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1 V.i- jp T77 i -f i 10 THE tflte, MONDAY, OCTOBETv 11-, 1912. National Commission May Bar Players From Writing Impressions of Others COMMISSION MAY FORBID PLAYERS TO WRITE IMPRESSIONS Jtyloguls Stirred by Caustic Criticisms Handed Some of Giants. MAY TAKE EASY COIN FROM DIAMOND STARS Sporting Weekly Discusses Whole Matter in Its Edi-I" tonal. By "SENATOR." Action I expected to be taken by the National Commission following 'the world's series by which hereafter players encaged In the battle for the supreme prize will be barred from selling their signatures to newspapers. Indeed, It Is possible that all players under contract wilt be forbidden to give their Impressions of these Karnes for large chunks of coin.

In the present world's series "Chief" Meyers was severely criticised by "Muggsy" McCJraw In a Now York morning paper for failure to catch a foul ball up against the screen. The big backstop was considerably more at seeing his managers criticism than he would have been had It come from a professional baseball writer. Fletcher's erratic fielding has come In for Its censures, too, and this has not made him feel any kindlier toward the writers, all teammates of his. Larry Doyle and Fred Merklo have "fallen down with tho bat so much as to cost the Giants the championship," according to one member of the Giants who sees his name In the paper every day over a column of comment. Here's An Editorial.

The whole question Is discussed In tho latest number of Sporting Life in an editorial by Francis C. IMchtcr, who has written baseball for twenty.flve He says: "The practice of dally newspapers cm-ploying major league managers nnd players In active service to 'write' for publication their views and reviews of the wrold's series games, which was an undesirable Innovation two years, has Krown to be a menace, nuisance and ubuse. It Is a menace because It has gone to tho length of employing participants In the world's series to 'write' running stories of the game for the day, thus distracting their minds from the moro serious work upon the diamond, and entailing more or less odious comparison and criticism with resultant personal friction to the point of lasting enmities. "The immediate and future effect of this upon the teams an! plasers Is ho obvious as to require no further elucidation: and the Impropriety of this wort; for comparatively small additional gain to the sufficiently large financial reward of the world's scries Is so marked that the national commission Hhould suppress the practice so far oh participants In tho world's series arc concerned. This flood of expert opinion upon a purely speculative matter has also become a nuisance, becauso It wastes space and Imposes a tax upon tho reading public without any other effect than to stimulate partisanship and to confuse or mislead the public mind.

Finally, It Is a deliberate fiaud tinon th public, as not more than one player In ten of tho host engaged to rite a story can frame oven a sentence, or write anything more than hla signature to a contract or Indite private correspondence." Fullerton Amusing. All New York Is laughing at Hughey Fullerton, tho analytical expert, who doped tho outcome of the world's scries Tor a New York paper, made certain caustic comments upon tho members of the Giants, and has been eating his words ever since In the same paper. The expert, tn his prc-seiies stuff, said that Herzog was a minor leaguer compared with Larry Gardner. Herzog has been the shining light of the Giants' outtlt, has a perfect Adding percentage, leads both teams at the bat with an average of .444, and Is credited with rnont of the brilliancy In the New York Infield. On the other hand.

Larry Gardner has failed to do anything wonderful, ilenco all New York Is grinning. Mordecal Brown, the veteran llirec-flngered pitcher of the Chicago Cubs, has been released lo Louisville, In the Association. Brown Injuird his knee severely last spring and proved of little use to the Cubs thereafter. Indeed. It is doubtful If ho will ever 'regain his old skill on the mound.

Johnny Kllng, once king of catchers. Is seeking the management of an American Association team, probably Milwaukee or St. Paul, provided he ran get his rclcuso from the Boston Braves. "Gabby" Street Takes Back Step to Minors Charlie 8trcct, one of the veteran backstops of baseball, released last year by Manager Orlfflth to the Now York Highlanders and by them sent to Providence In tTie International League, has taken another step backward, being sold outright to Norman Elberfcld's Chattanooga club, of tho Southern League. He will report to Klberfeld In tho spring.

For four years Street was a battery mate of Waiter Johnson and was known to every fan tn'the country as one of the smoothest catchers In the game. During his first year here. In 1908, Street caught a ball tossed from tho Washington Monument and Immediately became known as the "Monument Baby." Among plajers generally ho is known as "Gabby," from his loquaciousness. Last season ho began to show signs of stoning up and Bcveral of the Nationals' pitchers experienced trouble lth him on this account. Ills once famous pegging wing wus leaxlng him.

