OCR Text |
Show .THE GRANTSVILLE NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, UTAH. STALLINGS AND MITCHELL ARE REBUILDING CHASE IS BIG. FACTOR Has Been Playing in American League Twelve Years. e Yankee Star Has Supplied More Impetus to Reds Than Any One-Tim- Other Player Temperament Causes Much Trouble. Time ims been lenient with nul (liuRe, once the Idol of New York fandom. For 12 .rears lie lies been campaigning along the major league trail, but riot yei does lie have in dull' his stars. Tlie Sisters, cap to the 1lpps anil lioikes of a later day still have far to go before limy cun outRiiilaii'!;,r. shine tin balile-scarre- d Chime lias been an inspiration to the YanReds. Next to Malty, the kee star lias supplied more Impetus to tlie Cinciiinuii drive than tiny other player on ihe club. lie has become ihe pivot about which tlie lScdlnnd machine revolves. Hal Chase ranks with Jack Coombs " in as one of the greatest the history of baseball. Oil more than one occnsion hi major league requiem lias been read, blit today be Is back tin tlie upper course, performing uiih all the old agility imp Tasy grace that made him one of tlie most popu'ar players in the country In tin years of Ills sendee with the Yankees. Chase Is one of those In (lie temperamental hull players. past his temperament lias caused him u deal of trouble. At times it upset ills playing so that it looked as if lie were on the soapy dunes bended inward the minors. Bui Chase seems to liave overcome Ids erratic ways to a great exone-tim- George Stallings and Fred Mitchell split up last winter when Mitchell attached his moniker to n contract ns manager of the Cubs. So the Miracle Man of Boslon had to get along without his miracle conch nnd advisor, and the Miracle Coach had his own row to hoe in Chicago. B'.itli managers buckled Into the task of giving their home town fans a winner, and bolli have failed. Now they nre rebuilding the leainR for the 1918 race, and it appears from this distance thnt it will take considerable rebuilding to make winners out of them. Broke Up Combination. Stallings has broken up ids pennant winning combination completely, lie has gotten rid of uo less than fire players, and he may get rid of some more. Mitchell Inherited a second-divisio- n team when he took ihe Culm and he knew what lie lmd before him. He knew that it would take lime to model a winning machine out of the material left by Joe Tinker and that new material would be required. combi When the Stallings-Mitclic- ll W'ere you do Hie seemingly thing of a ticket for a Mill up the Hudson, you are embarking on no commonplace thing at all. For rest assured of this : You arc about to travel the most beautiful waterway in all the civilized world, Zoe Berkley writes in the New York Mail. There are mighty rivers in Africa, WHEN they Ray, that take the breath away for sheer solitary grandeur. And the Amnzon, with vast and sinister forests. And Florldn streams, mystic and weird. Yirgininns point with pride to the broad Potomac with Us line estates and quirt reaches. Come with me, will you, for a little voyage from Desbrosscs street to Albany? And from the economical vantage point of a $2, nine-hotrip, let us sec some of the things that make this "Empire river so lordly and so hu- Bare-legge- ur man. At the left hnnd, ns we start north, are the Hoboken docks, not pretty perhaps, but touched with interest because of the huge interned German ships that had ulmost taken root at their piers. The sweet green promontory of Stevens Point, where the institute Is, sticks out dclinntly from between ter- minals and warehouses tliat try to choke it. Yet the castlelike homestead of the Stevens family manages to keep its look of nristrocratic serenity, despite the crowdings of commer- cialism. At Wcehawken, where trolley cars now zigzag so nimbly up the heights. Is the spot then n picturesque and grassy ledge; now merely opposite where street West Forty-secon- d Hamilton and P.ujt met on the Held of honor in 1804. The boat goes so fast that In a minute it seems we are passing Riverside drive, which "Rome day will be conceded the loveliest street in the world. Now we pass the district of cliff dwellers thousands of tall houses ris ,Ing out of the trees, as it seems, from the river. To me these apartment houses, each one homing more families than some small villages, are a feature of thrills oud beauty. Cliffs Little Changed. The real; unspoiled loveliness of the tlver begins here, where the still rural booking Fort Washington point reaches out towurd the magnificent rise of the Palisades at Fort Lee. Barring the few homes thnt now peep out through the trees at the top bf these 500-focliffs, there is not such a precious lot of difference between how they look today and how they looked when George Washington and his staff watched from them the destruction of Fort Washington on the eastern heights nearly a century and a half ago and lined out a retreat through the heart of Jersey. The appeal of the Palisades is fresher each time you sail past them. As the steamer purrs along, you need only narrow your eyes a little to shut out things close at hnnd, and pretend see Indians lyjt Is 1009, and thattheyoufiut rocks high upon ing prone above the river, watching Hendrick Hudson beating northward in his tiny caravel. Since the Palls&des have become part of the state park. New Yorkers are getting better acquainted with them. But until lately hardly one person in a thousand knew the wooded wonders of this strip, its primeval ravines, its Btreams and forests, Its wlldflowers and the fair fields that yweep bnck fnm the little old hamlets it the top. 16-ml- le Artists hunted them out, and a few hardy campers explored the wilderness they found. But to this day there is more untouched ground along these Pulisades for New Yorkers to play in than in any other territory within a hundred miles. Under the shaft-lik- e walls, and close to the rlin of the river, between Fort Lee and Picnnont, is a row of tiny white tents with boats drawn up, gully painted canoes and. little sailboats. d kiddies run out hoping for waves as our steamer passes, and the campers wave and halloo. On the right, the end of Munlinttan island is marked by a high rise of wooded land and that famous creek in which was lost ilie Intrepid Dutchman who tried to swim it in spuyt den duyvel to warn the farmers up country thnt the British lmd landed on Manhattan isle. Notwithstanding the squealing railroads thnt now trestle it where it Roger Rresnnbau mu ;t feel like he joins the Hudson, Spuytou Duyvel still had found a submarine base. keeps a good deal the look of u pretty country. Ting Boilie hnd lilt safely in 21 Just north of Spuyten Duyvel is a games when George Foster stopped mountuinette, which used to be culled ldm. Thibet's hill and had a forlifieutlon, now replaced by the tall shaft of the Major league baseball scores are The printed in Freueh ai.d English newspaHendrick Hudson monument. story goes tlint the little Half Moon pers. was attacked at tilth point by Indiuns. Before the Majestic Palisades. A total of $21,C37,(i97 wos spent by The lovely wooded hillsides we now city authorities In 213 recreation cenpuss on the east bank are where the ters during 1910. rich men of Rlverdaie have their homes and where the picturesque conBob Folwell will he tlie only paid vent of Mount St. Vincent peeps out football coacli ut Ihe University of from the trees. Tennsylvunia tills full. If the day is clear you can glimpse a large cnstlellke house which was built Fred Toney of the Cincinnati team, by Edwin Forrest, famous tragedian to be the leading twirlcr of promises of a generation ago. It now forms the National league season. part of the convent, and is headquarters for the American branch of the Ed Geers stable is made up of 2fi Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent. horses of all ages tills year on the The Palisades now grow more and GrumT circuit compel ition. more majestic, and the east bank of and clad with the river is Jinny nre called but few are taken. trees through which the houses In the At least Units the way the draft seems suluirlis of Yonkers begin to peep. to be hitting the bnll players. . If you were tired nnd hot at the beginning of the trip, you are rested by Some of the helmets used in the war this time despite yourself. There is will be needed If many more batsmen something in the very width of the knocked out by pitched bulls. Hudson and the calm of the great get cliffs to the west and the vast sweep When Joe Bush bent the Red Sox on of wnter as, fnr ahead, it swells into 14 It was his first victory over August the Tappan Zee, that blurs rememBoston the entry since the senson of brance of city cares and makes body 1914. and mind relax. The boat puts in at Yonkers and . No mure has yet paced a mile In two gives you a chance to see a suburb although eight stallions and minutes, that is a thriving city. You learn that two have equaled or beaten geldiugs this old Dutch town, only 17 miles murk. tlie from the battery, has 90.000 population and is full of lively business inA1 Demur ee Is hnving a toufh time terests. for the Glnnls. lie is pitchwinning On the Hudsons west bank nestles bnll, but the club plays misgood ing the quaint, neat landing of Alpine, behind 1dm. erably V 'D beginning at the river's brim nnd straggling up the precipitous wooded for record hold the still Yankees The. hill. You can almost smell the damp g games this seaplaying greenness of the forest, quiet nud calm son, but they are not bragglug as to on the weekday, but abloom with pic"their ability to win them. nic parties every Sunday from enrly morning till way past dark. Fred Toney Is about ns good a rightFor tills Is all state park property hander Just now ns there is in the Nanow', free to the people nnd protected This does not except tional league. from qunrrymen. You cant quite see Grover Cleveland Alexander. the village proper from the river, for it is at the top of the cliff, a bit back Larry