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Show FEDERALS MEAN TO l .. IlilEJE MAJORS III ew Organization Need's Best 1(1 Players and Will Try to Hjl Get Them. - I INSURRECTION OF 1901 III Launching of the American I I League Recalled by Present H I Baseball Situation. Hj H There is no doubt that the Federal J Jeoguo magnates mean not only to in- 1 I vade National agreement territory, but 1 also to got all tbc best playors thoy can. 1 j Therefore they arc referred to' as "out- M , f laws." The Federal league cannot pos- Lm. sibly succeed unless it doos those vary Hl things, and the word of its leaders ii that it is determined to do ao. To H say that a considerable number of phay-Hr phay-Hr era are not sofc for a jump would be Hlfl giving the He to history. There have been ihroo incursions Ox j tc barbarians" into Xatlonal league Hlfl ficlfls durl"5 tno last twenty years, IH onlr one of which was a success. In HlH ISS"-I the Union association's invasion came to naught, and in 1800 tho Players- I I league also failed to gain a foothold. H f Cut i0i 100 American league, guided H ffl v a "ia9tcT band, nchiovod its object Him obtained a permanent foo.tiug in H H baseball. To all these invasions soino H il MJ0 es Payers lent; their assistance, Hll nn(J "without tho best players there cau Hiir be no major" league. It may. there-H there-H 88' ivet 156 interesting to go back some I; dozen rears and look ovor tbc sitna-H sitna-H hffi lion in" basoball and note the number H ' ft aC(l character of players who forsook HIE tnc National league and made the. Hill American league the flourishing orgam- I I H nation it is today. I In Invasion of 101. Hlffi In 1900 the Western league changed H f l its name to the American league, and in H 111 1 901 1 like tbc Federal league at present, H H placed clubs in "National league torn H If ft offered alluring inducements to H H fhe best players, and in three years, H M 101 -02-03. succeeded in influencing 100 m t ioin its standard. Of these 109 H PC Players several -were assisted in their H R ""jumps" bv the clnbs which had regu- K Iar their salaries. The-y were H K bounced in6tauter upon the discovery H that while accepting their salaries with. M D one nan,- they, with the other, were I IS signing teammates to contracts of the Hill opposition. M Dig In the first year. 1001, there were fifty- H HI l"ire deserters, and In 1902 there wero HI nH forty. Bv the time tho season of 1903 . i W rolled along, peucc twas deciarea netween Si the warring leagues. But before the pa- kM pers were signed fourteen more players ifl bad abandoned the old ship. Wi The appended table will show the mini- fA her of players lost by tho different. Na- Vf ttonal league clubs by desertion during Mm the three years' war; Clubs. 1901. 1P02. 1303. T'l. Philadelphia (?' 10 1 17 New Tork ' ! H f If J Boston S J 3 11 W Brooklyn - S 2- 1 Chicago 6 C, 0 12 K Pittsburgh . .... 3 1 S . 11 Cincinnati 7 1 J 3 fti St. Louis S . 0 16 11 Total3 P5 -10 "14 103 I Brooklyn Big Loser. 8 s As will be seen. Brooklyn was the Jki heaviest loser, twenty-two players de- M oertlrig its team. In 1301 It lost eight 12 men, Including such stars as Joe Mc- Glnnity. Lave Cross and Fielder Jones, ff ! "Dave Fultz, tho present head of the Base-g! Base-g! ball Players' fraternity, -was recalled from i Milwaukee, but Ignored the cry and K jumped to the Philadelphia American MS league team. John Anderson was roll ro-ll called from the same team, but conclud- i HI ed to remain with lllwaukee, after Hugh Duffy, vho had Jumped from Boston, H took charge of the Brewers. Morris ! IB Steclman.- who caught a few games, wa3 iBj loaned to Hartford In May and jumped mm Xo Philadelphia In August. Hi ' In 1002 there was aiiother cxodu3 from IW Brooklyn, headed by Joe Kelley, who took mi ,71m Shcclcard with him to Baltimore Ml N'elther remained with the Orioles. Kcl- Bl ley was allowed :o go to Cincinnati, whore Mi he fcucceeded "Biddy" McPhee as manager and Sheckard returned to tho Brooklyn (M foldton May 1. Among other prominent HU deserters that year were Tom Daly, Jim HH McGulre and Adrian Johs. Mi In 1503 a quartette of star playors tJK lumped. They were Willie Keeler. "Wild ,V Bill" Donovan. Charley Farroll and 'U Frank Kirsou. To malco juatters wdrso fH for the Brooklyn club, three of its players iW turned their backs on the cast and Joined MS the Pacific Coast league, which was then H an "outlaw" organisation. They were H Pitchers Jay Hughes and B. John New- mm ton an1 Tllird Baceman Charles Irwin. m Phillies Lost Stars. OH The Phillies mourned the loss of six B players by desertion In 1911, four of whom. Mf Chick Fraser. Wlloy Piatt. Napoleon La-Ml La-Ml . jole andBlll Bernhard. went over toCon- Hr nie Mack's Athletics. Joe Dolan. the only "Cozy," was released by the Phillies, nc- cepted advance money from Syracuse and M then Jumped to tho Athletics. Job Sul- livan, catcher, was secured from Denver, and ho jumped to the White Sox. M In 1302 tho PhlllleB suffered a blow V from which they have not recovered to H the present day, ten of tholr stars va- V moo6ing. Among them were Ed Deleharr-m Deleharr-m ty, Elmer Flick. Monte Croae. Red Dona- hue, Al Orth. Ed McFarland and John Townsend. Harr" Wolverton, Bill Dug-m Dug-m gleby and BUI Douglass also jumped, but nil three returned. Wolvortou was dis-m dis-m charged late In the season of 1901, after m being detected tlgnlng a Washington contract- I-Ie