BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Title Registered in U. S. Patent Office. Copyright. 1909, by The Sporting Life Publishing Company- Vol. 54-No. 7 Philadelphia, October 23, 1909 Price 5 Gents ^5S^5 yr£Z%&f0^ Jt l ^ggsg^ ^gggg^a^ \m OCTOBER 23, 1909 the ball game in which Young©s team lost to will select its own dates in the Capital City an aggregation headed by Fred Drumin by a first of all. 6-to-l score. Cy pitched four innings for his INELIGIBLES MUST SUFFER. team. The Young .banquet at New Philadel phia that night had 150 guests in attendance. The ineligible players, those who broke con tracts and others who broke their reserve clauses, must suffer the consequences. The JOE CANTILLON STILL VENTING THE ATHLETICS OFF ON THEIR first-named will have to remain with the "SPITBALL©^FACTS, State League, which will be a Class B or HIS RAGE. CALIFORNIA TOUR ganization, for four years. The reserve Manager Griffith, of Cincinnati, Believes breakers will be obliged to remain only two years. After the change had been brought That the Use of the"Spitter" Will Be about, Frank Herman, president of the out The Deposed Washington Manager Abandoned Without Adverse Legislation. In Conjunction With an All-Star laws, issued a statement, in which he de clared that the State League had all the Questions the Ownership of the Cincinnati "Times-Star." National League Team, Under better of the proposition and secured every Arguments for and against the merits of thing it demanded. As a matter of fact the the spitball will probably .never be extin Staters received less than they were offered Washington Club News of In guished as long as the freak delivery is in the Wing of Connie Mack and last fall. At that time .they ©were offered vogue, and the cause is still their territory intact and the only penalty terest From AH Points. alive for debate. Clark Grif Frank Bancroft* was that players who had jumped would be fith, of the Cincinnati Reds, compelled to remain with the minor organiza recently became entangled in tion for one year, at the expiration of which SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." an argument on the saliva Philadelphia, Pa., October 19. Connie they could be sold. Chicago, 111., October 18. Joe Cantillon, specialty. The Cincinnati Mack started yesterday morning for Chicago EWING TO FINANCE CLUB. the deposed manager of the Washington manager, when in the Amer to take charge of a team of Athletic players It looks very much as if Cy Moreing and American League team, is out with the as ican League, was a strong that will begin a tour to the Cal JSwing between them will conduct the sertion that the American supporter of this style of Coast, not to return to the State League next year. Ewing©s offer to League as a body owns 51 pitching, but a season©s ex city until after the new year finance the San Francisco State League team per cent, of that club©s stock. perience in. the National sets in. "Frank Bancroft, was accepted, and he will run the club next When James McAleer re League has altered his views business manager of the Cin year. Joe Curtis, who was with the Seals ceived an offer to manage the considerably on the subject. cinnati team, is going to take at the outset of the season, but jumped to Washingtons, which he sub Griffith entertains the opinion a picked team from the Na Santa Cruz and was later transferred to the sequently accepted, he tried Clark Griffith that the spitball is 50 per tional League, while Connie Sacramento outlaws, is trying to get $200 the to buy a block of stock and cent, less popular©this year Mack will have the American Sacramento Club owes him. offered to pay any price that than last. While there have been frequent Leaguers in tow. It has been might be named, but he found rumors during recent seasons that the mo arranged for the two teams that it was impossible. The guls of the big leagues would try to sweep to play games with some o_f stock is owned by more than THE "SALIVA STYLE" the City League teams of Chi 50 persons, and the American of pitching off the base ball map by legisla cago, beginning to-day, after League officials declare that tion, Griffith©s belief is that this sort of dras Connio Mack which tffe two will travel Roy Thomas, a Veteran of Experience and Jot Cantillon the other clubs have not a tic action will be unnecessary. © ©The spit- West together, playing exhi- dollar invested. Since losing ball is dying a natural death," said the Reds© bition games en route. In Colorado the teams Skill, Declares That the Feet-First Slide his position Cantillon has circulated several leader, "and within two years© time it will will separate, the National Leaguers going to Should Be Barred. stories calculated to injure the American be entirely forgotten. All pitchers, five years Los Angeles by the Southern route and the League, but they have all been disproved. ago, were ©spitball crazy,© especially the American League team keeping straight on By 0. H. Zuber. youngsters. The first thing they would try to San Francisco. In California they will to master would be the ©saliva.