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SUBSTITUTE FIRST BASEMAN mniiinm imiiniinii Fred Luderus, who has been signed "Big Bear" Chance's place at the Initi al want to play. Luderus has shown well PHILADELPHIA AND CUBS 1910 CHAMPS? WISEACRES SELECT MACK AND CHANCE'S TEAMS TO WIN THE PENNANTS. DROP TIGERS AND PIRATES "Knowing Ones" Think Last Season's Winners Will Not Finish Above Second Place Baseball Dope Un certain McGraw Lauds Marquard. NATIONAL. Chicago, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, 8L Louis, Boston. AMERICAN. Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Washington. This Is the season 'hen the fan be gins to pick the probable winners of the races In the big baseball leagues and the foregoing Is a concensus of opinion as expressed by "experts" In cities where there are major league teams. ' It may be noted that Pittsburg Is placed In second position this year, most of those who expressed opinions believing the bad luck that kept Chi cago from winning the pennant in 1909 will not hit the Cubs in 1910. Frank Chance, manager of the Chicago club, la In good shape thus tar this season. Roger PecklnpaugH. and neither foot nor shoulder seems to be bothering him, as they did last year. With Fred Luderus as bis sub stitute Chance, the fans seem to think, has a fine opportunity of gathering In the laurels this year. I Detroit also Is shoved down to sec ond place by the 'knowing ones," who think Hughey , Jennings and his bunch have won their last champion ship tor the Wolverine metropolis. The tans believe Connie Mack will have the winner. There seems some reason tor placing Cincinnati in third llace in the National league, as Clark rtfnth has a likely bunch of young ers to sandwich in with his veterans his year. As to Cleveland, In the Imerican, It is bard to figure out how he 'Naps will beat out Boston. The Speed Boys" put up a rattling game tst year and should be better this eason. Cleveland has some new men iho promise well, among them Roger eckinpaugh. utility Inflelder. but the loston bunch wtll have something to mj about the result, and It would not ft. - . -SZZaS OF THE CHICAGO CUBS. by the former champions, will take sack whenever the manager doesn't in practice. be surprising to see them finish ahead of Cleveland. Reports from California have not been favorable to the Chicago Sox and although Comlskey has spent a large sum to get new material, the wise acres don't seem to have much con fidence in his team. The others are placed about as they finished last year and the dope on them seems to be better than that on; the teams that are expected to be in. the top division. Dope on baseball is1 more uncertain than that on the races, aad these selections may be put down as mere guess work at best. Manager McGraw made the rather surprising remark several days ago that he expects Rube Marquard to be one of his best winning pitchers dur ing the coming season. Since the training season . began Marquard has been kept very much in the background. He pitched In very few practice games, and has done comparatively little work of any kind on the side. "I think we worked Marquard most too hard last spring," explained Mc Graw. "And he was so anxious to make good that he overplayed his am bition. His first disappointment at not making good after having been talked about all over the .country as a $11, 000 player took the art out of him and his nerve to a certain extent went with it If we can get that $11,000 idea out of his head and make him pitch as naturally as he did at Indi anapolis, I think the Giants will have a most valuable man. "They may say what they please about Marquard," said McGraw. "But I know that he is a good pitcher. He has everything that a good, pitcher ought to" have, and no man could have done what he did before coming to New YorK without having been a good man." ivmiquaiu nas oeen worKlng on a curve similar to Matty's fadeaway ball,, the only difference being that it is thrown from-the port side. As it is perhaps well known, the fadeaway Is a slow curve thrown by right-hand ed pitchers. It breaks to the outside of the plate, and that is what makes the lade-away such a puzzle. Mar quard Is showing wonderful progress in developing the left-handed fade away, and If he ever sucoeeds in con trolling it so that ho can make it drop away from the batter, just as Matty's curve drops in