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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27

TO MEET GIANTS

San Antonio. Tex, Feb. 27.-It il
generally reported here. there will be
an, ante-season series of games be.
tween the teams that battled for the
worlds baseball championship last
fall. ~ -,
Manager Mack of the PHILADELPHIA
Americans is in San Antonio with the
youngster division Of his 1912 team.
John T. Brush, owner OF. the. New
York Nationals Is spending the winter
here. The two met and after a lengthy
conference Brush rent for. Manager
McGraw Of the New York team who
has his recruits in training at Marlin,
Tex.
It Is understood. although neithe,
Mack nor Brush will confirm. II, that
the two managers are to discuss the
ACCESSIBILITY Of games first between the
recruits of the two teams and later
between the regulars.
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Major Leagues Spend a Half Million in
Getting New Material for Their Teams

Halt a million dollars worth of new
baseball talent will be inspected by
the managers of the major league
clubs within the ncNt few Weeks. This
enormous sum of money has been in
vested in a hevy of minor league beau
ties VINO Will be put to the extreme
test in the southern training quarters
except in cases where some nave all
ready been turned down without as
much as il glimpse by their purchas-
ers.
After the wheat has been separated
from the chaff it is extremely doubtful
II any club finds more thar one or two
players qualified tor fast company. no
matter how weak the big league team
may be or how anxious is the manager
to strengthen his nine.
h American league bought out
right SliI.3S3 worth of players from
h minors last Year while the Nation-
al lcagu" purchased $l35.2S0 worth.
In drafting S3S.65O was expended by
the younger organization while its
rival spent S45.i0o. making the total
cash expenditure of both leagues
$500, 113."%. If the purchased players
have sufficient ability to stay in the
majors. S1".i16.67 must be spent by
n American league to retain them
and s5i.200 Ivy the National. making
the total outlay S13a.33O for the two
organizations.
An examination of the statistics re-
Neals the fact that money is no object
with the owners in their efforts to
strengthen their teams. Pittsburg out
stripped the teams of both leagues in
paying for new talent, its total out
lay being largely augmented however
by the S22.5O0 paid over for MARTY
OToole. Cash payments of s46.S00
with drafting expenditures of $4,000
and additional payments of $1,000 if
certain players are retained. bring the
cost Of young players to the Pirates up
Brooklyn a Heavy Buyer
The Brooklyn Superbas we're Sec
ond only to Pittsburg in the National
league In the pursuit of new stars. Eb-
bets paid $16.9S0 for purchased play
ers with a little bill of $4,000 to set
tie If they all are retained while S14,-
600 was expended in drafting men. The
total of $4,000 shows how sincere the
BROOKLYN owner is in attempting to
build up n good team. The Cincinnati
Reds We're the next heaviest buyers in
the National league, paying around
$4,000 for youngsters, while the Cubs
trailed along with $4,000.
The Giants paid only $10.750 for the
purchased players with a prospect of
laying out $3.50 If they arc retained.
The sum paid in the drafting process
amounted to $3.50. the Giants getting
off the cheapest of any club except the
Phillies who paid out 800 less In the
draft. The Giants total outlay repre-
sents about $4,000. The Boston
Braves spent only $4,000 for new
men. which vas the lowest outlay of
any, club.
The Chicago White Sox headed the
American league and were second to
Pittsburg in the prices paid for young
sters. The payments included $685.
1898 for purchased players, $685.
9SS.S7 additional payments to retain
men and $500 in the draft, making
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27
SOUTH DAKOTA
VS.. NORTH DAKOTA
Two Sister Institutions Will
Clash in Football at
Sioux Falls

