BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS. Volume 44— No. 22. Philadelphia*., February II, 1905. Price, Five Cents. SPORTING UCFE. February ii, 1905, was done with the Phillies, and aa catchers been possible for us to break into the first went there were none better." division. Do you think that the team will IN HIS LAST HOME. have the same luck in the summer of THE OLD CONTRACT. The remains of "Fergy" Malone reached O©BRIEN OVERTURE. 1905? I don©t. A little strength at two Philadelphia from Seattle on the 28th ult., places in the early part of the year would and on Jan. 31 the funeral took place from have put the Brooklyns near the top, in the old home, at 2944 Gennantown ave stead of trailing along behind the other INTERESTING RELICS OF A BY- nue. The majority of the players who THE POLICY OF THE NEW ASSO teams. Hanlon knew that, but it was im were contemporary with Malone have long possible to get the players which were GONE AGE. since gone over the range, others have CIATION PRESIDENT. needed to fix up taken up their habitat in other cities, but THE WEAK SPOTS. there were still left a snfficient number to We could almost have got along with ama make a brave showing at the ceremonies teurs in preference to the men who were Some 0!d=Time Agreements Used in which marked the great catcher©s exit from He Will be the Executive of the signed with us, and nobody knew that bet the game of life. Among the veterans pres ter than the man who has handled baseball ent were Al. Reach, Dick McBride, Levi in this city for so long. Next year we.have Times When Even the Greatest Meyerle, Charley Fulmer, George Bradley, Whole League and Not the Chief got players who can do no worse, and we Terry Connell and Henry Boyle. Father think that they will be able to do a great Players Drew Small Salaries and Coghlan, of the Church of Our Lady of of a Faction; and Will Strive to deal better. Combine them with the old Mercy, Broad street and Susquehanna ave stock which remains with the Brooklyns nue, a life-long friend of the dead catcher, and I tell you that we shall have better Were Burdened by Restrictions. delivered the sermon. He paid a splendid . Make a Good Record For Himself. ball than we did, and I think we will play tribute to his worth as a man and a player, ball that will make the teams in the first and commended the game which he had division respect us from the drop of the Cleveland, O., Feb. 3. "Buttons" Briggs, done so much to develop. The interment SPECIAL TO SPORTING LIFB. flag. There will be no such record of .vic was in New Cathedral Cemetery. tories on the part of the Giants against*the the veteran twirler on the staff of the LOCAL JOTTINGS. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 1. Joseph D. Chicago National League Club, is the pos President Shettsline has cut the reser O©Brien. the new president of the Ameri Brooklyns as there was last summer. It sessor of-some valuable old vation string that held Bill Douglass to can Association was in rown last week will be be harder sledding for all the teams documents in the way of the Phillies. He has sold Bill©s release for going over the books of the in the National League which finished in contracts of the Chicago $500 to the St. Joseph (Mo.) Club, which Association with Mr. M. J. the first division in 1904." club players back in 1884, will use him as manager-captain. Kelly, chairman of the THE TAYLOR CASE. when Anson, Williamson, Connie Mack says George Edward Wad- Board of Directors. In According to Ban Johnson the Taylor Kelly, George Gore, Sun- dell is not as black as he is painted, but talk with local people Mr. case is to come up at a meeting of the day, Flint, Pfeffer, Gold- he will never be mistaken for one of O©Brien stated that he con National Commission which is to be held smith, Dalrymple and Raphael©s cherubims. sidered it a great honor to in New York at the same time as the others of that famous Bransfield has kept down his weight this be president of the Ameri schedule meeting of the National and world-beating aggregation winter by playing billiards. He is over can Association, and that American League. The Taylor case has were in their prime. He joyed with the deal that brings him to this he hoped to do his work in gone so far that it is likely something will -also has a contract between city. such a way that no finger have to be done to dispense with it for the Chicago Baseball As- . President Shettsline, of the Phillies, the of criticism will ever be good and all, but it strikes a great many sociation and Oscar Bie- people that the American League .might laski for the season of other day received a letter from Manager pointed at him. The salary A. C. finsoo Duffy, in which Hughey expresses himself that goes with the office better have kept out of it than to attempt 1875, the year before the to force issues©. It has been very difficult National League was organized. This con as well pleased with the recent deals for Jos. D. O©Brien is of little importance to players. O©Brien, as he is wall fixed. to get at the gist of the matter. There tract is a simple one, and calls for the has not been a definite statement regard service of Bielaski for eight months, from "Connie" Mack was asked the other day He is planning to travel around the circuit what he thought of the spit ball, and an and get in touch with the people, as well ing the first complaint, and, in fact, there March 15 to November 15, at a salary of swered: "Oh, every pitcher will have it has been nothing to show that a complaint $1400. The player agrees to play for the as keep a tab on umpires and rowdy play was made. The scandal appears to have Chicago club only, and to obey all rules this season, and every team will have its ers. Such are his ideals. Regarding his Chesbro." policy he said: begun by one of those "I heard so and so" and regulations and "to refrain from any Outfielder Titus, who has been sold to the statements. Comiskey seems to be in the dissipation which may impair his physical "I am president of the entire American As the role of condition." Buffalo Club by President Shettsline, an sociation, and not any one faction in the league. ANSON©S BEGINNING. nounces that be will not join the forces of 1 am out to make a record for myself, and in FORCING MATTERS, George Stallings. He will either play with order to do it must deal with all disputes and but I have yet to see anything anywhere But the contract of Anson is a weird and the Phillies or with an independent club he questions that arise with absolute honesty, which mixed Comiskey up with Taylor. No wonderful thing compared with the present says. propose to spend all my time in managing the one has charged that the old Roman had day player©s contract. It consists of seven Connie Mack says he would sign outfielder league©s affairs, with headquarters in Chicago. anything to do with the player in regard pages and 23 sections, and a ball player Harry Bay in a jiffy were Cleveland to re I can visit two or three towns in the league to any alleged wrong dealing, nor would was forced to almost sign his life away in lease him, as he considers Bay a winning each week if necessary. This will afford me an any one suspect it. On the contrary, those days, instead of forcing the clubs opportunity to .iudge for myself the work of the it has been made to appear in everything to come to time, as it is at present. An- player. umpires I select. I realize that the hardest propo Pitcher Duggleby, accompanied by his sition I have to deal w.ith is the umpire question, which comes to hand that Taylor, if in son©s contract calls for $2500 for seven wife and baby, arrived in town yesterday and I am. going to do my very best to give the fluenced at all, had been influenced by par months© services and is payable monthly. morning from Florence, N. Y. "Dug" says Association the best corps It has ever had. Mr. ties outside of base ball. For that reason This stim, $2300, for the player who was it©s too cold up North to suit him, and Grillo had signed four men. but I am under no it is hard to see why Comiskey. should at then the king bee of the baseball world, will take his family to Savannah, Ga., for obligations to keep them, and with the excep tempt to compel the National League to shows what remarkable changes have taken tion of Bill Hart I have not derided whether to force its strength against the player. If place in 20 years. Nowadays the greenest the remainder of the winter. He will join retain them or not. There will be no bullying youngster breaking in from the minor the Phillies when they reach the South.