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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
LAJOIE IS VERY POPULAR
Eastern Baseball. Writers Always
Find Nap Manager in Af
fable MOOD.

In writing about the habit of man
ayers in making shifts in their teams
a few minutes before the game starts,
Thomas s. Price says in the Washing
ton Times:
Radical legislation on this subject
should be adopted at once. for condi-
lions are daily growing worse. When
such a good fellow as Connie Mack
falls into line with the others who
make habit of keeping the public and
pa pers in ignorance of the intended
lineup. then the leaven of the vicious
ness of the proceeding has gone so far
that something must be done, and the
sooner the better.
Mack was asked yesterday by two
different reporters within ten minutes
before the game started whether his
lineup would be the same as on Fri
day, and he distinctly stated it would
Yet when the teams went on the field
Murphy had moved from right to cen
ter field, supplanting 'Shoeless' Joe
Jackson, while Socks Seybold, who
had not played at all on Friday. was
in right and not a word was said about
it. Fine business.
That was not the only instance.
Lake. the now Boston American man
eSti- - " eli NOtSt litslil MAIN. anu OH
Thursday so tied up things that every
press association in Washington sent
the score out wrong, and the fans at
the game were equally deceived.
Joe Cantillon is one of the worst
actors in the circuit in the matter of
holding back announcements of his
changes.
Clarke Griffith was notorious for HIS
pettifogging attempts to bamboozle the
newspapers.
Jim McAleer is generally not so
sure about his pitchers that you can
send out the batteries in advance with
any degree of confidence. Fielder Jones
and HuChey Jennings generally know
what they are doing and tell those who
have a right to ask. while Lajoie is al
ways affable and states his intentions
with as much certainty as could rea-
sondbly be expected.
THE Cantillon. Lake. Griffith. and
now. alas. Mack. style of telling the
reporters one thing and doing another
is very largely entirely unnecessary. OF
course, there are times when something
Unexpectedly goes wrong and radical
changes have TO be made in the line
up. and there could be no complaint if
they were made accordingly. But. as
rule. the mysterious and sudden al
teratiOns made after the lineup has
been stated could be foretold in plenty
OF time to cause no trouble"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
VARIETY OF PLAY
FOR THIS SEASON
Eastern Coaches Planning In
PRODUCING New Tactics
Z! Into Football.

Philadelphia, Oct. 3.-If the football
season of 1908 does not produce sew
eral times as much novelty and science
in the way Of the new plays as any of
its predecessors. it will not be the fault
of the coaches and players who repre-
sent the big Five" At every one of
these Institutions there has been
shown a disposition to rush the sea-
son. documentary knowledge of the
game is not being ignored but it is
being rushed along and made subsidia-
ry TO the strategic side of the game.
That this is so is proven ccnclusiveIy
by the manner in which veteran play
ers of former days have been fiocking
back TO assist in building up new Of
fensive tactics. 1t is doubtful if at
any of the five institutions referred to
here-Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Penn
sylvania and Cornell-so much solid
progress had been made within a sin
gle week. 1t is true that Cornell and
Princeton entered the field later than
their rivals, but with practice once
started they have lost no time.
Forward Pass Does II.
The forward pass is certain to be
productive of the most startling revo-
lutions this fall. Without exception
all these coaches are working with il
as the basis of their new plays. It
has now been a part of the rules for
two years, but this time has been re-
quired to familiarize players with its
basic principles. Its possibilities have
not by any means been explored to
their limit
Accuracy in throwing and catching
the forward pass will be the keynote
to success with this play this fall
When the play was first introduced it
did not matter a whole lot how much
accuracy there was IN the play, be-
cause it was used in such an indis-
crirninate manner Then the play was
used very much as the resort of the
weaker and inferior team which trust
ed largely to luck in making the play
2 success.
Must Perfect II.
But this year team is SC restricted
in the use of the play that il must he
developed to a high degree of perfec-
ton to be a winner. First emphasis
must be placed on developing several
players who can throw the ball any
given distance with enough speed and
accuracy to enable one of his team
mates to recover it without fumbling
The change in the rules whereby
funlbled forward pass can be recov-
cred only by the player who fumbled it
on the passers side makes this point
doubly important. It has been one of
the inexplicable things of modern foot
ball that so much poor passing and
poorer catching of the forward pass
should be tolerated by up-to-data
coaches. At any rate. coaches appear
to have realized the handicap this
weakness has been to winning teams,
and we may look for a radical i'm
provement this fall.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
Jefries May Referee in Australia

