I Wednesday, december 27. i»2z. papr* JUSTIFICATION DUE CHANCE FROM BIG LEAGUE BALL, HE BELIEVES I wednesday, december 27, 192&j | f

LOVE OF GAME ATTRACTS Boston Southpaw Who May Go to Yanks For McMillan CHANCE BACK TO Prank Chance, newly named of the Red Sox, is sorely in need of a third base¬ man and has his eyes on Norman McMillan, of the Yankees, who can't oust Jumping Joe Dr^gan from that berth. So a trade is in the air whereby McMillan may go to Boston for none other than , here shown about to heave a ball from the mound. He is By FRANK L. CHANCE. one of the southpaw lights of the . BOSTON, Dec. 27..In the past two weeks I have been asked at least a thousand times just why I have returned to baseball. After Much-Discussed Eleven at Last an absence of eight years from the big league game my reappear¬ ance seems to surprise the fan in general. Forthcoming for nj Thinking things over, it occurs to me that there are two very dis¬ Fans. tinct reasons in my particular case. First, the love of the game that becomes of the nature of . who has in part Br GORDON MACKAY. Anybody participated and enjoyed it, as I have. Dec. 27,. Second, I feel that I have a certain justification coming to me PHILADELPHIA. Pa.. .from- moiAr lanmiA Kali MIHJV* UV UOH> Chatted with a group of emlnes* the first cause> alumni of the University of Penn¬ Regarding I ran-4 Interest¬ My that the thrill of com¬ sylvania and other gentry briefly ed In the great American game of petition, the Joy of the hard fight, Husk Chance Tells Of football and the chattel1 swung to the chance to noae out in a tough an all-Pennsylvania team. Here 1# moot struggle get to be a part of life His Career In the 'consensus on that fluw tlon, and if anybody feels he has *. that's particularly pleasant as the better eleven for all-time why then years roll on. This Series win It's shoot 'er along and the writer easy for Any old-time ball This is the first of a series of be to the fact to the player to call back the past, to re- glad publish enact the setting of his triumphs. stories by Frank Leroy Chance, wide, wide world: After the playing days are over better known as "frusk," who Ends, Charlie Gelbert and there's the same old kick to being is returning to baseball after Heinle Miller; tackles, John Out- somewhere in the game, to having a land and Tom Butkiewlci; guards, part of It still to play out. an absence of eight years. He UNITED SMS and Frank Plekar. Truxton Hare The youngster thinks that the has signed to manage the Bos¬ ski: centre, Pete Overfleld; (tow- game itself is the whole thing, that terbacy, Vincent Stevenson; half¬ the managing and the business are ton Red Sox for one year, with backs. Billy Osgood and Eddie mere Incidentals to the skirmishing the of on Bill Hollen- on the diamond. Because he thinks privilege continuing Greene; fullback. for two more seasons HAS back. that he sort of glorifies himself, and there¬ 1,834 that his end. if he helps after, finds his work of QUARTER MILE Charlie Gelbert was one of the any use to . few football players la any obllege The veteran teta to know that that made the teams four years in there's as much to the directing Winter who like to era when, leaguers, LINKS a row.he played in the as there is to any ohter, per¬ abreast of the of was no restriction of fresh¬ part so the lure is still there keep doings there haps more, FAVORED BY Of This Number 690 Are men. Gelbert started in 1893, Mil* for him. on a found the central of their Life ranch, figures Regu¬ ler, of course, played three year* interesting and entertaining favorite cannot afford lation was for all-American enough, but it lacked the punch pastime, Eighteen-Hole and picked to overlook this series in one of these. . that baseball packs. For several starting Courses. John Outland was perhaps the pears the yearning has been tdoay in these columns. In Now I've WQODRING most versatile player positions that growing stronger. According to the latest compila¬ who ever wore the Red and Blue. in to 1t, I feel like a young believe that, given proper material, career In 1897 a* flven I steer a Flier Takes Coach's tion of a sta¬ He started his fellow once more. can ball club Into the Orange fi(rure« by responsible tackle. The following year he cap¬ thick of a pennant fight. And I'm tistician, there are a total of 1,834 the eleven and be¬ ready now to find out. Advice and Pulls Away tained played About justifying myself to big golf courses