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BIG NEWS FOR OMAHA FANS
DUE TO BREAK AT LOUISVILLE
MEETING OF MINOR MAGNATES
Plans to Merge International League and American As
sociation Include Award of Class AA Franchise
And Berth in New American Associa
tion for the Omaha Club.
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On that date the annual meeting'
the National Association of Profes
sional Base Ball Leagues opens at
Louisville and also on that date will
the eight club owners of the Western
league gather in the Kentucky metrop
olis for an executive session.
Circuit changes are scheduled to
come before the national association
delegates and no matter what circuit
changes Omaha is bound to be af
fected. Merger Is Plan.
According to all the dope a merger
of the International and American as
sociations is to occur. Keverses m
both of these Class AA leagues made
club owners desperate a year ago and
for the last 365 days they have de
voted their entire time to discovering
ways and means of recouping their
losses. -
The Class AA heads have concluded
it is impossible for their leagues to
pay dividends as they are now situated
and that the only hope is to merge.
Lately the lid has been clamped
down on the merger plans. All dis
patches have been censored and so
much -secrecy has been attached to
talk of the proposed alliance that base
ball men are confident it is to be
Cnsummated at last.
To Block Objectors..
The secrecy, it is believed, is ob
served to remove obstacles which con
front the task of remapping the terri
tory. Some cities must be slighted in
the arrangements and these cities, of
course, will make every possible ef
fort to block them. By moving on
the quiet opposition from these cities
can be checked until the last minute
when it would be impossible to throw
any tools into the machinery.
The merger plan, it is believed, will
link four Americar association cities
with four International cities. The
International is carrying dead wood in
two cities at least. They are Montreal
and. Richmond. .These cities will, of
course,. 'be two of those dropped.
Rochester and Newark are the other
two which probably will go by the
boards. Thus the four cities to be re
tained in Class AA companies in the
eastern territory are Buffalo, Toronto,
Providence and Baltimore, all crack
ing good ball towns.
lhese four eastern cities would be
linked with Columbus, Indianapolis,
Toledo and Louisville, thus making
an, eight-club Class AA circuit that
should weather all stbrms.
Aid New York State. ."
The discarded International terri
tory then could be used to bolster the
New York State league, which suf
fered such, a disastrous season last
year its gates Swill remain closed un
less hew territory is added. ; Roches
ter, Jersey City and Newark could
be given franchises in this loop. These
three cities, with Scranton, Syracuse.
Utica, Harnsburg and Wilkesbarre
should make a strong Class A circuit
out of the New York. State league in
place of the, present weak, Class B
loop. ' , V
In the west a new American asso
ciation could be formed of Minneapo
lis, St Paul, Milwaukee, Kansas City,
Omaha; Des Moines, St. Joseph and
possibly Peoria. Joplin, Wichita,
Hutchinson f and Topeka, discarded
Western league territory, could be
given to' the Western association,
which also is wobbling.
Thus the reclassification would
strengthen the International, Ameri
can association, Western, New York
State and' Western association, and
this is jusf what probably will be done
at the Louisville meeting, although a
detail or two may be changed.
Cleveland Cancels -
Draft of Marty Krug
Marty Krug will not go to the ma
jors this year. The Cleveland
American league club, which drafted
Marty, has cancelled the said draft
and refuses to have the ex-manager
of the Rourkes.
The cancellation of this draft,
with several others, is ( likely to
make trouble, this year,' it is re
ported. Minor league club owners,
it is said, are getting peevish over
draft cancellations and intend to
make a roar at, the National as
sociation meeting.
CRITICAL GAMES
AHEAD THIS WEEK
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Nebraska Invades "Big Ten" to
Play Michigan, Creighton Bat
ties Dubuque and Central
High Beatrice.
Clark Griffith Tells ,
F ! Of Smart Skull Drill
Some one in a crowd in a Chicago
hotel lobby a day before the first
world's, series game asked what had
become of the Giants and was told
they were up in McGraw's room
holding ; "sktill practice." .
: "What is skull practice?" asked the
unsophisticated "expert."
Clark Griffith with great elaboration
gave an answer.,
"Skull practice consists," said the
Old Fox gravely, "of the player
swarming into a room, locking all the
doors and pulling down the blinds
and indulging in a mental wrestling
match with the various intricate plays
suggested by the manager.
