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The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
JACK COOMBS' PLIGHT
FURNISHES REGULAR
TRAGEDY OF DIAMOND
BY CHRISTY MATHEWSON,
The Giants Star Pitcher.

John hospital Coombs
of baseball and the big leagues
ed with tragedies knowledge of which reaches the
public realize the the old make hang
they slowing they have
the and the ground they did for
frequently they kid themselves conceal
failing arthces Look Devlin
Dahen Mike Donn Hans Wagner
is who will die hard
But Coomb tragedy than those due
when bail player
The big wirer of the Athletics has always lived clean ball
player and had played the for all WORTH and
through of his he the prime of his
baseball days
Even he does back he predicts he will he will have lost
practically the best of his pitching life through little
accident worlds of 1911 Men familiar with
Coonbs tell that they do think he will be fit work
Perhaps they counting the Of the
As recall the incident the seventh of the fifth
the worlds championship 1911 when New York
batter sharp pitchers Coomb
for the ball If he had the would
the Giants the in and the
Athletics finally
But Coomb made the ung and that him of base
ball for Immediately after this
began hit the the Athletics His stuff
We did
day Mac pitcher quickly
GO after him said he. We've him."
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
"I'M SHOWING UP" SAYS DEvLIN

Devln old
Giant third baseman who his job because
voped aic rheumatism after McGraw the
bag, and who held for than eight years
his began
slow He of the club
but Mack daes friendship when
player is covering the territory he should
McCraw, Devln Wlltse and bridge
continuously while with the
self slow falling
He playing feeling
safe if he could keep his
and depending Brdwe
territory left exposed between him and
But Brdwe slowing then. age
used Devns best He was once
for
his best days he
he slow, he
closely playing when he looked for
bad balls which formerly outs between Den
Bridwel for hits.
.Maty' Devln said before taken
regular lineup Il slowing it,
haven't replied although Deyn always a con-
fdan Of
do you think McCIraw has?' he asked
Il don't believe so' | answered.
1t only few after this that McGraw
with Boston whereby
base, although he played first in while
AfeIhe had
cards the night Devn had tough luck He
blue Suddenly he said:
Mac hate to break this card but I'm getting
through with the big league"
No replied McCiraw "A fix YOU
lie knew and Devin knew, and knew that he wouldn't His
another tragedy of the diamond.
Copyright sls by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc)
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
STANF ORD AGAIN
NAMES BROWN
AS COACH

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. Dec. IL.
Floyd c. Brown, coach of this years
victorious Rugby football team. has
been reappointed football instructor
for the season of 1914 by the execu-
tive committee of the associated stu.
dents. This appointment assures
Stanford OF capable instruction for
the season.
Brown played on four Stanford var
sity teams at the fullback position
and he made the tour of Australia in
1910 with. the All-Star team. Brown
first acted in a coaching capacity in
1912, when he was assistant to
the coaching committee. This year
former Coach George ]. Presley 'o7
aided Brown as advisory coach.
The prospects of turning out a win
ming team next year were never
brighter at Stanford than they are
the ruggers who participated in the
intercollegiate game this year will not
be in a position to try out for the
team again next spring.
'Stogie" Peck. front rank; "Bill'
Darsie, rear rank, and Captain Jimmy
Thoburn will be the vets unable to
don suits again next year Captain
Thoburn will return to college. but
he will be barred owing to the FIVE
year rule. while the other two will
graduate.
In addition to the Is veterans who
will return next fall, Captain Gard
reports that 10 of the IA substitutes
named by the coaches will return in
the fall and try out for the team.
Jim Wylie, the star forward of the
New Zealand All Blacks. Will register
at Stanford next semester. His
knowledge of the game and his ability
will greatly strengthen the varsity.
C. K King, who was transfer from
the University of the Pacific and con-
sequently ineligible this year, will be
one of the men who will have to be
reckoned with in the fight for full
back honors.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
AMATEUR CHIEFS
SUSPEND STAR
FORMERS

