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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1912
Page
7
Physical Director H E Marriott indicates volley ball is rising in YMCA interest and a new league for older men will form by mid December. Business class players meet at 5 30 pm and six to seven per team will compete after class. Rhythmical gymnastics class, now the largest senior group, will report next Thursday at 8 15 pm.
New York reports baseball men move to elect a National League president. Thomas J. Lynch appears favored after a recent meeting backed his administration, while rivals like Robert W. Brown hold back unless assured of victory.
New York December reports that Roger Bresnahan sues St. Louis for 40000 under his contract and may join Pittsburg as a bar advisor. Inter league plans for 64 games spark hope, with discussion of a joint major league meeting and schedule adoption.
Fielder Jones former leader of the Chicago American League club arrived in Chicago for the American League meeting called for Wednesday. He has been mentioned as a possible head for the New York American League team and is expected to confer with AL owners during the gathering.
Larry Brown a veteran college athlete who led the Anniston Southeastern League club has reportedly been offered a position with the Mobile Southern League team. He formerly played for Auburn and Alabama Presbyterian College at Anniston and may accept if he does not manage a Southeastern League team during its reorganization. The next Southeastern League is to include Anniston Gadsden Rome Bessemer and two other sites with Talladega likely among them. The league plans a more conservative Class D structure.
A report that Harry Payne Whitney would quit polo and sell his ponies was denied. Whitney will again captain the American team when it begins its bid to defend the cup against British poloists next spring.
Hendrix of Pittsburg tops the National League with 24 wins and 9 losses and a .727 winning percentage. Cheney of Chicago trails with 26 wins and 10 losses. Giants dominate the top nine, with Tesreau Marquard Ames ranking third to fifth. Mathewson and Crandall follow, while Rucker leads shutouts with six. Teavler’s table shows Rucker third in runs allowed per game at 2.20. Alexander of Philadelphia totals 195 strikeouts, a season best.
George Horine promises to press the AAU for official recognition of his world record high jump 6 feet 7 inches, achieved during Olympic team tryouts on Long Island. He contests officials who say the jump failed to meet rules while others present reportedly approved it.
Albert S. Gillett 94 founder and for sixty five years president of the Girard Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia died in Washington last night He had lived in Washington nineteen years while keeping business links to Philadelphia
In Madison Square Garden the Twentieth annual six day bicycle race reached the end of the eighth hour with fifteen teams totaling 189 miles three laps, beating the 1910 record by Hehir and Goullet. All riders were in good condition. Marcel Beichet skidded but recovered without injury.
In Los Angeles on December 3, Jim Mlynn and Luther McCarty, contenders for the white heavyweight crown, prepared for a Vernon arena bout tomorrow night. McCarty, once a small favorite at 10 to 8, is now even with Flynn. McCarty weighs about 200 pounds while Flynn is around 155.
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