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Faces Change Rapidly In National League ONLY FFAV OF OLD GUARD LEFT NOW Elilifll- ami I)r?')fii!-s I'racti cally Silr Survivor* <>t OM ( .olcrir 2."> > rare A(l?? Brain* of ISutioiial Pafliim*. |S> JOHN It. KOSTKI! Ca0V>t?M. I*2?. b? Th# A-\arCf ? . I New York. February I ? The chauRi.B character of II... National Lf n?, graphically shown by the fact that ot iln- lour men picked at I'lilruxu to prepare for the l-cajiue s lutleth unnlveraary. to be hcul in Ne* York in 1925. only one lias been Willi the organization more than yiarn. ami none more than :::: years. The ? omniltteo consists of l'resi dent KM. is ..r Itrooklyn. Druyfuad ul UilUliUrBll. V.-uk of fhiram.an.1 Math. ?..n "I l!?-ton. hh.ieta con nection with the League dates back farther than that of any other offi eiai now connected with it- l?e ',e"| came secretary of the Brooklyn club bark in Dreyfus* ccmie* next, having become i>r. sideul of the l'ltf buruli club In 1900. an.l hav Ins been president of the Louisvl le club the year previous when that club was a member of the league. El, ells and Dreyfuss are nil that remain of Ihe old coterie of "ax -ba l men who once *rf the wlsisl. shrewdest, most tar sighted .and best equipped m'-n mentally who ever un dtrt.A.k to control Ihe national past time. others of the old group in cluded the lale Albert tl. Spalding. Krar.k Hell. Itoi.lns-.n of I lev 'Ian I. John T. Ilrusli of New \ork. tleorge W Howe Cleveland. James A. Hart ot Chicago. Charles II. Hyrne of Brooklyn. T. Hunt Slnckyol Louisville and Col. John I. ot Phlladedlplila. Able ? of these men. still alive but no Ioiim 1 connected with baseball, include Arthur II. Suden. William A j Reach. A. 0. Mills. Kred K. Stearti:;. John It. Hay. Edward Han ion and John U. Jones. John A. Hey. ller. who Is PP si dent of the National League, lias held that office longer than any man now alive John lv ? Ti ner. . ?? r president. now is banking business near PlttaburK. Pa and Thomas J. Lynch, aiiotliei e, -prc.ltle.it, is in ba.-lncss at V " Britain, ConnectlcU. rhe secretary of the league Is William j rthott?llne. who has I with ihe Philadelphia club since 1906: and the oldest manager Is John J. >i< Gruw. w ho has been at the helm o the Oiant club Since l#tli. ' 1 oldest umpire Is llobert Kmslle wl > is retired and yet nut retired, and ih oldest official scorer is llu' , I,,' who was appointed lutcU In the days when Nick Young was president. The league Is t^e only Hon of It kind in I he world that In one year lost all of Us ,.lny.-r? -;x two score, and that succsst uliy f ongl.t for existence and overturn' ? lis rlv -1 and regained the very pla> ets whom It had lost That was Ih v " ut the llroth. rliood which was waged during the year which nearly bankrupted a do* n , men and did bankrupt some. It ?p?. t John 11. l>av financially and- was tin ciuse of his lailn.e In after year He had a championship team an I a new ground In New \ ork 111 1 - . with every prospect of l.c o.altiK ai owner. BK.st favored by "' UW > [ a, iv, and pro. .1 to he hardest hit of all. although others sacrificed hold; ings worth thousand of dollars. Wliilr this war wrecked home it ttove John T. Brush an opportunity to enter into baseball. more ext n ? Ivelv ' l hun he had ever attempted before, and lu the. course of years made him the dominant future In his organ lit. t ion. Nearly all the writers of this period, of the storni> ,lav? when the National l.cafcti- was maklns history have passed on. Sam Crane. Joe Vila, Will lam H. Manna. Hugh Knllerlon. Walt" Barnes. Francis C. Hlcl.st. r and the writer arc anion* the scattered few Wilt are left. "etlry Chad wick died after the National League had regained" Us nold n potr ttrr g.jiv." ?ubstuuenl to the rovolt of the play ers. Of these writers two have been officials >? baseball. ? ? The leagues flr*t president was tne Hop. Morgan ('. Bulk* ley, former ITnlU'd SMlU'H SFTTntTTT