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Ml WASHINGTON HERALD,, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER, 26, 1911. cc SMILING JCEMJ MUTKIE, FATHER OF THE GIANTS MlANAGER of Pennant Winners of Yore, Viewing a 'Game at the Polo Ground, Recalls Famous Men of Oldtime , was (Copjrirht. 1011. by tiie New York Henid Co. Ail rijht toerTwM arranged. I hired John Ward to pitch for mo at the point to indulge in an almost boisterous snicker at most of them back with me, in spite of the fact that when Tom Lynch was 'an and be tht s very managers and agents one that ever lived. He was umpiring a close N aged man, with eyes deep set and keen, stood great salary of 25 a week. He worked in one game his success. And yet here watching the the town was infested with rival best f unsung. Among got were Connor, Welcn. game in New York one day against , and a behind the seats at the Polo Ground during the ana nis arm went Dao. ritcners werent me pamperea club he founded, playing ball, at the time. those I Ewing. My next was to runner to steal second base. looked from last days of the pennant fight, watching the Pr,ma donnas then that they are now, and it wasn't qillesplc and 'Buck Job started It A Origin of the Name "Giants." New York club, had touched out, Lynch Giants play. "Rube" Marquard, the pitching the fashion for their arms to go bad, so I fired Ward. transfer Keefe and Esterbrook to the the bench as if he been but "Meanwhile," continued the old , "John B. got sensation of the season, was in the box. The "We played for the State championship in 18S1, and as they were supposed to be with the Mets. I. shouted, 'Safe!' Day and got together and we formed the New York on crowd to throw they crowd was cheering him, for he had just struck out in 18S2 I got 'Tim' Keefe, Holbert and Roseman. I them under my wing "that winter and took them "The started anything that team of the , now Giants," and sore the side. " That ' was a grand ball player, and he the a pleasure trip to Bermuda and kept them there until could lay their hands on, and I was pretty about he wared his hand at the team playing. of cost U3 game. No one paid any attention to the aged man, whose was responsible for my winning the League Alliance thfly signed contracts. For this bit baseball it myself, as 4t the "Ever hear how they happened to be called the Asso- you Dan legs were somen bat unsteady and with which a cane championship that year. Next season the Mets joined Btrategy I was suspended from the American "'On the level, did touch him? I asked Giants? No? Well, I named them one day. The came to bench. collaborated. He stood alone. At last another, whose the American Association and in 18S4 we won that ciation and fined f300." Richardson when he the boys were nil tall in those days, because most of them " hair was white, came up, looked at the first closely pennant So it will be seen that Jennings and McGraw and 'No. I missed him.' were sluggers, and they didn't go in so much for for a minute, and then: "When I had planned out the ground with John B. "The crowd was still howling, and particularly the speedy players then. They were winning, and J bunch behind our bench wanted to kill some one. I "Hello, Jccms! I wasn't sure It was you." looked out at them and said: 'They're giants in went out in front and shouted: 'He never touched "Hello, John! That Marquard Is a great ." playing and stature, too.' him, and now, if you want to fight any one, choose James Mutrle, the winner of two pennants for the "Somebody took it up, and they hare been known me!' Giants as theif manager, had ridden out to the Polo V "They were crazy then and followed Lynch and me Ground on the elevated unnoticed and had filtered Into off the field after w e had lost the game. Finally Tom the grounds unsung. Yet there was a time when he turned and challenged any one of them. 'I can't lick lgg all of you once,' he shouted, any one of yonl' at 'but could not bare gone anywhere In New York without "The toughest time I ever had with a crowd was one man nudging another and whispering: In Kansas City where all the butchers herded In thosa "Mutrle. Smiling Jeems." days. We had been playing a close ganie and. bathe So it is with John McGraw now. He enters a caf", ninth Inning one of my men knocked the ball over the fence five feet fair and won It for us. 