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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-30
NOTES

\ New Ynrl; writer declares that Tom
NeedLam, The new catcher of tho Giants.
is better hitter than Frank Bowcrnan
Barney Di.Efuss denies that CaInnitz
WAS III" pitcher named in the three men
he offered u trade foT Tenhey.
Eddie Walsh tie sensational tviilor for
the Chicago Wilt" Sox, has been engaged
TO coach tie Wesleyan candidates for the
carly season games
That VS. . nice Christmas present
| Harry W"lverton eot-notice that he
Wnrl! not ~ n.-ei hv Cincinnati ann
could again manage WilliamspOrt.
Now they arc predicting that the COM
ing season viii see Bill Danlen's return
to the minors 4 In Tom Corcoran. Dali
len has be II i'll fast company since tile
early %S.
Tie National Commission will meet in
Cincinnati on IAN. ami consider i'm
portant minor lrHGu" matters. On the fol-
lowing day tie two schedule committees
Of the lig leagues Will discuss opening
and holiday dates
does not believe in timing his men. If
they refuse 10 behave he simply lets
them 70.
Home Run" Puck Freeman kept up
lis reputation as 4 slugger in Minn"dpo-
lis last season. His record was Is home
runs ten thrte-baSgers and So tWo-DaS
gers.
President Dreyfuss Of the Pittsburgs de-
MES lhat he TOLD Fred 1cnncy that lie
would pay him more than any other
club. DrcVfusS is willing In stand pat
on his new first bascmen Kane and Swa-
Gina
dusty" Rhoadcs stands 50 we'll with
Tom johnson. Clcveland's three-cent
mayor. that he has landed q city job
Rhoades was a telegraph operator a few
years ago. Johnson made DUSTY" an
electrical INSPECTOR.
Old Bond Hill Rlly" Hart refuses to
quit. In the Southern League this wear
he pitched in Is games and won + Of
them. Pretty good work for z man Old
enough to be Jim Soffels grandfather.
Bresnahan will, without doubt. remain
in New York next season. ard the 81 anCeS
for the Cardinals or the Reds getting him
have been cut off. Mrtfraw would hardly
let Roger so as long as Bowerman has
been traded.
Tie Topeka franchise in the Western
Association has been declared for sale.
Herman Crow and Dick Cooley are equal
partners in the stock Of the club and it is
said to he u hig money maker. too.
Cleveland fans are clamOrinE for Liable
to give Paul Cobb Il brother OF Ty, Il
chance with the Maps Paul has the lam-
liz recipe for hitting, having SluGged SO
in the Western Association last season.
Joe Nealon who has been gracefully let
ont of the big league baseball. is one "
the members of q California team play
ing exhibition games in Honolulu. 4
Chinese team was there at the same Tins
Hughov Duffy holds 4 worlds baseball
record in addition to his great batting av-
eraSe the year he was champion bats
man. That record is seven passed balls
in one inning. You know. Hughey start
ed out as Il catcher early in his career
at Hartford, Conn. where the former
manager of the Phillies made this rec
orl.
Clark Griffith would part with Catcher
Klcin"v if he could secure something
startinGly good for him. If Griftith's
pitchers come around all right in tho
spring he will need little more help in
making his team one Of the strongest il
the league.
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ROLLER POLO.
The Hartford Club to Be Transferred
Jan. 6 to Boston.

Hartford. Ct. Dec. 29-At a special
meeting Of the National Polo League
Saturday night, Manager Harry Star
kic of the Hartford club was granted
the privilege to transfer his team.
which now leads the league, to Bos-
ton, Monday. Jan. s.
Mr.. Starkie was in Boston Friday
and made arrangements to play in the
Park Square rink 1t was stated at
the meeting that the game has suffered
in Hartford because of lack of proper
playing quarters.
The Hartford team is composed Of
Bob" Hart and Fred Lincoln, rushcrs.
John Wiley, center; Allie Coggeshall.
halfback. and George Sutherland. goal.
1t is one of the fastest polo quintets
ever gotten together.
Hartford will finish its games in this
city next week and open in Boston
Jan. 6, retaining its present standing III
the league.
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GL|DDEN tour
For 1908 Will Probab|,
Have Longer Run.
Denver or Even Frisco Sup.
gssied as Terminus.
Larger Number Of Entries Than
Larger Number Of Entries Than
Ever Is Expected.

