Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-10-21
Touring the
World Of Sport
A Few Side Lights Enroute
By Bon
Setting Bruce Right


Friend Bruce of The Duluth Her
aid is slightly worrit over the part
Grand Forks is playing in this Nor
thern league sQuabble. just where
the support of Grand Forks is placed
In this controversy is difficult to
state" lispeth Sir Robert in his ves-
per "colyums!'
'Tis very easy to guide His Bruce
let's on thhe right track. Grand
Forks has given both warning fac
tions the cold shoulder and is sitting
darn manner. The support of the To-
cal club was solicited by A. H. Pul-
ford. but the Canadian magnate was
informed that this burg was decided
ly neutral.
Here's a second sentence from
Bruce's contribution. And another
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Grand Forks
Is not right now member of the
league"
Perhaps not, Brucie, perhaps not.
But one cam never tell from where one
squats, and we'll ramble in now with
the brazen declaration that we're Just
as much a part Of the new Northern
as the Duluth gang.
Considering the present conditions,
it's just wee bit too early to talk
about this ten-year Northern circuit.
Mayhap Peeved Pulford and Angry
Laird will make the new Burmeister
league plans look like the Philadel-
phia. worlds championship hopes,
II they have their way with the Ma
tlonal Board of Arbitration, the en-
year Northern will look more or less
like a defunct Ladies' Aid society.
A Naughty Boomerang.
In carving on their little campaign
against the Feds. it appears that
some of the organized baseball mag
mates have knotted financial mill
stone around the cervical regions Of
their own frames. Some of them
continue to court disaster by Justify
telling the Feds to hit the trail to
Heliespont. while others are loudly
peading to the outlaws to lay off.
"Old Roman" Comiskey raked in a.
few iron men this summer, but. ac-
cordins to late bulletins, he stands to
lose 1t all. Just to keep the Federal
wolfe from the White Sox feed box,
Comiskey tied Longtime contracts to
all his baseball geeks. Some of them
were about as useful as a. prayerbook
in a players grip. but Comiskey went
to the mat with this Pride Person and
refused to let diamond aspirant slip.
instead, he made them af1x their
names to contracts. and all season he
paid out salaries to fellows that did
nothing but wear out three or four
pairs of training pants by sliding up
and down the bench During the
winter, he'll try to sell some of them
to the minors, but. judging from pres
ent reports, the latter will be able to
advance about nickel for every
ivory-head shipped them.
Exit Charles Doom. and enter Pat
rick Moran.
Cometh now the report that Moran
has been appointed manager of the
philadelphia Nationals. Patrick has
been acting as coach Of the Phillies,
and consequently he ought to know
what hhe's up against
And it's a sweet, little Job that they
have given him. The Philadelphia
team had about as hard shedding as
any aggregation in major league ball
during the past year. The Federals
yanked the heart out of the bunch
and the rest of the machine was Grip
pied by dissension among the players.
Al Patrick has to do is get the men
pulling together again nand start
them on another iunket pennantward