Officials of the Y. NJ c. A last night
refuted the charges made by former
members that the institution con-
Quoted its athletic teams with men
who did not pay dues. and were there
Tore Ineligible for competition.
L. Fried. a former basket ball player
of the ''Y'' applied to the registration
committee OF the Pacific association
for the right to play with the Olym-
pic club. stating that, as he and other
members had not paid dues at the .'Y''
for some time past. he did not think
they could be considered members of
that body.
Athletic Director Howard M. Strick-
Ter and w. M. Coffman, swimming In
structor. denied the accusations of the
basket ballers against the Y. NJ C. A.
and had the membership files to show
that the men had paid their dues up
to certain date and had then ap-
piled for an extension of time in
which to pay, which was granted.
On being confronted with the evil
ucHcc produced Dy Str1ckler, the baS-
ket ballers admitted that they had
made a mistake. The registration
committee refused to grant the re-
quest, and the men will have to play
as unattached athletes until March 4,
which will be the expiration of a year
since their last game as members of
the ''Y" team.
Murray Benton. a former member of
the Y. NJ. c. A. swimming team, was
suspended for 80 days for participat-
ing In an open swimming meet as a
member Of the Olympic club. Benton
is a member of the Olympic club, but
Is ineligible to compete for the club
until IL months after the expiration
of his last competition as a member
OF the " team. He was suspended
until February s. the suspension dat
ing from November 6.
Frank Gross, another former ssYa
man and now a member of the Olym-
pic club, was reported for having re-
fused to swim in race when his en-
try was in. The registration commit
tee exhonorated Gross when 1t was
shown that he had entered In three
races and competed In two of them.
The committee stated that in their
opinion 1t may have been a physical
impossibility for Gross to swim the
third race, and that he had shown his
good faith in participating In two of
the races entered.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

While President Baum says that he
expects Umpires Held and Finney to
be back on the job, still at the same
time he is bit worried over the
reports that are coming from eastern
papers that Finney and Held will
work in eastern leagues next season
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
ONE LUNGE FIXES COOMBS

We did, and the innings A player
Athletics Mack taking
Coobs when he that the himself
that the board Of advised and the Athletic leader
permitted himself to be overruled
Coombs pitched not the end OF the battle but for inning
knifethru of pain him. But he would under fire.
has paid for The hospital than
there doubt my that
for the attack of typhoid which pulled him
beginning of this that John pitch
opening for the Athletics against Boston.
Il felt fine that day when started" he said American
who repeated the
four innings did not have of strength and legs
wobbled under me / had never felt weak before"
That night Coombs with
burning him He able
he worked condition
still travelling his
the suffered
Now he body the
His first after leaving the hospital
would be pitching He he intends hunt his
Maine
far from the old iron who could out and pitch double
header without his
those who Coombs will indeed
o gam
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

HEY have discovered In New
York that Willie Ritchie Is a
regular champion and that
Whatever they have been saying
aho, the namby-ramby methods
s.f u sainirg adore.d by the light
WIGHT boss Will have to pc with
drawn now that Willie has stood
toe to toe with their mighty
Leach Cross and outslugged the
hardy New York dentist. Ritchfe
didn't even get a shade the better
of the argument in the reports of
the contest and though he appears
to have bested the sprightly
young tooth puller pretty much
all of the way the New yorKers
admit that if it hadn't been for
the knockdowns that Ritchie
handed out to his man in the
third round of their struggle
Leach would have been entitled
to draw at least. Which indi-
Gates that if Ritchie hadn't had
that left paw of his working over
time in that round he wouldn't
have received as much of a shade
as he did.
n ITCHlE showed them that he
NJ is the right sort of a fighter
and the kind that they ought
to admire. He didn't stand off and
attempt to box with Cross as a
man depending strictly upon his
cleverness would have done. The
champion went right in and
slugged fiercely with the star New
Yorker and thereby took the most
desperate kind of a chance, for
Cross possesses a knockout punch.
there isn't the slightest doubt of
that. and had Ritchie been a trif1e
less wary with all of his apparent
indiscretions. he might have
kissed goodby to his title right
then and there. But ii is apparent
that he used caution and plenty
of it with all of his slugging and
at the end he came out with fly
ing colors.
~ HERE'S but one way. to look
at Ritchie and that is that he
is a real champion and liable
to retain his title for six or eight
years at least. Just now there
isn't a lightweight in sight that
has more than a good outside
chance of beating him, especially
in a long engagement. You see
the farther Ritchie goes the bet
ter he fights and in a 20 round
battle he is all but unbeatable.
Some of them may best him in
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12

