Show 1 O I THE ORLD OF SPORT fATHER TIME GETS BASEBALL S1 STARS Eight Old Favorites Being Relegated Rel- Rel to Several M Minor in or Leagues MANY CLUBS AFFECTED Jimmy Sebrin- Sebrin Bob Boh Wicker nm 1 mill and Others f p H o lIu Dropped From L. L Y St hi L. L Louis Feb 23 Nineteen hun liun- dred tired and seven se will iU see ec cc the departure of Jr the greatest greate t number of one time stars that thc the game ame has ever el known Of or the time old favorites ta eight have ha been een relegated to the minors from Crom whence hence they the came The baseball pubIc pub pub- lic He Ic this spring will miss the familiar lar features or of BIlly Gilbert Doc Doe Newton P P. P Joe Kelle Kelley Billy Bar Bal beau heau Jim Jackson Jimmy Sebring and Bob 1 One of these Barbeau Is a new- new comer h having been drafted from Co Co- umbus lumbus Ohio the year ear that club won the pennant In ln l the e American a iu tion but he made such a hit while with ZU the that he became op lar all over the American league ue circuit The other lIC ti e ol old old- timers rs and three years ago you ou would have ha been declared Insane had yoU u SU suggested that l any ani y one lle ot of f them WOUld have ha n dropped Ir back Into the 10 brush In But such I Is the nature of at things HO s. s The must eventually e fall all and andT that Is what has happened to Gilbert T V V-r V Kelley and others other Like all other othe businesses baseball depended on the young men mell for ft its success and w when the first I streaks of oC gray gra begin to appear in lii a jt ball halt pla er hair hall it i Is 5 tho the beginning of oC the end Of OC cour course e there are aie exceptions but ten years ars of oC service 1 usually put puts an end to the usefulness of a diamond knight ht no mattel how now great treat a a. star he may be Still Good Jimmy would probably b be nb able e to hold his own In fast Cast company but the decision ll of the baseball commIssion commission com com- mission has hns sentenced him him to the min mm- ors II'S for fur life liCe and there Is no appeal He made his own bed and con must lie He upon It ft Sebring's CaSe as s f Is rather rathel pitiable and nd everywhere c he Is mek with Pathy Ills His conof con- con 7 ted te or of leaving Irving the Cincinnati club with un outlaw club that h he lie might be close cioe to hf life his sick wife wIe Itc None Noone CAM at n blame mc him as us a u man but but still Mill he broke a n baseball law and cannot b bo be forgiven The rhe release o of Heinle Peitz the veteran vet vet- ran eran catcher of or to Lo Louisville Louts Louis ls- ls yule ville sounded the first note of warning warn warn- ing In- Inand and th the major majol lea league uc demise of Gilbert and Kelley quickly followed Gilbert announces that hl his irIde will III not permit him to go so to Not folk so soho soho ho he will quit the game forever He has bou bought hl an Interest In the Metropolitan Metropolitan Metro Metro- politan cafe in Columbus avenue a and will remain In bu business permanently In Joe Joo Kelley Keller at one time the most Camous fa famous famous fa- fa of all Baltimore outfielders has been heen sold old to Toronto When Kelley Kelle was at the zenith of his career he hea was aas sent from flom Baltimore to manage the Cincinnati Reds Heds That really meant his downfall Gradually ho began slipping from his hk high estate and last Jast season eason Ned Hanlon relieved hImas him himas himas as manager malinger Ho He now goes back to the tho minors where his only ambition Is to maJ make e mono money Bob Dob Wicker the salaried high pitcher who for years ears was so 80 successful successful successful success success- ful with Chicago and who was later sold to Cincinnati in the numerous trades of ot last year car was next to go 0 Wicker er has been sold hold to Columbus In the American association He lie In Insists Insists In- In that thal he Is still good and says that he lie will make such a good showIng show- show lag Ins In the minor league that thal some of tho big league managers will have ha to either purchase or draft him Jim Jackson lackson tho the once famous outfielder outfielder out out- fielder of oC the Cleveland n Blues will also bo ho missed from the baseball He goes to Columbus also ulso The Clo Cleveland eland mano management ement believed that Jac Jackson had outlived out his usefulness usefulness useful useful- ness with that club Dozens of oC the young oung recruits who broke into tho the big league last season teason have C been sent back to their homes home hut but that Is an annual occurrence The sad 5 d feature of or the seasons season's openings Is the tho absence of to so many time one stars Such arc are the doings of or Father Fathel Time I Boy 1103 n of or Ietter The Tho boy hoy who is fond of at good literature lIter litera a- a lure ture Is novel never very popular with anyone but bIll his aunt Atchison on Globe |