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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
II BOSSES in 81
YEARS FAIL TO
WIN FOR pills
Quaker City Nationals Have
Yet to Capture First
Title Play
G. STALLINGS WORST
MANAGER OF THE LOT
Wright Holds Long Distance
Record, Hanging to Job
For IL Seasons

PHILADELPHIA. Dec. For 81
years have the Pills tried 10 win
pennant and for 32 years have the
pills failed. Other clubs have talieu'
too but not quite SO often as the
pills. And in all these 81 years the
pills have been Loyalty supported,
everyone telling himself that mex
year" will be the year. Maybe IL Will
One can never tell.
In these 80 years the pills nave
had II managers Moran making tue
twelfth. Charley Doom held down
the lob longer than anyone else since
the DAYS OF Harry Wright. who man
aged the pills for IL years, pelns
assisted the last two years ne was
with the club. Doom held the post
for FIVE years, and William j. Shetts-
line. still with the Pills, was manager
for four and one-half years.
In all this time the record mace py
Wright In the early days OF basepali
appears TO be the best, while the rec
ord made by George Stallings. now
tho manager OF the worlds champion
Braves, is the poorest. Stalllngs trleu
TO manage the RIMS III too'' "A
club finished tenth in l2-cluD circuit
They we're twelfth before the season
was two months old in 1898. ana the
rebellion which had been smoulderings
for more than year broke forth ana
the players refused TO go on the nelo
again with Stallings as manager
The Phils were first managed oy
Bob Furgeson, who captured cellar
championship at the start Virgin
took hold the next year. 1884, and tot
IL years finished no worse than fourth
with the exception of his first season
when he had 10 put up with Furge
sons leavings. Arthur Irwin. Billy
Nash. Andy Freedman, Chief thinner
like Moran. a catcher on the team
and Hughey Duffy are among the
others who tried and failed.
All in all. however, the Phils nave
made good record as club. The
club finished second four times
third. six times; fourth. ii times
seventh, twice; eighth, three times
and tenth, once. Luck has never beer
with the managers OF the Pills.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
Yes, Fred Has Done Better
Than Most Crowned Boxers

OF fear for his hard-earned crown,
Welsh almost Immediately jumped TO
Milwaukee to fight Charley White.
The latter was given a draw by some
sporting writer's. but Welsh had no
time for explanations or excuses. He
was fighter His board bill refused
to stop. He made another date-this
time to meet crafty Duffy, at Buffalo.
He kept the date by outpointing
Duffy.
Now there are two reasons why
Welsh should get the palm for this
record. He should get It going or
coming. Some folks might say, Well,
why shouldn't he fight. This business
OF praising him for being a willing
worker is all bosh. Welsh can COM
mand the money and he's getting II
while it's good" Let's concede that.
only for the sake OF argument, and
well ask this one question:
How many American champions in
the last Is years have been willing to
mix with the best ones in such quick
fashion. and for the comparatively
small purses Welsh gets'' That's
all.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
SCHOOL QUINTETS
START BASKETBALL
Local Teams Begin Practice for
Winter-Eastern Has Squad
of 30 Candidates

Basketball is here. The local schn 81
schedules Will not open for few
weeks yet, but the thump OF the big
sphere is resounding at the gy'Gs
each afternoon and the strategy
boards are giving their ideas tryouts.
AT Central. Coach Buss is building
quintet around Hendrian and Whit
marsh, last years stars. ead at East
ern. Coach Frye has men from
which TO pick trio OF new tossers.
Frye's veterans will be Ireland and
West
Coach Rogers has big squad out
at d. u. s.. and will have TO pick
four new regulars. Capt. Lovett being
his only veteran Coach Maris got
the jump on the enemy by starting
Northwestern practice. with big
turnout, last week. Westerns start
is delayed until arrangements for
the use OF the gym can be made, and
Coach Pearl, OF Cass Tech, has hsld
up work because OF his non-appear-
ance
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
PLAY
In NOTABLE GAME
Speigel and Boville to Perform
Against Redskin All-Stars
At Pittsburgh

The football season is dead, but
like the proverbial serpent, it con
tinues to display signs OF life until
the sun goes down. There Is yet an
other game 10 be played. and il really
is 10 be- a notable game. For the
benefit of charitable enterprises In
Pittsburgh. an eleven composed OF
men who once starred on Carlisle
teams will meet an all-star eleven
made up from various Pennsylvania
schools. The game will be played al
Forbes field. In the Smoky city, and
the lineup will include at least two
Detroiters. Speigel and Bovill. OF
Washington and Jefferson. Among the
famous redskins who will play will
be Quarterback Arcasa, Bergte, Gar
dener and Joe Wheelock. the latter
Jim Thorpe's old running mate in the
backfleld.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
BACKFIELD THAT
DROVE YALE TO
COVER RETURNS
Princeton 1915 Squad Retains
Men Who Scored Twice on Blue
in Eight Minutes
TIGER LOOKS STRONG
FOR NEXT SEASON
Only Four Varsity Players Will
Graduate This Year-MuSt
Have Head Coach

PRINCETON. y. j.. Dec. Prince
ton men are trying hard 10 see the
silver lining in the cloud which hangs
over Tiger football as result OF the
season of 1914, and many maintain,
with every show OF reason, that the
silver is not only there, but that IL
is well polished.
The chief requisite for uneoyering
IL IN 1915 is held 10 be an adequate
coaching system. and the agitauon
for the desired change has become SO
insistent that a new and permanent
coach is practically assured.
Only four men OF regular standing
on the 1914 eleven will be lost by
graduation, while five substitutes.
who won their varsity letters for
playing a short time in either the hAr-
ward or Yale games. will receive their
diplomas In June. The backf1eld, as
1t played in the memorable fourth
quarter OF the Yale struggle, when
the Tigers awoke TO sweep Hinkey 8
men back for two touchdowns In
eight minutes. Will remain intact as
far as can be predicted now, and all
but three line positions will be able
10 draw from the same list OF candI
dates while several men OF high
promise will step UP from the fresh-
man team.
Click, Eberstadt. and Ames will be
eligible for quarterback positions, but
Clicks performance in the last quar-
ter OF the Yale game will give him the
edge.
or the back trio Fred Trenkmann
is the only one to be lost. and he was
not part OF the suddenly discovered
machine which drove Yale 10 cover
for the last period OF the game with
the Ellis. briggs and Law will both
be on hand for the punting and pass
ing, while Moore and Dlckerman
whose combined work scored twice
against Yale, will also be ready 10 re
peat next year. Tibbott has not been
eliminated. and can be counted on "a
develop some drop kicking
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
HARVARD TO PLAY
MICHIGAN in 1915
Such Is Belief on Bartelme's
Return From East-Game To
To BE at Cambridge

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Dec. l.-Di-
rector OF Athletics Bartelme is back
from the east with tentative contracts
having 10 do with next years foot
ball schedule. Although no announce
ment will be made until the athletic
board stamps its o. X. on the arrange
ments, IL is understood that Cornell,
Syracuse and NJ. 4. c. will be the big
home games next year, and that Har-
ward and Pennsy Will be met in the
east. Mt Union and Case are sure
OF early season games, and probably
Vanderbilt. although Notre Dame
may yet replace either the Commo-
dores or the Aggies.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
Taylor and Brennan
Wind Up Training

Sammy Taylor and Frank Brennan
will wind up their training this after
noon for their scrap with Jack Sulli-
van and George Lewis. of Toledo. at
Windsor tomorrow night. Both De
troit boys have been working faith
fully ar the Moose temple for the past
three weeks, and say that they will
be In the best condition OF their ca
reers. Interest Is running high in the
ranks OF the fans and a packed arena
is expected TO greet the appearance
OF the home lads in the first double
windup OF the year. Taylor will enter
the ring at 1913 pounds and Brennan
will fight al $50 pounds.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
"Y" Awards BARS"
To X-Country Men

The award OF service bars" 10
those men who have competed in two
thirds OF the cross-country events dur
ing the year, will take place at the
Detroit ~" tonight.
The class to receive recognition
will be composed OF the following:
W. III. b. Bell. w. L. Noakes. r. C.
Secord, John Bell A. Lamb, G..
Wrong, c. r. Rollings. j. G.. Spauld-
ing. Jack Behrman. George Kline, w.
ID. Mead, l. ID. Seeley. A. n. Dunkle,
w V. Rhodes, Tom Watson, V. w.
Spencer, n. A. Fleming, Rudolph
Hopwood, Harry Macdonald, G. X.
Lumley.
Members OF the group 10 receive
the triangle that Is given 10 point
winners are Harry Macdonald. r.
C Secord, A. n Dunkle, Il. Hop
wood, W. E. Noakes. T. Watson, q.
Wrong, V. w. Spencer
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01