rroill t i 'i\ nectlcut and former governor of the rtate, who died only recently. lie served as president of the league for only one year mid was succeeded l?y Willam A. Hulbert of Chicago, v.h< was en efficient executive but vi ho gained his greatest reputation by expelling playrs for gambling and refusing sill appeals for reinstate ment. Much sob sentiment ban been written in regard to the effo t< of the expelled players to be restored to standing. ?Top" Anson, until the time c;f death, was presumed to be the I' ague's oldest player but In reality the honor was vested in A. J. Beach of Philadelphia, who I* "till alive. He played In 1871 with the National Association, c/f which the National League was largely a centinuanee. The National League was formed in New York In a saloon Which was not even a tavern. In those days It was a handy meeting place unJ drinking places wtre conven ient meeting places at that time for men because fhere was abundant op portunity to sinoke. The National League is not the flr??t organisation of sport which ha? had an origin equally humble nor the first in buueha'.l whiph__ lias had a similar birthplace The national. Same however, has advanced several >t i.lcs .since those .times. When the proper times eomes ihere will l?e a celebration in New N ork and in all probability it will be liti away from the spot where the t'lr t hall field was laid out in X -w Voik or fjtr from the spot where tin National League was organized. This celebration will be an event in if- way commemorative of the men who have had to do with the National game, and will fitly cele hr;? t ?? the part tint the National League has played In baseball. There i ? ".as to b" no reason now to be lieve ihnt th'* rival leagues will be engaged in war although no one knows what one baseball sun will bring upon another. One pi the features suggested for the National League season of, 1025 is a series of prizes all in gold for players. The world series will 1 not come under the head of the golden Jubilee because the world erh-s was started in 1905 and in JUL'., i! Will IK* ? mrty 1 m'Ul> ten is old. However, that is not bad ; as iiomn predicted that ? H ? woutd hover live to see its tenth birthday. The I'o-simists of old days figured that any sum of money which was ad vanced to the players would lead to, ;? quarrel but in this case the pub lic ci/ntrihufc the money and as long' that continues It will take a very foolhardy man to get up a quarrel. Gelfand'g Relish and Mayonnaise at all ?ood grocers. | Some Specials $ : Has Unique Record As Football Coach Charles Moran Just Released Frcm Centre Drew Salary Of I $200 His First Season ll> WAI/TUK ('AMI' CapyncM. h?t. by fh? X'.'W York. Feb. 1.? Charlie Mo ran. who has been released from his i i v i ? year coaching year contract at Centre Coll* ti/ take the Jul) of coaching Bucknell's football team, is a unique flKurc in cullt'Kc coaching ranks. .Moran is a big league umpire. Som" seven year* ago his son Tom was play Inn on tin- Centre Col foi/ikill t ni . Long a student of i'ooth..!t. Moran left his farm to help . conch train Tom and t he other players. Tin n?-xt year In? coached the team regularly at a salary reported to have :?ei $200 for the season. In 1919 lie continued at a salary of $500. That was the year that Centre defeated West Virginia after the Mountain eers had snowed Princeton under, 25 to A. In 1920 Moran's salary was raised to $70(1. Then came alt ihe big jumps in football coaches pay, and Moran was offered a large salary i>\ several Southern colleges. He elected to remain at Cent re for $5,500. With all this jecord of faithfulness hack of hr.i, there wasn't much that President Montgomery of Centre could do hut send him on with bles sings. when Moran asked for a -re lease from his cc/ntract so that he. could go to Bucknell. I ED MOORE MEETS DAVE SHADE TONIGHT r.y FAIIt ri.w C" o?r j-hl. I' 21. by The Ad/an:c New York. February 1 ? Ted Moare. the English fighter. w!;o majle 'such a good showing apainst Tommy Loughran recently, will have a move rapid test tonight when he- U? #ehedu+e?f-to meet Dave Shade in Boston. Shade is supposed 10 be outgrowing the welt<T class, but even so he will have to concede tli-' llriton several pounds. Ills speed ami clearness are expected to offset M -ore's heavier hitting. That Ted can receive. as well as give was shown in his last Boston buttle. ^ When Loughran had him on the floor twice. But he recovered from that fir-t round set back and made a strong showing. ? ? V.. .. : : , > ?'