon. E. E. Reed, of Manchester, N. H., tied for third place with the highly creditable score of 93, shooting Win chester Factory Loaded Shells the Red W Brand. Professional honors were carried off by Lester German, shooting Winchester Factory Loaded Shells the Red W Brand with the splendid score of 97-100 targets. The history-making shooting of. the year has been done with Winchester Factory Loaded Shells. With them high scores are common and record breakers frequent. If you are out for better scores in 1908 and are not already in the Red W fold, enter this large and successful circle now. There is a little room left; but whether you come in or not, accept the clan©s hearty good wishes for A Happy and Successful New Year Shooters All

represented things. It was a hard trip, but broke the target just about ten yardi.s Emerson shott a tie match at 25 birds. FINAL CHAPTER. of course it was by no means without its ahead of he hawk, which whirled at the Scores: many compensations. Each town or city vis shot and oegan to get away, having found 20-bird event, $10 entrance. Southern Tourists Wind Up the Schedule Smith ...... 12220 22212 222*2 22208—IT ited meant so many good fellows met that it out that something was wrong. The boys Clegg ...... 22022 20211 02221 02222—18 Doings of a Day Described Prizes, was hard to keep track of them, for is it stood and looked at the bird as if in G. tiruerson ...... 22022 2*222 02220 22212—16 not a fact that about all the fellows one ©dou©bt that What they saw was really so. J. Kraerson ...... 20022 *2222 12112 22022—16 Feast and Welcome in Irby Bennett©s meets at trap-shooting contests are of the best Someone yelled "Shoot," and then they let Kohler ...... 22122 00*22 12122 02222—16 sort? Then again, it is not pleasant, either, go, ©but it was too late. Whoever fired the Park ...... 12211 20*20 2121* 21221—16 Town. to dwell upon or write about petty un first shot certainly made the hawk exclaim 25-bird match, $25 per man. (Concluded from last Issue where, for lack of pleasantnesses such as we occasionally met ©©Stung," but no one else seemed to do any Clegg ...... 01220 00*12 22221 11202 12122—19 space, we cut Mr. Banks© narrative with the experts with in the way of hotel accommodations damage. Harold Money, who kept his eye Emerson .... 22022 92022 22022 12222 22102—1$ travelling between Birmingham and New Decatur, *De»d out of bounds. Ala., tl-e mjrning of Nov. 29. Gun Kditor.) and poor and hurried meals. on the bird long after the rest of us, was of the opinion that it fell dead after flying Wilmington, Del., Dec. 5. No time was SAMPLE OJT-©THE DAILY GRIND.- ^ A good way. In telling the above little inci Rising Sun Shooting Association. lost when we got to Decatur, and we opened As an example of what one bias to dent, I have run of course a heavy risk of Rising Sun, Md., Dec. 17. Gun Editor our trunks at the station and got out Runs undjtfgo on trips of this* nature let me .being looked askance a©t, but I have gotten "Sporting Life." The Rising Sun Shoot shooting coats. Then we took the car cite^athis one. day^at Decatur. We had accustomed to that, for such has been the ing Assoc. held a shoot today and members T.r Decatur, not much more than a mile, gottefl*up at 5;.©©o«l$>ck, had a hasty break- fate of all true historians with whom I had made the following scores: judge, and were on the grounds fajt and, riddienjp|ur hours or so on a slow the pleasure of an acquaintance. Seriously, Targets ...... 18 15 10 15 10 25 25 15 19 15 158 o©clock. Mr. Crow, of Crow & Brit- train. Had «*JHSi stood around in the cold, however, the happening was a strange one Keen ...... 5 9 5 10 8 21 8fl 10 9 19 10J after which .there was a wait at Decatur and sufficiently out of the ordinary to war- England ...... 