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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-05
DAVIS IS SATISFIED.
Harry Does Not Hanker for Job Of
Plotting St, Louis,

PHILADELPHIA. January Good old
Philly and with the world champions
grouped around him. is much more to
the liking of Harry Davis than trying to
steer the battered-up craft Of the ST
Louis Browns around the rocks of
long and hard voyage. The Athletics
captain got around among the base ball
fans Yesterday after getting home Tues
day night from Florida, and the first
thing he took occasion to murmur during
some of the pow-wows was that he had
no idea Of going to st. Louis as the
manager of the Browns. For 1911 Davis
intends to stick to Shibe Park and wear
an Athletic uniform, but just what will
materialize for the next year Harry is
leaving for good old Dame Fortune to
dig up.
Just now twenty-three players are on
expects Connie Mack to take every one
of the suspicious numbers south to Sa-
vannah, Ga, at the end of next month
One or two players may be added to the
count when Connie reaches this country.
but until then nothing definite about the
new material can be learned. Mack will
probably walk down the gangplank the
last week in January. getting back in
time to attend the clubs meeting Febru-
airy /.
Davis was enthusiastic over the Cuban
trip and spoke in glowing terms OF the
treatment received there and the future
OF the country as base ball center.
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YALE WINS TOSS.
Capt. Daily Gets Foot Ball Of Tie
Game With Harvard.

BOSTON January 5.-The battle-Scared
foot ball used in the Harvard-Yale to o
game at New Haven November 19 has
found a resting place at last, and no
doubt will be found in Yale's trophy room.
Capt Lothrop Wilmington of last years
Harvard evelen and Capt. Fred DAILY of
the Yale team met in the formers room
at Cambridge yesterday and tossed a coin
for possession of the ball Capt. DAILY
won.
Harvard was willing that Yale should
have the ball without the formality OF
tossing. but DAILY did not wish to accept
the trophy as a gift. nor did he feel that
it was up to either captain to pass the
ball over to the other.
After the game. Bill Langford. the
referee squeezed the Debated foot ball
into his grip and took it to New York
from Capt. Wilmington. sent it by express
to Fred DAILY at New Haven. DAILY
brought the ball to Cambridge with him
when he came home for his Christmas
vacation and the ball is now at his home
in Cambridge Daily having returned to
New Haven last night.
Wilmington and DAILY sat alone together
in Withington's room all yesterday after
noon and, Of course. talked foot ball until
they were respectively crimson and blue
in the face. Then they got together and
settled the ownership Of the foot ball.
Before the game at New Haven last
November Wilmington called the turn OF
the referees coin. winning choice of goal.
with the wind behind his team on the fall
of tails" Wilmington tossed the coin,
the fall of which was to decide the owner
ship of the ball. and DAILY called tails. >"
'Tails' it was, too, and In this way the
o to 0 trophy remains in the Yale cap
tains hands.
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G.P. o. UNION LEAGUE.
NEBRASKA REBELS.
Western University Declares in Fa-
vor of Summer Base Ball.

The University of Nebraska's board OF
control is so strongly in favor of permit
ting students to play base ball during the
summer vacation that il has voted to
abolish the diamond game at the Lincoln
College unless the Missouri Valley confer
ence agrees to rescind the present rule
against the participation in the profess
sional contests by the college students
DR.. Clapp athletic director, will attend
the conference meeting under instructions
to ask foR the abrogation of the anti
base ball regulation. II the efforts of the
fail. the COrnhuskers will
do without a nine next spring.
The fight against the conference ruling
was started last spring. when the board
In control refused to certify the eligibility
of the members of the nine under the let
ter Of the conference ruling. Because of
this stand the team was kept from meet
ing any conference teams, excepting
Ames the athletic board of which school
accented the statement of the Nebraska
board to the effect that it was known
there were certain Cornhuskers who had
played with professional teams.
Other schools in the league have joined
with the Corn1uskers in the opposition to
the present obnoxious ruling, and it IS
possible that the institutions which wish
to do away with the law will be able to
command enough votes at the next meet
ing of the representatives to carry their
point.
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GERMANS TRUE SP0RTSMEN.
Yachtsmen Will Overlook Technical
Sender Class Protests.

