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The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
When Hidigan'S (oad
Vas a hd. Professional

Ossie Schreck, former big league
and American association catcher,
was responsible for sending Branch
Hickey, Michigan university baseball
coach. formerly at Delaware. out OF
the major league. says st. Louis
dispatch.
Branch caught for the st. Louis
Browns. His mother became Ill and
Branch went to her bedside. He re-
Joined the Browns In Philadelphia
The first game he played on his re-
turn was a close one. Schreck was
catching for the Athletics. There were
two out. Bobby Wallace was on third
and Hickey went TO bat. A run was
needed TO win. Two strikes and three
balls had been called on Hickey.
"How's your mother, BranchY' In
uuired Schreck, kindly and politely.
She's much better
You're out" interrupted six
OI.oughlin. Jimmy McAleer never
forgave Hickey for that slip.
Ossie Schreck was the cieverest
catcher In the game when II came 10
the gift OF CAB" He had the rare
ability OF talking batsmen into strik'
ing out.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
Short Lengths

Ad wolgsst n back at Cadillac, sx-
planning how 1t hsgpsnsd'
Milwaukee In likely to turn the 1919
A. Il. G. tournament over TO Chicago.
The browns have traded Hartsell
and $4,000 for Austin and Laporte. OF
New York.
Central, -, Adrian, 20, Saturday
night In hot game for the inter-
scholastic basketball championship.
Y. VI. G. A. Va. Y. M. O. at the sYs
gymnasium tonight. Then, Thursday
night the big noise at the Armory.
-
Ordeman In still sick, 90 they have
dup up sampson, Brugglio and Erman
to meet Hackenschmidt here Tuesday
evening.
The hest Joe Horner Of Michigan
could do In the Boston games was q
second in the 4O-yard dash. O'Hara OF
Boston won the event.
Elmer Collins, Who claims the Amer
lean motor-paced championship On q
bicycle, Is doing home -trainer stunts at
the Avenue this week and win ride
any local man race II Commissioner
Croul viii consent.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
BRANsTON MAY Be
sHELVED BY Y"
Veteran Center Likely To Play Side.
lines, Giving Way To Scott,
A Youngster.

There is very strong possibility
that, when the Y. M. C. A. five lines
up Thursday night at the armory for
it's annual duel with ID. A. c.. one well
known face will be missing from the
"Y'' lineup. The absentee will be
none other than Frank Branston, for
four years the Christians main reli-
ance at center and under the basket.
The change has not yet been def
nitely determined but is very strongly
favored in certain quarters. Its ar
rival is also FASTENED by the advent
OF hustling young man named Scott
Unless Branston succeeds in out
playing Scott In the final tussles be
tween the "Y" team and the Blues, II
will be farewell. not au reyoir, for the
famous star. Scott is youngster
and Branston a veteran. In the Spald-
ing game OF week ago, Branston was
noticeably slow, and was outplayed
by John Kinsel, man considered o
novice heretofore. II Kipsel out
played Branston, what will be the re-
suit when Frank faces Boosey. an ex-
perienced man. fast and accurate
This Is the question the ~ rooters
have been asking. and there Is appre'
hension I'm their tones.
Coach Monisett and Manager Harfst
have had an eye on the Scott-Branston
practice duels during the past week.
In general, Scott has had more than
shade the better Of it.. In the work
as jumping center, he has outclassed
Branston.
On the other hand, Branston's
friends insist that he be allowed to
play through the ID. A. G. series. They
point to the fact that he has been by
far the largest scorer against the Ath-
letic club team. In former years.
Ii Is possible that the "Y" will make
the first Scott experiment tonight, In
the Y. NJ. o. game.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
CHASE WORKING
TO GET HARMONY
Big Trade With Browns Result OF
His Desire To Get Rid of
Former Enemies.

NEW YORK, Feb. iS.-The disposal
OF Third Baseman Austin and Utility
Player Laporte to the St Louis
Browns, by the New York American
league club, 1t develops. was due to
Manager Chase's determination to rid
the Highlanders of all those players
who sided with former Manager Stall
ings in the row between Stallings and
Chase last season.
As Austin is generally considered
one Of the most promising players in
the American league. and Laporte's
big black bat won many games for
the Highlanders last year, protests
are already being heard over their
transfer.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
FIESTA DE AUT0M0vIL."
Barney OIdfield Y otros Chsufeurs
Afarmados el Hippodromo.


Barney Oldfield, the speed king and
his ''Blitzen" Benz are to invade Mex
leo. The great driver has arranged
TO appear at the Peralvillo Hippo
drome, Mexico City. February 18th and
18th The track Is 1,500 meters T-S
of a mile) in circumference and is
used for horse racing. This will be
the first real track meet ever held In
Mexico. Ten handsome cups have
been donated by the officials.
William Pickens, manager for Old
field, has been in Mexico for three
weeks making the arrangements and
declares that Barney will be accorded
royal reception by the republic OH
Gals as well as by the automobilists
and bullflght devotees. There are two
thousand automobiles In the City >of
Mexico.
Any effort on the part OF the A. A.
A. to prevent Oldfield securing the
sanction OF the automobile and trade
organizations was evidently unsuc-
cessful. Pickens says that the only
dealings the local organizations ever
had with the three AS was proposed
contest the American crowd sanction
ed and was widely heralded but did
not materialize.
Oldfeld will go from the land OF
Diaz TO Havana where he will race
the latter part OF February.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13

faith and believed that IL had but one
possible solution. Times readers
found at least Ave, and each OF the
five boasted number OF adherents.
All were correct In that they fulfilled
all the conditions laid down, with the
minimum OF runs. The inventor still
maintains, however, that his own so
luton is the best and most logical.
1t has been impossible to print more
than a fraction OF the replies which
came in, with solutions of the prob
lem but an endeavor has been made
from time to time, to select as repre-
sentative bunch OF replies as could
be chosen,
Among the ingenious solutions or
the problem were those of Clarence
Finger. the talented Trolley league
pitcher; @. r. O'Neill, secretary or
the Pere Marquette Baseball club;
John r. Scherer, No. Ills Russell-st.;
e. +. Feldman, No. 600 Michigan-ave.;
Harold Tapert, No. 425 Theodore-st.;
Russell Winkler, No. 205 Moran-st.;
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13

The mysterious beauty on the sport
page for the last two days was
George Edward Rube Waddell, ths
great eccentric southpaw OF the Ath
letics and Browns. RUDE is bach
with the first fight again this yeai
and may show his old form, although
few believe he will. II Is his las
chance among the big fellows and II
nc isn't "thefe" he will have to labor
M the minors.
Correct answers TO the correct
identity OF the once great southpaw
came from many Times readers, for
"Rube" is well remembered In De
troit Among the correct guessers
we're:
paul L. Smith. No. 81 Maybury-ave
N. ID Stewart. No. 70 Montcalm-st.
W: I'd. Bertrand. No. 964 Green
vood-ave.; Miss Helen O'Connor. No
$40 Champlain-st., and James Hack
worth. No. f04 Maple-st.
Arnold Feldman thought Il was AT
thur Bugs Raymond and Edward j
Dctschke opined Il was Gerry Herr
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
REDsoX ARE OFF.
Vanguard Of Boston Crew Leaves That
City, Bound For Coast.

BOSTON, Feb. 13.-The advance
guard of the 1911 training trip OF the
Boston Red Sox from coast to coast
started today when Manager Patsy
Donovan left for the west Donovan
will be in Chicago tomorrow. aud will
join the coast to coast special next
Wednesday.
Tommy Madden, Hugh Bradley. Ray
Collins, Larry Gardner, McHale, Ma.
honey, O'Brien, Janvrin, Nourse. Char.
lie Green and Bill Carrigan will start
from here Saturday Other players
will be picked up enroute so that by
the time Chicago is reached, there
will be Al players in the party. Others
will join farther west.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
ICE WATER Or
JAW PUNCHES?
Former Caused Boxers Death, Said
Coroner's Jury, But Sport May
Suffer All the Same.

MEMPHIS. Tenn. Feb. 13.-Mem
phis fight fans are wearing long faces
today as a result Of the rumor that
the death OF George Dunlea, Jr., OF
Brooklyn, after his bout with Jack
Abel. nearly week ago, may kill the
game In the Tennessee city.
The coroner's jury declared that
Dunlea's death was due from over
indulgence in ice water, but there Is
said to be disposition on the par
of the legislature to repeal the boxins
act entirely.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
|InOR0UGHnEss A
/ TIGER TRAINING
slOGAN NOW
Squad That Leaves Today For Hot
Springs VIII Be Earliest On
Grounds in Detroit's
History.
Mistakes Of Last Year Being Guarded
Against by Plans Of Navin
and Jennings.
Nv PAUL HALE BRusKE

The combined experience OF Presi
dent Frank j. Nayin and Manager
Hugh A. Jennings OF the Detroit pase
ball club has resulted in the planning
Of q training trip whose virtual open
ing will be celebrated today In the
departure OF the first bunch OF Tigers
who will don the spangles Tor I've
weeks at Hot Springs, Ark. Inc
squad includes Pitchers Donovan
Mullin. Willett and Summers; Shor.
stop Ownie Bush. outhelder CrawtoIu
and Catcher Stanage. Jim Delenah'y
IN already at the Springs. only .
couple of days ago he wrote 10 the
local once, requesting that gross OF
baeeballs be sent him, as he was very
anxious TO get busy and was In grand
shape.
The men whom the club has picked
FOR the Hot Springs trip are all sent
Tor some particular reason.
A Reason In Every Case.
Delahanty and Crawford had trouble
last year with their props. Ders dii-
ficulty was q knee, while sam
ankles gave him some bother. 10
believed that the baths and the pedes'
TRAN exercises for which Hot Springs
Is famous, will make 1t easier TOT
these men TO come TO their form.
Summers has also had trouble with
11fs knees, since he has taken TO run
uing into weight
Bush was injured In Cuba last year
ana has developed butter-ball tenden-
cies during the winter. Preliminary
work for him win, II is believed, Do
3 material advantage.
Mullin and Willett get the HOT
Springs trip to help them reduce
weight. The same Is the case with
Cscar Stanage who Is really the Billy
Bounce OF the local bunch. Bill Don
ovan goes because he thinks Hot
SPRINGS Il q mascot,
The work ut the Springs viii be
l.Rht and will contain little baseball
none whatever OF strenuous charac-
ter. The men will take two baths q
day I'm the naturally-heated waters,
ana Mullin win daily head party In
n combined walk and run over the
Mountains.
{ The Hot Springs contingent is ex-
pected TO meet the regular band In
dime TO start The real work at Mon
roe.
a Last Years Mistake.
The club made DISASTROUS expert
ment this year, In attempting to bring
IL men into form with only two
weeks OF conditioning for the veterans
of the team. This plan worked un-
noubtedly q great disadvantage on
several OF them, notably Crawford
Dnd Davy Jones.
Today rs the earliest date on record
Cor the start of Detroit contingent
on = training trip The same Is the
case with the date OF the start Of the
main body
Another evidence to the thorough
preparation which will be given the
team IN the enormops number Of
Games which VIII be played by the
team. The 1911 training program
provides for no less than 43 sched-
uled Enthusiastically twice the
number ever attempted before. These
games are, or course, In addition to
The large number of games which will
be played at the Monroe training
camp between the two clubs which
Manager Jennings will undoubtedly
pelect before the team has been at
FORK more than week.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
CUBS WE'RE UNLUCKY.
Despite Fact They Won Flag, Chance
Has Kick Coming.

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 49,
THE Cubs will be better this year
than they were last. This being a
fact why should | worry? Luck broke
against us last season and still We
won the pennant It's bound to break
better this year"
This statement was given out as
Frank L. Chance, Cub leader, boarded
O train today for the east.
The Peerless leader has taken on
81 pounds and looks five years
younger. Mordecai Brown Is ac-
companying the Cub boss on his trip
TO Chicago.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
Moore To Meet keyes.

NEW, YORK. Feb. 13.-The hight
between pal" Moore OF Philadelphia
and Bert Reyes, both crackerjack
lightweights. at the National club FRI
day night, promises TO DO the best OF
long list of bouts scheduled this
week. Other attractive items on the
fstIc menu are the Cy Smith-Battling
Hurley, Al. Delmont.Bir. Mackey. and
the Young DonohueBenny Franklin
bouts.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
Harvard Crew AL Mnrk.

BOSTON, Feb. 13.--Harvard's crew
began the first work OF this season.
Candidates for both the varsity and
freshman boats reported for prelim.
mary instruction by Coach wray and
Capt. Cutler. Until weather permits
launching the shells on the river. the
practice Will consist OF rowing on the
machines and in the tank.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
Billy Dame Is Back.

Back from a far western trip in
which he INDUCED considerably in the
sport for which he is locally so well
known, Billy Dame. the Detroit
wrestler. is ready TO meet all corners
in his class. and is training regularly
at his home, No. $50 Twenty-second-st
Billy has grown some and now Crap
pies In the welter class, his best
weight being Las pounds
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
SHOOT FOULS FOR CUP.
Basketball Stars viii Have Chance
at the Franklin Gymnasium.

The T. b. Rayl Co. has donated q
handsome cup. 16 inches In height,
for basketball foul-shooting contest.
to be held in the Franklin gymnasium.
Saturday evening. The contest will
be open to all, with a 10-cent entry.
Champion Mathews, Of the Rayls, will
be on hand to defend his title.
Fifteen tries will be allowed each
contestant. and all ties for the first
three places will be shot on
Physical Director Walker has In.
vited Jake Mazer to feature the even
ing with an exhibition.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
WaIIace's Fine Start

"Rhoddy" Wallace wasn't long In
giving evidence of sound sense as
manager OF the Browns. He did that
by engaging Fred Lake as scout. Get
ting a good scout is the necessary
first step in building up team
Sporting Life.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
STARS WILL wREsTLE.
ckenschnnidt-cu Cutler and BeeILAmer.
icus Bouts In Chicago.

lcus Bouts In Chicago.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-TWO OF the best
heavyweight wrestling matches OF the
season will be staged here tonight
when George kid Cutler. will meet
Hackenschmidt, and Fred. Beell OF
Marshfield, Wis, will take on Balti.
more's prize grappler. Americas.
Hackenschmidt announces his CON.
dition perfect and smiles at the idea
OF being defeated by Cutler, although
the latter tossed Ordeman in shorter
time than Hack.
Americas insists he is in grand
shape and declares he has a good
chance to be returned winner.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
PARIs.MUTUELs IN COLORADO.
Bill introduced to Permit Racing or
kentucky Plan There.


DENVER, Colo, Feb. 13.-Horse
racing on an elaborate scale may be
revived in Denver the coming sum
mer. Two bills have been introduced
In the legislature which will permit
racing with the pari-mutnel system OF
betting and IL is planned to have at
least two race meetings OF thirty days
at Overland Park IL the bills are pass
ed.
The senate committee on stock re-
ported the bills out with favorable
return.
The bills give any fair association
TO conduct "one or more racing meet
ings" between April and Deem
Der /. The other bill follows the Ken
lucky law which provides for state
racing commission OF 1--WE members to
be selected from the directorates In
the different fair associations.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
Ioan and aonrano.

~ Joan was owned by some men
John Madden could get race for
Soprano every week from Grand
Rapids TO Lexington. and the master
OF Hamburg place could make the
stakes as high ~ he liked.-Boston
Globe.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13

Il
than used to be the case four or five
years ago. It's no longer a novelty,
and. besides. there aren't SO many ex-
0 ponents OF the
| =. JONES moistened sphere
| AND THE as there were In
| SPLITTER. the days when
everybody was try
ing to emulate the deeds OF
Jack Chesbro, Ed Walsh and others
who were starring by means OF its AID.
There has come to be general senti-
nent that the use Of the spit-oaii
hurts a pitchers arm. This has also
worked against It's use.
Yet there are those who incline
strongly to the belief that the splitter
Is only In temporary eclipse. one
OF these is Fielder Jones. the famed
Sage of the Sox who is out OF the
game now but remains vastly inter
ested, Just the same. Bobby Lowe,
the Tiger scout, had several long
talks with Jones out west last sum-
mer. In one OF them Fielder affrm-
ed his belief in the splitter as the best
and most effective form OF pitching.
| .Tf Fielder were to return to the
game and take charge of ball club,
saws Lowe. II think that he'd start or.
canizing a stan of spit-ball pitchers
right on the reel. Remember how
all the Sox fingers used TO spit like
cats when Fielder had EN-? Well,
they got away with 1t I'm fine style
TOO, didnS they? Why Fielder even
tried to get Doc White started on
splitter! I don't know but he succeed
ed tool
Incidentally, Fielder sent word to
Jennings that he should never try to
get Jack Lively, our leading purchase
out on the coast, to cut out his spit
ter. Jones believes that, with his
damp style OF delivery, Lively VIII
be q big-league star.
Another pitcher who would look
good to Jones is LATTE who, they say,
Fad the best spitball In the Eastern
league last year"
It's fact that the Tigers have new
err had splitter. George Mullin has
toyed with the slippery fling and can
throw about as astounding a splitter
as anybody, but seldom uses II for
anything but third strikes in pinches.
Donovan, willett, Summers and
the novitiates are all conventional in
their deliveries with the exception of
the Chief who works in a knuckle
hall now and then.
Perhaps the Ttges will spit their
way into another pennant. IL so,
everybody will be happy, including
Ground Keeper Tommy Murphy,
whose iabors at landscape gardening
viii be greatly facilitated.
"Pennant Races are Uncertain"
shrieks the Cleveland News in forty
eight point. Yes. old top. but not un-
certain enough to worry anybody in
Cuyuhoga county, o.
Somehow, we shall have to have
| more proof than We have seen yet To
bring us 10 the belief that anybody
raid 100000 for an option on the st.
Louis Browns
Red Killifer returns from his hon
eymoon to hear that he's TO be tender
~ placed in some minor league. Tough
luck, old scout!
We are often constrained 10 wo~
der II there is baseball headluartc-s
II any big-league city where the
clubs former employees so delight TO
hang out, as the one In the Hammond
building, Detroit.
Apparently the "Pug's Progress"
series came a week too late TO point
q moral for Harry Cobb, now pinched
for non-sapport.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13

George A. Cuson, No. 752 Military
ave-; BENJAMIN b. Pelham; Z. Glea-
son, SAC Second-ave.; w. F. ,Grogan,
No. S41 Michigan-ave.; F. II. Oviatt,
No. 1879 81. Antoine-st., and Edward
]. Butschke, No. 800 Wilkins-st.
The following Is the solution OF the
problem:
When the Champions went to bat
In the ninth they were desperate.
The hrst man up doubled to center
and stole third. The second man
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
BOW Wowl vi VII
SECOND Base Cor knIaht.

Jack Knight, whom Chase expects
10 put at second base this season, has
a strong hsnkering to play that base.
81 have been trying to work my way
around to second base ever since I've
been In baseball" he says. and II
they put me there they'll never take
me on OF t."
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
Thompson outpoInts Papks.

SYDNEY, n. s. w., Feb. 13.-Billy
Papke. aspirant for the middleweight
championship, was outpolnted here
today by Johnny Thompson in Q
twenty-round bout.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13

mitted IL TO roll toward third base.
The runner kept on and reached sec
ond, when the ball finally stopped In
fair territory near third. The man on
third meantime could not score, as
he would have been an easy out. The
batter was credited with two-base
hit. The fourth batter hunted to-
ward the pitcher, beating 1t out, and
filling the bases. A triple steal scored
the man on third, with the second run.
The fifth man was walked, again NIL
ing the bases. The sixth hit the ball
toward left, but IL struck the base
runner going home from third and
he was declared out, the batter, under
the rules. being credited with a base
hit. II was at this point the storm
broke, two men having scored when
the first man was retired.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
Vale Hoodlums Paw Zines.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb. I3.--The
four Yale students. Fred w. Will.
Jams, OF Baltimore; Ralph w. Wolf,
Mt. Vernon, N. Y; Clarence c. Prem
tice. Buffalo, and John /. Hoffman,
Radnor Pa, arrested for beating up
two of the New Haven finest" tear.
ing of their badges, and taking away
their clubs, because they tried to stop
q SNOWFALL battle on the main street
OF the city, yesterday, paid IS fines in
court today. They had pleaded guilty.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13

The men who invented The Times
baseball problem little imagined the
ingenuity of the bugs OF Detroit. He
propounded his little puzzle In good
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
THIRD BATTLE NEEDED
TO DECIDE THE TITLE
Detroit Central and Adrian Likely To
Play OF Their Tie at Y. NJ.
c. A. Gymnasium.

Play OF Their Tie at Y. NJ.
c. A. Gymnasium.
A game at some neutral gymnasium,
preferably Detroit Y. M, C. A, Is the
only solution apparently possible to
determine the team which will bear
the title of Michigan interscholastic
basketball champion. Central and
Adrian are now tied, each having won
on its own floor.
The second game of the series,
played in Detroit Saturday evening,
resulted In q victory for Central, 80 to
20, the Detroiters being superior to
the up-staters at all points except in
foul shooting.
Ayers, left forward and captain for
Adrian, starred at the foul line. He
shot 10 baskets. seven OF which came
In the second half. He also shot two
baskets from the field. making IA OF
the &c points scored by Adrian.
Atkinson and Keller starred for the
locals. The former scored six baskets
from the field, and two fouls, scoring
IA points for Central, and equaling
Cant. Ayers record. Keller rang up
IL points, FIVE field goals and one foul
The locals scored twice as many
field goals as the visitors. but the
latter carried of the honors In foul
shooting. making 10 baskets to Gen.
trails three.
CENTRAL. ADEiAN.
Watson. ..LF.. Ayers tcaPt.)
Atkinson. Clark. RF......... Marriott
Evans. C. ........... warren
Keller. LID. .....,..:. strauo
NG Finsi .core-censrai. as; Adrian: g.
Score . ,rs,l ha from caidnAtsinson'
Keller, 8; Watson, 4; Evans, 2. warren
49, Marriott, q; Ayers, Baskets from
fouIs-Ayers. 10 In is; Atkinson, ~
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES g: Evans, 81 Atkin-
son, 2: Clark. 2; Watson, 2; koenig, :;
hyers. 4; westerman. 2; warren, /;
Marriott. i One point & TMaraeo Ke,,sr
ADRIAN. Patterson. Detroit Scorer
Hall Time OF halves--2o minutes
Emergency Boxer Makes Good.
BOSTON. Feb. 13.-Fans were
looking forward today TO see Kid Seal
er. of Spokane, box here again as the
result OF his good showing against
George Alger last week. when called
on a minutes notice. They were
promised good mill In his match
tonight with Billy, Nixon at Hyde
Park.
Tomorrow night at the armory,
Frank Klaus and Leo Houck Will
clash.
Bow Wowi VI VII
NEW YORK. Feb. lahore than
2.1O0 dogs, representing the latest
models ranging from daschunds to
greyhoun1s. yelped and frisked around
AZ Madison-sa. garden, the opening
day of the Westminster Kennel club
exhibitions. Experts declared IL to
be the finest canine display ever seen
I'm New York.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
THE TINES SPORT PAGE
Champions Scored Two Runs
Before First Man Was Retired

trpled to center. scoring the first man.
The third man hunted down the third
base line, and the third baseman,
thinking the ball would roll foul. per
The Detroit times., 1911-02-13
With IA.
- Sporting
Editor.

One hears less about the spit-bal
than used to be the case four or five
years ago. It's no longer a novelty
and, besides, there aren't so many ex