f > 1 > < A > jw f L F t Cleveland Americ it s oneBiDisappOintnient of Seasoi r 1 to all comers young ball lessors cutting quite rifo becausn of the abrogation of tho PROBLEMIN FRANCE words and wl By TOMMY nine tho pennant and its opportunity cago in charge tho team for a are BETTING reads Whoever shall have CLA- season one would see cov- ¬ big swat In thor race fot the flag on new national agrcom9nt framed up at habit of to share in postseason receipts and the a ly In any place or form offered gl biggest disappointment flag hoisted on the Cleveland Ban Johnsons circuit whllo Plttsburg the request of the two strongest minor a When the team was knocked out of eted Attempts Mado to Enact Law That or received bets on horse races sl 1909 baseball season has grounds Look at thee team work that In the old league has beaked several leagues the American association and RKTEE showing tho championship on tho last trip to Will Oust Bookmakers be liable to the penalties of article cntho miserable St Louis each and every player said Brcsnahan has Injected Into the St of Its veterans and Is playing young Eastern league which howe or these ¬ A now phase of tho bolting problem of tho penal code tho Cleveland AmerIcans all oft with tho handshaking Louis Cardinals and the gingery play Blorsvvlth good effect question- two organizations have failed to ratify ° Its jing f Itls eighteen offender Is liable to imprl- BOfOre thepresbni campaign began every of youngsters this season Willie able whether there has evcr been a This action on tho part oil thu two dis- ¬ has come up In France Some The from now Every member of the ago government discovered rnent for at least two or at tho Naps woro In many sections tho- team Is our enemy our no one figures that the Cardinals will season before In which so many young gruntled minors is looked upon as a years tho most other Thats on races was im ¬ months with a tine of 20 to U general favorites for tho pennant In platform from now on head tho second division it is a good players have mado good though of preconcerted action which has for an that betting horse ¬ by was Tho lawyers are now looking forty HO they will not finish last On course there Is apt to a great fall object the breaking away from organ ¬ moral and forbade it law It fact Manager Lajole himself was Winter intervened however and tho bot that be ¬ Immediately found that without bet to test cases on the meaning of ha- confident that he threatened to quit same old spirit is being manifested tho Cardinals there Is not one real ing off before the race Is over ized baseball Is Tigers Still it ting nobody went to tho races and ually game If tho team should fall Last This in direct contrast to tho star In- the say die horso breeding an Important matter fall tho team mado a remarkably who bury nil friendly feelings on the never such ¬ country cavalry began to diamond and scrap for every bit of ad n that needs FEED FOR ONE HORSE good showing in tho Taco it was- vantage suffer So tho Paris mutuulssystem figured with strengthening- government that a little Cleveland has in reality two man ¬ was introduced and the this season there was small doubt that agers over Its ball team this year received a percentage of all money Bush Leaguer Wanted Such Insc the Naps would como near making a Lajolo hears the title but Jim McGulro wagered to spend on public works In Contract runaway race of it So far it has been has to have his say It may be in the Bookmakers were thus eliminated Say its pretty fine when you Just thu opposite Tho team with the nature of consultations with Larry aa u paragraph of the law said that Into the big league and cat at the addition of the now men Is unques- ¬ but tho fact that ho has had much whoever shall In any place or forrr eating houses and ride in Pull tionably stronger than it was last sea- ¬ moro experience than Lajolo is giving practice betting by offering bets to all cars but a lot of ambitious young son and it Is a matter of record him more or less prestige comers shall be liable to certain ac lotus have a hard tlim bnalhig tint there has never been anything Truly tho owners of tho Cleveland vcrn penalties t observed Catcher Grover Laud s materially wrong witn the Naps club have loft nothing undone to land This law wa intended to mftko it was icccntly released by the dove pitching staff For years Cleveland tho pennant Money has been lavishly possible for two Individuals to make Americans in a fan felt has had ono of tho strongest eams bet together War was waged sue spent for playing material until the a 1 I remember a fellow who in tho league but