New-York tribune., 1912-01-07
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT
Chief Meyers Earns Place as
Catcher on AII-America Nine.
SUCCEEDS JOHNNY Killing
Managerial Positions in Both
Big Leagues Now Definitely
Settled.

big Chief Meyers. tho star catcher NJ
the Giants has succeeded Johnny k'ine IN
the position Of catcher on the Grand M
tionai Ar.America baseball team selecteb
by A. g. Spaldlng and announced IN me
Official Baseball Record for 1912. which mas
lust been published. A place on the team
is earned only by the player who taxes
mart in fifty games. Ia a member OF cham
nionship nine and makes the best neldlnS
and batting averages Of any man IN MS
nor,icuIar nosition The record covers q
neriod ~ forty-one years and consequently
III Indian last season made tho hest rec
ord OF any catcher in the history ot pro
fessonal baseball.
Movers il the only man playing in the
,an,a today who is on this All-America
Zinc The other positions are filled by a. -
spalding as pitcher. Pop Ansoh az "'e'
hase. Ross" Barnes at second har'
steinfeldt at third, George Wright at snort
Joseph Kelley in left field. Hugh Dufty IT
centre field and Willie Keeler In right ne.n'
All Of this is pretty fast company Tor ,ne
Indian, but he is we'll auanneh 70 S"'H7
among these stellar lights
Mevors's high batting average pro"E
him I'm TO the front as the best cat'hei ~
all time. With one more hit he WOMB ha''
tonped Hans Wagner and led IN" i|aE"'
hut as II was he finished tnird 'n'o"H
those vho played in more than htty gan
With q batting average OF .3"2 ana l,',, w.,
trg average of .979, his total was I''''
Navt IN the Indian. Harry Steinfeidt u
.ho ,oureest member Of the nine. IN l"'
s,oinfeIdt made his best record. compiet-
-, ,ba seasou with averages Of .3Zi IN
nat.,r, and 95t in fielding, for total OF
12sl.
Managerial positions in the Natioha'
League are at last settled ana p'aho
now he laid for the next champlonsnP
race. With the appointment OF "oi''"I
King 10 lead the Boston terriers an"
cd Doom to guide the destinleS ol Ine
ph,lI,es the roll was made compete o','y
,,,o now faces will appear among ''e
managers in the parent organization NJ
aoaeon McGraw. Chance. CLARKE Ooo'ii'
r,rosraban and Dahlen are familiar nguleS
- .ho bench and coaching lines put 'he
cl,.,o. ~ Cincinnati with Hank ODay d.
10. ,,o,n, and Boston with Johnny hnne
''o -, ,.,ru no watched with interest
Al almost completely ne" regime WI.
e-,,. {, ont in the American League Oh''
.rroo ~ the old managers nave oee"
,otrod and five new ones engdSeu.
yock Hughie Jennings ana boDo'
- will do business at the GU ''''''
IIorry Davis at Cleveland, No"erton O.
-. work Griffith at Washington jimmy
rluoLo, AZ Chicago and Jake Stahi al
80, ore all newcomers in managerial
fields.
rour Southern League clubs. two teams
., tho American Association and one OF t"e
n-ot,oraI League will be the baseoall OPP
a.,.io,, which the Detroit Tigers Will race
-, tbair return trip from Monroe, La next
-, according to announcement MADE
,,asterday. President Navin said the play
ers would leave Detroit on March l Vi
Gov Monroe. and the first of the practlce
games will be with New Orleans on March
q, IS and %.
Tho ARRANGEMENTS include the following
other contests: Mobile March SO 81; BIT
roingham, April i, ,; Chattanooga AprIi
4. Louisville, April >; Toledo. April g. "
and Cincinnati, April S. and 10
pu,v Oueal, Of Alexandria Bay, one or
the foremost middIe-distance runners OF
the country, mas Dctll HloNSiiSN ~ '">~
tvo-man relay team over ten-mile course
on Wednesday evening at the Metropolitan
roller rink. His opponents, each Of whom
will travel five miles against him, Will be
Henri st. Yves. the French marathoner.
and AL Raines, the local professional.
Roger Bresnahan, manager Of the ST.
Iouis Cardinals. who has been trying
IN buv the Toledo club OF the American
Association has been informed by the
oUner. c. ". Somers. OF Cleveland. that
the Toledo club is not on the market
However. Mr.. Somers declared that Bres-
raban. whose home is in Toledo. would
have FIRST chance when the club was FOR
sale.
The proposed twenty-round hght be-
tween "a be" AtteIl and Jack White on
January "a in New Orleans has been called
off because of weight disagreement II
was said Attel insisted on hshting at
catch weights.
Mike" Gibbons, the ST. Paul welter-
weight fighter will meet Jack Denning,
~ %ev York in a ten-round bout AT the
Fairmont Athletic Club on January IS,
Eddy Reddy, manager for Gibbons, mas
accented the terms offered by Billy Glib
son of the Fairmont Club
AUTOMOBILES,