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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. The Mackmen’s second baseman plays and known to golfers. Ask for It Anyvrhere “You wouldn't believe it If I told great ball and often cut* ^ the middle of the 1918 season caused every day Whiskey Is Soldi you,” ho replied. You’d think I was In with something startling, but where Defer Work more surprise than Owens' refusal to Lobby Joking.” Langford, the Veteran Of- Eddie furnishes the fireworks occasion- Washington. December 22.—Tho talk. Lynch passed out the word that Then more seriously: "Some time I’ll ally. Ty contributes them every day of House Judiciary subcommittee, to the dismissal ■(' was because of conduct tell you all about it, but not now. A He Will his life. ficial, Says which wos referred the report of the an certain newspaper offered me a fat Regardless df the score or the posi- unbecoming officer or an umpire. lobby inquiry committee, agreed today of to make a statement tion of the in the Owens let It go at that. No one could piece money Quit Game Tigers pennant race, to defer further consideration of the I last summer. didn’t take it. Maybe Cobb can be depended on to give the recess. persuade Brick to A week or subject until after the holiday chirp. I was wise. We’ll see.” fans something to talk about. His base two later found him in the umpiring Close friends of Owens declare that running feats alone enliven many a Brick may get another fling In the Na- Boston, December 22.—College football game that otherwise would be funeral tional league with a new man at the and scores of people pay their money will lose one of Its most notable figures head. Certain it was that there was every day just to view the actions of if William 3. the offi- no fault with Brick’s umpiring. The Langford, veteran this southern demon. best umpire th«- American association cial, makes good his threat to retire from Few men of his years have done so ever had made good In the big league, the gridiron. much to distinguish tvicmselves in ath- as far as his work on the field was Mr. Langford told the sporting writers letlcs in this age and the Georgian de- concerned. Everyone admits that. serves the congratulations of fandom at h Philadelphia last month that he would large. Detroit fans in particu- | enc. his WILSONVILLE HIGH pareer as an official with the lar extended their heartiest, for Cobb’s Army and Navy game. Having heard rise to fame was accomplished in this DEFEATS LEEDS the swan song of so many athletic figures city and he #recently has signified hi* intention of remaining here to the end of who bobbed up serenely the next season, j his big league days. Leeds, December 22.— (Special.)—The little attention was paid to the Patti talk. Tyrus was born at Royston. Ga., De-1 Leeds high school basketball team was 1 However '•Bill** has reiterated It lately cembev 18, 1886, and always has been a defeated the Wilsonville school by high and it may be on the level. resident of that state, his present home the score 23 to 5. in He came to the Saturday, being For years Langford has ranked among being Augusta. It was one of the hardest fought and Detroit Tigers in the latter part of the the leading football referees and umpires cleanest games ever played at Wilson- 1903 season and became a regular mem- j of the There ville, not a protest being made by eith- country. hardly has been her of the team 1n 1906. From the very er side. a big college contest in the last decade day of his getting a real chance, Ty at which he has not been employed and was a star, and by the end of the 1907 he had generally gained recognition pp he has the reputation of being as fair, the greatest player of the day. He led alert and as Intelligent it is possible for the league in 1907 and since then has the men behind the whistle to be. topped It every year, his best season be- this Upon ability to interpret the rules ing 1911, when he hit .420, the largest has the results of properly, hinged scores average ever compiled since the introduc- f of battles and millions o? dollars In tion of the foul strike rule. wagers have changed hands on his word. He is the worlds’ greatest base runner He has been as much a figure in Yale- as well as the leading batter, and ran.ts Princeton and Yale-Harvard games as the among the stars in the field, though not teams themselves and ofttimes has had so distinguished in the defensive depart- make decisions in the to twinking of an ment as at bat and on the sacks. Individuality eye that have changed the athletic map. Ty was loyal to his native state In the No game is more dependent upon com- choice of a wife, marrying an Augusta petent officials than football, and Lang- girl in 1908. He has two children, Tyrus ford’s loss will be a real blow to the Raymond, Jr., and Charlotte. :h is so in sport. He generally lias been accepted pronounced l by all colleges without argument and his rj! 'Jm selection Has solved some vexing prob- APPOINTMENT OF lems in the way of signing- up the men WILLIAMS CONFIRMED to handle the games. atz occasions This there was some of products year criticism Washington, December 22.—The his rulings in the Yale-Princeton and QJSap8 Senate confirmed the Yale-Harvard games, the Fills complain- tonight appoint- ing that he was unnecessarily harsh in ments of George F. Williams of Mas- i favorable comment. « penalizing their players. However, he sachusetts to be minister to Greece, j ing, was fully sustained by Neil Snow and and Brand Whitlock of Ohio, to be min- others who worked with him and it is ister to Belgium. Nominations were ppcsslble that the complaints may have considered at a short executive session so 1 beer, uttered hastily and by men stung by thoroughly—and yet in which some opposition to Mr. Whit- disappointment over their failure to win. lock developed. The appointment of It is contrary to the Yale policy to com- Henry M. Pindell as ambassador to about officials, and the protests plain Russia is still before the foreign rela- that beer lovers not I made this year w^re from official good tions committee and probably will not1 ly sources nor were fhey sanctioned by the be considered by the Senate until after : at New Haven. “powers” the Christmas recess. 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