'Foull Fouir and a hush settles while every one present stands with shouted the butchers, who had a lot of money Jtet on ears strained to catch a word of his conversation In the game. the hope that a pearl of baseball wisdom may be "A New York man, ThH PoweTs, was the umpire, picked up. He cannot go anywhere without being ij and they were laying for him after the game. The was In of hole we had to climb So eighties. field down sort a and known. it was with Mutrle in the late up some steps to get into the club house to dress. Yet he went to the Polo Ground that day and the A big, husky fellow in his shirt sleeves was waiting keeper of the press gate questioned his right to enter for us at the head of the stairs and in bis bands was his own home until Arthur Bell, of Mutrie's time and a baseball bat while on his face was a look that keeping souvenir. Behind now employed the Polo Ground, gave the custodian showed he was not it for a at us stormed the mob, so that it looked as if we were of the entrance the "tip" that it was all right to let in going to get it one way or another. the famous old manager. " 'I'm going up,' I said. Mr. Mutrle was of the time when the ball players M. B-BUC- K- EWING " 'Don't go up,' said "Phil' Powers, 'hell brain yon. JOHN wondering wore mustaches and Burnsldes and talked about the WARlii "I started up those steps if I would come down them feet first When I got near the top pitcher throwing an underhand ball. Look at the old I stuck out my hand to this big butcher and greeted pictures of teams of his day, and all the players have IMIW him with: 'How are you? How'd you like the game?' facial decorations of some sort. This Is the age of "He sheepishly shifted the bat to the other hand clean shaven ball players. Not a single whisker in and shook with me. The rest of the players and Powers followed up the stairs and we got into the the big leagues right now. The famous mustache of club, but the crowd waited outside for us. I was the John Titus, of Phlladt-ia- . was the last, and now It, first one to leave and they spotted me. too, has gone. But in s day there were men " There be is,' yelled the big butcher with whom relapse, in the game w hom you ,uid never knowfrom Jus- I bad shaken hands, but who had had a and they all started after me. One man me in the ear tice Hughes. with a lump of mud, and I made a for it That Yet, In spite of this difference in the style of wear- was "the toughest experience I ever had with a crowd. ing the whiskers, Mr. Mutrle for the sake of old "Rooting" Back in 1887. times let's call him "Smiling Jeenis" says that the root days way baseball of y is no better than that played in his "They didn't use to in the old the they do now! In 1SS7 I took the New York club to time, and then he produces data to show that It Isn't Chicago, near the end of the season, and If we had "The pitching may be a little better he re- won two out of three games we would have won the luctantly conceded as he watched Marquand knock championship. The crowd came out with tin horns 3own a couple more men by the strike out route, "but and rattles and a brass band, and L never heard so got my men all up ex- the fielding I not as much noise. It worked and and batting think are good. cited and we lost two out of the three games and the Speaking of , there was 'Buck Bwlng, the championship. That was the beginning of rooting, best man who ever stood on spikes behind the bat, and from this time its psychological value was real- and be could hit. too " ized and managers began to use the crowds to rattle opposing teams. And Mr. Mutrie's face was wreathed In smiles at as the Giants ever since. And say, speaking of the ' StKBStfK09FllSt7 ' "I had pretty good luck in New York. I won the the pleasant memory, the same of smiles old fellows like Keefe and Tlernan, it seems good to sort that fiSHBpiBBpB&iij3i(j .zrnm j&s&if championship in 18S8 and 18S9 and the world's cham- ' be few old names into the league? decorate the face of a resident of Boston when he Is getting a Irish KBXS pionship both those year. In 1888 I beat Brooklyn reading a poem which touches the spot. again like OToole and O'Brien. I'm not knocking for the world's championship and In 18S9 I "beat St AMOS" players' you Louis. Giants In 1S90. "That 'Buck' Ewlng, and how he "could throw," RUSIE these of understand, but it's mT "TIM" KEEFE I left the Day, he said to me: 'Jim, .you've got too much grand private opinion that it hurts the game to have so s "But I want to speak of one pitcher," declared Mr mused "Smiling Jeems." Mutrie with a smile, "and I think stand, l'ou'll never fill theNseats.' many Frenchmen and Swedes and Germans and Chance did not Invent all the tricks of the trade. don't that a better When a ball player says "that " one ever lived. His name was , and well on Mutrle was there or around with a little wisdom in or "that 'Buck' Ewing." It is the highest possible trib- "And we filled them the first day and had a crowd Cubans the clubs, and I look to see these men with I remember thedeal that brought him to New Y'ork. the good old names with the Emerald Isle ring to his ute to ability. on the field besides The next thing we had to do was time. John T. Brush owned the Indianapolis club at the to build some more stands, and maybe that didn't them bolster it up. "I had a very busy time after I took the New York time, and the New York team paid $25,000 for five "And where are the batters of the old days?" asked players. please me." "As soon as we had arranged to get the New York club," said Mr. Mutrie, "for baseball was not the rose They were Bassett a third baseman; Buck- Mr Mutrie, with a purely interrogative tinge to his ley, a : Bogart, a right fielder, and "Smiling himself