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'i 1 W I- -f 1 PAGE TEN. I, I, 1 SB 'Dictated His Own Terms be fore Agreeing to Accept the Presidency. New York, Dec. 1.—Governor John C. Teller, who has been prevailed up »n to accept the presidency of the National league, will be one of the iighest paid men in baseball. Al| though It has not been officially an lounced what his salary will be. it is leive ¥25,000 a year- He will be reive $26,002 a year. He will be ilected for a term of four ears at the [innual meeting of the league In this isily on December 9, but will not take I. ictive charge until the expiration of :iis term as governor of Pennsylvania, .n January, 1915. Heydier president Pro Hem. |1 Until that time John A. Heydier. tecretary of the league, will be the tcting president. It was reported when Governor Te ler was flrst approached with an of fer of the position that he gave the lub owners to understand that he would not consider a term of less than tour years, and that the salary would a&ve to be $25,000. According to the statement credited I to him in Philadelphia, Governor Te ller conferred with four of the ei?ht :lub presidents before leaving Harris Uurg, Pa., and that the other f-iur (Vere kept 'posted on the proceedings l»y long-distance telephone. He has {been assured that he will be unaci inously elected. Knows the Game Well. As long as the league decided that ft did not want to re-elect Thomas Itjynch, the present incumbent, it could not have done better than select ft man like Governor Tener. He knows 'baseball He played it, and has fol lowed it closely ever since resigning ':he playing end of it to younger men. That he i&l be the right man In tho right place, there can be no question' Dictated His Terms. He goes Into office with a leather iilready stuck in his cap. Of all the presidents of the National league, it is 'ft well known fact that none of them 2ias ever attempted to dictate to the (slub owners before accepting office, and if he did attempt to dictate after 'ward, that is about as far as it got, mid' all that it amounted to. But in this instance'it has been different- He Mdn*t seek the job, and when the fob nought him, he told them what he '•ranted, and they evidently are pre pared to "come 'across." LIGHTWEIGHTS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS San Francisco, Dec. 1.—Both Willie Ritchie and Harlem Tommy Murphy have got down to the hard grind of training for their scheduled twenty road clash here Dec. 10. Murphy is training at Ban Rafael and the cham pion is worldng out at Cohna. Betting on the contest opened Sat wrday afternoon at 10 to'8, with Hit chie on the long end- Betting -m-! miBsioners here thought this prmo would lengthen to 10 to 7 before the middle, of thi week. Ritchie expres--! ed hfs willingness to give Joe Rivers a return match provided the proper I Inducements aro offered. "All I wa.nt for such match is I $15,000," said. Ritchie. •'I wl!I light Rivers at T,an Angeles, if Promoter I McCarey i.n see his way clear to gi\e me :.that. much- Otherwise I shall re turn to New York and fight some of the eastern boys over the ten-round route." If You're Searching For an up-to-date restaurant, where you ,can depend upon securing the best food, properly prepared, you will thor onghly enjoy dining here. And it goes .. Without saying that you will be so ^rell pleased that you will want to come back again. .^plough's Dairy Lunch 'li' The Place With a Reputation. Cadet Ruetell's dothing Store. Ifcr OpwDar ui sight [Hank's Fortieth Day—He Thought Knobs Had 'Em CWNK SURE GAVE KVE INS. MOfT DOPE. MM£M HETOU) Mt TO BftMDMt HMR .tTOOSr ftBovrr MM MY COAT HAK&tM'Wnv MY f**E. HMUMt CU£tS I'll TAKE a UTTtE 8NOCK TILL. KMO&3 SM** IBB WU RECEIVE AN ENORMOUS COMMON AS NATIONAL HEAD IWILL MAKE AN ABLEHEOIfflE TttJUEE? flt QOIM' TO putf oom OK WK.f£ 9LC«IH' CHICAGO WRITERS TO THE FORE WITH THEIR AU-WESTERN ELEVENS Chicago, Dec. 1,—Walier Hckersali I in yesterday's Chicago Tribune an nor.nced the. following "all-western" elevens, including both conference I and outside