.- .Bow It Feels to Come Up
‘4!
7cm iiiliiliil
m Partiallarly
iSIlIIllicd With Depend“
Pitchers—Cards’ Pilot Did
Hi8 'Bit in Ranks—Tells
to the Big Show
1w Hendricks inherited a pretty
Hmrlookihz ball club when he ht-
hqtt‘y's the Clrdinals.
V , one short year )lilier Hug-
gm made over the Cards so thou”
ought that St. Louis fans our“
snugly realise that the failures at
Hitters the first division contenders
of, ”£7. And £1.18 We finished right
up there among the select set, going
am
When Miller Howls left the Cards
'it was a hard blow. But when Presi-
‘dent Rickey signed Jack Hendricks,
the man of the hour in the minor
leagues, to step into Hug‘s shoes, he
got the right man for the place.
Hendricks should prove a big suc-
cent. He isn't the kind of a fellow
who entertains defeat, and. it the own.
moi the Cards will .give him his
head-and permit him to get and keep
the violets he wants, he will be a fac-
tor? in .b'ational Louise pennant
_ Good String of Pitchers.
In all there are 29 players on the
router of the Cards who were carried
over from last fall. And there is going
tube new spirit and new. ginger in the,
team for the prospects arr- bright for!
a strong finish.
Hendricks has a good string of
piihh‘ers in Doak, Meadows, Packard,
Well
hettnthetehauapayeastuc’h'the
same up hereuit ls‘intllemiuors.
in the abilty of the players, bothi
physcally aim mentally. .
“Getting the tight player! and get-
ting the best there is in them is the.
his task of a manager This i hope to.
doinxtlouialadlsmprondtosayt
thottheCnnllnat-ibokllheagmd haul
club to me as they stand today. lg
clubs than the one I have now. i
j‘l'pi not going to make any predic-i
tions for my club this year. 1 bays al-i
"I: figured that actions, not words,i
count most heavily. And i hope target]
action, and lots oi it, out of my team.‘
1 think the, pennant race. in the New
tional League is bound to be interest ,
ing and hotly contested from start to!
finish. It will not be a walkaway for5
anybody. i
"i will say that i believe the (.‘ardi-‘
nals are good enough to win a first di-i
vision berth and tharspnie day we cani
present St. Louis fans with a pennaul?t
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NEW YoaKritosio'rER l
EAGER Fort JERSEY i
' The New York light promoters are:t
tut-king their napkins under theiri,
chins and smacking their .lips andi
drawing their chairs closer up to thc]
tables. Every promoter on the Alan i
hattan side of the Hudson has his eyes ‘
fixed on New Jersey, like a small boy
cying a pumpkin pie that father is-
:Horslnian. Antes. Watson. Twomblyh
,rturcitttison. tram-n, May... Sherdeil and:
Howard. The first six named are the
ones-of. whom most is expected. and:
taking the staff as a whole, Hendricks'
baaflrnty-of talent. in Snyder.
over how the pitchers will he handled.‘
'i'helnileld problem has resolved i;-
sqlf into getting some one to take the
plane. of Dots Miller, who has enlist-
- od" 7 the Navy, for, in Hornslty, Pau-
iatit:;sairtt, Bertzci. Wallace, Steward
and'larmore, the Cards are pretty
well fixed with infieldera, therefore. is
tilenpiaytr mostly needed to complete
thdlllne-un . . - ‘
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Cards have J. Smith, “'allt‘l
(‘ 4 and Tom Long to depend on as,
reg' outlieldora. They artio have"
smith and Hoathcate for abllit!
Wonk. ' l
figuring that the Cards will prove
as strong this year as they did in 1917.
antl'figuring also that much may be ac
compllshcd by Hendricks, the pros—
peels of the Mound City aggregatitln
look? mighty good. They ought to rank
with the topnotchers'all season,_
Manager Hendricks has given Jack
\‘eiock. sporting editor of the interna-
tional Nowal Series, the following inter-
view.
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_ Long Hard Climb.
“it's a long hard climb from the
ranks of the minor lcaglle manager to
a major league berth.
A' fellow has to keep pingging'oway
faragood many years, and it takes
piticnce; hilt it's worth the hard work
after'all. ‘ .
