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The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
HARRY PULLIAM,
BALL MAGNATE, AS
A STORY TELLER
President of National League
Relates Interesting Expert
ences of First California Trip
By T. p. MagiIIigan

Very likely there are more interest
ing characters in America than Harry
Pulliam, but of a certainty baseball
harbors no man whose life's story can
follow that of the handsome young
president of the National league. Cen
tleman adventurer, journalist, baseball
fan, club owner and president of Amer
ica's greatest baseball organization are
the chapters that the spare Kentuclxian
verging on 40 has already written in
the book of his life and each is read
able and brimming with the pith of
human interest
Pulliam is the typical American, with
plenty of push. great fund of humor
and a wonderful sense of shrewdness.
Southerner by birth. breeding and edu-
cation. Pulliam has all the manners and
refinementS that that section of Amer
lea gives to the scions of its best fam
lilies.
Fau1tlessly attired in nut brown suit,
with tan shoes, tan spats, tan hat, tan
scarf and tan smile, Pulliam entered
the buffet of the ST Francis hotel last
night and reeled off a bit of his life's
history that was more interesting and
entertaining than all the baseball wis
dom he has dropped since his arrival
here.
Il will never forget my first visit to
San Francisco, said Pulliam. That
was away back in 1891 and | was Just
turning my twentieth year then. Short
lly before lnat time mad accumulated
LOO. Now, you know that such an
amount looks fabulous in the hands of
an inexperienced youth and / started
out to see the world and do things to
it, Well, the bank roll lasted until
hit the coast. but then it gave out and
faced the ordeal of seeking my first
job.
and found that they amounted to sim
ply good education, a willingness to
work, a healthy appetite and world
of inexperience at doing anything USE
full except spending money. When /
sized myself up and took stock I
thought / was best fitted to turn San
Francisco upside down as a Journalist,
and / accordingly applied to a local pa
per for job as a reporter. The city
editor was nice, suave little man and
after he allowed me sufficient time to
cool my heels he invited me to become
one of his staff. NV assignment that
tain of little Sloop. 1t seems that this
captain had disappeared and caused
CONSERVATION in the breasts of his rel
atives. was on the job, all right but
missing captain there was no one to re-
ceive me and | perched on the stoop
waiting for the return of the family.
II had pictures of frantic women
the little scenic effects that usually
make the settings at the home of cap
tain who is. rash enough to want to
play penuchie with the whales
II had guarded that stoop for about
four hours when the family returned.
Imagine my surprise when there was
no gnashing of teeth nor wailing nor
weeping. The family had just returned
from the theater, That's how much the
disappearance. When told the women
folk I was reporter they put up q
show of excitement, and one OF the
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
GOLFERS WILL GIVE
TOURNAMENTS OF
IMPORTANCE
M edaI and Championship Con-
tests Arranged by Preside
and Country Clubs

The local golfers will be kept busy
until after the holidays, as a number
of tournaments have been planned by
the Preside and San Francisco golf
and country clubs for Christmas and
New Years day.
The holiday event at the Presidio will
be an IS hole bogey handicap, the win
ner of which will receive a handsome
cup, which must be won only once. This
event Will be held Christmas day.
The San Francisco golf and country
club has several events scheduled for
the two holidays, New Years day being
particularly we'll provided for. Christ
mas day there will be SO hole bogey
handicap tournament for first and sec
ond prizes.
Three events are scheduled for New
Years day at the San Francisco club.
In the morning there will be an Is hole
scratch medal play tournament for the
Liverpool gold medal, which is en-
This is the chief event of the year at
the club. as it will decide the premier
ship for the year. The Liverpool tro-
ply which Is g perpetual challenge
say. the contestants will put forth their
best efforts TO carry off the trophy and
incidentally the championship.
The other event scheduled for the
forenoon is an Is hole handicap medal
play tournament. In the afternoon
there will be an 1S hole bogey handicap
tournament provided II entries are re-
ceived.
1t was the intention of the tourna-
ment committee of the San Francisco
golf and country club to hold the an
nual playoff of the monthly medal play
events January I. This event is of un-
usual interest, as it brings together an
nually the IL players who have won the
monthly events. AS several of the ell
gibles will be unable to play on New
Years day, the event has been post
poned until the last Saturday in Jan
uary
At a special meeting at the Presidio
golf club last Saturday the members
of that organization declared them
selves unanimously in favor of taking
advantage of the permission given by
the reservation to extend their links
making the course an Is instead of a
nine hole one.
In anticipation of this action permits
sion for which was given months ago
the ground has already been SURVEYED
and the holes mapped out The holes
will not conflict and the course. which
will be one of the best on the coast.
will also be one of the hardest and
trickieSt. The new course will he com
pleted by June /.
In the meantime the present course
will be used. as there will be no change
in the first nine holes as they now
stand.
The building of the second nine holes
will fill q long felt want, as an Is hole
course is by long odds more satisfac-
tory than nine hole course
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
Rival Ball Magnates Still
in Fast Deadlock

