Show SECOND BASE PLAYERS keystone sack has some mighty graceful men stamping ground of more stars than any other position on diamond eddie colllns collins Is praised by Mar manager iager mcgraw collins coiling the sox second sacker played placed a brilliant game and appears appear to be in his nd season form thus was the fact that the Tarry tarrytown terror is if himself again which nearis that he has effee eflee ively silenced pd those who weald place strong second sackers before him unions among them being his former boss connie mack alack who Is quotel as saying that lie would not tr trade ade carry T arry for cor colllns collins mcgraw lauds laude colllns in form colllns collins Is undoubtedly the king of second basemen lie ile can lilt ill the ball consistently and timely is a grand defensive player and a terror on the sticks sacks and in addition lie can think it was his ability to outguess ilie the opposition that won more than ono worlds championship for the r palla delphia athletics for tills this assertion our authority is john J mcgraw man mail ager of the new york giants who contends that eddie collius collins Is the greatest baseball player in the gama today and mcgraw ought to come near knowing if anybody does docs all due respect to connie mack and his judgment of ball players larry cajole of today Is not in n class with v etli V colllns the cajole of 1002 03 OA 05 and xa 06 was perhaps a greater gi eater b abtil 1 player than colllns collins but not the lr L r jole joie of today the former pre milt ball player of the world Is not so spry sity ns as lie he once was lie ile does not tear loose those hairbreadth plays which ht he was wont to pull off with such con stimulate eliminate ease ile he does not line them ont oat in the same old way and appears to have lost a stride or two in getting flown down to first larry Is getting old lie ile has lad its his day and not even een connie mack can talk colllns collins out of 0 the lie title of king of the key keystone guardians flajole has passed the title to him place for players there are few positions on the diamond that have been graced by such brilliant players as second tase apparently par antly ly it Is a place for graceful players such as biddy formerly of the reds in the early days of baseball when the national league was starting out and the american league and federal league and the baseball wars things unheard of and of the distant future the baseball fans throughout the land idealized ross barnes of chicago reach of philadelphia dave forca joe quest J J burdock tom force end and freddie dunlop of the st louls loula maroons marcons Mar after dunlop and link lowe ca pid childs while its ills only rival was freddie of chicago a grand fielder and a hard and timely hitter ile he was the brains of pop ansons famous white sox infield many claimed |