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i 1 Af I ti I 1:21 -rillE CHATTAN006A TF-N-- SUNDA- 17 'OCTOBER 27-1912' 1 gri Corners 1 Times' -ntin ay age- OF Features Fr Om A 1 "Rm- ME SUNDAY TDIES TENN SUND -Alr OCTOBER 1 AIL AL AL Nage I 1 1 1 11 tome MI 111" I 1 rh AIn IN r-: 1 TirIL gkettirtamd InliPitQ TWAT' Luther McCarty Showed DUCKS LJ LI L1 LP I I I I 1 Last-ern rxperts t-ictiLr-ricflara or LIU L1116 Pill i He il 1 tory Li LIE IlUir 'A FA lho 11110 tta 1 liar 11" 6 War 7 Army as Quarterback of Season ORGAN GA WasB eller Than Kaufman HAND KISS I i''''iS' omono '1' i7r Why McCloskey Can't Fight Dave Fultz's Scheme at Last Pi' itt- i in London A Ale I Crystalized i I 727 1: -4 4' i I 4 -77 4I'147071 1: 8(- REFS i -1-'- 1: USED TO PUT LIP 4-- ----k COBB MATTY SWEENEY AND 417t -kier 4::::4:: TO LORD LONSDALES PAW I I i DOOLAN VICE-PRESIDENTS ''t- 3- i'''' i I I -5--K 2t k0 f''Z- 11 I vo LIkv Observed- All Other Rules of Etiquette 5' 2-i-: ri dowk-06- 1 but Fatal Refusal to Kiss ''''7 1k 1 HansWagner Joins After Hesitat- Three Hundred Queers of 4-- --4 3 li 4PrZili 1 -4'1 Ei Major League Players Am-' Incident I i 1 I Join "Order" rl e777 1 i-: 4170: I 3 1401-k The announcement tbat "Blink" NEW YORK Oct "Dazee Itt: Closkey is non persona grata at the i -411 if i4 ys' i- tional Sporting Club of Loudon may not Fultz the old-time outfielder of the 1'-- -t 00- cl" 1' provoke so inuch international rancor -as 1- 1 York Yankees as president and "Christy" 4 i ''r 47 Ik''' -4- lklathewson -mike Doolan of the Phil- lEastern Experts Pick Prichard of Army as Best' Quarterback of Season I PLAYERS ARE ORGANIZEDI Dave Fultz' i Scheme a Last COBB MATTY SWEENEY AND DOOLAN VICE-PRESIDENTS Hans Wagner Joins After Three Hundred Major League Players Join "Order" NEW YORK Oct ''Dave" Fultz the old-time outfielder of the Nevir York Yankees as president and- "Christy" Mathewson "Mike" Doo lan of the When He Was Better Than Kaufman KISS Why McCloskey Can't Fight in London REFUSED TO PUT LIPS TO LORD LONSDALE'S PAVI Observed All Other Rules of Etiquette but Fatal Refusal to Kin Queers of Incident The announeement tbat "Blink" Mo Closkey is non persona grata at the National Sporting Club of London may not provoke so much international rancor as 2 454- lies obb and Ed Sweeney of the fulraeugthat awlui at with deep usligsPniutiteaarinc'een Yankees as vice-presidents the organiza- 4- ca's Queensberry four hundred A as perfected at a meeting held in the law tion of the Baseball Players' Fraternity a 1 "Blink" mho recently returned to offiees of 31r Fultz at 41 Wall street Thus native land after seven years of tra the long talk ef protective association has aocd rant: no As sft puaartrini abeloAmerican editLelno ntei the a el become a reality and the attack by a spec- fe 14 tator on '''Ty" Cobb at American League 0 park in this city lest May has 'borne fruit his refusal to kiss the hand of Lord Lai A in the banding together of the players for the common good rf 5 4- things pugilistic in England 44 th Kt44' in his story to Cross Counter the faorremtlitlioart poofsittihoeu atsosoctileatluotpu relating major league btsfiba1111 ehonrttinnyootnice: list Z)414 ain't up to me to kiss anybody's mitt treated Lord Lonsdale just as Polite ae A eobb and "Ed" Sweeney of the Yankees as vice-presidents the organization of the Baseball Players Frateruity was perfected at a meeting held in the law offiees of Mr Fultz at 41-Wall street Thus the long talk ef protective association has become a reality and the attack by a spectator on Cobb at American League park in this city lest May has 'borne fruit In the banding together of the players for the common good' With the formation of the associatiou the players are in a position to tie up major league baseball at short notice if desire but such a contingency is I the Panama canal disputation but it fraught with deep significance to Amer' ca's Queensberry four hundred "Blink" ho recently returned to native land after seven years of travel and turmoil in foreign climes says coolness between himself and the governors of the London Institution grew out his refusal to kiss the hand of Lord dale president president of the club and arbiter things pugilistic in England "As an American citizen" said "Blink" In relating his story to Cross Counter ain't up to me to kiss nybody's mitt treated Lord Lonsdale just as polite as gc furthest fro mtbe thouglIts of the organ11 izers the purpose of the fraternity being they so furthest fro mtbe thoughts of the organizers the purpose of the fraternity being SAN FRANCISCO Oct of the clever way in which Luther McCarty the Missouri giant knocked out Al Kaufman declare that McCarty I I (v 3 