IL the minor leagues carry out their
present intentions a large force 81
umpires will be thrown on the com
mercial market next season. The
wave OF economy which overlook the
minors at their recent meeting at
Omaha has now been made TO include
the arbters OF the diamond. The
double umpire system Is to be aoan.
doned, which will mean that half OF
the umpires will be out OF work.
The losses sustained by the small
leagues last year forced them TO look
into every detail Of their organization
for an opportunity 10 cut down ex'
penses. and after first determining
TO cut salaries and reduce the NUM-
Der OF players on each club, they
finally arrived at the umpire situa-
ton.
II IS understood that the single UNI
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
Attendance Record
Tumbles With Bang

When most records fall. it is but a
tiny margin that wipes out the old
mark and hangs UP the new. But
here is a record that was smashed
with a bang, and with margin that
leaves the old record far in the depths
and out OF sight
In October. 1911. more than $4,000
people paid $4,000 to see the Giants
and Connie Mack's world-beaters open
a world series at the Polo grounds.
That crowd set the worlds record for
attendance at athletic events. On
Nov. 81, 1914. more than 10000 per.
sons paid $4,000 TO see Harvard
rout Yale, and the old mark was near
ly doubled. That's genuinely Amer
lean way of doing things.
Incidentally, the e-Harvard'
Princeton, series this year drew to-
tai of 152 900 spectators, who paid
more than 100000 at the gate-quite
record in itself.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
Like Umpires? No! Then Here's
Good NeUs---Hdf of EN- to Be Fired

pire system will be adopted In all OF
the minor leagues except the Inter
national and the American associa-
ton. The Pacific Coast league. which
is class AA league. is going In FOR
the single system. This means a saw.
ing OF from $1,000 TO $4,000 a season
In most OF the minors.
Even In some of the smaller
leagues the umpires draw as high as
$3.50 month. The Southern league.
for instance. figures on saving about
$1,000 a month by cutting its stan In
half. In addition to the saving In
salaries. the leagues will also save on
travelling and hotel expenses. The
single system was In vogue In prac-
tically all leaguex at one time. but
with the years OF prosperity even the
little fellows felt able TO expand in
this department
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
BOB FITZSIMMONS WANTED
FAME AS SINGER, NOT PUG"
Private Ambitions of Fighters
More Amazing Than Those
of Growing Boys
McGOVERN HAD WILD
DESIRE TO PLAY BALL
COulon Would Rather Grow
Hair on Bald Spot Than
Regain Title


The ambitions OF ic-year-old boy
are amazing things. But they are
also ran" AFFAIRS when compared to-
the castles In the air that are built
by knights OF the squared circle.
There was Bob Fitzsimmons, for In |
stance. Thousands OF men would
have given half their lives 10 possess
a quarter OF his ability and his fame. /
But Bob didn't care much about tight
ing as fame getter. He wanted toI
be known as that beautiful tenor,
Mr.. FitZsimmons."
Kid Broad's name hasn't been seen
in print for many years. But he was
a famous fighter in his time, O rush
ing, tearing, human bulldog Do you
know what his greatest ambition
was? He wanted to be funny CIR
Gus clown and make every one laugh
uproariously at his jokes. He neverI
went into circus, but he still prac-
tees the jokes.
Johnny Coulon, who recently lost
the bantamweight title 10 Kid Will
liams, would like a chance to fight
again and win II back. But that has
become merely a secondary ambi-
ton.
Coulons hair has been routed and
has fled from the top of his head,
leaving that place of thought nearly
as smooth and polished as billiard
ball. His present ambition Is to grow
another head Of hair. great thick
mop like violinist's. lied prefer
that to winning back his title. Hel
says so himself
And Bat Nelson. He's an ambitious
fellow. He's full OF that fighting stun.
But this is regarded merely as step
ping stone TO something else Nelson
thinks he has the making OF a great
monologist why" said Nelson one
time, when | come out IN my little
dress suit and spiel that funny stuff
knock 'em right of their chairs"
He also has designs upon the repu-
tation OF numerous wellknown an.I
thors.
Terry McGovern was the greatest
little fighter Of his time-greater than
any we have now. He won champion
ships as easily as Christy Mathewson
wins a game OF checkers. He had all
the fame In the world. Everywhere
he went people shook hands with hin
and told him how proud they were to
meet him-"Proud to meet you, Ter
ry"-just like that. And what did
McGovern have under his cap7
Why. just a wild desire to be reg
ular professional ball player. The
ball players looked at Terry with pop
/ eyed admiration. and he looked upon
each and every ball player as the
most wonderful and admirable thing
on earth McGovern could make $10..
900 in an evening He would have
been willing To trade everything he
knew about fighting for enough ball
playing skill TO be allowed to sit on
the Giants bench as sub fielder.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
TuthiH Will Coach,
Too He Tells PennSy