It has always want team looked to be invincible Lajole eee fully on professional bookmakers Job with Frankfort once lie c failed to land on top though the wise- ¬ had been given an assistant and every- ¬ and heir business was practically kill- tin ued acres of tho gamo have picked it to thing possible done to assure victory ed But during the last two or three flag year year Frankfort America 1 queried win tho after Tho lack Even games elimi- ¬ years li revived Prosecutions for exhibition were i has Wright who came from Tonlocanj of spirit and ginger has been ono nated for fear that somo of the players betting have failed the bookmakers great fault With tho Lajolo aggrega- ¬ Yee Franktbrt America resp might be injured In these practice con- ¬ pl that they did not accept trpm tion The players copy their groat tdlng cd Land tho sumo being made turn tests all comers but only from people as the home of the great cute loader in that try to be listless thoy know personally Lajolo a stylo LaJoles managerial duties have great- Land has peculiar which ly ability The failure of two or three test CUes would any Interfered with his playing This fellow came In ono day t not create enthusiasm for j any Tho Clevclands leader Is ono of the 2 0 per other player but because of his greatest wanted month his board great ability lie gets away with It ball players that ever ap lodging and feed for ono horse pearce on a diamond but this season Never since the days of tho old errors What was his name asked Cleveland Misfits has a team proved his havo boon very costly to his Goode who is of a suspicious turn ouch a disappointment to as team In fact it was due solely to his the fans mindBird tho Naps of 1909 The great finish of- fault that thoNaps were robbed of many ropIIeeULand games There Is no doubt Lajole JI t> the Larrupers in 1908 put tho fans on that I suppose Ii few In said Go would play much better ball If edge of expectancy for still greater he could and ran to escapeannihilation things this year no wonder get away from Cleveland for awhile Its that Ho long Thats nothing said Josh Clark the fans dreamed of their Idols com- ¬ has served a time with the Cleveland team Ho has led few minutes later When brot fortably situated In first or second it closo Fred and I were In tho tall timbers ¬ to tho championship mark but never placot when one zaKes into considera- salts used to wire this way when arran tion the amount of money expended has been quite able to carry tho play- ¬ I ers over tho mark So many attempts- dates Will play your team for to strengthen tho team supper men two hors Tho owners of tho up and so many failures are bound for twelve and club gave one to Oh were great days leavo I those star pitcher and one other finger in their impress If Lajolo could I to large only get a vacation for addition a amount of cash for about a year l Cy Young Thoy dug down deep into In another city tho chances are that ANSON LAUDS WALSH their pockets for Outfielders Lord ho might go back to Cleveland and b v Raft ry and Sullivan They paid out meet with hotter success than ho ever 10000 for Falkenberg and Altizer had in his life Veteran Says Spitball Pitcher Is < Thoy did not spare expense in get ¬ The Cleveland team has been the one of All Slab Artists ting Land Easterly Wright and Sit big disappointment In the American Cap Anson leader of tho Chile ton Then too they hired Jim Mc league this year Thcro Is no doubt Colts of former days paid Ed Wr Guire and Jim draws a mighty good about It and tho Cleveland enthusiasts tho White Sox pitcher a big com salary merely to coach tho batteries arc becoming a little weary and are mont recently calling him the and officiate on the coaching lines asking the management to show some ¬ thing twirler of the land Aside from Terry Turner tho Naps more than tho failures which Ed Walsh Is tho greatest pltche shortstop there is not a crlpplo on tho have been recorded Tho combined the country and ono of team yot the Naps duties manager the best do not win It Is and player have ever lived fOr 51 easy to see worked so said Anson hear why they dont win in a- much havoc with Lajolos claiming Is way but tho temperament that Joss of Cleveland fans would llko to know that ho is overanxious- premier Others hold out for Mord why it is tho pitchers who say they and his own anxiety is the very thing I Brown of tho Cubs Christy Math are in good condition cannot ef-¬ which is marring bo as his work That Is kPif- gCCW son of tho Giants Bill Donovan of fective as their rivals why tho field ¬ often tho case In baseball I E I Tigers Rubo Waddell of tho Bro ers