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BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Volume 50, No. 25. Philadelphia, February 29, 1908. Price, Five Cents. THOS.GRAYSEC. JOED£LEHANTY,OF. 0, HARA . Q. F ()J f SRORTIIVQ FEBRUARY 29, 1908 Gravey, Cedar Bapids, la., and Morris Danihy, Ro sign of base ball spring, in the shape of chester, N. Y. passes for the season of 1908. The Lake Shore League has adopted a 1908 cham "A violet by a mossy stone, PULLIAM PLANS pionship schedule, season opening May 3 and closing "Half hidden from the eye; October 4. "A single star, when only cms The Roanoke Club, of the Virginia League, has "Is shining In the sty," signed southpaw pitcher Martin Staley, late of Evansville. were not half as sweet as these early hya INVOLVE NO RADICAL CHANGES The Memphis Club has signed catcher Dan cinths of the national game. Mr. Murphy O©Leary, of the champion Rock Island, I.-I.-I. possesses the happy fa.culty of doing the League, Club. right thing at the right time. Your cor IN ANYTHING. Will Kelly, of East St. Louis, has signed as respondent©s appreciative acknowledgments catcher with the Birmingham, Ala., team, in the are hereby tendered for the courtesies of the Southern League. West Side park; also apologies to the poet if President Carpenter, of the Iri-Stite League, has The Erratic Pitcher Makes His he isn©t quoted just right above. Excepting Will Recommend Bat Two Changes signed John Mullen, the star umpire ot tho 19<J. a little miscellaneous gossip about players P. 0. M. League. The Louisville Club, of the American Association, Bow to His New Employer in whom the local public is or has been in in the Playing Rules The has signed a Polish pitcher of Monmouth, 111., terested, nothing special has developed dur named J. C. Chabek. ing the week. Charles Carr has signed with the^ Indianapolis Manager McAIeer Has High Soiled-Ball Rule Change Not Club, of the American Association, as manager, PITCHER WALTER JOHNSON captain and first baseman. ; Hopes of His New Pitcher. came in for a complimentary notice, of some Favored A College Apology, The Southern League has ©accepted President length, in the "Philadelphia Telegraph," Kavanaugh©s schedule. It calls for 140 games ana opens season on April 15.. : which says he was the sensation of the The Inter-State League meeting set for February St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 22. Editor "Sport base ball world in the pitching line last New York, Febi 21. Editor "Sporting 19 was ©postponed until February 26, owing to the ing Life." -George E. Waddell, better season, and the real big find of the year, Life." Harry .Pulliam, president of the Na absence of certain delegates. known by the front name of "Rube," had and ought to develop into one of the most tional League, returned yesterday from a The veteran second baseman, Bobby Lowe, late a le_ngthy conference with powerful men in base ball. Then, too, three weeks© sojourn in the of Detroit, has signed to manage the Grand Bapids President Hedges, of the "Doc" Hillebrand, the coy Princetonian, Adirondacks and in Canada. Club, of the Central League. Browns, last week, but did has been the subject of a few paragraphs. He was feeling very fit, he In the American Association Jimmy Ja:ckson- has not go into the matter of Why not iet this artist "go to Pittsburg if said, ba.rring a coJ4 wl}ich signed with Columbus and outflelder Harry Ann- a contract for next season. they still want him there? Jimm^ Morgan, he captured on a heated broster has signed with Toledo. One thing pretty sure about the former Georgetown third baseman, nas sleeper coming down from In the South Michigan League the deal for the Waddell is that he has been a lot of friends here. Morgan was too much Montreal. He has been transfer of the Tecumseh Club and franchise to taking pretty good care of of a whale to go through the waiver net. tob©ogganning and. taking in Port Huron has fallen through. himself of late, as he is He became a rattling good third baseman in ice trotting and hockey in The Dubuque Club, of the I. I. I. League, has looking as well now as he one day trying to stop tobasco liners from Ottawa and is a member of purchased Sheldon Lejeune, the distance thrower, Jimmy Ryan©s bat. Morgan had plenty of the rooters© club of Ottawa from the Chicago American Club. usually does during the play The Rochester, Eastern League, Club has pur ing season. Waddell says grit also grass and gravel. Note how un when that organization gets chased southpaw pitcher W. P. Otey from the that he is about ten pounds easy Cleveland is over that third corner. busy in Canadian hockey