© Many prom play some of the State League teams, and if "Don©t slide feet first." That©s a straight DAHLEN IS OUT. ising cubs ignored curves and speedy straight the weather permits the tour may extend fa tip given up by Roy Thomas, of the Bostons, balls altogether. A few succeeded, but hun Oregon and Washington. and one of the best base-runners the game __ has ever known. "I©ve tried The Boston National League Club Gives dreds ruined their arms and sunk into ob MACK©S TEAM. livion." According to Griffith©s ideas, the both heaJ-first and feet-first the Veteran His Release. pitching department in the National League On account of the injuries to shortstop Bar sliding," said Thomas, "and Special to "Sporting Life.©© is, on the whole, far .superior to the twirling ry and catcher Livingstone they could not of the two give me the head accompany the team, and Manager Mack in first slide every time. Tha Boston, Mass-, October 18. Bill Dahlen, machinery in the American League, and he added that it has always been that way. He duced catcher Donohue, of the Boston Amer principal reason why I©m op of the Boston Nationals, who joined the club icans, and shortstop McBride, of the Wash posed to feet-first sliding is two years ago when the deal of Bridwell and claims this state of affairs easily is accounted for, when records show that fully 75 per ington Americans, to fill the holes in the that the runner takes such Tenney went through for team, and as Dan Murphy could not go with great chances in injuring his Bowerman, McGann, Dahlen, cent, of the twirlers in the American League are them, Connie took the "youngster" Strunk legs ©and a ball player with Ferguson and George Browne, in Murphy©s place. Those who left here with out good legs isn©t a good ball has been given his uncondi DISCIPLES OF THE SPITBALL, Manager Mack were: Pitchers Plank, Bender, player. Another good reason tional release by President where, on the other hand, saliva flingers are Morgan and Cooinbs; catchers Thomas and is that if a man slides head John S. C. Dovey and Presi few and far between in the National. The Donohue, Harry Davis, Ed©die Collins, Frank first he gives the baseman but dent Heydler, of ihe Nation statistics of the present season, according to Baker, shortstop McBride, fielders Oldring, a small portion of an arm as al League, has been so noti Griffith, show that twirlers in the American Strunk and Heitmuller. Pitcher Krause will & spot to tag, and a man fied. Dahlen has been play League as a rule got late starts, which the join the team in the West. Mrs. Bender ac must be swift and sure to connect up with, ing ball for more than 15 Reds© manager claims was directly due to the companied her husband to Chicago, from so small a mark. My present injury is but years and was with the Chi- spitball. © ©It is harder to get control over where she will proceed direct to Los Angeles an aggravation of a cagos under Anson and with the spitter than any other ball," emphasized and await the team©s arrival there. Mrs. Ira FEET-FIRST SLIDE Brooklyn and New York be the "Old Fox." "I think there will be less Thomas will leave Philadelphia in two or fore coming to this city. The spitter artists next season than ever," added three weeks and will also join her husband which hurt me long ago, my spikes catching WUHaoi Dahlen release has been anticipated Griffith. "The catchers are all out against it at Los Angeles, and Eddie Gollins© ©mother in the ground and throwing me in such a for some time, for Dahlen has and the infielders also dislike ©it, as it is a will meet her son in San Francisco in De manner as to strain the ligaments of my leg, been on the bench for the last half of the preventive against fast fielding. Griffith point cember. and incidentally twisting one foot so that season. Some time ago the Boston Club ed out another disadvantage to the use of the the spikes entered the other leg.