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u Gvrtoonijt.s 5ee tbeKewj "" ':l IT.;!' MAY 00 ALL THE DAMAGE HE JUiTfCE OTHERWISE .WiSHES' UlUKL-J Our.Glorious Climate. COU ST.,, WL6£*^ ipEC©4£t> have said "Rameses II told the writer" that little bluff sprint off first, drawing- tlie il old Ram had been in the sporting game. throw from the pitcher ,1ust to worry the Campbell really was a wonder. He was one young twirler. Tucker, seeing his game, be¬ of the cleverest dramailc critics in the coun¬ FIRST BASEMEN gan to make strenuous efforts to block Bill try, Shakespearean scholar, and perhaps off the bag and touch him out. Tucker was the most intimate friend Sir Henry Irving tricky, and unless the runner was wise he had in America, a deep student of stage would find himself cut off entirely from the Ted Sullivan Recalls the Na¬ history, a Hebrew and Sanskrit scholar, be¬ base. Tom was trying all his tricks with Bottled In sides who was Bond writing the base ball of the century. Everitt, scampering oft the base American in the One T and back. He even Participants evening Campbell and I were sitting dodging caught the ball tionals of 1867. in his office in Washington, and he was be¬ and sat down suddenly, but Bill got around moaning because (so he said) the editors him. Olympic Games. t f his paper would not permit Mm to write BY HUGH S. FCLLERTON. On the next try Bill started as If to steal, BY TUl* SULLIVAN. slr.ng. but after running three feet with a mile of "They hold me down to Ixing: time ago we were riding somewhere motion he stopped and stepped back on to Special Dispatch to The Star. The old Nationals of Washington were straightaway the English," he lamented. "If I try to be a on a train one (lay, which Is definite enough base Just as the pitcher threw. What- NEW YORK, January 27..To go to the base ball pioneers of the national game bit picturesque there is a kick." for all when ever possessed him to do It he never knew, WHISKEY purposes, Dahlen, Fred PfefEer the Jn the west. were all clerks Without speaking I reached over and but he tickled Tom In the ribs, and Tom, Greece and take part In Olympian They nearly and I fell Into a discussion as to which Is In government at pulled the paper out of his typewriter. with a whoop, forgot the ball and jumped games there this year Is the ambition of employ Washington. They the more important on the three feet Into the went west in pure amateur The last sentence he had written read this position Infield, air, letting the ball go many American athletes. One event in style, paying way: second base or Of course there to the grand stand. is their own expenses. Grand of shortstop. particular very open just now. It is exponents "And Amle Rusle made a Svengali pass was nothing to the as the Other ball players who learned that Tom the argument, impor¬ was ticklish the mile, and for it many candidates are game they were. The team consisted of hi front of Charley Reilly'e lamps, and he tance is equal in all tried It again and again until George AV one or the carved three nicks in the weather." things except covering the umpires stopped them. sure to try for the position. right, greatest short- second base, and It on that ever depends which man One of the best that ever happened was At this early date it is impossible to tell Htops played: Williams, Beith¬ Is the better at the who with St. first rong, Fox. getting ball and touch¬ Dehlman, played Louis' who will make up the team on account of Studley. Smith and other®. The CAREER OF THE the runners. If the professional team, way back in the '70s. of this team set ing shortstop Is better possible refusals owing to business and playing the natives of the he covers the and his Dehlman was one of the fastest sprinters west wild with bag, position becomes that ever broke into the one college duties. The men most likely to be their artistic handling of KING OF THE RINGERS. the more game, and day, the ball. Juke Schaefer's artiltlc important. We were simply ar¬ in a game against Chicago at St. Louis, with selected in the sprints are: C. L. Par¬ manipu¬ guing to pass away the and It a runner on the ball was to Club of San lation of the billiard ball3 Is no time, kept third, hit sharp sons, Olympic Francisco: mot's skill¬ up until Anson butted In with! Dehl, who scooped it for a throw to the Athletic ful than the way the members of tha Na¬ Special Dispatch to The Star. steadily Archie Hahn, Milwaukee Club; "What's the matter with first base plate. Ha took a look and discovered that Willie Athletic Associa¬ tional team handled ball and being the catcher was feet The Hogensen, Chicago the but, to CHICAGO, January 27..Trotting cy¬ the key to the infield?" twenty away. tion. and W. A. Shick of Harvard. lh« amazement of the people of the west. cles are stirred over the Chicago runner hesitated, half stopped and again king of the "H.11!" said Griffith. "A first baseman the America can boast of a of The Washington players toured the west in ringers. Fred it then, seeing situation, started toward great quartet Wilton, being reported ought to be made to to the plate again. Dehl started also and to¬ men in New York Ath¬ grand style, all comers that he is pay get into the 440-yard Hillman, defeating until they being prepared under a new grounds." gether they slid toward the plate from op¬ letic of Gro- met the Forest City team of name to invade the west posite directions, and the Club; Hyman Pennsylvania, Rock'orJ, 111., again the coming Griffith wasn't so far umpire gave St. man of and Waller of at Dexter Park, Chicago. where season. wrong, for you can Louis the decision. Chicago Wisconsin. they met on The of the half-mile men are Light - defeat at the hatnls of Rockford, who at Fred Wilton count the fingers of one hand the first pick that time A. began his turf career hon- basemen who body of Chicago, Paxsuns of Yale. Valen¬ had G. Spalding in the box. estly, but after the first crooked step have really done things In tine, New York Athletic Club, and Breit- lieforu the arrival of those seemed fated to fall Into their position, and In many cases first WRESTLING IN THE men Chicago nnd Washington dishonest hands the krentz of Wisconsin. Rockford had been hit¬ Fred Wilton (2.0!>) is a baseman is merely a stoughton a In the longer runs there are Cohn. »hep- ter rivals in amateur base ball. The Chi¬ bay pacing bottle, cago gelding by Wilward, and made his record sort of pensioner kept on the list because he BIG COLLEGES. pard and Sullivan, the Irish trio, with Hall Excelsiors had defeated 'he Rock- In ll»0<). He started in ISIS as a can hit. Once in a of Yale and Rowe of fords ten da\s before the old two-year- while there comes along Michigan. Nationals' ar¬ and in made a record of 2.25%. a first baseman who turns tricks, who cov¬ rival, so all Chh igo argued that 1? Rock- His wayward career ers The Field Men. ford could beat this began In 19oi at ground and makes combination plays Special Dispatch to The Star. great team from Wash¬ Rockport, Ohio, in the 2.80 pace, as Ornus, around the field, and whether he can hit or If the best American field men can be put ington and they could beat Rock the Orphan, but he was not NEW YORK, 27. Nationals of ford, by In the money not he usually shines for a time. January Wrestling into the game It is a foregone conclusion course, would be easy lor the He next started at Bradford, Pa., in the Charley Comiskey was the first of the among college athletes has come with Chk-ago team. 2.28 pace, and won. His along that the stars and Btrlpea will wave tri¬ best time was really great first basemen. He showed the great strength within a year, and now is a Well, the crowd came to Dexter Part, 2.1 iV Then he won the 2.22 pace at St. of his umphant. Europe has no weight men such and a l«ig one it wuh. | possibilities position, and it Is one of regular member of the of minor Hut the Nationals Mary's and next he got third money in the the odd things of the game that almost family as Sheridan, Irish-American Athletio Club; In and ¦ Jumped beat the supposed lnvlnclb! 2.17 pace at TitusvJUe. At Cleveland he every first baseman has sports at some of the more prominent of the Rose and Coe of Michigan, Bheldon of Yale, i'hlcago amateur team by -l!i to 4. failed to realize. At the Commy developed eastern Institutions. Cornell defeat amazed the This Bucyrus next has played more base ball around the bag and West Point Garrels of Michigan, Flanagan, Irish- people of the west and WMk he won second place in -the 2.15 than his rivals. are the latest converts, and West northwest, a* they could not reconcile the pace.

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