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 manager 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 BASEBALL none other than Herb Pennock, here shown about to heave a ball from the mound. He is By FRANK L. CHANCE. one of the southpaw lights of the American League. 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 Harry Frazee. 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 Frank Selee. 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 Frank Chance 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 Boston Red Sox 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.