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LUDINGTON DAILY NEWSFOR COLD WEATHERTry OurWARM BEDDING(Also Stoves)home ournrTEPl;•BASE BALL CHATTERBy Hal SheridanSeven days have now passed by ginco 1 resolved a rcnoluto;•seeking to poison and pohito The thoughts now hurborcd In my mind.Of ought but goodness of the kind That starts white wings to upward shoot,•Siti«o I resolved n resolute.Oh demon, proud not, urge mo not back to my ways of ill repute. By nil tho powers of Zeus and men 1 call you now to scoot;For seven days I've stood the gaff,I *oldoni smile, and never laugh. Hut what, say I. does laughter boot Since I resolved a resolute.New York, Jan. lb—Having swelled up so often and allowed as how baseball is the Great Aetnrlcnu Game it would como along and gontly ease over the Intimation tlm't a few others nationalities in this broad universe are picking up hatting, pitching and base running. Down Jersey way they have records that the Long Branch team of the Now Jersey New York League won tho pennant. The Long Branch aggregation happens to be an all-Cuban east, mo there you lie.We are all more or less acquainted with one Sen or Mrtrsans, outfielder for the Cincinnati Hods, who is one of the lending exponents of tho game as it Is did in Cuba—and Cincinnati. Long Branch, however, is an incubator for Cuban baseball players for this country. Four members of this team were sold to Boston last foil. Next year there will ho'a new crop for the major league scouts to look over. Mam;/., a pitcher, who will perform do ring tho next healed period is said to bn a ring-dinger. The Long Branch management has already been offered *3,0iMi for him. but the offer was refused. After dangling before tho eyes of tho .Majors for a few month next year more money will probably bo offered.Dick Herlqnez. Captain and Manager of the 1«ong Branch team goes to Cuba every winter now. lie looks ’em over on tho Island while Long Branch is closed up and the summer resorters are hugging' Tadlutors. Then he bobs up in the Spring with a new bunch of Scours who wallop the pill all over the lot. Next year llennque/, expects to arrange a series of pre-season games with several of tho major league teams. Ills Cubans will report from the Island ready for business as they will have done their .spring training” around Havana. Fifteen new players are to be brought from Cuba next spring which augursmuch business oflooking thingsover by big league scouts.One thing about these Cuban players that Is not found in tho average America of the league teams Is ability and willingness to play several different positions. During (lie last season ten men including pitchers and catchers mi the Long Branch team played every game of the 120 in the league schedule. They shifted around and played different positions. When a pitcher wasn’t working in the box liewould take a place In tho outfield. Long Branch won 11m pennant by a margin of 22 games.This Long Branch leant has tlm distinction of playing ball before moro money than any other team in tho country considering the si/e lt;n tho crowds It draws. One day last summer fortunes estimated a! Sticn.-poo.noo were represent *al in (!u bores. Long Branch being a summer resort draws much money. The Gnggon-holiUB. Grcenhuts, Bradys and many other moneyed folks avo Included among the fans who root for tlio Cubans. Senator Smith, llu* Fleishman in and a score of others may also be found pulling for the Long Branch bunch. Whether they try to pronounce tho names of nil of Hie players i ‘-not on record.tallyThe MoatBy Mrs. J the iiosu-Umpire Bill JtSgler made a confession recently, lie told how he happened to become an umpire. Bigler was among the scores of those more or less wound up In hasr-hall who held down chairs in iVacod: Alley of the Waldorf during thr meeting of the National League.- It may he recalled that It. was during these lo-ated days that Brooklyn hough! Joe Tinker, or at least Charles Kblnls thoughi he did. But getting back to Bill and Ids confession. The lalo Charles I'ow-ors, sporting writer ef I'ilir.hurgl*. was responsible for Bigler's debut *, as a caller of balls and strikes. Pow crc. used to umpire gaums around I'it-tmibrgh. One day In 1 !•'•:: T sawrowers umpire a game.' 'said Bigler. It certainly looked easy. When the game was over I said to myself that If Powers could get real money for doing a job like: that, me for it. ! went right bac k to the machine shop where I was working and resigned. I have been umpiring over since.”In 17 Years of Fighting Ryan Took the Count But Once“A man is Judged by the company he keeps. goes an old adage that tin* assay shows contains more trulh tlu.it poetry. A modern fistic adaptation might say: A lighter is known bythe knockouts to his credit,” and Ike act of hitting the nail on the head would have been necgtpplishod. Fistic fans of today have little use tor tlm pug who spares llu* kayo, while the boy who finishes his adversary Is in constant demand in all localities where the game is tolerated or permitted.But few of the present crop of chamois mitt wlehlcrs seem to attach enough significance to tiic public demand. Many of them could stow away a goodly number of their opponents. if they would, blit they arc satisfied to dearly outpoint Hum. This may In* tlm humanitarian method. but it is not good business practice.Of the past masters who never lulled to put over tho deadening wallop when the opportunity presented. Tommy ityau. famous as a vu-ltor-wcight, has a record that should satisfy the most exacting kayo crank that over gazed through the ropes. Hyan. better known to ‘homo folks «s Joseph Youngs, was not it boxer of tho brutal type either but in* had science galore and touted a kick in either mitt that would have done credit to tho most versatile mule in Uncle Sam's army.-1 ltd professional battles, uan put over the Ini)mak-T -Id lime .. .Mis record covered a period of about if years during which lime In* hall led the* best brought before him. If all of his knockouts were i-uimn rated the list would cma at. Ic.isf a third mure.This is nuthorilie?' liKule, llu. diliicnlt.li rOur at] sutrlt;ir; / -uvf. tv fuls A’ (’ OXL i't'ale Cream tl gradually, the' flour ; to the laitl the milk . ♦Iic-c^g vi h 1MUS. Put following Nov..—Th W'uuiL-n s i:»mI‘ro.-;«l-7'-'1 :■ ).V ■ ri/ir-' o-./ , •Stir tin; sugai is «li stirring u: will spin a v.UiLsof 1 const icilyUvitinjf u: the fruit ai The K C sucli lt;MMm him! ii.4lry. ■ lay the.* rfilef KC ii.ihip C lil« s ’Jwoli HltlUlNYJten I; Coy. in* v.j a man us with mu* Both povn and (lever been tiitiii. fore Ah t’u ogics ever from I’.yai beiilou an-dctcrrniiuii before heItyon sipounds, physique ( wlu-n i'i ;play everv well I ultra dncii not i as It; an. spe.e.d.v an high dejrr and versa by hi’iiseli history e: Hyan ModIGirls! .B i Sofl, FTry us v of Us* tutor trace of • your ‘-calti pb-n.-se y,n wenks' II:. tine and d ly n i-iv I scalp.A !il»le doubles U di:i‘ei'etic(* serntrgy. Dauderinethr mf.li *•dried at medial.* a lie light. I liplietir.llie parable 1
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Ludington Daily News
Ludington, Michigan, US
Fri, Jan 09, 1914
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