-»-\ DEMOTED TO * © . BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS.

Volume 48—No. 21. Philadelphia, February 2, 1907. Price, Five Cents.

CYYOUAfG TANNEHILL

FERRIS, 29 B. HAYDEM, Q/: MORGANJUi

JOHN t.TAYLOR

FREEM/IM, Q.F. GQOW/M,Q.F. (

I SPORTING LIFE. February 2, 1907.

Fountain Square smoke house he if league will be held at Centralia, 111., January phy like that he will soon be running one of the directors of the Walnut 20. and a sweeping change in the circuit is Ted Sullivan close as expected. Danville and Jacksonville, angered Hills Roller Skating Rink. "I had a at the refusal of the K.-I.-T. authorities to A BASE BALL SAGE. dream the other night," said "The let them withdraw in order to join other Washington readers of the sporting Rabbit," ©©and Cincinnati was fighting leagues, have announced that they will not supplements noted with pleasure that for the© world©s championship. I clean place teams in the field, and Cairo and Paducah the astute Ted was in Chicago and in ed the bases with a home drive will probably be dropped on account of poor a terribly robust condition. Sure! THE ERA OF EXPERIMENT IN GOOD that gave us the title, and when I slid patronage. The probable circuit will consist of when last seen in this city he was so over the home plate I woke up." Vincennes, Mattoon, Paris, Pana, Centralia and strong he could have acted as pinch OLD CINCINNATI. East St. Louis. hitter for the Clevelands and gone to , A Pop Corkhill Memory. bat for Lajoie when there were men Over my desk is Charles Dana Gib- on bases, but for the fact that he son©s great base ball picture "Bases FROM THE CAPITAL. would have broken all the bats. By Ned Hanlon Has Cut Loose All Old full, two and (flrS0 strikes on the the way, they say is pulling man ." It is one of the best for Charley Hickman to come to Cleve studies in fan-expression known to Cantillon©s Plans Progress land. He is quoted as saying that Btood^-The Part the Manager sporting art. Will Johnson, ,^an B.©s Made in Signing Washington Players "Hick" is the only batter he is really brother, : and ontoe secretary v of the afraid of, and that he is the hardest , .laughed 1 bverr* the President PullianYs Visit General hittec in the American League. Come Must Play in the Drama of "Re remembrance of a game recalled by to think of it, there©s a piece of one of the picture durfrig a visit the other News and Gossip. Joss© elbows lying- against the local stored Confidence." Some Tales afternoon. "I think I must haye look center field fence where a line drive ed ifke the gentleman with the pleased BY PATTI, W. EATON. from Hickihan©s bat carried it a season look on the left," said John. "It wa Washington, D. C., Jan. 27. -Editor or two ago. at a strenuous point of the game. "Pol? "Sporting Life;"- Latest , advice% from : PRESIDENT PULLIAM, BY ©HEN MTTLFOBD, JR.! ©Corkhill W^.s at b^f] : What a ©beautiftr Manager , Cantillon are to- the effect of the , was in Wash Cinclnanti, O-, January 28. Editor punch he gave the ©leather.- AsS it skim- that he will be in town ington about a week ago. John Heyd- "Sporting Life." On that most de ;med ^through the infield And the red- in about a week and will ler, secretary of the©parent organiza lusive of base "ball assets form Cin hosed pilgrims on the bases raced go hence to the American tion, accompanied his chief, and the cinnati©s chances for home with the ruris that won, ©the League meeting 1 in New two moguls successfiilly ran the 1907 look about as brigh whole crowd rose as one man an^ York. He announces gauntlet of all the local newspaper as a silver dollar buried shouted their joy." Good old "Pop.© that he is going to sell talent, although it is .possible that they in-A bucket of tar. Stil What a fellow Corkhill was on those his Chicago place and made no effort to do so. At any rate, there©s no telling wha forward fanning catches. He could confine himself .excusiye- if the two officials were here on any good fortune may be skate in on his breastbone and snatach ly to the base ball in secret mission nothing to that effect found in red hose in the flies off the grass. Talk of outfielders dustry, and if he is suc could be learned from anyone who Days-To-Come. Base bal of the past and present! There are no cessful here during the could be identified as having talked games are not won on men in the National League today next three years he may with them while they were here. About the hits that were made who have any edge on Jim McAleer become permanent resi the first symptoms of real base ball on the good pitching anc "Pop" Corkhill. Dickey Johnstonc and dent of Washington. All in these parts will be the opening fielding of the past. The the late Curt Welch in the way they Baul W. Eaton right Joe, the latch- GAMES IN GEORGETOWN. cyclone which has blown used to prance over the dandelions. string is out. It is only A lot of contests with Yale, Prfnce- through Camp Hanlon a little more than a month now until ton and the other big ©uns are schedul KenMulford Jr nas cleaned out nearly One On Sam I/aroquc. the Washington team will be mobiliz ed for frapped dates. The writer is every notable on the ed at the Log Cabin, preparatory to in not yet informed as to the exact en roster. Miller Hugglns and Admira! Ed. Ashehbach has been feeding a vading the South. Talk of an invasion semble of the collegians, but it is a Kchlei have 1 attained the degree ol cold on quinine, oil of pine and other of Texas reminds one of Davy Crockett cinch that they will fight every inch, patriarchs of the squad. The infield things at his West End home since his and Sam Houston, who were so well of the way. If the visitors are at their looks good. The outfield has a prob return from the National congress of fitted to make such an enterprise at best, ho doubt the games will partake lematical air. There is just as much minors in New York. He did run up tractive to© men who were fond of of the nature of cataclysms, and will strength behind the bet as there ha town long enough to tell a story at the taking long chances. But, under the result in a majority of victories for hee,n at any, time since Heiny Peitz Bug Club, "Old Sam Laroqiie is a flag of vice-admiral Cantillon, of the the local brainery. Georgetown has a was counted out. None has succeed wonder," said "Ash." "I expect to see "White Sox," the local army has as date with the Washington American ed the German Baron who knew base him leading his club in hitting in 1936. little fear as a Texas Democrat about Leaguers in the ante-season schedule, ball as he knows it. Cincinnati hasn©t Sam has an appetite that will make the result of a State election. The Sox, and anyone who thinks the profession ranked very high in the possession of Harry Vaughn©s take place at a Pure Giants and Cincys willget a move on als have a sure thing should consult ,real brainy backstops for a number of Food Show. Sam was in a Southern them even sooner than the locals. . ©years. It is at the slab where the town once upon a time and his manag PRESIDENT , tean\ looks like a bunch of Louisiana er succeeded in getting the gang into who, the faithful will be happy to T^ottery tickets. It is not fair to say a swell hotel. There were baths at learn, got back to work at League COTTON STATES LEAGUE. that there are no bread winners among tached to each room, and leading his headquarters on the 24th, has practic them. Perhaps a capital prize or two captain to the lavatory the enthused ally engaged six husky umpires for Manager Blackburn Gives Out the will be turned up, "Tornado Jake" boss of the minors exploded: ©Sam, the approaching season, including Weimer is the one seasoned slabman of how©s this? The big league couldn©t Patti Sheridan. Your correspondent Probable Line-Up of His Vicksburg the Hanlonian corps. Bob Ewing will beat this layout. What do you think may have to confess to being -an ©hear, the cuckoo call before the days of it?