The Washington times., 1909-12-23
ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
SHOULD FORM LEAGUE
Washington Away Behind in This Modem Method Of
Encouraging Athletics-Joe Quirk Offers New
Baseball Spike-Some Gossip.
By THOMAS S. RICE

the world are in the National League.
They not only come out in the open,
as the Washington club did last year
when it formally protested against the
actions Of Perrine, but they dig up
their knives, hammers, and gumshpes,
and do lot Of dark-of-the-moon stun,
having for its object the scalp Of the
umpire who fails to give them the best
Cf ii right along. Lynch IS going mighty
good as a president of the aNtional
in the tSove League season, but viii
have his troubles before the next bunch
OF freshmen is welcomed by the sophs.
Has anybody thought Of looking for
Or. Cook in the booking line at the
Mexico tracks?
TIE Pittsburg police are to be COM
mended for their stand on the matter
Of ShOrt-change fight promoters who
adv rtise a purse, sign up the boxers
and then fade If the gate receipts make
IT Il iOCing proposition That sort OF
stuff has done boxing a vast amount
OF damage and the man who pulls the
trick should be proceeded against with
such severity as to make him behave
in the future, The boxers seldom heSi-
tate 10 hold up the clubs. when they
have the chance, but two wrongs do
not make a right, and a tricky promoter
is as much Of q menace to the game as
a. crooked fighter.
While we are after the loan sharks
lets throw the hapOOn into some Of
the professional dead beats with whom
this town is infested
Toe Quirlz, trainer Of the Washington
I team for next year. has applied for a.
patent on q baseball spike which is GER
tainly preferable in some respects to
the dangerous weapons every player
now carries on his feet Instead Of the
murderOus triangular knife blades now
worn, and which will in the far future
cause the historians as much wonder
Homes
shows now excite, Joe has three steel
cones on the sole Of the shoe and three
or me heeL These VIII deliver no low
ct S. taps If they hit a fellOw-citizen on
the Sims backed Oy 10 pounds of nurI-
iTE athlete. but. while they viii bruise.
I they viii not give an oDen air demon
straton Of vivtsect IN like the present
spikes Tt only remains TO be proved
whether they VIII be too severe a strain
on the ball Of the foot. Another ad-
vantage Of the Quirlc idea is that the
cone-shaped spike viii not so easily be
come clogged with dirt and cause an
noyance TO the player and dismay to the
nome folk when one Of our brave BOYS
does a tumbling act reaching for a wide
one in sloppy weather QuirIS has sent
samples Of his pixies to Ban Johnson.
! president OF the American League and
has received numerous offers Of fnan-
cial support
/ These explorers lead a hard life.
Blankenship had not been back from
WleSer. ldd-s 1--WE minutes with Wal
ter Johnson before a hundred DaODIe
turned up with claims that neither
BlaIkenship nor Canullon discovered
the Wieser WOrdeI.
President Lynch. Of the National
! League. has said rome real nice things
about the newspaper men. and what a
! big help the va to baseball Mr.
I Lynch IS a shrewG man and presents
sufficient data He said that after he
saw the way the newspaper men gave
the glad hand 10 John Heydler at the
/ league meeting, he determined to be
friendly 10 the bunch and take them
Into his confidence. This sounds good.