IsLoi' dzfr00100 i kosrestzk 1 -1r I 5 :46 -kc---- cif AR 0 4---s I toliaTOr pr API tRelkti PR ES S' A SLSOCI Alt ON owye'' plicrrki-syA11entiM4 I 4 MOCIAtt ON Ticket Scalpers' Conqueror Real Hero of Big Series 4 1 WEST POINT Y- Oct Eastern football experts are of the opinion that the Army eleven has the best quarterback of the season in Cadet Prichard He has shown up well in all West Point's games this year He Is Nowspal3ers Should Put an End To Ball Players' Journalism I- ARD LINES FOR I(ILBANE Featherweight King Lacks That Canvas Punch and Gets No Credit for Outpointing Opponents "Uneasy Iles the bead that ears a crown" Some sage who may have been on speaking terms with royalty or who cultivated bis powers of obeervation years ago penned that line little dreaming that his words some day might be applied to gentlemen who wore-robes of a different texture than the monarchs of Europe writes Garry in the Cleveland Plain Dealer There are crowned beads in different lines that feel the strain of ruling Champion Johnny Kilbane is one of them As boss of the featherweight dynasty he has come to learn all about the worries of being supreme Just as Attell before him did did Wolgast Nelson and Jim' Corbett otgast When he first came east after dethroning the Ilegewisch press agent wan called a "cheese" champion This of course meant that Adolph's work was not relished by the mob The title held for some little while until Ad gunned into the enemy rough-shod and put them to rout Just now Wolgast is worried about columns in the papers which have a dark hrewn taste predicting the early fall of thelhOadillac kid No doubt this sort of comment grinds into Wolgast's soul When Attell was up there he had a knockout reputation It got so if he didn't drop every person they sent at him he was condemned for "letting them stay" It's a funny old game at best Here's Kilbane now not knocking any of them out and he is censured too because be doesn't use thoseanvas punch Jim Corbett got roasted in the old days for jabbing and running away Nelson was considered the poorest excuse of a tighter that ever promenaded when be first came out and in fact before he whipped Cans twice He couldn't bit be couldn't do nothing except take the charges that came the fans said It's my cinch maintaining a title accord ing to Jimmy Dunn Kilbane's manager "That old money looks easy and in fact It is easy but there's plenty of worry attached- Ten year ago champions flitted in and out of barrooms They drank themselves out of condition and obserired no regular hours Today the social status of a champion is a great improvement over other days but it 1131s its drawbacks the IN ay I look at it "Johnny Kilbane is too popular He is well known and his friends are prominent socially He is being invited here- and tbere all the time and he does some entertaining himself As a consequence the food be eats at parties and gatherings is not exactly wholesome for a champion But he can't refuse it "Johnny Is made so much of by his friends that any 'boy would be inclined to grow a bit lax in his fighting He -trains just as bard but does not take his opponents seriously enough That is the way with all champions I don't think Johnny quite realizes his position as yet but be will come to it "As to Kilbane's fighting In the east be hasn't done as well as he did in Califor nia when be licked Rivers Kline Conley and Attell in a row but I attribute this to my failure to work with him I taught Johnny by a -system of my own but I haven't used it since he took the crown from Attell I thought Perhaps he wouldn't need It but he gets off his stride when he trains by himself "I will have to go to work with him again and watch him when he gets going New York will be crying for him Johnny hasn't been given proper credit for his bas beaten every featherweight he's I'm not arguing about that" BOXER'S "DANDER" WAS UP Jeannette Tells Amusing Story of a Battle While-in a confidential mood the other day Joe Jeannette explained his system of dealing with the various easy -marks who fall before his fists to the number of three or four a week in busy seasons 'I don't believe there is any use in hurting them any more than is necessary" said the challenger of Johnson "I plat wait for a chance when the referee is not looking and whisper You had better take the eount because yon are going to go "our' in the next round anyway' Usually ey take the advice and fall after I sia a in a hard one but sometimes they get mad and insist on being knocked out I met one big fellow like that a few weeks ago I knocked that fellow down so hard I thought he would never get up again but he -was on his feet at nine 'Say you don't -want to get killed