In the United States. Of hind the line, while in 1899 he wm league baseball. When I took over from Dashes. this total, elghteen-hole courses shifted to end. Tom Butklewiem the Cubs they were a good ball club. 690, while in 1903 and 1904, reaching of the stars had been number approximately played Most gath¬ Word has come from Syracuse nine-hole course® are figured at 1,140. his best form in the latter season, ered by . The team un¬ not more than 250 are when Penn cleaned up Its oppo¬ a cham¬ that Allen Woodring, Of the latter, der my management became University located at summer reaorts and win¬ nents in regal fashion. one of the Olympic and Intercollegiate sprint pion outfit, admittedly REOSOMAtEE ter hotels. Truxton Hare was another four- the has known. 'will be seen more fre¬ greatest clubs game champion, New York leads with a total of year player. He started in 11V Naturally, I take a great pride in quently in the 440 next spring than has the distinction v«C that ball team. in the dashes. Tom Keane. the 214 courses of all classes, Illinois and unique having managed Any¬ is second with 130, Pennsylvania being captain for two years, lttt body would. I have never claimed coach under whose tutelage Wood- and Massachusetts and 1900. Individually he probably the credit of the club. But one out¬ third, with 112, making DEALSABOUT ring has become of the fourth with 108. was the most versatile player who I did gather in the stars that really stars in the uniform. Hs standing intercollegiate As a matter of Great ever donned a Quaker made It unbeatable. is for this comparison, He was the tra^ck world, authority Britain, with an area equal to the called the signals. apeac I signed Pat Moran, while acting statement. Keane says that the New York of the celebrated guards back at¬ Pa manager whea ftMee was sick. 1 New England States, on Orange flier will he seen In the New combined, or 120,- tack. He carried the ball tiu pot Jimmy Checkard, Orvi'e Overall' shorter distances in dual meets and Jersey offense. He backed up the line act three of the OVER only 000 square miles, has a total of 1,253 and Harry Stelnfeldt, defense. He did the and will run the 440 in the meets courses. Of this number, England the puntl*0 players that ever lived, and of national Importance. and the kicking, and had more if so doing I feel that I had at least Entry of Chance and Departure his role than linesman In foot¬ rlatest In that old .Woodring, who wax first heard any A real share molding of Huston Should of as a track star while he was at ball. champion crew. Stop Plekarskl was another four-yeaf But this Is from the Mercersburg, came into interna¬ In really apart Trades. tional notice in 1920, when he won toiler, starting with Penn 1901. justification I have referred to He was everywhere selected as an I will ten or my trades the 220-meter Olympic champion¬ in two of tho* previously. By DAVIS J. WALSH. at Paddock was ail-American guard and deals In later articles. I left ship Antwerp. seasons. Pete Overfleld also pmy« NEW one of the runners big league baseball under a cloud, YORK, Dec. 27..That the great whom ed four years at center and started and until that cloud has been re¬ of as mana¬ Woodring outsprinted In this race. career in when coming In the of 1921 his football 1898, moved I won't rest easy in my mind. ger of the and the spring Woodring Buck Wharton had hla excellent won the 220-yard Intercollegiate eleven. After ltll, when the Cub stars almost coincident departure of Col. title, and at Buffalo last winter he Vlnce Stevenson probably would began to fade, I needed new ball T. L. Huston as half owner of the < win the unanimous selection tm players and wanted to boy them. Yankees may have an appreciable quarterback in any gathering. Hla the hav¬ not been seen before Or Owner Murphy, of Cubs, effect on the alleged working agree¬ like has ing made a fortune, was unwilling since at Penn. Billy Osgood was in to spend much. He was ready to ment between the two clubs Is In¬ the early nineties and Eddie Greenb retire. For a couple of years we dicated by the developments of the in the first part of the preMft quarreled frequently about It. I last several days. It Is barely pos¬ century. was piaying then myself, strapped sible that the last of those famous, Bill Hollenback la the premier op like a mummy, when every or Infamous Boston-New York fullback to sport the colors elf move was physical torture. I was "deals" has