New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-01
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT
Claude Derrick Signs His Con-
tract with Yankees.
SAYS HIS LEG IS SOUND
President of National League
Calls Meeting in This City
on February II.

/ The signed contract of Claude Derrick
/ the shortstop. was received ny the
/ Yankees Yesterday. Derrick said in let
/ ter to Tom Davis secretary OF the clho'
/ that he had entirely recovered from
/ lame leg which bothered him last fan
and expected to make a favorable I'M
| preston on Chance when the players Le-
gin training in Bermuda.
After Connie Mack sold Derrick To the
/ Baltimore club OF the lnterndtona'
/ League last summer the young man COW
| cred short field with such ability that he
was a sensation and attracted the atten-
| ton of many OF the major league ciup
/ scouts He was drafted by the Detroit
| club last fall. but by an agreement was
exchanged for Rondeau. catcher VINO
! had been drafted from Jersey city by
the Yankees.
While with Baltimore Derrick PLAYED
4 thirty games. scoring twenty-one runs
/ and making thirty hits for batting aver
/ age Of 20 In fielding he had per
centage of .96l. with fifty-one putouts'
/ seventy-one assists and five errors. Prior
TO his Baltimore engagement he played
/ twenty-one games last spring with the
Athletics in which he Knocked out four
teen hits for an average OF .2i His field
| ing average was .sS. Derrick is six feet
I tall. weighs lS5 pounds and Is twenty-slN
| years of age. According TO many Inter
/ national League managers and also Con-
! ME Mack, he is sure 10 be success IN
/ the American League. handled, as he VIII
/ be- by Frank Chance.
Thomas i. Lynch. president OF the
/ National Lea sent out notices To club
/ presidents. Yesterday that the recon
vened meeting Of the annual meeting
! would be held al the Hotel McAlpin in
/ this city. on Tuesday. February II. at
o'clock. The annual schedule meeting
/ Of the league will he held on the same
, date and at the same place. An hour be-
! fore the time for the league session
the board of directors will meet.
John Henry, the clever catcher Of the
Washington Senators. has recovered
/ from the operation on his knee for
4 floating cartilage and in sending his
/ signed contract 20 the club, yesterday.
said his lsm"ncss had entirely disap-
/ pcared
/ Jim Flynn. the heavyweight pugilist.
/ has signed a contract to act rs an UNI
/ pirc in the Western League next season.
! II is said that Jimmy Callahan. man
| asor Of the White SoN. will have read
inC room in the clubhouse next sea-
son. and install the works ~ Shake
spearc. Macaulay Tennyson and other
I Dt,,r 10 Inc
| fence buster, Is sure 10 welcome the i'm
novation.
Joe Tinker manager of the Cincinnati
/ Reds, who was bidder for the services
of Roger BroSnahan before Charles
| Webb Murphy captured tho backs'op for
the cubs. has changed his tune He Is
row quoted As saying:
"Brcsnahan signed with tho Cubs be-
cause he don't like 10 work. lie knows
he will have To get into tho game only
when Jimmy Archer is injured He
/ caught for the Cardinals last season
only when he had to"
There 10 an old fable about sour
grapes.
| Miller Higgins. Of tho 81. Louis car
J
statement Of Ray Golden. ono Of his
pitchers on tho ineligible list. In the
summer Of 1911 the Cardinals turned
! Golden over TO tho -. faul club of tho
, American Association. When he Joined
the Saints he was in no condition to
play. and Was returned to the ST. Louis
club He refused to report and was rus-
pended.
John T. Walsh has called a meeting Of
the Metropolitan Association boxing
| championship committee for Monday at
. O'Clock IT the Office of James y. Sulli-
van. No q Warren street. at which tho
! championships for the present year will
be awarded and a list OF officials for all
boxing tournaments will be selected.
The board Of governors of the Now
York Athletic club has arranged TO celc-
brate the forty-ffth anniversary Of the
organization with a subscription dinner.
A special effort will bc made to induce
all former officials. including presidents,
vice-prcsidents. secretaries treasurers.
captains and governors. to attend. The
| ex-presidcnts alive are William a. Van
Wyck, who first serveu IN 1863; George
Moore Smith. Jennings $. Cox Walter g.
Schuyler. 4. G. Mills. August Belmont
Thomas l.. Watson Barlow s. Weeks
George w. Kuhlko and Colonel Robert
NJ Thompson. or the officials who
served in 1868. the inaugural year, only
one remains. and he is Harry T.. Buer-
meyer, the first treasurer.
Hugh Duffy, former manager OF the
Chicago team of the American League
and of the Milwaukee Club of the Ameri-
can Association. has acquired the fran
chise OF the Fall River team OF the New
| England League. According TO an an
nouncement last night, it will be removed
| 10 Portland. Me.
WHOLE TEAM DISCIPLINED