© Sam took one peek at the "American League writer," after all, Team For the Coming Season. of spring arrive. Prom Hall, Mason, apartment and grunted: ©You can©t eat having developed a mild case of the Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 18. Manager Essick, Coakley, Hitt, Minahan, Chap- bath-tubs." grippe just after President Johnson Blackburn, of the Vicksburg team, has pelTe, Leary and Kennedy Ned Hanlon did. If anything in this letter reminds returned from New Orleans, where he will try to lift a Mathewson or a Flooded Ball Parks. your readers of quinine or the other has been for several days, and has Walsh. He seems cheerful enough. For the first time in years League ingredients, they will know why. Al given out the following tentative line Meanwhile the Bugs are chanting: Park has been drowned in the back most before they know it the fans up of the local Cotton States Leaguers "What will the harvest be?" waters of the Ohio. Every ball will see those sooners of the bluebird for this season: Infielders, Fisher, ground in the three cities felt the rush and robin species frozen to the trees, Wynne, Jones, Herold, Blackburn, Bell The. Era of Experiments. of the yellow flood. Only the high which are the sure prognosticators of and Cook; catchers, Brennan and spots at College Hill and Pleasant the opening of Wills; outfielders, Bowden, Hooker, Nobody heard much about Walsh Ridge, in the © Saturday League, and AN EARLY BASE BALL SEASON. Sullivan and McEvoy; pitchers, Bishop, until he forged to the front in the Norwood Pa.r.k escaped the sweeping The ©result of the toss-up to decide Barber, Taylor, Reabe, Blackburn and garb of the White Sox and by his torrent. The damage at the West End whether the curtain should rise early Boons. Of the foregoing, Fisher, nerve did more than his share toward lot will be coyeMkd by hundreds of or a little later©was rather unfortunate Wynne, Jones, Blackburn and Cook winning the world©s championship. dbllars for . the pfermanency of the for the local, club, as the first three a,r now infield possibilities. Brennan Simply because Ned Hanlon has a Palace of the F&ns, anfl the new games will conflict with the closing and Wills are both new comers, while cluster of unknowns does not argue cement wings are ; a full protection days of the Bennings races, thus re Bowden and© Sulivan are two strange that they are "Mutts" and cannot win |i; rising waters. peating the clash of last year©s open faces for the outer gardens. Bishop their way as Mathewson and Walsh ing "contest. There was some talk and Reabe are the only members of did before them. The lack of tried and A Filipintk Ontfielder. .among th5 local officials about trans last year©s pitching staff, Barber, Tay true material simply puts Cincinnati Among the students at the Univer ferring the series to New York or lor and Boons being Blackburn©s new and the Red Squad in the experimental sity of Cincinnati is a Filipino la*, Boston, whichever is scheduled here discoveries. There is a possibility that class. Hanlon has cut loose from Rufus Martinez, who has become a for April 11-13, but the idea has been several additional men will be signed nearly all the old timber. He has rest devotee of the National game. ©"No foot abandoned. Returns from the con for an early spring try-out, but if the ed his cause with these youngsters. b&ll in mine," said he to me the other tracts .sent out to . the,© Washington youngsters make good Manager Black He will either go forward with them day, "but I like "base ball and am players have .been coming; in rapidly, burn says he will ha,ve one of the best to conquest or see his base ball sun going to try for a position in the out and the^e are only two or three of the teams in the league. pink in the clouds of disappointment. regulars :who© are not already under Cincinnati had the most expensive field." The little brown man has fallen in love with his adopted country, and cover. There are ho indications of any IVews Wotes. team of demoralized and dismal fail holdouts. Charley Hickman and Joe ures in all Balldorn last season. It has taken to its favorite sport -with During the week the Boston© Club received all the zeal of a native born; son of Stanley, who are wintering here, were the contracts of outflelder Hoey and pitcher Joe would be hard for Hanlon to equal Yankee Doodle. pleased with the figures in their agree Harris. with a squad of amateurs the fizzle ments and .put the finishing touches on which marked his regime of 1906. Outfielder Carlos Smith Is working hard to A Red Omelet. them at once. It is worthy of remark secure his release from Birmingham in order Evidently the release of Homer that to manage the Jackson team, of this league. The Bug: Club©s Slogan. Smoot was a startling surprise to , The Meridian players already signed for next There©s one refreshing thing about Jack Ryder. Ned Hanlon told him in the ©Delaware duck exterminator, is season are: Durmeyer, Billiard, Utter, Marshall, this off-season. Nobody is claiming New York that Smoot was a fixture. among those whose autograph is in Sample (manager), Pylant, DeVore and possibly the earth and the rest of the .diamond He playel the tip to., win and lost the the possession of the club authorities, Dessau. planets as the Reds© own. ©Form in the bet. -.• and the talk about his appearing else President Compton will probably call a meet past petered out. With the exodus of Joe K»lley©s departure to Toronto where next season, obviously idle ing of the League Directors within the next old forces there will be widespread will be mourned by a lot of the f||Jth- gossip, may now be consigned to in few weeks to discuss matters pertaining to the curiosity to gaze upon the new blood. ful, who hate to see the old boy turned nocuous desuetude. The veteran ex coming season. The Bug Club has already sounded its into minor pastureland. pects the year to be as good a one for It is reported that Ace Stewart, Red Wright springtime slogan: "Give ©em a show!" The Reds will -be bluebirds on the him as 1906, and that will be entirely and Jack Law are to be with Hattiesburg the The word has been passed along the road this year. «s satisfactory to everybody concerned. approaching season. They made good records line: "If you can©t boost, don©t knock." John M. Duggan is a Cincinnati ap It looks just now as if the present in the Cotton States League in 1906. One thing is essential to success. Ned pointee on Dr. Carson©s Central League team is likely to be intact on April 11, A petition is being numerously signed In Hanlon may not realize how he weak staff of umpires. with the exception of Garland Stahl, Mobile in a movement inaugurated to get the ened faith in his management last sea The banishment of faserters to the and even in his. case there is more or Alabama Legislature to repeal or modify the son by chasing home every whipstitch. Tri-State for life Will ©wave the effect le,ss probability of his being at the old law preventing the playing of base ball, golf A base ball manager is serving a of keeping all those »o,t ye©t in the stand. Such a result would be .grati or tennis in the State on Sundays. mercurial constituency. To win back crow-bait class from nibbling at the fying to all the fans whose opinions Walter Clarkson is putting " in the winter the confidence of the fans alienated poisoned bait offered by the Atlantic the writer has heard expressed. It©s in the employ of the Boston Telephone Company. from his© support a year ago Hanlon League promoters. a hard matter to effect a trade for a Out of working hours the Harvard boy takes must stamp the impress of his own The National omrrijss1on will refuse player of Stahl©s calibre, and money light exercise to keep him in condition for-the personal interest upon the team and to open "Sunny©. Jim" Sebringts case, will not get him. In this connection spring training trip of the Highlanders. keep it there. If he does not realize although President C. Waldorf Murphy MANAGER CANTILLON Manager George Blackburn, of the Vicksbnrg the important part he has to play in offered the jjra©g©es & Crowbar to pry is quoted as having curved a few over Club, believes he holds a world©s record and this problematical campaign of 1907 off the lid arm give Jim-boy more air. the heart of the plate in a recent talk states that all reports of ball players being the echoes of the -war that will follow The flood in the-East End completely with President Taylor, who wanted to scarce are misleading by announcing that he his first© "Get-away" will make this surrounded the horrte of the lat Wil purchase Hillebrand for his Boston has more than one hundred players available feature as plain as a towering cactus liam Buckingham Ewirj^. "lu.b. The Washington manager said for his team the coming season. oh an Arizona desert. fie could not afford to fix a price on The Jackson Base Ball Association held a Hans Lobert would, much prefer* to the pitcher. If Boston would pay five meeting last week.. The election of officers and avort at tliircr base to covering short. times what he was worth it wpuldn©t directors resulted: in the choice of A. Lewis, Miller Ha&gins as an Editor. Pat Livingjsl©on is resigned to his make him look any better as a man president; D. W. Evans,.. financial manager, "The Rabbit" has spent a few days Hoosier fate jpd glad to get with such ager, nor would it help the Washing- and the following directors: A. C. Crowder, wrapped in deep thought this week. a base ball &*neral as William Henry ion owners to strengthen their team. D. W. Evans, T. C. Merill and D. Ruffiri., He made his reportorial debut this Watkins. Results on the diamond are what he It now seems probable that the League circuit afternoon a la Haiis Wagner, who did and they are after, and in order to get the coming season will contain but six cluba the stunt for a Pittsburg paper the K.-I.-T. WH1 Reorganize. in the Cotton States League. Columbus, Miss.; them»they must-have.players who will, Monroe, La., and Selmrt, Ala., have been other day. is quite Danville, 111., Jan. 26.-

