Volume 44—No. 5. Philadelphia, October 15, 1904. Price, Five Cents. LIFE. October 15, 1904. period of the year. No magnate can pick 10-15-4. out spring weather. Luck may come his way once and he will grow gay as a weath SPORTING LIFE PUBLISHING CO., er prophet, but next time he may land his union into a slovenly blizzard at the same day and month. It is noted that WILL PLAY CLEVELAND DESPITE 34 South Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. Herrmann, of Cincinnati, and Hart, of Chicago, are for a shorter season. If these men stand their ground one may look for CRIPPLED TEAM. Please send me cabinet size phototype of the celebrated 140-game time table next year. SQUELCHED THE TWISTERS. base ball player ______________________________ A feature of the Chicago series was the The Square Sportsman Keeps His downfall of the "Twisters© Club," a bevy for which I enclose five 2-cent stamps to help to defray expense of fine twisters who occupied a box next to the scorers© coop and drove to distrac Promise at Some Sacrifice and tion player after player on visiting teams of printing, postage, packing, etc. the past season. Dr. Casey, Jack O©Neill and Robert Wicker were the especial tar Criticizes the Magnates Who Re gets of the temper testers. On. Friday Send to absent members of the club made it a fused to Play Post-Season Games. point to be on hand so that, they would make a good showing for the union. The game was scarcely on ere the boys went SPECIAL TO SPORTING LIFS. after Casey and pals. The fun soon be Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 10. President Drey gan to get warm. Ere long shots calcu fuss, of the Pittsburg Club, has announced lated to bring scraps to the fore were fly the completion of arrangements for a post- ing to and fro: A comment to Wicker, season series with the "Donovan let you go because you had a yel Cleveland team, of the low streak," was the signal for some fierce American League. Two exchanges of compliments. Then John games will be played in Evers was dubbed "Johnny Rail." This Cleveland, Oct. 10 and 11, heaped coals on the fire and trouble was and three games at Pitts CABINET SIZE PHOTOTYPES OF in sight. Captain Chance, realizing that burg, Oct. 12, 13 and 14. the wordy row was militating against the Should the weather cause Cubs© chances of winning, at once took a postponement one day and hand in the melee. He was about to lay tie result, this will be play a plan to get at some of the. tormentors ed off in Cleveland on the of his men when Emslie snouted to him following Saturday. The loud enough for the tail pulling crew to umpire will not be from "Sportinz Life" has had reproduced cabinet size phototypes of celebrated base ball hear. "Let them alone and I will have either league. In his state- players and offers to send to any of its readers photos of their favorite base ball players b©y them put out of the grounds." This was Barney Dreyfus, m<vnt ^"ed Dreyfuss takes complying with the conditions named in the coupon above, 10 cents for each photo; by the a crusher for the union, which has been a fearful fall out of some dozen, $1.00. Only one coupon required with each order. fellow-club owners in the National League having all kinds of sport all season. The who have failed to arrange for post-season The photos are regular cabinet size (oi x 7i inches) mounted on Mantello mats and Twisters© Club worked in the mute lan series, and, though he does not name Mr. packed carefully to insure safe delivery in the mails. guage after that, but their power had been Brush, he seems to point at New York. Here is an opportunity to ornament your room with photos of your favorite base ball crushed. They certainly had a fine vein Said Mr. Dreyfuss: plaj^ers at very small expense. of sarcasm and made dozens of men hop-© ping mad in 190 i. i "My team Is in bad shape, and I would like One coupon and five 2-cent stamps entitles you to one photo. You can, however, to disband in Chicago to-day, but my word, obtain as many photos as you desire by sending five 2-cent stamps for each photo and one ONK STAR DEVELOPED. along with others, was passed to the American During a fanning fest at headquarters League last March to play post-season series coupon with each order. with each team in that league whose position The following photos are now ready for immediate delivery. Others will be added this afternoon someone brought out the corresponded to ours. Cleveland is in our boat. each week: name of Jack O©Neill, catcher of the Chi- \Ve must play Cleveland. My word was passed. cagos, and said that he was one man "who I will stick by my word. It was the National blocked the plate." The writer mentioned League Schedule Committee, or a majority of NATIONAL LEAGUE, 1904. AMERICAN LEAGUE, 1904. the fact that in the first Boston game here it. which meant the whole, which passed its word to the American League that games would NEW YORK CLUB John J. McGraw, Jos BOSTON CLUB Charles Stahl, Denton Phelps, though out by ten feet or more, be played. Mr. Ebbitts, or Brooklyn, and my eph McGinnity, Christopher Matthewson, Young, George Winters,Frederick Parent, had gotten by Needham, the Boston catch self voted for this on committee,, but Mr.