Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-01-21

>. is expected 10 attract widespread
interest tins year. Last year the fad
th!S year the NocntSmcn are leaning
toward noucrate speed and staying
Qualities IN yarnts, ns they want boat
"hicn VIII Withstand all sorts OF
weather. Many new models. especially
designed for coast patrol uuty. Will be
shown lhIS year.
Connie Mack recently dropped two
nuIierS From the standing OF the
Aih.ctics. NOBODY would nave guessed
The plan for pooling the worlds
The players of all teams IN both big
leagues sounds tine at first. but when
one stops 10 figure that interl"AEue
chance 10 make more money Than the
piaEerS OF the two championship teams.
II doesn', look fair. PLAYERS i'm city
series. counting their share of receipts
IRON. their own games. would get the
way TO get around such a condition
would be Ia pool the receipts Of all
postsehs3n series The plan will he
discussed at the coming meeting OF the
National Commission.
Tiily shafer, the temperamental thirn
hhstnian who quit the Giants three
years ago. has not answered McGraw's
letter as Yet. Mctiraw believes that
E i"f .ph ,h Snntsr waits to write. the
MS mind about quitting the game for
good.
Like, great many major league
stars Roger Hornsby. of the Cardinals.
vas was IA" HS. owners ,,, small sum. IIornsby
Connery. the Cardinal scout. and was
purchased for $500 He made g""d
Win ''. vim in st. Louis uniform. ana
was easily the most sensational vouuar-
ster brought out by the old league last
s'nS"n; Any club in the league wouI,
give slo'oVo or more for Hornsby now
Leo Harris. for a decade pas, as
Sociate in football matters with Glenn
60, M, ;n1 VIII give, techniGal football
curing the coming season.
lack Fournier. vino had such great
~ a. pat IN 1915. and who slumpeu
;" oadiE last season blumcs his trouble
Oh the iniieid. Jack likes the outiie.n.
ana DeNeVeS ii played regularly in
form; FORM ne'G H., he woui% soon regain his
fancy the roe OF pinch hitter lie say.
IN [h"t ,., to do hfmSelf justice at the bat
me must I.r.. be In there every day. facing
merely going against the pitching one
races in batting practice.
Bill Bingham. last years track can
tain at Harvard, and now on the Bos-
ton Athletic Associations group Of
= - = ga accepted Il business offer
from the West, and is expected TO leave
Boston within Il few days
~, No. Wonder the Chicago Cubs dropped
teIr EFFORTS to secure Frank Chances
services. Money counts for a lot with
n" hasebail maGnates OF to-day, ana
IN" sum Chance is said to have de-
manted Tor managing the Cubs must
nave Knocked the props from under
chicago stockholders in the Bruins II
IS saiH on good authority that Chance
wanted S22,o0 year. That meant
$1,000 for two-year contract. and
with the club run down, Chance woui,;
never have accepted "a contract for less
IMAM two seasons.
AIn,other fighter has skipped Aus
uH!ia, ana may soon he expected to
arriy" in America. lie is Mick King,
OK -Gnamnton middlcweiCht. and. ac-
cordinE td word from Snowy Baker.
me Austria ian promoter, nc is headed
Tor thcS" shores by a roundabout wav.
The. ship ON which King left home evi-
GENTLY is tramp as her schedule calls
Tor stops IT India. Africa. the Canary
Islands. Gibraltar. Genoa Naples. Mar
SERIES and London.
Mike Gibbons and Jack Dillon are
IN" men with whom King homes TO
hOop uD with when he orriyrc