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Show SPORT GOSSIP KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Dec. 11. Baseball in the Western bauc is to be re-establish td on a pre-war basis at a meeting of the club owners to be hfld here soon. , Kdward Ilanlon. acting president of the league, has announced that the call fcr a ; meeting would be issued shortly. Just what the makeup for the circuit will be for the season is not known, I but the organization will be changed somewhat becau.se of poor patronage In some cities last season. It is regarded as :i certainty that the league will resume re-sume opp rat ions next Ma y. Oklahoma City, according to all reports, will be retained in tin- league, with Jack Holland at the head of the club. The .Top- j lin franchise, it Is expected, will be moved : to Ti.lsa, Okla.. unless Jopliu shows j greater interest in retaining the club. , I Coniiskey of the White Sox has de- ' dared that Joe Jackson, O.scar Kelsch and Claude Williams will not be on his I payroll in 11!', because of the way they quit his club last summer. To lose these players, and also lOddie Collins, would be a sad blow to the Rowlandltes. Collins had. a poor year with the stick last season, sea-son, and frequently said he would retire at the end of his contract, which expired at the end of the season. However, it is considered a safe bet that he will be found guarding second when the While Sox open their 11)19 campaign. He has been a major ma-jor league regular for eleven seasons, but has stocd the wear and tear well. He is under -2, and quite certain to last five or six years more, then will come n. chance to manage some club. , Worries of White Sox devotees with regard to this player may be considered a bit premature. pre-mature. Minor league mah.gers can sell prom-ifung prom-ifung catchers to the National league, tor last season there was a dearth of good backstop material In that organization. The Ciants particularly suffered from not having a good catcher Neither Kill Rari-den Rari-den nor Lew McCarty played to his usual standard and neither could hit in pinches. George O'Nell, the talkative kid from St. Louis, is one promising backs topper on McCriaw'a list, as he was farmed out to Memphis In the spriny and will be taken to the training camp in March. J4EV VOUK, Dee. 11. After training in Idnrhn for eleven successive years, the Giants nxt sprins will pfifc- up thp ! Texas report, ir. is unofficially reported. 'The team in all probability will do its conditioning at Hot Spring's, ArU. Rube Oklrine;, outfielder, will not be a member of Mark's Athletics in IM!). His name has been left oft the list rent by Maek to the An.erican league. Oklrinii ptaved fiood ba.ll with Mack's team last year, but h:iw Utile service at 1 'hi In del -phia, as he n sited not to be played on the homo grounds. Chnrlev Mullen, firwt l)as-'inan of the Yanks, before Walter I'ild-t began to bu.-t foncs, has heon piven. a commission of second lieutenant und may bid farewell to tho R-anio for always. He managed the camp baseball team at Tamp Tewis. Wash., but quit when recommended for the training school. He likes the servir-e and mav mick to it. He played with Toledo To-ledo after being let nut by the Yankees, finishing the 1917 season with Bresnahan's team. Ho was not in the pump last year, professionally, having Joined the army last winter. lid Swr-eney. ;i team- mate of Mullen with the Yankees and later with Toledo, went into the army about the same time. Sweeney's regiment went oversf-as early in the year rind he ftguroci in the fighting at the Argonnc forest. Jack UHlon is credited by ma uy ii a being the champion ivpeaicr because of his fourteen bonts with Ted (Kid) Lewis. The ren I chamiiion. however. Is not the former uoliei-wt-ight champion, bur. Sam I IvHiigf 'trd, the ainrient jhcto b.Htler. i Langford has met Sain MeVey just lour-i lour-i teon" times; took .Tot Joan net to over the ropes in a matt.-r of eleven battles; exchanged ex-changed knockouts with Marry Wills nine litrn-R and t yen met J'Jck Blackburn on four oecaMOns. : CHK"A;0. Dec 11. YalKr McXiehols, a we! I -known t "licagoari. 1ms been :ip-nointeri :ip-nointeri traveling secitry of the fleve--! laid Amori'-an league bat-eball club, the nnount-.'inent having been made, bv I're-id"iit I're-id"iit J ames I u r.n of th" India n j. Sir-Niebols Sir-Niebols micceeds VY. It. Black woo', who has b. en wil h the Cb-vtdand dub tor i number of seasons. Blackwood is- leaving "tli'- club to enter the sWui business in (h!r. "Walter McVi- hols is v broilter of Krank MeXI' hol.s, fornvrly well known a a pbiyM' and ainr.ipro niacrinie and now in business ou the west -ddr. Officials of tlK- Chicago Cubs are anxiously anx-iously awaiting some word :is to t;rnv-r C Alexanrier l o hbow b5 was i.ot hurt in the last four nays ot Hie war. He wa s alive and well lYur i',;t ys before nm .'rmistlce was signed, and then li"ped h-might h-might make the Ilf spring trainuig trip with the Cubs. Alcxanrbr's re-rimcni. houe-er. is with tlie army of oec.ipalion. which mav delay jus return ;-ev.-rai mouthP. Alexander, in a itler of No-v No-v ember 7. wrote he was r-n the firi.ig hiir ai the time, and tii.. 'ub oi:'ici:ib- wi!i not fee s;:n: nf him fur next frasmi mil;' lli'j g--t a hue written :.fte;- li:.' Honing Hon-ing of the arnnsfK'c. u- "f Irani I'i.-M" in Inuio- m - -;.pi;H1 Kn- j d:e i;: ,nt. who fed in ,,,. t i;, , p.- t.f. rau"- of 1'ean ;e,tdcr.iy ailik-tic lY-ld u ; Su'ingi'ield. Mass. Ti,e (Jiaois vi;j also ha ve r. nie moria 1 to I he bra ve ca.pl - in. |
