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Show Ie se. , sex fieTits jes IllicT Rube Oldring. left fielder of the Athletics Ath-letics and for years a wonderful pla yer and prime favorite with the fans, has derided to retire from baseball, in the future he will devote his time to the development of a large farming property he purchased two years ago at Shlloh, N. J. The retirement of Oldring Is somewhat some-what of a surprise to the fans, who -believe thai he has several years of good baseball left in him. Manager Mack of the Athletics said that he had received notice from Old-ring Old-ring of his intention to quit tbe game and that was ail he knew about the mailer. Reports have been in cirtAi-lation cirtAi-lation that Mark, after the close of the last reason, Intended to trade his popular left fielder to some other team and that herauso he was not satisfied with the deal Oldring had kicked out of harness. This, however, Mack denied, and added that lie had no intention of disposing of Oldring and that if the retirement is really to take place it is entirelv 6n Oldrinsc's volition. Manager. Mack stated specifically that he had not signed Old-ring Old-ring to a contract for the next year. Oldring was obtained by the Athletics , from the Montgomery club of the South-ern South-ern league In Hto.) and started bis career , , as a third baseman, but was shifted to center field in 1907. He played center field until Amos Strunk joined the Mack-men Mack-men in 1909, when Mack slipped him to left field. Oldring played wonderful ball in left field until the world's series of 1914 aga Inst the Braves, when he fell down badly. In every other world's series Old-ring Old-ring had been a star and his work against the Braves was a bitter disappointment. Although not going in the capacity of an invited guest. George Ptovall wlif attend the minor league meeting in San Francisco. Stovall was not exactly in-viied in-viied to attend the ball game during which he dragged Jimmy Johnston back under the grandstand alone about the fifth inning and hookea h:m to a Federal Fed-eral league contract. Tits idea of attending at-tending i he meeting is to try to wean a minor league or two away from organized organ-ized baseball. Whet here or not organised organ-ised baseball will object to this is "not ill nown. Bill Piorry and Don Rader will pack up the extra celluloid collar and bea t ; it for El Ceniro today. They have sistlPil With Ruhr- fiflrrlnoi' tlia fammn off-season manager. if The Vernon club is after two right-ha right-ha nderi pitchers and deals for them may he put through at the minor league meeting. RATT1MORE. Md.. Nov. ?. The first suit growing out of the dismantling of the Baltimore Fed last summer has bcn entered in the superior court. Harrv C. Fwaeina brought action against the Federal Fed-eral League Baseball club of Baltimore, asking 53000 damages for breach of contract. con-tract. Swacina alleges his contract called fnr a salary of ?3.".O0. He got his unconditional uncondi-tional release oivSeptotnner 1 ra-st and in his hil he itemizes the balance of salarv due him uii his contract as amounting to ? 10S3.S3. Allhoiish no official word , could be obtained to con firm tbe rumor, it is circulating cir-culating around that Jinimv Cyllahnn, fnrmer manager of the White Sox, prob-a prob-a hly will be a successor to A. T Bmim as the president of the Pacific Coast I leacue. j The rumor brings to light that a move-"irpt move-"irpt is in motion in the west to eleet lahahan as head of the Coast leacue at the regular mealing of the organization i. hicayo News Dispatch. President Maier and Manager Patterson Patter-son v ill eHve for San Francisco S;ilur-day S;ilur-day nigt lo attend the meeting of the minor leagues. Thev will ffe( on the ci ound early to complete several deals turn are pending with various minor tcHcne cluhp. M;iier anrl Lenvjft. t h Oakland owner, are planninar to malic H deal invob ine Rprs-r nd vls fnr one Oakland pin-her and cash consideration considera-tion nr an extra player. Los Ancelcs Laminer. Fddie Ainsmith. battery mate of Walter Johnson on t he Wash! net on club, bus been sold to f he Boston Braves, according accord-ing to Bob Knowlt on. who has nMurn-d lirre' from the east, w-liere he