The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-29
HEAVY TOLL IN
FIELD OF SPORT
Many NotabIes Claimed During
Year Which Has lust Ended

Chicago, Dec. EN- the year now
nearing it's close death has eXactcd
heavy harvest from the ranks of
those prominent i'm the varied field
of sport and athletics. Baseball, foot
ball, pugilism, the turf, trap shoot
iug. the green table sport the track
and hcld-all have paid heavy toll to
the Grim Reaper during the past II
months.
The most notable death Of the year
I'm major league baseball circles was
that of William IL. Locke, president |
of the Philadelphia National league ,
club, who died in Atlantic City last
August, after a long illness.
Former club owners and managers |
who passed away during the year in
Guided j. +. Kilfoyc cX-prcsident of
the Cleveland American league club
James T.. Billings, FOR 80 years one
of the owners of the Boston National
league club; William Dwyer who
MANAGED the Dcs Moincs team when 1t
Won the Western league pcnnant III
1909. and the long-to-bc-r remembered
Chris Won der Abe, owner of the old
St Louis champion bail team of 1882
IS, and for many years one of the best
known baseball magnatcs in the coun-
Try.
The great army of active ballplay-
crs has been singuarly fortunate IN
losing none of its members during the
year SO far as the big leagues were
concerned. while the only minor league
pIaycr or note who passed away was
Clare Patterson. star outfelder in W.
of the Champion Oakland team Of the
Pacific Coast league
Death OF Many Ball Players
Former ball players who died dur
ing the year, some of them widely
famous i'm their day, were JlEss
Donahuc. former star first bascmai
Of the PhilHes and other clubs Thorn
az !. Dolan. who caught Tor the o''
81. Louis Browns when they hclu l"'
National league championship; Char'c'
pabor, who was said to have beer
tho first great cft-handcd pitcher
Frtnl, l.. (Rcd) Dunahuc who ha'
pitched for ST Louis, FhilauelP"''
Cleveland and other major 'c1S"
teams; Harry O'Hagan once H"""
a., a PLAYER with National Easter
n and New England leagues; Noun
Mcfarland. formerly with the Ohi'a
go American league team; Euu'' ny
don. who had caught for the lhu''h'
polls and Washington teams a.
Bauer. who played with the H'Y
Wilkes Barre team in 1866 George
uhummy) Gray. once a we'll Know
ritcb.r I'm both the big and Htt
leagues; Michael DriscoIl an o'u NV
,,t,hcr fnr the st Louis Browns
Michael / Councrs, many years ~
star nitchcr i'm the old America
Icaeuc; Jerry Harrington, oh'c V'''
cr for the Cincinnati Reds ana az
for louisville; Roscoe MlIl''
pitched COR Detroit New horN ."
Pittsburgh; Charles IL. Robinson
rlYy,d with the Providence team
tho National league John j. . hI'
who led tie New England league
n,ttinp onc season and later mahas
tho Io,,i>,illc club Edmond Therro
Who couph for Peoria and other III
or ,,,p,c clubs and Walter 'p''
Moore. once well known III i-'9''
Western and lrl-Stdtc 'N'S l.
Also under the head OF "''',
chronology may he placed TIC 49,, -,
or Charley Bentley Power o'u. y
bah player. umpire and Tor ,'
Years = Pittsburgh sporting VIZ
and John II. CARNEY known throu'
out the baseball world few S'
ago as the king of umPlIos
Mecsrty's Tragic End
The most notable death III p"s,
tie circles was that of l'uiher
Carly. claimant to the "h''' w., -,
wclght championship, VINO "''5 "
II Calsnr, in ring battle WIN
thur Pclxy. Another victim "
ring vas John BulD Young
dcd from the effects of Il DIV ,ru
cct,cd in nght with Jess W"
4 NJ vernon. Cal. Jim Hall, best
mcmbered for his $4,000 hsu'
Fitzsimmons at New orleans IN
died in tuberculosis san''a''''
Wisconsin. =,
The turf lost Tommy bu',''' "
nationally famous as a JoI".', :.
James II. Keene. whose rac'e
WIS Cor many years the n'v'' -