"I recall,' continued Griff, "a skull
practice we had one day when I was
managing the Yankees. I put this
problem to my pupils: 'What wotild
you do in a game if there was one
out, two men on bases and Larry
Lajoie at the bat?
"Charley Hemphill raised his hand
to answer the question and said, 'I'd
shoot him.' ".
Killifer Winds Up Season
; - By Ringing Wedding Bells
Catcher William Killifer of ' the
Phillies gave his season a glorious
finish by getting married. The bride
was Miss Margaret Thorpe of West
Chester, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia.
She is a graduate of Wilson college
and prominent and popular in social
circles. Mr. and Mrs. Killifer left at
once for California, where they will
spend the winter.
Give Up Barnstorming . -Tour
as Unprofitable
Rube Marquard and Jack Meyers
rigged up a ball team made up of sev
eral major league players and went
barnstorming with it after the major
leagues closed their season, but the
i attendance was not encouraging and
they concluded to drop the idea.
Joe Siecher Will Wrestle
Big Bill Hokuff Once More
'Joe Stecher is scheduled to wrestle
Big Bill Hokuff, Omaha heavyweight,
at Central City Thursday night.
Stecher has wrestled Hokuff half a
dozen times in the last two .years, j
Nebraska, Creighton and Central
High, all three face critical gam,es this
week. ' ' (
Most interest probably hinges on
Nebraska's eame with Michisran next
Saturday. The clash marks Nebras
ka's first game with a "Big Ten" op
ponent, except lowa, since the Nebraska-Minnesota
game of 1913 when
Nebraska won and Doe Williamsde
cided the Gophers didn't want any
more of the Cornhuskers.
The last game Nebraska olaved
with Michigan was in 1910 when the
result was a 6 to 6 tie and Nebraska
fans were all wroueht uo because a
60-yard run for a touchdown by Owen
Frank, which would have won the
game for the Huskers, was disallowed.
Yost came out to Lincoln that year
with a "world-beater" and . it was
prophesied the poor little Cornhusk
ers would be smothered. Yost was
so disappointed he beat it back to Ann
Arbor and refused to come out of his
shell until this year. '
Unusual Interest.
Nebraska fans will watch the result
of this game with more than usual in
terest because it has always been con
tended Nebraska is the equal of the
Western Conference elevens and the
Cornhuskers are expected to prove it
at Michigan's expense next Saturday.
With Nebraska invading foreign
fields, Creighton battles Dubuque in
Omaha. The local eleven has a score
to settle with Dubuque and is ex-
'tremely anxious to carry off the long
end of the score, pubuque is reported
to have a powerful eleven this year.
The Central-Beatrice clash is one
of the "crucial" games in the race for
the state interscholastic championship;
Central, Lincoln and Beatrice are the
leading contenders and Mulligan's
men must remove the Gate county
lads Friday.
Even lost Tickets Are
Restored by Comiskey
A couple of incidents recounted by
a Chicago base ball writer show how
i perfect were the arrangements made
under rresideny Comiskey plan for
lacntuying legitimate . tiCKet noiaers
to the world's series games, with the
idea of circumventing the scalpers.
Generally speaking the system worked
out admirably. Here is one of the in
cidents: ;
A woman and child arrived at the
Saturday game; and . found she haaj
tio tickets with her. She sent an ap
peal to Commy, with, her name and
address, They were looked- up in
the record and found to tally "and she
saw the game. - When, shewent homt
she found the tickets and forwarded
the evidence to Sox park as a fur
ther earnest of her honesty.
Another woman' Instance this one
was from San Francisco "and she
dropped her tickets On: Wentworth
avenue. A passerby with one tickec
thought of 'two busted friends who
had none and staked them.
Again1 the records were appealed
.to, the, occupants of .the , seats were
ousted and the San Francisco tourist
given her assigned locations.
These things are matters of great
pride to Comiskey, and he was tfcklcd
punk, especially when the women were
seated.
Kid Watching Scoreboard
Knows How to Win Games
All! was dark and quiet; fans in a
theater not 'a thousand miles from
New York were straining attention at
the base ball player boards, which was
showing by electric lights the prog
ress of the first world's series game in
Chicago. i
It was early in the game, and the
Giants were still on even terms with
the White Sox. As the Giants came
to bat one inning, all the.lights show
ing the position of the , Chicago
fielders lighted except one.