umpired Ust winter. There has beep no offi-')h offi-')h 1 a nnouncement of the tra nsfr. but Knowlton. who comes direc frmr, B'iston sas that he has the ncht dope n-f n-f m it h will pijtcepr Bert Whalinc, who uas traded to the Vernon club. j Tub Spencer. Vprnon catcher, ran be I found bmmtine tlie gridimn tiiee da'-s. I (e ti ims i ;:p odor of t he tan bark Irre-si;iblc. Irre-si;iblc. Tub fornierlv -:,ined fame tu lie ;:;hi-.ic of l.n kle ami i uck as h niem-1 niem-1 "cr of ; prm'pp.'jional team in f'ciinsl- 'aui;i. In thoe ,,';4s be tipped the benin I .,i IK! Rod could do (hp ronturv Inj 1" l-.'i. Anorliev e-i-bouc crusher pov ipi Contlnued on Following Page.) i f ! fc Sez, Sez e, c. f (Continued from Preceding Page.) i o'jr rr:d?t 's '"JorC KahW of t:- Tort-ian.J Tort-ian.J R-1--"-. KriT r.rntrlv p!a;..J on ' t'- varsity at the I "n i r 1 t ;.- of ;t . irc.nLa, ai:d later coa-'hf Ohio unher- ! f ri !! s pr,-nt piatin fliv. r oi)t rhT1 will kt no enrrition eaT". at A';ihir-tot, A';ihir-tot, fnrk. I.o Are;'. pvt uprins. It i the plan of -iiiic M.itr. T.ct nr. to k-p t'". gfi to W'a hintoti park d'jri i. 2 t r: spri'-e t rat n ' - .ata-on. .'i"?n opnine fJav on --.s rr.Mtnl tl fars will Kt tiieir f1rit rP K1'5 T:fip?r team. Th ??rninzs of the Philadelphia National Na-tional tzn- ' h:b for lfI.',. hiii amounted lo have !.n t rf mrred to Fi'h an extent rhm no dividend will 1 h declared this year. Th" rl'jh lost heavily in KM, and thi year's profits ! wiil go toward m-'iMif the losy-s of a ' year ago. If the Phillies had only won about five vearn aeo thy vould have earned nearer iJ'Y. '.'00 than 2-,'r. and this is explained by th difrren'e in en-' en-' t hiiaem. " The PhlllipB lost money on all three western trips. When baseball fans arc dis'ifiinp the great fieldmsr firpt hamn of th" cam they I r variably -ill t nlk of M Glune?. Chap-. Daiibert, Konet--h- 3nd almost all of them xept Vv-t Mr-IIMtz. the lanky Cincinnati youneT. Th" flldlnc sta-j sta-j ttflfls for the pjpt s"aion, howv-r, -how that the Pvdleg made one of the sreatst I record? ever ompii'-d by a first b a ; mn. Mollwltz ftn:shf-d thp weapon with n percentage of .r3.", for ''. panics, whh h I Is the best mark ever maTe. except that 'of Frank chance fn when the Cub 1 !cadrfl averaee was .TR; but he plsved i In oniy nevn t y-elfifh t L'-'iinfi. The won-Iderful won-Iderful improvement in Mnliwltz's all -j around work has boosted the Cinoinnatl 1 Infield, and with four ifreat pitchers in 1 Tonev, Dale. Schneider and MKenery, I Herxog: la likely to keep the fam rlht I in the: rave next season If he can land a I second baseman. That La r r v O a r d n r of the n d fi o x i to be traded to th A'Jiletl.s in a. three-cornered deal wliereby the New York Americans will a'-o,utre "Home Run" Baker, while Fritzv MaiseJ rocs to Boston, is a revived report In baseball base-ball irIes. Maisel batted .277 this yer. Gardner .?5.r.. The Red Pox third haweman field ed firft havrriR 2"f asvipfF, in 1'J7 ffamett. Mai'sei fielded .018, wil li awistfi. in Karnes.. Gardner played fine bail in the worlds series, but the 1 rado montiuiied Is said to h- on the cards. , , Ray Collin?. Gardner's old rollae rnnm at Vermont, i also due to be traded and sold, and ft Is Inferred" that the powers ; that be believe that this is an additional reason for trading Gardner. Wan Gre?c will he l-t out, arr-ord inc to the uiider-ro'ind uiider-ro'ind reports, while Mo nat-'r f'arrixan mav have diffieult v in persuading 'he pi-es.deut of the 'tub to offer Heinle Wac-ner Wac-ner ;i satisfatorv font r.-ct. W'agn'-r'fi saLarv was -ut In Iftl.".. although when he was sipned if v.' as not eype. tw that he muld plav teyulai ly. wIitphk. an , matter of fact, he took pait in pfhty-flve irani es. Jtit to fonvin'-e any donbiinc faun that baseball neve- .")eepB. hut. on the Mlf trarv is alwavs on the alert and wide awake, the following proof Is offered: Tlte Rrooklvn Baseball rlnb ha received re-ceived the signed contracts for next, season sea-son of R V Good bred, who was purchased pur-chased by C. H. T-;bhets last year froiin OshkOfch and repur hfiaer from Newark at the close of the 1 f 1 person; Lawrence Miller, an on' fielder, and I.;"' V- Ste-- en-on. a t wirier pi'n'hased from ht. RoniTace dub. |
