Vol. 56-No. 17 Philadelphia, December 31, 1910 Price 5 Cents SHIFTS The Transfer of the Controlling Interest in the St. Louis American League Club Successfully Accomplished, With the Consent of the League Committee; and Reorganization to Be Effected in January.

SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." class who wtll cemtinsie my policy of naming T. LOUIS, MO., December 26. The the game on a high plane. Furthermore, if new owners of the St. Louis a pennant winner is to be obtained for this Browns met on December 20 at city they will come as close as anyone to the Racquet Club here with Ban getting it. As to Johnson and Charles Comiskey, of THE N1TW OWNERS, the American League committee, they should make good profits from their in Mr. Farrell, of New York, not ap vestment. Base ball is coming right ahmg pearing. The committee unanimously approved and the attendance is increasing every year. the sale of the club to the St. Louis syndicate. Clubs are building big stands in both, leagues Outside of formally passing on this subject and this will increase the attendance still there was little other business of importance further. So, even with the average run of to be transacted. President Ban Johnson of luck, the new owners have fine prospects. fered considerable advice, to the wealthy Now that I am practically out of the clnb young magnates, and before taking a train here, and therefore, cannot be said to be for Chicago the American League chief ex talking for financial purposes, I want to pressed himself as entirely satisfied with the give the St. Louis followers of base ball what situation. A new member of the purchasing is their due. From personal knowledge I syndicate was announced in the person of know there is no better base b»H city in Selwyn C. Edgar, Jr., an insurance broker. this country. Any city will support a -win Hedges will continue as president of the ning base ball club, but ifc takes genuine en club until a meeting, to be held in January, thusiasm to support a losing one, and this at which a new set of officers will be elected is what St. Louis has been doing. While I and a chosen. The resignations of have not given them a pennant winner, I have Adkins and J. C. Ohio, of the old Board of provided * Directors, were announced. This was done in order that the new majority of stock own ONE OF THE BEST PARKS ers may have, control of the Board, though Ad- in the country for their comfort, and accom kins and Ghio retain their holdings. modation, and have done my best in the present deal to place the club in the best VICE-PRESIDENT BEN ADKINS, hands I could find. This will h»ve to serve acting as spokesman for the new owners, to show the fans my appreciation of their said after the meeting: "One of our first fair treatment while owner of the Browns. steps will be to issue pass-cut checks. This There were quite a number of reasons which will prove popular with the boys who care all contributed to my getting out pf the game. to run out between innings for exercise. The The worry of running the club was injuring bar will not be put back in the park. An my health, and my wrfe- desired me to give other innovation will be in the handing out up, owing to this. Then everything hap of score cards free, of charge. President pened to come just right for my letting go Ban Johnson insisted that we must select of the club under circumstances which were a man of integrity for manager. We want a to my liking. There was no friction what man of integrity, but we went one point ever between myaelf and any of the Ameri farther and insisted that he must also be of can League magnates, and nothing of this social standing. You know there have been kind had anything to do with my selling the managers who perhaps have been good in club.©© a way, but when it came to any social promi LAKE TO MANAGE. nence they wouldn©t do at all. Just who It is generally believed here, and also prac the next manager will be I do not know, nor tically admitted by those close to the new does anyone else here today. We talked over throne, that Fred Lake will manage the St. the Louis Browns next season, the man who PROPOSITION OF A MANAGER used to work for John I. Taylor and for John at some length, but I hardly think he will be S. C. Dovey in being the choice of the selected, or rather named, for some time to new owners of the local team to tasfce hold of come. The name.s of Fred Lake and Bobby the task that proved too much for Jack Wallace were both mentioned in the list of O©Connor. Lake©s appointment as manager of leaders for next year. Jack O©Connor will be the club will be made at the meeting of the paid in full. I believe O©Connor has too new owners next month, at which time Bob large a following in North St. Louis not to Hedges will retire from all participation in have him on our side. I think O©Connor was the affairs of the Browns. The selection of dealt with too severely. President Ban John Lake as O©Connor©s successor gives general son said he thought it would be best for us (satisfaction to the fans, who know how able to settle O©Connor©s claim as best we could. he is as a reconstructor and as a manager. We intend to pay O©Connor in full and Jack LAKE IN FAVOR. will be in our employ ne.xt year. What po President Ban Johnson, of the American sition he will hold I do not know at the JOSEPH WOOD, League, when here said that© the junior or present time. The gentlemen who are about Pitcher of the Boston American League Club. ganization had nothing against Lake re- to buy the club insisted that three of the entering its ranks, and paid a high tribute old directors resign to give the new owners This crack young pitcher of the Boston Americans, was born In Kansas City, Mo., to the ability of the man the Ewings and a majority vote. This was readily agreed October 25, 1889. He afterward lived in Chicago and in Ouray, Colo., finally returning to their associates have had in mind to assume to. Hedges sold out and is no longer a Kansas City to make his home in that city. He obtained his base ball schooling at the the position of manager of the St. Louis club. director. Myself and Ghio resigned. By Ouray High School team and played the infield and outfield with the ball club of that institu tion. When but 17 he played with the Hutchinson, Kan,, team, of the Western Association, Bobby Wallace will be overjoyed to learn resigning I have not relinquished my holdings which finished third in the race. He played with the Kansas City team In 1907 and 1908 that Lake is to be manager of the Browns, as in the club, nor has Mr. Ghio. Bruce and and was purchased in July, 1908, by the Boston American Club, and from the first did verj* the little Scot, to whom the leadership was McDiarmid, of Cincinnati, are the non-resident remarkable work. He stands 5 feet 11% inches and weighs 175 pounds. offered, did not desire the position and would stockholders. I believe the scouting system have accepted it only out of friendship for now employed is not for the best. I have a John E. Bruce, one of the minority stockhold new scheme, but I cannot give out the de ers. The Browns, thousrh they finished a bad tails.© © eighth last season, made $20,000, and if the A SAD FAREWELL. Hedges excused himself and hied away to in general and the St. Louis Club in particu new owners ever get a pennant winner here "It©s just like breaking up a family," another part of the Racquet Club. He was there is no telling h/>w great will be their lar. Said he, while discussing the sale of financial reward. In the opinion of the St. was Colonel Robert Lee Hedges© only com really sad and sorry. Had Ban Johnson the club yesterday: "What I feel the most ment after Ben Adkins had announced that ruled that Messrs. Adkins, Ewing, Hodgman,, Louis fans, they have made a good beginning the sale of the St. Louis Browns had beern Hall et al. were ineligible, the Colonel would satisfaction with in regard to the deal is that by deciding to hire Lake as manager of the ratified by Ban Johnson and Charles Com probably have been just as well pleased. I think I have treated both the St. Louis Browns. iskey. exalted rulers of the American League. public and the new owners right. I could » There was a break in the Colonel©s .voicei MR. HEDGES© VIEWS. have sold the club to at least half a A Regular Jumbo. as he spokr. He flipped the end of a per- While Mr. Hedges is naturally pleased with dozen individuals or syndicates and probably fecto and looked at the floor. Then there putting through a deal which he says him have obtained more money for it than I did. The largest ball player that doth perform was a bit of silence which seemed to add to self was a very satisfactory one from every But the St. Louis fans have always treated is thought to be Julian Castillo, first base-, the gloom and all but drew tears fromi angle, he regrets severing his connection with me right and I felt that I owed them some man of the Almendares team, of Havana. Hedges© eyes. Some one got wise to the the p-ame. One thing he is entirely enthusias thing. The men that I have turned the club Senor Castillo weighs 232 pounds, and is on« ituation and changed the subject. Colonel tic about, however, is the future of bas« ball over to are all young hustlers and of the speedy boy, despite his size. DECEMBER 31, 1910

side leading, and then the other. Beside Jus tice White sat a shabby-looking man of middle age. He and the jurist struck up a conversa tion. -Both rooted like fiends, the stranger 1910 vociferously and Justice White quietly, but with great intensity. Finally Washington won PICTURE CARD DEPARTMENT, THE AMERICAN LEAGUE SPRING out in the last half of the ninth inning. As Justice White arose to leave, the stranger MEETING IN CHICAGO* stuck out his hand. "My name©s Brown," he said. "My name is White," said the Justice. 34 So. Third Street, Philadelphia, Pa. A FEW DAYS LATER President Johnson Laying Otit His Justice White was coining out of a bookstore Enclosed find 4 cents (in stamps©), for which please send in F street. Suddenly someone struck hinj a hearty blow on the back, crying out at the Work Friction With President same time:. "Hello, White, goin© to the one set of 12 Base Ball Picture Cards, Series No...... game this afternoon?" Justice Wlrite turned Murphy, of the Cubs, Said to around, to see. his chance acquaintance i}f>:tne ball park: TJnlike many distinguished© SoutJij erners, Justice "White bears no military title! Be Responsible for a Shift* He served in the Confederate© :army, but as a private throughput, being too young to be an officer. : © SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." Chicago, 111., December 26. The next meeting of the American League will be held CLEVELAND HOPES in Chicago in February. This was announced last week by President B. B.. Johnson, and at the same Aroused by the Reports of the Ability of This coupon and 4 cents In stamps Is only good for ONE series. time lie announced that here after there would be Olsen, Who May Fill That Aching Void switch in the meeting place in the Infield of the Forest City Team of the league of which he is the boss. The American Caused by the Injury to Terry Turner. League will have its annual meeting here in December in By Ed. F. Bang. stead of in New York, and Cleveland, O., December 26. Editor will have its Spring schedule "Sporting Life:" It©s many a long day Given to Readers Who Will Comply session in New York instead since the Naps have tried an iafielder who of here. "Why this change is has made good, and it is but With the Conditions Named Below : : slated is unknown, but the natural for the fans to won Ban Johnson opinion is prevalent among der if Ivor Olson, the youth "Sporting Life" has completed the publi Before Ordering Please Read Carefully. ; ba-se ball sharps that the secured from the Portland cation of eighteen series of picture cards So that there be no misunderstanding, w» American L&ague President does not wish (Ore.) Pacific Coast League (twelve cards to a series), each card contain repeat: to interfere in any way with Charles Webb Club©, is to guide them out of ing the portrait (in colors) of a prominent The coupon at the head of this column and Murphy laying his plans for a long schedule the wilderness in the 1911 base ball player, size 1 J/2X2% .inches. Anv four cents (in stamps) will entitle any reader before the National Leag-ue. Last December campaign. Not since the hal reader wishing a set of these picture cards to one series of 12 picture cards. If you the American League executive was accused cyon days of the Big Four can have the same by remitting to us the want the entire 18 series, send 18 coupons of butting in on the election of the president Stovall, Lajoie, Turner and coupon at the head of this column, and four and 72 cents. In other words, you can have of the and also of keeping Bradley, at first, second, short© cents to help defray the cost of printing, as many series as you want, but a coupon Murphy from putting through his movement and third, respectively have postage and mailing same. One set of .any and four cents must be sent for each series for the parent organization playing a 168- Cleveland fans seen a player series upon the above conditions, but the desired. They cannot be had any other way. game schedule. In December, 1911, no such at any of these positions for coupon at the head of this column and four Series will not be broken or exchanged. accusation can be brought against Johnson, the locals who has compared cents (in stamps) must accompany the re Canadian or Cuban postage stamps will not for he and the club owners of the American Ed. F. Bang with the original occupant. It quest otherwise they will not be sent. No be accepted. They have no value in this League will not be in New York while the was on July 4, 1904, that one will be disappointed with these up-to-date country. Canadian money accepted at par. National Leaguers are meating. George Stovall was corralled from the Bur picture cards of celebrated base ball players. If you want your order to receive prompt THE ATHLETIC DINNER. lington (la.) team to round out an infield They are true to life and artistically gotten attention, address exactly as follows: that was to compare with any and all of the: Another bit of information vouchsafed by up. They are riot for sale, at any price, and PICTURE CARD DEPARTMENT, President Johnson was that "Uncle Ben" GREAT INNER WORKS can only be had by complying with the con "SPORTING LIFE," Shibe, of the World©s© Champion Athletics, of modern base ball. Of course, there were ditions above mentioned. PHILADELPHIA, PA. will give his long-talked-of banquet here, in grave doubts as to whether Stovall would fill February. As the National League magnates the bill or ©not when he was brought out of The following series are now ready for immediate delivery. will be having their schedule meeting in the West, but he soon relieved the minds of SERIES No. 1. SERIES No. 10. New York at the same time this means there the doubting Thomases, hammering tire horse- nr^^noi- -pittsburK Nat. IMathewson, N. Y. Nat. Leifleld, Pittsburg Nat. (Doyle, Cincinnati Nat. will be no National Leaguers present for hide so hard that the Naps won four of the Kiet^AmerR-^us. ^^©J^^^l^ O©Leary. Detroit Amer. Stephens, St. Louis Ametv the big feed and so it will be unnecessary first six games in which he participated. Sto rhiiice Chicago Nationals. Doyle, N. Y. Nationals. Pfiester, ^hicago Nat. Needham, Chicago Nat. to scratch Charley Murphy©s name from the vall has been a Cleveland player ever since Davis Phila Americans. Colling, Phila. Americans. Turner, Cleveland Amer. ©lieisllng, Wash. Amer. list of speakers. Johnson and Murphy have al that- memorable Fourth of July over six years McQuillan Phila. Nat. Dooiu, Phila. Nationals. Bridwell, New York Nat. lo©Connor, Pittsburg Nat. ways been at loggerheads and the American ago, and that wonderful infield was intact un Ctoe NY Americans, jjennlngs, Detroit Amer. Dougherty, Chicago Amer. jSpade. Cincinnati Nat. League President has a new cause for til Terry Turner©s arm went back on him in SERIES No. 2. SERIES No. 11. grievance again©st the owner of the Cubs for 1908, barring the injuries which befell the Brown Chicago Nationals. Bresnahan, St. Louis Nat. Hulswltt, St. Louis Nat. .Beaumont, Chicago Nat. the way he protested against the umpires in players from time, to time. For almost four Thomas Phila. Americans. Crawford, Detroit Amer. Hartzell, St. Louis Amer. Livingston, Phila. Amer. the last World©s Series: being rewarded with years it would have been a difficult matter to Tenney NY Nationals. Leach, Pittsburg Nat. Herzog, Boston Nat. Murray, New York Nat. medals, The fact that Murphy will be in find a well-oiled-machine that worked with Tones Detroit Americans. (Lord, Boston Americans. Schaefer, Wash. Amer. ©Falkenberg, Cleve. Amer. New, York.in February is not the only reason more precision than this well regulated Jo dan Brooklyn Nationals. Gibson, Pittsburg Nat Maddox, Pittsburg Nat. Egan, Cincinnati Nat. for the banquet in honor of the American INFIELD OF THE NAPS. Lajoie, Cleveland Amer. (Donovan, Detroit Amer. Stanage, Detroit Amer. Purtell, Chicago Amer. League champions taking place here. Presi One misplaced cog, and it does not take SERIES No. 3. SERIES No.© 12. dent »Johnson wants to have Manager Mack \foren Phila. Nationals. |Clarke, Pittsbu-r Nat. here and also all the Philadelphia players. long for a machine to go to the bad. The Moran, Phila. Nat. Mattern, St. Louis Nat. Naps have never been quite the same since Summers Detroit Amer. Mullin, Detroit ..mericans. Wolter, New York Amer. Conroy, Washington Amer. Then some of them may be called on to tell DevUn N Y Nationals. Tinker,, Chicago Nationals. Scanlon, Brooklyn Nat. Wilson, Pittsburg Nat. how it v?as that they were trounced by the that day in Washington, when something or Baker Phila. Americans. Young. Cleveland Amer. Berger, Cleveland Amer. T. Jones, Detroit Amer. Cubans.© other snapped in Turner©s arm. Since Terry©s i^m©, Pit»sburg Nat. |Rucl«r, Brooklyn Nat. Kills, St. Louis Nat. Kane, Chicago Nat. debut as a Nap something like twenty men WaddSll .si Louis Amer. (Evers, Chicago National,. Graham, St. Louis Amer. (Morgan, Phila. Amer. FRICTION WITH MURPHY. have essayed to play the shortfield job, but President Johnson is once more on the none of them came up to the Turner stand SERIES No. 4. SERIES No. 13. trail of Charles W. Murphy, the little Cub ard. The names of Barbeau, Shipke, Perring, Rr»Ti«fleld Phila. Nat. ISchlei, N. Y. Nationals. Downey, Cincinnati Nat. (Sallee, St. Louis Nat. boss. Ban tried© to squelch Charles when the Hinchman, Bradley, Kahl. Lajoie, Birming WlSe Chicago Americans. | Elberf eld, Wash. Amer. O©Connor,_St. Louis Amer. (I. Young, ^hicago Amer. latter declared that the League and not Tom ham, Stark, Knaupp, Peckiripaugh, Rath, Al- Lennox Brooklyn Nat.. Overall, Chicago Nationals. Sparks, Phila. Nat. Ferguson, Boston Nat. Lynch would control the umpire situation-in Murohv Phila. Americans. Engle, Boston Americans. Heitmuller, Phila. Amer. LaPorte, New York Amer. tizer, Ball, Coqney, Stovall and Nicholls flit Kins© St. Louis N*t Miller, Pittsburg Nationals Barger, Brooklyn Nat. ^ Bailey, St. Louis Amer. the National League. ©Hot words have passed through my mind as one goes back to the Walner, Boston Americans. [Bush, Detroit Americans. Donalme, Boston Amer. |Bemis, Cleveland Amer, between the antagonistic pair within the past players associated with ©the©" shortstop job 1©ew days; and now Johnson says that he is since Turner shook the dust of Columbus SERIES No. 5. SERIES No. 14. going to sick the National Commission on to from his feet to comei to Cleveland. That©s TT Wraith Boston Nationals. (Grant, Philadelphia Nat. Beebe, Cincinnati Nat. (Ewing, Phila. Nationals. Murphy to find oat whether or not the Cub 17, and all of them in the short space of a vi nnk Philadelphia .Amer. Street, Washington Amer. Oldring, Phila. Amer. ©Tannehill, Chicago Amer. owners also control the Phillies. few years. It only goes to emphasize© the ?amuitz Pitteburg Nat. Hofman, Chicago Nat. Knabe, Phila. Nat. Wilhelm, Brooklyn Nat. Cangan Boston Amer. Willett. Detroit Amer. Schmidt, Detroit Amer. Graham, Boston Nat. AN UMPIRE INNOVATION. scarcity of - Lobirt? Cincinnati Nat. G. Wiltse N Y. Nat. Burch, Brooklyn Nat. jPhelps, St. Louis Nat. Johnson, wh,o is unhampered in .the man REAL STAR PLAYERS. Wallace St. Louis Amer. | Sullivan, Chicago Amer. Hall, Boston Americans. |Hyatt, Pittsburg Nat. agement and selection of American League Not one of this number compared with Tur SERIES No. 6. SERIES NO. 15. arbiters, boasts the best staff of indicator ner at short for a single minute. Lajoie, Sto nnnlan Phila, Nat. . jsweeney, Boston Nat. Snodgrass, New York Nat. [Bachman, St. Louis Nat. handlers that have ever been seen in the fast vall and Birmingham are: still on the Naps© w»r sel Phila. Amer. |Ba fry, Ph;la. Americans. Stallings, New York Amer. Works, Detroit Amer. ttompany. But Ban proposes to inaugurate roster. Stark is with Brooklyn. The others Cincinnati Nat. (Schulte, Chicago Nat. Hoblitzel, Cincinnati Nat. L. Kichie, Chicago Nat. something novel for his men the coming are in the minors or are slated to go there. Moriarty, Detroit Amer. [McConnell, Boston Amer. McAleer, Wash. Amer. Flick, Cleveland Amer. Spring. He will prescribe a course of train Now comes 1,000,000 and more fans from Merkle, N". Y. Nationals Byrne, Pittsburg Nat. Charles, Cincinnati Nat. (Hunter, Brooklyn Nat. ing. The umpires will join the various the Pacific Coast League towns who deposeth Hoffma©nrstr ©Louis*Amer. ]Beil, Brooklyn Nationals. Blackburn, Chicago Amer. [Milan, Washington Am. American League clubs before these break and sayeth that Ivor Olson will succeed where SERIES No. 7. SERIES No. 16. training camp, and accompany the American all the others failed, that he will fill Terry K-nnetchv St. Louis Nat. |Kling, Chicago Nationals. MoMillan, Brooklyn Nat. Foxen, Phila. Nat. League clubs northward, to work in the ex Turner©s shoes in a manner that will remind Joss Cleveland Amer. (Johnson, Wash. Amer. Beckendorf, Detroit Amer. Howell, St. Louis Amer. hibition games. In this way Johnson believes us of the cotton-top when lie was the wizard Mitchell Cincinnati Nat. (Seymour, New York Nat. McElveen, Brooklyn Nat. Lake, Boston Nationals. that his -officials should be. .in excellent form :jf shortstops. The fans are accustomed to be Kraufe Phila. Amer. |F. Smith, Chicago Amer. Dygert, Phila. Amer. (McGuire, Cleveland Amer. and voice for the opening of the season. ing disappointed as far as the shortstopping Keulbach, Chicago Nat. Magee, Phila. Nat. Abaticchio, Pittsburg Nat. (Fromme, Cincinnati Nat. job is concerned, and one failure more or less Stone St Louis Amer. Thoney, Boston Amer. Schweitzer, St. L. Amer. (Mclntire. Chicago Nat. cannot make a great deal of difference. ©While SERIES No. 8. SERIES No. 17. CHIEF JUSTICE A FAN, the; fans from the metropolis of Ohio are Grifntli, Cincinnati Nat. (Steinfeldt, Chicago Nat. Beck, Boston Nationals. Crandall, New Tork Nati really from the "show me" State, they think Bradley, Cleveland Amer. (Walsh, Chicago Amer. Connie Mack, Phila. Am. Niles, Cleveland Amer. they are about entitled to make one good McGraW, New York Nat. ,Leever, ^.^, -Pittsburg .-,. . iNat.,».. Ja&klitsch, Phila. Nat. -Rowan, Cincinnati Nat. Only "White" Was He to "Brown," Met draw from the base ball grab bag, and noth Jis Delehanty, Detroit Am. (Coombs, Phila^ Amer. , Chicago Am. (Birmingham, Cleve. Amei ing would suit them better than to have Olson Bates, Phila." Nationals. jCorridon, St. Louis Nat. Kroh, Chicago Nationals. Powell, St. Louis Am. by Chance at Ball Game, and "White" prove the. man for whom they have waited so Gessler^ Washington Amer. Stahl, Boston Americans. Criser, New York Amer. O©Hara, Toronto Eastern. He Was Later, Too. long in vain. SERIES No. 9. SERIES No. 18. McLean, Cincinnati Nat. Dahlen, Brooklyn Nat Raymond, New York Nat. Hummel, Brooklyn Nat. Washington, D. C., December 22. In all Arrelanes, Boston Amer. Karger, Boston Amer. Clarke, Cleveland Amer. Stovall, Cleveland Amer. base balldom there is no-greater "fan" than M©GANN A SUICIDE. Phillippe, Pittsburg Nat. Bergen, Brooklyn Nat. Suggs, Cincinnati"© © " "Nat. * Willis, St. Louis Nat. Justice White, recently nominated .to be Hahn, Chicago Americans. B. Lord, Cleveland Amer. Parent, Chicago Amer. Cicotte, Boston Amer. Chief Justice of the United States- Supreme The Coroner©s Jury Finds No Evidence of Lush, St. Louis Nat. ]sheckard, Chicago Nat. Moore, Phila. Nat. Brown, Boston Nat. Court; .Many an afternoon in the late Spring Mclntyre, Detroit Amer. [Pelty, St. Louis Amer. Cree, New York Am«r. (Unglaub, Wash. Amer., and-early Summer, when the Supreme Court is-not ©in se_ssion and it is-yet too early to leave Washington for the Summer Justice Save Your Coupons ! New Series will be Announced Shortly White may be-; seen at the base ball purk. He has gotten to know all of the Washington players, and also most of the stars of other foEs-his death. No one seems to know what Infielder Arthur Schaefer, of the New York Giants, teams in the league-who come to Washington. became of this, A certified check for $9000, has been, engaged as coach to the base ball team of which was found on his© person, is said to Waseda, College in Tokio, Japan, at a salary equal to One day the amounts paid college coaches In this country, and JUSTICE WHITE . have been drawn for the purpose of investing it in the proposed new league Which John J. with transportation both ways. Schaefer will serve was sitting in the grandstand watching a par he kilted himself. The only mysterious event I Mc©Closkey is forming- in the Northwest at two months and is now on his way to Japan. He is ticularly exciting game. It was a see-saw a graduate of Santa Clara College and three years remaining unsolved is What become of the ] present. McGann had been promised one of ago was the star shortstop of that nine. It was thMI performance from start to finish, first one $800 diamond ring which he wore shortly be- the franchises. that McGraw flrat dtociwOTed tfc» -niidget. DECEMBER 31, 1910 SPORTING LIFE

