Evening star., 1914-11-16
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

though he made a glorious comeback
as manager and pitcher for the Lon
don team of the Canadian League this
season, is aweary of the game again
and will not go out next year. He Is
said to have recommended Cy Reidy as
the best man to succeed him as man
ager at London.
Bill Doak, premier pitcher of the st.
Louis Cardinals and premier Bible class
student of the Sunday school of the
First Methodist Protestant Church of
knoxville, was feted by his church
friends at Knoxville, Pa. last week.
cruited to tell Bill just how good he
was.
Pitcher Stanley Dougan. drafted by
the Cincinnati club from Winnipeg, in
the Canadian League. this fall. pitched
for Portsmouth last year under the
name of Stanley. His showing was
such as to cause Columbus to put in a
draft for him last fall. Columbus sent
him to Winnipeg the next spring. where
he developed into the leagues leading
twirler.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of pre-
ferred stock. bearing per cent inter
club In the near future. The idea will
be submitted to the stockholders at the
annual meeting, November 2s. The
ffty-thousand-dollar stock ISSUE" said
ply to provide some working capital
and is neither unusual nor important"
Royal N. Shaw, who recently sued the
San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast
League for $214.35 back salary alleged
to be due him, the case resulting in a
disagreement by the jury. now has
new action against the San Francisco
club, suit for $4,000 damages on the
ground that he was prevented from
making his living as a ball player
through the action of the club In sus-
pending him.
Jake Stahl, former manager of the
Boston Red Sox, is back in base ball.
He has been elected president of the
South Side Business Mems League in
Chicago, an amateur organization that
viii put an eight-club league in the
field next spring. John T. Powers will
be secretary and treasurer of the new
league, and it will be run on strictly
up-to-date lines and expects to cut a
big figure in the amateur game in Chi
cago.
Says the Boston Herald: There are
none so blind as those who will not
see And to this category belongs j.
G. T. Sphinx, dyed-in-thewool Ameri-
can League sympathizer and one of the
official scorers OF the late worlds 8
series. Sphinx has returned to his st.
Louis home seriously asserting, accord
ing to Sid Keener and other usually re-
liable newspaper men of that city, that
the Braves would not finish in the first
division in the American League. Fur
thermore, he declares that the Braves
had all the luck during the series. Pos
sibly Spink-but what's the use?'
Hugh Fullerton rises to defend
Johnny Evers against the attacks Of
Hank ODay. who says that the Trojan
only played a cheap part in the famous
Merkle affair in 1908. To prove that
Evers saw the play first, Hughey re-
calls the time the play came up in
Pittsburgh month before. when
Johnny called the turn. But, alas, he
had to go and accuse poor Scoops Carey
of pulling the Merkle on that occasion.
whereas Carey at that time was work
ing IN brewery at Terre Haute, and
from the brewery Max went to study
for the Lutheran ministry Scoops did
not go to Pittsburgh until nearly three
years after tha failure on the part of
Warren Gill to touch second. Scoops
has borne the brunt of the blame for
many things, but Fullerton carries the
thing too far in making him shoulder
the sins Of the clan of 1908.
Johnny Evers and Pat Dougherty, the
old Boston and Chicago outnelders, are
the only players who have played with
two different worlds championship
teams. Dougherty played with the Bos-
ton Americans when they won the
worlds championship in 1908, and he
that team won the championship in
1905 Eyers played with the Cubs