a run of good weather around Macon and a bad climate at the Springs. In THE INTER-STATE LEAGUE. this case they will be called on tb join the sunshine brigade. The Erie Club Not Yet Ready to Give Up Its Present Berth to Enter the THE TRI-STATE LEAGUE. Ohio-Pennsylvania League. stated that the schedules would be arranged on Erie, Pa., Jan. 28. Editor "Sporting a harmonious basis. It is probable, however, Sebring, street and Murray, of the Life." President Charles Morton and that the dates will not be made public for a Manager Hogan, of the Ohio-Pennsyl week or ten days. To date the conflicting dates Williamsport Team, to Play Winter vania League, "came to bad been whittled down from 60 to 25. Ball in Florida. town last week for a Howard Griffith, of Jersey City, has been of consulation with Presi- fered the presidency of the new Atlantic Williamsport, Pa., Jan. 24. Editor ^«nt ©Rflume©Kter. of t^^ FOR THE WEAL OF THE NATIONAL League, but has declined it notwithstanding "Sporting Life." Three of the local , and assurances that no Eastern League city will players have gone to the South to play .tua&nate Koster, of LJ.-J be invaded. with the Palm Beach, Brie Club, relative to LEAGUE NEXT SEASON. Fla., aggregation. James Erie©s transfer to the Sebring, catcher Street O.-P. League. The visi CLEVELAND GHAT. and pitcher Applegate tors pointed out that have left foV the sunny Erie would be a better Will Enforce Better Behavior Than clime to recuperate and base ball town classed Base Ball Interest Beginning to Assert be ready for the opening with the fast teams of of the coming local sea Akron, Sharon, Youngs- Ever, and Longs For the Day Itself Lajoie Optimistic About the son of the Tri-State. The F. Baumeister town, New Castle and Prospects of the Cleveland Clubs Southern team is under such cities more in pro When He Will Not Have Punish the management of Louis portion to the local population. Presi Pitching Corps. Rapp, of Toronto, and dent Baumeister said that he had ac outfielder Murray, of the cepted the joint offices of president, ment to inflict on Any Ball Player. BY GRANTLAND RICE. .__ Harrisburg nine. Un- secretary and treasurer in the Inter James Sebring glaub says that he would state so as to regulate its affairs satis Cleveland, O., January 28. Editor rather remain in Wil "Sporting Life." Napland©s "Fan Col factorily to the Erie people. He would SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." liamsport as a sewer inspector than go change if he thought the fans of this ony" is beginning to sit up and take to Boston for the money offered. Three city really desired a change, but under New York, Jan. 28. Henry Clay Pul- notice. It©s only a mat Tri-State clubs are after Sebring, de present conditions with the other liam is going to be on the job at all ter of one brief month spite his present position with the Interstate towns keeping up their end, times as president of the National now before the reveille larger base ball interests, and one he did not see any necessity for im League this year. The rings out and so through manager has gone so far as to make mediate action. little boss of the old or the flurry of sleet and him an offer of the captaincy of the ganization has mapped snow they can see the team if he signs a contract for the out a policy in which Land of Spring just be coming season. Sebring is anxious for JVeTrs Notes. clean base ball is writ yond where the base hits reinstatement, and he has not decided Some of the Bradford players have re-signed ten in capital letters. He are almost in bud. It©s to accept any of the propositions. with that club and others hare promised. Eddie is going to redouble the a funnv thing how the Foster will be on hand again. efforts he made last year fever hits the Bug Brig IVews j\ote». Frank Baumeister. of Erie, Pa., president of to eliminate forever that ade in one fell swoop, as Experienced, non-reserved players are wanted this league, ably represented the organization moj?t undesirable feature it were. The "physical for the Johnstown Club. Address Charles W. at the National Association meeting in New of National League base hunch" that spring is Atherton, 2643 Broadway, N. Y. York. ball, "rowdyism." The Grantland Rice nea.r ^ har>d seemJ,.^ The Lancaster Club has purchased outfielder James Collopy, the Oil City manager, has opposition he met last arrive in a lump. With "Pop" Foster©s release from Harrisbnrg, and if signed Villiam, a pitcher from the New York season when he enforced the world©s series out of the way there he accepts he will be made manager of the State League, and Hoch, and Shields, of last H. C. Pulliam the umnirical rulings follows a deadly lull. Nothing doing Lancaster team. year©s Kaiie team. despite the protests of on through November, December and The Trenton Club has purchased second base the owners and players who suffered most of January. Base ball talk is man Albert Srrobel from the Boston American thereby has only strengthened him in frozen out and the dope some way Club. It is probable that pitcher Witherup NATIONAL LEAGUE NEWS. his stand for discipline and fairness. seems to run at a low ebb. And then will also be secured. WANTS TO DISCARD "BAD BOOK." as January is about ready to "cash in" He has selected his staff of six um the annual malady seems to flood the The Lancaster Club has purchased first base- Arthur Hofman. of the White Sor, Is playing man John Deal from Cincinnati for $500 and indoor base ball in St. Louis. pires and will impress upon each one landscape. * has also purchased shortstop Newton from Sioux of them just what his duties are. It FAN GOSSIP BEGINS City for $500 and either catcher Lucia or Lat- The Boston Club has turned second baseman will be up to them to follow closely again. Around the festive board or timer. Albert Strobel over to Trenton. the lines marked out. "One thing I the curving bar they begin to ask you Magnate Connelly, of Wilmington, has signed The St. Louis Club has turned third baseman would most like to do this year," he about this player or that and Murvey, a pitcher on the last year Providence Billy Phyle over to the Toronto Club. said yesterday, "is to throw away the to wonder whether So-and-So is in (R. I.) team; also pitcher Harry K. Kpch, late Pitcher Fraser is now a Cub, baring signed a book in my office in which are kept the better shape than, he was last season. of Oil City, and pitcher Charles Clancey, late Chicago contract during the past week. records of the bad deportment of play From that point on the "Babel of of the Eastern League. Catcher Murray, of the Cardinads, will ers on the ball field. Since I became I Tongues" rattles merrily without a The Trenton Club, of the Tri-State League, probably be transferred to Indianapolis. president I have been compelled to lull until the home team hits the to has signed outfielder Vinson, and secured short- Pitchers Corner and Pfeiffer, and Claude keep a volume in which I set down the boggan about July. There©s one point stop Billy Clingman and outfielder Nance from Ritchey signed Boston contracts daring the past unpleasant stories of clashes on the which sticks out noticeably, however, the Toledo Club; and has also secured pitcher week. diamond between players and umpires, and that is that none of the Wise N Pitcher Kennedy, the Cincinnati recruit from and accompanying each case is a nota Ones are attempting to pick any win At the Tri-State meeting in Trenton on Youngstown, has signed a contract for next tion showing what action was taken ners in either league. About this time February 1 officers will be elected, the club season. by me to punish the offenders. Now, last winter the experts had it all bond will be raised to $2000 per club, and a that thing became a nightmare with framed up. They could line up the salary limit will be adopted. The last-named The Pittsburg Club has turned the drafted subject will be the great topic of the meeting. third baseman, Harry Clark, back to Mil me last year and made me wish more finish in either league, but it so hap waukee. than once that I was back in old Ken pened that only a paltry few figured The Wilmington Club has finally succeeded in tucky instead of president of the in the Sox at all even as first division purchasing Pete Cassidy©s release from the Jer Pitcher , of the Cardinals, has sey City Club, and he will play first base and started work as of the Indiana University greatest base ball organization that tennants. The turn of affairs through pitchers. ever existed." 