toward the batter, he will have a wonderful puzzler. i u vjriauw camp is so entnusea over the unexpected pitching brilliancy of Parsons, the former star of Bucknell college, that the annual christening of new curve balls has become a fad. "They have their sneeze balls, their whiff balls, their sinker balls, their stop balls and all that line of stuff, says Catcher Robinson, "but I ain't kiddin' you when I say that this fellow Parsons has got a curve that Is ab solutely new to baseball. The only thing I can think of as a name for it would be the fish ball." It was thus recorded. Parsons has the "fish ball," and if anybody can stop that for a brand-new curve it's just like money in his hand. rv Parsons Is already known as "Slim1 and "Skinny." He is so tall that be has to low bridge on electric fans, and be is so thin that McGraw barred him from the hot baths, to prevent him from evaporating. Sunday ball In Capital? Hardly. Washington is aroused over a bill Introduced by Representative Coudrey of Mississippi, making Sunday base ball In the District of Columbia law ful. While there Is little chance of such a measure running the gauntlet, religious and civic bodies are holding ually meetings and planning an ener getic campaign against the proposed legislation. NAMING OF RAGE HORSES PERPLEXING TO TURFMEN OWNERS' WIVES AND DAUGHTERS SOMETIMES HAVE A VOICE IN THE SELECTIONS. The question of the naming of horses has always been a perplexing one to turfmen. Annually several-. thousand colts and fillies have to be1 named, and at that the jockey club re-' quires that names for these young-: sters must be filed for registration on March 1 of their two-year-old form.: For failure to comply with this rule it costs an owner $50 whenever he sends his youngster to the starting post. The jockey club also does not per mit the use of a name that has been registered within five years, but back of this period an owner can take any name for present use that is within the lids of the English and American record books. - Of late years none of the great stables has had the uniformity in names that marked the strings of the noted turfmen of days long since past and gone. The late Pierre Lorlllard bestowed on his great horses Indian names, such as Iroquois, Parole, Sac hem, Papoose, Pequot and Powhattan, while J. W. Hunt Reynolds, the noted Kentucky clubman, chose famous mu sicians and musical terms for names' for his most brilliant race horses, of which Falsetta, the sire of The Picket and Sir Huon, and Mendelssohn were a fair sample. Few stables have ever raced that were as fitly named as the horses once .owned by the late Charles Fleisch mann of Cincinnati, and his son, Ju lius, former mayor of the Queen city. .It has always been understood that Mrs. Julius Fleischmann performed this service for her father-in-law and husband. Some of the names she se lected were surely hard to beat. For instance, she called a colt out of Prom enade Stroller and Smart Set was picked out by her for a colt out of Fashionable. J. E. Madden has at times struck a few names that fitted as well as those selected by Mrs. Fleischmann, as above noted. For example, he named the produce of Blissful, Single Life, rather a grim selection at that,, as he was then soon to pass out of the mar ried state, and it was surely a stab at his divorced wife, now Annie Louise Bell. Good Luck as another bright name he selected, as that son of im ported Sandringham is out of Pocket piece, and Skillful, Jackful, Aceful and Witful, the get of imported Mirthful, were all well named. J. R. Keene has also struck It hap pily in naming some of the get of Ben Brush Birch Broom, Brush By and Sweep all being by that Subur ban handicap winner. The late Maj. B. G. Thomas once owned the stallion imported King Ban and he adopted the form of naming the get of that English horse with a Ban prefix, and Ban Fox, Ban Chief, Ban Hiniyar, and Banbridge, Banburg and others of their like are as a re sult recorded in the racing guides and the record books. Minnesota-Wisconsin League. At the annual meeting of the Min nesota-Wisconsin Baseball league at Red Wing, Red. Wing and Rochester, Minn., were admitted to membership. Strict indorsement of the $1,330 monthly salary limit was agreed upon, the number ' of players being limited to 12 for each club. Including mana ger. The league- this year will be composed of Duluth, Winona, Red