San Francisco, Oct. S.-There is
possibility that the Australian fight
fans will have a chance to see James
j. Jeffries, the retired champion of the
world during the month of December.
A cablegram was received yesterday
from Hugh Mcintosh of Sydney, ad-
dressed 10 Jeffries, asking what terms
he would accept to referee the fight be-
tween Tommy Burns and Jack John
son in the last month of the year. The
message was relayed TO Jeffries and
the indicated champion replied that
he would make the trip to Australia
for $1,000 and his transportation.
The Antipodean sports are evidently
proceeding with the arrangements for
the championship battle. although the
latest word from Sam Fitzpatrick.
manager of Johnson. who is now in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04

IF / It's II L IL /.
IT'S RIGHT
s. P O. R T O. OK
BY w. D. RiSHEL.

PocatelIo team and the University of
Utah has been published. there has
been an entire change in the tone of
the press. The imported stars are all
missing from the Utah team, and in
stead, many players were in line that
came up from the scrubs and high
schools of last year. AS a matter of
fact, Utah has a cleaner conscience to-
day in football than any team in Colo
RADIO. Further, the prospects for
championship team at Utah are not
nearly as bright as the Denver scribes
would have one believe. They, how
ever, are boosting the Denver univer-
sity game to be played in Denver on
Oct. 10, and are laying their wires for
q big yell, should the Denver team win.
From every indication the d. U. team
is stronger than ever this season, and
they have the best chance they have
ever had to defeat the Utah aggrega-
ton, which so far has not shown itself
to be anything extraordinary in the
football line. While great stress is be-
ing laid on the Utah-Denver L game
little or no attention is being paid to
the Logan Miners game If there are
to be any big surprises in football this
season, this game is very likely to be
it, and it would not be a bad idea for
Golden to lay in a stock of "robber''
stories, for they may need them. as
they did on their last visit to Utah.
Griffith as Baseball MANAGER.
Clark Griffith. since he has lost out
as manager of the New York Ameri-
cans, spends part of his time in
forming the public how to manage a
baseball team, and the proper method
to develop youngsters. AS the New
York Americans are in last place as a
result of Griffith's management. what
he knows about running a baseball
team should be taken at a big dis
count. But when it comes to develop
ing youngsters, Griffith should back m
altogether. He proved conclusiveIv
that his estimation of a youngster is
away to the bad in the treatment he
accorded Roy Castleton of this city
When Castleton was drafted from the
Youngstown (O) league, he was of
fered salary-and was compelled to
take it-that would lisgrace a class c
league. Castleton kicked as soon as
he arrived in New York, but it did no
good In the spring practice the man
agement of the Atlanta team saw Cas-
Teton work out and offered him double
the amount Of money Griffith was pay
ing him. Castleton grasped the oppor-
tunity and asked for a release from
New York, which he soon got. Roy
then went in and pitched Atlanta into
first place in the Southern League, a
class below the American This is
mentioned as an illustration of what
Clark Griffith does not know about de-
Veloping a young player.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
Packey Unable to Fight.

'Packy' Mcfarland. the Chicago
lightweight, who was matched to fight
Leach Cross of New York next month.
was unfortunate in meeting with an
accident, and was obliged to call the
bout off for the present. There was a
lot of interest in New York over the
contest, and ii would no doubt have
been the boxing feature of the season
down there. George Memsic. at one
time the claimant to the worlds light
weight championship. offered to take
Netherlands place but the promoters
preferred to wait until such time that
''PaCky" will be able to meet Cross
himself
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04