this" club I got right after the Troy plajers and brought strewn path In those days Is now. I remember Glasscock, a tone. "Where are the Broutherses, and the Bowes, Jeems" had to interrupt at that it shortstop, besides Rusie. The people laughed when and the Whites, who used to be the carpenters' de- that dicker was made, but what price would a man like Rusie bring now? lights, tearing down the fences? There are not any V "To watch my leg action now you would never sluggers playing ball y like those,men. Cobb, and Comic think I was a pedestrian, would you?" asked "Smil- Lajole, and Wagner are great hitters, but they are Tenny, flrnes and Ford, Cartoonists of the Bi Leagues. ing Jeems," "but while I was in New Bedford some not the wallopers that the old timers were." OT discussing the efficacy of the drop ball "Bill" Lauder, the old Giant third baseman, and rated "Mac gave me the Idea for It." one sent a communication to the papers as a Joke and signed my name to offering to "That sounds like the good old days' theme." when pitched to one German representative of as one of the best men In the country until "Matty" "Why don't youraw a picture of McGraw as he it walk anybody for the championship of Bristol county. was pestered a dilating on the hit him in the head in practice one morning with a fast looks a pitcher from the box?" I "And I'd be fine ball player if I were not loyal to n: rittsburg. Hans Wagner; not to death with a lot of challenges and finally made my time! I admit that baseball is on a better basis intrinsic value of the fadeaway when handed one and made him "bat shy," and "Dare" Fultz, for- "Say, do you think I can draw moving pictures?" a match with a man named Walker to walk him a now and the crowds are more lucrative, but I don't Sherwood Magee in a pinch, not discoursing merly of the Highlanders and now a practising lawyer. That's the kind of artist Ames is flippant race of one hundred miles. His name should bava been enough to scare me, gave think the playing has Improved any. Why, in my on the Athletics' winning of the world's championship, Tenney immediately after leaving college became a frothy, subtle, light He Is rated as one of the J)on but he out in the Tenney, big leaguer and has been travelling in fast company vivants back In Warren, Ohio, and when he gets there eighty-sevent- h mile and I won. Then I defeated time, seven thousand persons made up an enormous that all absorbing topic to outsiders, Fred Bill Hawes and McGunnlgle on track. ever since. each fall he has to tell them all about the Giants. the Lew crowd. I remember when I first came to New York John, alias, "Chief," Meyers, and Leon, alias "Red," Brown, of the Boston team, thought that he was a The ability to draw was born In him like his base- That's where he learned to play baseball, out there, and wanted to put a ball club in here. Ames, stood before a picture at an exhibition u short and so they think that thev have a right to the "in- walker, and he challenged me to a match. A fellow ball. He never studied In Paris or any of the other named 'Curry' Foley came Brown " 'lou can't do it,' said every one; 'the gamblers time ago pointing out its strong and weak features. big art centres, he tried to put things down as they side stuff" of the big league dowa with as his but Ames spends trainer, but Lew refused to obey his orders and In- w ill t.poil it, and you make go.' The incident goes to show that baseball players appeared to him. Look at the sketch pt Wiltse. "hours on the trips making sketches can't It of his fellow players. He Is one of the best natured sisted on eating apple pie just before the race. The do not always talk "shop" while off the field, a habit Leon K. Ames, of Warren, Ohio, Is a different sort result was a bad Brown, Outguessing the Pessimists. of an He never tries to do any serious work, pertons In the world, in spite of the Jinx which he con- defeat for and be had to quit Interests and artist in the twenty-thir- d mile. "I made up my mind to outguess those prophets of attributed to actors. They have other but confines himself to cartoons. Look at the above. ducted with him whenever he went into the pitcher's other thoughts besides the number of bases that "Do you expect McGraw will permit you box until he found that lucky necktie this fall, and "This made Foley wild, for he blamed the pie, and evil, and I wore out shoe leather walking up and that he offered to take up the race where Brown "Eddie" season or the exact cor- to retain your job after he gets a look at that?" Ame3 will as readily make ou a picture as a sweet girl left off. down this town trying to get backers. They all Collins stole last graduate will play the piano. 'Come on,' I said, and Foley started td'race me. He average. of the was asked. laughed at me and wanted to appoint an insanity pulency of "Tv" Cobb's battinz A few "I don't expect to ever make my living by draw- gave It up after seventeen miles, and the next place practised he stopped was on a cot lying on, commission Laughed me!" echoed Smiling Jeems, big leaguers are very good artists and have ing," admitted Ames, "but sometimes I think I might He was this, cot at looking over work soaking his sore feet in hot water to reduce, their cift in a remunerative way- as a side HneXThe after the of a few of the cartoonists the walking rapidly np and down the grand stand In spite newspapers. blisters on them when some one handed tele- most Tenney, manager of the Bos-- ni the But then I suppose, that a lot of bnr a of the chai in his legs, and indignant at the ntaWe are "Fred" those artists believe they could squeeze a good salary gram, the sender thinking that he was still on the memorv. "ThPV lfllltrhpil nt m thpn Anrf InnV at lou -- "nui league Cviuu; llipu ix. auio, iu v.is. out of baseball after seeing me pitch sometimes." track. The telegram read: ' of the Giants, and Russell Fora, the spltball sensation is Ames the always bubbling over " 'Stick to it, Foley, stick to it! baseball In this town y and I started It." That artist, of the and affiliated with the Yan- with good nature and laughing at himself. But still " 'Yes, by ginger, I'll stick to it!' declared, FoleA "Whom did you finally get to back you?" he likes honestly pos- stick to cot,' and he did two Meyers, is not an artist, but Is a and admires art, and whenever 'I'll this for weeks. "John B. Day, and I put the Mets In this town In kees. The Indian, sible while on the road with the Giants visits galleries "What! A little of my early baseball career? I great student of by reading copiously has am.sLxty-str-year- s ISNi We played one hundred and eighty-eigh- t games art, and and exhibitions. Ball players have queer hobbles and was bom in Chelsea, Mass., and old. competent fancies means pass My was a Scotchman my that year. I got an option on the old Polo Ground at made himself a really critic. and to the time when travelling. fatner and mother a Yankee. Tenney is a great ,home man and takes much Russell Ford, bf the Yankees, is a more" serious I played cricket a good deal when J was a boy, but.up Fifth avenue and 110th street and then went to Wash- artist, refusing to have any of his work published un- to the time that was sixteen had never touched pleasure with his children. "The loyal rooter Lady I I a ington and hired most of the Hop Bitter team, in- less he feels that It Is worthy of him. He says that baseball. Some of the boys who had seen me play nd under her cluding Kennedy, 'Hugh' Dally, 'Steve' Brady, Nelson, B." Is learning to draw and paint lust he has to be in the mood for drawing, and, In spite of cricket invited me to join a ball club about this time, says she is a very the day which was 1S70, the name of Lewis, Say and Muldoon. I arranged three games with father's Instruction, and he that fact that he spent a whole recently in a vain and the first club I attempt to produce something worth while on short played with was the Dreadnaughts of Chelsea. the Nationals, of Washington, at the Polo Ground, hud apt pupil. J as an Artist. notice for this story, he had to glye it up as a bad had not thought at that time of making baseball my for the first one there were two thousand persons Tenney job until his artistic temperament got the insniration. profession. In 1875 I became a professional and rook Bos- charge (Me.) out to see us play. That was a monster crowd then, One spring, when Tenney had charge of the Ttdiowew act ? t It didn't get It before this piece went to press. He of the Lewlston team, where I started to u nrs ftf " ' t H a severe or Ms own catch the first game. A fellow and we were all surprised it. had my men out ton club before he came to the Giants as a result of .iniiiiuxn uiw HPKiW is critic work, and what might named 'Denny Calla- at I have worthy of publication by others han was pitching, and I tried to stop a foul tip. They there, but the Washington team failed to show up, tuat U,S trade in the winter of 190S, he went South as went the route to have upholstery the tho manager team, the secretary of the club. the waste basket under the severe didn't for catcher in those days and the spectators began to get after me. of the censorship of Mr. R. Ford, as is evidenced by hlsl and doormat gloves, and I stopped that foul tip with, UU U1112L 1UF UliH JDUSIUU UUU IUC vi'c:iAiu0 my "Throw him over the fence!" yelled one man, and ueOJul'Cl to note: collar bone. It gave way. So I spent the rest of correspondent for two others. All that Tenney had "I to pose joke the season umpiring my arm In a sling. rest needed no further inspiration. They do on was to get up at seven o'clock in the don't want as a artist." with te started that trip That sounds the keynote of his "I went to Fall River the next season and got $60 on me, morning and his team out to the field on a jog sentiment. As .a a down the field after and I, having heard that take spltball pitcher he is no laugh, and, now that he month. I played shortstop there, having, tired of discretion was the better part of valor, began right after breakfast, where they would practice and he wants