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Sporting Life BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS^ Volume 48—No. 10. Philadelphia, November 17, 1906. Price, Five Cents. \BERNHARDTIR CLEVELAND '}CO#GA170N,O.F.\\ SPORTING LIFE. November 17, 1906. 0 in a game witnessed by twenty-one tizer and Hayden, with which it has of the season. With the aid of player persons, the smallest crowd on record been compared. Washington has a sales and the Eastern Relief Fund at a National League game. would-be base ball critic who has writ­ they may possibly quit even. Strenu­ ten the cases up as "deadly parallel's," ous efforts are being made to induce but such "parallels" are deadly only P. E. Dugdale, the only man who ever f ROM THE CAPITAL to those who use them. That writer s made base ball pay in Seattle, to take attacks required no comment, however, up the burden again, but he absolutely ANOTHER CLUB TO OWN ITS BALL as a sample of his base ball knowledge refuses to commit himself. With a Washington Club's Plans—Work of was a prediction that Chicago would new park to build, about $7000 will cut a small figure in the American have to be expended next spring be­ PARK SITE. Pitcher Bonno — Indications of a League race because, as he thought, fore a cent can be taken in and this Crisis in Johnson-Comiskey Trouble. its pitching corps was weak. But'Gal- is a proposition Mr. Dugdale cannot lahan's statements are of some im­ be blamed for regarding with the President Stanley Robfson, of the BY PAUL W. EATQK. portance because of his relations ',to greatest caution. It is a certainty that Washington, D. C,, Nov. 10.—Editor the Chicago Club. His case, : then, if he is to rescue Seattle from, the pit "Sporting Life,"—Things baseballic are IS TOTALLY UNLIKE, fnt-o which it has fallen he will have St.; Louis; National League Club, quiet along the Po1;on}a^. No steps have those of Altizer, Hayden, Barger, etc. to be guaranteed league assistance and . •' ? been- { ^tak<54 - towards So' far as.the cases were similar,, that some other things. Biiysithe Grounid on Which flis signing any of the playJ is as. regards the fact that these men THE'LEAGUE RESER'VES. ers reserved by the; had played, in outlaw team,s, Mr. John­ Following js the official reserve list Wa"shini|rtdri' Club.: Plah^ son expressed his readiness to take of this league forwarded by President Park IUocated;For $60*000, , >fqr spring; training: are the same course in tlje Callahan case Bert to Secretary J. F. Farrell for pro­ K not folly 'matured: ; The he had in the others, by re-instating mulgation: Callahan upon the payment of a'fine. grounds a,n(l, gymnasium Oakland, Ca.l.—Wm. L. Randolph. Thomas • :«-, !• -..-I BYfH. W. LANIGAN. ..' -• t • '•'- ; Of "the" tlriiversity of Vir- But the latter case differed from the Hackett, J. J. A. Bliss, John Hopkins, Eli others in the most important point in­ Cates, H[. Heitrnuller, George Haley. Charles - 'gtl , : |rouis, -.Mb.,.^ Nov. ' 15:—.Editor where such good results volved- Callahan, unlike the other Franck, Win. Devereaux, James Smith, ^Seo. ^"Searting Life.''~<'-W.QwUB.utj .thatrwas ?have been" obtained in players named, owned a club that har­ E. Van Haltren, Arthur Kruger, Elmer Emer­ an awful ome M. Stanley Robison, ,-the last two years, will bored disqualified , players. This was son. Wm. Hogan, Bfelvln Blexrud. H. E. Ibutrg. ' president of the Cardi­ riot be iised. A, few a much more serious matter than plac­ San Francisco, Cal.—Charles Irwin, R. L. nals, uncorked Monday weeks in the. extreine ing with a;n outlaw club. It was more Williams, .Charles Street, George Hildebrandt, afternoon, when a deed Bftul W. Eatan South, .probablynjn Texas serious in the same degree as the case J. Myers, E. Scofleld, H. Spencer. George transferring League Park and quite ^pcs/sibly* -in of a deserter from an army who or­ Wheeler, Dan Shea, ———— Doyle, Itoy Hltt, ^property at Vandeventer Dallas, Is the program, ^.'-few gam:^s ganizes, an outlaw band to prey upon Clare Henley, Jay Hughes, H. Tyson. avenue and Natural with American Association' teamsv'vin that army and cause continual addi­ LOS Angeles, Cal.^— ———— Eager, ———• Bridge road, was an- April are likely. A local publication tional desertions from it is worse Bergman, ———— Nagle, —.—— Burns, than one whose desertion is his only Baum, ———— Grey, '. •.———— Dillon, —— To- nouhced. ; Many wise­ says that Manager Cantillon has an­ mail, ——:—— Brasheaf. ——— Gochnauor, acres have been explod­ nounced Galveston as- the place for offense against martial law. Under Elljs, ———— Bernard, '•———— Cravath, ———• ing bombs with loud prefatQry ; s'tunts, but this, may be, a these circumstances Mr. Johnson went Ross. ; . detonations for the past mistake, as what was said above out of his way Fresno, Cal.