Walter McCredie visited Urbita
springs in San Bernardino county a
few days ago and inspected 1t as a
possible training camp for the Beav-
ers next season. Mac was impressed
with the place and he is likely to
take his 1914 Beavers there to train.
However, it depends entirely on what
the Los Angeles club does. Dillon of
the Angels is also thinking of going
fo TTrbita surfnzs
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
WORD FROM WATKINS
FAIL AS ATHLETES

Rhodes scholar at oxford, talking of
the new rules restricting the partici-
patton of Rhodes scholars in the uni
versity sports, said today that without
objecting to the regulations he would
point out that the average standard
In athletic attainments of the Rhodes
scholars was consistently below that
of the school boys of the United
States. He cited records of the latter
ranging over a period of 19 years in
proof of his assertion. He said he be-
lieved material just as good could be
found in English schools IL the Amer
ican system of training were followed.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
ASKS FOR EXPENSE MONEY

Ialk about eastern athletes not be-
ing backward in asking for expenses
Listen TO this: A. L. Jackson. the
colored Harvard hurdler. was asked
10 compete in some games in New
York and actually had the nerve to
ask for $3s expense money. 1t was
paid and the New York registration
committee got on to the dope. This
committee communicated with the
Boston registration committee and
now Mr.. Jackson is in bad However.
with their usual method of smoothing
things over in the east, Mr.. Jackson
will still be an amateur. If one OF
our athletes were to do such a thing
the eastern registration committees
would hardly treat US with such easy
methods. The actual expenses for a
trip from Boston to New York are
not more than $40 at the limit Jack
son is to be asked to return all money
over $25 and he will be excused like
a good boy and told not to do it
again.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
sHAFER HAS NOT QUIT

In reply to a story that he would
retire from the game. Tilly Shafer
says il is true that he means to re-
tire some time, but not until he has
filled his contract with the Giants at
least. and the contract has another
year to run.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
THOUGH RItchie depend. lars

tuoh ioutc 10 ulicfCut AidbeSA
altogether.
-HOUGH Ritchie depends large
ly for his ring successes upon
his left hand, he has a corking
good right as well. and after he
has welded the left in order to
bring a man down to his own
size" he whips and slashes away
with the right in a telling man
ner. 1t is hard to call Ritchie a
one sided tighter, for he mills
equally well with either hand, but
naturally he knows the old princi-
pie of it being much safer to lead
with the left and use the right
for defensive purposes until his
opponent is in such a state of
helplessness that the right can go
over without much chance.
uAvE you ever stopped to
II think. now that Heine Zim-
norman has been suspended
by the Baseball Players frater-
nifty for nonpayment of dues,
what the members of that organi-
cation will do to him next sum-
mer when Heine is on the base
lines and they are In the coach
er's box. Say. but there ought to
be a lot of fun in that situation.
Heine didn't come through with
the dues for the organization. and
the Fultz body decided to put him
on the banned list Heine retorted
that he didn't care a rap what the
players did. as he intended to go
out there just the same next
summer and sting that pill to all
sections of the field. Perhaps he
will. but. just the same. the play
ers who are paid up members of
the frat ought TO have a lot of
fun with him before they get
through.
X
~ HINK of the pointed ques-
tions that the players can ask
Heine. any one of which ought
to get the goat of the man with
the opera singers temperamental
nature. 1t is said not to take a
great deal to get Heine to fly off
at a tangent, and now that the
''frats" have the material they
ought to make life miserable for
the big fellow. And you may be
sure they will If they see they
have him going at all.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
FEDERAL TIRE MAN IN CITY

