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Show What's Doing While Ball Players Are Hibernating SAX, FRANCISCO, Oct. SI. Umpire Bill Guthrie left tonight for Chicago, and, according to his statement, he is finished with umpiring for good and all. Bill ia a steamfitter by trade, and steamfitters are making more money than umpires these days. Besides, ill is within the draft age and expects to be called into the army before long. "Just sav this for me," said Bill last night: "This Is the grandest little league in the country. I've enjoyed working out here, and there isn't a finer fellow in the world to work for than this same Allan T. Baum. If conditions were like they were a year or two ago, take it from me I'd want nothing better than to be out here again. They are all great fellows here Baum, Berry, Ewing and all the rest of them. Maybe I'll be back, sometime." Harry WoU-erton, former manager of the Seals, was one of the San Franciscso fans who rejoiced last night at the Seal victory. Wolverton is out of baseball for keeps and is now in the automobile business. busi-ness. He organized the club last spring and had, perhaps, a better idea than any outsider of what it -could do. "I never doubted for a minute that the team would win out." said Harry last I night. "It was a grand ball club, with ability in every direction. Hard luck be set the boys In the middle of the season, when there were many accidents. But thev proved themselves game to the core. I have watched their fighting of the past few weeks, and I felt all the time that thev would out-game their nearest rivals. My" congratulations go to them." San Francisco Chronicle. SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 31. Senor Calvo is bidding his friends goodby. He will winter In Havana, as usual, but hopes to come back here next year. He likes this town, believe him. He wanted to oitch the last four innings yesterday afternoon, but Captain Jerry would not let him. The fans attending the morning game at Oakland left too soon to see the day's big excitement. Dan Murray and Chief Casey Smith attempted to settle the feud that started several months ago, when Smith, resenting epithets applied to him during a game, attempted to bounce a bat off Murray's head. Dan did a lot of fancy sprinting that day, and the knowledge knowl-edge that he actually ran has rankled in his bosom ever since. So he waylaid Smith outside the clubhouse yesterday morning and after informing Casey that bad blood still existed, put a haymaker to Casey's jaw. Casey produced a blackjack, black-jack, so it is said, but was at once disarmed. dis-armed. He then got hold of a bat and swung it at Murray and Del Howard. Finallv some of the Seals joined the partv," up till that moment composed of! Oaks unfriendly to Smith, and the .result ' was a real fight In a ring. Opinion as to what happened differs. Some say that Smith was giving Daniel an artistic trimming trim-ming when Herbie Hunter interfered as peacemaker. Others say that Casey had a fine collection of black eyes and bruised noses, while Dan was unmarked, save for a welt across the back of one hand. Hostilities Hos-tilities a re presumed to have ben postponed post-poned until next season. San Francisco Examiner. Losing the championship was a hitter blow to Johnny Powers, but he accepted the result like a thoroughbred. This from the man who spent his money so freely in an effort to turn out a winner: "I wanted want-ed to keep Ihe title in Los Angeles, and failure of the club to finish in front was a great disappointment to me. However, somebody has to finish second, and the fortunes of baseball decreed that It be the Angels. We were given a hard fight on every side. There were no soft spots for us and we were not looking for any. T am proud of the fellows in uniform. They put up a grand battle. The Seal also put up a great fight. I congratulate an Francisco on beating out a good, game ball team." San Francisco Chronicle. |