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This Entire Document BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS. Volume 46—No* 10. Philadelphia, November 18, 1905. Price, Five Cents. Sporting Lift Pfit/a. SPORTING LIFE. November 18, 1905. on independent salaried teams in Urbana and ball authority, that Coughlin could Mt. Vernon. have been secured for the local team NEW YORK LEAGUE. The Atlanta Club has completed arrange but for that SOUTH©S SAVING ments to abandon Piedmont Park and to plaj FATAL BATTING STREAK next season at Ponce de Leon Park, which is The Champion A.-J.-G. Club Building much more conveniently located. The parl he struck in the latter part of the sea will be built over the site of the presen son. It was all off, after that, and a New Ball Park to Equal Anything WILL BE ENFORCEMENT OE THE Ponce de Leon lake. This lake will be fillec the Washington Monument, with th< Extant. in, the ground will be packed and made as Capitol thrown in, woudn©t buy hin firm as possible, grass will be planted anc now, ©tis s^,id. One local suggestion A letter from Gloversville, N. T., in SALARY LIMIT. by the time spring comes the park should be that the Nationals© infield might do forms us that President Benton, of the in shape for the beginning of the regular well with Hickman on first, Nill sec champion A.-J.-G. Club is vigorously season. ond, Cassidy short and Stahl third prosecuting the erection is likely to receive some consideration of the new ball park in President Kavanaugh Has a Plan to It is not known just how Stahl would the southern section of THE WESTERN LEAGUE. do at third, but as he has played a Gloversville. Manager Accomplish That Laudable Object great game in several different posi Earl has secured the An Interesting Situation at Lincoln tions, the chances are he could do well surface plans of the Another local winter vision is Dough- New York National by Means of a Rule Capable ol the New City Which Has Taken St erty to lead off and Cassidy and the League grounds and in Joseph©s Place. big four of last year to follow. Dough- laying out the local erty©s future is still problematical grounds a general plan Being Enforced Thoroughly, A letter from Lincoln,, Neb., the new however, and we hear more talk abou of those on the Polo Western League city, contains this Jimmy Williams playing third for grounds will be folio-w interesting information: "An interest New York than being traded to this or ed. There will be a grass SPECIAL TO ''SPORTING LIFE." ing development of the any other club. That is Williams© true diamond so laid out as Little Rock, Ark.,.. Nov. 15. Presi recent visit on the par© position, and if he should come here he to avoid the sun inter of President O©Neill anc SHOULD PLAY THIRD. Howard Earle dent. Willlatn Kavanaugh, of the fering•»-*-"•*»* (.3 with*v * UX1 anyC*,HJ ofV^J- theLUG Southern League, rhas devised a plan Mr, Holmes ©was the fac- The fans of a few years ago remem players either in the infield or outfield. by which he thinks that that the Omaha, Lincoln ber him as one of the few really grea The grandstand will be built of wood the various clubs can be and Beatrice railway third basemen the game has produced with a steel frame and in the shape made t©o keep ©within a the Interurban line that The local people are also taking some of three sides of an octagon, the prescribed salary limit Is now being construct interest in the future of Frank Smith bleachers extending from each wing and he will propose i ed from Omaha to Lin the Chicago twirler. The latest reports along the sides of the diamond. The for adoption at the an coln, has interested it are said to indicate that Hillebrand© stand proper will have a seating nual meeting of the self in the base bal! reluctance to play here may be over capacity of 1500 and will be fitted League, at Memphis proposition and has of come. This report and the excellent with club house and dressing rooms November 25. "My plan,© fered to fix up a suitable work of Bill Wolfe at the end of the with all modern improvements. The said Ju.dge Kavanaugh park on its line at a season are the bright spots in the A.-J.-G. people never go into anything "is to fix the ealar\ Norris Q©Neil location in Northeast pitching situation, and if the possible by halves and as the grandstand alone limit at $2400 or $2600 Lincoln, which will only deals with New York or Detroit are will cost $7000, some idea of the com at the outside, and to be a ten minutes© ride from the center fading, another season of Patten may pleteness of the plant may thus be ob provide that the player of the city. The Interurban line wil_ be expected. That Cincinnati story of tained. be in operation from Lincoln to Beth- a consolidation of the major leagues .