FEDERAL TIRE MAN IN CITY
p II. Ober. superintendent of the
service department of the Federal
Manufacturing company of Milwau-
kee, makers of the Federal Rugged
tread tires, is at present visiting San
Francisco.
Ober is making an inspection of the
coast territory for the factory He
will remain in San Francisco for sew
eral days as the guest OF Manager E.
L. Rettig of the local Federal branch.
The new branch, which will be on
upper Van Ness avenue, will be
opened in a few days
4 x
STEVENS OFFICERS REELECTED
At the annual meeting of the
Stevens-Duryea company the follow
ing officers were reelected: Presi-
dent. w. II. whiteside: vice presi-
dent, J. Frank Duryea; clerk, w. NJ.
Remington. l. H. Page retired as
treasurer. Pages retirement is in
line with his decision made more
than two years ago from the active
participation In the analrS or the
company. at which time he relin-
quished the presidency.
WORD FROM WATKINS
The following notice was received
from Secretary watkins of the State
Automobile association:
by a unanimous vote last night
the San Luis Obispo County Automo-
bile association affiliated with the
California State Automobile associa-
tion and the American Automobile as
sociation. One hundred enthusiastic
automobilists attended the meeting
to discuss the new automobile law
and the affiliating with the state as
sociation. BY a unanimous vote 1t
was decided not to pay the tax under
the new automobile law until after
the courts have passed upon the con-
stitutionality of the test case insti-
tuted by the state association.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-12
You See, It's This Way


10 round encounter, but the Mara
thon route is different matter
altogether.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-14
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
FAILS AT SALEM, ORE,
City Reverts to tho wet Column
After Having Been Voted Dry
at Two Elections.

SALEM, Ore, Dec. 1a.-After twice
having been declared "dry" by the
majority Of the voters, this city again
reverted to the "wet" column today
by q decision Of Judge Galloway Of the
circuit court. Tho court held both the
local option measure passed November
and the charter amendment prohibit
ing the issuance Of saloon licenses.
adopted December /, to be invalid and
permanently restrained city officials
from attempting to enforce them.
The court holds that under the stat
utes local option measures may be voted
on only at regular elections which fall
on even years. The amendment cleo
tion was declared invalid because the
voters had registered under a law de-
clared unconstitutional by tho supreme
court.
"In passing on these cases that are
40 unduly agitating our people," said
Judge Galloway, "the court cannot too
strongly condemn the prevailing mania
for the ever-recurring elections which
only distract the people and paralyze
industry and bnsiness.' he added that
the trouble was not due to the increase
In the voting population through WON
an suffrage but was simply a mania.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-14
NO DOUBT ABOUT THE
PICTURE RECOVERED
Italian Experts and French
Government Convinced Pc
rugia Stole ''Mona Lisa"
STORY TOLD BY THIEF
Painting to Be Exhibited in
Florence Before Being
Returned.

FLORENCE. Dec. 13.--Vincenzo Pc.
rugia, from whom Leonardo da Vinci g
masterpiece, 'tMona Lisa was recov-
cred yesterday. declared absolutely to
the police today that he had no accom-
plces, either direct or indirect, In the
theft of the painting from the Louvre
Nobody knew OF his plan before its
erecution; nobody saw him when be
abstracted the picture, and nobody
knew he had the picture In his posses
sion
''I did not take the painting through
a desire for gain, he said, "but
wished to accomplish q good and holy
work by returning to my country one
of the many treasures stolen from it. Z"
While working in the Louvre, he con-
tended, he was overcome with shame on
hearing visitors indicate the best works
as Italian, One day he took this oath:
al will be unworthy OF Italy if
do not return to her one Of these mas
terpieces."
The idea obsessed him and the
"Mona Lisa was ever before him.
When he could delay no longer he
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-14
New Years Eve Celebration at Hotel
Utah

Preparations are now being made a-
TIE Hotel Utah TO make tho New Year ,.
Eve celebrations tho biggest social af.
fair ever given at that institution
Special entertainment Is being provid.
cd for the big grin room and the main
cafe, and the ball room With q big or.
chestra win be opened for those secur.
Ing tables IL either OF the dining rooms
special after theater supper VIII be
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blrs may now bs reserved.
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-14
Bandit Leader Killed.

CHICAGO. Dec. i3-Frank Nadia.
owner OF the garage from which Robert
Webb, leader OF the band OF automobile
winter, obtained his car. was killed al
most Instantly today oy the explosion
Of gasoline tank in tho garage Madla's
head was almost torn from his BODY
He was 2s years Old His evidence
against Webb was important
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-12-14
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