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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1917
Page
11
A baseball problem from a minor East league play draws analysis as runners on first and second collide in a snap throw. The umpire rules only one man is out, clarifying the exemption on standing on base and the forced advance. The discussion highlights timing and base ownership under tagging rules.
Pop Geers, the veteran harness racing figure at sixty five, recovered after a July spill in Cleveland and returned last month to steer winning drives. Starting as Ed in 1800, he has earned well over a million in purses, with his best season in 1902 totaling 11370 dollars, earning him the status of the grand old man of the turf for his square dealings.
Dr. Laure Muller the Brazilian ambassador suggests that baseball games between northern and southern hemisphere players could foster goodwill among American republics. This idea follows Bishop Brent's claim that Moros in the Philippines have traded swords for baseball bats and others’ views that preachers’ cheerful shouts are heard worldwide. An all-American league might rival a Pan American Union in promoting peace and friendship, possibly expanding to an all-world league and spreading fair play as a path to universal peace.
Karl Keffer, Canada open champion in 1914 and Royal Ottawa Golf Club professional, has enlisted with Col. W. W. McLean's Ottawa battalion and will go overseas. A former Jekyll Island club professional, he is well known to New York amateurs and arrived at the Ottawa club in 1911.
Mordecai Brown, famed three fingered pitcher for Chicago National, is released after 13 major league seasons by club president Charles H. Weeghman. Weeghman offered help finding Brown a minor league manager berth. Brown, age 38, joined Chicago from St. Louis Nationals in 1904.
A collage of sports quips touches boxing gloves elastic rules and referees, golf’s weather edge and executives, tennis stars like Jun Simidzu, and baseball talk from Mathewson to Kauff. It notes boxing gloves for safety, US referees union, 1200 tennis players, and humorous jabs at team owners and managers.
Walter McCredie will coach the Oregon Agricultural College baseball team next spring after leading Portland Beavers to the Northwest conference title last season. UC beat the Coast championship contender California during the year. Phil Koerner will coach USC baseball starting January, returning from Los Angeles to lead the Trojans.
Atlanta dispatch profiles Robert Tyre Jones Jr. known as Little Bobby, detailing his dual devotion to studies and golf. Born March 17, 1903, in Atlanta, he learned golf at East Lake under Steward Maiden, first gained prominence in 1915, set East Lake course records, and by 1916 won multiple invitational titles including the Georgia championship, defeating rival Terry Adair in a famed battle.
Italian racer Dario Resta says he may quit racing at the Chicago speedway. Since its June 1915 opening he has earned over $60,000, about half the track’s total purses. His Chicago winnings include $27,250 last year and $12,000 in June this season.
Harvard plans to use an English racing shell for the Yale contest, with the shell built by a long time Oxford and Cambridge supplier arriving aboard the steamship Cambrian. Trials next spring will decide which boat carries the Crimson eight at New London.
A southern France baseball league is being planned once the war ends. Vicomte de la Panouse, president of a Monte Carlo sporting club, has contacted the New York Giants for information and Secretary John B. Foster has sent rule books and other essentials. A four or six club league is anticipated.
The Columbia Sportsmen's club forms in Columbia Pa with James T Sheckard as president Joseph J Lutz elected treasurer and M N Cleffer secretary The group plans joining United Sportsmen of Pennsylvania and seeks legal action to curb Lancaster County stream pollution.
A jumbled column notes Michigan arranging 18 rifle shoots, 2484 students in athletics, and various personalities like Bob Shawkey and R Norris Williams II. It mentions Canada could host White Sox and Indians games, Horace Fogel rumor, Kitty league revival plans, Des Moines hosting 1917 bowling, Christy Mathewson as Cincinnati manager, and broader sports gossip about racing, boxing, and football championships.
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