| Show = = = A FEW DAYS M011E i I And tKQWPfall Cll npi lt rWlll NelVon S IIjI 1elY PS s THE ERRORS OF THE SEASON Ball for Dollars Not Pen llaylnJ uantsbe White Stoolilags Eastern Diamond Notes < < CHICAGO September 20 Correspondence of THE HERALD Only about three more weeks now and the championship seasons of the two representative base ball organizations of the country will have ended and the nennants will have been won by the t two pe leading clubs of the National League and the American Association The season jut about drawing to a close has witnessed some remarkable games and has by no men been without its sad I I experiences for club managers and stockholders in both the great organizations organiza-tions Some of these experiences have been costly yet if the purchasers thereof will only taTce the iessbns they have learned to heart nfi aV iti i > ext season the mistakes they haveSmatfe this hem he-m winds That hove stljuck them this year may have blown somebody good after all The mistakes to which 1 refer I are doubtless familiar to every lover of the national game who has followed its affairs through the past few seasons = or 1 may say through the present year Take first the New York Club There has unquestionably been some very bad judgment and a very great deal of the penny wise and pound foolish policy shown in the handling of this club this year and their bad luck to which has been attributed the letdown in the clubs effectiveness has been due s much to this bad judgment and to the leaning toward niKgardnes f tty Bife club managers as toanvthmgaelse Had Jim Mutrie provided himself at the outset out-set of tne season with = oneyes two good and promising young batteries taKen rom some of the minor organizations he would have sailed serenely through the trouble which overtook him when Ewing was disabled and Deasley on the sick list latftead of fortifying himself against such exigencies however he deliberately released Larry Corcoran who had nerer been anything more than a sort of pentioned member of the team anyway and entered the season with Welch and Ewijg Keefe and Deaslev its his only batteries Swing strained the tendons of his thigh in the early part of the season and Deaslcy had his uCtUe md his powers of endurance endur-ance battered out of him through double duty after which instead of fccounns the country if need be for one or two good caterers Mutfie takes Jim O Pourke the teams splendid center fielder from his position and runs the rise of disabling him for the season > y playing him almost constantly behind the bat while at the same time the change fleeted the elSciency of bib outfield out-field Never a move did he make to cop onto any new material anti when toid the other day before he carne west to play the last series wit Chicago that the teams chances for winning the pennant seeiued 6 be on the shrink he replied Pennants do not pay salaries Ve are playing ball to make money Ah Jimmy theres where you misled i and by adhering to that very same theory you hare knocked your club stockholders out of thousands of dollars this season You carne out west with i the strength of your team greatly tnpaired and your little goose was naked brown when you dropped those oar straight games to the White Stock ngs in Chicago It was a dead open and shut thing that Chicago would win that entire seres with you I do not doubt but that with Anson Pfeffer Williamson Burns Kelly Gore Dalrymple Flint Clarkson McCormick and Sunday Chicago could have gone through the season and still stood a good chance for the championship It is a good team as I have named it but Anson would take no such chances as iiutne has taken He found Ryan he found Flynn he found Moolio and he found Hardie all of whom Mr Mutne might have had just as well as Anson but Ansou Wttslonglieaded and Mutrie was blind with the estimate he had formed of his own judgment ami the desire he had acquired to pIng close to shore wand wmf w-and Mr M ffltrW lqB see Hd t New YorJteaBiMSgswsteKit53p made the Ii n Wta makingh limo j + t year had it gone back inyne enjj > ing the prospects obi = anec to neck race l ith Cnicago and Detroit to the finish tla New YoEk pqlo gt ands could scarcelykhave ireldfttie froowds t that woulS iitfite fldc fed 06 s < e the Giants play ball Enthusiasm would have prevailed prolmbly to a degree Jever known in Goth fm before in con tection with tffeirtatiortSLganie and thfe doas ars which Mutrie has Stated ne it playing bill for wouia4have rollell I Into the box office at n > ate that would I have made Xew Yor club stock not purchasable at any price As it it well I ask about it I As for Detroit the stockholders thte fEpaying hOd dearly for tbeir travtrgaace bonph More tho season is over will have if tlght T7 their experience ati ood rduntl not UnProf IjJe figure Where so much Q l money was laid out as has been bound w caSe with this cub there wl vunn fv to come a time n hen stook and holders fin would begin to grow anxiotisj finally panicstricken tude Panicstricken at