Boston, Dec. 29.-Advancc worl. TO-
the Glidden tour Of 1908 has been M
gun BY Chairman Frank B. Hover
Hall dozen routes have been sugpest-
cd, among them one providing for
central point in the White mountains
and daily runs. Another suggestion is
a route along the Atlantic coast fin.
iShing in the White mountains, and 70,
another plan is run either TO Denver
or san Francisco
he tendency seems TO be for an in
creased distance in 1903 and a New
York 10 san Francisco run is within
the possibilities. The desire seems to
bc to have route mapped out that
Will take the cars along new roads and
provide new scenery each day !.
Some would prefer to start out each
day from the same point in order u
get better hotel accommodations ana
90 away with the necessity of Carving
baggage. The Atlantic coast route has
some enthusiastic advocates, but
Frisco as the destination seems to ap-
peal more strongly to the motorists.
Denver or san Francisco is now being
very we'll spoken Of.
III spite Of the criticism by some last
year as to the length of the route, there
is disposition for even greater mic
age in 1908.
A classification Of cars will probably
be made III the next tour. An official
observer Tor each car Will also probably
be provided.
While it is hardly probable that the
Glidlen will be under rules as strict as
those Of the Chicago endurance test, it
is ut the same time probable that
strirter rules for 1908 will prevail
Dan Lewis, secretary of the il. a. a,
is in favor of tour starting in Buffalo
ana running through Pittsburs. Balti-
more and then up the Atlantic coast.
That the entry list will be large is
shown ~ the fact that q number of the
have already named
their cars.
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NO STOLEN GLORY
To Be Allowed Promoters Of Automo-
bile Races.

New York. Dec. 29.-In future pro-
motors VINO wish to lend added glory
to track meets they are conducting by
scheduling international or nation
al" events. will be compelled to foreGo
this form of advertising. according
to a resolution adopted Saturday BY the
executive committee of the A. A. A.
racing board. The resolution applies t.
future sanctions granted by the racing
board. and is to be Incorporated in the
racing rules. 1t reads as follows:
AN international race is race
where the entrants are respectively
named by and represent any two or
more Of the recognized national affiliat-
ed automobile clubs of the world.
"A national race is a race where the
entrants are respectively named by
and represent any two or more Of tho
automobile clubs affiliated with the
American Automobile Association
Sanctions were granted for the fol-
lowing events:
Automobile Club Of America, Or
mond- Dayton. Fla, for the week be-
ginning March =. 1905; Savannah Au-
tomobile Club, Savannah. Ga, stock
car road races, week beginning March
16. 1908; first international road race
for the Briar Cliff trophy Westminster
county. New York. April "a, 1908.
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WRESTLING.

Leo Pardello and Carl Mattson
Wrcstlcd Il rough-house draw at Min
neapolis The other night
All Ahmet. Il 236-pound Turk, is to
meet Den"tra". tn" Greek, at Milwau-
hec in finish match.
Hjalmar Lundin is engaged to
Wrestle in Boston on Jan. if a suitable
opponent can be found for him.
Joe Rogers, vino is to wrestle Hack
cnschnidt. operated for q While in Cam
ada under the name Of Apollo.
Walter Willoughby of Buffalo proved
tartar for Frank Gotten, who tailed to
throw him in tn" stipulated limit
Dennis Gallagher. the champion five
style wrestler of America, will wrestle
Max Miller at Utica, y. Y. next month
Brugglio, tie terrible Pole, who took
Ed. Decker's place against Pcrelli last
fall. will be against Shad Link, the
Baltimore bull killer at the Columbia
in Boston on Tuesday night.
Frank Gotch, champion wrestler of
America, was Saturday at Lowell
matched to meet Hjalmar Lundin at
the Lowell Opera house, Jan. u.
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BOXING NOTES

Milwaukee, Dec. 29.-Bill Papke and
Hugo Kelly. who are to meet III 4 10
round battle before the Badger a. G.
of Milwaukee Monday have wound ip
their training for the event. This fight,
which is to decide the middleweight
championship, is the main attraction
for the fight lovers during the week
OF the New Year. and promises to be
the hottest engagement seen in MIL
Waukee for many months.
On his recent showing Papke appear
cd to many Of the fans to be favorite
over Kelly, and a few bets We're made
in which the odds favored the Illinois
Thunderholt. But after Kelly started
training and a number Of the experts
visited him in his camp. the sports
came to the conclusion that Kelly was
not by any means has-been. They
started to take all the Papke money
in sight. and the odds receded until
Kelly Is now q favorite at 10 to 8.
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Sullivan BlameS
Primary Schools.

