National League Buys In Fielder Al Baird From Giants
The National League purchased infielder Al Baird from the Giants. He is a promising youngster and is expected to return to McGraw before the end of another season. Also notes that four world championship managers Pat Moran John McGraw George Stallings and Fred Clacke were seen at a gathering drinking water. The Giants and Red Sox plan another spring series and Jack Coombs may join Frank Navin to discuss Tiger pitcher duties. The NL meeting was harmonious. In Cambridge December 9 diplomat telegrams from Harvard evacuees surface urging reconsideration of canceling the Crimson football trip to Pasadena as faculty and athletic committee prepare to meet.
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National League
al Baird
Giants
McGraw
Pat Moran
John McGraw
George Stallings
Fred Clacke
Hed Sox
Jack Coombs
Phillies
Athletics
Frank Navin
Tigers
Navin
Coombs
Tiger
Peacock Alley
Cambridge
Harvard
Pasadena
Peace hoped as American League talks begin in New York
New York December 9 peace seemed near in the American League as Ban Johnson and five allies from Washington Philadelphia Cleveland Detroit and St Louis arrived to meet insurgents from New York Chicago and Boston. Both sides voiced willingness to meet halfway and settle through league meetings while the Mays case looms in civil courts. Johnson emphasized a peaceful adjustment and noted Yankees third place and Mays case details would be clarified at the meeting.
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W. Fitzgerald
New York
Ban Johnson
Washington
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Detroit
St. Louis
Clita
Chicago
Boston
Ban
Col. Ruppert
Yankees
Johnson
Carl Mays
Tonlebe
Lkely
American League
Ruppert
Mays
Yankee
Red Sox
Big Ban
Beligerency
Holland House
Harvard Lests Centre on Hard Grid Schedule
Incomplete 1920s style schedule list shows Notre Dame and others with dates and locations to be confirmed. Pending headers reference multiple teams including Virginia Princeton Brown Yale with events in New Haven and surrounding venues.
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West
Notre Dame University
Accote Weed
Notre Dame
Wilceme
Centre
Virginia
Princeton
Brown
Yale
New Haven
Baseball magnates hammer peace pact amid league chaos
Johnson and Jim Dunn attend a directors meeting as factions seek to patch league trouble. Griffith and Ben Minor of the Washington club, Ben Shibe and Connie Mack of the Athletics, Phil Ball of the Browns, Jim Dunn of the Indians, and Frank Navin of the Tigers accompanied Johnson. Trades are discussed but none occur at the NL gathering, with Washington likely to figure in upcoming deals while the minors face a draft restoration delay pending legal advice.
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Johnson
Jim Dunn
Comiskey
Fraser
Ruppert
Athletics
Phil Ball
Browns
Indians
Frank Navin
Tigers
Griffith
Washington
Heydler
National League
Baltimore Federals
154-Game Schedule Favored By NS Directors Elected
New York Dec 9 The annual meeting of the Nationa pences and regular meeting the club owners ended with a new board: Stoneham Grant Drayfuns and Veeck. Two Western and two Eastern clubs will be represented each year. Maj Branch Rickey attended as talks over next season. A tampering fine of 1000 and possible expulsion for repeat offenses was adopted. A 154 game schedule for 1920 opening Apr 14 was approved in principle pending American League approval.
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New York
Nationa Pences
Heydier
Bart
Messrs. Stoneham
Grant
Boston
Drayfuns
Pittshurgh
Veeck
Chicago
Maj
Branch Rickey
St Louis
Giants Cannot Buy Hornsby Says Rickey
At the National League meeting rumors swirled about Roger Hornsby from St Louis to New York. Branch Rickey declared no money in the league could buy Hornsby, amid reports John J. McGraw offered a record price. Budgets were also cited for Harold Elliott and Ernest Kruger’s return to Brooklyn.
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Roger Hornsby
St. Louis
New York Club
Rickey
National League
Hornsby
Manger Johnh
McGraw
Carl Mays
New York Americans
Ebbets
Brooklyn
Harold Elliott
Chicago Cubs
Oakland, Calif
Ernest Kruger
A Jingle on Baseball Foresight and the Little Guy
A 1914 verse by George J. Moriarty argues that talent beats size in baseball with Wee Lefty Kerr as a symbol for pitching science. It asserts small players can be as valuable as giants and mocks the notion that little men are doomed to fail.
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Wee Lefty Kerr
Giants
Atlantic
George J. Moriarty
Dempsey Carpentier Bout Bid Anchors Between Currencies
Roundup notes Dempsey and Carpentier weigh options for a heavyweight title fight in Europe or the United States as franc and pound values shift. It cites possible purses under $200,000 and debates whether to accept foreign or American bids. Also discusses Leonard, O Dowd, Moha and overall boxing talent and rules.
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Jack Kearns
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
Georges Carpentier
England
France
Jacks
Carpentier
Willard
All Cotters
United States
Leonsei
Western and Tech cross country meet schedules announced
Scholastic notes detail Western and Tech hosting a two mile cross country race with eight boys per school, featuring Johnny Gross from Manual Training. Also listed are Westerns basketball plans against Georgetown Prep, Runyon Tindell named Western midgets captain, Eastern opening basketball tonight vs Friends School, and Central facing Mount St. Josephs next Tuesday with Coach Matsler expected to start Newby Cummins Wood Lemon Hillman. Auburn football team to travel outside SIAC bounds to play Washington and Lee in Birmingham on November 13.
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Western
Tech
Johnny Gross
Georgetown
Eastern
Friends School
Capitol Hill Five
McQuade
Briggs
Mount St. Josephs
Baltimore
Central
Matsler
Newby
Cummins, Wood, Lemon and Hillman
Donald Childress
Childress
Edward Buckley
Montgomery
Ala
Auburn
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Washington and Lee University
Birmingham
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