© Hart, er. "I©ll bet that he would not do it of Chicago, went against it. I never agreed to John Warner, Samuel Mertes, William John Freeman, James Coll ins, Charles again," put in George Rice, war corre play Cleveland until novy. I agreed to play the Gilbert, D. L. McGann, Roger Bresnehan, Farrell, Albert Selbach, Hobe Ferris, spondent. Then Rice went on to say that team which finished©in the same American League George Browne, Frank Bowerman, Luther William Dineen, Louis Criger, George notch that my team did. The American League Needham had, to his mind, made great managers understood this all along the line, I H. Taylor, John Dunn, William Dahlen, Lachance, Norwood Gibson, Jease Tanne- strides as a catcher until near the close of think, and I will keep my word with them so Michael Donlin, Leon Arues, Claude El- hill, Thomas Doran. the year and might be numbered among the far as Pittsburg is concerned." iiott, George Wiltse, Virgil Garviu, good ones. "He certainly played nice ball NEW YORK CLUB Jnmes Williams, David against us last time we were in Boston," CHICAGO CLUB Frank Chance, James P. L. Fultz, Clarke Griffith, William Keeier, commented Secretary Locke. It was PITTSBURG POINTS. Casey, Joseph B. Tinker, James Slagle, Jack Chesbro, Norman Elberfeld, William brought out that the Altoona man had Conroy, John Ganzell, John Powell, earned fame over the circuit for getting John Evers, Carl Lundgren, Jacob Wei- his man at the rubber. He stood right Champ©ons Arrange a Scries With Cleve mer, John Kling, Robert Wicker, John Albert Orth, John Anderson, Patrick there and defied spikes. As a result, the McCarthy, John J. O©Neil, Alexander Dougherty, James McGuire. youth was laid up a number of times. The land and Slope for the Best No Other Smith, John C. Barry, Mordecai Brown, CHICAGO CLUB Fielder Jon«s, Edward Keds gave it to him once in their town. Chance For Extra IVfonsy Making Pre David Jones, Otto G. Williams. McFarland, George Davis, William D. The sore had to be scraped day after day sented Itse5f Same Incidents in the Sullivan, James J. Callahan, Daniel for two weeks. Then Needham was forced CINCINN AT!CLU©? Joseph j.Kelly.Frank Green, Frank Isbell, Roy Patterson, Lee to go to Philadelphia, where a metal shin Cfosing Combats of the Year on Pre Hahn, James Sebring, Harry Steinfeldt, Tannehill, Frank Owens, William Holmes guard was made for him. George Wright, Charles Harper, J. Bentley Seymour, the veteran, made the protection, and de miers© Grounds. G. Harry White, Nick Altrock. j! clared that this was the first time he had Harry Dolan, Robert Ewing, Henry Peitz, ("Jiggs") Donahue,AugustDundon,Frank produced anything of that kind for a base BY A. R. CRATTY. Thomas W. Corcoran. Smith, Edward A. Walsh. ball player. Pittsburg, Oct. 10. Editor "Sporting PITTSBURQ CLUB Hans Wagner, Fred CLEVELAND CLUB Napoleon Lajoie CATCHER SMITH©S PLIGHT. Life:" Pittsburgh nine, with a record of Clarke, Claude Ritchey, Thomas Leach, William Bernhardt, Fred Buelow, Frank Right after Harry Smith and Secretary poor fortune hard to beat, has wound up Samuel Leever, William Bransfield, Clar Donohue, Harry Bay, Elmer Flick, Earl Locke came back from a trip to an X- the season and at once ence H. Beaumont, Harry Smith, Charles Moore, Harry Bemis, Adrian Joss, Will- rays doctor the two sat in headquarters jumped into a set of games Philippe, Edward Phelps, Otto Krueger, iam J. Bradley, II. S. Rhoades, Will L. and chatted for a half hour telling the calculated to bring in some gang of the vagaries of the rays. "I guess textra money for the play Patrick Flaherty. Lu^h, Charles C. Carr, Harry Hess, Ter- I am not hurt by the application of the rence Turner, George Stovall. ers. The nine is having it ST. LOUIS CLUB Homer Smoot, James T. rays," said Smith, as he gave his injured out with the Cleveland Burke, Charles McFarland, John Farrell, PHILADELPHIA CLUB Connie Mack hand an extra jerk.