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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-22
F. FRAZIER WINS AT GOLF.
Essex Country Clubman Defeats
Longley in Palm Beach Final.

PALM BEACH. Fla. January e.
Frank Frazier. Essex Country Club, de-
feated Vauder Longley, Wannamoissett
yesterday in the final of the New Year
golf tournament by the score of up
and to play. Frazier started out by
winning the first three holes with two
Is and a ). and had increased the lead
one more at the turn. The next two
holes were won by Longley. Frazier
won the twelfth. then tied the next
three, and the match went to the Essex
man.
I'm the consolation final d. c. Murray,
luhnandasis. defeated c. VI. Ransom,
Buffalo Country. also by and 3.
Donald Ross of Pinehurst left last
night after a consultation on the plans
for the new eighteen hole course being
laid out for the Palm Beach Country
Club. His plans, which have been ac-
cepted, call for the location Of the
clubhouse on the ocean front at the
southeast corner Of the property and
the grouping of the course into nine
hole loops, each starting and finishing
at the clubhouse. Ross plans will
assumption that on account Of the
desirable.
The work has been in progress a year.
and is being done by the Henry N.
Flagler estate at a cost of $500, 900. The
new links will be rolling instead of
fiat. like the present course. and Will
have grass greens. novelty this far
south.
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CATHOLIC U.-VIRGINIA CONTEST
BEARS ON BASKET BALL TITLE
If Brooklanders Win at Charlottesville To-
night They Will Be Favored to Capture
South Atlantic Honors Other Gossip.

The decision by Gallaudet not to meet
Loyola College this afternoon at Ken
dali Green has been revoked and the
contest will take place. Loyola' Is to
stun at 4:3O O'Clock. The Gallaudet
team went to Baltimore last week and
lost to the Loyola five by one=sided
score. The conditions at Gallaudet,
though, are favorable to the local quint
and it may be that the tables Will be
turned. 1t is not an easy matter by
anv means for a team to win from
Gallaudet in the Kendall Green gym
nasium.
Two close games were played in the
Interscholastic League yesterday. Ine
st. Adams five put up an unexpeceedty
hard battle against the Army ana navy
Props and Central High gave BUSINESS
about all it was looking Tor In the way
of hard contest.
The score of the game won by Busl-
ness was 80 to 81. and the count IN tnat
in which the Army and Navy Preps
triumphed was 80 to rs. Ihe score IN
each combat was close enough to keep
the partisan spectators of the contend
ing quints on the qui vive all the time
Culligan of Business and Marbury OF
Central were the best goal shooters OF
the first game. the former caginE the
hall from the floor seven times and the
latter four. Miller for Army and Navy
Prep, and Leah for st. Adams were
the chief scorers in the second game,
the former registering nine from the
floor and the latter caging the ball TOUR
times.
Western High was victor in its
game with the Friends School. showing
greater strength and more genera genera
though, was not so much more power
full that things were made uninterest-
ing. The score was 40 to 80.
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became its leading spirit, Then the
new organization was launched in
Pittsburgh. with an eight-club circuit,
including Chicago, St. Louis Cincin-
natl. Philadelphia, Altoona, Washing
ton, Baltimore and Boston.
To combat this move, the American
Association was induced by the National
League to increase it's circuit to twelve
clubs by admitting Toledo. indianapolis.
Washington and BROOKLYN. That pro-
vided a competing team in every Union
Association city except Altoona, and all
three leagues were represented in Phila-
delphia. In this struggle the National
League gained the advantage. for it en-
1oyed a fairly profitable season in spite
of the fact the Cleveland club was hit
SO severely by the loss of starr players
that it retired from the league at the
end of the season.
History Repeats Itself.
The American Association found its
twelve-club circuit a heavy handicap
and all clubs lost money, but the or.
ganization managed to finish the season
after transferring the Washington team
to Richmond. The Union Association
was a complete failure. Altoona blew
up first and was replaced by kansas
City. The Chicago team was transferred
to Pittsburgh and then to St Paul. Tee
EeyStOneS. dropped out OF Philadel Dhia
into Wilmington. and in spite OF all The
switching only five clubs lasted throl- II
the season, the pennant being won by st
Louis.
During the winter efforts were made
to keep the Union Association alive by
the use of oxygen. but the National
League delivered the knockout punch
by taking Angel Lucas into it's own
family. Whereupon the patient expired.
You see. history repeats itself in base
hall just as in everything else.
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GRIFFITH TO MAKE
FIGHT EOR GIDEON
Says He Paid Player $500 for
Option on His Services
for 1916.
IS TO EXPLAIN FACTS
TO YANKEES OWNERS
Player Has Yet to Prove Major
League Ability, However, So Out
come Is Not Important.
BY j. ED GRILLo.

Manager Griffith is going to fight for
cording to press dispatches. has been
purchased, together with Nick Cullop
and Herman Schaefer, by the New York
American League club from the Fed
eral League. Griffith undoubtedly has
strong case. 1t seems he paid
Gedeon $500 in cash before he left
here at the close of the. 1914 season as
an option on his services for 1916.
Gedeon played with the Salt Lake club
last season and then, when Griffith
wanted to exercise his option. Gedeon
contract for $4,000 and drew $1,000 adj
vance. After he signed this he offered
to come to Griffith for $4,000 per sea-
son and to stand for the paying back
of the advance money he had received
from the Feds.
Griffith opened negotiations with Sin
clair, the Feds player salesman. and
was informed that he could assume
Gedeons Federal League contract and
have Gedeon, which Griffith refused to
do, because he figured that inasmuch as
Gedeon had never played with the Feds
and he had paid him 5000 for an option
on his services he belonged to the Wash
ington club.
1t is the New York club which Grit
fifth proposes to appeal to, and 1t Ia not
at all unlikely that when Capt. Huston
and Bill Donovan get the real facts
of the case they will concede Griffith's
point That the Washington club is
entitled to something goes without say
ing.
at is not going to make much differ
ence in the Nationals chances next
season whether Gedeon reports or not,
fpr it is questionable, indeed, II he is
q major league ball player. He GER
tainly is not a player who is entitled
to four. salary until
he has shown a lot more than he has
to date.
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teams so much trouble. This mound is
absolutely a violation of the rules. and
it is high time that it be changed. SC
as to give every team an even chance
President Haughtoh of the Boston
Braves has told his newspaper friends
in Boston that he is no longer going
to pursue his Harvard tactics SO far
matter of publicity. In foot ball he
contends it does not do for a coach to
talk at all for the papers. but in base
ball. in which the public is entitled to
all the news, it is different, and
Haughton has promised to be very lib
eral in furnishing information concern
ing the Braves.
George Stallings. by the way. made
the following statement regarding the
team the other day:
Il have a hard-fghting, game lot of
players" he said. IT wouldn't have
room for a player who isn't game.
They play with all that is in them, and
always will while I have anything to
do with the club. They will take every
clean advantage to win and will go the
limit in that respect. So far as I am
concerned, l would rather have a player
of lesser ability who is thoroughly
game than to have a player of greater
ability who is lacking in gameness.
When we travelled through the west
last season we were known as a club
with one-third ability and two-thirds
nerve and fighting power. This season
I intend to have a club that Is two
thirds ability and one-third other
wise"
According to Joe villa of the New
York Evening Sun. Sinclair is pretty
sure to buy the St. Louis Cardinals
The fact that Sinclair is getting big
money for the Federal League stars he
is selling Is likely to net him enough
to buy the Cardinals within a day OF
so. 1t is the information that comes
from National League sources. Sin
clair is laid up with the grip, but Gar
ry Hermann. is handling the Cardi.
nal deal for him. If the deal goes
through. Sinclair will pay at 1east
s250.000 for the FRANCHISE. without ths
grounds, which he doesn't want. Thi.
will be considerably less than paying
81, 100000 for control of the Giants.
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DAVIS INCREASES LEAD.
Shows Further Superiority in Ath-
letic Contests at Y. NJ. C. A.

Joe Davis is constantly showing his
superiority over the other contestants
in the bi-weekly athletic contests
being held at the Y. NJ. c. A. In the
events held this week he forged far
Their ahead and now Is in front with a
comfortable margin. The team cap
tained by Davis also Is ahead in the
team race. it having ass points more
than the second team. The team stand
team. $500: Shipley's team, 3.055. and
Buete's team, $685.. The individual
standing il: Joe Davis. .1.17S: X. G.
Shtpley. LOLA: ]. Beatty. sSs; G. L.
Roberts. sSS; K knight. s95: J. Harris.
1856: A. Farrell. ZIG; ]. Buete. 7o7; A. L.
Thompson. 63S: A. Stevens. sig; w. b.
Alien. AZ: r. Duncan, 3Is: r. Filler.
l3l, and l. johnson. 1877.
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Just how much the acquisition of the
players named will strengthen Dono-
vans team remains to be seen. but he
is given credit for having picked the
best player in the Federal League in
Lee Magee. and Cullop is said to be a
much improved pitcher over what he
was when he was with Cleveland. As
for Gedeon, he would have to be a
whole lot better than he used to be
while here, and the fact that he hit
we'll in the Pacific Coast League last
season means nothing. for the reason
that that league was decidedly weak
in pitchers.
John Hummel, who for many years
has been a member of the Brooklyn
National League team, is one of the
players whom Manager Robinson in
tends to release outright before the
next season opens. Another young
man who is slated to be cut on the
left handed pitcher, who while with
the Newark club two years ago set the
international League af1re. Altchlson
as soon as he Joined the Dodgers be
gan to violate the rules. and though
Robbie was patient .,s WIN 70 n hia ba ano
ness. he failed. and he will be sent
back to the minors.
The base ball diamonds in the Ma
tional League are to be uniform next
season. It has been found that there
is n great difference in the various
parks, though the rules say they must
all be alike.
Howard Renshaw, Cincinnatian
discovered the discrepancies going
around the circuit. and he called the
attention of Secretary Heydler OF the
National League to the matter. win
the result that an order is to be issued
by President Tener for the employment
of a civil engineer. who Will travel
around the circuit and see to 1t that
the parks are all alike. This viii
eliminate the immense mound IRON
which McGraw's pitchers work on the
Polo Grounds. which give visiting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-22

The intercity bowling match last
night between George Iseman's all-star
team Of Washington and the Palace Ave
of Martinsburg resulted in victory for
the local outfit, as it finished with a
lead of 81 pins on the total for five con-
tests. The count made by the Washing
tonians was 1888 and that by the visit
ors 2,4S2. The final block of five games
is to be rolled in Martinsburg with
the rubber-banded pins in the near
future.
Pop" HALEY did the best bowling of
any of the players in the match, getting
scores of III, 90, 102, ia and 10. His
total was 535 and average 107. Goddard
and Bontz averaged LOG 2-5 each for the
local quint. Dunn did the best bowling
for the visitors, his average being 1O5.
Gibraltars Are Defeated.
The Thomas Jefferson Council team
won two games out Of three from the
Gibrltars in the Northeastern circuit.
below the average.
Two matches took place in the Post
Office organization and both resulted in
clean sweeps Finance won all its con-
lcStS ITOm IOStAl savings anu the Bank
ers were three-times victors over the
City Post Office club. Grubbs, Jolliffe
and Chadbourne got some fair score
for Finance, but the work of none of
the other players was up to standard.
Acacia won three from King David
and La Fayette took two from the King
Solomon team in the Masonic circuit
La Fayette is leading the league and
Fookes and Hansford of that club were
the best players last night. Fookes
led with counts Of Ill, 80 and 121.
The 1nglesides took two games from
the .Arcadians in the Arcade organi-
was high man, his counts being los,
log and S..
Velvets Continue to Win.
The Velvets were not to be denied
in their match in the National Capital
circuit, taking two games from the
Palace outfit. The Velvets did not get
many high marks, but it seems they
have the faculty Of playing against
teams which also fail to register well
when they are not at their best. Ar
niger and Schmidt were the stars of
the Velvets, the former with scores of
100. SO and 125. and the latter with
107, LOT and 1902. Keller led Palace
with 96, 1913 and los.
The Green Sox team was too good for
the Burnetts in the Knights of Column
bus League, while the Washington Gas
Company proved victor over the
Hecht five. in the Commercial organi-
ration.
TIE scores of last nights matches
follow:
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LOCAL A[L7STARS
OBTAIN -B|G.LEAD
Finish N VI Pins Ahead
of Martinsburg Bow|ers in
First Five Games.
""POP" HALEY is TOP
/ IN SCORES OF PLAYERS
Registers an Average of 1o7 for His
Contests-Two Teams Bowl
in Philadelphia.
Local Bowlers to Roll
in Philadelphia Tonight


Two teams of tenpin bowlers
leave here this afternoon for
Philadelphia, where they will
compete In special matches with
quints picked from the hest
bOwlers of New York and Philn-
delphia. The local men are taxi
ing the trip mainly In the inter-
ests of the Atlantic Coast Bowl
ing Tournament Company, which
is In charge of the big tourney
to be held here this spring. 1t il
thought that this will be n good
method Of Interesting the bowl
ers Of New York and Philadel.
phta sufficiently to get them to
send a large number of men and
teams for the tournament In
April.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-22
TAKE OVER DUNN's STOCK.
Richmond People Now Control In
ternational Franchise.

RICHMOND, Va, January 22.-Alvin
NJ. Smith, president of the Richmond
Exhibition Company. yesterday after
noon announced that the $4,000 re-
CURED to purchase Jack Dunn's interest
in the Richmond franchise of the In
ternational League had been subscribed
and the deal closed to keep the fran
chise from going to Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-22
HAVE KAUFF'S CONTRACT,
Giants Not Worried by Benny's
Line Of Chatter

NEW YORK. January 22.-Bennie
Kauff has not been asked to sign q
Giant contract. nor will he be asked
TO do 80. because no contract IL needed.
according to a statement made from
the Offices of the New. York National
League club today. -
No Federal League player il required
to sign a contract. as It was a part Of
the peace treaty that organized ball
was to assume all contracts. At the
Giants ofYices the "balxing" Of Kau6
was termed newspaper talk only"
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Engineer Corps Want, Games.

The basket ball team OF the Engineer
Corps wants games with any of the
local auinta. such as are playing in
the Military League. The management
also u eager to book games with Fort
Myey. Walter Reed Hospital and the
Ingrams. The Engineers' record so far
this season covers six games played.
six games won. with a total Of 211
points against es for their opponents.
Address Frederick souand, manager.
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Griffith Paid Option on Gedeons Services and Will Fiqhtfc
LOOKING THEM OVER
WITH BILLY EVANS
Stories and Facts About the Diamond Stars

National umpire still laughs at hap
Annapolis by
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didn't for minute believe that the for him He was
for sudden He had just about decided
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GOOD SCRAP IN SIGHT.
Freddie Welsh and Richie Mitchell
May Go Ten Rounds.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE. January 22-There is
a possibility of Champion Freddie
Welsh and Richie Mitchell coming to-
gether in ten-round contest before
the Cream City Athletic Club here early
in February. The club has offered
W elsh a fiat sum supposed to be $1,000.
but Manager Harry Pollok is holding
out for more money.
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Dertineut Comment
; @95Bsgs;s3g3l83&$; 10$
By 7. ED GRILLo.

the Yankees making strenuous effort to
indicated the liberal they
spending their money for Federal League players
addition Magee Bill Donovan has added Nick Cullop
supposed be capable efhanded pitcher and Joe Gedeon who
to have been Nationals second base
spring. The signing Herman Schaefer for the
amusing from the coaching lines for Schaefer has long
playing ball.
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Raid on National League.

Before the season of 1883 the Ameri-
can. Association raided the ranks of the
National League players and obtained
many stars. In those days this was
comparatively easy. as the base ball
contract was in its formative period.
It was for. one year only and had lit
tie semblance of mutually to give it
legality. Moreover, there was only a
limited reserve rule in effect. National
League clubs were permitted to reserve
only five of their players for the sue
ceeding season.
The American Associations circuit
was increased by the admission of Co
lumbus and the Metropolitans of New
York, making an eight-club race in
1883. The National League revised and
strengthened its own circuit by drop
ping the small cities Troy and Worces-
ter The Troy team was transferred to
New York and the Worcester outfit
to Philadelphia. That produced con-
ficts in both New York and Philadel-
phia, and in the former city the Ma
tional League and American Associa-
ton clubs were owned by the same
men, John b. Day and James Mutrie.
The association had the better of the
conflict in the two cities where they
competed for patronage, as the Ath-
letics won the association pennant,
while the Phillies finished last in the
National League. In New York the as
ISOLATION team was fourth and the Ma
rionals sixth.
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C. A. COMISKEY HAS BEEN
IN EVERY BASE BALL WAR
Only Individual Now Prominent In Game
to Engage in All Battles-Figured as
Player, Manager and Magnate
BY I. E. sANBoRN.

CHICAGO, January 19.-Only one in
diyidual now prominent in base ball
has been through all of it's wars.
Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the
Chicago White Sox, is that individual,
and he has seen war from all angles
as player. manager and magnate. In
most battles he has been central
figure. and always he has been fight
err, strongly opposed to surrender. and
that trait on and off the diamond gave
him the name "Old Roman"
Comiskey was in the ranks when this
first base ball war broke out in 1882.
Browns, one of the important teams in
the original American Association, long
since -defunct. That association owed
its birth to much the same causes as
those which produced the late Federal
League. In fact, prosperity~seems to
have had a lot to do with starting
ructions in the base ball world.
- Rival Appeared in 1882.
After six years of more or less peril
GUS existence the National League was
just beginning to feel the benefits of
the order and system it's organization
had introduced into base ball. when it
was confronted with a rival in 1882.
This rival was the American Associa-
ton, which grew out of a desire to
compete with the National League for
patronage. but in territory not then
occupied by the other organization.
Base ball was not then national
institution" nor was it business
proposition, but merely a sport in
which players and promoters engaged
chiefly for love of it. Constant shifts
In circuit were necessary. In fact. the
season of 1882 was the first in the
National Leagues existence in which
the circuit remained the same as that
OF the previous year. The cities which
then composed the league were Chicago,
Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit in the
west. and Boston. Providence, Worcester
and Troy in the east. You see that
left vacant considerable territory now
considered of major caliber and in
cluded some that is decidedly minor
league today.
A. A. Starts With Six Cities.
The American Association at first in
cluded only six cities-St. Louis, Gin
cinnati, Louisville. Pittsburgh. Phila-
delphia and Baltimore. The Atlantics
of Brooklyn were members OF the as
sciation on it's formation. but with
drew before the opening of the initial
season and Baltimore was substituted
That left Gotham entirely out of the
circuits of both leagues. 1t is coin
cidence that the American Association,
the American League and the Federal
League all began their wars against
organized base ball without represen-
tation in New York.
With this non-conflicting circuit and
with rudimentary teams. composed
largely of experimental players who
did not cost much, the association
weathered its first season in good shape
and became chesty. Incidentally, the
first American Association champion
ship was won by Cincinnati, which new
er has achieved a pennant since that
date.
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Railroad authorities feel sure that
they will need no more than two sec
lions to transport the Browns. south
next spring. ~