The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-23
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President Phil Ball, Of tho st, Louis
Browns, would feel lonesome II some
body didn't have a suit against him,
In a court In st. Louis a woman named
Marie Flach has Just been awarded
$4,000 damages against Ball, She al
legged his automobile Utruck her while
she was on the way to church ono day
and Jared the Christian spirit out Of
her system.
Promoters of the New England league
further advanced their organization last
week by electlng John y. Donnelly. Of
Lowell, president for n two-year term,
for the Lawrence and Lewiston fran
Chises, Charles (Heinie) Wagner,
formerly of the Boston Red Sox, It
was announced, would take tho Port
land club and Jesse Burkett and John
Connolly formally accepted tho HaVer-
hill franchise, Fitchburg and Lowell
are said to be taken care of. Six
clubs will be In the league, II the plans
go through.
Tho stockholders OF the Toledo club
are still In a wrangle with Roger
Bresnahan, much the the embarrass-
ment Of Rogers plans. Roger owns
Il controlling interest and refuses to
stop out, He says he Ia going to run
the team, but meanwhile ho Is having
trouble assembling It and affairs are
In n good deal OF a mess. Roger lost
every dollar he had trytMg to mako
baseball go in Toledo and he thinks
he Is entitled to some consideration.
The hundred dollar stockholders think
not.
Ray SChmandt, Of the Brooklyn bod
gers, has tho most unlucky ankle In
the baseball business, Here hos
Rprained It again down in the Dodgers
camp and is out for a month. 1t all
happened because Uncle Robby would
insist on playing him at second In
stead Of first. according to John b,
Sheridan-what else could Bobby ex-
poet, SChmandt broke that ankle when
with Lincoln in 1917 before the sea-
son opened. He cracked 1t again with
Brooklyn last year and was drafted
into the army before 1t healed. Now
have the thing cut off at tho knee
and be done with It,
Fritz Maisel, once hailed as a posi-
Bile star, and with all the signs OF
being one, passed out of the Ameri-
can league with a %three-line paragraph
Maisel's friends say he was ruined
when Bill Donovan tried to make an
outfielder of him. Others more harsh
say his Indifference and his money
madness finished his career as a big
Lacquer. Take your choice. Maisel
figured in the big ST, Louis New York
trade a year ago, OF all the players
Involved ShoCker and Gedeon still are
with the Browns and Pratt is with
the Yankees Plank and Cullop never
reported. Nunamaker was shipped
away by the Browns during the winter
and now Maisel goes
The minor leagues seem to have
riCked out tho wrong time to enter
into any new agreement with the ma
jors, who have been having It I'm
pressed upon them in court proceedings
that they should avoid all semblance OF
agreements that smack OF combina
lions in restraint. etc. Anyway, what's
the use OF a formal agreement? Things
seem to be working along In very gen
tlemanly fashion between such major
clubs and minor clubs as wish TO agree
The Mobile club has heard from one
Of its first base prospects, Walter Col
win, that he expects to sail for home
soon from ~Vladivostok, where he has
been stationed. and that he may arrive
IN Gods Coultry In time to start the
Southern league season. Meanwhile
the Mobile club has gone to an army
station nearer than Siberia, having
having signed a first baseman named
Brown, who halls from jefferson bar.
! racks, St. Louis, where he made a big
reputation In army games.