been transacted. Penn. Just to show that he stlfl through as a player, and knew it, As late as twenty-four hours ago. had the stuff. Big Bill went OUt but the old gang wanted me to Eld Barrow, business manager of the other day and crashed through ¦tick in there. the Yankees, Is said to have made the line for the Alumni touchdown another attempt to send Norman against the Varsity. *"> I did, while trying to get new ma¬ McMillan and a*suitable cash token .' terial, but I finally became discour¬ of his esteem to Boston for Herb Overlooks Comstock. aged. I resigned as Cub manager. Pennock, the left-hander. Harry did to call Frazee would have none Walter Camp well at¬ That's the whole story of my trou¬ of It. He tention to the excellent football dis¬ ble with Charlie Murphy, of which is said to have demanded players. played by Paul Florence and Jack so much was said at the time. It A demand upon the Yankees, Flavin, but most Georgetown follM Was an unsatisfactory finish, after coming from Fraxee, Is almost believe he erred in overlooking Rudy being on top of the league for so revolutionary. Heretofore, It has Comstock who never was outplayed long, but any manager will tell you been his custom to sell them any¬ asked in his four years at guard and tackle that under such circumstances, I thing they for, whether it in the Blue and Gray line. t was helpless. was the greatest home-run hitter I Intended to return to the coast of all time or the right to enter his then and get away from baseball. theater by the stage door. It was Wonder What H,rt. Will Bar Tedart who owned the all one to Frazee. Yankee money Open Dally Till . P. M. But Frank Farrell, TIU 8 « , sent for me and was keeping him In baseball and Saturday P. M. His team every time the was ¦1 offered me a big contract. whip cracked, t was at the bottom of the league and he rolled obediently over and played dead. HERBERT PENNOCK. » he wanted to build it up. He of¬ 'i me three years, and I At this time, however, he was fered signed, set a new world's record- for 300 has 748, Scotland 368, Ireland 93 and « and took over the team in 1913. playing around with figurehead THINKS MARTY McMANUS of Great managers who yards indoors. Keane used Wood- Wales 44. The population *0 But conditions there were no bet¬ might bleat plteously Dempsey and Paddock Will Fine Players Britain is estimated at 42,000,000 wan made of old- over the departure of one star after ring as anchor man on his one-mile WILL LEAD ALL RIVALS ter. That club up team last and the against 21,000,000 for the New Eng¬ timers. who had seen their best another but carried the matter no relay spring, "Marty McManus will be the and New Jer¬ further. Fank Chance, the two- Orange quartet won the intercol¬ Without Defeat for Excess land States, New York days, or players of Just big league is the loading In the sey, grouped. caliber. I Immediately started to handed gentleman from California, legiate championship. This . as is not the to submit best line to be had on Woodrlng's major leagues at the end of the Great Britain has 1,253 clubs, explore the markets and arrange type gracefully in 1922 Weight 544 for New England, New that would When I be¬ to the business of selling a ball ability over the 440-yard distance, 1923 season," says . "¬ the against trades help. club from under his feet. It is well within the realm of The outstanding champion of William Wrigley, jr., York and New Jersey, which is more these up to the boss, but ting for .312, he drove In 109 runs, of the I gan putting The chances are that the the year.who is he? chewing gum magnate than two to one as to area, but about hesitated and finally lost several good that when possibility great Syracuse Sarapen . * be a at golf, Tilden at Joie which Is better work than Slsler Cubs, plans a novel equal in ratio to population. Jf fine chances by delaying. he signed contract'with Frazee. sprinter may develop into one of tennis, for a provision was written into It call¬ the of Ray the runner? No, for all did. Slsler, hitting .420, drove next spring. He outstanding quarter-mllers In 105 runs. It was Marty who was experiment set a Then I found that his money ing for Chance to do all the trading American track history. these have tasted defeat in will have SWAN OBTAINS ARCADE and around 1922. Jack and the dangerous lad In a pinch." limit for each Was tied up In the contracting selling , Dempsey McManus broke In with the certain weight