And then pierced through the still
darkness the shrill admonition of a
bdy.in the gallery: "Hit it out to left
field; there's nobody there."
If You Want to Know How
to Pronounce it, Here lis
Concerning that much debated pro
nunciation: "His name is Sycoat. I know it."
"Naw, it's See-coat."
"You're wrong; it's Sykotte."
Is that so? I say it's Sickotty.?
That's the way fans talk about the
pronunciation of the name of the
White Sox star pitcher. . j
"It's like this," says the owner of
the name, "in American you pro
nounce it 'Sycot' with the, accent on
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DRAFT NO BOON
TO MINOR LOOPS,
DICKERSON SAYS
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Player Worth Money to Team
From Which He Is Drafted,
Western League Presi
dent Declares. ,
the first syllable. It's different in
French but I'm an American." .
Emerson W. Dickerson, president
of the Western league, is one minor
league baseball man who has no fear
of the wrath of the powers that be
in major league circles.
The Western league -head proves
he has the courage of his convictions
by telling the big league magnates
just what he believes of them, and he
minces no words in so doing.
"That the light draft (his year will
hurt the minor leagues is all bosh as
applied to the staple minors," said
Dickerson. "The only time that the
baseball drafting of a slayer is a real
benefit to a minor league is when the
majors pick a lemon. Any really
good player is worth the' draft price
to the team from which he is taken.
Loss Must Be Replaced.
'The fans of the minors want to see
classy performers as welj as those who
live in major league citips; and a star
player on; a team, wjll ;draw quite a
number to the games ach day that
otherwise would not attend. On top
of this, such a player when lost must
be replaced and usually icost the club
that loses him about as much as is re
ceived for his release by draft to re
place him. t
"The idea that the minors cannot
exist without the money received from
the releases of players; drafted is all
wrong. The. annual Statements is
sued by Secretary FaHell of the Na
tional association, . the governing
body of the minor leagues, show that
the minors pay more ieach vear for
the releases of players from the major
leagues than, they themselves receive
from sales and drafts. That may
sound strange, yet cold figures show
it to be- true. ,
"The majors are going out into the
bushes and putting strings on all of
the young players the scouts see who
show any promise. Then they send
such players to the minors to be edu
cated, and force the minors to pay
for the privilege. Whenever a minor
league begins to look shaky the ma
jors seldom show any disposition to
bolster them up as they might be ex
pected to for the general good of the
game.' Instead they send their scouts
out with hurry up orders to. pick up
all the good players they can just as
soon aathe time comes when they can
do so without paying anything for
their release. , '
Some Good Sports.
"There are some good sportsmen in
the major leagues, such as Comiskey
of the White Sox. who do not show
that disposition. If there were more
Comiskeys in the game, there would
not have been such a wholesome de
mise of our minor leagues as there
has been during the last three or four
years."- There was a time when the
majors figured it was for the good of
the game to encourage the minor
leagues. Some of the Shylock prac
tices that major league team owners
have indulged in to my knowledge
would seem beneath men of such big
business investments.
"No player who has not had previ
ous league experience should ever be
accepted by a minor league club with
any kind of a string attached. When
they arc, the majors make a school of ,
SOCCER SEASON
TO START TODAY
irst Clash in Omaha League
Schedule Between Gale- .
donians and Townsends
at Miller Park Today.
Omaha's soccer foot ball season
starts today. i
. The Omaha and District Soccer
league has been reorganized for the
current season with all of last year's
teams back and a regular schedule of
play starting this afternoon has been
mapped out.
All of the local soccer elevens have
suffered a bit by the call to the colors,
but new blood will be inserted in the
lineups and it is believed all pf the
teams will be as strong as last year. ;
The T. L. Combs trophy has been
hung up again for the pennant winner1
in the Omaha league. .
Three official referees have been
appointed for the season. They are
T. Hoyle, J. , McTaggart and J. Bos
tock. . x f -
v Medal for Scores. ' j
Lively competition is expected to
exist among the v crack goal scorers
of the various elevens. Austin .