ratic." So ejaculated a Pittsburg Club of letter heads are engraved and embossed, and ficial. BOSTON BRIEFS, bear a reproduction of the train, beneath PIRATE POINTS CLARKE DEFENDS KLEM. which reads "Red Sox Special, Coast to Pittsburg Club officials will not deny that Coast." On the right, at the top, is a tiny The Latest Phases of the Reorganization map of that portion of Massachusetts which Captain Clarke grew fighting mad once while of the Boston National League Club- shows Boston Harbor and Cape Cod; on the in New York City. They actually looked for left is the map of California, with the cities him to jolt President Fogel. Clarke©s temper Matters Shaping Up Satisfactorily All to be visited marked thereon. This design boiled over when Fogel threw a broadside ©Round The Spring Training Plans of also appears on the envelopes of the club©s into Umpire William Klein, hinting that he stationery. Before the team starts neat little was not straight. Clarke took the thrust to the Local Clubs The Red Sox Trip to booklets will be in circulation. They will heart and squared away. Every moment contain portraits of President Taylor and friends feared he was going to strike. The Be an Imposing Affair, Etc. Manager Donovan, as well as pictures and Wonder That He Should Be Al Pirate leader refuses to believe that Klem had sketches of the members of the squad. Th% it in for the Phillies, as intimated. He ridi By A. H. C. Mitchell. club will probably lose the lowed to Get Out of the Big cules the thought and held that the Quakers Boston, Mass., December 25. Editor fell for a John McGraw trick. Such a ruse "Sporting Life." Things have moved very SERVICES OF , isn©t a new thing with Mac, either. McGraw fast for the Boston Nationals in the last the big first baseman. At any rate, Mr. Tay League Why No Important wanted to get the Phillies going. He did so month. First, Harris bought lor has taken him at his word and is not by the venerable gag of standing on the lines out the Djvey holdings, then counting on him to join the squad. Jus4| Trades Were Made at Meeting, .and whispering to the players. Caught Doo- he had a strenuous week or what will be done to get first base properly lan and Knabe in turns, telling that "there, two with William Hepburn covered will not be determined until Mani was no use of them working hard, as Klein Russell and his associates, ager Donovan gets back from his honeymoon, BY A. R. CRATTY. wouldn©t permit them to win the game any finally disposing of all his which he spent on the other side. Donovan Pittsburg, Pa., December 26. Editor way." Knabe got his tip from Doolan be stock to the syndicate and re is expected any day, and doubtless will have "Sporting Life." Summing up the doings at fore McGraw worked the right side of the tiring from the Boston arena, arrived before this letter is printed. Patsy diamond. This made the second baseman after a little more than a year sent Hugh McBreen a letter from Paris, in the National League©s December meeting, no doubly sure. Not many minutes later of actual control of the club; which he said he and his bride were having, ___ move in the way of player .KNABE WAS CAUGHT then Mr. Russell and his part a fine trip. "The only thing the French changes caused more local ners; took charge, and their people use water for is to bathe in," wrote astonishment than the St. off first base. Klem called him out. Furious ftrst move was the appoint Pat. As the Boston manager is strictly tem Louis Club©s transfer of with rage Otto and Mickey took yanks at ment of Fred Temiey as man- perate, and as the drinking water of Paris Phelps to Toronto, Klem©s coat. Result, both fired from the A. H. C. Mitchell ager. This move was fore isn©t the best in the world, Patsy probably Just why big union nines game. Weakened by tlfis awful crushing of shadowed and caused no sur longs for Hot Springs and the sparkle of the wouldn©t lay claim to this, their infield the Phillies went up in an aero veteran is one of those mys prise to Boston fans when the appointment water. President Taylor is having some little plane. Were trimmed, 10 to 2. It©s a poor was announced. Tenney succeeds Fred Lake difficulty in teries of base ball. Surely trick that will not get the trickster some day, Edward can catch all around, as manager, and has already begun to figure however. McGraw©s craft failed him not on his forces for next season. He has been SIGNING . tyros from the minors. Think many moons later. Clark Griffith found John also of his batting ability. in consultation with Mr. Russell and has pre There is nothing strange about this, as Bill J. guileless. Told him on the dead quiet that pared contracts for the Boston players, which is a very hard man to do business with, when Phelps can clout that ball and "Rigler was giving the Pirates the best of no mistake. Bats far above, will be mailed in a few days. All the men ever it comes to talking terms. When it comes everything." Mac couldn©t hold himself. on the reserve list will, of course, be signed to playing ball, Bill always does his best. the average. They say that He fell for Griffith©s gag. Blurted his secret A. R. Cratty when a Pittsburger ©heard of up, and then Tenney will look about to see He did not have a particularly good season, right out on the field. Did he get it? You how the team can be strengthened. It is last year. His batting was fine at the start, Phelps© shift to a minor nine he remarked bet he did. Rigler bounced John faster than to Manager Fred Lake, of the Bostons: "Why very doubtful if but fell off to nothing. Behind the bat he, any judge of play has soused him in many had to do the bulk of the work, and what didn©t you take him?©© "I would have liked THE BOSTON NATIONALS to have him," was Lake©s rejoinder. ©years. McGraw fell asleep all right, for it he did was not up to his best mark. How was during that period when the Pittsburgs can gain anything by the swapping process. ever, Bill thinks he is just as good as he ever FOOD FOR FANS. downed the Giants in so many 2-to-l score Except for a pitcher or two they have noth was, and temporarily, has joined the "hold The vet©s escape from the National fur combats. ing any other club wants. Nor have other Na out" squad. The Red Sox owner feels that nished food for fan fests at Pittsburg head OLD TEARS. tional League clubs much of anything they Carrigan drew a large salary last season and quarters for a week following the New York Lew Moren©s friends were exercised over can afford to sell that is worth buying. did not deliver the goods. He put up a pro session. It was generally agreed that four a report that the Pittsburg boy was destined What Tenney and his employers will have to position which entailed a cut in salary, but do will be to send out their scouts next sea it also carried a clause that if Bill made good clubs could have used the man. One local to land in Brooklyn. They read a rumor of newspaper writer said that in 1910 Phelps a three-cornered deal. Pittsburg club owners son and build up the team through young next season he would draw the same figure caught on a few games less than Roger. were appealed to for news as to the case, players, the way several other clubs have that he did in 1910. These are the terms He was let go, this paragrapher said, because but were unable to enlighten. They, however, done. This will, of course, take time. It which Bill has declined, but it is good bet he had a bad arm. "Roger Bresnahan has, admitted that a swap was most possible. seems to be the only hope the local Na ting he will be on hand when the Red Sox only one, good leg, so its a stand-off," snapped Col. Dreyfuss laughs over the, report of tionals have. No one expects the team to Special starts for the Coast. The same kind a veteran. All the boys agreed that with Fletcher having been paid a big sum to throw make a much better showing next y.ear. Ten of a contract was sent to Joe Wood, but as Phelps, Keeler, Lush and others up his rival union idea. Barney vows the ney did not have much success with the team yet the young pitcher has not signified his was liable to clean up the Eastern. They yarn was heard in New York City, but he managed for Mr. Dovey here. It is true, desire to sign. wish him success. sprung in Pittsburg under a New York City he did not have good material to work with, AFRAID TO SWAP. BARROW©S STATEMENT. "Trades while in the East?" remarked Col. Dreyfuss smilingly, © ©Nary a one. The December league meeting will go down in. THE ETHICS OF PLAVER-TRADING. The New President of the Eastern League history as a rare one in that it didn©t witness a single swap. Everybody wanted to ex Defines His Canvas for the Office and change, etc., but was afraid to chance it, By W. A. Phelon. His Relations With Former President. fearing they would be done up, etc. They, imagined something ailed the men on the The new president of the Eastern League, bargain counter and were not willing to grab If you once begin exchanging, giving players quid pro quo, Mr. Edward 6-. Barrow, resents vecent at-" them in a barter. Talk of trades filled the Then the boys will flock around you, each with bargain-stuff, to show tacks upon him by friends of the former corridors, but not one transaction was One will offer three good pitchers (good when Vine street was a marsh) president, Mr. P. T. Powers, and has wired clinched." Col. Dreyfuss went on to say For the best of all your hurlers and get peeved if you act harsh! a statement, which we herewith giye space at that Pittsburg was willing to listen to ten Then another tries to give you seven dead ones of his staff his request: ders. It had some choice material to offer in For the marvels of your infield, and grows angry when you laugh. "New York, December 24. I have Sept quiet on exchange. A base ball fan who was at the Will they offer men worth having? Will they seek an even break? tlie subject of my election to the Eastern league meeting, however, kept up an incessant ex Yes when Pittsburg ceases smoking, or when London is a lake! Presidency preferring to let the silly twaddle about cuse-making "Why the Pirates didn©t \yin the i Kipling. tlie ©brutal throw-down© of P. T. Powers die a banner last race." He would ever wind up natural death, as such stuff usually does. But the his harangue by insinuations affecting the continued reference to it by some of your correspond conduct of Pittsburg men. While the man ents who have suddenly become sympathetic towards date line. "Nothing in it," says the Pitts and it is not believed that the club had Mr. Powers, after knocking him continually for years didn©t say as much his listeners surely gain past, has impelled me to state some facts that the ed an impression that the convivial fever burg man. much money to spend. The new owners prom clutched every player on the ise to be liberal in the way of spending public and oven Powers© friends probably don©t know. Cap. Clarke will fatten up before he re money, but that is what they all say, alid we "Mr. Powers did agree not to again be a candidate ports at Hot Springs. Was nearly 15 pounds at the annual meeting in the Fall of 1909, which PIRATE PAYROLL. will have to wait and see how they make he admits !u the public statement issued by him oil This is an error. Possibly more men than under his Summer weight wlien here for the out. Fred Lake December 12. He had also stated at various times Cammy hit the foamy, but then the number December meeting. Hard work on the ranch, IS ON EASY STREET during the oast season that he would not run again. hunting, etc., pulled him down. Freddy says could be counted on one hand with several for the year. He holds a contract with the Taking him at his word, as did the majority of the lingers to sparfe. "We might have gotten he is enjoying life just the same. By the club owners of the Eastern League. I became a way, the Pirate chief landed one of those club calling for, some say, $5,000, but wheth candidate for the position and was pledged the sup a trade or two if it hadn©t been for this er this amount is more or less than he ac talk," remarked Col. Barney. Then he actor hats in Chicago. He opened the eyes port of five clubs, which resulted in my election. It of fellow managers. tually gets is something that only he and the is regrettable that things did not pass off more laughed heartily. Trade gossip, of course, club knows. Mr. Russell said in this con smoothly or that any ill-feeling should have cropped brings Howard Camnitz©s case up for dis Elmer Steele, twirler, paid respects to his employers in New York. Elmer lives at Fish- nection: "The directors all like Mr. Lake out between Mr Powers and my supporters during cussion. Cammy has a chance now to prove very much, and had it not been for negotia the meeting, for it spoiled plans for one of the biggest his claim before the National Commission. kill, on the Hudson. He looked in line tions made previous to the change of owner-i testimonials ever given to a retiring official in base The Pittsburg management has no de.sire to health. ship no change would have been made in the ball or any oilier business. Mr. Powers said after be ugly with the young man. They want Pittsburg club owners paid a neat tribute management of the club at this time. . Mr. the meeting that his friends made all the trouble him to get fairness in every phase of his to the executive ability of Col. Max Fleisch- Tenney was of greatest possible service to by trying to p)ect him against his will, and I think cause. Col. Barney has no dislike to the maii. When in the chair pro tern, presiding myself that such was no doubt the case. over the National League, Max gave evi me when the negotiations to buy the club "I have nothing but the friendliest feeling both for Kentuckian, even if Howard©s conduct pro were in progress. The directors do not agree Pat Powers f.ucl the men who supported him. In duced unpleasant moments for him. Barney is dence of skill as a parliamentarian. Men in having divided authority, and Lake and, my long connection with the Eastern League I al firm in his assertion that Camnitz drank last who imagined the Cincinnati magnate was Tenney agree to this also. Mr. Lake©s con ways supported him loyally in his administration, ac race. Is convinced that if Howard appears only cut out for a big game hunter were tract will be lived up to in every particular, cepted his rulir.gs whether 1 liked them or not. and in person before the tribunal he can only given a sorry jolt. and the money will be paid in accordance did not proclaim my candidacy this time without prove what his affidavits try to, viz., "that On arrival home from the league session with this contract unless at Mr. Lake©s own first notifying him of the fact. he, is trying to get $1200." Pirate owners were given a first glimpse of request the contract is terminated." Lake "It is not my boast that I am going to revolution a new photo in headquarters. It was a ize the Eastern league. I will, however, devote my LYNCH©S WAYS. appears to be perfectly satisfied. For the entire time to iis interests, paying particular attention prize view taken opening day. Col. Dreyfuss present he has no plans, but if there is any Secretary Locke never tires of telling of ever and anon gaze.s at the group. Pie vows to the umpire question, believing that umpires need the dignity and judgment shown by Tom thing in the rumors of the St. Louis Ameri managing as ©.veil as players, and there will be no that with the aid of an ordinary reading cans seeking him, he will probably have some umpire-baiting, either. I will do my duty as I Lynch in handling the National League ses glass he can recognize at least 5000 faces in sion. Locke held headquarters boys for a thing to say in a few days. Manager Ten see it. without fear or favor, as anybody who knows the assemblage. Every member of the Na ney said that the me will nsree, I think, and if at the end of 1911 half hour while he told of the chief execu tional Commission is recognizable without the majority of our club owners think I have been tive©s masterly manuoevering on the umpire the. aid of artificial optics. SPRING TRAINING TRIP a failure I will step down and out without a murmur question. No beating around the bush. The "Ned Hanlon was at the session all right," arrangements, which had been made by John and give some better man a chance. chairman came right out and declared that he remarked Secretary Locke, when the writer Dovey would be gone -through with. The "EDWARD BARROW." wanted to hear from every club. "Satisfied asked if the veteran had graced the occasion. team will train at Augusta, Ga., as it has or not, complaints or not" was his motto. © ©It was Ned who urge.d Horace Fogel to done for several years, the only difference CONDENSED DISPATCHES. A silence followed the request. John Harris take John Henry Wagner. He declared he will be in the date of departure from Boston. broke it up and caused merriment by as Tenney wil^ take his team South on March was a great ball player, greatest ever," con Special to "Sporting Life." serting that "he was satisfied with the um tinued Locke. 11, which is a week earlier than Lake had piring except when Boston lost." "This One new Pirate scheduled for a try-out planned. "You will need this extra time," The Eastern League, according to President Barrow, was the entering wedge and no time was lost next Spring appeared at the league session said Lake, as Tenney made this statement, will have its annual meeting in New York every year thereafter," remarked Locke. "Some clubs to show Cap. Clarke just how good his foot "it will take that much longer for you to just before the major league conclaves and its sched believed improvement wasn©t impossible. They, was after a severe spiking received last Sum get a line on the men, not having seen ule meeting will be held in some city on the circuit. pointed out defects according to their way of mer. His name is Rivington. He held down, many of them at the game.©© In the Red The annual stockholders© meeting of the Brooklyn reasoning. Lynch wasn©t above heeding the second base for Wheeling. The boy, though Sox camp things are beginning to get lively. flub was held in Jersey City, December 24. The of- most trifling plaint. He admitted that the terribly gashed on the top of the foot, ten President Taylor and Treasurer McBreen flceis elected were: President, Charles H. Ebbets: umpire, problem was most have been busy for some time arranging for vice-president. Charles H. Medicus; treasurer, Henry dons cut and lacerated, is able to to any old W. Medicus; secretary. Charles Kbbets, Jr. DIFFICULT TO SOLVE. kind of stunt on the. injured member. Clarke the trip of the Red Sox to California. There was tickled with the Nail City recruit©s eager will certainly be class to the Coast trip o^ Pitcher Mam I/eever, of the Pittsburg Club, has However, if each club owner helped him, he the Speed Boys. President John I. as invented and patented a new kind of airship, which felt that success was liable to loom up. The ness to be numbered among the Pittsburgs. is now on exhibition at liis home in Goshen. O., question of having each umpire©s eyes ex Don©t wagev on Jackey Flynn not being suredly is no piker when big things are where he has a regular machine shop, he being an amined, originally Col. Max Fleischnian©s on the Pittsburg payroll next March. Looks to© be undertaken. While it is early to figure expert mechanician. He is now arranging the forma suggestion, was not laughed down. It looked niore"" like, retention every day. "Chicago on the number that will be taken from Bos tion of a stock company to put the machine on the reasonable to every delegate. Should this wouldn©t waive claim to Flynn. They only ton to the Pacific Coast, and back, a con market. act prove a hardship to any faithful men, Wanted him to turn over to Louisville." This servative estimate places the number at 100. The Chicago City Council bits passed an ordinance it was understood that ©the unfortunates is Barney©s stand. This includes the players, club officials, news forbidding the erection within tlie fire limits of any would be taken care- of. Perhaps this last © ©The lobby crowd may growl on the read paper men and fans. Many persons who con wooden grand stand or bleachers with a seating ca line has reference to Robert Ernslie, old war- ing of the minutes at National League meet template a pacity of more than TiOOO. Wooden grand stands al ings, but that is no reason why the practice TRIP TO THE COAST ready in existence or under construction may be re horse of the umpire force. Most every play paired or enlarged providing no part of the structure er will insist that Bob is suffering from a should be eliminated," says Secretary Locke. this Spring have availed themselves of the shall be within CO feet of any other structure. Before loss of vision." "Doesn©t sound reasonable. "Minutes are not intended to be entertaining. opportunity to travel on the Red Sox special. a permit can be issued for the building of a new Emslie engages in trap shooting matches Reading them is essential ,to the proper con- As no end of correspondence is necessary in grand stand written consent must, be obtained fro.il every Autumn and does well against stars. duet of business. Free discussion brings out a trip like this, Treasurer MeBreen has had the owners of a majority of the frontage on both sides He couldn©t do that if his sight was er points of value." some very fancy stationery prepared. The, of the street or streets bounding the structure. DECEMBER 31, 1910

TO BASE BALL MEN AND MEASURES "WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE AND CHARITY FOR ALL"-Editor Francis C. Richter.

games in five games played; in the New have been only two cases in which the ball among ball clubs often show one of th» York series the Giants defeated the Highland players did not tell the truth." Can you barterers to have bean "bitten" in the light ers in a seven-game series four games to two beat that for a record of mortals ! of subsequent events, the theory of ex changing players and bringing new faces to games, one tie game being played; and in the fans is correct in theory. It frequently SPORTINGlp the Ohio championship series the Cincinnati T IS not often that a club loses three cases is desirable for the player also to obtain a Reds defeated the Cleveland "Napoleons" I at once, yet that is what happened to CHANGE OF SURROUNDINGS, A Weekly Newspaper by four victories in seven games played. the Haverhill Club, of the New England and often it furnishes him a new incentive DEVOTED TO There was a total of 19 inter-league games League, which laid claim to pitcher McTighe, to work. As a general proposition, when a Base Ball and Trap Shooting in the Tall, of which the National teams won sold by New Bedford to the Boston Nation player of tried value, in full possession of nine games and the American teams won nine als; shortstop White, sold by Birmingham; his base ball faculties, is exchanged it isj FOUNDED APRIL, 1883. games, and one game was a draw. Following and to outfielder Breen, drafted by Brooklyn because there is some friction in the chib. is the Fall record: from the Portsmouth Club, of the Ohio Even from this angle the trade is desirable. Title KegJstered in U. S. Patent Office. Copyright, League. All of the claims were disallowed When jealousy or dislike invades a ball club 1910, by The Sporting Life Publishing Co. October 11 At Cincinnati Cin. 14, Cleveland 7. to the extent of making one player want Entered at the Philadelphia Post Office October 13 At Cleveland Cleveland 5, Cin. 3. by the National Commission on technical to "show up" another on the field, it is October IS At New York Nationals 5, Americans 1. grounds. as second class mail matter. October 14 At New York Americans 5, Nationals 4. time to make a change. When that feeling October 15 At Cleveland Cleveland 7, Cin. 1. invades two clubs and a change is effected, Published every Saturday by October 15 At New York Nationals 6, Americans 4. O READER of "Sporting Life" should all concerned are benefited, other things being October 16 At Cincinnati Cin. 8©, Cleveland 1. miss the next number of the paper, issue equal. Jealousies do invade ball clubs, but The Sporting Life Publishing Co. October 16 At Cincinnati Cin. 5, Cleveland 2. N do not always affect the playing strength ap 34 South Third Street. October 17 At Philadelphia Athletics 4, Chicago 1. of January 7, 1911, which will contain preciably. Right now in our own Cubs there the Editorial and Chronological Review of the PHILADELPHIA, PA., U. S. A. October 17 At Cleveland Cleveland 9, Cin. 5. is a feeling of jealousy between two of the October 17 At New York Nat. 5, Amer. 5 (10 in.). Year 1910 in Base*Ball a unique feature, strongest October 18 At Philadelphia Athletics 9, Chicago^ 3. EDITOBIAL DEPABTMKNT October 18 At Cincinnati Cin. 8, Cleveland 5. to be found in as Complete and exhaustive COGS IN THE MACHINE. FBANCIS C. KICHTER...... Editor-ln-Chief October 18~~At New York Nationals 5, Americans 1. fashion in no other sporting paper or field THOMAS S. DANDO ...... Gun Editor It has not become serious as yet. Perhaps October 19 At New York Americans 10% Nationals 2. of sport. This feature alone makes the it never will. If it does, one of these two THOMAS D. RJCHTEB ...... Assistant Editor October 20 At Chicago Athletics 12, Chicago 5. chronology number of "Sporting Life" well E. FEED. SLEAB...... Assistant Editor October 21 At New York Nationals 6, Americans 5. sterling performers probably will find a October 22 At Chicago Chfcago 4, Athletics 3. worth a year©s subscription to the lovers of greater field of usefulness elsewhere. Trades BDBIKESS 3>KPABTMKNT October 23 At Chicago Athletics 7, Chicago 2. history in concise and statistical form. not founded on some such reason are largely experimental, in the hope of strengthening THOMAS S. D ANBO...... President Up to this year the American League FRANCIS C. RICHTEB...... Vice President or because one club has an overplus of play clubs had won 133 games in inter-league HAT famed New York fan, Mr. Edward ers for one position and a paucity for another. J. CLIFF DAN-BO...... Secretary-Treasurer Everett Bell, has suggested that the EDWARD C. STABK ...... Business Manager series with National League clubs, while the T Presidents Comiskey and Murphy avowedly latter had won 122 games. Adding the 1910 Highlanders© new ball park be named are out to make any trades which in their "Farrell Field" a most appropriate, as well opinion will strengthen their respective clubs, SUBSCRIPTION BATES. games above recorded the total record of Local fans naturally wish them success One Year ...... $2.00 inter-league games is as follows: as*euphonious, title for which there is pre cedent owing to the fact that the Athletic against the "other fellows." Six Months ...... 1.25 Gamesl Games Three Months ...... 65c won-! won. Club©s new park is named "Shibe Park" in Canadian Postage, 50 cents extra per year. 1903 Americans . 33|N»tionals ...... 27 honor of the head of the World©s Champion Foreign Postage, $1.00 extra per year. 1904 Americans . 13 Nationals ...... 11 club. PRESS POINTERS. 1905 Americans . 26 Nationals ...... 25 1906 Americans . 22|Nationals ...... 7 1907 Americans . 18|Nationals ...... 22 HAT staunch 168-game schedule advocate, Little Prospect of Any Radical Changes in thq 1908 Americana . lOjNationals ...... 13 T Mr. Ebbets, "puts one. over" on Mr. Playing Rules. 1909 Americans . 11 jNationals ...... 17 Herrmann, present chief advocate of the From New York "Sun." 1910 Americans . 27 Nationals ...... 21 154-game schedule, when he declares that When asked about the present agitation for ln< Mr. Herrmann©s scheme of initial major creased batting Ban Johnson said he didn©t favor 160| 143 changes in the rules because of the adoption of a This comparative showing demonstrates league 112-game schedules with subsequent new ball last season. This ball has a cork centra that the great gains made since 1906 by the all-round series between the two major and is said to be "livelier" than the old sphere with leagues would require 172 games a season! a, rubber core. Johnson believes that the cork ball National League teams toward parity of team insures more, batting and that it simply requires strength with the American League was another test. While many suggestions have been made checked in 1910 and that the American only one appears to find general favor, the removal UMPIRE EYE TEST. of the raised pitcher©s box. It Is the consensus that League again assumed a slight preponderance the placing of the pitcher on a level with the bats PHILADELPHIA, DBOEMBB 31, 1910. probably as a result of better luck in the men and basemen will increase the hitting to a matter of developing fast young players. Philadelphia "Record." marked degree. Base ball men who are looking into Nevertheless, as matters stand now the two Mr. Murphy©s plan of subjecting the um the matter declare that no good reason exists for the pires to an eye test to prove accuracy of present elevation of the slab. It is said that at THE INTER-LEAGUE EXCHANGES. great major leagues may be considered as vision, which was adopted at the recent meet several ball parks the slab is raised nearly two feet practically equal in playing strength, team ing of the National League, is a very good higher than at the plate, which gives the pitcher a for team and in the aggregate. As we have tremendous advantage in that he hurls the ball down HE base ball season of 1910 was made idea and should©be adopted by every league. hill at the man with the stick. The Rules Committee remarked more than once in considering this An umpire may not use glasses in a game for will consider this point at length at its meeting in T additionally memorable by the fact that fear of accident, so it is very important that there was a larger number of exchanges delicate subject of inter-league comparison, February. "both major leagues have now but one way he has no defect of eyesight. If he is short between the teams of the two great major sighted he will not be able to correctly give leagues than in several years; in fact, the of strengthening or replenishing their teams, decisions on plays made across the diamond Ban on Barnstorming. inter-league games of the Spring and Fall in view of the restricting effect of the re orv to judge balls and strikes from a position From Boston "Globe." servation and waiver systems; and that one back of the pitcher, and if he has astig President Ban Johnson©s advice to put a stop to excelled in number any season except 1903- way is through the development by each matism to a troublesome degree he will be champion teams barnstorming after the season is 05 since the establishment of the alliance be liable to make mistakes on plays that are over is a good thing. Ball players get all the work tween the National League and the American league of its own players from the material they can stand each regular season, with five weeks furnished by the horde of minor and semi- close to him for the reason that he cannot of training and a six-months playing schedule. For League in 1903. A special feature of the sea professional leagues. As the opportunities of see straight. Astigmatism is one of the the good of the game and the boys© condition this son also was the first series of the New most common forms of ey£ trouble and one looking for loose change should be cut out. York American team with any club in the each major league in this matter are equal that is fully corrected by properly-constructed the present aggregate equality of team senior league since the invasion of the glasses, but a base ball umpire should be, One Danger Quite Over. Metropolis by the American League and the strength is likely to be maintained just as comparatively free from this ailment in order long as peace prevails, because temporary in to accurately From Cincinnati "Enquirer." establishment of the Highlander .club. In The elimination of Promoter D. A. Fletcher ha» the Spring the only local inter-league series equalities will be due to individual managerial FOLLOW THE BALL. cleared the base ball horizon. There is no further was the usual one between the Athletics and luck or judgment, which time is bound to He must be able to see the ball at all points opposition to the great machine controlled by the Phillies in Philadelphia, which went six equalize as between club and club and league inside the playing field, and it is highly im National Commission. The big clubs with few ex and league. Nothing but war can now dis portant that he shall always keep his eyes on ceptions have enjoyed record-breaking prosperity and games, but 28 more games were played be the ball. If he is umpiring back of the are confident that the magnates have signed many tween teams of the two leagues. A number turb the splendid balance of the base ball plate one minute he may be called upon to players for long terms and are ready to Invest more of these were with second teams and should world and that is a condition too serious to judge the flight of the ball two feet from money In expensive ball parks in various cities. Or bs contemplated, and, happily, too remote to ganized base ball may be a trust in its government, only be considered as practice games, but his nose and the next instant find it neces but intense rivalry on the diamond still exists, whila be apprehended." sary to tell whether the ball struck in fair the confidence of the public remains unshaken. as part of the record we include them in or foul ground 300 or 400 feet distant, or, the inter-league exchanges. Of these games harder still, to determine whether the out including the Philadelphia local series, 34 fielder scooped the ball off the ground or Doing Its Share for Base Ball. games were played, of which the American TIMELY TOPICS. succeeded in get-ting his fingers under it, From New York "Sun." Leaguers won 18 and the National Leaguers making it a fair catch. Ball players and The University of Notre Dams has representatives 13, with three games tied. The complete ITCHER AMES, of the New York Giants, the more excitable base ball "fans" gener? on five big leagu.3 teams. Murray, of the Giants; ally are ready to agree that every umpire is Burke, of the Boston Doves; Eddie Reulbach, of the Spring record is as follows: P has become convinced of the, truth of Cubs; Bescher, of the Cincinnati Reds, and Daniels, the claim that golfing is the very best as blind as a bat at noonday, and it should March 14 At N. Orleans Cleveland 4, Chicago H 2. prove gratifying, as well as satisfying, tl of the Yankees, all acknowledge the Indiana. insllui- March 15 At N. Orleans Cleveland 8, Chicago II 4. Winter exercise for base ball players. Con this class, as well as to the general public, tion as their alma mater. March 16 At N. Orleans Claveland 2, Chicago©11 0. sidering the outdoor pursuit, the employment when it is known that every umpire©s eyes March 17 At N. Orleans Chicago II 9, Cleveland 4. of all the physical faculties necessary to base haVe been tested by an oculist and found to Neither New or Novel. March 17 At Hot Springs Boston 6, Cincinnati 4 ball playing, and the utter absence of physi be all right. From Boston "Post." ; March 18 At N. Orleans Cleveland 6, Chicago II 1. March 18 At Hot Springs Boston 2, Cincinnati 2. cally or morally injurious features, we are in Allowing a substitute batsman for the pitcher Is ft March 20 At Hot Springs Cincinnati 9, Boston 3. clined to the claims made for golf as exer very old idea. President John I. Taylor, of the March 22 At Hot Springs Boston 10, Cincinnati 4. cise, but not as sport. That many players , was so well convinced two year* March 23 At Little Rock Cleveland 3, St. Louis 2. WISE SAYINGS OF GREAT MEN. ago that such a change in the rules would be mada March 23 At Hot Springs Boston 7, Cincinnati 5. are becoming sensible of the merits of the that he took a chance and paid $1500 for Clay, an March 24 At Hot Springs Cincinnati 4, Boston 3, Scotch game is shown by the steadily increas *Despite the, saying that "two heads are outflelder with the Tri-State League, figuring that March 2§ At Little Rock Cleveland 4, St. Louis 3. better than one," I find one quite enough Clay would prove a sensation with the stick. Clay ing number of ball players regularly practicing was the rankest kind of a fielder, and when the March 2i At Hot Springs Boston 5, Cincinnati 5. at golf, nearly every major league club having the morning after. William Everett Bell. March 2S-5 At Little Ro«k Cleveland 8, St. Louis 0. change in the rules failed to materialize Mr. Clay March 26 At Hot Springs Boston 3, Cincinnati 3. representatives on the links. *Maybe, the dyspeptic is crusty because he was dropped, with most of the $1500. Jack Thoney March 27 At Hot Springs Boston 13, Cincinnati 7. eats so much pie. Jack O©Connor. would be a good man for the Red Sox if the rule* March 28 At Hot Springs Cincinnati 13, Boston 3. *Of course the pen is mightier than the are changed this Winter. March 30 At Hot Springs Cincinnati 12, Boston 6. HE National Commission has just decided sword. You can©t sign checks with a sword. March 20 At Washington Washington 6, Phila. 1. that the St. Louis American League Club Chas. W. Murphy. Space Must Be Filled. March 31 At Washington Phila. 4, Washington 1. T March 31 At Athens, Ga. New York 9, Boston 1. must pay the salary of player Crisp, not *Tell a girl she is a perfect poem and From Boston "Globe." April 1 At Philadelphia Phillies 9, Athletics 4. withstanding the fact that the player came she will hardly be averse to you.- William Some of the base ball articles now appearing in April 2 At Philadelphia Phillies 8, Athletics 5. to the St. Louis Club with an injured knee A. Phelon. the various magazines are pretty nearly the limit for April 5 At Philadelphia Athletics 11, Phillies 0. in a trade with the Newark Club, of the utter ignorance of the game and yet those writers April 6 At Philadelphia Athletics 6, Phillies 1. *The disadvantage about building a castle sell their contributions! April G At Washington Wash. 4, Brooklyn 1. Eastern League. The Newark Club claimed in the air is that you can©t mortgage it. April 7 At Cincinnati Cin. 9, Athletics II 8. that the player they received from the St. Fred Lake. Feature of Umpiring in Cuba, April 8 -At Cincinnati Cin. 10, Athletics II 9. Louis also was not in condition, but his sal *In running: a hotel everything should be April a At Philadelphia Philltes 6, Athletics 3. inn keeping. Edward G. Barrow. From Cincinnati "Times-Star." April 9 At Cincinnati Cincinnati 5, Boston 2. ary had been paid him nevertheless. The Umpires hi Cuba are a curious race. Whenever April 10 At Cincinnati Cincinnati 7, Boston 2. Commission©s ruling was based on the fact a Cuban umpire makes a wrong decision he writes April 11 At Philadelphia Athletics 10, Phillies 6. that each club could have protected itself an open letter to the papers next day, admitting his April 11 At Cincinnati Detroit 4, Cincinnati 1. by suspending the player, according to rule VALUE OF TRADES. mistake and apologizing to the wronged player, to the press and to the public, besides making many In the Tall of 1910, in addition to the and practice, for "lack of condition." promises not to do it again. Great idea, but it annual World©s Series, two inter-league ser Chicago "Tribune." wouldn©t ©work in this countiy. What, paper, oulsiu» ies were played under National Commission Instead of the stormy sessions and dft- of a Sunday issue, could give space enoush to Charley HE official records of Secretary Bruce, of plays of factional politics which have char Rigler it© ho were to write apologizing for all hii auspices. This was precisely the same situation T the National Commission, confirm "Sport acterized some previous annual sessions of miscues ? as in the Fall of 1909, except that this time ing Life©s" repeated claim that "the the National League, it now seiems probable the Cincinnati and Cleveland teams engaged percentage of crime among ball players is, that the only excitement which can come in a series for the championship of Ohio, in proportion to numbers, smaller than in from the conclave in the off-season meeting of the senior base ball organixation and its December 21. Hdit.or "Sporting and the two New York teams met for the any other class on earth." Secretary Bruce Life." I wish to state that,, you first time of record. In the World©s Series states that "in over 700 cases heard and ad younger but sturdy running mate, the Ameri the best, most, accurate, and moat up-to-date of anjr the Athletics defeated the four can League, will be trades of players among paper that I have yet, seen. Very truly yuii judicated by the National Commission there clubs of these organizations. While trades © DECEMBER 31, 1910 SPORTING LIFE:

Cincinnati has had about as little use for cast his vote to retain Chivington. The other league clubs refused to consent," says Clarke, "so I the meek and lowly sacrifice during the pas^ club owners have already made known their made up my mind to keep the young first baseman in season or two as a Prohibitionist has for a choice, and have based their opinions on the Pittsburg." "SILENT EDDY" Christmas jug of red-eye. Next season there way the league affairs were conducted during President Herrmann, of Cincinnati, affirms the truth are likely to be a few boys on the team who the past year. Joe Planner, of B. B. John of Manager Clarke©s declaration that Hyatt and will be able to "lay the ball down" when son©s staff, was the second candidate named Miller were never offered to the Cincinnati Club. REDLAND DISCUSSES THE AT occasion requires it. If championships were for the position, but apparently he is making President Lynch has promulgated the releases by awarded on the count of having pilgrims left no effort to force the issue and will not enter St. Louis of ©Fred Alberts to St. Paul; S. B. Melter on bases Cincinnati would have been a fat the race actively unless it is shown that the to Sioux City; Ed. Phelps and Lester Backman to TITUDE OF MR, GRANT, factor in the scramble of 1910. What the Association owners are determined to elect Toronto. "Old Fox" needs more than anything else a new leader. John C. Dovey, late of the Boston Club, has gone for a short visit to St. Louis for Christmas and then during the Happy New Year of 1911 are a will return to Pittsburg and join the force.s of few trusty guides who know the way home Manning Vaughn©s Milwaukee Mems. John P. Harris. Another Whack at the Cincinnati- from third base. Nobody who believes in making runs will condemn the sacrifice play Milwaukee, Wis., December 24. Editor The Brooklyn Club has given pitcher Pat Flaherty "Sporting Life." Wanted; a first baseman his unconditional release, and has sold shortstop Quaker Deal Grant©s Kick a as unworthy of a pla_ce in the game. There "Tony" Smith to the Montgomery Club, of the are places to hit it and places to sacrifice and who can hit .300 and field like a Chase. Ap Southern League. it is the wise old fox who can discover when ply James Barrett, manager Milwaukee Base Parallel Affair in the Rebellion of and where to make the discrimination. Ball Club. This is the sort of message that It turns out that player Hartley, drafted by New Jimmy Barrett, new boss of the Brewers, is York from Toledo last Fall is not the well-known sending widecast in hope of landing a man outflelder, "Chick" Hartley, but Grover Cleveland Tom Corcoran in the Long Ago* Good for Charley Dooin! of class for the job held two years by that Hartley, a catcher. Umpire Bob Emslie comes to the front with the Philadelphia has put up the N. B. sign old gladiator, Dan McGann, who has passeti away. Of course, Barrett will not demand statement that no oculist can baffle him, and that he BY REN MULFOBD, JR. for 1911. Charley Dooin, clean cut and fear does not want, and will not need to accept, any pen less, declares that his Quakers will be mem that the new member fits his advertisement sion from the league. Cincinnati, O., December 24. Editor bers of the White Ribbon Society next sea exactly, for he is anxious to get someone for Dan©s shoes and is ready to consider any In St. Louis it is believed that Manager Bresnahan "Sporting Life." Out of the Yuletide flot son. There is good logic in Dooin©s platform. let out oat flier Eddie Phelps largely because more sam, and jetsam which has been cast on the He declares: "I had nine total abstainers on youngster who gives promise of developing. bases were stolen on him last season than on any shores of Redland there my team last season, and yet three men who In addition to looking for a new first base other National catcher. ha_sn©t been anything quite as would not observe the training rules held man Barrett is also in the market for another, catcher and a couple of pitchers. He has Infielder Heinie Zimmerman, of the Cubs, it is glittering as silvery baublese the club back. If those three men had kept said, wants $4000- for next season. He will hardly 011 a Christmas tree. Nothing in shape all the time I really believe our several deals on with big league clubs, and get it, but is quite likely to have his stipend of quite as satisfying as a thick bunch would have been fighting the Cubs for it is expected that he Will, drag a flinger or $2700 hoisted to $3000. steak smothered in mush two out of the major league pond in a couple the flag. No more of that kind of stuff for "Bugs" Raymond has quit the wrestling game. rooms has reached the fans me." The man who puts "a good time" of weeks. The announcement that Barrett "Base ball is strenuous enough," says the Insect. as a result of the recent ahead of loyalty to the club is as much of would play center field nex©t season has "The most they can do there is to take you out of annual feast of mogulistic a traitor to the team and fans who .enable pleased Milwaukee; base ball followers im the game if you aren©t going right." mensely, as Sir Jim topped all American As reason in New York, Garry him to enjoy a good salary as Benedict Ar President Brush, of the Giants, is now sojourning Herrmann has "come back. 1 © nold was to the American cause when Uncle sociation batsmen during the last season, at the Hotel St. Anthony, San Antonio, Texas. He Base ball was sidetracked for Sam was in knickerbockers fighting for his according to President Chivington©s figures. expects to be back in New York by the time the a little while and the right young life. When the great American public, The Brewer manager hit .353 in 51 games. season opens, which will be on April 12. of Herrmannic way given to hun ivlulford. Jr. which makes possible the "easy money" Manager Clarke, of Pittsburg, is confident that he a holiday greeting to the earned by the Sons of Swat, demands loyalty News Notes. has two promising recruits for the initial corner in Elks a bit of sentiment you©ll see the lushers grow beautifully less Rube Waddell says the best diet for a pitcher is Fred Hunter, from Kansas City, and John Kadlng, which scored a with the antlered in numbers. Why, some of these "Midnight Ice cream and pickles. formerly with the Eau Claire, Wls., team. hosts. While there were no sequels to the Sons" could be hissed into oblivion right Manager Cantillon, of Minneapolis, declares that Outflfflder Evans, of the Cardinals, not only led big gabfest which created any undue ex off the reel if such a method of showing he has no present intention of trading .outfielder Cra- his team in the matter of batting in most runs, but citement during these ante-holiday times disapproval were generally adopted. All hail Tath to Detroit. he also, led the whole league in another matter. some Bugs did stop their Christmas shopping Charley Dooin and Fred Clarke leaders in Joe Cantillon has had a remarkable base ball He was hit by pitchers 29 times last season. long enough to discuss the silence of Eddie the crusade for boozeless ball and the return career. He will add to his many roles when he be Jack Gleason, the fight promoter, gives it out that Grant. Now if Grant had signed right off of 100 cents© worth of loyalty for every dol gins to manage Rube Waddell. Manager McGraw©s new five-year contract calls for the reel he would have been given a few lines lar of the public©s money! Nate Wilbur, business manager of the Louisville $18,OiO-0 per annum. Gleason says he knows what and that would have been the end of it. —————————4—————————— Club, has severed his connection with that organiza he is talking about, as he "saw the papers." Grant didn©t sign. He has not even replied AUSTRALIA IN LINE. tion, to assume the management of a Louisville bil William Hepburn Russell, prominent as a stock to the last letter of the Red President. Is liard room. holder in the newly-purchased Boston Doves, is well either so busy with his law practice that he Dan McGann, the Milwaukee first baseman, who known in New York political circles. Among the hasn©t had time to write, or maybe he has Joe Tinker in Receipt of an Offer to Go killed himself recently, was one ball player who set Gotham fraternity h« is dubbed "Sunny Jim." lost G. Herrmann©s P. O. address. At any aside a great deal pf money. McGann left property President Dreyfuss, of Pittsburg, lauds the recent rate the Red Chief did not get to rivet his to the Antipodes. worth $40,000. League meeting in New York and says it was the eyes on Grant during the big doings in New Special to "Sporting Life." Joe Cantillon will have his Miller squad train at most harmonious he has ever attended. The best York. Chicago, 111., December 26. Other coun Hickman, Ky., next Spring. The latter is the home of feeling prevailed at the close of the session. tries evidently are getting the base ball bug town of the Minneapolis manager and he will have The Pittsburg Club has made a deal with the Los, Will Like the Old Town. Angeles (Pacific Coast League) Club for the star- No one can accuse Sir Edward Grant of pitcher of that club, southpaw Walter Nagle, in ex showing an eagerness to don red hose. He change for either an inflelder or an outflelder yet has not been quoted directly as an insurgent, J to be named. but actions speak louder than words. Mr. THE MAGNET, THOUGH NOT MAGNATE. Secretary Gray, of the Giants, has received the Grant is not likely to retire from the game signed contract of outfielder Forsyth. drafted from to practice law. If he plays ball anywhere it the Pekin, 111., Club, of the Illinois-Missouri League. will be right here in good old Cincinnati. By W. A. Phelon. He led that league in batting last season with au And Eddie will fall in love with the town average of .386. when he does come. He isn©t the first player Great- are the Magnates. When they gather in The Pirates will try out 16 new players during the to figure in a deal engineered by Cincinnati Spring training campaign. Half of this number are Their annual sessions, all the world stands still pitchers. Clarke will try to develop a first baseman who laid in a grouch as a result of the swap. The. earth quits whirling ©roiind the sun the moon so that he will not have to shift Wagner from his "When Tom Corcoran was secured from Brook Flickers quite anxiously on every hill favorite position at shortstop. lyn in exchange for ©©Germany©© Smith, Sir The very rocks are asking, "Is it a-cinch Tom couldn©t see Red©.and with a telescope. Pitcher Overall has invested quite some money in That, without war, they©ll re-elect" Tom Lynch?" the oil fields of Southern California, where he is He invested in a pout that was a bird. It Out in the corridors, the awe-struck throngs spending the Winter. Experts say that the big [wasn©t Until Claude Ritchey, secured as Wait without breathing till some player stalks twirler will shortly become a very wealthy man if excess infield baggage; began to loom up like Along the lobby^-then the curious crowd his holdings pan out the way they should. the morning star that Corcoran packed his Gaze on him with deep envy as he walks. * will draw $5000 for managing the grip and came reluctantly into camp. Did he Magnates and meetings they forget them all Boston team and will earn the money. He has©* like Cincinnati? Well just yesl And he When looking at some fellow WHO PLAYS BALL! planned several changes In the line-up of the team, met a little girl here who became "Mrs. Byron. with an idea of securing improved work, and will Tom" and the mother of as fine a little only hang on to players capable of absorbing to the bunch of Corcorans as can be found any full extent inside base ball. where. Cincinnati liked Corcoran, too old Fred Lake, former manager of the Doves, says faithful "Col. Pinch" the Bugs called him. beside Cuba. A report? is now circulating things all prepared by the time Spring arrives for by agreement with the, new owners of the Boston When Mr. Grant takes a half hour off with Chicago that Joe Tinker, of the Cubs, who the reception of the squad. A club house will be Club he is free to open negotiations with any club. himself and really studies the lay of Red- wants to play third base next year and keep fitted out with shower baths and other conveniences He admits that he has no offer from any club as yet. land he©ll come, even if he has to get here away from short field, has had an offer from that go with a training camp. He has declined a good offer from Harvard to act by motorcycle. And at last accounts Billy far-off Australia. Sir Joseph has been ten Danny Shay will stick to base ball despite the as professional coach for three years. Murray was headed his way to talk things dered a $10,000 contract for four years to tales that he will enter business in Kansas City. President Dreyfuss, of Pittsburg, tells Pittsburg ever. come to Australia and help organize several Dan stated in New York that he was with Tebeau reporters that he Is opposed to playing games later circuits in different parts of the country. for another year. than October 8 important, considering that he is a The © ©If© End of the Deal. Joe©s principal stunt is to play with thf* The Indianapolis Club has secured the signed con member of the Schedule Olmmittee. Judging ftom expressions of other Western magnates no games will And still the wise men of the East are various clubs, hammer out a few home runs tracts of Dan Howley and the Nashville recruit, and help in boosting up the general tone of pitcher Sohlitzer. The latter©s broken arm is quite be played in the West later than that date. giving Cincinnati the small end of the deal. mended. It is settled that Jerry Freeman will be There: are good old scouts who think Clark the game. To date Tinker has not yet set, Now that "Bugs" Raymond has demonstrated 1m out for the Pacific Coast.______the regular first baseman. prowess on the mat it, will probably be more diffi Griffith handed himself a gold brick. William The Association had quite a delegation at the ma cult than ever for a manager to take a fall out of i©eet, the Washington historian, is one of the jor meetings in New York, namely. President Chiv him. It will be remembered, however, that McGraw latest to take this view of the question. One ington; Schoenborn, Frjel and Quinn, of Columbus; once pinned "Bugs© " shotilders to the floor of a thing is sure, when Hans Loberl gets into THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Watklns, Meyer and Burke, of Indianapolis; Tebeau Pullman i-ar while en route over the circuit. action in Philadelphia the Quakers will see and Shay, of Kansas City; Grayson and Clark, of The Pittsburg Club has signed pitcher Hendrix. a 8, Dutchman full of horseradish who is al Peace Prevails in the Ranks of the Mag Louisville. right-hander, of the Cheyenne, Wyo., team, which ways doing his best. He occasionally boots won the semi-professional championship of the West some of the teasers and has been known to nates and No Trouble Whatever Is last season. In 1909 Hendrix pitched for Salina. kill a few sparrows near Rooters© Row with NATIONAL LEAGUE NOTES. Kan., in the Central Kansas League, on the dis "pot shots" when tho exigencies of the case Anticipated at the Winter Meeting. banding of which club he became a free agent. j-equired accurate throws. However that may Chicago, 111., December 24. Editor "Sport Pitcher Ames, of the Giants, has become an ez- Ex-Manager Billy Murray, of the Phillies, is not be there are: no perfect third bagmen, and ing Life." Peace and harmony promise to pert golfer. worrying about the future. Says he: "I have a few Lobert is a fellow who doesn©t know what it be the keynote of the coming American As Pitcher Otis Crandall. the record-breaker, has dollars saved up, am getting old, and am not worry is to shirk. He©s always in the game and sociation meeting in Chicago. re-signed with New York. ing about what may happen. I did all my worrying like the flute player who was installed as The only possible thing which It Is believed that pitcher Foxen, of the Cubs, while I was in Philadelphia. I guess chances will organist of the Blue Blazes Oratorio Society, might bring up a row is the will find his way to Louisville in the near future. come along in 1911 for me to make a few dollars." election, and according to the he does the best he can. His Trying Average The Chicago Club is said to be negotiating a trade President, Ebbets, of the, Brooklyn Club, is planning is 1.000, and nobody ever saw the boy wilt present leader this will be of pitcher Pfiester for southpaw Mattern, of Boston. a visit to Central America and Panama and may not or sulk under the caustic fire of oreide bugs more or less of a formality. return until the opening of the base ball season. Kb- on Rooters© Row. About the middle of the President William Hepburn Russell, of the Boston bets has not had a real vacation in many years, and season one or two chib own Club, was once Commissioner of Accounts in New he feels that he is entitled to one. He plans to York City. The Latest Ozarks Bulletin, ers were circulating stories start on his travels immediately after the holidays. of a new president, but re Manager McGraw will cling to Rube Maremard. President Dreyfuss, of the Pirates, declares pitcher Unless a man is in tip-top physical trim ports from about the circuit How some fellows hate to write "Stung!" after their Camnitz .cost the National League $10-0,0-00 last year lie has about as much chance of winning in indicate that the belligerents signatures! by not. keeping in condition. If he had been in base ball as the tap-man in a brewery has have been won over. Two President Herrmann, of Cincinnati, hopes to pull shape all ssason. says the Pirate boss, the Pittsburg of sticking on the water wagon. When Orval new candidates for the league off a deal with Boston for pitcher Mattern and in- team would have been nearer the top. Chicago would Overall was here he was a subject for the flelder Sweeney. not have had a walk-over, and larger crowds would leadership have been men have been drawn to the games In consequence. hospital rather than active service. Chicago T. M. Chivington tioned, but they have shown The latest contracts to be promulgated are those got him when he had conquered the ill that remarkable dexterity in with of Jimmy Doyle, Tom Needham and W. J. In Pitcher Raymond, of the Giants, tried his hand put him in the also-ran stable in Cincinnati. sert on with Chicago. at wrestling in Chicago on December 17 and met drawing from thhe field before the nomina with defeat in his first attempt at the hands of Art Fromme was on the sick list all last tion was dry. George Wild, of the Toledo Tom Downey, Rube Ellis and Chick Autrey are season and his lamentable disability put a Joe Kennedy, a Chicago semi-pro, mat artist. Ken Club, has, according to persistent reports, playing ball in Southern California. Likely to wear nedy won the first fall with little difficulty. "Bugs" crimp in the Reds© chances as large as a been named as Chivington©s chief opponent, them all cut before Spring. came back stfong and took the second, but was un willow plume. Everybody hopes that the but the Mud Hen secretary put the yarns to Catcher Larry MoLean has re-signed with Cincin able to stand the pace and was forced to yield the Winter stay at Hot Springs will restore rest by assuring the presents-incumbent that nati, and that, too, without any of the frills he has third. However, the New York twirler will not George McQuillan to pitching usefulness. he would not consider the matter. The To been quoted as insisting upon. desert the game. "Mac" evidently wants to make good. He ledo Club, under President Armour, has so Pred Lake will easily earn his Boston salary as The New York "Sun" is responsible for the fol lias a righteous incentive to prove: to the far been one of the chief supports of Chiving- adviser and scout. In the latter capacity nobody lowing: "John P. Harris has purchased 25 shares scribes who say his postoffice address is the ton, and it was for this reason that Wild re has anything on the late manager. of stock in the Pittsburg Club from Alex Moore for Hotel de Booz©e are off their frosted feet. fused to enter the race and break up the $100© a share. Moore has been on the cuts with Here is hoping that his demonstration is an Leo Angemeier is to be trained for the Cubs© third peace family, which consists of every club in catcher all right. President Murphy has given the Hartley Dreyfuss for a long time, and the latter has 18-carat, full jeweled, stem-winding success. the league with the exception ,of Milwaukee. Blue Grass player a swell contract. welcomed Harris with open arms. Dreyfuss has re The Brewer owner, Charles Havenor, is still peatedly denied that Harris held the Boston Club©s Panning the Sacrifice Hit. 011 edge over the defeat .of his candidate, Mordecal Brown and Orvie Overall say that they stock for him, and also says it is untrue that, it was are out of the game for good, according to a specia©l his money .Harris used in purchasing Moore©s shares As long as runs win games and there Joseph O©Brien. last year, and for that reason dispatch last week from Los Angeles, Cal. in tho Pirates." If Mr. Harris has really purchased seems to be no disposition on the part of is still ready to lend his support to an. op Moore©s stock he has doubtless removed a thorn from the Amalgamated Order of Nuts to start a position candidate. Joe Cantillon, owner of Pitcher Bob Ewing, of the Phillies, is raising the side of the genial President Dreyfuss. crusade against this old established rule the champion Minneapolis Club, who, with blooded horses on a stock farm in Auglaize County, . « O. He expects to accumulate riches rapidly. Ihe sacrifice hit will be an accepted play of Havenor, formed a two-club compact opposed A Cleveland paper is authority for- the statement value. The teams that can lay down occa to tho present administration, has undergone Jack Flynn will remain with. Pittsburg next season, that Sam Kennedy, the clever Quaker scout, has a sional bunts when runs are needed are the a change of heart, and unless something in according to Fred Clarke, "When I asked waivers on three-year contract with Cleveland at $3300- pet- year. 4»aes that generally finish with, the Big Four. tervenes between now and the election will Flynn to send him to Kansas City four major That beats minor league playing and managing hollow. SPORTING LIFE DECEMBER 31, 1910

of 1910 that he would be likely to prove in all that pertains to players, clubs and such other leagues by another 10 years they will method. A SUCCESSFUL PITCHER. be so firmly entrenched that they will be the THE GIANTS© PLANS. FOSTER FACTS Twenty-two games are on the Giants* The, owner of the club took him in the lot most admirable professional organizations of tery as every owner must who attempts to their kind in the world. They are not far schedule preparatory to the opening of the develop young ball players. He agreed to National League season. While in Texas SOME RESULTS OF THE INCUR pay Ford a certain sum for the season, and from that criterion now. after the Spring training work at Marlin it© Ford had not pitched as well as he did Springs the New York Nationals will play a there, would have been no incentive to give series of exhibition games with the Lone SION OF FLETCHER, him more, although the owner of the club NEW YORK_NUGGETS, Star State nines. After this preliminary- might have carried him for the full season work at Marlin to limber up the players© on the strength of possible results in 1911. Scout Irwin©s Claim for a Catcher He Dug muscles the Giants .will play Waeo, Dallas, Of course, a pitcher carried in that manner Fort Worth, Houston and Galveston. The Why Veteran Players "Fell For" could not anticipate that his salary would Up for the Highlanders Latest News of home-coming of the team will be celebrated be, increased. Ford did demonstrate that with the: Yale game on the Polo Grounds on Proposed Third League Scheme he was a pitcher out of the ordinary. That President Farrell©s Club The Spring April 8. The following day the Giants will is the first time that he has done so since he Plans and Schedule for the Giants Now tackle Jersey City in Jersey City and the lias been connected with base ball. That put next day the Skeeters will return the. com Sentiment in Base Ball in him in line for a better return for his Completed. pliment and play the Giants on the Polo services in 1911. At last- he had established Grounds. The first game of the season for Evidence Game©s Stability* a value for himself which would have to be By E. H. Simmons. the team will be played on March 4 with considered by the management. Fort Worth. A game with Dallas is sched New York City, December 26. Editor uled for the next day. The FARRELL TO BE CONSIDERED. "Sporting Life." Arthur Irwin is still with EXHIBITION GAME SCHEDULE BY JOHN B. FOSTER. Before the management could recognize it us, and while reviewing the great work of Brooklyn, N. Y., December 26. Editor he chose to attach himself to something which the old-timers recently, told follows: March 4 and 5, one team in Waco "Sporting Life." For the first time in the was not even in existence and thus created about a new catcher the and one in Dallas; March 11 and 12, one an atmosphere, of dissatisfaction where it Highlanders have for next team in Fort Worth and one in Dallas; last two decade.s 10 years of organized base, March 18 and 19, one team in Houston and ball have been concluded with would unquestionably have been better to season. The catcher Irwin have had the best of feeling prevail. Natural has reference to is Williams, one in Galveston; March 25 and 26, one no actual outbreak between ly Mr. Farrell will feel a little hurt at the who wa-s with the Canton team in Dallas, one team in Fort Worth, leagues or between a league and one in Shreveport; March 28, Birming and players. It is true that mere fact that Ford was willing to quit or Club in the Ohio-Pennsylvania ganized base ball, and let it be observed League last season. © ©Right ham; March 29, 30, 31 and April 1, Atlanta; trouble threatened when D. April 3, Greensboro; April 4, Norfolk; April A. Fletcher, with plans thor that while the patrons of base ball are here and now," said Arthur, frank enough to admit that a player has "I want to line up and say 5 and 6, Richmond; April 7, Baltimore; oughly those of the promoter, his personal right and liberty which are to that the Highlanders have in April 8, with Yale in New York; April 9, and hardly those of the man be respected, they respect a little loyalty on Williams, a catcher, who will Jersey City ; April 10, with Jersey City ia who is likely to make a suc be the equal of Sweeney and New York. cessful inauguration of a new the part of a man who will stick to the * —————— . owner who tries to be fair and do the best Blair. It will take a little base ball venture, made his E. H. Simmciu effort to induce players of the he can. time, perhaps, but I am A DEAL BREWING major leagues to abandon SOME SENTIMENT EXISTS. strong for Williams. This their organizations to assist It has been said that there is no sentiment kid reminds you of Stanage, the Tiger catch In Which the Chicago, St. Louis and Cin B. Fettw him, or his backers, whoever in base ball on business lines, reiterating the er. He is built just on the latter©s lines, old idea that there is no sentiment in business and how he can whip them around the bases. they might be, to antagonize He caught in all the games for the McKees- cinnati Clubs May Figure. those who have assumed the financial in of any kind, but it has been the observation Special to "Sporting Life." tegrity of the sport and have been responsible of the. writer that those players who showed port Club in 1909, and last year was on the a disposition to do their part by the leagues receiving end of the battery in all the games St. Louis, Mo., December 26. Something for its playing integrity. When the major but four with the Canton Club. Of course, doing between St. Louis and Chicago in the leagues were in session in New York the which at least have elevated the game and National League. Br©er Murphy has been writer enjoyed a long conversation with one. helped to place it on a substantial basis have he may TEAR THE LEAGUE UP seeking Magnate Stanley Robinson out in the of the principal owners of an American been best appreciated in the long run by Missouri town in order to work a three-cor League club and for the first time obtained the home crowds. If the base ball enthusi right off the bat. I always did like a bajl nered trade, Cincinnati being the third party aa inkling as to how far ast is possessed of an idea that the player player who looked as if he could be de is loyal to his club, and to his home people, in the swap. According to reports, Murphy FLETCHER HAD SUCCEEDED veloped into big league style. Williams is wants to hand over to the Cardinals Pitchers he is likely to be, warmer in his admiration that sort of a player. Hei may have a lot Foxen, Pfeister and Overall in exchange for in obtaining pledges from well-known players. for the man than if he thinks the player is of that minor league stuff in his bean, but Pitchers Sallee and Harmon and Outfielder That he had made, more headway than had a player purely for business alone. No being around the big leagues a while will Ellis. The Reds are supposed to come in on been generally credited was quickly discover matter how one argues as to base ball, or make him at home. I am not spreading it the deal by swapping with the Cubs, as Mur ed. To what extent the players would have how it is viewed in its various aspects be on with the trowel when I say that this boy phy is said to be anxious to secure McQuil- stood by him had the matter come to an neath it all there is an undercurrent of loyal will make good. I look for him to land the lan. But just who is to be turned over to issue where he would have insisted on their sentiment which always has made for good. job as third catcher. I watched him in many Cincinnati for the former Philadelphia "bad co-operation is a question. The owner, who COBB ALSO ENMESHED. a game. He pegs down to second base for man© © is not mentioned. The rumor reads Informed the writer of all that he knew in the burglars like a big league mitt man." more like a hot stove circuit yarn tKan any regard to the transactions, was inclined to That Ty Cobb had flirted with Fletcher This sounds very fine and if Williams makes thing else. believe that at the last moment there would was intimated strongly by the major league good for the Yanks, as Arthur says, it will, . » have been some of the players who would owner. That seems somewhat surprising if of course, be a big thing for the hill-top have declined to enter a new league, and it it is true, in view of the fact that Cobb was team. As it stands at present, however, the CAUGHT ON THE FLY. is still an. open question as to the liability presumed to have a long-term contract with catching department of the Highlanders is which they had assumed in their dealings the Detroit Club on most favorable conditions. a strong one, and there are other lines that The schedule meeting of the Texas League has been with Fletciiar. It is possible that he might The owner cited the circumstance as going seem to need strengthening more than that. called for January 5, at Galveston. have been able to make to prove that Cobb has established to himself If the pitching department, for example, was The Waterloo (I. I. I. League) Club has signed a certain amount of arrogance in which he SOME LEGAL TROUBLE as strong as the catching the Yankees© catcher Oliver Kohr, a semi-pro, of Cleveland. assumes that he is an essential part of the chances for next season would be greatly im Catcher Joseph Laughlin, of the Danville (Virginia for them and had such been the case it sport. Were that the case it would only bear proved. League) Club, has been appointed team manager for would have been a rich morsel in base ball out what many writers have said of Cobb, MANAGER HAL CHASE, 1911. history, for heretofore it has usually been the criticism which seemed harsh to the writer, The Duluth - Club, of the Minnesota-Wisconsin owners who have been compelled to assume who had always found Cobb agreeable and of the Highlanders, will spend the Christmas holidays and New Year©s with his folks in League, has signed pitcher John E. Hamm, of Mil- the burden of legal fighting. If the players more inclined to be diffident than self as lersburg, O. had been used instead of being pursued, as sertive. If it were true that a player of California. Chase had a little base: ball .talk Customarily has been their share, there would Cobb©s ability, signed to a long-term con before leaving and said, among other things: The Canton Club, of the Ohio-Pennsylvania League, "We have a splendid base ball club. I has released pitcher Strom and signed Ernst, have been some anxious young men, for there tract, should break that contract to go with Walters find Giroux. is no ball player who cares to be separated another organization the chances are that it don©t know what changes there will be in the from his money by process of law. If would team. That can be told better when we get President W. L. McCullum, of the Stlsauehanna RESULT IN ANOTHER FIGHT back from the Southern trip. We have a League, has called a meeting of that organization for they must lose it it is usually their prefer Berwick, Pa., January 7. ence to lose it in some other manner. One as to the validity of a base ball contract, un good man in Elliott and it may be that he fact was noticeable and that was that in will take Jimmy Austin©s place, but that©s Manager Harry Mathews, of the Albany (South less the club which had Cobb under contract hard to tell. Jack. Knight may be moved Atlantic League) Club, has signed first baseman Fred the list of players whom Fletcher is known simply came to the conclusion that it would Vasterburg, of New Orleans, La. to have claimed for his chimerical organiza be best to permit him to go his way for all over to second base. Johnson may take up tion it was easier to do business with some the position at shojrt. I think he©s a big The Augusta Club, of the South Atlantic League, time. Some day it may come to that in base league ball player and has the right stuff has sold inflelders McMahon and Rhoton, respectively of the older players and some who have lived ball. It is no easy task to maintain a high handsomely for a term of years on good salar for the society. My outfield looks good, in to the Waeo, Texas, and Dayton, O., Clubs. standard in the game, and league owners Wolter, Cree and Daniels. Hemphill will be ies than it was to influence the younger men. who have borne the brunt of the obligations Malachi Kittrectge, part owner and manager of the The first impulse would be to charge there, too, as the extra outfielder. There is Saginaw (South Michigan League) Club, has declined which they must assume can well be for no truth in the report that Wolter vas on an offer to assist in coaching Harvard©s base ball THE OLD PLAYERS given if they balk at what might be termed the market and would be traded. He will team. an uncertain risk. While it is true that a be our right fielder next season. We all with being ungrateful, for not a few of certain amount of prosperity attaches to Manager Magoon. of the Savannah Club, of the them have been well provided for if they win the pennant in the Winter, but I don©t South Atlantic League, has signed a first baseman base ball under its present conditions it will want to use a trowel on what we will do from the Cactus League, of Arizona, named B. A. ; have saved any share of their earnings. On never_be a the other hand, their readiness to lend next season." Gynup. I their ears to the promises of Fletcher more POSITIVE STABLE PROSPERITY, THE HIGHLANDERS Pitcher Patsy Flaherty has secured his uncondition likely is the result of their own conviction in view of the fact that the most substantial al release from the Brooklyn Club in order to be that their time of service on the ball field element in its favor to any individual club are not going to take any chances with the come manager of the Richmond Club, of the Virginia is short and they would best make the most is to be successful on the field. As it is only weather on their training work. Manager League. of it while they may. For instance, there rarely the case that all teams can be suc Chase had made arrangements to take his Manager Frank Belt, of the Keokuk (Central As are three or four on the list who will not ball club to Hot Springs, Va., for two weeks sociation) Club, has purchased catcher Mason from cessful that is, that the race may be close and then return to Richmond, where the club be active much more than a year or so on enough to help the second division as well as Kewanee.- and has also signed catcher Jesse Deer, of the field. If Fletcher was willing to promise would finish the training. But the report of Vlncennes, Ind. the strong it . is evident that no team can Phil Schenek, the Yankee ground-keeper, who them $10,000 for the mere fact of signing look forward from year to year with an es President Moreland, of the Ohio-Pennsylvania their names to contracts they would not be was sent by President Farrell to fix up the League, has called a meeting of that organization, tablished certainty of patronage. The win park was such that Manager Chase cut Rich loath to desert organized base ball, figuring ning team will always be a success and the for January 9. at Cleveland, 0., for the purpose of in cold blood that $10,000 would be far mond off the list. The thermometer is likely adopting new by-laws. losing team will always be a dependant. to be close to the freezing point in Richmond, more than they could make in the short time Steady loss means an outcome similar to that The Galesburg Club, of the Central Association, which seemed to be left to them to play with and as the team experienced fine weather at has re-elected Bert Hough as team manager; and the which is seen this year in both major league Athens the Yankee leader decided to have major league organizations. This would in organizations. Two clubs change hands and Kewanee Club., same league, has signed first, baseman dicate that some of the players at least are the men train there the coming Spring. The Morton Andreen, of Woodhill, 111. new men will try ©to do what others have hill team has a" lease on the Athens grounds rather fair judges of failed to do. Collectively, the American First baseman Mert Whitney, who recently pur for three years. Chase has all the contracts chased his release from the York Club, of the Tri- THEIR OWN MERITS. League was not as successful in 1910 as it out for his players and the signed contracts State League, for $"00, has signed with the Topeka was in the preceding years, merely proving are coming in fast. By the new year the Club, of the Western League, at an increased salary They recognize as well as owners and mana that the American League, after all, is no gers and spectators that they are not up to Highlanders© manager expects to have all his and a bonus of $350. different from any other base ball league. It men signed. The latest to sign the standard which was once characteristic had been asserted in the best days of the President Al Tierney, of the I. I. I. League, an of their ability and are willing to make as American League that its success was THE CONTRACT PAPERS nounces that the Quincy Club, which has just se much as they can and as quickly as they cured Its release from the. Central Association, will can make it. Little would they care whether DUE TO ITS METHODS. © was Ed. Sweeney, the Yankees© star catcher take the place of Waterloo, paying the latter $100* the third league ever was successful or not, Yet its methods were every bit as good in the man who had he not been disabled, for surrender of its franchise. so long as they had an immediate ^10,000 in 1910 as they had been in other seasons, but the Yankees© rooters claim, would have made The Portland Club, of the Pacific Coast League, Their hands for the few months of active the close race to the finish was not character a different story of the Giants-Highlanders has signed pitcher Sam Griffith, of the Pittsburg life left to them on the ball field. Naturally post-season series. The reason that contracts Collegians, the noted Pittsburg amateur club from istic of the 1910 season, as it had been of are not being signed so quickly is that which the Phillies secured pitcher Culp and the San whore there were some of the older playe.rs other years, and the American League en Francisco Club got pitcher Frank Easterly. who were willing to trust fate with a pre countered exactly similar conditions to those Fletcher has secured agreements from n large sumable third organization there would be with which the National League has had to number of players stating that they would The steamer Kamakara Mam. from Yokohama for some young players likely to be influenced not sign contracts with other clubs until a Seattle, arrived at Seattle. December 22. She had worry when its racs was too often confined among her saloon passengers the University of Chicago to desert a sure return for the possibilities to a minority of the clubs represented. The certain date, which will soon be reached. of a future in a league to be formed. Manager McGraw is not worrying much about base ball team, which lost only one game during a fact that a base ball war has been escaped his players, as he anticipated this move of tour of Japan, China and the Philippines. The THE CASE OF FORD. this year leads to the conjecture as to whether Fletcher©s. He has nearly a team already only team able to beat the Chicago players was the another period of 10 years is likely to elapse signed which is fit to start the major league Marine Club of Manila. Among these seems to have been Ford, of "before there shall be other_ the New York American League Club. My in season and give some of the leading clubs At a joint meeting of the Western Association and formant says -that he was much dissatisfied MUTTER-INGS OF INSURRECTION a hard fight. It seems a very significant fact the new Southwestern League, held at .Toplln, Mo., that December 18, the two leagues were consolidated under with the salary which he received from the, One is inclined to believe that the longer the the form r title. Mr. Thomas Hayden. of .Toplin, re New York Club in 1910. Without waiting game progresses with its present development ARLIE LATHAM signed Hie presidency and Mr. Herbert Slater, of to see what Mr. l^arrell might do for him in the more difficult it will be to meet modern has not been sent a contract for next year. Kansas City, was elected as president. The .circuit 1911 he agreed to go with Fletcher. Of conditions, for the costly plants which have While Lathani may have done a lot of good will be composed of Fort, Smith. .loplin, Muskosec, course. Ford is privileged to act for himself been erected in the larger cities of the Union, work on the coaching lines last season he Coft©eyville, Independence, Tulsa, Springfield and Sa- as he sees fit. There is no compulsory law and other costly plants which are still to undoubtedly lost a lot of games by bad coach pulpa. to restrain him from deserting organized base come, will make it harder to acquire the ing. He got so xinreliable that in a tight A Louisville special under date of December 23 ball, nor is there any compulsion on the part amount of capital necessary to organize a pinch McGraw would shift him from third states: "There will be several changes in the Kitty of organized base ball to provide for him major league and swing such competition into to first and take the third line himself. If League next season, as the McLeansixjro, 111., cham in case he is unsuccessful in another venture, the field as will really be dangerous. It i« McGraw could put a more reliable fielder at pions will drop out and this team may be trans but the av|rage of future chances seems to ferred to Cairo. 111. It is understood that the Har- true that other leagues may be organized, second base and make an outfielder of Larry rlsburg. 111., team and franchise are for sale, but have been quite overlooked by Ford in his but the indications are that if the present Doyle a great improvement would be made, in will be . retained in that city. Vincennes. Ind.. ambition to acquire a large competence quick major league organizations continue their the opinion of the writer. Doyle was the Clarksville, Tenn., and Hopkinsville and Paducah, ly. No one knew when he began the season present equitable administration of the game chief offender of an infield which lost more Ky., seem certain to keep their franchises." DECEMBER T.I, IQIQ SPORTING