James E. sullivan, president Of the
Amateur Athletic Union, says that he
believes that much of what is wrong
with college sport is the fault of the
iustl act rs III the primary schools:
that is to say. the masters Of pre-
pardtury and High schools do not pay
enough attention TO The inOral side of
the athletes DEVELOPMENT. he is able
t. cite manifold cases Of the kind: es-
reciailr because Of letters addressed
to hin ny men who havr schools in
charge. Tlcre was one conspicuous
cxanplA of a l&rg" school in New York
stat iltr" an Instructor wrote to MI
Sullivan regarding the right Of 4
an to play AGAINST professionals. He
received the answer HAT there was an
unqualified moral wrong in letting
sch,Ulhnys ." outside their immediate
class in sports especially to I.lay
aEain:;, 'inf,'Ssionais.
:'uo~eIu, the principal &C the
school wrote To Mr.. Sullivan to say
that H. relieved that Mr.. Sullivan was
all wrong in the matter. and that the
Amateur Athletic Union had no juris-
dCtion. anyway, and that he purposed
to let the boys play if they wished to.
That sort Of argument Mr.. sullivan
reg r,is a. typical Of the schonl head,
Ct rather OF many school principals.
and ho says that until that is elimi-
mated and the boys are taught right in
the beginning that colleg" sport Will be
a troublesome subject. The difficulty
encountered row is not that men al
ready in college violat" rules. but She
boys who come from the schools havH
been educated to unfortunate Ideals
and therefore do wrong.
Perhaps the fault is that Of thoS"
v no heap legislation on legislation for
the better management of athletics
but in any event each law is aimed az
some particular Illegal action thai
made the law necessary. Perhaps the
fault is that of school teachers and
others who do not help the morals Of
the athletes. At any event. the wrong
is there, and its presence is emphasized
all the more by actions just such as
that which the University ri Chicago
apparently finds necessary in the case
Of its Varsity captains.
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WILTSE FREE AGENT.
National Commission Frees Him from
All Club Claims.

Cincinnati. Dec. 29.-In decision
handed down Saturday the National
Baseball Commission declares Lew -.
Witse, who played with Newark. y.
j., last season, free agent and eligi-
bio to plaxS1n organIcd baseball.
1t appears that several years ago
Witse was placed on the ineligible list
for having violated his contract with
the Baltimore club. During the past
season the commission again examined
the players application for reinstate-
nent, and found that there were many
eltcnuatiug circumstances connected
with The case. He was. therefore tenn
porarily reinstated. He finished the
season with the Newark club.
Recently il has come to the comniis-
sion's notice, the decision says. that
illegal transactions We're entered into
by two clubs which formerly had title
10 him, whereby under the national
agreement he could not have advanced
in his profession and that it was for
that reason that he violated his con-
tract 1t is because of the action OF
these two clubs that the commission
decided to reinState him.
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RED sox CONTRACTS
Continue to Be Received from the
WelI-known Players.

Roston Dec 29-Several more signed
contracts were added yesterday after
nnon to the number which III" Red
sox have been receiving since the De-
Ginning of the week, when Pitchers
Rnrch4u and prueitt were heard from
az the local office by Treasurer Hugh
McBreen, and word was received SIM
UNANIMOUSLY that Pat Donahue had ais"
come TO terms and signed ms papers
for the coming season. With the thfee
new signatures came also the flrst con-
Grmation Of Jack Knights release.
Knight. as has ebeen expected, is to
GO to Baltimore as part OF the trade
for Pitcher BurChell. who sent in MS
contract yesterday. Baltimore has been
anxious TO get Knight, and expects nm
to- make good on the team III thai clly.
He has not been an exactly strong
player during his connection with me
local club and may do much better IN
minor league company. HIS place AT
third will be filled either by Lord, me
former Providence star. or Donahue'
IN, race between these two men IN the
spring promising to be hot one
The astonishing rapidity with which
the contracts are coming in this year
is a source OF much qualification TO
Hugh McBrecn. as we'll as to the 9TH
or officials Of the club. Although the
papers have hardly been out two
weeks. nine have already been received.
and these from all points Of the COM
pass.
President Dewey Of the National
League team made his first appearance
al the Office Of the club in some days
Yesterday He has not by any means
recovered from the grip, but is much
improved. The plans for the spring
training trip will be whipped into
shape when President Dewey begins
active duty. The national contracts
will be sent out as soon as he returns,
or Mt airy rate, along about the first
Of the Nelc.
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Giants. Tile Boston club, with sncI
experienced hands as McGann, Dah!cn
Ritchey, and Brain in the infield. and
veterans like Browne. Beaumont and
Kelley i'll the Outfield, is going to cut
a hgurc i'll the next race. The pitch
ing staff may be a bit shy, but Boston
is decidedly out Of the joke class. At
that Kelley will boss Il clever bunch
Of tNiricrS. Put a good catcher like
EoWrrinan to work with Cy Young
Dorner, Flahcrty, Linda,nan and
Ifeticr and tho battery strength OF the
hedneat2ra appears formidable.
Three years ago the Boston. Phila-
deipiia, brooklyn and St Louis clubs
were homeless second division nlem-
DerS. 1t was difficult to tell which
was the worst. To-day there is not D.
Joke ci,!b among the four. Tho Cardi-
nails are usually picked to finish last
but since John j. McCloskey broke IN
the clique a gradual improvement has
been roted. 1t will he remembered
that tn" Cardinals made 4 grand finish
last season. winning majority Of their
last % games. Another good pitch
er like harCer is needed III st. Louis.
Beebe is high class man. Billy Gill
pert Will improve the infield.
Alter the way those Dodgers treated
OF GIANTS last season vino can say
mat the Brooklyn team is weak
ing: Pat Donovan has accomplished
good results at Washington Park. The
dodgers chances We're ruined by an
unexplainahle bad start last season.
L the Donovanites get away good next
spring they must be watched.
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@IE DAYS DOINGS IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS,
How Much Are The
Signatures Worth?