Wall of New York has offered a solid
gold medal to the player making the
most points and such sharp-shooters
as Lowden, the Henderson brothers,
Darvil, Baldwin and others are ex
pected to play some sensational loot
ball in the race for this trophy, -
Several games will be played during
the season for the Red Cross , and
other war charities. ,
The opening game of the year at
Miller park today will be between the
Caledonians, last year's champions,
and the Townsends, runnersup.
State Volley Ball Tourney to
Be Held at Omaha Y M. C. A.
The annual state volley ball tourna
ment will be held in Omaha this year.
It will be staged at the Omaha Young
Men's Christian, association some time
in February. i
A business men's volley ball league
will be organized at the "Y" again
this year. It is expected six or eight
teams will enter. A city tourney-will
be held Thanksgiving day. ' 1
Three Hand Ball Tourneys
On Y. M. C. A; Schedule
Three hand ball tournaments will
be held at the Omaha Young Men's
Christian association this year.
The first event will be a singles
tourney, which will start November
5., The doubles tournament starts
January 7 and the big hand ball event
for the championship of the city starts
May 6.
John Pesek Breaks Leg
Training for Mat Bout
John Pesek of Shelton, one, of Ne
braska's leading wrestlers broke his
leg the other day while training for a
match with Jack Taylor. Two breaks
occurred near the ankle and Pesek
will be inactive in wrestling for eight
or ten weeks.
the minors and the educators pay the
freight. The minors are not asking
any favors of the majors so far as the
Class A leagues and higher are con
cerned. Those that have weathered
the 6torms of the last three years have
done so without the aid of the majors
and can continue to do so. Any time
they are unable to carry their own
fight they are not going to look for
anything from those who have been
laying in waiting for minor leagues to
fall by the wayside,"
FLOOR OUTLOOK IN
OMAHA IS GLOOMY
Meeting: of Basket Ball En
thnsiasts Called for No
vember 8, But Prospects
Are Far From Bright.
Basket ball enthusiasts will meet
November 8 at the Omaha Young
Men's Christian association to make
plans for the 1917-18 basket ball sea
son. . i
The basket batl outlook this winter
is not rosy.a Interest languished last
year and with so many of the local
players summoned to the colors the
floors leagues this year do not prom
ise to be overly strong.
The Brandeis team, for the last
three years Omaha's leading' quintet,
probably will not be in the field this
year. An effort will be made to re
organize the Tri-City, Commercial and
Church leagues, gut cage enthusiasts
are far from sanquine of success and
will be satisfied it two leagues can be
formed. The Church league is ex
pected to survive, but it is probable
only one league can be organized from
the combined fields of the Tn-City
and Commercial.
Present nlans call for the ooenine
of the Church and Commercial leagues
December 11. The Tn-City will start
about the same time if it is organized.
The South Side Church league ex
pects to be in the field again and wilt
start its schedule January 4.
Al Jolson Adds New Skit;
Moral of Series Betting
Al Jolson, comedian and stockhold
er in the St Louis Cardinals, plans to
put on a new comedy sketch which
will be called "I'm Cured." The
"moral" of the piece will be the folly
of betting on the Giants. Jolson
plunged heavily on the first two
games in Chicago and on the Giants
to take the series. Besides that he
called off a week's engagement to see
the big games, at a loss to himself of
about a thousand dollars a day. Some
fan. ' -i.'y ; .
Refuse to Sell Player
For Large SumDrafted
There is some snickering in the In
ternational league over the loss of
Jack Bentley by the Baltimore club
to the Boston Red Sox in the draft.
During the sale period Jack Dunn was
sounded on what he would take for
Bentley. He wanted $7,500 and two
or three players to boot. No deal was
made, but the Red Sox put in a draft
and got the man.
Chief Meyers Given Gate
By Boston National Team
Catcher John (Chief) Meyers, who
was taken on by the Boston Braves
last August when it appeared the club
would be without a catcher, has been
unconditionally released. He was a
free agent when he came to the
Braves, having been given his release
a few days previously by the Brook
lyn club. He may decide to accept
an engagement with a Pacific Coast
league club for next season, perhaps
as manager. i
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Pirates Pass Up Flynn,
Recruits From the South
The Pittsburgh club has notified the
Shreveport club that Outfielder Don
Flynn will not be retained. His work
in the few games he played late in the
season failed to impress the Pitts
burgh management. Shreveport prob
ably will not be able to use him next
year, either, for it is understood he
was caught in the army draft.