1906 placed a large dent in the good en p tain the team an excellent selection upon WANTS AID OF PUBLIC. old dope. And at this era no one seems which President Connolly is to be congratulated. In an interview out In Los Angeles Manager The Lancaster Club last week signed Michael MeGraw announces that he will play Strang In conclusion Mr. Pulliam said: "I willing to risk an opinion. on second base. want to get rid of rowdy conduct this LAJOIE UNUSUALLY OPTIMISTIC. Russell, pitcher of the Providence team, of season, and appeal to the patrons of the Eastern League, giving for him a cash The Pittsburg Club Is said to bq negotiating base ball, the umpires, players, club As a rule Lajoie can be ranked msideration and another player, Duquette, an with catcher Jack O©Neil, recently released owners and managers to help me. I among the pessimists, as he rarely sees ^tfielder. Catcher George Fox, late of Mans by the Boston Club. ask the fans not to let their enthusi any good fortune ahead until it has field, has also been signed. Outfielder Otis Clymer, who has just re asm get away with them at any time passed, as an Irishman might put it. Speaking of the new National Association signed with Pittsburg, is the happy father of during this season©s games and to ac So his remark a day or so back auent members. President Pulliam of the National a new baby daughter. cept the rulings of the umpires, even the Nap slab corps is significant. "Our Commission, said: "Those Tri-State men seem Danny Shay, of the Giants, Is now said to pitchers look better now than at any to be about as clear cut as any I have ever object to the salary offered him and may not if they go against their home clubs. time since I©ve been a member of this run into. Every one of them seems to be all No wrong can be righted by violent right in every way and I for one am glad sign for the coming season. demonstrations. I ask the others to club," he remarked. "A team may get that they have been brought back into the The Cincinnati Club has sold ©s do their simple duty enforce and along with the infield or outfield crip release to the Toronto Club, and bus turned abide by the rules. Let there be no pled if the fellows in the box keep fold." outfielder Smoot over to Toledo, stain on the year©s record. I see. going right, but , there©s no chance According to President Ebbetts the only un ahead the greatest season the National when this part of the machinery WELL WORTH HAVING. signed Brooklyn players now are Jordan. Seun- League has ever had; I hone the fans breaks down. We©ve had hard luck lon, Stricklett. Henley, Ritter and Hurley. >,will get their fill of IS-karat base there all along, but if we don©t have Group Picture of the Boston American It is reported that pitcher Jake Weimer, of ©ball." * four good men in there right through Cincinnati, is considering playing next season 1907 I©ll back up as a bum prophet. League Team. with the Rogers Park Club, of the Chicuge There©s Joss, Berny, Hess and Rhoades On the first page of this issue we pub City League. CONDENSED DESPATCHES. to start on. Then Moore has come around again and expects to go the lish a group picture of the Boston President Robison. of the Cardinals, has ar Club of 1906, eighth team of the American ranged with President Hedges, of the Browns, Special to "Sporting Life." full distance this season. Outside of. for a spring series for the St. Louis champion these I don©t think I ever saw a young League. For the benefit of readers who ship. The series will begin March 30. I/os Angeles has released Johnny Gochnauer fellow who stacked up better than desire to frame the picture, we have had to San Francisco. Liebhardt did last fall, so he looks same printed on heaw plate paper, size The Pitttsburg Club has transferred outfielder Inflelder Paul Sentelle and pitcher McClo^key 13x14 inches, a copy of which will be Frank Iluelsman, drafted from Montreal, to have signed . with the Philadelphia National good enough to fill any gap, and then the Kansas City Club. That leaves nineteen there©s Berger. Every one who has sent postpaid to any address securely men still to be disposed of by Pittsburg. League Club. any dope to pass out about this fellow wrapped in a mailing tube, for three two- TImnire Haskell, late of the American As hands him a boquet. And by this I cent stamps. Particular attention is Haus Lobert, of the Reds, Hans Wagner sociation, has signed with President O©Neil, of called to the clearness and brightness of and Pat Plaherty were principals in a basket the Western League. mean ball players who have seen him ball riot at Pittsburg night of January 22. work and who should know. The best our framing pictures. No guesswork The ball players came out victorious, but bloody, The Minneapolis Club has sold catcher George part about these last two is that either about who the players are. Each one Vesper©s release to the Des Moines Club, of posed specially for these groups. Hans Wagner has now taken to editing the Western League. one can handle a good run of work ccpy for a Pittsburg evening paper. It is said without caving in. They are both big OTHER GROUPS. that he threw out one good s,tory because the Catcher Frank Roth, of the Chicago Ameri and strong and both put in about forty author spelled basehit without a "t" at the cans, was operated on for appendicitis at Chi games. Liebhardt worked only two We also have 1906 group pictures of the end of the first syllable. cago on January 28. games for us last fall, and while you following clubs: Chicago Club of 1906, American League The Boston Club has decided not to send its The National Commission has awarded in- can©t get any great line on a man in team to Thomasville, Ga., as no hotel ac fielder Eugene Demontreville, claimed by Toledo, two games you can see how he sta©cks champions for 1907; also world©s cham commodations can be secured there. Tenney©s to the Rochester Club. up and goes about the job. This gives pions. men -ft-ill do most of their preliminary work Ira Tevis. late of the Galveston Club, has us seven good pitchers five war Chicago Club of 1906, National League at French Lick Springs. been appointed manager of the Jackson Club, champions for 1907. horses and two youngsters and even New York Club of 1906 of the American It transpires that catcher Haaas, the new of the Cotton States League. if three of them g©o wrong we still Red, is quite a penman. Several clubs claim President Dovey, of the Boston National Club, have four left, and that©s enough. Any League. to have contracts with him that he never ful- has offered $25,000 cash and several players for man should be able to work two games New York Club of J£f06 of the National filed. There will have to be some squaring pitcher Brown and catcher Kling. League. a. week without being crowded." Cleveland Club of 1903 of the American before he can join the Cincinnati team. The Kansas City Club has purchased for $300 There©s more than mere gossip in this President Ebbetts has decided not to pay shortstop William Goode and third baseman dope. There©s no re*ason why an able- Leagus. Tim Jordan the $5000 salary he O. H. Krueger, of the Waynesburg Club, of the bodied slabman shouldn©t take care of Pittsburg Club of 1906 of the National demands. Mr. Ebbetts adds that Manager P.-O.-M. League. thirty-five games a season, easy. If a League. may take Jordan©s place at Athletic Club of 1908 of the American first©base if Jordan prefers to .stay out. Frank B. Rudderham has been re-appointed as club has a couple of winning workers League. Sou the A League umpire. The staff is now these two should look after at least Philadelphia Club of 1906 of the National Billy Gilbert has been appointed coach of complete with Rudderham, Pfenninger, Car- half the games on a schedule, and they the Columbia College team, while the former ruthers and Zimmer. could do this without any overwork. League. Columbia coach, Billy Lauder, probably will Frederick W. Koenig, father of "Silver St. Louis Club of 1906 of the American have charge of a New England college base ball King." the famous pitcher for the old-time THE LOCAL FIRING LINE League. team this season, although all arrangements champion Browns, died in St. Louis, Mo., Jan- this season leaves for Hot Springs a Brooklyn Club of 1906 of the National have not yet beeu completed. nary 24, in his 68th year. week later than usual, setting sail League. The contract of Charles Grapewin, the com- Secretary Farrell has issued notice that the from here on the second of March. To Detroit Club of 1906 of the American edian, was received by the Cincinnati Club National Association has rejected the suggestion offset this the plan is to hold them at League. last week. Grapewin is a first-class ball player made by President Carson, of the Central this spring resort until the Naps are Cincinnati Club of 1906 of the National and will join the Reds at tlie end of his present League, that umpires be subject to draft. ready for the journey from Dixie into League. theatrical season. It is expected that he will The formal transfer of the controlling interest Yankee Doodle. Only Liebhardt, Berg Washington Club of 190C of the Ameri prove to be another Latham on the coaching in the Providence Club by P. T. Powers, J. ,T. er, Ehman and Thielman go to Georgia. can League. lines. Richards and George S. Donaldson to A. G. Last spring. the slab corps left tine St. Louis Club of 1906«of the National For refusing to waive claim to pitcher Bob Doe and was made on January 26. weather in Arkansas to butt in on a League. Ewinir the Boston Club is asked by the Cincin Presidents Pulliam and Johnson, of the two Georgia blizzard, and so were cooped Boston Club of 1906 of the American nati ©Club to pay $7500 for Ewing©s release. major leagues, had a meeting in Cleveland in the greater part of the time without League. Now Tenney is trying to figure out in what January 28, to compose and adjust the 1907 any chance to continue the start re Copies of any of these can be had at kind of a new financial game Hanlon is mixed schedules. When "Sporting Life" went to ceived at Hot Springs. The only same price, three 2-cent stamps for eacn. up that he should ask for waivers ou a player press the conference was still on. It was chance for any change in plans will be Address this office. whom he values at $7000.