?.H There is something funny about thU Flrpo-Wllls business. Why, as the writer has asked before, should Firpo be willing to cross Kickard and Jeopardize the $2,000,000 Dempsey show for a crack at Wills? He could m- l Dempsey and then. meet Wills later ;.nd draw a great crowd no mat tie how he fared with Dempsey. What is the ansWer7 Perhaps llughey Cart land knows. Groat One Day Sale starts at Peo ples Bargain Store Saturday. page eight. adv HOD ELLER IS TO TRY AGAIN Slur of 1919 \\ ho Sunk Into Olilivion \\ lien Sliinr Mull \\ a* liaiiiD'il 1? W itli liulian ;i|M>li> Now. It> JOHN It. t'OSTKIt Coayifl'-t. by 7 h ? AOuN.e NY\\ York, February 1 ? Down in ? tin- blue gra*s country in 1923 (hero v.a ? a pit', her who was trying- hard lo nimi' l?i: ?* k . and h? worked 50 I'aithtuliv that lie nu/sfcred some tricks that In* <1 i?l 11 * t even know when !??? was a star in the big show. His 'name was Hod Eller. .If you will go hack tir the world series of 1919 when Cincinnati played the White Sox that lamentable M*rik'<. > <? a will imd Ell?*r s name surrounded with a halo of printer's ink. At Cincinnati Filler made a strike out record for world series baseball and was otherwise histltry successful.. During the winter tho pitching rules were changed and Eller, no ; longer able to rub the ball on his flaiinel knickerbockers. lost his "shine." One evening he sat in his hotel in Xi'w York, the picture ? and the pitcher ? of misery. "I can't make it hop." he said. "I'm about ready to give up. but some day may be I'll go after it to get back. My arm .feels all right but the ball won't work right." Eller pitched his way around the blue grass country in 1923; trying out 11. w wrinkles with which he hadn't been familiar in his Cincin nati days. lie is booked to try again this spring, and he is going back with a who will give him all the chance he asks ? Donle Hush erf In dianapolis. lit; still has the speed, i; b?' can develop a little deception. Hush will be glad to give him a chance. There's more to the story. When Kller was pitching for the Mount Sailing CMub In the Blue Gr.;ss League, he took in hand a kid pitcher named John Gross Gross was a likely pupil. He is reported t o have pitched three 110 hit games iu the Blue Grass League. The Giants heard about him and signed liim. Then they decided to put him out for a little more training ? with Indianapolis. So Klier and Grc'ss. who were the liig factors in the success,^ of the Mount Sterling Club In 1923 are to gether in 192 4 and are going to try to burn up the American. Associa tion Should they prove a winning pair it 1? safe t.nough wager that they can't keep out o-f major league luili in 1 0 2 r? . There Is many a club that would like to have old Hod with hi* speed, if he has anything to go with it. PLAYER W HITER RULE I WII.L STIR THINGS I'P lly W AI.TKI! ( AMI C-pyrigM. I12t, fry Th? Ad?*ne? NV*' York. February 1 ? Evidences are piling up that the proposed rule fosbiddiitK tennis players ti> write on the same is suing to make it inter is.'iug session out oi the Cnitedj States Lawn Tennis Association' meeting next month. Most of the tnnnis authorities of California and Ne\v York have gone' oil record as favoring the rule, while Chicago and Philadelphia seem to he! Kitting all set tc oppose it. One: of the Chicago writers proposes let ting TUden go on with his work as a! r porter, hut preventing others.! w'.t.'n they reach tennis fame, from I canitalizing their success by writing.) An.ither contends that it mUkes no: difference whether a man is a good! wii*?r or, not, and that the. question ! U wi?