Show In Baseball Youre You're a Hero One Day and a Bum the Next I BY WALTER ALTEn MARCHAND MAnCHAND Copyright 1912 b by Publishers Press New C York Nut Nov 2 While 2 While this is the tho closed season for Cor baseball there are arc happenings which continue to cause CRuse dl and antl excite Interest among amonS' the fans and give he occupation to the Hot Stove Stoe league First and foremost of or these Is the situation in the Chicago o National ue league club It Is Js an old trite and mighty true truO proposition that all the world loves lovesa a winner One Charles Webb Murphy is in this re respect at least chuck cuno full cun o of human nature When Frank Chance was chief en engineer engineer en- en s-Ineer s of that wonderful ba baseball ball machine machine machine ma ma- chine which he lie built up and led to victory victory vic vic- ic tory time lime and again ho was the tho peerless leader the greatest manager the game had ever er seen and all the other things t which are arc said about a successful man loan Th Then n came tho the time when tho the Cub machine like c all machines built b by man began to go back haele Important cogs like and Brown Drown b began gan to go 10 rusty and antl had to h bu be replaced and the tho now cogs had to get Ret down to their bearings hearings before the rejuvenated machine would run smooth Then Chance to a realizing sense hense of f the great fundamental truth of oC human hu- hu human human hu hu- man nature that yesterdays yesterday's s successes cut ut no Ice with a man mun like lIko Murphy an ana anyway a Jt its it's true that when McGraw had the same difficulty his iris people stood b by him and helped him him toward new and greater successes So with Connie Mack there is no talk of his having to hunt another Job because tho the Athletics dropped to third place this sen season on and Hugho Jennings still holds the time and anti is up a a. team which will rill have something to tosa say sav a about out tho time pennant before long But Chance Is s out It shows the dif dlf- in people Johnny Johnn Evers ma may prove provo to be us great a n. baseball general as Chance He lie certainly is J a fine heady ball player who knows the game from rum soup to nuts But Dut something else IH Is needed to build buildup buildup up tip a pennant willing team and frankly I doubt If Ir Evers has It Il I shall be he greatly surprised If tho time Cubs figure much in tho the pennant race for or a l. l long lung time to come If If as seems probable Horace Fogel Is Js finally retired from baseball and antl lie new owners of the tho Phillies give he Doom Dooin u tl freo hand It would not bo be surprising to see the Quakers take the place of ot the Cubs In lighting fighting it out with Pittsburgh Pitts burgh hurgin and antl New Nest ew York Yort for tor time the National league honors And while wo we are ago supposing if It Ebbett Eb- Eb hetts bett gets Chance or 01 to take charge of or the tho it would be bo a mighty might likely h place across tho bridge to 10 look Jook for the other first division team For ForIr Mr Ir Ebbetts has a mighty able set ct ot o of young oung ball hall players on his pay roll Turning from base baseball hall to football the mho season it now at a stage stas-o where it itIs IK Is pretty well possible to size sizo up the teams Taking it by and largo I am Inclined to belle believe that Princeton again has the best hest team in tho the cast The Tigers havo have developed a a. hard hard fighting fighting eleven en good g at both offense and defensive de de- defensive e- e play hea heavy enough to play a first class article of oC old-fashioned old line breaking football and fast enough h to 10 todo todo do great work in the open style of M play Yale and Harvard have ha teams o of un unusual unusual unusual un- un usual merit this year and while in all all- round ability the they do not I l think equal Princeton they are arc so strong that groat great games game arc are bound hound to result reul t when the themen themen themen men of or the fig Ell Three meet and so nearl nearly even en that an unexpected bit hit of good fortune fortuno or the slightest letdown mn may tell tho the story of- of of oC victor victory or de de- feat The other members of the time time old Big Five Cornell and Pennsylvania seem to have hae met with misfortune this year car and antl do not appear to r no e in tho same came class with Princeton Yale Yalo and Harvard Banard A comparison with the time Arm Army and ana Navy H. H teams Is up to this time all aU In favor or of the tho soldiers It must be bo re remembered remembered remembered re- re however that there Is really only one game gamo In the season that counts for tor Annapolis and that limit Is the mho game gamo ame with West Point From all I hear tho the sailors are arc working working- haul Id I'd to correct the defects in their earlier play Tho Thoy have hae fine tine material and It t ix it not yet et written that time the they will not have a It team three e weeks from now which will give tI a good g account of or It Itself against the them themen m men who follow the mule |