36 SPLENDID TRIBUTE TO MANAGER M'ALEER // .//j Ool"!E on,you BAT VEIiy POORLY m 7// Kip! Clever New York Writer Tells ON Pitchers Are Gaining Such of the Early Days of JiiOOME Power That Few Youngsters Washington's Leader. " Seem Able to Hit a WINTER 4 NOW IS 3 Little Bit. > i By John B. Foster. Exactly twenty-one years ago the com¬ . i OF OVfl DISCONTENT# Tae minor ing Mwy .1 train rolled into the Baltimore leaeue batting records. whict. are and Ohio station in from _ rapidly emerging from the desk« ..f Washington MADE GLORIOUS // the Philadelphia, bearing; a club of young (#5 various minor league presidents. mik» ball player who wen- upsetting all tradi¬ SUMMER- F7 ,//- a dismal front in the most intrrffitiiiit tion in the National Lffigue beeaiise they i\* department of the name-- the battlnsl refuted to be downtrodden. i / Judging from the tabs so far presented. the minors It had come to be a part of the dogma <7/ in were even weaker against of the oldest base ball organization tliat / ! their ond quality pitchers than the beginners should be losers. Here was b' big fellows against the stars of the curv¬ ing game. Such the Cleveland, mostly made up of young I //! being ease, what Mood, which not only refilled to sub¬ hope is there that these minors will !>e scribe to the doctrine, but looked a? if it & -7v anv addlt 011 to the ranks of ih* majors? might race with al! of It? venerable co- If a. man can't hit over .1175 against minor temporaries to the end of the season. league pitching, what will he do when h* I Eav that the club arrived on the i facet"! the Rrowns, Mathewsons and Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and if y- ll Voungs? Moreover, most of the mfnor memory serves correctly that is right. leaguers w ho eat any ire in the flgun * It doesn't matter much whether it was are old-timers, major league discards, I the Baltimore and Ohio or the Pennsyl¬ y% '7, men who have been tried and found vania. for it is certain that the club did I t l/l 1 wanting. arrive, and that with it was the now new The outlook for fresh batting material man ger of the Washington club.James is therefore of K. his first the gloomiest kind. A* McAleer.making trip through >- the veterans of the two »ie tiie east as a member of a major league, big leagues fading away and the pitchers organization. j . \\ gaining This season he goes back to Washing-! JK /%*>*> the upper hand against the majority of ton as the manager of the American] ss' them what if the apparent future? \Venk i-eague team in the Capital city. 1 can; CaCJAvik,' liatt.ng lists all round, for the older men say with personal assurance that on the are setting weaker and the new recruits first visit of the new Washington man-! are lightweights all along the line. ager to the city of Washington he had no more idea that he would Home day be Pitching- Supremacy. t:>e manager of the Washington club A I^MNTER, IfeTS X&EATl The whole trouble is. and has been for than he had tliat he would some day be i e mayor of Youngstown. Ohio. It's the many years, that the pitchers master 1 rlvate opinion of more than one th.it he ! their art more quickly and more thor¬ might have been the mayor of, Youngs- successful major leagues in the history of the spur of the moment. Occasionally j when he played his first game in Wnsh- thp bj~ Injun, went to Dartmouth. Big oughly than the batters get the kna-k town. had he settled one that he center fielder of the and if Ohio, down and base ball. would be inclined to believe i ington.the coming college bunch with tho Giants, of th**lr own duties. The are shown any willingness to accept the posi¬ * # ? * * made them because he had a "hunch." As world. any of tlicm are less tough and hardy pitchers also by far the cleverer when it comes tion, but the call of the diamond has McAleer Aid not leave St. I-ouis because a rule ho allows a pitcher to go pretty COLLEGE than the non-collegians where was it PLAYERS to obstacles raised the proved too much for him. Perhaps he ia he was owner far before he will relieve him, unless the ever demonstrated? overcoming by driven out by the of the rule makers. It seems to better off for it. club to which he was attached. Quite the pitcher happens to be onr- of those reg¬ FROM AN UMPIRE'S VIEWPOINT Grant of th*» Quakers Is from Har¬ Impossible put ular bad actors who could ex¬ Doolin was at Mat¬ any handicap on a pitcher and keep him * * * * * frintrary. the owner would have p eferred only be vard, Pennsylvania, but that ho but McAleer bel eved