I February 2, 1907 4 SPORTIKG LIFE.

DEVOTED TO BASE BALL MEN fl/VO MEASURES, "WITH MALICE TOWARD /VO/VC AND CHARITY FOR ALL."-Caitor Francis C. Richter.

sociation. The American League©s neg plant, and one of my few recreations is the or conditional selection. As the At- "Sporting Life." When referring to the in antic Leaguers sought to make their ative, therefore killed the proposed fluences that have made base ball a clean game, SPORTIINQ LIFE own conditions and refused the condi amendment wisely, we think. Hulbort, Spalding, Chadwick, Young, Johnson and Pulliam deserve great credit, but none "cut tions offered by the National Associa as wide a swath" as the "Sporting Life." A WEEKLY JOURNAL tion their exclusion was inevitable Nothing so strikingly exemplifies Here©s hoping the Giants and Napoleons will and merited, and leaves them no the mutations of base ball as the fact win in 1007. Yours truly, J. W. BONNER. Base Ball, Trap Shooting and reasonable ground for protest or com that, just as Joe Kelly, after sixteen A Suggested Infield Change. plaint. Having no case they should years of continuous service, retires , Jan. 28. Editor "Sporting accept the ©situation and subside as from the major leagues, his old chum, Life." It may not be generally known, but it Hugh Jennings, should return to the is a fact easily proven, that it was I who FOUNDED APRIL, 1883. gracefully and inexpensively as possi first suggested the foul ball strike, therefore, I ble, and thus save part of their hides. major field after seemingly permanent would like to submit to the base ball Rules relegation to the minors. Who knows Committee an idea which, if adopted, would increase the batting, produce prettier and Trade-marked by the Sporting Life Pub. Co. but what Kelley may also return after speedier fielding, and cause the base runners Entered at Philadelphia Post Office GROUP PICTURES. a few , years. Stranger things have to extend themselves to their limit in order as second class matter to reach second and third base. My idea is "Sporting Life" is now engaged in happened. to increase the distance from first to second, and from second to third base, to 100 feet Published by the publication of a series of full Secretary Farrell, of the National instead of 90 feet as now; also that all balls page group pictures of the leading inside the line of first and third, whether Association, says there will be fifty on the ground or on the fly. he declared fair. The Sporting Life Publishina Company base ball teams of this country. The minor leagues in operation in 1908. Yours truly, HARRY OURTIS, series will comprise the eight Ameri We believe it. Manager "Original Acmes." 34 Sooth Third Street can League teams, the eight National PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A. League teams and probably all the PRESS POINTERS. champion minor league teams about WISE SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN. THOMAS S. DANDO...... _...... President twenty-four groups. To date we have *The pride of ownership depends Who Can Draw the Line Between Pro J. CLIFF DA.NDO...... Treasurer published group pictures of the world©s not so much upon what we have as fessional and Amateur? FRANCIS C. RiCHTER...... «...... Editor-in-Chief champion Chicago "White Sox;" of the upon what our neighbors haven©t. From New York "Sun." MRS. WILL K. PARK...... Gun Editor Chicago National League champions; Charles W. Murphy. Managers of nearly all the leading semi- EDWARD C. STARK...... Business Manager of the New York American League *It seems as though the women have professional base ball clubs in Brooklyn have a society for the suppression of every appointed a committee to draft a bill to legalize team; of the New York National thing except husbands. Mabel Hite. Sujiday games which will be introduced at Al League team; of the Cleveland Ameri bany by Assemblyman Mooney. The bill will Subscription Rates *It is impossible to match a sample be drawn in such a manner, according to One Year ...... $2.00 can League team; of the Pittsburg in buying experience. George B. Mooney, that all professional plavers will be Six Months ...... 1.25 National League team; of the Ath Dovey. barred. There will be a clause which will af Single Copy ...... 5c. letic American League team; of the *After all, there isn©t so much luck fect men who play the game for a livelihood, Foreign Postage . $1.04 extra per annum in owning a horseshoe as in owning a making it possible for young men and boys who Philadelphia National League team; work all the week to engage in their favorite Payable In Advance horse. Billy Hamilton. pastime on the Sabbath. If the bill provides of the St. Louis American League *The man man who nurses a griev that admission fees can be charged to the team; of the Brooklyn National League ance must expect it to grow. Norris games, however, it will be a hard matter in the O©Neil. opinion of competent lawyers to discriminate team; of the Detroit American League against the professional players. In short, it team; of the Cincinnati National *When a fellow loses his money in a poker game it is entirely due to the may prove difficult to define the meaning of League team; of the Washington Amer the word professional in the sense that the way in which he was raised. Hans Brooklyn base ball managers intend to use it ican League team; and of the St. Louis Wagner. in furthering the chances for Sunday games. National League team. In this issue *It©s the things we don©t get that we give an excellent picture of the often make us the happiest. Joseph A Deserved Tribute to Arthur Irwin. Boston American League team. In our D. O©Brien. From Washington "Star." next issue, February 9, the base ball *If you are going to call a man a Arthur Irwin will manage the Altoona Club, liar pick out one who is fond of fishing. of the Tri-State League. Irwin should know the groups will be continued with a very He won©t be so apt to resent it. G. Ed. ins and outs of the game fully as well as any fine group picture of the Boston team, Waddell. man living, and should be the owner of a *The base ball player who turns franchise instead of working for other people. which finished last in the National Irwin has ever been deep in the politics of the League. actor should be sure to make a hit. game, and should be in a position to hand "A WINTER©S TALE." William Hallman. out some valuable advice to the ©baby member *"Troubles are always magnified of organized ball. A scheme of an alleged new outlaw INDICATIVE OF PROGRESS. when a man has nothing else to do but minor league has been given wide think about them. Ned Hanlon. The Laborer Is Worthy of His Hire. *Most of us are well on in years be publicity since the recent National As The past week witnessed the re- From New York "World." sociation meeting far more publicity fore we are well off in cash. A. H. The magnates must get the players under election of Messrs. Charles A. Morton, Soden. contract, and have already opened correspond than the foolish story warranted. The Edward Holland, Richard R. Guy and *The worst thing about getting stuck ence with a view to forwarding the documents. scheme as published is, in part and in Dr. P. C. Carson, respectively, as head with a bargain is that the fellow who Cutting salaries is one of the most dangerous whole, weird in conception and im sticks us brags so about it. Garry things in base ball, and few men have been of the Ohio-Pennsylvania League, In- Herrmann. able to get good work out of a man after practicable in execution, and there is diana-lljinois-lowa League, Western cutting his salary, while the same man would no probability of its initiation, and *The pugilist swings his left because work hard if he went to another club even Pennsylvania League and Central he feels that he has a right to do it. for a smaller salary. A suggestion to cut a absolutely no possibility of its suc League. Each man deserved the honor Jack O©Brien. player©s salary is likely to give him the im cessful consummation. of re-election by reason of faithful and pression that he is going back and slowly "What prospect or hope can there be falling into the also-ran class. Few ball players distinguished service, not only to his SALARIES BOUND TO REMAIN HIGH. of good habits realize they are aging and feel for a scheme based on a chain of small own league, but the game at large. confident they are fully as good as ever. towns, devoid ,of suitable equipment, We are glad to note that the Central From Cleveland "Press." What Atlantic Bluffs Amount To. without able, players and minus re League and the Western Pennsylvania After all that has been said and sponsible backing? How could a mere League have fallen into line with the done and threatened, there is no im From Philadelphia "North American" promoters© league succeed where such mediate danger of an alarming slash New outlaw league includes Dobbs Ferry. spirit of the times and the demands of ing of base ball salaries. Not even Sweetland, Chagrin Falls, Pear Tree. Granite, a well-backed organization as the Tri- justice by making the presidential the great American game can be made Peculiar, Barrel City and other thriving cities. State League failed? And what play term three years. It is only a question so absolute a trust that a man can be A salary limit of $10,000 a man will be kept long on a $3600 salary by one strictly enforced and Wagner and Lajoie have ers would entrust their professional of time when every league in organiz already signed ten-year contracts. standing and future to a wild-cat club when another club is willing and ed ball will, in the matter of extended anxious to pay him $4800. league after the bitter experience of presidential tenure, follow the prece MAGNATES ARE WISE. The Right Sort of Magnate. the Tri-State stars? The scheme is so dent first set by the progressive Amer Moreover the magnates