Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1912-12-07

fered $500 q week I'm vaudeville and
that he declined, rs his family didn't
like the idea, Pussy family. it seems
to us.
Hugh Fullerton, who is nothing if
not a Giant lover, says that the um-
pires have always favored the Giants
and always Will He modihes this
by saying they are on the square, but
that they naturally favor the biggest.
richest and most aggressive city in
the league.
Those on the inside say that Frank
Chances address all next summer VIII
be Contentment (nee Cub Ranch,
Glendora, Cal.
II the Athletics can keep the pace
in the American League next season
they hit in Cuba this fall they will be
dangerous in the American League
next season. They may be dangerous
anyhow The Red Sox isn't any great
team.
The Cotton States League needs
only one more hacker for one more
club to make the league complete:
"Will some gentleman in the audience
volunteer
Now that Garry Hermann is sore
on Charley Murphy. its unanimous.
If Cy Young pitches for Atlanta
next year II will be his twenty-third
season on the slab.
The chief business before the Ma
! tiOnal League when it meets on Mon
day Will be to decide what in thunder
a contract is anyway Roger Bresna-
han wants to know.
Mathewson Is a many-sided player
ball player. checker player, basket
ball star. He's all-sided except port
sided
The clubs in the Pacific Coast
League earned $4,000 last season
Fat way to get rich, owning one OF
these clubs.
Five American Association clubs
will train in Kentucky this year
Louisville. Minneapolis, Toledo Co
lumbus and Milwaukee.
Hank ODay is getting popular-as
an umpire Both the National and
the American League have made him
offers
Bill Maloney and Gene Paulet. of
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ball this winter. Bill, YOU know. is
that great 35-year-old kid who played
for Finn last year.
With Tinker gone and with J. Evers
suffering from Murphy and from
managerial cares, the Cub infeld is
punctured.
Slim Salee is working on a new ball
Ia reverse slow ball His idea is
to start it slow and have it gain mo-
mentum until it whizzes past the bat
ter like the Twentieth Century Limit.
ed on ITS way.
Some gink has wittily remarked thaI
Horace Fogels action was akin TO tha
OF the gent who pulled that one OF
the barkeeper about coming outside
and putting him out
I J. Evers has been hired to play IN,
role Of manager. second baseman and
goat
The Maps may give Catched Grover
Land his third chance in the big show
They need a new catcher and LAND
almost answers that description.
Bill FIinchman will doubtless gel
the job of managing Commbus-noi
that he particularly wants it,
Two former Birmingham players
Tom Downey and George Yantz. were
traded by the Cubs to Sacramento foi
Eddie Mcdonald, the former Boston
National performer
Before the National League handed
the mitten to Horace Fogel. they gOl
four lawyers to pass on the legality Of
their action. Being informed thai
they could make it stick in the courts
they handed it to Horace p. She
has it still.
Chick Gandil, of the Senators, and
Prince Gaskill. Of the Newark club
are wintering at Shreveport Gaskil
used to play with Shreveport when
Bob Gilks led that club through q
Southern League campaign
ed Honey says that Miller Higgins
will get better work out of Mike
/. Mowrey than Bresnahan ever did
! Roger tried to bully Mike into doins
good work. Mike was mulish anC
would's bully for beans. Honey be-
lieves Higgins will lead Mowbrey anC
make a wonder ont Of him.
SOCCER AT WAWASET.
The Irish-American soccer team
/. and the Darby Y. NJ. A. will play al
ANaUoeaf parlx fbic affarpoon Mon