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The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21
|MITCHELES SIDEL|GHTS ON SPORT
BY A. II. c. MITCHELL noted eastern sport authority

NJ EW YORK. Oct. 20.-Two ma
IN jo- league ball players.
friends of many years stand
ing. have disclosed to me the fol-
lowing information:
Eighty-five per cent of the
players under reserve to the four
biggest baseball leagues in the
country-namely, the National
league, the American league, the
American association and the In
ternational league, have banded
together In solemn agreement not
to sign contracts with their clubs
for next season unless certain
demands they are to formally
make in q short time are COM
piled with. These demands are
II in number and embrace all the
grievances-real or fancied-that
the ball players can think of. The
three principal demands are these:
y X
~ HAT when waivers are asked
on a player all the clubs of
major leagues be required to
waive on that player before he
can be sent to a minor organiza-
ton. Under certain conditions, as
the rule now stands. If National
league club desires waivers on a
player 1t is only necessary for the
club to obtain the consent of the
other seven clubs in the National
league in order to send this player
to any minor league club it sees
fit. The major league players de-
sire that in a case like this the
American league clubs as well as
the National league clubs be re-
CURED to waive also. In other
words. while no club in the Ma
tional league may want the serv-
ices of the player for whom waiv-
ers have been asked, one or more
clubs in the American league may
desire the players services, in
which case the player would not
be forced to go back to the
minors
That If major club asks waiv-
ers on a player and one of the
major clubs refuses to waive
claim to his services, the player
must be sold to the club refusing
to waive. AS the case now stands,
a club Is allowed to withdraw it's
request for waivers when 1t is
waive. Later waivers may again
be asked on the same player, and
the club that at first refused to
waive consents to do so on the
second request. as 1t then has no
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Tie DATE
IN GOTHAM
SWITCHED
Ritohie and Cross to Meet in
the Garden Week From
Tomorrow Night

NEW YORK, Oct 21.-william Glib
son, manager OF the Garden Athletic
club, announces that the bout between
Leach Cross and Willie Ritchie, the
lightweight champion Of the world,
originally scheduled for October 2s.
has been changed to one night later.
Wednesday, October 20.
Cross began training yesterday at
Averne. He has been exercising twice
daily on the vaudeville stage for sew
eral weeks, SO that 1t will not require
much hard work to put him In first
class condition. Cross recentlyknocked
out Young Brown. the east side light
weight, feat that never had been
accomplished before. Leach thinks he
can hit hard enough, therefore, to
make an impression on Ritchie.
Ritchie is toiling earnestly at Dai
Hawkins gymnasium in Westchester.
He is hiring all the available light
and welter weights to box with him,
and his boxing and punching is sur
prising all who look on. Playing
Soii, rluing horseback and skipping
the rope are other forms of exercise
that are rounding the champion into
his best form. The weight for this
match is TO be 135 pounds. scaling at
p. m, one hour before the men climb
through the ropes.
This will be Ritchies first appear
apce in New York ring and he is
particularly anxious to make a favor
able impression. He is the recognized
champion of the world at the light
weight limit, having won the title
from Ad Wolgast. Ritchie, by the way.
is the first lightweight champion to
give Cross a match. the New Yorker
having vainiy challenged Nelson and
Wolgast when they possessed the title.
X
Al Reich. the amateur heavy weight
Is going to re-enter the ring to prove
to the fans that he is game and did
not quit in his bout with Carl Morris.
He is matched to box 10 rounds with
Tom Logan of Philadelphia at the At
lantic garden tonight.
The return match between Carl
Morris and Gunboat Smith still hangs
fire. Smiths manager notined Glib
son yesterday that he wasn't ready
to talk business.
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use for the player in question.
For example: The Red Sox may
desire to trade one Of their CATCH
ers to a minor league club in ex-
change for a first baseman. Be-
fore completing the trade, how
ever, the seven other American
league clubs must be asked to
waive claim to the Red Sox
catcher. Suppose the New York
club Is badly in need of a catcher
and refuses to waive. The Red
Sox management then recalls it's
request for waivers. waits
month, and again asks waivers
on the same catcher. In the
meantime, the New York club has
secured a suitable backstop, and
having no use for the Red Sox
catcher, valves claim to him at
the second asking. The Boston
club then goes through with the
deal. and the catcher goes back
to the minors. The major league
players demand that If club re-
fuses to waive, it shall have the
privilege of securing the player
instead of the first club with
drawing it's request for waivers.
X X y
That when a major league
player is sold to a minor league
club during playing season the
salary paid by the major league
club shall hold good in the club
to which he is sold. Under the
present arrangement player
signs a contract with a major
league club before the playing
season begins and IL he is sold
to a minor league club during
the summer his salary is liable to
be cut to a minor league figure.
The ball players claim this is a
rank injustice and will demand
that the rule be abrogated.
These are the principal de-
mands. The others are of a
minor Importance. The players
have been busy all summer max
ing a list of their grievances.
They have an organization called
the Baseball Players fraternity,
of which David Fultz. the former
American league outfielder and a
New York lawyer, is president
and counsel. The organization
nearly died of dry rot early in the
year, but was brought to life
again and now nearly all of the
major league players are strongly
allied. This was brought about
by the activities of one man in
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21