”l have been asked a good 'many
times how it feels to graduate from
the minors to the big show, and i can
say that it gives a fellow a whole lot
of satisfaction. It's a whole lot like
getting your sheepskin in college, with
thegexcep‘tlon that the step from the
minors to the majors brings big rc-
sponsibllities with 'it. 1 . .
' "Thaw been managing ball clubs for
the last tirclvc years. ’i started out as
a player/and ‘ l had'my fling. Shin;
though it What, in the major leagues,
having played with New York and
Washington. , '
“But i .wasn't satisfied to illicit in
th‘egazue as a player, and when I got
”first offer to manage the Spring.‘
geldrclub“ in 1906 felt that my big‘
éliiilce to make good in baseball had
come. (Ever since that ”time 1 hard
been ambitious to manage a major
league lob-:40 manage a pennant win-
ner an ”lead 'it into a world's series.’
"Mybx‘perience' in the miners has
been of great '.value, and i can say;
withoutboastlng that l was successful,
My" teams with live pennants over a‘
stretch" of t.tatclve,yenr8. and i bore
never had a tent finish worse” than
third. t * ” ‘
, 9 . Stock infinite. . .
"in the minor league 1 picked up all‘
that l hnow about mm the value of
ball players,.developlng the young tel-3
lows use directing the-play of it teamf -
in the field. i wouldn't truce this sx-'
”fiction for $50,000 cold cash right
now. for idle-1y stocil in trade.
"As tamer of the it. first“.
“dumb I an: going to get ly‘lmr
._cqu make good In the- '
4
009' ounce gloves and no de'iai
paltry. Block and Rental: Quflwfl dispodt’loo to if"?
.ing‘ialen‘t galore, and need not '9", Opromoters sit at the table." “There‘s
: Dreyfus: lg.
t to» to succeed. it is ”£33er
about tocarvc up for the family "ctiti-i
iication." !
ilut New Jersey,whiclt 396nm ulmuti
to inherits new boxing bill that will.
permit eight-round bouts \titlx eight-'
and the big dilerem it the comma],
heart could have inhecltalvors‘ahsll ' .
» .
1 Mayor John F. liylall. of Ner' York (My got tired of the dere of tile ' . 1 if! E “
3politiciaue hunting for places under hint early in-hiti administration. and “0.310% 38‘ “mm"! and e a 1
human ii
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“More or Less Ancient ”glib
i weight Nominated as N. E.’
Chaplet! —— Why Not;
3; Match Him With Kunz?—'
Norwalk Battier tWouid,‘
E: No Doubt, Be Glad of Op-;
portunity . '
3 Doc Almy, boxing writer on the Bos-
ton Post, rises to remark that Mel Coo
gun, formerly of Cleveland and Brook‘-
lvn. butan an instructor at the New-
port Naval station, has the best claim
to the flow England lightweight title.
Writing on'the subject, minty, anions
other thinss says:
' "me time to time we see reference
in the boxing columns to the New m-
iand lightweight championship and
that so-and-s.» are to box for that title.
Just now. Hurry Carlson. and Freddie
rl'elie. are juczrling the claim to the
.honor hack Elld forth between them.
with Chick Brown of Saw 1.1le. 'itr
.ney Bovle of Lowell. Eddie Shannon
,0! California and Eddie it‘itzaimmons
of Newport now and then coming in
for a mention in conectlon with its
mascaaion. ‘
Were Always Willing
“Tm-llnlcallv, someone in this crowd
holds possession of the title which for
years was so well defended by Matty
*. Baldwin. Kid Goodman and other bat
_tlers who not only stood willing l0
meet all. comers. but gave the fans oi
. 1 he left them for tho Warmer climate of Palm Beach, Fla. lie hasheen in" some of the greatest of ring contests.
NEWYol'k"
only enough here for the family," ap-
pears to be the attitude, of those who 1
rule tilt» fighting roost in Jersey, so it h.
seems probable that the Manhattan
State Assembly at Albany
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BASKETBALL dams remain
_, ThenVortvltik‘Amronia SalllOM'iilJfli- “him”. A“.
'tract many fans thls'ev'cnlug. It is'nu
important game from many View
points. The N0l‘il'fi‘ki‘i." have bt‘i‘ll
piayipg..splondldiy lately and from
what looked like it llollv'l'ba tight the?
are poliallinc the mods until they now
have the other teams pretty well
ucnrcd. The teams this evening will
probably line up as follows: 1 _
Antonia
Nomalk .
Johnson rl', lg. Brushy
Reich lf,_ rg. Harrison
Wright c. c. Hari't‘y
Murray rg. rf. Wastmter
li‘, Smollck
The Blue "llibbous also play theJeh.
sey Skeeti‘rs this evening and the
Bridgeport Telegram has the follow-
ing to say about it: .
1y losing to the Skeeters this week'
foul
SMITii’S arras mum”
until—10E .WALCOTT
~..—.—.
“Mysterious llllly" Smith.
“(‘6‘
The rcferec was
the
ons, shows .tllc water every day until his, daugilicz.
’ ‘ «. In .
was to take at
docs." used to mix it quite frequently,
and the way Smith Heated the hint-1t
man was som'thin sctln'lous.
Siliiihv“'fli(‘.0i! bout was staged in tho
. Boalon Music Hall 23 years anothlarc‘l
i, 1895, and it will never be lf-l'llmttm
by those who witnessed it. Time war
a‘ lot,oi' race feeling in the Helm City,-
and. \l’alcott feared the crowd more
than his opponent.
an old pugllist named Aaron. ondhhe
washllnd;r asan ital to all of Billy‘s
stu . “.‘lysleriou."
actually hit Joe's coco; which showed'
mighty poor judgment. Joe was/afraid
to protest against Smith's fouling. be
cause tliclails were constantly yelling
"‘Kill-tlle smoke!” and every foul pill: HARTFORD. March 1-1.339“ “~35. mn- scrap they have no moral righl
The iil‘hi
the Ribbons increased their task of;
winning back the league lead, Bi"
dropping the game they went back a
notch and this morningone finds them
tied with the Norwalk team for, seCond
mention in the league standing. The
Xorwalks are a dangerous crowd and
must be watched closely. - i
The league standing at present Is
as follows:
Won Lost P. C.
Jersey City, 7' " 6 .533
Bridgeport, 7 ' 7 .outl
Norwalk, 5 5 .500
Ansonia. 6 S .429
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1111:. ctc.. when
bottle of Green's August Flower free
vat l’luismtl's Drug Store.
9..
Anew-.1 Flowcr is put lipin {ill and"
ill! cent h0i'.if‘.'-.
ed countries.
FREE‘OF CHARGE.
.VO can
Set a sample
This medi-i
cine has relllarkablc curative proper-
. ties. and has demonstrated its eiilcien-}
cy by fifty years of sucocss.
aches are often caused by a disordered;
'itilnocll.
Hond- i
plause.
8W
Smitli and
ovér by Smith was greeted with all:
Once Billy brought down the
house? by brasenly asking the referee
the “m to disqualify the“ negro because, ex-
trtmtttt-rs will have to all. back and Qucenaberry welterweight champion, ”WW“ Smilhi " he is biting me!" gritt- made them.
await the fate oi the' :McCuo bill, had a repertoire of tricks 'ncruril‘mpletflnw' ; “I“ I'dlllracc fb ”’9
which. in its amended term. is now lI.-- equalled by any other better be
low the Commit'cc on .lutttclttt-y at tile sinCe. lie might well have heeh
‘ "Billy the lilte," because oi his playful‘
antics. one of which
”chow" out of his antagonist when the
" lreferec lvhon‘t-looking Smithianddoci ~
Notlfipffi‘ler the Bostonubattlo.
"Black Demon of Barbe,
atcittt fought him. this but mum it“ belongs to llel Coos-n. 5P." “WWW“-
:Botb lidldwin and Goodman ,ayel‘e big
league-rs in the full some of the vol'd
and were so recognized throughout the
country. As Lox office attractions the?
had any two of the preacnt day title
claimants lashed to the. must. Their
willingness to box and ring ability
"1 have said that technicallv some
to“, 0,» sport. and. happily nothing like that one in me foregoing crowd holds the ..
