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JOHIY EVERS CASE
UP TO THE LEADERS
Deposed Players Will Be Given
Hearing by the National
Commission
New York, Feb. 11. —The deposal of
Johnny Evers as manager of the Chi
cago Nationals by Charles W. Murphy,
owner of the club, for the moment has
sidetracked the important consid
eration that has brought so many
baseball men to the city, the menace
of the new Federal League.
•The national commission members.
Ban Johnson, August Herrmann and
John K. Tener, were apparently so
much perturbed at the news, coming
as it does at a so critical a time in
baseball affairs, that they met in
formally and discussed the matter last
night. No public statement was made
after the meeting, but it is known that
Evers will go before the commission
in the next day or two with his con
tracts.
Governor Tener, president of the
National League, said that he would
study the contracts held by Evers and
that the player-manager would get
justice. President Murphy, of the
Chicago club, said that he had nothing
to add to his statement given out in
Chicago concerning the deposal of
Evers and signing of Hank O'Day.
*>ne-time manager of the Cincinnati
club, to take Evers' place.
The American League officers met
to-day to adopt a playing schedule for
1914. The opening dates will prob
ably coincide very nearly with those
announced yesterday by the National
League, which call for initial contests
on April 14, with the closing of the
season on October V. To till their
playing dates the National League
clubs will travel 81.989 miles.
BASEBALL TOO BRUTAL;
ROMANS HALT PROGRAM
Special to The Telegraph
Rome, Feb. 11.—The unfamiliarity
of the Italians with baseball was dem
onstrated yesterday by the refusal of
the authorities to permit an exhibition
game between the New York team,
of the National League, p.nd the Chi
cagos, of the America;, with
out first being convinced that it is not
a "brutal game."
After the points of the game were
explained the authorities still insisted
that a net be erected within the sta
dium to protect the spectators. Even
when promises were given that this
precaution would be taken permission
was withheld until Wednesday at noon
when a few innings will be played
for the benefit of the authorities who
desire to judge for themselves what
manner of game the American pas
time is.
Arrangments have been made for
an audience with the Pope, but on
account of the action of the civic au
thorities, some of the players will have
to forego this honor.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING
Pitcher Adams Will Return;
Earl Mock Agrees on Price
Manager Cockill Has Good List of Holdovers to Start
With; Former Stars May Come Back
Baseball fans who were of the
opinion that Pitcher Adams should
have been retained by Harrrisburg
last season need not worry about this
promising young twlrler. Adams will
be back with Manager Cockill the
coming season. He is practically the
first player whose contract is a cer
tainty.
Pitcher Adams was sent to Earl
Mack, in the Southern League, and
made good, considering the time he
had to get acquainted with the play
ers he went up against. Now Adams
has been bought back by Harrisburg
and word received from his home in
the upper end of the county announces
that he will be on hand for practice
early in April.
Manager Cockill has sent contracts
Izzy Hoffman Signs
to Manage Reading
Special to The Telegraph
Reading, Pa., Feb. IX.—lzzy Hoff
man, who has held many a berth with
various grades of minor league clubs,
will pilot the Reading Tri-State Lea
gue Club this season. President John
H. Myers,announced yesterday that he
had signed Hoffman to manage the
team and he will have full charge of
the playing end of the game.
Hoffman, who is a great friend of
Connie Mack's and who has done con
siderable scout duty for the Athletic
leader when playing in the various
minor leagues, was virtually landed
here through Mack's influence. He
will start in at once to build up the
team.
Izzy Hoffman is a Philadelphia boy
and has often gone South with the
Athletics to train with them before
reporting for the various teams he
played with. Izzy last year was with
the Hartford club, of the Eastern As
sociation, but secured his own release
at the end Qf the season. The year
previous he managed the Oakland,
Cal., club, going out there from the
Provident International I.aegue team.
Hoffman is also one of the best wing
shots in the country and is shooting
with such great accuracy this winter
that he will probably land the live
bird title of the city.
YOI'XG STARS ORDERED
TO REPORT IN* SOVTH
Special to The Telegraph
Annville, Pa., Feb. 11. "Eddie'
Miller, of this place, playing with the
Lowell baseball team of the New Eng
land League last season, has received
orders to report for Spring practice at
Petersburg, Florida, by the St. Louis
Americans.
Paul Speraw and David Gruber,
playing on last year's Annville baseball
team, champion of Lebanon county,
have received contracts from the
South Atlantic League to play in the
Southern States and expect to sign
up by the end of this week.
CENTRAL TOSSERS WON
TENTH STRAIGHT VICTORY
The Hamilton grammar school five
were defeated by the Central gram
mar school tossers of Steelton last
night, score 57 to 24. The game was
played in Tech gymnasium. The
shooting by both teams was fine. This
was the tenth straight victory for the
Steelton five, the undisputed grammar
school champions of Dauphin county.
to Outfielders Crist, Flanagan and Ru
dolph and Inflelders Diets, Sundheim
and Cruickshank, Catcher Therre and
Pitchers Chabek and O'Connor. It is
probable that several of these players
will not sign up, having taken up per
manent positions.