In some places where ! finds myself
sometimes you'd think nothing like the
talk you hear is possible. but it is.
Now, you take it in a room when every
bodys just standing round waitin for
the last all right, they gets into the
deepest arguments that ever was pulled
off. And it's generally history they're
delving into. ancient and modern-the
more ancient the better. How old was
Socrates when the man in the sandhouse
lantern? How was the horse in the Tro-
jan war in the betting? You can't ever
tell what they'll talk about
Consequent of all this, there is impaired
to me, as | looks casual at the board and
hears EN- skin down the odds. much in
formation about Napoleon. From frag
meutary wading that I've done into the
French my own self and the volume OF
conversation that I listens to as time pro-
Sresses, I'm plumb loaded with inaccura
cies about Napoleon.
Wednesday when I'm watching a Teller
that's about to pick me out as a COB of
absorbent cotton for his troubles-say. If
there was ten thousand people in a bunch
and somebody wanted to find an easing
off place for his harpoon, I'd be 1.-THE
wanders over to where I'm stationary, and
tells me that Napoleon is the greatest
duck that ever swum, only he runs out of
water.
who's this here Napoleon you're talk
ing about. anyway says !, Wearied.
oh nobody oh, nothing; but if you
ever see dog like him before. they don't
call ne Ping Pong Kid no more
Dog" says l.. Napoleon was man
Teller. not dog
That's where YOU miss Out--youve got
a stymic," says the Ping Pong Kid. ma
poieoD's a dog.
So ] lays out to meet up with Napoleon.
! gets a line on who and where and how
and why he is, and then / lands ON Jack
Tobin.
Jack" says |. Introduce me to Ma
I OH lit,
them contrary, that | want to confirm
with pleasure says Jack, but they
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
TALKS ON PROFESSIONAL S.
Veteran Chicago Coach Will Not In
suit His PLAYERS.

1 viii not insult my football candi-
dates by asking them if they are pro-
tessionals," said Coach Stage of the
University of Chicago. on hearing Of
the rumor that has been circulated in
regard to the alleged professionalism
of two of his players. "AlI the men
track football and baseball candi-
dateS-knoW how I stand on such mat
ters and are aware Of the fact that
if l suspect them they will be dis
missed
The rumor started that two Of
Stages best football men were sus-
pected of professionalism and that i'm
the course of the football year would
be protested. 1t limited that WILSON,
sin. which school protested Quigley
last spring, would take action against
the Maroons.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04

London with his charge, indicates that
the big negro has given up hope of ar
ranging a battle with Burns and has
gone into training for a bout with Sam
Langford. This fight is to be held be-
fore the National Sporting club of Lon
don, and il remains to be seen whether
Johnson will agree to the terms of the
Australian promoters for the match
with Burns. 1t is probable that if he
was assured of meeting Tommy he
would call off the Langford engage.
ment and journey to the island conti-
nent
II is possible that the Australians. not
being accustomed to the large referee
fees paid here. may consider Jeffries'
demand a high one. but the amount is
not too high considering the fact that
Jim will be away from his home and
business for at least three months.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
Nelson Turns Offer Down.

|attling Nelson received an offer to
Il Freddie Welsh i'm a long distance
h before Jim Jeffries' club at Los
keles on Thanksgiving eve. .'affries
led the lightweight champion he
bid split 30 per cent i'm the receipts.
per cent and 30 per cent. and would
+ Battling a 10 per cent bonus. He
wired Welsh would make Il side
Of $1,000 on a twenty-five round
u, but would Ike to go ty-fiVe
bids without a side bet. Welsh added
Thought he had a better chance TO
i'm F.euty-five rounds, but he was
ling to go forty-five if Nelson
bed IL
|ht wired back that he would not
slider the offer unless he were made
Guarantee. Jeffries then wired for
Is lowest figure. and Nelson an
/ red asking big Jim TO make an Of
Il is hardly likely Nelson will &C
unless ne is given guarantee e
hut sl5, 900. He says he does not eX-
! TO make more than $4,000 on the
tentage basis proposed by Jeffries.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
Younq Britt Looks Good.

b eastern boy who is rapidly com
to the front in the bantamweiEht
sion is Herman Treffinger of Balti-
Il. known as Young Britt This boy
had I07 battles and has lost only
decision since 1906. that to Kid
|phy of New York. Solly Weinrib
Rochester, who claimed to be the
! ern champion at rs pounds, lost to
ing Britt. and later the Baltimore
defeated Kid Murphy at the same
Eht kid Corbett. another east
lad. tried conclusions with Britt.
lost on a foul after he was appar-
|p~eaten.
Htt is now after match with John
bon of cChicago for the worlds
lnpionstD AT the bantamweight
Il. which he claims is 116 pounds.
/ has made a splendid showing in
his battles in the east. and an
bees thar If Re can't get bouts at 1l5
Inds. he will go out of his class and
| me featherweight. which will put
! in with such clever 122-pounders as
Atten. Owen Moran and kid VOL
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
DICK EeAN. WITH CINCINNATI.

