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BASEBALL SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BOXjNG FRAT EXPELS PRENDERGAST ED WALSH LEAVES WHITE SOX By Mark Shields Mike Prendergast, Cub pitcher, as 'hard working and earnest a young man as ever threw a baseball, has bee"n suspended by the Baseball Players' Fraternity for signing a contract for 1917. Which means less than nothing to Mike. He received $1,500 in 1916 for pitching far better "ball than some people who were giv en four times his salary. Now Mike is to get $3,000, and he gets the 100 per cent increase solely through his own efforts. Mike resigned from the fraternity 'when he signed his 1917 contract "He owes the athletes' organization do great loyalty. When he was in the organized minors the fraternity .protected him, but when he, became' a Fed it lost interest, for Fultz and lis followers did not favor the third league, the one factor that more than anything else served to raise players' salaries. Not disapproving of all the. aims of the fraternity, we find it hard to fig ure where Prendergast has been dis gracefully disloyal. Mike is making his own way on the strength of his good right arm and did exactly right to sign. Ed Walsh is no longer a member of the White Sox ball club. There is food for discussion among South Side fans, among whom the Big Reel 'has been a hero for many seasons. His aame is not on the reserve list of the Rowlandites, issued yesterday ly the American league. What Walsh's future 'shall be is IstDl undecided. Ed has been men-Itioned- as a possible magnate in the Western league and it Is certain he l can have the backing for such a ven jture any time he wishes to risk it. JHis pitching days are through, but j& . .flaa .had good schooling and should do well with the smaller fry as a developer of big league material. A minor club handled by Walsh would be an excellent farm for the White Sox. On the trip of the Cubs to the Pa cific coast the baseball writers are to have a valet, private working room and a motor to take them to and from the ball field. We shall leave comment on this to Charley IJryden, who just dotes on these frills. Bob Folwell has been fired as coach of the University of Pennsylvania football team, the faculty committee declining to give reasons for the ac tion, though declaring it is not be cause of salary demands. That thisact has been contem plated for some time is apparent from the statement of Walter Stef fen, former Maroon star, now can didate for alderman in the 23d -ward, that he was offered the job weeks ago, but failed to obtain a release from Carnegie Tech. Folwell made an excellent record with the material he had last fall and had instituted a coaching 'system that was just beginning to show re sults. He is generally regarded as, one of the best gridiron mentors in' the business. Now the Red and Blue must tart all' over again, and with not.much support from the out side football follower. Ed Sweeney and Pitcher Ray Keating have been released outright by the New York Yanks to Toledo. Sweeney played with the association club last season, but under an op-, tional agreement. It means a salary ' cut for Sweeney, who received $8,000 last year. Rollie Zeider, who wanted a re lease from the Cubs so he could take over a minor league club, has been blocked in that ambition by Manager Mitchell, who refuses to release Rol lie. This means Zeider .will act as' utility man in 1917. wH.nrfwajgy,, jfc.