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DEVOTED TO BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS. Volume 44—No. 17- Philadelphia, January 7, 1905. Price, Five Cents. 1-7-5. BUFFALO SURPRISE. SPORTING LIFE PUBLISHING CO., SPIT BALL MY; B!G FOUR SEVERS CONNECTION 34 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. IS ONLY DEEPENED BY VARIOUS WITH THE CLUB. Please send me cabinet size phototype of the celebrated EXPERIMENTS. base ball player ____________________________ A Billard Ball Behaves Just as A New Company With Twenty-Six for which I enclose five 2-cent stamps to help to defray expense Queerly as a Base Ball When Wet Stockholders, Including George of printing, postage, packing, etc. Stallings and Harry L Taylor, by finger No Explanation of the Formed to Run the Ball Club. Send to Mysterious Causes of Eccentricity SPECIAL TO SPORTING LIFB. SPECIAL TO SPORTING LIFB. Buffalo N Y., Jan. 3. The Buffalo Base Baltimore, Md., Jan. 4. The "spit ball" Ball© Club is now the property of the that came to light last season in the na "Queen City Base Ball and Amusement tional game appears to be <;ne of the un ___ Company" a new corpora- known quantities. A pitcher in composed of tweiity- moistens the finge-rs of the . local men, who have delivery hand in view of ©tight out the old owners, batsman and catcher, and Messrs. Pierce, Shea, O©Bri- then all three are at sea eii and Schelling, and have as to where the ball Is recapitalized the club at going, except that the ?36,OOC. Manager Stallings pitcher kuows that it is to has Increased his interest go as nearly ever the plate to GO shares and will re as. : he can direct it. The main as team manager. No batter is also in doubt as to man now connected with the course of the ball when the club will hold less than "Sporting Life" has had reproduced cabinet size phototypes of celebrated base ball it nears the plate; the $1000. of stock. Harry I* players and offers to send to any of its readers photos of their favorite base ball players by catcher is in even more Taylor, the former noted Joseph Kelley doubt; hence there are C. T. Slallings first basemau, now a rising complying with the conditions named in the coupon above, 10 cents for each photo; by the many passed balls. Mr. J. lawyer, will be the president of the club. dozen, $1.00. Only one coupon required with each order. Mowell Hawking, the crack trapshooter of WHAT STALLINGS SAYS. The photos are regular cabinet size (5| x 7i inches) mounted on Mautello mats and Maryland, who is a good cue artist as well, When asked a reason for the .sudden shift packed carefully to insure safe delivery in the mails. yesterday met Mr. Stallings said: "There is nothing sud Here is an opportunity to ornament your room with photos of your favorite base ball JOSEPH KELLHY. den about it. The four who have with players at small expense. Each photo in a separate envelope to protect and keep it clean. the manager of the Cincinnati Base Ball drawn were compelled to do so on account One coupon and five 2-cent stamps entitles you to one photo. You can, however, Club,1 at the Diamond, and the two discuss of the amount of theatrical matters now ed this question. Walter Brodie, McFar- cm hand, their new theatre being" about obtain as many photos as you desire by sending five 2-cent stamps for each photo and one land and other ball players got into the ready to open. They received a top price coupon with each order. © - argument. Kelley insisted that the spit ball for their stock and let it go. Mr. Pierce The following photos are now ready for immediate delivery. Others will be added is a harder problem to solve by the bat has not been in good health for two years each week: ters than an inshoot, out curve or a ball or more and was glad to be rid 9f any re that breaks upward or downward. He said sponsibility, such as being president, for NATIONAL LEAGUE, 1904. AMERICAN LEAGUE, 1904. that the batter, catcher and pitcher have instance. My relations have always been a game of guess when the spit ball is de pleasant with -the old company. They NEW YORK CLUB John J. McGraw, Jos BOSTON CLUB-Charles Stahl, Denton livered, and he ©showed why this should be. never in any way interfered with the man eph McGinuity, Christopher Matthewson, Young, George Winters,Frederick Parent, He explained the fear on the part of a agement of the club, and we passed a very John Warner, Samuel Mertea, William John Freeman, James Coll ins, Charles pitcher when a new ball is put into play. PLEASANT THKI3B YEARS together. I found Mr. Schelling a good or- Gilbert, D. L. McGann, Roger Bresnehan, Farrell, Albert Selbach, Hobe Ferris, In this case, he said, it is only fear with