The "Fans" Op Na Fol- the Following Year the White Bon Were Made Lows; Griffith, Callahan

an tha - ***® l.at- yiaa you fas, Ilka i,wl*l Bf •with a Gatling gun Oiled with baseballs to aaa Mm tha gon. fally .. heUave, however, ha would heat , Bat with the applause paid the brilliant BY oftoW fame 1, nevertheless Beating. Tha haro t-Ist. baseball what you wain pa» may ha a dead one to-morrow. It la not JAMES BRISTOL GREEN • yon are today, and the terday. It's what piy®'bacg member of a championship club one year may ha minors before year or ao has passed. When a league Of the Chicago White Box who wop the Americas pennant la auly one man. Fraak. Isbell. IMO yaar capo this year. The other champloao of tha Brat or league were; Dsaaer. Katoll. richer and Patterson, pi toners. Bugdea. Buckley and Wood, catchers; Padden. Hartman. Dillard, gait and Charley O’Leary, Inßelders; Hoy, McFUrlMd. Brodle and Bhenran, outfielders. Of these, Charley © Leery of tha Tigers la the only one left la tha American league. the "Fans" op na fol- The following year the White Bon were made lows; Griffith, Callahan. Patterson and Katoll. r“®*®™- Platt. Shugart, Sugdsn Sullivan, catcher,; Isbell, Mertee, Bark# and and Hartman, infielders; Hoy, Jones. McFarland and Fielder are only Foster, outfielders. Of the list tobell and Bulllvan tke either on the White Sox roeter or In the American survivors York laat •umm9T league. Griffith waa let out at New Clarke reason, and had charge of the Cincinnati team thie while Hibernate a semi-pro magnate la Chi- Jimmy Callahan to ending some cago. 1 j ITH the of saw Philadelphia of the . most exciting The season of 1902 • v|F races for the championship pennants in w (he history of the great national pastime ’in many leagues, the dyed-ln-the-wool baseball fans must content theipaelveswith recall- ing the exciting games of the .past season jtasll the ring of the gong next spring starts the nice for the mason of 1910. When the rooter who wee wont to screech hie opinions concerning the Integrity of the umpire Jo the four winds seats himself quietly before the family hearthAone. gives vent to a long-drawn sigh and murmurs gently tp himself, “Geo, it’s all over, but goliy It' whs some hot fight,’’ then It Is that memories of some of the men who stood out most prominently during the thick of the light flit through his mentality. The fail- ings of the stars at critical moments, the successes of the “dubs,” the ris- ing of some new luminaryin the baseball Armament and the fall of Idols of years past, all tend t» sketch a most vivid and Interesting picture. The namea of two players stand ont prominently again this season as a result of their brilliant performances on the green diamond; these names are John Henry Wagner, bet- ter known as “Hans” Wagner, and Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the bright and leading stars of the National and American leagues respectively. Wag- ner Is. the highest priced player in the game to-day, but his Asst contract called for only $35 a month. When Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pittsburg club, sends out his contracts, to his ball players year he'mails one to Hans Wagner that Is free from Ink except that placed on the paper by the printer. He doesn’t put In the amount for which >Honus Is to play, leaving that to the “Big Dutchman.” , There’s nothing surprising about that, for Hans is worth whatever he thinks Is right But when he signed his Arst contract, a few months after he won his nickname of “Big Dutchman," he signed up for $35 a month. And that was after he had been restrained by violent laying on of hands from wearing his uniform to breakfart. George Moreland, a former player and manager, who now makes a busi- ness of supplying averages and- other brands of dope to the hungry baseball fhn, declares that Hans Wagner had no thought of becoming anything but pitcher until 1895 when he became a member of the Bteubenville club In the old Central association At that time A1 Wagner, Claude Hltchey and Frank Bowerman wpre on the team.' During a slump the manager sent out a call tpt, f pitcher,and Al; asked that his brother Hans be given a chance. The next morning • telegram was sent to the young pitcher, ordering him to report at once. There was no passenger train from his town until noon, but the youngster surprised the manager iiy appearing at 11 o’clock. He had jumped on a freight train 10 minutes after receiving the wire. The