Pittsburg, National League, Club. , above his usual pitching Ryan is another ex-Washingtonian for whom games. He is going back up The Cleveland Club has lopped oft two - tapre G, E. Waddell weight, and otherwise in hopes of a successful year are plenty here. H. C. Pulliam to Ottawa a week from to players, releasing .outflelder Billy . Lush to ©Nashville perfect condition. Further Then there©s morrow to see the deciding and inflelder Dick Breen to Akron. ; more, that his arm is as good as it ever hockey struggle. Mr. Pulliam said he The Oklahoma Club, of the Western Association, was, and that he will pitch winning ball GARLAND STAHL, thought that outside of the adoption of the has appointed as team manager Jack McConnell, for the Browns this season. Waddell ap our former boss, whose doings next year schedule the most interesting thing in the the Terre Haute manager of 1907. pears to be pretty thoroughly will attract attention here. He ought to National League meeting next week would The Brockton Club, of the New England League, SOBERED UP, cover a lot of ground in the outfield and do have to do with proposed changes in has signed pitchers Sam Cobean and John Fender, very good work there, and will have the best THE PLAYING RULES. both of the Empire State League. for the present at least, and it would be a chance ever offered him to" show his real Third baseman John R. Hinton, secured by remarkable stunt if he lived up to what calibre as a batter. His former team mates Pulliam, Chance and Murphy are members Youngstown frqm Uniontown in a trade for Edward he says he intends. "Rube" says that he are all plugging for him and think he will of the National League Rules Committee, Hillev, has signed with Youngstown. has not had a drink since the first of the rise to the occasion. Charley Hickman will while Griffith, Mack and Comiskey compose The Augusta Club, of the South Atlantic League, year, and that he does not intend to take the American League Committee. Puliiam has signed pitcher V. B. Brooksbank, of Cincinnati, start for the Naps© training camp about and catcher Stoy Jackson, of Washington, Ga. another during the year. He talked as March 7, and looks as if he will be in con will suggest that neither committee recom though he meant it. The one sore spot dition to deliver value received. mend any changes for adoption to its league The Galveston Club, of the Texas League, has with Waddell right now is the statements unless the six members are unanimous in sign*d second baseman George Leopold and shortstop by the managers of several clubs that they PRESIDENT NOYES© BEREAVEMENT. agreeing o*n changes. He will recommend William. Blong, late of Port Washington, Wis. that pitchers© boxes be on a level with the The Columbus Club, of the American Association, turned him down and would not have him This week had a sad ending for President has signed pitcher Fred Lake and has given out at any price. New York and Detroit are rest of the diamond and he favors a flelder Tonj McCreery his unconditional release. the two Waddell has particularly Noyes, of the local base ball club, the death clearer rule as to when an umpire shall of his father, Mr. Crosby S. Noyes, having call time in a game. He wants The Vicksburg Club, of the Cotton States League, SINGLED OUT, occurred on Friday, at Pasadena, Gal., as has signed two local City League players, namely, THE UMPIRES© DUTIES pitcher Lee Hart and outflelder Zepa Williams. and he said that he would take delight in the result of an attack of grip. President Noyes was with his father throughout his regarding calling more time more clearly The New Bedford Club, of the New England showing those who gave out the statements League, has signed pitcher Burroughs, late of tha that they - were wrong by defeating their illness. The elder Mr. Noyes died at the denned. At present the rule provides that advanced age of eighty-three, but he had time shall not be called in certain cases Phjllies, and Robert Cartigan, of Trenton, N. J. teams every time he got a chance. That The Aberdeen Club, of the Northwestern -League, means that Waddell is going to pitch his retained all his faculties, both mental and until the ball is back in the pitcher©s has purchased third baseman Mott, pitcher ©Califf arm off to get even with three clubs this physical, to such a remarkable degree that hands. Pulliam says there are times when and catcher Moore from the Portland, Ore., Club. season, and if he does McAIeer will have the fatal result of his malady was not ex an umpire should have the authority to call The Williamsport Club, of the Tri-State League, no cause to regret buying him.