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The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
WOULD PROTECT
SMALLER TEAMS
PRESENT PRACTICE OF DRAFT.
ING PLAYERS SAID TO
THREATEN FUTURE VEL
FARE OF SMALL LEAGUES.

The right of major league clubs
to invade the minors for recruits
ought in some way to be restricted
so as to inilict no injuries on either
organization, player or baseball as a
whole, but give the fan on the minor
circuit little more for his money. says
the omaha Bee. This could be ac-
complished in part at least If the So
Ions of baseball would make a hard
and fast rule limiting the number of
players major league team may car
~. Some such rule was passed, but
never enforced and majors are buying
up players the year round. Today
every minor league player who is at
all promising. probably is bought up or
season opens. Recently the Fresno
team i'm California State league began
TO disintegrate and several minor
league team owners cast their hooks
for the best players. only TO find that
every man worth anything had been
pIe-eHlpleu Dy IL IldJOT lSdSuc lcdHl'
The resources of the majors enable
them TO keep scouts i'm the field the
year round, and they scrape the coun-
try with a fine tooth comb. But the
fault is not all the majors; the mi
nor league owners have RESPONSE
bility as well. The rules, SO far as
they are concerned. do not permit
4 major league team to draft more
than one man from any one team,
md the loss of no one man can ruin
any team. To protect himself the
minor league manager is forced to sell
his best players, and thus his team
riddled once a year through the
operation of the so-called protective
law. 1t does not happen that the
minor league manager can easily
recover the lost strength i'm play
,rs., Every time a minor league team
sends a player TO the major il is the
best man. while every time a major
goes to the minors it is the poorest
man. The minors of course, have the
bushes as n last resource. This is a
situation that could and should be
corrected by a little wise and sin
cere legislation. but it is not likely
to come about, for 1t does not suit
the rapacious desires of the majors.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
SPORTING EDITORS NOTES.

Pitcher Earl Hennis of the Terre
Haute club has been signed by the
st. Louis Cardinals.
OutHelder Kruger of the Cleveland
club has been purchased by the Bos
ton Nationals.
Cleveland has purchased Pitcher
Fanwell from the Danville, Centrai
league team.
II is said that the New York Giants
are dickering for the release Oh
Pitcher Sallee of ST. Louis.
The st. Louis Nationals have Sc
cured Pitcher Elmer Reiger Of the St
Paul team by purchase.
Denver fight managers are endeaV-
oring to match Stanley ketchei ana
Billy Papke for Labor Day.
Has Connie Mack a dope boxY ne
must feed his Athletics something, Cy
Morgan was just an ordinary dun
with Boston. yet when he reached
Philadelphia perked up and now Is
one OF the star performers OF 'ne
American league. -
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
CLEVELAND CLUB RtSfNTS
CRAWFORD'S HARD HITTING

Sam Crawford, mighty slugger of
the Tigers. in years past, broke up
many games i'm Cleveland by putting
the ball over the right field fence.
Crawford is a left hand batter, so nat
urally most of his drives go into right
field.
When the Nap owners built their
new park they remembered Crawford
over the right garden fence. SO own
ers Somers and Kilfoyl consulted with
the builders, and the result was n
concrete wall 30 feet high, and on top
Of this wire screen 22 feet high,
making the total height of the struc-
ture 45 feet, and it is 200 feet from
home plate.
on Crawford's first trip to Cleveland
he banged couple of drives up
against the screen, but the Maps
thought they had him faded. How
ever, on the Tigers last visit to Cleve-
land, Sam landed on one of Cy Falk-
enberg's offerings. and according TO
rumor the ball is going yet. 1t clear
ed the wall and screen by many feet.
and disappeared over a house on the
other side OF the street. Veteran crit
les are certain the performance will
not be duplicated again this season,
but Crawford is scheduled to play
several more games i'm Napville.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
TAGGING RUNNER Is NOT
EASY: BOB WALLACE GOOD

There are any number of American
league inf,elders who are very clev-
or at touching a base runner. but no
one has anything on Bobby Wallace.
He is an adept at handling a thrown
ball with one hand, and unless the
catcher happens to make a throw that
is right on the runner there isn't a
chance for Wallace to be spiked.
Cobb goes into Wallace with terrific
speed. The latter takes the throw
i'm his gloved hand hooks the ball
under Cobb's foot and starts him off
In some direction other than the bag
Cobb has a slide peculiarly his own.
Unlike most others. Cobb doesn't slow
down before starting to slide. but hits
the turf almost his full speed one
of his legs is thrown I'm the direction
of the bag, the other usually high
in the air, while his body is thrown
in the opposite direction from the
baseman. In other words, when Cobb
goes into a base feet first about the
only thing the runner has To touch Is
the spikes OF one of his shoes. Thus
the feat of touching Cobb is rath-
er difficult as well as dangerous task
Then, again, there are many basemen
who don't fancy touching Cobb any
too well, and quite often in trying to
safely position themselves they get
in the very spot that makes the play
dangerous.
Cobb's fadc-away slide is the work
OF an artist. 1t takes an artist i'm
the art of touching the runner TO
show up Cobb's slide. just as Cobb's
slide shows up basemen who rather
fear touching him I'm order to avoid
possible Injury. 1t is always a treat
to watch Cobb try to steal third with
Bobby Wallace of the ST. Louis
Browns playing the bag, or see him
attempt to pilfer second with wal
lace at shortstop taking the throw
from the catcher.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
BUILDING UP CUBS.

The purchase of three Chicago Cub
recruits for future delivery has been
announced by President G. w. MUIR
ply. They are Roy Keener. an out
fielder: Clyde Geist and O. +. Weav-
er. pitchers. All three were on the
clubs roster last winter and looked
good enough for second investment
after they had been given one more
years experience in the minors. Keen
er was obtained a year ago from the
Kalamazoo club and disposed of to
Spokane. in the Northwestern league
Geist came from the Guthrie club of
the Western league for more sea-
soning. Weaver was secured from
Jacksonville and disposed of to the
Louisville club of the American as
ISOLATION at the beginning of the
present campaign Their grand work
this year justified repurchasing them,
I'm the opinion of the Cub magnate.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
zen WHO SIARIlD Boston
u: WARD BOTH LOSE JOBS

Boston, Mass, July 25.-Down here
IN Boston they have well-rooted
idea To the effect that the Red Sox
will win the American league PEN
nant. With no second baseman a
part of the time. with the shortstop
out on few occasions, with the
third base man adjoining the bench for
a period and with Speaker, one of the
greatest outiieldcrs. i'm the game alb
sent for 10 games, the Red Sox are
putting up game fight.
a month ago they were clamoring
for the release of Patsy Donovan as
manager Today they declare he is II
great baseball general
The position of the Red Sox i'm the
race brings to mind a few of the un-
ccrtainities of baseball The two men
who brought this combnatin together
and started it on the road To success
are no longer with the club Both
have landed with inferior teams be-
cause they could not get along with
owner John l. Taylor all of which
goes TO show the blind luck of some
baseball proprietors.
Fred Lake, as scout, recruited the
majority of the men who brought the
Boston club from the second division
to the first with n rush that was one
of the wonders of the leaghe Jim
Mcclure could not agree with Tailor.
ana was let out. Lake succeeded and
likewise was passed up. Today Lake
Is bossing the Boston Nationals, wsle
Mcclure is at the head of the Maps
ana the club for which they were re-.
sponsible is drawing some 10000 peo-
pie every day once in while to Tay-
lor's ball yard. It's queer situation.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
NAVY FOOTBALL COACHES.

Annapolis, Md, July 25.-The full
staff of coaches who will assist
Lieut.. f. ID. Berrien. head coach, in
developing the Naval Academy foot
ball team of 1910. has been secured.
Wheaton Of Yale will be the only
coach outside of the navy. The ex-
navy players who will give the benefit
of their services are Lieut.. Byron
A. Long, end and quarter back of the
teams of 1899 and 1900; Douglas How
ard. who played end for four years
and captained the team of 1905; Jo-
mas Ingram, full back of the teams
of 1905 and 1906 and George l..
Myer, guard and captain of last sea-
sons eleven. The fourth-c class squad
will be called out about Sept 1 and
the full squad about Sept. %.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25

New York, July 2A-Willie Hoppe,
the holder of 1871 and 1872 billiard tit
les announces he will defend his I'll
les against all corners this season.
Since the young billiard prodigy and
Ora IMorningstar returned to the band
wagon of the billiard trust" Hoppe
has been remarkably successful and
there are many billiard followers to-
day who believe that Hoppe is unbcat-
able either at the 1872 or the less pop
ular ISL game.
BE that as it may, there are several
candidates for Hopes honors. 1t is
understood that George Sutton has
been grooming ever since he dropped
his tile 60 Hoppe town 1t back again.
Sutton claimed illness put him out of
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
BowIero' Analysis.
MOHAWK TEAM DEFEATED.