Receipts of Ohio Series
Shatter No World Records
- Receipts of the first four games of
the Cleveland-Cincinnati series, in
which the players . shared, were
$9,227.75 and the players' share
$2,989.78 to the winning team and
$1,993.19 to the losing team, .
OMAHA PIN MEN
PLAN TO INVADE
IOWA IN FORCE
Eph Terrell, Carl Cain and Dad
Huntington to Lead Gate City
Bowlers to Middle West
Tournament.
Nebraska pin tumblers are planning
a record-breaking invasion of Des
Moines for the annual Middle West
Bowling Tournament which 'open in
the Iowa capital November 16.
Eph Terrell, Carl Cain and Dad
Huntington will lead the Omaha dele
gation and these three pin enthusiasts
hope to take fully a dozen teams from
the gate city. ,
O. F. Retnke will pilot the Lincoln
representatives, while L, R. Hammond
expects to take two or three teams
from Fremont. '
The Nebraskans will invade Des
Moines for two purposes. One is to
capture a large share of the prize
money and the other is to bring the
1918 tournament to Omaha.
As practically all of the crack Corn
husker pin Sharks will enter the tour
ney, it is believed the representatives
of the golden rod state have an ex
cellent opportunity to bring home the
bacon. t
Entries for the championship event
close in two weeks and Terrell, Cain
and Huntington intend to redouble
their efforts during this time to round
up more entries for Omaha.
Omaha will have stiff competition
for the 1918 tourney, as Kansas City
announces it wants it and will send
fifteen to twenty teams to Des Moines
to press the claims of the Missouri
city." Terrell, Cain and Huntington
are trying to land just as many! Oma
ha teams so the grade won't be so
steep. w
"Happ" Felsch, centeffieldej- for the
world's champion White Sox, will be
One of the entries in the Des Moines
tourney. Felsch rolls with the famous
Lens Weiners of Milwaukee, who
already entered the tourney.
Ebbets Puts Enlisted
Athletes on Half Pay
President Ebbets. of the Brooklyn
club, who gave $500 to the fund raised
by Brooklyn players for members of
the team who should be drafted into
the army, Has announced in addition
that Brooklyn players who are in the
army next year will receive half pay
trom tne ciud auring me payniK sea
son and that if any player is incapa
citated by injuries while in the army
so that he can not return to base ball
he will be pensioned by the club.
Sunday Ball Given Chance
In Rhode Island State
A bill permitting Sunday ball games
is to be introduced in the Rhode Is
land legislature and Providence hopes
that if it passes it can promise a bet
ter attendance showing and thus save
the threat of being dropped from
Class AA ball. Public tentiment in
Rhode Island is Said to be strongly
in favor of Sunday ball, but legislators
are not always responsive to public
sentiment. '
Annual Cross-Country Run
To Be Staged Thanksgiving
The annual Omaha cross-country
run will be staged under the auspices
of the Young Men's Christian asso
ciation Thanksgiving day. This will
be the sixth annual endurance race
held by the Omaha "Y."
The association also plans a second
cross-country run to be held in the
spring. The date set for this event
V is May 18 I
FOUR-ROUND
BOUTSTHRIVE
ON THE COAST
Any Scrapper Who Can Give
Fair Account of Himself Can
Gather Sheckels in Cali
fornia Now. '
BY RINGSIDE.
Chicago, Oct. 20.-r-Although the
bouts held on the Pacific coast are
all of the four-round variety, the box
ing game in San Francisco and other
western towns is thriving just now,
according to reports received here,
and boxers who have invaded the
west are declared to be making good
money. With the death of the ten
round game in New York a question
of weeks only, it is not improbable
that some of the high-class talent ;
that has been performing in Gotham
will trek westward before the winter
is over.
Joe Wilson, a former Chicago boy,
who is now in San Francisco, has
come to Chicago in search of talent.
Joe represents several San Francisco
promoters, and says he is after al
most any scrapper who can "give a
good account of himself in a four
round go.