Tie WASHINGTON Post 4av..- vhc few
conspicuous ca&. Of men WHO li.vc left
college after year IF sport arc those
Of men WHO crt'rcd i.p.n preparatory
schools v!th big r"riIt..tipn. for strength
and small ability in studies. who after
Il short timc found t,rt unc c.lIcgc main
tanned too stiff . cnjIft' tol them. Inter
they had t. leave. the inst college and
then tried unoti.rr. to tnd that -"llcGe
requirements are alb rat uniform. After
Il second failure tI!cy left cole e definite
~ 70 70 10 WORK ~ to ir.;f. Very fcw Or
this lvn" Of athlete c.-ar rIsc to the
dignity Of capt irs'hip. Tbs chi'-f deter
rent il H." fact that th,sa Urn cannot
stay four Years in a college whore atlIlc-
tics il rot permitted To influence thu
mind Of the instructor vnO Mas tie 1lcn
in charge.
The idea % making an athlete sitn 4
paper ple,!@ing him 10 *t.tr i'll college las
another side IT is ali vciy well To make
4 man sign 4 paper but how is It going
To 10 possible u fore" linn 10 carry cut
the terms Of the agreement. For in
stance. suppose that . man signs in De-
ccnibcr. 1901, how can il be made sure
that ne viii carry out the terms j.. the
corresponding Inunf!l In" next yvJr. He
may b.. p.cS .nt.h Y circumstances over
which Ic VA" np control ~ he may do
librat"ly III .cnt q story that will OK
"npt him from. performing what re has
engaged 10 oo. liz fEar s@r after tic
athletic searun cEdS th;tt Lis parents
wish him /" l-ttI" CollcG" or he may
plead IllrcSS or dIy one OF ii hundred
other good excuses
II was 4 ulIc saying ot Nil" Lynch.
the turn"r HrUWE University bas,Jil!
pitcher, tuat tbs rc are :" MANY laws III
athletics ana el.gil iIIty that they TEMPT
a man to brCOm" Il crook. He looks
ahGrt for near 10 get around the pro-
visions Of The rules. Besides, There can
i" no penalty attaching To the viola
tion Of the prom iSc to remain IN college
except that the man is branded as one
who's" word is no good Al amy event
ne may tell $" plausible 4 tale that il
viii arrcur II IT hc is trring to Keep lis
W0ld, but tLat circumstances are such
that ne cannot. III that raSn there is
nothing fuI thn cnllcg" 10 ~ but to
stand for that story. IT NAV look very
b.! to on: sifiers that there should be any
necessity for surprising such a situation
hit il may rs vel tx said frankly that
although There are mary c+tit3ah!o Young;
W"n il; college sno:t. tha.e are also sonn
others whose methods translated to other
81 here's would earn tlIclI TIE name Of
crooks.
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MIKE hartley HOT ON
Al DELMONT'S TRAIL.