teams: I Center, Des Jardien. Chicago. Guards, Allmendlnger. Michigan Lconardson, Michigan aggies. Tackles, Halligan, Nebraska But ler. Wisconsin Ends,. Rockne, Notre Dame: Solon, Minnesota. Quarterback. Dorais, Xotre Dame. Halfbacks, Xorgren, Chicago, (cap lain) Craig, Michigan. Fullback, Eichenlaub. Xotre Dame. M. J. Wathe.v OF the Record-Herald makes the following all-western selqc tions: Des Jardien. Chicago, center A1I mendinger, Michigan, guard Keeler, I "Wisconsin, guard Butler, Wisconsin, tackle Brown. South Dakota, tackle Solon, Minnesota, end Staaughnessv, Minnesota, end Dorais...Notre Dame, quarter Xorgren, Chicago, half Cragi Michigan, half Eichenlaub, Notre Dame. full. PROFESSHHHL IS ADHRED BY 111 New A.A.U. Head, Howev er, Says He Shoud Be Kept in His Place. New York, Dec. 1.—Alfred J. L.111, president of the Amateur Athletic tnion, has disclosed some very point ed views on the question of amateurs and professionals competing in meets under A. A. U,~ sanction. He said that he hoped he would never live to see the day when professionals and ama teurs participated in track or field events with A. A. V. approval. "1 have the greatest respect for a professional," said Mr. mi, "but he shoujd remain in his class.. The.trou ble arises when a professional mas querades as an amateur and tries to compete as such. I know that pro fessionals and amateurs meet in golf, cricket and even in horse-riding con tests, but the practice cannot be car ried out in track and field events un der A. A. U. sanction. am decidedly opposed to this and trust that the day may never come when this should come to pass." l/lka* International Game. i'he association's new boss tactfully branched off from the obnoxious sub ject of professional an.l amateur com petition to the far more pleasant topic of international sport. "I was extremely sorry that-Yale and Harvard couldn't send a team, of athletes over to England this vear to compete against Oxford," went on Mr. Ljll. "I believe tha-i international gawjcs are of the greatest benefit to «!frt here, and 1 hope that Tale and H.uvard iruty bp abivio .jsenJ -ov*r tvi,ri noxt year in take par' in a meet »'it.n oi of England's leading cot A^V 1 iV", 5orr}' th3t If- A vfi Er th? Amateur J,"ori is financially una.blo a' this lirntj to undertake anvthjng of this sort. Howrrer. think' that the games at the Panama, exposition, wiih the teams of many countries entered, will do much to 'foster the athletic competition between nations." Sees Growth in Athletics. *7°^ i?lerilaUor,aI Klines .the new A. A. U. head went on (b'tell of the tremendous growth in athletics since he was a boy,.. Mr. Lill said that he had-noticed'a rapid growtJt -in all branches of sport. Up New Eng land. his home district, sports were surely on the increase, certainly not on the wane. Any one who imagines that the American boy is suffering from phyi cal deterioration should ha\-e a one minute conversation with Mr. un He is positive that Uncle Sam's bovs are stronger and more athletic* now than ever. 'Many people believe that long dis tance racing is injurious to boy?," said Mr. I,ill. "Perhaps, in some cases it is, but do you know that every young ster who ran in our New Vugiand Marathon was closely examined when llnishing- and found to be in perfoct condition, notwithstanding the strain of running over twenty-flve miles." After all the boasting Johnny is very seldom on the spot. A baby's main resemblance to its parents is that it wants a good [can't have. deal it The fact remains that the child who I kicks up the biggest rum'iMis- eels I what it wants. FEW BASKEIBAIL CKTAVORED "Big Nine" Delegates See Successful Season Ahead for Great Indoor Sport Uueagco. Dec. 1 .—Basketball coaches, managers and officials of the conference colleges in session Satur day at the Auditorium hotel, patted themselves on the back after thev had taken a squint at the possibilities Tor the coming "Big Nine" season. The Western- leaders scheduled a huge program of contests and announced that the game would show an unpre cedented advance in development and popularity. Huteliins Elected President. Dr. C. P. Hutchins of the Univer I sit.v of Indiana was re-elected presi dent by athletic directors and man I agers of the Western Intercollegiate conference who completed their an nual meeting here Saturday night. Dr. L. J. Cooke of the University of Minnesota was re-elected secretary. They will serve two years. The basketball schedule for thc-ap proaching season was adopted and a post season game between the con ference champion and the eastern [champion was recommended.. The Western conference schedule will close March. 10 and the intersectional I game trould be played a few days aft er this to that players need not be kept in training too long. The proposal for a game with the' best five in the east will be submit ted to the members of the faculty' committee of the conference who will meet here next Saturday. Their rul ing will be final. The last intersectional basketball game played by a Big.Nine team was in 1908 when Chicago defeated Penn sylvania. The basketball experts, led by Dr. C. P. Hutchins. director of athletics at Indiana university, made out their lists after a picnic supper in the meet ing room and then took part in an in formal discussion of the current rules. Only minor changes were recommend ed. The coaches spoke in favor of the long passing game typical of Western championship teams and de plored the tendency to roughness in other sections of the country. IS Anxiously Seeks Admission to "Big Nine"—Consider the Petition Saturday. Chicago, Dec. 1.—The University of Nebraska's application for admission to the western conference is to be act ed on at a meeting of the "Big Nine" authorities here next Saturday. Rep resentatives of the conference colleges were generally reticent regarding the probable action in the case but oppo sition to the enlargement of the or ganization on the ground that it is un weildl.v, is known in exist, and was presented as a formidable argument when the addition of Nebraska and Michigan were informally discussed at the meeting at Madison last spring. Geographically, It was argued, Ne braska is an athletic rival to Iowa and Minnesota, but hardly of Ohio ,«tate. Home followers of the conference fortunes predict a division not long henre on geopraphical lines, and a re aUgment. of the schools in the central states. Coach Stiehm of Nebraska, who represented his college here, will try in any event to procure athletics*-dates with conference teams, and agreej to entertain the Minnesota track squad in a dual meet at Lincoln May-23. All hope for a post-season football game between the C.ornhuskers and Notre Dame was given up when Coach Harper announced that the South Bend men had broken training. The re-engagement of John Mahan as track coach at Purdue, was an nounced here today. THIRTEEN HUNTERS KILLED IN MAINE Boston, Dec. 1.—The killing of 6, 1S0 deer in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts this fall cost the lives of thirteen persons and serious injury to seventy-two others. The deer season closed in Massachu setts a week ago and will end in Ver mont today, but hunters in Muine and New Hampshire have two weeks left in which to traick their quarry. Maine leads the northern New Eng land states in the number of fatalities. Of the eleven persons killed in that state, four were: mistaken for deer, six were killed by the accidental dis charge of heir- own wen pons, and a little girl was accidentally sh,t. by an elder brother who was cleanlnit a rifle. .• -*,w j'.: CUE** ru_^« A. COOK. AHO IMQSS 1% COfMN' A PAGE FROM THE WORK OF SPORTDOM Top, Percy .IK Haughton (left) and Alonap S«ia. Bottom, Ficfdtnc H. Yost.'