Wing and Rochester In Minnesota, and Superior, Eau Claire. Wausau and La Crosse in Wisconsin. , Holdout Since 1907 Signs with Doves. The Boston National league base ball club has received the signed con tract of F. B. Joy, the Hawaiian. Joy was bought from San Francisco in 1907 by the Boston, club, but refused to report, having been a holdout all that time. Joy has been sent transpor tation and will join the Doves at Au gusta. Hinea, Doves' Catcher in 1882, Dies. Michael P. Hines, catcher for the Boston National league baseball club from 1882 to 1885, died several days ago in New Bedford. Conn. He was 45 years of age. W0LGAST BARS THE BLACKS. The new lightweight champion, after being challenged by Joe Gans, an nounced that he will fight no negroes. DOG KILLS BULL IN HOUR'S FIGHT CANINE- AND KING OF BOVINE HERD IN BATTLE TO DEATH. GETS FATAL GRIP ON THROAT Bulldog Skillfully Evades Mad Rushes of Larger Animal and Awaits Op portunity to Get His Favor ite Hold. Cheyenne, Wyo. After one of the most desperate battles ever fought be tween two animals, a bull dog killed a mad bull near here a lew days ago. The struggle lasted an hour. Both dog and bull belonged to A. B. Hawkins, who with other members of his family witnessed the desperate en counter. The animals had been together on the farm for some time and there was no thought of a battle between them. Hawkins was feeding his stock and the dog, as usual, was at his side. Among the cattle was a monster bull. The king of the bovine herd never had shown a tendency to be cross until the morning of the battle, when Hawkins struck him with a whip. This aroused the bull's fighting spirit and he charged the farmer. Hawkins escaped through the gate leading to the feed ing pen as the dog rushed to bis res cue. Snapping at the heels of the bull, the dog brought blood and turned the big beast from his intended prey just as Hawkins slammed the gate. Fearing the, fight would terminate fatally and not wanting to lose either animal, Hawkins attempted to call the dog off. Jack, the bulldog, had no in tention of giving up after once being charged by the bull, and he remained in the fray. With lowered head the bull bellowed hi . challenge and the dog stood await ing the attack. The bull rushed mad ly, but the dog' leaped aside. Again and again the bull tried to impale Jack on his horns or crush him against the ground. The dog skillfully eduded the charges of the enraged bull. ( Growing more furious as each charge failed, the bull tore at the brave dog with roars of anger. Other animals in the herd took up the chal lenge, but still Jack stood his ground. By this time, other members of the family bad reached the scene. The children wept, fearing their pet dog would be trampled to death. Jack knew his business, however, and paid no attention to the commands of Haw kins and the others. Once a horn struck him lightly on the side. Then the dog charged. He grabbed the bull near the jaw, but the great animal shook him off. A great piece of the bull's flesh was firmly clutched in the dog's teeth. The taste of blood aroused the canine instinct for battle and tbe dog I'Jad again. Blood was flowing The Dog Skillfully Eluded the Bull's Charges. from the great wound in the bull's jaw and as he shook his head In rage .ue life fluid covered the dog. Crouching low; the dog awaited the bull's next attack. As the animal rushed, Jack sprang to meet the charge... This time his teeth reached th- proper spot. Into the throat of his huge foe the dog1 sank bis tangs. With a growl, the first sound lie bad uttered during the fierce encounter. Jack hung on. All efforts on the part of the bull to shake the dog off were futile. Tbe bull reared, lifting Jack from the ground. The master of the herd tried to paw the dog off. but It was useless. JacK had a death bold and knew It. Commands of the master and tbe little playmates were alike unheeded. The dog was there to fight to the death and nothing less than the bull's lifj would satisfy him. The attempts of the bull to'shakv off the dog grew weaker and weaker, and finally the big animal sank to his knees. Jack held on. Then the ' bull rolled over on bis side. ; Blood was flowing in a stream. The dog was nearly choked, but be would not let go. At last with a shud der the bull gave up and Hawkins rushed Into the pen. With great difli culty he pried open tbe jaws of the dor- The bull was dead. CHOOSE YOUNG MEN 1 CHANGE IN POLICY OF RAILROAD DIRECTORS. Veterans Are Being Superseded and a New Generation Has Arisen The "Youngsters" 'Seem to Be Making Good. This Is the day of the young man In the railroad profession. Recent . changes In the executive organi zation of several of the leading western railroads and they have been far more fre quent during the last few months than usual have demonstrated this conclusively. Taking no ac count for the present of the causes which have led so many of the principal railroad systems to reorganize the personnel of their executive officers, one prominent ten dency has been manifest throughout The old war horses of the railroad game, who have spent their lives in the service, and who by their ef forts have made the American trans portation system what it is, as Veil as having been' responsible in a meas ure for what it is not, have stepped aside, and their places have been filled with men of lesser years, just as the battle scarred furniture of their sanctums has been replaced with new mahogany. And the new men seem to be ma king good, as far as can be Judged from tbe achievements of those whose promotion to leadership has not been of too recent date. No one Is claim ing that they are made of better tim ber than their predecessors, but they seem to be able to arrive sooner. , They have bad opportunities for education, , not always school educa tion, but access to tbe Ideas of others not possessed by the pioneers, each of whom had to blaze his own trail without the guidance of custom or precedent, and often without knowl- 'edge of what his fellow . workers in the same lines of endeavor were do ing or bad already accomplished. Another characteristic is noticeable In the new officers as in the new fur niture. They seem to be smoother, more polished and brilliant, and much of their trainine has been along the lines of diplomacy. The "public be damned" theory ; is not dead.,, but where it exists the theorists who still hold to it are wise enough to keep it buried as deep as possible. Where the previous generation of rail road chiefs was wont to get what It wanted or thought it ought to have by any means that offered, and while It had not time for palavering in an emergency, the newer set of railroad officials proceeds along different lines, preferring to gain its ends by co-operation with the public' and by less strenuous methods. Chicago Tribune. V RAILROADING IN THE ANDES American Engineers and Conductors, But They Don't Stick to Jobs for Long Periods. v - Archer Harman. president of 1 the Guayaquil & Quito railroad, returned from Ecuador to New York and re ported to Ned York great progress in the building of the road, 300 miles of which was completed in 1909 The road connects Guayaquil on the coast of Quito, the capital, on the Andes plateau. It is one of the tallest jobs in railroading that has been attempt ed. The elevation at Cotopaxi pass Is 12,500 feet. Most of the engineers and conductors are Americans, but they do not stay long In the employ, ment of the company, being of a ro ving disposition. Their, places after they think they have made enough money to go wandering again, are filled by other rovers. About ' nine tenths of the workers on the road out side of the engineers and conductors are natives. The speed of trains on the plains is sometimes between 40 and 50 miles, and lnthe passes about 12 miles. , Has "Fresh Air" Cars. - The Erie railroad has provided one car In some of its suburban trains for those who object to the steam heat and stuffy atmosphere of the regular cars. The cars carry signs reading "Fresh Air," and are started out with the doors, ventilators and alternate side windows wide open. Any person riding in these cars is privileged to close the window next to him, but has no right to insist on tbe closing of other ventilation openings. The will of the majority of those who ride in the cars will control the turning on of the steam, which may be wanted in very cold weather. Those who find the cars too cold can always move to other cars in the trains. This, It Is considered, is a novel but sensible way of solving the vexatious prob lem of heating and ventilating cars. To Learn American Methods. One of the big Brazilian railroads has just perfected a plan by which It will send four of its mechanics to the United States every six months and put them