season that he earned a substantial addition to his n New Britain is called the Rosswtn Lyceum,. the Cub president. salary. CZAR UMPIRED BUT LITTLE DOING. The St. Louis newspapers hare come out strong Hermann Disagrees With Murphy, Outside of this debate there has been little for securing Fred Lake as manager of the American Cincinnati, 0., December 26. President xcitement in local base ball headquarters League club in that city. Ex-catcher Charley Farrell is to b« not only a WILL HAVE LESS SWAY IN lerrmann, of the local club, made a statement this week. A few ball players have visited scout for the New York Club, ©but regular oaaeher for anent President Murphy©s declaration on the our fair city on their way to one place or :he Highlanders next season. umpire question which would indicate that another. Among these were Hal Chase, the SENIOR LEAGUE. new manager of the Highlanders, and Harry Trainer Schmieder, of the Cleveland Club, has re- Mr. Murphy either does not know what he Mclntire, the Cub twirler. President Norris signed to take charge of a bowling establishment. s talking about or else has gotten matters O©Neil, of the Western League, also started His successor is "Doc" White. wisted. Said Mr. Herrmann: his annual pilgrimage; to the Pacific Coast. Manager Hal Chase, of the Highlanders, has ar Hereafter Five Clubs Can Demand "The umpire question should be left entirely in the "Tip" has a home in Oakland, where he rived in Los Angeles, Cal., where he will remain lands of the president, of the league. I do not be- will spend the greater part of the Winter. until the latter part of February. Dismissal of [an Incompetent ieve the club presidents should have a thing to do This year he is acting in the role of ad Pitcher Waddell is reported as playing some indoor vith their selection. One of the club presidents re- vance agent for the Boston Red Sox, who ball as well as running a saloon in New York City; ently gave out. an interview in which he stated that at least his name is over tHe door. Umpire The Plan Said to Be vhen five presidents of the clubs should vote against will do their Spring training along the Pa an umpire he would be dropped from the league. cific. "Tip" booked all the games for the Manager McAleer©s failure to make any trades at ?here Is no rule to this effect in the National League White Sox on their Western trips and they the recent meeting of the club owners assures Doc Acceptable to President Lynch* and I. for one, am unalterably opposed to having were so successful that President Taylor, of Gessler of another trial with the Washingtons. my chance for friction between the umpires and the the Red Hose, asked him to plan their trip. President Taylor, of Boston, still has a deal on :lub presidents." Secretary Charles Fredericks and Treasurer with Washington for the transfer of Inflelder Clyda BY I. E. SANBORN. Louis Comiskey, of the White Sox, have re Engle In exchange for some Washington player. Last Johnson-Murphy Exchange. turned to Hot Springs, Ark., to spend thei Manager MeAleer announces that Friday, March 3, Chicago, 111., December 24. It may "take Christmas holidays at home. Fredericks has has been selected as the date on which the Senators nine tailors to make a man," but it will take Chicago, 111., December 26. In reply to been ill ever since the last months of last are to assemble at Hot Springs for the first training only five club owners to unmake a National President Johnson©s comment on the umpire season, but he says he is far better now. work. League umpire hereafter. question in the National League President Manager Jim McGuire, of the Naps, is Importuning That is the meat of a state Murphy is quoted as,saying: :. ©!. ". ©;-.©:©, :, ; Hal Chase, of the Highlanders, to slip him a short- ment made by President Mur Stop. Wilbur Roach or Eddie Foster would be ac- "President Lynch loves base ball and ©Vnlicierstnnds acceptable. phy, of the Cubs. There is It from a practical . standpoint. He is in marked to be an end to the policy of ©ontrast to the viewpoint of some s©t.rictly ^theoretical Fielder Jones, former leader of the Chicago White backing up umpires, whether eague executives who seem to think that the primary Demand for Possible Washington Discards Sox, lias been offered and has declined the position right or wrong, competent or ibject of a ball game is to illustrate how ah: ar of professional coach for the Harvard , University bast incompetent, of the system of rogant umpire may abuse his position to draw all Walter Johnson Plans to Visit Hot ball team next Spring. squelching players until they he limelight by preventing the players the idols ^Springs Exhibition Game Prospects Manager Hugh Duffy says that hardly any,.of tha become molly-coddles and otj .)f the fans from uttering even a syllable in the way old White Sox, outside of batterymen, ©will be re the imperial attitude of the Df protest, no matter how rank the decisions of the General News, Gossip and Comment. tained for 1911. Meaning the hook for Tannehill, judges of play toward the iudge of play may be." , Parent and Pat Dougherty. athletes, according to the Cub To this the American League. President re By Paul W. Eaton. The New York "American" claims that Vice-Presi magnate. President Lynch plied as follows: Washington, December 24.—Editor "Sport dent Ben Adkins, of the St. Louis Club stated, whil3 Tho». 1. Lynch will continue to appoint and In New York, that shortstop Wallace had not a. supervise his umpire staff, "It is not a matter which technically concerns .the ing Life." Base ball interest here is- at the American League. The welfare of ,the game, which lowest ebb of the year. President .Noyes has chance for the team management. with every effort to increase its competency r©e have done so much to advance, deeply interests received no signed contracts Pitcher Dixie Walker, of the Washington team, Is and efficiency, but when five club owners going to Hot Springs soA for his health, becausa say ©©thumbs down©© off will go an umpire©s is. but if the club owners of the National League for next year, and does not desire to return to the days when it was in the know whether Manager Mc- he is anxious to improve upon his showing last head, if the official keeps the promise made doldrums and only a few clubs made any profits in season which was by no means poor. at the National League meeting. Aleer has any or not, but L season, when $2000 was the salary of a veteran would not be surprised to Cleveland fans count on Arthur Griggs© doing great UMPIRES MUST BE CAREFUL. >layer instead of a beginner, we can only deplore it, work for the Naps in 1911, and say that JIcGuire if course, and hope the National League will be hear from him on the subject got all the best of the recent .trade with St. Louis, "When a majority of our club owners in ible to divorce itself from that kind of club owners." and receive the first batch of in which Griggs and "Nig" Clarke figured. sist that an umpire is incompetent here To this President Murphy made no direct indentures from him in a few The Cleveland Club will have three scouts next after there will be a change in the National - eply, but indirectly he intimated that the days. Newspaper reports have year. Tenney, of Boston, says one is enough, anrl League staff," said President Murphy. "For National League was capable of taking care Conway, the Youngstown out- Monte Cross asks what©s the use of any scouts. instance, if, after a fair trial, New York, if its own affairs and legislation. Said he: fielder, signed. Discussion "Connie Mack gets the first pick, anyhow." Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Philadel centers largely around the is through so far as Washington is "What has been referred to facetiously as the probable disposal of t©he play phia vote that Umpire Smith lacks judgment, ©American League faction of the National League© concerned. This Is admitted by those in authority, drinks to excess, or is not fitted by tempera was the element that acted as Insurgents at our ers who may be let out. Bal and they are now casting about for some .suitable ment to be an umpire, that individual will be meeting, if any insurgency existed. Only three votes Paul W. Eaton timore is said to want Con- berth for that player, Baltimore wants him. let go. President Lynch so stated at our were cast to upset the time-honored constitution in roy for third base, with Bob Manager McAleer, of the Senators, has been meeting. We have decided to leave the um irder to elect a president for a long term of years, Unglaub as second choice for the same sack. swamped with offers from minor leaguers for "Red" pire question entirely in Mr. Lynch©s hands, .ind they were the votes of Cincinnati, Pittsburg and The Oriole management will not win out on Killifer, the utility player. It is probable that the but the league executive, in turn, says the Boston. Seeming attempts of persons outside the the Conroy proposition. Connie will not b^ Toronto or Columbus Club will get the player. opinion of one man should not prevail against National League to dictate our policies, through chan sold, and ©his exchange is not contemplated. President John I. Taylor, of the Red Sox, now live and he will submit the question of the nels of their own selection, met with proper resent ment at the hands of loyal club owners. The Na It would take the swellest kind of a trade to thinks he may keep Wood and Carrigan. When he retention of umpires to the club owners. tional League is at peace with other organizations pry him loose. Unglaub would like to get foutfd out that everybody ©wanted them he realized Speaking for the Chicago Club I am willing jperating under the National Agreement, but it wants back the Wllliamsport management, in the that they were a pretty good pair to have around. to admit that President Lynch is far more 10 dictation from outside sources, and is not yet Tri-State, if he should be let out, but he Pitcher Joe Wood, of the Red Sox, has moved able to judge the competency of an umpire :eady to surrender its independence." might not be able to, get by. from Ness City, Kan., where he was born and bred, than I am. All our club owners feel the RED KILLIFER and with his family now lives in Parker©s Glenn, same way, I think. A Qualifying Statement. Pa., where he pursues the qutet and aimple calling of ROWDYISM THING OF PAST. is said to be badly wanted by Toronto. He a fanner. Chicago, 111., December 27. The proposi is a player who would make a big splash Third baseman George Moriarty, of the Tigers, "Rowdyism will not be tolerated. Neither tion to separate from the staff any umpire in the Eastern. All he needs is more con who- is a successful song writer, has been working on will the use of profane or obscene language whom five National League owners considered sistent batting to do this in either major cir a number of new ballads that are now in the hands be permitted on the field. We want to elevate incompetent was made by President Lynch cuit. If he develops this he will come back; of the publishers and will soon be turned loose upon base ball, but we don©t want to make it so. voluntarily, so President Murphy, of the Cubs, promptly. Of "course, he is not gone yet, but the public. tame or of the molly-coddle type, as Mr. stated yesterday. He added: indications are that he will not be keptt Herman Sehaefer has received an offer to manage Lynch stated, that it will lose all its charm. "There was no action taken by the league to force Walter Johnson is heard from occasionally. the Lincoln, Neb., Club, but other clubs In tha When 18 men with red blood in their veins President Lynch to do this at all. There was no The fans are glad to learn that he has done American League .have refused to waive, so the general are out on the field to do battle we do not tempest in the league over this question. For myself no pitching this Winter. Winter work in utility man will wear a Washington uniform again want the contests marred by incompetent I do not intend to make any complaints, on umpires 1909-10 gave him a bad start in the cham next season. umpiring. If the efficiency of umpires has without, first getting the opinion of Manager Chance. pionship race last season, or he would have A story comes from Washington that the new St. not kept pace with the progress of the game If Chance and the players agree that an umpire is finished among the leaders in percentage of Loxils owners will make every effort te get second that is due largely, no doubt, to the fact that incompetent that might lead rne to take some action, baseman Herman Schaefer. If successful in landing incompetent umpires have officiated in games, but never on my own account." games won, notwithstanding comparatively mediocre support. Walter plans to go to "Dutch" the comedian will be given charge of the forewarned that they will be backed up right Santa Claus made, President Murphy a Mound City tail-enders. or wrong. It was the sense of our meeting most undesirable present in the shape of a Hot Springs, Ark., to boil out with the Wash; Manager Harry Wolverton, of Oakland, declares that umpires must realize they will be backed broken wrist sustained last Thursday night, ington veterans. He seems to be out to win, that the Cleveland Club©s recruit, Vean Gregg, is up when they are right, not when they are when he slipped on an icy pavement and and may excel even his work of last Fall. better than Waddell ever was, and will cause just repeatedly and continually doing the wrong came down on his right arm with full weight. Johnson was credited with a big bunch of as great a sensation as Walter Johnson did upon thing. When judges of play realize that The arm is in a plaster cast, but the injury wild pitches in 1910, though it is quite prob his major league debut. they probably will improve their work just will not prevent Murphy©s attention to busi able that some of them ought to have been , the Highlander catcher, is spending like ball players." ness. scored as passed balls. This was about the the Winter at a lumber camp in Maine. Mitchell only feature that shows in the paper record is trying to persuade Hal Chase to let him remain President Johnson©s Sharp Comment. in which he had milch room to improve. with the Yanks. There is some .tali of sending him EXHIBITION GAMES to Rochester in the Spring. Chicago, 111., December 26. President CHICAGO GLEANINGS. Ty Cobb celebrated his 24th birthday at Augusta, Murphy©s story to the effect that the National with the New York Giants cannot be obtain Ga., on December 21, with a banquet to a number League had decided, with the consent of The Johnson-Murphy Exchanges of Com ed, judging from -the published program ©of of his close friends. At this dinner h» exhibited with President Lynch, to dispense with any um McGraw©s bandv who are billed to play in considerable pride the diamond-studded watch fob, pire against whom five clubs should lodge pliments the Only Ripple on the Placid Richmond and. Baltimore, but not here. The presented by Cuban fans recently. protest created a lot of local gossip and Philadelphias are willing to play the Wash- More good southpaws will be seen together on tha elicited the following scathing comment from Waters in the Windy City at Pesent. ingtons .at the . latter©s training ground, in Athletics next season than ever known on one team President Johnson, of the American League: Atlanta, if games cannot be arranged in this in the history of basis ball. There are fo«r of them "When club owners of a base ball league decide By Prank B. Hutchinson, Jr. city. Georgetown University has a classy Plank, Krause, Russell and©Atkins. Fouir southpaws! to pass on the fitness or unntness of the umpires Chicago, 111., December 24. Editor "Sport team in prospect, and will play an exhibition Shades of Matt Kilroy and Tommy Ramsfty! . It is© .time for a change. An owner would stultify contest with the: local American Leaguers Ed. Sweeney, of the Highlanders, is cm« of tha himself were he to dictate how the umpires should ing Life."-^ Ban Johnson and Charley Mur about April 1. This will be the first conflict members of the Damien Council, Knights of Colum be handled. That function belongs to the head of phy have just had another of their semi- between the two teams in several years. The bus, indoor base ball club, of Chicago. Another the league, and if he isn©t able .to handle sUch occasional newspaper argu December meetings of the big leagues, con major leaguer who is playing with this eomtliilatlon it matters it is time for the owners to look for some ments, but now it appears as Felix Chouinard, one of the White Sox outttelders. body else. The American League owners are a unit sidered in connection with existing conditions, in believing that the selection of umpires should be if the Worst of the storm had seem to indicate that the following are some President Johnson announces that the schedule passed. This time it was the of the base ball blessings that meeting of the American League will be held in Chi left to the head of the league, and I would not relations of the umpires and cago around February 15, and that at that time work under any other arrangement. I believe, and HAVE COME TO STAY: I think the majority of the fans are with me, that club owners that was the President Shibe, of the World©s Champior.B, may base ball became much cleaner with the added topic of the debate. When The supremacy of base ball, as an outdoor give the banquet which was not eaten in New* York, authority of the umpires on the field and the fact Murphy returned from the sport; "Sporting Life"; two major leagues Secretary Fredericks, of the White Sox, and. Louis that they were backed up in their decisions at all National League meeting he with non-conflicting schedules, working so Comiskey have returned to Chicago from Hot [Springs times. If a club owner felt that he had legitimate anncmnced that after this a as to increase both the demand for base ball to spend the holidays at home. The Sox secretary is complaint on the work of some umpire he could National League umpire would and the supply; the 154-game schedule; the in much improved health, but reports the loss of 14 appeal to the Board of Directors, but this has never be let out if five of the eight pounds, with which Louis gladly would have parted.© been necessary with us. For the salvation of the sharp steel spike and the lacerated athlete; game the umpire must be backed up. If he is in club owners turned the the double umpire system; the inflexible sup Chief Horan, of the Chicago Fire Department,© who thumbs down on him. When port of their umpires by successful league ex lost his life in the stockyards fire in Chicago on competent it is up to the league executive to let December 22, in which 25 persons perished, vras a him go, but it would mean chaos in base ball were r.c B.R President- ,. , -,-,Johnson • i readi • what ecutives, for which Ban Johnson set the pace; owners to have the say as to what constitutes a good Murphy had said he imme last, but not least, old . close friend of Comiskey and Ban Johnson, and" was umpire." diately expressed his opinion to the effect » the guest of the National Commission, in Philadelphia that the National League was taking a step during the World©s Series. backward if its umpires were to be dis AMERICAN LEAGUE NOTES. The "acorn spike," invented by trainer JOB Qtlirk, President Lyneh©s Tart Beply. missed upon the vote of a majority of the club of the Washington Club, -was rejected by the Ameri New York City, December 26. That Presi owners. Murphy then added the information It is said that the St. Louis American League Club can League at its recent meeting, despite some previ dent Lynch, of the National League, wi! that the "American League faction" was has paid 600 per cent, on Its capitalization of $80<,000. ous assurances that it would receive favorable con exert absolute authority over his umpires the insurgents at the recent meeting of his George Moriarty, Detroit third basernan, is rated sideration. Quirk will now take his Invention to next season, despite Mr. Murphy©s statement league. Apparently Cincinnati, Pittsburg and the best rough and tumble fighter in the American other leagues for approval. to the contrary, was made manifest in the Boston composed this faction. The League. Pitcher Joss, of the Naps, is in good shape agsdn following briefj but forcible, statement for DEBATE WAS INTERRUPTED Inflelder Roger Peckinpaugh is to be transferred after his j«cent operation. He will resume work at publication: once on the Toledo paper, of whose sporting staff by President Johnson©s, leaving for St. Loui by Cleveland to the Portland Club, of the Pacific he Is a member each Winter, completing a -series of "I will engage the best umpires available and to decide whether the new applicants for the Coast League. base ball articles that he Was obliged to discontinue will handle them without fear or favor. I have Manager Chase, of the Highlanders,, says .that he more than 200 applications for positions on the staff St. Louis franchise were all right. The com when he went to the hospital. mittee, composed of Johnson, Comiskey and Intends to. give shortstop Otis Johnson a thorough and I am taking my time about making appointments trial next season. ; In the Circuit Court at St. Louis, December SI, In fact, I haven©t the slightest idea when I will an Farrell, pronounced the new bunch O. K. the second Mrs. George Edward Waddell brought suit nounee the list. The umpire Question is a serious Whether the debate will be resumed is not Catcher Cafrigan, of Boston, says lie will not sign for absolute divorce from the ©erratic southpaw pitcher. one, and I have been studying it with great care known, but it might as well be kept up, as the 1911 contract tendered him as it calls for a Mrs. Madge McGuire Waddell charges drunkenness, since I came into this office a year ago." it will furnish a mild excitement for the reduction In salary. , depravity and covering possibly every indignity within President Lynch©s mail recently has been Winter months. President Lynch has added "Long Tom" Hughes, the "come-back" pitcher .the scope of brutality, as well as failure to support. heavy, he having received hundreds of letters another angle to the debate by a statement from Minneapolis to Washington, is spending the Pitcher Chester L. Npurse, of the Red Sox, had from friends in the base ball and theatrica that he made just after ©the meeting. He an holidays fit the Capital. the third finger of ©his pitching© hand amputated profession congratulating him on his re nounced that he would have absolute con . Shortstop Wilbur Roaeh .has sent his signed contract last week at Newburyport, Mass., to prevent blood election to the presidency of the Nationa trol over the umpires during the coming to Secretary Davis, of the New York Club. He is poisoning. The finger was broken, while Nourse was League. Thomas J. is in his office in the season. If he is right, then Murphy has wintering at Windber, Pa. playing ball last season, and it had bothered him St James Building, this city, .every day and either let a cat out of the bag or is mis "Kid" Elberfeld was Uie first Washington player ever since. It is claimed that the operation will AB his theatre in New Britain every night, informed. At any rate, Ban Johnson aevai to lead bit signed contract to Manager MeAleer. not affect his power as a pitcher. 8 DECEMBER 31, 1910

League in 1890, but that year the League didn©t call on EBBETS TO HELP frame the various schedules it got out. The Schedule Committee of 1891 consisted of Charlds H. Byrne and Frank Dellass Robi- DESPITE RETIREMENT FROM son, both now across the great divide, and The Use of the A. J. Reach. Ebbets is not mentioned as SCHEDULE COMMITTEE, having been on the Schedule Committee, but in the minutes of the meeting there, is a resolution awarding a vote of thanks to Charles H. Byrne and his "able assistant," Cork Center The Prince of Schedule-Makers Charles H. E©bbets, for the work they had done in making up the schedule.. During the next 10 years the venerated Nick Young was Stands on His Record of Fair the Schedule Committee of the National League, in the apparently all by his lonesome,, but in nine Dealing, and Incidentally En out of these 10 seasons Ebbets DID MOST OF THE WORK. dorses the 168-Game Schedule. In 1899 the National Leaguers received a ga$ communication from a demon fan named Whitehead, telling them what a grand sched BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN. ule maker ho was, said Whitehead being told to go ahead and draft two sets of playing New York, December 26. Editor "Sporting dates and being promised that if either one Life." Charles H. Ebbets, president of the )fficiai American League Ball was satisfactory he would be "properly com Brooklyn Club, is not going around with a pensated." Whitehead was out his postage groucQi because President and his labor,, for both schedules were found has increased the Thomas J. I/ynch, of the Na impossible. There was a wild, kick at Nick tional League, left him off the Young the season he went alone .as a date Schedule Committee of that framer, for he fixed things up so that on organization1 and appointed several Saturdays he, had the clubs traveling. Players© Batting Averages Secretary John A. Heydler in Ebbets had a right to - - his stead. The. owner of the. Supertaas has been identified ENTER THE COUNCILS See the Official Averages of the Am with the National League excel of the National League in 1898 and soon got erican League just out. They show since 1890, and usually had a place on the Committee on Constitution. something to do with the In 1902 Charles H. officially got on the Sched conclusively that it is due to the framing of the dates. While ule Committee,, and he has been there ever Ebbets has not come, out open since, until Thursday week, when he received ly and said that he is peeved the sigii to beat it. Ebbets served with Nick Chas. H. Ebbets because he was left off the Young and Frank Robison on the Schedule Only Perfect Ball Schedule Committee, his Committee of 1902, and with Pulliam and friends intimate that he considers the action Dreyfuss in 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908 of President Lynch was unjustified. Accord and 1909. The Committee of 1904 was made Write for free catalog to ing to EtJbets there is no reason why he up of Dreyfuss, Hart and Ebbets, while last should have been left off the Schedule Com- Winter the date makers©were Dreyfuss, Kb- mitte.e, unless it was because of the firm stand bets and Lynch. A. J. Rga&ih. Company he took for the 168-game plan last Winter. MR. EBBETS© VIEWS. INDEPENDENT TAYLOR< Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Ebbets said today: "I am not com plaining because President Lynch has seen ;Phil. B. Bekeart Co., Pacific Coast Branch, fit to allow me to have some spare time to One Magnate Who Is Kindly and Liberal, San Francisco, Cal. jnyself this Winter so that I can visit Panama But Will Not Permit Dictation, or Suf and Porto Rico. As a schedule maker I stand on my record, and that record goes fer Imposition From Anyone. back a long ways. When Brooklyn was on the old American Association circuit I used By Joseph Vila. to help in the arrangement of dates, and I New York, December 24. Editor "Sport am not throwing any bouquets at myself ing Life." President John I. Taylor, of the November IS Almendares 0, Detroit 3. Pitchers Casey 1, y Crawford 1, total 8; por Munoz. Mullla when I say that I am an Boston Americans, has asked for waivers on Mendez and Mullin. 1, total 1. Total general lit. November 14 Habana 3, Detroit 2. Pitchers Struck outs por los pitchers dsl Habana Por L. EXPERT ON- SCHEDULES. the services of eight players, Mederos and Summers. Gonzalez. Moriarty ], Mclntyre 1. Casey 1, Stallage including pitcher Joe Wood, November 1" Almendares 2. Detroit 1 (11 in 1, O©Leary 1, y Mullin 1. total 6; por Mederos, I do not regret being left off the Schedule one of the Red Sox©s main Moriarty 1, y Casey 1, total 2; por Pareda. Summers Committee this year, because now I can go nings). Pitchers Pedroso and Willett. stays. It appears that Wood November 20 Habana 2, Detroit 1. Pitchers Gon 1, y O©Leary 1, total 2. Total general 10. on a vacation and not have to worry about had such a high opinion of zalez and Mullin. Bases pnr bolas por los pitchers del Detroit Por work that has to be done. The. Spring tour his value as a slab man that Mullin. Palomino 3, Johnson 2. Lloyd 2, C. Moran 1, November 21 Almendares 2, Detroit 2 (10 innings). Cabanas 1. G. Gonzalez 1. Hill 2. Padron 1. total of the Brooklyn Club was arranged long ago, when last season drew to a Pit cheis Mendez and Summers. we have 22 players under contract, and so close he notified President 14; por Summers. 11. Valdez 3, Castillo 1, Cabrera. Taylor that he was ready to November 21 Habana 2. Detroit 4. Pitchers 1, Pedrosa 1. Almeida 1, C. Mcran 2, Hill 1. Par- there is little for me to. do except to sit back Pareda. Mederos and Wlllett. peti 1, Johnson 1. Bustamante 1, Mederos 1. total and look on. Mr. Murphy was kind enough sign for 1911 at a big in November 27 Almendares 0. Detroit 4. Pitchers 14; por Willett, Johnson 2, Lloyd 2, Petway 1, y to come out and say it was an outrage that crease in salary. President Munoz and Mullin. L. Gon/alez 1, total 6. Total general 34. I was left off the Schedule Committee. Well, Paylor, however. informed November 23 Habana 3, Detroit 0. Pitchers Gon- Bases por bolas por los pitchers del Almendares it .is an outrage if it is taken in the light Wood that as his pitching zale;; and Willett. Por Mendez, Stallage 1. Casey 1. Cobb 1, y Crawfora of piling more work on men not thoroughly bad not been wholly satis December 1 Almendares 2, Detroit 3 (11 innings). 1; por Pedroso, T. Jones 1. Mclntyre 1, y O©Leary conversant, with the matter, and if my name John I. Taylor factory he would have to Pitchers Pcdroso and Summers. 1, total 4: por Munoz, Mclntyre 2, y Moriarty 1, was omitted simply because I fought for the sign a new contract calling December i — Habana. 4, Detroit 12. Pitchers * total 3. Total general 11. for less money than he received this year. Mederos. Gonzalez. Pareda and Mullin. Bases por bolas por los pitchers del Habana Pnr long schedule last Winter and Spring. Like December 5 Almendares S, Detroit 6. Pitchers Tom Lynch did as president, I stand on my As Wood flared up at this the Boston magnate L. Gonzalez, Mclntyre 1, Cobb 1. y Moriarty 1. lost no time in tabbing him for release. Mende/i and Summers. total 3; por Mederos, Casey 1. Mclntyre 1, (©raw- record -as a schedule maker. The National SUMMARY Detroit won 7. lost 4. tied 1; Havana ford 1, y Moriarty 1. total 4: por Pareda. O©Leary League was not always fair in the way of President Taylor therefore again has asserted won o, lost 3; Almendares won 1. lost. 4. tied 1. his independence as a club owner and has 2, Moriarty 1. Sehaefer 1. Willett 1, y Mclntyie 1. adopting schedules, but whenever I served on THK BATTING AVERAGES. total G. Total general 13. the Committee of Arrangements I saw that DECLINED TO BE BULLDOZED. G. B. C. H. SB. SH. Pet. FIELDING AVERAGES. every club had a square deal. He acted in a similar manner in 1909, when 1 ©Lloyd, H...... 8 22 1 11 0 1 .500 DRAWING A SCHEDULE Fred Lake, who was then manager of the 2 Johnson, H...... 6 17 1 7 0 1 .412 Red Sox, tried to dictate terms. Lake had 3 Petway, H...... C 18 2 7 0 4 .300 G. PO. A. PR. K Pet. to please the seven other club owners of our never handled a major league team unitl G. Gonzalez, A...... C 23 fi 2 0 1.QIM) league and not to have too many conflicts Taylor engaged him at, a salary said to be 5 Crawford, D...... 12 HO 7 18 0 1 .360 Casev, D...... 3 14 3 1 0 1.000 with the American League is no easy task. It .6 C. Moran, H. .... C 24 4 8 0 ft .333 Petway, H...... B IS 12 (I 1 .967 not more than $3000 for the season, which, Stanage, D ...... 11 45 15 1 2 .967 is hardly necessary for me to say that I am however, was in excess of the pay he had 7 Moriarty, D...... 12 4!) 7 15 1 0 .306 8 Mendez. A...... 3 10 0 3 0 1 .300 I PITCHKUS. a National Leaguer and always will be. been receiving in minor leagues. Lake©s 9 O©Leary, D...... 12 50 6 14 0 1 .280 What has riled me is the opinion prevalent management of the Red Sox on the surface G. PO. A. E. Pet. 10 Hill. H...... 6 22 1 6 1 1 .275 Mendez, A...... 3 xl 11 0 1 .009 in certain circles that I was forced off the seemed excellent, and when the team had 11 Almeida. A...... fi 23 1 C 3 0 .262 reached second place, close behind the Detroits, Pareda. H...... 3 1 G 0 1 .(M>0 Schedule. Committee simply as a punishment 12 Mclntyre, D...... 11 36 1 9 1 1 .250 Pedroso, A...... 2 1 4 0 1.000 for having stood out for the 168-game idea he suddenly interviewed Taylor in this man 12 Munoz, ©A...... 2 4 0 1 1) 0 .250 Munoz, A...... 2 0 1 0 1.000 last year. I thought well of this plan, and ner: "If you want me to manage your team 12 Mederos, H...... H 8 1 2 0 0 .250 Summers, D ...... !i 0 16 1 .945 so did all the other club owners, a fact that next year you©ll have to pay me $8000 and 13 Schaefer, D...... 12 51 7 12 1 1 .235 Mullin. D...... 4 1 13 1 .940 can be corroborated by looking at the reports sign me now!" "Your services will not be 14 Marsans, A...... C 23 0 5 1 0 .220 Wlllett. D...... 3 1 10 1 .915 Parpetl, H. of the National League meeting held here in required after this season," replied Taylor, L. Gonzalez, 3 0 .860 "and you can have your release for nothing!" Cabrera, A. Mederos, H. .809 December, 1909. Then President Lynch, Bar Padron. H...... 3 1 ney Dreyfuss and myself were instructed to Lake was allowed to go, too, in spite of much 15 L. Gonzalez, H. PRIMERA BASE. prepare a schedule to criticism, but since then he has expressed T. Jones, D. regret that he attempted to hold Taylor up. G. PO. A. Pet. CONSIST OF 168 GAMES, Stanage. D. T. Jones, D...... 12 142 G .97.%, The Boston magnate©s Palomino, A. ... Castillo. A...... 5 54 4 .9fi6 the season to wind np on October 15. The FEARLESS POLICY Casey, D...... Parpetti, H...... 6 © 59 4 .955 vote on this proposition .was not five to three, Hidalgo, A. .... Marsans, A...... 1 10 0 .909 or six to two, but eight to nothing. When was also shown when he traded Harry Lord Btistamante. H. . I started to do what I had been told to do and McConnell to the White Sox last Summer Cabanas, A. .... SEGUNDA BASE. the seven other clubs were with me. After I for pitcher Frank Smith and third baseman Mullin. D...... G. PO. Pet. had worked a while on the 168-game schedule Purtell. Taylor had personal reasons for R. Valdes, A. ... Cabanas, A. 1.000 two clubs wont back on me, and still later getting rid of Lord and paid no attention Summers, D. ... Johnson. H...... fi 15 .975 two more reniged on the proposition. Having to outside influences. In asking waivers on G, Gonzalez., A. Marsans, A. .9(15 been ©told to prepare a 168-game schedule by pitcher Wood the Boston magnate shows evi 11. Hernandez, H. Schaefer, D. .935 26 Pedroso, A. .... SHORTSTOPS. fill the clubs I went ahead and eventually was dent contempt for the proposed third league 27 Pareda, H. in possession of the finest collection of roasts engineered by Promoter D. A. Fletcher. He 28 Castillo, A: G. PO. ever handed to a magnate. However, I did has thoroughly investigated Fletcher©s plans 29 Willett, D. Cabrera, A...... fi 15 Lloyd, H. . my duty and can afford to laugh now. Even and believes that the whole scheme is a SUMA1UO...... G 21 bubble that will burst of its own accord. He O©Leary, D...... 12 24 tually the. ma.ior legues will play 168 games Home runs Detroit 1, Cobb. each, season if they don©t get together on that says that Fletcher cannot raise money enough Three Bagucr Detroit 5. Crawford 2, Cobb 1, Mc TERCERA BASE. scheme supposed to be fathered by Garry to float another league, inasmuch as capital lntyre 1, Mullin 1; Almendares 1. Cabrera. G. PO. :. Pet. Herrmann of having each organization play ists realize that a fight with organized base Two Bagsuer Detroit 4. O©Leary 1. Crawford 1, T. C. Moran, H...... 4 5 1 .930 112 games and then start an interle.ague ball interests would result in financial dis Jones 1, Mclntyre 1; Habana 6. Hill 2. Lloyd 1, Moriarty, D...... 12 IS 4 .930 merry-go-round. As far as I can learn the aster. This is a growing opinion among other Johnson 1, Bustamante 1, L. Gonzalez 1; Almendares Bustamante, H. 1 .900 allfjged Herrmann plan means that each club major league club owners, although some of 3, Marsans 1, Mendez 1, Hidalgo 1. Almeida, A...... 6 9 4 .808 would be scheduled for 172 games. Yet I them have allowed their players to play both Quedados en bases Del Detroit 49, del Habana 45. OUTFIELD ERS. y del Almendares 30. wa,s panned for be.lieving that 168 games a ends against the middle in arranging for new G. PO. year for a major league club was the proper contracts. Double plays Realizados por el Detroit, O©Leary. Schaefer y Jones (3), Moriarty y Jones (2), Craw Crawford, D. 20 number. I am not complaining, merely ex ford y Schaefer (1). O©Leary y Jones (1), Mullin, Hidalgo. A. . 8 plaining." O©Leary y Jones (1), Schaefer y O©Leary (1). total Palomino, A. EBBETS© PINE RECORD. DETROirS CUBAN TRIP, 9; por el Almendares, Castillo y Cabrera (2), Cabrera, Padron. H. . Ebbets© history as a schedule maker dates Cabanas y Castillo (1), Pedroso. Almeida y Cas C. Moran, H. back before ©the, wars The National League- tillo (1), Mendez y G. Gonzalez (1), total 5; por Cabanas. A. . The Records of Their Games With the el Habana. Johnson. Parpeti y Bustamante (1). Mullin. D. ... Brotherhood scrap, the National League-Ameri Mclntyre. D. . can Association tussle,, and the. National Mederos, Lloyd y Parpeti (1), Moran y Parpetl (1). Local Clubs and the Official Averages of Lloyd. Johnson y Parpeti (1), Moran, Johnson y Hill. H. .... League-American League . fracas. Brooklyn the Players in the Series. Parpeii (1). total ',. Casey. D. .... entered the American Association in 1884, Struck outs por los pitchers del Detroit For Mul R. Valdes. A. and Ebbets, then a salaried employe, and not We have received from Senor Antonio lin. Almeida 3. Gonzalez 2. Padron 2. Marsans L H email dez. H. an officer of the, club, helped arrange the Conejo, the official scorer of the Cuban Club, Hill 1. Parpeti 1, L. Gonzalez- 1, Hidalgo J. ]{. Cobb, D. dates. Charles H. can point with pride to a complete record of the games played by llernandfz 1. Petway 1. Lloyd 1, It. Valdes 1. total the form of schedule he copyrighted in 1885 IB; pur Summers, Almeida 4. Hidalgo. 3. G. Gonzalez and to the form copyrighted in 1889, which the Havana and Almendares Clubs, of Havana, 2. Cabrera 2. Castillo 1. Cabana 1. B. Valdes 1. mapped out the iimpires© routes. From 1884 Cuba, and the Detroit team, of the American Palomino 1. Mendez 1. Mederos 2. Pareda 1, Busta to 18891, inclusive, Ebbets, if he wasn©t named League; also the official batting and fielding mante 1. Parpeti 1. total 21; por Willett, Pedroso as a .member of the American Association averages, which are herewith given as a mat 2, Almeida 1, ]{.. Valdes T, Parpeti 1, U. Hernandez ter of record and public interest: 1, total C; total general 43. Schedule Committee, did .most of the work in Struck outs pur los pitchers del Almendares--Por conjunction with Horace Phillips, Gus THE RECORD OF GAMES PLAYED. Mendez, Schaefer 2, T. Jones. 2, Morlarty 2. Casey 1, Schmelz, W. H. Watkins, Zacb. Phelps and November 10 Habana 2, Detroit 10. Pitchers--- O©Leary I, Cobb 1, Mclntyre 1, total 10; por Pedroso, others. The Brooklyns entered the National Pared a and Summers. Schaefer 2, Stanage 2, T. Jones 1, Mclntyre 1, SPORTING LIFE

