Show MATTYS MATTY'S COLUMN r r P Mir z Sport Comment and Views Vie r y r By Christ Christy y Mathewson the theNe Ne New York Giants Giants' Famous Pitcher Copyright COP 1915 by br the Wheeler Syndi Syndicate att Inc Ine Only Men From Weak Neak Teams Are Jumping f From f time timo to time the Fedora Federal Ira lOl league u will m. announce tho the lumping jumping of a n new set of big bi bl leaguers leafier hut but careful observation will trill usually show that these havo o boon been members of cubs clubs l that are arc habitually pretty w well veil H down dO in the race clubs s whose s of winning tho championship n a and nd getting into the tho worlds world's s series were slimmer than those Johnson if of Jack Tack ho lie ventures across tho American bor border or Jack f quinn tho the pitcher and 13 Bill the he catcher both on tho Boston Braves cs left Stalling flat and went over to the Federal eera league league eague U a little moro more than a year ear cIr a. a ago At rat that time Boston di did dirl not look to havo a a- chanco chance to to rin win Neither Quinn nor Rari en has ever e gotten o over o r tho fact that they loft a n club which took tho the worlds world's championship and nod thereby lost the extra r coin c in which went to every ever player on the Braves Bra You Sou can b bet t II said mid Quinn to me mc after ater the tho series serie that that J I would have stuck if I 1 hAd thought that o Stallings hal had a chance to fomo through with his llis team I 1 v kllc ho v teas s u a great manager but ho hn hadn't nt picked Evers when I and I couldn t where lip up jumped see wo we hall had a look ino in Tho Feds made mado me a bi big offer and r thought I might ns as well get tho mono money o. o Was Sore at Himself felt about it than Quinn did lid since race worse than Bill is thrift thrifts Friends of Bill DiU tell mo me that they thov don dont don't t think ho 0 will mn over he be tho the aft after f r I in such a narrow escape from makin making tho the bi big addition to his savings It is is a cinch that neither ono of these there men would ba havo vo gone ono over if he ho had had hadnot not b believed lio cd that the tho Boston Doston club out ont of the tho was raco race Each just wanted tho the and harbored the tho natural atu a ball player has for traveling trave traveling in with a tail mono money ender Therefore tho players who are arc going goin over or to t tho o Federals r arc mo mostly men from tho the weaker teams and tho the now new league is not picking up any c exceptionally strong talent McGraw and I were rca reading in a New York paper that had wanders wan wan- dered ders down hero to Havana ann tho the other day and wo we taw saw an item that Leslie I Mann who was wa with the Braves last season had jumped It had been heeD reported that Stallings intended him im go o to the tho I Phillies hillies n as i one of tho the ers pla in the trade I poso O Mann ann figured figure that he would rather take the tho hi bigger gr er money offered f by the Federals than to string through next season ou with ith a club whoso whose chances of winnin winning tho fla flag are arc not Dot very ry goo good o Ho lie was a good rood fielder fast and sure but ho be did ld not bat much balli ns Was n hard UP for bittern l I dont don't blame him much 11 declared Lob Lobert rt who was wag looking over OTer tho the paper with leGra and me nie The liTho only reason I listened to the Federals at nt all was because O I r had had some sarno trouble in in Philadelphia As soon oon as I tot got an o opportunity to go o with the tho Giants I never no considered the outlaws It was nas tile the same with Sherwood ln l ee Boston and tho the chance for a championship appealed to him The Feds cds will got ot in over their heads with their offers it if t they III dont don't on t look out Of course they have havo a n good hold hoM on the tho Philadelphia players because of and Doolan Both wore were lr rc always popular men mon w with th chili i our ell club t. t |