The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-01-08
Indians May Be Sold
Today to Ed Gvinner
PittsburgherS Want to Enter American League as
Moguls and They May Be Favored-Griff Starts
Fasting to Be Ready for Big Banquet
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

Ban johnson is today in Cleveland,
endeaVoring to untangle conditions
there, and it Is thought that before
many more days he viii announce the
sale OK the club to Ed Gwinner. the
Pittsburgh Federal Le0guer. ard e. B.
Comstock. Gwinner's partner IN the
railway business in the Smoky City.
These two men have agreed TO pur-
chase Charlie Somers' holdings. II the
Price In not eXorhiant.
II Gwinner enters the American
League ranks. only one Federal League
club will remain pnsatiCfied, Baltimore.
Kansas City. and Buffalo had their
franchises vacated for debt before the
peace negotiations. Sinclair. the New
ark maRnate, is coEtented with owning
a bunch of players. Ball and Stifel
have purchased the TsrowES and Cher
lie weeghman is now about to become
q National League mognl. The Wards
have voluntarily retired from the
game. The one sore place Is Baltimore,
and. Judging from reports, the Orioles
are going to hold up further neGotia-
tons until they, too, receive what they
consider their due from the lords OF
the national Ean1e.
The Federal League meeting, which
was to have been held next WEDNESDAY
in New York, has been postponed, The
inability OF Phil Ball to attend is given
as the reason, but the desire of Gilmore
and Sinclair to confer with the BaIu-
more owners Is said to be the real
| reason.
Manager Clark Griffith has ALREADY
| begun fasting in order to be ready for
the annual banquet of the Cardinal "a
| c., of Alexandria. This banquet TEN
dered the OLD Fox will be held TINS
year on January 20 at the Hotel KAN.
mel and red FIRE will burn and Voca
pyrotechnics extend into the heavens
on that night of nights.
Connie MAck's generosity is amaz'
ing. He has given" Jack Lapp 10 the
| White Sox, asking only that ComisxeS
pay the backstops present contrac1
| for 1916. Lapp has for several seasons
had the distinction of being the only
bald-headed backstop in the league
Now Connie should give Ira Thomas
| to somebody, or wish Harry DAVIS
upon some newcomer among the league
moguls.
Manager Grinith mas picked up an
other Tennessee phenom In TOD
sloan, a pitcher, of Linden-dear Ole
| Linden on the plain. Zeb Milan ma
| talked Grin into giving this kid
chance, and so sloan will report some
where in the South" for a. tTy-out. zeI
! says that the new pitcher weights
about 1856 pounds, stands six feet vi
into the air, and, like all Tennesseeans
has the speed OF bullet.
| Joe Tinker has set a corps OF lawyer
on the job of breaking the contrac
binding the Cubs to train at Tampa
Fla. He would have his team get int
condition at Shreveport, La.
Ernie Shores brother Tom al
eighteen-year-old lad, now at Guilfor
College, IN North Carolina, may join tn
worlds champions for a trial mex
spring. The youngster Is said to be bull
on the lines OF Ernie and have almos
as much speed.
, The American Association will hold il
annual meeting January Is in Chicago
Torn Chivington. head of the league
saws the outlook is ROSY and that all tn
cluns should make money next summer
II only the weather is kind.
The Boston Braves will play tw
y games during the trainlng season Wit
the Maekmen. The hrSt comes o