Show BASEBALL LOST A LEADING LIGHT IN RETIREMENT EMENT OF JIM lift HART OF CHICAGO 4 w kj ot With the retirement from baseball last Monday of James Jmes A Hart president of the Chicago Nationals the National league lost Jost one of its pillars and the game a lifelong friend There was wag no suPporter of Oie te foremost American sport than Mr Hart and he lie h devoted twenty of the l e most useful years of his Ute life to its de development nt and success succoRs Mr dr Hart though born in Girard Pa is descended from front old Connecticut Yankee stock MockS and the th city of Hartford was named after one of his hie ancestors He is now DO 50 O years ears old ol but spry r and nd more agile agUe than many m n men of 30 Mercantile pursuits en engrossed engrossed grossed his youth and he was in business I at Louisville about twenty years ears ago when he became a director of at the old Louisville ville club and embarked upon tho life lICe he has since followed Mr Hart liked baseball and baseball liked him His sub subsequent subsequent subsequent sequent career care up to tho the time his loca location locatIon tion thou at ut Chicago was Os almost kaleidoscopic kal He was a magnate in the lod led Northwest err league loague first met Frank trank Selee Sele who was the team James A had Interests in Milwaukee Mr Hart Han then been became me t a 6 magnate la In Boston and anti later was sent to England in the at attempt attempt attempt tempt to make the Britons become base baBe baseball baseball ball fiends Ho helped organize two or three strong little tittle I ues in England and ran can tell a multitude of f good stories on the tho Britons and their ways wa s Returning from England En land In IP Mr Hart remained sole head of tho tiLe Chicago club and a power in upper leagues clr cir i LItS Its He was a diplomat and aUd yet a fear fighter Sometimes he was waa with one unc faction sometimes snottier another and u d generally manage to come out on top even in his frequent battUes with Andrew Freedman Other interests meanwhile began to take up some of Harts time Ho He H had a 3 hand handin in the big bl land duals deals of A G Spalding and more recently in a bis bl bI gravel corn com pany Out of ot his hi various profits he bought hought R a splendid mansion on the North NorthShore NorthShore orth Shore and reared a 1 fine tine family in princely luxury Of Ot late the time gravel business and the land speculations speculation beran beian ber n t to make inroads on baseball hours Mr lr Hart finally filially decided to lox lay la down the reins rein and Charles U W V Murphy Murp l turned up as a logical successor Mr 1111 fr Murphy invested In a big bl chunk of club stock and throw himself into the ac no active active tive work of ot the tIm team He took the helm helma a week ago when James A Hart one of ot the most amiable and Jovial of magnates magnate In well liked by all who knew him passed from the great game he so long adorned |