Harry Tuthill, OF Detroit Tiger,
West Point and Young Coebett fame.
has been approached with a proposal
that he become football trainer at
the University OF Pennsylvania, to
succeed the late Mike Murphy. Pat
Dryer. Murphy's immediate success
sor. was deposed in midseason this
fall. Tuthill was in a very receptive
mood, for he told the Quakers that
he would be willing to both train and
coach both the baseball and football
teams TITS only matter Of salary"
said Harry.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
IT'S a Mighty Long
Road to Tipperary

In fsuc circles, it's as far from
fancy TO fact as from the battlefield
OF Flanders to Tpperary. A few
weeks ago It was said that Havana
would dedicate its splurge into the
staging OF ring encounters on a large
scale by long-distance bout between
Sam McVey and Battling Jim John
son. DIT was 10 be great occasion.
and its heralding was to cause great
mortality among typewriter ribbons
on sport scribes' mills" But now
II is announced that Battling Jim and
Sam are TO exchange thumps In a 10.
round bout at New York, where
great occasions" pugilistically
speaking. are now unknown.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
HIS NAME WAS HAROLD AND HE WAS BOWLEGGED,
BUT ZUPPKE MADE STAR OF POGUE JUST THE SAME

Harold Pogue, of the Ilois
the OF football
Pogue looks like high school
Is extremely boweggcd gaopng
Pogue went TO the University Illinois from sullivan.
aaced little attention
him from the freshmen first
This team was class champion aided brilliant
cohcnes sat
Drought him OF particular OF
champion team and unanimous an-western choice
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
COLUMBIA FOOTBALL
NOW LOOKS BRIGHTER

NEW YORK, Dec. Hopes OF Co
lumbia men for intercollegiate foot
ball were aroused 10 high ditch to-
day following the announcement that
President Nicholas Murray Butler will
discuss possibility OF resembling his
rule against the gridiron game. at a
mass meeting In the gymnasium to-
morrow.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
PATSY DROUILLARD AT
ST. LOUIS NEXT WEEK

Patsy Dronilliard will box Harry
Trendall the lightweight champion
OF st. Louis, at the Missouri metropo-
lis, Dec. S, according 10 adyices from
that city. The bout will last eight
rounds and will be the feature OF the
evenings entertainment.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
WILL KNOCK WELSH
OUT, SAYS SHUGRUE

NEW YORK, Dec. Freddie
Welsh announced today that he has
made the weight called for in his
agreement to fight young SlNigl,ie at
Madison-sq. garden, tomorrow even.
ing. Welsh declared he never was in
better shape. Young Shugrue issued
a statement today In which he declar-
ed he will probably by knock
out"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
Shall We Raid Cincy
Reds? Aye, Votes Joe

II Joe Tinker has his way Garry
Herrmann's team is in for another
raiding Not only. that. but Sir
Joseph is I'M favor OF the Federal
league putting a club in Cincin-
natl. Tinker is still sore on the
Cincinnati club, and is intent upon
making life as miserable as II Is
possible To make II for the famous
board OF directors OF the Cincip'
natl club.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
TWO TRIALS WITH
WHITE SOX PLENTY

Pitcher Royce. last season with To-
ronto, and a good twirler, too, who
has been recalled by the Chicago
White Sox won't sign contract with
that club. Rogge says that the White
Sox twice sent him back to the min
ors without giving him a fair trial,
and he Is so Disguised that he vows
he will quit baseball before joining
Chicago.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
SHARP TO GET TRYOUT
WITH TIGERS. REPORT

BUFFALO. y. Y. Dec. Jimmy
Sharp who managed the Wilmington
team In the Tri-State league during
the latter part OF the season Is 10
bio given a tryout by IIughey Jen-
nings az Detroit
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
WHITNEY, OF PRINCETON,
MAY COACH BOWDOIN

Bowdoin. college wants Capt Larry
Whitney, OF the 1914 Princeton foot.
ball team, 10 coach the Bowdoinite
gridders next fall Whitney has not
yet accepted the position. but II is
predicted that he will before the first
OF the wear.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
DILLON WILL FIGHT
GIBBONS, HE CLAIMS

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. Jack Dill
Ion whom middleweights have been
lodging with the excuse that he can
no longer make the middleweight
weight, announced today he had
agreed to meet Mike Gibbons. the ST,
Paul sensation. at catch weights for
a sixround bout in Philadelphia. Dec
IA. He hopes 10 box young Ahearn
in that city. Dec. 8
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
DETROITERS TO SEE
FAST JACKSON BILL

