Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 298, 23 October 1913 — Page 6

HIE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, OCT. 23. 1913. Coaches and Trainer of Navy Football Team Latest Sport hews and Events of the Day BASEBALL PLAYERS Giant Catcher Buys Real Estate LOCAL BALL T HAS LITTLE if 1 20 DE Men Insist on Abolition Reserve Clause in All Contracts. of Books Show That it Costs! Heavy to Run Team in ! This Cilv. DEMAND FAIR PLAY WEATHER A HANDICAP ! St

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NEW YORK, Oct. 23 The long predicted war between the major league ball players and magnates may be declared this fall as the result of the demands of the ballplayers which "were made public today and which will be submitted to the magnates at their annual meetings this fall by the officers of the Baseball Players' Fraternity, representing about, seven hundred major and minor league playehs. The big league magnates heretofore have refused to recognize the fraternity and have paid little attention to its threats. The fraternity was organized more than a year ago. Included in the twenty demands which the players make are the following: Abolition of the reserve clause in all contracts. That all contracts will be equally binding upon club and player. At the present they bind only the player. Salary Demand. That when a major league player is released to a minor league club during mid-season the minor league club must pay him the same salary that his major league contract called for. That all players be furnished with two complete uniforms each year. Some clubs have forced players to buy their own uniforms. The biggest fight will center on the demand for the elimination of the reserve clause. The national commission and the magnates take the stand that the reserve clause which makes a player still a member of the club after his contract has expired, sustain the game by preventing a club with plenty of money from grabbing a star player rfom one of the weaker and poorer clubs. The players claim the clause is unjust. DILLON COMMENCES TRAINING FOR BOUT INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 23. Jack Dillon started in active training yesterday for his ten-round bout with Eddie McGoorty, scheduled at Milwaukee, November 3. Dillon boxed six rounds after completing his gym work. He boxed Frank Hoe two rounds, Tommy Dillon two and Chip Murphy two. Bob Stolkin, trainer, says that Dillon will be put through the most strenuous training ever undertaken by the Hoosier huhhican, because the McGoorty bout probably will mark Dillon's ascension or descension of the middleweight ladder. The promoters of the bout at Milwaukee declare that if the bout results in a decisive victory for either man, he will be considered middle weight champion. Dillon has beaten most of the title claimants, but not decisively enough to prevent the defeated from getting away with an alibi. BOB FITZSIMMONS APPEARS IN COURT NEW YORK, Oct. 23. Fearful that he be late and held in contempt of court. Bob Fitzsimmons, the former world's champion pugilist, strolled into the supreme court chambers yesterday and inquired of the clerk: "Am I in the right club?" "Yes," said the clerk, "but this is only a preliminary. The main bout comes next. Better take your corner." Fitzslmmons had been summoned to appear in a suit brought by Joseph Egan, a prize fight promoter, against a magazine which published an article "Svhlch Egan claims was libelous. Fitzsimmons probably will testify today. CALL OFF BOUTS

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 23. The series of the colleges have uncovered a pheof boxing contests which had been j nomenal punter a man who could planned for tomorrow night have been boot tne Psskin for an average of called off because the promoters have!abollt fift' ards, and who often sent

been unable to find a satisfactory sub stitute for Ad Wolgast, who was billed to meet Charley White of Chicago. Wolgast suffered a fractured rib last Sunday while training. r FIELD GOALS The first open practice of the week was ordered for the Badgers today. The freshmen will line up against the varsity, using Michigan Agriculture plays. Northwestern was given another blow today when Schoonmacher dropped from the squad, because of parental objection. The giant guard was a valuable man in that he scaled 230 pounds. Realizing that victory will permit the Illini eleven to continue as a con- j tender for Big Nine honors, while de-j feat will hurl them into the discard, ' Coach Vuppke today ordered more se- i cret practice for tonight. Illinois bat-! ties Indiana Saturday at Indianapo-' lis. There is much gloom in the Indiana camp. With several members on the hospital list, more gloom was added to the squad when Trout, star halfback, injureci his tphoulder and had to be carried off the field. EXCHANGE BLOWS ! 4 Sailor Petroskey, the middle-weight trial horse, has been matched to fight a limited round bout with Leo Renz at Butte, on Thanksgiving day. Ernie Sanders, Chicago printerfighter, was today matched to battle Gus Christie in Milwaukee Monday Hlht

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IRA THOMAS. Ira Thomas someday probably will be an officer in the oft-predicted capital-labor war, and Ira will not bo a captain in the army of labor, either. Ira, unless something nig'.i impossible intervenes, will be a general in the camp of capital. The veteran catcher has just announced that he owns thirty-four houses and two stores. A few days ago he received a check for $3,243.92 as his share of the world's series r 'cvipts. Ira will buy two more houses with this money. Ira's one great idea is to have stacks and stacks of money. Ira can tell you the exact date when Reading or I'nion Pacific or United States Steel or any of those stocks sold high, and he can tell you when they reached the low mark. He can t -U you why they slip a fraction of a point either way. Ira is a good fellow and has many friends. He has cultivated the friendship of wise brokers, and th y pass some good information along to Ira. He saves his money; in fact, has been doing that for many years, and invests it in gilt-edge securities that "can go only one way up." Thomas probably, has more tlvin doubled the money he pulled out of the world's series. He has studied finance with greater zeal than he ever studied baseball, and many tricks of the game are worked out by Ira. The average man has no idea how many profitable little tricks can be worked with money, and not one of these angles need be in any way dishonest, either.

NO STAR PUNTERS SEEHHIS YEAR Coaches Fail to Develop Good Fifty Yard Oval Kicker. NEW YORK, Oct. 23. There is not one star punter in the line up of any ot'he eastern football teams today a record without a parallel in the history of the college game. And, in strange contrast, there is today a greater galaxy of wonderful dropkickers on the rosters of the eastern teams than ever before. Each year in the past one or another line uau spinning tnrougn wie air tor ! civtv varlo it nmro Tint it- ic r il;f ferent story in 1913 Need Punters. The coaches, from the beginning of the season have tried to find a real punter and have failed. They have j tried to develop men who seem to i have natural puntinc ability, and) iagi'.in have failed. With the season! more than half over they have given' ;up the Quest, and resigned themselves I 'to the rather old ruling of football' 'fate. j The fact that not star punters have 'developed this year may work to the' j benefit of the spectotors. who always! jhave favored the semi-mass plays and lend runs over the kiekinggame. Many j in the past has characterized the fre quent punting some teams have resorted to as a baby game one in which a team prefers to keep a 1a11 in the air most of the time to keeping itin play on the field. M GRAW EXPLAINS IN TALKING MOVIES Can baseball be taught by moving pictures and a phonograph attachment? John McGraw has been posinsr for a film company, showing how the finer points of the game ar handled. Facing the lens in New York city the other day he told the talking Tart of the apparatus how to pitch a certain kind of cure, at the same time showing the camera man just how his pitchers do it. Future big league hurlers in Richmond, who are still wearing short trousers, are hereby notified of this short cut to fame and fortune.

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YOST LIKES DUBLIN ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 23 Coach Yost spends much time telling about his European tour. He speaks of the ! various cities and countries he visi ited, but invariably falls back on Dubi lin. The great Irish city is always given praise and added glory. Just why this love tor Dublin has been a mystery until Yost in one eonversa l tion remarked: "es, I had a great 'time in Dublin; you can't beat it. I i was in Dublin when I got a copy of the 1913 football rules, mailed over i by the committee." CAPTAIN GILCHRIST OF NAVY TEAM K. P. Gilchrist, captain of the Naval Academy football team for this year, led his men in the first game of the season on Saturday. Oct. 4, against the team of the University of Pittsburgh. Gilchrist is a third year man at the Academy and plays right end on the team.

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for . CHALMER MUTCHNER. It costs money to run a baseball team even a semi-professional team. While the Richmond team was liberally patronized during the last season and the casual observer doubtless thought the managenu nt was making a very good thing out of the investment, the books show that the team was very lucky to break a little better than even for the season. The season was an exceptionally bad one on account of the weather. While only three games were called off on this account the attendance was cut at a number of others owing to threatening weather. The management, how ever, is very well satisfied with the outcome ana extenus us tnanKs to the

Prospects Now Bright Better Team Next 1 Season.

fans of the city for their liberal sup- . ... . . . - , .u u port and extends the promise to Bive!,e' "eight champion of the world, the ma" much faster team next year. who makes his first appearance in this During the last year there was a i city at Madison Square Garden next very large decrease in the number of .Wprtnotiv nieht in a ten-round clove

tans that went to Cincinnati on Sundays to see the Reds play. In former years it was nothing unusual for l'f)0 tickets to be sold to Rediand on Sundays w hen the Cincinnati team was playing at home. This sale of tickets has been decreased to between 25 and 50 since semi-professional ball has been offered here. Investment For City. Counting five dollars as the cost of an average Sunday trip to Cincinnati, it means that a good baseball team in Richmond has been the means of keeping $1,000 in the city every week. So while the team has not been a big money maker, it has been a very good investment for the good of the city. Nineteen games were played in the city and three away last season. The three games away from home resulted in an aggregate loss to the manage ment of $150. The average receipts ol the nineteen games was $232 and their average cost was $245. This would have resulted in a deficit of $13 per game, but the revenue derived from score cards was sufficient to wipe out this difference and leave just a little in the treasury. Salaries of players, hotel bills and advertising costs were the heaviest expenditures. Average Expense $245. ; Following is the average expense for games played here last year: ; Players and hotel bills $93.10 Care of grounds 6.00 Balls and other supplies 6.60. Umpire 6.70 ! Car fare to grounds $2.00 Telephone 2.50 Maiantenance 3.00 Advertising 20.00 This with the percentage of the receipts given to the visiting team makes up the total expenditure of $245. APPEAL TO WILSON Northwestern Coaches Want Life Saver in Football Team. CHICAGO. Oct. 23. Appealing to President Wilson for assistance in . their present straits, football coaches and enthusiasts at Northwestern have hopes that Hale, of the Purple line, : will be permitted to resign .from the j government life saving corps so that j he can play football. ! Hale has been out of the game this ' year, but after the defeat by Illinois last Saturday, he went to the coaches ! and offered to resign his position with i the government in order to help his college. The captain or the life sav-. ing station, however, objected, and said that if Hale left the city with ; the team he would be consideied a deserter from the life saving corps, i and would be subject to immediate j arrest The president has been requested to j grant him a leave of absence during j the football season or else permit him to resign from the service. SHELDON WORKS MEN FOR ILLINI BATTLE BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Oct. 23. Final preparations for Saturday's game with Illinois were stated yesterday when coach Sheldon put his men through a grueling workout in the ; afternoon and then called them to-j gether in the evening for an hour's 1 signal practice in the gymnasium. In I their stocking feet the members ofj the squad were sent through all of the formations and every one of the j signals were used. ( This feature of the practice is j scheduled for the remainder of the i week. Although, the team is having ' no trouble in handling the signals, Jimmy is taking nochances on a misunderstandine of the figures in next Saturday's gabe with the Illini. Along with the signal practice in the gym went a little talk on the general principles of the fall sport.

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MAKES 135 POUNDS LIGHTWEIGHT LIMIT Champion Ritchie Will Give Challengers the Easier Weight. vfw vntik" Oet 23 Willie Ritchfight with Leach Cross, is the first holder of the title since the late Joe dans was champion to raise the weight limit. Ritchie found time yesterday to explain why he is not making matches at 133 ringside. "I have considered 133 pounds ringside the lightweight limit," he said. "In fact, there is no rule, American or Knglish, under which championship contests are held that fixes this limit. The history of boxing shows that Jack McAuliffe, the first American who held the world's title, defended himself at 13.i, 137 and 140 pounds. Kid Lavigne, who succeeded McAuliffe, lost the title on a decision to Frank lirne at 135, weighing four or five hours before the bout. Erne was knocked out by Gans at 136, weighing at tJ o'clock. ' Battling Nelson made poor Gans do 133 for the title, and the latter was a physical wreck. Wolgast played the same trick on Nelson and also made me fight him at the 133 limit. But since I've become champion I have a right to dictate the weight, and I have ri:: d the limit at 135 in order to let challengers who can not make 133 have a crack at the title." JAKE DAUBERT MAY LEAD DODGERS f. M ft. Jake Daubert. great firstbaseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers and champion of the National League, who is said to be slated for Bill Dalen's job as manager of the Superbas. ARROW (COLLAR

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The Days in Smoke ITALIA NO AMERICANA HEADLINA Former Richmond Mana. Now New ; Yark Times Reporter, Hada Amusing Experience. So did the readers of the above headline. A man never gets ahead of himself, but he often thinks the factory whistle is five minutes too ! fast. HEARD AT EARLHAM. I Georgt I hear Coach Reagan has a tine collection of relics. I Other Dormmate Yess. outside of 1 Mooreshill. he has the finest collec- ! tion of football antiques. 1 THINGS TO WORRY ABOUT. ! If Niagara Falls twenty-five feet, I how far would a chocolate drop? i i ; The weather man is not in favor of football, for the last four days have been too rainy for effective practice, ; and then the big games are just two days away. How cruel! ! WHERE BIG FAMILY COUNTS. We see that a Washington (D. C.) I statesman says that under the new tariff each person will save 66 cents. Small families will have not advantage tover the man with ten in his family, i It's an ill wind that blows no good. TAKE YOUR CHOICE. "No moral woman would wear a split skirt skirt," says Rev. A. J. Cutler, of Philadelphia. "Split skirts and diaphanous gowns are not menaces to health in cold weather," says Sufgeon General Rucker, of the United States Health Service, "but on the other hand, women wearing the MOT k Who has We have contracted Kinds

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