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Basketball Quintet Wins First Game YALE AND COLUMBIA; HURLERS ARE THROUGH WITH RIOT WOULD OCCUR SPITBALL, SAYS FERGUSON IF COBB SHOULD BE St. Paul, December 22.—The spitball have regained their form after once TEAMS WINNERS is nearing the end of its day* in the breathing down." opinion of Charlie Ferguson, the Amer- F©rgy sava there is no doubt that ican league umpire, who has been spitball delivery does impose a much New York, December 23..—Harvard BE PUT 1 MARKET spending a few weeks at home in St. harder strain on the arm than any oth- and Princeton today won the honor* Paul before starting on his annual big- er delivery in general use. over Columbia and Yale in the first game hunt in Texas. "Take my own ease," he says. "Once round of the twenty-seoond annual In- tJmpires Released by Lynch Every Club in the Circuit Says he: “The sensational collapse of [ had as good an arm as any pitcher tercollegiate chess tournament. Har- Ed \Yalsh last season has made a deep needs. Finally it went back on me, but vard won from Columbia, the winner Get by cultivating a slow ball I got by for of the last thr*o May Another Would Bid for His impression on the heavers in both ma- championship year, several seasons and I thought I would games to one, and Princeton defeated jor league circuits, and many of the Trial for several more. But I was persuaded the Yale players 2^ points to 1V&. Services artists of the told leading damp fling to take up the spitball and though I By a coincidence the captains of both me they would use this delivery spar- had good success with it for one sea- the Columbia and Harvard teams lost ingly next year. son, it klled my arm completely In less their games, Wlrikleman of Harvard than live months. defeated by I^eede of Columbia- “Year after year spitball pitchers being PLEASED WITH THE "It is merely a matter of physical and Bird of Columbia by Washburn el WOULD INSURE LARGE have been but the defend- collapsing, endurance with all of them. Sooner or Harvard. had been DOWNFALL OF LYNCH PROFITS FOR OWNERS ers of the delivery always later it gets every ball player that able t° point to Walsh as an example takes it up. If Mathewson had taken Militiamen Get Pay the when it first came into of a pitcher being able to last, though up spitball Anniston, December 2 2.**^ (Special.) use, he would have been out of the it continuously. Cu.pt. Lamar Jeffers of Company D using I Walter John- Both Hate Him With a Bitterness game years ago. heard Fourth regiment, A N. G., has received Few Men of Hi$ Years Have Done “Walsh had a wonderful physical son say he would quit the game before check* for the pay of th* several mem- tired in the and he was able to withstand Belief That They So Much to Distinguish Them- makeup, he would resort to# this killing delivery. bers of his company who served 1 if the strain longer than the others who "As I look at it*the' spitball is popu- camp* at East Like last August, aincf Were Not Treated selves in as lar because it pitchers can time the has been held Athletics took up the fad, but the end came with by using which money dispense with using their brains to up. ,Ptiey wero getting ready to Join Square the Star him and came suddenly. Walsh thinks Tiger some extent, but in the long run It is a Company L in suing for the pay. back next he will come year. losing game as anyone familiar with “I hope he will, but the records show the career of the leading exponents of New York, December 22.—The at- knows." Detroit. December 22.—Judging by the no instances of spitball heavers who the delivery mwkmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tachment of tinware to Thomas J. manner in which the National league Lynch, late of president the National magnates and managers have been THE IDEAL GIFT 1 league of baseball and turmoil, prob- scrambling for Joe Tinker, It would pre- 30 PLAYERS SAID ably no one more than Jim pleased cipitate a real riot were Ty Cobb to bo Johnstone Brick TO BE SIGNED BY andf Owens, umpires, thrown on the market in that circuit. and for the same reason. Both hate TINKER A Portable I The SALE OF FEDERAL LEAGUE Georgian, who is but 27 'years old Lamp Lynch with a bitterness fired in the and who should be a star for many more belief that the National Chicago. December 22.