each club. In the Boston National
league club camp Hub Perdue
was at the head of the chapter,
but Hub did not pay much atten-
tion to business and he was de-
posed. Hap Myers began at once
to get the players in line. He
made them all pay up their back
dues and sign a new agreement
in which they promised not to
sign a contract for next year
until the demands of the players
had been granted by the mag
mates. The same thing trans
pired in the other is clubs of the
two major leagues. so I am in
formed, so that now the players
are in a position to present a
solid front.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21

RED MEN PAY
HOMAGE To
Be ENDER

MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi. Oct. I'll
Charles Albert s'Chief'' Bender Of Ath-
letic fame. is to receive his first boost
toward the pedestal now occupied by
Edward Rogers OF Minnesota in 1903.
and now chief or the Chippewas. on
Friday. when Chippewas of White
Earth Indian reservation meet in
council at White Earth agency.
Each year the Chippewas elect a
delegation to go to washington to
present to congress Legislation de-
sired by the chippewas. To be
delegate is one OF the highest aims of
the reservation Indians.
At the council on Friday. according
to tribal leaders. Bender will be
chosen ono delegate and Rogers the
other.
There are two Chippewas," states
the Tomahawk, the oficial organ of
the Indians. who are prominent not
only locally but throughout the coun-
try. and we refer to Edward Rogers,
county attorney OF Cass county, and
Bender. famous baseball player
Both Of these men are members OF
this reservation, and are known to
be unusually well balanced. The rea-
son they have never been heretofore
selected is because OF their continued
absence from here"
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21
CogsWelI Tightens
Its Grip on First
Position in League

Cogswell frightened its hold on first
place in the San Francisco subleague
by defeating Polytechnic at Rugby
on the St. Ignatius field yesterday
afternoon. The victory, which went
to the black and green team by the
score of IL to o, made six straight
without a defeat
Polytechnic never had slook in
against the great defensive and Of
fensive work of the winners and
opened the second half with a team
composed mostly of substitutes. The
losers played a kicking game all the
way. Leone, three-uuarters, did
great work for red and black, while
Captain Sewell, Petersen and Glib
bons starred for Cogswell.
X
Coaches Pomeroy of Cogswell and
Nevison of Polytechnic engaged In
dispute before the game as to who
was to referee. Nevison held that
Rev. Mullineux should be allowed to
give the decision, while Pomeroy sup
ported Faulkner, who was appointed
for the game by the Referees union.
AS Faulkner had in a recent game
given a decision that was not to thA
liking of Nevison, the latter threat
ened to call his boys from the f1eld
unless Mullineaux was selected. The
matter was finally setted and Faux
ner refereed the game.
X X
Coach Flood of st. Ignati4is had his
Rugby squad out for practice yester-
day afternoon and reports the Red
and Blue boys In gerat shape for the
game with Lick today.
They will meet the Invaders and
Insurrectos in short time and should
be In shape to give q hard battle In
the big game on November 29, when
they meet the high school depart
ment Of the University of Santa Clara.
1t Is expected that the meeting OF the
two teams will be made an annual
event and should be one Of the big
features Of the Rugby season.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21
Town Turns Out to
Welcome Joe Bush

