Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-01-16
Administration of Affairs in Ma
tional Pastime Marked by
Many New Faces.
MAcK's SPORTING LETTER

MACK'S SPORTING LETTER.
few months of the year of 1913 have
brought forth a big. CROP Of changes in
the administration of affairs in or
ganized baseball. Many men not in
office during the past season will hold
sway in 1914. To begin with there is
a new president of the National league
and member of the National commits
sion in John K. Tener, Pen%nsylvania's
governor. There are two heads of ma
jor league clubs. William f. Baker,
president of the Philadelphia Nation
ais. and Joseph j. Lannin. now half
owner of the Boston Americans. Two
major league clubs will have new man
ayers. Bill Dahlen n Joe Tinker hav-
ing been relieved of their managerial
togas.
Several minor league clubs will. pres
ent different fronts when the 1914 cam
paign begins. William S. Devery. for
mer police chief of New York, is the
new owner of the Jersey City Inter-
nationals. with his young friend. Fo-
garty. acting as club president. This
club also a a new manager in Rudy
cinnati Reds and st. Louis Cardinals.
Danny Hoffman. former American
league outfielder. nay be owner of the
bridgeport. Conn.,. club when the start
OF h season rolls around. Hoffman.
who lives in Bridgeport. opened ne
as far back as the close of last season.
and the final details of the deal may
be put through any day now.
Three men. who played in the Ma
tional league in 1913. will be minor
league managers next season. They
the Giants. who will lead the Chatta-
nooga. Tenn. club: Briscoe Lord. for
mer outfielder of the Athletics and last
a with the Boston Braves. who
will attempt to win the Southern league
pennant with the Mobile club. and Ar
thur Devlin. former third baseman of
n Giants. last year with the Braves.
who will hold the reins as manager of
h Oakland club of the Pacific Coast
league.
Moreover. there are men who have
quit organized ball to either play with
or manage teams in the Federal league,
George Stovall. manager of the st.
Louis Browns last season. being the
foremost of them. He will head the
Kansas City Federals.
Still another change of interest is
the return of Ed Hanlon. of Baltimore,
to baseball, as a hacker of his home
town club
John heydler, secretary of the Ma
t1onal league, Is advocating a good INT
q just thing when he suggests a column
In the box scores that will record err
rors of judgment as we'll as those of
hand and foot. That is, his suggestion
is a good n if he can devise some
way for the scorers to be certain
whether or not a bone" has been
pulled. If 'bonehead plays by PLAYERS
are to be recorded, why not keep a
record also of %"bonehead plays by
scorers? There probably are at least
as many of these as there arc of the
sort made by players. The only record
of scorers "boneheads" is a list of Of
fetal scorers who have been fired.
A dispatch tells about the Chicago
city board of estimate finding that the
city's garbage is worth sS7.500 a year
II disposed of properly. But the prob
lem is how to dispose of it properly.
For instance. who would give S. .aoN FOR
Ping Bodfe, granting that he is thai
large q proportion of the whole?
Bob Bescher. the new Giant, is
claiming the hunting championship of
baseball. The biggest one he has told
about his prowess this winter places
shooting at sc. If that is true. Bescher
ought not be proud to tell it and then
admit in the same breath that he
wastes his time playing baseball. Let's
see, there are 365 days in a year.
Stxty-six times 365 equals $4,000. Any
way. you have to hand it to him for
having nerve.
When the National College Athletic
association convenes in New York for
its annual meeting next week, the chief
topic to come up for discussion will
b. zoe n R-&~vI ~ -
1t is likely that some new method Of
preventing this evil among amateur
athletes will be found, but on the other
hand, it is not entirely impossible that
the body will endorse he practice as
an honest leans for a student to earn
letes all over the country will watch
eagerly for the result of the meeting.
DIR. E. D. Nichols. chairman of the adj
visory committee on baseball Of Har-
ward university. will be the chief
speaker on this topic.
The Rev. Endicott Peabody, d. D., head
master of the Groton school, a grad
uate of the University Of Cambridge.
England, will speak on the ideals of
sport in England and America. Prof.
G.. A. Ehler, of the Y. NJ. c. A.. will
discuss the regulation of intercollegi-
ate athletics. DIR. j. Naismith. of the
University Of Kansas. inventor of the
game of basketball. will speak on va
rious features of control in that sport.
Did you know thai there are more
golfers than baseball players in this
country? Neither did we, but a statis-
tician tells us SO. claiming there are
over 1000, 900 of them, whereas, ac-
cording to the same authority, there
are only about 1000, 900 baseball play
ers. Maybe SO. with the accent on the
maybe"