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Show 3 BALL-TOSSERS . WHO ARE STARS I Hot Weather Heroes J of- the Country. , QiTSsr Between-Seasons Oc- If cupations of Ball I -.y .- Players. Eereals Fact That the Farm Claims a Great Numbor of the Fraternity. By Guy (Visniskki. . As you breathlessly watch somo star pitcher twist the ball over the plate and :?.j gleefully boh old the batsman fan the air :VvJ and hear tlie ball fall "chug" Into the " j, catcher's glovo for the third consecutive time, and yell yourself hoarse as the teams change places at tho bat, did you tj ! ever stop to think what the eighteen men ' I who are working to give you an aflcr- ' ! noon's plcasuro and their fellows of tho ' ' j fraternity do when tho snow covers up tho ):l green swards of the country's diamonds, ' ' . and baseball Is only a memory? Did you n' ever stop to think what becomes of them? Or are you like tho average carc-freo ', ' ; American, lauding its heroes ono second nh and not caring a rap about them tho next? i You guess they hibernate between sca-'; sca-'; Z'i hons, living off the. mOncy earned In soa- tx son? "Wrong. He Is a rare ball player ..., who saves tip a penny'for a rainy day, let alone tho Inevitable cold months. You t? guees tho earth mysteriously swallows i them up and disgorges them at the ap- ,, ; pointed time? Wrong dead wrong, Tho i,,- earth has noL done such a premeditated i trick since tho days when' the children of ; Israel were In pilgrimage. You guess .. i- you giiess, what-' why.evorything except ; the right thing, and that Is that tho ball playei-s pursue Uielr dally bread in as j. ' many ways almost as there aro ways of , 1 ' earning It. But while statistics prove this Imp, tho ' -i average player prefers to engage In an oc- ,(, cupatlon between seasons which will keep him out In the open as much as possible. ' " This Is the philosophy of It; Fresh air, , ' and plenty of It, Is the best thing under :i ': the sun to keep a man In good condition, f 2 Outdoor work prevents the muscles from i becoming llabby. And If a player takes fairly good care of himself through the winter , he will not bo compelled to go Into ' rigorous training when tho timo comes , ! around. Therefore, here's for the outdoor i'W-' ?00, whatever It "may be. so long as It '3! brings In sufficient food to iulet an cver-31?! cver-31?! I present appetite and perhaps 1111 the -i mouths of a growing family. -1 ji So it comes about that by far tho greater number of professionals of tho various leagues, big .and little. pass their winter V days in some of tho many forms of out- r'. door occupation; and while somo of tho , '.'J stars make barely enough to meet run- - r' nlng expenses, others, wlio aro moro dlll-"s dlll-"s ,' gent In business, succeed In amassing tho ' W shekels with a rapidity almost equal to 111! their money-earning powers when they "ii'J arfi on tnc diamonds of tho country. ; 1 y Fred. Clark, manager of tho Smoky City j , ji team, and his brother-in-law, Chick Fra-' Fra-' i sor, aro far and away the baseball world's i -4 leading farmers. They own jointly a big . block of Kansas, on which they ralso 'U:'A stock, and It Is no uncommon sight to be-'iu'-?. hold Fred and Chick feeding tho cattlo or ministering to the needs of an ailing heifer with all tho solicitude of a mother ' 'J- endeavoring to rid her child of tho colicky J J.r-lj pains that aro causing it to raise its volco . ;fi to high heaven. v.-y!j Truth to toll, many ball tosscrs nnd r.'i i - catchers and chasers seem to be enamored l! 'Wl of a farmer's life and cling tenaciously to '! is X the good old Idea that his is tho only In-1 In-1 dependent existence after all. Deacon J i' ; ' Phllllpl. the star pitcher of the PIttsburgs. tills the soil up "Wisconsin way. George !i ,!?; Stalllngs. manager of tho Buffalo team, j runs a cotton plantation In Crackerland. F';i and is up-to-dat'o on tho boll weevil, gin-l gin-l '' nlng reports, market prices and what not j"? it.- connected with tho cotton Industry. 1 f-i Gcorgi Wlltse, one of tho champion Gift Gi-ft !? vj ants' twlrlers, boasts of a chicken farm Bf Jiear his homo town. Syracuse. N. Y and Hi: -what time ho Is not getting his broods BtfV over the gaps ho is industriously chasing lii ij,; ahem Mies over his chicken farm fences 1U Ji and throwing curved missiles at hawks. S 8 weasels and other living things that would I B sj make Impromptu meals of nio feathered I a charges. lift Then there Is George Browne, right 3 ; fielder of the champion Giants, who. tho I day the season crius. hies him to ,sunny Florida, where he winters among his tomato to-mato patches and gets fancy prices for the fruits of his toll from tho fashionable "hotels round about and the shippers north of Southern delicacies. The