do your I told him 'The next time I hit you if you have- cot any sense you'll stay down' Well that fellow fought twice as hard after that until the referee stopped the bout He -came to me in the dressing room afterward and said: 'Say Joe I intended to quit all right but when you told me that I gilt so sore I made up my mind you would have to knock 11JP out' "I don't noderstand that way of looking at it Jeannette added I am sure I would feel much obliged if someone told me I had no chanee before sending tne to sleep" cy YOUNG TO RETURN Famous Vet to Manage Pacific Coast Team rITTsnunou Oct Denton (Old CN) Young return to the diamond When this honored and one of the most famous of all pitchers announce(1 his retirement last spring it was thought he ball quit the game for good Ile retired to his farm in Ohio and prepared to live the life of a farmer But the Portland club of the Pacific Coast league desired him to assume the of that team and now it is quite likely be will accept Ile was in Pittsburgh for a short while yesterday returning home from the east' where went to take in the worlds series lie stated yesterday he is not tisinking of returning to the game but should he change his mind he wonhi assume the management of a minor league dub Ile then mentioned Portla-bd It is known other elass A dubs have sought him and it would not be much of a surprise to see him back in togs nest year but directing a team mutt uot as a player HAliu LINL0 -4- FOR 1(ILBANE Public Lose Because Be Does Not Knock Them Out CHAMPION'S PATH NOT ALL AMONG ROSE BOWERS Featherweight King Lacks That Canvas Punch and Gets No Credit for Outpointing Opponents "Uneasy lles the bead that ears a crown Some sage who may have been tag terms witn royalty or wno CUILIVULVU bin powers of observation years ago line little dreaming that his penned that words some day might be applied to gen- tlenten who wore robes of a different telt- tare than the monarchs of Europe writes Garry in the Cleveland Plain Dealer There are crowned beads in different lines that feel the strain of ruling Champion Johnny Kilbane is one of them As boss of the featherweight dynasty he has come to learn all about the worries of being su- prome Just as Attell before him As did Wolgast Nelson and Jim Corbett 0 wben he first came east after dethroning the Ilegewisch press agent 41 01-e1 rrhi ek 4' al aLaaa a CFala IA Ma A 7 A1-1 4- ZA1 LP A course meant that Adolph's work was not relished by the mob The title held for some little while until Ad gunned into the enemy rough-shod and put them to rout Just now Wolgast is worried about columns in the papers which have a dark brown taste predicting the early fall of tbelrfOadillac kid No doubt this sort of comment grinds into Wolgast's soul When Attell was up there he had a knockout reputation It got so if he didn't drop every person they sent at him he was condemned for "letting thera stay" iv a funny old game at best Here's 1 I' 1 Phil-lies primarily to protect the men front unjust diseipline Bound hand and foot by the laws of organized baseball the players have been forced to submit to the decrees of those in authority or be blacklisted They have been sued and suspended in the past without a- hearing and it is to counteract this condition that they have joined hands so that they may protest as a-body -'-Any other grievances are of micear importance Naturally no attempt will be made to fix a wage scale This would be too bard on the stars who are making their $8000 a year If a scale were adopted the shining lights Would be compelled to accept the salary of an ordinary player On the whole the men are well paid When Hans Wagner enrolled as a member of the-fraternity the roster iecluded the name of nearly- every star in the two major leagues The famous short stop of the Pittsburgh Pirates held off until he was convinced of the seriousness of purpose in the men behind- the movement and cognizant of its worth be has east his lot with the association The only well-known men who are not -member are Cincinnati Reds Eddie Plank of the Philadelphia Athleticsand Shafer and McCormick of the Giants To date 2-88 players have joined the organization and a dozen more will be taken in during the coining week Many of the young players in the two leagues have asked to join but the directors have decided to admit to membership only those who have shown enough Witty to earn 'regular- berths The first action taken by the organization had reference to the incident watch led to the forming of the fraternity A resolution was passed requesting the national commissiou to adopt legislation delegating to umpires the authority to protect players and spectetors troll abusive and in