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SPORTING GOODS. Day with 98 out of 100 and Then 50 Straight BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS. Volume 50, No. 12. Philadelphia, November 30, 1907. Price, Five Cents. HANNON.O.FA NOVEMBER 30, 1907. spring by Secretary E. S. Barnard. The that is all there is to it. There has been team will leave here Saturday, March 7, for little base ball activity here this week. Macon, Ga., arriving in the training camp Grover Cleveland Land, fjb.e great young LATEST NEWS Sunday afternoon, March 8. The team will catcher of the Toledo telm, was in town remain in the Georgia camp until March last Siinday; bat, as the •, politicians say, 27, when the Naps will start for a nine-day his visit COffiSKEY NOW HAS THE stay in New Orleans. The schedule is as BASE BALL NEWS. IS NOT "WAS WITHOUT SIGNIFICANCE," follows: March 28 to April 5, at New Or at least that©s what was given out. It leans,; April 6, at Birmingham; April 7, at may be worth while to set at rest the re "CAUFORMA BUG/© Louisville; April 8, at Louisville; April 9, PLENTIFUL ports that have received currency in some at Indianapolis; April 10, at Indianapolis; quarters to the effect that Charley Jones April 11, at Toledo; April 12, at Toledo. would quit base ball. These statements re How the Local Players Figure in ceived little credit and were not entitled to The White Sox Chief Said to be BPGRAW METHODS. any. According to very direct information wMch has come to Charley HJckntftn, Jones Planning to Have His Team the Batting Averages Some fully expects to be back here again next Will Be Re-Injected in Next Year©s season. This will be good news to the fans, with whom he is a prime favorite. Do Its Training Work on the Giants© Team. Rumors Punctured The Foul Nothing has been heard from Manager Can- Special to "Sporting Life." ' ' tillon at least, not by the clhb-^ since your Pacific Coast Next Spring* New York, Nov. 26. -John J. McGraw Strike Rule©s Deadly Work* last issue. He may be in town before will not only rasteiage the Giants next year, another "Sporting Life" is ripe, however. but he will make the campaign of 1908 one SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." of regular McGraw aggres , BY PATJL W. BATON. siveness. The hustling mana Chicago, HL, Nov. 26. President Com- , NOT. 22. Editor "Sporting CHANCE WEALTHY. ger, according to his bwn Life." The American League batting aver iskey, of the Chicago American League Club, statement, will inake- a big is working on a plan to take the White ages have furnished considerable material The Leader of the World©s Champion Stockings, former champions change in; the personnel of for discussion during the of the world, to California to the Giants, discarding sever past week. Some Washing , Chicago Team Wot Compelled to Play train next spring. Before al- of the vfeteran rNew York ton players were high up the end of this week N. L. players who _ have survived on the list. Bill Kay was Ball For a Living. O©Neil, president of the their usefulness, secure some second with a mark of .333 Nobody knows what Prank .Chance draws Western League, will start hustling youngsters, and will in 25 games. At least two as manager of the Cubs, but President Mur for the Pacific Coast to ar get out on the coaching lines local writers, including the phy has stated for publication that he gets range for the coming of the again next season himself. undersigned gave "King more money than any other . te Stockings in the early In fact he will make himself Bill" .277, and so far as player ever did in the big spring, provided Comiskey as prominent on the field as can be stated at this writ leagues, and that means in is still of the same mind J. J. MoGraw he ever did while acting as ing all the Washington in the country. His salary manager. He wouldn©t say papers placed him there or about making the long jour what players he would trade or otherwise as a player is large, for he ney when he returns from thereabouts. But we all know is one of the stars of the dispose of, but he predicts that next year©s what happens to the youngs- the Northern woods on Fri team will be a winner. "That story about game. Added to-that is his day morning. If the South *er who leads a big league salary as manager of the Chas. ComisKey Southern clubs blacklisting the Giants is a Paul W Eaton with an average acquired in Side team makes the long nature fake," said Secretary Fred Knowles, club, and besides this are "Western trip