Flanagan is a patrolman at Scran
ton and O'Connor will not get into
baseball this season unless there are
better inducements than those offered
last season. In the event of Bressler's
not being needed by Connie Mack he
will be farmed to Harrisburg. An
effort will be made to get Outfielder
Emerson and Catcher Roy Mays back
into the fold. Manager Cockill will
return to Harrisburg to-morrow from
New York.
Schedule Adopted
by National League;
Plums Evenly Divided
Special to The Telegraph
New York, Feb. 11. —in addition to
ousting Johnny Evers as manager of
JJl® Chicago Cubs and signing Hank
the veteran umpire, to lead
the Cubs, the only real business trans
acted by the National League mag
nates was the adoption of a schedule.
The season will open April 14, and
close October 7. According to a not
ice accompanying the schedule no
changes shall be made that will con
flict with the American League play
ing dates, and double-headers shall
not be scheduled for conflicting dates
except by the consent of President
Johnson, of the American League. An
exception to this ruling is made on
the final trip of the season, to be ex
ercised only in the case of absolute
necessity. There are but four con
flicting dates, however, all of which
occur in Chicago, those being May 10,
01, July 5 and September 13.
In the distribution of home holiday
and Saturday dates, those schedule
plums are about evenly apportioned,
although the western clubs have a
slight advantage over their eastern
rivals.
The Phillies have secured several
rich plums, and with the team in the
fight for the pennant the financial re
turns should be big. Besides opening
the season at home with the Giants on
April 14 the Phils have thirteen Sat
urdays at home and two holidavs,
Boston being here on Memorial Day
and Brooklyn oil Labor Day.
Away from home Philadelphia has
twelve Saturdays, five Sundays and
one holiday, that being played in New
York on July 4.
Pittsburgh draws fifteen Saturdays
and three holiday dates; Chicago four
teen Sundays, eleven Saturdays and
two holidays. St. Louis secured eleven
Sundays, ten Saturdays and one holi
day and Cincinnati has fifteen Sun
days and ten Saturdays. In the East,
Boston has thirteen Saturdays and
three holiday dates. New York and
Brooklyn share alike, each being al
loted fourteen Saturdays and one
holiday.
The road schedule shows that Cin
cinnati has fifteen Saturdays, two Sun
days and three holidays; Chicago,
fourteen Saturdays, three Sundays and
two holidays; St. Louis, fifteen Satur
days, six Sundays and two holidays;
New York, eleven Saturday, five Sun
days and two holidays; Brooklyn re
ceives a similar share and Pittsburgh,
ten Sundays and ten Saturdays.
Murphy Explains
the Evers Incident;
Was Too Impulsive
By Associated Press
Chicago, 111., Feb. 11. The dis
charge of Johnny Evers yesterday as
manager of the Chicago National
League team and the appointment of
Henry O'Day to succeed him, while
almost as great a surprise as the dis
missal of Frank Chance in 1912, had
been planned for some time. This
became known to-day, when baseball
writers recalled an Interview with
President C. W. Murphy last week in
which Evers was criticised.
"There are three types of man
agers," Murphy said, "the man who
manages and plays in the games, the
man who manages from the coaching
line and the man who manages from
the bench. Chance was a great man
of the first type, McGraw and Calla
han are great in the second and Con
nie Mack and Stallings are leaders in
their style. Evers is a great ball
player, but too impulsive to be a
manager and a player at the same
time."
AMERICAN PLAYERS
RECEIVED RY THE POPE
By Associated Press
Rome, Feb. 11.—Charles A. Com
iskey, president of the Chicago club
of the American Baseball League, was
well enough to-day to go with the
members of the American baseball
teams to the Vatican where the party
was received by the Pope. Dr. John
Edward Jones, American consul gen
eral at Genoa, who had attended Mr.
Comiskey during his illness, accom
panied the party which comprised
seventy people.
I The American visitors were intro
duced to His Holiness by Monslgmor
Charles A. O'Hearn, vice rector of the
American College in Rome, who ex
! plained the national interest taken In
baseball in the United States.
Rakeubburg telegraph
Kid Williams, Rising Bantam, Who Can't Get
a Fight With Coalon, an Alleged Champion
By whipping Campi in California
"Kid" Williams has come to be looked
on as the best bantam in the country.
He has begun another effort to get a
match with Johnny Coulon, who for
some years has been posing as the
bantam champion of the world. John
ny's uncle'is a butcher in Brooklyn,
and in some way he has been able to
convince a lot of sporting writers of
that borough that Coulon is the cham
pion. They have printed the state-
Heckert After Stars;
Loses Two Good Men
Special to The Telegraph
York, Pa., B'eb. 11. —New faces are
expected on the York team this sea
son. Manager Heckeft. is in New York
mingling with the big league dealers.
During his absence the new president,
J. J. Gerry, will keep in touch with the
correspondence.
It is said that Swayne and Hooper
will not be back with the team. Paul
Davis and Paris Kunkle will send in
their contracts soon.
The players have been notified to
report here for Spring practice on
April 20. An exhibition game with the
Gettysburg College team is scheduled
for April 22, so that the players will
have but two days' workout before the
tlrst actual contest. Albright College
will follow, as will Lebanon Valley and
other fast collegiate and professional
clubs.
