' II I 'THE OGDEM STANDARD . I ' ' IIPH "SMILING J.ELMS" MUTM E, Bpg I .Ikm- - FATHER OF THE GIANTS" IfcJ I jjl MANAGER of Pennant Winners of Yore, Viewing a Game at?ihe Polo Ground, Recalls Famous Men of Oldtime Baseball ' 1611, by ?i '(Copjrlrbt. the Nerr Tork HerM Co. A I! rlchu rerrn arranged. I hired John Ward to pitch for me t the Iolnt to indulge In an alines! boisterous snicker a: most of them back with mo, in spite of the fact that when Tom Lynch was an umpire, and he was tne IH "Fed man, with eyes deep sot great, nt i'lT, u o".ie sucec.-- . yet'lieie he wa watching very JM and keen. stood salary week, lie worked in came h!s And the ihe town was Infected with rival managers and acents best onci that ever lived. Fie was umpirliig.-- close H llc I k w J ocn'nc thc senls at Jol Ground dnrinc the and his arm went had. Pitcher; weron': rhe ni:npe,."d club he founded, playing bail. iniMiiig. at thtTinie. Among those got were Connor, Welch, game In New York one day against Chicago! and"a H ,a9t dH"VS f th0 pcnDahl prima, donnas My l,"lu' "tHehinc tin' then, that :hey are now. and it wasn't ' Glilepe and 'Buck' Ewlng next Job 'was to runner started to steal second base. It looked from H ' Origin of the Name "Giants." "n--5i Giants play. "Rule" Manpjnrd. the pitching the fashion for their arms to bad. so ! h'd U'a-- d :r;Mifer Kecfe and Esterbrook to thc New York club. che bench as If he had been touched out, but Lynch ild ".101111 B. C sensation of thc season, avu.h In thc box. The "Wo played for the State phampioiiship in s,--l. :md "Meanwhile." continued 'lie niannuer. a thy were suppoped to le with the Mets. I got shouted. 'Safe!' I we Crowd was cheering him, for he had Just struck out In ISS'J I got "L'tm" Kecfe, Mnllie.--t and jtoe'.:nin. Liy and cot together ind forni"d the New York :he;:i under my wing tnat winter and took them on "The crowd started to throw anything that they M 5i fa'"1 s,flc 'Tin,' s team of the National League now 'he Giants," and That leefe was a grand bah playr, .mil a pleasure trip to Bermuda and kept them there uuti: could lay their bauds on. and I was pretty sore-abou- t M No one paid any attention to aged man, revj(r,(is!nlc my he waved hi, band At the team play-in- 5i f thc whose for winiiing the League All'.iince they signed eontrurts For this bit of bascbai! it myself, as it cost us the game. , 4 M happened to be the !fv ll.PSS wcro somewhat unsteady and with which a cane eliumivluiiMhip thai year. Xest .cason the Mets Joined 'K.er hear how :hey called strategy I was suspended fTom the American Asso- "'Or. the ievel. did you touch him'' T asked Dan M Uj Collaborated,. He stood alone. At last another, who. the American Association and in ISSd we wuu that (JianL? No? Well. I named hem one day The ciation and fined 5500" Iclclmrdion when he came to the bench. H "JiMliaIr was white, came up. looked at thc llrsi closely peumiu! hoys were all tall In those days, because most of them So it will be seen that Jennings and McGraw and " 'No. I missed him. fcfor a minute, and then: "WhTi 1 ind plnnnr-- nut rhe ground with John f!. weie sduggcrs. and they didn't, so in o much for "The crowd wa.sstill howling, and particularly the M They were , wlanlifu, and ! W "Hello, Jcems! I wasn't Ruro It was you." n'ery filayers then. bunch behind our bench wanted to kill some one. I M looked out lliem and said: :'.'rtheyre ginul-- ' in JwS' "Elello, John! That Marquacd is a great pitcher" at went out in front mid shouted: 'He never touched M ivlsig ,'iiul .iarure. too ' ' " g$f James Mutrie, the winner of two pennants the !' him, and now, if you want to tight any one, choose M 'for "Somebody tool; It up. and ihoy have been Wnowii as their manager, had ridden out to the Polo 'They were cra;:y then und me thc elevated unnoticed had followed Lynch and and filtered Into off the field after we had lost the game. Finally Tom M unsung. Yet there was a time when h turned und challenged any one of them. 'I can't lick have gone anywhere In New York without all of you at once," he shouted, "but any one of you:' M another and whispering. 'The toughest time I ever had with a crowd, was M M Smiling la Kansas City where all the butchers herded In those Jcems.' days. Wc had been playing a cloe game and, In the H with John McGraw now. ITe outers a cafe ulml: inning one of my men knocked the ball ovcr-tji- e M settles while every one present s.'ands with fence Jive feet fair and won it for w.' "Foul! Foul,!' H to catch a word of his in shouted the butchers, who had a lot of money bet 011 fl conversation gumcv M pearl the that a of baseball wisdom maj he "A New York man, 'Phi!' Powers, was the um;nre. ' H lie canuot go iinvwhcre without, lining and they were laying for him after the game: The fl it was with Mutrie in the l.Mc eighties field was down in sort of a holy and we had to climb M up M "to the Polo Ground that day mid the sonic step to get into the club hoiw to dre. Ijrouud'on A big. husky fellow ui his shirt sleeves" was waiting M press gate questioned hi-- , thc right, ro cntei for us at the head of the stairs and in ldsvliunds' was H until Arthur Hell, of Mutvle's time and a baseball bat, while on his face was a' look that , H at thc Polo Ground, cave Uie ruslodlan showed he was not keeping it for a souvenir. Behind fl u so St looked tho "tip" that it. was nil right ti In stormed the mob. that as if we were M let way M okl manager. going to get it one or another. ' 'I'm going up. I said ' H was of thc lime " when the hall players -- l " 'Don't go up. said "Phil' Powers, Mie'l! brain you.' M JOHN M. WARD v ' " ' - XV M& "BUCK" EWING and Burusldos and talked about thc phoi "I started up those steps wondering if I would M S3l . y$&&&te&&02 $ I go: M an underhand ball.' Look at the old ';"". come dowu tlieiti feet firsr When near the top , 't I stuck out my hand to tills big butcher and greeted M teams of his day. and all the players - have him with- "How are you? Ilow'd you like the game?' . M of some sort. This is the age of "He sheepishly shifted thc bat to the other hand M ball players. Not a' single whisker in and shook with me. rest of the placr.s and M up we got Into M rathe big leagues right now. The famous mustache nf Powers followed the stairs and the 1 for us. I was M J Titus, Philadelphia, lub. but the crowd waited outside the John of was the last, and now it. first one to leave and they spotted me. H X too, has gone. But in Mulrio's day-ther- wore men " 'There he Is,' yelled the big butcher with whom M wj game you ilus-3- I hands, but who had hud a relapse, and M in thc whom would never know from j had shnken "" ali me. One man hit me iu thc par H lice liughes. i they staned after wir'h a lump of mud. and I made a run for it. That M v Yet, In spite of this difference In the, le ) weur-'m- ,M slj was the toughest experience I ever had with a crowd. M ing thc whiskers, Mr. Mutrie for Mho sake of old Eack in 1887. L times let's: call him "Smiling Jeems" says that the "footing" H IJJjjftfbaseball of to-d- is no belter .than that played hi hu "They didn't use to root in the old days the way H In 1SS7 I York to M tlmc, and then ho produces data to show It they do now! took the New elub that Isn't of season, and if we had M S& pitching may Chicago, near tho end tlie "The be a little better he won two out of three games we would have won the H conceded as he watched Marqnuud knock ehumpion'slilp The crowd came out with tin horns ' H Jffdown a couple more men by the strike out route, "but and rattles and a brass band, and 1 never heard" so H tikueh got my men all worked up und ex- - flWthe fielding and batting 1 think are not ns good. noise. It H cited and we lost two out of the throe games and the H BaSpcaklng of catchers, (here was 'Buck Kwing. the ' .Ji-- - ehunipiouship. That was the beginning of rooting, man on m A JAMES MUTRIE - JM Rf best who ever stood spikes behind the bat.