.c-duéducauld 'be pulladroif now.‘ Despite the title that eventually slipped "Om mauled”.
handicap. Joe bad the .boat of the of possession 0f Matty Baldwin when lie.
fair. and thflrefcree had to give him a in the ring ”ease, was too old to..lon-
ger hold it. Morally. however. the title
does not belong to anv one of then,
”iinl'filh .Vtihv‘ \‘orkL'for the world's vial. formerly of Brooklyn and Cleve'antl.
terwe‘lght .3 championship. .. . Charlie but now an instructor at tile Nevin?”
White was the third man in the ring Naval Station.
and he made the men fight fair. Thi~
bout-pent 25 rounds. and the decision
Most Defeat Coogan
"A few days aim at. Woonsocket. it.
Will to Smith. who had allthc bt'tter I. (mean boxed circles round the
of the latter part of the engagemeni.‘ much-touted l‘ete ilartlev ofthe l-lvlln
ouls.
tics or
w..
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LPOX lN
STATE CAPITAL
\vasherwomnn
‘ households.
.‘fillllihlllllillhliofiiltlh
”~—
- . __ __.,._ iof smallpox in a mild formyerc dis-
. ;covered yesterday in this city or vicin- to club "
Why suffer with indigestion. dystpep. “5‘ it was learned last. night from the mall and Baldwin.
sla, torpid lit-er, constipation, “whiteulth autlmrities. All the persons at;
stomach. coming-up” locum“... ’03.“; fected are colored and. came from this ..
-south last fall. They have been quer- "overlooked
’nntincd. While the mil/lady is said i}.- the lightweight
' be. in mild form considerable pane .
ness has been caused owing to the fact to m"
that some of the victims,
women have been employed as domes'. -
in Hartford:
For sale in all civilit-i A ‘°°d w" ”a" be” m u” "'-
nt one time knocking the "Demon" stable, making such a great showing
down for the count of eight. in 1393 that one of the local clubs decided
HIP! foushb'tikain."gdlng 25 rounds to‘ that Mel was the man for one of, it!»
a draw. in the following two bottles earlylournamenta.
with the l‘pentan." Smith-lost both on
"Now themis no one who can say
.‘for sure that f‘ougan can defeat all of
fills New England lightweights. either
:those I have mentioned or these i
:have owl-looked, but until one of the
crowd can show enouizh gameness to
take n chance and dc
to he caught pussy-footing front rlub
with the shoes worn by Good
flat. Kunz, of South Norwalk, con—
mterer of Chic Brown, is among ihosle
by For Almv, Bat. won
title of the State from
"15;. Brown and doubtless would be willing
gle will: the more or. less .Jn‘
who are clout Mel Cocoon.
AN A'i‘liA‘r-JTIC PORT, Match i.—--
The cooctwisc freight steamer which
' .ran on a ledge near here, yesterday.
:wna hauled off by tags this afternoon.
‘sod proceeded under steam to another
port for examination.
i Superior
Ass; to Bar First Year:
s From the .,Varsityi
Athletic Taoist-«Your
sters Excel inMan‘y Fields
—0nly in Rowing Hm-
Blue Upper-daemon Beer.
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NEW HAYES, March 2.—Although
several Harvard athletic cactus have
”€911.11! plaud themselves on record
in favor of throwing open varsity ath-
letic teams to freshmen. it was stated
on high athletic authority at Yale. to-
day that the three large universities.
Princeton, Harvard and Yale, had
agreed not to throw the varsity teams
open to members of the lowest class in
college. It was pointed out that. at
the recent convention of the'National
Association of College Athletes in
New York City. practically all the del-
egates expressed themed/res in latter
of continuing the separation of fresh-
men and vanity teams. Harvard.
Princeton and Yale. at their recent
conference in this city to lay plans
for the future conduct of athletics.
agreed that they had no wish to
'tlll'ow the varsity teams open to fresh-
:nen. Pror. Robert Corwin. chairman
of the Yale athletic board of contro'.
expressed Yale'n views as follows:
Fighting For'Principle
“Evcrvone in fighting for a pritlc‘i-
pledn this wm'and we. feel at Yale
that ibis is outline to letdown the
bars or to sacrifice any of the ptincl'
pies which we have fought muni
years' in the development and im
:Dl'DVF‘mf‘ni of athletics. Giving frcsll-
incn places on the varsity teams is
closely related to the abortion of t'. c
one-year residence rule. which has illi-
tprmed intercollegiate sport decidedly.