One of the rrten Wilson would like
to take back to the coast is Jack Dil
lon, the Hoosier bearcat. Wilson be
lieves there are several men in the
vicinity of the Seal Rocks who could
give Dillon a robust tussle in four
rounds. ' ,
"There are some dandy boxers on
the coast just now and every one of
them is making good," Wilson de
clared. "It may surprise eastern,
scrappers to know that we have had
a house with gate receipts as big, as
$8,000. Willie Ritchie drew that in
one of his bouts. 1
"At Sari Francisco there are four
clubs in operation Emeryville i the
Association' club. . Dreamland and
Recreation Park. There are bouts al
most every night, and' most of the
battles are as' good as those seen at
the average smoker in the cast. Eddie 1
Granev, Tobey Irwin, Billy Snailham
and Harry Foley are doing most of
the refcreeing."
1 Ritchie Card.
"Ritchie," Wilson continued,' "is t
still a wonderful card, although he
weighs about 150 pounds and js fight
ing as a welterweight. His boxing is
as high-class as ever, although his
old 'one-two' is not as deadly as it
used to be. Ritchie has taken down
from $1,000 to $1,700 for his end of '
the money, and that' is real coin for ,
four rounds." .';"
Among the men who Wilson says
are making good around San FraiM
cisco are Mick King, the Australian
heavyweight; Len Rowlands, of Mil
waukee, and Gunboat Smih, who' has
been a, favorite out west ever since .
he outpointed Jess Willard in, the.
days before Willard was chamion or
owned a circus,
Frank Barricau, the Canadian mid-,
dleweight, also has been stepping a
fast pace on the coast, and now claims
the middleweight championship, of all
territory (west, of the Rockies. Dick
O'Brien, the new heavyweight, that
Biddy Bishop is chaperoning, is ex
pected to appear on the coast shortly
in searcn oi Dailies.
Although coast boxing centers in
San Francisc.o, there are other coast '
towns where the game Is thriving.
Los Angeles is giving the four-round
game good patronage, although the
class of bouts offered there is not as
good as in some other cities.; -Shorten
the Rounds. .
Portland has tried a variation of
the four-round game by substituting
six two-minute rounds for the or-'
dinary four rounds of three minutes
each. The plan has proved success
ful, and Portland fans have seen some,
first-class boxing shows in the past
few months. Joe Flannigan, a genial
Irishman, handles most of the Fort-,
land shows, besides bossing a stable
of scrappers that are able to give a
good account of themselves.
In Seattle the boxing game was on
a thriving basis until an overzealous
sheriff decided things were running a
little too strong and clamped down
the lid. The state law in Washington
provides that only duly ' organized, 1
clubs may hold bouts between mem,
bers for exercise only in their own
gymnasiums.
Seattle promoters were running
bouts of considerable class, however,
and the city authorities were not in
terfering, but the sheriff' stepped in
and crabbed the works. Under the
present ruling the Elks club, which v
boasts a small gymnasium, is about
the only organization that can stage
a boxing show in Seattle. - '
Since the establishment of an army'
cantonment at Tacoma indications are ,
that boxing will thrive there this
winter, and some qf the scrappers
who had to go to work when the
game shut down in Seattle may pick
up a few dollars in Tacoma. , ,
Moran Instructor in Army.'
Vic Moran, the young Italian bat
tier from New Orleans, who has a.
match with Bennv Leonard coming
tip, is listed amo'g the men who have '
volunteered to tach boxing to the
soldiers in training at Fort Sheridan.
Solly Friedman and several other
Chicago scrappers also have volun
teered to help teach the Soldiers the
fine art of wielding the padded gloves.
Soldiers at Fort Sheridan are get
ting a pretty thorough course in box
ing under the supervision of Martin
A. Detaney, a Chicago physical direc
tor. Classes are held every day, and
every one of tht 4,000 men in camp
puts in a session with the mittens.
This means that about 2,000 bouts are
pulled off at Fort Sheridan every day.
Camp officials assert boxing, teaches
the men the alertness and aggressive
ness needed for success in bayonet
fighting. - ' ' ''
Long Tom Hughes Decides '
Base Ball Days Are Over
Long Tom Hughes, veteran pitcher,
has been given his release by ,the Salt ;
Lake club and has definitely and final- .
ly retired from base ball. He an
nounced such a retirement after the -:
1916 season, but was induced to try
a comeback. He failed and is now
positive that his days as a pitcher are j
done. , ' '