champion Giants havo also another farmer In the person of Catcher Bower man, whose acres In Michigan support a dairy, whose milk, butter and eggs are taken to market every morning by tho trolley road which runs by the catcher-farmer's catcher-farmer's door. Naturally. Bowcrman Is a crank on electricity as applied to commerce. com-merce. One of tho retired baseball players who Is spending his remaining days close to nature Is William Ellsworth Hay, famous In his day as tho deaf and dumb outfielder. outfield-er. Ho owns sixty acres at College J III 1, O., arid divides his attention between his truck patches, his greenhouses and his books, for he haa an extensive library, and docs not bellove that a farmer, to bo successful, should put in all his hours In tho Hold. He Is what Is styled a gontle-man gontle-man farmer, and his friends say that ho has managed to amass at least as much as $40,000 worth of thin world's goods. Hay turned farmer shortly afler his marriage to a young woman who was raised In the Children's Hpmo In Cincinnati, where ho met her when he was playing ball. But enough of these sturdy scratchers of the soli and on to the men who spend their winter In the opon in more unusual, but not moro remunerative wavs. There's Joseph McGlnnlty, tho wonderful wonder-ful pitcher of tho. champion Giants, and tho only man who has ever mastered the underhand raised ball. "When Manager Mc-Graw, Mc-Graw, who In winter forgets all about baseball until Just before training season, tells McGlnnity that ho can leave "little old Now York" until spring rolls round again, tho "Iron Man" takes tho first train "for South McAlestcr, I. T., where he Is alwaya suro of an outdoor Job In an iron foundry. He offbears iron and is an all around utility man. and though the work about a foundry Is not easy in any part. McGlnnity literally grows fnt on It. and Is compelled to knock off a few weeks before training begins In order to devote his whole time to reducing his all too evident evi-dent paunch. Almost as unufual is the winter's work of "Helny" Peltz of Pittsburg. He Is a street Inspector for the municipality of Cincinnati, whence ho halls. Tho Republican Repub-lican leaders of the Queen City are Its baseball magnates, and this may explain how It Is that Pcitz Is able to got and glvo up .a political Job at will, aside from the additional fact that he Is rated a very clever Inspector and a conscientious ope. Catcher Bresnahan of the champion Giants Is probably tho only baseball-Tival of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. His spccialtv Is catching box car thieves In the railroad I yards of Toledo, and he Is so good at this particular bit of sleuthing that the private pri-vate detective agtncy which gives him employment would llko him to dovote all his timo closing his hands over lawbreakers. law-breakers. But Bresnahan says that detecting de-tecting is only hi3 form of winter amuse-rr.cnt. amuse-rr.cnt. and not all tho money In the world, nor the fame of the- great master detective, detec-tive, could Induce him to give up tho diamond dia-mond while ho is fit for tho national game. Fred Hahn of tho Cincinnati Reds stands ready to doctor anybody's sick horso in the vicinity of Harrison. O., where he has an office, being a graduate veterinarian. Jake ncokley, .first baseman- for tho St. Louis Nationals, Is assistant starter at the California race tracks: when tho county fairs aro on in Ohio. Pitcher Bob JCwlng of tho Reds, travels over the circuit cir-cuit with his two trotters and manages to win" numerous fat purscn; and Bob's fellov-player, Third Baseman Harry Stelnfeldt. walks annually over the greater great-er part of the Ione Star State as rodsman In a surveying corps. Several players are winter policemen In the small towns from whlcn they hall, and their reputation as ball players is a decided aid to them In keeping the rowdv element in leash. But so far as known. Tommy Corcoran, captain of the Reds, Is in a class by himself as a follower of the hounds up Sscw Rochello wav. in New York State. Sam Merit's, outlicldor for the champion Giants, is tho champion Nlmrod, his annual bap of mountnln lions and other big game- of tho West being the envy of many a sportsman. It is said that, next to the President, the mountnln lions look upon Sam as their worst enemy. en-emy. Varied as are tho occupations of the outdoor contingent, they can be equaled by the callings of the players whose winter win-ter days are spent more or less Indoors. Jimmy Casoy of the Chicago Nationals practices tho genile art of extracting ucth without jpaln nr your money refunded re-funded In tho Michigan metropolis: while Marshall, catcher of the champion Giants, Is a dental studcul when tho snows pile up and It Is good to bo