Volume 49, No. 6. Philadelphia, April 20, 1907. Price, Five Cents. GIVES LESSONS A SHIFT IN CINCINNATI CLUB©S MANAGER JENNINGS© NOVEL STOCK HOLDINGS* METHOD OF INSTRUCTION. George B* Cox Disposes of His In Puts His Ideas on Ball Playing Into terest to a Friend of Mr* Herr- Writing and Insists Upon the mann Mike Donlin Really Joins Members of His Detroit Team the Outlaws News by Wire, Studying Them in Leisure Hours SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LIFE." SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LOTS." Cincinnati, O., April 15. A proposition Detroit, Mich., April 16. The Detroit jokingly put up to him by Thomas L. Club©s new manager, Hugl Jennings, is not Logan, fashionable tailor, will result in the only intensely practical, but also highly retirement from the Cincin original. When you went nati Base Ball Club of to school as a 1>oy you prob Geo. B. Cox, famed political ably kicked ag..ainst getting boss, and one-third owner lessons because, you wanted of the Cincinnati Exhibition to play ball. But the major Company, operating the Na league ball players at least tional League club, if Logan the Tigers have their les produces a sum of money sons to study nightly despite estimated at $75,000 and the fact that their whole purchases Cox©s holdings, time is devoted to the game. which is deemed not improb They can©t dodge study by able. At the base ball ban playing ball. Manager Jen quet given by Garry Herr- nings has had carbon copies niaun on April 6 Cox de of base ball articles written Hon. G. B. Cox clared that the Cincinnati by himself, and each player management would demand is given one at stated inter H. Jenningt a winning base ball team, and by some his vals, dealing with various phases of the remarks were interpreted as a rap at work. It is not written along a set line Manager Hanlon and an indication that he of action. Each treatise is just an article is tired of a losing club. The result was.a dealing with certain fine points of the game, kidding match in which Cox was accused of aiming to lend the players helpful hints to having "cold feet," and Logan asked him ward perfection. Jennings knows how to if he would sell out. Cox replied that he keep his boys interested. His talks are would sell any property in his possession, always on some base ball topic that will if he obtained the price, and he named the help them and yet keep them interested. figure at which Logan could induce him to It is in this style that his essays are writ let go of his base ball interests. An option ten. Base sliding particularly is given went with the offer which Cox said was not attention. He warns them against keeping to be accepted as signifying that he was their feet too far apart while leading off in any way dissatisfied with the present first; he shows the advantages of sliding club or manager. The other partners in the foremost into the bases, and details the ownership of the club are Garry Herrmann, different styles. More interesting than any president of the club; ex-Mayor Julius thing else is his insistence that third base Fleischmann and Colonel Max Fleischmann, is no harder to steal than second. He urge* brothers. WALTER CLARKSON, them all to try it as much as possible. LATER BOSS COX SELLS OUT. Pitcher of the New York American League Club. Cincinnati, O., April 16. The deal for STAR PLAYERS VALUED. the transfer to Thomas J. Logan by George B. Cox, of the latter©s third interest in the The Cleveland Team Insured By the Ctab Cincinnati National League Club, has been completed. Mr. Logan is a warm personal For $1000,000. friend of President Herrmann, of the club, Special to "Sporting Life." and it is announced that there will be no change in policy or management. The club Cleveland, O., April 16. The owners of is capitalized at $250,000. No statement the Cleveland Club, of the American League, has been made as to the consideration in are taking no chances on sustaining a loss the sale. through the team being crippled in a rail THE GREATEST BUNTER. hits the ball. But he has the unusual facility road accident, and have insured the players of tapping the ball away fmm you. So that for an amount a trifle over $100,000. Many SUIT AVOIDED. The Honor Accorded to Lobert, of Cincin you have to switch your "ourse after you of the other big league clubs are thus in get started in a certain direction. He©s sured, but it is believed that none are in nati, by Devlin. fooled