Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 March 1915 — Page 14
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WHEELING CLUB WILL PLAY GAMES IN OHIO
Stogies' New Park Will Be Located Across River, Which Is State line.
The Wheeling' club of the Central league is perhaps the only league baseball club ever organized to play all oX Its home games in another state than that of the qlub represented. A fine new park is to be erected in time for
the latter part of next month and is Roing to be located across the Ohio river from Wheeling, In the state of Ohio. It will be on a wet side of the river, while Wheeling is dry as the result of the fall vote on the question of local opti*n.
Terre Haute fans will no doubt be pleased to hear that the Stogies, for that is what all the Wheeling league clubs are called, will be under the management of Pop Schriver, manager of the scrappy Wheeling club which gave the Grand Rapids club a hard fight for the ponnant the years John Ganzel and Phil Arnold managed the Rapids winning. team. Schriver is a hustler and fights for every game as though lifa and death depended on the result.
Wheeling Club Strongly Backed. Dick Padden, former major leaguer, •who was a star in high society for years, is to be associated with Schriver in the management of the Stogies. The team has the backing of leading business men of the town, of whom two are millionaires. Schriver says the two years Wheeling has been without league ball makes Wheeling Just ripe for a fast team this year.
The other two new teams in the Central league besides Wheeling will also have managers who are well and favorably known here. Larrie Quinlan, who managed the Wheeling club in the twelve city league of 1912, and who led the Terrc-irs last season, will be the Erie manager. Curley Blount, who will be remembered as leadoft man for the Fort Wayne Railroaders three years ago. will manage the Youngstown team.
Punch Knoll will manage Evansvllle again this season. Rufus (Lefty) Gilbert. former Kalamazoo college football and baseball star, will lead the Terre Haute forces. Jack Compton, pitcher and all around player, is to suc«eed Johnny Nee as manager of the pennant-winning Dayton team. The Fort Wayne club is the only team in the league which has not yet announced Its manager.
Martin May Go to California. Harrv Martin of Grand Rapids led the Railroaders last year, but there is A deal on which may result in his going to the Pacific Coast league to play "with the Venice club, whicn is one of the two clubs which represent Los
Angeles in the Pacific Coast league. A deal may be made very soon whero bv Claude Varnell will sell the Port Wayne franchise to business men of the "city, who will install Babe Myers as manager. Babe led several pennart winning teams in Fort Wayne in the early days of the Central league. Any team he ever led in the Central was alwavs well up in the race.*
Harrv Martin would be just as well satisfied to return to the ranks and go to California as a player as to manage a team and remain longer in the Central, for he has teen in the league •for so many years that he thinks a change may do him good. That he got as much as any man could out of the material at his command last year l«t conceded by all familiar with the league. ...
Purdue Team Looks Strong
LAFAYETTE. Ind., March 20.—Purdue's trade team, which is hard at woflt on the field and cinder path, premises to develop strength as the eeascn progresses, and Coach Temple feels that he has several men who will be consistent point winners. Tn Van Aken, half-mller Bancker. hurdles, and Crowe,
shot-putter,
NEW YORK, March 20.—Charlie White and Leach Cross, the best bets, respectively, of Chicago and New York, in the lightweight division, will mix in a ten-round no-decision bout Thursday night in Madison square garden. Promoter Jimmy Johnson clinched the match today when the managers of both boxers deposited forfeits. 2
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Western Conference Tank Event Captured by These Huskies
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SWIMMING SFTUAD.
Maybe the east Is ahead of the west in football and some sports, but not in aquatic honors. Northwestern university, which has just won the western conference championship, and which defeated Yale when last they met two years ago, will meet Yale again tnts
I gess if hit the way did last year I dont gess they will keep rum an i'homns an Alien cnus they will jest cost a lot of money au cant hit like me. 1 will rite you more next week wilh luve to your folks. HEZ.
FEDERAL CONDITIONS EXPOSED BY K. C. SUIT
Hearing of Franchise Case Shows Up Poor Finances—Mord Brown An Example.