wno tea two icaguo iyus ¬ On paper tho Naps YoUWc in can appear about the and Cy Young of Naps not field as well as their adversaries strongest team In the American league tho But why tho batters cannot Tho catching department Walsh for me accumulate with Clarke Ho moro than three or four hits to tho Easterly and Bemis is one r kept tho Sox In the running of tho best season That cannot be game on tho circuit Tho pitching is a A denied II staff biggest co- Nearly every member of tho team formidable ono Joss Bergor J the drawing card In tho Fallcon try I wish r had plays doplly at times during tho crit- ¬ berg Llobhart Young FIVE had Walsh in Rhoades Foster FAMOUS STARS OF THE CLEVELAND AMERICANS old days Ho would ical stages There are exceptions it and Schwartz constitute ono of the have been a gi must be admitted but on tho whole strongest in tho league running mate for John Clarkson 1 Tho infield is playing aggressive ball Give ¬ Is ¬ Bres fast company or many pair couldnt have been beaten r there an absence of tho up and do ono of tho greatest any team has over nahan tho grand whether of the factorily adjusted before there is a of this kind so ing spirit had material that Cleve- former stars have gone to such- encouraged bookmak- goo only one man those days and Stovall first base Lajolo ¬ back real breach The minor leagues can ¬ I sec land has on hand and It Is a good bet an extent ing that the government found that namo Is Walsh Without any doubt tho Naps aro too ond Turner that making good these days- not afford ¬ short and Bradley third that the St Louis leader would como a war They are prosper- last year its percentage from thu Paris tame There aro too many handshak- ¬ compare is easier Isa matter of conjecture ing favorably with any that has near making runaway of In but under existing conditions and they muteuls was 5000000 ¬ a race ii less than in ers and not enough of tho scrappy va- over appeared on ¬ the fact remains that the teams havo no assurance a major league dia tho American league I which that they can live 1907 and that for the first three months WILL PLAY IN VAUDEVILl riety in tho squad Tho Naps can mond are relying on their new then to win without organized baseball smile games Thcro are of this year the deficit is nearly 1 through a defeat oarly In the Tho ono great arc doing It to date too many wise men SOOOOO fault of the Naps Is Recruits Making Good Showing business tangled- as compared with 190S M Four Big to season easier than any other team in that tho team plays up In baseball to allow a war to Baseball Stars Twinkle listless ball Place- Youngster are showing up remark- ¬ take Ruan tho minister of agriculture has the league Already they seem to have a man like place 1C the Stago Bresnahan of St Louis ably well this season Boston i and the Issue was forced it therefore drawn up a new regulation forgotten how closo they camo to win ¬ Jennings The and Another Bascbal War would Four of Detroit or Chanco of Chi Philadelphia probably mean the annihilation- which Is practically certain to bccomo of the best known ball play Americans with a lot of Rumors of another baseball war are of the two In tho big leagues on ar minor leagues referred to law in which ho has eliminated tho will be seen I r vaudeville stage next fall and win Barrow Tho A quartet consisting of Ed Walsh i lyrlcsparo by Percy Ibson interpretations is to Miss Bar and The Golsh Is regen Gieenbank and music by Sidney rymores He arranging for Doc White of tho Chicago America Tens American mind the best work she has an early production In New York Christy Mathcwaon P1ywrights Jones additional musfcal numbers be- over dono as an certainly of tho Now Y Ing actress and Nationals and probably Pat Moran T introduced by Marie Horno In tho most gratifying and fruitful field tho London production George Graves of endeavor the worlds champion Cubs has b as an ambitious actress Ld formed and has boon offered book Where They Are made a lilt in the part of King Khay ¬ So press fit If Anywhere yam writes Miss Barrymores by ono of the biggest vaudeville ag I agent Perhaps Miss Barrymoro will bo delighted cles In tho United States All f as well as surprised to ADVICE TO PLAYWRIGHTS- men have signified their wllllngncs Grace Elliston to Star hear tho news appear Grce Elliston to Be Contracts bech before the footlights with slgncd Sth r have between By LENA ASHWELL- exception of Moran who b Uiom Our New ¬ ReJ has not York Dramatic Corre- In Honry B Harris and Harriet Ford Wilson as spondent his own land like the prophet of Eight The Bachelors Baby Get a good simple story to