BASKETERS business. I Just had to go along Boston. Charley per¬ player and fine that player for FOR LEGION there is PAT MCCARTHY LOOMS Paddock, premier Browns as a thlrdsacker but It was the with the team as it was. We Unfortunately little to formers in their specialties, not till he went to second that he eacn pound of surplus weight Charley Swan has obtained Tailoring trade or sell In finished seventh in '13, which that vicinity now. IN HEAVYWEIGHT RING cannot claim the honor, for showed in his true light. Now he he carries. Arcade for the American Legion was quite a as I Just a franchise, a baseball park be over¬ basketball team and expects to put performance, a NEW YORK, Dec. 27..Tex Rick- neither of them got into action is easily the class of the St. Louis "No player should on Mon¬ look bark at It. We went into and few spavined ball players. Infield with the possible exception when the season on some attractive games with The Yankees have picked the oar- ard will give the giant hopefuls a against worthy opponents. weight opens," day and Thursday nights. Values the following campaign the of Slsler, who is a harder hitter. he man is scarcely a bit of additional cass almost clean. chance to continue their heavy¬ Johnny Weismuller, says. "Every given Among games scheduled are con¬ strength, and little prospect of Nearly all the picking In the weight eliminations in Madison greatest swimmer of all time, enough time on the training tests with the Chester, Pa., legion¬ was done Colonel A Is tho man. The human fish. In¬ to take off the extra Athletic Club. , getting any. past by Huston, Square Garden on January 17. Lunte Hit Ball. trip naires: Wilmington .that values who could and did out talk Frazee few weeks ago Rlckard and Jimmy deed, is the most former Cleveland weight that accumulates in the Philadelphia American Legion, and jr knew in every deal that was consummated. Johnson trotted out a lot of beefy of impressivenas met Harry Lunte, after the Washington University. no man can The players they couldn't champion 1922* He Indian, had a batting average of winter. Therefore, George that afford figure much in the race, and had Now, however, Huston has gone heavyweights for a starter and a the best in the to de¬ race he should not Ed Kelly, former Business High and Chance has winners world, .313 in 116 games with Rochester begins, get and Yale and Donch, no more spirit than a broomstick. arrived. Perhaps number of likely looking feat and outclass his rivals and In the International last heavier." athlete, to overlook In those two years the club didn't that means a change for the better were returned, best among them league former Y. M. C. A. star, are among in the official relations of slaughter record after record season. He kicked a lot about basketball spend more than $25,000 for play¬ between the being Pat McCarthy, Boston, with monotonous but settled down and COLLEGIANS Swan's charges. Legion ers, and 114,000 of that went far two clubs. who whipped Indian Joe Stanton, regularity. signing up. WASHINGTON players desiring tryouts should at¬ Prince Dan¬ delivered the goods, once he got a next Wednesday , who was a fine ath¬ of California: Gypsy Into his uniform. FALL BEFORE AVIATORS tend meeting lete then. I did also get Roger MUST FIGHT TWO iels and Blacksmith Russell, a col¬ Tried Out an night at 7:30 o'clock at Spalding's. Suit or BOUTS never had Army. The Washington Collegians, made a ten-strlks by Pecklnpaugh, but those were the ored thumper who had The Newark club, In the Interna¬ Swan has two at a time when there TO RECEIVE ONE PURSE his hands up before. He 'Em Yet. aspiring the basketball champion¬ getting the Arcade, which ha® an only tional League, tried out sixty-five Stings .to basketball. were a lot of fine youngsters on NEW Dec. last finished. of Washington, are In the ideal hall for f the market. YORK, 27..The bout players season and was a hard-hitting ship Overcoat between Kid Williams, former ban¬ Small Value. BaFtimore, the pennant-winner, had In the and he Is a but are expected to I had a deal all made for Dick Was of smallest pitcher majors dumps today Cetz All. Hoblltzell. Had him for tamweight champion, and Harry Chick Fewster, sent to Boston by but twenty-five players, the hard-hitting outfielder In the min¬ rally out of It under the determined Played $3,500. Leonard, which was number for the circuit. ors. veteran thlrd-sacker To Order.Special details and went on a