New Britain herald., 1915-08-07

for more than thirty years. The bat, so the story goes, was handed down to George by his father, who had 1t made from a piece of the old Ohio State penitentiary scaffold. Some players would think that there was q dead mans curse on 8 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 over a number of years are veritable lead mines. One western club has recently taken out more than twenty-five tons of shot and be- lieves that as much more remains to be mined. With lead at seventy dol lars a ton the returns are well worth the labor involved. It is now quite possible that some clever American men may buy up the European bat tlefields after the war, for the old lead and steel buried in the soil.
 When Garry Hermann head that the New York Americans had pur- chased Dan Tipple, the pitching sen sation of the Indianapolis A. A. club, he stated; There is a, working agree ment between the Cincinnati and Indianapolis clubs which gives the Reds first chance owes the other big league clubs for Triples services" Evidently Hermann did not see fit to exercise his option, since the latest bulletin of the National Association of Professional Baseball leagues show that Tipple has been purchased by the Yankees.
 The Rutgers college football squad has been training for some weeks on 8 specially hired farm with the idea of being in perfect shape, both from a physical and gridiron standpoint, when the season opens next month Just what Princeton will say about carrying the Back to the Farm campaign to this extreme, in case Rutgers defeats the Tigers on Octo- Der ?, should prove interesting read ing. ...s
 Some novel ideas are being advanc- ed in connection with the proposed re- organization of the South Michigan baseball league for 1916. One plan calls for a $2,5Oo appropriation from each city represented, together with the assurance that at least HOO sea- son tickets at five dollars each will be sold before the club signs it's play CTS for the season. In return the club agrees to play free baseball every day in the. week except Saturdays and Sundays, whn a nominal admission charge will be made. Municipal parks and piers are not new but baseball clubs under practically the sam classification are a bit advance to say the least. It may, however, be but the forerunner of Government owner ship of the big leagues.
 Joe Tinker, manager of the Chicago | Federals, had not reached the free 1 or municipal owned baseball club but he does believe that the general l scale of prices. in the big leagues stand a little pairing down. He sug- 1 gests that the traiff range as follows: l Box seats, 75c; grand stand soc; pa vilion 25c; bleachers 15c Elaborating on this idea, Tinker says: The time is sure to come when the fans will not be asked to pay such high prices for seeing baseball + l is asking too much of the public to pay 26, 50, 75 cents and $1 every day 'o ooS d pdSepdIl game, Wn1cn lasts less than two hours. I believe if the price of the bleachers was reduced to
 l5 cents it would be more than double the patronage, and the same would
 hold good in the pavilions, grand
 stand and box seats.
 Almost any one can afford a dime
 or a quarter, but ask them to give
 up 75 cents and $1 and they turn q
 deaf ear. If l were the president o1
 the Federal league I would cut the
 admission fee down to the prices
 have suggested, and believe it would
 pay two-fold at the box office. es.
 pecially when the new league is put.
 ting up just as good an article of bal
 as any other big league"
 Trainer Jack Moakley arises to re
 mark what the performance of Nor man Taber in breaking the world ,. record for the mile shows that wha the college athlete can do when h, |. has sufficient time in which to train
 Assuming that Monkeys contentio,
 is correct A. A. U. officials are un
 derstood to favor the closing of al l American colleges at least six month
 previous to the next Olympic games
 Otis Crandall, formerly of the Nev
 York Nationals and now pitching fo
 the St. Louis FederaIs is credite.
 with the invention of a new deliver.
 which has been named the 'Snak , 1 ball." While the ball does nnt hit