BERLIN. January 5.-The Imperial
Yacht Club, of which the German en-
peror is the commodore, has made a
sportsmanlike move to Obviate the pos
sibility Of American yacht owners suffer-
ing a disadvantage through too strict
construction of the sender class rules at
the Kiel regatta of next June.
The sender class racing rules specify
that the bulls of competing yachts must
be built of mahogany or cedar. the latter
term as used in Europe meaning heavier
red cedar They also bar the use OF hol-
low spars. 1t was feared that the use of
white cedar planking or ''built-up" masts
by the Americans might lay them open
to a technical protest.
Yesterday the club. through Vice Adj
miral Baronden. sent a circular note to
the prospective German entrants asking
them to forego the privilege Of a possible
protest against the American boats on
the grounds mentioned above. The club
says that it considers that the Americans
are fully eligible In spirit and wishes to
avoid the risk of a bubble on the part of
German owners at the last moment.
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TRY TO WEIGH IN
THE WRONG FIGHTER
Reddy Mason Springs New
Trick, But Is Caught
With Goods.
Special DISPATCH to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CLEVELAND. January BIT pays
scrapper to have a shreWd man looking
after his business affairs when Reddy
Mason Of Pittsburg is managing the other
fellow. Reddy - next to all the tricks
of the trade, hut he evidently thought he
had some easy marks opposed to him IN
preparing for the Iavin-Crcuse battle at
Akron Monday night
LAWN and Grouse were TO weigh in at
AS pounds. The scales were set at the
required figure and LAWN weighed, his
real weight being only I42 pounds. Then
came d man who was alleged to he
Grouse. He wore Crouse's fighting togs
and wore Crouse's bathrobe.
But when Billy Smith. a Cleveland
friend 0, LAWNS, who was looking after
the Buffalo mans interest spied him r"
said: ''Where's Crouse?"
Where are the scales?" An argument
epsued in which Smith finally demanded
that the stranger open his mouth.
What for?'' asked the Pittsburgh.
Because" retOrted Smith,, III you are
Grouse you will have a. mouthful Of gold
teeth"
The test was too much, and the
stranger. who really did resemble Grouse.
fed. The real Grouse then made his ap-
pearance and could not even make 156
pounds, to say nothing Of 14S. It was
then that LAWN claimed the 500 forfeit
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DOUBTFUL If McALEER HAS
WAIVED ON JOHNNY PRIEST
New York Infielder Was Wanted for Ma
tionals and His Release to Indianapolis
Causes Surprise Ball Gossip.

deacon. as lie pulled off his hat and
scratched his head meditatively.
But the deacon was wrong Another
who is left is Wild Bill Donovan of the
Detroit team. Bill joined the big show
i'm lSaS. He began his jor league ca
reer with the Washingtons. coming from
the Waterbury team. which won the
championship of the Eastern League in
team Won the Connecticut State League
championship this year. In 1S@ he was
turned over to the Richmond club, which.
near the end of July, sold his services to
the Brooklyn club: He was with the
Rrooklyns until 1893. when he jumped to
the DetrOits OF TIE American League.
Bob Bescher. Cincinnati outflelder. has
led the National League base stealers for
two seasons" without using the fallaWay
slide. Ty Cobb and Eddie Collins lead
ing stealers of the American League. use
the fallaway nearly every time they go
into a base.
IF Rescher used the hook slide I think
he would steal more bases than any play
er in the country said Dode Paskert.
Cleveland boy traded by Cincinnati TO
Philadelphia
He is just as fast OF his feet as any
player in the business, which is remark
able considering that he weighs about
2D pounds But he never hooks the bag.
He always goes straight in.
The base-stealing records of Collins and
Cobb would not be nearly SO good il they
did not evade baxemen.
BeScher'S success is due tn his ability
to outguesS pitchers, Paskert said. HE
always seems to know whether the pitch
er is going to throw to the batter or to
first
'Rescher seldom returns to first when
caugh. off the base. lie darts for second
and gets away with the play six times out
sf ten
The agitation against the raised pitch
er's box has become widespread, ana base
ball sharps i'm general admit that its abo-
lition will improve the batting. When
Christy Mathewson was asked tho other
day what he thought of the proposed
elimination of the mound he said: while
it would be as fair for one pitcher as
another there is no question that the
wering of the box would take some OF
the kinks out of my drop curve If l was
compelled to start the delivery two feet
lower naturally l could not get as much
break on the ball. I don't think the pro
posed new rule would affect the spit ball
pitchers in the least. 1t would help under
hand pitchers like Warhop and McGin-
nifty But in my opinion there would be
more free hitting.
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chase because of the existence OF optional