the luu ni ot their investment in such a d rEnt ure as base ball Thousands of QOllarsI should perhaps be 1angb Hi bare were I to tell hbw maim thouswnd been expended and 1e klcld ePtn ffi by the management of this team 5 In getting together the chfb ° the IlVpi ar now playing and in pre ptlug teams from strengthening tIlt ir ranks tn o Success followed their venrnrw the a degree that has surprisd sout of I e old old6r that i6rheads in base ball affair and success has unquestionably P sessed f a strong element of 17 d tl 1 Ore a gances money was spent greater i ntrav Cared yes indulged Wt at a good dealllOre In nev thast he moremviiev < ji uew t than hI > Worth and at a good de 1 miu and 4ire t1uht have been secnrfd f ur I then presto the luck of th > clno i J changed ttt It began to lose where it w1 i 3re tockholders began to frrov t nasy and figure tl the oi i upon a amount 0 j miney Chan y they haul inv + ted and their d i ffinces for getting it back personal erences distrust S among the plavtrs anti U tu5f rj0nR the moneyed men of the t added to the spirit or uneisftici j and th diu started uowu hill while Chicago with unbroken rutiaa perfet1 uarjnony existing from the president down to the mascot and its placing strength increased through the patience gppp judgment and shrewdness of its captain walked to the front and began to show its heels to the Wolverine aggregation in a style that simply drove the hearts of that team into their boot Vill they keep their lead some may ask I think they will What will take it away from them 7 As the race stands today the Whites are five games ahead of Detroit and with four games j less lut and seventeen games ahead of New York with thirteen less lost Unless we go all to pieces I cannot see where there is any possible chance for j > etroit our only real tOi petitors in the ray e at this writing to fly the pennant this year Of the mistakes that have been made in the affairs of the Boston and St louis teams we scarcely need speak They are too well known to require mention here and if experience of the ra t three months does not prove a profitable one to both these organizations they will have only themselves to thank ftr it In the history of all successes however how-ever it would difficult to turn to one that has not grown from a faulty beginning begin-ning and a greater or less number of errors in judgment Experience particularly partic-ularly ii pastime entorpists must be bought and to some the price comes at a higher figure than is paid by o hers There was a timeif the world only knew itwhen the Chicanos were well down at the heel They made mistakes as well as the rest of them but Jt hey never made the same mistake twice They stuck to it fared falwre with the same composure that they have regarded success and today I doubt if there is a more prosperous pastime organization in existance than is the seemingly invincible White Stocking base ball tpam Gentlemen said Captain Anson to Manager Watkins and several of the Wolverine plftyer > tth p close of the last Detroit series wlrwill win the pennant this year certainly and if o or any other league club want to take it away from us next season yon will have to reorganize on a better basil and play ball upon different principles than those you now stand on Aud the big captain came pretty near sizing up the situation when he said it 4 r w T f 1 N Je CaptainiAn8onisbellin P thesball this fear 1 Ir JtfIt Louis Hardie our new catcher is a a ballplayer from aw y back Young Ryan may have the bighead big-head but he can keep it so long as he plays the ball he is playing at present Billy Sunday and Dalrymple are both away off in their batting this year Jim Mutrie will have to brace up If he wants the public to retain as good an opinion of his managing abilities as he has himself Arthur Irwine is disposed to show fight against the charges of improper conduct made against him oy President Spalding Better take your dose Arthur and say nothing Had Harry Wright possessed B little more backbone the wrangle and much to be deplored fiasco in the last Philadelphia Phila-delphia hicago series at Chicago would never have occurred St Louis is playing a remarkably good game of ball at present Keepit up hrough next season lads and you will have lots of fun in the race for the flag The St Louis Browns have won 81 and lost 40 games this season to date Ohi cago has won 81 and lost but 26 and yet the Browns call themselves the champions champi-ons of the world Pull the bell somebody some-body Wonder if Millionaire Wyman has not had enough of base ball to Jast him for the rest of his life Millions dont make half as good a ball team asdoes a little experience and good judgment President A G Spalding of the White Stockings is down east upon private business at his New York house The alarmists have him down there for the purpose of stealing the Pittsburg club away from the association associa-tion We wont have to steal them I guess Just open tue ranks and theyll come quick enough CON CBKGL |
