EVERS FACES TOUGH PROBLEM AS MANAGER
Joi -ifly Even. Ne
> , .&( :sio t.» new job as ns-1
sg*n of the I'.ts «.;k the best wishes j
>1 the fans. Jot tiny Ever* never! he- j
«-** fares about the fant.es* bunch of
frcwbi" ever gathered under one tent,
lays the ChkafD Evening Post,
before signing him up—and Evers
• art. t exactly yeart. ug for the job—
har.e* Webb Murptsy made bin. agree 1
uo carry out sort- of the policies I
* t:ch Frank «'hance. out of the wealth 1
j# his experience as a baseball gener
tL had refused to courier
look* like tough Sledding for a
■ hik Evers admitted after be had
gut his name to a contract which
_
Frank Chance. E■-Manager
made b»m — agrr at the team for
:be neat See yean "There sill be
many changes But Mr Murphy has
assured me that 1 can do anything I j
want to in the way of trades, and I '
• iC be responsible for whatever hap
pens "
There had best, many reports that
after Chance had been completely
abom of any authority to protest the
Cab team would be torn to pieces.
>nd Evers statement appears to sub
stantiate these minors
Tbe circumstances under which
Evers stepped into Chance's shoes
were enpla ned by a member of tbe
earn
Evers didn't want the job and it
look a lot of persuasion to force him
to :t.' be declared "In fact, there
warn t a man on tbe team who want
'd to become manaf^r Tinker frank
ly said be wouldn't tak*- it under any
rirru instance*, and when be was
sailed down by Murphy for making *
these statements for publication
Tiak*-r repeated them to Murphys
face.
“But Evers situation was different
Johnny has been unfortunate in finan
cial Blatters, and the added salary' as
manager was a great inducement
Then. too. Murphy s band had bees
forced by statements that h* was
stalling and was having trouble find
ing anybody who would work for him
and be a as determined to sign Evers.
“It was a case of become manager
vr baseball Evers couldn't re
fuse f.'cbod.. knows better than he
.
» Manage' of Cubs.
doe* whs- be is up against, but he is
gam* and may make a success of it.
He doesn’t go into the job with any
_s:ons He has been playing for
the Cubs for ten years, and he knows
Murphy Johnny isn't harboring the
delusion that he is lying dow-n to
pleasant dreams in a bed of roses
"If the fans wrill stick by him until
he gets a fair try-out. that's all he
asks And he believes they will. It
lo tr It.' a second division team for
tfc* We*t Side for a couple of years,
but after the new machine gets to
working properly Johnny thinks he
can bring it up to the top again "
I'm glad it's all over." said Chance,
"The strain of the last few develop
ment* in my case has been a tough
one for a man just out of a hospital.
I'm looking forward to a good rest on
my ranch, where there will be noth
ing to worry me
There are no hard feelings be
tween Ever* and myself. I want you
To emphasise that point It is a pro
motion for Johnny, and he deserves
it He will make good The boys will
; lay ball for him after the bitterness
«*ar» aw ay and Johnny is [popular
with the fans. No city can show a
more loyal bunch of fans than Chi
cago has They have been my friends
in the past and I believe they are my
fr Tide now All I can say is that in
rr;n for their loyalty I have always
given the best that was in me.”
GOSSIP T
' y^lMCMG I
1 SPORTS 1
Kittj Prat rfield has signed to man
uz<=- tbe Montreal team next season.
Shortstop O Dowd of the New York
H ichianders has been sold to Brock
ton.
Joe Mandot has cleaned up over
in nine months with his box
ing gloves
The Cardinals have signed a Cu
ban catcher named Cueto. He is
said to be a star
Farm :.- a er*-»t thing Tris Speaker
mat selected to start an automobile
race at Salem. N H
Bob Harmon o/ the St. Louis Car
dinals has been elected vice-president
of a wallpaper company.
Reports sa> that a!! the New York
American Hague games will be play
ed at the Polo grounds next year
The? are now pulling this: Snod
grass is the best furrier in the world
because b*> made a $29,000 muff.
Captain Wendell of the Harvard
football team says his squad ought to
make a general clearing this year.
Hinchman. captain of the Fordham
football team, is one of the latest to
be declared ineligible because of
scholarship conditions.
St Louis seems io get along well
without boxing ar.d New York is go
me along all right under the Frawlev
law so. you see. it can be dcDe.
They sat ‘hat Forest Cady, catcher
of the Red Sox and one of the world's
senes heroes, has a whip something
s milar to that of Jimmy Archer's.