There is not enough real competition in
this respect i'm base ball. The club which
wants to send a player to a minor league
usually does so. though that player might
be of great value to some other club in
the league. Requests for waivers are
granted entirely too literally by the clubs
which need players, simply because they
fear that il at some future time they
should want to engage in a little farming
the club that they had refused to waive
for would refuse them.
The second division club which allows
any player it can use to he sent to a
minor league is standing in its own light.
With ball players decidedly scarce. no
opportunity to better conditions should he
overlooked by a club which needs i'm
provement and yet the weak teams are
constantly helping the strong ones to re-
tain their strength by waving on ball
players that they could use.
In stopping major league clubs from
drafting players for some other club the
commission has taken a step forward.
for this evil was being practiced to an
alarming extent In fact. the major
league clubs have been responsible for all
the off-colored transactions that have
been recorded SO far as drafting is con-
cerned.
1t was a practice until recently for
minor league club to get friend or two
i'm the maj ors to put in drafts for several
players who would be useless in fast COM
pany SO as to protect some player who
was much wanted. As but one man can
be drafted from class A club, 1t was
sometimes seven to one against the player
who should really have gone into faster
company But of course the major league
clubs were to blame for this condition. Tor
they allowed themselves to be made par
ties to this practice.
In ST Louis they have hope of landing
Harry Davis to manage the Browns. The
.ame story was handed out here when
he Cantillon lost his job. but Davis re-
>lained with the Athletics. 1t is uncoubt
edlv true that Davis has but a little long
or to play ball i'm fast company and m
doubt every effort will be made TO land
him i'm big league managerial job when
he gets ready to put down the spangles
but Davis will think twice before taking
charge of the ST Louis club, for there Is
not even a. nucleus for a winner there ana
II would take years to build up anything
| that resembles a good ball team. Whether
the Mound city fans would be patient
| enough to allow a manager time to dc
such building remains to be seen and
Davis would he taking a long chance ia
accent any proposition from the st. LOUIS
club owners.
Furthermore if Connie Mack gave mr.
Davis and it should happen that his team
| wouJd not come back and win the pen
nant he would lay himself liable to some
tall scoring by the Philadelphia public
and your Uncle Connie is too wise fol
| that. If he loses next year without hav'
ing dropped Davis ii will be forgiven, bI'
| let him send Davis TO st. Louis and ther
| fall down and he will be charged Will
having a. weak mind Notwithstanding thai
| at the present time all Philadelphia Is
| willing to swear that Connie is the Soc
| rates of base ball.
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YANKEES REDUCING LIST.
CHANNEL and Priest Are Released to
the Indianapolis Team.

NEW YORK, January 1.-The New
York American League Club yesterday
released Outfielder Lester Channel ana
Infielder John Priest to the indianapolis
team of the American Association.
Channel, who was with the Highlanders
last season. broke his leg in sliding to
third base in the game played with ST.
Louis May II.
Priest never has been with the local
club. which purchased him from Dan,ille.
Va. last fall. The New York American
League club retains an option on Priest
services, but Channel is released out
right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-05
MUTUELS BIG ASSET
IN FRENCH RACING
BY This Betting Method Turf
Society, With Only $4,000
Capital, Pays Dividend.