BRAINARD, Mimi, Oct. 21.--With
automobile horns. factory whistles.
devices doing their utmost and with
the depot platform blocked with
thousands of fans, Leslie Bush. Phila-
delphia Athletic pitcher, came home
from his worlds series triumph.
Snow fell in flurrfes, but ii failed to
dampen the enthusiasm of Leslie's
home town admirers. There were
scores of automobiles In the monster
parade, the first car carrying Bush's
brother and father, while the second
car took care of the rest of the
family.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21
Clarke Is Sure of
Job With PittSburg

PITTSBURG, Oct. 21.-whatever
switches may be made among the
rank and file of the Pittsburg Pirates.
there will be no change that will
affect the managerial end of the club.
Fred Clarke will be In charge in
1914 and, as has always been the case,
he will have full and complete control
of the playing end of the business.
Prior to his departure for Kansas
the Pittsburg manager admitted that
he wasn't ready to quit baseball.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21

used to the climate and prepare
himself for a battle worth while.
X X X
q EVERAL of the New York
promoters have been trying
to coax Georges Carpenter,
the French middle weight, over
to this side. but SO long as he can
find such soft ones as Bombardier
Wells, he refused to bulge.
n
OUIS PARENTE will start for
New York in a couple of days
in order to be with his white
hope, Charley Miller, when he
meets Gunboat Smith on October
81. Parente is figuring on going
for the bankroll on the big motor
man.
X =
FIGHTING DICK HYLAND is
trying to get a match here.
Dick has been going well in
the brush country, but they have
forgotten him in San Francisco
since the Battler bowled him over
in % rounds some four years ago.
He was good boy in his day, but
the Battler settled him.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21
StovaII Becomes
A Federal Outlaw

J U ANSAS CITY, No, Oct.
IN 21.-George Stovall, for
mcrly Of the St. Louis Browns,
came to terms today With the
directors of the Kansas City
club of the Federal league to
manage the local team next
season. 1t is understood Sto-
wallis contract, which is for
three years, calls for a salary
Of $1,000 q year and substan-
tial bonus for signing.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21
New Man at Head
OF the PhiIlies
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. Fl.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. Fl.
i William F. Baker, former
police commissioner of New
York city, was elected presi-
dent of the Philadelphia Ma
tional league baseball club at
a meeting of the directors to-
day. Charles Doom will be
retained as manager of the
team and a contract will be
offered him when the club Of
ficials meet in January. Fred
T. Chandler of this city was
elected vice president of the
club and L. c. Bush of New
York was made a director.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21

HREE products of the four round in San FranccoWic
Rtch Smith Charley Mlerare helping make
history Queensberry back New York than
years this seriously considered out here
where champions and just the and down
either
Richie would land inside big
of being kidded of the
by the men who supposed called
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21
COAST LEAGUE
sTANDrNG OF THE CLuH

GAMES TODAY
Venice at San Francisco.
Portland at Sacramento.
Oakland at Los Angeles.
The San Francisco call., 1913-10-21

Jimmy Johnston wishes to an
nounce the return of George Rodel,
the Boer who came here from South
America, also the latter's desire to
fight.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10

ON entering the atmosphera th.r
take IRE, because their velocity i,
SO great that, almost in an insta,+
their surfaces are heated to tom
perature that may reach thopsar5,
OF degrees. If they remained Inn,
enough in the air they would be Oh.
tirely consumed, and, as a matter
of fact, that is what happens wiz,
the greater number of them ho
cause the vast majority are ey.
ceedingly minute, probably NOT ev.
ceeding an ounce. or less, in weight
But few are comparatively
large and dense. Some of them NAV
be several tons. or even many tons
in weight. These large and solid
meteors survive the fiery passage
through the atmosphere. notvith.
standing the terrific heat to which
they are subjected, because. on III,
average, only a few seconds elarse
after they strike the upper part Of
the atmosphere before they reac0
the ground. Their outer parts ale
melted off, but the dense interio.
remains unaffected, since there is
not time enough for the hea. to
penetrate SO deep.
Almost invariably large meteor
bursts high in the air on account u
the sudden heating of its surface,
and the fragments fall to the earth.
The velocity is very rapidly re-
duced by the resistance of the air,
SO that when the meteor Cor its
fragments> finally reaches the
ground it is seldom buried to q
greater depth than a few feet Tie
largest mass of an iron meteor,
which fell in Iowa in 1879, and Of
which | possess a fragment, fell in
a water hole six feet deep and
penetrated the blue clay at the bot
tom to a depth of eight feet This
mass weighed 437 pounds.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10
More American Ships Through Free
Panama Canal Tolls