The Paclflc Coast league magnates
are up in arras against the minor
leaguers who want a salary limit of
$2.00 per season for any one player.
It is said there is little likelihood
that Bombadier Wells wiH return to
this country, as he asks more money
than the pro meters think be is worth.
James P Sullivan, the veteran dis
tance rena<r of New York has quit
the amateur ranks to become a train
er.
Patsy Swe. rev. the old-time Man
chetTer ..V H.i lightweight, is go
ing to promote boxing shows in that
city.
WORK OF PUNTER NOT HARD
Under New Rules Kickers Are Called
on Less Often to Boot—Feature
Almost Eliminated.
Punters are likely to be put out
of their jobs if the early football,
games of the season can be said to
accurately forecast the action of the;
new rales
Prom all over the country there
; is agreement on this one point in
| connection with the radically changed
regulations—punting has virtually
1 been eliminated.
Now a team can keep the ball, and
make gains, hence there is no reason
to surrender it by a punt, says the
Milwaukee Sentinel. Instead there is
recourse to the forward pass which
means big gains if it works, and
should it fail, carries no penalty s«
i verer than a lost down, unless, ot
: course, the ball should be cleanl;'
caught by the enemy and be carried
for a big gaim
This lack of punting may be said
to be the most notable change
worked by the new rules. It was
: a reform that was desired, for in
J the last few years the defense had
gained strength to a point where
the offense had little chance to
make consistent progress against a
team of anywhere near its own cal
iber. Hence there was the constant
use of the punt. Two tries, a petty
gain and then a punt. That was
the program
The football authorities sought to
do away with this condition. They
weakened the defense. The for
ward pass was made, legal any
where on the field, the number of
downs was increased from three to
four.
The removal of the restrictions on
the forward pass makes it a play that
is likely to be used all the time,- and
compels the team on defense to play
a more open game in order to guard
against a surprise.
With the defense thus opened there
is a better chance for fleet backs to
: run the ends, or for heavy plunging
backs t<^ hit the line for small gains.
The added downs makes this style of
play the more successful since with
four chances to make ten yards, the
comparatively small average of only
two and one-half yards to plunge suf
fices to hold the ball.
During the three or four last sea
sons, the coaches ran around breath
less to find punters, and to develop
their distance kicking ability.
Now- the punt comes so comparative
ly seldom that the importance of the
j punter is much reduced. The aboli
i tion of the onside kick also does away
rt> a large extent with the need for a
man who can punt accurately.
Only for the field goal kicker is
there still a strong demand, and un«
less later games bring some change
it is likely that in this department
the use of the skilled toe will have its
best development.
PERCY WENDELL
; ©wctivcor auKiwooo
Captain and Fullback of Harvard
University Football Team.
Braves Get Paul Strand.
The Boston Nationals cleaned up on
Northwestern league pitching talent
when they drafted Paul Strand froir
Spokane. He is the phenomenal kid
that Joe Cohn sold to the Boston Red
Sox a year ago. but the Red Sox turn
ed him back and did not exercise theii
option. He is said to have improved
and may yet shine in the Hub.
Carlo's Good Record.
Anthony Carlo, the Wendell Phil-,
lips high school lad who will join the
St. Louis Browns next season, won his
i twenty-eighth victory in thirty-two
games by shutting out the Artesians,
4 to 0. at Chicago recently. Bartell,
who slammed the first ball for a tri
ple. w as the only Artesian to get a
hit Seventeen went out on strikes
Shake-Up in Baseball.
The coming baseball season is go-,
ing to witness the biggest shake-up in*
National league managers that the old'
major body has ever known. Only
three old managers will be left in
the league—McGraw. Dooin and Fred
Clarke.
Street Sold Again.
President Frank J. Navin, owner of
| the Detroit and Providence teams, has
anncur.eed the sale of Gabby Street,
former catcher of the Washington and
' New York American league teams, to
j the Chattanooga club of the Southern
1 league.
—
Let His Friend Down Easy When
He Saw the Joke.
By FRANK F1LSON.
“Confound those storage people,”
muttered Tom Bryant, as he unfrocked
the door of his apartment and ushered
ais friend Wells into—an empty room.
He stared round him. "Well, of all the
gall!” he exclaimed. “Here's that con
i founded landlord of mine decorated
the walls in saffron "when 1 vent over
| the matter with him a dozen times
and he swore by all the gods to do
them in red. And the storage men
were on their honor to have my fur
niture in today. I tell you, Billy, it
makes a fellow tired.”
They entered and sat down upon a
board which the painters had left
i stretched out between two step-lad
ders. Tom lit hiB .upe and began
puffing savagely.
The men were old acquaintances
whom fate had driven apart for many
years. Recently Tom Bryan* had been
spending his vacation with Wells in
the Adirondacks. and the latter had
accompanied him back to his home to
be his guest for a few days. Mrs
Bryant, who had been visiting his
■ mother, was expected on the following
morning.
“l m going round to the storage
men the first thing in the morning.”
said Tom. “and I'm going to tell them
some of the things I won't do to them
if they don't have my goods here be
fore 11 o'clock.” He paused and be
gan wrinkling his brow. “Billy," he
said, "if you'll give me your word of
honor never to breathe a word of it
I'll tell you of an extraordinary thing
’ that happened to me when I got back
■ from my honeymoon four years ago.
: Mrs. Bryant has never ceased teasing
"Don't Mention a Word About It.”
me about it. but it was mighty serious
at the time, and this little episode re
minds me of it.”
“Word of honor." said William
Wells. “Go ahead, Tom.”
The other struck a fresh match for
his pipe and cast the burned end into
a pail of half dry paint.
“We d just got back from a blissful
three weeks' honeymoon in the moun
tains.” he began, sending out clouds
of smoke and leaning back against tne
ladder. “Previous to my marriage I
had rented a little apartment some
thing like this one in the West Fifties.
You used to know this town pretty
w-ell, Billy; I guess you remember that
section, where every house looks just
like its neighbor and every street for
blocks is exactly the same. Well, the
place was decorated for us and our
new furniture was moved in and we
were both thoroughly pleased. We
speculated how happy and cosy we
were going to be, and all the way
home in the train we talked about it
and indulged in housekeeping rhap
sodies.
“When we reached our apartment
house the janitor met me at the door
i with a telegram in his hand. It was
from the office, asking me to come
down immediately I returned in order
to explain something that had cropped
up during my absence—a matter of
which I alone was cognizant. It
wouldn't take more than a couple of
minutes to straighten out affairs, and
. perhaps an hour's absence in all. I
didn't like it, but there was nothing
else to do; so. after escorting Mrs.
Bryant to the door and opening it for
her. and glancing to make sure that
all the furniture was there, I kissed
her and took the car down town.
“The matter proved more important
; than I had anticipated. I called up
my wife, explained the matter, and re
mained at the office until late in the
evening, unraveling the tangle. It was
half past nine before I got home. 1
walked straight in. went up the three
Sights of stairs and unlocked the
apartment door.
“It was absolutely bare, Billy, as
bare as this one. The 6mell of fresh
paint was abcnt the only thing there
was in it. Not a stick of furniture,
not a rug, not a cup or a saucer or a
dish rag in the kitchen. And Eleanor
! wa6 gene.
“Well, 6ir, I nearly went crazy. Of
course you can guess what had hap
pened. But the solution did not oc
cur to me at all. There was the apart
ment. arranged just a* before, with
the kitchen leading out of the tuning
room, and the bath-room with its
three-quarter length tub, and the gas
bracket over the medicine chest, and
my key which fitted the lock. I didn’t
know where to turn. Eleanor's folks
lived at Syracuse, and even if she had
got angry at my delay and gone home,
she couldn't have taken the furniture
with her. And the janitor was out
somewhere and 1 couldn't find a soul
in the basement to ask about her.
“Well, I spent that night pacing
through the apartment, and by morning
I was as nearly crazy as a man could
be. Somehow or other, though, I had
serse enough to call up the office to
fay I couldn’t get down, and when I
got the answer I found I could get,
down after all. In fact I got down in
record time. Eleanor had been tele
phoning ail the evening before until
they closed up at eleven (we were do
Sig a rush business then), and that
morning she had camped on the door
step about six and waited till the day
watchman came on duty, and then she
had a fit of hysteria in his arms. And
the police had been notified and were
searching the hospitals and looking in
ail the dark corners to see if I was
lying there sandbagged. When I got
down and Eleanor fainted in my arms
end then came to and had another
hj sterical attack in the middle of the
office floor—well, it was no joke, I
tell you. And all because 1 had mis
taken the street and walked into tha
corresponding house on the same
block in the street above it. 1 tell
you. Billy, my sticks and rugs looked
pretty good to me when I got back
with Mrs. Bryant about nine o'clock.
"But for the Lord s sake don't men
tion a word about it to her when you
meet. You'll be surprised how she
has changed from the time when you
knew her four years ago. Do you re
member telling her she looked as ;
though she would never grow up, that
day you said good-bye to us at the
station? She has. though, and into a
fine w oman. You see, we’ve had some
pretty heavy responsibilities, old man, i
. during those few years, what with our
business nearly going out in the pa ::c
and then shooting up like a rocket.
W hen w e had to get out of Fifty
seventh street we took a regular tene
ment place up in the Bronx. But I knew
things would get better again, and it
wasn’t long before we were able to
get back into our old quarters again
But we'd always coveted this apart
ment house—come to the window !
That's where we used to live—number
465. across the street. And when i
we took this place last month we felt
that we had begun to stretch our
selves at last.’’
i ’ Where did faa say you used to
live?" asked William Weils.
"Number 465—across the street.
BUTthe other yawning.
’’Fifty-seventh street?"
"Sure! This is Fifty-seventh street.
Why?”
“O. nothing,” answered his friend
"Only they must have marked it
wrong on the corner lamps, because
they call it Fifty-eighth. Tom. you
thundering fool, you're in the wrong
house again!”
(Copyright, 1S12. by TV. G. Chapman )
IS RELIC OF PAGAN TIMES
In Brittany There Exists a Huge Black,
Stone Image of a Woman That
Is Very Old.
One of the most curious relics of
paganism remaining in a Christian
country is the gigantic black stone
figure of a woman which is to be seen
in a forest of the district of Morbi
han in Brittany.
It is known as the "black Venus."
but probably dates far back of the
time when the Greeks and Romans
worshiped that goddess. Antiquaries
assert that this figure belongs to the
age of the serpent worshipers, one of
whose subterranean temples is in the
neighborhood. This would make the
figure far older than the Christian era
The statue is that of a huge, un
couth woman, with a sullen, angry
countenance, her form enveloped in
a loose mantle. The superstitious
Bretons have always worshiped the
figure, asserting that it has power
over the weather and the crops If
the idol is neglected they declare that
the grain dies on the ear. and if the
anger of the "black woman" over Mor
bihan.
Twice the stone was cast into the
sea by pious folk, who hoped thereby
to put an end to this idolatry, and
twice the peasants dragged it back and
set it up in its old place.
Some two hundred years ago Count
Pierre de Lannon. on whose estate the
figure stood, in order to save the
statue from both friends and enemies,
dragged it by forty yoke of oxen to
his own chateau and set it up in the
courtyard. He cut an inscription on
the base of the pedestal, declaring the
figure to be a Venus carved by Cae
sar'6 soldiers.—Harper s Weekly.
Betrayed.
Two men were discussing European
trips. One was frank enough to say i
that he had never been abroad, but
the other spoke of certain aspects of
travel with the assumed lightness of !
experience. Still, there was a false
note in his speech—for one thing, his
French sounding as a child would pro
nounce it with strictly English meth
ods
Said the stay-at-home suddenly:
"I'll bet you can't name a single ho
tel in Paris."
"Soft." returned the bogus traveler
“What about the Hotel dez Invally
dees?”
—
Begin Well.
Finish ever?" day and be done with
it. You have done what you could, j
Some blunders and absurdities, no
doubt, crept in; forget them as soon
as you can. Tomorrow is a new day:
begin it well and serenely, and with \
too high a spirit to be cumbered j
with your old nonsense. This day Is j
all that is good and fair. It is too
dear, with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
—Emerson.
Women as Plumbers.
From a note which appears in the
columns of the Ironmonger It would i
appear that.no fewer than 150 young !
women in New York are about to go
to school to learn plumbing, car
pentering and so forth. They seem to
be thoroughly in earnest. The promo
ters of the school obtained $50,000 and ;
the services of six teachers with j
scarcely any effort.
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make a little mistake in my grammar
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Quite the Thing.
“I toid you that if you came tcmor
row morning I would give you the
money for my wash. Why did you .
tome tonight ?’’)said Miss Philis to the
daughter of her laundress.
“I know you said tomorrow mom
in’.” responded the girl, "but me moth
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she was afraid you might be gone
away by tomorrow mornin'
"I certainly should not go without
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Just Like Other Men.
Most surgeons simply go way up in
the air when one of the world's great
ones is stricken. When Sir Frederic
Treves was called to operate on King
Edward he split him open as non
chalantly as if the king had been an
apple or a watermelon.—New York
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"Just my hard luck."
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