Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-15

John a. HeyuleT chances Tor
reelection to the presidency of the Ma
tionai League are better. Stanley
Robson. of st. Louis. still refuses TO
say for whom he will vote. So does
Horace Fogel. the new owner of the
Phillies. John M. Ward has repeatedly
said he would not be a candidate for
the presidency position unless the
board of directors should make the
presidential term longer han a year.
The board met yesterday and did not
amend the constitution to make the
term longer.
With Robson and Fogel unpledged
and Herman and Dreyfuss openly
pledged to Heydler, it looks like tough
shedding for the Murphy Ebbets conf
bination today. Talk of dark horses
still goes on with the names of Joseph
ground as possible eleventh-hour cam
didates.
The National Commission refused to
reopen the famous Torrey case. and as
a result Jimmy Callahan's pitcher will
be Clark GrifHth's property. The Giants
claimed they had purchased the man
from the Springfield Club. who claimed
prior right to him, inasmuch as he
had been signed by Springfield before
Cincinnati had got the man. The Ma
eional Commission ruled that when
Torrey signed with Springfield he was
an outlaw. and that he signed with
Cincinnati as an organized player.
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The Princeton hockey team In a spe-
cially arranged practise game with the
st. Nicholas sever last night in New
w.t. --.---toJ~~ 4 - 41- On, re
IL to /. 1t seems as il Coach Gus Harm
feck has his work cut out for him.
Professor James B. Angel, head of
tha University of Michigan, says that
footpali is all right. and should not be
revised. Inasmuoh as h death list is
q more powerful argument h the
professors prattle, we think that the
work OF the revision should be prose-
cuted.
r. A. K.-No team won the six-day
pool. We say the one ought to go
to- those who picked MacFarland and
Clarke and Rutt and Stol because half
of their choice finished first. Root and
Fogler did not win the pool, unless q
man or a team that finishes second can
be declared a winner Of first place
Ed.
The Jagle Five of the Second City
playground would like to arrange
eames with all light junior teams Civ
ing suitable inducements Those pre-
ferred are the xaviers, Institutes, Belle
Vile c.. c.. Bayley Lyceum second
teams, Clark Club Intermediates, Gen.
trails and Parish second five of Eliza
beth. Paterson Y. M. H. A., Passaic
Y. M. H. A. and all other teams having
Its own courts. l.. Klugman, the man
ager, can be found at 237 Bruce street
or by phone at 2535-J, Waverly.
Harry Gissing and the New York A..
c.. are on the outs over money matters.
The club says the runner owes $12.So,
hut Harry comes back with a charge
that there is $685. coming to him from
the club for expenses to Seattle. These
AMATEUR athletes are certainly there
when it comes to the money end of the
game.
To the Sporting Editor of the Star:
Did Terry McGoyern ever fight Kid
Mccoy? Who is the older, King or
Wagner? K. A. Z.
No, they never met. King is the
n by a few months,-Ed.
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To the Sporting Editor Of the Star:
Who holds the record for circling
the bases and what is it? A. r.
- Hans Lobert-14 seconds-made at
Cincinnati October 4, 190S.-Ed.
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The board of directors of the Amer
lean League decided yesterday there
was nothing to the signal-tipping
charges against the Yankee manage,
ment.
To the Sporting Editor of the Star;
To decide a bet please state whether
in a six-day bicycle race at Madison
Square Garden if a leading team that
had been penalized a lap ever before
regained it. ). L.
Clarke and Rutt were the only ones
ever to accomplish it. They did 1t in
the race just ended.-Ed.
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To thu sporting Editor of the Star;
woUtN be obliged for some Informal
ton reg Wiling the horse Imported Mes
senger laid to be the founder of the
t~rotting horse family. S. b. N.
Messenger was a gray horse. bred in
England by John Pratt; foaled in 1880:
imported to America in 1888, and died
at oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. jan
uAry 2S, 1908. He was a thoroughbred.
who had run in races, by Mambrino.
by Engineer, by Sampson, first dam by
Turf. second dam sister to Figurante,
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