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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
GILMORE DEFY
Is HELD TOsBE
MOSTLY BUNK

Nobody takes Jimmy Gilmore, yes
terday reelected to the presidency
OF the Federal league. seriously when
he says that the outlaws will not con.
slider a peace parley with organized
ball and that all of the Fed magnates
are agreed with him In the purpose
to fight II out to the hnish with the
o. b. moguls.
extravagant way OF telling the public
that the Feds are not willing to sur.
render Internationally, and that they
are not satisfied with the concessions
which have been offered them. Prob
ably there Is great deal Of justice in
that stand, for organized ball Will not
give away any more than Il can help.
and the peace dickers are still In
their youth.
The outlaws have won their fight
Ito exist for year, and end the sea
son in a position to start another. but
that Is all the good that fight can
do them, and almost any kind OF rec
ognition that would not rob them of
their victory would be more profitable
than another year OF battling. IL will
take many OF the old league magnates
some time TO realize just how much
the Gilmore circuit has achieved. but
when they do, a get-together pow-wow
will assuredly be In order. Some OF
the magnates have already come TO
earth, as the Hermann Weeghman
conferences prove, but the rest win
have to be given a little time. Prob
ably the dickering will be done be-
hind a wall OF bunk raised by Gil
more, Ban Johnson ct al, and the
basis OF peace will be announced all
in single, big. surprising statement.
There is little reason to believe
that when the treaties are drawn up,
that more than very few Federal
owners will be found In major league
ranks. IL is more reasonable to be-
lieve that when an agreement rs
reached. that IL will be on terms
which will give the outlaws some ~
the fat franchises In the Class IA
leagues, such as the American asso-
citation and the International circuit.
Ii would not be surprising IL sug-
gestion recently made In the east
were followed. II provides for Brook
lyn taking the Jersey City franchise.
Pittsburgh getting the Montreal team.
and transfer OF the Baltimore rights.
and so on.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
KANSAS CITY Is
BATTLING FOR
ITS FED BERTH

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.--No dove of
peace could be sighted floating around
the Hotel Biltmore today, when the
Federal league magnates resumed
their conference TX any handing OF
the olive branch TO organized baseball
by the Feds Is planned. then they
havescoyered up their advance moves
we'll, for peace seems to be the
thought farthest removed from their
minds
The biggest spike yet driven In the
rumor that the Feds will esue for
peace with. their older rivals came
yesterday when James A. Gilmore
was reelected president for term OF
ave years. He was named TO the Of
fee OF treasurer for the same period.
The Federal league moguls pointed to
this fact to prove tina, they are In the
field TO stay
The meeting OF the Fed magnates
Is being held behind closed doors.
While no Official word can be cleaned
as to just what is occurring, il Is
pretty we'll known that a bitter fight
is being waged TO make some changes
in the circuit. Kansas City, Il Ia
known. is not favored for a berth. fol-
lowing a bad season there last year.
C. G. Madison, president OF the Kan
sas City club, however, refuses to give
up his franchise without a struggle.
st. Louis and indianapolis are two
other cities which u is reported are
not certain or their berths. The Mis-
souri, metropolis cart support three
clubs, the Feds figure, after dropping
close TO 100000 there last year. while
the Indiana capital ie too small fry
for major league proposition, they
think.
Gilmore. II IL known, favors a
change that will make Chicago. Pitts
burgh. Cleveland AMI Cincinnati the
western loop OF the league. The fight
on the proposed changes will be re-
newed at today's session.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
TO
GIVE TIGERS A
REAL BATTLE