The long looked for meeting between
Presidents Ban Johnson and Harry r
PulliamNo of the American and National
leagues and the representatives Of the
Pacific coast and the State leagues re-
suited in deadlock at the Hotel st
Francis last night. Two conferences
Between the rival magnates resulted in
nothing save a wider breach betweer
the warning leagues, and the onIy
chance for the bridging of the yawn-
ing chasm lies in an early morning
conference which possibly may bring
about results.
The state league powers held out for
the same terms that they have been
insisting on from the outset nameIv
the demand that all their players be
allowed to remain with them for an
other year, that their salary list remain
undisturbed and that the Coast league
be enjoined from drafting their play
ers unless with their consent.
the magnates adjourned, each side in
sisting that 1T would hold out and fight
to the finish. There were rumors that
five of the state league clubs would
bolt and leave Manager Cy Moreing OF
Stockton to fight by himself, but at the
finish the outlaws were there in q
clump without change of front.
After the last meeting the rival mag
mates and their guests, to the number
of about so, gathered round the festive
board as the guests of General Taylor
owner of the Boston Globe and one OF
the grandest men that baseball has
During the evening President Ran
Johnson of the American league re-
marked in a speech that the State
league could have all the war it
wanted if it were anxious to mix with
the forces of organized baseball and
added that California had never known
a real baseball fight. Johnson argued
strongly for peace and was loudly
cheered.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20

The members of the Corinthian yacht
einb viii hold high carnival at the
aonuaI feast this year. The event
,,arxs the turning point in the closed
season. Since the first annual dinner
,ook place the feast has been held on
New years day. but this year II will
!. held Sunday, January ,. This
,.banre has been made TO allow the
,,,arnlers Of tie club TO stay in town
io take part in the New Years eeieS
.,,,son ;, made up of the old timers of
80 eiub. have held their annual meet
Ing aKeegan" Schober was reelected
- emf and Willie Westerfield secre-
- % Port Capfafn John II Keefe has
reeeived word that he has been able
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
TROLLEYMEN WIN

The game scheduled for Recreation
park between the United Railroads and
the Transportation club teams yester-
day afternoon was played at the Elev-
enth and Mission street grounds and
by score of to 8. More than 1000
fans braved the chill winds until the
game was over. Before the game was
started Managers Fraser and Pidge
agreed to call 1t an exhibition, and the
result viii have no effect on the stand
ing of the clubs. Benham and Seaton
pitched good ball, but were a trife
a home run. a triple, five extra base
swats and like number of single:
being divided between the two teams
The ScOrP- u
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
Mahmout Defeats Pafdello
in Three Straight Falls

