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Newspaper
The Mobile Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1916
Page
10
The football rules committee in New York held its annual session to review minor amendments and proposals. Debates focused on player numbering on backs to help spectators identify players, with Harvard and Yale cited as objecting to mandatory numbers. They did not adopt abolishing the goal after a touchdown.
Varnadoe the well known mobile wrestler, will fight Erickson of Chicago known as The Terrible Swede for the middleweight belt in the Western states. Varnadoe trains to reach 158 pounds and the bout is to be catch-as-catch-can with no holds barred. Two preliminaries precede the main event with date to be named later.
Uncle Joe Hineman of Wausau Wisconsin aged 91 remains the oldest trap shooter. He recently celebrated a birthday with a perfect hundred and shoots without glasses at the traps, crediting Civil War years with his marksmanship. J B Williams of Louisville Gun Club at 80 is next in line in the Graybeard league.
Federal players prepare for a proving period in Dixie. The piece lists 1915 batting and fielding figures for players including Magee, KOONOtCHY, FROUBCH, MOTOS, ROO, Quden, ANGOTHON, BMamond, FPDNW, BENGlor, and Smith with their respective averages and fielding marks as organized baseball tests the new barrier era.
The Prichard base ball club reorganized on Wednesday night electing Sam Ross as manager for the coming season. Next Sunday at 2 30, they meet Gulf Shingle at Plateau for their first game. Lineup includes Berry catcher Brantley pitcher Ross first base Moore captain shortstop Boot Sanders second base R Sanders third base Sam Ross manager and right field Campbell center field Cramer left field Gus Dixon substitutes who will be out about a month due to illness.
The St Louis Americans released infielder James Walsh to Memphis while St Louis Nationals sent catcher Jack Roche to Little Rock. Cardinals released Hub Perdue and Arnold Hauser. Cleveland's AL club changed hands to a new corporation led by James C Dunn with Charles W Somers relinquishing control. Atlantic and Eastern baseball leagues organized with several clubs and schedules set. many player moves announced nationwide.
The fragment lists Joe Corbett planning a comeback with the Frisco Seals while noting boxing curiosities. It references Home Run Baker, carpenters, Arthur Pesky, and coaching tweaks, mixing baseball and boxing gossip with colorful asides about Willard, Lewis, Kauff, Cobb, and Willard’s Broadway ticket caper.
The report notes the player handled 181 chances in the outfield and at first base with consistency. He failed to get a hit in only two of his first twenty six games, marking a notable early stretch of contact and defense.
Ed Ruelbach formerly with the Chicago Nationals has been sold to the Pittsburgh Nationals. In a basketball game Brue led the Oaks to a win over St. Joseph's as Holmquist and Bailey starred for St. Joseph's, with dancing and a crowd-pleasing bag punching exhibition to conclude the evening.
John McGraw manager of the New York Giants under contract three Cuban players for potential stardom. Joe Rodriguez a young first baseman and Emelio Palermo a pitcher will be tested this season while Aragon an infielder may wait longer. Rodriguez starred at Long Branch last summer and batted .300 in the Cuban winter league. Palermo has International League experience. Aragon billed as a stronger infielder and hitter than Almeida who played for the Cincinnati Reds.
In Philadelphia Charles Ellis of Pittsburgh narrowed Alfredo de Oro's edge in the second block by scoring 62 points to reach 89 total while de Oro hit his second fifty. Seventy nine innings completed as the final block is set for Friday night.
The first contingent of New York Nationals left today for the Giants camp at Marlin Texas to begin spring practice on Monday. Manager John J McGraw is expected to meet the squad at Marlin and start them at work. About a dozen players made up the initial group.
The squad, headed by Christy Mathew and his son, includes veteran pitcher and other members traveling to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and other points. Recruits from across cities arrive to swell the team to about thirty eight men with much new material.
The state athletic commission announced that a clause was added to new boxing rules prohibiting any bout from starting after 11 15 p m The change follows complaints that many matches run past midnight and fail to finish promptly.
Ray Schalk, star AL catcher, faces a new rival. Walter Alexander, acquired by New York from Kansas City for 6500 last fall, pitched twenty five games with the Yanks, throwing fifty two heaves at stealers and nipping thirty one. Schalk played 134 contests, killing eighty six runners and missing seventy nine.
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