The Mohawk baseball team went
down i'm defeat before the Gay nine
yesterday in ten inning game played
at Mohawk by the score of to 8.
Chaput and Smoker were the battery
for Mohawk while DINNER, Bowdoin
and Buddo were the Gay battery.
A funny incident occurred in one in
ming which has probably never been
duplicated i'm baseball before this sea-
SON. Laflesh of the Gays knocked a
ball over the fence which looked good
for home run, but one of the Mohawk
felders determined to defeat his pur-
pose. climbed the fence and threw the
ball over into the hands of the catcher,
touching the runner out at the home
plate.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25

form for his last match with Hoppe
Then there is ora Morningstar. who
mas been Hopes billiard exhibition
partner Calvin Demarest, the Chi
caSo youngster and Harry Kline OF
Philadelphia. ALI these will challenge
Hoppe.
Last winter It. was reported that
Hoppe after winning the two titles
would also go after the three cushion
championship. peOro, Huston and
E1neS form a doughty trio at this
game. Friends of Hoppe would rath-
er have him stick 20 the straight
game for they claim that plunge into
the three cushion world possibly
might.ruin his present excellent stroke.
IL viii be winter OF. activity in the
billiard line.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
MONEY is NO OBJECT.

New York. July 25.-A guarantee OF
$4,000 for three fights within three
months, the first to be with Tommy
Burns, is not enough money for Jack
Johnson, heavy weight champion of
the world. and the conqueror of JEFF
fries. refused when Hugh Mcintosh
renewed the offer which he made last
week. Mcintosh. however. has not
given up hopes of getting the coll
ored fighter He believes his offer
Is more than Johnson can get any
where and says Jack viii take II when
he learns that the Australian pro-
moter will give no more. Hugh in
tends holding the fights I'm England
this fall and winter.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
FOR WESTERN GOLF TITLE.

Minneapolis, Minno July 25.-The
biggest events i'm the golfing world
in the Northwest this year began on
the links Of the Minikahda Country
Club today and will continue through
the week. This is the twelfth an
nual tournament for the amateur
championship of the Western Golf
Association. The number and prom
inence of the entries. including well
known amateurs from nearly a doz-
en- states. are sufficient to insure the
success OF the tournament.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
WAGNER BACK IN FORM.

The slump that Honus Wagner suf-
fered during the greater part OF the
commencement of this season seems
to be over and the old Teuton is driv-
ing the ball in his regular old time
style. His hitting of the past twelve
to fifteen games has aided his team
a great deal IN the victories an
ncxed OF late and the fans Of old
Snoketown are happy once more at
his slow but sure climb to the top.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
WOULD REVIVE BOXING.
Indications Point to Fact That Lid
Will Be Raised at Frisco.

San Francisco. July 25.-There is
to be n revival of the fight game In
California, according to the sports.
Just how they are going to get
around Governor Gillett's hostile at
titude is not yet intimated, but the
tip is out that everything will be
all right within n short time.
The first public announcement that
n scrap is contemplated is from Jim
Cofroth today. He stated that he
will stage go in this city during the
latter part of August. The contest
ants will be AID. wolgast and owen
Moran.
According to Coffroth the managers
of both men have already agreed on
terms.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACES

Manchester the Sea, Mass. July
25.-One of the most important in
ternational contests this season In
the yachting world began Off Man
chester today with the opening of the
series OF races for the Seawanhaka
cup. The defender is the 25-footer
Massachusetts. of the Manchester
Yacht club. and the challenger Is
the yacht ST. Lawrence. of the Royal
st. Lawrence Yacht Club OF Mon
treal Tho races will take place
every day until one boat has won
the third victory necessary to cap
ture the trophy.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
NATIONAL POLO TOURNEY.