A couple more deals are still pending, where by Toronto may secure the needed strength to place them in first place. President- Mc- HARRISJAPPY Caffrey while away also disposed of Grim- shaw and Newton to Louisville, Frick to New ark, Lundgren to Topeka. Two or three more will be let go, including Sammy Smith to STILL A MEMBER OF THE BASE Louisville. It was also announced that the Order Now team .will train in Macon, Ga., next Spring,. BALL FAMILY* and the once famous Tim Jordan will be given a chance to see if he can get in con dition to play first base. Manager Kelley is well pleased with the changes made and looks Purchases the Moore Stock in the forward to a good season. Chace©s Providence Points. Pittsburg Club, Thereby Remain Providence, R. I., December 23. Editor "Sporting Life." ;The return of Chester ing in the Game, and Ridding Chadbourne is one subject which really looks to be interesting to all hands. He played the outfield here under Manager Duffy in Dreyfuss of an Annoyance. 1907, having come here from Worcester, whence many of the Providence stars have come, but left the following year, going to SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." the Boston Americans with Harry Lord. He Pittsburg, Pa., December 26. In order to then played one season with Baltimore and Ball Record" buy into the Pittsburg Club, John P. Harris, for the past two years has been in the who was publicly announced as part owner of American Association with Indianapolis. He the former champions, was re has now purchased his own release and made FOR 1911 quired to pay $400 per share terms for a return to the East and to Provi for his stock, or just fonr dence. He has signed a Providence contract EDITED BY JOHN B. FOSTER times its face value. Alex P. and takes his place with Hoffman, Phelan, .Els- Moore, ownqr and editor of a ton and Welday as© available timber for the Pittsburg paper and a former outfield. When with the" .Grays previously he director of the Pittsburg Club, batted near .iSOO, but since Then he has had admitted that it was he who a record of about .250. Among the younger THE YEAR IN BASE BALL had sold his holdings to Har recruits for the team are: Joe Median,, ris through a third party. first baseman, Seton Hall team, New Jersey; The acknowledged authority on all matters or records in Moore and the majority stock McDernjott, from the Three I. League; Bow- holders of the club have not en, Petersburg Club. Virginia State League; the National Game. Contains the official averages of all been friendly for some years and - two pitchers, Edward L. Clarke, from leagues in organized base ball, remarkable occurrences, best- and much embarrassment re- the Red Sox team, of the Chicago League, and Barney Dreyfuss sult,ed - This has been elimin- Luyster, from Fayetteville, Eastern Carolina on-records, list of club members, and other information since ated by the taking over ot the League. stqck by Harris, who will become a director the formation of the National League, world©s series records of the club, filling the place once occupied Montreal©s New Manager. and pictures of players and world©s series scenes. by Moore, but which has not been filled by Montreal, Can., December 20. Editor the editor for some years. The holdings of © ©Sporting Life.©© Manager-Secretary-Treas- Harris will be. small, since Moore had only ure.r McCafferty, of the Rovals, has been a Price 1O Gents 25 shares of stock. The Pittsburg Base Ball pretty busy man. Bumpus Jones and George Club©jS stock has been considered among the Winters have been sold or traded. It is the ——— ON SALE AT ALL NEWSDEALERS AND ——— best in the country. In the year .preceding intention of, the management to dispose of the winning of the last pennant by Pittsburg the major part of the pitching staff, Dubnc, the clear profits to holders©, of stock exceeded and one other only being held. The captaincy 70 per cent. Later Korbes Field was taken on will fall to either Holly or Yeager. Manager and immediate profits were not so great, McCafferty is also owner of the Wanderer /L I*. Sjtaisling & Bros. though more than $200,000 was cleared in Hockey Club franchise, champions of last New York Buffalo St. Louis Columbus Louisville Los Angeles 1909, when the world©s championship was year. It was no surprise to have heard that Newark Syracuse Kansas City Detroit Minneapolis Seattle won. Last .season©s profits were not so great. late Manager Barrow was elected to the presi Boston Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee San Francisco New Orleans Jt is learned that Harris took an option on dency of the,Eastern League. Philadelphia Baltimore Cleveland Indianapolis St. Paul Atlanta the Moore stock more than six weeks ago, Washington Denver Pittsburg Dallas while he was still chief owner of the Boston News Notes. Montreal, Canada Toronto, Canada London, England Manchester, England Birmingham, England Sydney, Australia Edinburgh, Scotland Club. Walter Burnham. once owner of the Newark Club, now is loading the simple life in Orange, N. J. Joe Kelley has completed arrangements whereby tho continue to keep on playing until he makes quill" reporters are pleased to designate as THE EASTERN LEAGUE. Toronto team will train next Spring at Macon, Ga. a run of 10, and then present him for his © ©an old man." Pitcher Buck, sold by Manager McGraw, of the ©©artistic©© work with the room in which the The New President, Edward G. Barrow, to Giants, to Baltimore, has refused to join and will run has been made © ©free, gratis and for Bo into business. nothing." As it is, as a rule, but promoters As a matter of historical fact, there is but Devote His Whole Time and All of His Third baseman Bill Bradley, for years one of the and speculators in billiard rooms who are very little known of the early career of Ben Energies to Promoting the Interest of leading American League infield stars, has been sold "dabbling©© in three-cushion ©©billiards/© it jamin F. Garno, the greatest historian on by Cleveland to Joe Kelley©s Toronto Club. is almost certain to predict that no player billiards known to the world of today. It Edward G. Barrow, the new president of the East may be possible, that Thomas F. Foley, of the League. .would ever make a run of 10 on such con Chicago;. Maurice Daly, Timothy Flynn and Buffalo, N. Y., December 24. Editor ern Ltogue, has rented for his ©organization rooms ditions, if obliged to pay the expenses of the Nos. 814 and 810 in the St. James Building. Twenty- room at the present day. George F. Slosson, of New York, are entirely "Sporting Life." Kd. Barrow, the newly- sixth street and Broadway, New York City. familiar with the early life of Mr. Garno, elected president of the Kastern League, in Manager Jack Dunn, of Baltimore, has passed but while I have had the honor of being tends to devote ;.;! 01 u;s time shortsiop Hilt an to the Lawrence Clv.>>, of the New The New York "Sun" is responsible for personally acquainted with him for 40 years to the interests of that cir England League. The owner of the Lawrence Club the statement that the nervous prostration past, if indeed we are not more than very old cuit. Barrow plans to keep is Ted Pieper. the former Harvard coach. which George Button has been suffering from friends, yet to me his early life was unknown. in constant touch with every President Barrow announces that he has decided during the past year or two was the result Fortunately, the recent controversy between club in the league, and will to retain Murray. Kelly and Byron as umpires next, of opening a billiard room in that city. What Mr. Garno and Mr. L. A. Ourtis, of Boston, visit every city represented season and will pick the other six men who are to most of the room keepers of this city are suf throws some light on this subject, and from in the league to straighten be on his arbitrating staff from a dozen applicants. fering from is financial prostration, a com the pen of Mr. Garno. in his fine publication, any difficulties that may John Ganzel, manager of the Rochester Club, last mercial disease introduced here by the pro "The Billiardist." The billiard world of this arise. Said he: "I don©t week disposed of two of his athletes pitcher liny moters, speculators and commercial alligators country will thank Mr. Curtis for this in expect to spend all my time Beecher, once a Giant, and catcher Staniagle, once some 12 or 15 years ago. The alligators formation, if for nothing else, as it throws going around the circuit, a Superba to the Topeka Club, of the Western Seem to be on "Easy Street" owing to the light on the early history of a man who is in I©ll have business in New League. fact that they have nothing to lose, while a measure as gre-at a mystery, in his early York and a lot of it. There©s The Baltimore Club has signed a local southpaw the promoters and speculators are still whist career, as was the author of © ©The Letters of nothing to it taut the Eastern >iUhcr named Marcus Mu.©h. Mulh played with the ling to keep up their courage, but in reality Junius" to the. world for very many years, Edward Barrow League, as far as I am con "redcrick Young Men©s Christian Association nine or until it was established beyond all doubt cerned, and nothing can di they are like "Krux" in Robertson©s play of last season and lias the distinction of having shut "School," meditating among the tomb-stones, that Sir Philip Francis and Junius vere one vorce me from the idea that it is to be a out. Baltimore, 2 to 0, on its only visit to Frederick and the same man. great organization in future. I can©t make last season and are at a loss to know whether they shall prematurely bury themselves first or the too many promises now, but will let my year©s Joe Kelley paid $4500 for^Lush. Phelps and Back- work stand as criterion." The Eastern man. of the St. Louis Nationals. This is the largest rooms which they cannot dispose of. "We began playing billiards in 1854, and League is temporarily without headquarters. deal made by any of the Kastern League clubs and were a room keeper a dozen years before the An hour after Barrow had been elected presi is almost a record for the league. Kelley has been Bostonian who, in quoting us, omits the, dent Powers had the name of the league given a free hand by Owner McCaffrey, and has much A prominent "young" expert, who seems qualifying adverb ©scarcely© before our verb more money at his disposal. to have been a little "daffy" or "cracked" scratched off his office door in the Flatiron for some years past, on claiming all sorts ©knew,© and interpolates his own positive Building, and the next morning notified his The Buffalo "Courier" prints a story to the effect ©do not know,© may have begun playing weird successor that the papers were all-ready, to that the Kastern League magnates had designed to or runs as "records," whether made in ex billiards on a door-mat without knowing it. be turned over. It took Mr. Powers© secre "present P. T. Powers, after his ©resignation.© with hibitions, practice or shaking up the balls in We should not now know table-cloth from tary less than an hour to get the effects a handsome silver service and afterward tender him a bag, bids fair, to create a sort of profes mat, in spite of our early start, could many ready for removal. Mr. Barrow has been a complimentary . dinner, to which were to be invited sional "hornet©s nest" in the professional" a roomkeeper have had his way as to giving unable to secure quarters in the St. James all the big base ball men In New York, and that billiard world of this country. He recalls three-cushions the worst balls and the thick Building, but has been promised a suite of time every big gun in the game wars on the job; but the career of the late Harvey McKenna, who est, cheapest cloth possible, as a few of the rooms. An innovation will be the giving out Powers© attitude after his defeat had caused abau- was said to claim that he. counted whenever room-keeping fraternity East and West alike of the official averages every month by his cue ball came within six inches of the have actually done, within the last 15 years." President Barrow. New York has it that object ball. The. "youngster" referred to, Joe McGinnity will spend one more year in however, is not going to have all the honors Newark, and then be forced out. McGinnity in such questionable records. The two Georges "The chief offense in the gentleman©s has few friends in Newark, and it is said Slosson and Sutton have something to needless first letter of oomplaint was let go .that he has been able to hold his job because The Rules of the Three-Cushion Carom say on the same subject, and while not, let by. His second repeats it. In both, one who he owns a slice of the stock. Owner Lich- it "be. said to their credit, claiming "bogus" has be.en a room keeper but four years pre-© tenhein, of Montreal, refused to fix a price Game The True Status of Billiard Re averages, they are entirely in the risrht in ex sumed to prescribe the way what jokes or on his club when approached. "]Mnntrp>il is posing such professional charlatanism, in an squibs to leave out, what news to put in, not all in by a long shot," he said. "Any cords Again Denned Benjamin Garno©s age when brass and gall frequently pass for and how generally to be a publisher a paper franchise in the Eastern League is worth at Long Service to the "Gentleman©s the real article. should be conducted by one who has been in ]ono* jS©n.©OOO. T H>p br><-" Ivll in-1 linve the, newspaper business 60 years, in sporting decided to stay in it." All of the Eastern Game." I am also glad to see, in the interest of literature 54, and in billiard literature, for League owners are well satisfied with the legitimate billiards, and it should be con a long time both daily and weekly, almost 48. ouuiniK. ai.d n.>iie of them are seeking an By John Creahan. ducted as such in the future as it has been What wonder that others wrote us as to the opportunity to sell out. Philadelphia, Pa., December 24. Editor in the past, or not at all, that the B. B. Col- instructive epistle of November 7, or that one "Sporting Life.©© Several room keepers, lender Co., who officially decide such matters, of some acquaintance, with its writer pro W. J. Slee©s Toronto Topics. who seem to be financially interested in the will tolerate no nonsense in the violation of nounced it an ©impudent letter?© We thank Toronto, December 23. Editor "Sporting success of three-cushion billiards, are loud time-honored rules, and that all records must him for the proffer in his finale, but only Jjif P..©© The election of Mr. Ed. Barrow to in their demand for a change in the rules be made in legitimate contests and tourna our corpse shall ever ©call upon him," wheth the presidency was good news to the majority of that alleged game, in order that it may ments, and not as recorded and published by er to hail or to haunt. If we can do any of local fans, as Barrow . has always been be. possible for the "players" to at least a band of "goose-quill" reporters on the thing in reason for him or anyone else, that very popular here. As was to be expected count occasionally. They are not expected press of the country. is about why many of us are here." "The when base ball magnates frather together to do so ofjten, but there is, or seems to be, Billiardist." a growing demand that they must, do so every Mr. Sutton, who has been more than seri 15 or 20 minutes. So far, it appears to me, ously ill for about two years past, but who is Tile local CHUJ, »LUII.-:IA uu inr> ii-min iiuni that the. "players" have managed to about now fortunately, according to reports, practi New York that he had expended $9300 on do so, unless it comes to an issue of hair cally recovered, is not us yet in such physical new material. Some of the deals he made splitting, which is probably as difficult as condition as to warrant challenging for the were as follows: From St. Louis by pur it seems impossible for the "experts" to be chase, Kd. Phi--!ps, a catcher; Bncknian, a emblems, but has more than made, it public youmv right-hand pitcher of -.--..: .1 ..--vi . more r.rtistic in their work. The room keep- that it is his intention to do so in the very c-rs referred to seem to be as much mystified near future, should he continue to improve in in tho new rules, or as to how the opening health. Mr. Slosson, however, is not only shot shall be made OR the "players" are in physically sound., but has publicly announced their ability to make a count during the jrom i\ew i OIK viiiuns, vviuie ivt©riri, w.iurst? that he is ready to play in a tournament, 1MB TABLES, CAROM, fame is known to everybody. The latter progress of the game. with Sutton and Hoppe, at the 18-1, 18-2 or should prove one of the most popular i)lay- cushion caroms, each player to put up $500, F COMBINATION AND POOL. ers that ever wore a Toronto uniform. Car- To come to the relief of the room keepers and the winner to take all the money, in roll, the pitcher Toronto secured from New who are so anxious to change the rule it cluding the house receipts. There is nothing Orders from all parts of the world promptly York last vear, was Vaded for Winters, a might not be n bad idea if the opening shot misle.ading about such a proposition and attended to. Montreal pitcher. The result of this deal was made . with an axe, after which the those who know George F. Slosson know that- John Creahan, Green's Hotel, Philad'a, P*. -will be watched with interest, as both these "player" shall continue to count every time he is in dead earnest, and will do exactly »en showed excellent form a; various times. he hits one object-ball with the cue, ball and what he states, even if he is what the "goose- Over 1.000,000 Noisa Subducra Sold. 10 SPORTING LIFE DECEMBER 31, 1910

