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Show Magnates A'one Can Stop It. There has been a great deal said thus far on the double umpire question, ques-tion, . and, while some good points have been made on that subject, a great deal of nonsense also has besn written. One of the silliest things that could have been penned in delense of the double umpire system 'was to the effect that bad two men been present j the Doyle-Emslie trouble would not have occurred. Pshaw' Had there i t professional with the Montgomery club of the Southern League. He was with the Kansas City club of the Western League in 1E94, but did not finish the season on account of ill : health. During 1893, '86 and '97 h ! pitched for a strong independent team at Springfield, 111., where he j made his home. . The Peorias, champions cham-pions of the Western Learme, had his ' services in i?9S until the team dis- , banded and. his work there was won- i tTerful. Out of. 15 games in which be 1 participated he 'won 13. He was with . Baltimore last year and his fine work . there ,. stamped him ' as the pitching find of 1S99.; . I ' EDWARD SCOTT. been 10,000 umpires present it would not have prevented Doyle questioning a decision, and that, too, in no m.li manner, if he thought he was getting the short end of the deal. The trouble is not because there is only one Tim-pire, Tim-pire, but because the players are allowed al-lowed to do as they please during tb.3 progress of a. game. There, would be no trouble whatever with one man officiating of-ficiating if the players were strictly forbidden to question any decis'on he made, no matter how bad it might appear ap-pear to them. But just as long as the players are encouraged by the club owners in breaking the rules the latter lat-ter make, just so long will there le disgraceful scenes upon the ball field. The cjub owners are to blame for .the whole trouble. . Let any of the players enter a major league meeting room anil create a scene, and what would bj the result? Or, let any club's players walk' ihto the club's office- and help themselves from the club's treasury, would the magnates encourage them In that? We. think not. . Yet tae-piayers tae-piayers are robbing the club's safe jn r - ."Jl W' , The Toledo boy. wno is the Reds' wm- ning twirler President Brush 'predicted 'pre-dicted that he would make ecod in -the league. ' Many Buns but Few Hits. ' Brooklyn can make more runs on ' ' less hits than any team in the league, ' and that proud record is offset by as many shutouts as have been suffered by rivals of the champions, writes Ren Mulford, Jr. The playing of the hit-and-run game is responsible for the showing on both counts. Brooklyn has a fast lot of players. No oth?r team can show a bunch that can sprint from first to third in cleverer style than Keeler, Jones, Dahlen, Jennings, Kelley and Sheckard. Each one in that crowd is likely to take two bases on hits that the majority of leaguers would be content to gain one. Bar--rett is the Reds' only real. fast man. He Is going around the bags like a whirlwind these days. Crawford is learning. Brooklyn has over twice as many stolen bases as Cincinnati. ' When a team can purloin an averag3 of two bases to a game it does not require re-quire as many hits to get men Over the plate as are needed by the slower a more substantial way by their, disgraceful dis-graceful conduct on the ball field, and they are encouraged in that. It is ho use to appeal- further to the magnates, as it .is evident they .will not interfere. inter-fere. , Therefore the only .thing to be done Is to appeal to the players themselves: them-selves: This is' their living. If they are deprived of the means of making a living, then it will 'be; their own faultl Their greatest interest would be to protect the game. It would be. far better to sacrifice a dozeoj 'hot--' headed and indiscreet players thali for them all to suffer for the misdeeds of ; a few. New York Clipper. Strallne Bases from Phillips. On the western trip of the eastern teams the Philadelphia catchers get the rather, unsatisfactory credit of having allowed more stolen bases than any set of receivers in the league. This report rather does an injustice to two of the cleverest backstops in the businessEd. busi-nessEd. McFarland and Bill Douglassand Doug-lassand if a thorough inquiry had been made into the cause of these pil-ferings, pil-ferings, I am sure, writes Charlie Zuber, that in nine cases out of ten the pitcher would be found to be the man at fault. In the npris htwoxn the Reds and the Phillies.-the members mem-bers of the home team made an excellent, excel-lent, record on the bases. True, sev eral of these ' stolen bases were the results of bad throws, but in almost every instance the bad thrdj '.was caused by a poor pitch or the,. inter-, ference of the. batsmen. Almost, invariably in-variably . when a Cincinnati player started tq steal he would succeed in getting a good lead, thanks to the failure fail-ure of the pitcher to watch the base properly. And yet the catchers were blamed for the stolen bases. Manager Allen has given especial attention to-coaching to-coaching his pitchers to watch the bases, hence fewer bases have been stolen against the Reds than against any other team in the league. ' And while the catchers assisted in suppressing sup-pressing stealing it was the Reds' pitchers that were the prime cause of it PITCHER M'GINNITY. Joseph McGinnity, whose fine work in the pitcher's box for the Brooklyns has much to do with keeping that cuacnes. mat is one of the reasons Brooklyn is on top. When the hit-and-run tactics fail, force outs and " . ; double, plays are plentiful. That ip why Brooklyn has been goose-egged so often. ,' MeGraw Is Wise, f . .. John J. McGraw refuses to discuss any prospects regarding the possible revival of the Association next season. "I am pl&yJng ball in St. Louis.' now," he said, "and while I am there 1 am going to give the Robinsons my best ' "' efforts, and not talk about anything : ' that they would consider a detriment to their business interests. Everybody Every-body knows that I want to play ball in Baltimore, and that is why I went into that trick last spring. It turned ' out that Baltimore was solid, while Philadelphia and the rest of them could not show much of anything be- -sides talk. I am not a bit surprised that it smashed. You can't have a baseball league without the real thing. Under the circumstances, I am satisfied satis-fied to play ball in St. Louis, and I know that we are going to make it a great year for baseball there." Boston Herald. w M DIAMOND CLINTS. Bridgeport, O., can boast of a one-legged one-legged pitcher whose name is Craig Billy Keeler has at last forced himself him-self to the .300. class of batters. Keeler s work recently has been of a high order and it is hoped it will con tinue. frn nVll h3S flnally Graduated from v the .200, batting class and should; be heard from as one of Te-beau's Te-beau's most valuable team workers from now on. fyan iS after Pitcher Hu8hes of the, Omaha team of the Western League. Hanlon likes the name, but rie.r w PrSPeet 0f his getting the X kk68, vWb 1S pertecy visaed with his berth out in California Catcher Zimtner of Pittsburg is 8aid to have made about $30,000 out of baseball, and has saved it. He has 20 men employed in his cigar factory la ' Cleveland. O.. and does not nee? to hav, to worry about a steady position. r' ;. JOSEPH M'GINNITY. team .at the. head of the National League race, is a native of Rock Island, 111., and is 27 years old. His ; first ball playing was donj In Decatur 111., and In 1893 he branched out M a' |