During tho winter Manager Griffith traded him to New York for Juck Knight and Alva Williams. The veteran backstop delighted to land In the metropolis, but he failed to hold up his end and In mtdscason was sent to Providence. Campbell Retires. PITTSBURGH. Oct.

Campbell, the outfielder of tho Boston Nationals, has played his last game of professional baseball. An announcement Is made here that ho Is to be married to Miss Kathorlnu Mimhall. daughter of Mrs. A. M.

Munhall, When a reporter called ut tho Munhail home lit South Linden avenue today Mrs. Mudhall raid: "Vcs, thry are to bo mairlrd, but we have not decided Just yet when the wedding will take plate." Stuck in His Thumb, and Pulled Out Three Plums. Saying. "My, What a Great Big Boy Am win em. tote 1 vvN Tr2 MBSSSiS- o.

SNJg csat-werv a wa NSScSgSssasKKSv MRsSSd fzx rssssiom tMAN UL. JACK horner r2r TOMORROW'S SPORTS Business High School at Cathe dral School, at 3:30 p. ro. Play doubles in Colurabla Country Club tennis tournament. FIRST DOPE GAVE BOSTON THE CLASS By GRANTLAND RICE.

mi: n.vr vmtsus Tin: pin. (The two teami wilt clUMe at (0 anJ per cent II47.C60 in average of 11.000 to cacJi winning player for a week'i work. News Note.) Goldsmith got "ten bones," tke say. For writing the "Deserted Vlllagei" Doc Homer had to beg; bis way When there was no free lunch to pll- lagei Burns was very seldom feeder. Who only dlnrd well nonr and then.

There' nothing- to it, gentle reader, The bat la mightier than the pen. Not all of Byron's stock nan part Old Dante crabbed, and he had rea-ons lie net er owned a touring car. Although he led the league for seasons! Shelley mi broke, and Keats, the leader Of finished Terse often borrowed "ten." There's nothing- to It, senile reader. The bat Is mightier than the pen. All of ns know Shakespeare's erse, How fast he was how keen and shift Yet I mill bet the largest purse That William's split was shy eight- inr.

Why, when though a dally breeder Of high-brow dope, often beg a yen Take It from me bellete me reader. The bat Is mightier than the pen. NEW YORK. Oct. 11.

A scries of fluttering duck-flts at the start abnormal breaks, by both leums a general helter-skelter with both clubs In the air, and then "lth both settled to normal, cvery-day speed, Boston had th class, as the earlv dODO allowed, an Jumped to the front. wmen is cxactiv mo answer, ucmai Header, to tho highly delicate fashion In which the Cllants now find themselves after a week's play for the championship of Uio world. They had their chance In the first three games with the lied Sox reeling, to jump far and away beyond all danger. But while the lied Box were tottering and playing lop-sided ball In certain spots, tho Qlants cracked with even a louder crash, befuddled and muddled their opportunities and today are upon the thin rim of another world scries defeat. For unless Rube Marquard can stop Joe Wood this afternoon, good-nlght likewise bum voyage and au reservoir.

By tho time Manhattan's entry had settled back of first class pitching, Boston's ontry had settled, likewise, and Boston's entry carried enough class to scramble to within ensy picking distance of tho plum. Whein the break Is even the class will tell, and lloston in the tight spots lifts cut In with the class. Hence the present standing of tho clubs. What may take place today or later on rests entirely with the boxed details, subject to a later edition. Wo can onlv toy with what has happened and build upon this any prophecies for tho future which now Is likely to bo brief a short future but a merry ono, nH you might bay.

Bcforo tho first battle last Tuesday, tho early dope showed Boston leading on form. Wo rather expected Boston to win, despite tho uncertainty of any short serlcB, and 70 per cent of those trailing tho game thought likewise. Then Came the Shift. Then camo tho shift when we flguied Now Yoik with a luscious chanco to upset the dope. The Bed Box, save In defensive play, was clearly below expected form.

