Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-18

RLALTO GOSSIP
By Jay Davidson

: include in their contracts clause
pledging themselves not to play winter
or any other kind of baseball out OF
season. indoor baseball, handball and
other games wherein their throwing
arms may be affected. This will cut
off quite a big source of revenue Tor
the big leaguers, as many of them come
to California to winter in the salubrl-
Gus climate and breathe the pure ozone
from mountain and sea in the sum
merry winter months that are featured
with ice sleet and slush back east.
They pay their expenses through the
winter by playing with the winter
leagues in Southern California, and
few, If any of them, suffer any serious
injury thereby. However baseball
players nowadays are considered as
perishable property in the same degree
that high class thoroughbreds are re-
garded and every precaution is taken
by club owners to preserve their use
fulness as long as possible.
It will be pleasing, if not unexpected,
news to his many friends in California
to learn that Bull Perrine, the best
umpire who ever handled an indicator
in the Coast league, has been reappoint-
ed by President Ban Johnson TO his po-
sitiOn as umpire in the American
league. Perrine more than made good
last season, and now that he has had
time to recover from any possible at
tack of stage freight that he may
have experienced, he undoubtedly will
be one of the star umpires of the big
league.
Jeffries is having a tough time of
keeping his theatrical engagements
down east during the severe winter
weather prevailing there. He is due in
Denver tomorrow, but was only as far
as Joliet out of Chicago Monday. He
is due in Los Angeles by February L,
but at the rate he is travelling now it
will be Thanksgiving day before he ar
rives. He should leave the train and
take sled.
Jack Ripper is one of the cleverest
jiu jitsu artists in this country or the
fiowery kingdom and he proved it yes
terday A buttinsky staggered into his
cafe from the street and tried to butt
into several drinks ordered by sober
patrons. Jack instructed Mr. Buttin-
sky to move fast toward the outside
and was answered with a stony glare
of contempt. Jack seized him and be-
fore anybody could figure out what
sort of a show was coming off, the
human goat was sliding toward the
door backward on his bread basket,
after having almost spoiled the tile
floor where he fell so heavily. 1t
sobered the Baron Mooch. Jack says
he knows a lot of things he does not
tell or advertise until the occasion
arises.
Barney Oldfleld has new bug. This
time he is scheming to organize syn
dicate to buy up all the abandoned
race tracks in the country and turn
them into auto speedways and avia-
ton camps. He gave out his plans
in. such a serious manner in Chicago
that the press dispatches handled the
story.
Slowly, yet surely, the racing asso-
Citations OF the country are following
the lead of the Pacific Jockey club in
adopting the rule that permits the
Judges to place a disqualified horse
where it belongs, instead of compell-
ing them to throw him back to last
place. The Southern Jockey club Is
the latest to adopt this rule. By its
workings a horse is made to finish eX-
actly where he would have finished IN
a truly run race and hackers OF
horse that commits a foul Will not
have to stand still and feel their blood
freezing while their horse is placed
last. when he should have been no
worse than second. If Il horse is sec
ond best, there is where he Will finish
if he is disqualified from first place. II
is a. rule that is fair to all concerned
and should be universally adopted.