-' Percy Haughton, Fielding H. Yost, Alonzo Stagg—these are names to conjure with in the football world this year, for these are the coaches who have enjoyed the greatest measure of success in the football season just closed. Haughton made Harvard tne undisputed champion, in the east Stagg's Midway eleven easily won tne western conference championship, while Yost built up a machine at Michigan similar. to those which in other years made him famous. Praises are being sung for these men, and undoubtedly they are great generals. Probably they are the best coaches in the country—with the ex ception of Glen Warner of Carlisle, who deserves equal credit. Even so, they do not deserve all the credit—the individual players should not be tor gotten. Yost is no better coach this year than he was last season or the sea son before. Probably he was as good last year as he was ten years ago, when Michigan was thrilling the sport world with wonderful gridiron victoiries. Yet from 1906 up to the beginning of last season Michigan's position in football was only medi ocre: Yost lacked the football mar vels who in 1901-2-3-4 made the U. of M. feared throughout the west. Without material he could do little. New York, Dec. 1.—Although the football season of'1913 ended officially with the playing of the army-navy game here Saturday, the leading coaches, players and'authorities sus tain gridiron interest'during the early days of December by selecting all Arnerican all-sccUorial teams* Many of. me coaches follow every action of pupil and opponent during the season with the idea of an vail** team always in mind and the flrst fruits of their oiiesrvatlons are already available. While several of the leading grid iron instructors and. authorities are still puzzling over the problem the majority, having confined their choice to eastern combinations, the all-east ern eleven by earjy consensus of opinion, appears to' be as follows: jLeft End—Hogsett,' Dartmouth. Left Tackle—Tallbott, YaJe. Left Guard—Ketcham, Yale. Center—Marting, Yale. Right Guard—Pennock, Harvard. Right Tackle—Ballin, Princeton. Right End—Gilchrist, Navy. Quarterback—Wilson, Yale. Left Halfback—Mahan, Harvard.. Right Halfback—'-Guyon, Carlisle. Fullback—Brickley, Harvard. In the western' football territory, which includes Ohio State- on the east extremity and the University of Ne braska on the other, end the consensus of opinion is that the section named has developed this fall some of the greatest players it has ever known. Critics generally award Fichenlaub, the Notre Dame fullback, his posi tion. There i.v hiirdly a dissenting I voice as to him. t-'faig of Michigan and Norgren of Chicago, were given the halfback places and although v\ YOST, STAGG AND HAUGHTON PILOT SEASON'S LEADING GRIDIRON TEAMS -sm isjf- "v v.-TO', .* 4 »\?,c«*is, »v* ©w -l 1 THE EVENING TIMES, GRAND FORKS, N. P. V4 MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1915. Wr. -V- This year some splendid material was on the squad, and a powerful team was the result. Stagg is another example. Chi" cago ranked with Michigan ten years ago when Eckersoll, the famous drop kicker, and others of his kind wore Maroon uniforms. But with the graduation of stars, and no others to take their places, Chicago sank. back. Yet Stagg was just as good a coach. This year he had the material again and he made a winning team.. Football records at Yale, Wiscon sin and other schools prove that the coach doesn't deserve all the glory, that a fair share of it belongs to the players themselves. TEAMS SIR MEREST Early Days of December Sees Football Guesses—-South Dakotan Given Place on A11-Western—All American Choices Largely Confined to the East. .keener rivalry was felt for the quar terback position, the ability of Dorais, of Notre Dame to run the team and his expertness as a dropkicker seem to make him the favorite. Solon of Minnesota is given one end almost unanimously. His experience and ability were' considered as mak ing him excel all other .wing men "In the central states, though Rockne, the Notre Dame captain, was pro nounced nearly as good. Miller and Henntng of the Michigan aggies and Cherry of Ohio State were Rivals with Huntington, of Chicago,. the last, nam ed for his clever work in the Wis consin game.. Butler, Wisconsin's all American tackle, is generally selected for tackle on the all-Western, but there is a Wide difference among the critics as to his running mate. Brown of .South Da kota was considered available by