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Winger
.At twelve o'clock last night, the u»
ual time limit for the purchase of
minor league players by the majors
expired and twenty days must expire
before the drafting season begins.
It is a noteworthy fact that fewer
players have been purchased from the
smaller leagues this year than ever‘be-
fore. In many cases minor league
Clubs which at first demanded as
much as $5,000 for their best players
have gradually reduced their figures.
until yesterday 81,000 was the top
price, with no takers, When the “draft-
ing season opens on September 15 it
is said that the big leaguera will ask
for a new rule providing that players
secured in that manor will not be
paid for in bash until they have signed
contracts. If the commission refuses
to pass such a rule it is predicted that
the drafting system will result in a
frost.
The presence of the Federal Magoo
is one reason why the big follows in
organized baseball have decided to
spend little or no money for untried
minor league talent. The existence
.of the Players” Fraternity is another
obstacle in the way of the major
league magnates. 'Playors in the mi-
nor loagnes,.thorefore. will not be able
to obtain trials in the big leagues next
season, while their present empioye'u
will be forced to get along‘ without
the usual easy mouey paid Ifur their
talent. .i'
Rumors were rife here several days
ago that Captaih Hyder Burr. ot the
New Haven team, was about to bopur-
chased by the New York Americans,
'but the deal failed to‘" materialize: The
reported deal was emphatically denied
at New Haven baseball headhunters.
while at the New York end it was stat-
ed that Manager Chance was anxious_
to purchase Barr for immediate deliv-
ery. How the reportorlginnted is un-
known. but it was said it was the do-
ings of a practical joker on the New
Haven team. 4
Although Jensen is the only New
:Haven player that 'llguros in I sale.
Owner Cameron believes that one or
two players may be captu'ed in tth
draft. Pope and Barr are regarded as
the logical candidates fbr I higher
league and New Haven fans will await
with great interest. the developments.
Last year the Chicago Americans
drafted Pepe and later cancelled it.
Knob Glob
. .'l‘he masquerade dance at the Club;
last evening was a flocided mm ill»
I
every way The costumes were both ~
comical and very handsome. Some of
the boys were dressed as girls andm
{it was rather difficult to ten the male
from the female sex Souls of tho
, costumes were as follows. may
" ' Bponisk‘ gtrlII “lily“: suites
. dim» hull?“
thentbomflamtlnm Ev.
.fly vibe studied voted the com-
info of less-k2 for the enjoy-
'1.
WAR oggIvs ildeL domestic.
NEW HAVEN; Aug. usual... L.
city, who is interested
a hobi pértles. said today that tho
“W (nation is likely to mull-
ababdliinnout of I. project for re-
IIIIIM.
BESGHEI IEIBHED
3' "m7 I’BIIW
Bobby Bescher. whose acquisition
by the New York club last winter was
then looked upon as I master-stroke
assuring a fourth consecutive pennant
to the Giants, has been benched by
Commander McGraw to make room
for a more dependable defensive out-
fielder. Forced to sacrifice either
batting strength in the infield or
fielding skill along the picket line,
McGraw has chosen the former alter-
native. and hereafter Fred Snodgrass
will patrol the range that belonged to
Bescher, with Merkie returning to first
base.
The failure of the former Red to
live up to his old reputation as an out-
fielder has been only one of the many
causes of the (liants' long slump, but
has been one of the heaviest of their .
burdens; His weakness on balls aimed
over his head'has probably cost the
Giants all of 15 or 18 games, and dur-
ing the past couple of weeks this
drawback in his work has been more
pronounced than4’over. '
14¢an has for some -time been
considering ruplaolng Beecher, but
would probably hav ..del'a‘yed notion in
the hope of an id! lament but for
the horrible moss Bomber made of
Herb Moran’s ninthainnkx fly in the
last game at Cincinnati.‘
o'nnunxr rivolis
min lilllillllll
it ts. safe to say thutI‘lu 1915 there
will b6 no such salary limit as $2.-
500 in the Eastern‘ Adspclation. It
has taken begting a'fterI beating to
make the magnum of :Ithe league
realize t a circuit constituted
of some Vrgo china and gsome small
ones, a monthly expenditure of that
amount of money for players' services
alone is foolishuua.