or two others will give them an awful battle, and Louisville, Cincinnati and Chicago. One of the two very likely beat them out.". will get it, ©.. Magnate Louis D. Smith says he would soil the Manager Jennings, of, the Tigers, is also Terre Haute Club at once at a fair price. He has of the opinion that the veteran pitchers of not yet selected a manager for next season. - It is the Athletics will probably all go back, and .thought Kddie Wheeler will be the man if the South he quotes the defeats of the Athletic pitchers Bend Club consents. in Cuba to sustain his claim. He also ex President Varnell, of Fort Wayne. has practically presses himself as certain that the Tigers completed the signing of his 1911 club, having se will re-capture, the pennant next year. We cured Curley Blount, "Cy" Young and Eddie Coffey have heard all this before, and only cite it as for the outfield. Frankie McDermott will succeed one more instance of the truth of the old Burke at third base. saying that the "penalty of success is envy Dr. James Casey signed a contract at Detroit OB and detraction." It is consoling to the Ath December 9 to manage the Fort Wayne Club, of the Business Manager Shibe©s Views letics that no other manager in the American Umpire Henry O©Day Is of Opinion Central League, for 1911. He is a former Chicago League shares or echoes Jennings© sentiments, player and for the last two years has been with of the Trip and of the Causes and that they regard the Athletics with whole That the Move to Give Club the Detroit Club as scout. some respect. Jimmy Casey, the new manager of the Fort Wayne team, announces that he will play third base. The of the Athletics© Poor Showing Owners a Voice in Umpire-Hand veteran worked in a number of games in 1909 and Local Jottings. says that he is better fitted to play ball right now The Troy Club is anxious to secure catcher Jack- than he was in mid-season a year ago. Philadelphia,Players Signing. iitsch from the Philadelphia Club. ling Is a Backward Step* Eddie Wheeler has signed a three-year contract a* Cubans nicknamed "Topsy" Hartsel "the little manager of the Terre Haute Club and has also grandfather." And to think "Topsy" never wheeled SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." purchased a third interest in that club. This puts BY FRANCIS C. RICHTER. a baby coach. it up to Owner Bert Anuis, of South Bend, to make Philadelphia, Pa., December 26. The Ath Pitcher .Tack Rowan, who was traded by Cincinnati Chicago, 111., December 26. Henry O©Day, good or abandon his claim on Wheeler. letics ended their series with the Cuban to the Philadelphia Club, was married on December considered one of the very best umpires who Tha staff of umpires for the Central League for teams on the 17th instant, and on Monday 22 at Dayton, O., to Miss Fern Alien, of that city. has ever handled an indicator in the game, the season of 1911 was announced last week by last they left the island The Philadelphia Club©s Cincinnati recruit, pitcher has come to bat in behalf of President F. R. Carson. Jacobs and Newhouse, of which had been to them the Fred Beebe, is spending the Winter on the fruit ranch his fellow members ©of _-the last year©s staff, have been retained and Agur re scene of both pleasure and which is run by his brother and himself at Poania, National League staff against leased. Crlenalvin, formerly of the Central Association, disappointment pleasure for Col. , the proposed changes the has been engaged, and IDldridge, who was an umpire the fine treatment accorded Monte Cross is back at his congenial Winter task league intends to make in in the Central League for a part of ( last season, them; and disappointment of . selling clothing in a Market street department handling the umpires. Says probably will be the fifth member of the staff. because of their inability for stoie. All of his friends make a short , stop when he: "If it is true that Presi- The Dayton Club is the first Central League Club physical reasons to make a passing his counter. . ©dent Lynch is going to dis to report a full team for the season of 1911. Ac better artistic showing, the Manager Jack Dunn, of the Baltimore (Eastern charge an umpire whenever cording to announcement received at Central League plain fact being that not a League) Club, says he is to receive from the Athletic five club owners of the senior headquarters the Dayton Club will begin the season man in the party was in Club pitcher Atkins, and is also counting upon ac league agree that he is in with the following players: Catchers,© Sample, Roh- physical condition to play his quiring pitcher Dygert. competent, it means the Na rer, O©Brien, Konnk©k; pitchers, Asber, Wacker, regular game. The party left Fronholtz, Winchell, Clyde; first base, Harriott; Pitcher Louis Shettler, of the Phillies, made a tional League is going to take second base, Benson; shortstop, Dobard; third base, Cuba for the States on Sun favorable impression in the games he worked last a step backward and return Ragan; outfielders, Anderson, Cavanaugh, DeHavea, F. C. Richter day last and by Friday most Summer and,he will be given a thorough chance to Hank O©Day to the days of rowdy ball Knoll, Spencer, Burns, Carter, Dell. of the party had reached this again show what he has next Spring. playing. With the knowledge city in time for the holidays. Those who Charley Dooin and his vaudeville partner, Jimmy that an adverse decision will mean a com came direct to this city were Thomas, Mur McCool, are laying off for the holidays. Dooin is plaint from the manager and the owner of a phy and Lapp, with their wives, and Plank, spending Christmas with his wife©s folks in Rochester, ball team in any game the umpire is going to NEW YORK STATE LEAGUE. Mclnnes and L©ord,~ under the wing of Busi N. Y., while McCool is at his home here. go into a game trembling. He is not going ness Manager John Shibe. Of the remainder Manager Dooin, of tho Phillies, has asked for to jeopardize his position by making a de Manager Cross the Most Active of All of the party Bancroft, Coombs and Davis waivers on catcher Jacklitsch. He will be turned cision that is going to get him in wrong with went to New Orleans, whence they will go over to the Rochester (Eastern League) Club unless the club owner and that means we will Managers in Reorganizing His Team to their respective homes; while Bender, some major league club puts in a bid for him. have Davis and Hartsel, with their wives, decided ©HOME UMPIRING© With a Veritable Host of New Players. to spend some weeks at Jacksonville and During the past week President Lynch, of the Na Palm Beach, Fla. tional League, promulgated the following. Philadelphia again. If the magnates want the game to By M. W. Walton. Club contracts: "Kitty" Bransfleld, Charles A. Gir- continue to succeed as it has for the last ard, Fred J. Wilhelm, Joseph Mowry, Ed. McDqn- few years, all they have to do is to allow Scranton, Pa., December 24. Editor Delighted With the Cuban Trip. ough, Fred Wehrell, A. B. Moyer, Fred Beebe, Louis the game to remain as it is without change "Sporting Life." Manager Monte Cross, of Business Manager John D. Shibe stated Shettler and Mike Doolan (three years). of any kind, either in the playing rules or the Scranton, Club, was one of the busiest that he, the players and their wives were During the recent major league meetings in New in the rules governing the umpires. To tam men at the big league meet delighted with the trip to Cuba and with the York all of the New York State League men said per with the game is a serious thing, for the ings in New York. Monte treatment accorded them by everybody on, the Phillies had a wonder in Chalmers, the pitcher made so many deals that the obtained from Scranton. Monte Cross said he would least change means a lot and is likely to the island. He said: "That©s a great coun cause a lot of discord. I am willing to wager Scranton team will be made try down there, and the people made our pay President Fogel more than he gave Scranton for up entirely of new men ex Chalmers any time the Phillies did not want him. a little something right now that if Bob Ems- visit something to be leng remembered. Big lie is retired next year the man engaged to cept second baseman "Pep" crowds turned out at nearly every game. Outfielder Fred Wehrell, of Paterson, N. ,T., just Young and left fielder Jack signed by the Philadelphia Club, in 1908 played center take his place will not be as good a man The Cubans are wild over base ball, and the} by far as Bob is. The trouble is not with son. The biggest deal was know the game, too. One newspaper in Ha and left fleld for Hazleton and occasionally pitched. the trade of first baseman vana printed more stuff about each game He was the leading hitter of the old Atlantic League the eyes of the umpires as much as it is and also a fine base-runner. He was a team-mate of with the eyes of the ball players. I have Himes, pitcher Ge.orge Schulz, than a paper here did about a contest for catcher Weinberg and Chuck the World©s Championship. It spread five Lapp, the young catcher secured by the Athletics from seen batters swing on balls that were so far Hazleton. out of their reach they nearly fell on their Connors, a local amateur lolumns over the first page and had a couple third baseman, to the Altoona of pages inside. Davis© team was defeated President Fogel, of the Phillies, on Saturday an heads in the effort, but no one ever accused nounced that he had purchased the release of out- the players of having bad eyesight." (Tri-State League) team for a few times, but that didn©t worry the boys Monte CroM pitcher George Upp, catcher any. They were nearly all handicapped by flelder Carroll, of Oakland. Manager Wolverton, of O©DAY©S OPINIONS Oakland, says Carroll is a coming star; that he will Paddy Kane and $200 in sore arms. Barry was about the worst of hit about .275 or .280. Carroll alternated in centre have always had much weight in thei affairs cash. Outfielder Waldron goes to Chatta all. Jack©s arm was so sore that he couldn©t fleld with Hogan, the man the Athletic* secured of the National League. He is the man given nooga, of the Southern League, in return for throw the ball across the diamond, and so from Oakland. credit for suggesting many of the rules now he was shifted over to second base and outfielder Taffee. Cross also signed pitcher Derrick played short. The boys, when they Last Saturday was reception day at the Philadel on the statute books of the game. No one Thomas, a semi-professional, who is 22 years found their arms were not in shape, C9nclud- ever contradicts him in base ball affairs, for old and stands 6 feet 2 inches in height, and ed not to take any chances, and not one of it is generally conceded that he is one of the pitcher Booney, a left-hander, recommended them suffered nny injury. *The boys were iree, wmeu was aecoraiea oy f resident uogeis pri best posted men connected with the game. by catcher Jacklitsch. The following sched vate secretary. Miss O©Leary. Under the tree there He has excellent judgment in handling ball ule of preliminary exhibition games has been all mighty well pleased with the trip, and was a miniature ball park, with its grand-stand and the Cubans appeared to be well satisfied players and he is fearless in his decisions. arranged by Manager Cross: April 9, World©s bleachers filled with little dummies and a full uni There is little doubt but that the League Champion Athletics; April 10, New York with the article of base ball that they wit formed team in position on the fleld, representing the leaders will listen to what Henry has to say nessed." Catcher Thomas, speaking for the progress of a game. Refreshments were served all Americans; April 12 and 13, New York players, said: "It was a great trip and the afternoon. and consider it seriously before any action is Giants; April 15 and 16, Toronto (Eastern Cubans treated us royally. The rooting was fully decided on.______. League) team; April 17 and 18, Montreal the wildest that I ever heard. They had a (Eastern League) team; April 19 and 20, pet name for all of us, but ©Topsy© Hartsel THE TRI-STATE LEAGUE. Altoona, Tri-State champions; April 23 and got the queerest. They called ©Topsy© a THE CENTRAL LEAGUE. 24, Philadelphia Nationals; April 26 and 27, name which means ©the little grandfather.© Philadelphia Giants; April 29 and 30, York Our games did not draw as well as the Good Support in Reading Said to Be As Tri-State team. Howard Mitinger, the. former Tigers, and we were told the reason was be Four Clubs of This Organization to Have State College star, who has been one of the cause the Cubans did not like our uniforms sured if Jake Weitzel Again Secures New Ball Parks Next Season The mainstays of the Scranton pitching corps nearly so much as those worn by Detroit." since the time of Malachi Kittridge in 1908, Control of the Local Club. Grand Rapids Franchise Still Unsold. has been sold to the Binghamton Club by Beading, Pa., December 24. Editor Manager Monte Cross. Manager Monte ex Philly Contracts Coming In Fast. "Sporting Life:" ©-The Beading Tri-State South Bend, Ind., December 24. Editor "Sporting Life:" Three and possibly four pects to land Johnny Siegel, the outfielder During the past week President Fogel, of Club has not been sold as yet, and what the, who was such a sensation with Wilkes-Barre the Philadelphia Club, received the signed new base ball plants will be erected on the outcome will be is a mat©t©er of conjecture. circuit of the Central League in 1905. Siegle was drafted from the Barons contracts of pitcher Bee.be. and outfielder A large number of people are promising to by Cincinnati, and after spraining an ankle Paskert, the Cincinnati acquisitions, and of next Spring, if present plans support the team if Jake Weitzel goes into of ©the magnates are© carried in training was sent to Nashville, in tke several recruits. The. former Reds express base ball again, and all games are played Southern League. themselves as well .pleased with the shift, out. Either Annis or Parkei1 at Lauer©s Park. Many do not feel like go have prouiis_ed ©the fans ©at; which lands them with a coming team li^e ing out of the city to see a .ball game, and An All-Star New York League Team. the Phillies, and both promise their .best ef with the team at the old Union League Grand Rapids a, downtown forts to make Doom©s team.a winner. Presi grounds, which is three minutes© walk to the park; Wheeling will build Syracuse, N. Y., December 24. Editor dent Fogel is positive that Lobert and Rowan centre of the city, the season will be a finan one of the most modern plants "Sporting Life:" William Dineen, of this are in the same frame of mind, and will soon cial success. W. Abbott ; Witman, of old to be found in a minpr league.; city, former pitcher and at present an Amer send in their signed contracts. Each©, member State© League fame, and who managed the, South Bend will have new ican League umpire, has given out the fol of this quartette has been given a substantial Beading team in the 90s, wants the franchise bleachers and grand stand lowing selection© for an all-star New York increase of salary. During the week, pitchers very badly, taut there are© some, who are not which will give a seating©ca State League team: First base, Noonan, Shettler and Chalmers also sent in their sign anxious to see him get it. It may be possible pacity of from 4000 to 5000, Wilkes-Barre; second base, Kirke, Scranton; ed contracts. Chalmers is expected to prove that Messrs. Weitzel and; Witman will get .©to and Evansville wilt rearrange third base, Catiz, WiJkes-Barrei; shortstop, of great help to the Phillies next season. gether to run the team. It .is rumored that Dr. P. B. Carson its stands .to accommodate Hopke, Wilkes-Barre; utility infielder, Keyes, He made a splendid record with the Scranton several out-of-town managers who© were for more fans. . The. negotiations Klmira; left field, Drake, Wilkes-Barre; cen Club, winning 18 games and losing 5, being mer major leaguers, are. ..after; the franchise, between .Bert Annis, owner of the Grand tre field, Hartley, Albany; right field, Kay, the leading pitcher of the league last sea and that there will be something doing- very Bapids Club., and Dr. Harley Parker, of Chi Albany; utility outfielder, Zimmerman, Utica; son. In the last game he pitched for the soon. cago, for the disposal of that club, have come pitchers, Chalmers, Scranton; Alexander, Syr Phillies last season he shut New York out to naught. It was supposed that the deal was acuse; Nagle, Elmira; Hoch, Elmira; Mc- with two hits, and should have had a no-hit Williamsport Prospects Brighten. practically made at ,a conference, between Bride, Albany; catchers, Cheek, Albany, and game to his credit. Monte Cross, who man Annis and Parker, but later Parker wired Koepman, Syracuse. , aged Scranton last season, declares there is Williamsport, Pa., December 24. -Editor from Chicago that he was©unable to complete no question about Chalmers making good in "Sporting Life." -Secretary Thomas Gray, the purchase. This leaves Annis still the News Notes. big league company. The Philadelphia Club of the Williamsport Base Ball Club, expresses owner of the Grand Bapids Club, which stands The Binghamton Club has re-elected Harry Lum- now has 19 players under contract, and it is himself as quite well assured that there will him exactly nothing, as he bought it for ley as team manager for next season. expected that the remaining members of the be a Williamsport Tri-State team in 1911. $5000, sold it to Bro©therton for $10,000 and The Troy Club is likely to sell pitcher Pete Wilsoa team will be lined up before New Year. The work on subscriptions to the 1911 base bought it back for $5000. Anything he can to the Waterbury Club©, of the Connecticut League. A\?JJ fsrfS has net Jwj wsipteted, frsl tkere get for it is psre velvet. Piifher E. A. is a strong sentiment favoring the keeping, B~ tchie, who has played independent and col- It is probable that the annual meeting of the New Ante-Season Criticism Beginning. York state League will be called for the last Tuesda? of the team. Now that it is more than a ?e ball in Illinois and Indiana, has signed to in January. The Detroit team members and the Detroit mere possibility that the Billies Will be in play with the South liemd Club! the race as usual, the question of team man The tltlca Club has purchased southpaw pitcher papers are already beginning to fan the Oscar K. Swan from the Kansas City Club, of tilt rivalry between the champion and ex-cham agement has aroused; the interest of the local News Notes. American Association. pion teams of the American League for four fans. It is not unlikely that: Coughlin may The Terra Haute Club has signed a Michigan semi- years the two most antagonistic teams in. the be secured again to pilot the team, as in professional pitcher named Herman. ATanager Lumley, of Binghamton, has received th« junior major league. The Detroit "News" spite of difficulties he had considerable man signed contract of catcher Flscher, Her has also quotes pitcher Donovan, of the Tigers,, as agerial, success - here. Bob Unglaub, con The Dayton Club has purchased infielder Rhoton signed outfielder Williams, a Brooklyn semi-pro. saying: © . , sidered by many the; best first sacker who from the Augusta Club, of the South Atlantic League. Pitcher George Schulz and catcher Weinberg have .The South Bend Club has signed second baseffian been traded by Manager Cross, of Scranton, to Al "The Athletics are a great hitting team and they ever wore a Williamsport uniform, is also discussed as a possibility. During the^ coining .Pete© O©Br^en, late ,of the Binghamton © (New © ..York toona for catcher Pat Kane, with Binghamton in hit me harder, last year in several games than I State Le.aglie) Club. _.^.. ; ,:> :© © ;. lacs.- ,,, $.©. © - . © .. - have been pounded in. 10 years. No pitcher can Stop week it©r:is expected that -definite action will them absolutely when they are feeling just right. be taken by the directors of the local, club. , -Pitcher E. A. Ritchie, who©has played indepe_nd

THOMAS S. DANDO, Gun Editor; THOMAS D. RICHTER and E. FRED. SLEAR, Assistant Gun Editors.

shooting has grown so fast in popular favor, having really prior claim, Mr. Waddell with E. IX Miller ...... 26 that those who took part in the memorable drew, and the B. Leroy ...... 24 L. V. Dyer ...... 28 contests of that period must surely feel some FIRST OPEN COMPETITION L C CUP MATCH astonishment when they glance over the week H. G. Wheeler ...... 24 _} ly returns on the trap pages of the sports for the "E. C." Inanimate Target Champion C. W. Budd ...... 19 ship Cup was held at the "K. C." tourna O. IS. Dickey ...... 25 men©s papers and note columns upon columns K. S. Parmalee ...... 19 of condensed reports of shoots held in every ment, May 5-8, 1896, at the Guttenburg race LESTER GERMAN CHALLENGES track, above Weehawken, N. J. Noel E. Ralph Trimble ...... 23 nook and corner of the United States. Tour li. A. Bartlett ...... 23 naments in 1896 were few and far between, Money, then secretary of the "E. C." Com Sim Glover ...... 22 W. R, CROSBY FOR TROPHY. but there were some big ones that mnde tip in pany, and Elmer E. Shaner, were the moving Redwing ...... 21 quality what may have been lacking in quan spirits in the management of the tournament, C. Wagner ...... 22 tity. Years ago Knoxville, Tenn.. led the van Mr. Shaner, of course, running the shoot on Hood Waters ...... 23 under the guidance of the Van Gilders, John lines devised by him and which even at that D. A. Upson ...... 26 Contest for Championship and Connor, Sam Dow, then president of the club, time had reduced tournament management to .T. Parker ...... 24 and other energetic members. The last Knox a science. The first event on the program for C. M. Grim ...... 19 the first day had over one hundred entries, a N. Apgar ...... 22 Famous Prize, Will Be Held on ville tournament, with $3000 added money, C. Lane ...... 23 was held in 1895, and with that tournament record entry then, although entry fees were stiff, and professional and amateur shooters Col. J. T. Anthony ..... 20 may be said to have ended the active life of Capt. A. WT. Money ..... 17© January 7 at Chicago Gun Club the club. Not that the tournament was un were allowed to shoot for the cup. The list Geo. W. Loomis ...... 25 successful it was just the opposite but the of aspirants for championship honors grad History of Race, Knoxville boys seemed to lose interest in do ually simmered down until only 26 finished HEIKES DEFEATS GILBERT. ing all the work. The their strings of 300 on the last day, and Gil Gilbert did not wear his honors very long, bert, the shooting star, who had risen above for on August 10, in the same year (1896), BY THOMAS D. RICHTER. BIG- DUPONT TOURNAMENT the horizon the year previous, when he won Heikes as challenger met and defeated him Philadelphia, Pa., December 24. In the at Cincinnati, under the able leadership of the du Pont pigeon trophy at Baltimore, at Watson©s Park, Chicago, by the score of nature of a sequel. to the Post-Series tour R. S. Waddell, was also held in the same WTAS HAILED AS CHAMPION. 133 to 130. All challenge contests according nament, in which Lester German, the famous year, and did much to help on the sport of to condition©s are at 150 targets, 50 unknown, trapshooting. Although there had been con J. A. R. Elliott and the late E. D. Fulford 50 expert and 25 pairs. At unknown angles professional, won were tied for second and third places, with "The One Shoot siderable talk about a real championship tro Heikes broke 48 to 47; at expert rules, 45 to phy for inanimate targets, nothing came of all Heikes right after them. Of the 26 who fin 44, and 40 to 39 on the pairs, thus beating ing- Match,©© the ished, all but three, Leroy, Fulford and Hood event confined to the talk until the Fall of 1895, when in its him by one target at each style of shooting. issue published during the week of the Bal Waters, are still alive, but some of them have The next challenge contest was at Dayton, the ten leading quit shooting, at least at the traps. None of professionals of the timore, Md., tournament, at which the first O., on July 31, 1897. Gilbert, as challenger, contest for the du Pont pigeon championship them, however, will forget the initial contest, came out ahead by the score of 142 to 136. country, will be the sccres of which are; sure to be of interest, the match that has was held, one/ of the sportsmen©s papers sug scoring 48 tQ 47 at unknown angles; 48 to 44 gested in its 1rap columns wh.r©t it considered and are, therefore, given in full below: at expert rules; and 46 to 45 at pairs. The been arranged be 100- 100© tween German and suitable conditions for a real championship looser©s score is not to be sneezed at even in test. Four-day tournaments were popular Unknown Angles. Expert Rule. these days, while that of the winner is hard to William R. Orosby, Targets ...... 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 of O©Fallon, 111., then and drew well, so it was suggested that beat. Little over a year later, viz., on August a contest at 300 targets per man, 100 each Fred Gilbert ...... 21 23 23 24 91 24 22 23 22 91 13, 1898, Heikes, as challenger, once more the holder, for the .T. A. K. Elliott.... 23 24 25 24—96 20 21 21 18—80 met and defeated Gilbert at Watson©s Park. famous K. C. Cup, at three different styles of shooting, would E. D. Fulford ..... 23 23 21 24 91 21 22 25 20 88 representing the produce a real, all-around champion at the H. O. Heikes ...... 21 23 25 23 92 23 21 24 21 89 The scores were: Heikes, 140 and Gilbert all - around cham end of the race. In other words, the race K. R. Merrill ..... 21 21 22 23 87 23 23 24 20 90 ,137. Heikes broke 48 to 47 at tinknown an was to be at 100 targets, unknown angles: C. O. Barrett ..... 24 23 24 21 92 19 20 23 24 85 gles; 48 to 45 at expert rules, but Gilbert pionship of the 100 targets, expert rules, one man up, and broke 45 to 44 pairs. United States at K. D. Miller ...... 19 20 20 25 84 20 20 23 20 83 100 targets thrown in pairs. The idea was B. Lercy ...... 23 24 24 22 93 19 21 22 21 81 OPEN SHOOT AT DAYTON. targets. This great that the program for each day should con L. V. B-er ...... 24 22 23 21 90 21 20 21 21 83 contest, to be de tain one event fit 25 targets, unknown an H. G. Wheeler .... 24 22 25 18 89 18 22 22 23 85 The scores made at the three styles of cided on January gles and one at 25 targets, expert rules ; on C. W. Blldd ...... 25 21 23 20 89 24 23 24 21 94 shooting for the championship cup dtiring the 7, at the Chicago the first© two days, also, there should be one O. R. Dickey ..... 22 23 21 21 87 19 20 23 23 85 three days at the open shoot at Dayton, O., Gun Club grounds, will mark another page in event at 15 pairs, and on the last two days V. X. Parma lee ... 25 22 22 23 92 22 19 23 20 84 October 11, 12 and 13, 1898, were as fol the history of famous target matches that an event at 10 pairs. That the Ralph Triinble ..... 23 24 24 24 94 23 20 23 24 90 lows. We are giving the 15 high scores: JO. C. Cup has been contested for since Octo B. A. Bartlett .... 23 23 20 21 87 16 22 20 21 79 SUGGESTION WAS POPULAR Sim Glover ...... 22 23 24 24 93 20 23 20 19 82 17. ber 13, 1910. when Crosby took the trophy Redwing ...... 23 21 24 21 89 22 22 20 23 87 Heikes ...... 87 from Fred Gilbert. That was the fourteenth is evidenced by the fact that no sooner did C. Wagner ...... 22 20 25 25 92 22 23 22 21 88 McMurchy ...... 91 competition for the championship. German is the paper containing it ccme into his hands, Hood Waters ...... 20 22 23 22 87 18 25 23 21 87 Fulford ...... 88 now at the height of his career, while Crosby than Captain A. WT. Money, .then manager of I). A. Upson ...... 24 23 23 22 92 21 19 20 20 80 Fanning ...... 88 demonstrated last season that he still ranks the: American "E. C." Company, announced .T. Parker ...... 20 20 23 20 83 21 18 21 20 80 Gilbert ...... 94 with the greatest of the present-day shooters, to all the shooters at the Baltimore tourna C. M. Grimm ..... 23 21 22 20 86 19 19 21 21 80 Budd ...... 87 and that he has not begun to decline in his N. Apgar ...... 20 23 22 19 84 19 21 18 22 80 Elliott ...... 88 ment in which he was taking part, and also Young ...... 90 shooting powers. In "The One Shooting to the trap editor of the paper suggesting C. Lane ...... 21 23 22 21 87 20 22 16 17 75 Col J. T. Anthony. 22 19 19 21 81 21 13 21 16 70 Alkire ...... 82 Match©© he broke 231 targets, tieing for sec the trial of skill/ that his company would* hold Rike ...... 84 ond, German, the winner getting but 234. The Capt. A. W. Money 19 21 21 23 84 17 20 17 15 69 a four-day tournament the following May and Geo. W. Loomis .. 23 24 2» 18 84 11 20 20 13 64 Trimble ...... 86 struggle will undoubtedly be a titanic one, would offer a cup to be competed for under DuBray ...... 82 and the winner will merit the title of cham the suggested conditions. It is only fair to Voories ...... 84 pion. Below will be found a lucid and inter state that Mr. R. S. Waddell, who was even U. M. C. Thomas ...... 78 esting history of the E. C. Cup, written by then planning for a big tournament at Cin 30 Courtney ...... 78 Edward Banks, the noted du Pont man and Fred Gilbert ...... 25 cinnati to be given by the Hazard Powder .T. A. 15. Elliott ...... 25 Mr. Heikes, therefore, continued to hold the shooting authority: Company the latter part of May, wired that E. D. Fulford ...... 28 cup. his company would adopt the plan and would I!. O. Heikes ...... 23 HEIKES VERSUS FULFORD. History of E. C. Cup. donate a trpphy to the winner of the cham It. H. Merrill ...... 23 The sixth contest for the cup was decided Since the year of 1896 the sport of trap- pionship. The American "E. C.©© Company C. 0. Barrett ...... 24 on January 21, 1899, on the grounds of the Keystone Shooting League, of Philadelphia, Pa., at Holmesburg, Junction, the late E. D. Fulford being the challenger. Heikes defend ul SOLEMNLY ed his title to the cup successfully, winning "LIKE. JOHN L1VING,STON, I !©£>Y ALL THL ffi by 129 to 123. The scores seem low, but THAT the conditions as to flight of targets were: RLdOLVf, TO LAUD THE DUPONT DfPL05JVES, .1 DO , against high totals. Heikes broke 45 to 42 THE. at unknown angles; 43 to 45 at expert rules, GKAMD AMIRICAN SOLWNLY RESOLVE TO WIN and 41 to 36 at pairs. On May 16-22, of the same year, the E. C. Cup was put up in open THAT SOUTHERN HANDICAP competition at St. Louis under the auspices IN 1911 » of the Missouri State Fish and Game Protec tive Association. This time, W. R. Crosby "WRITE THE 3. made his first appearance as winner of the highest target championship honors, taking TOR ME TO WIN THE the cup and title by the; score of 265 out of 300 shot at. The conditions were precisely PACIFIC COAST the same as those under which the first con I©LL GIT THAT test at Guttenburg was shot, 100 targets at each style of shooting. LAW YET." CROSBY VERSUS ELLIOTT. The eighth contest for the cup was shot at Batavia, N. Y., June 24, 1899, when Cr6sby defended his title to the cup and defeated J. A. R. Elliott by the score of 128 to 124. The ninth contest was between the1 same two parties, Elliott challenging Crosby for the cup, and Crosby named Batavia, N. Y., once more, and July 24. 1899, as the place and date for the shoot. Elliott©s winning score was 136 out of 150. A month later Crosby was chal lenger once more, and defeated Elliott, the holder. The score was 139 to 128, the con test being held at Atlantic City, N. J. The next match for the cup was shot at Batavia, N. Y., October 13, 1898, Heikes challenging Crosby. The latter won by 132 to 130, scor ing 45 to 48 at unknown angles; 47 to 44 at expert rules, and 40 to 38 at pairs. GILBERT REGAINS THE TITLE. The eleventh contest for the cup was shot at Batavia, N. Y., on November 4, 1899, Gil bert being the challenger and making good, as he defeated Crosby the score of 120 to 119 in a most memorable battle of the giants, Crosby almost catching his opponent at the finish. Gilbert broke, 46 to 42 at unknown angles, and 42 to 40 at expert rules, but Crosby finished strongly with 37 to Gilbert©s 32 at pairs. On February 19, 1900, J. A. R. Elliott once more tried to take the cup, but fniled, Gilbert defeating him by the1 score of 133 to 134. The match was shot at Hot ©Springs, Ark., and Gilbert©s scores were: 47 to 44 at unknown angles; 48 to 44, expert rules, and 38 to 36 at pairs. GILBERT WINS AGAIN. On Sentember 8, 1900, Gilbert once more successfully defended his title to the cup, Elliott being again (he challenger. The match was shot at Arnold©s Park, la., and Gilbert©s NEW YEAR©S RESOLUTIONS IN ORDER-WHAT THh SHOOTERS RESOLVE! (Continued on the twelfth page.) 12 SPORTING LIFE DECEMBER 31, 1910 Registered Tournaments The Official Re E. Hunters who went out with deathly designs sults of the 1910 upon the timid denizens of the fields are Registered Tour nT>t boasting of the bags they brought back. Smokeless Powder Very few birds were found, to make the sport naments, as fur interesting this year. Hunters give as a reason for this shortage the sever Winter nished by Elmer last year. For nearly three months the THE OLD-TIME FAVORITE ground was heavily coate.d with frozen snow, E. Shaner, Secre which made feeding almost impossible for the quail. Many perished on this account, while An Ideal Smokeless Shotgun Powder tary-Manager, of very many more were driven to other parts of the country. The effect was noticeable the Interstate As- this year, and sportsmen all over this terri ElmerE. Shaner tory have been complaining of the scarcity of READ THE HISTORY OF THE fowl. The present season is very favorable, however, and due to the small number slain THE RESULTS FEOM WEEK TO WEEK. during the past season many look for a E. C. Inanimate Target Championship in this T5ELOW will be found, frpm -week to plentiful supply in 1911. Absence of snow has given the, birds abundant food thus far, issue, and watch for the Scores in the D week, the revised and corrected and unless the fall becomes very heavy and official scores of all Registered Tourna is accompanied by thaws and freezing weath ments and Shoots under the auspices of er, which forms a crust, there will be no Crosby-German Challenge Match, to be shot the Interstate Association, as furnished danger of starvation overtaking them this regularly by Secretary-Manager Shaner: Winter. Now that the hunting season is at Chicago9 January 79 1911 over and the feeding still good the well being of the quail seems assured, at least for the. present. REGISTERED TOURNAMENT No. 404. E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS POWDER COMPANY POTTSVILLK FISH AND GAME ASSOCIATION, More Adirondack Beer Shipped. AT POTTSVILLE, PA., DECEMBER 16, 1910. Albany, N. Y., December 23. More deer Established 1802. WILMINGTON, DEL. PROFESSIONALS. were shipped from the Adirondacks by ex Brents ...... 1-23 45 678 910Sh.Bk. press companies during the 1910 hunting Targets ...... 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 season than any other year since the records F. Lawrence ..... T 8 8 6 6 712131313150 93 have been kept, except in the years when O. S. Sked ...... 11121314141414141513150134 snow hunting was permitted, according to L. R. Lewis ..... 11 9 51010111314 9 9150101 Jfeaf Apgar ..... 13 13 12 13 14 12 14 15 14 15 150 135 records received by the State Forest, Fish and A. Klotz ...... 1413 71013101211 912150111 Game Commission. In all, 2158 carcasses of deer, 53 saddles and 135 heads were shipped, AMATEURS. Are You Prepared for 191 which presumably accounted for a total of P. Coleman ..... 12 15 12 14 14 13 14 14 14 15 150 137 2346 deer. The records do not include ship Thos. Brennan ... 4467967858 150 64 ments from the Catskill section, where a O. Miller ...... 7 ...... 15 7 number of deer are annually killed. Basing I. Daubert ...... 10 7 10 6 13 11 13 11 11 11 15* 103 M. P. Alasko ... 10. 712 91211 8111311150104 the estimate upon the supposition that only Western Automatic Traps L. M. Reickort... 10 10 10 13 11 10- 10 11 9 915010-3 one deer out of every four killed is shipped, K. Reed ...... 1110121312 8 12 11 11 ID©150-110 there, were more than 9000 deer killed in the E. Elliott ...... 565565578 8150 60 Adirondack section during the past hunting W. Shaffner ..... 10 96667687 8150 73 season. Game protectors report the deer K Lloyd ...... 10 18 11 71312 910 5 7150 96 numerous at the close of the season and the and ©White Flyer" Targets J. .T. Patten ..... 12 10 8 10 12 11 11 12 5 11 150 102 prospects are good for another season©s sport. J. H. Murphy ... 9 11 15 11.13 13 14 12 8 10 150 116 G. E. Kline ...... 7 9111210 75 49 Missouri Enjoying Hunting. HOLD THE RECORDS (Wind blew a gale; thermometer below zero all St. Louis, Mo., December 23. Missouri day.) ______hunters are still enjoying fine hunting, but the ground is very dry and the hunting dogs NEW HAMPSHIRE©S DEER SEASON. have difficulty in getting the scent of the Start the Season Right Eqnip Your Cinb with this Great Trap game. The. quail are keeping pretty close Hunting Period Ends as a Disappointment into the heavy cover and tangled under growth, not only on account of protection to Big Game Hunters. from the cold weather, bitt as a safer retreat Throw "White Flyers," Improve Your Scores Manchester, N. H., December 26. The from the hunters© guns, at such places as and Increase Your Attendance legal closing of the season on. deer killing in they have been disturbed. It does not require Southern New Hampshire came on December much hunting to teach the wild creatures of 15. Opening on the fields and forests to flee for safety from NO "STRINGS" TO THE SALE OF THIS TRAP December 1, and their worst enemy the man behind the gun. extending over a When the hunting season is over, the wild IT IS SOLD OUTRIGHT brief period of 15 creatures soon again become more tame, and days with the elimi it is no uncommon thing to hear hunters Send Is Your Address for Handbook of Useful Information Do It Now! nation of two Sun remark that they seem to know that the game days, this season, season has closed. In this connection it like its three prede might be well to note that some persons have cessors, has been a jokingly remarked that our State was being The Western Cartridge Co., East Alton, Ills. disappointing one stocked with "tame" China pheasants and to the mass of Hungarian partridges, instead of "Wild hunter license hold birds" that would afford sport when they much the worst of the encounter when a neighbor ers. Setting aside became plentiful enough to be placed on the came along with a gun and putting a bullet through GUNS, AMMUNITION the opening day, list with other game that is hunted. At the bear©s head ended the unequal struggle. The upon which track many places where the birds were liberated farmer, whose name la James Woods, was badly and ing conditions were they have remained about the same place, mangled. not more than fair, and not infrequently have they even become so tame that they congregate near farm T. N. McHaney, deputy game and flsh commission SPORTING GOODS the thousands of er, writes from Kennett, Mo.: "Deputy Doc Hamp men in this part of buildings and associate with tame poultry. ton and myself got 110 mallard ducks at one shot. the State who had This is exactly what is desired, and it is to They were in two barrels and some one was trying J. B. SHANNON HARDWARE CO. hoped to bring be hoped that all sportsmen will make it to ship them to the St. Louis market. The shipper down a deer have their especial concern to know that they are didn©t put his name on the barrel, as I guess he 816 Chestnut St., Phila. been forced to contend with hunting con not disturbed for several years until they thought a game warden might get them, so you see New Gun Catalogue Sent for the Asking. ditions which could not have been more become plentiful. As soon as they are hunt he made a good guess." favorable to the game sought, or worse for ed they will become as wild as they are in the sportsmen, if they had been made to the States of Oregon and Washington, where Captain H. A. ithl and Louis Sarazan, of St. order. Nothing surer to preserve the lives they are the principal game birds, and where Louis, Mo., returned from the Bass Island Club last of deer in an open season could be devised no one complains that they don©t fly swift Monday with a nice mess of quail. Captain TJhl E. C, CUP MATCH than a crust of snow. Given this and deer enough to make a most difficult target for says there was no fishing and no ducks and that are afforded protection well nigh equivalent a good shooter to hit. there was two inches of ice on the old river and (Continued from the eleventh page,) six inches of snow on the ground. The quail were to that prpvided when to hunt is unlawful. scores were: 49 to 48 at unknown angles; The most gratifying feature of very small, and were found only in the veiy thickest Peculiar Shot at Caribou. cover, and hunting them was hard work. 48 to 42 at expert rules, and 40 to 38 at THE CLOSING SEASON Columbus, O., December 24. "The only pairs, his total being 143 to Elliott©s 128. is the fact that it has been so free from ac caribou that I ever shot," says Dr. Oscar H. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Hemingway, of Philadelphia, Gilbert©s score is a record for these contests, cidents. In this respect it has been a great Sellenings, "came my way in a somewhat are always welcome visitors in Canada. They visited being one target more than his score at Day success. The probabilities are that the sea peculiar manner. I was up in the New Tobique in New Brunswick during the open season, ton, 0., July 31, 1897. On October 13, 1900, son of 1911 will see more men equipped with Brunswick country for © big game and my and, never having seen moose in their native haunts, in the fourteenth shoot for the cup, Gilbert guns in the woods on December 1 next than guide and myself had tramped about the went into the woods for the purpose of studying the again met defeat at Watson©s Park, Chicago, were encountered this year. Although the country for hours without seeing any. We, animal. Both were provided with- non-resident li Crosby, as challenger, beating him out by bulk of deer taken during this season were were going through the woods when the censes but stated their determination not to shoot 126 to 123. The scores made: were not high, shot on the first few days before the deer guide remarked: ©Well, just on the spot unless it might be in the last extremity. but conditions were hard. Crosby©s totals "got educated,©© scattering reports of cap where you are standing a doctor from Boston were: 47 to 41 at©unknown angles; 36 to 43 tures have been recorded daily. There are got a caribou last year. Maybe we©ll see A mounted buffalo head is now rare and conse at expert rules, and 43 to 39 at pairs. As aa one now.© The guide had scarcely got quently William Ingram, superintendent of school no figures yet at hand to indicate the number lands for Manitoba. Canada, who recently received item of interest, it may be noted that Gilbert of deer shot in the lower tier of counties in through talking when I happened to turn such a present, values it highly. The buffalo was one as holder three, times named Watson©s Park, the full 15 days. Every town almost around and there was one of the big animals of those purchased by the Canadian Government and Chicago, as the place for the shoot, and was yielded a few, and some quite a good manv, tramping along, but beyond gunshot. He was died during transference from Montana to Alberta. defeated on all three occasions, twice by considering the handicap placed upon the coming my way, however, and I prepared for The head was procured by a friend of Ingram©s and Heikes and once by Crosby. hunters and the kind favors extended to him. I aimed between two trees and just mounted by N. K. Luxton, of Banff, after which it « the deer. Yet it is fair to assume that the as his head appeared fired and he crashed was shipped to Winnipeg. number killed this year will be far below down and was dead when we got to him." Captain Jack Winner at Badger. A bear which had been engaged in foraging in Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 23. Captain Jack THE NATURAL INCREASE Hunting Notes. the lumber camp on Mullins© Stream, N. B., for and Ed Schendel had an interesting target through breeding next season. That deer have From Canton, N. Y., comes the story of the shoot several years and was familiarly known as Ben Stub, shooting duel in the regular practice shoot teen more plentiful in some towns this season ing of a pure white buck in the woods nearby., owing to his having lost his left forepaw in a trap of the Badger Gun Club Saturday and Cap than ever before is beyond question, and some years ago. was lulled recently by Ernest. Sin tain Jack finally won out. In the event at that the number left over exceeds by many A bald eagle measuring five feet from tip to tip clair. The animal was grayish brown and measured 100 targets Schendel led Jack with a total times the number slaughtered is equally cer of the wings was shot at Bridgeport, near Berlin, seven feet four inches. He had lost all his teeth, of 99. Schendel missed on his sixty-first tain. In one town, 20 miles to the East, Ontario, in October. which showed his great age. and probably accounted target. Captain Jack broke 98. He made, some 25 deer have been killed. There are for his fondness for the vicinity of lumber camps. a straight run of 74. In the sweepstakes at probably more than 100 deer which will Edward D. Bill, of New York, succeeded in obtain 50 targets Jack was high with 48 targets. Winter over and breed next Spring, and what ing a fine moose in the New Brunswick woods. The L. Rausch, of St. Louis, Mo., took a little quail Schendel scored 46. Mrs. R. deB. Smith, of head had 20 points with a spread of 61 inches. hunt near Bell, Mo., and bagged a fair lot of is true of this town is true of towns adjacent, quail recently. The ground was entirely too dry and Missoula, Ont., the champion woman shot of for the whole country to the North, South, Montana, was a guest of the Badger Club, A porcupine 32 inches from the tip of its nose to the birds were found along the edge of the scrub East and West is good deer territory, and oaks and thickets, making the hunting very hard but she did not shoot. Mrs. Smith is a» the tip of its tail, and weighing 28 pounds, was shot former Wisconsin resident. The scores: deer are still thick there. They have been by George A. Scott, at Davidson, Saskatchewan. work. The quail were all of good size and hard seen, chased and shot at times without num fliers. A week previously he and Judge McDonald, Sh. Bk.| Sh. Bk. ber, but lordly bucks and wjse old does, to while hunting in Cape Gkardeau County, found at Capt. .Tack ...... K©O HSI Schendel ...... 100 93 The Landgrave of Hesse, accompanied by L. O. least 10 covies of quail which were too small to hunt. Hoyer ...... 100 91 [Adams ...... 100 68 say nothing of innumerable fawns that have Armstrong, had a fine hunt in the Canadian Rockies, escaped, will shortly come forth from their Slefken ...... 100 fiSJDailey ...... 100 ill the party securing several grizzly bears as well as A story of a close struggle with a deer comes Mitchell ...... ICO HOI hiding places in the thick woods and heavily mountain goats, mountain sheep and other big game. sheltered places, for instinct will convey to from the Province of Quebec. Ernest McGaffy, of the hunted game the welcome intelligence Stanstead, and C. H, Taylor, of Norton Mills, were Babbits About Ha.rrisonburg. A mooseheacl with a spread of G4% inches was out hunting when the former saw a deer, at which Harrisonburg, Va., December 23. The tip that the days of the deer hunter are over, taken into Campbellton, N. B., in October by Alfred ho fired two shots without hitting the animal. By and for nearly a year at least*they may roam, Harquail, foreman for the Dalhousie Lumber Com that time he was so close to the animal that he per valley has been literally overrun with feed, drink and sleep. pany. The head was the finest seen in the- town in seized it nncl tried to choke it. A battle royal en rabbits this season. In many sections of recent years. sued, during which the man nearly had his life Rockingham and Shenandoah counties the Iowa Quail Were Scarce. shaken out of him and his clothes torn to shred?. people have been giving away the animals. So exasperated was a New Brunswick farmer with He succeeded, however, at last in using his knife From the Southern Railway depot at Maurer- Sioux City, la., December 24. December a bear which had killed one of his cows that he and With the loss of blood the deer©s struggles ceased town it was reported that 3000 rabbits hav» 15 marked the close of the 1910 quail season. attacked the animal with a stick. He was getting so as to enable him to complete the task of killing it. been shipped to Baltimore. DECEMBER 31, 1910