CHICAGO, Dec. 1s.-Yuseff .Mahnout.
the wrestler, tonight defeated Leo Par
dello, announced as the champion of
Italy, in. three straight falls in one of
the toughest contests ever held in this
city. The terms OF agreement made 1t
incumbent upon Mahmout to throw Par
dello three times inside of one hour of
actual wrestling. This he accomp-
lished, winning the first fall in three
minutes SO seconds, with a hammer
lock hold; the second in nine minutes Sc
seconds, by a crotch, and the third in
nine minutes one second, with a scis-
sors and deadlock grip.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
COrintIlian Yachtsmen Are Preparing for Feast

to secure three dozen of the finest Wis
consin geese for the table.
The nominating committee of the
club has filed the regular ticket to be
voted upon at the annual meeting in
January. They have selected w. Frank
Stone for reelection as commodore.
Arthur Stringer, the vice commodore,
would have been requested to serve
another year, but after the close of the
season he sold his yacht and was not
eligible. The committee selected VIII
liam Hogg. the owner and skipper of
the sloop yacht Meteor Charles Nor
relI was renominated for treasurer and
John III. Keefe for port captain. The
others named for. director were Peter
Lamp and A. Gallagher. The committee
selected Douglas Erslzine. II. ]. Kava-
nagh and William Barlege as the re-
gatta committee.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
NAY Play POLO IN PARK

San Franciscans are likely to see polo
in the city before the season Is brought
to an end. The completion of the stad-
ium will make it possible for the teams
at Burlingame to play on the pleasure
other time that the game was seen here
was when the players brought up their
ponies and contested on the recreation
grounds. 1t was impossible to play on
the rolling grounds a good game. Now
that the stadium is in condition the
Burlingame men have given their
time away from the regular match
games scheduled for the San Mateo
Acids
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
LITTLE FIGHTER ARRIVES

Al FeIIOWs the Chicago bantam
weight fighter and globe trotter. ar
rived yesterday, and is looking for a
match with anybody who wants his
game. Fellows fought Jem Bowker
and owen Moran in England, and also
mixed it with many of the most prom
inent of the small fighters of the United
States. He will be ready to issue q
challenge to the winner of the Walsh
AtteIl mixup tomorrow evening.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20

TribuDes, 2 o'clock.
Owing to the inability of workmen
to complete the repairs at Recreation
park grounds, changes in the schedule
for the Bay Cities league games today
have been necessary. The United Rail
roads-Gantner & Mattern game will be
played at a future date subject to a
ruling by the schedule committee,
while the Calkins- Transportation club
game has been transferred to Berkeley
to precede the Golden Sheafs- Tribune
game.
This change will give the Berkeley
fans a good card, and they are eX-
pected to turn out in force For the
benefit OF the players who have not
already been informed, the teams will
cross the bay on the 1920 boat.
AT Fruitvale the regular schedule
will be carried out The pitchers have
not been selected, but Pierce probably
Will work for Fruitvale, while Man
ager Heitmuller of the Aliens will have
White, Yeazel and Girot to draw from.
The Native Sons league games
scheduled fos Recreation park before
the Bay Cities league games have
been postponed the condition of the
grounds being such that no games can
be played there.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
Fight Fans Anxiously Awoit
Langford-Flynn Battle Monday
By william, J. SIaffery

The followers of the game OF 6sticufs are
anxiously waiting for their first peep at Sam
Langford when he makes his bow as a ring
star against Jim Flynn at the Coliseum tomor-
row evening More wonders are expected
from the massive smoke from Boston than
from any other man who has stepped into a
local ring for years, and everybody who figures
on being present at the mixup will watch
Langford's every move in the hope that he
will show them few miracles of the roped
arena.
Everybody who has seen Langford fight in
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
POLO EXPERTS WILL COMPETE

The regular polo match will be played
tomorrow on the Clark field at San
Mateo. The ball will be thrown in
sharp at 2 80 p. m. This is imperative.
as the contest is for the second series
of four cups to be given for II games
and six periods must be played. IL is
expected that a hotly contested game
will take place. as there has been a
change in the lineup. George Cameron.
r. M Tobin. John Lawson and Walter
8 Hobart will play as the Whites and
George L. Parsons, Walter McCreary.
Edward Howard and Thomas Driscoli
Will play as the Reds.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
MANY CLANS OF RING GATHER IN SOUTH

be the gathering place the fighting clans
time conservative estimate places the m nun6 & Of pggs
the small fry As fast leaves another blows in from
.orne par OF
there fight the bill Of fare each and
all the land
making matches task for Baron Long,
Of
Of them n
long will
to
He
Ketchel and
f he on of these tricks
Abe
This
land His
badly his
nd he is draw
big
will
brush With chance to regain his lost prestige in his recent Los
thundebo his
those who went refusing believe they had been
figure the championship ranks again. it
Surely Ketche Langford and the others who
Billy
square himse after his last performances
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
UNITED RAILROADS
RUNS AND HITS BY INNINGS
SUMMARY

