BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS. Volume 45 No. 6. Philadelphia, April 22, 1905. Price, Five Cents. MUTUAL INTEREST YOUNG©S WARNING. THE REAL FOUNDATION OE OR A BROAD-MINDED PITCHER ON GANIZED BALL BATTING DECLINE. Therefore the Urgent Need of More The Great Boston Twirler Says the Consideration and Charily For "Spit Ball" Has Come to Stay All Who Are Contributing Their and That Foul-Strike Abolition is Mite to the Growth of Base Bail. Now the Only Practicable Offset. BY JOHN B. FOSTTR. SPECIAL TO "SPORTING LITE." Brooklyn, N. Y., April 17. Editor New York, April 19. The veteran "Sporting Life." In patching up base pitcher of the Boston American Club, ball .circuits has it never dawned up "Cy" Young, is of the opinion there on the writers who have is no doubt at all that followed the nation©s the coming season will sport both for pastime be attended with less and for profit that after batting than ever in the all it is better to encour history of the game. age than discourage. I "They sim.ply can not am afraid that some of hit the ©spit ball,©" said us are inclined to take Young today. "Get ac our base ball a little customed to it? I fail too personally. With to see how. Here is a out a penny of invest delivery that will fool ment we criticise, which even the catchers, and is our privilege, and if it fools them,, how ©which justly exercised can the batsmen succeed in getting around it? John B. Foster harms no one. We oc- Denton Young cassionally chide, which How to remedy it? You Is not out of the way when directed can search me. The abolition of the in the proper channel possibly it foul strike rule is the only remedy would not be bad to amend the and this is the only thing that can term "chide," which only belongs to be done if one wants batting. those who can see nothing in base BOOSTS INFERIOR PINCHERS. ball beyond the repayment of alleged He continued: "Then there is this slights. We talk glibly about profits about the spit ball. Any one can with possibly small conception of the master it, and it will make a first original investment, we load some rater out of a man who has found it down with, large losses when we difficult to hold his own in fast com have only a faint notion of the actual pany. Almost any one can become cash receipts. In fact, enjoy a lot of an effective pitcher by the aid of that fun with an honest endeavor to be ball. Yes, I have practiced it up, and frank with the whole base ball fra guess I can send in a few. The crack ternity. It is well known that it is pitchers will be more effective than A HARD MATTER ever, and the fair pichers will become to keep a base ball circuit intact. cracks." Even the major leagues have their KILLS BATTING. troubles and they are very serious WILLIAM P. SHANNON, Young concluded: "The batsmen will troubles at times. As population in Outfielder of the St. Louis National League Club. have all the confidence taken out of creases it is fair to believe there will them. Something will have to be be a day when large cities will give done, for the patrons of the game, such countenance to the game that as well as the players, will set up it will not be so difficult to maintain a howl that will have to be attended a losing club against the odds which to. You have got to have some bat are part of a losing club©s existence. ting, you know. The game will be In other words it will be possible to dead beyond precedent unless this is hold base ball in line purely as an done. I wouldn©t be surprised if the exhibition. We try to accomplish thus leading to his re-engagernent for 1905. moguls were obliged to give attention that result now, but in reality are far to the matter before the season is half away from it. There is only one city over." in the United States where base ball thusiast in the United States who and a great deal of It loyal to the may profit from the standpoint of a would like to see anything of that city in spite of the fact that Brook show, and that city is New York. kind again. lyn is a part of Greater New York. Sheridan©s Radical Views. Even there, as a sport, it does infin AN UNAVOIDABLE FACT. ALL DOING THEIR BEST. Chicago, April 18. Jack Sheridan, itely better than it ever could do any It is a well known fact that certain generally regarded as one of the best other way. clubs in the major leagues of the But it is a plea for all clubs that umpires in the country, says of the INTER-DEPBNDIBILITY OP CLUBS. United States have a hard row to are trying to maintain base ball. The "spit ball": "It is the greatest dis The same people who work in New hoe, execept that they are strong owners make their mistakes. I don©t covery of a pitcher©s genius and the York live in Brooklyn and that is enough to draw well in the larger suppose they are more infallible than thing that is going to revolutionize what I have been trying to lead up to. cities of the circuit. Were all the the .critics (pity them). It seems to base ball. There is no joking about It is evident thet we cannot have suc base ball profis of Kew York and me, however, that it would be far the ball, as many believe. It is a cessful base ball without a variety Boston to be stacked against all the better if the personal equation was reality and a mystery which is giving of teams. The amateurs know that. base ball losses of the other cities made stronger by hearty co operation batsmen great trouble. Every high They copy closely rhe lines which in the circuits of the National and on the part of those who are honestly class pitcher is practicing with the have been laid down for league man American Leagues, the losses would enlisted in the developement of base new invention. Some have mastered agement and the leagues which are make the profits look as if they had ball, rather than weakened by attack, it, and those that are not working cropping up throughout the United been struck by a cyclone. Yet the which, if it does not deter evolution, with it are behind the times. There States are all modified from the orig only chance which the smaller clubs at least embarrasses the individual is no great secret in throwing it, ex inal pattern which began in 1876. have is to fight on with the hope that elements which are trying to accom cept to moisten it and throw it with It is just as much to the interest of some day they will be of sufficient plish something. Base ball shows no all possible speed. To control the the American League, for example, importance in the league to which immediate indication of being stopped. slippery ball, of course, is the great to have a good team in Brooklyn as they belong to recoup their owners Until something better has been difficulty. Last year the only pitchers it is for the interest of the National for some part of their failure finan evolved from this queer conglomer using the ball with any degree of League to have one. cially. For that reason it is not ation, which we best know as human success were Chesbro, of the New If the dual system of major leagues exactly fair to walk too roughly ity, it seems to me that it will con York Americans, Gibson, of the Bos is right, and to me it has always ap over tinue with an unbroken front. Maybe ton champions, arid ©Doc© White, of pealed strongly, v/e must have good THE LITTLE FELLOWS, here and there it will have its the Sox. Now all are trying to throw base ball in Brooklyn, must have as they might be called, who do their troubles. Unquestionably it will not the ©spit ball.© On its account, games good base ball in Washington, must best to make base ball good. In always be managed as well as it of several extra innings will be com have good base ball in other cities other words, it isn©t just the correct would be if we all might be person mon this year." or must go back to the first theory thing to write down the cities of ally concerned. And if we were, thare of independent clubs playing whom smaller population. This isn©t neces would be somebody to say that we It will take Umpire, formerly Policeman, they will and where they will. I sarily a special plea for Brooklyn* as knew nothing about it. But while Bausewine some time to get used to the change imagine there is not a base ball en- there is plenty of population here, CONTINUED ON SECOND FAGX. from a preserver to a disturber of the peace, April 22, 1905. illustrated. Great batting by the Georgetown team enabled them to throw the hooks into Pennsylvania for SPORTING LIFE PUBLISHING CO., the second time, on Monday. The wonderful fielding of Ziegl.er, the visit ors© left fielder, was worth a long 34 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa.