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The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
WARDS MAY NOT
LET MARQUARD
JOIN THE FEDS
Brooklyn Magnates Have Said
They Would Not Deal With
Contract Jumpers
SAY RUDE SWORE HE
WAS A FREE AGENT
National League Magnates in
Session, But Fireworks Are
Not Started

NEW YORK. Dec. Sit is reported
here that the Wards, Federal mag
mates at Brooklyn. will refuse to al
low RUDE Marquard 10 play with
their team IL IL Is definitely estab-
lished that he Is contract-jumper.
The Wards, who are known as men
OF the highest principles, have de
creed that they VIII have nothing to
do With contract-breakers, and many
baseball men believe that they will
stick by their word. They have said
that they supposed RUDE was a free
agent, and show an affidayit, signed
by the pitcher. TO support their con
tention.
Although the National commission
and National league Is making elab-
crate preparations to take the Mar
guard case into court, ii is predicted
that as soon as the facts are estab-
lished TO the satisfaction OF the out
law magazines acros sthe river, the
matter will never get AS far as a
Judge.
The National league magnates, re-
inforced by numerous American
leaguers and scattering representa-
NlOli VI ONhtt udS6DdillolSs SldIltu Aut
annual league meeting yesterday. but
failed 10 do anything definite. No
players were snapped and Charles
Webb Murphy. baseballs Cupid.like
nemesis, was not eliminated The
first day was given over to war talk
and plans proposed TO destroy the
peace OF mind OF one Richard Mar
guard. However, there is still time
for swapping and the anti-Murphy
resolution.
The day was enlivened by a state
ment from Clark Griffith TO the effect
that he did not believe that Walter
Johnson had signed with the Feds
after all. and that he had money to
bet on Il. Prexy Gilmore at once
wired from Chicago that he had
shown Johnson's contract to an UNI
pire, so there. Gilmore also wanted
to know how much money Griffith
had
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
HISTORICAL DOPE ON BALL
WAR IS $3.50 PROPOSITION

ers and capitalists began TO argue.
and discipline was heayed overheard
The allstar teams did not show the
class expected. Patronage was diyid.
ed and in few weeks IL became ext.
dent that both the National and the
Players leagues stood To lose money
sat tight. but the outlaw capitalists
began 10 get cold ieer,
Boston got commanding lead, and
the Players league pcnnant race lost
it's thrills, Wet weather interfered
with play in. September. After the
season closed. the Cincinnati National
league club was purchased by some
hook or crook for $4,000. A series
Of exhibition games al Garry Herr,
manns town were total failure.
Then the players and capitalists start
ed TO confer, and the league received
its death blow
The New York and Brooklyn clubs
secretly arranged TO sell out TO the
National league, ana rush FOR cover
started The final result was that the
New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and
Chicago clubs were consolidated: the
Cleveland and Buffalo outlaw clubs
were purchased outright, and Boston
and Philadelphia were given tran
chises in the reorganized American
association. So ended the Players
league.
Sounds just like hot stun straight
from the front in the winter OF 1914
1915. with a little prophesy added,
doesn't it,
The personnel OF the championship
Boston club OF the Players league
contains some names familiar 10 the
old guard Radbourne. Gumbert, Da'
ley, Kilroy and Madden were the
pitchers; Kelley Murphy and SWEET
caught: Brouthers, Quinn. Nash and
Irwin formed the infield; Richardson.
Storey and Brown were the outheld,
and Arthur Irwin was manager.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
DOC" Krdenzlin May
Be Pennsy 1915 Trainer

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. S.--The two
men most prominently mentioned now
as candidates for the late Mike Muir
phys job as trainer OF the University
OF Pennsylvania athletes are Harry
Tuthill, trainer OF the Detroit Tigers,
and Dr.. A. G.. Kraenzlin, formerly
Fielding Yosts right-hand man at the
University OF Michigan, Kraenxlin Is
now under contract 10 coach the Ger
man Olympic athletes, but he has been
In this country since August and
there does not now seem TO be much
probability of his having much mate
rial left after the war ends. Kraenz-
lin seems TO be somewhat OF favor
tie over Tuthill because the former
champion hurdler is a Pennsy grad
uate. and would be available as a
track coach as well as all-around
trainer.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
$50 Candidates
For Y.H.M.I. Teams

More than 100 boys are out TO make
the basketball teams OF the You.s
Mems Hebrew institute this winter,
and some splendid material is being
developed There are several clubs
connected with the institute. and each
have the use OF the gymnasium one
night a week. with the exception or
the V NJ. II A.. which gets into &C
tion two nights a week. Each club
has league OF its own and an all
star representative team. The Boy
Scouts. Tri.Squares, Washingtons and
Adriatics are under the direction OF
Charles W Yeager OF the ID. T.. ).
The Washington first team Is compos-
ed OF NJ. and r. Waterson, forwards;
Levine and Epstein, guards. and Ja-
len, center These teams are anxious
for games with quintets formed OF IL
yearolds up.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
lack Johnson Must Lose to VIM
Films Worthless OTHERWISE

1t is computed that Johnson has
earned close to 100000 in the six
years he has been champion. This
includes money from the theatrical
engagements and IL fights
Although Johnson has been fighting
for 3 years, IL was not until he won
the title from Tommy Burns that he
was able 10 lay aside a surplus. Pre-
ylous TO thai ho lad led hand.to-
mouth existence. always in debt 10
his various managers, who succeeded
each other In rapid succession. =
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
few new FACES FOR
RED SOX NEXT YEAR
Carrigan to Stand Pat, il is
Said-But Two Bushers
Have Chance

Manager Carrigan, OF the Red Sox,
will start his wild career pennant-
ward next spring with much the same
team that copied second place last
season McNally little shortstop
from ST Paul. and Shorten, Wor-
cester outhelder. are believed To be
the only recruits who have chance
TO break into the old lineup. Wood,
l. leonard. Collins Foster. Shore,
Gregg, Ruth, Cooper and Scott, Is the
way the roll OF the pitching STAFF will
read IL looks good. There seems
10 be some question whether Ray
Collins really jumped to the Feds. and
now 1t is claimed that he will be back
to do some Tiger-taming next year.
The chance for world series money
that is looming up in Boston town Is
said to look good TO the men OF Car
rigan
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
New Home of Boston Braves Will
Be In Sight of Harvard Stadium

The new home OF the Boston Braves
is TO be constructed on the site OF
the Ellsworth golf course, according
10 stories from the Hub. The loca-
ton is on the lines OF the Boston &
Albany railroad just across the
street from the Boston city limits. and
overlooks the Charles river and Sol
diers' field, the home of the Harvard
football eleven. A swamp at present
occupies one end OF Gaffney's new
site, and the other end will have to
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Should Chop Mile
Off Regatta Course

Although Il is very improbable that
the distance for the eastern inter-col-
legiate crew races will be cut from
four 10 three miles next spring, the
shorter course is meeting with lot
OF favor The long course makes
rowing a much more strenuous sport
than football, despite the fact that Its
evil effects are not so quickly notice
able Four miles Is altogether too
much OF task TO set for young men,
no matter how finely conditioned they
may be Coach Courtney's three-mile
suggestion IL in the right direction,
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08

NEW YORK. Dec. S.--lf Jack John.
son loses 10 either Jess Willard or
Sam McVey. he will probably gain
several hundred thousand dollars.
This Ia the opinion expressed by we'll
informed moving picture men. Pic.
lures will be taken OF both bouts. of
course. hut n Johnson wins the films
VIII be worthless. The pictures of
tic colcrcd heavyweight champion
taking the count from blows OF n
white hope, however, would be worth
big money, and Johnson would get
the lions share OF this.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08

be chewed out of a steep hill. The new
park. which will be rushed to com
pletion, is 675 feet wide and $50 feet
long The location. which is mile
further out than Fenway park. is
considered dandy by Boston fans,
all OF which makes Detroiters sing
hymns OF praise when they think OF
Nayin field. almost in sight OF the
city hall. President Gaffney, of the
Braves, has not announced the sum
OF money he expects TO put into his
new baseball plant
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Welsh Will Rest
For Three Weeks

Freddy Welsh will not box Mickey
Sheridan at Grand Rapids this week.
In fact, the champion will not box
anybody for three weeks. This de-
cision was reached on the advice OF
his doctors, according TO Welsh, but
ii probably means that he realizes
that his laudable intention 10 take
them all on in hurry. is too much
OF job for his frail constitution.
Then there is sore hand that has
been bothering him. say ringsiders,
despite wholesale denials The Rap
ids promoters are looking for some
body to sub" for Welsh Friday night
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
UMPIRE QUIGLEY is A
BEAR FOR PUNISHMENT