some, but others wavered between Pontius of Michigan, Skull of Chicago and Halligan of Nebraska and Kirk of Iowa, Allmendlnger of Michigan and Kee ler of Wisconsin have earned promi nent positions as guards. Others mentioned are Gallagher, Missouri Harrison of Chicago, ,Routh of "Pur due, Gel8eman of Ohio State .and Leonardson of the Michigan aggies. Des Jardien, the Chicago center, ap parently is considered by most experts the best man playing the position. Since, the days when (fchultz starred at Ann Arbor, it to stated there hag been no center of Des Jard ten's cali ber. Des Jardlen's capacity for hard work in the line, his ability to cover ground and. tapl£le~dn the open field and his good head work .puts him in a class by himself other pivot men who gain mention are Glosson of Purdue, Patterson ot. Michigan. Houghton of i:h Iowa, Feeney of Notra Dame and Robertson of Minnesota.' The all-Western eleven therefore would read about as follows Ends—Solon, Minnesota and Rock ne, Notre Dame tackles, Butler, Wis consin, and Brown, South Dakota: guards. Allmendlnger, Michigan, and Keeler, Wisconsin center, Des Jar dien, Chicago quarterback, Dorais, Notre Dame halfbacks, Craig. Michi gan and Norgren, Chicago fullback, Eichenlaub, Notre Dame. ST. PAUL SPORT WRITER SELECTS WE-COllEGE ELEVEN FOR MINNESOTA Earl Craven, a St. Paul Dispatch sport writer, makes the following se lections for flrst and second all-Min nesota college elevens: First Team. Timm, Hamllne, le Vasseau, St. Thomas, It Larson. Hamllne, lg( xBaldwin, Macalester, Welshons, Carleton, rg Fishback, Carleton, rt Larson, Carleton, re Culligan, St. Thomas, qb Ward. St. Thomae, rhb Gillott, Carleton, lhb Markley, Carle to xSweitzer of Hamllne would have been given this place, but for his re cent deaih. Second Team. Allison, Carleton, le Anderson, Macalester, It La Bissoniere, St. Thomas, lg Graham, St. Thomas, Hunt, Macalester, rg Meyers. St. Thomas, rt Oppegard, Hamllne, re Lee, Carleton, qb McCallum, Macal ester. lhb Day, Carleton, rhb Guth rle, Macalester, fb. HUBERT HOLDS Official Figures Give Him First Place in the Amer ican League. New York, Dec. 1.—Jake Daubert, Brooklyn's star first baseman, is tne National league's champion batsman for the season of 1913. The official batting averages made public today snow him third on the list with an average of 3S0 in 139 games. Of the two men' nominally outranking him, however, one, Yingling of Brooklyn, is a pitcher, and took part in but forty games, while the other, Charles Mc^ Donald of Boston who played in but about half the season's games, is no longer a major leaguer, having been released to an International league team before the close of the season. Yingling, the top man, batted .383 and McDonald .356: Cravath of Philadelphia is second among the regulars who played in *,» ,,' .' •.. hk. 7.!* "i EfFOfiTS TO MANAGE CfftCWAIl UBS COS! JOE MR H6 JOB 100 or. more games, batting .341, and he also led the league In home runs with 19 to his credit. His team mate, Lu de.rus, was a close second in home run making, having hammered out 18 for the circuit. In stolen bases Carey of Pittsburg is the leader with Heine: Zimmerman of Chicago who led the league in batting last year with an. average of .372, is fourteenth on this year's list with a mark of .313. The champion Giants got but one reg ular, Meyer with .312 in the select .300 class, although Arthur Fletcher wai close to tne mark with .297. The veteran Honus Wagner put to his credit the record of having gone through seventeen consecutive sea son* with a mark of .300 or better, Jtist making the even. .300 this year. Of the player managers. Tinker of Cincinnati leads with .317, standing eleventh on the league's list, the oth •5™ be'ng Evers of Chicago, fortieth with 286, Huggins of St Louis 41st with the same mark and Dooln of Philadelphia 84th with .256. The New Yorks lead In club batting with .372, St Louis being last with .247. COOMBS OUT OF HOSPITAL TODAY Philadelphia. Dee. l. "Jack" Coombs, the Philadelphia American league clubs pitcher who has been a patient in