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Show MANY TRANSFERS i IN BASEBALL ' Season Promises to Establish New Record for Moves on Chessboard of National Na-tional Game. New York, Jan 17 The baseball season of 1915 promises to establish a new record in the transfer or re leue of players and the selection of npw manacers for club? in both organized or-ganized and Independent leagues. Although Al-though the new year is just gaining headway more than twenty players of prominence hae figured in moves ! upon the chessboard of the national game. Imong those players to don managerial togas are Roger Bresua han of the Chicago Nationals. Pat Mo ran of the Philadelphia Nationals, clarence Rowland of the Chicago Americans, Bill Donovan of the N'ew York Americans and Lee Magee of the Brooklyn Federals. Trades or cash deals sent Eddie Coillns from the Philadelphia Athletics Ath-letics to the Chicago White Sox; Nap Lajoie from the Cleveland Americans to the Athletics; Sherwood Magee i from the Philadelphia Nationals to the Boston Braves, Hans Lobert from the Pnillies to the New York Giants. Al Demaree, Jack Adams and Milton Stock from the Giants to the Phillies and ivy Wingo fmm the St. Louis to i the Cincinnati Nationals. The ulti mate destination of Wingo is in doubt since he Is understood to have considered con-sidered Federal league offera If he joins the independent organization he is likely to meet Plank and Bender, formerly of the Athletics, and several other players who have figured prominently prom-inently in organised baseball. Other famous diamond Btars who have been relensed outright or who are in doubt as to the scene of their 1915 activities include Jack Coombs, of the Athletics; Kid Gleaaon of the Chicago Americans, Herman Schae-ler Schae-ler of the Washington Americans, Walter Johnson of the same club, Ray Caldwell of the New York Americans; Amer-icans; Rube Marquard of the New York Giants and Charley Dooin of the Philadelphia Nationals The end is not yet in sight, however, for if the American. National and Federal leagues all operate under the twenty-one twenty-one player plan during the major portion por-tion of the season further shifts and reductions may be expected Not far from 700 players were under contract to clubs in these leagues last season, whereas about 500 will probably find employment with the same organiza-tlons organiza-tlons during 1915. Records Tell Much. The records of the 1914 major Inter-league series from an interesting part of the annuals of aport for the past year Including the ante-season and post-season series. sixty-four games were played., of which the National Na-tional league teams won thirty-two; the American league twenty-nine, -TV Vi I o th rnn tin o Ion rlm.nn.l I in the records Since 1903, 618 Inter- j league games have been played, of j which the American league clubs have won 266 and the Nationals 252. j The victories from a league stand- I point have been distributed as fol- II lows: .1903 Americans 33 J904 Americans 13 '1905 Americans 26 I 1906 Americans 22 .1907 Americans 18 1908 Americans 10 1908 Americans 11 I 1910 Americans 27 I 1911 Americans 23 1905 Nationals 25 1906 Nationals 7 1907 Nationals 22 1908 Nationals 13 1909 Nationals n 1910 Nationals , 23 1911 Nationals 2Z 1912 Nationals , 31 1913 Nationals 9 1914 Nationals Z2 Baseball in the Panama canal zone will be conducted upon a league basis during the present season. The organization or-ganization bears the title of the Panama Pan-ama Canal league and five clubs have already started the pennant race, which will continue until the middle of April. Three parks have been built at Colon, Pedro Miguel ana Balboa with seating capacities ranging rang-ing from 2000 to 4000 each. Enlarge Relay Games. The University of Pennsylvania relay re-lay games, which annually open the eastern college track and field season, sea-son, will be held upon a revised and elaborated scale this spring Two days will be allotted to the twenty-first twenty-first yearly carnival, the dates being announced as April 2. and 24. A new feature of the carnival will be a pentathlon pen-tathlon for college men, modeled on the style of the ancient Olympic pentathlon. pen-tathlon. In order that contestants may he prepared for the various events composing the pentathlon, the; list has been announced as follows: Running, broad jump, throwing the javelin held in the middle, throwing the discus, 20o metres flat and 1500 metres flat As the relay games are held with the purpose of developing material for the Olympic games, other Olympic events will be contested, among which are the running hop, step and jump, the 56-pound hammer throw, and probably a 400 metre hurdle hur-dle race A new college relay race championship champion-ship of America will be instituted and held on Friday This race will be a medley relay race with one man to run a quarter mile, the next a half 1 mile the three three-quarters of q mile, and the last man a mile. |