next March it will be the of the Giants, when asked if his team would a comparatively few games. Ask Al Maul the dividends he receives for third big league team to choose the Pacific play in the South next spring. "Why, I am and others who have "been thar" before the 100 shares of stock he Coast for conditioning grounds in the last just now fairly swamped with requests for and since his time. It may be said that holds in the club, presented ten years. Comisk©ey expects to go to Cali dates from the various Southern teams. all the local papers failed to get the exact to him by Charles P. Taft fornia with his family for a couple of official scores and failed to just about the when the club was originally months during the cold part of the winter We have about settled what we shall do same extent, but that is unlikely. Anyway, next spring," but we cannot announce any frank Chance purchased from James A. and it is likely that he will remain there thing official until next week." what©s the use? Cobb is, tff course, en Hart. Frank Chance doesn©t utnil the team arrives in the spring. titled to credit for being practically the have to work during the winter for a living. leader. i His parents were wealthy, his father having TEBEAU PACIFIC. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. BILL KAY, SLUGGER, -. been a banker at Fresno, and at his death made 20 hits in 60 times at bat per official left Frank something over $20,000 to begin Special to "Sporting Ufa." life with. Chance is liberal-spirited, but Declares That the American Association Catcher Al Shaw la to be turned over to Toronto figures, or 20 hits in 53 times up by at by the Boston American League Club as part of the least two local dopesters. Otis Clymer came never is wasteful and foolish with his Wants No War. deal for Thoney. along next among the local aths., with .316 money, and the result is that today he is Special to "Sporting Life." Pitcher Jack Townsend, of the Columbus Club, was to his credit, standing No. 7 in the league. one of the wealthiest ball play&rs in the arrested in Delaware while hunting for trespassing Otis is there with the deadly swipe and profession. He is a stockholder in a numbex Denver, Colo., Nov. 26. George Tebeap, on a farmer©s preserves. the most-abused minor league magnate in loo.ks like a strong bidder for first honors of large corporations in tiiis country. Infleldor Harry Snyder, who win be graduated next year. Clyde Milan is the next Senator the world, is in town for a brief sojourn from Urslnus College, has accepted terms with the to show, with .279. This lands him in with his family. When Youngstown team for the season of 1908. twentieth place and Jim Delehanty is right KEITH©S FORTUNE, asked today about the de Jack Warhop, the premier pitcher of the Wis on his heels with .278. On his showing after mands the American Asso consin League, and under contract to the Detroit joining Washington and getting his heart ciation was making of the Ameridins, was married to Miss Grace Nlchols on into his work I>el would have been eleventh The Southern League Pitcher Now at National Association he November 23 at Freeport. 111. with .292, or as one very good authority smiled and said: "Mr. The Sharon Club, of tlie P. O. M. League, has Oxford is in the Enjoyment of Some O©Brien is the president of signed, third basemaii George H White, of Chicago- gave it to him, .295. Jim©s work was just the American Association, outflelder Pat White, of Morrisdale; and innelder as satisfactory in the other departments, Unusual Advantages. and anything you care to John C. Adams, of Homestead, Pa. both at second and third. Charley Keith, the clever southpaw of the learn about what©s doing The Toronto Club, of the Eastern League, may not lose its present ball park as the new owners CAPTAIN BOB GANLEY Little Rock Club, of the Southern League, will have to be learned of the property will not use it for a year and will is right up near Delehanty, with .276. who was sold to the St. Louis Americans through him, for, honestly, renew the lease for that length of time. Robert©s all-around work was the velvet this fall, has the unique distinction of being I have not even given the Arthur Wilson, star catcher of the Bloomlngton kind and! it was, no more trouble for him the first ball player who will get his trans present controversy a thought Club, of the I. I. I. League, was kicked in the to make good than it is to., a duck to swim.
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