The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-18
BASEBALL PLAYERS
 HAD NO REQUESTS
 SAYS DAVID FULTz
Fraternity Working in Per- feet Harmony With Amer ican and National
 Leagues

New York, December H.-(Specias.)- President David l.. F'ultz of the Baseball Players fraternity, is authority for the statement that the organization had no requests, applications or suggestions to offer to either the National or American leagues at the annual meetings held III New York December IA, and Chicago De- cember 15, respectively. The fraternity is understood to be working in perfect har-
 many with the big leagues in all matters pertaining to the advancement of the game, while it's financial and membership conditions are gratifying to both the play CTS and officials.
 c. Thorne Murphy, the son of Mike Mur- phy, the famous American Olympic team, Yale and Pennsylvania university trainer, has decided to enter Yale next autumn. Young Murphy, who was named after the
 great Yale halfback, Brink Thorne, of
 the early sos is said to be one of the
 best scholastic athletes in the east. He
 plays baseball, football, basketball and
 sprints the shorter distances in a manner
 that makes him look like a varsity star
 III three UT iOul Spoi tS-
 The suggestion of university professor that football players be insured against
 accidents, the premus to be paid from the
 gate receipts, is not likely to find favor
 with accident insurance companies While
 football playing is not specifically classi-
 fled, it would be grouped with extremely
 hazardous occupations or pastimes,. and it
 is doubtful if any company would issue
 policies except on almost prohibitive
 terms.
 According to the annual records of the
 Interstate Trap Shooting association, S33S
 tournaments were registered during the 1915 season. In these competitions SAG
 shooters participated and 4,S14,260 targets were trapped.
 Foreign cables report that group of Harvard alumni gathered for it's annual banquet in Paris on the night of the Harvard Yale football game at Cam bridge. The dinner was considered a fail ure, owing to the refusal of the censor to permit the delivery of a dispatch an nouncing the result of the gridiron strug- \a between the two university elevens Many of the graduates apparently forgot that while students at Harvard they never had the privilege of seeing a Crimson team defeat the Ellis.
 Artong the more important trap shoot ing tournaments fot the coming year are the followng Interstate Southern, Mem phis, Tenn, May 9-11 Interstate Vest ern, Omaha, Neb., June 1916; Interstate Eastern, Philadelphia, Pa, July 1920; h. terstate Grand American, St. Louis, Au- gust 21-25.
 The manager of Fred Fulton has pre- pared for publication Is different reasons why Fulton should defeat Jess Willard if they meet in the ring. When the list was shown to Willard the title holder re- marked that unless Fulton could land harder and more frequent blows than he did the list would be useful for alibi pur- poses only.
 Apparently the football season will soon rival the baseball playing period. Al though gridiron armor is usually in stor- age by December 1, the present year is Washington State college at Pasadena on New Years Day; De Paul academy of Chicago is trying to arrange a game with the Everett, Mass. High School eleven for December IS, and southern universities are suggesting that eastern college elevens lengthen their 1916 sea son by scheduling December games below the Mason and Dixon line next fall.