Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-14
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and also apparently based upon good
authority. 1t was the kind which would
Of the game and. II ever printed. would
have been bound to do a certain amount
OF harm even though everybody con-
NAL of It,
When tho rumor reached tho writer's
ears the American League masnntes
I We're me meeting here In New York, rresi,
the whole tale told 20 him just az II
had been heard. He go, in touch With
and leared tnat here So wss n" b mi IN
actual fact for the story. An idle re-
mark made as Josh was the founda
ton upon which the whole thing was
built, II seems.
\ similar story went the round just
before the worlds series OF 1919, when
the Giants met the Athletics. II had
one OF the stars OF the Mackmen in
yolved In some sort of a betting plot.
One OF the New York baseball writer's
rumor under scare head: He did
not. rumor of that kind Ia not TO
be touched until is au,hent,city IS
telling him the substance OF the talk
and II there had been ANYTHING OF the
had time to stop it. These little tnci
SHOW how the the" friends OF baseball are
reputation, and also 20 indicate how
certain small persons who don't like
,he game are making efforts TO inture
traducers TO put over much of their
fell stuff,
No Sun Field for braves.
Tho new National League grounds in
for use about next September. will in
!roduce novelty for big league base
ball, The diamond is TO be so ar
west. so that he and the batter viii be
the only men Oh the field who have 10
pp! !aI with the sun in their eyes. The
"mtfelde%s viii have The " sun 'a &c t theie
backs, This will he the first limo in
over ten years that there has been a
a "sf}"' ''"s"e PARK without su"
President James r, Gaffney OF the
that seems along the lines Of sound
including the batter. and sometimes
more when there. are runners on base,
II hardly seems fair; Sc says, tina, the
parks. This improper percentage can
Ss ,rGmedied easily by means OF the |!
faces, and so only TWO men will I've
bothered by The sun under the new
under these new circumstances. There /
VIII he less h!u Ing AT the new Braves |
park than usuai. with the batter fac
have to PLAY more games there than
their rivals will become used to the
sun and therefore have big advan- I
lot
Gilks Stealing Cnrr's stun.
Bobby Gilks. who starred in the old
American Association. and away back !
IN 1887 with tho Cleveland spiders hit /
Tor an average OF 1913, Is about to be-
come. Professor Robert j. Gilks lie is
stealing Charley Carr's stun In at
tempting t" orsanize baseball school.
changes in the preamble and methods
Ills school is not 10 he for every
pupii that sees ny to enroll Including !
amateurs lie VIII make speciality I
OF recruit pitchers and catchers Of ma
!or and big league teams taking pay
for their development from the clubs .
that own them rather than from the
players themselves.
The baseball school Of Charley Carr
Texas. Gilks seems TO have picked out
q better spot for his II Is Pensacola. /.
ria; which is right In the middle Of a
dozen big league clubs for spring train /
ing within few weeks,
II any man il fitted for doing such a !
addition 10 his long career AS "A player.
he has had oven ten years OF ex-
perisnce az big league scout, doing
most OF his work for the Cleveland 4.
Club. H. this way he got an oppor.
unity TO SIZE up young PLAYERS their
strong points and th"ir faults lie also I.
ing, aud last year Uas IN charge Of the
Montgomery club OF the Southern AS
ISOLATION.
tuhnns Fall for Anything
me IMPRESSION Is growing among
~ rich felt 70. sure thing operators
As sort Of preliminary tryoul. il
va announces some time ago that sam
.. =
IN Havana. for the 'tar baby, cham
pionsniH o: ne world When ,he Gu
F f"r. zen s, t"s mat announceme'lt. and. In
ihcl tHtaused oT-! the PROSPECTS the
promoters apparently decided thai
tnls 700 eas%.H andt.csied the bou,
pI. Hubs !:au 81 lit place now is :,
nc .te" Dom members Of this club
gentlemen. or rather both under the
ma cement OF Dan McKettr!ok.
no" has been proclaimed loudly 7
mat \! Mccoy. m:ddlewelght cham
p,oh O. W ne world. viii meet the vim
MR. mr. worse hnd more of It. Mccoy.
hampton except on techn!caiity, liz
tnan"end by Dan Morgan, who has
Eesk room In The same Office with Nc
me same thing ax partners and wsii
ii "a bor sFeai gise vil!fyins each other
ps n mn.u wo,nA printed In various news
champions meet Its funny, but there
hf aW seems to be somebody ready TO
cans. have the Cubans 10 tbank o.
sparlng. them lhis one '''
New White Hope In View.
WORD has been received from "s,
louis Tommy Danforth, that he I.
planning To bring HIS new white hone
Jiin Hopper, East foi Il crack at some
~ .he hearEweights now doing bust.
ness IN and about New York. noDI,.r
hccoruinG TO Damfor,h. Is six Zee, tw.
ihches taii, and tips the beam at 20
bounds most OF II In h!s should.ry
ana upper arms lie Is reported to hayr
nau I'VE houts In the three months thar
,o'stlttc MS i ng career TO date ana
10 nave knocked out ali his opponents
So,It OF Hopper measurements are
slrictiy Of the freak variety iIia
t reHch is supposed TO he seventy-nius
fnrnes crest measurement. uncxpanded
!oftE-seHen and cne-half inchep .rd
Wis. lhir'y, seven inches Ills arm
80, 80 IN" e!how. when relaxed meas
ures sixteen and one half Inches In ~
o onnnIs and his forearm twelve and
1he,9uarter inches. Like Jess Wu
lard. he is said 10 he a clean H.. H..
never never touching drink or tobacco In
is blamed as being HIS LlrtbnInc s.'