7 12 9 13 8 19 19 13 9 14 123 met us at Decatur, and had then for the midnight train for Nashville and rant special mention in your columns. Kirk ...... T 11 8 12 7 18 17 12 7 11 110 to get things ready. Hence there the sleeper. Due at about 12.15, it sailed © In conclusion (doesn©t that sound like a Jackson ...... 6 10 T 10 7 18 21 12 6 10 107 Rlale ...... 10 12 3 13 7 20 82 12 8 12 119 to do on arrival at the grounds in about 1.30, so that it was just about a dominie?) let me thank you for the kind Ewlne ...... 21 29 12 7 11 ... put guns together and meet some quarter to two when I got into my berth, manner in which you have ©bestowed on me s. There was a good crowd present, only to be up again a few minutes before practically the freedom of your past several pnateurs taking part in the shoot, 7 at Nashville, with an all-day shoot in ;issues, turning away the point of your blue FIXTURES FOR THE FUTURE. spectators there were surely prospect. And that all-day shoot calls for pencil when its use would have relieved tto please ©both the visitors attention, for it was one of the most enjoy ©,he -congested condiyoji of your "copy" Dec. 28 Holmesburg June., Pa. Second shoot fat may have been able on the whole trip, being marked with hook. My caJfcta Bis©to-ian of the Win Fox trophy Independent Gun Club. Mrs. W. K. t©han Mr. Crow the best of good fellowship. When such chester ConrD^^B^^Bthem Squad©s tour Park, secretary. fesired, but they men as Irby Bennet©t, George Hillman, Andy is now clejM^^^^^HKm©t believe I have 1908. pmments on the Meaders, Charley Gilbert and Orrville Ew- mentioned^^^^^^HBWs "du Pont Smoke Jan. I. Schenectady. N. T. New Year tour- of them knew ing are around nothing is likely to become less," om^^^^^^^nat whole career 1 nament Sclieneetady Gun Club. V. WaUburz. libout. © ©That stagnan-t and dull. ^^^^ EDWARD BANKS. secretary. will you be- "Hawky," who had caught cold the day Jan. 1 New Haven, Conn. N«w Year shoot New before, was seized with a bad chill while Haven Gun Club. W. T. Minor, secretary. fsae in for much Jan. 1. Brooklyn, N. Y. Bergen Beach Gun which he miss- shooting and had to be taken up to the club BERGElT BEACH GUN CLUB. Club. L. H. Schortemier, manager. with approval, house and suitably coddled before being Jan. 1 Toronto, Can. Second .annual tournament is, I feel sure, sent back to town and to the hotel. He Elliott and Ford High Guns at Brooklyn Toronto Trap Shooting League on Stanley Gun many of New was surely a sick man for a few days and Club grounds. G. M. Dunk, secretary. 137 Avenue needed the tender care of a trained nurse Traps. Road. [ was out at the (which I certainly gave him) until I put Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 20. Gun Editor Jan. 14-17. Hamilton. Cm. Eighteenth tour a small tent to him outside the grates of the Union Station "Sporting Life." Many of the gunners nament Hamilton Gun Club at live birds and tar wind that blew at Baltimore on the following Monday morn gets. J. J. LawUr. secretary. that attended the amateur trap shooting Jan. 16 Quarryville, Pa., all-day tournament Quar It seemed as if ing, December 2. It will be of interest to championship at Travers Island stayed over ry villo Gun Club. J. R.. Armstrong, secretary. (circulation started state that he is once more well in health, for the Bergen Beach Gun Club shoot of Jan. 23, 24. 