summarily the Yankees last year, was of small He crashed International Atherton. Gus Getz, the Completed ended some nights ago when last for ,351 leadership of Joe was the one Interna¬ Short eastern trip. Farrell was value to either team. He got into league pitching year Field with Reading, close Leonard committed a foul In the In the in 124 games with Syracuse. It's all because the Boiling tional Leaguer to play In every game supposed to the trude. while must be over but thirty-eight games gar¬ Is Alone. the an un¬ was When I asked him first round, fought at third base. Cagnon aviators gave Colleglana staged by his team. He was In 167 I away. If the boxers wish to receive den and twenty-three Harold "Chick" to have trimming. 37 to 24. a when was to he told again was benched with a sore arm Gannon, expected games and had batting average .50 He Hobby report, their share of the purse. This a trial with the Griffs In the spring, Only Three Switch. This might not have been so sur¬ .227. $22 that he had heard the after the Red Sox. of me Vlayer decree has been handed down by shortly joining was the only International Leaguer three International League prising If the Aviators' recent vic¬ was broken down, and that accord¬ Only Mohawks had been he had called everything off. William Muldoon, chairman of the last season to hit exactly .300. He batsmen hit from both sides of the tory over the Shine There. ingly New York State- Athletic Commis¬ V He played sixty-five games for Roches¬ plate last year. They were Barn- taken strongly Into account. For May Yet every baseball fan knows that May Develop. ter. by the well- San Francisco writers are tickled Dick was a mighty fine first base¬ sion. traded to the Red heai-dt and Taggert. of Newark, and Mohawks, Judging Carl llolling. Sheehan, of Buffalo. Not one known names in their lineup, are a to have Harry Courtney turnea over man with the Red 8ox. Box by the Tigers in the Colllns- on the basket¬ the White Sox. He That sort of Summa Is He Was reached the .300 mark. rattling fine outfit to the Seals by Dress procedure naturally Promising. Pratt deal, may develop into a cap¬ Deadly. ball won five out of seven games In the Evening Suits me. Before the '14 cam¬ floor. sickened Howard Summa, the Texas league able pitcher with plenty of work. ITrhan Shocker himself a a forward, coast last season. was ended I gave Mr. Far¬ proved at Hunslcker, 115-pound league paign recruit, who played twelve games He broke even In two gam*es for for the Bentley Top. a whale of a game for the Silk Lined.To Order rell my resignation. He urged me last deadly performer on the hill played In the Cleveland outfield last fall the Tigers year and got into walked Jack Bontley, who has been sold to Aviators. His team gof the Jump to stay out the other year and and hit for .348, Is a promising lad only five. Cobb did not have time Browns last season. He the New York Giants, led all the practically from the start and at announced that the financial out¬ for the coming campaign, Manager to play with him, he says. fifty-seven birds but he more than Orioles at lost-reason, the end was 12 look was much But he hat firat half's leading brighter. Speaker plans to start him in right made up for that with 149 strikeouts. boasting the handsome average of to 10. ' $45 Up couldn't assure me. So I dropped field next LOANS April. « / u. out. Cobb a Wise Cuy. .360 In 163 games. Thus, with two clubs, the Cubs got to Bodi* Falls Down. Some Were Worse. wss Still play Hank Wat HORNING .nd Yanks, I badly handi¬ Hooper Pegs. swond base for the Tigers, bench¬ / Pin* Bodle, almost always a .S00 Faulty. The Ortffmen permitted 706 runs £ capped by lack of any trading. , the White Sox ing Cutshaw and Clark. hitter In the show, fell down to Hank Shanks to be sotfed them last sea¬ a sort releasing big tplayed fifty-four against Mertz&Mertz That put ft cloud on my veteran gardener, can still peg out Pratt hit for .102 last year. Cut¬ .2*1 In 14t games with the Vernon game* at third baa* last season and son. which waa a better record than DIAMOMS, WATCHES, JEWELRY Conine. reputation that I want to remove. the, daring runners. He got nine¬ shaw hit for J17 and Clark for Titers In the Coast League last 'made fifteen *1X011, an average of thbae of the Red Sox. Markmen, Sontti Kb! mi Highway Bridge And that's why I am back. I still teen of them last usscn. mora than on* la svery tour games, HMUna or Tirsrs, 906 F Street