Detroit fight fans by the score are
planning TO go to Jackson, Dec. 10, to
see one OF the fattest>fght bills ~
the year. Mickey Sheridan and
Johnny Lore will fight out the argu-
ment begun at Detroit two weeks ago.
and Sammy Taylor will meet Artie
Kaufman IN the seminal The fans
will make the trip IN special cars
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
IT'S THIRD UNBEATEN
SEASON FOR E. BUSS

Coach Ebert Buss, of Detroit Cen
trail, has tutored unbeaten teams for
three years. He guided the fortunes
OF the Central scrubs in 1912 and
1918. and although the reserves played
fairly stiff schedules, they were not
defeated Then Buss was made head
coach, and led the varsity through
one OF It's finest indicated years.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
WATSON IS ILLINI
CAPTAIN FOR 1915

CHAMPAIGN, III, Dec. Jack
Watson, center on the University OK
Illinois eleven that won the western
conference championship this year.
and brother Of Chauncey Watson, who
Won fame as an Illinois guard, will
head the Illini next year Watson
was picked at the annual football
banquet last night.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
HERE'S OLYMPIC CONTEST THAT WOULD
FIND AMERICANS OUT OF TRAINING

Olympic games scheduled held Berlin,
worthy trained skill of Europe;
1. charge
2. Rifle fire of old women and children
3. church hospital
A. broad murder degrees
8. a-around championship the who
knife torch bomb bayonet and lance with greatest
noncombaants
N Golfers
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
No More seouts For Red..

The Cincy Reds are through w..h
salaried scouts. and hereafter the
only ivory hunters" that Garry Herr
mann will utilize will he we'll m
formed baseball men In the bushes.
who will be paid according 20 ne
value OF the talent they tip on
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-01
Shortening of Field lnsures Per-
manent Fame of LOng-Dis-
lance Sprinters
COOLIDGE'S 1914 DASH
is HARVARD'S LONGEST
Dillon's 105-Yard Run With
Hidden Ball is Most Famous -
of Lot
BY HAROLD Y. WILCOX.

4 After a glance at the things that
! have happened on American gridirons
in the fall of 1914, It would seem that
there rs no record Of consequence that
was not shattered and presented TO
I the Junk man during the season that
has just become history.
With the exception OF balls rolling
along the ground and jumping over
/ cross bars for winning points at OPP
/ perfume times, il would be almost safe
4 TO assert that everything was done
with a football this year that was
FEVER done, and lot more things be-
lsides. Almost safe, but not quite, Tor
There are at least nine graduates OF
leleyena OF consequence who hold
records that probably will never be
equaled. They are the boys with the
long distance ball-toting records hung
up In their dens.
1t would seem that after Coolidge,
Barrett and half dozen other stars OF
1874 had finished, there would be 1T
tie left TO say concerning cross-coun-
TRY work with football. But in the
told days, gri6irons were 10 yards
longer than they are in modern times,
fand at least nine knights OF the mole
kelxin carried the ball in single spirits
more than 100 yards. which is the
present day limit Eight more play
Eers In -four hundred" circles sprint
ed an even 100 yards. for touch
tdowns, which was not equaled this
year, nor in any other since the short
ened field was made official.
The all,time record is held by Nc
Caa, OF Lafayette, who in 1909,
sprinted 10 yards from scrimmage
for touchdown. This feat was also
remarkable in that il is one of the
only two runs OF 100 yards or more
in length ever made from scrimmage.
The rest were al from fumbles, punts
or kickoffs The other was for an
even century dash, with Gus WEIGH,
OF Carlisle, as the hero and Pennsyl-
vania as the victim. That happened
in 1911. Swarthmore was McCaa's
victim.
There are three of these dashes
that are historic. The most famous
was that pulled by Charley Dillon. OF
Carlisle, on Harvard in 1903. Dillon
caught the ball on the KICKOFF, stuck
1t under his jersey and ran 105 yards
for touchdown. Eckersalrs l06-yard
sprint from kick of against wisconsin
In 1904 is, Of course. we'll remember
ed In the west. Arthur Poe's 100-yard
jaunt through Yale In 1898 is memoir
able because Poe wrenched the ball
from bulldog players arms and got
away with the stunt Poe, like all his
ancestors and brothers, was a Prince
ton man.
II Is interesting TO note that while
runs for 100 yards or more have been
made through Harvard three times,
the Crimson has never succeeded In
pulling that stunt. In fact, Coolidge's
95-yard dash through Yale this fall Is
the longest run with the ball ever
credited to Harvard.
The heros OF the bakcarrying
spirits that will never be repeated
(more than 100 ysrds) unless the grid
Is heightened again are: