Pueblo chieftain., 1921-12-02
SPORT PERSONALS.

BY OLE

When some people hear of Abilene,
Texas, they think of small town In
Texas with plenty of oil prospects,
while commercial man would prob
ably remember some of the cold stor-
age plants of a large packing firm
and that it is the distributing point
for this concern in frozen meats and
poultry. The word Eagles tells the
live news of the fair sized town of the
largest state in the Union.
After getting acquainted with E. v.
Sellers, president of the club, and Hub
Northern, manager and first haseman
of the Abilene Eagles, Stanley White
head and Foster Humphreys of Pueblo
ors in this team winning the cham
pionship this year.
The Abilene club has taken the
championship of the West Texas
league during the past two seasons,
and plays one of those split seasons
keen opposition. Hub Northern
1920 and repeated the stunt for 1921.
Whitehead played sensational
game with the team at third base.
which forced Comstock to take the
outergarden. but injuries did the great
est harm to local players opportunity
to play at one position with the aver
age regularity. Humphreys played n
strong game for the Eagles and was
used in several positions, filing the
role as utility player.
The league is now in the stages of
reorganization and Is said will in
clude eight clubs during the 1922 sea-
son. Abilene. Sweetwater, Ballinger
and San Angelo OF the old group Of
the West Texas league has been as
sured and the new clubs will be
nd .y,to hat Iy-
clude Brownwood. Plainview, Amarillo.
Coleman. Big Springs. Lubbock and
Stamford. Each club will be required
to post a $1,000 as a guarantee to COM
plete the season and each OF the pro-
posed eight clubs will put UP $500 as a
bonus TO the players of the two teams
that win the two halves Of the split
season during the coming season.
For class d outfit the financial In
centive seems to hold on par with
the higher rated leagues In that II
was also stated that II tho same club
should win both halves $4,000 bonus
will 20 to the winners.
Rules that will be adopted during
the coming playing season puts the
PLAYER limit to IA mon for each team,
with a salary limit of 81 500 a month.
Each team is required to carry fvc
players who have had no previous pro-
fesyicnal baseball experience.
r. A. Hodges, resigned as president
at tho close Of this season. another
head for the West Texas league will be
appointed this month. Tho presiden.
elected under the new organized league
will be put under $4,000 bond to en-
force the laws and regulations of tho
league.
Harry Greb. the Pittsburgh heavy.
WHO has been tearing n hole thru the
ranks of fighters in his division has
caused another sensation with the an
nouncement that nc will dispose of
George lngle who has been handling
his affairs and will return to his for
mcr pilot, Jimmy Mason.
The cause for the break in the combi-
nation that has done a great deal to
make Greb the most feared <attlcr in
the East is more fights in Pittsburgh
than New York, etc. and word from
Pittsburgh states that the veteran
handler "Reddy' Mason will regulate
the affairs OF the Pittsburgh mauler
after the first Of the coming year
Mason is credited with bringing Greb
to the front and was the first handler
of hard hitting batticr. Inglc who at
one timo handled tho affairs of Frank
Klaus took over Gree after a success
ful season In 1921 when his only mar to
his credltablc record was a decision lost
to Tommy Gibbons in ton rounds.
In eastern fight circles Grcb Is one
OF the most promisin. light heavy
weight battlers and according to
critics of the game ono OF most feared
in his division. His recent victory over