gt-nizer, Mr. Shea a square, upright, out George Browne, Frank Bowerman, Luther William Dineen, Louis Cnger, George no foundation. Still the fear prevents the spoken fellow, while Mr. Pierce made a II. Taylor, John Dunn, William Dahlen, Lachance, Norwood Gibson, Jesse Tanue- pitcher from delivering the ball as well splendid president and calm adviser. Ev hill, Thomas Doran. as he could otherwise do it. Michael Donlin. Leon Allies, Claude El- EFFECT BILLIARD BALLS ALSO. ery man now connected with the new com liott, George "Wiltse, Virgil Garviu. pany is a fan through and through, which NEW YORK CLUB James Williams, David Hawkins then demonstrated why a spit L. Fultz, Clarke Griffith, William Keeler, ball fools pitcher, catcher and the batter. means a great deal for the game, not only CHICAGO CLUB Frank Chance, James P. He took a pool ball and, putting it on a in Buffalo, but throughout the Eastern Casey, Joseph B. Tinker, James Slagle, Jack Chesbro, Norman Elberfeld, William Conroy, John Ganzell, John Powell, billiard table, put his great finger strength League, for they will not stand for syndi John Evers, Q&rl Lundgren, Jacob Wei- on the ball in an effort to force it down cate ball for a minute. This will quiet all mer, John Kling, Robert Wicker, John Albert Orth, John Anderson, Patrick rumors that ©local stockholders are reach Dougherty, James MeGuire. the -table. The ball moved from his finger ing out with an effort to control other McCarthy, John J. O©Neil, Alexander a few inches, turning toward the propel clubs in the circuit. I agree with Mr. Smith, John C. Barry, Mordetai Brown, CHICAGO CLUB-Fielder Jones, Edward ling force. Hawkins then moistened his Kreitner that the best games seen last David Jones, Otto G. Williams. McFarland, George Davis, William D. finger and, placing it on the ball, started it season were those between Buffalo and Sullivan, James J. Callahan, Daniel down the table. The ball ran for about Montreal, but for some unknown reason CINCINNATI CLUB Joseph J.Kelly.Frank Green, Frank Isbell, Roy Patterson, Lee a third of the length of the table, though the fans could not be made to see it in the Hahn, James Sebring, Harry Steinfeldt, it was revolving toward the point from, Tannehill, Frank Owens, William Holmes, which it started. Then it slowed up per same light." Charles Harper, J. Bentley Seymour, G. Harry White, Nick Altrock, J. THE NEW DEAL Harry Dolan, Robert E wing, Henry Peitz, ceptibly and its direction of revolution was engineered by Attorney Robert W. ("Jiggs") Donahue,AugustDundon,Frank changed. Instead of continuing to revolve Pomeroy. The moment Mr. Pomeroy learn Thomas W. Corcoran. Smith, Edward A. Walsh. toward the propelling power, it revolved ed that there was stock that might be PITTSBURG CLUB Hans Wagner, Fred CLEVELAND CLUB Napoleon Lajoie, from it. In various trials thereafter it had he set to work and secured tho men Clarke, Claude Ritchey Thomas Leach, William Bernhardt, Fred Buelow, Frank ran in erratic courses after a change of and the money. The list of new stockhold Samuel Leever, William Braustield,Clar revolution. ers follows: George T. Stallings, base ball Donohue, Harry Bay, Elmer FlicVk, Earl BEYOND EXPLANATION. manager; Harry L. Taylor, lawyer; Alien ence H. Beaumont, Harry Smith, Charles Moore, Harry Bemis, Adrian Joss, Will This substantiated Kelley©s opinion that S. Olmstead, manufacturer Alien©s Foot Philippe, Edward Phelps, Otto Krueger, iam J. Bradley, R. S. Rhoades, Will L. the spit ball has come to stay, and is to Kase; Charles L. Gurney, real estate; John Patrick Flaherty. Lush, Charles C. Carr, Otto Hess, Ter- prove an enigma to batters, pitchers and II. Price, County Clerk; T. J. Overturf, rence Turner, George Stovall. catchers. Why a base ball or a billiard ball real estate; G. B. Rodgers, manufacturer; ST. LOUIS CLUB Homer Smoot, James T. should behave as it does, just because A. B. Potter, capitalist; D. B. Tutt.le, law Burke, Charles McFarland, John Farrell, PHILADELPHIA CLUB Connie Mack, somebody spits upon it, was too deep for yer; C. A. Wtdte, lawyer; Wallace Thayor, David L. Brain, Michael J. O©Neill, manager, Maurice R. Powers, Daniel F! Ball Player Kelley to explain. lawyer; Louis B. Hart, lawyer; John Jacob Becklev. John Tavlor, James Dun- Murphy, Ralph O. Seybold, Harry Davis II. Ball, coal and coke business; leavv. Daniel Shay, W. P- Shannon, Edward S. Plank, Oliver Pickering© Walter J. Dann, insurance agent, David Zearfoss, Michael Grady. Osee F.SehreckeuKost, Lafayette N. Cross© PACIFIC NATIONAL POINTS. with Cady & Perkins: George Blcistein, George Edward Waddell, Frederick L*. In the very near future there will be a meet- president Courier Co.; Robert W.