1t was announced today by Prof.
L. l.. Chandler. faculty manager OF
athletics that arrangements for a
gridiron battle with South Dakota
have practically been completed. The
game will be played at Sioux Falls,
November .. This will be just exact
ly n week after the university plays
the A. G. here, November 2. From
present indications the game on No
vember 3 ought to be for the inter-
championship. South Dakota,
If last years work on the gridiron can
be taken as Il criterion. ought to win
the South Dakota title in a walk
away. North Dakota too ought to be
in fine shape for the game. The sea-
son will be started with all the men
of last years squad. except Void,
back in their toys. With the new ma
terial coming in. and with the strong
men on the econd string fighting for
positions. a splendid team ought to
trot out on the field at Sioux Falls
November 9.
1t has been argued that the big
game is to be played at Sioux Falls.
This will mean that both teams will
have to travel. North Dakota travel
ing farthest. Vermillion has a popu-
lation of only baout 5000 while Sioux
Falls boasts of about $4,000.
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START
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+ Louisville. KY. Feb. 27.-Withtn a
few days. if the weather Is Of the adj
vanced spring brand Louisville &C.
%casionally enjoys early in March. prac-
tice will be under way at Eclipse park.
The vanguard of "rookies'' who will
Tighe will begin to come in the latter
part of mex week, and by reporting
day. March .. for the young pitchers
and the catchers, there should be
enough players on hand. with the To-
cal boys who usually work out with
the Colonies before leaving to join
their clubs in various minor circuits.
to make up two teams.
President Grayson announced when
he came from st. Louis Friday that he
had learned that Ed "Tubby" Spencer,
who recently got into trouble in Phil
adelphia while intoxicated. smashed
some crockery in a restaurant. or
something Of tho sort. was now on the
wagon" for good. No n ever has
questioned Spencer's ability as a
brainy catcher. who can hit and field
with the best.
Schlet Still a Belligcrent.
Grayson and George Schlei are still
at outs owe the salary question.
schlei was reported to be down and
out with rheumatism last ear. and at
his best lie is not an improvement
over Spencer. when the latter Is in
condition. The admiral" however.
is recognized as a good ball player,
and the fans would like to see him in
line. Schlei wants a much higher
salary than the association clubs are
accustomed to pay catchers. and it is
likely that he will be compelled to
modify his demands before he comes
here.
with the two principal major league
acquisitions in the uncertain class,
Johnny Hughes and Tommy Madden.
the latter also from the big ring. are
good bets for places on the team. The
catching staff is not causing any great
worriment at that. Manager Tighe
says that with Hughes alone he would
have q catching staff equal. or superior
to most Of those in the association.
Counting on Jack Compton.
Both Crayson and Tighe are count
ing upon Jack Compton from Dayton,
by way of the Cincinnati Reds. maxi
ing a good showing here. Compton
pitched excellent ball for the Vets.
being worked overtime in an effort to
win the nag. He pitched the Dayton
team into the pennant rank. and when
he Joined the Reds was not in the
best OF shape as a result Of overwork.
He expects to make a one-year stay in
the association; and to get back in
the major loop to stick the following
season. Tfghe declares that. this is the
sort OF ambition he wishes to foster
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27
cUBANS STRONG
On BALL PLAYING
Little Brown Men Are Very
Clever on the Diamond
Americans on Teams

Havana, Cuba. Feb. 27-The base
ball season is booming along after a
stormy time of it. There was a battle
royal between the managers and a
portion OF the players. the former win
ming out. Many of the men wanted the
old system of a cooperative league
with settlement every day, while the
managers decided on a salary system.
Several Of the players held out for a
time. but are now falling in line and
all will oon be in the game.
The league IL composed of three
teams. Havana. Almendares and Fe.
At this writing the Havana Red are
in first place. having won eight and
lost one game. They were defeated
in the first game by the Fe team 3 to
0, with Redding pitching for Fe. The
Havanas have not lost u game to AL
mendares and lave defeated Fes three
straight. The Havana team lines up
players on the list. namely, p. Hill.
Grant Johnson. Sam Lloyd, Petway.
Taylor, Williams and Pettus. The
The Cubans on the team are Padron,
Junco, Hernandez. Moran and Pareda,
with Augustin Molina Is manager.
This team looks like the league win
ner.
Mcintyre Playing OH Island
The season will last until about
MdS ~. NdtNS NlS11LSies Nv III u
a league star. is here playing with
Almendares Inc covering right field
superbly and batting 1863. Almen-
dares has four other white players
from the United States, including one
from Indianapolis. Marsans of the Gin
cinnati team of the National league
is captain.
The great Mendez and Pedroso are
the chief oxlne for Almendares but
thus far have failed to hold tho IIa-
vana stickers in check. Grant ("Home-
run") Johnson. who Is captain of the
Havana team, is in better shape than
for some years. has played every game
without an error n Is batting 1884.
ColOred Players Released
The Fe team a had about twelve
American colored players. including
Rube Foster. but, upon their failure to
defeat Havana the directors of the
club decided to release most of them
and sign Cuban players who had been
holding out and the following men
were let go. all sailing at once for
Florida: Foster. Barber. Pierce.
Dougllerty, Grant, SantOp and Wallace.
That this was an unwise move seems
probable as in a short while the form
er team would have rounded into an
aggregation more classy than It now
stands. The Americans remaining on
the Fe team are ReddinE M Wick
ware. pitchers: Poles and Lyons in the
outfield and Sol White as manager,
or director as they call it here. White
1t is reported here. will have a team
in Brooklyn the coming season.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27

