BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS. Volume 48—No. 14 Philadelphia, December 15, 1906. Price, Five Cents. HEMPHILL.O.F December 15, 1906. of league officials and mado himself generally by hitting, safe in place of fanning. in commission again. Every one knows obnoxious. His career has come to an unfortu­ .As it happens the hard-hitting fielder what Tom can do when he wants nate close. AH concede that he possessed drove in about as many ri»ns as any to. If there is any player on the team THE KELLEY CASE professional ability and, prior to the commence­ member of the team, and what is more whose departure would be more un­ ment of hie anarchistic course, he had the good to the point, outs&ored any other gent. welcome to the public than Patten's will of every one connected with the game. So all gossip concerning the depart­ it would be hard to name him, and as Unfortunately for him, his enmity". for his ure of Flick from Napland can be Case has spent most of his time for IS STILL AGITATING AMERICAN former friend, Lennon, blinded him to base tagged as bum cfope, se'vera.} leagues the last few seasons in expressing his ball law and made him its victim." from the right trail. desire to continue to play here, and, "NIG" CLABKE When last season closed, certainly had ASSOCIATION CIRCLES. blew .into : headquarters this week, no idea of doing anything else, his CLEVELAND CHAT. quite happy in the news that he had retention is considered practically tied up George Stone for the batting certain. The other regular* pitchers, Why the Local Fans Are More Satisfied lead" of Ban Johnson's division. I Falkenberg1, Kitson and Smith, The Expelled Manager Declares His never knew I so much of a terror POSSESS THE CONFIDENCE and More Hopeful of the "Naps*'? with the slapstick," he remarked. "I of the public, who woujd be glad to Intention of Fighting the Matter figured from, the unofficial averages see more of their work. There is a Future Than Was the Case a Year that I' was close around the- leaders, general feeling that, whatever deals Ago—The Cases of Flick and Clarke but I. didn't know I was upon even occur, Washington's interests are in Further in the Courts—President terras with the 'real cheeses', of the safe hands. Charley Hickman and BY GKANILAND RICE, -.f yeaf.',. Clarke qame through to per­ Harry White expect to open their O'Brien's Lucid Review of Case. fect ijlans for a winter trip to Florida sporting goods store in a few days. It Cleveland, O., December 11 .-^-Editor and.Cuba \fith a barnstorming brigade is well located, on a good business "Sporting Life"."—While the whirlwind now linjrig up for an invasion of the street which is constantly improving, finish : which the.Naps passed out last ,f a'ic South, but thp ' swarthy catcher Chicago, I1L> Dec. 10;—Editor "Sport­ fall failed t'o!- cop any found his pathway to the Eldorado and on the same block with the big ing Life."—According: to all accounts pennant, it helped con- blocked- "The club.'refused permission office building where Secretary Minor public sympathy in- Minneapolis in tike has his office. If they can sell a ball .sidfera.bly alohg .other an the ground^that he might soak up every time "Hick" loses one, their suc­ Kelley expulsion ease is : lihes,.. For tlie; fifst time a case,'of fever or draw an injury that almost entirely with cess will he assured. The premises on redo*r,d there's* a geh- wouldT'ke'ep him out .of it next season. are commodious and well arranged, '•Mi-fee KLelley. A move- . feral feeling of': "content And they didn.;t care to take any ment is on among1 the and the business outlook of; the firm '*a:mong" f the Bug Brigade chances with a man good enough to seems bright. fans there to raise here in the interim be­ keep pace with Stone and Lajoie. fund for the purpose of tween autumn and "Nig" then countered the decision by PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S POLICY helping Mike Kelley to spring, and the usual coming with a request for a raise in towards betting at ball parks is just flghtYthe members of the yelp of the howler has salary. The controversy at present the right thing. ' The" worst jolt the American Association in been- .almost stilled. The has reached the deadlock stage, for game ever got Was from the gamblers, the courts for their Bugs have figured now while club owners "have .boosted his in its infancy, and the lesson was not action in having Kelley that all