25 Pbiehurst, N. C., annual mid ss. We probably and by this time on his way South, where Dec. 18 for merchandise prizes. The prin winter handicap. Herbert L. Jillson, secretary. on account of the he will spend the winter months in the cipal event of the afternoon was a series Jan. 28, Feb. 1 Brenham, Tex., Sunny South revious week when interests of his company. of sweepstakes, which in the aggregate Handicap. Alf. Gardiner, manager. llorida. The traps The gun club had put up as prizes a gold amounted to 175 targets for each gun. Feb. 18, 21 Kansas City, Mo. Great Western I not work any too scarpin and a pair of liandsome arm/ The strings were either at 25 or 50 tar Handicap at live birds, targets also. R. S, top had to be made brushes. The first was to go to -the pro gets and when the last target was thrown Elliott Arms Co., managers. lit must be remem- fessional making high score on 200 targets, it was found that O. N. Ford, of Central Feb. 22 Washington©s Birthday shoot New Haven e arrangements for while the other went to the high amateur. City, la., runner-up in the national cham Gun Club. W. T. Minor, secretary. pmporary ones, and Harold Money is now wearing the scarf- pionship, was the amateur winner. His March 16, 17 Pinehurst, N. C. Annual champion jad been one of i©n- pin by virtue of his 196 out of 200, while ship PineVmrst Gun Club. H. L. Jillson. secretary. score was 156 out of a possible 175 clay April 1 Montclair. N. J. Second annual champion club, therefore, must Captain Andy Meaders parts his hair in the pigeons. George Piercy, of Montclair, N. ship of Metropolitan Clubs on grounds of Mont least for the mishaps middle and keeps it flat with the aid of J., took second prize with a total of 152 to clair Gun Club. E. Winslsw, secretary. Isarily, with the little tlie brushes, his total of 187 being four his credit. May 12, 13, 14 Des Moines. la. Iowa State Shoot fged a bit at first, and targets better than his nearest opponent Besides the amateurs there were seven under auspices of Iowa State Sportsmen©s Assoc. cold more than WB could muster. well known professional shots of whom Budd & Whitney, managers. |be been busy all the Gilbert shot a good race and finished with J. A. R. Elliott took the prize offered in May 19, 20 Clean. N. Y. Olean Gun Club annual 194. I "slipped back to third" with 190, this class with a score of 166 out of a tournament. F. F. Mason, secretary. Bt at 75 targets and Harry Taylor bagging 188. C. N. Gilbert, possible 175 targets. In his first 100 he PHILADELPHIA TttAP SHOOTERS© LEAGUE. , as good a piece of Orr Ewing and J. Campbell had 183, F. missed only three and broke one event of Jan. 4 S. S. White and Chester at South End*, fever did in his life, it was W. Barton 181 and J. Hooper 179. Irby 50 without a miss. Camden. Meadow Springs at Highland. ! risking his health too much Bennet shot well, but ©showed lack of prac Better days have been seen for shooting Feb. 1 Highland at S. S. White. South Ends and stand the exposure any longer. tice and also developed early on in the and the scores indicate that the gunners Chester at Meadow Springs. sent of Mr. Crow and his fel- game a full-fledged flinching fit which spoil had hard work hitting the saucers. During March 2 Meadow Springs and Chester at S. S. Fred therefore withdrew and ed many a good effort at a straight score. the afternoon a flurry of snow added to White. Highland at South End. Camden. the difficulties of shooting. Scores: April 4 Highland, S. S. Wliite, South End fernoon train to Nashville, where His score of 84 per cent, was better than Meadow Springs all shoot at Chester. et a good night©s rest and keep it looked, and that©s no joke, either. Targets ...... 25 50 50 25 25 25 Barold Money, after breaking 94 G. Piercy ...... 22 42 44 22 22 21 _100, also begged off and fled NASHVILLE©S HOSPITALITY. Kouwenhoven ...... 22 41 21 Grounds Near Philadelphia. "*" jids in the hopes of catching The dnck dinner at hjs city club to Dr. CulTer ...... 20 44 36 17 22 18 S. S. White Gun Club, second Saturday in _. L. Schorty ...... 