SIDRTIXG BITS
Susquehanna University tossers last
night defeated the Juniata College
five: score. 49 to 26.
Middletown High lost to York High
at Middletown last night; score, 27
to 24. , .
Philadelphia Automobile Club mem
bers in charge of the preparation of
an annual route book were in Har
rlsburg yesterday.
The Superiors won last night's duck
pin game, defeating New Cumberland
bv a margin of 107 ptns.
Tech High tossers will go to Leb
anon this afternoon, where they will
play the final game with the Lebanon
High five to-night.
Mrs. Helen Boyd Dull's Class bowl
ing team won the Pine Street Presby- I
• rrlan Sunday School match at Bonny- !
meads alleys last night, defeating the |
bowlers from Mrs. H. B. McCormick's;
Class; margin, 382 pins.
The Passenger Trainmasters de
feated the Freight Clerks In the Penn
sylvania Batlroad Station bowling se
ries last night; margin, 41 pins.
HASSETT TOSSERS
WON BY FAST WORK
The Hasssett Ave played all around
the Crescent tossers of York last
night, winning by a score of 32 to 25.
It was a close contest from start to
finish. The score was tie uutil five
minutes near the close when Hassett
had a brilliant spurt and won out.
McCord was a star. Hilton lead for
the Crescents.
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ment, and it has gone out over the
country till many persons believe it.
Williams himself, having beaten Le
reux, the French and English bantam
champion, has more claim to world
championship than Coulon.
It is said to be doubtful if Coulon
will ever meet Williams. They went
ten rounds in New York in a no-de
cision bout, but most of those who
saw it believed that Williams had the
Chicago boy beaten.
MAD DOG KILLED
Waynesboro, Pa., Feb, 11. Con
stable William E. Britzler shot a dog
in the yard of the Leland Hotel yes
terday that had the rallies. Monday
th; dog jumped at a colored employe
at the hotel. The latter's clothes were
badly torn but the colored man was
able to keep the teeth of the canine
from entering his flesh by jumping
just far enough away and his skin
was grazed.
FUMIGATING SUNBURY SCHOOLS
Special to The Telegraph
Sunbury, Pa.. Feb. 11.—As an added
precaution against the further spread
of contagion in Sunbury, which is
suffering from a mild epidemic of
scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria and
typhoid fever, the school authorities
have started to fumigate all of the
while the school buildings are closed
during this week.
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j UNION SERVICES CLOSE |
Special to The Telegraph
Shippensburg, Pa., Feb. 11.—The
union, evangelistic services closed on
Sunday night. The services were held
under the auspices of the Methodist
Episcopal, Reformed. Lutheran and
Presbyterian churches. Services are
to be continued by the Messiah United
Brethren Church of God churches.
The Rev. B. G. Huber, of Chambers
burg, will speak on Tuesday evening.
The Church of the Brethren, corner
Garfield and Washington streets, is
holding evangelistic services with the
assistance of Evangelist Connor.
CELEBRATE 39TH ANNIVERSARY
Special to The Telegraph
Marietta, Pa., Feb. 11. Mr. and
Mrs. Eli L. Portner, residing in the
western end, to-day celebrated their
thirty-ninth wedding anniversary at
their home in a quiet manner. Among
those who tendered congratulations
were their children and grandchildren.
Mr. Portner has been connected with
the Dr. H. M. Alexander & Co. vaccine
farms for many years.
BRETHREN BAPTIZE IN CREEK
Special to The Telegraph
Annville, Pa., Feb. 11.—On Monday
afternoon the Church of the Brethren
conducted baptismal services in the
creek on the Bucher farm in South
Annville. The services were in charge |
of the Rev. David Hollinger. The j
same service will be conferred upon
several converts next Sunday after
noon at the same place. '
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John Doe Now a Father;
Son Weighs 20 Ounces
By Associated Press
Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 11. —Mrs.
John Doe, wife of John Doe, of the
West Side here, gave birth to a 20-
ounce child Friday. Newspaper re
porters refused to take the announce
ment seriously because of the family
name. Last night physicians substan
tiated the father's claim. The baby
is claimed to be the smallest healthy
child within the knowledge of local
medical men. It will be named
Woodrow Doe.
MINISTER ACCEPTS CALL
Special to The Telegraph
Shippensburg, Pa., Feb. 11. —Dr.
Fry, of Mulberry, Indiana, who was
recently elected as minister of Graco
Reformed church, has accepted the
call. He will move to Shippensburg
about April 1.
WILL GO TO FLORIDA
Special to The Telegraph
Shippensburg, Pa., Feb. 11. —Frank
E. Hollur, former postmaster and real
estate agent, with his family, will go
to-morrow to St. Petersburg, Florida,
whero they will stay indefinitely.
PATRON'S' WEEK
Shippensburg, Pa., Feb. 11.—Be
i ginning on Monday, February 16, will
j be known as patrons' week. The exer
j cises will close on Friday, February
20, with a patriotic celebration of
I Washington's birthday.