face tho public and sing as to t axiomatic repute- at the present writing and two who it will bo remembered dramatized Recently the university Let it bo Harvard human and appeal to all peo- ¬ convinced that it will be Just us e t T least as often as every once others to be A Gentleman From kinds of announced later The Franco and Miss stadium was temporarily loaned to ple so his back to the bugs and catch In awhile some eight European Caroline King y aLslster that it will be of interest to youthful A Single playwrights aro Henri of Mrs Francis Wilson for the production a those in dramatic critic on a salary of Illustration Bernstein who Clarence Mnckay lie rights tho stalls as well as in the Perhaps a single instance will shows symptoms of fotrt to now comedy Tho Bachelors Baby gallery Do U2 per writes a column about to servo becoming Sardou 2d Honry their new comedy entitled An Ameri- not let too many things longer than about twentyfive or tl the illustrate the cleverly disguised Arthur which Mr Wilson first staged In Balti- have happened coming of tho American play Jones who says poverty Is j can Girl Prom France Tho before the rise of tho tyIivo pages In typewriting and wright point of this article An Insincere contracts more The story and atmosphere of curtain Center your into his own It is in order to manager American IIomyBotalllo W Somerset Maugham iuII for a production of this play early Tho interest on one shorter under any circumstances t probably tho leader of his i Bachelors Baby very much or two people write about tho popularity and su- who has become o In the coming season Limit tho number of eighteen pages periority countrys stago producers has made successful enough suggest the kind of comedy In which your characters as of American playwrights his plans sell the first plays he wroto Alfred 1 Miss Grace Elliston tho original the lato much as possible Avoid topics of the hour as by whenever one of for next season How many Sutro Stuart Robson became famous- Write in simple colloquial English thorn blackjacks a American authors author of The Builder of Shirley Rossmore in The Lion and the In fact In reading it time the play Is read and produ feeble manager in a back alley aro represented Bridges John Galsworthy reminds one Read what you havo written aloud and such topics gets and among tho plays he has who wrote Mouse and who lately appeared In though only In atmosphere of Mr hoar are likely to bo at a piece accepted which is not to announced The Silver and Strife the leading whether It sounds natural Write on modern life say produced Three and almost a half Tho almost Do female role in Harrison Robsons Tho Bachelors Romance Learn to your if possl This Is tho stock story Is Calllavet and De Flers authors of Grey criticise own work Study the best modern English of a half William Collier who thank Lovo Fiskes production of The totally dissimilar as the two plays are Cut all unnecessary dn the dull dreary days when Watches and Buridans ¬ lines so that the atists as the heaven Is more actor than playwright Don Dovll will bo the star Miss Duer In story It would be an Interesting action docs such Ibsen PInero and Joi scribe has spaco to fill with nothing to keyYes not drag Avoid all mono ¬ Tho three whole ones are has contributed considerably to maga- ¬ turn of affairs and a genuine loguos for construction Shaw and V fill It with Augustus the American author benefit and asides Do not change your for dialogue you Thomas Clyde Fitch and George Ho has come zines and is the author of the novel to the stage If Francis Wilson were to scene In If rend foreign In fact wo hear so much about the Into his own The only questions re tho middle of an act Do not thors study Brleux Donnay AmerIcan playwright bart malning Unconscious Comedians This is her slldo snuglr into tho shoes probably have more than four and Ca on these occa ¬ And how many unsettled are What is tho first ofTort acts three are in French Schnitzler In B sions that one would foreign writers have American playwrights at playwrltlng The scenes never occupied since Stuart Robsons preferable Lot your German fain and likewise sneaked own Does he of the play are laid in acts be no co and Glacosa in Italian perchance wonder when something over on the man ¬ own anything Or docs Now York and death a drama from ager In tho shape of a play ho only owo deal with an American girl who was r a foreIgn pen gets on to or two So far as the J tho American writer can see tho only reared and In boardsthat is one would educated France and Frohman Gets The Arcadians wonder If comes to ¬ ho were totally Ignorant