near :i fire. Charlie Char-lie Dooln. who stands behind the bat for the Philadelphia Nationals, cuts out dress and every day suits for a Quaker City custom tailoring house. Cy Seymour writes tickets , on the races; Manager Charlie Nichols "of tho St. Louis Nationals Nation-als takes in quite. a few dollars weekly bv putting the common people's soiled linen through his steam laundry: Sam L.eever, who twirls thu sphere for Pittsburg, ttHches the young Idea how to shoot at Goshen, O.; Catcher George Schlcl of tho Reds is an expert cabinet maker, and llnds ready employment whenever he throws aside the glove; Fred Sudhoff, Philadelphia National pitcher, Is a cement ce-ment nnd limestone dealer of Cincinnati, and his specialty ia laying cement" pavements, pave-ments, which he has done all over his heme town; and Dick Cooley, tho Boston National left Holder, struts the vaudeville vaude-ville hoards on the various circuits. He not Infrequently appears In a skit of his own production "A Hot Finish at tho Polo Grounls" In which ho Is said to be particularly happy. Miller Hugglns. second baseman for tho Reds, In a graduato lawyer, and reads but does not practice law; Center Fielder Clarence Beaumont, of Dreyfuss's aggregation. aggre-gation. Is a wood engraver up in Wlscon- sin; Fred Odwcll. the Reds le'ft tlcldcr. Is an expert locksmith; Billy Kllngman, the Toledo shortstop, Is a Journeyman printer, whllo Billy Hart, tho old pitcher, and now an umpire In tho Amorican Association, Associa-tion, has kept up with tho pace of progress prog-ress by becoming an Al linotype operator; Pat Donovan, former manager for St. Louis and Pittsburg, mixes physicians' prescriptions In Lawrence, Mass., and Harry ("Sosy'M Dolan of the Reds dishes up "pork-and" to tho patrons of his res-lb res-lb urant In the Windy City. Luther Taylor, tho famous deaf and fiumb pitcher of the champion Giants, Is a tutor in a deaf and dumb school In Kansas, He married a girl who Is similarly sim-ilarly afflicted. Billy Dahlcn. the shortstop, short-stop, can usually be found serving on a 'try In Brooklyn, Hans Wagner and Tommy Leech, comrades In tho Smoky city, ciub, manage to while away the days ri'tinlng a basketball hall In Homestead, whero many of tho town's steel workers nnd their recreation, and Frank Chance, who holds down first base for the Windy City aggregation, fells the redwood forests for-ests of California and sends them down long Humes to market. Tom Walker, who lias made the fans of Cincinnati rise up and call him blessed more than once, decks out his friends In now clothes, and tells them that "It fits llko the paper on th wall" Phil Geler, the Boston Nationals' Na-tionals' center- fielder, helps his butcher brother sell steaks and chops to the office-holding Washlngtonlans, among whom Arthur Devlin Is known as a penman in dnc of the Government departments. Dan McGann, the champion Giants' first baseman, is the big man of Shelbyville, Ky as well as Its crack amateur marksman, marks-man, and so he scarcely has timo for anything except to recelvo his friends, who tlock about him when he steps off the train on his home coming, and send him ' off with a great hurrah when tho violets peep abovo ground. Outfielder Donlln of the Giants Ik an enthusiastic en-thusiastic bowler not a few players glvo over the winter months to bowling. Many of tho fraternity look on it as a splendid means of keeping In quasl-tnilnlng, and so tho land Is dotted with bowling alleys mil by ball players. Billiard halls are also run by various players, chief among them being "Pop" Anson, now retired. Johnny Kline of the Chicago Nationals Is an expert billiard and pool player, and In his homo town of Kansas City he engages In many tournaments. It la left to Pitcher Christy Mathowson of the Giants to hold up tho literary rep'-utatlon rep'-utatlon of the baseball world In winter. Christy, according to one of his Intimate friends, has "literary tendencies bad." At any rate. 3omo of his writings have seen the light of day In magazines, and, among Ms fellow townsmen of Le.wlsburg, Pn.. ho Is recognized not only as being a stnr twlricr of the sphere, but also a star twister twis-ter of tho English language. Perhaps one of the most successful players In business Is Bob Allen, the old Philadelphia shortstop and later manager nf the Cincinnati Rfds. He owns one of the most extensive lumber camps lp Arkansas, Ar-kansas, knows the lumber Industry from tho ground up. Is skilled In swinging- the ax and delights to lose himself In the woods for weeks at a time. He lias succeeded suc-ceeded In making himself safe from tho wolf by means of his camp, rtnd is reputed to be amonc: the few really wealthy ball players of tho rountry. 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