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Show I qphpt taqqip uttle items OlkJtxl UUOijli OF INTEREST SACRAMENTO, Dec. 26. Prospects are exceedingly bright for one of the best winter league baseball seasons since the league's organization. Some of the best players In the country have signed up to plav with various clubs, Including Charley Pick of the Chicago Cubs. Joe Gedeon of the St. Louis Browns and Bricn Kldred, Harry Wolter and Bill Rodgers of the Sacramento Coast league dub. Many other stars are expected to come here for the winter, and will probably be induced to play ball. GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT. ! "New York Asaln Seeks to Extradite I Harry Thaw." Showing that New York is a glutton for punishment. Colonel "William L. Appleby, known to every turfman in the west, died recently at Reno, Nev., following an operation. In the halcyon days of the sport of kings in California. Appleby was an outstanding out-standing figure. He owned one of the best strings of thoroughbreds at the famed Emeryville track in tho closing years of the sport, and he won several valuable stakes. Appleby was a con- i noipseur in horseflesh. H-i had an uti- I canny habit of picking up selling platers; and making stake horses of them, and ; ! he was never afraid ro bet the limit on I his own entries. Eddie Carey, marshal of j ! Emervville, was one of Appleby's closest ; friends, and news of the veteran's death came as a shock to the Emeryville offi- : clal. In his early dayn Appleby was a noted Jockey. H rode for Tom Williams, E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin, Lelar.d Stanford and others, and won some of the bigsest stakes on the track. Increasing weight raoed him to retire from the paddle and . ' hfl hf ramefl. trainer for Williams. Later he bought a few horses and campaigned them over the western circuit with such tuccess that he became one of the leading lead-ing owners in the country. MAL DE OCEAN. A Foldler sails acroFS the sea. And he Is feeling punk. And as the waves roll wild and free He lingers in his bunk. "1 wouldn't care a whoop," says he, "If all the ships were sunk." PITTSBURG. Dec. 26. Nineteen, members mem-bers of the Pitt football squad have bn awarded their var&ity "P" for the season They are ae follows: Captain McLaren MeCarter. Hllty, Stahl. Stein, Vance Allshouse, Ray Alls house, Mervis, Harrington. Har-rington. Horner, Gougler, Easterday, Da-vies, Da-vies, Mitchell, Harmon, Stanford, Kcti-drick, Kcti-drick, Pitler and McCracken. 1 Thirteen of th.o men wiil b lost by graduation next June, leaving but six for i Pop Warner to use ae a nucleus Jor thf 1913 varsity. These six are- Davles, Horner. Harmon. Har-mon. Mccracken, Mervis and Stem In addition to ih'-se lettermn. thfre are ten other men eligible who were mr-mb-r of t lie vftrsuy sound this part vr Warner War-ner can alFo figure on a number of ood men returning from the service who will bp eligible, included in this are Haiing-Kelley. Haiing-Kelley. Asrhmaii, Peters and a number of ornors who would have ben standbvs on the varsity had Unc;e Sum not laken them. a Coach Fred Murphy has announce fl change in the Nortnwestern university 1919 football schedule. A game to h-ve been played with Ohio State university on October 18 at Columbus was . canceled can-celed and a game with the University of Wisconsin at Evanston scheduled in Us plate. The rest of the schedule arrange- at tho meeting of coaches held in Chi cngo recently will bo played. Coach ; Murphv also announced be wished to get games "for October 4. October 11 and November No-vember 16 to be played at Evanston. w. s. s. Perchance you had to stick around at home . , . . While younger persons got the kaisers poat. You cannot wear a helmet on your dome. But vou can wear a helmet on your coat. "v . S. S. r ' ANOTHER PETA1N. Al Petaln Is a jiu jitsu wrestler, but he is not the same Petaln who clamped a strangle hold on Hmdenburg. The Newark Internationals will have to come to somo agreement with the major league over the use of the Harrison ball park or secure new grounds. Wieden-maver's Wieden-maver's park no longer will be avpilabl. A dve crneern has purchased several plots of the Wiedenmayer r-ark holdings. While, not sold in its entirety Wiedenmayer" 8 park is killed as far as baseball use la concerned. NAPOLEON VON POTSDAM. He plied the art of Bonaparte And made Napoleon groan. He plied the art of Bonaparte With the accent on the first syllable. Johnny Evers has been given many presents and keepsakes and has won all kinds of prizes during his varied baseball base-ball career, but no gift he ever received has he treasured as he does a gold cig-aret cig-aret case the members of his staff of Knights of Columbus secretarfes in Puns gave him before he left for home. Since he arrived in New York Johnny has been busy displaying to his friends this token of esteem. Seven noted sportsmen have their names engraved on the case. The donors were: Ed McGrath, physical physi-cal director of school athletics; Jack Carey, the Rochester boxing promoter; "Bill" McCabe, organizer of the Hudson River league; "Bill" Coughlin, former Detroit De-troit team captain and third baseman; Jack Hendricks, manager of the Car-dinals; Car-dinals; "Billy" Roche, boxing reforee, and Alec McLean, the old-time bike ridintf star and manager of boxers. CAUSE FOR THANKS. Bill Hohenzollern is thankful that his six pons have emerged from the war without injury, aside from the fact that they have become round-shouldered from wearing their medals. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. Ray Morgan 4 will nevor again be seen in a Washing- ton uniform. The Baltimore lad, who, when he was in condition, did the second-basing second-basing for the Nationals, has played his last game for thim. Manager Griffith announced an-nounced today in discussing some of his plans for the coming season. Morgan s days of usefulness to the Washington club are over, in Griffith's estimation. This undoubtedly means the end of his major league career. Just what disposition will bo made of Morgan, Griffith is not ready to state. He may be able to trade or sell the fcal-timorean fcal-timorean to a major league club. If this can't be done Ray will slip to the minors, or perhaps play semiprofessional tali around Baltimore, where he is now enraged in business. Morgan played some good baball for the Nationals until this season, but ho was so often on the ailing list that he was not in the gamo when his services were most needed. He showed such a, bad slump in the late campaign that he did most of his playing on the bench Griffith, finished the season with Shanks at tho middle station. 0 |