But this has been a year that has
taught the mugnateb much faster
than other years? When the turn
stiles fall to_ click in the proper ca-
dence. your average baseball man be
gins to wonder Just where the in—V
habitant of the woodpile can be‘
found. And the: answer is always a;
temporary lassltude by the fans and
a resultant absence of gate receipts
with which to pay salaries.
There has been no merry concert
of clicking turnsiles in this league
this season. The music that. the
magnates love to hear is not rung
from the squeaky old calculators, but
the calender provides just as many
firsts and fifteenths as it did in the
years gone by when a ball player
I Worked for wages and not for bonuses.
And the first and fifteenth is when
the ball~ player comes around for his
velvet. Players now in this league
get as much as from $100 to 3206 a
meat}: and it. is easy to see where the
owners are going to get ofi’ paying
salaries of this kind. They are so
big to get off in the consortium and
Ithey are lucky if it isn't beyond wad-4
ins distaste. 4
President as... 141. O'Rourke t‘I'
confident. that II lower usury? limit,-
say of $2.800 or 81,800 will track 't
mefitwtholewand be thumb.
a proposition which the di-
nail meéitnt “it December.
I l‘ The California contingent.
‘Inoulatako up atlhelranw
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i NEWPORT, R. 1., Aug. 27.—Threo
matches, each three hours long. lent
unusual interest to the fourth round
of the All Comers' tournament for
the national singles lawn tennis cham-
piouship yesterday. Thirteen of the
contests in the round were settled in
short order, twelve of them in straight
sets. Three pairs. however, were too
closely matched for early decisions.
G. F. Touchard, of the West Side
club, New York; fought Captain E. H.
Whitney, of the Harvard team and
Lougwood. through five long sets be-
fore victory perched on his side of
the not. Touchard won thirty-three
games and Whitney thirty. F. C. In-
man, of the same club. West Side
club, was compelled to play five sets
comprising 2 games before he elim-
inated H. C. Johnson. also ofLong-
wood Cricket club. The third ex-
tended match was between Charles
A. Major. of Tampa, Florida, and
Sidney Taylor, Jr.. of Philadelphia.
the former winning after playing 55
games.
0n the other hand the grand court
match between the champion. M. E.
McLaughlin and Irving C. Wright, of
Boston. who holds the Southern
championship. waI settled in 88 min-
'utes for Wright. won only three
games. ‘
(”\s-‘v
headed
by McLoughlln. came through the
day's play without a defeat. E. F.
Fou'oll put out C. L. Chllda. of Pitts-
burgh; R. L. Murray defeated H. A.
Hacklnnoy. of Providence. and C. J.
Griffin h‘ad little difficulty with A.
D. Hammett. of New Rochelle. All
four are in dideront parts of the
draw, and while McLaughlin is look-
ed up II a sure winner otthe tourna-
ment. the other Westerners are re-
gurded as possible semi-finalists;
The big match today will be
the struggle in the fifth round ho
tween Karl 'H. Bohr. a member of the
recent Davis cup team, who failed to
get into the play. and R. L. Murray.
the young Californian. who was fnv-
ored by many close followers of the
game as a selection for the team.
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imxrso Ntvrrs
(By T. S. \ndrewh.
Mike Gibbons is starting out early
for his full campaign and the chan-
ces are that if he keeps up the gait
he has set the past week he will add
many more contents to his record bo-
forc the coming season has passed
by. Mike likes to get the easy ones
as well as am of the stars. Plowm-
or. in his (almost with Freddie Hicks
he shoved that he has a punch, for
he stopped the Detroit boy-some-
thing thut a great many of the mid—
dleweights ham failed to do. He also
made Billy Wu lters look like Bnovlco.
Now it Michael would only got buy
and arrange I. match with Jack Dil-
lon. thoro would no considerable class
to it and it would add greatly to the
financial end of Mr. Gibbon ‘sstrongth
Dilllon has offered to make 158 lbs. '
at 3 ociock‘ for Gibbons. but. Mike-
wants to ace a big guarantee in con-
nectlon’ with it. If there are any pro-
motors r nning loose about the coun—
ltry who n aflbrd to hang up a
pic's purse with a lulcy guarantee
{or the St. Paul boy. they can land
a match that tools: like V‘I winnor in-
hlmooK by meeting all couIrI bo~
tween tWIMIbBlbuinfthIIIiVoo-
our light: The Q. Paul phantom has -
aloo been thinking seriously of- Ans.
walla, but the story that be bold been
offered a guarantee of 825.030 for
“It is something that ought t° be‘ three cantata. is not correct. The
adopted," said Mr O'Rourke. yester-
writer mode Gibbons an offer to go
day "The Tri-State Bangui took i I: Australia. but not with any such
similar action some time ago reduc- m“ ‘1' ““35 “I’m" ‘4 “ 9°”
lug down to a limit of 31.600 a
however. that Bfichasel and his
Bible.
Eddy Roddy. my unit at
mm;
month. one yet on [rat year under m“ h.“
mislead before nether
tut arm they IBM moNyoar-haspapoodaml ho 9:th
are than any other (like B league Snowy Baker's otter. He would cer- 4,.
-‘talnl‘y be a: big a sensation in Ana.-
latheoeautry. ..
"You makosvtln lIuI lust ‘-
find baseball for that moyaayou
{in
traila an Jimmy crabby. our the box-
his fans of that howl-y m Bloody?-
tionally fond 'u! I. clover M HE.
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HABTNBIJ. “Aug 27. am... .th
manicure» counted it on. “an .
.m ”nonhuman-Mama m! Hummus“:
the mean unto. Mike will entertain-
" ho was: me moon. .. ’~
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III! BILL BHOIT 8T0?!
:Report has it that American League
clubs have been cautioned against put— '
ting up their players at the same ho
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
YW ROM”.
It is not feared that any American pings)
Mastic player! will lump. but the Met Philadelphia. 5; Chicago, 0.
is that with the Federal League agents ‘ Boston, 5; Detroit, 2,
buzzing about, playing the game on Washington-Cleveland. rain.
the field becomes a secondary consid-
eration to money talk.
. Borne managers have nmiutahed tbal'
a pitcher must be possessed of alarge
frame to stand the severe paced! ma.
jor league baseball. Up to the present
season the theory has been generally
credited as being true. though now
and then a pitcher of no great size was
able to gain a place as a regular on a
major league club's pitching staff.
This season Dick Rudolph. of the lion
ton Bravos, has shattered that sn-j
clout belief in a way that leaves little
or no room for argument. He has
shown that a little fellow can carry
more pitching ability than many of
the boxmsn who measure up to the
standard of giants. The diminutive
Bronxonlun has been one of the most:
active pitchers in the National League
this season.
straight victories. He began his great
spurt on July 6, the day that the
Braves emcrgod from the cellar and
began the advance that has gained the
admiration of tho whole baseball
world. The figures compiled by Ru-
dolph during his aorta of victories
show that pitching skill was mainly
Ho has figured in more _
responsible for the Boom successes.Y
Winning streaks often draw their
greatest nourishment out of the heavy
hitting behind mediocre pitching. but
Rudolph has been pitching the brand
of ball that entitles him to victory. It
is true that In Braves havo hit hard-
or behind Rudolph than behind either
Tyler or James. but this canont hide
the fact that Rudolpb's box work has
been of the winning brand.
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RICHARDS TAKES FOURTH
PLACE -IN iiAYEO MATCH
SEA om'r, N. J. Aug. 21—01 five
matches shotV on the an. Glrt_ rifle
ranges yesterday one was won by the
Marine Corps. one by Connecticut. one
by New Jersey. on. by the District. of
Columbia, and one by “enuresis.
The New York State championship,
an individual qvont. allot on the 800.
800 and 1,000 yard rangeu._ was won
by .l. W. Hessian. of Cbuuocilcut._ with
secure at 145.- LS. W. WlIIn. hum Illas-‘
sachusotts. was should with 142 mills
credit. and Caitlin K. 3.7V. Casey.
Pennsylvania. use third uni no.
The Hayes match. about sop-yards, 7
.W won by Sum“!!! 0. H ”litigant“
Marine Corps. 49;- second. Betxount‘
Woodworth. Mobile“; .49; third.
Sergeant J. H Enouhsl. New Kent.
or; fourth. cm W n. 3W“ Providence .. .... .. .....70
New Haven. 49; 1M. ““240“- W moonwal- ....io,
n Tm,NewJomy. 49.
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owvmno. Aug. 27. —‘-n u re. Monmu_
here that Ollie Olson. the Ni” Jersey City .4 . . ..
mm infielder.lraoontoborelouod
”Mr Joe Birmingham. Two
m no mood waI'tlio'Naps' can
we. . _
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sud Coley. “the Iimplo
.‘qu' II
‘II Mid! related.
seams-fig:
“India. of Civic.
