Show PENNANTS POPULAR Selee Picks Champion Pitts burgers 1904 Winners TAKE ADVANTAGE DREYFUSS In Ono of 1ho Scurviest Tricks Known to Baseball While Pittsburg Magnate Is Sick Others Are Conceding Championship Champion-ship Away From His Bunch There arc mean spots baseball too One of the scurviest tricks yet known is the mean advantage being taken of Barney Dreyfitss who Is sick by a few stronger magnates and managers who are stronger physically than Is the owner own-er o the PUtsburff club While Drey fuss is stretched on a bed of pain McGraw Mc-Graw Selce and others are going right on winning the pennant of 1304 In fact Sclce has gone so far as to elect himself winner In 1904 He has graciously made McGraw a good second with Cincinnati Cincin-nati squeezing into the money In this beautiful pen picture which Selec is having drawn PIttsburc is seen straggling strag-gling into ho I stretch barely escaping the distance flag The only sad part of the whole affair is that sooner or later someone must wake up These essays on How to Win the Pennant in Winter sound good while the cider sparkles and apples are roasting on the grate bars but when the birds begin to sing and the umpire Is heard bawling at the dreamers to get Into the game inearnest thats different For the past four winters Selee Han Ion and others have been writing pieces for the newspapers showing Just when and where Pittsburg would blow up the next year The fIrst time t we had finished fin-ished second This was a mistake a 1 said We would nover come so close coc again The next season saw Pittsburg win the pennant There was a great scratching1 of quills that failed to show where all was wronG and that though Plttsburgr had a great team yes they admitted this there would be nothing to them the following year SELEE IS PERSISTENT Again something went wrong with the dope sheets of those who win pennants In winter Pittsburg made a runaway rare of it but they couldnt do it the next year said the people who knew it all This time they had a cinch on the Pittsburgh for had not Chcsbro Tanne hill OConnor etc been nailed by the Americans Yet we Won But Selee re fuses to down Ho has now issued his stccnth annual I statement showing how utterly Impossible It will bo fOI PIts burg to win the pennant in 1001 1 He says saysPut Put me on record as saying that I tho Plttsburgers will not be champions of the National league next season J they arc theyll know they have been through a baseball campaign such as they have never seen before PIttsburcr can never beat Cincinnati again as it did the past year The Premiers Pre-miers won sixteen out of twenty games from the Red and Ill wager they cant do II again next year I was from Cincinnati Cin-cinnati I that they won the pennant t I dont know just what It was but we had something on the Champions this year I we can do as well next reason rea-son and I dont see why we shouldnt for the team ought to be better than than ever In lJOlwc will give the Premiers Pre-miers a hard tussle Besides there Is McGraws aggregation and you never want to overlook this club On paper It doesnt look so very strong perhaps but watch out just the same or youll sud denly awaken from a nightmare the Giants will be doing you up WHAT SOMEONE ELSE THINKS One who heard Selee thus deliver himself him-self said So long as Barney Dreyfuss remains at the head of the Pittsburg baseball club so Ions will the Pirates have the best chance of any man in the league of winning the pennant While the Icague jority of other magnates are sitting around discussing plans and prospects Dreyfuss Is out looking over all the minor leagues in the country and get ting a line on the men who will probably prob-ably make good In another year or so And when the gentlemen who have boon gathering talent by studying the dope and washing it down with champagne get Into the field and begin bidding for the men who they think will make good they find that in the majority of these cases Dreyfuss has been there ahead of them and placed his tag on the promis ing youngsters Jomls By the method he pursues in going after the players himself roins aieI making a study of every promising youngster in the business Dreyfuss fortifies himself Jlmsel against any contingency that may arise He knows two in years advance when n youngster will be ready for fast company com-pany and if he finds that he will be In need of such a man he grabs him before the majority of magnates even know of his existence I is this practice that will keep the Pirates bolstered up with the best young talent in the country all tho time al And so long as Mr Dreyfuss keeps up the Interest In his team that he has shown In the past few years there is lit tle or no prospect of any team overta king him |