New-York tribune., 1912-01-27
TIMELY BITS Of SPORT
Giants Get the Money to Buy a
National League Pennant.
TWO MORE YANKEES SIGN
Yale's Football Captain Decides
to Issue Call for Winter
Gridiron Work.

stand gaunt and bare during the coming |
campaign Joe O'Brien. the secretary of
the Giants. received yesterday a check for
800 from the National League to buy 4
championship pennant According TO the /
provision in the constitution OF the organi- |
zation. each winning club is allowed this /
,amount Of money to purchase the emblem
I or victory. the design and character Of
81 the gonfalon being left to the owners dts
cretion More than 500 may he spent il
so desired. but the cuD must make up the I
difference.
The frayed and tattered pcnnants repre-
senting the National League championship
Of 1904 and the world championship Of 1905
have Hspped in the breezes at the Polo
Grounds for many seasons, and last year
they looked decidedly tho worse for wear.
About the middle of the season small
hurricane blew mp and put tho National
League pennant into the discard, and there
after the worlds championship flag re-
n1aired to hold up the honors in solitary
grandeur The storm left its mark on this
sag but II withstood the ravages sufficient
3 ~ well TO permit of ito being run up the
mast at every game, although its ragged
edges excited no little comment
Although bright and shining in all its
ncwness. the pennant Of 1911 will have to
concede ? shade Of superiority TO the flag
Of 1875 II will not do for the newcomer
70 assume a high and mighty air, for 1895
can talk OF a victory over the Athletics and
rraise Bresnahan. McGinnity. McGann.
Dorlin. Mertes and Brown. Such argu-
,,7ents will be pretty likely to take the wind
out Of 1all's folds and bring It down TO
sits proper station. The old flag has looked
srpon many a brilliant diamond duel since
IL was raised. and can tell many har-
rowing tale II 1t Condescends 10 become
communicative.
The day for the pennant raising has not
been fixed This will be decided by John
T. Brush. and probably will come some
, time in June. Letters were mailed TO all
the regular members of the Giants yes
torday informing them that they must re-
port for the spring training at Marlin
springs not later than March l.
Bert Daniels, the spry little outhelder OF
the Yankees. and Harry Wolter. who also
pastures in the outer garden, have signed
teontracts to play under Wolverton's man
2 7sgement next season. Wolter hnished |
IN the select circle Of the 200 hitters last
season with an average OF .SA' Whlle
Daniels pounded the ball at the rate OF
2S9.
Murphy. the celebrated groundkeeper OF
the Polo Grounds, who has been at Marlin
Springs for several weeks getting the train"
ing grounds ready for the players has
written McGraw that several cases OF
meningitis have appeared at the health re-
sort. The persons suffering from the dis
case have been isolated and are doing we'll
: OF the zoo players who were in the Amer /
ican League in the season OF 1901, when |
tbs younger organization made its real !
bid for equal honors with the National
I.eag.Ie only three are fixtures for the
next campaign. Each one Of these players
is q bright and particular star In his de-
partment and is expected TO shine as bril-
Iantly this season as heretofore. These
three are Nap Bajoie, Of Cleveland; Eddie
Plank the southpaw Of the Athletics, and
Billy Sullivan. tho catcher Of the White
Sox In 1901 Bajoie was with the Athletics,
but the following spring Joined the Maps.
Of which team he has been member ever
since Plank has played steadily with
the Athletics. while Sullivan has been the
I nanstay Of the White Sox behind the
plate and a manager one year.
y
Washington he will make the fourth men,
bcr of the American League who was with
the organization at the beginning OF its
existence but Elberfeld is slated for the
minors Several other players now In fast
company deserted the National League
for the American League in 1902 These
include Sam Crawford of Detroit, Bobby
Wallace and Powell OF the st. Louis
Browns Doc White of the White Sox, Bill
Donovan of the Tigers, Tom Hughes OF
a The Browns and Topsy Hartsel Of the 7
sAtkletics. Cy Young came over in 1892,
shut is now i'm tho National League. Jimmy
callahan Matty Mcintyre and Charley
Hemphill all came near getting into the
nonor roll As we'll Hcmphill and Hartscl
have now become minor league managers. /
Callahan, Mcintyre and Hughes have not
played continuously.
Tho National League can point to six
PLAYERS who have served since 1901 They
are Wagner Clarke and Leach, OF the
Pirates: Mathewson, OF the Giants; King,
Of the Boston Braves. and Chance, of he
3t1he Mike Donn and Roger Bresnahan
are two other National League veterans
" no started playing in 1901 but have shift
cd their attentions from one league TO the
other or dropped out for season or two
Joe Tinker dIaws this distinction between
Id Walsh, who he says is the hardest man
10 hit lie has ever faced. and Chris:y
NlatheWson who, he maintains, is still the
greatest Of all pitchers, though he has gone
hack some:
Walsh is a spitbal artist. pure and sim
pie You know exactly what ne is going 10
throw and what TO be prepared for, but you
can't hit the ball. lie gets your goat.
, Mathewson is exactly opposite in method.
Walsh overawes you, but Christy tenderly
slcads YOU astray. so to speak You arc al
FWaEs sure you can hit him. but you can't. |
livery ball he throws looks like a pipe
hut YOU cannot land on it right
Jesse Spalding. captain Of the Yale foot
bah eleven, has decided to issue a cali TO
candidates for winter football practice
within the next few days. He says 1t is
particularly important this year. because
one or more quarterbacks must be dcvcl- I
oped 10 nj the shoes OF Howe, last seasons
captain. Johnny Mack. trainer of Yale
athletes. is in favor OF the plan. He says
In THE Yale Daily News.
Practice IN winter is excellent thing
gfol, men who are trying for positions in the /
9nHe 1t tends TO make them quick to adapt
sthejnselves TO the directions Of the coaches. |
at the same time giving them practice in /
tho fine points of the game AS result
sthey are just 50 much further ahead in