The president the United Fruit Companyan American
operating eghne ships under the British hagsays
he considering the ACCESSIBILITY of transferring his whole fleet
registry the sake of securing the advantages
American ships in the coasng radethrough
the remission o Panama canal tolls
This item is fairly Suggestive Of the expansion OF
that might follow upon proper and pa
triotic settlement of the tolls question
The expansion will probably be very considerable if
merely and sefrespect enough persist
free tolls for the American coasting trade would be much
greater congress had still higher degree Of good
sefespec and had declared for free tolls for ALL
AMERICAN SFIPS-WIIETHER ENGAGED IN THE COAST
ING TRADE OR ANY OTHER TRADE.
is regetabe that Secretary Knox, in his
the British foreign Office compromised the advantages of Amer
registry ships those of the United Fruit
pany declaring free tolls for American would
apply vessels that should happen touch foreign
port-such Havana Kingston-en United
States port to another.
This unreasonable and excessive 1t ought
to be allowed to stand.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10
Nv Ladv's Hat
BY HARRY KLTPPER

MY Ladye Faire struts down the street,
Iva And none so trig. so fine as she;
Her gown sets off her figure sweet
And brilliant gems help to complete
a picture for Kings eyes meet
But, oh! her hat S rich finery!
Creation of wondrous size
Adorned with Bird of Paradise,
Resplendent farng yellow-gray-
My Ladye Faire looks fine today
THRU dark Papuan iungles grim
4 The sinuous trappers cautious steal;
yellow form on swaying limb
A scream amidst the forest dim
The wind sweeps on the dying hymn
And-dealers say the birds don't feel
Oh! Ladye Faire, Whoe err YOU be,
With plumes to please your vanity;
Recall-ere decking thus your hood
Your dying sisters in the wood
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10
Theory of Scientists.

The belief of astronomers is that
space contains Il vast number of
bodies that we can not see The
great visible bodies, like the sun,
the moon, the planets, and the
stars (Which are only very distant
suns are of relatively immense
size, while most of the visible bod
les are very small-mere particles
in comparison with the earth.
These small bodies are scattered
through space, among the suns and
the planets, but they apparently
collect about the greater bodies.
and particularly about the suns, as
dust clouds collect about a speed
ing automobile. They are all nee
essaTily in motion--lor in space
nothing can stand still-and their
motions are governed by the at
traction of the suns near which
they happen to be.
Our own sun evidently has vast
swarms of them circling about him.
If we know the shape Of the paths
in which they are travelling it is
easy to calculate. from the attrac-
tive force of the sun, how fast they
must go. The fact that the aver
age velocity of these bodies when
they first become visible by CATCH
ing fire from friction upon plunging
into the earth's atmosphere, is
about twenty miles per second.
shows that they are moving in
elongated orbits about the sun,
like those Of comets. We speak of
them, in general sense, as meteors.
Now the earth, travelling round
the sun nearly in a circle with a
velocity of about IS IL miles per
second, is continually moving
across the field in which the me-
teors are darting in various direc-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10
A Critical Moment in Chinese History

The Georgian informed Paris and from Pein that
the Six Power loan is in the breakers.
French fnanciers hggng insignificant detail
about the Of auditing Chinese expenditures and the
small politicians of China giving modifying imitation of
the kind of partisan politics that Americans familiar with
Yuan ShK the very able and patriotic provisional president
the Chinese Republic needs this critical junctue the
united support of his counrymen order that good bargain
may with money ndng foreigners If the peanut
politicians be suppressed is probable that all will be well
with the republic.
The elections going for the creation of nation
assembly and the election of president for seven-year
Americans and Europeans believe in Yuan ShKa, be
he has energy simplicity broadmndedness He
to be kind of Oriental Washington lie rte~..t
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10
How Thoughtful!