—Charles Doyle, Georga McLangh- six months proclaiming about Dallas caroe from • • TO FAVOR COMISKEY, lin, Harry: Wolter, George Cartright, Pearl that the Cardinals would .A PROMINENT OFFICIAL.:. , instead of trying to injure him. Evi­ Casey, Charles Eagen, Bert. Delmas. W. E. never be seen in League of the club in this city. It is impossi­ dently he wished to show that he was Dashwood, Wallace Bray Hogan, H. O'Baniiio, above any petty personal meanness S. Robison Park' again after the ex­ ble to discover any reason; for the .as­ H. McGregor, Tracy Hogue, John Fitzgerald, piration or the present sumption in s,ome,: .quarters '.that .^Gar­ in the matter. He agreed to overlook M. J. Lynch, Fred Brown. H. L. Steltz. lease next October. Piteous wails went land Stahl will not be ^pund at Wash­ the player's fault if he would sell his Portland. Oije.—Ben Henderson, E. Califf, up citing how hard it was to secure ington's first base next season. Let­ outlaw .club. Callahan .declined and Mike Mitchell, P. W. Donohue, W. J. Sweener, suitable base ball grounds in St. Louis ters written by him to officers of the the responsibility for his not being re­ J. McIIale, Pete Lister, C. Moore, Jud Smith, and- intimating tha>t perhaps the Car­ club do not mention any desire for a instated therefore rests upon him. Of Frank Gitm, Jerry KAtie, Robert Groom, Thomas course, no member of the National Carson.'-'A. Schineff. ; dinals would go out of existence after change. The fans all express the hope Seattle. Wash.—C. D. Blankenshlp, .T. F. 1-907. Monday Robison took it into that he will remain. The Detroit "Free Commission could vote to restore him Kane, A. R. Mott, G. Croll, E. Van Buren, his head that he would like that piece Press" suggests a, trade of Mclrityro to good standing while he owned such Ed. Householder. H. P. Vickers, O. Jones, V. of--;property all for himself. Once his and other valuable considerations for a club. No one -who knows anything Garvin, W. J. Kane. T. Fitzpatrick, C. Shields, mind is fixed, M. Stanley is a quick Stahl, and it is said that Boston would of base ball law could suppose it J. Walters. II. Nelson. possible to reinstate a man who was actor, so he forthwith "dug" down like to get him. In an alleged inter­ MANAGER MIKE FISHER OUT. into his jeans, drew forth $60,000 cold view with Manager Cantillon men­ still an outlaw and a chief of outlaws, plunks, handed it over to the present tioned last "week, he was represented in arms against organized base ball. Mike Fisher is no longer manager custodian of the property and walked as naming Wakefield as one of Wash­ Common sense should tell any one of the Fresno base ball team. He says away with a deed for .the park. Just ington's next year players. It is noted, better than that. If President Com­ that he has quit, but has not resigned, what kind of cash the Cardinals' pres­ however, that Cleveland never leaves iskey wants this distinction being a legal one, over ident gave for the property, deponent "Wake"--out of any of its calculations A TRIAL OF STRENGTH which a dispute will be waged for sayeth not, but the deed reads that for 1907. • with Mr. Johnson he will find, when the quite a sum of money that Mike claims W. S. Boyle, as trustee for the Lindell CANTILLON TO VISIT CLEVELAND. test comes, how thoroughly disgusted as his share of the price paid to the estate, deeded to M. Stanley Robison A visit to Cleveland by Manager his associates in the American League old Tacoma Club, of which Fisher was property fronting 700 feet on Natural Cantillon will occur in the near future. are with the whole matter. Despite half owner. Fisher says that under 'Brrdg'e road, between Prairie avenue This is stated on the best .authority. their personal friendship for him as the contract whicH he signed with, the and Vandeventer avenue, with a depth It is a safe guess that an effort to a prince in the worlds of good-fellow­ 'directors of the Fresno Club at the be­ nf 67-2 ieet along the latter two streets. hold Wakefield wil be one great object ship and of sport, they recognize how ginning of the season, he was employ- - T,he consideration named in the deed of the trip. Then, too, the possibility inconsistent his course in this case has ed as manager of the Fresno Club for is'$60,000. -• • : • .: • of Flick being on the market, and been with his usual conduct. There is three years, Avith the understanding chances of other trades or purchases not the shadow of a doubt that Presi­ that if his services were dispensed will figure.
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