are not fools. From New York "Telegram." visionary that no one need lose sleep They know how powerful a magnet Speaking of Carry Herrmann, H is only fair ican League; and since followed by the in wheedling the dollars into the box to say that he has been a man of greater force over it, and no newspaper should give American Association, Western League, office is the knowledge of the fans in base ball than one can imagine. He has not it space or countenance. , Western Penn that there are men on the©club©s pay been destructive, but constructive, and he has If the disappointed promoters of the roll who are paid as high as $50 a shown admirable keenness in solving vexatious sylvania League and Central League. game. A Club whose salary list is snarls of long standing. proposed new Atlantic League are re This, by the way, is one of the best known to be $60,000 a year is more sponsible for the war story, they are of the several wise and beneficial in than twice as alluring an attraction getting themselves into bad odor and novations we have to thank the pro as one that pays out only $30,000. THE IRISH PENNANT CINCHED. deep water without reason and to no gressive American League for. THE ONLY VIEWPOINT. There is no sense and less argu By G. S. M. Stevens. purpose. Having failed to secure pro ment in the assertion, millions of The prarie was packed with the same old crowd. tection they have the privilege of times reiterated, that a ball player The ninth inning was in bloom. playing independent ball without mo TIMELY TOPICS. who commands $6000 or $8000 a sea And the championship of the neighborhood son couldn©t earn $10 a week at* any Was up to our own Pat Muldoon. lestation so long as they do not en thing else. There are singers who are croach upon occupied territory or Statistics show that in the 1906 sea The score was a tie j«st nine to nine, paid $1000 a night and there are ©Twas a Shamrock©s turn to bat, tamper with contracted or reserved son the Tri-State League teams drew artists who get $5000 or $10,000 for a He was never known to hit the ball, upward of 700,000 spectators at their single painting, who couldn©t earn This big Irishman named Pat. National Agreement players. On these their board by any other means. That lines the proposed new league has a contests. The original cities compris they do get big money shows that they He stood at the plate with his feet apart, bare chance of establishing itself. ing the Tri-State League have a com are letter perfect in their part, and are As he lunged at the first bad ball, worthy of their hire. And he missed it by two feet by a ruler©s To go further and attempt war upon bined population of 350,000. The two length, new members, Wilmington and Tren WILL COMMAND THE PRICE. organized ball in reprisal for failure to The ball player who is worth a Then he took an awful fall. ton, will add respectively 76,000 and 74, secure National Association protection fancy salary will generally get it. The He was up before the big crowd counted ten, and the disputed Wilmington and 000, while the surrounding territory of prosperous club owners of the major And was ready to swipe once more. Trenton territory would be as futile the eight cities will easily contribute leagues could adopt no surer method In his second attempt he struck just an inch of putting the goose with golden egg From the place he struck before. as unjustifiable. These promoters 100,000 more people, thus giving the laying habit out of business forever should realize that the disputed terri Tri-State League a total population than by ruthlessly slashing the salar Twenty to one was the betting around, But the short end takers were tame, tory was properly awarded to the Tri- of about 600,000 people to draw from. ies of the men who have lifted the game to the amazing standard of pop For Pat was the rottenest hitter State League not only on legal and That ought to make a very flourishing ularity it now occupies. That ever graced the game. moral grounds, but also on the broad Class B league of the National As "Back to de woods," the rooters yelled, principle of the "greatest good to the sociation©s baby member. "Sit down .A. P. A., you©re through. PUBLIC OPINION. Git under de bench, ynh wild-looking Turk, greatest number," which in this par The Old Sod©s the place for you." ticular case assuredly applied rather The National Association proposition Another Veteran Observer©s Opinion Of With these cries ringing in Patrick©s ears. to the established Tri-State League to reserve umpires has fallen through the National Game©s Organ. He took a big run and a jump, than to a mere paper league. owing to objection by the American Stokesville, Va., Jan. 27. -Kditor "Sporting And hit the next ball to the timbers tall Another thing the Atlantic Leaguers League. The adoption of the innova Life." I am one of your oldest readers (in Oh, My! It was an awful thump. point of service only), having begun in 1S83. I should realize is the fact that National tion required amendment of the Na know the record of every major league player He rounded the bases in splendid form, Agreement protection is a privilege tional Agreement and this in turn re known during the last twenty-four years, Amid the cries. "Hurrah for Pat Hoo-ra," thanks to a long memory and your paper. My " ©Twas the only hit he ever made in his life, not a right; and National Association quired unanimous consent of the two subscription expires in March, but it will be A and it saved the day. membership is a matter of privileged major leagues and the National As renewed. I am in charge of a large lumber New York City, January 28, ]007.

I February 2, 1907. LIFE.

every major league club in the country, I really believe Tenney would prefer for the least any club owner could do to abstain from Sunday playing. He would be to equip his men neatly and has been sneered at because he attend compel his men, under penalty of fine, ed to the business of the club Sundays, to appear properly on the field. All but Would not get into a uniform. That these things cost nothing, simply be is his business. I once knew a player cause they are their own advertise who would not play ball on the Lord©s ment. No scrimping in hotels and rail Day, but he would play cards on that roads for George B. Dovey. "The best day. How many of the few players at every stage of the game," is his who would not play ball on that day motto, and he never counts the cost. are consistent? Then we are not all Jmit to make everything easy for the It is his way. He can©t lose. The free agents. Doubtless some, like player, to anticipate every want, he patrons of the game cannot go back Tenney, refrained from playing owing: ought to meet with the heartiest ap on a man of such a stamp, and neither to wishes of a mother or wife, or both. TAYLOR TOPICS. preciation and with the full apprecia can .* Is it fair to be captious under such tion of the players. The more some THE NEWSPAPER MEN. circumstances? The strengthening of chaps get the more they want. Don©t He has the latter won, because he the Nationals is bound to help the club :hink Mr. Dovey is doing this because is a man after their own heart. He in every city and it is difficult to see THE BOSTON AMERICAN CHIEF OFF fie is new to the game. He knows is with them heart and soul not for at the present writing how the season what he is about and is no jay, no what he can get out of them, but be on both grounds can fail to be a bril matter what the angle of the game, cause he is the real thing and he owns liant financial success. f OR CALIFORNIA AGAIN. and he needs no dope book to help every man with whom he ever came SPOKES FROM THE HUB. { him along. His brain is not yet so into contact. He will be a power in Billy Hamilton writes to me from overcrowded that he is obliged to help National League councils, yea, in base his home in Clinton, Mass., that he is it out by recourse to artificial means. ball councils, because he has the head, looking for fast young material for Before His Departure He Enters a Anyone who thinks he can be gold- the brain, the business qualifications, his Haverhill club. It will seem like bricked or buncoed can be convinced the penetration, and he has backbone, old times to have William around once to the contrary in very short order. pluck and push, and above all, is more. Denial of a Ridiculous Report Mr. Dovey has his ideas about things square as a die. I©ll gamble on that It was at ©s suggestion and he has the courage of his convic proposition. His word is as good a_s that pitcher Donovan, of the Detroits, and Announces His Abounding tions. It is not my purpose to indulge his bond, and when that is said it was invited to coach at Harvard. The in a fulsome eulogy of this gentle takes him all in, as it would any man trouble with most pitchers is that they man, but it may be that a lot of people whom such a qualification would fit. can pitch themselves, but as instruct Faith in His 1907 Team. may not be conversant with his make It was a happy day for the National ors they fail. Tim thinks that Dono up, and it is therefore eminently meet League when he came into its ranks, van can do the trick and it looks to me to be an admirable choice. SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE.". Dr. "Billy" Edwards, of Beachmont, Mass., a suburb of Boston, after his re Chicago, 111., Jan. 29. President turn from South America, called at the John I. Taylor, of the Boston American headquarters of the local Nationals Club, passed through Chicago "Satur- and made terms to act as trainer. i day on his way to Cali There were some half dozen after the fornia. He remained in place. Tenney was highly pleased that the city only a few hours, Dr. Edwards accepted. The latter but had time to deny the knows his business and is a very popu report which was print lar gentleman. I hear he is to lead a ed, here, and elsewhere, most estimable young lady to the altar that would at no distant date. Good luck! resume his position as Plugh Duffy has had snow squelch manager of the Boston his golfing aspirations and has had team next season. "I to put in his spare time in bowling". cannot imagine where or Those who knew Billy Conway, one of how the report started," the owners of Bingham©s Hotel, and said Mr. Taylor. "It is a great lover of base ball, with a very ridiculous on the face of wide acquaintance among its follow Joiin I. Taylor it. I should think the ers, will regret to learn of his recent newspaper men should death at the age of 39. Peace to his remember that we gave out ashes. A rare good fellow has left THE OFFICIAL ANNOUXCHMK©XT us and we deeply mourn his departure. that "Chick" Stahl would manage the Boston team this year. Do they think we change our minds over night on CONNECTICUTJEAGUE. such an important affair? I was del uged with questions as to the whys The Opening of the Championship and wherefores for the change when" I struck Chicago, and it made me gasp. Season Settled and linal Action on We never had the slightest thought of making: a change. I thought it was a Contract Jumpers Taken. joke at first, and then I saw it©©in print. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 28. Editor I cannot too strongly deny the yarn." "Sporting Life." Directors of the A GOOD OUTLOOK. Connecticut League met in this city today to make prelimin Mr. Taylor said that everything was ary arrangements for going along swimmingly and that the the coming season, At majority of the players had been sign* torney C. J. Danahor, ed. "I think we will be in the race owner of the local fran from the start," said he, as he swung chise, being the only himself upon the Overland Limited. "I member of the board ab don©t Ihink the rest of the teams will sent. This year the Rea find it easy to stop un. The prospects son will begin April 2», are as bright as they ever were for and will be completed Boston of having a winning team, and September 14, this beinjv that is saying a great deal. I have three days earlier for heard from Jimmy Collins, who is at the opening and one Hot Springs. He says, he has taken week later for the clos off ten pounds already, and that when H. O©Rourke ing than last season. the season opens he will be down to Hartford will open at 360, which is his playing weight. He Haven, Bridgeport at Waterbury, says he is in as good shape as he ever Springfield at Norwich and Holyoke at was in his life. I will be back from New London. The holiday games will California in time for the schedule be a,bout the same as last season. T4\e meeting in New York. I understand chedule will be compiled by Sidney our team is scheduled to open the Challenger and he will start work up season in Washington, April 11." on it at once. It was also determined to allow the umpires $7.60 per game; $10 for a -header, and $3 for a LEfS. game prevented by rain. Another reso lution adopted debars a contract- jumper and one who has played in the Some More Timely and Interesting Tri-State League in 1905 and 1906 from Facts About the Personality, Char EDWARD S. PLANK, playing at any time on a Connecticut acter and Methods of the New Owner Pitcher of the Athletic American League Club. League team. New* Notes. of the Boston National Club. The colleges have sent many good players into the base ball ranks, but few have gained It Is understood tfeat George Lachance will the celebrity of Edward S. Plank. He was born in 1875 at Gettysburg, Pa., and started play first base for and captain the Waterbury BY J. C. MORSE, out on his career at Gettysburg College in 1900. His work on the rubber attracted consider team. Boston, Mass., Jan. 26. It will now able attention, and Manager Mack at once gave him a trial in 1901. His work was little Manager Dan O©Neil. of the Springfields, says l:o but a short time before both of the short of phenomenal, and during the month of May, 1901, it was thought he would rival that Jimmy Bannon, of Montreal, has secured Boston major league clubs will start the record of any pitcher in either league. He finished well up in the averages that year, an option on his club, which expires April 1. but was out of form the early part of season of 1902. Later he settled down, pitched According to a report from Norwich, short- on the Southern pilgrim winning ball and was one of the chief factors in the Athletics© unexpected capture of the stop Gus Sbffel is slated to succeed Jack Tighe age, the Nationals going pennant. EYer since he has gained steadily in reputation and is today considered on« of as manager of the Connecticut League cham to Thomasville, Ga., after the very best southpaw pitchers ever seen in base ball. For the 1906 season he has the pions this year. a preliminary stay at honor of leading all the twirlers of the American League as winning pitcher, according to The New London Club has, upon the strong French Lick Springs, and official averages. recommendation of Manager Hussey, of Ridge- the Americans to Little wood, signed a young New York player named Rock, Ark. Many and Jack McLinn, who is rated as a sure comer. loud have been the pro and proper to perhaps go beyond or- and for the game as well, for men of Catcher Harry .Tope, who caught so finely tests by some club own dina¥y length in this matter. No, he is his stamp are scarce as hen©s teeth. in New Haven last season, will take a long ers against the expen not a Mr. Easy Mark. He knows what Lots of them are well enough so far as jutnp next season and will go to San Francisco, sive training habit, he is doing all the time and he can they go well enough in spots, per where he is sure to make good. He is a which has apparently not tell many a magnate haps, taut when it comes to the well- splendidly built, strong, strapping player, with yet reached its height. A THING OR TWO rounded whole, an apple without a good arm and a good head. The stay in the Southern about the game that would be benefic specks, just get your glass and see Geo. B. Dovey country is prolonged and ial. Think of the club making such a how many of them you can find. in addit©ion to a course spring trip as he proposes under pre NO STINT OF MONET. HUDSON"RIVER LEAGUE. of training it is now considered the vious ownership! It very often hap Mr. Dovey will expend a whole lot of proper thing to go to some expensive pens that old processes are followed money to make his plant Al, but who The Newburgh Club Makes a Move by resorts where waters can be had and in many lines for years and years, but will say such a property will not pay Signing Billy Connors as Manager where the men can prepare for what is it does not follow that the new ones better than anything run on a different to come an admirable thing if the are not better. I doubt not for a plane. It has been shown again and and Securing a New Park Site. players follow it up properly, but minute that Mr. Dovey would secure again that the people of the United Newburgh, N. T., Jan. 28. Editor scarcely of any avail if they do not. new grounds for his club could ade States will pay good money for a good One of the "Sporting Life." Jim Connors, who MOST SERIOUS DEFICIENCIES quate territory that would be centrally article. "Show me," says Dovey. managed the Newburghs, of the Hud of the game of today is that the play located, be secured, for he wants "Show us," they say, and he will. son River League, the latter part of ers as a whole do not know how to his proposition well rounded, and if There©s no doubt there, because he is last season, will be manager this year. care for themselves, and they abuse there is any criticism he desires to a plugger. He simply will not let The New Jersey Exhibition Company, their systems in a way that tells most have it removed. Mr. Dovey certainly grass grow under his feet. We all owner of the Newburghs, closed a deal decidedly in their work. Now any showed rare foresight in determining know that base ball is on the square. last week for the grounds at the New- club that fails to supervise the player©s to secure FOTJR UNIFORMS Players, no matter how treated, will burgh Driving Park, the best in the diet and his habits is lacking woefully do their prettiest at all times for their city Paddy Kane, catcher, and Joe yet I know not one that is not de for his club the coming season, two employer. Tenney©s men did remark Lake, pitcher of last year©s team, are ficient in this regard. As a rule the for home use and two for use on the able work last season in the face of to be tried out by the Jersey City Club. plavers are allowed to do as they road Scarcely a club that has not ap discouraging surroundings. There i Some new towns are to be considered please outrage nature in every pos peared on the field in untidy, dirty no doubt they will work harder than in the make-up of the league this sible way and very little, if anything, yes often filthy costumes, to the ever next season for a man whose care year. Glens Palls is likely to be drop is said about the matter. Proper eat openly-expressed disgust of the patrons at all times will be to provide for their ped and Hoboken, Hackensack and ing, proper hours, proper treatment of of the game. No one was more con comfort. Tonkers are mentioned for member the body should be insisted upon in versant with this deserved cause of TENNEY©S OPPORTUNITY. ship. ___ every club. complaint than Mr. Dovey, and forth It is going to make a lot of differ LACK OF APPRECIATION. with he determined to put a stop to ence, too, with Tenney in the game New* Notes. Where a. liberal, enterprising club that sort of thing, and it©s a good Sundays. The club will play but six Umpire Fitzshnmonfr foe» back to the Hudson owner like Mr. Dovey »oe» to th« waver his example will be followed by Sunday games, but every little helps 6 SPORTING LIFE. February 2, 1907.