To men who have opposed the pari-mu-
tueI form of betting ON the race tracks
there is argument in some of the returns
from race meetings in France during the
past season. BY the percentage cut on
from the "totalisators," which is split up
between the racing associations and the
government. it has been possible for the
Societe Sportive Encourage, with cap
ital of $1,000. to hold many meetings, to
add large sums. running into the thou
sands of dollars. to pay to the stockhold-
ers big dividends. establish large reserve
funds and make many improvements to
its racing property
The Societe Sportive d Encouragement
holds eross-country meetings at ST. Ouen
and Enghein-les-B ains. At st. Ouen for
ty-six meetings were held. with 1858 con-
testants for the money offered. The aver
age daily gate receipts and receipts
for the machines were sos. $50. on
which the percentage was $3.50 From
both sources s1.43O per day was derived
a sum largely in excess Of the expendi-
lures. These amounts paid not only the
stakes won by the hOrsemen, but the divi-
dends. and helped swell the reserve fund.
1t was this reserve fund which was re-
Gently attacked in the chamber of depu-
ties by NJ Edmond Blanc. AS a result.
the reserve fund of each society was linn
tied to an amount equivalent to the
money distributed among winning owners
for three years.
With this fund limited-any surplus
over the limit being claimed by the gov
ernment-the racing societies have de-
cided to increase the value of the stakes
and overnight races as well as to improve
the race courses. grandstands. etc They
have decided that the government has OBJ
tanned money in the past from racing
without showing a disposition to return
the same in kind by improving the sport
of racing. to say nothing of the breeding
interests
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SCHULTZ WILL STICK.
"Toots" Turns Down Yankees to
Pitch for Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA. January 1.-"Toots
Schultz. Pennsglvania's crack pitcher and
reputed as being the best boXman in the
collegiate ranks, denies that he has sign
ed a contract with the New York Ameri-
can League club. Schultz stated last
night that he mad not signed with the
Yankees and did not intend to play big
league ball while he was going to college.
This. is Schultz's last year at Penn. and
he wants to pitch the Red and Blue ball
team to an intercollegiate championship
before he thinks of entering professional
ball.
There is no doubt as to Schultz's ability
to make good. He has everything sue
cessful twirler needs to battle the batters,
and more than one big league club would
like to sign the star of the college ranks.
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MACKITES WILL REPEAT.
Says Rube Oldring, When Discussing
Coming Seasons Plans.

Reuben Oldring, the Athletics outtleider,
left here yesterday for Philadelphia to
have his injured knee examined by ply
sician. He says it is almost as we'll as
ever, and he believes that by the end OF
January 1t will be in perfect condition.
He will probably remain here until spring.
He said:
II still have the ambition to actively
participate in q worlds series. and l am
entirely confident that. barring accidents
the Athletics will repeat again this year.
They will have even a better team than
in 1910, for Connie Mack has bunch OF
eager, fast, clever youngsters that can
lump right in whenever any OF us Old
timers are hurt and do better work than
we can.
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Though Johnson keeps a pretty close
mouth about all matters in which his Of
fee is directly concerned. it comes from
pretty good authority that he will try out
Young Mullen. the western wielder Of the
indicator. Mullen served for q time in
the National League in 1903-long enough
to get in the bad graces OF the anti
Heydler element. One OF his tranSgres-
sions was to forfeit game to the Giants
at the Polo Grounds after certain MEM
bers OF the Philies tried to make joke
out OF him.
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"PACKEY" TO FIGHT WELSH.
Mcfarland and Foreigner to Meet
in England February 8.

MILWAUKEE. January IA match
was closed yesterday between ''Packey'
Mcfarland Of Chicago and Freddy Welsh
of Cardiff. Wales, lightweights, for a
twenty-round boxing contest in England
February .. the boys to weigh in at 1?5
pounds at o'clock the day of the con-
test. according to announcement made by
II. Messier. American representative for
Hugh Mcintosh
KANSAS CITY. Mo, January .
"Packey'' Mcfarland, who is here train
ing for his fight with Johnny Mccarthy in
San Francisco January 3. last night said
that arrangements for his proposed nSht
with Welsh had not been completed.
Mcfarland said that he had informed
the promoters of the match that he would
net fight unless Eugene Corri refereed.
The Chicago fighter wants the date ad-
vanced about two weeks, making 1t dur
ing the week beginning February 10.
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PERTINENT COMMENT ON
HAPPENINGS IN SPORTDOM
BY J. ED GRILLO.

