Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-01 | Page 16 | Hal Chase Suspension Ends Brilliant Carrer

Hal Chase Suspension Ends Brilliant Career BV nr AI ALt ALLAN L. r. Universal S Service r lc Staff Correspondent ut New York Aug 2 24 Ilal Hal Chase Chase- better beiter heXter heX bet ter known to the followers of f baseball an DR Prince Hal the greatest first baseman baseman base base- man roan of ot them all has hns probably played his last game In tho the major leagues Although hailing from California ho lie had a n. falling which is commonly as ascribed ascribed ascribed as- as to Cuban Cullan ball players Ho lIe was temperamental even more temperamental temperamental tempera tempora- mental than his most ardent admirers over ever dreamed Chase was wae suspended recently b by Manager Mathewson lathe of the tho Cincinnati Reels Hetle for alleged indifferent nt playing If It the char charges es are true every true truo lover of ot tho the game gamo would defend Mathewson and even though the they may not nor be bo true the suspension and tho the accusation willJo will willIn In ln all probability end the career of ono of ot the games game's most spectacular figures Prince Hal as we will remember him has bias gone gono over th the tho road and In returning return return- ing to obscurity or the ranks of some Home outlaw clan carries carrieR with him the distinction distinction dis dis- Unction of having copped the honors honors hon hon- ors in both tho ho major leagues The rho vcr very fact tact that ho he can produce the tho goods or that ho he has delivered strengthens the tho contention that list ho he was wn capable of ot doIng doin do do- in ing more than ho did this season for tor Ma Mathewson th ew Son Hal Tal has been a trouble rouble maker ever er since sinco ho lae first firo flashed into fast fost com coni- pany Ills His first t engagement was with the lie New York Yankees s In 1903 Ho became be be- came Caine tho the sensation of or the tho American league almost from the st st. sUit t. t Clark Griffith was v then piloting tho the Yankees Yankees Yankees Yan Yan- kees and It was not long before there was trouble brewing between Griff and his sensational first however How How- ever Hal stayed with tho the club chub until 1908 when he to Join the Stockton Stockton Stockton Stock Stock- ton club then an nn outlaw of ot tho the California Call Cali fornia State Slate league hague Tho The following year oar Frank Farrell be became became be- be came caine Intel Interested ested in Hal and persuaded him to return to the Yankees although he encountered some difficulty In persuading persuading per per- the national commission to reInstate re reInstate reinstate re- re re- re instate the player During tho ho first year r el of his second en engagement with tho the Yanks Hal again the prince of or ball players Ty players Ty TyCobb Cobb tho the king performed king performed In his old- old time style and apparently there thero was no friction in camp The second year ear however things began to go hO the old wa way again It was largely through Hal that lint George Georbe Stalling failed tailed as manager odthe Yankees after piloting tho lie New York Jinx club to o second plan vIall In lathe tho pennant race I Prince Hal always alwn's a a. favorite In the grand stand was selected to pilot the team In Its season post-season series with tho the Giants and anti ho lie has been credited with handling their National league rivals the victory That winter he was appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed manager of oC the tho Yankees but proved a dismal failure nt at tho the helm I Then Them came came came- the Chance regime In Now York alit and more moro trouble I I In Inthe the training camp at nt Bermuda Chance attempted to transform the great first baseman into a ke keystone keystone- tone tone- I sack lack man Chase did lid not take kindly to this pla plan l and after a n trial was traded I to the White Sox b by Chance Chanco for flollie Rol lie lle Zelder and Babe Borton Dorton I With the Comiskey combination he ho was In hot water and Jumped to tho the Federal league as soon eoon at nt that organIzation organization organ organ- opened its cent and shows 1 In n the lie Feds Prince Hal lIal seems to have havo thrived until th tho league suddenly blew I up and ho lie was isas left Jen stranded Then Garr Garry Gamy Herrmann In serious need of a n first st baseman made him a n member of ot the lie Reds Beds his first cn engagement engage engage- a e- e I mont ment with a n National league club Prince Hal became supreme in tho the National Na Na- Na-I Na league He lIe lel led the league in batting In 1916 his first year ear with CinCinnati Cincinnati Cin Cin- and ranked the best first baseman base base- man In Cincinnati Price Hal soon be became became became be- be came as popular na ns he ho had been In Now New w York What hat happened In the two years yearn following only Chase mid and Manager Maager Ager know