Dick Egan, who played third base on
Matt Stanley's fast little Spokane team
in 1905. and who has been in the Three
Eye and Tri-State Leagues in the east
for the last three seasons. is now get
ting tryout with Cincinnati, by whom
he has been drafted. He played the
first game yesterday against New
the Tri-State with Huelsman's Harris
York. Egan made great record in
burg team the past season.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
GETS HIS MONEY BACK.
Frank lsbelI, of White sox, Is Re-
turned 5000 Paid for Fine.

Cincinnati, O.. Oct. 9.-The secretary
of the national baseball commission
was Monday directed to return to
Player Isbell Of the Chicago Americans
the 5000 collected from him as a fine
for not reporting at the opening of the
season. Since announcing the fine the
commission had learned that Isbelrs
failure to report was with the consent
of President Comskey of the Chica go
team. and the fine was therefore or
dered TO be refunded.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
THE GREAT RIVALRY.
washington Star.

washington Starr
Candidate. he come along.
Talkin' night an noon.
Glee club sing a purity song;
We jines in de tune,
Hab a mos convincin' way:
SpeckS dey mus speak true,
''Mistah Candidate | say,
Il gwineter vote for you"
'Nuther candidate draws nigh;
Has band OATS great.
Say DAT opposition try
To swamp de ship o state.
An now de question dat 1 note
A risin' th'oo de land,
Is dis: (which wins de peoples vote;
De glee club or de band?r
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
Coward" Talk stings Burns.
ORIGIN OF DUCK SOUP.

= Said the maliard to the teal,
:. Though I really hate to squeal, :
:. I've a feeling that we'd better Z
= blow,
= Cause I've got sort of bunch ="
:. That the same maraudins bunch :
:. Wants us that were here a year :
:. ago" :
8.
- But the teal he knew il all
:. And he said, Nix, l won't fall
:. But the mallard up and flew the
=. coop.
:. Some one copied the little teal
:. And he made a dainty meal;
:. Hence evolves the common term, :
:. duck soup.
- w. o. Mcclellan, in San Fran :
:. cisco Bulletin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04

his manager, Billy Delaney, who has
produced three heavyweight champions
Kaufman is coming here for the pur-
pose of getting on 4 few siX-round
bouts with the best big fellows we have
in this vicinity. His first battle will
probably be with Jim Stewart. the local
fighter, at one of the big local clubs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
Frisco Sports Loyal to ketcheI.

Frisco sports are still loyal to Stan
Ketchel, although he was hopeless
beaten by Billy Papke i'm Los An
|es Now that the pair are signed
|in the western sports are ticklcd
death. and one writer claims that
In money will prevail in the betting
the ringside KetChel'S mana gcr
Is that his boy was extremely weak
big into the ring five pounds lighter
n Papke. and very fiabby i'm the
|scles-S After the bell rang PaBke
Eed Retchell's left eye completely
n wallop and before the second
nd was over had the other eye
fed so that Ketchel could only see
hugh a little slit. He fought nine
|nds almost blind, and took his lick
like a soldier.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04
Kaufman Now in New York.

Ew York. oct. S.-Al Kaufman, the
Eornia heavyweight. who has chal-
I'D Tommy Burns To fight him for
'de het of $1,000 and the heavy
Int championship Of the world. ar
in town today, accompanied by
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-04