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and J. H. Stair, of Crookston, Minn., high gets but one. Hoffman shot from a 22 Shoot-off, same conditions B. E. Fox, Jr., 4, 24; THOSE WE KNOW. Drofessional, 130 out of 150, both using Pe- yards© rise on his last round and broke 13. J. F. James, 2, 18. iers factory loaded shells. Clegg, who started off by smashing his first Not Too Personal, But Just Personal 15, drew a heavy handicap, being placed Hodgman Leads N. Y. A. C. Enough Bits of News, Gossip and Com Secretary A. B. Brickner, of the Newton, back at 25 yards, and this played havoc New York, N. Y., December 2§. Breaking N. J., Gun Club, announces a big shooting 64 straight targets, under the most favorable ment About Men Whom Lovers of Shoot event for Monday, January 2. The feature with his scores, for he fell down to 10 kills will be a two-man championship race, open on his third round and only broke five on conditions, an unusual occurrence, was the ing Know Through the Medium of Fame. to Morris, Warren and Sussex counties. There his last 15. Scores: feat performed by Fred A. Hodgman in a will also be a poultry shoot, with turkeys, H. B. B. Tl. steady downpour of rain at Travers Island By Thomas D. Kichter. geese, ducks, chickens and pigs as prizes. Slear ...... 26 11 14 56 on Christmas Eve. Mr. Hodgman©s effort Hoffman ...... 22 14 13 54 came in the first three events of the New "Sporting Life©© received a visit last week Aiman ...... 20 11 14 53 York Athletic Club©s weekly tSrap shoot and from one of the best all-around sportsmen in At Pottsville, Pa., December 16, Neaf Ap- Sloan ...... 17 13 14 53 enabled him to win two of the half dozen the shooting game, a man who has followed jar, shooting Peters factory loaded shells, won Pratt ...... 20 14 13 53 contests on the program. Throughout the many lines of ligh professional, 135 out of 150. Johnson ...... 23 15 12 53 shoot Mr. Hodgman sighted at the flying sport, who is, and Stockton ...... 18 14 14 53 clays through gunners© glasses, which every has been, quite an. Clegg ...... 25 10 5 44 athlete. He is At the Eagle Gun Club, at Manoa, Pa., Cordery ...... 22 14 11 51 now and then became blurrexl by the drops George Kerr, of on Saturday, December 24, Davis Paul, the Butler ...... 18 11 32 of rain that settled upon them. Throughout the du Pont Com popular Philadelphia shooter, was given a Handicap given on last round. the afternoon Mr. Hodgmaa maintained an pany, whose love rousing reception, when he put in an appear NOTES. average of 94 per cent. The only other win for base ball, box ance for the first time in several weeks., ner was George J. Corbett, who was high Billy Clegg forgot that he had on his new lung gun in three events. Both the club trophy ing, rowing, wres Paul, who is the organizer of the Girard Club, protector, which caused his gun to misfit, so he got tling and other lias been on an extended trip to the Pacific and scratch cup were won by Mr. Corbett a convulsion and quit in the last event. after shoot-offs with J. G. Batterson. For sports runs second Coast. H. Band is facing the traps more Will Boyer intends to buy a new Winchester pump, only to his fond regularly at the Eagle Gun Club, at Manoa, the Tournament cup Mr. Corbett, from a but Billy Clegg says that he only sent a walnut to handicap of one, shot a full score of 25. The ness for the gun. Pa., and, like Jackson, is shooting strongly England: the other day to grow a tree to make the Mr. Kerr was a and near the top. stock. summary: Philadelphian in Practice shoot, 25 target*, handicap 3. G. Batter-* Eddie Butler, of Woodbury, N. J., and E. M. son, 24; G. J. Corbett 24; F. A. Hadgman, 23; O. his youth and was We are in receipt of a very pretty Christ Stockton, of Camden, were among the boys at noted as an oars Girard. Ed. led off with a straight, which soon C. Grinnell, 20; W. B. Ogden, Jr., 20; A. H. Winter, man in the Schuyl- mas calendar bearing an excellent likeness of 18. Frank Lawrence, the noted Winchester rep handicapped bim to a place beyond. These two kill Navy, as a deans of the sport will in the near future present a Haslin Cup, 25 targets, handicap 7. A. Hodgman, boxer and wrestler resentative. Unfailingly, Frank remembers scratch, 25; W. B. Ogden, Jr., 1, 22; J. G. Batterson, his friends in the holiday season. valuable cup to their home club, the South End, of 2, 21; 0. C. Grinnell, scratch, 20; G. J. Corbett, and as a ball play Camden, to be shot for in mid-weekly shoots in scratch, 20; A. H. Whiter scratch, 19. er. He has never order that they may shoot along, as Saturday is their December cup, 25 targets, handicap F. A. Hodg lost his interest in these pastimes, though Captain G. W. Dameron, of the Northern busy day in business. man, scratch, 25: J. G. Batterson, 2, 25; G. J. Cor now his whole thought is given to the, de Kentucky Gun Club, of Dayton, Ky., has bett, 1. 25; O. C. Grinnell, 1, 24,; A. H. Winter, velopment of the shooting world, and in this made an unusually creditable record at the scratch, 22; W. B. Ogden, Jr., 2, 21; J. M. Jones, he has many fine ideas that are certain to traps during 1910 and one that puts him in 5, 16. work for the good of the sport in the future. the highest class of expert amateurs. At the Club©s special cup, 25 targets, handicap G. J. six tournaments given during the season by Corbett, 2. 25; J. G. Batterson, 2, 25; O. C. Grinnell, C. L. Frantz writes that the Seneca Falls the club, he has scored a total of 846 out of The Crescent and N. Y. A. C. Clubmen 1, 24; W. B. Ogden, Jr., 3, 23; F. A. Hodgman, Gun Club, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., will hold 900, an average of 94 per cent., a gait which scratch, 21; J. M. Jones, 5, 20; A. H. Winter, a New Year©s shoot on Monday, January 2. Hold Pre-Christmas Shoots Results at scratch, 18. The money is to be divided 40, 30, 20 and few amateurs can excel or equal. Captain Shoot-off, 25 targets, handicap G. J. Corbett, 1. 10, with a special prize of a gold watch Dameron frankly admits that no small share Other Traps. 25; J. G. Batterson, 2, 21. fob, which has been hung up for the high- of the credit for this work is due to the use New York, N. Y., December 26. Consider Tournament cup, 25 targets, handicap G. J. Cor average man. of Peters factory loaded premier shells. ing the cloudy weather and poor light con bett, 1, 25; O. C. Grinnell, 1, 24; W. B. Ogden, ditions the scores made Christmas Eve by 3, 24; F. A. Hodgman, scratch, 22; J. M. Jones, Three gunners divided the cash at. the the trap shooters of the Crescent Athletic 5, 22j J. G. Batterson, 2, 21; A. H. Winter, scratch, The Oak Knoll Gun Club, near St. Louis, 21. Mo., is to hold its eighth annual tournament Eagle Gun Club, at Manoa, Pa., on Christmas Club at Bay Bidge were excellent. O©ut of a Shoot-off for leg, 25 targets, handicap G. J. Cor at targets on January 2 with turkeys for Eve, Bedman, Jackson and Hoffman tieing total of 10 matches decided full scores were bett, challenger, 1, 25; F. A. Hodgman, defender, prizes. This event annually draws a large with 9 out of 10 targets each. returned in seven of them by from one to scratch, 23. crowd of St. Louis county shooters. four of the competitors. The attendance was Westley-Richards trophy, 20 targets, scratch, UK Charles Munson, the noted New Jersey good, among the visitors being the veteran pairs of doubles F. A. Hodgman, 11; 0. C. Grinnell, The du Pont Company is certainly spar white flyer shot, who was beaten by a single trap shot, © ©Jack©© Fanning, who shot four 10. ing no pains or expense to assure a bright bird by Captain Jack Brewer last week, dis strings from scratch, scoring 25, 24, 23 and future for the club at Wilmington, Del., plays every requisite of a champion and be 21, respectively. Scores: Bergen Beach Shoot. bearing the du Pont name. Lester S. Ger fore many years have passed will rank with December cup, 25 targets, handicap H. W. Wood Bergen Beach, L. I., December 26. Taking man, the great professional, and Luther J. the best that the sport has ever produced. cock, 4, 25; K. E. Fox, Jr., 4, 25; G. Felix, 2, 24; Squier, sterling shooter and office expert, He is a man of fine character and excellent F. B. Stepheiison, scratch, 23; C. H. Pulis, 4, 22; the day into consideration there was a fair have been assigned to coach all beginners at habit, with an athletic physique, fine eyes C. B. James, 2, 21; J. F. James, 2, 19; M. Stiner, field of gunners at the Jamaica Bay traps of the club, who require assistance, on the regu and no lack of courage. scratch, 18; J. H; Vanderveer, 1, 17; J.. S. Lawson, the Bergen Beach Gun Club on Christmas lar shooting days. Every effort is being 5, 16; Dr. C. Atkinson, 5, 12. Eve. There will be no shoot at the Bergen made to develop novices. In addition, Mr. Captain Jack gave a fine exhibition of his Trophy shoot, 25 targets, handicap M. Stiner, Beach Club tomorrow, but the organization, T. C. du Pont, who has become greatly in shooting powers at the Badger Gun Club, scratch, 25; K. E. Fox, Jr., 4, 25; H. W. Woodcock,. will hold a big .tournament on New Year©g terested in the success of the club, has of of Milwaukee, Wis., on December 18, when 4, 25; George Felix, 2, 24; F. B. Stephenson, scratch," Day. The scores: fered a number of the finest grade shotguns he smashed 98 out of 100 targets. He had a, 23; C. K. James, 2, 22; J. F. Smith, 2, 22; J. H. Taigets ...... 25 and rifles to the club for the use of novices straight run of 74 in this score. Ed Schen- Vanderveer, 1, 20; J. S. Lawson, 5, 20; Dr. C. At J. Voorhees ...... 25 or those who do not possess guns. He is del was a-close second. kinson, 5, 16. R. Morgan ...... 19 also willing to provide suitable added money « Trophy shoot, 25 targets, handicap F. B. Stephen- A. V. Suydam ... 17 prizes for novices to encourage them. son, scratch, 24; J. S. Lawson, 5, 24; J. F. James, R. Remsen ...... 23 SLEAR HIGH AT GIRARD. 2, 23; C. R. James. 2, 21; H. W. Woodcock, 4, 21; H. D. Bergen .... 17 Secretary Carl Weise, Jr., of the Grove J. H. Vanderveer, 1, 21; G. Felix, 2, 20; M. Stiner, W. H. Ryder ..... 15 scratch, 20. A. Griffith ...... 17 Gun Club, of Detroit, writes that on account Heads Field in Weekly Aiman System Shoot-off F. B. Stephenson, scratch, 22; J. S. of the holidays the next club shoot will take Lawson, 5, 16. place on January 8. Shooting Match. Stake trophy, 25 targets, handicap J. F. James, 2, Montclair Club Event. 25; J. H. Vanderveer, 1, 25; H. W. Woodcock, 4, Newark, N. J., December 26. A Kickers* Fourteen marksmen contested for five By E. F. Slear. 25; C. H. Pulis, 4, 25; C. R. James, 2, 23; K. E. Fox, Jr., 2, 23; F. B. Stephenson, scratch, 2t; G. Handicap at 50 targets, in strings of 25, for turkeys at the Eagle Gun Club at Manoa, Philadelphia, Pa., December 22. "With the a turkey was won by J. C. Atwater with a, Pa., on December 21, at white flyers. Fish Aiman system of handicapping prevailing 10 Felix, 2, 21; M. Stiner, scratch, 20; J. S. Lawson, 5, 16; Dr. C. Atkinson, 5, 15. score of 49% on the Montclair Gun Club er and Murphy were the highest men, with gunners ©took part in the special target shoot J. F. James trophies. 25 targets, handicap H. W. traps Saturday afternoon. Scores: 9 out of 10. Brewer, Wingate and Walters held by the Girard Woodcock, 4, 25; R. K. Fox, Jr., 4, 25, C, H. Pulis, got 8 each. <(\ ©^TPA/r©MT ITPfiM Gun Club yesterday Hdp. 25 Tl. f\ cJ/

to participate. Strangely enongh the cham pionship went to a white shooter, W. T. Thomas. This is about the same as a man winning a woman©s tennis tournament and being called the woman©s tennis champion. GAME BOOSTERS* Dead 5 hot NEW GAME LAWS URGED. ^ Smokeless

PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBR 31, 1910. Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association Contemplates Action. A THOROUGHLY GOOD SHOT Boston, Mass., December 24. The Massa REVIVAL OF MATCH SHOOTING. chusetts Fish and Game Protective Associa tion will undoubtedly ask new or amended GUN POWDER. The great increase HAT could be more appropriate than that legislation with ref- W Lester S. German, who won the big "P/IM AlONfa erence to the en- shooting match for professionals at the ftUN fiLUIVbr. forcement of the of sales of DEAD SHOT during 1910 Post-Series tournament at Indianapolis last A SPORTJWN"SH/I/IT HAL5"WONT gameis not laws, read buty toit October, should be the challenger of William onuyi UULU malke pubiic jms,. rewards us fully for the care we have R. Crosby, the holder of the E. C. cup? what changes are When this match is shot on January 7 at contemplated. In the Chicago Gun Club the eyes of the shoot fact, some of the always taken in making DEAD SHOT. ing world will be focused on the scene of the questions involved in this matter are struggle. It will be a contest between the merely "in the To the host of DEAD SHOT Mentis we representative of the younger generation, a air," and the dis- shooter who has developed to his highest icussiqns of them shall continue to guarantee Stability, ability within the past few years, and a by the legislative marksman who was a champion more than committee have not Velocity, Regular and Even Patterns. a. decade ago, but who is still capable of reached the propor tions of agreed coping with any shooter that the world can facts. Some insight, produce. It has been more than 10 years however, may be eince this trophy has been shot for. In that gathered from the timei trap shooting has grown by leaps and statements made by bounds, and this more than any other reason Henry Hastings Kimball, the executive secre CHICAGO has been responsible for the paucity of con tary, who said: "We do not feel that the STI.OUIS BOSTON tests such as the German-Crosby match will deer laws are right. The matter was brought up only yesterday -for committee opinions, produce. There are now so many big handi but it was -referred to the annual meeting, caps, State tournaments, and registered shoots which comes on the second Wednesday of next that matches of individual skill between month. I am not quite prepared to say champions have grown few and far between. what action will be taken with reference to Possibly this event will revive them, but if the killing and, perhaps, slaughter of deer not it will at least serve the purpose of being in the open and other seasons in this State. a stimulus to shooting, and will give a good My own opinion, however, is that end-off to the year of 1911, which promises RIGHTS THE FARMERS HAVE to be the banner year for trap shooting. For at present to kill deer found doing dam The "Old Reliable" Parker Gun 1911 the Gun Editor of "Sporting Life" age to their premises in all seasons of the year should be amended and restricted. WINS for the EIGHTH TIME wishes success to the Interstate Association, That there is needless slaughter of these ani to all its members, and a full trophy and mals there is not the slightest doubt. We game bag to every shooter! have received many letters from men and The Grand American Handicap women in all sections of the State, who pro test against this slaughter. In many in stances doe-bearing fawn have been killed, SCORE of 100 STRAIGHT From 19 YARDS WANT LATER OPENING. and there ought to be some way to stop this At Chicago, 111., June 23, 1910 sort of thing, which is even worse than R. JOSEPH KALBFUS, Secretary of the slaughter, and cannot be too strongly con Mr. Riley Thompson, of Cainsville, Mo., made this record, which has D Pennsylvania State Game Commission, demned. Here is a case that I know of. It never before been equalled in this classic event. is another advocate of the later starting occurred in Franklin only a short time ago. The PABKBR GUN in the hands of Mr. Guy. V. Deering, also won the A doe going through a rye field in Franklin Amateur Championship at Chicago, June 24 scoring: 189x200, shooting: at 160 of the season for quail, wild turkeys, squirrels was singles and 20 doubles. and pheasants. He believes that the game is SHOT BY A FARMER, The Prize Winners and Champions shoot the PARKER GUN. Why Don©t You? not good until the cold weather sets in and and it was found that this deer was bearing that it is an exceptional Fall in which the three fawn. One of the State©s wardens really cold frosty weather is in evidence be made an investigation. He found that the fore November. This year there was no animal in working through the farmer©s field PARKER BROS. really cold weather in Pennsylvania until of rye did not cause a damage of 25 cents New York Salesrooms, after the season for most of this game had to the farmer. The farmer was no doubt 32 Warren Street Meriden, Conn. opened. The sentiment in favor of this acting entirely within his rights under the present laws, but it seems to me and to change has been growing rapidly in the many members of this association and to Btate and it is likely some move will be thousands of people in this State that there made shortly. ought to be a decent, HUMANE AND RIGHT WAY When Ordering Loads for of getting over the matter without the pos RANDOM SHOTS. sibility of anything happening such as I have told. My opinion is that there might TXTE BELIEVED it was only a matter of be an open season oftener than at present, FIELD OR TRAP SHOOTING " time before it would come to pass, and and to take away the privilege given to farm ers to kill at any time.©© Mr. Kimball says now it has happened. An aviator, Hu that quail are being reported fairly abund SPECIFY FOR bert Latharn, the noted Frenchman, has shot ant in some sections of the State. He says a duck from his aeroplane while flying at that the majority of the best sportsmen are full speed over a marsh near Los Angeles, holding off killing these; birds so that they Cal. Now visionary people are having won can multiply. He states that these birds are derful dreams of hunting expeditions in only just beginning to show signs of being fairly plenty after terrible decemina©tion in aeroplanes. Well, we will hardly live to the Winters of 1903 and 1904. see it. Latharn©s experience came about in this manner: The Frenchman had been giv RAIL 1ST 17 Michigan Sportsmen Working. ing exhibitions near the Bolsa Chica Gun Marquette, Mich., December 23. Thomas fc^ A PERFECT Club©s preserve and went aloft with a shotgun B. Wyman, of Munising, president of the slung over his shoulder. Passing over a Upper Peninsula Sportsmen©s Association, flock of birds feeding he guided his craft has called a meeting of the clubs forming the with one hand, and when the birds rose "DENSE© SMOKELESS POWDER organization, to be held at Marquette. He brought a duck down with one shot. fe-els the importance of the sportsmen of the region getting together and working in har Evans R. Darlington, Joseph Griesedieck and 8151 Poles. From four other non-English- mony for favorable game legislation, and he believes that more can be accomplished in Frederick W. Holtgrewe, all of St. Louis, speaking nations there were 14,149, making E ALL like to hear good things about four shares together; William N. Pearce, of ourselves, though from a sense of mod this manner than by individual effort. He a total of 37,000 aliens unacquainted with W St. Louis, four shares; John W. Drabefle, esty we generally forebear repeating has written the various gun clubs, urging the English language destined to our State them to send one or more representatives, trustee for Theo. Hemmelmann, Jr., of St. in a single year." them. However, the following letter from and from the responses received he is assured Louis, one share; Herman C. Stifel, one Frank Eames, President of the Pennsylvania that the meeting will be largely attended by share; H. C. Stifel, trustee for O. Schraub- State Sportsmen©s Association, and one of Missouri Season Closing. men from all over the district. There is a stedter, W. Straubstedter, J. B. Heydt, Hugo the best known shooting authorities in the considerable sentiment in the peninsula fav St. Louis, Mo., December 26. The season B. Stifel, one share each; Herman C. Stifel, for squirrels closed December 21 in Missouri. country, is too good to keep to ourselves orable to limiting the deer slaughter to one trustee for Sylvester Judge, one share; A. deer to each hunter, and probably that one All other game seasons close December 31, and we therefore display it below. The let Hilton and George F. Macgregor, Daniel G. excepting for ducks, geese, brant and snipe. ter follows: a buck, and this recommendation will be one Taylor, Isaac T. Cook, Charles Theuner, Jos. of the projects discussed. Rabbits, coons and possums are not protected Philadelphia, Pa., December 21. Editor "Sporting Griesedieck and Mrs. O. T. Upshaw, of St. and may be killed, shipped and sold in any Life. Dear Sir: Keep up your articles on game pro Louis, one share each; Charles Cunliff, of St. quantity. All hunting licenses expire Decem tection, refuses, sportsmen in touch with farmers, etc New Preserve for Missouri. Louis, 34 shares. The capital stock is $10,- ber 31. A license is required to hunt any, The Pennsylvania State Sportsmen©s Association is St. Louis, Mo., December 24. Articles of 000, one-half paid. kind of game, protected or otherwise. It is working along these lines and such articles as have incorporation were filed some days ago for proposed to liberate 4000 pairs of Hungarian appeared in this direction in "Sporting Life" are a the formation of the Niangua Fish and Game Dr. Hornaday on Bird Killing. partridge after the game season closes iu good education for the many sportsmen who read Preserve. The object is to acquire property New York, N. Y., December 26. Dr. W. Missouri. your paper throughout the State. This is, of course and form a big fishing lake in Camden ———————t———————— by way of suggestion. When the accounts of the T. Hornaday, the famous authority, writes efforts of (lie, state Association reach you I feel sure County, Mo., near the famous Ha Ha Tonka interestingly in regard to the killing of birds Northern Kentucky Club Shoot. you will find them worthy of your support. Very Park. The incorporators are: Warwick by immigrants, as follows: "Although prac truly yours, l<\ M. EAMES. Hough, Wm. N. Pearce, John W. Dornbelle, tically all Americans havp now been educated Dayton, Ky., December 22. Low scores Charles Thouner, Robert Bachman, of St. entirely beyond the killing of song birds, were made at the regular weekly Northern Louis, one share each; Robert G. Scott and there is danger in the air. There are foreign Kentucky Gun Club shoot on Saturday. The HIS is the season of the year for stories L. C. Scott, of Ha Ha Tonka, Mo., one share bird killers to reckon with who kill and eat day was cloudy and dark, and the poor light, T of captures of bear cubs in the woods each; Warwick Hough, trustee for Charles everything from vireos to vultures. These combined with a strong cross wind, made with the determination of their captors P. Hough, of Jefferson City, Mo., and same words should be emblazoned on the escutch the targets extremely difficult. White, of to tame them and keep them for pets. They trustee for W. D. Lawry, Jesse D. McDonald eon of every game association, every Audti- Butterpint, Ky., made the highest score in and Geo. C. R. Wagoner, of St. Louis, one bon society and every natural History so any event, breaking 24 out of 25. Dameron, ought to be guided by past experience of share each; Charles Cunliff, trustee for ciety in the country. As soon as possible who usually breaks up into the nineties, fell many who have tried the same thing and Charles W. Holtkamp and Chas. Truit©t, C. R. after the alien steps foot on American soil down to 84. The scores: save their time. These animals are usually Miltenberger, Jos. McCarthy, Charles L. Bern- he should be confronted with the game laws J. B. C...... Ill in 1!) ID 7& tame and playful when young, but generally hadt, W. G. Moore, John F. Elliott, all of in the language of his native land. This is Damerou ...... :>l "2 »a J©J St develop ugly tendencies later, and make mis St. Louis, one share each; L. C. Scott, trustee not only a kindness to the newcomer,, but is Lavenie ...... l!D 11 .. .. ;;j chief. for George Kumpf, Charles Opel, Nathan absolutely essential for the protection of our White ...... 2J ...... 2^ Scarritt, Brinkler Bros., Beatrice McDonald, song and insectivorous birds and game. The. Holaduy ...... 15 2;; 22 .. 00 George Hoffman, all of Kansas City, Mo., 18 August bulletin of the National Bureau of HIS season the Afro-American Trap Shoot shares together; R. C. Scott, trustee for Statistics shows that 606,467 immigrant A flno .specimen nl© -(lie wild goose, described as Charles Granger, J. R. Orwig, of Ha Ha turkey, was secured on Hamilton T ers© League instituted a new departure aliens coming to the United States in the Hay, Out., about 200 yards from the shore early in Tonka, E. E. Sanders, of Stoutland, and Fred last 10-year period to 1910 were destined October. At that time the weather was too warm for at their annual tournament at Pleasant Nelson, of Lebanon, five shares together; J. for Massachusetts. Of these, in a single Hill, Mo., when they allowed white shooters lucks, but the goose evidently came down in W. Drabelle, trustee for Seneca N. Taylor, year, 1908, there were 14,700 Italians and advance and was caught. ©DECEMBER 31, 1910 15