kept together at a yearly loss to all
teams. Last year. after Winnipeg
threw up tho sponge. the western
clubs started figuring on q circuit i n
the west. but at This late time Calgary
Edmonton find themselves. With
full teams under contract. and yet
without a satisfactory circuit. There
is no getting away from the fact that
the club owners have made the mis-
take of serving up too high a grade
"f ball for their W benefit. Whore
both these cities could find a holt
dozen smaller cities that would gladly
put in teams on a $1,000 limit, they.
are afraid to take d chance at the
higher limit. AT the same time the
loca! owners. knowing that the fans
would be dissatisfied with an inferior
grade Of ball. find themselves between
two fires.
Just what we are going to have for
q circuit is hard to say, hut it's a safe
bet that when the spring comes round
vel again be iourncying to the ball
ward" ~
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27

ARE IN DEMAND

Cincinnati. Ohio. Feb. e7.-Tl,e
American and National leagues seem
safe from the outlaws. for the present
at least. Both the United states and
the Columbian leagues are already
howln signs of breaking up. But the
real danger TO organized baseball has
not Yet shown it's head.
striking at tho hig league alone. as
ne American in its early days did at
the National. is Il costly business, an
even NOR" risky fight now than il was
When the American made its success
full raid. The strength of organized
baseball lies not in the hig eagues.
but in the small, those bound together
under the national agreement.
On the coast and in the east, and TO
IL slight extent i'm the middle west all
so. and Il number of outlaw eag,lcs
playing ball that is sometimes as good
as classAA. sometimes worse than
class d. But it some organizer once
gets these together under Il sort of a
second national agreement, laws out
his United States league to head it.
and gets a few malcontents to seccde
from the present bond. Garry Herr
mann ct al. will be up against the fight
of fights.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27
HOCKEY GAMES
AT

Minneapolis. Feb. Eth order to
give the Twin City followers of hockey
an opportunity to witness the Canadi-
an style of play. Messrs. Brooke and
Dickinson of the Hippodromc ice rink
have completed arrangements where
y the famous University of Manitoba
hockey seven of Winnipeg. Man, will
be seen in action the latter part of
this week at the fair grounds rink.
The varsity team will stop at St. Paul
ON Thursday morning and on Thurs
day night will be pitted against either
the White Bear or Phoenix Kinks. The
visitors will tour the Twin City on FRI
day and on Saturday night will play q
second contest. probably with the a.
b. G. team of Minneapolis. The Hip
podromc management has not decided
what teams will be sent against the
Canadians. but the strongest aggrega-
tions possible will be put on the ice.
The college seven of Winnipeg is
on its way to Montreal. where they
will compete with the leading Domint-
on teams for the Canadian champion
ship. They will probably stop off for
games at Detroit and Cleveland.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27

the total around s56.o00. The Boston
Red SoN We're second. spending around
$4,000. while the Cleveland Maps were
third with s3S.000. The Yankees We're
fourth with SIS. 600 and ST. Louis fifth
at S26. 600.
Detroit Buys Few Men
The Detroit Tigers We're the ''pikers"
in the league. spending only a paltry
$4,000 while Connie Mack ran Hughie
Jennings a close race for last place
with an expenditure of $4,000.
The Brooklyn Superbas got the most
for their money. having a forty-one
new players on their pay roll at diff
ferent times, not including the regular
men. Many of these young fellows
were looked over and disposed of as
unavailable during the winter. The
Chicago White SoN signed thirty-four
new men and the Cleveland Maps thir-
ty-one. The Boston Red Sox and the
PittsburG Pirates had twenty-eight
apiece, Cincinnati twenty-siN. the st.
Browns twenty-five and the Phillics
twentN-onc. Connie Mack did only Il
SINAI business, carefully selecting elev-
en- players for Il trial, while the Giants
took fifteen and Detroit seventeen. Tho
Cubs signed seventeen and the YAM
KEGS nineteen.
by no means all of these players
VIII nc tdhtn Sblt1. as some OF mem
were tried before the season closed last
year. The wholesale signing of men
cannot be carried on hereafter. Under
the rules of the new national agree
ment. soon to go into effect, only thir-
ty-tive players. including regulars, will
be allowed In each club and the latest
suggestion is that no player shall be
released until he has been given an
actual trial in the service of his club.
which would further tend to limit
purchases of drafts. Managers like
McGraw. Mack and Jennings are not
in the habit of taking a lot of new
material into consideration, ordering
their scouts to select only the best ma
terial. And many hold to the principle
that it is unjust to the recruit to turn
him back without an opportunity to
show what he can do.
Over 600 Players In Majors.
1t is shown in the nnua report of
thenational commission that on Febru-
airy l every club in the National league
has thlrty.f1ve players N its reserve
list. This means hat there are ESQ
ball players now under reserve in the
older organization. In the American
league BOG players are shown on the
reserve lists. The total players held
by the two leagues numbers $50. Be.
sides this there are fifteen players
in h American league who are on
the ineligible list and seventeen in the
National. The grand total of ball play
ers. the best players that are to be
found in the land, IL judgment counts
for anything, numbers 61S.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27
STATE MEET AT
MINNESOTA "U"

