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BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Title Registered In TJ. a. Patent Office. Copjrteht, 1910, by the Sporting Lift Publishing Company. Vol. 55-No. 3 Philadelphia, March 26, 1910 Price 5 Cents COMMISSION AT WORK! President Johnson Settles Upon Date Returns From Cal For the Commis ifornia, With Rosy sion Meeting to Reports of White Dispose of the Sox Outlook, and Grave Kling Case. SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." of the club in the home office. Brash is HICAGO, 111., March 21. Presi attended constantly by two nurses and has dent B. B. Johnson, of the Ameri lost control of his limbs. No persons, ex can League, who has been with cept his doctors and attendants, are permit the Chicago American League ted to see him. Three physicians are in at team in San Francisco, returned tendance, including Dr. John B. Murphy, the to the city during the past week, noted specialist of the Northwestern Uni^ much benefited in health and versity, of Chicago. spirits by his trip. President Johnson is en thusiastic over the prospects of the Chicago REAL PUBLIC SPIRIT. Club in the American League pennant race. "The reports of the National Commission show that President Comiskey spent more A Tammany Man Provides for Base Ball money than any other club owner in the major leagues," said President Johnson in Promotion by WilL telling of the youngsters and their training Special to "Sporting Life.©© work at San Francisco. "Any one who sees New York City, March 21. IH addition that team at work on the diamond can readily to teaching the young Democrats of tha me see where the money is. I do not see why tropolis to vote, Charles F. Murphy, leader ol the Sox should not be one of the strongest Tammany Hall, will now, by the terms of » clubs in the American League this year. The will make public during the week, cast about pitching and catching departments are for the best manner in which to "foster and strong. I consider Blackburne one of the promote the American game of base ball finest ball players I ever have seen. He is a among the amateurs in the borough of Man fast, sure fielder, a good hitter and base run hattan." The will is that of the lat* Wil ner. Bill Lange, the old Chicago National liam H. Kelley, a Tammany man and at one League player, considers Zeider, the second time a judge of the Municipal Court, and baseman, one of the best players he has seen Murphy is named as one of the trustees and in a long time." executors. Bonds are set aside for - vbas«-" THE KLING CASE. ball fund, but the value is not given. Since his return President Johnson has been exceedingly busy looking over National A TRAGIC ENDING. Commission correspondence, mostly relating to routine cases, and therefore of no particular interest to the general public. The famous A Well-Known Base Ball Player Commits Kling case, wherein the fate of catcher John Suicide by Hanging. Kling, of the Cubs, hangs in the balance, will be decided at a meeting to be held here on Special to "Sporting Life." Tuesday, March 22, when Chairman Herr- Albion, N. Y., March 21. (Charles NelsoH mann and members Lynch and Johnson, of the Brown, a professional base ball player of this National Commission, will gather for a con village, who was in a Batavia hospital be ference. It originally had been intended to cause of a nervous breakdown, but escaped settle the case by a maiT vote, but other HENRY BECKENDORF, on March 14, and walked eighteen miles to matters have arisen that caused the decision Catcher of the Detroit American League Club. his home here, hung himself when alone in to take up the case at a special conference. his house. Brown was 27 years old and had During the past week, Chairman Herrmann Catcher Henry Beckendorf, of the champion Detroit team, of the American I*ague, Is a played with the Buffalo Eastern League-© sent Mr. Johnson all the correspondence in native of New York City, and was born there June 15, 1884. He played with the Williams team, the Lancaster, Ohio League team, and the Kling case, including the copy of that Athletic Association, a strong semi-professional team of JN©ew York City, and was also with the York, Pa., team of the Tri-State League. famous "leave-of-absence" letter, and Mr. Everett College. He played with the Kingston Club, of the Hudson River League, in 1901 He had an offer to become captain of tha and 1905, assisting to land the pennant in 1905. In 1906 he was with the Providence Club Canton,© Ohio, League team this summer. Johnson has given everything in