to as good as catching. was while getting noon. Then he would lead a run draws, it be his pitching, which It at Fall River I brought out rehearse signs until is indeed a high mark which to , and there Is one achievement of across the field as fast as my legs would carry me, back to the hotel for dlnner'and, while the other at shoot which and they more speed Ford has done some cartoons for a paper in I am proud. Gore was a big, raw boned countryman had In them in those days than players were resting for a couple of hours, Tenney, Indianapolis money, from Saccarappa, Me., and daily for regular and, to show that the the first part of his career they have. now. The bunch was right at my heels, and the artist would get out his sketch. gift runs in the family, be h; a brother who is also had been spent with the Portland club, Next Tenney,, the manager, would lead the club but I offered I just made the box offie in time to shut the door and xa very good Russell might hare been afecog-uize- d him $10 a month, and he could not let this princely on a jog back to the park, where a game would be artist lock I thought that they were going to tear it leader of the modern school himself if be bad salary get away from him. At first Gore did not show it played, and be would arrange signals, plan the club's not given so much attention to development (but all once he beganr hitting the ball so down, and yet to give up any of the money, general the youngsters fine the of his at hard that I hated style, teach a few of the spit ball. the fielders moved back to the fence, and then, they as It was my first game. points of the game and generally supervise the play. Russell Ford first languished In the limelight couldn't get his hits, for most of them went over .it.-- ., game followed back the hotel, In ti, c - i,.i,., ,. j t After the the ran to when, with his present mate, "Ed" Sweeney, two weeks he owned Fall Rlver ' " "" whre Players would eat supper ana afterward 1870 Npw coma not call up and Tout rVlTV'happened to he won tba pennant for the Atlanta team. Ho next "In I went to Bedford nnder Frank Ban r oang about the'lobby manicuring their diamond rings, came to the Newark club of the Eastern League and croft, now the business manager of the the tooth-bea- Cincinnati Washington club. Some fellow bad got a big the inevitable mark of a big leaguer, 'with quill then to the Highlanders in 1010, where he proved to club. Yes, he's as old as that I had with and had started to use it as a bartering ram Picks, and complaining because they had to work so be the pitching sensation of the season. Harry Storey, George Washington Bradley and Jake J OPCOed the WlDd0W Md Teune?, So It will be readily seen that all ball players are Evans. X lilred , but in less than a ' CP rbeQ ffifStSS to other-pursuit- would then hustle orer the athletcST spend month n announced that pay the money back. had not just Some tbelr idle time lu Bancroft released hlnr as worthlesiV-i- spITe I telegraph office and file a couple of stories. Next he Of course the great run. of ball players de- of my protest" just given the first man his two bits when- - ahout would return to the hotel and take care of the club's vote many fleeting moments to proving the old theory Just then thp telephone rang, and It was a call for went up: correspondence and arrange for playing dates and that three of a klud are a big Improvement over two Mr. Mutrle. " 'Here thy come" catchup ny other odds and ends of business. Along ralr, but they are just the ball players. Some hare "Ding these new fangled machines"' he exclaimed about twelve or one o'clock: Tenney, the snaa, weald other ambitions. "Eddie" Collins, the great second as he came back. my wife, and sup'-p- hv i a Tre,come 50Und Trhen CStanrt)us "That's she said T a be ready .for bed; and he wouldn't have, another thinj baseman of the Philadelphia Athletics, for instance, was ready and getting cold. Why, Zl sailor I haie been at the masthead cry 'Laudl but I bet to do until seven o'clock the next morning, would like to be a writer. Ho Is n graduate of Colum- talking to you all the afternoon. Butay, J like to that it didn't hae the sweet meaning to blm that the Tenney was educated at Brown University arid bia University and writes very well, having done some thluk of the old boys again. Well, so long!" magazine already. story "Smiling Jpems" Here tbey come!' had to me. closed down ths win-- newspaper and work This And hobbled away wlih"be aid J is a proof that some ballplayers can draw other of his cane. Qnce bts pictures were all aow and the crowd to Just in the prints. rushed back their seats. We jn country. Among con-wo- n in support the lei-an- the"SlMTStfSSthe cast of characters mwmi" things besides their salaries and bf Now he is forgotten and tucked away ta, "Stata d. mat game and the next, and all three that I had temporaneous with Tenney on the Byown team were assertion, look at Ames and Tenney and Ford. And baseball did. not bdag aim wealth w

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