me more than have batsmen who sured for a larger amount. Ever since the The Roebling Club, of Trenton, Settles have better reputations than he, and he©ll Naps were in an accident at Napoleon, O., In the opinion of Arthur Devlin, of the beat out many a bunt the coming season, Players© Claims. New York Giants, Hans Lobert, of the the local magnates have taken no chances Special to "Sporting Life." when he©ll be a regular man on the team." and before the start of the training trip Cincinnati team, is the most dangerous bunt every player is fixed so that the club will Trenton, N. J., April te. A settlement hitter at least in the old National League. POKER BARRED. be protected financially in case he meets has been effected in the suit of Ray Egner, "I don©t suppose that the followers of the with an accident off the base ball field the local base ball pitcher, against the game in Cincinnati really appreciate what throughout the base ball season. Roebling Base Ball Association, and the a valuable man the club has Kin Hans Manager Griffith Puts It in the Class With matter will not be carried into Court. Lobert," remarked Del Mason, the pitcher, Bowling and Billiards. Egner, acting for the members of the team, while watching the members of the Cincin PLAYER LOSES SUIT. sued to recover money ©Aue for services last nati team at bunting practice the other Manager Griffith, of the New York Ameri season. The affair ha» been adjusted by day. "I didn©t know it myself until this cans, has delivered an ultimatum against the players agreeing to take 50 per cent. winter, although I had seen Lobert play in poker and has put certain restrictions on Pitcher Verneuille Cannot Collect Part of of the sum due them. The players interest a number of games last fall. billiards and bowling. The latter game he Purchase Money. ed are: Charles O©Neil, of Philadelphia; ©©My awakening came during a conversa has advised his athletes to cut out alto George Wells, of Hopewell;© Paul Hart, of tion with Arthur Devlin, third baseman of gether. He will stand for billiards .at night, Special to "Sporting Life." Pennington; William Shackleton, of Pater- the New York Giants, who wintered at the but not in the morning before the game, Mobile, Ala., April 15. Judge Alford, in BOTi; Hugh McCune, Ray Egner, Orton same hotel with me in Los Angeles. During as he thinks it tiros a player out to keep the Inferior Criminal Court, on the 9th inst. Justice, Charles Young, William Bennett one of our many fanning bees the matter of walking around a table. A little game of rendered a decision in the case of Leo and Walter Horton. pitchers and third basemen fielding bunts draw on the train will not be barred, but Vernuelle against the Mobile Base Ball Com-, came up. ©Do you know,© asked Devlin he has forbidden hotel cessions. ©©Griff 1 © pany, Vernuelle seeking to- recover $100, as good a fielding third baseman as there argues that there are no short poker games half of the draft money paid for him by DONLIN IS OUT. is in the business ©who gives me the most and that a long seance tires a man out and another club; which, he said, George Reed, Special to "Sporting Life," trouble in the matter of laying down bunts? makes him lose sleep. Financial losses do former manager of the Mobile Cotton States That Dutchman, Lobert, with the Reds. not enter in his argument. He© want/s to League team, promised him. The defendants Chicago, 111., April 15. Mike Donlin, the "He does not fool you much in his guard against physical losses. Bowling he claimed they did not owj3 Vernuelle any-, New York National League outfielder, Fri- attitude in hitting a bunt, and you can thinks, is bad for ball players at any time thing, and Judge Alford sustained the con CONT1JTOBD ON SECOND PAGB get the start on him all right before he of the year. tention of the defendants. L _ SRORTIIVG LJF?B. 20, 1907. dolph 2, off Beiveraan 1.Struck out—By Bargeman 4, LATEST NEWS. Pacific Coast League. by Randolph 4.Double plays—Bergeman and Brash- ear; Heltmiiler and Bigbee; Van Haltrea and Big-PRIVATE POLICE bee. Hit by pitcher—By Bargeman ]. Umpire—Per- How They Stand. rine. The standing of the clubs,s including games of A SHIFT INCmOMATI CLUB'S At)ril9foll°™ AT SAN FRANCISCO—MOBNISQ GAME. .AaiL HAVE TO GUARD NEW W.© L © Pet PORTLAND. AB. B. P. A.K rtusco. AB. B, P.A. K. 8an Francisco. 3 .750 Los Angeles.. 1 2 ,ii33?nirin' cf......5 21 0 Spencer, cf...3 1 VA'DIT ft TTDC Oakland......