BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Title Registered in U. S. Patent Office. Copyright, 1909, by Th« Sporting Life Publishing Company., Vol. 53 No. 5 Philadelphia, April 10, 1909 Price 5 Cents LEAGUE Manager Bancroft, American Clubs to of the Cincinnati Do Spring Work Club, Endeavor Together and Play ing to Secure Two Each Other Only National and Two at Hot Springs. BY CHARLES H. ZUBER. equal. The "ball hastens toward the plate INCINNATI, 9., April 5. Editor slowly and then drops. If control .is good "Sporting Life." The prospects it is most baffling to the eye. Otherwise, it are that the world©s champion may be hit. There are many other names ship games in the fall of this for this bend, but the one selected seems year will not be the only Na best. Bill is looking for a cow that gives tional-American League tourna buttermilk so he can install her on his ment in the future. If the plans farm at Tontogany, O., where hay and cows upon which Business Manager Bancroft, of and whiskers abound. the Reds, is now working materialize and the prospects are that they will there will CHANCE ANNOYED. be a series of games every spring that will attract more than ordinary attention among With Incessant Proffers for One of His the followers of the game. Bancroft has opened correspondence with the Chicago Indispensable Players. White Sox and the Philadelphia Nationals Special to "Sporting Life." with a view of getting them to train on Chicago, 111., April 5. Manager Frank the big lot Chance, of the "Cubs," has issued a state AT HOT SPRINGS ment and asked that it be published so on which the Reds and the Boston Red Sox that the rest of the clubs in the National will do their preliminary stunts in the League would cease making offers to him Spring. If he succeeds in landing these for "Heine" Zimmerman, the clever in- two clubs for his scheme, or if he gets any fielder. "When we were in Little Rock," other two clubs, he will at once begin the declared Chance, "some one said that I preparation of ,an ante-season tournament wanted a catcher and was willing to give between the four teams which will give the the Cardinals Zimmerman for Jack, Bli«s. Hot Springs habitues a taste of real base Such is not the case. I don©t talk trade ball for a few weeks, and the general with anyone. The other clubs imagined I base ball world an idea of the strength wanted to trade this youngster, but under of the two leagues as represented by four no circumstances will I part with Zimmer of their teams. Regarding his scheme, Man man. That goes for now and forever." ager Bancroft said to-day: "I agree with President Comiskey, of the White Sox, that NEW TROLLEY LEAGUE. within five years every big league club will .have established permanent A Circuit of Six Towns in Indiana Has TRAINING QUARTERS Been Made Up. somewhere in the South. Taking this as a tip, I have opened correspondence with Special to "Sporting Life." Comiskey, telling him of the advantages and Terre Haute, Ind., April 5.—The Wabash prospects of his bringing his team to Hot Trolley League was organized here on March Springs every year and taking a portion EUSTACE JL NEWTON, 29, with West Terre Haute, Shelbnrn, See- of the big field now controlled by the Cin Pitcher of the New York American League Club. lyville and Clinton, Ind., and Paris, 111., cinnati and Boston clubs. A similar letter charter members and a sixth town to be has been dispatched to Manager Murray, Eustace J. Newton, pitcher of the New Y©ork American League Club, was botn at Mt. chosen from Linton and Jasonville, Ind., and Carmel, Ind., on October 26, 1877, and learned to play ball while a student at Morris Hall Robinson, 111. William De Armott, a Terre of the Phillies. If these two clubs adopt College. He made his debut as a professional with the Norfolk Club, of the Atlantic League, Haute business man, was elected president. my suggestion, we wm have four teams in 1897, and remained with that team the following season. In 1899 he made so good a record In each of the five towns the ewner has training on our half-mile tract next Spring with the Indianapolis Club that h3 was transferred to the Cincinnati Club. He was awarded and will arrange a series of games a sort to the Brooklyn Club when the major league war ended, although he had signed witli the New had experience in managing semi-profession of four-team schedule that will give good York American 1/eague Club, and on the refusal of President Kbbetts to meet the pitcher©s al teams. The schedule will have twenty- salary demands he jumped to the Ix>s Angeles Club, with which he remained until 1905, when four games, beginning May 2. Games will practice to the players, fine sport to the he was purchased by the New York Club. He was of little use to that club, >however, during be played on Saturdays, Sundays and holi followers of the game and considerable the entire season owing to continued ill health. In 1907 he was transferred to the Montreal days. coin to the club treasuries."