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DEVOTED TO—BASE BALL—BICYCLING—GUNS—GUNNING

VOLUME 30, NO. 15. PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 1, 1898. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.

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SAM " Hello! Young Fellow. Happy New Year to you. You seem well equipped for sport." MASTER 1898 <( Yes. I have a Base Ball Outfit and a Bicycle and several Guns and lots of other things, but I want ©Sporting Life,© I©ve called to pay my subscription for the year." FATHER TIME "Ah! How soon they learn in this up-to-date age. It©s only fifteen years ajj| when ©Sporting Life© was a baby. Now it©s a giant." Jan* 1

ripening April 15 there won©t be much time for mium will write us we will do our Southern teaaig trips or spiing exhibition games. best to fu-nish the desired article on What strange -shifts base ball does make! SPORTING LIFE While Cincinnati welcomes Elmer Smith back into reasonable terms. the fold it bids Bill Rhines a second last fare A WEEKLY JOURNAL well. Devoted to McPartlin has hgd©a successful opera , P THE PROPER VIEW. tion performed for a tumor in his eye at the , BICYCLING, SHOOT. DESERVING OFJELPFDL SYMPATHY, Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital in New York ING, BILLIARDS, Etc. Mr. Preedinan Favors Modification City. The assignment of the Overman of the Brush Resolution. J. W. Gannon. who was elected captain of the Special to "Sporting Life." I,ehigh team for the coming season, has entered Wheel Company, the famous manu Yale, and will be seen with the Yale team next Trade<|m»rked by the Sporting Life Pub. C* New York, Dec. 30. President Freedmnn, season. Entered at Philadelphia Post Office facturers of cycling and athletic goods, of the New York Base Ball Club, said yes In speeding the "parting guests" the Bal AS Second Class Matter. comes as a painful surprise to the pub terday that he believed the Brush resolu timore scribes are throwing ,a little extract of tion to blacklist ball players who use ob- shoe leather into Jack Doyle. Did Jack abuse Put/ashed by lic painful from the fact that such a soene language should be modified a bit. them, too? Said he: Another Corbett is to make bis debut on house should have been compelled to "It would be unjust to blacklist a ball player the diamond next season. Tom, a brother of THE SPORTING LIFE PUBLISHING CO, succumb, though but temporarily, to who in the heat of the moment uses some, cuss Joe and Jim, will, it is said, be given a trial 34 South Third St., words, for that is a common fault with many by Baltimore. the stress and strain of these perilous men. But the players who use filthy language President Prank Robison is quoted as saying Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. and spply vile epithets to umpires and fellow times. The Overman Wheel Company players must be severely disciplined. 1 believe that the shut-off of the ticker reports of base that for the first offense of this kind a player ball would increase the receipts at the gate at SUBSCRIPTION RATES: stood for all that was honest, liberal, should be suspended for a week or- even a month. least. §W),000. One Tear...... *3.00 If lie is not cured by a penalty of that sort Boston will have fewer changes in the per progressive and high-toned in its par and offends a second time, he should be suspend sonnel of the team than any club in the League. ths...... 1.35 ticular line of business, hence uni ed for the balance of the season. If after that The pitching department only will be strength le Copy...... 5c. he should repeat bis old tricks he should, after ened, if possible. . ign Postage, $1.04 Extra per Annum. versal regret not confined to the a trial, be forever debarred from further engage Aneon is playing hand ball and billiards in ment by National Ageement clubs. As far as. Chicago, and declares that he does not care PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. friends and admirers of its noted kicking is concerned. I will say that if the whether he plays base ball or not next year. founder, Mr. A. H. Overman, but umpires, to be selected by President Young are But he does care