best," Then yon feei like opening on the great ball playo* with a Gatling gun tilled with baseballs to sea blxn Jump, t fully believe, however, he would bent the gnn." But with all the applause paid the brilliant diamond art- ist, baseball fame la nevertheless fleeting. The hero of to-day .may a BYJAMES BRISTOL GREEN be dead one to-morrow. It Is not wbat you were yea- . terday. It’s what you are to-day. and the player who la a member of a championship club one year may be back In thw minors before a year or so baa passed. Of the Chicago White Sox who won the Americau league pennant in 1900 only one man, Frank Isbell, played with Chi- cago this year. The other champions of the flrst year of the league were: Denser, Katoll, Fisher and Patteraon, pitchers; Sugden, Buckley and Wood, catchers; Padden, Hartman, Shu- gart and Charley O'Ledry, inflelders; Hoy, Dillard, MCForMmd. Brodle and Shearon, outfielders Of these, Charley O'Leary of the Tigers is the only one left In the American league. The following year the White Sox were made up as fol- lows: Piatt. Griffith, Callahan, Patterson and Katoll, pitchers; Sugden and Sullivan, catchers; Isbell, Mertes, Shugart, Burke and Hartman, inflelders; Hoy. Fielder Jones. McFarland and Foster, outfielders. Of the list Isbell and Sullivan are the only Whenthe “Fans“ on the Sox roster or Hibernate survivors either White In the American league. Clarke Griffith was let out at New York last summer and had charge of the Cincinnati team this season, ITH ending of while the some Jimmy Callahan la a semi-pro magnate of the most exciting In Cbl- races for C*K°- the cham- The season of 1902 saw Philadelphia pionship pennants in win w the history of the great national pastime in many leagues, the dyed-in-the-wool base- ball fans muct content themselves with recall- ing the exciting games of the past season until the ring of the gong next spring starts the race for the leason of 1910. When the rooter who waß wont to screech his opinions concerning the Integrity of the umpire to the four winds seats himself quietly be- fore the family hearthstone, gives vent to a long-drawn sigh and mur- murs gently to himself, “Gee, it s all over, but golly it was some hot light,“ then it Is that memories of some of the men who stood out most promi- nently during the thick of the fight flit through his mentality. ings The fall- of the stars at critical moments, the successes of the “dubs." the ris- ing of some new luminary in the base- ball firmament and the fall of Idols of years past, all tend t« sketch a most vivid and Interesting picture. The names of two players stand out prominently again as a this season result of their brilliant perform- ances on the green diamond; are these names John Henry Wagner, bet- FnUGG&rtTIIQRAW ter as known "Hans ’ Wagner, and the pennant tho Tyru, Raymond with Cobb, the bright following players: leading and stars of the National and Waddell, Hust- leagues Plank. American respectively. Wag- ing, and Wil- ner is highest Mitchell the priced player In the L/o///yk7' son,pitchers; Schreck game to-day, but his Scat contract jr/y/insym 1 and Powers, catch- called for only |3r, a month. n a X ney Dreyf "“8 ( Lv&G/YFR'} t.o, - President of Th°the PittsburgK club, sends out his contracts to his ball players every year he mails one to __ . that Jr fr„„, Hans .1Wagner fr ‘nk except , that Placed on the paper by the printer. He °*TG amou,,t for whtcli is to play, leaving “Big Dutchman ” Honus that to the 1 11 *’ surpris,n thinks te^iight^k* 8 about that, for Hans is worth whatever he 1 6 gned h,s flrst contract, a few after he won his . months nirknnmsTll/"!! 8 Dutchman -” *»e signed up for $35 a that was after uJ* u n month. And t ‘° °" alned V lent °f hands ,r° m wearlng hlfunlform to br eakfa i G l° reland a former player manager, now makes a “ “ ', ’ and who ne»s of°=f,tf upply, “* husl- ,° ? I averages and other brands of dope to the hungry baseball Hans Wa n«r becoming wHeW B liad no thought of anything but nt BSS when lle became a * ® . \ member of the Steubenville in h °'d Central club associate. At that time A1 Wagner, Claude Hitchey and Prank Bowermiin on were the team. During a slump the manager sent out a call for a pitcher and A1 asked that his brother Hans be given a chance. The next morning * telegram was sent to the young pitcher, ordering him to report at once. There .was no passenger train from his tow n noon, but youngster surprised until the the manager by appearing at 11 He had jumped o’clock. on a freight train 10 minutes after receiving the wire. The recruit didn’t yet a uniform until the following evening, next morning he and the came to the breakfast table wearing his spangles. Brother Al, up by rest backed the of the team, convinced Hans that it was not cus- tomary to wear the uniform before noon, but they didn’t convince him that It was improper— not mooch. Well, that afternoon he had his tryout and lasted two innings He nothing but a straight ball that was so had swift it went over the fence if hit or through the catcher ifit wasn’t. Of course, he Y didn’t Make good, but Moreland was so short handed he JOHNN EVERS had keep to play e-S to him aroutfd lu the field, letting him eat and sleep with CL/AS THE <3ECO NO the brother. J3W/W/V Then a to job of Hans took shine the shortstop and began to practice at it. Early morning In the and after the games b- would get kids to to him. Finding that bat he could* not start quick enough he dug holes in the ers; Davis, Castro, Bonner, Mur- field sprinters do, was for like but he chased spoiling the and phy, Monte Lave in- practice diamond bad Cross, Cross, to when and where he could. fielders; Hartzel, Fultz and Sey- Finally he fairly 7~fi£ rr became proficient. He could field all right, bold, outfielders. Many of GREAT COSO awkward as a hog on ice. picked but was these He up In batting and soon attracted the are now either in the minor attention of rival clubs, but had made such an unfavorable Impression with leagues or out of the game altogether, the big league being Moreland that be was given to survivors Wad* the Paterson club for nothing. There he dell. Plank, Davis. Murphy and Hurtzel signed a formal contract to play for a month, »35 his first regular salarvy took its turn at winning a as a player. Boston the pennant in 1903 with team com- posed of Young, Dlneen, Hughes. Winters and Gibson, pitchers; Crlger, Far- There hq made good with a vengeance and the following spring was rell ami J. Stahl, catchers; Ln Chance. Ferris, Collins, iufielders; sold to Louisville for $3,C00. He Parent and remained with the Colonels until the shirt Dougherty. C. Stahl. Freeman and O’Brien, outfielders. that took him to Pittsburg was made. Perhaps that bunch have not And that’s where he’ll stay just as long as Barney Drey scattered. Of the pUchers, Young Is In fuss has moneyy Cleveland, Crlger and enough to cover the figures that Hans writes in the Dlneen are In Bt. Louis, Winters' In Detroit, Hughes, contract. in Washington, while Gibson Is a coach at Tyrus Raymond Cobb was again the bright star of //APOLEOH LAJOIE PEER OF* Notre Dame. After having- beet* the American league* of three other clubs, He stole 39 bases in 1908, but last season he made a new a member Jake Stahl is back again to play flrst baae. Ferris is a Brown, record, nearly doubling his‘former mark. At the beginning Jimmy Collins belongs to Mfnneapolto and Parent is one of of the season the Georgian said he would be fortunate the White Sox. Chick Stahl la dead. Growing arm caught men, Williams Dougherty is u Chicagoan and he got a for year. h 11 t and has many good and get balls better than the others, while both Freeman is In the A. A. if total of 50 this beat when . “Lou’s” throws several times this year and Lajoie can outplay him on fast ground balls The only changes In the make-up of the team that There is probably runner in the history of base- Cobb made Criger holding . a laughing stock on several occa- playing in close. All three men are wonders at won the pennant for Boston in 1904 the substitu- ball, and this list includes ’’King” Kelly and “Bill” sions. Lajoie a were thrown balls to get a runner at second. takes tion of Jesse Tannehlll for Tom Hughes “Kip” Lange and “Billy”Hamilton and “Tom” Brown and George The prime of others. and Sel- Cobb’s life still remains to be reached. ball and gets it away a shade quicker than the bach for Dougherty in the outfield. Tannehlll now Browne and all the others who could compare with Cobb. He has sprinted Lajoie Is against the fastest throwers in the “I believe that Williams can outplay either with Washington, while Selbach is a minor leaguer.