While the rule passed by the national
commission prohibits the worlds cham
pionship team from playing exhibition
games after the close of the worlds Sc
r1es. it does not reach the individual
members Of the team.
While the ruling would undoubtedly
prevent a lot of players from making
tour bearing the name of the team which
won the championship. it does not put
the members Of such team under the
ban Five or six of them could get up
team and make the trip without violating
the rule. though. Of course. the financial
success OF such venture would be doubt
full II it could not be advertised as the
worlds championship team. But this is
probably all that the commission wanted
to prevent. This thing of having a Grip
pied, patched-up team go to foreign lands
as the worlds championship holders
really does not reflect credit upon the
standard of the game in this country. and
the object of the ruling undoubtedly was
not to stop the players from picking up
a little change after the season was over
so long as they did not discredit the sport
by calling themselves champions. title
which did not belong to them in the full
sense of the word.
Hal Chase may have occasion to regret
his letting out Of numerous players, who
last season showed at least fairly we'll
before the coming season is over. In the
cases Of these players Chase is not even
giving them another chance to show
what they can do in the spring, which
would indicate that his policy of conduct
ing the team will be along quite different
lines i'm vogue during George Stallings'
regime.
But the surprising feature of the drop
ping Of these players by the New York
club into the minors is that no trouble
was experienced in securing waivers from
the other seven clubs
Why club like st. Louis. which is
badly in need Of players. should allow
ball players of the Foster-Hughes type to
go back to the minors when the club is
picking up material of much less value
for trial is hard to understand.
Certainly pitcher like Hughes and an
infielder like Foster have shown sufficient
ly we'll at one time or other TO be given a
trial i'm New York. They are. perhaps.
much more capable to hold their own
than 60 per cent Of the youngsters brought
up for trial, and yet the st. Louis club,
which appears to be hopelessly buried in
last place, allows these players to slip
through it's fingers without making an
effort to hold them
The New York club. with a team that
is a factor in the race. retains strings OH
these players so that no major league club
can secure them without its consent. A
club in the position Of st. Louis should
most carefully scrutiniZe every request
for waivers. 1t cannot expect to build
up a winner if 1t allows its rivals to push
everything that they want to develop
or cannot use back into the minors where
they will not be subject to draft or pur-
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BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Billy Purtell, third baseman of the Bos-
ton Red Sox, is one hireling of John 1.
TAYLOR who is in no wise enthusiastic
over Boston's proposed California train
ing trip. He claims the rarefied air is of
absolutely no value in conditioning a
PLAYER for the eastern climate. Purtell
ought to know what he is talking about.
He made two trips to the coast as MEM
Der of the White SOx
Danny Long, manager Of the San Fran
cisco Seals has ordered his team to re-
port for spring practice February ~
This is an earlier date than has been
set for general training by any other big
league minor league club. Long wishes
his men to be in perfect trim to entertain
the Boston Red Sox when John L. Tay-
lor's hired men hit the coast.
The Ohio State League is up against il.
Failing to sell the Lima franchise to local
owners, the Toledo base ball club. which
controls the property. has announced that
it will abandon the franchise. The play
ers will be offered for sale to o. and T..
owners. Unless the league comes to the
rescue with some city to fill the vacancy
the Ohio state circuit may go on the
rocks There is no hope of Lima being
retained. as the owners have given up
their lease on the grounds.
Fred Tenney. new manager of the Bos-
ton Doves, is trying to- engineer some
deal whereby he will acquire Outfielder
Beals Becker and Catcher Schlei OF the
Giants Tenney needs an experienced
catcher to help out Graham. Becker
would willingly return to Boston. from
where he came to the Giants last year.
He has little chance to break into the
pasture regularly SO long as McGraw' s
present trio live up to 1910 form.
Hugh Jennings believes the weak spot
OF the Tigers lies at first base, owing to
the questionable point of Tom Jones be-
ing able to stand the strain of hard
season Jennings will make an effort to
secure George StoVall from Cleveland. as
Stovall for several seasons has been dis
satisfied with the Forest city. Jennings
has not despaired Of doing business with
MCGUIRE despite the fact that the "Dea-
CON- recently refused to turn over Stoyall
for Outfielder Matty Mcintyre.
John /. Taylor is trying to sign Harold
c. Janvrin. a Boston high school boy
pitcher. for his Red SoX. Janvrin tried to
do business with the Doves. but was
turned, down. Before he could get to
Taylor he met with parental objection.
Taylor has offered the youngster a fancy
salary, and IL the parents Of the boy can
be won over it is likely that Janvrin will
butt right. into fast company from the
school lots. ...-.-.