that; ported to have a "tantrum" i!' lie were tel 1 is from a Catholic Sparks is down, when you put any handicap MeAleer had been in the National remain, college. < ho started well. How Johnstone Quieted an Excited fmm a school in Alabama. on a batsman he urls up and his average League a little more than a month when had stood the target of criticism about! fairly curls simultaneously. he paid his first visit to The as long as wa? essential in one city, and Above all, McAleer is Invariably lair The champion Pirates, on the fare, of Washington. a. with his all l< 11 Thespian. spent but The present batting averages would be « levelands were scheduled to there as he always has been young man of players. They'll you the returns, shy of college men, ! play frame of decided that no matter where he has been. More XEW January S..James E. it i's that somp of them still more skinny if they were averaged May 28, 20 and 30.two games the last very Independent mind, YORK, quite probable according to the old-time scoring rules. day.on their first visit In 1KS!>. that he would pass out. than that all of the players with whom Johnstone's reply to the new president Old Professionals Are Nowa¬ vero rah-rahs and have forgotten to an¬ While meditating the advisability >ie was associated when he was a "big nounce the fact. I Nowadays, a batter gets a time off his They had made only ordinary progress upon of the National League to the effect that batting record for every sacrifice bunt in So far as that Is concerned of ilropp'ng out of base ball altogether, leaguer'" will tell you that "Jim" is out; Storks of the Cardinals is from Brown, April. of the ever stood on a he had had practically no trouble with Bewildered the and sacrifice fly.and even w»th these they played but seven games in that for he has passed the stage where base finest fellows who days by Rug- riachnian is a pitcher from Case Tech ball is wholly essential as a means or iall field. Washington folks will find it base ball players last season is charac¬ (right name Bartont, Beebe is from the boosts they can't create .MOO-point hit¬ month, of which they won three and los. ters. In the old the scorers were livelihood, he was tendered the manage¬ out ISefore he loaves the city. teristic. Johnstone was a storm tenter of Illinois. days four. With the beginning of M y they and Nerve of the University also far more severe on errors than at to ment of the Washington club, and ac¬ i.: * $ * gedness lleftmuller of the Athletics is from began pick up. Strangely enough for a in this city for more than one season. the present time. They used to count an first-year team they showed that they I cepted it. and I know that lie is slad that I've dug up the score o£ the first game a California school, Collins went to he did accept it, because there has been in which ho appeared in Washington, Through it all he was imperturbable. eiti:er nolv Cross or Fordham.maybe it error whenever anything got by a fielder, could win games on the road. Young Rah Rahs. no how a fascination to him about the lite of and the batting order. Listen. »¦ Wash¬ This particular umpire, however, is an was Columbia.somewhere, anyway; matter severe the chance. That folks don't know what a difference ex-j the meant that a hit was one horrible bift as to Washington which has existed from ington fans. Cleveland won by r> to 3. athlete and able to care for Davis is from Girard College. Philadel¬ isted twenty years ago the faith i was a v s- The thoroughly or unholy smite, and not a little chance t.iat was had in a team on the da vs twenty vears ago when he pitchers were Kearson and "Darby"' phia; Barry is a Holy Cross man. Plank first-year itor at the as the O'Brien. himself. that some tnflelder fussed and footled road, compared to that which exists' at National Capital great Remember Fearson, with liis By W. A. Phelon. hails from Gettysburg College, Coon\bs coming youngster of the age." slow curves and good command, and Single handed If has thrashed a quar¬ from one of the eastern schools, Bender, | over. present. tet sent out to "do In tlie mind of many base* hall fans i T'nder the old-time some All the month of the That's what Tom Loftus, his Cleve¬ O'Brien, long since dead, who was the him up." and the the Indian, from Carlisle. scoring rules through May land manager, called him in jest and lived wonder of the Cleveland team for tlwf public hasn't heard of it to thi<* day. there .still lingers a fixed and ineradicable .of our most eminent hitsmlths wouldn't ?"'levelands consistently won more games his Johnstone's on have achieved a rccord of than to see it become sober earnest under brief time that he was a star in the Na¬ judgment balls and strikes brMef that the colleee ball player added American Leaguers. ...'20, and that . they lost, and when they arrived in own tional is often questioned by unbiased no jolly, either. in the last of jurisdiction. League? judges, to a professional club is an oddity and a Washington, very days the At one time, when he 'was younger, Here's the way the batting order read: who sit bark of The plate, but his pluck; St.ihl of the Boston Red fox Is from spring nak-ndar. tney had acquired fame, Alecr was of a fatalist. He never. Once a ccrtain actor shook his conspicuous proposition. If they read a civil The Real and something Washington. rieiplast'l. Illinois University; Hooper got Sluggers. they were barely eight weeks old as bel"eved that if a thing were to be. it if. fist at Johnstone (from an-upper grand¬ of a college man signing with a big a base ball Wilmot. Strieker, "h. engineering degree upon the c^ast. ! Cobb and Wagner are real hitters «>C spring to avert it were ef¬ ' stand* and cried: organization, training would and - be. steps Hoy. of. M<\V Wr. t league team, they expect to see a wild- lfahn of the White Sox went to some and all. forts thrown away. In his later years he Wise. ou? eyed youth with long, floating hair, a school in Ohio or Tennessee. Out of the group of player*-, who were has modified that view in some respe.ts. Mvpp*. 2b. Twit. h-M. :r. Why did I ever come here to see you?" tiny Reilly of them surviving. When Cobb, Wag¬ ShO»"k. rf. Kaatz. 1 little cap set upon the extreme back of s h Yale man; White is from George¬ curiously watched by the pickaninnies While there may cling to him something Johnstone turned quickly. "I paid #2 to ner, Crawford. Doyle of the nlio weie clustered of foreordina- f.lvwv. 55. Uarlford. see he his dome and a bunch of educated town. Lejoie. around the' station o' the old Scotch doctrine Ma<-k. 'i < you," said, "and made no criti¬ base baii bis earlier ::h. cism of the Fa 1kenberg of Cleveland is from the . Giants and a few others crash against and by the fans, who were wont' ton, ho has softened phi- Morrill, lb. /immer. «.. show. What did you pay to language bristl ng with phrases too ab¬ to 10 in those at the bv thf% thfor\ twat aj Fearson. 00. quite Into bruises, Umpire. "Wnlly" Attendance. of to understand. hi? leagues, all In a bunch. Jake Stalil. diamond heroes. Their averages are made its appearance in the city, there some extent qualify that ¦which had been college outlined for hint. Does that bring back old days? "Con¬ A tale going the rounds has it that Mil- I This was correct, perhaps.long ago. Fred Falkenberg. Carl l.undgren and | patched-up makeshifts, and In the old stepped a slender youngster with drawn originally nie" Mark behind the bat for Wsahing- ler Huggins drew from Garry Herr- Cook. Cook didn't but is days they wouldn't have been one-two- browned the color of a It may interest some base ''all fans Not nowadays. Nix. that one with Jinnny last, face, seasoned to McAleer. ton and John Morrill at first base? "Sam" mann last > ear and that "Dick" Kgan, | Play still a good minor l^atHi^r. I^undgren seventeen. butternut, and with a long stride in to know that contemporary a The a which a member of the Na¬ Wise playing shortstop and George Myers who covered second for Miller, received j copper. collegian who joins quit only 'ast summer, while Stahi and t It is said, of course, that the old bat- he, white *oi when he bc;imo apparently moving lazily, \ were of L hicagoho- at second, and look at Cleveland.all of I SI.$00. Thf- same authority has Lobert big league ball dub in the present gen- j Faikenberg are still effective. iters didn't have any foul-strike rule to over more ground than most of his corn- tional Lejguo. Ryan j garty of Philadelphia, the only player them gone now, except McAleer. drawing S-i.L'OO and Kwing $4,500. Xo ! eration isn't that kind of a darling. Nothing is known of the educational hurt them. No, but they had pitchers panions. I who him in fielding average, He started in young. I don't mind say¬ wonder Griff plans to let some of his attainments of the Tigers, but it is likely just as husky as those of today, drlv- He carried In one hand an surpassed was It is said that Fred Tenney was the j individual f though not in abil'ty: Hanlon. of ing that he only eighteen years old j spavs go. first who made that several of them wont to inland col- jing in the ball from a shorter distan-e, bat bag.it was fashionable then for collegian boiii the pro¬ is not to the Pittsburg. "Dicky" Johnstone of tl^nBoston fessional and the fans c m;.iv- i leges. Oh, yes; Davy Jones from the and tied slab. §l>ut free t^ each plaver to take care of his bats. one players little at 111. Uittle is also move a outlined box. pet and Geo ge Gore of New York. Not hend what an up-to-date varsity man I college Dixon, I around large Fur¬ and in the other a trave.ing bag, which of is left in a major league known as to where the Highlanders went thermore, a caught foul tip was an out. he threw Into the them actively was really like. He did It with "a ven¬ baggage wagon with a except the Washington manager. too. and the inimitable Dad to school. And yet, thus handicapped and with careless air. The ha; was not geance, errors we i>ag trusted * * * * was the Stephens of Lho Browns is from a scorers who gave where now to the tender of hotel * Clarke goat. small Texas and Howell give these old Imjvs could kick t»m guardianship any Cleveland was the first club to induce college, Harry hits, baggage custodian. and Clarke. is supposed to have been a collegian long, eternal corrugations out of that old This was MeAleer. then McAleer to try his hand as a manager, Tenney What's the reason for the dif¬ Even his fame and hi Cleveland he made his great repu¬ Ions ago. leather. had preceded him, and many a question In he Tenney had just joined the Boston Harry Gessler of the Washington® Is ference of today? was tation as a ball player. Cleveland asked as to the identky of the man not in a cham-, team, and Clarke was about to pitch a a graduated doctor, and a few more of who had been all the was si: cessful. winning the Senators may be concealing their col- upsetting east by p onship. but 111 putting the Cleveland game against Selee's performers. Dad Joseph D. O'Brien, the deposed presl- the wonderful catches which he had been the American 'egiate attainments even as they do their club on its feet in League had heard of Tenney's signing, and de¬ bail abilities. t dent of the American Association, is making in center field for the Cleveland the for the suc¬ base a for and in paving way great cided that he would scare the tender going to open college the tutelage club. cess which the team lias had in its last of green base ball presidents. He has * five vears.such success that the < leve- mamma's hoy right off the lot. He Simply can't keep George Van Ha'tren A1 Tearney. new head of the Three-! The players went to the WHlard, if mem¬ !an. . h m in of interest. a-- time that curled Clarke up, leaving public permitted. T ah. >ui . «»f i', *.'»r 1»<* has nut cnan^'1 When Dad He was what he a dazed and helpl«*ss mass. great'o impressed by on-- iota sine"1 be played oall out m to he to Fred Knowies: ww. Standing one evening in front of came cried Ch v. land twenty years i>go. "Say, that guy never went to no college. for i.e hotel, he looked down wi:l not hardly .us BLUES, Pennsylvania Tiifir new manager never even went to . $ 1 avenue and remarked: That tough gazai>o "After all, yon nl iveis as <'*anti'lon did. His methodft night school." oon't snow- w.iat a big government ihis ia ar." wholl\ different. CantUlon \va- in¬ who breaks into the hig ¦ come The collegian BLACKS, until you here." t-> the I and argue layed as a judge of tlv hits and s. their fathers' oi- You Can Handsomest Kind of ability is a coach of ouitiel.Vei into business at Afford the cover to thorn llo good right em.nent lo ground catch almost impossi¬ he by two of the sterling outfielders of that whether an outfielder is of natural leagues, but not many. and if the t< am ever ly the little colleges, tUne, had ken able P The students from January Reduction Sale. to settle o.n a good right !i< Ider. would not ever awl oall in the outfield rugged young fellows of tremendous No man pi to a ball have suffered with any of them so far at could run so accurately to the P1'1' physique, take as naturally who ducks to water. In a the '"gardens" were concerned. where .1 Ify ball would be finely to fall player's life a/* So when Aleer made his was so won¬ or two they become amalgamated iv*t appear- i<- McAleer. His divination year In five ni e in Washington there wa^ a that some thought it akin to sec- with the great mass of players. Now derful SUITS great $25 $16.50 the . leal of locsl Curiosity as to. th.e ability years it is impossible to distinguish of this vo.ing stranger who daiejaq'chal- 0Onelg;ilVerno.