- thcr or not he niakeiLiiis living! out.' -of tennis through his writiug. Altogether, the problem will prove tin interesting one before it is settled; ^satisfactorily. ANNOUNCE RULES FOR BASKETBALL CONTES I Chapel Hill, February 1 ? Regulu-j tions governing the tenth annual' state-wide basketball contest, among; the high schools, were announced! today by K. K. Rankin, secretary erf j the recently organized High School; At Ilk tic Association of" North Caro-' Una. under whose auspices this con test will be held. Any North Carolina public high school. city or rural, may take part in this contest, provided the school bus fir*t become a member of the High School Athletic Association, membership in which is open to all accredited high schools in the State. i liools' desiring to enter the contest should f!*?> with Secretary Rankin. i of ('ha pi i Hill, their applications on or before February 8. These appli cations should be accompanied by in dividual data certifying tor the eligi bility of each player, it was said. Regulations may be had free by writing to .Mr. Rankin. Changes in the rules for 1924 make ineligible . any student who has received money ? for participating In any athletic [ game. It was declared. This rule. . however, it was pointed out, should * not be construed to mean expenses ?| f? r board, lodging arid transporta- ? tion, when these items ate paid for j dircct by the manager of the team . on which the student plays, anil ?< when no money is handled by the *j student. j 4 In Emergencies illicit time is precious CALL ? The ? Apothecary Shop Phone 100 I Saturday At Nine ! Great Money Saving Oppor tunity Start* at H. C. Bright'* Jewelry Store. See page five. Closing Out Business A few more Vac uum Cleaners, Toast er Stoves, Electric Fans, Heating Pads, Irons and House Wir ing, Electric Supplies and Lighting Fixtures must be sold by Feb ruary% 1. Also ono wood and gas combin ation Cook stove near ly new. W. S. White & Co. PIIONE 61. 120-12'i Poindnxtcr St. Elizabeth City, N. C. FURNITURE ?SLIGHTLY USED AT? 1-2 PRICE ?AT THE ? Auction Store Mnllhown Slreel E. L. Silvcrtliorne, Mgr. Rack of D. M. Jones Co. A Trip To Our National Parks Free Of Charge I'Miii^hl al tin* Court House, it p. in. 1)1!. CIlAitl.KS I). WILLIAMSON, I nitt-d State* J)ept. of llu- Lilerior, m ill {live an illustrated lecture on 'OIK NATIONAL PAUKS" A great opportunity to scr and !:wir of our Niition al Ifi'MTvalioib from a recognized authority NO ADMISSION FEE JUST ARRIVED \ 100 Pair* of QUEEN ANN NET Cl'KTAINS. willi I'riiifjf. Vm special, priced 82.00 pair McCabe & Grice THE fil'SY STORE Heats Like Magic Radiantfire is a beautiful gas fire that can be used anywhere ? in that cold corner of your living room, in that chilly bedroom, or anywhere ^you need extra heat. There are inexpensive portable and stationary mod els for every purpose. Clean, healthful radiant heat. Quiet and absolutely odorless. Come in and s_*e a Radiantfire today. Satisfy your self how superior it is to any heat in:; device you have ever seen. Southern Gas Imp't Co. J. T. ST VLl.iNGS, Mfir. "// it's done nilh I: cut. you can do it belter nilh dim" A Partial List of Building Material and Other Stock We Carry HOOFING OF ALL KINDS ? SHEET BOCK PLASTER BOARD .last rrreived a new cur. TIRES, T! TIES und TIRE ACCESSORIES, PAIN I S. V \RMSIIES and STAINS. '<?? j<>!) too lii.u !(? give y??u a ciHilrnrl on. \ . f.f - for t>rrviee. Lrl iim figure willi yon. E. J. Cohoon & Co. Main and Water Streets. PHONE FOK HIGHEST MARKET PRICES Ship COTTON To WINBORNE&CO. NORFOLK. VIRGINIA Thoy pay draft* f?>r "10 p?r cent ?>n rolton to Iw ?olcTon arrival and 7.? ftfr cent if 16 lie stored.
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