Neither Wood nor Collins, her two mainstays through the year, looked to be as Impressive as the wcro tipped to be. The deadly surencss of the Ifd Sox In almost every department, which featured their play through the American League fight, was evidently out of gear. And as Med raw had thiee line pitchers In tip top shape, the Polo outlook arsumed a highly Vermillion hue fringed with timings of gold. But of such Is the well-known dope composed. With tho Red Sox nervous and below par.

In many naji, the experience which the Giants had druwn by lighting through a world's series failed to show any results. In place of starting steady, and at normal speed, tho New York club played far below last October's form, and either dropped, kicked, or fumbled ever chance away and fell behind where they should have rushed Into the lead and foiced Boston to a last, desperate stand. Neither Infield nor outfield, beyond Herzog, Murray, nnd Devore, played ftandard form and tho good pitching which Tesreau and Mathewson furnished went to seed. A break of this sort Is no alibi In any form. There's no bad luck In bad ball placing.

It Isn't tough to lose when tho other team plays better ball, as tho Red Sox have dono beyond the pitching, where the Glunt trio have at the worst held their own. Boston's Inlleld as a quartet has Clayed wonderful ball at every stage otter ball than the Macklan quartet 1911, ami better ball than tho Giant Infield has shown through any stretch this rar. Beyond Herzog, who has played like a master of the game, tho Giant Inlleld play has been streaky, brilliant and wretched by turns, where bad breaks have let In at least seven runs and lost two cosy chances to win. The Round-up Again. Massing the general statistics and the dope Into a more compact cluster, tho scries hon displayed tho following angles of Interest this far along: New York has shown the edge In pitching and the shnde In batting.

But in neither cast wus the edge overly thick. Boston has shown far better form In general infield plav, with more consistency In her outfield work, although Jack Murray has held his own with any of the Red Sox array. And by the big margin of this defen-slo play Boston Is now In front by three games to one. For all five battles liavo been close enough to give tho best fielding a better chanco to win. A rlcketv defense always means dis aster in any tight conflict where the verdict sways In the balance.

Beyond the pitching nnd the work of Herzog, Murray, and Devore. the next Giant In order Is Harry McCormlck, who with three chances to drive home runs has come though without a break. Any athlete who ran hit .667 In world scries pinches, where the strain Is heavily hanked, must be a fairly handy guy with the war club and In possession of a fairly stout heart. BOB THAYER'S Sporting Gossip "Every Knock Is a Boost." Fogel's end near. City Series ST.

LOUIS CHAMPIONSHIP. W. I P.O. St. Louis (Nationals) 2 1 St.

Louis (Americans) 1 2 Yesterday's results Browns, Cardinals, CHICAGO CHAMPIONSHIP. W. L. T. P.O.

Chicago 2 0 2 1.000 Chicago i Yesterday's results Cubs, Whlto BOX, 2. Dr. SHADE SPECIALIST 728 Thirteenth Street Over 30 Years' Practice Treating Stomach and Nervous Diseases. Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Constipation, Dizziness, Bad Taste, Fullness after Eating. Wakefulness, Loss of Flesh.

Heart Trouble, Palpitation, Kidney and Bladder Trouble, stricture. Sallow Complexion, Pimples, Blood and Skin Diseases, Loss of Vitality, and Special and Private Ailments of Both Sexes cured promptly administered) Consultation free, medicines furnished, chorees low. Hours. to 1 and to i. Sundays, lu to 11 Horace Fogel's career as a National League magnate Is approaching Its end, if what tho powers that be In the older league mean what they say.

They feel that Fogel has thrown nough mud at the organization and that he must nOw prove his charges or stand for his base, ball execution. Baseball generally will be much better off without his name on the books. Down goes "Gabby." The downfall of "Gabby'' Stiet came In one short season. From a major leaguer to a member of a Class A outfit Is his story. Ho yearned to get awa7 from a "tallender," as he called Washington, and had the chagrin to fall even lower.

In his day he was a reliable backstop, but In one season he fell by the wayside. Nationals popular. All over the country the praises of Clark Griffith and Climbers of 1912 aro still ringing and It Is certain that the experts everywhere will give them more consideration next spring when they gather at Charlottesville. The Climbers of 1112 have done something, that's all. Next year they hope to do even more.

i Virginia dlicouraged. -e There Is no donlal of the tact that the outlook at Virginia la far from encouraging. Coaches and students alike arc wondering what Is tho matter with the team. Hampden-Sldney played a belter game Saturday than was expected, and the Charlottesville team goes In against South Carolina today with a disgusted lot of players and coaches, hoping for tho best, but not overconfident, Princeton's defense. According to reports Bluethenthal, Princeton's famous center, Is tho whole works In tho line and the only good defence on the eleven.

The Tiger coaches have paid a deal of attention to tho offense this year and are relying upon their fast backfleld to carry them through. It Is barely possible that a lesson will be learned from Penn, which was beaten bv Kwarthmnr in tvt nt play Penn and Princeton arc somewhat similar, uoui naving wonaeriui back-fields with mediocre lines. M'GRAW FAILED TO SHOW INSIDE BALL By WALTER JOHNSON. NEW YORK. Ott.

14 With the series standing three and one In favor of the Red Sox, tho Giants will have to take decided brace In every department of the game If they entertain the slightest hopes of annexing the championship title. It was thought before the serlea that McGraw would spring so much Inside, baseball that the Red Sox players would be all at sea. The fans have been on the lookout, and Manager Jake Stahl has watched McUra.v like a hawk In every game, but tho New York manager has plaed nothing hut ntrulght-away ball. Giants Conservative on Bases. It Is believed that the Giants would run wild on the bases, but ocn with Joe Wood, who gives a bsse runner a long lead off first.

In the box. they failed to do any wonderful baso stealing. During the National League season, with a one-run lead, the Giants ran and ran wildly. With a two-run lead In the first game of the series at the Polo Grounds they did not attempt anything on Cady. Had the "Little Geneial" resorted to sacrificing with nono out, when there was a runner on first, the Giants in all probability would now be occupying the leading position In the race for the championship of the world.

In New York, with a man on first and second, McGraw allowed Doyle to hit it out, and Larry popped up an Infield fly. The first game In New York could have been tied up In the ninth Inning had McGraw signaled Fletcher to squeeze Herzog In, but again he flashed the straight hit signal. Probably the greatest mistake of the series made by McGraw was his failure to send a left-handed hitter In for Fletcher last Tuesday, when the Giants were one run behind, and had men on second and third. Fletcher had struck out twice, and his third trip to tho but resulted In Meyers bclns forced ut second. Becker should have, been sent in for Fletcher, for Beats Is a good fast ball hitter.

Would Pitch Bedient Again. It must be admitted that the Giants are not playing their best article of ball. They BCem to bo In a slump. Such men as Larry Doyle, Fred Mcrkle, and Chief Meyers have dono practically nothing In this series. Had theso men rome through as they should have.

It would bo a different story. Tho failure of the Giants' star hitters is due In the mdst part to the clever twirling of Wood and Hugh Bedient, but the slump on the defense Is from overanxlety. If the Giants win today's game. Hugh Bedient would be my choice for tho next game. Bedient has won his only battle against tho Giants, and this has given him great confidence In his own Gustav Buckholz Announces the formal opening of the New Occidental Hotel 1411 Pennsylvania Avenue Next door to New Willard Hotel, Single rooms, with private bath, or suites by the day, month, or year.

Gentleman's Lunch 12 to 3 Electric Grill Si-A FOOD AND GAME. ability. Bedient fast ball, preceded by a prv ttlnn- wind. un. ta wHut th nianti off their stride and turned them backed with only inree hits, so anxious weic th Giants to slug themselves Into fame and vaudeville contracts that they went after almost every ball Bedient cut loose, and as this youngster Is a heady twlrler and puts but few balls over the rubber they hit bad balls.

The coming battle will. If the weather conditions are right, be between Rube uard and Ray Collins. If the day Ik narm Collins will be selected to go to the hilltop for the Red Sox, but a 'old day will find "Buck" O'Brien on the mound whetr Umpire Bill Klem calls. "Play ball." Left-handers are ffertve on the Polo Grounds, and with Collins and Marquard working the gumo should prove to be a very light-hitting contest. Pittsburgh's Protest Upheld by Lynch NEW YORK, Oct.

protest against Chicago's victory In the game of October was upheld by President Lynch, of the National League. In decision made public today and the game was thrown out of tho record, thus changing slightly the league's standing. The protest was based on the fact that Catcher Cotter, of Chicago, was batting out of his turn when he hit a single which won the game in the tenth Inning. President Lynch gave out tonight the official standing of the league as follows: Clubs. Won.

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