Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-05


at Montreal today ought not to
allow the meeting to come to a
close without actually %repealing the
salary-limit and player-limit rules.
I" Harry Wolverton last year., and Joe
McGinnity following him, attempted to
live up to the player limit, while every
other club In the league violated it.
Adherence to the regulation worked a
hardship on Newark. 1t is understood
that these correlated rules will be a
dead issue in the future. However, the
magnates ought to get together and
vote them out of business. so that no.
body for Interior motives would violate
them at an inopportune time. The en-
bodiment of a fifteen-player rule and a
salary limit for the Eastern League,
the greatest minor league in the coun-
try. sounds like the Tri-State League
enactment, where the lowering of the
salary limit each yea is the important
consideration at the league meeting.
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Before h day is over 1t is expected
that the football solons In session In
New York will have been able to ac-
complish by the elimination process, a
compilation of q list of proposed
changes in the rules of The American
\ college game. 1t is said now that there
will be no definite action taken at this
meeting, but that another session will
be called in March to settle the mat
ter. This latter decision is certainly
Ia good one. The members of the COM
Fnlttee realize that the football situa-
ition is a serious one, and needs a
remedy. If the members compile the
worthy suggestions for the betterment
OF the game; go to their various places
for n month and then come back to
New York and vote on those, the game
will surely reap the benefit of the
hard syerk OF the rule makers. who
surely Have nothing but the best in
terests Of the game at heart. AS played
last year football should hardly be al
lowed. A4rz eae
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Some baseball fans are claiming
that Adam Theme. manager of the
South Ends, is bent on breaking up
the City League il it lay in his power
OF course, in his defense this is not
true. He is trying to get q winner.
and if he has secured the players he
claims he has he will come near hav-
ing 1t.
Joe Schott is slated to cover first.
Joe Shields second, Flannery short.
Manuel third, Volker, Thoret n Step
Ter in the outfield. Buck Cavanagh
will be the catcher and Bobby Knotn.
If he has the time, n Jimmy Tag
CART will be the pitchers.
Shields, VolSef and Manuel played
with st. Benedicts last season and are
first-class in every department. Cava-
nagh also wore the icolors of the
Saints, but he has declared THAT he has
not agreed to play with any team.
Flannery n Taggart played with
the Montclair A. A. and other mines
Jimmy pitched but little last year, but
believes he will be as good Is ever in
1910.
Thoret played in the City League with
the National Turner'S. as did Stepler
Knoth was the leading pitcher in the
City League ana did much to bring
the banner to the Ironside clubhouse.
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Kid Mueller, who with the Iron
Man" should be a winning pitching
combination for the Tigers next yea
is spending some time with his parents
at Egg Harbor. The Kid writes that
he'll be in great shape and that he'll
do his share to bring the flag to New
ark this year. There isn't much doubt
about your ability. Kid, and all New
ark fandom is with you.
Bob Murphy. manager of Jim Savage,
the Orange heavyweight, sent a tele-
phone message to this office yesterday
afternoon stating that it would be i'm
possible for him to keep his appoint
ment with Kid Smith II Kid Wilson,
the two scrappers whom he challenged
through this column the other day.
Wilson and Smith were notified accord
ingly, and arrangements will be made
to meet some time next week.
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Away up in Montana Jack Gleason
makes the announcements that Richard
and himself had practically agreed to
hold the Jeffries-Johnson fight at
Frisco. Oh. you ~jolliers. Some peo-
ple claim that all this controversy is
q press agent stunt. 1t doesn't seem
likely, for the proposed big fight is
one of the few things in the world that
doesn't need hat kind of advertising.
Jim Coffroth says hat France is bet
ting on Jeffries and England on John
son. That shows that the Americans
have the upper hand in Paris, but that
Tommy Burns's conqueror is dear to
the English heart because of his vic
tory over the "dumpy" American who
surprised the Britishers.
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Fletcher w. Rathbur.-Received your
letter Just as page was going to press.
Thank you very much for your senti-
ments and will try to retain your con-
.fdence.-Ed.
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To the Sporting Editor of the Evening star
In what year did the Pirates get
Abbaticchio from the Boston Ma
tionals? -,
He first played with the Plttspurs
team in 1907.-Ed.
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