D. ragansett Pier, r. l., July 3d.
su,S enthusiasts and society folk gath
AIR :" lorce today at the Point Ju-
mo. country field for the opening
no,s OF the national championship
w,u tournament. The tournament
,ra, eohtinue until Aug. 20 and will
cha. 'he junior, senior and open
no.. p'onship events. Many OF the
,rr Nnown polo players of the coun-
~ are here to take part.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
SWIMMER GOES ABROAD.

Boston, Mass, July 25.-This city
viii be represented on the Thames in
England, August 20. by young lady
swimmer I'm the person of Miss Aisle
Aykroyd. She is but is years old
and Is regarded as one of the most
proficient OF lady swimmers on the
Atlantic coast. Recently she swan
distance of seven miles I'm 6:21.
The race on the Thames viii be six
teen miles.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
RAYMOND Is SUSPENDED.

an LOUIS Mo-, July 25.-Followlng
pars .ouhter at the National league
pl,a. between Manager McGraw and
yorl arthur Raymond OF the New
a,. A National league team. Me-
" suspended Raymond Indefinite
pl,o,. friday. McGraw accused the
tuls. OF violating the training
a...---s&.>i IAilAIAlNlG
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
ONLY ONE CRICKET GAME
PLAYED HERE SATURDAY

The cricket game played between
kearsarge and quincy at Kearsarge
Saturday afternoon, was the only game
played In the Copper Country league.
all others having been postponed on
account of the rain. The detailed
score was as follows:
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
American League.

No games scheduled in the American
league yesterday.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
Quincy.
kearsarge.

L. Roskilly. C. Perry go. .... 0
J. Tressider, C. Skews ..... ......12
II. EustiCe run out .... .. .... s
y. Williams, Foley ..... E. ...... 5
G. Friggens, b. Tippet 80. 800. 5
j. Banfield, run out $50, .......10
f. Sleep, not out ..... ......... 0
j. Dameral. b. Foley $50. ...... 1
T. Ralph, b. Tippet $50. E. =. .... 0
W. Maunders. not out go. =. 80. 0
Extras ..... ....... >. ........... 8
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25

In some OF the sports reviewed here,
notably the major sports, the winning
of the championship is pretty much
matter of judgment. All the minor
sports are controlled by associations,
and the championships are determined.
The same is true in track athletics.
Although Yale did not play Penn.
Dartmouth or Cornell i'm the East and
none of the Western teams, no one
football championship. The record
Of Yale's 1909 eleven was much too
unusual for anyone to think of dis
putting Yale's supremacy. Yale's team
did what only one other big college
team, Michigan, ever did, namely,
went through the season not only un-
defeated but also unsecured on. Michi-
gan deserved to be ranked next to
Yale, but the placing of the other
colleges was mere guess work
Pennsylvania won n clean-cut cham
plonship in track athletics, though
beating Yale by only two points. But
one intercollegiate record was made.
This new mark was made I'm the pole
vault Still another unusual feature
OF the meet was II did not record a
single double winner, and not one
OF the 1909 champions won his event
this year.
When one considers the character
OF ball played. the relative number
OF victories scored, there will be no
disposition TO deny the baseball
championship to Pennsylvania. Be
sues Pennsylvania there were but
four serious rivals for first honors.
Ihese were Williams, Princeton, La
iayette and Manhattan.
The lthacans have even better
calm to the aquatic than the Penn
'sNahla to the diamond champion
SNIP Those who think Harvard the
equal of Cornell contend that the
race OF two miles last May was in
conclusive and that four-mile race
~ 'he end of the season might have
''sulted differently.
III the minor sports Yale scored
heavily. The Ellis were first i'm SWIM
"nlg and water polo and they won the
SUI championship in the team COM
peu.'on' though Seckel of Princeton
u ~, off the Individual honors
"e'e were two championship tour
'en's In shooting. Yale won i'm the
.a' ana Harvard took first I'm the
sp'''g' For this reason each Is Civ
en- one-half point.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25

The woman who believes everything
her husband tells her hasn't been mar
ried very long, l-liAlRl xU9l
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
DIS. SEA. RY.
Excursion
Bulletin

Every day to Sept. 80. Low Round
Trip Summer tourist fares To East
ern Canada. New York and New
England Optional Routes.
During July. Every Friday. low rates
by train and steamer to Detroit, To-
ledo, Cleveland and Buffalo.
July 20, n, %, Sons OF st. George re-
union. Iron Mountain. Mich.
Aug. 10, II, ~. Firemen's Tournament
at Sault Ste. Marie
Sept. 2, 10. Euchar'stic Congress,
Montreal.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
SATURDAYS GAMES.
National League.

