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g A -v, ... , 1 I iv vw -a wr . k, a 1 WW I V I 7 . ' I. A SIMPPY WINTER BASEBALL TauCWRESTtINC AND : INDOOR ATHLETICS By TOMMY CLARK. BOUGH Johnny Evert n.sde a splendid showing with the Cuba last rear, finishing third when It iu th iir- f 1 opinion that he woj.ld have a. hard I received fatal Injuries. There are many "f time-remaining in in Brat mviaion, ii " r tru-nored tSat - Charter J.srphyts f J I thinking seriourly of making a change ' . ... in the management of his teem. ii Murpity nas oone a ioi oi pcuur r mi emfTTim ne wouia aepoaa bt i " rx, who undoubtedly has shown him self a leader of mora than -ordinary hanSreds thousands of men and boys play ths naticraal 'ub ovary summer. The casualties are few con sidering the number of players engag ed. JN'one of the major league players Tiaittfes" Iff foBtbirTMr-17aiy,lwhgre itmdredsotrilWBMS jlay yet lUis seldom " that the well trained' college and club men are serlotfsly hurt If anything, the fatality list la a sermon ability, besides playing one of the best took charge of Ua team lata last sum mer there was a marked, Improvement In Its playing, though, of course, the poor start the team got, together with the Inability of Jee Wood to pitch, was too much of handicap to Tut the for tnwhiiwptotiar1"4behswBt-l Carrigan. gave evidence, of having man agerlal (ability even during, his short regime last seeseBy-and his prospects the coming season are even brighter. la not the first time that Sharer has quit the game In the winter and re ported in the spring. But there Is bo doubt that he Is In a position where he does not have to play "baseball for a living, and he does Ilka to run his au tomobile vefJCaJlfoHlavjroatfa,.SBgsa . That the "fielder's choice" will he re stored to the scoring rules before the next season opens seems assured. It Is Columbus .baseball magnates an Bounce that the Senators will do their the- aevt- we Inform Carrigan that he was In abso lute charge of the team on and off the field, Ahat he- was at liberty to make 1 .1 j.cv " s S II J 1 m Awwtew Fhm Asjodiltou.,, ... - tW gtt sotrs to Ifuirinefd ter one Of the Brst changes to be made will be rilling the "Cincinnati base kit" There Is much opposition, to this farcical method of scaring the time honored "fielder's choice," which was wiped out by the new rule last season. and it la understood that, the rule mak ers propose to change the rules as they were before last season. Charley Comlskey of the White Sox has long been an advocate of a rule which will force ball players to wear high shoes, which are expected to pro tect their ankles against Injury. Last season many players were incapacitat ed by reason of Injuries roads possible by the wearing of the low shoe; and It la believed that If high, shoes are worn many of these accidents would be pre vented. It Is mt unlikely that both major- league's will consider this sub ject at their next meetings. to Herrmann I knew that my release would be forthcoming. If 1 had remained In charge of the Reds for another year I feel sure that I would hiVe developed a wlnbr. Two of the best trades ever put through by .Uut(AGiAMS4 ftlub? wara.fBglJSWBaA by ma, I gave Pttcherromme .to the Giants for AmesVGron and Devore, and the Reds were greatix. Improved. by the trade. I also got Ulnar Brown from TyminvlTTe: for'Orover toofleTTni'k. and Tm best thing i Herrmann can do now is to trade me to some other Na tional Jeogue club, as I will never play for the Cincinnati club again. I did the best I could under the moot trying circumstances, and I am glad to be re lieved of a troublesome burden.1 GEORGE BOTHNER, CHAMPION WRESTLER, WHO IS DEFEATING ALL COMERS TJOTHNER, peer ifv all wrestlera in the light and welter weight classes, Is here shown executing some of the holds. In the top photo he is throwing a man with a head lock secured by Bothner'a legs. In tl Illustration he is using a bamrthvlock and half nelson; at the bottom, to the left, it la the right a punishing toe hold. his effec- the middle 'scissors,'' and at the tames of bis career. Recent events fcftVft wttftvyiv tiO'iy iCetrc' yod fTtftrtftitrff tre, and Ever?, having finished in third place with a team that was not ex pected to cut much of a figure, -certainly is deserving of a lot of credit and mother trial, to say the least Fifteen deaths was the baseball toll of 111. Twelve players were killed by being hit on the head by pitched balls. Three spectators were killed by foul tips. In Chicago three players were killed by pitched balls. While this seems to form an alarm ing list, it must be remembered that spring training In the old' homo coop, outby the brewery and the army-post. Great stuff! It enables the manage ment to aave a lot of car fare and also simulUHSoTSSIyTatten