© Club, for which he did such good work that he was recalled for 1908 by the New York Club, of whose team he has since been a member. NORTH SHORE LEAGUE. GETS HIS LICENSE. Another Base Ball Combine Formed in Infielder Abbaticchio, of the Pirates, Is Prolific Milwaukee. "BUTTERMILK BEND." without an equal here or there. The liberal Happy Once More. SpccifiI to "Sporting Life." consumption of St. Charles Hotel buttermilk Latrobe, Pa., April 3. The Westmoreland Milwaukee, Wis., April 5. The Wisconsin Is the Title of an Alleged Curve Invented has brought about this wonderful base ball County Court, in handing down the annual North Shore Base Ball League was organized phenom. license list, granted a license to Edward Ab; at a meeting held at the Plankinton House by Pitcher Wright. To throw said curve it is necessary to battichio, second baseman of the Pittsburg evening of March 31. It was decided to drink buttermilk until the constitution is base ball team, to sell liquor at the Latrobe New Orleans, La., April 1. Being from House. Arcangelo Abbaticchio, father of place teams in the following towns: Chi Tontogany, O. (see atlas), Deacon Bill thoroughly saturated. Then, entering the cago, the Union Giants, Kenosha, Port Wash Wright has set about acquiring a curve pitcher©s box, the ball is grasped firmly the ball player, runs the hotel in the son©s ington, Sheboygan, Manitowoc and Menasha. intended to baffle the city batsmen who between the thumb and middle finger of absence. The high license law in ©Penn An application from Milwaukee parties was will face him. "Spit" balls and drop the right hand, the arm describes a grace sylvania, as interpreted by the courts in laid over to the next meeting. Should the curves and such are used so profusely on ful arc over the head and around toward the Western end of the State, puts many re league be an eight-club circuit Milwaukee the back lots in every big town that Bill third base, the left foot is raised in the air strictions on saloonkeepers, and they must will be included. The new league will thinks something rural will deceive the city and waved at the batsman and the deceptive make applications each year for a license, furnish the fans with Sunday and holiday folks better. Therefore he has evolved the slant is sent upon its way. and the court has full power to grant or ball and probably Saturday ball. "buttermilk bend," which is said to be The curve described is said to be without refuse an applicant. APRIL 10, 1909 the matter. There was no mention of salary of Paterson; Paddy Heffner, of Pottsville; between us, as I have always let him nami George Fellon, of Easton, and Jake Fored, his price, and the stories going around ti of Shamokin. It was announced that Tom the effect that he hwd asked $15,000 or $20, REACH CO. WINS Walker, a local player, would captain and 000 are absurd, as there was no mention o play first base for Reading. salary between us. However, if Jones should FRANK CHANCE NOT IN DAN not return I have decided upon a player t FIRST 1909 SCRAP. manage the team and there will be no votin^ on the matter as has been suggested.©© While GER OF RELAPSE. here Comiskey was entertained at luncheon Cleveland and New Orleans Players Fight by the officers of the Western Canada League 6n the Field. who came in from all points of the West be present. Special to "Sporting Life." HeUby©Be Able to Go Through A St. Louis Court Issues an Orde New Orleans, La., April 5. Pitcher Fred Miller©s wildness, a fight between catcher the 1909 Season Without Trou SOUTH CAROLINA LEAGUE. Land and first baseman Dexter and the ar Restraining a St. Louis Hard rest of both players by some "cops," fur Definite Arrangement of the 1909 Sea nished sufficient excitement Saturday during ble With His Foot News From ware Concern From Invading the New Orleans-Cleveland game to fill the son Postponed for a Week. natives© desire for base ball. 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