Home run-Garibaldi. Three base hit-Conrad.
Two base Thompson, Muhl. Hallinan, Mo
ran, Benham. First base called baIs-Off
Benham 4, of Seaton g. Struck out--By Ben
ham l, by Seaton 8. Hit by pitched ball-Sea-
ton. Double play-Fair unassisted Passed
ball-Burns. Time of game-4O minutes Um-
pire-Brady.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20

There would be less prohibition talk
If all Whiskies were as pure as The
Old Government"
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
FLYNN Is RUGGED BUT HE us HARD PROBLEM


wonders acted like
n % % fs | eone sd gp @ % e d @ PiGsi diu to In ns
% BE up & to 5 % to % @ % the the t u5 rounds ID 0of't theF
always % 5 iha ded Fn9 @ as tough @9 agsd oW % and it trial
no reason y he should not be there strong
Tn stock in trade is tearing after This
I won hun more Pse & than anything t nf % % will @ m @ w @ his his reputation
exhibition the The faster he goes the better
~ aas{od FlBng Esg 9Gms @ as the ss5P mn % SsPTS iadf
5 a 6 yn d g to stand m up and either light back desperately
or 9's enough get out Gi harn ay that
local The fasteners who have seen the g % he go w
s'ou the else that Langford must
This sam called do and this the why the
s s % ssia sa f @4 R 5 had fs % other asas
appsrsnty peep with Grand Rapids man
come time snseon
the % @ man s % se @ n o nd te negr0 @ n his @ Challenges
have ~tBed tm work many uperor tricks with the I sioves @ The MORE
easily convinced fans grew enthusiastic and now believe that Sam that
has been said OF skepica however only
and & casually ssd d that @ @ % TGgd Ike Sos s sss @ gt @ o
LITTLE MEN LOOK GOOD TO FIGHT FANS
ui fo1 The boy: Jimmy
unity to display their prOw great fighters they Should
tight fans who would much prefer Witnessing seta
& De- n05s @ 5 % @ ' i've F69F rounds sn Rsa 1 ad
s6ip and indulge 3 ll in less clncbing and wrestling
opponent Walsh
% tax more long g & and M n0T & h0 to s the no opte 0 t0 @ g
he Snns 10 take punch he should do some good
the shoppers and those who have work
night the battles Promoter Sam Berger has arranged to stage the
shop people chance take in the bouts after they
have work.
The Los Angeles fight fans very much smoked up over the battle
take place before yee club at Vernon the night December 80
rounds
to
wade
q oneas Los Angeles witnessed
Barry is iayoFte with Jim Jsfrie5 He managed
year ago went saying Barry
i'll that Is most n the
Kaufman disputes to a at
the Burns the
Tommys Burns will his
handsf full saiing them all
MANY CLANS OF RING GATHER IN SOUTH
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
GAMES PREVENTED
BY REPAIRS ON
GROUNDS
Bay Cities League Contest at
Recreation Park VIII Not
Be Played Today
TODAY,s SCHEDULES

At Recreation park-No games, Ow-
ing to repairs being made ON grounds.
At FruityaIe-Wfcy B. Aliens VS..
Fruitvales.
At BerkeIey-Transporta club VS..
Calkins, IL o'clock, Golden Sheafs vs.
TribuDes, 2 o'clock.
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20

the east full OF his praises They tout him wonder OF wonders
with the mtts fighter well boxer and game enough
wade slug toughest of them. The enthu
ac of Sans far that he IS the coming
weight champion of The world
With all this responsibility resting his SHOULDERS Langford Tl
that he will extend himself from the moment the beh ten
So. .-.s sL.i l.c nrnak bis
The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20
Do You Want ss.aef