20 42 42 20 22 24 grounds af Keystone Shooting League, Holmesb " £rnoou train for Nashville, which Charley Gilbert invited a round dozen E. M. Hurd ...... 19 42 41 20 1!) 24 June., P. R. JR. from Broad St. Station. F. I to do. of us, was a delightful episode which made O. N. Ford ...... 20 47 43 23 23 21 Helse, secretary, carets. S. White Dental Mfg. a fitting climax to the trip. Like the much- G. Lyon ...... 19 42 40 21 Ifl .. 200-target pro- *J. A. R. Elliott ...... 24 48 50 23 21 .. Highland Shooting Assoc., second Wednesday, to the afore- abused p>ousse cafe which leaves such a *H. S. Welles ...... 23 46 46 23 22 .. last Saturday in month, grounds at Edge Hill./ light of the pleasant taste in one©s mouth this gathering *J. S. Fanning ...... 21 47 41 19 23 .. Reading R. R., J. F- Meehan, ©secretary, Mt. fcer Hawkins with Mr. Gilbert as host will linger in my *L German ...... 21 49 46 23 24 .. Pa. straight, memory for a long time to come. That we *S. Glover ...... 19 44 40 18 21 Meadow Springs Gun Club, every Saturday, i had to break up early was our misfortune, A. A. ScbDverling ...... 18 37 36 20 . . . at Fifty-sixtli and Lancaster Ave., Elevated a ng with H. Brown ...... 15 34 36 ©.. 13 St. trolley. Geo. B. Mardin, secretary, 503 to tie but Fred Gilbert©s and Harry Taylor©s train J. Voorhees ...... 39 39 16 17 caster Ave. O. W. left at 7.45 P. M., while Hawkins and I E. Gliffler ...... 39 31 18 13 .. Clearview Gun Club, first and third Sat th amateurs, were scheduled to sleep on board another H. IX Bergen ...... 19 mouth, grounds at 72d and Brewster Av Fvely. H. H. train bound for Knoxville and which left G. Rernsen ...... 39 21 17 Fisher, secretary. 7125 Woodland Ave. A. Russell ...... 34 16 19 tentative of the Nashville at 10 sharp. A. V. Suydam ...... 22 17 18 Independent Gun Club, third Saturday Fi Pont company, Before pulling down the shades and clos ,T. H. Hendrickson ...... 20 18 If! grounds of Keystone Shooting League, J .©should not omit ing this letter I want to mention one little F. Mater ...... ig June. Mrs. W. K. Park, secretary, 34 filbert had a run incident which I find I omitted in my report F, Breihr ...... 15 Keystone Shooting League, lire birds J Professionals. grounds at Holrnesbnrg Junction, Pa. me of 57. of the shoot at Leesburg, Fla., November Terry, secretary, 3076 Frankford Ave. fitur really closed 21, when the boys made their new world©s Florists Sun Club, second and foul experts, although record. It was, I think, about the sixth or Belmont Gun Club. in month, grounds at Wisslnoming, ] at the Cumberland seventh event on the program, and we out from Broad St. V. V. Dorp, care j le, on the following siders were all watching the boys smash Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 18. The live- Sons. 816 Chestnut St. r?r 30, a date we their targets with an almost monotonous; bird shoot of the Belmont Gun Club at North Camden, N. J., Gun Club, Pirward to for some regularity when, swish, down from behindj Narberth today was won by John Smith by grounds State St, and River RoadJ Kht we were slated \swooped a big sharp shinned partridge! one bird. Six gunners entered the 20-bird Hill trolley from Market St. Ferr If anybody thinks event and five of .these finished with 16 3d and Elm Sts., Camden, secre hawk, being evidently minded to seize thi kiltssout of their 20 pigeons. The rain South End Gun Club, every is all fun, particu- fleeing ©day target which it mistook fo: City Line, Camden, N. J., City through the letters something edible. I don©t know -whose turj and sno-w made it hard on the gunners, Market St. Ferry. H. S. Elsen must have sadly mia- it was to Sboot, bat whoever it was. "e pigeons w«re also a fast lot and many St., Camden. secretary, or F. t tire traps -with speed. Clegg and Broadway, Camdeii.