W. L.
Philadelphia .......... 79 37
Boston ............... 65 48
Washington .......... 60 53
Detroit ............... 59 58
Chicago ....... . . . . .56 62
St. fouls ............. 54 62
New York ...... .. ...53 63
Cleveland.............39 81
Games Today.
St. mule It New York.
Chicago at Philadelphia
Detroit at Boston.
Clevoland at Washington (2).
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
YIItIrdIyV'I Bonita.
games than Tyler Ind almoat as many , , _
as James, his two partners in the rm €232; hew)lork. " 8" W’ 0
gmszxgzfltfluwfl? Innis: Brooklyn, 2; Pittsburgh. 1 (first
teaspoond. Up to date be In taken game). Brooklyn. 4; Pittsburgh. 2
part in 31 mas. and it is a «to bet ”2°13? :‘Tf’éomn 0
that he wil‘lfiguro in a dam more be. as ' ' ' ' i
fore the curtain in "I“ down on the Other toamI not,schedu ed.
present pennant chase. Dun-mg the ‘
big spurt of the Braves, which began Standing d ca?" L. P C.
on July it. Rudolph has taken part in V" fork w 60' ‘9 5'50
13 gamer. pitching I M“ °‘ 1°“ “" Salton IIIIIIIIIIIIco so 2545
nlngs. it was I nerve tracking bulls St. 1 ““63 54 538
against realuppooltionauddurildtho Chchoo III'IIIIIIIIIISO 54 '5“
button wooinoftho summer. But lit- ll :1 IhIlaIIII' """" 51 : 59- '4“
tie Dick diddbt hltomnor on pace. 34 :1" 1:1 2 ----- 52: 60 24547
Up to MandamwbeoCbicm mu his 8'3“: 51 461- “5
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mm“ “MI“ Rum“ mm Plttsburgh..........51 61 .495
GamoI Today.
New York at Chicago.
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia Vat Cincinnati.
Boston at St. Innis. . .
FEDERAL LEAGUE.
Yutorday’a RqultI.
Brooklyn, 6; Buffalo. 2.
, lndlnmolis. 7; Kansas CM. 3.-
Batlimore. 2; Pittsburgh. 1.
Chicago. 2; St. Louis, 1 (10 innings).
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Standing of Clubs:
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lndianapoiis .66 49
Chicago .. .......... -.. 83 51
‘Baltiinoro .....::.....59 52
Buflalo ...... ...........56.- 54_
Brdokly‘nI....:........58' 55‘
Kansasqlty .... ......54 62-
St. Louis. ....... . 84
Pittsburghmu. "......4: 64
Gama Tray.
, Buffalo at Brooklyn.
I‘ . Pittsburgh at Baltimore.
I Chicago at St. Louis. , V
‘1ndlanapolis at Kansas City.
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‘ . INTERNATIONAL. LsAous. ‘
You-my. noodles.
blontrsal. 2 Newark,,1.
Toronto. 6; Jersey City.5‘ .-
Roche-tor a; Baltimore. 6.
Buffalo. g Providence. 2'.
Should. mimetic.
W. L.
49
\51
Baltimore ............67 60
Buffalo ...... ..67 51
Toronto .........59 58
Newark ..........57 59
..........47 74
.....36 81
Game. Today.
Newark at Toronto.
Jersey City at Bunnie. ,
lProvldmo at Rochester.
_. Baltimm ‘ It Neutral.
“matighssbpumou.
St. Louis, 1; New York. 0 (first
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New London, 10; Waterbury. 1.
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Standing of clubs.
If It Isn’t — IIt ISN’T
Bridgeport: ';§ Qpirlngl‘eld, ”5‘2 5 is“
W. L. P.C.v
New London ...... ‘...71 30 .703
.......... .62 48 .590
Bridgeport ........... 55 49 .529
:Hartford ..53 50 .515
'Springfield ......... ..54 62 .509
New Haven ...... .....48 54 .471
Plttsfield .... .......... 47 54 .471
Wanderers ...... 24 82 .226
RC. I “.'—
.681 Gan-Ia Tod-y. '
.5754 New Haven at Waterbury.
.531 Wanderers at Bridgeport.
.604 Pittsfield at Springfield.
.475 Hartford at New Imam.
