The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-05
NEW MAJOR LEAGUE
 PLANS ARE NOT DEAD
The Promoters May Take Up
 Fletcher's Proposition
TENER BACK IN GAME
It Is Reported That the New Governor of Pennsylvania Is Part Owner of Boston National Lengue
 Baseball Club
BY MANHATTAN

BY MANHATTAN
 New York. December 4-(specia1) )-As Russian-Japan war correspondents used to put it, there are persistent rumorsa in respect to a third major baseball league A number of wen-known play CTS have bobbed in and out of the city of late. and they are suspected of con- ferring with men said to be back of the serene.
 aMseson and Ewing are partners in San Francisco, and Gleason has been there looking after their interests While here he claimed to have leased a plot 20 mih- utes from Herald Square, where he car throw up 3 bal bark in time for next springs opening.
 He had many talk with prominent players over the third league proposition, and tire supposition is that Gleason, backed by Tex Rickard and other western men, is ready and willing to take D.. A. Fletehers contracts off his hands and establish the nucleus of third big league organization.
 Gleason was in Buffalo and went so far us to offer $35 QUO for the playing ground of the Bisons, providing he could get the Eastern league team throNfn in. Buffalo is figured upon as portion of the new league.
 One of the latest baseball rumors is that Jack K. Tener is the real owner of the Boston National League club Tener is the newly elected republican governor of Pennsylvania, and an old baseball player himseilf. He is banker and is interested in the game now simply as business venture.
 President Lynch has announced that his umpire staff will be the same next year. The announcement seems to be satisfactory to baseball enthusiasts. About S2500 has been subscribed by the students at Syracuse university to send a crew to Poughxeepsie this year. Coach Ten Eycl was forced to disband the crew on account of lack of funds. The out look is rosier now. however, and it is hoped to have the necessary S3500 to put the rowing association on it's feet.
 It has been decided by the basketball championship committee to hold basket ball tournament to be known as the southern championships of the Metropoli- tan association of the Amateur Athletic union There will be four divisions, one fin New Jersey and three in this state The Empire state division will be Kings and Queens, Manhattan, Richmond and Bronx, and Wesehester county. The Win ners of each division will meet for the championship. There will be two classes, one 125 and the other 140 pounds. The games will be played only on teams courts, and the series must be a home and home affairs. If team has not got it's own court and wants to partic- ipate in the tourney it can do so by using smother teams court.
 Owing to a lack of enthusiasm and can didates for the class crews, Columbia Rowing club has decided to call off all the races in the fall regatta with the eXcep- tion of that between the college and science divisions of the freshmen class. The crews of 1913 and 1912 however. pe- titioned Coach Rice for permission to race last Saturday
 Yusiff Hahmout, the Bulgarian cham pion mathematician wrestler, is re- garded as something of a genius. When he came to this country two years ago he could neither talk nor understand a lit tie of our language. Last year he came over early in the season, and. with his manager, Antonio Pierri did a great deal of travelling over the country. He could understand English quite well and had acquired a limited vocabulary when he left us last fall. Since leaving this country Mahmout has lived in England and on this, his third, visit to the United States, is able to carry on a fairly intelligent con versation In Americana.
 The Brooklyn Baseball team has pur- chased the release of Pat Flaherty from the Atlanta club. Flaherty is the old Boston and Pittsburg National league player and was secured by Atlanta from the American association. He was a star left-handed pitcher In his day.
 Two more members of the New York Baseball club signed their 1911 contracts d few days since. The two Giants were Arthur Shafer. who signed just prior to his leaving his home in California, and Big Chief Meyers
 Mathewson, the Giants star tWirler, has signed three-years' contract. Mathew sons salary is said to be S1OGOO a year His theatrical work and his writings are said to be good for $l0,000 a year, so that if 1t be true that the Giants will give him s100oo he will have an annual income of S20,000.
 The question of choosing a baseball coach for Yale has been delayed till the return of President Hadey He has been in Europe
 Yale will, however, decide whether TO have professional or graduate coach soon.
 There is a movement on foot to induce howard Jones, the former baseball and football player, to return to Yale per- manent baseball and football coach. Still another proposes to bring Tad Jones, his brother, here jn the same capacity.
 Harvard has engaged Fred Penney as coach. and an understanding with Yale is sought the matter of future profess slonal coaching.
 Criticism has been voiced by both Yale and Harvard organs at tactics that crept into the Yale-Harvard games last spring It Is not known whether professional coaching is blamed for them or not, but it is expected that the universities will