Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-10
HIT OR MISS IN THE
WORLD OF GOOD SPORTS.

George Perring OF the Kansas City
Federals is batting around ESQ with
bat said to have been In his family
for more than 80 years. The bat, so
the story goes, was handed down to
George by his father, who had it made
from piecesof the old Ohio state pen
itentiary scaffold Some players
would think that there was dead
mans curse on a bat that didn't get
them better hitting figures than these.
Gun clubs are just awakening to the
fact that grounds that have been shot
oyer number of years are veritable
lead mines. One western club has
recently taken out more than Is tons
of shot and believes that as much
more remains to be mined. With lead
at $40 a ton the returns are we'll worth
the labor involved. 1t is now quite
possible that some clever American
business men may buy up the Euro
pean battlefieIds after the war for
THE old lead and steel buried in the
soil.
When Garry Hermann heard that
the New York Americans had pnrchas-
ed Dan Triple. the pitching sensation
of the Indianapolis A. A. club, he stat.
ed: There is a working agreement
between the Cincinnati and Indianap.
oils clubs which gives the Reds first
chance over the other big league clubs
for Triples services Evidently Herr
mann did not see fit to exercise his
option, since the latest bulletin of the
National Association of Professional
Baseball Leagues show that Triple has
been purchased by the Yankees.
The Rutgers College football squad
has been training for some weeks on
specially hired farm with the idea
of being m perfect shape, both from q
physical and gridiron standpoint, when
the season opens next month, Just
what Princeton will say about carry
ing the back to the farm" campaign
to this extreme, in case Rutgers de-
feats the Tigers on October 2, should
prove interesting reading.
Some novel ideas are being adyanc-
ed in connection with the proposed re-
organization OF the South Michigan
Baseball League fer 1916. One plan
calls for $4,000 appropriation from
each city represented. together with
the assurance that at least 100 sea.
son tickets at IS each will be sold
before the club signs its players for
the season. In return the club agrees
to play free baseball every day in the
week except Saturdays and Sundays.
when nominal admission charge will
be made. Municipal parks and piers
are not new but baseball clubs under
practically the same classification are
bit advanced to say the least. 1t
may, however. be but the forerunner
of government ownership Of the biz
leagues.
Trainer Jack.Moakley arises to re-
mark that the performance of Norman
Taber in breaking the worlds record
for the mile shows what the col
lege athlete can do when he has sui
ficient time in which to train. Assam
ing that Monkeys contention is cor
rect A. A. u officials are understood
to favor the closing of all American
colleges at least six months previous
to the next Olympic games.
Joe Tinker, manager OF the Chicago
Federals, had not reached the free
or municipal owned baseball club, but
he does believe that the general scale
of prices in the big leagues could stand
little pairing down. He suggests
that the tariff range as follows: Box
seats, 75c; grand stand. SOC; pavilion,
Csc: bleachers, 15c. Celebrating on
this idea. Tinker says:
sThe time is sure to come when the
fans will not be asked to pay such
high prices for seeing baseball. 1t is
asking too much OF the public to pay
25, so, rs cents and 81 every day to
see baseball game, which lasts less
than two hours. believe If the price
of the bleachers was reduced to 10
cents it would more than double the
patronage, and the solle would hold