CLEVELAND, O.. March 15.—"The injunction case brought by the Kansas City club against the Federal league brought out some interesting facts fnr us," said Ban Johnson, president of the American league, here today. "Of course, we knew the conditions under
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The Situation As It Is
IIV HFFIZB NORTON.
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dldent hert ine a bit an 1 aakt him what lie ment by rlten ir« a rotten letter like he «lid an he sed he never vcte it an sez 1 dldent think ao caun how could yu*e fellows nforrt to let a star like me no an he aea oome not wooldent think of it. so 1 gex* am pretty good an 1 am going out an beet theac Meml teem* what they IK gonn play caus they atnt no good caun We have got the best ball O that they ha* ever had up here, an I geu a fello is (iretty lucky what can le mascot In it. yon seen the line up dident you well 1 am gona tell you who they is an what teem we has sot for this seeson. They has got a ketcher what Is Vann an 1 Mess you have herd of hira. M* grand father wns 1 of the felloe what built the K. R. what goes threw here- the presdent told me his name win Vann Dale. You so you see got the inside wtuf onus the pre* tells me all a bout the situation an you can tuke this letter jeat the way_i rite It onus the prei told me all a bout it an he nose jest what he is falkin hoat onus he signed them nil. an then on 1st base they is going to have Lefty an may be a fello named Englehart 1 is left handed nit ..he other is a right hauder an the pre* ses they is gona play them both caus then they could get halls that Is thrown on both sides a them. an on 2nd they is going to have 2 more fellos Evers whose brother is on the Boston Worlds Champaigns team bat dont under stand that caus they aint never played us an another fello what is named Brown an that makes 4 men be tween 1st an 2nd an most clubs can only a ford 2 an then at short stop they are gona have Grey what wui 3rd base man an led the Central leege an what is a better shortstop than what he is a 3rd base' man, so you see they dont need there, an then they got Me f^aferty what vu a 3rd base man wit the 4th Wayne 0 last year an what all ways hits the ball when some body wants to go in home, so if wux manager 1 would have him bat every time any body nm on that he could be sure of makiu a lot of runs. in the Held there is a bout 0 of us nr. ges* if dont plav left Held this lier».» fello Marshal will what they got fr«'m Orand Rapids what lilt over 300 an some feller thot he wu* going to leed the leege so he hit him lit the head an gess that scared hiiu caus he dident hit no ball for bout 3 weeks, corse you no he eouldent eaus he iz on the bench an 1 gess If some feller hits him ag|in this year will be in left field. an there is Allen what comes from the Kitty leege an hit more than 800 nu played most every place, he is gona play ih center field If 1 dont. an then there is rum what comes fr« Kentucky rn the pre* ses a pretty good 1 he wuz bread in old Kentncky an be fore he conld get the reat out SOT an ia Crum in Indiana, see bread crunt, an he ses 1 WUK gona be a peech for the club caus 1 would keep them in good huiner all the time wit my rlginal good jokes, he called It wit but its jest jokes what any feller can crack if he thinks a cuple a hours he fore he speaks. he seas that will be a 2nd Germany Shaver an a corse I dont no him hut ixess he is a barber in the German army what is funny like me, an a nother feller what they got ia Thomas what can thro a man out from the field jest the same as if he wuz. on short stop an gess if he dont make the teem they will use him for a fence policeman caus he is so good in throwin em ont. an they has got a bout 11 pichers Madden what led the club last year Nelt what lives here an is a good frend a mine an Maddison what ia n'llne rode picher an all ways got scared at home caus his wife sits In the grand stand, an the prez sez be is not gona a low her in the park this summer cause how can a feller pich when l«e is seared to death, an Bizowhiskey what is a German bull player what (onn-r- Mack wanted but this elnii here gave him more money than the Philadelphia club could aford to pay en '"iregg whnt only won 10 games out of ^3 last year what is not very good an Bixby a nother 1 an a half dozen other Is what is coming what is all good.
which the Federals were operating, but The public was not conversant with them until this case came to trial. Not only was the Kansas City club forced to appeal to the league for aid in paving its salaries, but the St. Louis and Indianapolis clubs were also in financial distress. "It also came out officially that an effort was made to peddle the Kansas City franchise to Clevelan-1. As r?. result of this hearing, I have ceased to regard the Federal league seriously. It was unsuccessful in its efforts to organize a string of minor leagues to net as farms." "Will the Landis decision afFect the second jumps of Caldwell, Johnson, Ferritt, Austin and Hagerman?" Johnson was asked. "The decision," replied Johnson, 'no matter what it is, cannot affect the return of the players mentioned to our leagues. The courts decided last year in the Killifer case that the option clause was binding and the contracts that Caldwell, Johnson, Hagerman and the others named had signed were even more binding than the Killifer con\ract.