began In 1902 with Wnah-m Wnah-m fngton. hut returned to tho Phillies In M .Tuly. Duggleby pitched for tlie Athletics m until early In May and then went back to the Phillies. Douglass, who had been grabbed by the St. louls Browns", ro- Hj turned to his old love before th season H opened. H H Inroads at St. Louis. H & 'E)l St. Louis National league team, H 3H although having the field' all to Itself In U 1B01. was not exempt from the Inroads of the American league. Such brilliant 1 stars &6 John J. McCraw. Wllbert Robtn- j son, "Cy Toung, Mike Donlln and Louis j) Crlger, to pay nothing of Billy Kelster, Ossee Schreckengost and Fred Buelow, 'chose to shine In other parts of the base- ball world. But In 1902, when tho Browns were H resurrected, nearly the entire Cardinal outfit changed allegiance. There was -hardly a healthy man left after tho flop- Ping of such players as Rhoay Wallace, Jesse Burkett. Dick PAdden, Emmett 'Heldrlck. Jack Powell, William- Sudhoff and Jack Harper. Daji McGann, after B. i deserting the team in the ordinary fashion in the middle of the season of 1901, was l H suspended and In 1902 cast his fortunes! with Baltimore. Hj Quite a bunch of good players said H1 Rood-by to the Giants In 1901. George H ! S, Davis was the manager and he stuck, H to th helm In spite of the fact that a H half dozen of his men left him. These H half doxea were Winnie Mercer. Mike H Grady. Cy Seymour, "Pink" Hawle.v. Bill H Carrlck and "Kid" Gleason. Ho got H Wk Frank Sparks from Pittsburg, Virgil Gar vln from Clilcago and Joe Connors from Bridgeport, and. all three sldo-tstepped him, going over to the opposUlon. In 1902 Davis himself skipped out, going go-ing to the Chicago White So::. In 1908 ho Jumped back to the Giants, but, peace having been declared, he was ordered to return to tho White Sox. Ho firmly refused re-fused to do so. and near the end of June the peace committee allowed him to re-, main with the Giants. The .other playors lost by the Giants In 1903 wero Jack Warner. Al Selbach, Charlefi Hickman. Dummy Taylor and. Sam Strang. Taylor joined tho Cleveland team, but grew tired 'of his surroundings and returned to the Giants In May. Tho Chicago Cubs lost stv men in 1501 and tho same number in 1902. The Jumpers Jump-ers In 1901 were Clark Griffith, Jim Callahan, Cal-lahan, Bill Bradley, Sam Mertes, Jack McCarthy and Roy Patterson. None of them left the west, but signed with the Whlto Sox and the Olevelands. Pattor-eori Pattor-eori was with the "White Sox In 1900. but was induced to Jump to the Cuba. Before Be-fore the season opened, however, ho jumped back to the Whlta Sox. In 1902 tho half dozen deserters were Danny Green. Barry McCormldt Tom Hughes, Fred F. Hartael, Rubs waddell and Dave Jones. All but two, Green and Jones, took their flight eastward. Jones, who had Just been obtained from Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, jumped to the St. Louis Browns, but returned within a month. Waddell. after doing a turn. In Los Angeles,. Joined Connie Mack's forces. Boston Lost Eleven. The Boston club lost only eleven players play-ers during tho war. but these wero tho flower of the team. Tho desertions crippled crip-pled It to such an extent that the effect Is still felt In 1901 eight stare left Manager Man-ager Scleo In the lurch. They were Chic Stahl, Hugh Duffy. E. M. Lewis. John Froemrtn, Bill Clarke, Jim Collins, Catcher Bill Sullivan and Victor Willis. The last named, however, repented and returned before tho opening of the season. sea-son. The only Jumper in 1902 was 'Bill Dlneen, now an umpire in the American league. Tn 190.1 the last remnant of tho once strong team flew away when Herman Her-man Long and Eugono Demontreville deserted. de-serted. The Cincinnati club lost seven men in 1901, contributing at least one player to each team in the American league except ex-cept Mllwaukeft. The Jumpers In 1901 were Ed Scott, Bob Wood. Phil Geler, James Barrett, Hoke Ferris. Erv- Beck and George Rohe. Ferris had Just been drafted from the Norwich club of tho Connecticut league, but never thought It worth while to report. Rohe was an amateur lnflelder in Cincinnati, who turned bis "back to the Reds. In 1902 Dick Jlorley made the leap. He was the only IRed to jump that year- In 1903 Sam Crawford was the lone Red deserter. Tho Pittsburgh club lost but seven play-era play-era as a direct result of the war, but In truth only three men can he termed Jumpers. Jump-ers. Thoy wore Jimmy Williams and Harry Smith In 1901, and Jack Chesbro in 1903. Ely did not Jump in 1901, but being detected working hand In hand with the American league, ho was summarily sum-marily bounced. Smith was obtained from tho Milwaukee club, then in good standing, stand-ing, but ran away to Connie Mack's forces before tho season opened. Williams Will-iams waited until the close of the season sea-son and thon went over to the Baltlmores. Smith Jumped hack to the Pirates in 1902. In 1902 Jack O'Connor was caught In the. act of helping tho "outlaw'' cause and was at onco handed his release. He took refuge the following season with the Xew York Americans, where he soon drew a suspensoln on the charge of In subordination. In 1503 three players were lost to the Pirates Jack Chesbro, Jesse Tannehlll and "Wldoxv" Conroy. All signed American league contracts. Tannehlll and Conroy wero released after the close of the season, sea-son, but Chesbro's name was continued on tho lls.t. |