Fifteen or twenty state colleges and
high schools will enter teams at the
annual state interscholastic indoor
track meet at the university armory
on Saturday. March 90. The date was
set yesterday.
In addition to the Minneapolis and
st. Paul high schools. teams will per-
haps be entered from Shattuck,
Carleton, Manchester. Hamlinc and
other preparatory institutions.
The meet was started primarily as
an all-university meet, but it is each
year becoming more and more of a
statewide competition. Plans for the
affair have not been completely work.
ed out. but 1t was said at the univer-
would be practically the same as last
year..
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27
NORTH DAKOTA
COLLEGES TO MEET
Athletic Conference at Far
20 Next Month to Ar
range Schedules

Fargo. n. D.. Feb. 27-At a melting
of the athletic directors of the Uni
versity Of North Dakota, Fargo col
lege and the North Dakota agricul-
tural college here March 3 plans will
he entered into by the three schools
looking to an intercollegiate baseball
league and a schedule will be ar
ranged. Minor differences between the
three institutions will he settled and
closer athletic relations esta blished.
looking probably to a spring track
meet and a new football schedule.
DIR. =. Dunlap will represent tho uni
versity. L. ii. Watkins will represent
Fargo college and Arthur Rueber will
represent the agricultural college.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27

clubhouse, according to Hickman dis
patches received in Minneapolis yes
terday. Both unlimbered their throw
ing arms yesterday and made a good
impression on Manager Joe Cantillon.
The weather Is unusually fine in
Hickman for this time of the year and
the athletes are taking advantage Of
1t.
Busy at Park.
While Pongo is busy with the con.
structive end Of the 1912 Millers.
President Mike Is even buster with the
executive duties. The last vestige of
the old grandstand al Nicollet park
was torn down yesterday and the
work on the new structure will be
continued Monday with new vigor.
Secretary Ed Dickinson spent the aft
ernoon yesterday picking moths off
the Millers' war toys. pressing them
into p~resentable appearance and
packing them away in the travelling
for the coming trip to Kentucky.
Three w%ell-known figures in the
major league who make their homes
in Minneapolis during the winter will
leave the coming week for the big
league training camps. The men are
Russ Ford, pitcher for the New York
Americans; Peaches Graham. recent
ly traded by Chicago Nationals to
Philadelphia. and George Shears.
former Minneapolis pitcher. who will
get q tryout with the New York
Giants. The Giants will train at Mar
lin Springs, Texas. Philadelphia at
West Baden and the Hikhlanders at
Hot Springs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27

Very few young mel are willing to
take their college yell back to the
farm where 1t would help some in
herding the hogs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27

IL a boy is SO good he is pointed
out as a fine example for the othor
boys in the neighborhood, they are
apt to whip him.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-27

1t has been a hundred years since
Charles Dickens birth. il you can't
think Of anything else to celebrate on
this glad presidential year.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-08-30

In sympathy with hers. Ours is moi n
one sided life. We have been part.
rers. and that's the way it shoulc DO
in this world
Mrs. Marshall has watched over his
administration of the affairs OF Indiana
with Jealous care. There has been
nothing of the spectacular in his adj
ninistration. II has been sane gov
eminent. The laws that he has fought
for and won show the spirit of tho
man They are uplifting. They deal
with the Improvement OF man, woman
and child.
While Governor Marshall is describ-
ed as a tender hearted" executive.
nevertheless. he is fighter. He be-
longs to the old lighting stock OF Vir.
gil la.
Governor Marshall is not dodger.
RE has his opinions, and Re lets them
he known. While he Is an organization
man. he knows that organizations are
%ou i,erfoct-tAGt they can malts mis-
taxi s If they make mistakes he
thinks 1t is his duty to say so and get
the saying over at the first possible
moment.
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Schedule Effective
May 2o, 1912.

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wEsTBOUND.
$40 u m for Kenova, Portsmouth.
Columbus, st. Louis and the west.
Pullman sleeper to Columbus,
cafe car.
$40 p m for Kenova, POI ID nouth,
Cincinnati. Columbus. West, Northwest.
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