New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-13
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT
Nobody Wants the Task of Try
ing to Govern Hockey.
| WAGNER ALWAYS A PIRATE
So Says Fred Clarke-All- Star
Baseball Nine for All
Time Picked.


America assume control of hockey have
ended in failure. Judging from the opinions
expressed. no governing body could prop
erly control it, and nobody cares to invite
trouble by attempting the task. J. A Tay-
lor. vice-president Of the International
Skating Union, goes so far as TO call hockey
| the fostering sore of winter sport.
At the last meeting of the Western Skat-
| ing Association it was decided to promote
! hockey because the Illinois Athletic Club
| had entered it's team in the association
! Allen T. Blanchard, president of the Inter-
national Skating Union of America, who is
! opposed to taking over hockey. called for
| a mail vote from the presidents of other
! associations and all of them were against
| accepting the sport. because there is no
| governing body to control it, James E. Sui
Ivan, secretary of the Amateur Athletic
| Union in a letter to President Blanchard
| said:
| Il agree with you that hockey has
! reached the stage when national associa-
| ton must control it and make the rules.
| and the Western Skating Association Is
| quite right in taking the question up You
may have some trouble in New York. how
| ever, in making the teams here play IN &C
| cordance with your rules. =
| :. a. taylor. president o. the tdiduioh
association and vice-president of the Inter-
| national Union. took different view from
| Mr.. Sullivan. He said in letter to Mr..
| Blanchard:
| with regard to your proposition of TAX
| ing charge of hockey, I do not hesitate to
| say that my vote should be against the
| union stacking up against any such bunch
| of trouble. This hockey proposition is one
| of the fostering sores of winter sport-at
| Iea ST in this section-whereof I am qualified
| to speak
As nobody wants to govern hockey,
hockey will have to go on taking care Of
| itself It is growing apace, too, and Is
something more than a smiling infant.
Honus Wagner will never be sold, traded
/ or released by Pittsburg. Fred clarke mas
spoLen. Just before starting for this city
to talk trades while the. National League is
! in session he was quoted as saying In
Pittsburg:
l sT will never sell, trade or release Wag-
ner; if he ever plays ball again it will be
with Pittsburg. Of course. he may not
want TO play, but If he does he will be
throwing dust around the inner field next
summer"
| It is known, however, that there will be
! a shake-up in the Pittsburg team. Clarke
admitted SO much to-day, but would not
! talk of his plans, beyond saying:
| I always have figured that there is some
nlaver in the country who can fill the shoes
/ of another no matter how good the latter
appears to be- I don't say that I have the
| best team in the country. There are some
men on the other teams of whom L THINK d
| great deal, and would be and am willing
| to make a trade if I think I can get value
| received
This does not apply to any particular man
ON my team I believe I have good bunch
IF PLAYERS and one that will make the rest
of them hustle at all stages OF the game
IOf course, there always are weak spots Oh
any aggregation. We have them know
where they are and purpose to strengthen
them if there is a. possibility OF DONG So
| IL there Is the least chance OF my putting
over a trade at the National League meet
ing I purpose to do So That IS what an
going down there for.
Wagner has played ten years with Pitts
| hurg and seven times has stood at the TOT
of the National League batting list Only
last week word came from Pittsburg that
Wagner would be traded, as the fans mad
so decreed Evidently Fred Clarke ana mol
the fans" is managing the Pirates.
! Eddie LennoX, the nara iltlliS liiii
baseman, has signed contract TO play
with Brooklyn again next year LennoA
was out of condition for a greater part OF
last season. but promises TO tight MS
way back to regular place on the nine
and says he will be among the nrsl dl fao'
Springs to begin training.
All the Superbas, that is of the regulars
haye now signed contracts for next year
except Hummel, Bergen and DOG scan.
lon Charley Ebbets says these three are
not holding out.
William Hepburn Russell says he viii
control the Boston club of the National
League when the sale is consummated to-
day or tomorrow. John 7. Harris, OF
Pittsburg. who now holds control, will rep
resent the club at the National League
meeting according to Mr.. Russell
The Coney Island Jockey Club announced
Yesterday the closing of the Futurity for
1913 on January g. It will have an esu-
mated value of $4,000 of which 81. $50 will
90 directly to the breeders of the three
| n1sced horses The race. as usual, Will be
at six furlongs, with penalties and allow
ances The Coney Island Jockey Club will
add s.. 900 to the entrance fees and starting
money.
All-star teams are getting 10 be the
fashion 1.-THE Boston Post comes out with
an all-America baseball nine for all time
It is made up as follows:
| Pitchers-Christy Mathewson, New YORK
Giants: Ed Walsh. Chicago White Sox
Jesse Tannehill. last of Washington; "Old
Cv" Young, of Cleveland, John Garrison,
last of Cleveland, and Charley Nichols
once of Boston and the Giants.
! Catchers-Mike (.king) Kelly, purchased
nv Boston in 1887 for $4,000; Charley Ben
nett, once of Detroit and Boston. and Mar
tin Bergen, not of Brooklyn, who commit
ted suicide in 1900.
| Infielders-Fred Tenney, last of the Gil
ants, first base; Larry Lajoie, of Cleveland,
second base; Herman Long, OF Boston VINO
Iast nlayed with the Yankees and Detroit,
shortstop; Jimmy Collins manager of the
Providence Club last year. thir1 base
| Outfielders-Hugh Duffy. manager or the
| White Sox last year. left field; Chick
| Stahl, Boston Red Sox, now dead, centre
field: Ty Cobb, of Detroit, right HELD