suiting language on the field Several of the cluleSsince the Cobb incident have informally adopted resolutions to protect the players but no action has beet' taken by the commission Another resolution was passed to the effect that all forms of contract viOlatiou aud rowdyism and all acts wherever cone mined that would impair the members' playing condition should not be commutenaueed This resolution covers the perplexing question of the use of intoxicating liquors by the players a matter to whica several of the club owners especially Dreyfus of the Pirates and Murphy of the Cubs have given munch attention lately While the fraternity did not go on record In favor of total abstinence it was the sense of the meeting that the directors of the organization use every influence in the clubs that they represent to prevent the players from doing anything which would adversely affect their playing Intemperate use of intoxicants is banned although no objection was raised to moderate drinking The question of insurance also came up for discussion and it was decided that the association ehould not take up anis feature of fraternal orgautzutions but suggested that the players take out toolicies of a certain form in scum of the big life ittsurance companies No particular companies were recommended It was decided that the fraternity should not ask for representation on the national commission It NVI1S 1101glit that there NN as nothing to be gained by Ulla as it NV0111(1 mean little actual power or voice in the' proceelings In view of the fact too that the commission deals with many questions 'in which the players are not Vitally interested it would not be fair to demand a right to vote on sin matters Several other things of moment in the internal affairs of the organization were taken up but no announcement was made of them Several sagiestions pointing toward the better relations between the owners and the players were gone over carefully and various demands will le made during the winter The dues will be $16 a year Many of the players were in favor of making the assessment higher but it was felt that if it was raised some might hesitate to enter the movement The entire playing strength of the two leagues was desired rather than a few choice spirits No objections have been raised to the nominal dues -fixed The fraternity has been hick rporated under the laws of New Yock state and the members of the association are protected financially as the officers are under bonds According to the bylaws no large expenditures in the running of the organization are allowed without the -consent of the advisory board No effort has been made to exteini the movement into the 'minor leagues as yet although this is a propoIsition which NV111 come up for consideration in the future Only players in the two 1 major leagues the American and the National are members 'file managers are left out in the cold The fraternity is in no sense a secret organization hut merely a protective association Kaffirs Buying Bicycles (Loudon (i-tobe) A taste for European clothes cheap furniture European food biycles tin trunks etc is reported to be developing among the colored native population of South Africa according to the official trade report The eommissioner estimates that P3351000 is the value of the native ipopulation to overseas exporters of goods Hitherto trade with the natives as "Kaffir truck" comprised chiefly cheap goods sueh as beads cotton blankets brass copper and steel wire and cheap cutlery The natives are now earning better wages and this is developing their taste is his abe of of "it I would treat Billy Gibson or Eddie or Jesse McMahon but because I wouldn't lean my kisser on his lunch hook I get the door slammed in my mug" Urged to give the details of the international incident McCloskey continued: "I bopped a boat for England ear- in 1905 and landed a match with Charley Knock at the National Sporting club right off the reel I knocked Knock two rounds and got a great band from the lords at the ringside After the bout Peggy Bettinson manager of the club gives me a bid to a swell feed and I feels that I am in right "Weil just before the blowout Peggy comes to me and says: 'Blink you are to meet Lord Lonsdale and I want to stow you how to greet his lordship When he offers his hand you bend your bead and touch your lips to his-fingers And yes must always address him as my lord no matter what he says to you' "I listens to what Peggy bag to may ant I don't say nothing but I makes up me mind to sidestep the kiss racket 'Whet Peggy leads me to his lordship Lonadale puts out bis fin and says: -How are You McCloskeyr 'Fine Lord Lonsdale' says I 'and hope you are the same' "Then