The Washington herald., 1907-11-03

with the United States army. Russians,
japanese, and native teams in the Phil
ipp!ne Islands.
Reports Of a new baseball league viii
not down. c. b. Martin. OF St Louis, one
Of the promoters of the new league, has
just returned 20 his home in St Louis,
and intimates that Pittsburg and Cincin-
natl are both in line 10 have clubs in the
new organization
Charlie Schmidt, the Detroit catcher,
fell a complete victim to the strain Of
the pennant race and the scramble fOr
the worlds honors He was heartbTOken
because his throws 20 the bases wouldn
go as aimed. Just now he is under the
doctors care 90 get his nerves back into
a normal condition.
William J. Bryan, In the Commoner
writes Of the worlds series, and saws the
/ sport is honest, and that IS why the
American people love It. It is not often
| one gets a report Of q ball game in an
/ economic paper. but MT Bryan devOtes
| considerable space to the Chicago victory
| over Detroit and how il was won.
Gov. Hoke Smith was one Of the men
who subscribed for q testimonial for Ty
| Cobb. champion batsman Of the American
/ League Ty did not GO any hitting 10
speak of In the worlds series, but the
South loves him just the same. At Mem
| phis hundreds Of dollars have been raised.
| The testimonial viii take a fitting form.
Hans Wagner broke into the National
/ League at Louisville in 1897 The past
! season was therefore his eleventh in fast
company and the batting average Of .3J0
with which he is officially credited by the
I lFag his nd as -fr
age for the II years 34S. a truly remark
able record. He has never hit below 300.
| President Pulliam, Of the National
/ League, does not want war, but he gave
! tbs. peace disturbers at the minor league
| meeting recently q hint rs 10 what they
might expect when he said: Wherever
/ the banner of unorganized ball goes up,
| there also viii go up the banner of orga-
nized ball" In other words, don't start
anything
! For years Detroit struggled along with
/ out good first baseman. Last winter a
swap was made with Cleveland which
gave the Tigers Rossman. He imme-
diately plugged up a weak position on
the team, and in the worlds series made
I more hits than any of his mates, while
| Davy Jones, who was rescued from the
minors this year, followed RossmaT
/ closely for the batting honors.
| The American League club of Chicago
/ Is one of the corporations Of Ohio which
have been notified by Secretary of State
James A Frear that the rights and priv
! ileges granted under the articles of in.
| corporation Will be forfeited on January
! I, 1903. unless its annual report is filed
| before that time. and the forfeit for fail
ure to file by October Is paid. The filing
OF the report will be a mere formality
President Murphy, of the Cubs. received
the drawing for the worlds championship
medal design. there being slight changes
from the original sketch. It was found
difficult to retain the idea Of a cub bears
head In the middle of the design without
obscuring other features, consequently
the cub is elevated nearly to the top OF
the design and the diamond will be set II
the center Of the raised portion. repre-
senting the earth instead Of the cub:
mouth.
II Is quite apparent that George TebeaU
will have no trouble in getting rid OF
Jimmy Burke, now that he has secured
Monte Cross for manager at Kansas
! City It is possible that Tebeau may SEND
! him to Louisville and take Roy Brasheai
! over TO Kansas City It is also under
stood that Milwaukee wants Burke, and
the latest reports are that Armour wants
| him at Toledo and Watkins wants him al
| Indianapolis. He will hardly be allowed
TO get out Of the American Association
Announcement by President Chambers
! Of the Montgomery Southern League