,l'ale is docidedlv opposed toltlnkiné'
varsity teams open to freshmen nth ,
Since the wholesale departure o’
Yale athletes for military service last
April, the freshmen teams have in al‘
most er: w instance defeated thcyar;
All last fall the
freshman eleven won from the,illfo.'-
mats, tlte‘onlv varsity team in til."
field, with the exception of'two i'l'llc
tire cnmcs played at the very end of
the fii‘il‘loll. in the full track athletic
meet. the freshmen won twice as manv
events as their varsity rivals. The
same result occurred in the indoor.
truck athletic meet which was held
last Saturday night. ‘
athletes been able to consistentlv set
the peer,» for their class rivals; ”(Rho
varsity crew, which has three ment-
bers of last season‘s regular squad.
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Varsity Excel: At Rowing. ' ' r _
ln rowing alone have the ‘15“th
Bliiililliiill mama Billll-i'
IN lllESiillEN tut: villi-lull Till:
and
'. .ocllhoiders of Blind:
Trim So Voted —
-—1nie .".£tsllrcs.Qpetti
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Eastern League Chennai
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PROVIDENCE, a. 1., March 2'}.
When the Eastern. league starts its
season this year Providence
a methber,of it. The stut- rs
of the local clabmet. in the mayor's'
office vesicular and it was decided to
continue league ball in this city. has
it is a 100 to 1 shot that theJnt‘er-
national will not start. the league he'll
that Providence will have ruffle
Intern leasne and the fans he? '
consider themselves lucky. Eve
swallow" vnsent slanted a. W
unnce of ball here. the great on: , y
experiencing a great change ohm...
since the international league meet-
ing. Whether it is feared that some-
one was going to step in .hare..and,,
make a few dollars or that they have,
a little more nerve than they‘w‘ere"
'glven credit for, is the question. There-9
are a lot of good fellows connected it
with the Providence club. but those
who wanted to quit outnumbered
them. _
However. the fans of this city act‘-
a little more out of titn dumps-them
they were last week. They will weir...
come Eastern league ball And nrcflgladf
that something definite has been done;
thn the International Mci'aliy
throws up, tile-spouse. the oflorts of
the manager Jack Egan. and :Prosi-
dent Gammon-i and Ft'i'El’ai others
roalll‘fintereiitcd‘will be directed 3.0:”
ward digging up a club that will go;
the puc‘e.wlth the best in the Babb'
ern league. Tilt" Miller!- nO“ m" “‘9" '~ .
Providence reserve list. are Catcher
(lhston._l'itchars Mulrennan. Schriver.
Kennedy Flayl’si-lnfieldl‘: ileum and a
few others. With thi's' crowd Egan
has something to Work on.
WALKER FOR -.
urns-Lunches:
— ,
f The New York Yankoeasaayniand'r
Clarence Walker. the hardhtttingstlh
strong-arm outfielder who last year
Wt“
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endeavored to prove an abltl1 “W ’,‘i
autumn center for "Trio” Speekcr,“’- -
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the. Hub team;
”Miller Huggins 1:4 very sweeten"-
The new Tinker manager- :
believes thin: sorrclltopped gardener.
\l’al her.
would 5' 4‘ about rum; cut a flzifi'uutv
field for the,_)ankees.if arrayed along-
raidephiarms andzfillhooley.
Ilei'eatsatiBasketball. _; 1
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. HANOVER: N. u. Muchfze'vcttr;
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'rent dissatisfaction in Hanover:;it§’ ..;.
the basketball team has forced in, .
was able to finish first in netti'l‘ii 9‘“ '3 '“mg ”19 “’55 0‘ 3” straight g‘I‘méri;9: «-
feat Canon in a cry race. rowed against the freshmen new record for
eight last fall. .
indications are that the freshman
baseball nine will easily prove the su-‘
pcrior of the varsity team this spring.
at least during the first few weeksof
the season. By the end of the season it
is predicted that the superior age and
steadiness- of the varsity will enabir
it to defeat the freshmen on the die
inond. In spite of the fact that strong
or teams might be secured by placin”
the freshmen on the ttthietlc fields a!
ti body. instead of the upper classtneu.
the athletic officials remain firm in,
their refusal to allow the freshman
”class players varsity honors,
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