a local hospital before the worlds series last October. left the institution today. He will remain in this city for about three weeks before undertaking the Journey to his home •tt JC&10£# Coombs contracted typhoid of the spine during last spring's training sea. son. After convalescing at his home he attempted to get in the game "ear the end of the season, but suffered* relapse. Coomb* expects to' be. In shape to join the Athletics next year. Would Round Out Infield for Wilbert Robinson— O'Day's Splurge Recsflled (By Damon Runyon in New York American.) As near as we can determine from this distance, the trouble with Joe Tinker as manager of the Cincinnati Reds was that he wanted to be man ager of the Reds, which is manifestly an absurd desire, on the. part ..of .a manager of the Reds. It begins to look aB if these man agers of. the Reds will -ite*6r learn anything) and you cannot blame, Gar ryloug Herrmann and his associates if they are feeling a bit discouraged. Why any one should mant to man age the Reds in the" firtt' place is nei ther here nor there, :but the fact re mains that no sooner do the owners of the Red's employ' an apparently safe and sane manager than he the ridiculous idea that" he must man age the Reds. It is said that-some managers of the Reds in the. past have even Wanted to give order's t» the Reds, but such managers seldom lasted very long. The dismissal of Josephus is rather opportune at that, as it will serve to space out the. next, few weeks with speculation as to his unfortunate suc cessor. Coming at a. time when. even Charley Ebbets had crossed himself by inadvertently naming his manager before April 1," it will give Roger Bresnahan, Tommy Leach and Fielder Jones, and all the other well-known, members of the Amalgamated Asso ciation of Prospective Managers, chance to ease themselves back into the public prints. It's a mighty ill wind that blows no one a column and a half, you can bet on that! Garry Herrmann has had so ihaxty parties in his employ under the gen e'ral title of- manager that he prob ably cannoe remember names and fac es, but if. he will search his niemor* closely he may recall one Hennery O' Day, who tarried briefly In the city on the Rhine In 1912. He was there just long enough to furnish rude ball players provocation for light referenc es to his managerial career, what time they engage in controversy with Hen nery's umpirical judgment. Hennery Made a Splurge. The old untps made quite.a. splurge with Garry's team- during his brief tenure of office. -Moreover, he::must have made a chunk of money for Gfir-' ry. If ho had been kept., for two years, and had -done proportionate!v as much with the Reds the second year, as he did the first—.but why speculate? Hennery did not hold over the second year. Few Cincinnati managers do.. Joe Tinker was engaged to succeed Hennery, and Hennery went back to the Job_ of gesticulation with, added woe in his. sad map*. By. .every right, of fair dealing. Hennery was entitled to a second year with the Reds, but he escaped while still enjoying com paratively good health, and then Josephus Tinker came on. Joe did not do so well. His team lingered back in the ruck. He was beset by tough luck, and one thing and. another, including Garry Herr mann, .according to Joe's-, own state ment. He had differences with the man agement, but it was thought that ev erything had been patched tip' The announcement that he had beeV fired came as a surprise. Jbe is now a full-fledged member of the ex-Man Sf «rs of th® c,n°lnnatt •••4 By Farren 1*1 'r. Reds,, and he has one consolation. He ha8 plenty of company. Tinker says he would llke^tn rtiov and^'iwt'l fero5kiynhis n£^,ng n«xt and a shortstop of abilitv ,v, just about round out that Dodder Sfi (?r Tour UncI« Wilbert Rob'ri- son. Moreover. Joe's presence AVOUM be flulte valuable any time r11' a« he could be freo" ly mentioned as Robbie's successor weil°fortified TSS" ?Ub S Jake Diulbert. apartment by RIVAL CYCLISTSTO RACE FOR HONORS ra^boKA Donald rac*. n' //f •r: «iK¥ri wj 7 f: I m*Uh m" ear* Thjf nil! he six-day