NEW YORK. Oct 24.--Great inter
est today centers In the clash at
Princeton, where the Tigers play their
first game on their new stadium,
meeting Dartmouth. Princeton is
the biggest game on the Dartmouth
schedule and Coach Cavanaugh's
squad will give the Tigers touch
OF battle II the early season dope
counts for anything The Brown and
Cornell game here. the Yale and
and Jefferson clash at
New Haven. and the Michigan-Syra-
cuse battle are other notable events
on today's gridiron schedule.
Dartmouth is declared TO have one
OF the best teams this year that ever
represented the school. With the vet.
eran Chez at quarter. and Capt Whit
ney leading the attack from a half
back position. the Tiger defense win
have TO show surprising strength, ac
cording TO experts, TO prevent the
Green team from scoring With Whit.
ney In the backfield will be Pelchsr
and Gerrish. both good ground gain.
ers, but not as powerful on defense
as whitney.
Click, Moore and Law are expected
to be in the backfield for the Tigers
today.
Brown and Cornell are fairly even,
according TO the advance dope. fsie
is expaHSd TO win from the Wash
ington andsenerson squad, but not
by an overwhelming score. II is the
hope of the latter to score on the
Blue.
Yost has picked tough foe for
his invasion Of the east Syracuse
has been working hard for the Michi-
gan game. and the westerners, owing
to the fact that they are BADLY
crippled, may suffer a defeat.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
SCHNElDER'SOUT
in FRONT in The
B. & I. LEAGUE
Lead With Average of Five Won.
and But One Con-
test Lost
FOUR TEAMS HAVE WON
TWO-THIRDS OF GAMES
Awkward Squad Organized For
Embryo Pinspillers -- First
Two Weeks Success

The second week OF the Builders
& Traders bowling league caused
some changes In the standing. In
the first league the Hickey and Thei-
sen teams are tied for first place,
with the Corrick and Ternes teams
close up.
The Hickey team took three from
the Pudrith bowlers. and the Thei-
sen bunch captured three from Ed.
Harrigan's pin spillers, although
one was a tie game.
A sprinkiing OF century scores
were rolled. VIII Diedrich getting
217, VIM. Brown, 2l0, Fred Galster.
210 and Philbrick. 319.
In the second league, the Schneid-
er team leads the bunch, with the
Mutt team second and the Hobbs
bowlers third.
The Hobbs boys were the only
team to take three games. capturing
them from the Kennedy bowlers.
An awkward squad has been or
ganized from those members who
are just learning TO bowl. and they
are TO meet every Tuesday Afternoon
at three o'clock After they have
learned to keep the ball on the al
ley. they will be eligible to the
lea CUES.
BUILDERS a TRADERS EXCHANGE.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24

Welsh attributes his physique 20
the fact that he is a vegetarian He
has not tasted meat since the time.
as a slender hey, he was told he mad
not much chance to spend money
years among us.
Now at 2s, he is perhaps the speed
lest boxer in the ring and as near
perfect physically as man can be.
Warned BY physicians, Whites par
ents sent him To Bill O'Connell. the
old-timer who runs gym in Chicago.
While taking his regular exercises
Charlie developed so much speed with
the gloves that O'Connell's attention
was attracted. Two years later the
frail kid developed into pretty tough
young fellow and was fighting the
best Of the feathers.
Charlie is now % years OF age. Two
years ago his greatest ambition was
to get match with Johnny Kilbane.
But the feafherweieht class couldn't
hold him and now with few added
pounds he is TO meet the best of the
lightweights Even today he barely
scales over 1871 In his ring togs.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
FEDS NOT BLAMED
BY THIS LEAGUE

According to President Louis He'll
bronner. OF the Central league, his or
ganization is one which was unaffect-
ed by the Feds. and yet was wrecked
by a wretched season. Attendance
dropped $4,000. and but one player
was drafted. Sheehan, OF Terre Haute.
who goes to the international league.
The Feds may yet get time al bat
In the Central. for Sheehan is said to
be flirting with the outlaws.
Excessive salaries and extravagant
management are given as the reasons
that put the Contra. eague on the
rocks. Fl. Wayne, Terre Haute and
Grand Rapids are the towns hit hard
est In 1914. A big cut In salaries and
expenses must be faced II the league
gets into action next year.
Despite the financial breakers. the
league will keep the faith and fight
the Feds tooth and toenail next year,
II organized ball so DEGREES, Hebron
ner has announced.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
Ring Incident Again Proves
Real Life Has Edge On Fiction

missus. he boxed with all the skill
and power he possessed He drove
his opponent through the ropes amid
the roar OF approval that means
everything to the boxer, and then hit
Levendowsky SO hard that he was
Knocked out and died In two minutes.
Leaping from the ring. Lundgren col
lected his purse and rushed back TO
the hospital TO tell the surgeons ne
had the price and the operation could
proceed.
The wife was proud of him and
told him so, filing his cup OF Joy to
overlooking. Then the police came.
told Jack he had killed man, and
took him before the bar Of Justice
where he was formally bound over
on. charge OF manslaughter.
Just a simple story about lad who
didn't amount TO much, even IN the
prize ring, but story that puts to
shame the folks that try to 90 real
life one better in providing US with
thrills and incidents that tug at our
heartstrings.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
BY HIGH. 8. FULLERTON. !
Johnny Evers has an ambition.