.466 I
.457 WEEK'S RECORD OF RUNS iN
-325 THE Ito LEAGUES.
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Natlonal League.
New York 6
Philadelphia ................. . 3
Brooklyn ..I ...... . ....... ..... 9
'Boston .................. .. 9
Pittsburgh .......... 7
Chicago ..................... ..11
Cincinnati ..... , .............. .. 7
St. Louis . ................ 8
American League.
Philadelphia 33
New York ........ ........12
Washington ...... 2
-BOBton ......... ... u. .12
Chicago ..... . .......... ....... 2
Cleveland . ........ 6
Detroit 18
St. Louis .. ......... ........... 5
. .
FIdIrIlLoaguI.
Kansas City ....... ........16
Chicago ............. 2
indlanapolls .20
Brooklyn............I..........18
Budalo. . ................‘2
Baltimore’.... ..... .. ".‘.“... 5
Pittsburgh 6
International LeIaguo.
Baltimore ...... .........8
Montreal .. ...‘l...............11
Rochester ..’... .............12
Toronto .. ............. . ...... .38
Buffalo 18
Provideiice ....... ..........10
Jersey City .. ..... .. ....... ...11
Newark ........... ..... . 9
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MAGNATES SQUARE ACCOUNTS.
Several well-known players, in-
r.c. I
cludlng Mike Mowrey, VStove Yerkes
and Clyde Eugel. have received no-
conditional releases. Others will soon
'be notified that they are free agents.
.532
. .509
.466
‘It is understood that the magnates are
beginning to square accounts with
o'tbo players who held them up for
'exhorbitant salaries last spring. using
stile Federal League as a club. These
:18 8.players have ten dayl' release notices
in their contracts, so that it is In
easy matter to let them out. If
II they desire to remain in organized
baseball they will be forced to sign
new contracts for loan money or they
can jump to the Beds, who. by the
way. are not. in a hurry to pay more
big money for major league stars.
_FRITZ MAlaE-L AFTER
. . STOLEN-BASE HONORS
I Little Evita Maisel. of the Yankees,
M s w ambition. The alum. WW
baseman hopes to capture the fuse
stealing
2--
EC.
.688
.578
.673
.568
.504
.491
.388
.308
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honors in the American
Leas“ this your. Kinks very much
as if MIiaeVl will havehis hope reana- "
EITII PITOHES lil8
hill on run run
Tom Seaton has pitched his arm of!
for the Brooklyn Feds. Working twice
as much as a pitcher should work has
exacted its inevitable toll atlast; 80a-
ton now is barely able to raise big
band above his head. The tendonseol;
his right arm are strained to Ina}
degree that he may never be ebb lto
pitch again. The Tip Top star slept
.1 '_".’.‘.""‘ {A63 “W I
ped on in Youngstown. Ohio. when an .gA;
team was on its way home from‘tho
Western trip and had Bouoaotter
Reese examine him. “Nothing
said yesterday he probably will notedll
on Seaton ainn' this season and sun
mitted the possibility that Tom's pitch-
ing days are over.
PITY THE BALL PLAYERS.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 27.911,
eight hours is made a legal worm '
day in oCallfornia, J. Cal Ewing-tho -
boss of the San Francisco Seals, says
he is going to get a legal day's wan
out of his bail players. The will
that any of them work now is five
hours. Three hours of this is in the
game in the afternoon, a couple in
the morning practice In the roll I)!
the time. Ewing says. he can find
work for them cutting grass in the
park. sweeping the stands and mull-
lag the foul lines. it the law IIys
eight hours is a day's work Cal do-
clares he will see to it that the law,
is obeyed.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE TO
THE AID 0F BID CHOIR
oCHiCAGO. Aug. 21. ~PreIident Ben
Johnson yesterday appointed Septem-
ber 1 as "'Red cross Day." in the All-
erican Ica‘gue. Twenty-live per" “i.
of the receipts at all games in II .
league that day will Ibo given to the
Red Cross for its European war mad.
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will -
Ihelp but a long rest and gradual trIat- . '
meat," said Reese. Manager Bradley 4
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Collins, of the am. When Clyde I‘
Milan was hurt. hI VII put out of tho
running. If mm won out he will .I
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These two are all! u of the
others that it loam—me. Ila-1.:
toot figures show tin Sialael he atol-
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Shortatop Gus zones and the acquisi-
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