BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS. Volume 50, No. 8. Philadelphia, November 2, 1907. Price, Five Cents. CAMNITZ. />(} W.HALLMAM, O. SPORTING LJFB. NOVEMBER 2, 1907. strictly "bush league" battery for the footed spook on a country road on All-Hal coming season in Francis Newton, of Sheri lowe©en. dan, Indiana, and Joseph Wilson, of Altoona IN aEVELAND Pa. Newton is BO novice at base ball having Mulfordisms. performed with South Bead in the Centra In handing out prizes to those -who called League in several games during the latter the world©s championship turn don©t forget part of the 1906 season and acquitting him SOME CINCINNATI POST-SEA that Grantlajad Rice is entitled, to a ribbon. self with credit. Those who have seen him The revival of the yarn that Cincinnati perform are of the opinion that he is a wants Roger Bresnahan recalls the fact that diamond in the rough and may prove a SON GUESSES. it has been several months since that Bob second Walter Johnson. As for Wilson, he Unglaub "repeater" was put to sleep. has been catching semi-professional ball in Garry Herrmann has nipped the mischiev- Pennsylvania and comes well recommended out tale that Hans Lobert will figure in a The First Base Problem is Loom Right now he is the only new catcher on Keeping the News-Pot Boiling winter deal. It©s not true. the Cleveland pay roll, the Naps having Friends of Charles H. Zuber are extend ing Large Hopeful That Some failed to draft a single backstop. They con Vetoes For Many Proposed ing their condolences upon the loss of a templated drafting Kid Wells from Nash brother^-Frederi ck. Kind of Deal For Stahl May ville, but when the story was sent ou Deacon Jim McGnire©s Bostons didn©t cre from Brooklyn and Nashville that he hae Deals A Dissertation On Luck ate much havoc in American League circles been sold to the Trolley Dodgers it was but they put enough kibosh on Fred Ten- Yet Be Made Bradley©s Future. decided that the draft was useless. Jim A Grist v of News Pick Ups. ney©s South Enders to give the Americanites McAleer, of the Browns, took a chance on a fair percentage of victories in the 1907 the draft, not having seen the story in clashes with the Nationalists. BY ED. F. BANG. print, and landed him. BY BEN MULFOKD, JR. Lexington handed the Reds a lemon in Cleveland, Ohio, October 26. Editor AS TO DETROIT. Cincinnati, O., Oct. 26. Editor "Sport their race for the championship of the "©Sporting Life." The first base question The hue and cry being sent up to © ©fire ing Life." -Dame Rumor must be a regular Squash League. Being licked by the small for the Naps of 1908 is looming up like a Detroit" from the American League wil" Buggerine, How©s that for the feminine of fry is not an unusual occurrence in Red Gibraltar before the eyes 01 amount to nothing in the long run. Ii __ - Bug? At any rate she is society. the Cleveland owners and cannot be otherwise. Even if the League || always starting something Cincinnati seems to be right on the map Manager Lajoie and there magnates would be willing to "fire" De in Fandom. The crop of in the efforts to put a North and South appears to be no solution troit they could not do so as Owner Yawkey yarns harvested during the Carolina League in the field. of the problem. Clevelanc has not violated the constitution. He has past week has kept Carry Harry McEnerney "Bantam" known to has three men on the long property rights in Detroit and these are Herrmann busy digging into all the old sporting guard, was here from list of players for the com bound tt> be respected. Even should Mr the box in which he keeps New Orleans this week. ing season who have ap Yawkey live up to the statement credited to his vetoes. Johnny Kane Last year tie Peerless Club received Nick peared in the role of high him that he intended retiring after he gave figured in two of these tales. Altrock with brass bands, hacks, red fire chief at the initial sack Detroit a pennant winner, it would be One romancer transported and sky rwekets. This year Nick came home namely, George Stovall necessary for the American League to pay Eane te Pirateland jn ex carrying his own grip and took a street Pete Lister and Jake Dau the price he asked for his holdings in that change for Wee Tom Leach car. All the world loves a winner. A bert. Stovall has never been