Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-22
.EBBETS AND HERMANN
TO BATTLE FOR $4,000
Price Paid for Release of Tinker the
Stmke-National Commission
to Act as Referee.
TENER To TAKE FULL CHARGE
National League President Will Have
Offices in QualSertown and New
Yorll-Connie Mack in Dutch"
With Philadelphia Fans.

y terrific battle for a $4,000 stake
VIII be fought on or about December
8 III the fashionable Waldorf Astoria
Hotel between Charles Hercules Eb-
bets, The Flatbush Squire" and Gar
rulous Garry Hermann. the Pride OF
Cincinnati" The National League vii,
act az referee
The title, to the SIS 600 once was
owned by Charles Hercules That was
generosity. Charles purchased flcl;It
S Saii,d pia aver from Garrulons Garry. The
Favcrsham Tinker
Charles. a. MARI my r-memher.
Turned = check for Sl5 900 over to Car
ru aIoas Garry for Zoe Tinker and other
hut Charles never got Joe. Nor did
hons get a a e the valuab'e consider
hearty horse laugh 4 horse laugh Is
s ehIn riss 1t morth $1,000 Tneretore,
Fine ehance-nne chance" answers
for party not s" S f TkeT
should turn bnck the $4,000: why
The ou SIS. 900 is Hn1e."h'-- ] won't
Fifteen thousand dollars is $4,000.
and no one knows that any better than
didn't mind parting with si5 oGo for r
the privilege OF acquiring star ball
tn he fHt wn fn he got nemns hut
Feds, doing. the acquirineiEit pioned
Charles quite n bit. And Charles con-
81 s'ha .eco. 70 yell for the Fe'ur" Of that
II turned. over Sic 900 for player.
and | didn't get the player. so why
been the an-season wall of Charles
! II didn't sell with tho satisfaction
=
Pride. of Cincinnati' o
the Car of the Ohio River section,
Charles Appealed his case TO the Ma
zion was to bring the sauabbling pair
before 1t. arm the boys with the me-
before the assembled directors of the
league. the league TO act as referee
and the winner of the bout to take all
Prexy Tener, OF the National League,
Is preparing. to 1ump into the baseball
game with both feet. Tencrs job as
Will take full control of the National
League helm and will continue as pilot
Tor three years to come
Tener was elected for four-year
term as National League president last
winter. He didn't receive any salary
for his first year, which ends Decem-
Der 81, because he was holding down
the Governorshlp. ioD. But from Jan
uary ! 1916 until the end OF his term
he will receive S25 900 a year
Toner'S office will be in Philadelphia
but he also will maintain headquarters
in New York.
Connie Mack. once the idol Of Phiia,
dolphia, isn't what he used TO be. His
action in asking waivers on Bender,
Plank and Coombs has turned the
Quaker City fandom against him. In
other words. Mack although decidedly
Irish is I'm Dutch" in dear, old Phil
lydelfya."
Bender. Plank and coomba were
among the most popular of the Athletic
players, and the fact that they never
again will fight under the Mnckinn
standard has soureds fandom on the
man who is responsible for Ii.
Mack may have his reasons. He
cites a few and calls them good reas-
ons." But In Philadelphin the fans
do not agree with him. They think 9TH
erwise. and right now there is talk
of boycotting tho Athletics park next
summer.
II Pat Moran can get the .f'hnlics
into a fairly lively stride next season
it seems certain that the Phillles will
have the attendance bulge.