I takes his mitt and shakes it good and hard but I duck the lam Peggy keep? nudging me about the salute but stalls him off and we all sit down to the feed "Lord Lonsdale talked with the tothe people at the table but be didn't Say nothing snore to ale He sort of smiled st me once In a while like a Man That thought be had been double-crossed "Peggy was red in the face but sit said after dinner was that I was ta tome to the club the next afternoon at 3 o'clock and get my money for the tight I was there like a duck and after handing Ise the dough Peggy says: 'Blink you was very rude to Lord Lonsdale last night and I am sorry to say we can't use you agate at the club' 'Wasn't I frolite to Lord Lansdale? I asked of Peggy "'Yes' says be 'but that Isn't the way to treat a lord" Mr Bettinson' says I 'I come from a country where all men are lords We don't kiss no halide there and I won't kiss any here -Well that settled it and me-and the dub parted for fair Peggy- and me shook hands and we are friendly but in-the seven years I was on the other side I never got another bout at the National Sporting club" -LARRY'S GOT HIS NUMBER Automobile License corresponds With His Batting Average Napoleon Lajoie the second baseinan of the Cleveland baseball team is an thuslastie antoist The bait player recently made a trip in his machine from his home in Cleveland to New York and back Ile does all his driving in the machine he got two years ago for being one of the best batters in the American league Ty Cobb topped him by a frac' tion of a point When Larry got his car he applied for a license number Ile was not satisfied with any number the secretary of state chose to send him brit he wanted a nurnber to correspond with his batting aver- age at the finish of the season It was di-4covered that tbe number Larry wra seeking was held by another autoist Cleveland The ball player wrote to the man holding the ii umber who cheerfully transferred it to him' Larry's battinz average in the Ameri- ca league ut the finish of this season was 3s-t Thal is the lieense number that will adorn the tail of his machine in 11013 4 I His "Fine and Dandy" Housekeeping' HP written his wife that he wsli getting along "tine and dandy" while she was spending a month with her mother nnd N-as more than ever convinced that housekeeping was "no trick at all': says Judge's Library I-le comments 011 reaching home svere along- this line: "Why harry (latterhy didn't Yoll know any better than to fry pggs in the pan of my silver scallop dish? Yon hate ruined the thing! And what under the sun moon and stars did you mean by putting the eggs in a out honeY dish after they were fried? If I ever in my life-- And svhat have you heen wiping- the dishes on? Ms- best embroid--'- tray cloth! And you have been using- chip of my choicest embroidered initial napkins for a dish cloth! LoOk at it! As black as my shOe! And what have you been trying to cook in MY ehating dish? Beefsteak? The idea Of: frying beefsteak in a silver dialing Why didn't you use the solid silver breed tray? Looks as if you had Put the beef-: steak in that after you had fried it! And H- here is my handsome cut glass celerl dish full of cold and greasy fried potatoes! And what is this on the dining meat platter! You let a plate room rug? A grease spot as hig of hot steak fall on it! Nly soul! And tiOn't' you know any lIrttet than to tik $20L lace curtain into a knot like they sometimes tie the tail of a horse? Nice to use a curtain! And couldn't yon do a little simple cooking withont gettiral ashes strewn six feet around the rangel ell if this is what you call gettin along 'fine and dandy' I yonder hose things would have looked if you bad not gotten along very veil!" fr- As- result of the wonlan suffrage campnigit in Paris a majority of the members cf the new- city council have publicly declarea in favor of the municipal franchise for wprnon is rel be of Is- of ll InI lte 7 FO reels egrl to 1 he and Pt me rhea dale I it ZgY IL I the ber- say at at lie Ma bek was me Watt and pits I way rom We kiss the took the I nth nan ea rom and Ma- one tean rac- for tate um-- waft in the 'ulls iher in 4 1 wag she trr aced on yod onae etmilebbi IY tte the b- ever 'peen ered ok viist I of reit4m )eeft eri I' tont $219 lute- tw :113 'trtg age tinfr hiw not rage Ftuve lflU The sporting editor of The Times has Often argued that the writing of articles by ball players for newspapers should be tabooed for a double Injustice done the scribes who make the game and the fact that they are always unsatisfactory and productive of trouble Following by "1it 11 AL" in the Birmlnibam AgeVera Id along the same line is more than worthy of "The championship series