Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-10-17
BASEBALL SEASON Of 1914 IS OVER:
WORLDS TITLE DECIDED ON TUESDAY,
Many Minor Leagues Throughout This Country and
Canada Had Good Season-the Wisconsin Eleven is
Strengthened by Addition of Guyon.

South Michigan league, 1st season,
Bay City.
South Michigan league, End season,
Saginaw.
The reported acquisitions by the
University of Wisconsin football team
of halfback Guyon, formerly of the
Carlisle Indian school eleven should
greatly strengthen the Badger back
field. Guyon was a remarkable player
at Carlisle his record being almost
equal to that of Jim Thorpe. Last fall
he scored twenty touchdowns for the
Indians; kicked nine goals and one
field goal giving him a total of 1872
points This record grows in import
ance when the Carlisle 1918 schedule
Is considered containing as it did
games against Cornell. Pitteburg.
PENNSYLVANIA, Dartmouth, Syracuse,
Brown. Georgetown and other strong
college teams. If Guyon plays in the
conference games. Chicago. Minnesota,
Illinois n other middle western uni
versity coaches will have something to
worry about.
Dad" Phillips. who is employed as
binder by the Leland-Stanford Uni
first finger mitt ever used in a base.
ball game. Over forty years ago
Dad says he played on the same
team with A. G. Spalding at Rockton,
ILL.,, and tells of the origin of the mitt
as follows:
I'm one of the games hat our
Rockton squad played we were at
tracted by the sound of the ball as it
clapped into the hands of the man
on first base for our opponents. OF
course. none of us wore mitts in those
days. and we never thought such a
thing would be practical. But this
man on first base always caught the
ball with a loud pop, and several of
US noticed 1t, though we could see
nothing unusual about his hands.
However,, after he caught the ball
his left hand. After the game Spald-
ing and I went over to see what he
had in his hand. After some protest
he showed us. 1t was nothing but a
piece of bent metal around which he
had sewed some leather. 1t seemed
he had injured his hand, and did not
want to be kept out of the game,
which was for the championship Of
the state. So he had made this mitt."
Bunting ought to be tabooed. ac-
cording to Dad" He says that on
the team on which he played original
ed the bunting stunt, but he does not
think h a 1t is legitimate baseball. In
his early days a bunt was called a
fair foul.'' and was not looked on
with much favor by the fans Of the
time.
Ernest Barry Of England. who re-
Gently received a challenge on behalf
of James Paddon to another match
for the worlds sculling championship,
with generous financial considerations,
provided the C. was rowed on the
Wangan river. New Zealand, has re-
tterated his decision not to take part
in a contest for the title on any river
other than the Thames.
Il think I am perfectly justified in
continuing the policy l nave always
adopted said Barry. ut is one
which will give the English people an
opportunity Of following my career,
either until l am beaten or retire. If
Australasians want to relieve me Of
my possession they must come to the
Thames. 1 hope that will be suf1ci-
ent to settle the question for all time
! am not. however, averse to a visit
to Australia to take part in a big han
dicap race on the Parramatta, pro-
vided I receive a reasonable offer to-
wards the expenses"