DEVOTED TO BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS Title Keeistered la O. S. Patent Office. Copyright, 1910 by the Sporting Idfs Publishing Company. Vol. 55 No. 5 Philadelphia, April 9, 1910 Price 5 Cents LYNCH LAYING The New President Them Instructions of the National As To Deportment League Gathers and Uniform In the Umpires About terpretation of the Him and Gives Playing Rules. SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." Oneida, T. J. Donovan; Auburn, Thomas EW YORK CITY, April 5. Presi Donovan. The well-known ex-magnate, J. L. dent Lynch, of the National Bacon, of Troy, was elected temporary presi League, went over the playing rules dent. Applications for admission were re N with his eight regular umpires and ceived from four other cities and referred to his recently-appointed sub-arbitra a committee to decide upon the most desirable tor, Dewitt Van Cleef, at a five- cities to complete the circuit. The season is hours© conference at his office here to open May 12 and close September 10. Ap yesterday. Lynch told his men they were the plication is to be made for National Associa inonarchs of the field and that all they had to tion protection as a Class D League. The do in order to retain their positions was to en league is the successor of the defunct Empire force the playing code. He went over with State League, which was maintained for some them the many protested games that the Na years as an outlaw organization. "With Lew tional League has had recently, particularly Bacon in control there is little doubt that th« last year, and showed how some of these pro new league will be admitted to the National tests might have been avoided. Particularly Association. he called their attention to Rule 75, which provides that the only persons who shall be allowed on the field during a game are the F. JONES© FORECAST. players, umpires and such officers of the law as may be required to preserve peace. Staff How the White Sox Former Manager photographers no longer will be allowed near the diamond after the game starts. Lynch Views the American Race. told his umpires to carry a book of rules with Special to "Sporting Life." them on the field with a view of clearing up Portland, Ore., April 4. Ex-manager Field disputed points then and there and thus avoid er Jones, than whom there are no better and haying them come up later through protests. few equally as shrewd judges of ball players, The division of the umpires© duties was dis has doped out the pennant races in both cussed, that is, as to parts of the field to be major leagues. He also predicts a poor covered by the umpire-in-chief and his as finish for his old team the White Sox. Said sistant. The squeeze and plays in connec he today: "The fight will be between De tion with it came in for an airing, particu troit, Philadelphia and Boston in the Ameri larly in reference to catchers stepping out of can League, with Boston and Detroit having their box to take the pitch. Umpires will the best chance. The Athletic pitchers artf call a balk in such event and the run be al liable to weaken this season, while the lowed to score. The etiquette of the field as Tigers© sluggers and the all-around balance o£ between players and umpires is to be ob the Red Sox will keep those teams in the fore. served with all due ceremoniousness, and The Cubs and Pirates will be one-two in the there must be no flippancy, faeetiousness or National League. The Cub pitchers will keep undue familiarity between players and um their team up in the race, while the Pirates pires. Club presidents will be asked to pro should travel at the same clip they did last vide benches sufficient for all regular and JOSEPH DOYLE, year. Clarke is a great leader and can be de substitute players, something especially need pended upon to keep his men keyed up to ed early in the season when many players are Pitcher of the New York American League Club. their work. The White Sox won©t be in the being carried, and the umpires are to see to Joseph Doyle, the clever spit-ball pitcher of the New York Highlanders, Is a Western running this year. The team lacks batters, it that the lines restricting the coachers to product and is only 26 years old. He first came into prominence with the Wheeling Club, of Dougherty being the only one that can be bounds are plainly marked. The umpires who the Central league, in the 1906 season, he winning 14 of 24 games pitched. In the Fall he called a good hitter." attended the meeting are Hank O©Day, James was purchased by Manager Griffith, of the New York Club, and made a sensational major E. Johnstone, William J. Klem, Charles Rig- league debut by shutting out Cleveland and Washington and winning three of the five games he pitched for New York. In the following season he confirmed the good impression he made in THREATENS SUIT. ler, Steve Kane, William Brennan, Augie his 1906 debut and has since been a regular member of the New York Club©s pitching corps. Moran, Robert D. Emslie and Dewitt Van He is a cool and clever pitcher, but makes himself unpopular outside of New York at least by Cleef. The last-named hails from Trenton, dilatory tactics, which are annoying to patrons to the point of exasperation, and which have McLean Declares His Training Lapse Didn©t N. J. For several years he has been umpir caused him to be dubbed Cuppy the Second. The force of this will be realized when we state ing college and semi-pro, gjjmes in and that Cuppy in his brief day was considered the slowest and most aggravating pitcher in the Warrant Long Suspension. around New Jersey and is well spoken of. profession. Special to "Sporting Life." He is the ninth umpire on the National Cincinnati, O., April 4. Catcher McLean, League staff. President Lynch plans to visit who has been suspended for a year by the every city in the circuit early in the season in Cincinnati Club for his fall from grace at order to get an accurate idea of the capa the Hot Springs training camp, returned to bility of memjbers of the umpiring staff. California in the Spring the Pacific Coast town with the Cincinnati team, but to date A NEW LEAGUE. has had no interview or settlement with has not seen the last of these invasions, as President Herrmann or Manager Griffith. lie TAYLOR©S TRIAL. it is stated on good authority that President The Central New York League Now En has taken advice and is positive that as John I. Taylor, of the Boston Americans, is his lapse happened during the training sea Will Take Up the California Tour Aban making arrangements for the 1911 training ters the Base Ball Field. son, before his contract went into effect, trip of the Red Sox to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Special to "Sporting Life.©© his year©s suspension is illegal and of no doned by Comiskey. Taylor is quoted in an interview in San Albany, N. Y., April 4. The Central New effect. He says he will present himself, Bpcfial to "Sporting Life.©© when his contract goes into effect, to the Francisco as saying that he will take the York League was organized here on March club, ready and in condition to play. If the Hot Springs, Ark., April 4. Though it has "Speed Boys" to Pasadena for a two weeks© 30 with these cities represented: Geneva, club then refuses to employ him he will in been definitely settled that President Comis workout before beginning a series of games by H. L. Trimble; Cortland, H. Guinion; sist upon being played, sold, trade, or re key will no longer take bis White Sox to with cluba in that section. Oswego, H. Paige; Borne, J. L. Bacon; leased, or else he will appeal to the courts. SPORTING LIFE APRIL 9, 1910 vented a spread of the flames and the dam young second baseman, recrnit of the St. age was slifht. The fire started in a lumber Louis American Club, is a nervous wreck and yard adjoining the park, and the brisk wind may never play ball again has caused Mana IS SOLE OWNER soon had the sparks soaring over the grand T. COBB©S DELAY ger 0©Connor, of the Browns, some concern, stand. An alarm was turned in, but the quick though he has heard nothing more than the work of the brigade had the flames smothered rumor which has been going the rounds of the before the department arrived. Topeka and Wichita papers. The report is STANLEY ROBISON MAKES AN « said to have come originally from Olson©s brother, who lives in Kansas City. It is to EMPHATIC DENIAL ASSOCIATION AFFAIRS. the effect that Olson, for a time, had lost his mind entirely, and that while he has recov Latest Official Bulletin Promulgated by ered) he is in such a condition that he may never play ball again. No one here has been Has Not Sold Any of His St* Louis President Chivington. An Important Business Deal Involv able either to verify it or dispute it au Special to "Sporting Life.©© thoritatively. Chicago, 111., April 4. The following bul ing Some Thousands of Dollars National League Club Stock, and letin was issued today by President L.