the squad has a salvage of 1906, "Nig" figures he still lost, as the evil has not since, threat­ blacklisted and to bring Grantland Kice come back" still left in has another "life" coming. ened to assume serious proportions .suit for heavy cSp-mages. their systems, while after STRONG BEHIND THE BAT. until recently. Base ball, to prosper, The fans are also talk­ that disastrous tumble jof 1905, when :Judged by the dope the Naps will must be kept first of 'all"and essenti­ M.J, Kelley ing of organizing for the team dropped from first to fifth have something of a batting trust in ally a sport, which will not prosper the purpose of boycot- place faster than a steel girder cut catchers next season, for Qlarke, Bemis except proportionately to its cleanness ting the Minneapolis and other clubs adrift from the top of a twenty-story and Wakefield are the three hardest- as a sport, and last of all and least of the Association next season. The building, "every member of the fan hitting backstoppers of the league- It of all a gamble. Go at 'em, Mr. John- general opinion in Minneapolis is to brigade you ran against was sorer * makes no difference which one is used, sou, with the same sledgehammer the effect that the magnates at Chi- than a foot ball youth after the first the club can 'always feel that a good blows with which you have put the ago made the mistake of their lives day's work, and the roar that went up hitter is in the garnet Wakefield proved other base ball bogie men to sleep, in blacklisting Kelley, and that Mike would have drowned a chdrus of cal­ tp be Washington's star, man "cm and. every fan who has intelligence Cantillon, coming to Minneapolis to liopes, x "pinch" occasions, while Bemis has al­ enough to tell a base hit from a passed succeed a local directorate, made a "DUBS" AND "QUITTERS" ways been a' high-grade member of ball will be with you. Considerable serious mistake in not going on record formed the main assortment in each the Swat fraternity. talk about new umpires fro the major at that meeting as unalterably op­ gent's language repertoire, for few circuits is current just now. There is posed to the drastic measures adopted. considered the list or evils and ac­ no expert in this vicinity who can KELLETY WILL, FI<?HT. cidents which beset the team, remem­ FROM THE CAPITAL understand why such Iii speaking of his case today Man­ bering only that from a 113 points A STERLING UMPIRE ager Kelley announced his purpose to lead" in July 'they gracefully landed as Tom Brown, of this city, has been fight his expulsion to the bitter end. on the soapy tramway and slid gently Washington's Interest in league Meet­ overlooked in this connection. If Said he: to something like 120 points back of ing—General News and Gossip of there is any element of the experience "I am going through with this affair with the winning combination. All the ac­ that is most valuable to an arbitrator these fellows. With me it is not a matter of cidents in the world couldn't explain the Players—Anti-Betting Policy In­ which Mr. Brown has not had, it does base ball politics, but my bread and^butter is for the Bugs how any team could lose not occur to the writer. He has been concerned. I do not think I have had anything 190 points in two months of play. The dorsed—Tom Brown a Good Umpire. a player, and one of the kind who approaching a fair deal in this matter. They average fan only sees what is gping show their eye for balls and strikes have put it up to me and I will take it up on upon the stage—he doesn't care to BY PAUL W. EATON. by landing safely on the leather. In with them and go as far as they like. I feel that that resolution is a virtual blacklisting. look behind the scenes and find the Washington, D. C., Dec. 9.—Editor Brotherhood year he practically tied I do not believe that any other base ball club reason why- "Sporting Life."—This week the head­ Dan Brouthers for the premier batting in the country will do business with me in the IT'S DIFFERENT NOW. quarters of the Washington Base Ball honors of the world. He was a capable face of such a verdict. I will, of course, try But in 1906 there was a different Club will be in the manager of a National League team, out several matters I have in view, and if I story outlined. The club was shot to saddle — or in other and was afterwards an umpire in the find that this is the slightest bar to me I am piec'es just as before, and by, the words in Chicago.