up their popu larity percentage by claiming they ' train at home out of sheer love for the grand old town. A good passer of the buck should make much bay In the way of aroused local patriotism out of this performance. Under the management of Bin Carri gan the Red Sox may regain their form of two years ago and again be con tenders in the race. After Carrigan such changes as he saw fit In an effort -toanako- th team w4nner and.4hal there would be no Interference with him In any manner or form. For a newcomer Into baseball Lan nln seems to have the right Idea.' For a manager to succeed he should have full authority over his players. McGraw Is having his annual scare namely, that Arthur Sharer will not report. Ths Callfornlan has once more announced that he is through with baseball, and McGraw, of course, la worrying over how he Is going to fill bis place. Fortunately, however, this TINKER REVEALS CINCINNATI WOES. JOB TINKER, deposed manager of Interesting statement regarding his relations with President HrrYmann and the directors of the club, which. If true, throws much light on the trials and tribulations of former Porkvllle managers. 1 expected to get my release." says Tinker, "because there was friction, and the only reason I am sorry to step down is the fair treatment I received from the Cincinnati newspapers snd fans. The Cincinnati team doesn't need a manager, according to thej?ajf.. the club Is run by the directors. "Cincinnati managers before me were simply. .ofttfcjeiw.nftj5i..oX.ilbL.club' ran the - Reds t he way they pleased and then fired the manager because. thr tcwgmarae' a' ptwehwinif:'' T ws the goat under this eyHtem, but I fought hard against interference. It "The directors sold two players. dur- lng the latter part of the season with out even going to the trouble of letting me knowLany thing about It I Warned of these deals through the newspapers. The sale of Almeida, the Cuban, is an other Instance, Had I been' eonsjilted I would not have let these men go un less in trades which would have strengthened the Reds, but the direc tors sold the players outright because they wanted the money. "Under such conditions, which will continue ta.exlst, the only kind of boss needed In Cincinnati Is a field captain who must carry out the di rectors orders. Hut he must be pre pared to be censured for trades and other official acts by the owners that handicap the team, although he will not be informed In advance what deals are to be made. rlnir1 thf mtnflrlegTiraeeimFTtf Columbus I was Informed that Harry Stephens, a friend of the Flelichmanns, had been appointed secretary of the Reds for next season, Stephens will travel with the team and act as a spot ter. "He told me after he had been ap pointed that I must not speak about the club's affairs to newspaper men: that he would do all the talking and that I would have to talte my orders from Mm, That convinced me that I could not remain with the Reds, and after I had written a letter of protest SOCCER ONE OF OLDEST SPORTS. JjjVEN soccer, the grandmother ef American football used to be a leader among games. f" Legend has It that In MS. during the Danish Invasion of Kns-I&nd. a wank man of Chester captured a Dane, be headed htm and knocked his head out into the street to furnish sport for the "fellows." The same of klrklns hle&ch. led skulls around the city streets and even outside the walls of ths anclen Komsn ouiii city grew in ravor. The same was lnduls-ed In whenever & Cheshire sport could annex a Danish neaa. Later a "balls of leather called a foot balle" was substituted. The game de veloped into a sough and tumble Bcrlmmac-e. and th ball itself wnnM often lie fonratten for hmira -m.hu. th excited players chased one another tnrougn aueya and lanes .and" broke Into the houses of the more respectable citizens as results of arguments over the rules. The game unread in favor and. tnms. lng over the Intervening centuries, is suu spreading. DOHE RTY TO RE-ENTER QAME. to re-enter the ranks of tennis con- teudera-Not since if has he been seen In an International contest Neverthe less the name of IL L. Dohcrty, to gether with that TUTS brotner. R. F; will be remembered by tennis players man as well. as an expert of rre abili ty H. I. won an undying reputation. on tennis which are considered the best compositions of their- kind In existences- How well the Doherty broth era' theory of the game worked out was shown bandreds of times n their international matches ss well as play at- me eohKBgMah court H. 