between Boston and New York again brought Into notice the absurdity of the player-journalist proposition: not only the absurdity but the trouble which the Indulgence In print by diamond stars produces "In the first place It is generally true that the articles which appear over the sigratures of players are written by newspaper men Sometimes Vie player who authorizes he use of ieta signature never sees the article in question until It Is printed Sometimes a player- tells a reporter what he thinks of a game and the reporter writes the ideas of the player and signs the player's name But It very seldom happens that a player really writes what be is alleged by the print to have written "That the criticism of one player directed against another player sometimes results in trouble was exemplified in the championship series During the last three' has again placed himself in line as a white hope In the picture he- is shown ducking a swing by Kaufman and preparing to deliver the knockout blow which he landed in the second round A A executive But that did not fease him in the least He went ahead just as though be had been battling with ticket scalpers all his life First of all be decided that only 8000 seats for each game would be reserved and sold in advance The general public was to have a chance to get the other 30000 seats each day In pursuance with his plan these 30000 seats were sold at the game No more than two were sold to a person and the purchasers bad to enter the park at once of course his plan worked a hardship on some persons who were thus forced to put in an entire day at the ball park taking their dinners with them or purchasing them on the grounds but to offset that the real patrons of the game during the entire season got their seats at $1 $2 and $3 and they saw the games which they did not in 1011 It is doubtful if over 500 tickets found their way into the hands of the speculators and the latter lost out on them As a result of O'Brien's defeat in baffling the scalpers the applanse he received when he walked across the beld pHor to the second game was well deserved the share Of tickets for each undergraduate has been cut from four seats to three In order to keep the tickets out of the hands of speculators each purchaser will have to sign a contraPt that he will not sell his ticket to a stranger or at a profit SIX TEAMS PICKED FOR A BASKETBALL TEAMS Selection Made by Method That Will Make Race Even The committee selected to appoint the teams of the 4' A Basketball league met last night and selected six teams Each team will play its first game Monday at 8 pm The schedule will be posted today in the 4 A lobby and published in The Sunday Times There were fifty entries making It Ix teams They are very evenly balanced and some close work is sure to be the result Following are the rosters of the tennis: BLACK I Frame I 4' Shedd it' Albert Hale A Brtekhana Clifton I Bitch John Kline Jack Allen A Jordan i'haries llorphew I 1 Shedder IJoe Edwards Ben Nloor(' Fred Gates 1 IL Wtody 'B Bowden IL" (hzIesthy Olt AN( Harry Parker I NValter Itickerson 11 Gray--f-- A Walker 4' I) Johnson Wales Goodwit eland Thr Harold Shelton ChArle-A i d-hc GREEN Coleman William Otto fHansel King A (This Ted Center 1 Xviiite (1 RAY Bishop lbatcher I Ilunter Byington I) fledges liolt Joe Blackman Quinn 1AWil12 WHITE Hulse Joe Capeheart Elborn A Combs Sheridan Bike Charles Hall Baker Eugene Smr Chance Loses Uis Bet Before leaving Chicag-o at the finish of the Cub-Pirate series Fred Clarke -was presented with $50 by Frank Chance It represented one of the many suits of clothes that wPre wagered that (lark(' N- participate in a game this season "These bets are not my doings" laughed Chirke "They forced them on me" Worth It Many months had passed since first he met the sweet sweet gr1 says Answerm lie loved her dearly but he was woefully shy and his suit made but slow progress Finally it was the girl who decided to improve the shinng hour and add a trifle to the pare of the proceedings To make up her mind was to act and the very next time the young man called she pointed to the rose that adorned his buttonhole "I11 give you a kiss for that rose" sho blurted out A crimson z-uilty flush ()A-et-spread the young- man's face like the of the setting sun There 'wtts however no hesitation on his part and he clinched the bargain Then he grabbed his cap ntld proceeded to rush from the room in double-quick time "And whore are you going?" she asked in great surprise "Oh" nswered tremulously "rm just off to the florist's to buy up his stock of roses!" No "Choked Bats" Among Red Sax Champions Are Tree Swingers an expert dodger a speedy-open runner a fine field general and