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Show I INTER LEAGUE BEGINS US ANNUAL SCHEDULE e-burner Magnates Find Picking Next Year's ennant Winners Easy Task; Federal League ' Offers Basis for Pithy Gossip. I By FRANK G. ME NICE. N YORK, Dec. C The winter leaguo season has opened onco again. Playing out tho schedule tho cheering glow of tho old rnor in these days of snow-chilblains snow-chilblains and soaring coal bills, r, isn't going to causo as much oxertion as in the other years, ber of events that transpired' r will lighten tho burden ot the leaguers. , ays cone by the winter league has had to put in many weeks and anguish before it arrived uatuo oT tho team that would e pennant in the Nntional leaguo 3 name of tho club that would o iu the American, this problem, take it from the lies now before us, already has lived. In tho National leaguo w York, Philadelphia. Chicngo, rg, Boston and Brooklyn teams leading the league whon the me is played next October. In Cncan league. Philadelphia, Bos-ishington, Bos-ishington, Cleveland. New York, i and Detroit will win the peu-he peu-he Winners, at don't believo this, all you o if to lock over the prcdic-om prcdic-om these baseball centers. The press agents of each and every nowing what a task it was for iter leaguers to pick tho win-ved win-ved them thu trouble this year, re out with facts and figures to ) their claims. :iy be noticed that no predicts predic-ts been so far issued by the holding down jobs for tho Cin-and Cin-and the tw;o St. Louis tcums. ; must be patient. ' The season young Perhaps the thrco P. cntioned are away on a vacu-Perhups vacu-Perhups they are ill. Just as they get back, or Tccovor. ono i assured that three more ' pen-cdictions pen-cdictions will issue forth, icr mattor that will not worry iter leaguers this winter is the the .National league president, r-nch, who used to "hold the job, nighty nice fellow. He had lots in friends, and they constantly that Tom might come to some rd fiuish at tho bauds of C. "Waistcoat Murphy of tho Cubs, or others oth-ers of his kind, who used to rogard the heckling of Thomas ono of tho real joys of life. Has Real President. As affairs stack up now, tho old leaguo has a real, regular governor at tho helm. That gives him power over thousands of soldier persons, and any timo he MndB Mr. Murphy, or his gang, trying to kick up too rough a sea for tho good ship National league, all he'll havo to do is to call out the militia, Mr, Richard Marqnard; tho portside dinger of the Giants, will bo another person who will not cause the winter leaguers much worry. . .Last year, it may bo recalled Richard was quit famous. He'd ;just finished amassing an -unbroken string of nineteen victories victo-ries and followed this by going on the stage, thinly disguised as an actor, ac-tor, when springtime came Riohard appalled the' baseball multitude by announcing that he'd tsticto to the stage and never again cavort on tho diamond. Richanl isn't going to repoat this threat this spring. He's well hoolcod by a Giant contract, and from what we can gather from ltoms that appoar in various papers, lie iB close to being hooked as an actor. Tho public this winter seems to have penetrated his disguise nnd discovered, that ho iBn't an actor at all. Cobb in Safe Port. Ty Cobb is anothor who will save the winter leaguerB. Last winter Ty murmured loudly to the Detroit management: man-agement: "Gimme- $15,000 per year or I'll quitcha." This threat, liko Richard's, also appnllcd. But Ty, a fow days' ago, issuod a statement saying say-ing he was content to play with Detroit De-troit for the rest of his days, i Of course, that coquettish "outlaw" Federal league may do something that will inject hardship and real worry into tho playing out of the winter league schedule. She's an awful flirt, that little Miss Pejleral League, and she insists that her papa has lots and lots of money. Tho way she is rolling roll-ing heT twinkling oyes 'and throwing coy glances just now may draw to her side, some nico young nicu who havo (Continued on Following Pago,) YEAR'S PUT- BEGINS IN WINTER LEAGUE (Continued from Preceding Page.) sworn to honor, lovo and obey the organized crowd. . .. However, all ihinga considered, it looks just now as if tho playing or tho winter league game this year win bo a much easier job and. one iraughu with fewer worries than in yic yeara that arc gone. |