'I Doherty's greatest feat was to defeat illu Larned when the latter was at the top of the game. OXFORD TO SEND TEAM TO MEET PENN IN APRIL. fVXFGRO uwiyTsHy-wt send a team from England to compete at the annual relay races under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania next April There are three men on the Oxford team capable of running the mile In less than i minutes t seconds.. They :4wlHmfTiieyfBro eon, thfl Englishman who won the 1.H04 meter race at the lll Olympic games, and Rudd, the South African half mile champion. PURCHASE TWO PLAYERS. TT was announced at the recent Texas league meeting at Houston that Beaumont had purchased Pitcher McCuller and Catcher Bobo from Aus tin. Manager Leldy of Beaumont also tried to trade Pitcher Martina for Pitcher Fentress of Fort Worth, but Walter Morris turned it down. V ; , : -- y-rs r- -j - iop.. .. 1 Jt-i ' - m.-' -Ji-A-v- ..: 4 tl 'iai5.- . ew'S-v f ,;'? Ii , ' .-ft,, . .'; ; A; -.is t ' i .' "-. ' " - " a'. " , f J, S I fe-mVj r j 1 if l" h " . I t - -m ."6.- Sl ' ; I ' -J - .m. v4 t rj.-. iV) , . f j I LI... Jif.- aCa J I - i n s..: ?trr. - r-k. i ...a..:.. mm - Xt ' t viU If V. . ' . 1 " 1 -t t' it-- - - - - r .-- jr . . -ju.-t J I .isw ,ii""i(i-3'x"-J f- i ' jf- - -- j t' T'V v f I'd I . - - -i r- - 7 v,.,, ;Lai Photo by American Prwn AMocltUlcm. "1 MELVIN SHEPPARD, GREAT EASTERN RUNNER. WHO IS ATTEMPTING TO MAKE NEW INDOOR. RECORDS. 'C CHARLEY BROOKE AS. FOOTBALL INSTRUCTOR pHARLET BROOKE, the famous veteran ef the University of Penn sylvatiia football eleven is preparing a written system of Instruction for the exclusive use of Pennsylvania teams in If ( S 'I i :tk.X, , I v.. k I-', - ;:..'. 1 i I . ' ? I ," vj ; I 'I I y. - - " u PHILLIES WILL GO LIGHT IN HIT PLAY NEXT SEASON A LTIIOtJGH the Phillies made more sacrifice hits last season than, any other club In the National league, Managei1 Dooin has become convinced that such a play can be overworked. If Charlie can get one or two men speed ier than he had last season the chances are that ha will cut down on his orders to sacrifice next year. "The sacrifice hit play. In my opinion, should not be worked very often. Here Is the way I figure It out," Doom says. rWe get a man on first base with no one out. . The next man sacrifices and puts the runner on second: then the nextJiian.hasto hit tt-saie IfhJ doesn't you have wasted two of your men, and It is up to the laat chance of the mnlng. Tn each ease after the sac rifice is made and the man' is advanced the percentage Is against the batsman by one chance In three. Even with two outs left you have only two chances out of three, to drive in the run. "On the other hand, with a runner on flrst.and no one out on the niti-aTid-hlt a fast man can very often get from first to third on an Infield out at first base. In that cane you have advanced your man to third base Instead of to second, and you still have only one out. "Should the runner get only as far as second base you are just as well off as If the batsman sacrificed.,.. On 'the oth er hand, the bataman may hit safe and yott have- the other fellow in a hotter with no one out Of course there is the danger of a double play being made on a Una drive, but that's one of the risks of the game. "Of course there are times when the sacrifice hit should be tmed, but I think that It is bad policy to adopt the rule of' sacrificing every time the first, man up in an Inning gets to first base.", PITCHERS' WILDNESS DUE TO FADEAWAY rT FALKENBERQ tn't surprised at all to find that the -official pitching averages recently issued from. Ban Johnson's office show him to have un corked more wild pitches durffig the 1911 baseball season than any other American league t wirier. The fact is, he rather expected that he would lead the league In untamed hurls or that if he didn't he would be close on the heels of the 'leader. He blames It all on , ths fadeaway and says it's the nature of the beast to.caUse wild pitches. The fadeaway," declares Cy, "Is naturally a dirt ball By that I mean that It hits the ground close back of the plats. Ton will notice that Fred Carisch, who was my regular catcher alt season, hugged the plats as close as tie. could back of. the batsman. AJf 11, he did that to spear these 'dirt balls' before they got a chance to dig Into the ground, but naturally he couldn't get them all He was doing great work to get as many as he did, and lots of times he Just had to make a wild stab and really accomplished quite a feat when he prevented the bail from get ting away. "It was because he was need to han dling fadeaways that he was. sent be hind the bat In all the games I pitched, rm to be congratulated that only thir teen wild pitches got away from him all season." L- :ba future, Ths players must study these Instructions as systematically as they do their academlo subjects. Brooks was one of ths chief Quaker coaches last season, j ' HARRY i STONE BEATS MATT WELLS IN AUSTRALIA. TTXRRT STONE of New Tot got ths ' decision over Matt Wells of Eng land In Sydney, Australia, according to a cablegram, . PRINCETON TO LOSE STARS. "VEXT fall Princeton loses Captain Hobey Baker and Phillips by grad uation, and Btrelt on account of the three year rule. All ths other mem bers of this football team will be able to play. They Include B. Baker, Law, F. Trenkman, E. Trenkman, Hammond, Brewn, Glick, Semmens, W. Swart and L Swart, Ballln. Shea, Lamberton and Borden. 