Show I I i T I if I BUy ra Pennants Pennan t Winning Winnin Team By TOMMY CLARK g once In Iii on one hears n 8 baseball fan Can Why h Is It ft that th tI and Sl Lou III earns In n the tita American and Cincinnati and St Sl Louis In inthe 1 the National hae never nevor captured a 0 banner Just before the tho start y nr I er mar nar the tho clubs are aro sup up o stronger than the one lit u fore ore Now New bave been ob and oW old timers havo 1110 been beon lot go and many mil have been boen made madeI I tho tear team 18 s no flOW strong enough to I n a splendid fight for Cor tho banner Hu as time goes Coes On these very same Nubs are aro as weale ns as the they were In pre I Then the tho winter set In and tho disgruntled ones discuss how the tho can win the tho hag nal One will S U the tho club officials would spend some somo or of theIr surplus cn cash h and tr try to obtain obtainS S a Wagner Drown Cobb Walsh or orI I I Mathewson Ith the tea tean would surely Burch cap capture Lure ture the banner Something Money Moncy Cant Buy Winning InnIng a 11 baseball pennant 00 e I In the tho big Is quite n a nI I from what most or nr the tan fan lock flock figure tho ho job to be JI Is ono of oC the few Cew things ut cant cint bo be or of the tho few rew things that ambition energy and hard may not noL overcome in the end For two glorious or InglorIous ox ex tal take c the CIncinnati Nationals and atil th Cleveland Americans t tan 0 bl big show how representatives At the It b 11 of the club are 10 Chancy I Simers mrs anti John I lIfo I two sports Iii U n with a of money who ho aro aroa a tiling to payout pay out and who have paId put lut yar nt I year ear as much as or more than tn other CIUI owners In the tho An expenditure o of from rom to annually for Cor now new tal talent talent I ent Is 15 a stead steady occurrence an and yet with an all star arm army gathered together er season Jea n after season has hia neer won z pennant In or of effort On payroll or of Cleveland clubs chubs hao been such stars as Cy Young Bobb Bobby Wallace Pat Larry La LajoIe Lajoie joIe Bill Bradley Elmer flick Terry Turner George tuppy Cupp Addle Joss Bill and others who have reached leached the tho top crest or of the game ame Yet after battling for years rears Cleve Cheve Cleveland land has hus her first pennant to wIn Chancy Charle Somers one or of tho club own era Is a multimillionaIre and would price to reach top but lie he heIs lieis Is In a money cant buy Its it wa way without a limit Stars Cannot Bo Be Bought helplessness of oC money Is one of oC the peculiar phases of oC the tho national the a inability of oC It d wealth to hu buy a championshIp team tean on will nil 1111 a stable stahle with holding records mone money will ih buy yachts and automobiles that cnn ot new marks for Cor speed but no amount of C mone money will buy enough h ba bail Payer or of hennant winnIng caliber to a second division team Into a first place certainty The late lato 1 do de Haas RobIson I talked about this subject some Somo ago Brother Stan and I want a t t team am In St L Louis luls lie he saId Yo 0 have havo spent over to Get go one and still our nIne Is near noar the toot of the i Now ow the fans In St Louis would rise to n a pennant winning I Yo Wo would give 10 for that would Insure us as good bood a I team as tho Pirates or the Cubs a team that would attract or people a day Instead or of 2000 or 2500 a loam that would in fn all probability win vin tho flag naS But buy huy such n a acain cain nor would Every time I thInk about the helplessness of wealth In baseball I am reminded of oC the stranded mariner who a ml miWon ln doll rs worth or of on ona I a L esert l island lie lIo would have given shon shonI them nil iiI for SI a loaf of oC bread brend hut there was no brand to bo be had There are aTt many club owners In th AmerIcan an and leagues who I give glO any sum to got get to a ChampionshiP team toom but the tho thing cant be done I Would NOW New York sell for I an any sum Pittsburg sell Wag ncr ner Would Cleveland sell Lajoie or ori I i Joss Would ChIcago soil soli Chance or Brown Would Detroit Cobb Never Neer No the only wn way to get a champion champlon championship ship shIrl team II l to develop It Hard Luck CIncinnati I 1 National league counterpart Upon tho Red roster have hao been some Bome of oC the tho greatest stars tho game samo has ever EwIng Did Bid Mike Donlin Joe Kell Sam Sani Crawford I Overall Soy Sey Seymour mour Corcoran anti and others above the standard Carry Garr Herrmann the clubs chief owner pays out annuallY a princely stipend for Cor talent and would this amount to win but Cm like Cleveland has her hor first hag to win winOn winOn On the other hand Mur Murphy ph phy with no as aM an owner a ties lIew to tho n a fran nt at a low expends a little or HO mone money In strengthening his club I I 6 iL iLS iLI i t S I I J 9 I i 5 ft i h ht I Ii f J t i It H Itt Ur 6 t I Ir Iry 1 r J F FI I I Ei E I r V I 5 1 I ITY TY ry COBB DETROIT AMERICANS GREAT BATTER ROUNDING BASES AFTER LONG DRIVE working through trades tradel and then wins three pennants In a row zeta Bets the big league winnIng record and wins two straight worlds championships baseball Wagner and nd M Recently Uy the vas asked which Is the tho moro more valuable baseball player Hans aner of 01 or