New York "Herald,"© is still in the journalistic have too many left-handers on one team, as it harness and has a fat and comfortable berth as is the day of the left-handed pitchers, who editor of "The Official Golf Record," published find it easy to fool the left-handed batsmen." in this city; a paper devoted, as its name in Murray Murray, of the Phillies, has decided dicates, to the growing game of golf. Mr. opinions on the umpire question. He says the Rankin is still the smiling, genial, whole- umpires don©t lose© one game in fifty and that souled man he was in his youth, when his the public does not pay its money© to see sunny disposition got him the sobriquet "June," players and managers abuse the umpire. which has clung to him ever since. Manager Murray has ordered pitcher MeQnil- President Brush has just received a letter lan to return at once from Havana. According from Manager McGraw in which the little to a Newark despatch, however, McQuillan re commander goes into detail anent the Giants© fuses to obey the order, as he claims to have trouble at Memphis and thought maybe he was training trip. He goes into detail, carefully out for good, we simply thought we would see pointing out the many adavntages. The climate, a contract of $2500 to remain in Cuba until what -was doing in the outlaws in ease it came he says, is ideal, and the accommodations of April 1. METROPOLIS MEMS to a sftow-down, and we wired Sehring. We fered at Los Angeles are perfect. Indeed, he A Reading despatch says: "Louis Litschie, had no idea of quitting the club, but just predicts that other teams will go to California who is recognized as one of the best infielders wanted to know what the chances were. We next, year, maintaining that a club never made playing in the City League1 , will go South with got an answer which offered us more money a wiser move than when New York decided the Athletics early in the spring. If he i^akes A CALIFORNIA TRIP EOR THE GIANTS than we were getting. We didn©t want to go, on a trip to the coast. McGraw will leave good he will be given a trial by Manager however, and when the whole thing was settled San Francisco in time to reach New York Feb Mack early in the season." McGraw knew all about it. Neither Donlin nor ruary 1. He has completed all arrangements Manager Murray developed pitcher Frank SETTLED ON. myself had any intention of throwing down the for the Giants© stay at Los Angeles, where, he Corridon in Providence and knows that he was management and McGraw knows it." says, the natives can hardly wait for the time not properly handled while witti the Phillies. The above statement supports Seb- for the Giants to appear. He says next season Frank will pitch the game ring©s declaration to the National Com of his life, as he has not only improved a lot All Details For a Most Ambitious mission, and what is more, it shows but is enjoying complete health for the first that the players made the advances PHILADELPHIA NEWS. time in three years. unsolicited. In commenting on Seb- Louis Rlchie, the youngster who pitched Undertaking Now Arranged ring©s revelations, Sam Crane, the local such excellent ball for the Phillies last year, Contracts Sent Out to the Players of was a caller at the Philadelphia Club office scribe, said that if Donlin and Gilbert the Two Local Clubs No Trouble last week. Richie is heavier than he was Facts Anent Gilbert©s Contumacy were induced to talk business with last year, in the best of health and is confident Sebring their act was reprehensible. Getting the Men Into Line. that he can excel his pitching record of last Crane says there are no two players year. He is anxious for the season to open. Yankees Waiting on Griffith. who owe more to McGraw than Donlin BY F. C. RICHTEE. Charley Dooin, the strawberry-haired catcher and Gilbert, and we guess he is about of the Phillies, has signed his contract for the right. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 28. President coming race, and says he thinks the team will BY WM. F. H. KOELSCH. Shettsline, of the Philadelphia Club, have a chance for the championship this season. McGraw Had His Troubles. sent out contracts last week to all the He bases it on the fact that the Phillies are New York City, Jan. 28. Editor players on the roster of naturally slow movers, and that they have "Sporting Life." The California trip It is quite true that the players did the club, with the ex gradually been getting better for the last four for the Giants has been definitely not play championship ball last year ception of three men. seasons, and are just coming into their stride. settled upon. McGraw and therefore they have, no right to These men are already and his men will gather expect to be pampered and humored under contract to play in Chicago on February as they were when they won the with the Phillies this 6 and start for Los world©s series from the Athletics. We season, they being catch THE EASTERN LEAGUE. Angeles to begin their guess Manager McGraw had his ers Dooin and Jacklitsch long training campaign troubles handling some of the bad and a pitcher of the The Veteran Joe Kelley is to be Tor- in the Western country. cases of "swelled head" that developed name of John Neuer, a The trip which the Giants among- the world©s champions of 1905. big left-hander, who did onto©s Flayer-Manager at a Salary have planned was decid Over-confidence was at all times sadly excellent work at Hazel- ed upon only after a in evidence, and when Mathewson be ton last year. The play of $500O. heap of thinking and fig came ill and later Donlin was injured ers were all notified to , Jan. 26. Editor "Sporting uring. It is by far the there was a very heavy fall that badly F. C. Richter report in this city pre Life." It has been settled that Joe longest and most expen jarred the inflated ones. The general pared to leave for Sa Kelley will manage and play in the sive training jaunt ever demeanor of the team at the opening vannah, Ga., where the team will spend outfield with the Toronto elsch attempted by a base ball of last sason is well described by Sam three weeks in preliminary work, on team, of the Eastern club. The expense, alone, Crane in the following words: "Their Thursday morning, February 28. While League, next season. The would make magnates rub their eyes, easy victories over the Athletics for this city will be the rendezvous of contract has been signed but McGraw, when he prevailed upon the world©s championship gave them most of the players a few will go and the former Cincin John T. Brush to give his permission, the idea they were invincible. Their direct from their homes to Savannah, nati manager and player had several objects in view. chests swelled and their heads expand some of them residing in the South will return to the min ed to abnormal proportions. Some of and West. The players will be given ors after many years of McGraw©s Ideas and Plans. them failed to recognize old friends the choice of traveling to Savannah by good service in the Na The first of these objects was to even by the merest nod, given in a rail or water. A few, notably Gleason, tional League. Kelley secure the proper climte for spring patronizing way. They were cham Duggleby and Thomas, prefer the will receive a salary of training. The crafty base ball general pions of champions, and in their own route by water and consequently they $5000 a year. This is figured that an even minds could never be beaten out for will most likely sail from this city on probably the largest sal climate in the South in a pennant." That about describes the Tuesday, February 26, arriving at ary ever paid to a mana the early Spring is a situation as it was when the gpn.^ Savannah one day in advance of the Joseph Kelley ger of a minor league rarity. Last year he sounded for the first game last spring, other players. team, but it is believed camped at Birmingham and it is quite reasonable to assume by the Toronto Club owners that in that there will be a different state of Kelley©s reputation as a player, his and was opposed by Athletic Players Lining ITp. weather that practically affairs this spring. aggressive style, and knowledge of crippled his best men. At Manager Mack, of the Athletics, sent the game the club has made a good Los Angeles, about the "Waiting For Griffith. his contracts out several weeks ago, investment. The club owners figure and to date he has received signed that Kelley will be receiving $2500 time the Giants will The Old Fox must be enjoying life pitch their tents, the contracts from Harry Davis, Monte as manager, succeeding Ed. Barrow, on his ranch, as he is now overdue. Cross, "Rube" Waddell, Oldring, Bart- who has retired- from the game to weather is ideal for out Perhaps he is on a still hunt for a door -work. The climate ley and Dygert. Last week Danny give all his attention to his hotel pitcher or two and may surprise us Murphy surprised and gladdened Mack business, and that the other half of is even and the air cool any day. Who can tell. It has been J. J. McGraw an