—Thirty big The New Ideas at Reduced J league presi- seasons, aught to be worth 10 times as dent wasn't square with them. Now league players have been signed for the much money as Tinker, who has been 12 Prices | IS a well known PROMULGATED major they’re in his John- Federal league, rejoicing passing. years in the majors, and who is 33 years stone ia to the Chicago Fed- announced last winter that he old. leaguer manage was through as a National league um- erals, and Cleveland is in the organiza- Tinker never has been the gate card New York. December 22.—Joseph B. pire if Lynch was re-elected. Lynch tion to stay, according to statements that Tyrus is, and there will be no nov- former manager of the Cincin- KNIGHT'S I Tinker, got thb job and Johnstone signed with made today by James A. Gilmore, elty in his playing with a National league nati club, officially became a member l\ere C’hivington. Big Jim made friends in the leaguo president. 2023 Fourth club. On the other hand, Cobb who is of the Brooklyn* National club today A’/enue tlie association. Sometimes blind, but. He said details of the 1914 plans soon | a wonderful attraction, even where he is when his release was formally promul- would be given out. always calling, them, as he. saw them, Na- ■ a would the of the ^r--- —. familiar figure, fairly pack gated by Secretary H-gydler Johnstone e4.rn.ed the respect of play- —-'S parks in the older league, thousands of tional league. Secretary Heydler re- «rs and spectators. "FREDDIE” WELSH whose fans would thus get their first ceived word from President Herrmann As for Brick chance to see him in action. of the Cincinnati club that Tinker had Owens, Brick, passing The great little Britlnh battler, who In matched with Johnny Dundee for It is hard to express in dollars and been sold to Brooklyn, and Tinker’s his Winter as usual in the county ft bout In New Orleann on New Year'n Day. Welnh In hard at work prepar- cents just how much tyood Cobb would name was accordingly placed on the assessor s office of Kansas ing for the coming bout and in confident of adding another victory to hi* City, pur- do the club owners of the National reserve list of the Brooklyn club. sues tlie already long lint. policy ho evidently laid out league, were he to play a year in that when Lynch summarily dismissed him | circuit. He would insure crowds for the Dunlap and Boyd Lead last summer—that of team that owned him, both at home and 22.—G. T. saying nothing. International league, but always ho Pinehurst, N. C., December abroad, to say nothing of his helping to When Owen was told of the election of maintained his silence when asked Dunlap, of New York, and L. T. Boyd, of make his own dug a pennant factor, pro- Tener his face blossomed like the about his dismissal from the National. in four- apple vided there was anything else at all in St. Louis, led the field today's do A friend of Owens here says that cer- the Pinehurst HPURITAN over blossoms in Normandie. There was the way of talent on the roster. bail golf handicap tain National league magnates ad- TO LOSE FOOTBALi total handi- no trace of pain or mental anguish in If the National leaguers had their course. They played with a vised Owens to keep still, hinting that of and finished with a nef score Owens’ facial attitude. Looking closer choice of all the players In the 'world cap 24, another year would come and with of ICG. that they undoubtedly would take Tyrus in careful observer might have seen that coming year a new National WHISKEY preference to anybody else. Collins is the light of a new hope in the fel- league president and, perhaps, a new big believed by some critics to be even more Veteran Golfer Dies low's deal all around. No doubt, Brick 'It’s all eyes. Perhaps he’ll get another valuable to his team, but Eddie is not New December 22.—Tom Ander- Owens has lotet nothing In his silence. York, tijhr chance. anything like the spectacular figure that died "What was it nil about, Brick?” the son, a veteran professional golfer, 40 Years of Reputa- Refused to Talk me reacn is. N. J. He was umpire was asked not long ago. yesterday at Montclair, tion Behind It Probably no feature of Owens’ dis- Owens smiled that all-over-the-face NOTABLE FIGURES Shines Every Day ■about 40 years old, a native of Scotland, was thousands of missal as a National league umpire in smile and followed It with a chuckle.