Christy of Now New York It Is cult to answer for tor both men are ara Indispensable to theIr tive tooms It Is almost a cInch that neither club would trade trado Its great player for 01 the other On the face or of It Wagner would have tue tho call caU for a great pla player cr who Is In the gamo ever every everyday day would Heem to bu or of more use to his club than n a pitcher pilcher no matter how strong who nece Is not in the tho lineup for or n a good many games sames Wag ag agner nor ner has held the Pirates up In the therace therace race for or man many years So sen sensational Is his work with the but bat da daby day by day tutt It Is a common around the tho circuit that Hans Wagner agner d to a slight extent b by a few other defeated our boys bos at atthe atthe the yard this afternoon This Is an OX In Inmost cases but It shows a bIg the tho n is 18 In thc tha winning of oC games I by the Pittsburg club Still the tho writer bG be I Is tho thio iono O of the tho two Without Vagner tile tho would continue to wIn a of their games for they have havea a great ball bail club In all departments But take tako Mathewson awn away from the Giants Glunts and azid McGraws men woul be own In the tho second division In a short time with little prospect of getting out Last year ear Matt Matty won games game for or the Giants Out or of Cort forty S Ho took In mor I Ithan eight pItched part more than of oC the tho games played b by his team und and ho he won considerably more titan than on of oc the tho vIctories credIted to the New C York club It Is absolutely certaIn that no other pItcher could done nearl nearly so well vell That ThatIs Is with an any other othor pItcher than Matty otly i ithe the Giants would not haVe been In the raco right lip up to the last minute all as i ith th thie 9 were but would heel out of 01 It long IonS b the actual finish On the tho last western trip or of the tho GIants won the tha only game that I McGraw cOrn got In Chicago and also tim tho onlY one secured In Pittsburg us well ns as one or of the tho two that tho Giants won In CIncinnatI Without hIm the Giants would woul h havo vo had a bad trIp trill instead or of a fairly good goodone one In tho recent serIes wIth Pittsburg Matty has Iwa again proved his worth The Tho other twirlers vero to mow I heWn down the tho Pirates Big BIS SIx ns as lie he k 11 called won his with hIs i lent pitching The big pItcher must bo be regarded not Oil only as the tho greatest twirler or of the age but also as the most valuable individual to a ball club that there thore Is In tile tho countr country toda today Now New Tennis Being Tried jS A firm or of tennis racket mak makers ers era has put u a new racket on th the market whIch It Is asserted will completely revolutionize the same game Several con con mental players have already trIed It and the tho speak well weli of it The Tho maIn feature of the new ne racket Js Is that it has two of oC stringing Instead or of orone one and planes pianos are arc so arranged that only one comes Into play for sort soft strokes whereas for hard strokes stroke tho thio two unite In giving the tho ball a vigorous push The Tho whIch will ap appeal peal to time the majority or of players Is that the resiliency Is spread over nearl nearly the tho face faco or of the racket Instead or of being quartered only as It Is on tho ordInary racket In the tho center of the face or very er near It Other advantages arise from Crom tho fact that the tho mesh of the tho stringing Is larger and that the gut han a better grip on timo tho hall ball and anI so can Impart a better Jetter screw Tho gui gul Is not ilot imprisoned In one position as the mesh being wIder and each gut haing a smaller tensIon tho strings cm can move moo a little up and Ind down so 50 that one string does docs not got hammering Into the tho ono one behind It thus cutting It through Thou Thon time the gut ut lasts longer as fach each String has less strain to bear ear thai thal In a one no piano racket Now G Man have claimed that crIcket was too loo slow for Americans hut iUt In Limo new ne English game gamo o of quIck cricket Is round found all the action that can ho be desired along alons with the tho advantages adarita s ho be desired along alons with the tho advantages adarita s and points o of the tho cricket et game Iame I Quick cricket Is a combination of ten nl iii and cricket The Tho double wicket Is I used and four Cour or more players are aro on ona ona a sido But Instead o of tho old method I or of bowling the tho drives are aro made with witha I Ia a tennIs racket Time Tho Samo Is adapted I It t outdoor use uso or for a passenger deck deckon on a large steamer a covered court large and amid hotels as well ns as for Cor homo home amI spaces hero ordinary tennis Is pla played ed The length ef cf tim tho creases varies aries from Crom fifteen yards up arI and the tho wIdth from no five yards upward The Tho game has made a hit In En Eng land some players are arc lug InE experts Among those who tho hm tried omit time tho game are arc R it Ii F Fand and Jr H L Doherty Eustace Miles Mila Gil Gilbert bert hort Jesop A W Gore Miss Ifs Dou as Miss lIss and S SH St H Smith and Mr and Mrs 1118 G W V ard Teams have hae been bUln organized In England and counties play agaInst each othor Time The prIncipal rule rulo of oC the tho game samo re requires quires that ono one run at must be berun berun run for every cery hit thus makIng slow Ilow play practically Impossible OrdInary tennis balls bails are used the aIm being io 10 so tho ball that the tho wicket Will Willbo willbe bo be hIt I it possible One player In fn front or of time tho wIcket as batsman and I another behind the wl wicket ket ns as catcher I each wIth a tennis racket The Tho pla player cr serving the ball from time tho 1 I wicket h Is tile tho bowler Additional A pro ro I Is III afforded b by time tho other players player j who stand at time tho sides or of tho ho court or I crease The Tho game Ame Is also known as or I now cricket b but lt the popular nan natho u to bo be cricket It In Ill Invented I vented b by the secretary or of Limo tho Montreal Cricket club S I Ritchie Tennis Crack Crnek I On Oni man on time tho BrItiSh team that Is to vIsit this country time the latter part of oC August to pia play In tile tho In international Davis tIes in Philadelphia Is M J 3 G RitchIe who vho will bo be ro I for hIs work In connection I with J C Parke time tho Irish player for or I time cup last autumn Though lie ho H playing on the tho boards for years ears lie ho In iii wInning time tho CO coy I Cred courts at time thc Queens till tili this ar lIe Ho secured time the I title without time tho loss of oC a set though lie ho was as bj rs us as A Ar r Gore C P DIxon and amid Kenneth Powell Is much better hetler on omi onwood wood mood than oli grac ra and amid has Imas beaten ii H HL L 14 Dohert Doherty on boards though never nover on time turf lie He is ir babiy the tho best nil around player In iii England today and has riot not a alt lila his armor In forbidding tho production ot of IL a pin play ono ommo would have havo to be ba very cry sure that time tho evil was In time tho mind ot of the tho pla and not or of the thc read reador or cr For thIs reason renson several mon men would have havo to Judgment lest through Some somo quIrk In the mind o of ono one of oC them theman an intelligent and sincero piece ot of work might be lost to time tho world Noth Ing that Is really salacious evor no matter maller with whim how much genIus It Is written Tho plays of oC tile tho restoration are dead he the they were put to gother for a salacious purpose Shake spearos plays s contain man many situations sItuation and lines intolerable to modern taste but live lIe forever rONer because there thero was no evil ovll intention This is IH the tho eternal dis distinction Unction that has hns to bo be borne In mind It seems to mo me that In the case of oC plays written with honest Intent we should drop the tho classification decent I FItko Fiske at on once arranged for Cor the tho X New NewYork W WI I York o of thIs timis drama dramn at time tho Majestic After ACter Its mc metropolitan i run It will vilI bo be seen In the tho promInent citIes or of time the country countr I In this play Mr Ir Post appears In the character ot of John a bridge engineer a rol role that Is said to give glo full ull scope to hi abilitIes Mr Post I although still sUIl In hl lila thirties has imas had a wide dramatic experience Ills HIM early years on time the stage wore spent wIth Bellow Bellew and Mrs rs lott Potter r JO Joseph Jefferson Fanny anny Davenport Otis OUs SkIn SkInner nor ner and other othor well known stars ap appearing In classIc Sh and modern roles roils lie He came Into the tho favor or of Now New York pla playgoers orl b by his success In The Virginian arid and Time The Hell Heir to the tho Three years carll ago lie he played leading parts In Iii Mrs Fiskes company appearing In Llah Leab that ho was not nt at work on eu a single one but taking fI I real even building n a vaudeville FIlch Fitch re remarked marked that everybody wr wrote plays so gO gOIt It as to ho be inferred that th need not exactly suffer from a 0 dearth or of them Inasmuch as the tho author or of Tho Blue Mouse and others hold that over ono one wrote plays pIAS C seemed to feel teel to t think lie he was not exactly In n the lie game Th ThUe The guest Ue t drew from Crom hIs pock t nn an o vel opo ope and pencil and began to make scrawls mentioning In a weak attempt at humor that lit ho wu was starting to a pIa play Before BeCore the tho Museum of oC Art had been heen passed Colwell had block blocked d out outu outa u a plot ton or none a one act comedy and br brzen bra brazenly zen cont confessed It What is he It about asked f comedy or I KV Th 1 i r lj W d dl l a i j I I 1 a ts J Jr JS I k r S f j i t js I IV V i t 1 t te I e I I 4 I po j Ic J 2 A I pS i t I S w I 5 s t t W Ww QuiCK CRICKET NEW ENGLISH GAME WHICH IS NOW VERY POPULAR ABROAD I An Autumn t thIs his opera Is n a musical I III mm Berlin n Munich I 1 capitals Both h by It critics It III him been heon I IJ 11 worth worthy rival of Time The Merr In Europe it music I is appl applauded with Robert that hat time tho opera finds ready Sought by Managers In this work vork Mm II Savage Sango has hae again his hII munn munnI I s gere b by picking up tt a success before beCore its ItJI to time the piece protected Il ILis is not believed there thore will bo be any occa occasion slon sion for n a legal controversy Time The Gay hits 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