Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-20
UsHING to second the non,ina

ton of Thomas j. Lynch, tho
seven National League club
owners Saturday certainly showed how
anxious they were to settle the ques-
tion Of a successor to John A. Heydler.
AS soon as join T. Brush sprang the
name of the once famous umpire the
Sther magnates fell allNover themselves
to say $50 say T." What led up to the
selection of Mr.. Lynch has been told
= many times and the wisdom of the
choice is being declared on all sides.
Mr.. Lynch has united the warning fac
lions; Mr.. Heydler has a ~three-year job
at a higher salary and there has been
a mutual victory Both sides won.
The Heydlerites lost and won and so
did the Murphyites. The candidate of
neither faction won out for the presi-
r dency. One faction accomplished the
defeat of the other, and the National
League instead Of having a war with
h American League will probably
have one of It's best seasons. The
reputation of Mr.. Lynch and the ability
of Heydler as Observation-Disclosures
should bring harmony into the camp of
the senior major league.
o.
III 1NdllOi1dl LtdSut 4Ddltli1R AVERAGES
are announced today. Seven men hit
300 or over. Wagner. 1888; Mitchell,
40; Seymour, $40; Hoblitzel, .30S;
Wheat, .304; Doyle and Snodgrass, 300.
John Miller was given a mark of .979,
pretty good for his first year out.
The change in Princeton's athletic
government that was expected to be
made Saturday by the election of Will
: lam W. Roper. as director of athletics,
has been postponed for a couple of
weeks.
The amendment to the waiver rule,
allowing a manage to take back his
action of asking for waivers on a
player, is a good one. At the present
time, when a big league manager asks
for waivers on a promising man he
wants TO send to the minors for a
s4,brt space, another manager comes in
nnsi grabs the player at waiver
price and the first manager loses his
man. The player must go. Now the
petition for waivers can be withdrawn
THE case of Roger Bresnahan with the
TGiants Is an example of the practise
7 the magnates nave lone away with.
o.
The election of President Lynch of
the National League recalls the fact
that he was a sidekick of the famous
King Gaffney, probably the greatest
umpire ever.
I To the Sporting Editor of the Star:
To settle a dispute will you kindly
eplighten US on the following subject ?
,-l q - f,to -. n Nc. IN
how many sacrifice hits a team can
make in one inning. B said that it was
not possible to make more than two.
while A claimed hat he read of cases
where there were three made. Who is
right in his contention?
BASEBALLITIS.
There is no limit to the number of
sacrifice hits that can be mad by a
team in one inning, provided the OPP
posing players boo the ball on at
tempted sacrifice hits. For instance,
with a man on first the batsman may
lay down the ball for a sacrifice and
the fielder or the first baseman throws
wild or muffs the ball, the INNER get
ting safe. The batter is credited with
q sacrifice. The same goes for a sacri-
nee fly il muffed by an outfelder, pro-
yiding that the man on third could have
scored whether or not the ball was
caught in the judgment of the score
Leeper.-Ed.
To the Sporting Editor Of the Star:
L have a special reason for asking you
to oblige me by answering the following
questions. If you cannot answer them
please be kind enough to let me Know
where I can secure the desired Informal
ton. When and in what year did
Leland Stanford purchase Electioneer
: 125? What was the stations age at
the time OF the purchase? Did he v
a record at the time? Where was the
brown mare Hllda Rose, who took a
record of 2:191s as a th~ree-year-old,
foaied. and when did she take this rec
ord and how was she bred? c. B.
Leland Stanford purchased the bay
stallion E~lectioneer, by Rysdk's Ham
hletonian. from Charles Backman
/ Ford FARM, Stony Ford, N, T.,
IN 1876. at which time h stallion was
in his eighth year. He was without
a record, never having been trained
and from what statistics show he was
about a 2:20 trotter. Hilda Rose was
bred at Palo Alto Farm, foaled in Fep-
ruary. 1880, and took her three-year-old
record at Lexington, KY, in OCTOBER
1888. Hilda Rose was sired by Elec-
tioneer, out of Beautiful Bells, 2;2s1s
(dam OF eleven), she by h Moor $40,
out of M~innehaha. the dame of eight
Ed.
5 COIN LEADING.