Wnat 40 you mink IL Is
Johnny is determined to become a
literary man.
Don't laugh. Johnny Evers is not
content TO permit some one to write a
lot OF words and put his name over
them. He wants 10 write them him
self.
This winter, while other ball play
ers are enjoying themselves. this lit
tie wonder worker will be studying
English and learning 10 hammer a
typewriter.
In his beautiful new home at Troy
he has fitted up an Office, installed a
new typewriter. a dictionary, an en-
cyclopedia. and he is starting TO learn
a new game as earnestly as he does
TO learn anything else.
And he will make good, There Is
scarcely a man In America who can
tell story more plainly. more exact
ly and with such wealth OF descrip-
tive detail as this little man who led
the Braves TO victory this year.
II he makes up his mind 20 do a
thing he does e. He has the knack
OF expression. He hits the point hard.
illustrates IL clearly. and wastes few
words.
Johnny never had much education.
He stopped school early to work In
the collar factory at Troy. and he
started as a professional baseball
player when he was n. Yet talk TO
him today and you would not know II.
He has read much. read carefully. and
he has brain that holds what Il gets.
This fall Evers confided bis pet am
Ibition to me. You see Johnny and
once wrote a book.
When we started thought II would
be a case OF me doing the writing and
signing his name to IL. Not SO.
wrote the stun and handed II 70 him.
He labored over IL. altered, corrected.
expended and explained
He cut out inaccuracies, explained
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
John EUofS to Be Author
Hes Bought Typewriter and IS Practicng Now.
When He Quits Baseball

plays, and IL came back surprisingly
improved remarked that he could
write. After that we did several
stories together-and always the same
way. He wanted 20 do 1t all himself
and let me smooth Il up.
Yet not word was said about his
ambition until this fall. We we're In
his room during the worlds series
and rather sheepishly he remarked:
"Hughie. I'm going to try TO learn
TO write"
Then he explained
"lt Is my ambition /" he said. 1--WE
always wanted TO write things and
didn't know how never tried It.
I've fitted up an Office at home and
will devote this whole winter to study
ing and trying to write. II I don't this
winter, I'll spend next year on II.
Il figure IL this way. intend TO
quit baseball at the end OF my con-
tract with Boston BY that time I'll
be about through as ball player and
never again will | be manager. I
want to At myself for something while
I'm still playing baseball and I think
writing is the thing for me, I've been
reading and studying now for two
years with this In view, reading news
papers. magazines and books, and
studying. I've learned TO run type
writer and I've written some stories
that ! tore up
when get through with baseball
III have a lot to tell that no one else
has. and want TO be able to tell IT,
I think there is market for II.
Il wouldn't be willing to take money
and let some other fellow write under
my name. so I'm going at H."
| And what J. Evers, OF Troy. starts
10 do he usually does. II Is safe bet
he hits 300 on the typewriter and ex-
ecutes a lot Of double plays on those
editors.
He's surprising little fellow, J.
Evers, and. by the way. he n one
grand object lesson 20 lot OF Us. ~
man AZ wen as a ball player.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
ACGIES FACE GAME
ON MUDDY GRID

LINCOLN, Neb., Oct 24.--The Mich
igan Aggies are here for their battle
with Nebraska this afternoon. and
look like sure winners. They arrived
in a deluge, and the gridiron is sea
OF mud IL is probable that the game
viii be OF the old plunging style. with
Captain Julian as the big noise for
the Farmers. Yesterday afternoon the
Wolverines. worked out on the local
gridiron, and despite the wet ball.
Jerry Deprato did some fancy place
kicking that makes IL probable that
he will be a good bet Ii the score gets
close, in spite OF weather conditions.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
Bill Edmunds
Goes Sanitary

fBig Bill Edmunds, former wolver-
ines has decided that he is living in a
scientific and sanitary age. He is
coaching at Washington university.
which is located at st. Louis. Ed
munds has banned the old sponge and
waller bucket from his gridiron. No
longer will his trainer rush onto the
field and slap sponge TO the lips OF
an exhausted gridder and then. with
the same faithful sponge, battle the
wounds OF another player. Hereafter
IL will be individual cups for each
man and sponge and bucket for
wounds only for the Washingtonians.
Strange enough, Edmunds' squad has
been dubbed the .Pikers, but we fail to
see where the nickname is appropri-
ate.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
0fh Welsh and c. White We're
.Sickly BOys---Nof Expected to LiUe