^ Oevelar.d was playing collegian by any sign of speech or man¬ such n-.en as Walter the 1'oio Grounds. the only way many ot them lenge WHmot and against \>w Vork on ner, and is Hoy. the mute, to a comparison on the 1 was batting against « h-ve- are ever identified as varsity men 1 iavis, think, chances to en¬ SUITS i om« field. Or. classmate Now the occasion of the Cleve¬ At that time Davis was with New when some old $30 $20.00 Utnd. contain land Club's first visit Shock was playing V011 M« \b-' r was in center lie-id for counter them. The big leagues field for agahist the collegians whose very schools arc rignt Washington. Shock, Cleveland. Th- bat crashed many them¬ Fine Imported and Domestic Worsteds. Beecher and Carney a'ternated in the po¬ ball. and. without a second loo*. McAlcer forgotten by all saw the men sition for Was+iington the extreme corner of runt and no list of big league college during year started for the selves, for Get What You Want and Have It Made to and Carney was by far the best of the field, away over toward the ropes which men ever printed has been correct three the this strange reason. surrounded grounds. , Suit You. * * * * * "ljook at him: What s no doing Ones. Washington "fai.s" had come to believe Shouted Nick Kngle. in amazement. Is Many Good thai Wihnot was one of the wonders of he trying to run off the tield went to the Great Pants Is had missed the ball. Roy Thomas of Boston Sale the diamond. They had ball, p'ayers who associated The ball gloves. went to °"e Pnce' You Th,s with him were to be care¬ awav out second base. He was run¬ Of the Brooklyns, McMillan to compelled very by to a Made Order, ful that he understood thoroughly their ning full speed. He stopped when he some southern college. Marshall a G|4 and that his heard the groans of the crowd. He look¬ medical school, McElveen to some uni¬ Chance Once Season signals they understood to a . hi'e working with him in a game. ed back and saw McAleer returnlg the versity in the south. Scanlon medi¬ On the first afternoon on which the bpll toward the infield. Then lie walked cal college, and Wilhelni. almost twenty 00 " Miss" of an Cleveland? played in Washington MeAleer to the bench with a dejected air As the years ago. was the crack pitcher appeared on the field, a gaunt, well train¬ Cleveland players came in for their turn Ohio school. ed. lenn ar.d leathery at bat Davis smiled in spite ot the fact Overall of the Cubs was a foot ball $3.50 K: -looking athlete, Keulbach wno seemed to be all legs and arms. that a home run had been taken away star at a California university: AA One can him. He called out to McAleer. for Vermont and Notre Dame. TROUSERS Cut From the Original Piece dv never forget the terse descrip¬ from pitched California pj tion accorded to htm by a coal-biaok cos .'There's only one boy in the country Chance went to some college, in to $8.00 Trouserings, Made to of the bleachers. He watched MeAleer who could do that to me.' and Hotmail. Kane and Stanley got pret-| intent'y for awhile and then he turned to "Sorry, old pal. but I had to. replied ty well aloni? in the educational line. ^$6.50 his companion and In a loud voice, which McAleer simply. He and Davis were Huggins of the Reds went to law- « ouTd be heard for many feet away, he once partners in the outfield for Cleve- school. Dubuc to Notre Dame, and per¬ observed: "So dst am McAleeah. l*o' land. haps some more of Griffith's men are »aa wd man, he looks like a closepln an' * * * * * from the little colleges. tns like «ie dehbil." .\b A Icej doesn't do a great deal of Tenney of the Giants came fiojn Brown. Morton C. Stout & now- a from Notre and McCor- Co., \nd MeAleer come* back to Wash- finessing on the bench. When pitchci Murray Dame, i; gton, i.ij* fame established at. the great ; is going right he Ids him alono. Some | mick studied engineering at Pennsyl¬ outfielder of hl« day. and another fame i managers seem to think that they must vania; lX-\ lin studied at Georgatow n: Tailors ::::::: 910 F St. N.W. a . ttablished a.- ? manager who, if he has give orders, whether the pitcher is win- I'.ridwcll went to jerkwater college in >:ot won championships, h*» n*dle*l two 1 niug or losing. Not so McAleer. j Ohio; Sliafer was in a southern school C. E. Foster, Manager. ¦ out of tlx pit «f :-po:'Jencj* arid lio is a manager who makes changes JAMES McALEER. J when he got base ball fever;, the great inMt... them fat tots one the most l