Doyle once specialized in hits from the brink, a sweet, rustic hamlet, extra buses, but In a recent stretch for as remote from the world ns though it e Giant made 10 games the of were Indeed an Alpine community. of Out one double. my stride, Torched on the green brow of the only Larry. says Palisades at this point are some lovely houses, and two or three artists stuJohn McGraw has had Walter Holke dios clinging to the woodsy walls furchange his batting style. The Giants' ther down. baseman chokes bis bat instead of North of Yonkers and Alpine the first swinging. Hes bitting around .270 at country is more beautiful with every that style, whereas he hit .340 and betmile. ter last fall. nation was broken up there were those who predicted that the Braves would miss Hie wise counsel of the Miracle Coach." Yet everyone knows thnt Stallings is capable, a good judge of bud players and a driving manager. It appears that die Braves were duo to full ; that Mitchell's presence would not liave helped matters any. Has New Outfield. Stallings has disposed of Evers, 11a gee, Twoinldcy and several others. IIo lias a brand new outfield; lie is rebInfield nnd lie must secure uilding-Ids another good culelior, 1o say nothing of rebuilding the pitching staff. At Chicago Mitchell faces reconstruction that Is almost us sweeping. Lurry Doyne may not be able to go through another season. Kiiduff may eventually succeed the former Giant enpluin us guardian of the' keystone sack. Tim Cub nntlicld also needs attention, nnd Mitchell is looking for several new pitchers. So by the time 1018 rails aromul the lineup of the Culm nnd Braves, ns compared to the lineups uf tills season, will be vustly changed. e como-backs- high-strun- tent. He seems to lie more conteid with his surroundings on tlie Cincinnaii team than lie ever was v, Idle a moin-e- r of tli'j Yankees, ll.e While Sox and nter in the now defunct Federal pague. Ho is playing steady base!, all. Day l anil day out lie Is continually slriv- - IRA THOMAS DENIES REPORT Former Athletic Star Has No Desire to Manage Major League Club-St- icks to Realty. Ira Thomas, a former star with tli Tldindeiplda Americans, bus no desire to manage a major league club. Thomas Hindi; known Ids .stand in denying a report that lie hnd been offered a chiiuee to Kiici-is-Miller Huggins ns uminagor of (lie St. Louis Nationals. Tin veteran said Hint lie receives $3,ritiO for coaching toe Williams col d . Hal Chase. . lug for tlie good of the team. He Is manow a cog in n smooth-runninchine. lie is no longer an individual stnr, although he Is playing just as brilliantly us at any time in bis long g cool-looki- extra-innin- j one-tim- career. Christy Matliewson regards him as one of the most valuable assets tin Cincinnati dub lias. Not only has Chase been ioumliiig Hie ball at dose to a .309 clift. but he lias been lidding brilliance and with all of liis running the bases as lie was wont to run them when he was having one of Ills good" days with the Yanks. old-tim- lege baseball squad ami (lint he realizes from ((5,000 to (.8,000 out of Ids real estate business In Tldludclpliin. I would be foolish to throw all this over for a job thnt might lust a year," I'm through with baseThomas said. ball. Its a grand game, but after all, we all go where we can make tlie most money. Tm going to stick to tlie real estate business. FORM SOLDIER BOYS' FUND Brooklyn Players Contribute Money to Care for Families of Thou . Called to Front. Tluyers of the Brooklyn tenin have formed a Soldier Boys Fluid." lres-ldcEbbets contributed $300 nnd the players an equal amount for a starter. Later It is to be added to by exhibition games and contributions. Tlie fund Is to be used to look after the needs of Brooklyn players called In the draft and their families. Several of the Dodgers are pretty sure to go, but they will not have to worry about financial affairs while la the trenches. In case any of the fund Is not needed by the players or their families It will be turned over to the Red Cross. nt e FINGERS KEEP PLAYERS OUT Erroneous Idea That All Baseball Men Are Physically Fit for Service in the Army. The idea that all hall pla.very iiuu.t be physically fit for service In the army apiicars to be erroneous. Heine Groli, third hnsemnn of the Beds, received orders several days ago to report for examination, and Heine reported. He got nwny well in tlie physical test until one of the examine. noted that Ids fingers were not ns straight as ihcy should be. At various times (luring bis baseball career Groli bad smashed hi lingers in finding Imtled or thrown halls, and they did not come back. As a result. Grab was rejected by the examining hoard. If the same rule is to be followed. It meons that several ball players who are otherwise physically fit will be rejected ly the examining boards. Eddie Grant In Training. Eddie Grunt, former inflelder with New J'ork nnd Cincinnati, and who retired from bnsclmll to practice law, has joined the oilicera training" camp at Ilnttsburg. ( |