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Show i MI HITTERS WIN 1 BIG PAY ENVELOPES II ' 111,1 Classy Fielders Numerous, J! but Sturdy Clouters Are jl vf' Difficult to Find. LIm j Br Tribune Special Sport 'Service;. UVI NEW YORK. March. l4.-lTre IS a :llr'!r ' poem. It Is so labeled because If It rfj i1' ' weren't a .large number of readers might .f 1 not know just what we were attempt-,nR. attempt-,nR. This poem Is written with npolo- !lU ' ' ; cles'to William Cullen Bryant, who swat- ; ; fid over .400 in the Poetic league, for a Mphl ,ar5e number of 5'cars ' 0 A POEM. : 'J ij ' So swat, that when thy summons comes tf ! A contraSit"for the next six months to "iJM'M in. thatBmaior league realm, where ench V one shall take . 4 , , Jl . V His chamber In baseball 's hall of fame, h ' i Thou go not like a guy afraid 10 able t 'j!, For a boost In "pay: sustained and 'fl'ti i B ahJ3tydHwat record, approach thy. $ 'i Like oneVho Is Joins him njiuge rayor. !'?' And demand about tour tnousand more-'fi more-'fi 0'A Per 'cnr- IMiJ If post-mortem ceremonies" are? con..- ,$f , ducted over this poem they wll repeal li t a I the fact that It la intonded as a bit or . ilf. '- advtco to ambitious .btishers. It incaiia 'M f , that the baschall blokfl who Is hand M A with tho mace, even though a bit un- UH'M wleldy on hoof and -sightly Inclined 10 MM I foozlo line drives, Is tho man who can IRS; demand-and .get-the bulky pay cn- Wr-F ' ' velope. v Sf J'ji Batting Ability Counts. 'liel'! It's their wonderful batting prowess. SKI? I more than their fielding skill that have 5: kept Lajole and Wago in the bis tent, i-tf 5 a years after those who started out wIU. pry them as hid were pushed Into the side. ,-Jj- show and the discard. Tho marvelous .'J battine skill of "Cap" Anson, of the old. lil, Chicago Colts, kept 'him In the game at. J ' least six years after his fielding had : slumped to tho point where he was hard- li'lii'-t ' lr food en 011 eh for the minors. I L ' ' Ty Cobb is a wonderful ail-around B ' ' Player. bS? it's his hltthwr ability tat ""t'V has annexed for him a contract that calls i)!f,i for ono of the highest salaries ever paid rtiU'lSi, a ball player; Joe Jackson of tho Naps ' 1 1 f is an ordinary fielder, yet because he Is yf ;. ' a demon with the hickory he 1b regarded. iVi'l'M as one of the most valuable ball players $ i3.it ,nFrakVBaker of the Athletics Is a fair Inflelder and rather slow on the Paths. J hut he Is one of tho greatest batsmen l iLTk the game over has known. And so he iVfly draws a. mighty husky aalarj'-as Ath- Nj letlc salaries go because of his nttting. 1 . ?h'J Charles Hickman, the old T nno nh't'J Legs." nlwaya was something of a shlno i'vYI'. as a fielder. Tet ho could connect with 3frj.'.; the ball regularly and with terrific im- pact. And that kept him In the came 1 ' tor many years after his s ght fielding usefulness had gone. Charlie Rossman. I'xr-,-, first sackor of the "Naps and T gers somo i ' rears ago. was a mediocre fielder and, ,'.i5 I ritroclously erratic as a thrower. But be- ,VJ'. cause he could hit he stucfc around longer ,'vy than he would have otherwise. .!'!!$. Many Fieldei-s, Few Hitters. Baseball hlstorj' shows hundreds of .'. ! such instances. And, also. It shows t.iat i Jt ' . hundreds of players who had fpw peers ! !M as fielders, but -who could not hit, flashed . V ' ' Into view along the major leasue horl- C . son and soon, after dimmed and faded - " pntlrely They couldn'.t hit and so they I.'",'. , didn't belong. . . . . "Rhody" Wallace, the Brownie veteran. has been shunted off to the sidelines. J i'll He slowed up a bit on Cils fielding and '5wfki;.'' """as sent into the discard. cro he a ''ziaPH good batter he still would belong. BUI 1 Bradley, regarded as ono of the greatest i?'r; third basemen of all time, was shooed V ,$, out of the major leagues by the Clove-' '', . ' land Kaps -when his batting fell off. al- I, -V" though his fielding was a most as brl - 1 J Uant aB it was in tho early days of hla ltf'.l stardom. . , . 4 Pitcher "Dode ' Crosb-. now back m i the majors, was kept on tho pay roll of the St. Iouls Browns for a couplo of ,lAil vears, although as a pitcher he was one ' Tit. of the finest little bloomers that ever ! '.l came along. TVhy did they keep him? . k. i' al.i.. v-..,A 1n .i-o : n fr.nl TllllOll 1 hitter. '. . Mike Donllu. many years past his prime as n ball player, Is back on the New York Giants pay roll. Mike today V : , perhaps couldn't run 100 yards In four- .'.ri teen seconds and u class 13 pluycr could '. ' i-v outfield lilm. But Mike still can hit " ,.' - and that's why he's contracted for at 11 1 ' . v nlce salary. , . i T ; j And so 11 goer. It's the man who can 1 .1 . I?.- hit ajjd swat 'em far who draws tho ' I' biggest salary and who lingers longest ' ' ' ' where the calcium Is brightest. And the . man who can't connect with the hurt- i'i ".J , Hug sphero Is the man who carves but a : t.' email nlrhc If anyIn baHebnll's hall of I fame. |