1 From ths freshman team, Drigts, Eberstadt, Rogers, Dlckerman and Charles ..will most likely prove valuable recrslts, Three men who were ineligible this year wlU be avail able next fall. Roland. Ktrby and Dot ton. Ballln. who played left' tackle last season and lis an All America it man, will be caotaln, "BATTING EYE" A MYTHf PEOPLE who think a batsman keeps his eye on the ball from the mo ment the pitcher delivers it until be contacts or misses are badly mistaken, says Cobb. A man hits a baseball by instinct He sees ths ball leave the pitcher's band, of course bat doesn't keep his eye glued on it until he hits. If he did bis batting average would be minus tero or thereabouts. A man hits by Instinct In the gams of baseball. The natural batsman is ths chap who doesn't have to worry about hitting the ball He simply steps up and biffs away. The light hitter seldom Improves, no matter what ho does to Increase tils efficiency, Joe Tinker, Inf. elder, Offered $40,000 by Federal Baseball League v tfffZ. .c f j e ( ' " -if j 5 v Pboto by Amsrleaa Press AlsocUtlom, , rjHB offer of 140,000 for a three year oontract with th new redoral Base ball league made (o Jos Tinker, the great tnfialder who managed ths Cincinnati National league team last year, has gassed wide comment among the fans. It puts ban players fa ft class, with, ths Wall street financier. OLYMPIC FUND FAILURE 'THE Duke of Westminster's appeal f...?r.lSOOop.fo..thOljymple games fund has fallen flat Less than taO.OOO has been subscribed up to date, and the rate at which the subscriptions are coming in Is steadily slackening. The fund committee announced that unless (115,000 was subscribed by the end of the year the scheme will be aban doned. Lieutenant BUir, secretary of the committee, said: "A Sertoli, cpnd mow ...Jas. ... already. arisen as rpirds our trainers on ac count oj this lack of money. The best of them have been approached by for eign nations with definite offers for their services, and therefore they will not only be loBt to us, but mplayrtd In training our rivals unless the publju makes a speedy decision. "The sum of t50,00d Is practically useless. The organisations which we must assist cannot be hetrl by such a sum. When they ask $5,000 a year for four years there would be ' no earthly use In offering them IS00." England no doubt wlU be represented at the gamea but there doesn't seenVtp be the" slightest chance of getting from the public anything like the sum asked for. Active attacks on the scheme have failed, not because the opposition has been overcome, but because the scheme seems to have been killed and publlo opinion In general has arrived team cannot be; trained for four years at the publlo expense! Tames k mviAAv an. xwetan.- . . . . . , ik. i -. . , illu, lt . union, has bcn made director of ath letics at the i'anamii-J'iU'tlU) exposition to be held at Sim l-'ranclsco. Mr. Sul- -llvan was athletic director at the St Louis world's fair end at the Paris ex- IfRITZ MAI8EL ONE OF HIGHEST -PR1CE0 BALL f LAYERS OF 1913. T7IUTZ MAISEL of the New Tork Americans and Larry Cfcappelle of the" Clrfiago" Whit SaxwT thwtwo highest priced ball players of 1913. Frits cost President Frank Parrell 1 11.000 and two. players, while Chap pelle. outfielder, cost the Sox 118,000. Some gilt edged laddies, these, eht Ualsel has established a reputation as the kingpin of the New Tork Amer ica) infield arid will be a b'.j Md to the team next season. Manager Frank Chance has several deals In process of completion which will bring him other able players for 1914 and relieve him of the burden of having to fight des perately to keep out of last place In ths race. liaise! came from the Baltimore team of the International league, ' and, like Chappellel made good in his first year la th blf leagues. JAMES E. SULLIVAN'S NEW APPOINTMENT ---?--wesr 4V ft , .,1 i V . f . ' ft f- f "i- . " f i Photo by American Press Association. position, In addition to representing the United States as commissioner at the Olympic games in Athens. London, Stockholm and St, Louts. He is the best known American atbletio author ity. ' HOFMAN AVAILABLE, 1 KTP1 HOFMAN. formerly of the t Cubs and Pirates, succeeded In ' securing hi unconditional release from Nashville, having determined not ta play ball in the south. . Artie is now a free agent and open to an engagement with any elub desiring fcia aervlcaa, 't: . 7
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