BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Volume 50, No. 23. Philadelphia, February 15, 1908. Price, Five Cents. TORONTO WQTTELL, g./ (] HOEY, Q> 1 SRORTIIVG FEBRUARY 15, 1908 has appointed his first umpire in the person of ex.-* of yore. I have ever been an admirer of player Eddie Handiboe. the Pirates, having played with John Ches- President Robbie, of the Texas League, haa bro in 1896 at Roanoke, Va. Tannehill DETROIT DOINGS signed W. W. Severs, of Portsmouth, Ohio, as an IN PITTSBURG was with Richmond then. I was sorry to umpire for the coining season. see both these great players leave the Pitts President Pulliam has called the spring meeting of burg team." Mr. Cox is agreeable to a the National League for Wednesday, Feb. 26, at tha publication of the famous Chicago group in PRESIDENT NAVIN SPRINGS A Waldorf-Astoria, New York City. OLD TIME PATRONS AROUSE the "Sporting Life." He has been a reader The Terre Haute Club, of the Central League, haa of the paper for fifteen years. John J. purchased catcher Lew Drill©s release from St. Paul NEW SCHEME* and has installed him as team manager. PLEASANT MEMORIES* Carney, manager of the Trenton Club, who The Wisconsin. League, by mail vote, has turned winters at .Manchester, N. H., drops a line down the Eau Claire Club©s proposition and will to say that he was well acquainted with fight the club©s injunction suit in court. Flynn and Moolic. He says they went as The Lima Club, of the new Ohio League, has Entertaining Missives Brought Out a battery to Chicago under Anson. Negotiating For a Site For a Ball been organized with J. J. Mclntyre, of Mansfield, DESMOND©S VIEWS. as president and Ferd Dunn as manager. The Hutchinson Club, of the Western Association, by a Recent Query Anent An- The fourth letter is from John J. Des Park At Hot Springs With a has signed catcher David Zearfoss and a young mond, of Bath, Me. He tells that George Chicago City League shortstop named Ross. Moolic was one of the pall bearers at the View to Establishing Perma The Lynchburg Club has signed a Cleveland south son©s Band Bits of News From funeral of his old pitcher. Mr. Desmond paw piteber named Frank Rovney on the recom declares that he has been a reader of the mendation of Manager Carr, of Indianapolis. - nent Spring Training Quarters* Manage* Carr, of Indianapolis, has signed a e Pirates* Bailiwick* "Sporting Life" for twenty-five years. He Chicago Ojty League player named Sietz, who re takes particular delight every Sunday in cently refused to sign a Chicago American contract. reading the paper.. The Pittsburg corres The Blue Grass League has been .organized at BY A. R-i CRATTY. pondent wishes to thank all of his cor SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." Frankfort, Ky., with these clubs: Versailles, Frank Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 10. Editor "Sport respondents for their acts of kindness in Hot Springs, Ark., Feb. 10. Owing to fort, Lexington, Shelbyvllle, Lawrenceburg and Rich ing Life." Have at hand four letters from tendering the information about Moolic, also the scarcity of training grounds in the mond. "Sporting 1/ife" readers in response to a for compliments on the readable nature of Southern States for major league .clubs dur Catcher Joe Boyle, late of the East Liverpool recent question. Right after the screed from the Steel City. ing spring training trips ne club, of the P. 0. M. Le.ague, has been trans gotiations have been started ferred to the Richmond Club, of the Virginia you mentioned the death of TOMMY LEACH UNREASONABLE. League. John Flynn, a Chicago pitch The demand made by Tommy Leach for for the purchase of a plot Of ground within a trolley The Little Rock Club, of the Southern League, er of the middle eighties, more money and the refusal of President has signed two young Arkansas players in Outflelder the undersigned was asked Dreyfuss to meet his demands will not, ride of the town for ©base Michael, of Paragould, and pitcher Falbre, of For- by a friend if Flynn did not it is declared, interfere with Leach©s ap ball park purposes. It is rest City. have a partner named Moo- pearing here next season. Dreyfuss believes said the Detroit Tigers have R. E. Moist, lumber and coal dealer of Oklahoma lie. Memory had slipped that they will get together and fix things commissioned a local real City, has purchased from Mr. Cooper the controlling some. All comes back now up amicably. Leach was offered an advance estate dealer with power to interest in the Oklahoma Club, of the Western As and the writer can picture of 15 per cent, over last year©s salary, buy the ground for a park. sociation. Moolic supporting Flynn. It which he scornfully refused, and that ended The Pittsburg Club has The Zanesville Club, of the Central League, haa was in the days of the dark the conference, Leach departing in a hurry. leased for a number of signed a Chiaigo amateur catcher named O. Work years the only lot here man; and has purchased shortstop Chas. Moraa from blue uniforms of Anson©s Dreyfuss, however, believes he will soon fall Rochester. Cbjcagos. Moolic was a in line. Leach insists that his sticking to available at present. Detroit catcher with a low crouch Pittsburg in the war, his submission- to a Frank J. Navin has had trouble getting a The Trenton Club, of the Tri-State League, has A. R. Cratty place to train in the spring purchased outfielder Ben Caffyn from the Cleveland so common to the backstops 30 per cent, cut in war-time salary, payment Club and shortstop Westerbred from the Boston Na at the time. It is pleasurable to read the to four other members of the team of more time for several years. If the plans mature tional Club. the new park will be Detroit©s sole property. letters. The pen-handlers jog the periods of than he would get under the raise offered President Holland, on behalf of the I. I. I. the famous White Stockings. F. P. Thyne, now, and Dreyfass© balking of his chance to All the available parks in the Southern League, has filed answer to the Dubuque injunction of No. 29 Frye St., Lowell, Mass., cer go to Cincinnati entitled him to a bigger League are taken by major leagues or by suit before Judge Graves in the Circuit Court at tainly tickled veteran patrons here by his raise. He also declares he alone was cut the home clubs. The grounds at Pine Bluff, Rock Island, HI. sentiment. "Moolic was Flynn©s old part when a war-time salary reduction was Ark., are not regarded as conducive to The Pittsburs Club has releised first baseman Ab- ner. They started out with the Washington broached. Tommy Leach wants the matter health, being located in the lowlands. Bos stein to Providence, outfielder Maggert to Rochester, Stars, of Lawrence, Mass.," says Thyne. "It of his salary left to three Pittsburg business ton has permission to practice at Little third baseman McKechnie to Wheeling, and catcher was a strong independent team around ©82 men to decide. Fine for Tommy! His sug Rock. Memphis will not allow major Philbin to Atlanta. or ©83. They afterward played with Meri- gestion is unique for being about the most leaguers to, train there at all, and other The Haverhill Club, of the New England League, den, Conn., State League, team, and Law unbusinesslike idea that could have been Southern base ball centers where training has traded first baseman Nat« Pulsifer to the Hart grounds are located are contracted for. The ford Club, of the Connecticut League, for inflelder rence, New England League team, around suggested. Barney Dreyfuss probably can Young and outfielder May©oerry. ©84 and ©85. Lawrence was handled, I handle his own business, and possibly may Tigers at present seem to be without .a spring training home. President O©Brien, of the Americin Association, think, by either Frank Selee or Walter be so unreasonable as to insist on doing 60. has signed a contract with the A. J. Reach Company, Burnham. Selee and Burnham were just SCHRIVER, OF SPRAGGS. SAMUEL F. ANGUS DEAD. of Philadelphia, to use the Reach ball only in all starting out as leaders then. Flynn and championship games for five years. Spraggs, Pa., will now back in tfee lime Samuel F. Angus, retired traction mag Moolic were later taken by Anson. Flynn nate and once owner of the controlling in President Carson, of the Central League, has made good. Moolic was released. He joined light. Down in a corner of Greene county, named as his umpire staff for 1908 Frank -Killen, the New Orleans Club, was also afterwards Pa., this little burg is located. It is going terest in the Detroit American League Club, Seewekee, Pa.; John McKenzie, Terre Haute; Ollie with the Boston Blues under Walter Burn- to attract attention because it©s the winter died night, of Feb. 6 of paralysis. He was Qhill, Indianapolis, and John Connolly, Chicago. hold-out of Caleb, better know as Pop, 52 years old. His health had been failing ham. This team was in the New England for three years and since October, 1907, he The Meridian Club, of the Cotton States League, League in 1887. Schriver, a catcher Pittsburg has fancied has signed first biseman. Joe Hughes, left fielder for months. He was landed Feb. 1. Pop has not been at his office. The death of Jacob Geiser and catcher Phil Alberts.