This Umpire Quigley OF the Ma.
tional league. is bear for punish
ment. Instead OF hitting the trail for
some distant village. where his past
was unknown. after the end of the
baseball season. Quigley went out TO
the Rocky mountain country and IN
dertook the officiating end of gridiron
encounters. Now that the football
season Is over, he will ofiiclate at
games In Kansas until
comes into style again.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
6. White Clears
Way for Shugrue

CHICAGO. Dec. S.-Charley White.
Chicago lightweight today called of
his bout with Frankie DAILY at Toledo.
on Dec. IS. and cleared the decks for
his encounter with young Joe Shu-
grue in New York. on Dec. %. the
match having been closed yesterday
II will be the third encounter between
the two lightweights, each having
claimed victory in previous engage
ments
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Case Coach Loser But
Gets Another Chance

When football coach retains his
after his team has been
beaten 90 TO . by Michigan and has
had one OF the largest OF grand total
scores piled up against H. that coach
is TO be envied Such is the case OF
Wesley T. Engleshorn. former Dart
mouth and all-American tackle, who
was football mentor at the Case uni
yersity in Cleveland this fall. The
faculty, student body and team are
In accord in extending him an offer TO
continue his services
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Somebody Pity Brooke

Before returning TO Pennsylya-
MIA, George Brooke was success
full coach. While at Pennsylvania.
In 1893. 1894 and 1895. he played
OH three and capitalized one team
which beat Cornell During the
course OF those three battles ho
personally kicked Two Held goals.
scored two touchdoWns and kicked
lS goals from touchdowns. A mum
Der OF youngsters who have lost
two games IN succession TO Cornell
have just voted their lack OF con.
fidence in Brooke. Poor Georgel
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Williams Headed
For Feather Class?

Ii looks as If Kid Williams is not
long for the bantamweight class. He
is angling for scrap with Johnny
Kilbane, a fact that is interpreted by
the wise 'uns as the preliminary to
climbing into feather circles. In that
event, a New Orleans person by the
name of Burns will at once claim the
battam title. II Kilbane finds a per-
manent berth among the lightweights.
II is also supposed that Williams will
claim Kilbane's old crown, as a little
knocking around in that division
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
NO CHANGES IN ROLL OF
s. Nj. ARE ANNOUNCED

JACKSON. Mich, Dec. S.--The
Southern Michigan league adjourned
its annual December meeting last
night after transacting very little bus
mess and failing TO announce the pro
posed changes in the circuit i was
announced. however. that there would
be but eight clubs in the league when
the season opens All OF the s. VI.
cities were represented at the meet
ing except Bay City and conjecture
relative 10 what cities will be dropped
is purely guess work There will be
another meeting in two weeks. il Is
said
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
HERE'S ANOTHER ONE
ABOUT FIELDER JONES

Now comes the story that Fielder
Jones. peeved az the Feds, Is negotlat
Ing for the purchase OF the champion
ship Portland, Ore, team OF the
Northwestern league. II Is probably a
fairy tale. however. for the recent
acquisition OF stars by the outlaws
have made the Feds future worth
gambling on by everybody now I'M.
der contract with tho Gilmore circuit.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
BRICKLEY WAS ONCE
A TRACK STAR, TOO

One of these days all Of Charley
Brickley's athletic achievements will
be dug up and printed in a bunch. The
roll would make quite a formidable
volume, too. Now saat he has in
formed the eagerly-listening public
that he is going TO play baseball next
spring, and do a good job of IL, II is
recalled that he won the hop. step and
jump event in the tryouts for the last
Olympic games in 1911.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
BIG SQUADS AT ALL
DETROIT SCHOOLS

Every high school basketball squad
In Detroit was in action yesterday.
The squads are still OF ponderous
size, and but little cutting has been
done. No tentative lineups have been
announced by any OF the scholastic
coaches Coach Hardy, OF u. OF d.
has an aggregation OF 20 ball tossers
from which TO pick his quintet. He
is looking for a splendid team this
winter
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Jack May Demand That
Belgian Ransom, Too

Jack Johnson is unpopular in
Parts because he refused TO enlist
hut he is perfectly willing 10 tight
the Germans. All he demands is
the war fund. win, lose or draw
and that the crown prince go and
get reputation.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Rapids III Clears $500.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Dec, s.
Grand Rapids Central High cleared
81 500 ON the football season, this
year. Losses from track and base
ball, however. will cut into this sur
plus Basketball is nearly self-sup-
porting.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Baseball In Europe Would Haze
AUerted War, Says Harvard Grad

Baseball a panacca mitasm.ridden Europe is put
by who years
10
bestc condition would
N
Vienna Antwerp participating
a taking Belgrade n
would have tolerated the breaking
baseball and II they had
the worlds series was over would have given them all time
on probably would
he cvlze Philippines
army. constabularies and missionaries put ogether"I
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
ANOTHER WOLVERINE
Is GRID CAPTAIN

Jake Speelman, remembered as a
star on the Grand Rapids Central High
school eleven In 1909 and 1910. has
been elected captain OF the Unlver-
,sity OF Missouri football team for
1915 He IL star end In college cir
clesA He has also won his letter in
basketball at the show me" school
The fate 0f Emmett Drseoll, former
bantam star. who wa killed recently
by train. will probably be cited as
additional proof that boxing Is dan
gerous game,
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Everett. Hieh Claims RecOrd.i

Everett High school, which NAY
play Detroit Central next fall is
claiming scoring record because II
has run up total or COL points
against It's opponents, none OF whom
have scored ON Everett. The Massa-
chusetts school. however, played l3
teams this season.
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08

VI may Dc true that 1y Cobb I'm.
tends 20 retire from baseball and 90
into the cotton business. but he viii
probably defer >aCtlon until either the
cotton business gets better or base.
ball gets worse
The Detroit times., 1914-12-08
Bender To Baltimore

Bender To Baltimore.
Chief Bender. who jumped from the
Athletics TO the Federal league, Sat
urday, will play with Baltimore next
year. IL is announced.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW

Along with the day of prayer for the peace or
Europe it might with proprety be suggested
that day be set apart for popular memorial
to the Interstate Commerce Commission for
just rendering of the public account with the
railroads.-ChattanOoga Times,
Nothing can bring back the glory of Rheims
Imagination is touched with the heat of pas
Of it's noblest church, and it recoils with scorn
and loathing from the guilty hOrde.-New YORK
Tribune.
The struggle in Colorado is sure to be re-
newrd, unless the State takes back its aOdcatea
authority resumes its forgotten duties ana
both makes and enforces laws which viii pro-
mote peace in the mining resons.-ChcaHo
Journal.
Every welI-informed commentator ON me
problem OF building up our trade with SoulL
America agrees that il Is mainly question OF
whereby ample credit f'fclitics may be eNtehdeu
To the Latin-Americans and payment OF trans
actions carried out with facility.-SL ia"'
Pioneer Press.
Railroad men should lean ON themselves more
and on the Government less. They should hus
stand back hclplcssly without econumizinE ani
ask the Government for a license 10 I@lI @
shippers and railroad passengcrs.-MH"
Journal
The extension OF American banking taclnt's
to South American cities should he followed )"
the establishment of cheaper rates OF posl's''
New York Times
leaders desire 10 go into the coming cleGt"a
with an mdefensible grab--even fzop'gug
appropriatiou--to their discrcdit they nave SUI
denly become less careful of The Eohtleai 80
poets OF administration than they have ps-N
heret9fore.-New York Tribune.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
THE IDEALIST

Did You ever tell "a white lie?
After YOU had told H. did you feel any
Joss moan. small and disposed to creep
suake-lke iuto the nearest hole than when
SON had told a real substantial one?
n is curious how we grease our con
sciences FIN the white lie habit. ! sat i'm
mans ofnoe when his messenger presented
VISITORS card. After quick glance he
returned il 20 the boy with the trite in
slrIritons to tell him I'm out
This follow forthwith established his repu-
ta'ou for wilful inaccuracies among Two
people, the hoy and myself; perhaps i'm IL
self not serious handicap to his standing.
but Just as a drop of aniline dye will tint
hogshcad of water this mans lack of re-
spcct for pur" truth Will gradually permcate
his outire environment. This is as inevitable
as the law of sravitation is inevitable
Doubtless the mental process is: well [
don't want 10 see this visitor and / don't
want 60 insult him by telling him So Hence
abstain from making him angry by leading
hlm 30 believe | am not in my office"
Did you ever see sin marching alone?
Never! Always IL is found ia the company
Of its own bone and marrow The thief
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"They Who Offer Carrion for Meat