|feddie Welsh. champion light
|ght Of the world. and Charlie
1(e. the best OF the class Chicago
y produced. viii battle in Milwau-
y Nov. 8.
Ind that announcement, which ap-
|red few days ago has moral
Md II.
low many boxing fans know that
y Freddie Welsh and Charlie
We were given up by doctors at
+ age or 16 years? And that they
d pronounced physical weaklings
but few years 10 live?
o1ay those two frail fiat-chested
~ stand nj the top OF the boxing
11Ion physical marvels--power.
1uuan motors OF strength and en-
course, training did IL. But not
hug alone. Determination and
1nnt application brought these two
- athletic perfection and boxing
DqfI5cient to make fight fans part
@l2,O0c OF $4,000 to Sc them
Ezn IN the same ring.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
Past Scores

hits shoes. Syracuse will also
: \ sub-quarter, so the field-gen-
department is fairly well bal
Ia Whalen and Benton will
n the ends. a new combination
) (which more is hoped than ex-
Is probable that the burden Of
day will fall on Larry Splawn.
4 wolverines are outweighed six
ada 10 q man. and in their crippi-
1ondfton, even Maulbetsch cam
~ expected to do much with his
\<lng. But Larry can kick. and
~ must. He will be aided by
~ Held and perfect day. some
r. new for battles in the SYRIA
region. Michigan has never
~ the Orange on a wet field
Ioot on q dry one.
would be folly to attempt to
Net the score this afternoon. II
only be said that 1t looks very
n as II Syracuse had the better
FOR the time being. but that
&lxnn Is favored by the weather,
.<ooching. its record, and the
HIkan spirit that has few equals
|floIs OF this kind.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
GEORGE STALLINGS HAS REAL DRAMA
DOPED OUT FOR HIS THESPIAN DEBUT

doped ont for the
vaudeville sketch which he to present Gotham
and characterfstc
Of the which Is more than can be said Of other
third
and that the fourth provides the popular happy
something like this:
he infoth
doubie
he into the
SECOND DOUBLE PLAY
Act mIr-wIiAT l SAID TO DEAL WHEN HE HIT INFO
DOUBLE PLAY IN THE WORLD SERIES - -
Act to Deal on a nuke do.he
fluke steal, which nevertheless.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
Ty Cobb Will Retire In
Four Years. Says Scribe

An enterprising scribe down
south has interviewed Ty Cobb
recently and secured the following
interesting Information:
"Ty Cobb, center fielder Of the
Detroit nine. plans to retire in four
years. He is q years Of age and
intends to go into the cotton bust
ness when he quits the diamond.
Cobb says that when he began TO
play baseball nine years ago he
received $1,000 a year salary. He
received $500 his second year,
$4,000 his third. and batted $50.
and then jumped TO $4,000. He has
received proportionate increase
every season since. and says he Is
satisfied with his present salary"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
BY HARoLD v. WILCOX.

Just about the time that the old
proverb that truth is stranger than
fiction. begins to sound trite and
moth-eaten. along comes some tragedy
or romance that jolts us into the real.
ization that after all real life is really
more of melodrama than any mag
nation can picture. This week the
boxing ring came through with a
tragedy astounding in its dramatic
setting and pitiful circumstances.
A dub pugiIist In Chicago, Jack
Lundgren by name. married girl
wife, who became iii and was ordered
TO the hospital for an operation. Like
most OF the thousands OF preliminary
lighters In the country, Lundgren had
no money and little chance of seclr-
ing the relatively small sum he need
ed to save the life OF his wife. A
little club In Gary offered him $50 to
entertain the members by winning a
go with another dub by the name OF
Levendowsky. Overjoyed by the OBJ
portunity TO fight for the life Of the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
nder Not Ready to
Quit Diamond He Says