Boston, Dec 29.-AIike Barley, the
crack Chicago feather-veight. il hot on
the trail Of Al belmont. Jimmy Walsh.
Bobby Tickle, Monk the Ncwsb;y or
Freddie O'Brien. hartley is well-known
throughout the West, having met such
good boys as Benny Yanger, whom
he boxed a six-rOund draw. Ray Bron-
son. Monte Attcll, Paddy Nee. Kid
Taylor, who fought Rouse O'Brien al
Brockton, Freddie Cole, Tommy Moore
and many other of the boys in this
class.
BARLEY has placed himself under the
management of Tom McDonOugh while
in this city. Local fans want to see
some good boy like BARLEY against
belmont or Walsh, and a match be-
tween them would be q big card. Nc
Donough is also anxious to match him
against Tickle or Monk at either of the
Providence clubs
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The PhilIics. directed by the crafty
Murray. are feared by all the man
ayers. 4 good third last season, they
nave ambition to beat out the Giants
and Pirates next year. Murray has a
splendid outficld. and his infeld will
be RATHER with Il good man on first
base. Brans1ield is all right-if he
hits.
The Cincinnati Reds just now an
pear to b" weak link in the National
League chain. If Garry Herman
had nerve enough to disregard his
friends Opinions and take a chance on
q real manager, nc might be rewarded
by 4 first division team. There arc
plenty Of good players on the Gin
cinnati team. hermann still clings 10
the hope that he will get Arthur Hof-
man from the Cubs and Leach from
the Pirates He has made another
appeal to Barney Dreyfuss for the SER
vices of Leach as manager
The BROOKLYN team is we'll fortified
except i'll left 1ielI and behind the bat.
a good catcher is one of Donovan's
needs. There is talk of a deal be-
tween the Brooklyn ana Boston cfubs
whereby George Browne will become a
Dodger. Donovan has put i'm a hid
Tor one of the extra Cincinnati out
helders He may get Odwen.
Summing up briefly, il appears to
the writer that the games in the Ma
tionai League will be more interesting
next summer; that the contests in
which one team is regarded as sure
winner before the first ball is pitched
VIII he few and far between.
Mercer in New York Globe.
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. .: ~; :; .;:::]aSEBALL.
willie
=: :: s:;'; ;Janny Mack Lands
T His College Players.
Helps Them IN College Courses
and Then They Sign.
Red sox Players siga...wiItse
Is Now a Free Agent.

No manager in the big leagues looks
over college ball teams more critical
" than Connie Mack.
II is; one of Macks plans to pick out
a collegian, help him 10 set through
with his education and then have nm
Join the Athletics,
That is how he got CuombS. Eddie
Collins, Noonan, McGeehan, Mullln
and sevt raj others. AT the present tlme
Connie hash crack inficl1cr in pickle
whom he is figuring on I" take the
Mace If ore If The older members or
the team in about two years. This star
player is still in college and 1t inay ne
a wear or two before h" graduates. BE
sizes this player, Mack has several
more in the colleges, whose names
have never been made public.
Connie helps the boys along. anu
when they join his team other mana
gers say: 81 can't see how he landed
that fellow, for 7 made him better
offer than Mack"
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HYIAND AND SHOELS
ARE LIKELY TO MEET

Denver. Col. Dec 29.-Conditions
were a trine reversed Saturday even
ing when Sammy McClintic. manager
of "Fighting' Dick Hyland, made con-
CcSsionS to Manager kithmiller Of
Mugsy Shoels and agreed to put his
boy in the ring with the Cheyenne
boxer at an early date.
For about a year ShoeIs has been
endeavoring to get a match with Hy-
land but invariably placed the weight
ut figure he probably well knew Hy-
lard could not make. According to the
arrangement considered last evening.
the boys are to come together before
the Petersburg Athletic Club at $50
pounds.
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WINS WITH EASE.
Shrubb Has No Difficulty Outrunning
Three Fast Men.

Boston. Dec. 29.-In the first 1o-mile
professional running race ever held on
a board track. Alfred Shrubb easily de-
feated Tom Williams. Sam Myers and
Frank Hanaly. the American rrofe--
sional champion, who ran in relays in
the above order. Shrubbs time was IS
minutes. Is seconds. as compared with
his out door record for the same dis
lance of So minutes seconds.
After the race Shrubb declared that
the contest was the first of the kind
ever held on board track and that I,
would he the last, on account of its
ehect on the runners Two of Sbrubb's
opponents. Williams and Kanaly. went
lame. the former in the second mile
and the latter in the last. Shrubb fin
lshed in good condition fully six laps
ahead OF Kanaly.