To the thirty-third degree cycle fan,
the combinations in the cycle game to
win races are one of the most interest
ing features of the sport. Not that
these combinations should be permitted,
or that they are not against the rules,
or that il would not be the greatest
boost cycling has had in years if the
N. c. A, which should and can break
them up, would do so; but while they
do exist. there is a sort of pleasure
in working them out. In Salt Lake.
the headquarters for cycle racing in
the world. the fans can generally tell
what is going on. but the bunch who
are now performing at Vailsburg has
the Salt Lake wise heads stepping side
ways.
Just imagine Mcfarland and Kramer
working together. and against Clarke.
Yet this seems to be the case at pres
ent. When Mcfarland left here it was
understood that he was the real man
ager of Vailsburg, and that Johnnie
Cha pman had been sent ahead as a fig
urehead to represent Mcfarland. Yet
Mac refuses TO ride at Vailsburg under
Chapman's management, if the stories
published in the eastern papers are to
be believed. Henry Mayer, the jolly
German, wanted 800 appearance
money, and was turned down by Chap
man. who intimated that the German
could not ride fast enough to keep
warm. Yet it was given out that
Chapman paid Mayer $4,000 TO ride at
Salt Lake this year. The same report
also claims that Mcfarland is all in.
and that for this reason he would not
be a card at Vailsburg. All this looks
mighty funny after what has been go
ing on at Salt Lake all summer.
Clarke Defeats Mayer.
Both Kramer and Clarke have made
A monkey out of Mayer in match races
at the Garden since they went east.
Yet Mayer easily defeated Clarke at
Saltair-funny again. One would think
that Chapman and Clarke had formed
a combination, yet Clarke refuses to
ride at Vailsburg until Chapman gave
him 800 before he got upon his wheel.
Clarke also is quoted as saying he had
not received a cent of his winnings
since he went east, and that he wanted
the money to get back to Salt Lake.
One report has it that Mcfarland says
he will not let Clarke win a race as
long as he can help it, and when Nc
Farland left Salt Lake he distinctly
stated that he was going to take Clarke
to Europe and make a champion out of
him. After each meet the papers come
out with the announcement that these
combinations are to be broken up by
the n. c. A, and after the next meet
the n. c. A. is roasted TO a turn for
not doing what il promised to do. On
top of this. letters received from the
bicycle riders now in the east indicate
that one grand game of double-cross is
being played all around. And then
some people wonder why the once great
sport is down and out.
Imported Stars Are Missing.
over in Denver they are saying many
things about the University of Utah
football team this season. The sport
ing scrihes all seem TO be afraid of
Coach Maddock'S bunch. Before the
first game was played here stories of
ringers from all over the country were
published, and Utah was condemned
on every side for importing players
from the big eastern colleges, many of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

One of the moving spirits of the age
is gasoline.
It's rather comforting to know that
many of the great classical composers
did not make any money out of their
efforts
There is nothing unmaidenly about
a girl taking advantage of leap year
and proposing marriage providing she
has enough money for two.
=
Beginning at the bottom of the lad
der and working UP is the way to
achieve all successes except in making
an escape from the sixth story window
of a burning building. -
A friend OF his suggests that the
reason a local autonobilist takes his
whole family riding with him on ev-
cry occasion Is because he does not
care to chance running over any OF
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04

fooled. If they are asked to support
him for governor, they ought to know
If he means to be governor and carry
out the things which he says he is for,
or If he simply means to be Inaugural
ted, Immediately resign, and turn the
affairs over to the lieutenant governor.
If the public wants the lieutenant gov
ernor to be governor they are inclined
to uprise and say so and run him for
governor direct, and not under the
guise of another mans ambitions to be
United States senator.
With big fight on between Stubs
and Bailey, Leland will not be an i'm
portant factor. Indeed, circumstances
point to a withdrawal of Leland in
favor of Stubs. And 1t may be that
In return Leland might be offered the
support OF the square DEALERS for
national committeeman against D. w.
Mulvane
If Stubs loses the fight for the nom
nation for governor 1t will make him
stronger than ever candidate against
Long for the senate. Many OF the Long
supporters may realize this and to that
extent look upon his success with more
complacency.
Stubs was formerly hand in glove
with Tom Kelly, with Dave Mulvane,
and with railroad influences, but he has
reformed himself in announcing reform
for others. He could have prevented
the last nomination of Kelly for treas
urer when he knew the Iatter's record,
but he did not turn a hand to prevent
1t. He Joined with Mr.. Mulvane in
disreputable political tricks at the
Wichita convention, and in local Miami
and Jackson county DEALS but that Is
Of the past Mr.. Stubs now says. The
indications are at present that Mr..
Mulvane who represents many prinei-
pies and methods that are repudiated
by Governor Bailey would be likely to
throw his fortunes and influences with
Bailey rather than with Stubbs.
Bailey is very popular without doubt,
and he may win, but it will only be in
an aggressive fight.