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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-30
CHARLEY EBBETS WANTS
TO FORM FLORIDA LEAGUE
FOR SPRING TRAINING
Brooklyn Owner Trying to Interest Connie
Mack in Plan, but Athletics Leader
Doubts Its Efficacy

A1AAAN"NJ
tHARLEs EBBETs president club
four National and American League clubs which will meet each o" ana
American League and the Philes
sectional contests are played each
confidence the
League club in Palm Beach and
crowds and getting beneficial
ripe for the
Yanks to Palm Beach
their
owners RUPERT and Huston
Manager very
and Mack like other masnate wud only
would tend to take the
Mack says that his experience with training in
,o tho
Tampa and the great falling Of the following year
GreatF Falling in Attendan
The true Of the Athletics at Jacksonville In the spring Of Is
there but
virtually con-
poor the
sraphansing small cars which run every 80 minutes 49, 49,
hut the an fell fiat when the National Commission let be known
Ebbets present plan will also fail
Bancroft Due for a Great Season
fresh from the Pacific Coast League
Bancroft will begin this a
had good year
his feowaye which will aid him much
Since has been St. Petersburg this season. Pat Moran has been drilling
year
knowledge the pitchers and
his actual with the stick a%er0f, should be deadly & man as fol
him he will be able to this fact to
better
There's Reason for Showing
] % @ g n S Phes @ % @ St PrsSug Although he U no doubt
that he playing better ball than he did last with the Cubs
ns a u any o h srf tsm ma" makes better showing against MS old 'o0 H
This invariably baseball Glass the
majors Many doubt noticed that pitcher released
ns o % $ to h aa ] "S @ nasfs @ @ a" oSt % N e y S s a @ % pitcher
usually make a agains ex-eam-maes.
box That this should be true not in the least when the facts are
wel-med his old
while Philadelphia viii! much
series which the Phns took without the loss
Hudson
or the D@~ s Pgs ] sf I s as% weA onS % viii % 5
Paterson has twotOone bulge in
first st2a and lost the second 1910 The third
s9s1 The third game gam @ the only in which
Paterson
Ray runner on
the path OF nders And announcing his J' there are
these not incidents
4a2 IS
lower both records His pluck is admired any
Jimmy playing great ball for the Athletics and is hitting
better than Before the
ready to count Walsh out Of his plans as he had been told
HastRs ON h paS
OK thompson ana steoau Keep walsh out OF the lineup
is o.
S OF
the
looks to be good hitter but having deal
philadelphia boxing has called the attention
OF Tony Aielctar Of Chicago A
before the national amateur championships
a
Of
championship Whether he 5
Mack pitchers
the
this a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-30
WHY DID MR.. HEARST WAIT SO
LONG TO DECRY BIG FIGHT?
Grant Rice Says Publisher Didn't Want to Stop
Tilt While Willard Was Under $4,000
Contract for Famous DIARY"
BY GRANTLAND RICE

Mr.. Jones forgotten that the Browns of
1915 have no Ed Walsh to take part in SIS
games, which MIR Walsh did for the
White Sox in 1908?
And Mr.. Walsh using the right arm of
1908 in as many as SIS games makes more
difference than one might think, though
Jones isn't the one who should have for
gotten.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
TOO MANY PLAYERS
Cubs Are Carrying Over Limit
of TWenty-0ne Men.
INSIST UPON THE RIGHT
Owner Weeghman Says Peace Pact
Allows Him as Many as
He Wishes.

CHICAGO May 2.-President Weegh-
man has forwarded to President Tener
of the National League a list of TWEEN
ty-five players eligible to compete as
Cubs during the season. This was In
face of the opinion of Garry Hermann
and Secretary Heydler that Tinker
team will be allowed to carry only
twenty one men at a time. In the list
'telegraphed to President Tener was the
name of Joe Tinker.
President Weeghman was not entire
ly sure of his ground until he had read
the interview with President Il. o.
johnson of the American League lie
then decided to take the bull by the
horns, which, in this case, Is repre-
sented by seven National League own
ers The boss of the Bruins first sent
down the names of twenty-four play
ers, but later in the day he added the
name of Tinker.
Il think / am absolutely right IN the
contention that We can carry as many
players as we please said Weeghman,
after dispatching the second telegram
to Tener The 'no-limit rule for us
was embodied in the agreement mace
at Cincinnati, and it was recognized
that we had to take care of two CLUBS.
The same applied to the st: Louis
Browns, and I notice that Mr. Johnson
said that there would be no lnterler
ence on that score with Mr.. Ball. II
the rule works for one 1t works 1of
ftxyn
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No Unfair Advantage.

'I do not figure that we are taking
any unfair advantage of any other club
by carrying more than twenty-one
PLAYERS, as an unusual situation has
confronted US here in Chicago. voted
to extend the time limit on the rule for
the other owners, but this seems as if
it has not carried"
According to Ban Johnson, president
of the American League, the Cubs were
exempted from this rule when the
peace agreement with the Federals was
signed at Cincinnati last winter. and at
the same time the st. Louis Americans
were granted the right to exceed the
twenty -five-men limit which prevails
in the American League.
The reason given for allowing these
two clubs special privileges was be-
nation with the Federal League teams
and necessarily carried a larger num-
ber of men who held ironclad con-
tracts.
There will be no. restrictions on the
number of players carried by the st.
Louis Browns this year" President
Johnson said, "and that also goes for
the Cubs. The agreement was made at
Cincinnati that no limit should be put
Cubs and the Browns. and that is in
force There is no chance for any one
to compel President Weeghman to cut
down his squad to the limit set In the
National League. AS a matter of fact.
the Browns are not affected one way or
the other az far as players go, as Man
ager Jones already is down to twenty
more men he had perfect right to do
90
Evening star., 1916-05-02
National League Games.
Giants Again Beaten.

NEW YORK. May brooklyn again
defeated New York here yesterday, the
visitors winning easily. TO ).
Stengel placed Brooklyn in the lead
in the third inning with home run.
coming with two on the bases, while
Palmero also was hit hard in the fifth
inning.
The veteran left-hsnder. Nap Rucker.
started his first game Of the season for
Brooklyn and was hit freely. retiring
in favor of Coombs in the fourth in
ming.
II was the eighth consecutive defeat
for New York
BrookIyn......... o-s
Two-base hits-Myers. kaun. Home run
stenxei stolen basss-Miller. Johnston t2l.
Sacrlnre hit-Daubert. Sacrifice ries-N Myers,
Fletcher. Double Play>-kaun and Doyle;
Johnston TO Olson to Mowrsy; tutshaw 20 Dau-
her, TO Olson. Left bases-New York. y;
Rrooklyn, T. FIRST base on errors-Brookiyn. :.
Bases on bails-ON Palmero. ,; on Schaner. 4,
on Coombs. ]. Hits and earned runs-on Pal
nero hits, S runs in % innings; on Schauer.
3 hits in 4 1-3 innings; on Rucker, hits. j
runs in 3 innings; on Coombs, hits. runs In
u innings Struck out-By Pslmero. = by
Schauer .; by Rucker. ] by Coombs, Wild
pitches-Palm~ro. Schauer. Passed bali-Rari-
den. I'mpires-Messrs. Byron and Quigley. Time
% Eame-1 hour and 50 minutes.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
University Teams Lose Base Ball Games to Northern Colleges
ovERRULEs COURT OF CLAIMS.
U. s. Supreme Court Decides Con-
tractor Shall Be Paid for Work.

The Supreme Court of the United
States yesterday reversed the Court OF
Claims in the case of William F. White.
receiver of Cowardin, Bradley, Clay &
Co. against the United States. This
suit grew out of a contract in connec-
tion with the construction of filtration
plant adjoining the Soldiers Home.
The appellant firm filed the greater
part of road for the United States
which was understood by the parties
to have been contracted for to be paid
at the price of 80 cents per cubic yard
When the road was nearly con hpleted
and after the United States had paid
$4,000 to the contractor on account OF
his work, the United States notified the
contractor that he should be paid no
more, and took back the $4,000 already
paid by retaining that sum from the
payments due for other work. The
Court of Claims sustained the govern
ment.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Eerrmann's Construction.

CINCINNATI, May THE Chicago
National League club must name
twenty-one players eligible to take
part in National League contests, and
only these men can play: but the Chi
cago club is allowed until next season
to dispose of other players whom it
may retain. but who are not eligible
to play in the National League.
This is the construction placed by
Chairman August Hermann of the
national commission on the agreement
entered into with the Chicago Cubs at
the peace agreement here last winter.
The Cubs must fill their eligible list
along with all other National League
clubs and only these men can partici- :
pate in National League games" said
Mr.. Hermann. They. however, can
change their list at any time, and from
time to time; but may not have more
than twenty-one men on their eligible
list at any one time. They may carry
ffty men on their pay roll, however,
IL they desire This agreement was
made in order to allow them time TO
dispose of the large number of players
| that they were practically forced to
retain through the amalgamation OF
| the National and Federal League teams,
| hut was not intended to work to any
advantage for the Cubs or disadvan-
taee of other clubs in SO far as the
playing season of 1916 was concerned
Evening star., 1916-05-02

Carrigan must realize that he has not
filled Speakers shoes with any of the
additions he has made to his team, for
there are no better outfielders than the
veteran who is holding down center
field for the Indians
Charley Weeghman, owner of the
Chicago Cubs. who is trying to violate
the twenty-one player limit in vogue in
the National League, is going to meet
with lot of opposition. The National
League had a great race last season
and this was attributed to the fact that
the teams were more evenly balanced
because of the existence of the limit
rule There will therefore be a lot OF
clubs who will oppose any effort on the
part of Weeghman to increase the mum
ber of players that can be carried.
The plan which Weeghman suggests
is nothing more than subterfuge for
a plain violation of the rules. and for
this reason will not gain the support
of the league.
The Cincinnati club needs pitchers
and has succeeded in convincing George
Stallings that he can spare knetzer
the former Pittsburgh Fed twirler who
was purchased last winter. Stallings
got a good price for Knetzer. whom he
figures he does not need. and the pitcher
will join Cincinnati at once. .Herzog
before his team will take on an appear
ance of having serious intentions In
the present race, but 1t Will be no easy
matter to get the needed material. for
the clubs which have them are apt to
he chary about disposing of them. With
pitchers 1t is different, they always are
much easier to acquire than players for
other positions.
If the Nationals continue their pres
ent winning streak they ought to have
no trouble strengthening their hold on
first place After playing four games
with the Mackmen. the western clubs
will make their first appearance on the
local grounds. and it is not likely this
contingent will prove very troublesome
for the Griffmen, provided Grifhth's g
pitching staff is in form. and there is
Doc Ayers injured thumb has about
mended. and he will be ready to take tax
now. Bentley also is in good shape
and showing a lot Of stun in the work K
batting practice& Jim Shaw. too. is
ready for work. and Sam Rice is on
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Other American League Games
Athletics Beat Yankees.

PHILADELPHIA. May with Allan
Russell, the former Oriole. twirling
the Yanks went down to defeat yester-
day before the Athletics. to 2.
The Mackmen punched three hits
with the New Workers. errors in the
opening period. Score:
PHILADELPHIA . 3 o O o x-
New York. ....... o . o o o.:
Two-basn hit-Pipp. Home run-Strunk. stoler
| bases-La joie. McInns t2). Double plays
EedeOn and Pipp: Gedeon. Pipp and Peckn
paugh (2t; Bush. Meyer and McInnis. Left or
, bases-Sew York s; Philadelphia 3. First base
on erroris-New York, 3: Philadelphia, l. Base.
| on balls-or Russell. L; of Bush. .. Hits and
| earned runs.oh Russell. hits. . runs in s
stqnek anns' on Russe g. by run Bush g. nn'ns en-
pires-Messrs. Nallin and Dineen. Time OF
game-1 hour and Al minutes.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
POWER BOAT CHANGES OWNERS
Launch ]. M. N. to Be Used as
Alexandria Ferry.

Alexandria parties have purchased
the locally owned power launch j. NJ. N.
and will use her as a ferryboat be-
tween Alexandria and the Washington
steel and ordnance works. to transport
Alexandria workmen to and from the
plant.. The J. NJ. N. it is stated. will
carry about forty persons and has good
speed The men employed at the plant
who reside in Washington use the local
street car line to and from their work.
A vessel laden with railroad ties. to be
used in the extension of the railway
tracks about the steel plant. arrived at
the wharf Friday, and is discharging
her cargo. A big lighter. also with
ties aboard. has arrived there. Good
progress is being made on the rebuild
ing of the wharf by the Clarke &,
winston Company pile driver. The work
will be finished early next week.
Evening star., 1916-05-02

hit--Adams. Sacrifice fy-Chase. Double plays
-Herzog, 1ouden TO Chase Carey TO Schmidt
Mitchell. Herzog Chase. Left bases
Pittsburgh. :; Cincinnati. 4. First base on
errors -Cincinnati, =. Bases on balls-Oh
Mitchell. .. Hits and earned runs-On Adams
hits. = in innings; OF Jacobs. no hits
no runs in innings; OF Mitchell hits. no
! runs In 3 innings. Struck out-Ry Mitchell. -
PASSED balI-Schnidt. Uinpres-Messrs. Klein
and Emslie. Time Of game-l hour ant 40
minutes.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Geodetic Survey Change.

Dickins. former head of the New York
office of the United States coast and
geodetic survey, was installed today as
the successor of Capt. Ferdinand
Westdahl, who has been in charge of
the San Francisco office since 1909.
Capt. Westdahl. it is understood. will
remain attached to the Office here. He
has been in the government service
for forty-five years.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Reds Blank Pirates.

CINCINNATI. May 2.-Mitchell was
master of the situation at all times here
yesterday, shutting out Pittsburgh. 3
to o.
Neale tr;pied in the first inning and
scored on Hal Chase's sacrifice fly.
No more runs were made until the
sixth, when Smiths error allowed Kill
lifer to reach first and he scored on
chase's double. Chase then scored on
Griff1ths single. Score:
Cincinnati. o o o Is
Pittsburgh. ........ o o o o o o o 90
Two-base hits-Hinchman, Groh. Chase Three
base hit--Neale. Stolen base-Csrey. Sacrifice
Evening star., 1916-05-02
CONFER OVER HUGHES BILL.
Labor Officials Urge Bill for Fedora
Aid in Vocational Training.

American Federation of Labor Of
ficials conferred yesterday with Secre-
taries Wilson and Redf1eld and Represen-
tative Hughes on means of putting
through Congress the Hughes bill for
federal aid in vocational training.
Secretary Redfeld Is president of the
National Society for the Promotion of
Industrial Education.
Samuel Gompers, Senator Hoke Smith
and Alvin K. Dodd. secretary of the Ma.
tional Society for the Promotion of In
dustrial Education, were present.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Dertinent Comment
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Bv 7. ED GRILLO.

What wonderful difference makes ball club
proved by the rather dscoug showing the Boston Red
making this spring. with Speaker the Cleveland lineup
stead of in that of Boston.
Speaker valuable for the Carrigan Cobb
for the Tigers and to lose such certain leave
gap in the breastworks easily repaired.
The Red without Speaker entirely different
ton from what they This fielder who seemed able
of drive his territory regardless what
side of him hit 1t this remarkable ability the field
which of the Nationals defeats speak
much of figure he in every game the bat.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Braves Trim Phillies.

BOSTON, May THE Boston Nation
ais defeated Philadelphia. to 2. yes
terday, scoring their first victory this
season over the league champions.
Rudolph held the visitors to four hits
while Boston solved Mayors delivery in
timely fashion.
Catcher Burns and Manager Moran
were sent off the field for disputing
Umpire Rigler's judgment on strikes
Score:
Boston .......... / o o 3 o a-I
Philadelphia o o o o o..
1wo-bass hts-Whitted, MaranviIie. Kon
etchy, stolen base-Good- Sacrifice ny-L,der
Us. double plnys-Adams and SiehofY: Stock
and Iuderus. Left -Phladelphia 4
Boston, .. Frst base on errors-Philadeiphia
/; Boston. ]. Bases balls-On Mayer 8; on
Ri1ey, l. on Rudolph. /. Hits and earned runs
on Mayer. hits. runs in innings: on
Ri1ey. ] HIT no runs In . innings: OF Rudolph
Z hits. : runs in innings. Struck out-By
Mayer. .; by Rixey. 1; by Rudolph. 5. Um
pires-Messrs. Rigler and Eason. Time Of game
i hour and 43 minutes.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Can Shift Players.

NEW YORK. May .. - Secretary John
A. Heydler of the National League says
the Chicago club will have to file a list Of
twenty-one eligible players. the same as
other clubs. in order to conform to the
National League constitution. special
dispensaton has been made in the case
of the Cubs, however, which permits
them to carry additional players on a
non-active list until the opening of the
1917 playing season, if desired.
At no time during the season can the
Chicago club carry more than twenty-one
names on it's eligible list, but players can
be shifted from the non-active to the
eligible list and vice versa at any time,
provided such changes are reported to the
league executive officers and the ten-day
rule observed Under this latter regula-
ton d player shifted to the non-active
list cannot be brought back into the game
for period of ten days.
Evening star., 1916-05-02

Charley Anderson. recruit with the
Boston Red Sox, objected to being
transferred to Buffalo. He said that
unless he could stick with the worlds
champions he would quit the game He
can't be prevented from quitting. il
seems. in this free country.
Capt. Harvey L. Cunningham, who
was the hacker of the Norfolk team in
the Virginia League when Christy
Mathewson was sold to the New York
Giants for $4,000 in 1900. died the other
day in Norfolk. This revives the story
of how the New York club tried to
evade payment and how Cunningham
had to go to court to get his money
Cunningham was fifty-three years Of
age and q very rich man.
Evening star., 1916-05-02

Roger Bresnahan, poobah of the To-
ledo team. has let it be known that no
'handshaking" goes for his players
They are expected to stick out their
jaws and their chests. la Roger, every
time they meet a player on the rival
teams and fight like Germans In the
trenches Any player caught saying
"Howareyou" to q member of another
association team will draw. fne from
Roger.
Evening star., 1916-05-02

George Cutshaw of the Dodgers made
three successive errors in the opening
game at Boston. He let two grounders
get through and then added q wild
throw. All this happened in the sec
ond inning.
Evening star., 1916-05-02

edge and anxious to get into the fray.
BY the time the western clubs get
here the Nationals are likely to be in
their best batting stride. and with the
breaks in their favor they may get
so substantial lead that they will be
able to hold the foremost position in
the race for some time and thus again
become one of the best attractions in
the league.
But it will be no easy matter to retain
the lead. for there are a lot of strong
clubs to battle. every day. and they
naturally always save their strongest
pitchers for the team which is leading
the procession.
Griffith will see to it that his team
will be on edge for the long fight He
has the players rounding into good form
now and he has system to keep them
there, for he can occasionally give those
who need rest few days off without
materially weakening his team
Despite the fact that the Browns have
proved bitter disappointment up to this
time, the St Louis fans have not lost
confidence in the team, because they be-
Jones eventually will assert itself and
that then the Browns will start marching
pennantward. 1t is not to be expected
that this will happen very soon. however.
one of the western teams and they are
not apt to find the going in this section
a bit easier than in the west.
Connie Mack evidently knew what he
was talking about when he predicted that
the Phillies would repeat this year The
Braves won their first game from the
Morans yesterday. There is not a chance
for the Stallings crew to beat out the Phil
lies in the race unless it can learn to take
games from the leaders. which up to date
has been next to impossible
Stallings has a very likely looking
team, which should improve aS If eneS
along. but those Phillies are a good hit
ting team and. what is more, seem to
have pitching strength enough to make
them hard to beat
Evening star., 1916-05-02

Two-base hif-Smith. Sacrifice hits-Graney
Speaker. Double plays-Gandil tunassisted) ;
Cobb. and Maisei. Left on bases-Cleveland. .;
Detroit, 3. First base errors-Cleveland, L;
Detroit l. Buses balls-On Coveleskie, 1;
off Dauss, !. Hits and earned runs-On Gov
eleskie, . hits. no runs In innings; of Dauss
3 hits, in innings. Struck out-By
Coveleskie, l; by Dauss. I. Umpires-Messrs.
Evening star., 1916-05-02
Indians Chase Tigers.

DETROIT. May 2.-Stanley Coveles-i
kie pitched Cleveland to a 2-to-0 vic
tory over Detroit in rain-swept game
here yesterday. The contest was called
while the sixth inning was being played
and the score reverted to the end of the
ffth
Graney's single. pass to Turner and
Smiths double in the first inning scored
Cleveland's runs Score:
Evening star., 1916-05-02

The Auditors administered a severe
beating to the Union Station nine in the
Terminal "Y" League, taking the long
end of an is to 0 score. The winners
connected for twenty hits, against four
for the losers. There was not much to
the contest, other than a continuous
procession around the bases by the win
ming club.
Evening star., 1916-05-02

The Staff teeam took the measure of
Quartermaster Department in the
War Interbureau circuit. Staff made a
total of eleven hits, while the losers
got only four. Johnson pitched too well
for the Quartermasters to win, allow :
ing only four safeties. Cahoon was the
only members of the losers to hit John
son consistently.
Evening star., 1916-05-02

The Rosedales and Columbias played
to tie, 13 to 13, in the Rosedale cir
cult. Both teams hit the ball hard,
the Columbias making eighteen safe
ties and the Rosedales ten. Wildness
on the part of the pitchers and errors
figured largely in the scoring.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-07-12
POLISH AGRICULTURAL
SCHOOL TO BE RE0PENED
(By Associated Press.)

Pulway, Russian Poland, July IL.
October is to see the reopening, with
the Polish language in vogue. of the
Agricultural high school which, so
far as Polish is concerned, has been
closed since 1868. The Austro-
Hungarian occupation authorities in
Russian Poland have decided to re-
viye the institution, and have en-
trusted the reorganization and con-
duet of the school to Prof. DR.. Stef-
an Surzycki of the University Of
Krakau.
The Pulyay high school, one Of the
biggest educational institutions In
Russian Poland. was closed in 1858
by the Russian authorities because
it's pupils had taken part in the revo-
luton. 1t remained closed until the
year 1869, when it was reopened as
a purely Russian school. It was
closed again at the outbreak Of the
war.