New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-18
"T|LLY" SHAFER SAYS:
1--WE QUIT BASEBALL
Too Many Perfumed Notes tor
Utility InfieIder of
the Giants.
PLAYER WOULD BE MISSED
Frank Chance Says He Must
Stay on the Coast Until
After First of the
New Year.

After First OF tne
New Year.
on top Of John J. McGraw's statement
AT A dinner in Cincinnati on Monday night
that Arthur Shafer utility inilelder OF the
Giants. had a royal chance to make a
regular place on the team this year. comes
this short and pertinent statement from
Shafer himself I'm Los Angeles last night:
Il have quit baseball for good. For one
thing. | get too many perfumed notes.
OF course. Skaters one reason. or at
least the only one he gives, for renounc-
inc baseball. is bound to command the re-
spect and admiration Of the fans They
arc so interested as to whether he has
one admirer or fifty. and there is no
reason why even a player Of the Giants
should be prosecuted. Somebody may suG-
EeSt that there is a way out by taking
unto himself a wife, but. unfortunately.
Shafer may not want to get married. and
consequently must give up baseball or
continue TO be the mark for 'perfumed
notes" which apparently are far worse
10 some men than pop bottles cushions
or virulent words and phrases.
All Joking aside. however, Shafcr viii
he missed by the Giants. if he is properly
quoted and if he carries out his dcterm-
nation to "auit baseball for good When
Arthur Fletcher was injured. Just before
the opening of the National League sea-
son last spring, Shafer Jumped into the
breach at shortstop and batted so well.
while covering a lot OF ground in the
field. that he held the position for five
or six weeks. II looked for time. even,
~ If Fletcher might warm the bench for
the fun season. but Shafer dropped off IN
his hitting and Fletcher fell into his Old
ioh
"Tllv" as he is called by the fans,
was still mighty useful member of the
team He substituted for Larry Doyle
or Fletcher when the necessity arose. and
proved his worth in part of at least TWO
games in the worlds championship series
with the Boston Red Sox.
Shafer Joined the Giants in 1910. but dld
not report the following year preferrlnE
10 20 TO Japan. where he did some coach
ing. Last spring, however. he decided TO
ccome back" and joined the Giants at the
spring training camp in TeXas.
Frank Farrell owner Of the Yankees,
had not received any further word from
Frank Chance up to o'clock yesterday
afternoon but appeared in no way upset
ny a news dispatch from Los Angeles IN
which the former manager OF the CuOs
was quoted as saying:
Private business prevented me from
going to Chicago to meet Mr. Farrell on
THURSDAY. and ! will not be able to start
now until after the first of the year-ln
fact. I may not go at all
Chance has been misquotcd so many
times since he has been talked Of as the
new manager Of the Yankees that those
most interested are quite satisfied to wait
patiently until the peerless leader has
accepted or refused an offer which Mr..
Farrell stands ready to make 10 handle
the Yankees next year In the mean
time little or nothing can be said.
Johnny King, manager Of the Boston
Braves last year, declared I'm Kansas city
on Monday night that he mad given up
baseball for all time as a player. He said
this after having been questioned concern
ing the rumors that both Cincinnati and
Pittsburgh were after his services as a
catcher.
Dave Fultz, president of the Baseball
Playct.' Protective Association. an
nounced yesterday the appointment of
Bob Harmon 10 succeed Miller higgins,
Of the ST. Louis Cardinals. and of Ed
Reulbach 10 succeed Johnny Evers. Of the
Chicago Cubs. as representatives of those
clubs in the association. Under the rules
Of the fraternity managers are barred
from membership. so that Higgins and
Evers were forced to resign.
Eddie DOYLE. the well known semi-pro-
fesslonal baseball player has accepted
IN offer TO coach the New York Cniver-
slty nine next spring Doyle has done
some coaching, being successful in de-
veloping winning teams for both Curtis
High School and Stuyvesant High School.
Jack Hayden, manager Of the Louisville
club of the American Association il after
Art Grggs. the player who covered first
base for the Cleveland Maps part Of last
season. DOC" johnson, the recruit from
the Southern League seems to have the
first call at present for first base with
Cleveland.
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, who has &C
quired the habit of outbatting all players
in the two major leagues arrived in this
city last evening. lie came North with a
committee from his own home to see
President-elect Woodrow Wilson and ask
him to attend a home week celebration Il
Augusta Ga. this winter
Somebody asked Cobb If he had been
trying to buy the Phinies, TO which he
replied:
Huh, What DO ! want with the Phil
lies? Guess I know some million dollar
propositions that look better than the
purchase Of the Phillies'
Winthrop Rutherfurd mas reported the
death Of Warren Remedy. the smooth fox
terrier bitch which won the prize for the
best dog OF any breed, age or sex at the
Westminster Kennel club show three
years in succession-in 1907 1905 and 1909
o be exact.
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