Show DID DIDUGH UGH FOR GAME of Baseball Cham Champed ped ed the Great National ort for Many Years lor BY rIM YIM MURNANE Chadwick I knew him hm well ty jears 0 ears him by Liy b reputation for lears ears the life of p and while I 1 never considered the father of baseball baseballs s i believed bf that he loved the they ly 3 y adoption n and nursed the In jun mt A a gardener would a fu a lose ose bush and seeing it thrive all Ue tle or for Cor the fact of or oro 10 o c fi i i with so soa soa soa a creation hah k learned to lo play pia las as a bo be In it England and the hLa bb lio lood was ever nearest rt rt TJ ing a 1 clever writer on Imd md l that baseball wa wu waB he settle game rf rt this country countr Mr ck rl cu no io line influenced by bv l m AA Wright right who took the n 10 t l Hoboken N J I his first game garn and instructed the nil s Over Sixty Years Ago Iwas was as over sixty years ago and fat at me until he laid down his Brooklyn a few fv days ago Hen Iwick a 1 the American game champion ha and well de tie tieI Iet li t I monument nt to his lite memory A Ant Amt Int nt mt fo ti it t in ill symbolize the rise rho mple to the highest I sports sport by the pen pen jien of I who could paint the ideal and on to te tf see Sf his dream real reala In n a the early Os when the old lark ark at Brooklyn was as the tIle scene sceney ly y a crooked c rook I deal on the ball ban banC balle le e C name lamE an cf tf Henry Chadwick was waR by th tt tI wrongdoers for his pen ver vel Idle Ilie working to save the therom rom the influence of gamblers Ill II players without hearts Jr l Iho ho wr ve Te e knifing the sport The I then could make maka more money mone ked leils and double crosses y the guaranteed by bymon b mon mony 1 never r wrote a line on cu onI cuI 11 I that thit w tr not clean and in ing Ing ing g as I Lc I c was ever trying to th tarr ganic t and continually Ot ov t UtE the dc feets as he saw san ears Pears i 1 i early parl history of a hadwick discouraged claiming t that It handl handi the Ithe th chances for or line drives and rasler I thames chances for out His was laughEd laugh d at but today the are arl those who can line til lout 1 out rather than those who whong ling ng Ig hits hit high in the air all to the outfielders You will lay the thc best fungo hitters the batsmen b when hen It comes to the ball safe ian knew the playing rules as Chad hk He was present etan etar cf ef the first convention he rules r l s as practically govern at the present time were for forty years has lent lente le e 0 a ti t the rule makers I II IC Ir I C Wright and Henry Henryck Ick ek ck the two to men who knew the II I rules roles bes bess Know Him iv lived d in and around ork orl fU d his face was familiar t plOp t interested in baseball usually Attended the Hie baseball g the winter months s found at important nes In the fall of 1906 he called at the Marlborough hotel and lat tat he would auld like to see the theme theme me between be bc tween the Boston and andon andor or on Americans where the cham champ p was to be settled on the last rode rodl to the Highland grounds lie Ie veteran to find fina that he was wasn wasU n U b by the th officers at the park tooK Ill rne no little time to im imm imn m n those in harge that Henry Henryck Henr ck ek should be welcomed with ins ms ti t ay an ball ground that he 1 with Uli hH hi I presence a lot of u 1 d tape and much tion tiou LO to OKI Chad we were wre wred Id d tj to the gra l d stand and how howlin ho lin tn of SO years ears nm of age enjoyed He HI never nE er lost a play im ut at t d on every move of the thein theIn theIn in f ay th that it t amazed me for nt be leve that Ma his hI sight was nough to tike take In the rapid of the t e men who were working heir hell livis d on the re After Arter the game I looked over Oel re ra book to find every play 1113 re much better than I had ever e r fT inte Chadwicks he it Il was as invented forty before Had Little Money y V Ch great work for 11 ii netted him little in a finan y for or a oui ih the time I mention led on his Ins old friend A G Gg GIg Gig Ig g and said saul he was worried i I place tn tiP be bt buried and he felt feltIe lie me Ie was drawing near to face the then n Mr lr Spalding was always a favorite with the tIme great g t writer riter ack In the days when hen Spalding Itching the Boston Reds Into Finding an old worrying about something he WitS far tar off otc A G Spading l I Old Crad md by saying Never ever had you go and pick out a lot hot r liking In your our favorite id d have laO them send me rue the bill notice noUre by the reports In the tIme that our baseball n nit it there to rest r st |