Arizona republican., 1912-08-13
Short Sports

give CTaffneN control or lHe CluD anu he will undoubtedly make himself president The policy, line up and other features of the club will be very mucch changed.
 Fred Merkle. the star first base man of the Giants; was asked not long ago to express his opinion of the National League umpires. of the diamond" replied Merkle. the Ma tional umpires are a pretty fine lot of fellows, but in game in my opln- ion is that any umpire is the lowest form of animal life.'
 At last the date of the Thomas Con ley bout is settled It is August F in the afternoon It was found imprac- ticaI to hold the fight in the evening as there are now no lighting facilities in the Vernon arena. The English feather is with Joe Mandot at Doyle's conditioning shop and the American trains at the Venice Athletic club.
 Lieutenant Earnest Graves. the only topnotch line coach, will lick the Army football team into shape this fall. Such other assistants as may turn up will be put to work on the other features or the game. As the rules have it this year, line work will occupy the center of the stage. For that reason. West Pointers con- slider themselves lucky to have the services of the efficient Graves.
 T had a great deal of fun rehears- ing Christv MatheWsOn and Chief Meyers for vaudeville" said promin- ent theatrical man, "Matty could never understand how he could pull the same stuff every performance and get away with it." Chief wanted to know what would happen if he made an error. I assured him he was safe. I'm glad they don't have umpires on the stage. anyway" he said.
 The three most unpleasant words in the English vocabulary to a pitcher are Take him out" One day after MT. McGraw had taken out the tenn perance expert Bugs Raymond, I asked him just what he said to his pitchers when he took them out. He smiled slightly and replied, Well, l asked Bugs if he had seen the latest editions of the evening papers. He said he hadn't, so I told him that there was a boy out in front of the clubhouse who only had a few copies left and I was afraid that if he wait ed till after the game there wouldn't be any papers left
 Charley COmiskey has announced the White Sox will train next spring Iot I An0al4S No more Texas for mine" he says. 'We had about a weeks training last spring, and the New York Giants suffered similarly I will take no more chances with my team. It is Los Angeles by special just as soon as the brdies sing and the merry springtime peeks over the hill.' Why not ask again. Whats the matter with Phoenix climate for ball play ers?" If the SOX are so sot in their determination to make California their abiding place during the con ditioning season, there are several other clubs that wifi need practice grounds
 Tim Hurst. the former American League umpire. was famous for his quick wit, and it was very seldom that he came out second in a verbal encounter on the diamond
 There was one player on the New York Highlanders, however who al ways got MT Hursts goat The player in question had been unusual Iv quiet for several days and Hurst thought that truce had been de- clared. One day the player walked to the plate and, turning to the um pire said briskly:
 Good afternoon. MT. Hurst. How do you feel tOday?"
 Fine. thank yOu,' replied Hurst pleasantly.
 'Is that so?" returned the player You look pretty punk to me"
 Woman. the temptress, has entered the aviation field. Mrs. Woodruff Martin of London has offered througl the WOmen's Aerial league, gran' prize for the first transatlantic aero plane flight. The trophy is an an tique centerpece, now one of the ar treasures of Norton Park. Mrs. Mar tin was an American suffrage leader at one time candidate for president She has been living in Worcester shire, England, for number of year: It is to be hoped, any cross puddl flights she is incentive to. will star on her own side and consist of sucl British airmen, as can be easil spared. There are none such il America. Still the trophy is not sue as will appeal to brdmen; it is mor likely to please some old fogy O an art collector.
 When Horine started his liters jump into fame, it was freely predict ed he would take everything like
 house afire at Stockholm. The fac he didn't figure in any of the i'm portant results has been understOo by many to mean he was not ther with the altitudinOus leap. But as
 bounder HOrine has nVer gone bacl The explanation of his failure lies another direction. The Swedes de clined to accept his peculiar styl of going over the bar so the stu was off The northerners objected [ Horines habit of slinging his hea over the rod first. They contended
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