New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-11
captain HUSTON
SETS BASEBALL
TONGUES GOING
Secret Trip of the Yankee
owner to Chicago Starts
Many Rumors.
Glib OFFICIALS DENY
MAISEL is TO GO
u,te DonlIn Plays the Hero In
Six Reels of Baseball
and Romance.
Rv JEROME BEATTY.

By JEROME BEATTY.
,.,,.. trip TO Chicago made oy
c.,.,Ip T. L. Huston, one OF the own
:, N. Yankees, started various ru-
Yesterday regarding a trade be-
,,s White sox and the Yankees
~. ,.nort that the New York club
.,d rive Fritz Maisel to Chicago for
.n,s.ld.r and an inhelder was en-
.,.,,eslly denied at the Yankee Offices
charles Comiskey. owner OF the
White sox, is known to eovet Maisel'
vho would All big hole in the chi
..,o inAeld. This. probably is the
AL, basis for the report.
'I r,n,ain Huston left New York on
v'a5sv afternoon ostensibly for Wash
nvs nm business connected with
sns.,,nv preserve IN Georgia. Even
u.,,y sparrow, assistant secretary OF
- .lub aid not know that Captain
u",,on was in Chicago until dispatches
49, there Yesterday told that he was
w., ~, over the White Sox plant
s, ssl ideas for the new Yankee
n Is hardly likely that Captain Hus-
-, vsnt 10 Chicago merely TO look at
conIskey Park. But what really took
s,r there so suddenly no one who
NV. will tell. He may have gone
a.,s 70 trade Maisel for Shane Col
ilr, and Buck Weaver, or he may have
v,nted 10 see Colonel Rupert. who Is
schtIng of the Federals in French
Iick Springs, and stopped in Chicago
an his way. Certainly the captain
didn't 70 Just for the ride.
Nike Donlin Is In the movies. A six
reel tale Of his life, made over by an
imaginative director. has just been re-
leased. and We can conscientiously say
hat Mike is Just as good an actor as he
ever was.
The life Of our hero is portrayed
rom his babyhood until he signs with
n. Giants, thus giving the picture a
tr,sie ending, as Haywood Broun would
my. -,
Asa child, II seems, he cut his teeth
oss baseball, and as he grew older he
iri.d to pitch. At the age Of fourteen
\. Il shown pitching righthanded.
Later be pitched lefthanded, with bot
Ter success.
In his righthanded days he saved the
life Of Viola Bradley, daughter OF
Hiram Bradley, the millionaire manu-
tss,urer and baseball owner, Of Win
r.d, Conn, where the tales Of the
.our-legged hens and the first spring
robins come from. It is only just TO
say that Mr.. Bradley is not the man
vho manufactures the tales.
Nike grew up and went to work for
NJ. Bradley. He also played on the
Winsted baseball team. According to a
dipping shown on the screen, Mike,
Who was pitcher, was batting ass and
aelding .e75
He was always ready TO go out and
slsy all corners, except once.
q amt got no heart for the game TO-
tsy," Nike said in one instance, and
We thought that probably Mordecai
Brown was going TO pitch for the other
team, but It wasn't that after all. He
had trouble about Violet.
He saved her life so many times
that 1t began 70 be a habit, but still
Ny. Bradley wouldn't let his daughter
msry Nike.
Ny daughter shall never marry a
orsheT!" said Mr.. Bradley.
IN splts Of Mikes great work Win
siec was tied with somebody else for
Tie pennsnt on the last day Of the sea-
.on Violet hastily telegraphed Nc
'Faw advising him 70 send scout to
wee Donlin. The telegram was deliv-
sfsd 70 AcGrsw az the Polo Grounds,
iad from the way he grinned al the
anera you could see with half an eye
Ha' he didn't think this Donlin would
mount 70 much.
oui Larry Evans, a scout, who vas
ming on n. bench when the telegram
rnved, insisted that he should follow
As I'D.
On the day Of the game some bad,
az gamblers tried 20 get Mike TO take
Gink, which, o. course, ne refused.
zen they tried 20 BRIDE him 20 throw
~ game. Bride Mikel HUH So they
. BIN with a msllet on his head and
ssyged him away.
ne recovered, fought his way out o.
.seo and reached the field in time 10
."i the box and pitch his team Ut
"a hole. In the last OF the ninth he
IA triple, scoring two men and then
We home, winning the game.
me Giant scout was 80 impressed
.H be shouted % all the crowd that
you'd sign Donlin for the Giants.
"a ousher no longer, Mike got the
Exc was lucky 70 get away with his
- "a Hlnsted. As far SIS we could
!" al be had was a slow ball.
skif. Reilly need no, expect Captain
ss.'Nn nor Colonel Rupert 70 hello
- clean Up his stable. lie will have
~. $3.50.
Isl!!y has q stable az i43d Street
ne Harlem River and he was ar
yr.a yesterday before Magistrate
.x.ads 10 the Washington Heights
a h~,
WY should spend $50 70 clean
sray stable said Reilly, when the
rysf'y belongs 20 the Yankees?
I've bought u for their new tall
snsYstrs,s HeQBsds, who Is a close
~ o. the owners Of the Yankees.
hs.ily that he was laboring under
.1i9h and that the place had bet
essnsd Up within two weeks.
hs Yankee ofices IL was said that