recruit didn’t get a uniform until the following evening, and the next morning he came to the breakfast table wearing his spangles. Brother ▲l, backed up by the rest of the team, convinced Hans that it was not cus- tomary to wear the uniform before noon, but they didn't convince him that it was Improper—not mooch. ** Well, that afternoon he had his tryout and lasted two lnhlngs. He had nothing but a straight ball that was so swift it went over the fence if hit or through' the catcher if 1$ wasn’t. Of bourse, he didn’t Make good, but Moreland was so short handed he bad to keep him around to play In the Aeld, letting him eat and sleep with the brother. Then Hans took a shine to the job of shortstop and began to practice at It. Early Ip the.morning and after the games he would get kids to bat Bonner. Mur- quick era; Davis. Ca»tro,. to him. ' Finding that he eould not start enough be dug holes In the phy, Monte Croei, Lave Crone. In- field llkp sprinters do,.but be was chased for spoiling the diamond and' had Belders; Hartzel, Pults and Bey- to practice when and where he could. bold. outfielders. Many of these Finally he became fairly proAclent. He could Aeld all right, but was are now either In the minor awkward as a hog on lea. He picked up in batting and soon attracted the leagues or out of the game altogether, the big league eurvlvora being Wad- attention of rival dubs, but had made such an unfavorable impression with Davis, Murphy and Hartzel. dell. Plank. com- Moreland 'that he was given to the Paterson club for nothing. There he Boston took Its turn nt winning the pennant In 1903 with a team signed a formal contract to play for $35 a month, his Arst regular salary posed of Young, Dlneen, Hughes. Winters and Olbcon, pitchers; Criger. Far- as a player. rell and J. SUhl. catcher,; LnChance. Perrl,. Parent and Collins, Inßelders; There he made good with a vengeance and the following spring waa Dougherty, C. Stahl. Freeman and O'Brien, outfielders. for He with the until pitchers, Young ln sold to Loulsvllto $2,500. remained Colonels the shift Perhaps that bunch have not senttered. Of the la Pittsburg was made. Detroit, Hughes that took him to Cleveland, Criger and Dlneen are in St. Louie. Winter, In And stay as long as Barney Dreyfuss has ts a Notre Dame. After having that’s where he’ll Just money In Washington, while Gibson conch nt b«aa enough to cover the Agures that Hans writes in the contract. Stahl la again to piny baas. a member of three other cluba. Jake back Brat Tyrua Raymond Cobb was agAln the bright star of the American league. Ferris to a Brown, Jimmy Collins belongs to Minneapolis He stole 3$ bases In 1908, but laat aeason he made a new and Parent to one of the White Sox. Chick Stahl to dead. record nearly doublinghis former mark. At the beginning Dougherty to a Chicagoan and Freeman to In the A. A. ball, the othara, whtle of the season the Georgian said he would be fortunate Is a good throwing arm and has caught many good men, and get battar than The only changes the make-up of the team that but Lajoie outplay on fart ln 4f toe got a total of 50 for this year. Cobb beat “Lou’s" throws several times this year and cm him nt h™ won pennant for Boston in 1904 were the substitu- In done. men are wondera a the la probably ne runner in the history of base- and Cobb made Criger a laughing stock on several occor ' -playing All three of Jesse Tannehlll for Tom Hughes and “Kip" Bel- There ball, gat a runner at eecood. Lalde tion "King” Kelly “Bill” sions. thrown to ° the outfield. to ball. and this list Includes and quicker than tha bach for Dougherty in Tannehlll now George The prime still remains to be and It away a .bade leaguer. “Billy” Hamilton and “Tom” Brown and of Cobb’s life reached. ball act. «,th 'r with Washington, while Selbach to a minor and that William, can outplay . all the others who compare with Cobb. He has sprinted against the fastest throwers in the “I believe old Philadelphia won the pennant again In 1905 with Browne and could n very rough diamond, equallng purpose Is to outguess the other fellow. He American league and he has beaten them. In 1907 or Evera on practically its same line-up aa ln 1902. The new men Cobb's Johnny Kllng’s last year In thie reaped. All are clever one-handed elides where they are not expecting him to slide. He arm stopped Tyrus. but Cobb Burdock were: Henley, Coakley and Bender, pltchera; Knight. In- reaching em- stole bases on Kling. Cobb Is half-way to a base before P 145, the new- •has nine different methods of a bag and he throw off hla flov® fielder; Lord and Hoffman, outfielders. Of slk most runners get a start and pitcher unwinds "Eltber Lajoie or Williams coold Is still one of the fdoyi all of'them. - the him- the true teat of a ball comers Bender is the only one who self, a bag the throw from an and piny ne well me ever, York. The Georgian can slide head Arst or feet Arst; he and he la Into before aver- Juit Athletics. Coakley baa a semi-pro team ln New bag from any age catcher hands. player. _ Browns. or he cAh go Into the direction. reaches the baseman’s temporal O mores! O mama! Hoffman to with the can dive many times this year where Tyrus Raymond Cobb Is marvel. “o*l. Sox won the pennant as He has reached a bag baseball’s Napoleon La-wub!' He le the greatest Although the White Tatf a base. Coob’s force Lajoie the of all sackers, *Xa Orande of that world’s championship be waa not credited with stolen is still king second at least ofall Urn. brightest Jewel In the as 1906, several members a man so says a Louis second baseman The gone to arbea coming into a sack makes him difficult to prominent Bt. baseball critic. diadem—gee! that sounds like diamond. team failed to stick. Several have back the out. but the hand that holds Recently a baseball fan' of the Mound City wrote baseball leagues, others have been traded. Mi. He may be touched beat pair of hands I ever saw In minor while uosteatfy, and should It linger on any Billy Murphy of Bt. Louis, asking who was the greatest "I-aJole baa the Pitchers Stever and Eubanks. Catcher Payne and the ball will be baseball; right or left high or low, tha moat dimcult ball Georgian’s body the ball second baseman of the now playing the bag. .Fol- Inflelders Coughlin and are only members of •art of the stands little chance men taken ease, making the play look almple and Lowe the lowing is the interesting answer: la with the 1907 Tigers who failed to last the present season. of remaining In the hand. giving of indifference; not n movewasted, plays he everything “Lajoie. Johnnie and Jimmy Williams are the the-lmpreaalon “Dutch” is Washington, When Cobb baseball calls forth Evera perfect knowledge of time and distance; never Schaefer with Rossman with Bt. strength, energy, apeed and mind. He three greatest second basemen In the major leagues. and a Louis, the Cubs. poeaeaaae— but ever working into n position to get the ball Archer with te limit. “Williams was not at his best-last season and La- hurried, A resume the above shows that of the first two work* them all to the saving from short; and Lajoie con- of beginning of season "Lou” Criger, joie lacked a few points of traveling at his top spesd away wild throws pennant-winning teams there are only three men left In Before the the tinue, make the moat difficult plays look eo dead was then with the Browns in traln- st times, whilo Evers, coming slowly each year, showed to league, while there are only 22 champions of tha istsfsn catcher, who one aometlmes feels that he lias no lova for the is a snap and I’ll more brilliancy than either during the race and Inched easy that years remaining ln circuit. tagTmißde the declaration that ”Cobb game. A Is hit like a shot out of n gun; first five still the but a small margin of reaching the high-water mark of the great ball n darts out the head of a an unguarded phenomenal performances by Napoleon Lajoie, who, with little exertion hand like Judge a husband can le- r>rizer*may bare made the remark la the and the ball la in by the big A Chicago has decreed that may have wm*ou«. cot to my way of figuring, has a shade on snapping turtle, hooked home drunk and swear at wife. If we as men often do, sad he not meant oi. king of players. Mr. Lajoie of gally come kls moflienl and began second basemen should be given the palm, with Frenchman, the hall wife we would the old family poker a as sounded, but Cobb heard about It all and were that heat to Itjuat it a close second. Cleveland. . some on plana Immediately. Johnnie Evers as delight, but Larry amllee white heat and burn cute little red stripes his to formulate really brilliant player of the three Is "Tha crowd howls with Cobb's pride was hurt and his reputation insulted. “The most nothing- you me at my worthies* oaruses it. Crlger*« arm Johnnie Evers. I believe he can go back Into the field and murmurs: That's ahouM He went ta to get revenge and ha got