football strategist Coach Daly the famous All-American Harvard-West Point quarterback of 1898 and 1899 says Prichard will be the All-Ameripn selection for the position this fall games Jack Meyers the Indian catcher of the Giants bad a severe 'grouch' This was due to the fact that the loss of one game was attributed by John McGraw In a special newspaper article to the failure of the 'chief' to catch 'a foul fly But the most significant case was that In which Mathewson and Snodgrass figured Following the tie game in which Mathewson played the pitcher wrote an article explaining that Speaker scored following his three-base hit as a result of slow fielding on the part of Snodgrass Snodgrass resented keenly resented the criticism and thereafter be and Mathewson-did not speak In the final game as Is remembered the Red Sox won when Snodgrass dropped a very easy fly "The canard was noised abroad that Snodgrass might have dropped the fly intentionally Of course no truth can be attached to the report but the fact that Snodgrass dropped an easy fly which decided a game in which Mathesson's reputation was at stake could not result In a readjustment ef theotrained relations existing between the two "The player-journalist is a 'frost' and a fake a nuisance and a trouble-maker The time should soon come when newspapers will put an end to a practice which has already resulted in lowering the dignity of the game and which might in the future invite criticism as to Its honesty" ling curve if it breaks where I can hit it" Now there are not many who are going to 'dispute what the Detroit slugger has to -remark- on the question of hitting Butat the same time you have this Boston club to take into consideration There-isn't a pitcher in the American league -iwho is going to claim for a moment that the Red Sox can't hit It's au accepted fact that they can and if you don't believe it consult almost any pitcher of your acquaintance and he'll tell you about the time that they made him take to the woods Yet the only men who choke their bats on that club are Hooper the man who leads off and Wagner the shortstop who bats seventh There isn't a freer hitter or a longer swinger in the game than this Tris Speaker And Yerkes Gardner and Lewis stand up there and start their swings behind their backs No one in the game is going to dispute that the free swinger is the lad who drives the ball Chopping hits may be fine and the thing but when you see those lads from Boston standing up there with their hands at the very end of the handle and swinging from the shoulder you are bound to have some doubts about it Bedient Back on the Farm BINGHAMTON Oct Bedient star Red Sox twirler has decided to spend the winter on the farm The on he has picked nut is at Waverly owned by relatives He will go there with his wife next week Bedient ill the worlds series beat the Giants one game and started the finale that was finished by Joe Wood Fire Going 200 Years (New York Telegraph) An interesting character of the British Isles who practically lives the life of a hermit on the borders of Cumberland and Northumberland recently walked a distance of fifteen miles to a polling station to cast his vote Though apparently living out of the world he still takes enough interest in affairs of state to have his little say on election day The cottage in which he lives has been occupled by his family for (14)0 years and it is said that the kitchen fire in which peat is burned has never been allowed to go out for two centuries A small child in the cottage had not SPen another child its own age for the past two years 1 1i I I 4 i There are heroes and there are heroes Joe O'Brien former president of the American to-the latter class Joe is now the secretary of the New York National league club Upon his shoulders fell the conduct of the sale of tickets for the world's series games in New York city A year ago there was a big scandal provoked by the fact that a krge part of the tickets fell into the hands of the ticket scalpers The evil was also prevalent 111 Philadelphia last fall in Chicago WI MO and in Detroit on several ocea-1 sions So barefaced was the scalping and the throw-down of the New York fans in 1911 that the American league was forced at its winter meeting to an- nounce that in future it would conduct its own sale and hold the National league responsible for the sale of tickets in its town Then John Brush owner of the Giants released the official who had had charge of the sale in 1911 and engaged Joseph O'Brien as secretary of the club The series that just came to an end was the first affair handled that had ever been handled by the former MACK HELPED RED SOX Wizard Told Red Sox All About Giants NEW YORK Oet name of the man who should share the honors with the men who starred for Boston ill laading another world's championship for the American league does not appear in connection with any game and will remain out of every speech and song of praise Only in the inner eircie Will name be mentioned and only among the members of the new worlds ehampions Will his services be appreciated The name is Connie Mack American league players umpires and managers maintain that Ileinie Wagner is the real strength of the Boston team and that Wagner deserves 50 per cent of tbe credit for winning the world's championship "Without Wagner the Giants A uuld have beaten the Red Sox four games in a row" said one of the wisest three Men in baseball Wagner being eonsidered all that listen to what hs! says about Connie Mack: "Before the world's series Connie was asked to talk to us about the Giants arvi how- -ve had to play them to beat them Connie did talk to us told of th- Giants strong points and the weak points and what we had to do to beat them Ile told us more in ten minutes than all our scouts discovered by watching them far several weeks and all we could have learned about them ourselves in a year I doubt if we could have beaten New 'York witbout the knowledak that Mack put into us" MACK FORGIVES WINERS Bender and Oldring Back in Athletic Fold PIIILADELPHIA Oct Oldring and Chief Bender outfielder and pitiller of the Athletics have been reinstated by Connie Mack- after a suspension of over a month They were suspended in New York when they appeared late at the baseball grounds and were charged with joy riding by MaCkInsubordinating remarks from tender followed and Mack promptly placed the two men without salary In reinstating the players Maek has exacted promises from both that joy riding and attacks on the wine crop are to be (liminishod next season Both players seemed repentant in their last conterene with Mack and realized the part they had in dashing the Athleties 'mina ger's hopes for the pennant aml possibly the world's honors again this Sea ROIL 28000 TO SEE GAME Yale-Princeton Pasteboards Now in Great Demand PRINCETON 3 Oct 24---A ecording to an announcement made by the Princeton University Athletic association 28357 seats will be sold for the Yale-Princeton football game here Nov 16 Of this number it is estimated that 1800() will be reserved for the "Tier followers while the remainder Nvill go to the supporters of the Blue The demand for seats in the Princeton stands has become so heavy that 1 1 1 I I I I 1 i What'soll this talk about choking the bat to hit the pitching of the modern twirler? Yon have heard and read the stories Ty Cobb is one of those who remarkd that you have to choke it if you expect to get the base hits 4 Take a look at the Boston Red Sox and yoa are at least likely to have some doubts on the subject You may not become convinced that choking of the batsistft necessary But you are bound to admit that there are two sides to the argument Because there are just two of the Red Sox regulars who choke 'their hnts The lads who line them hard and far are the fellows who grip the hat at the very end and then take a- good healthy swing Among those who do not choke their bats are "Sluggers" Yerkes Speaker LewiS Gardner Wagner and Cady When Stahl is in the game the fount is six to two against the choking of the war club The pitcher isn't counted but when Wood is on the mound the fellows who grip the club near the handle have another vote Because Wood also stands up there and whalesat the ball getting all the power he can behind his drive and grasping said drive-producer so near the handle that his left hand is on the knob You know there is a theory in baseball that choking the bat is more scientific Those who favor that method claim that the pitchers of today break their curves so quickly that the fellow who grasps his bat at the very end and swings is sure to make ft show of himself They claim that by choking the bat the slugger can hit quicker and while he may not get the distanee that the long swinger does that he will get so many more hits that he will be the gainer in the end It hasn't been so long ago that Tyrus Cobb was (voted on this proposition "Time was when I thought I could grab my bat at the -very end and swing with all my tnight7 said Tyrus "But these curve ball pitchers broke me of that habit and ruined that belief I realize now that the way to get the most base hits is to 'ehoke the bat and -then meet the ball I may not get the power behind the drive that I formerly got but I get more hits Because by choking that bat I am in position to bit quiokly and so take advantage of a quick break 1 I 1 4 4 4 1 4 I.