©© ~——— W.M.Kavanaug©:i shall be paid every flf any, a college suburb four miles out into one eight-club body has received teen days. Each player New* Notes. must sign a payroll, to be sent to the by spring, and can furnish excellent considerable notice. It president, service for the base ball games by the DOES NOT LOOK GOOD. There Is no chance of Splesmao ever play- ACCOMPANIED BY AN AFFIDAVIT time the season opens. Unless the Not only does it mean another war ing for Albany again. sphinx-like president of the Lincoln but the fighters and the material o1 Manager Lawler, of the Utica Club, will of the secretary and treasurer of each Traction Company, who lives in New the next major league are already in have two fine catchers in Curtjs and Mc- club that it is the full amount paid York and is not in touch nor in sym sight. One of your correspondents the player, and that he does not re Namara. ceive other compensation in the way pathy with Lincoln affairs, makes a who said that it would not be surpris There wer,e 59 errorless games in this league better proposition soon, the deal will ing if within a decade three major this season; and the same number of games of bonuses, board bills or anythin undoubtedly be closed for grounds on leagues existed, might have gone prevented by rain. else except his straight salary. If «,. the Interurban line." farther and said that three majors are is shown that any club has violated a possibility for next season. A pretty During the past season there were played the limit, or that the secretary and 28 l-to-0 games, 103 shut-out games and 59 treasurer has made false affidavits ]Vews Notes. hefty-looking circuit could be built up extra-inning games. Catcher Hugo Freese, of the Omaha team, from Eastern League and American the franchise of the clubs shall be for is at work in an Omaha meat shop for the Association cities, and the talk about Manager Griffin, of Syracuse, seems to be a leited to the League; and, in addition winter. such a move is not certain to come to pretty good one to pick up ball players, and its guarantee fund shall also be for we will "leave it to Sandy." Denver critics feel sure that third baseman naught; However, if consolidation feited." Another plan that Judge Roy Hartzell will make good with the St. should come, and it is not quite im Mr. Winchester, owner of the Albany Club, Kavanaugh will suggest is that, in possible, it is up to Washington to made a wise selection when he signed Michael stead of each club carrying its own Louis Nationals. Doherty to manage the Senators of 1006. collector around the circuit, the President O©Neill, of the Western League, show itself a better proposition than played with Montgomery and several minor some of the single club cities mention President Farrell ,reports that more than League will employ eight auditors, league clubs in the East, but his best work ed as prospective members of the new $10,000 was spent during the season for who will be assigned to different combine. Place the Cleveland, Pitts transportation of the teams and that umpires points, and who will report direct to was with the Oakland (Cal.) team, of which he were paid $3,550. the president. was manager. burg or Cincinnati teams in Washing Perrine, Denver©s second baseman. is mighty ton and it will receive bettter patron The three-trip arrangement will help the THE PHYLE CASE. league considerably. The old arrangement of fast and sure, and how he missed being age than more than one of those a two-game series was too much like a de Third baseman Billy Phyle©s case drafted is a source of some wonderment. He is places gives its team, just as surely a cidedly minor league. will come up at the Southern League small, very fast, covers lots of ground and bits Washington gave better support to a meeting for action and every effort well in a pinch. jfe number seven team last year than any Manager ©Earl is in correspondence with will be made by local men to have tht Claude Rossman, whom ClevelaTO has se of them would have done. Come to some promising material and a few changes in blacklist lifted and Phyle reinstated cured, was considered by Western critics by think of it, the make-up of the champions may be looked Phyle has been obliged to play unor far the best first baseman in the Western WASHINGTON©S SHARE for by the time the gong rings.
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