city. Again the National League would have and another sent him to loser has a lonely time of it. considered in a class with to be consulted in the matter. If the Chicago with Artje Hofman Harry Steinfeldt has joined the Red barn Jiggs Donohue, Hal Chase American League desired to Rcn Mulford, Jr. labeled as the Red come stormers. A world©s champion on the Corn Ed. F. Bang Tassel circuit will be quite a drawing card. or Harry Davis, but he man MAKE A CHANGES back. Then it wa,s stated aged to hold his own with Tom Jones, Bob that Larry McLean was destined to figure Unglaub, Claude Rossman and others. The in territory it would be necessary to secure in a swap for Leach. The Red Chief buns past season was Stovall©s poorest since be the unanimous vote of the National League up the signs "Nothing Doing." On the LATE^NEWS BY WIRE. coming a Nap. He fell off in batting some With this consent and the Detroit fran heels of all these negatived news notes came thing like 40 points while his fielding was chise in hand the American League woulc the intimation that George Tallyrand Stall- off color. Besides, he got in bad odor with have to pay a Class A city the sum of $2500 ings was on the inside track for manager The Atlantic league Has Had Enough of Manager L^ajoie, his team-mates and fans in in order to draft a city to fill the vacancy. and going smoothly. This tale also felt Or $vny and Is Seeking Ways to Se- general by that little chair episode And once more they would be called upon to the official ax and was chopped down clear Philadelphia. pay a nice tidy sum to the Class A owners to the roots before it had a chance to ctu ^protection. whose city would be drafted, that sum being sprout. Undoubtedly the scarcity of real Special to "Sporting: Life." STOVALL©S CHANCE. the amount a special committee would ap spot news is responsible for Dam^e Rumor©s Newark, N. J., October 29. What will Lajoie graciously forgot all about Stov praise their holdings at. But at that don©t activity. It is an easy thing to* imagine all©s action, forgave him and reinstated think the American League is overly anxious be the fate of the Atlantic League, and if a possibility one day and use the chloro it exists next year will it be composed of him in the good graces of the club and game. to drop Detroit. Granting that it is only form as the basis for a gossippy denial the He is now hoping that Stovall will be him a fair base ball town, everybody will ad afternoon after. Cincinnati©s experience the same clubs ? are ques self again next season. Should the big mit that all of the eight cities in a major with Pittsburg in the trading line has not tions frequently asked by Westerner show improvement over his 1906 league cannot be what are termed good been calculated to create much joy in local lovers of the game. form everybody will be happy and the base ball propositions. Redland. The transfer of either Kane or It is too early to answer goose will hang high. It does not look as McLean ©would be a, blunder. At least the such questions, but it is if Lister could take Stovall©s job from fans now so view it. Something in the deal- safe to say that there will him. Pete was the shining light arnon_ line, of course, will happen. Thus far it©s be an Atlantic League in first basers in the Southern League, but he all been in the headlines. 1908. It isn©t very often did not display any big league class in the that a new league passes games he played with the Naps this year. Re-Elects It©s Former Officers For Anoth through the first year of its It may be that he, too, will show improved er Year New London Club Granted A Few Lines on Luck. existence as easily as the form next year. The Cleveland owners are Some days ago William F. Kirk, editor of Atlantic did, and as a result banking considerable on young Privilege to Transfer Its Franchise. "The Base Ball Bugle," blew a few blasts the organization received JAKE DAUBERT, The annual meeting of the Connecticut on the horn he had leveled toward Redland quite a prestige. J. W. Dob League was held at Springfield, Mass., He said, among other caustic things, "The Larry Sutten bins, of this city, part own- the Marion, O. and P. Leaguer, who is said base ball writers of Cincinnati may insist of the Allentown team, to be a second Chase in fielding. Daubert October 21.