Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-17

HID true story OF the change of
control Of the st. Louis Browns
was told to the writer last night
oy a man who got 1t straight from
Robert l.. Hedges, as follows: Mr..
Hedges will be actively out of baseball.
Next Tuesday he'll complete the deal in
st. Louis whereby the club will go into
other hands. He won't be altogether
out of it, said the writer's informant.
He prefers to let someone else take a
whack at the. cares of the club for a
time. Mr.. Hedges is a sick man and
will take g long vacation in the near
future.
Mr.. Hedges was bent on getting
Fielder Jones as manager of his club.
Charley Comiskey, who is one of Ban
Johnson's closest business friends, said
he was willing IL Hedges would give
Jones q half interest in the club.
f1edges said no" to that, but declared
he would buy up the stock he didn't
own, about 80 per cent, and let Jones
have 1t. He was at work on that when
Ban Johnson butted in and refused to
agree to let Jones go unless the fielder
was given a half share. The game
was to get half of Hedges's holdings
and then buy enough OF the outstand-
ing sharesstU freeze Hedges out. They
were after Bob. but he was a fox. He
caught on and said a to the whole
thing. He's q sick man and doesn't
feel like conducting a fight. SO he's
getting out Of active fighting for a
while.
Hedges stirred up trouble in this club
when Vice-President Ben Adkins heard
that he was trying to buy up the mi
nority stock, getting the notion that
Hedges was trying to trim him. That's
Z another reason Hedges desires to rest
awhile.
Ban Johnson, said the writer's in
8 dormant. is behind it all. He charges
johnson with a desire to own as many
of his league clubs as possible. Ousting
Hedges was one of his many czar-lik.
stunts. Johnson, of course, denies all
his. Some day we'll get at the truth!
The ffrst thing you know such bicker-
ing as is going on between Tom
O'Rourke, OF the National Sporting
Club, and Billy Gibson, of the Far
mount Club, won't help the boxing
game in Manhattan. New York prom
ises to furnish the fight fans with some
5OOu OOuIb lille yOdi oO kal CAOi, PiO'
motors!
r. I. Powers declares that he never
said anything about trying to stop Sun
day ball in New Jersey because he was
not rechosen as head of the Eastern
League. with this let us forget the
past for good and all.
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fact, to us it appears like the turning
point. Jimmy DeForest's best efforts
are needed to pilot the Philadelphia
boy through the treacherous waters to
port. James has nursed Pal along
to the standing he now has. Perhaps
he'll be equal to the occasion, but it
appears DeForest has a hard job on
his hands. Pugilistic ans gained in
Philadelphia is not always enduring.
st. Louis newspapers are roasting the
arrangements of thetwo st. Louis clubs
for waving on Catcher Phelps, of the
Cardinals. How Bresna1an ever let
him go is hard to understand. He'll
so a long way to get another like him.
Reports has it that Manager Hal
Chase, of the Yankees, has decided
That his team viii train in Athens.
Ca, instead of Richmond. Va. George
Stallings announced a few days ago
that the Buffalo team would train In
the same town. There will probably
be a quick change when each hear of
the others action.
It is said that John Chapman, the
bicycle race promoter, has practically
given up the idea of holding a six-day
race in this city.
Sailor Burke and Jim Savage have
practically been matched to meet at
the Olympic Club Monday, December
as. This should be a pretty good fight.
Princeton and Pennsylvania have a
sort Of dual meet today; the two coll
feges meet at hockey, soccer football
and basketball.
The eyes of some umpires need no
more examination than the grey mat
ter in the Uranium.
To the Sporting Editor of the Evening Star:
Il as manager of the basketball team
of the Carlton Club, of Hoboken, wish
70 issue a challenge to any team in
Newark to a game or games on oppo-
nents' court for any dates they have
open. preferring the Ironsides, Xaviers.
Dominicans. Institutes, Bay1ey Lyceum.
BleNm1eld Catholic Lyceum. Address
all replies to H. L. ". Brands, SOL
Washington street, Hoboken.
To the Sporting Editor Of the Evening Star:
[. How old is Abe Attell? 2. Is he a
Hebrew? 3. Where vas he born?
X. G. :
1. Attell will be 81 years old next
Washington's Birthday. 2. Yes. 8. In
San Francisco.-Ed.
To the Sporting Editor Of the Evening Star:
A.. bets B. that Clark Griffith was
never the best pitcher in the American
League. q. bets he once led the league.
Who is right?
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