America and becomes promi- Charles Frohman has secured tho of the stage nent in New York society of this country But It is a deeply American rights of the now musical regrettable During Ethel Barrymoros Now York play produced at fact that the American engagement the Shaftesbury playwright Is of secondary importance next season sho will give theater recently with great success further performances of Nora In Ib ¬ called The Arcadians Mr Frohman- sens A Dolls House Miss Barry says that not only do tho leading ¬ mores splendidly brainy Lon performance don newspapers say that The Arca- ¬ of Nora a rendition of a cllfllcult part dians Is the best comedy placed musical seen by many critics on a higher for many years but ho It plane considers of achievement than anything one of tho best properties In musical the American stage has yet seen in comedy for America since San Toy = cwz AARi1fdi How He Became i lP I l Author and ayw1right- r o THE malignancy of publishers could not turn me back From the day on I first tasted blood In the garret my mind was mado up there could be no humdreadfuldrum profession for me Literature was my game It was not highly thought of by those who wished me well I remember being asked by two maiden ladles about tho time lien the university what I was to be and when I replied brazenly An author they Hung up their hands and one exclaimed reproachfully And you an M A My mothers views at first were not dissimilar For long she tools mine Jestingly as something I would grow out of and afterward they hurt her so that I tried to give them up To be a ministerthat she thought uas among the fairest prospects but sho was a very ambitious woman and sometimes she would add half scared- at her appetite that there were ministers who had become professors but it was not canny to think of such things- only ono person my I had on side an old tailor one of tho fullest men I known and quite tho best talker It was have and he who gave me much en ¬ couragement > perhaps qulto unconsciously Ho was a l bachelor he told mo is to bo woman all that known about a loan man pallid of face his legs up when ho walked as If he drawn was ever carrying something In his lap His walks were of the shortest from tho teapot on the hob to tho which ho stitched front board to board on the the hob and so to bed He might have gone out had tho Idea struck him but in the years I knew him 1 the last of his bravo life think he was only In tho open twice then ho his room for another hard by I did not see him tLcdchangcd make these Journeys but I seem to scohim now and ho is somewhat dizzy in the odd thing tho American playwright one he atmosphere In Is owns hand carries a box Iron Ho raises tho other wondering the Inalienable right to apply on his head Is a A what this Is two freo for It hat faint smell of singed sloth goes bv seats for the first nights per ¬ man had my with him This heard of set of photographs of the poets and formanco of every latest Importation single sight of them which led to our naked for a from London first mooting Y remember how spread them out on his board and after looking long at ho on mo and said solmenly them turned his gaze American Rights For a A Pcr inn What can I do to bo forever known Princess And make the ago to como mv The Messrs Shubert own q announce that These lines of Cowley were new to me but the thoy havo Just completed arrangements and I sentiment was not new ETHEL whoieby they marveled how tho old tailor could see through mo so < have secured tho Amerl ¬ well So It was 1lii- BARRYMORE AS SHE can strange to mo to discover presently that he had not = APPEARS IN HER LATEST rights for A Persian Princess of own been thinking me at nil < great but his young days when that couplet sang In the English musical comedy ¬ his head and he imT SUCCESS cess suc had thirsted to set off for Grub street but was k u which is now afraid and ho EDMUND III Lady running at tho old ago came and then death found while hesitated BREESE WHO Frederick imported from Queens theater London- and him grasping a box Iron WILL STAR BY hat the London stage MIt58 Barrymore Ho It was who insisted my IN THE EARTH cllbcd probably the most successful tour or A Persian Princess Is in two that I take first manuscript to a publisher her career written by acts was accepted Success seemed to come easily It JAMES BERNARD Loedham Vantock and P before after that and It was not long FAGAN J I received offers to write for tho M The Earth Is staLoJ Barrio ono of tho big London HarrIs twill use ittomakeMr successes of the year and MannbC1 o Brecse a star of tho first magnitude