Read THE CALLS weekly oirsr on
page 5S.
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The bare possibility of the coming
fight being a framed up affair appar-
entity has not entered into the minds
of the Australians. All OF them seem
TO have placed their utmost confidence
in the willy pair of fighters and the
shrewd promoter. and they can see
nothing save a great. grueling battle
between the two greatest big lighters
in the world.
These views are not shared by the
San FranciscanS. who have been stung
so hard and so often in the past There
is many a man of this city who shakes
his head and winks knowing wink
when the subject is mentioned There
fore. should the big fellows fake none
of the local followers of the game will
be taken entirely by surprise.
1t will mean far more To the Ameri-
cans if Burns wins. The champion un-
dOubtedly will then set sail at once for
San Francisco and make the best terms
he can for a meeting with Stanley
Ketchel But should Johnson emerge
victorious Ketchel probably will fight
shy of him on account OF both his color
and his size He has practically barred
johnson already.
And In the meantime every Ameri-
can pug of note is lamenting the fact
that he allowed Burns to beat him TO
the land Oh big purses 1t will not be
at all surprising IL a vast army OF them
invade the kangaroo country should
the coming championship event prove
thrilling enough to awaken all the
country. Truly. c0mmercialism Is the
spirit of the modern prize ring
The champion. (Arcadia, Fla.) 1895-1911, 1908-10-15
= Satan =
SanderSOrl

Then the deeps Of the old mans
heart were suddenly broken up. my
SOM be cried and threw his arms
about him. "Hugh, my boy, my boy"
Jesslca waited to hear no more
Thrilling with gladness and flushing
with the sudden recollection OF her
bare throat and, feet, she slipped away
to her room to creep into bed and lie
wide eyed and thinking.
What did he look likei or his face
she had never seen even counterfeit
presentment Through what advena
lures had he passedi Now that be had
come home forgiving and forgiven,
would he stayi He had been in his
room when she entered II with the
roses--must have guessed. II he had
not already known. that she was blind.
Would he guess that she had cared for
that room, had placed fresh flowers
there often and oftenf
Since she had come to the house In
the aspens Jessica had found the
imagined figure Of Hugh dominant
presence In a horizon lightened With
throng OF new Impressions. The
direful catastrophe OF her blindness
II had been the sudden result Of an
accident--had fallen like thunderbolt
upon a nature elastic and joyous. II
had brought her face to face with
revelation OF mental agony, made her
feel herself the hapless martyr Of
that curt thing called chance. She had
always lived largely IN books and
pictures and her world was still full
Of ideals aud Of brave adventures
Gratitude had made her love the mo
rose old invalid with his grabbed TEN.
pers, and the wandering son. choosing
for prlde's sake resourceless battle
with the world-the very mystery OF
bis whereabouts-had taken strong
hold Of her Imagination. OF the quar-.
rel which had preceded Hugh's depar.
ture she had made her own version
That he should dave come back on this
very night, when the disinheritance
abe had dreaded had been so nearly
consummated, seemed now to have an
especial and an appealing Significance.
Presently she rose. slipped on the
red kimono, and, taking a key from
tho pocket of her gown, stole frem the
room. She assembled Dsstairway and
unlocked the door Of a wide, bare at.
tic where y the moonlight poured
through skyiight in the roof upon an
unfinished statue. In this statue she
had begun to fashion. In the imagined
figure OF Hugh, her conception Of the
prodigal son--uot the battered and
husk filed wayfarer Of the parable.
but a figure Of character and pathos,
erring through youthful pride and
spirit. The unfinished clay no eyes
had seen, for those walls bounded her
especial domain.
When Hugh went shamefacedly up
the stair from the library the artificial
glow that had tlngled to his finger tips
had faded. The poise of mind, the
gertrude OF all the faculties Of eye
and hand that his fey bath had given
him, were yielding The penalties be
had dIslodged were returning re-en-
forced. He was rapidly becoming
drunk.
he CROPPED his way to bis room, turn
ed out the light, threw himself fully
dressed upon the bed and slept the
deep sleep OF deferred intoxication.