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I QO not believe Mr. Ward, of Brooklyn, hac any idea he would become so heavily involved, and I think that now he is looking for a way out. He is the one to worry, not we, for the Federal league season will be a repetition of last year. By merely saying a league is a big league, you do nc-t make it gc. The public Is batter educated. 'Conditions are different than they were when we declared war on the National. We were not extravagant. We paid cur umpires only $300 a month about a fourth of what the Feds have to pay today. Jimmy Collins, manager, captain and third baseman of the Eoston club in the first year of our expansion, received only $3,500 a year. Tooay the Feds are paying players of mefaiocre^hiliiy salaries of from $6,000 to $10,000 and tying themselves up to big salaries to players who may outlive their usefulness before the contracts expire. Mordccai Brown is an example. "The Federal league lost more money last year than any league ever lost in the history of the game. I do not say that we made much money at the start. On the other hand, we did not lose much. Here in Cleveland, Charley Somers and Jack Kilfoyl made $1,800 the first year."
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Johnson-Willard Bout First Title Affair to be Held on the Sabbath
NEW YORK, March 20.—If the promoters of the Johnson-Willard heavj'weight championship bout adheres to "heir announcement to hold the contest cn Ei-ster day, April 4, It will be the first time that a ring match of this cal'ber has been held on a Sunday. Championship bouts In many classes have been held
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of America n.r\d Europe, but pugilists and promoters have heretofore °on" fined their ring: activities to days other than the Sabbath.
Johnson won final recognition as the world's champion by defeating Jeffries at Reno, Nev., on the Fourth of July, 1910 Bob Fitzsimrnons won the heavyweight title from Jim Corbett at Car
City, Nev., on St. Patrick's day, 1807 Jack Johnson gained his first claim to championship honors by defeating Tommy Barns at Sidney, New South Wales, on December -s6, 1908. which is know as Boxing day throughout the British empire. Because of the difference in time the result of this battle was known throughout the United States on the preceding day—Christmas. In other weight classes, holiday bouts, in whioh championship!) changed, are numerous.
Corbetfs victory over Terry Mc-
Govern was won on Thanksgiving day. Battling Nelson lest his lightweight title to Ad Wolgast on Washington birthday, 1910, and the list might be continued almost indefinitely.
Sporting events of various kinds are held on Sunday in Central and South \merica and continental Evrope, but aside from baseball, bicycle racing, track and field athletics and association football games, Sabbath sports have never been ippular in the united States. In Mexico, Cuba and bouth America, bull fights, cocking mains and minor sports are or were held on the first
of the week. In Europe sev
eral classic turf events, including the French C4rand Prix, are always scheduled for Sunday. Ring records show that few bouts o? importance have boon held abroad on Sunday and American tabulation-j show an eciual scarcity in this respect. Where they have been held on Sunday, the contests were those of the early periods of pugilism and the selection of the day due to police activity which upset the plans of the promoters. Such a case was the Jack
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L. D. SMITHS TO PLAY MAH00N3.
The L. D. Smiths, City league baseball team, will play the Terre Haute Maroons Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock on the diamond at Thirteenth street and Fifth avenue. Manager Manus requests the following- players to turn out f»v practice Sunday morning at 10 o'clock on the diamond at Nineteenth and Ohio streets: Vester, J. Farmer, Jackson, Craig, Olson, Reeves, Rosenthal, Roberts. Slavens, D. McPlieron, Stangel, Hitchcock, Sterc.hi, O. Farmer, .Tones, Wenlzell, Kicknoswa. Miller, lirowntng. Fields, McGahan and Buchanan. The Stmth«-are anxious to
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