DENROSE organs, whose moral perspective
II is so blunt that it might as well not exist
are attempting to persuade their readers that
the EVENING LEDGER has become Democratic.
Was there ever candidate who hid So
closely behind the party cmblom as Mr. Pen
rose? Il am Republican" he says, and all
the little satellites solcmnly echo. lie is a
Republican Apparently Rcpublcanism is Il
cane without which the senior Senator could
not hobble twenty yards. Yet he is not a
Republican. His organization was dcnumi-
mated by that true Republican, Senator Root,
"a criminal conspiracy" a masquerade. 1t is
a trim garment in which this coteric Of poll
ticians have wrapped Pcnrosotsm, Il pretty
dress, Tear it aside and a stencil Of corrup
tion deadens the atmosphere. There are tho
trembling limbs of graft, the tricky fingers,
the dripping revenue from rum, the long
Capitol scandal. the vicious debauchcry of
voters, the indescribable alliances with vice,
the whole composite body of social parasites
and hangers-on, combined in vast con-
spiracy of loot.
If that is Republicanism, then America is
done with Republicanism; and the world is
done with it, and decent men and women are
done with it. But it isn't. Not Il bit of it.
On the contrary. the vital principles of the
party that saved the Union first from dis
solution and then from economic calamity
still live They are the principles that thou
sands Of men want to vote for, but will not
vote for if at the same time they must ho put
on record as approving as immoral a set of
political adventures as over gathered to-
gether on the public highways or in the back
rooms of corner dens.
This nation will have RepuhliCaniSm with
out the fraud that Penroseism attaches to il
Il III ff. oil
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Our Enemy the Rat

IETAR has been declared on The rats
Wy of Philadelphia They have mot y.-
scourged this city with the bubonIo plague
but science and education have convinced JAe
modern age that they are meuaces 10 the
health Of any community Philadelphia Will
probably do at once what New Orleans did
after the rats had been the means If destroy
ing many human lives, This is "a wise maxim
for cities, ITO take warning from others Of
what may be to your own advantage
The rat never enjoyed the popuartE with
which the fly used 10 be favored. Shakespeare
and Cervantes both referred 10 him in slight
ing metaphorical phrase and Browning gave
him prominent but not complimentary 9lsn-
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sired change in the old Constitution, which
dated back to Charles H. Rival factions
were formed--the Suffrage" and the Law
and order" parties. Each elected a set OF
state officials and each sought to gain con-
troll of the State Government. Thomas w.
Dorr was chosen Governor by the Suffrage
party and attempted to seize the Govern
ment, but was sentenced to imprisonment
for life, being pardoned subsequently,
Cold saw, II dish essentially American in
its popularity, is said to have been invented
by the early Dutch settlers, who called it
koo- slaa.
John Bulls sister Peg is really Scotland
a poor girl raised on porridge and water and
quartercd in a garret exposed to the north
wind In Arbuthnot's satirical History OF
Europe she is represented as madly in love
with JaCk--John Calvin.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-22
FIGHT TO THE FINISH

To the Editor Of the EUoninD Ledger:
Sir-A campaign is on in this Commonwealth
which is being watched throughout the length
and breadth of our land. 1t Is a fight to a
finish between the discredited old machine and
the forces which will prevail If the old Keystone
state is to be lifted into the place It must
occupy if we as Pennsylvanians are to stand
erect men worth while.
The issue is Penrose as the embodiment Of
practices which longer have any proper
place in political and industrial life. These
are the days for the valiant on both sides OF
the ocean, and the call of duty Is just as clear
as If II were "To arms" instead of to the ballot
box. When the Evening Ledger enlists in this
campaign, agRressivey opposing this blight on
our national lfe it, in my judgment, performs
n great public duty and makes a contribution to
the cause of good government second to none.
DAVID J. PEARSALL.
Mauch Chunk, Pa, September 15, 1914.
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tion in one of his poems. The fly, however
Jared somewhat better in general esteem
until science and education changed the atti-
tude Fifteen or twenty years ago children
in kindergartens sang liltngly of the fly in
baby's milk" Selected by Professor Quiller-
Couch for The oxford Book of English
Verse" is an excellent poem of William
Oldys, beginning
Busy curious. thirsty fly!
Drink with me and drink as [.
Freely welcome to my cup,
Coudst thou sip and sip it up,
But the fly is now our enemy, and the rat
is more knowingly dreaded than ever before.
There is safety in fear