New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-21

Don't let them count you out, my boy,
Don't let the old axe fall;
You're through, we know, but what OF
that?
Buck up and fool them all.
The arm may fail, the eye may dim,
The wallop lose its sting;
Do what you've done so oft before:
Stick to EN-, Johnny, cling.
Upon reading that Johnny King is
again at his favorte winter pastime of
quitting the game those deathess lines
of Lord Byron are brought to mind:
Fare thee well and If forever,
Then forever fare thee well.
II j. nigh unto six years that Johnny first
left the Chicago Cubs fiat. Since then he
has travelled from team TO team, quitting
industrously every season.
According 10 the most carefully selected.
hand-picked rumors Arthur Shafer is
about TO leave the Giants for the second
time this winter. But his efforts along
this line smack Of the amateur beside the
massive rec);d which King has piled up.
Bill Brennan, of the National League UNI
pire stan. has deserted to the outlaws under
the pressure Of a three-year contract. Per
haps Bill is "A hit chary about working in
Philadelphia again. rs il will take more than
a year to wipe out the memory Of that fear
full afternoon last August when the Ire Of the
Quaker City was reused.
lie Lafa a lie
are going TO blow up that he has asked
Helnie Zimmerman TO sign a three-year
contract beginning with 1915. his present
contract having another season to run.
But then. what Charlie says for publica-
ton is one thing and what he really
thinks is quite another thing, as many
have learned to their sorrow.
But why all this fuss about Heinie. It's a
safe wager that Frank Baker himself doesn't
draw down s. 900 "a year from the Athletics
A. fielder Zimmerman leaves much to be
desired. and while IA good hitter when In the
mood he has broken all records IA dis
turbing factor on a team. There are a lot
OF third basemen TO he preferred to him.
and Murphy il pay ing high to nail him down
Now that Russ Ford has Joined the out
laws. tho pitching proposition of the Yam
KEGS take on that deep indigo hue which
characterized it last season. king" Cole
who was to have done sa much. has long
since departed. Tho Federals we're slow
in starting operations on the American
League but they are now striking at a
d cole. IN.
/ the apple OF Ban Johnsons eye. and TO
strengthen 1t has been his hearts desire
/ for years.
A. far a. Howard Camnitz and I'd WilIett
are concerned organized baseball can bear
up. Both have given their best TO the vested
interests. and what remains il OF trifing
value.
Instead OF being on the verge OF dlsur-
/ ganization at that meeting in Chicago the
| outlaws must have just been getting their
second wind
lack Johnson SENS 10 he as popular
in England as he was in Chicago as the
owner Of the Cafe de Champion. But as
| long rs Paris adores him he can worry
along. With Jack near and Mona Lisa
back. life in the French capital must be
ono sweet song
Parke Davis has discovered another Brick
ley right in our own back yard. According TO
his statistics Porter. of Mackenzie School.
kicked the longest goal OF the season last
fall. when he dropped the ball over from the
45-yard line. He made four neld goals In
one game. one less than Brickleys record.
and barely missed = NTH from the 50-yard
line The boys up In New Haven might he