connection and in 1907 and 1908 with Scranton, Detroit purchasing him from that club. He went to with the case close study. What his con Cuba after the close of the 1909 campaign, alternating behind the bat and In right field. Until his sickness he was employed with tha clusions are, he refuses to say. He stands five feet, nine inches in height and weighs 186 pounds. Pullman Palace Car Company in Buffalo. THREE CASES SETTLED. The National Commission handed down PERMANENT CAMP. three decisions Saturday. Monty Pfyl and Thomas P. Sheehan, who were recently Cincinnati Falls Into Line With a Hot turned down in trying to get back in or as he cannot play ball owing to an injury John T. Brush, of the New York National ganized base ball, asked that their cases be to his arm. He has been under the care of League Club, who came South last week to Springs Ground. reopened, but they were refused. Player a doctor for some time, and after his arm benefit his health, is in a critical condition Special to "Sporting Life.©© Fred Schwartz asked to be declared a free agent from the Des Moines Club and also permits him to take up the game again, the in his hotel, and is unable to leave his room. Hot Springs, Ark., March 21. The Cin for back salary which he declared was due Commission will order him to pay back the The Giants© owner was in a railroad accident cinnati National League Club has fallen into him. He was also turned down, the Com money in monthly installments of $50 each. on his way to San Antonio, and this incident line with the Pittsburg Nationals and Bos mission sustaining the ruling of the Na served still further to reduce his vitality. ton Americans. During the past week Mana tional Board, which recently passed on the BRUSH VERY ILL. He practically had to be carried to his room, ger Clark Griffith, on behalf of the Cincin case, the player appealing. and has not been able to leave it since nati Club, signed the papers which bring to his arrival here. Brush has not been strong that club a permanent tract of ground for MARTIN WALSH, President of the New York National Club for several years, and during the two last training season purposes at this place. Grif brother of the famous Ed, will have to pay National League meetings probably overtaxed fith says Hot Springs seems to be the best back to the Chicago American League Club in a Serious Condition. his strength on account of the absence of place for his team to train. The price paid $250 which was advanced him last year. The Special to "Sporting Life." Secretary Knowles, the Giants© president for the grounds is not known, but is said to iplayer ia in no position to pay back now, i San Antonio, Tex., March 21. President having to Attend to all the business details be in the neighborhood of $10,000. SPORTING LIFE MARCH 26, 1913 vasion, and from the report* received from the youngsters they have will be an improve Tokyo, Kobe, Nagasaki and other cities, it is ment. ZJeder and Blackburn are said to be evident that the great American game has FOUNDER©SDAY wonderful ball players, and Purtell will ba also become the great Japanese game. Now better at third than Tannehill. If Billy Sul the Seattle team of Japanese are figuring on livan is in shape to catch the White Sox DETROIT MAY LOSE A PROMIS a trip home, to show the folks how they play will make trouble. I can©t figure Connie ball in the United States. This Seattle team SHOWS WHAT TAFT THINKS OF Mack©s Athletics iu the fight at all." is a good one, too. The players are fast, ING PLAYER, good fielders and base runners and are fast BASE BALL. overcoming their weakness at the bat. Last SPEED AND CURVES. summer they put up some rattling exhibi Engaged in a Three-Handed Contest tions. Upsets the Carnegie Institute Pro More Than That Needed Nowadays, to TAFT ON WAGNER. Make a Major League Pitcher a Winning for the California "Phenom," gramme Because He Desires to Factor in the Game. Nation©s Chief Pays a Grand Tribute to Pitcher Vanes News From All See the Pirates and Cubs Play By Addle Joss, Greatest Player. Ball players, and especially pitchers, ars Points of the Compass* Special to "Sporting Life. © © on the Afternoon of May 2« oftentimes asked this question: "What real Pittsburg, Pa., March 21. If Hans Wag ly constitutes the winning qualities of a ner should miss a ball and President Taft saw t wirier T© The general im SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." him do it he would think Hans did it on SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." pression among the faria San Antonio, Texas, March 21.