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Show Baseball About To Come II Into Its Own Once More H Preparation for Coming Season in Major Leagues Engrosses Attention of Magnates and fans, Jl By W. J. MACBETH. NEW YORK, Doc. 14. Baseball comes Into its own again! Thc football season went out with a clash and a bang a seoeon of many surprises. Whllo Harvard smothered smoth-ered Yale and the Navy annihilated thc, Army, thereby proving. the gridiron grid-iron game almost as uncertain ns the ' great nationul pastime. ' I ho struggles of the pigskin warriors were not in vain. Football as now practiced prac-ticed by our manly college athletes isa sport that is likely to survive, . with little additional legislation, for many, many years. Now fa return to baseball and its many winter vicissitudes. This week marked tho real preliminary gun of the 1913 campaign, for it ushered In the annual meetings of tho two major leagues. Tho chief regret of the faithful who visited these parts for the pow-wow ot tho old major leagues wao that all the old comrades com-rades were not on hand. It was foil that Ran Joh'iiBon was somewhat exclusive ex-clusive in calling the American league conclavo Jn Chicago;. Truth to tCH. Ban and hlsi henchmen hench-men were not missed so much, perhaps, per-haps, as tho customary banquet of the Red Sox In celebration of the - world's championship. Tho little fry, which clusters the corridors 'of the ' fashionable hotels where the big .' gatherings aro held, hold it a high ' mark of distinction to rub elbows or heels over or under the festive board. Johnson's meeting in Chl-' Chl-' cago shut out from the feast not only the National league magnates, . but also the minors who saw belter opportunities of barter at the local ' gathering. Jlmmic McAlcor will have , to stand impeached or "Zoster another - "lovo feast" when the annual sched-. sched-. ule meetings of tho two big leagues . arc held here next spring. TUB annual meeting of tbc National Na-tional league, proved but a I 'squib, to the special meet.-, I Ing coiled on November 26 for the suppression of Horace Fogcl, former president of the Phillies. Horace, was ' pretty well squelched, it will bo remembered, re-membered, whon that conference . ; passed liito history. Tho passing of Fogol caused no vain regrets In any quarter. Charlie Murphy, oven, deserted de-serted lilm in the final dark hour, as well as Charlie II. lSbbets parts of the usual trinity of disturbers. The discipline . administered to. Fogol doubtless will provtf a great good for National league affairs In general, gen-eral, although tho house-cleaning, did not go far enough 'in the estimation esti-mation of mo3t people interested In organized baseball. Organlzod baseball mny have lost but little in Fogcl. Still he was not the worst of offenders: Charles Webb Murphy was the real disturbing clement. cle-ment. Ho prompted nil of Horace's outbreaks.. Ho inspired the damaging-article damaging-article which appeared under Fogd's :s)!jnaturoN in a' Chicago paper; doubt . less ho -egged oif Fogcl to writo tho most of his incriminating communications. communi-cations. He mado Fogcl the "goat" of his own disturbances and then droppt-d him, like a, live coal, when he felt himseir in jeopardy. Murphy Is a very lucky Individual to . bo among those present Just now. He gave utterances to moro caustic criticism of the league and the" conduct con-duct of Its affairs than did tho unfortunate un-fortunate Fogol. But. Murphy was wise onoiigh to do nothing more damaging dam-aging than Idle chatter. He put nothing in black and while. -And "when tho big trial came he calmly-denied everything and got away with ft, HAD the National league possessed pos-sessed a" bit more backbone It might have mado things very uncomfortable un-comfortable for Mr. Murphy. It might even have stowed hlm away on the ' Rhelf with his friend. Uornco. It had tho. "goods", on him. But evidently It figured one at a time very good fishing. fish-ing. A. porting editor from Chicago came to the meeting with proof of Murphy's duplicity in thn form, of a. lottnr. This nileslva was a private conjmunicatlon a "confidential billet" bil-let" oJid ho refused to turn it over to the authorities on that ground.. ' The National league had a copy of the letter and might with come pres- sure or diplomacy have secured the ' ll original long enough to admit U as jj evidence and thus implicate tho boss of the Cubs. But it stalled too long ri "H oand lot the opportunity slip. Thus iSI escaped Ihe real offender: Sill It is believed, however, that a. groat .'jil good has been done C. W. Murphy '- and that hereafter he will hold his HilH , peace if such a thing is possible. (! ; For Mr. Murphy -wns so scared by his B'j jH close shave that hs readily endorsed n 11 a clause empowering tbo National rvjl league to expel from its conclave all - ll undesirable club presidents, thoso who I'tl by quostlonlng the honesty of base- 6 ", ball forfeit tho right to mingle with i'll honorable promoters. Had such a r. jH power been possessed by right of con- ll stitution previous to this tlmp Mr. 11 Murphy could easily have been sldn H tracked on a dozen different occasions j? jJ since he tcok command of the Cubs. j AHUNDRKD different all-Amorl- iH can and. all-eastern football com- r; blnatlons have hfco. qelscted and I scarcclany two tally : every re- ',i speci. All df which signifies an nn- . usual galaxy of stars in the various j ') jiosltlnns. Almost without exception, .. however, a. number of candidates ap- pear in each lineup.- Jim Thorpe, the C .wonderful Carlisle Indian captain. Is Tji named by everyone and. Indeed, with good mason,, for ho Is perhaps tho greatest player or a decade. Ketch- v am is the general choice for center, j, whllo Felion and Bomelsler ace th j u- H most approved ends. Brlcltley and (' Wendell 'have the call for the other , , (back field. There Is a vast dlvl- ij & sion of opinion in thc matter of quar- i H tcrback, guard and tackle positions. j j't I was talking to "Lefty" Flynn, tbo j husky Yale fullback, very recently and he seems determined next year to M wipe out any possible shortcomings '( which cropped out for him in thn "! Yale-Hurvard game. Flynn did not shine nt his best on- that occasion. ' but 'Iookii upon the circumstance very ! '1 philosophically. j1 rr H tt-r FKLT all broken up about it for ! - more than a week," declared t"H ' lHynii, "but It strikes me differ- ' ILI cntly now. I'll bo out for tho team j again next fall and If I don't make fKI it it will be no fault of my own. I'm ! v!riH willing to abide by the mandates of j tH fate, but I will be surprised if 1 am ! soon in thc hack field again. If T ( '4r;H have my way I'll play in tho line. An. (j oH cud position would suit mo to a 'TV l U'H In the opinion of most football Ip'! sharp?, Flynn should never havo been '-ll played In the back field. Ills speed, t'-J strength and endurance qualify him VVjH for an end position. Tom Shevlin h tiiM thought so, too. Tho moment tlil i-Vt'H advisory cOach reached NcW ITaven vH this fall ho advised the shift. But un- KtiH der the prevailing coaching Bystem thp ! advlco was scorned. PcrhapB It was ,h'i 'H just as well. Yale seemed doomed . PjiH anyhow at that late stage. If thn t'iif'H horrible showing of tho Blue against h fji'H the Crimson results In proper coaching reform. "Lefty" Flynn may be re I JrH garded as a gridiron martyr. 'f'H |