>F1IT4ADELPHIA. Oct. 23.-sI'll
ch until they tear the uniform
M book
These were the exact words to-
~ Of Chief Bender. Athletic twirL
III denying that he was about
retire from baseball. An article
Gently appeared over Christy
1<hewson's signature deploring
" fact that Bender was about to
NJ the diamond.
Bender asserted that he was
4ef in better condition than dur
the worlds series.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
LEAGUES
DEMAND PEACE
WITH OUTLAWS
BIZ HAL SHERIDAN

All baseball fans, major. minor
and outlaw, are hereby warned TO sit
tight anu take firm hold on them
selves. For this winter the old base
bali boat is going to be rocked as It
was never rocked before and any
who haven't got a death grip will go
overheard sure.
Just what is going to happen is
hard to forecast. One thing is Ger.
tain, however, and. that is that when
the gong rings In the spring OF 1915
tor the getaway in the baseball world
the field will have a vastly different
appearance TO the one IL presented
during the past season. The warning
powers in Europe won't massage the
face OF that country any more than
the kings OF baseball win muss up
the looks OF organized baseball this
winter.
The reason for this change is very
plain-baseball clubs throughout the
country lost more money during the
past season than ever before in their
history. II isn't that the Federal
league made the two major league
clubs lose so much money. They
didn't do that. But the clubs they
did hurt and hurt badly. are the Class
"A teams. making up the American
association, the International league
and the Pacific Coast league. The
Western and Southern leagues, Class
A organizations. were handed ter
rife wallops, too. in the shape OF
greatly reduced profits.
The great race in the National
league enabled that venerable body
TO toddle through the season with
better profit on a whole than IL has
had in some time. and the American
league clubs didn't lose enough 10
scare them any. But the heads of
the American and National leagues
realize that they have got to do
something TO appease the powers IN
the Glass IA leagues The Interna-
tional league Is clearly on the rocks.
The Federals walloped that organiza-
ton numerically. And the Interna-
tional league is great asset OF the
major leagues.
In fact, the entire structure of base
ball depends on the minor leagues.
The major leagues have to have them
to develop young players and to take
care Of the surplus talent They
could no more do without them than
an aeroplane could fiy without an en-
CINE. And the minors are demand
ing. and in no uncertain terms, that
the major leagues make peace with
the Federals. They don't care just
how peace is brought about. but
peace they want and peace they say
they must have.
A s20-mile and broken down
buggy horse that will pull pillow can
turn over more soil than a pair OF
$4,000 horses that balk in the first
furrow; which may explain why the
Rnsfnn Braves WON the National
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
HEINE ELIMINATES
FOR 'STEENTH TIME

CHICAGO. Oct. "a Heinie thinner
mans 'steenth ultimatum. announcing
positively that he will not play with
the Cubs next year unless stack Of
greenbacks be paid ever In fines Is
refunded to him. was on file at the Cub
Offices today. President Thomas did
not look worried He said the fines
would not be refunded and that he
was not looking for new third base
man.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24

KRACUSE. N. Y. Oct. ga
idea or Just what Fielding H.
IS up against this afternoon to
hls game with Syracuse is given
Iko fact that but one man who
Ed win the AZ 10 victory over
+ Orange last year will be in the
ne today. That lone gridder is
my Lyons, former end, who
4 Just been shifted to half.
~ 4 shattered bunch of Wolyer-
D that will take the field this
'fnoon, and a veteran team with
NY its full strength will oppose
Maize and Blue. The betting is
e even. but yost will order a
4llce To the Horseshoe goddess
*o gets away with any kind of a
Dry. The dope gives the game to
0cuse. but Michigan is going to
3. and when Michigan fights. il
uently wins when IL has no bus
y 70.
1ppled Reimann will start the
Do AZ tackle. after al, and Re-
the biggest man In football,
be replaced by Watson Zeiger.
Nv won out over Huebel and IL
be up to him to fiil Tommy
# " Is.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-10-24
Red Doom Wanted
Pitcher Oldham

Red Doom has taken the public
into his confidence regarding the rea-
sons why he failed TO give Philadel-
phia a better team while he was man.
ager of the Phillies, and among other
things says that his boss didn't give
him any money with which 10 pur-
chase players to replace the quintet
that went Federal last spring. Among
the men he wanted to buy was Old
ham. a late season addition TO the
Tiger team Doom says he wants TO
ger away from the Phillies and reports
an offer from the Braves. He expects.
however, that he viii get no chance
10 leave the Quaker City until the
Phillie owners get an opportunity TO
mako some money on hfs contract.