The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-03-01

total w0FlQ series TeCeipte ioA AVAp
JAMES ELIIoY
Total receipts sass. $1,000. The
players divided sls2.s27.45. Club
owners divided s1S4s1o4. And the
National commission got s3S,552.o5.
Dear Mfr. Corbett: who were the
batting champions in the American
league since n started?
PHILIP WANDER.
San Dugan, 1900; Napoleon Lajoie.
1901, 1908. 1904 and 1905: Ed Dele-
hanty, 1909: George Stone 1905; Ty
Cobb from 1907 to 1915 inclusive and
also in 1917. Iris Speaker was the
1915 leader.
Dear Mr.. Corbett: How many pen
nants did the Baltimore Orioles win
and what were the years?
HARRY HILA4
1894. 1925 and 1875.
Dear Jim: Cd Where was Jim Cof-
fey. the heavyweight, born and when !?
CD how tall is he and what liz his
fighting weight?
JEFFY HENDRICKS.
Coffey was born January 10, 1891 in
Roscommop county. Ireland. He is
six feet three. inches tall and weighs
around 400 pounds.
Dear Mfr Corbett: How many PEN
nants have the Giants won since John
McGraw became manager and what
were the years.
JACK. CARMEN.
Six: 1904, 1905, 1911, 1919
1918 and 1917.
Dear Mr. Corbett: A batter hunts
the ball. It strikes first on foui ter
ritory and then as ii nears third base il
takes sudden curve and turns into
fair territory, II settles on fair ter
ritor- within a few feet OF third sase.
JOE poREg,
1t is fair balie A fair or foul
ball is determined by the place where
the ball stops rolling or where 1t is
when picked up by player.
Dear Mr. Cerbett; In four handed
game of poker A, the opener. shows q
pair OF aces and won't show the 9th =
err three cards, declaring il isn't neces .
sary for him to show eTprs than
openers? Is he right?
r. YOUNG.
The opener must show five cards.
face up.
Dear Mr.. Corbett: who is the light
he win the title7
! Benny Leonard is the lightweight
champion having won it from Freddie
| Welsh.
| Dear Mr.. Corbett. Did Jack John
son knockout Tommy Burns before he
met James ]. Jeffries. And did John
son become champion by whipping
Burns?
Jeffries retired in 1905 and afserward
refereed a contest between Marvin
Hart and Jack Root, which Hart won
Jeffries announced that he was bestow.
ing his title upon Hart No champion
legally can do this. but the public ac-
knowidged Jeffries' gift and Hart be.
came looked upon as champion. Later
Hart WAS defeated by Burns, who by
that victory gained the technical
heavyweight championship OF the
world. johnson met Burns In Sidney
Australia. and knocked him out. Sc
johnson fell heir TO the technical
little.
!, Dear Mr. Corbett: A SAYS there ID
a law which forbids one man serving
three times as president of the United
States; p says there is no such law
that 1t ID only q custom. who Is
right?
/ MAX wEINEIA
There is no such law.
| J. j. o'Brien-The rules of poker
state specifically that any hand which
contains more or less than Ave cards
latter the draw is a foul hand"
| Dear Mr. Corbett; Did George Nc.
Fadden ever knock out Joe Cans?
| p. soMMERS.
George McFadden Knocked out jos
Cans in the twenty-third round Of one
,of their three meetings in 1899.
lries, former heavyweight champion
still alive?
NC. ]. DAILY.
Jeffries is very much alive and 1,
living in California.
4 Dear Mr.. Corbett: % A claims
that Larry Doyle played center field
in eighteen games for the Giants ir
1877: B says he didn't cd A claims
Benny Kauff was on the bench mos
OF last scanson; B says he Is wrong
H.
EMIL MEYERS Z
| "a Larry Doyle was traded to thu
Cubs In the latter part OF the 1915
season and didn't play at all with the
Giants In 1917. CD Kauff played II
1853 of the 154 Giant games in 1917
4
4 Dear Mr. Corhett: What ID the ma
tionality Of Frantic Callahan, thA
Brooklyn lightweight?
r.. MACK.
i Callahan ia an American Of, Jewish
lparentage.
/ Dear Mr.. Corbett: "a What play
er received the largest salary in tn,
American league last season and wha
was the salary? cd Same thing 70
igarding the National league. (3) WIZ
received the largest salary .on thu
Brooklyn and Giants ana what wer,
their salaries?