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Felix brought to the ground 20 on his firs* him to tie with Emerson and win a spoon. promise of some day making their mark ii^ FISHING FACTS* round and was credited with 21 on his final© George was the-leading gun in the 50-target the trap shooting game. They were Edward sta.nd. Twenty-three men entered the 9-biri try-out event. Of this number of targets he Heathcote, Jr., 12 years old, and Windsor SCIENTISTS STUDY FISH. race, and the shooting continued until dark. broke 35, just beating out Sloan and Hoag Cushing, aged 14. Scores: Six men tied for the high gun, each getting land by a bird. Scores: 10 15 10 15 T. D. A. 1st 2d T. G. 8 of his 9 birds. Six gunners brought to Dist. Hp. 25 Menamin ...... 3 5 2 12 22 16 1* 18 17 45 58 Reason For Whiteness of Underside of earth 7 of their birds, four losing a chance Sloan ...... 20 4 Walters ...... 6 8 8 10 32 18 8 16 19 43 67 to tie for first money by losing their last Soley ...... 19 6 Kirsch ...... 6 7 5102816 814113353 Finny Tribe Explained.. bird. Scores: Thomas (30), 42; Felix (30), Emerson ...... 19 6 G. Smith ...... 6 12 7 7 32 18 8 18 16 42 66 New York, December 27. There©s no 41: Murdock ...... 18 S Cook ...... 6 .. .. 10 10 16 19 14 17 41 57 phenomenon of nature that escapes the in George ...... IS 8 Umholtz ...... 7 7 22 17 10 16 18 4.4 56 Nine bird race, handicap rise, 27 to 31 yards: McNamine ...... 16 10 Lindley ...... 19 6 15 13 34 28 vestigating eye of science. Abroad they have Hp. K.| Hp. K. been experimenting Harkins ...... V..... 16 14 W. Smith ...... 3 7 9 10 29 18 8 18 12 38 59 Rudd ...... 3ft 8|McCullough ...... 28 6 Hoagland ...... 16 14 Longbrake ...... 6 12 8 9 35 18 8 11 16 38 65 with flounders in Fisher ...... SO© 81Aiman ...... ;;0 6 .Coyle ...... 19 6 Sloan ...... 9 11 7 14 41 20 4 18 19 41 78 order to determine Felix ...... 30© 8|Jacobs ...... 29 6 Fenn ...... IS 10 Kinckner ...... 8 10 5 9 32 17 10 IS 17 45 60 Hoffman ...... 30 SJBlakerly ...... whether the white Cook ...... 10-©14 Hall ...... 8 3 10 13 16 16 15 15 15 46 53 ness of the under McFalls ...... 29 8|Knowles ...... Emery .... Soley ...... 8 9 5 12 34 19 6 16 20 42 70 sides of those fish Rader ...... SO 8|Winsate ...... Lemrhons 10 J. Emerson . 7 11 9 12 38 19 6 17 18 41 74 is diie to the ex Murphy ...... 30 7|Lohmiller ...... Mace ..... 8 35 Turner ...... 8 7 10 32 18 8 1« 15 39 63 clusion of light, Paul ...... SO 7[\Villiams ...... James .... 6 37 Murdock ..... 4 9 13 18 8 20 16 44 49 and the presence ForsyUie ...... 29 7| Kames ...... Garrett ... 1C SI Kauffman .... 7 10 8 14 39 17 10 16 17 43 72 Mulior ...... :;0 7|Riyel ...... MacAlonah 20- 36 Kernan ...... 7 8 5 9 29 16 16 10 11 37 5ft of color on their Eckenlwffer ...... 30 7|Bovier ...... Turner 38 Pancoast ...... 4 3 5 12 ...... upper sides to ex Sheller ...... 28 7| 29 posure to light, Dr. Roe .. Heathcote, Sr. 9 11 8 12 40 19 8 17 19 44 7(5 FIFTY-TARGET EVENT. Heathcote, Jr. 3© 3 4 9 19 16 20 7 6 33 33 ©"ish have been kept B. Tl. Davis ...... 16 .. 12 18 36 30 _"ass tank PHILADELPHIA SHOOTS. Sloan 7 34 Herbert ...... 55 15 16 14 12 8 34 35 having a mirror Soley 5 Cushing ...... 5 3 8 16 20- 8 14 42 30 9 33 Lemon ...... 7 .. 7 16 12 8 11 31 26 Tansey Leads in Highland Club©s Shoot, Murdock ...... 7 10 33 0. Smith ...... 3 .. 3 ...... George ...... 6 9 35 G. Emrey ...... 16 12 15 19 46 34 While Hoagland Tops Meadow Spring McNamine ...... 5 7 24 Dr. Roe ...... 16 14 14 11 39 25 Shooters Other Scores. Harkins ...... 5 4 25 McAlonan ...... ^ .. 16 20 11 16 47 37 for three years under conditions so strangely Hoagland ...... 8 10© 34 Renner ...... 17 10 20 20 50 4-0 Philadelphia, Pa., December 26. The fields Coyle ...... 8 10 Metzger ...... 10 4 15 17 36 32 different from its ordinary habits of life, and Torpey ...... 20 I 16 18 38 34 it exhibited the development of spots or at the Christmas shoot of the Highland Gun Cook ...... 4 5 24 pigments on its lower surface. The experi Club at Edge Hill on Christmas Rve were Emery ...... 8 9 33 rather small, but there WHS no doubt, of the Lemmons ...... 4 9 28 menters have concluded that it is exposure Mace ...... 9 9 S3 SHOOT FOR WHITE HOUSE. to light that causes the coloration of the Christmas feeling that pervaded the club house and grounds. That there was not a James ...... 8 33 upper parts of the bodies, not onjy of flound Brown ...... 3 Crescent Club Will Hold New Year©s Day ers, but of other fish, and, conversely, that larger turn-out was undoubtedly due to the Pancoast * ...... 3 it is to the comparative absence of light that many demands on the members at this season MacAlonan ...... 5 Event With Big Entry. the whiteness of the under side is due. They of the year and the disagreeable weather. Tu rner ...... 5 extend the same principle to explain thr. There were two events on the program of 50 Roland ...... 3 By Bay C. Stryker. targets each, and the shootdrs were divided colorless condition of the skins of many ani White House, N. J., December 26. The mals that pass all their lives in caves. into club classes, so that it was not possible for any one to hog all the honors. The" high Bowers Whitemarsh Winner. annual New Year©s Day shoot of the Crescent gun honors went to Tom Tansey, who cracked Philadelphia, Pa.., December 26. The regu Gun Club will be held on Monday, January Stock Massachusetts Streams. 94 of his 100 targets. The winners of the lar weekly handicap shoet at targets was 2. The event is Boston, Mass., December 24. The Massa different classes were as follows:* Class A, held Christinas Eve by the Whitemarsh Val handled by Ray C. chusetts Fish and Game Protective Associa Lanctis, Tansey, Newcomb and Griffith; Class ley Country "Club, and despite the unfavor Stryker and B. L. tion has just finished its work of stocking B, Crothers, Cooper, Dr. Wentz and Davis: able weather conditions the event was a Lindsley. The tar Massachusetts streams with 20,000 fingerling Class C, Anderson, Franklin, Harkins and successful one. There were two events on get program will be trout. The organization has been doing this Boyer; Class D, Lindley, Firth, Cheston and the card, both handicap events at 50 targets separate from the with other work for several years, beginning Crothers, Sr. The scores: each, and the handicaps being in added tar bull shoot and the in 1906, and since that time, including the CLASS A. gets. R. A. Bowers shot in excellent form poultry shoot. Last output this year, 205,000 fingerling trout Gr. in both events, and with the aid of his, han year there were 69 have been scattered in Massachusetts. This B. B. Tl. B. B. Tl. Tl. dicap of eight targets carried off first prize gunners on the year every county in the State has received Tansey ...... 25 22 47 25 32 47 , 94 in both contests. The first prize in©the first grounds, and this its quota. This distribution is entirely Newcomb ...... 21 22 46 20 23 46© 92 event was a 25-pound turkey and in the year the number separate from anything of the sort done Griffith ...... 2L 2.©! 44 23 23 40 second a pair of gold links. Dr. C. D. Crooks will be increased. Lewis ...... i... 22 24 46 21 22 43 made the highest actual score in the first In the bull shoot under the direction of the. State Fish and Ljndis ...... 22 24 46 22 20 42. Game Commission. In fact, it was this with 38, but Bowers outshot the field in .the the conditions are organization which demonstrated to the State CLASS B. second event. The score: 12 - guage guns authorities that there was a loud call for the Gr. Fifty .targets, handicap, shoot at 40 yards, B. B. Tl. .B. B. Tl. .Tl. Hdp. Bk. 10.guage gujjg at stocking of waters in the State with trout. Crothers ...... 22 21 43 23 21 44 Consequently, in addition to the fingerling K. A. Bowers ...... 37 42 yards> doubie- Wentz ...... 16 22 38 19 23 42 Dr. C. D. Crooks ...... barre1© breech-load- trout raised by the State Commissioners at Davis ...... 16 20 30 17 15 32 W. D. Edsom ...... 32 Sutton this year, the State Commission has i©ratt ...... >.... 14 19 33 13 18 31 H. E. Perry ...... ing guns only al. purchased from outside sources 60,000 little Cooper ...... 20 18 38 21 .. 21 J. R. Umstead ...... 28 lowed, shot stick trout for distribution. CLASS C. S. Boyd Carrigan ...... 17 ing nearest centre to win. The bull weighs Gr. Fifty targets, handicap. 1230 pounds. The target events also prom Case of a Sturgeon. B. B. Tl. B. B. Tl. Tl. Hdp. Bk. ise to be interesting. Harkins ...... IS 21 39 23 22 15 84 R. A. Bowers .... 33 « . New York, December 26. In 1880 a young Anderson ...... 20 21 41 21 21 42 J. R. Umstead ... 31 sturgeon was caught in a fish wheel in the Boyer ...... 10 22 38 19 21 JO Dr. C. D. Crooks Penrose Club Shoot. Columbia River and given to Dr. W. H. G. Clark, ...... 13 18 31 23 18 41 S. Boyd Carrigan Philadelphia, Pa., December 27. A. b©,s; Adams, of Hood River. The fish was placed Franklin ...... 18 23 41 .. .. W. . E. Edsom field of holiday gunners participated ©n thij in the smaller of the two ponds on the CLASS D. H. E. Perry ...... 5 2 10-bird event of the Penrose Gun Club, which Adams ranch. Some years ago the ponds was shot yesterday afternoon at McKinley©s. filled with grass and weeds, and the water B. B. Tl. B. B. Tl. Meadow Spring Christmas Shoot. Of the 26 men shooting, Caldwell was the only became so shallow that the back of the Liudley .... 19 15 34 18 23 41 Cheston 11 17 28 21 17 38 Philadelphia, Pa., December 27.--One of one to run straight, he grassing every one of sturgeon -was blistered by the sun. The fish his flyers quickly and accurately. On only was then moved to the pool of a fountain Firth ...... 17 15 32 14 19 33 the best crowds of trap shooters of the sea Crothers, Sr. 12 10 22 12 . . 12 son turned out at the annual poultry shoot of two flyers did he use two barrels. Edwards, on the farm, where it swam about in a after losing his first flyer, ran straignt, fin circle. It kept growing till it was six feet the Meadow Spring Gun Club yesterday. Sec Hoagland Leads Meadow Spring. ishing with a score of 9 and capturing sec-_ long and the pool was too small a place for retary Murdock had arranged an attractive ond money. Five gunners all took a hand in it to be kept in. when Mrs. Sue Adams, own Philadelphia, Pa., December 26. A little er of the farm, returned from Portland. program for the afternoon, and the club had sharing up the cash for the high men. lu, of everything was handed out in the prize hung up 13 live chickens and a half dozen the five-bird event five men ran straight.j She ordered the release of the pet fish, and line by Secretary Murdock, of the Meadow silver spoons. The shoot was at 100 targets, the big fellow was carted to the Columbia Spring Gun Club on Christmas Eve in the Scores: but the first 50 were sort of practice events Ten-bird event, handicap rise from 27 to 32 yards River and set free. Friends said the big yearly shoot of the club at the 57th street for the prize shoot and served to get the fish would swim in circles in the river. and Lancaster avenue traps. The conditions Ben Caldwell 30, 10; J. Edwards, SO, 9; F. Mc- "When released the sturgeon seemed dazed were 50 targets per man, handicap rise with shooters in shape for the prizes. The for Nellis, 30©, 8; P.. Short, 28, 8; C. Simons, 28, 8; for a moment only. Then he rushed straight tunate winners were Harry Sloan, who car P. Simons 28, 8; H. Brooks 27, 8; J. Sheviley . 30, a dead bird added handicap, high scores to ried off a pair of fowls for high net scorp, 7; Boddy 28, 7; H. Shetsline 28,© 7; S. Simon 27, 7; down the river for deep water. win the prizes. There was also a 50-target C. McK. 28, 6; H. Simon 27, bV try-out event, which preceded the prize shoot. he smashing 78 of his 100 targets, a more than ordinarily low score for him, due to a Five-bird .evc-nt MeNellis, 30, 5; S. Simon 27/5; .Hoaglaiid made the best total score of the Ben Caldwell, 30, 5; Rody, 28, 5; H. Shetsline, 26, Thomas Defeats Felix. day, although to achieve this honor he had bad attack of rheumatism that made him 3; Pat Short. 28, 4; Worner 28, 4; Munford, 28, Philadelphia, Pa., December 27. S©. L. to fall back on his handicap. He totaled 46 uncertain, especially on quartering birds. A 4; C. Bastian, 28, 4; Phil Simon, 28, 4; H. Simon, Thomas won .by a bird from A. A. Fe©ix in .for© the shoot, breaking 32 of his 50 targets, feature of the afternoon was the shoot-off be 27, 3; H. Brooks, 27; 3; C. McKinley, 28, 3. an exciting 50-bird race shot yesterday morn and reaching the top rung position through tween Torpey and Soley, that had been hang . _ ^_» . , ing at Manoa under the auspices of the a liberal handicap of 14 added targets. This ing fire since last year©s league shoot be Sparrow shooting is a feature of Aus Eagle Gun Club. Out of his 50 flyers Thomas entitled him to a pair of chickens. Emerson cause the shooters never could get together. tralian trap shooting. At the championship grassed 42, while Felix was just one sh^ of an4 Cook both tied for second high gun with It was at 25 targets, and was one: of the best sparrow_ shoot of Millicent. Gun Club, South, this number. Both men shot from a 30-yard 45 apiece. The former broke 39 of his tar contested of the day, Torpey winning by th.3 Australia, the conditions were five sparrows rise. Thomas shot better on his last , round gets, and with a handicap of six managed to small margin of a single target, the score be at 19 yards, 21 yards, 23 yards and 25 than, his first, grassing 20 of his first 2i? canture a nice fat chicken. Cook only broke ing 21 to 20. Squaded with the Meadow yards, respectively. W. H. Numan was the birds, aad only losing 3 oh his last round. 31 of his 50 targets;-©but his handicap©enabled Spring shooters were two lads who give every winner, with a total of 17. 16 SPORTING LIFE

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CHICAGO SHOOTING NEWS. hope the foot will mend quickly, so that he will be a match at 100 white flyers for $100 a side men finished the match in remarkable form, able to get around soon, and don©t forget, Davis, at the Eagle Gun Club grounds, Manoa, yes each man getting his 25 flyers straight. that we miss you out here at the club. terday. Brewer \von the match by the small Brewer finished with a straight r\m of 47., Blizzard Fails to Keep Devotees From the Although we had a fine afternoon for target shoot margin of one, landing 93 out of 100, against Munson dropped his last 26 straight, losing ing only four shooters appeared at the park, Parker Traps on Sunday, and Stannard coming out first, and finding no other 92 for Munson. The match was for the two in a row before starting his final streak, shooters here they shot a few rounds and hurried back championship of New Jersey, and it attracted of clean scoring. The men shot in splendid By O. P. Zach«r. on an early train to finish up some business. They a large gathering from various points in, form, considering the cold weather, and the were gone only a short time when GosTi and Fltz- Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, flyers proved to be a fast lot. The scores: Chicago, 111., December 23. The lovers of sirumons came along and shot four frames of 25. many wing and target shooters of prominence Brewer 20, 24, 24, 25; total killed, 93; missed 7. hooting at the Chicago Gun Cltrb were not being on hand to witness the shoot. Both Munson 23, 22, 22, 25; total killed, 92; missed 8. balked by the blizzard on Sunday, December 18. The attendance on Saturday, however, CLEVELAND HOLDS WEEKLY SHOOT only numbered four. Scores: SUNDAY SHOOT. Forest City Gunners Contest in the Vari Targets ...... Up. 25 25 T.*10*10 T. 23 25 25 25 ous Trophy Events. 3. S. Young ...... 20 22 23 45 12 IS 25 23 2;i .. .. O. F. Stenimer ..... 19 If) 18 37 ...... J9 ...... L. M. Fetherston .. 19 30 L©O 40 11 S l!l ...... By F. H. Wallace. W. F. Riley ...... 18 21 22 4;! 11 0 20 22 18 .. .. Cleveland, O., December 22. The regular C. H. Seelig ...... 18 17 14 31 8 10 18 16 ...... weekly shoot of the Cleveland Gun Club was PPENDED will be found a complete Columbus (Ga.) Gun Club, Columbus, Ga., Tues P. Miner ...... 18 IS 14 32 8 10 18 ...... and correct list of all shooting day. George II. Waddell, secretary. © Gco. Eck ...... 19 14 13 29 13 8 21 ...... held last Saturday with about 18 inches of _ snow on the ground and a biting cold wind events scheduled for the near or Columbus (0.) Gun Ciu©u. Columbus, 0.. Wednes O. W. Crocker ..... 18 18 19 37 7 9 16 15 ...... remote future. The list comprises day and Saturday. Lon Fisher, secretary. J. A. Taggart ..... 18 20 20 40 7 11 18 18 19 13 .. blowing. But it could not keep the shooters tournaments registered under the Dover Gun Club. Dover. Del., Wednesday. Wm. H. J. Stcis ...... 16 13 11 24 ...... 14 12 13 14 away, and they had a fine afternoon©s sport. auspices of the Inter-State Asso n. Reea, secretary. W. Molt ...... 16 10 18 28 7 11 18 ...... ©. Preparations on a huge scale are being made ciation; tournaments not regis Du Bois Gun Club, Du Bols, r©.u, Thursday. W. S. J. S. Cole ...... 16 18 2.©! 41. 12 11 23 10 ...... for the thirty-first annual New Year shoot, N. Crouse, secretary. W. IX Standard ... 10 20 25 15 13 17 30 ...... which will be held on January 2. Scores: tered but listed by independent organiza Dr. Tlobb ...... 16 16 (4 30 ...... 12 ...... tions; and fixed club events. Secretaries of Forest City Gun Club, Savannah, Ga., Friday. W. Mrs. Felherstoii .... 16 14 17 31 ...... 20 ...... Kvent 1, December trophy contest. gun clubs are requested to see that any J. Thompson, president. Mrs. Taggart ..... 1(J ...... 10 ,. .. Hp. Bk. Tl.| Hp. Bk. Tl events scheduled by their clubs are entered Frontier l!oa and Gun Club, Buffalo, N. T., Sun H. A. Dunham .... 16 ...... 10 ...... Blakeslee ...... 0 4!) 49jHrown .. . 5 42 t; in this standing calendar and any corrections day. H. C. Utz, secretary. *Ten pairs. * Ambler ...... 5 44 4!) | Rogers .. . 5 42 4; aro promptly announced. Gartsden Gun Club, Gadsden, Ala., Thursd\y. B. Wallace .... 7 43 4fl;stevens . . 12 33 4.1 C. Little, secretary. Five pairs W. Moll S, 3. S. Cole 7, W. .P. Stan Aflick ...... 3 15 4S|Rock ... nard 6. Tournaments Registered. Hanover Gun Club, Wilniington, N. C., Saturday NOTES. Grant ...... 5 43 48jHopkins J. If. Dreher. Event 2, Directors© cup contest. DECEMBER. Highland Gun Club, Edge Hill, Pa.. Saturday. Despite the wind and snow several good scores were J. Franklin Mcehan, secretary. made, Young carrying away most of the first honors. Hp. lik. Tl.| Hp. Bk. Tl. December 28-29 White Marsh, Pa. White Marsh Gun Brown ...... 5 45 4!>| Rogers .. 30 44 Club. H. K. Buekwalter, manager. Hudson Gun Club. Jersey City, N. J., Sunday. T. .1. S. Cole. I he genial and pleasant IT. M. (©.- Wallace ...... 7 41 1S| Uoekwell 32 44 December 31 Wellington. Mass. Paleface Gun Club, H. Kelley. secretary. Remington representative, drifted nut our way, stopping 32 44 II. C. Kirkwood, secretary. Iladclonfield Gun Ciub. Haddonfleld, N. J., Satur here for a day on his way to Detroit. day. Kd. Webster, secretary. Stevens . .... 12 35 47J Ambler ...... 5 38 4;; 1911. A regular old-fashioned blizzard raged Sunday after Blakislee .... 3 43 46|Hopp ...... 12 28 40 Holland Gun Club, Batavia. N. T., Saturday. C. January 2. White House, N. J. Crescent Gun Club. noon, hut it failed to dampen the spirits of the Jivent S, make-ups for Directors© trophies W. Gardiner. secretary. 17 shooters who fared the Imps on the firing lino ami Hp. Bk. Tl. K. C. Stryker. secretary. San Souei Gun Club. St. Louis, Mo., Saturday and Hp. Bk. Tl. January 5 Phoenixville, Pa. Phoenixville Gun Club. Sunday. O. D. Xahm, secretary. the many spectators who watched the sport" from the Rogers ...... 5 45 4!) Uoekwell ...... 12 34 46 club house windows. P. W Sueisford. manager. Jeiikintown Gun Club. Abington, Pa. Last Satur Blakeslee .... 3 44 47|Hopp ...... 12 3U 42 January 6 Pottstown. Pa. Shuler Shooting Club. day. J. M. Hiltcbeitel, secretary. A good waim fire in the cliib house made it com Afliek ...... 3 41 47j John M. Yerger, manager. Jersey City Gun Club. Jersey City, N. J., Wedne»- fortable and after the marksmen had shot a frame Event 4, special. January 10, 11, 12. 13 Hamilton, Ont., Canada. day. 3 Lewis, secretary. they would gather around the stove to warm up. Hp. Bk. Tl.; Hp. Bk. Tl. Hamilton Gun Club. D. A. Wilson, secretary. Kirk©.vood Gun Clu©o, Kirkwood, Mo., Saturday. C. and all had a fine time, enjoying the shooting, chatting Rogers ...... 5 45 )!1| Brown .. 5 40 45 JUNK. Schneider, secretivy and visiting with each other, and altogether the spirit. Grant ...... 5 4:©, 48 ! Grank G. 5 40 45 Kansas City Gun Club, Kansas City, Mo., third of sociability reigned supreme. Hopkins ...... 12 35 47| June 20, 21, 22, 23 Eugene. Ore. The Pacific In Thursday. 11. S. KH©utt, secretary. Young cleaned up In the next two frames of 25 *Scores to count for Directors© yearly trophies. dians. Frank C. lUelil. secretary. Laureate Boat Club, Troy, N. Y., Saturday. John by breaking 23 in each frame. losing only four out of Fanell, secretary. the 50. Riley gave him a close chase by getting 22. Tournaments Not Registered, Macaulay Guii Club, Newark, N. 3., Wednesday Grove Club Scores. J. H. Dreher. while .Mrs. Ketherston showed her mettle by coming in DECEMBER, 1910. with 20. Mrs. Taggart tried a 12-guage for tlie first Detroit, Mich., December 23. At the last Missouri It©v©er Gun Club, Kansas City, Mo., first time and broku 10 out of 25. December 29 Freehold, X. J. Freehold Gun Club, Tuesday. Howard Ilarlin, secretary. regular shoot of the Grove Gun Club Tristem Maltby W. Conover, secretary. Montclair Gun Club. Montclair, N. J., Saturday. In event No. 1, at 50 singles, Young ground Up 45 and Weise, Jr., tied for Class A honors, both JANUAKY, 1911. Edward Wlnslow, secretary. from the 20-yard mark, Stannard also getting 45, breaking 20 out of 25. Jacob SchaefTer won Meadow Spring Gun Club, Philadelphia, Pa., Sat shooting from IB yards. Riley kept quite close on January 2 Cleveland, O. Cleveland Gun Club. F. urday. W H Murdock. secretary. their tracks by landing 13 from 18 yards, while Cole Class B honors with 18 out of 25. Dr. H. Wallace, secretary. Mountain View Gun Club, Troy, N. Y., Saturday. came in with a score of 41. Fetherstim and Taggart, Joerin won Class C honors with 1 ."> out of January 2----Philadelphia, Pa. Independent Gun Club. 3. 3. Farrell. secretary. each broke 10. Fetherston from 1!) yards and Taggart. 25. and Jack Porter won Class D honors with C. H. Xewcomb. secretary. Northern Kentucky .Jim Club, E. Dayton, 0., Sat from IS yards. 9-25. At the last regular meeting the fol January 2fi Freehold, N. J. Freehold Gun Club. urday and Sunday T. P. Could, secretary. Sociability is one of the things we need at nil our lowing officers were elected for the ensuing; Maltby W. Conover, secretary. New York A. C., Travers Island, N. Y., Saturday, clulj meets, and we are glad to see quite an im year: President, Jacob SchacfFer; vice presi FEBRUARY. P. K. Robinson, secretary. provement lu it., for when eacli and every member dent, Joseph Smith; secretary and treasurer, Ossining Gun Club, Ossining, N. Y., Saturday. J. February 16 Freehold, N. J. Freehold Gun Club. T. Ilylaiul, secretary. makes it his or her business to make it pleasant for Carl Weise, Jr.; captain, Paul Weise; as Maltby W. Conover, secretary. everyone else it is time well spent, and all enjoy the sistant captain, Dr. Joerin; Board of Direc Onondaga County Gun Club, Syracuse, N. Y., third afternoon and feel as though they want to be with tors, Joseph Prance, Joseph Smith and Ja MARCH. Wednesday. T. E. Clay, secretary. us as often as circumstances will permit. cob Schaeffer. The scores: March 17 Freehold, X. J. Freehold Gun Club. Paleface Gun Clu©o, Wellington, Boston, Mass., (©rocker brought along four friends, or perhaps it. Maltby W. Conover, secretary. Wednesday. Horace Kirkwood, secretary. Events ...... Pillow Gun Club, Pillow, Pa., Saturday. 3. A. would be coming a little closer to the mark if I Targets ...... APJUL. Binsaman, secretary. would say that his friend. C. S. McDonald, brought Weise, Sr...... 8 7 !) 19 20 them out in his automobile. This was their first visit April 20 Freehold, N. J. Freehold Gun Club. lUchmond Gun Club, ~ ©.chmond, Va., Saturday. Tristem ...... 9 10 9 20 21 Maltby W. Conover, secretary- V. Hechler. secretary. to our park, and while none of them have ever tried Porter ...... 6 7 G !) 10 Roanoke Gun Club, Eoanoke. Va., Saturday. B. their hand at. trap shooting, we hope to enlist them Sehaeffer ...... 6 7 7 18 If) W. Poindexter, secretary. on our roll in the near future; and they will find the. Weise, Jr...... 7 0 8 20 21 Regular Club Fixtures. South End Gun Club, Beading, Pa., Saturday. shooting game very fascinating when once they get 1©r. Joerin ...... 0 5 (i G 15 17 P. Texter, secretary. started at it. Hammer ...... 5 -6 6 17 18 Gun clubs holding regular shoots on set S teuton Gun Club, Philadelphia, Pa.,© Thursday, Kvent No. 2 at 20 pairs, proved to be a corker for CARL WEISE, JR. days are arranged in the appended list, with William Metzger, secretary. niost all the marksmen, as the wind would drive the their shooting days and secretaries. Correc Sunbury-Selinsgrove Gun Club, Sunbury, Pa., Sat second bird down so fast that it took extra quick tions or additions are solicited from secre urday. C. Foster, secretary. shooting to get. a shot at it before it landed on the Stanley Gun Club Shoot, taries. The list: West End Gun Club, Harrisburg, Pa.. Saturday ground. In this event Stannard broke 30 from 16 Toronto, Ont., De.eember 22. The Stanley Atlantic City Gun Club, Atlantic City, N. 3., Fri L. E. Egolf. yards. Young getting 25 from 18 yards. Cole bringing Gun Club held its weekly shoot on Saturday, day. A. H. Sheppard, secretary. down 23. Kck 21 from 17 yards, and Ililcy 20 from 16 Analostan Gun Club, Washington. D. C., Saturday. yards. Mott did fine work on five extra pairs by under favorable conditions, with the follow Philadelphia Trap Shooters© League. © Miles Taylor, secretary. JANUARY 7. breaking eight out of the 10. ing results: Audubon Gun Club, Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday. SATURDAY SHOOT. «h- Bk.! Sh. Bk. W. C. Wootton, secretary. At Meadow Spring Meadow Spring, Haddonfleld and Highland. At S. S. White S. S. White and Events ...... 1 2 3 4 Stevens ...... 150 7(i|Sawden ...... 50 3> Baltimore Shooting Association, Baltimore, Md., Jennings ...... 1.00 82 [K Seheibe ...... ! 45 ;;4 South End. Targets ...... 25 25 25 25 Tuesday. J. W. Chew, secretary. FEBRUARY \. 3. G. Parker ...... 21 20 G. Seheibe ...... 90 K3|I)r. Van Duzer . 45 -©5 Henson Gun Club, Omaha. Neb., Saturday and W. 1). Stannard ...... 22 Black ...... 80 47|Ho!mes ...... 45 9-, Sunday. F. T. Lovering, secretary. At South End South End, Meadow Spring and H. D. Gosh ...... 15 11 ©n 11 Joselin ...... 75 56 Whitlaw ...... 45 ^4 Bergen Beach Gun Club. Brooklyn, N. Y., second Highland. At Haddonfleld Haddonfleld vs. S. S. L. H. Fitzslmmons ©..... 21 25 24 23 Mac Donald .... 75 321 Buchanan ...... 40 31 Tuesday. L. H. Schortemeier, secretary. White. McKcu/ie ...... 70 35|Halford ...... 35 26 MARCH 4. NOTES. Birmingham Gun Club, Birmingham, Ala., Friday. Hogarth ...... I-;." 3«l Fritz ...... 25 "2 At Haddonfleld Haddontield vs. South End. At Fitzslmmons did finely, especially after his first Douglas ...... 55 24|Albert ...... 25 1« H. McDennott. secretary. Chicago Gun C|-,b, Chicago, 111., Saturday and S. S. White S. S. White. Highland and Meadow frame, out of which be lost four. He finished his Ten Kyck ...... 50 41|Mas*lngljam ..... 20 13 Spring. last 73 by losing only three targets. Hulme ...... ,50 37|Hirons ...... 10 7 Sunday. C. P. Zacher. secretary. Clearciew Gun Club, Philadelphia, Pa., third Satur APRI1, J. No doubt the; many friends of W. A. Davis will day. Harry Fisher, secretary. At Meadow Spring .Meadow .Spring vs. Highland. regret to hear that he met witli a rather painful Jack Brewer Beats Munson. Cleveland Gun Club, Cleveland. 0., Saturday. F. At, South End South End, S. S. White arid Had accident while out hunting near lOfflngham. Til., several H- Wallace, secretary. donfleld. ! weeks ago, when lie clipped and broke the ligaments Philadelphia, Pa., December 23. Jack,. Cincinnati Gun Club, Cincinnati O., Saturday. L. .MAY 6. In his foot and which will keep him confined to his Brewer, the veteran wing shot and former E. Harnmerschmirlt secretary. At Highland Highland. Haddonfleld and S. S. home for some time. We hear that he is just able champion of the world, defeated J. Munson, Coatesville Gun Club, Coatesville, Pa., first Satur White. At Meadow Spring Meadow Spring vs. tjoutk « get around without Ills crutches and we certainLv the recognized champion of New Jersey, in day. Harry Nichols, secretary. End.