at work in some or our big railroad shops so that they may be- come familiar with American meth I -kIs. wins high position E. O. McCormick. The appointment of two vice-presidents of the Southern Pacific railroad E. O. McCormick of Chicago and William F. Herrin of San Francisco, has been announced. - Both have their headquarters In' San Francisco, ac cording to a Chicago dispatch. Mr. McCormick has been in Chi cago since 1904, as assistant director of traffic of the Southern and , Union Pacific, under J. C. Stubbs. He came to Chicago from San Francisco, where, he ' had been passenger traffic man-! ager of the Southern Pacific for aj number of years. His elevation - to; the vice-presidency of the road wasi greeted with many expressions ofj pleasure by those of his associates in, the railroad world who heard of It; As vice-president of the. Southern! Pacific Mr. McCormick will have suJ pervision of all the traffic, both pas-. senger and freight, on the Pacific sys tem.' embracing the lines in California, Arizona, New Mexico,- Nevada. Utah , and Oregon, and will report to tbe di- rector of traffic, Mr. Stubbs. . .- . Mr. McCormick began his railroad career in 1878, in the general offices , of the Lake. Erie & Western at La fayette, Ind. Later he was employed in the freight department of the . Monon road at the same place. In 1889 he was appointed general passe-ger agent of the Cincinnati, Hamil ton & Dayton, where be remained for 14 years, leaving to become passenger traffic manager of the Big Four at Cin cinnati. ", Six years later he attracted the at tention ,of E. H. Harrfanari. and wa3 sent by him to San Francisco as pas senger traffic manager f the South ern Pacific. Since then he bas been constantly with the Harriman ' lines. coming to Chicago in 1904 as assistant traffic director of the -Union Pacific, Oregon Short line, ' Oregon Railway and Navigation Company ' and the Southern Pacific system. '.' Mr. Herrin, also made a vice-presU-dent, will - have supervision of the, legal and land departments and the corporate , organizations ' of the x."a cific systems, , and qhe financial busii ness of the company in California, and will report to the president. ' ATTORNEY JN ODD POSITION Employed to Sue Railroad Company First for Whistling and Then for Not Whistling. 1 On a trip one, day in Kansas, Stew art Taylor. Kansas ityjattprney ran across "Joe" Waters, a Topeka lawyer, at Alma. 'What are you-doing here?" Tay-f lor asked. 'Well, I've got a couple qf suits against the Santa Fe," the Topeka man, who is a brother of L. H. Wa- i ters of Kansas City.answered.; "J'm going to collect damages from the road once tor whistling and once for not whistling." ... - ' , "I don't quite get that," Taylor said. "Well, It's this . way. There's an . en gineer on this run who used to court a girl in this town. His suit didn't prosper s somehow, the girl : choosing to remain a maid. She owns a little place on the outskirts of the town, close to the railroad tracks, and lives there. It seems his rejection stirred up the acid in the engineer's dispo sition, and every' time be takes his; train past the house of bis former! sweetheart he lets a shriek out of the whistle. Sometimes he'd even stop the train to prolong it until he could! feel sure she had a headache. She stood It until she was a nervous wreck and then sued the railroad for. damages. "The other suit against the road; concerns the same engineer.' He, must have been saving up his steam) to let off in front of the bouse of his spite, because he neglected to blow5 the whistle one day when he' ar prdached a crossing just outside of town here and ran down a farmer's; wagon, killing a horse. The owner brought suit and gave me the case;! so here I am to make the company! pay for whistling and ' fcr not whistling." -Buggy Caught on Engine. When ,the buggy in which Mrs. Myr tle Lortda, , her four-year-old son Ralph, and a .farm hand were riding was struck by a fast Chicago A Alton passenger train at Whitehall, 111., the buggy with Its occupants was torn loose from the horse and was carried on the pilot of the engine for a quar ter of a mile. In the strange ride Mrs. Lurton's skull was fractured. The boy and ' . the farm hand escaped unhurt. The , wrecked buggy had held to the .pilot j until the train was stopped. Then It - slipped off; before the tram crew 1 could run to the front of the engine. V 7