Precisely so, dear boys; precise
ly so. How thoughtful of you to
plan for the future. You are so
much cleverer than the girls-you
think of everything. Isn't ii Won
derful to be boy" Dear, dear! |
don't see how you live with such a
surplus of heavy thought to carry
around
Now, the girls-poor weak, silly
things-never thought of learning
TO be carpenters and plumbers and
butchers and clerks. and vet they
must have to do your work for YOU
while YOU run around voting and
running for office. How silly of
them. to be sure.
Well, it's about what you expect
of girls, anyhow. isn't it? Be gem
erous, boys. BE magnanimous. Do.
Get that committee of yours up
again and go to the school board
and demand that the girls be taught
to tend furnace and keep books
and NOW the lawn understand
with their little tootsie wootsies on
rail and look pleasant while they
buy something to drink for some
one who is perfectly able to buy
something for himself-that you
even If the baby goes without shoes
a while longer
Insist upon 1t. boys You aren't
getting square deal at ALL Who's
gong to that race While YOU are
on voting NuuW hive 60 breuk i'm
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10
William and Mary College
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

got more money, and also the char
ter from william and Mary that
founded the college ever since
known by their names.
Thus was established the institu-
ton of which Fiske thus writes:
The college founded by James
Blair was a most valuable center
for culture in Virginia and has been
remarkable In many ways, II was
the first college in America to in
troduce. teaching bv lectures and
the elective system OF study: it was
the first to unite group OF facul-
ties into a university; It was the
second in the English world to have
a chair of municipal law; it was
the first in America to establish a
chair of history and political sci
ence, and it was one of the very
first TO pursue a thoroughly secular
and unsectarian policy.
Though until lately its number
of students at any one time have
never reached loo, it has given 10
our country fifteen United States
senator's and 20 representatives in
congress, II governors of states and
81 judges, three presidents of tho
United States-Jefferson. Monroe
and Tyler-snd the great Chief
Justice Marshall It was noble
work that was done fol. America
by the Scotch parson, James Blair"
a profound student of American
affairs says: All of our popular
institutions came from New Eng
land, but Virginia gave the Ameri-
can nationality Men and Measures.
This is the contribution of Virginia
Men and Mea sures-men to man
institutions and lead, and measures
for institutions TO work out into a
glorious contamination"
And for these Men and Meas
ureS'-these mighty leaders with
out whom the popular institutions
would never have amounted to
nluch-wo have TO thank William
and Marx college at old Williams
burg
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10
w VILLAIN AND MARY COL
Wv LEGE, one of the earliest

wy WILLIAM AND MARY COL
w LEGE, one of the earliest
and, in its influence, one of
the most important educational in
stitutions of our country, received
its charter POI years ago-February
10. 1892
In his old Virginia and Her
Neighbors." John Fiske remarks:
Everybody knows that the college
of William and Mary is the oldest
in the United States. after Har-
ward" 1t is not so generally known
that the former was planned and
all but established in 1892, eight
years before Winthrop and his fol-
lowers came to Massachusetts bay.
Politics, Indian massacres and
other things postponed the project
of the Virginia school for 20 years,
when it was revived and carried
through by a scotchman, James
Blair.
With the grit that is character
site Of his race, Blair began col
lecting funds and presently sue
ceeded in getting together a con
siderable sum, but nothing IKE
.lough to make the scheme a sue
cess He then went TO England to
get more money and TO obtain q
charter.
Appealing 10 Sir Edward Sey-
mour for government aid, Blair
was given to understand that mas
much as England's chief business
at that time was to beat down
Louis the Fourteenth, rather than
to promote education in the Old
Dominion, he need not look for any
financial assistance from the gov
ernment
But YOU must not forget" said
Blair, that people in Virginia have
souls to save as we'll as people in
England"
Souls" cried Seymour Damn
you.' souls. Grow tobacco"
But in spite Of the protau, rebuff
from seymour Biaf perscve.cI
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-10
:: Domestic Science for Bows ::
It Tells You What Every Sort Of Dream Mean.
By WINSOR M'CAY.

tn HE nigh school boys of In
1 diana are clever fellows, with
pretty wit Of their own.
They went to the school board the
other day and demanded to have
cooking and sewing put into the
curriculum of the Boys High school,
because. they said, 1T looks as il
women's suffrage was coming to
Indiana and the girls we marry
will be voters. Now, while they
are voting and running for office,
we want to know how to cook and
sew, because somebody will have to
do it,"