Chicago, Ill, July 25.-Chlcago won
a smuggling match from Boston Satur-
day.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25

Batteries-Reulbach, Mcintyre and
king; Mattern, Brown and Graham.
Pittsburg, Pa, July 25.-Pittsburg
hit Scanlon freely Saturday and won
the fourth and last game of the series
with Brooklyn.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25

Watch for announcement of other
excursions. For particulars apply to
Ticket Agents.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25
YALE And Penn
DIVIDE HONORS
EASTERN SCHOOLS MADE EQUAL.
~ BRILLIANT RECORDS IN
ALL BRANCHES OF SPORT
DURING PAST YEAR.

Yale and the University of Penn
sylyana divided the honors of inter-
collegiate athletics In the college year
of 1910. Considering 10 sports
which make up the intercollegiate
curriculum and counting one point for
each championship, the Ellis and the
ouakers end the season each with a
score Of 41-2. Cornell is next with
points. Harvard follows with 21-2
points and Columbia with 2. West
Point and Williams have a point
apiece and Princeton one-half point.
The distribution OF athletic honors
is in keeping with the result for a
good many years past. The Elks and
the Quakers foster more sports an
nually and make better showing I'm
them than do any of their rivals.
Counting each championship as one
point this table represents the score
of the Eastern universities:
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-25

X. IT. u.
Plttsburg ..... I'M IA o
Brooklyn 49,. e. ...-2 o
Batteries--'Maddox, Leifield and
Gibson: Scaulon and owen.
st. Louis, Mo, July 25.-Smith,
recent addition to the local team in
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-12-15
MAY TAKE OFF TRAINS.
Talk Of Abandoning st. LOuis-Denver
Limited.

1t was reported here today that the
two fast st. Louis-Denver limited pas
seDger trains on the Union Pacific
would be discontinued after the first
of the year, The report was given out
by an employe who says he got wind
Of 1t while in Kansas City the first
of the week. If the trains are not
taken off 1t is said that a great change
will be made in the manner in which
they are run.
These two trains are at present do
ing a good business and Abilene can
see no reason why their service should
be cut off. The trains are through
trains from St. Louis to Kansas City
over the Wabash tracks and from
Kansas City to Denver over the Union
Pacific tracks. The trains are the
fastest trains run over the Union
Pacific through Abilene. They make
stops at only about ten towns in
Kansas. The trains are made up
entirely of Pullmans, with the ex-
ception of one day coach. The trains
have been In service now for about
a year and a half and they appeared
to have the most of the long distance
passengers,
ISocal railroad men do not believe
the trains will be taken off but they
believe there is strong probability
Of a change in their running and 1t
may be that the train may be a solid
Pullman train.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-12-15
sIAs CAUGHT THE BOOTLEGGEK
ClAims His Pool Hall in Solomon Has
Been Made ScapegOat.

Claiming that his pool hall In Solo
mon has been held responsible for
jags acquired by his patrons from
other sources, Geo. d. Sias, who Ia
out on $1,000 bonds for his appear
ance in the district court next month
to answer to a charge of selling In
toxicating liquors in violation Of the
law, has himself turned "searcher,"
and is hot on the trail Of divers
alleged bootleggers whom he believes
to be responsible for all his trouble.
Sias says that some of his patrons
have been in the habit of getting
gloriously druhe on bootlesgi rs
whiskey and Of coming to his pal
he'll in that condition. They hove
been seen emerging from the pool
hall somewhat tangled up in thei,'
hear ngs and he has thus been blaaIod
b. osserts, for other Peoples mis-
deeds.
Sias seems to be In fair way TO
slbstAntiate at least a part Of his
claim. R. H. Rayton was ar
rested on Sias' complaint about five
o clock yesterday afternoon, charge |
with selling intoxicants. Rayton
pleaded guilty in Justice Winsatt's
court and was fined the usual 500
and costs and sentenced to thirty days
in jail, and by $50 last evening had
been brought to Abilene by Consta-
BILE Butcher of Solomon and lodged
in the county Jail.