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Show pnir STILL 11 SPORT hH' Ballplayer-Evangelist JBlHs Days When He IBfoow that old crowd of Pitts-iEpt Pitts-iEpt Po I remember Jocko SKMorris, Jake Bcckley, Doggie Hjrjoll, Dunlap, Smith, Koohne, flWeinau, Staley, Maulou, "Dcu-Banl "Dcu-Banl Jack Howe? Well, I Kof tho ftev. "Billy" Sun-aKseball Sun-aKseball evangelist, lit up with Hf he named man after man Kold diamond heroes who rcp-JBfittshurg rcp-JBfittshurg in the- days of old lB, park on the north side, says XHburg Gafcette-Timea. SBX knew oil that old crowd,3' iHtythe evangelist. "Ever hear Rrartwood? He was beforo my Mttsburg. One of the greatest history was Kil. I could run jEi old list and name a hundred Kld-t inters. Atl Gum'bert and Kdwin? Yes. i know them, too. hTener? Oh, my, yes.'5 IjHl Witlr activities since coming BScvanpolist was in need or Khe wouldn't dony himself the KfjUvc minutes at talking basc- Bkell me, what kind of a fel-fl? fel-fl? Hani Hyatt?" asked the Hfun. eagerly. (jBIlow, " was the fopjy. "None feHt be an awful bitter. They jR batted one over your right JB once."" ' jHlcd thai happy midsummer jKfthe cr?at evangelist's eyes. Brhco he heard more of the 9Hjd,(s of Ham and his slam re-H re-H is still it fan. CKlJ was a crcat old gatno thjr-aHo, thjr-aHo, and it in' greater now," JBK&unilay. "I loved it then "feit now. Tho ciiinc is on the jHa it alwuvB will be." jBTtSuuduy, neediest base run-iKday, run-iKday, was u member of the H$lub in 18SS, 1SS0 and 1S9Q. JKMUC' hero f-o'.n Chicago. It jKu this i'ifv that ho was mar-fmk mar-fmk 'Nell Thompson, daughter gB" id1 cream manufacturer, flBeraf that day were on a trip aHjtl nod at lmlianupolis Sun-QHjleaYc Sun-QHjleaYc of absem'0. Roturniug IHM, he was married, and then SHittiibiifg tu lhc. 9B?..rI some great characters rVT, Pitfubnrg players in those HHIf'iKod Mr. Sunday. "There jjKli't who L'ould not" read or fKvho was one of tho finest DK5,ian)ond5 in the country. SMwrfi them, too. Fred, could sHtew- in u plone quicker than ifftfahd his. knowledge of all dHjanionoi: n-;it reniHrkable. k'0slin1 Oh, bow t remom-tflK remom-tflK prince of fiue .fellows ho JK,- earned one distinction gBjptnd that was the fact that B"jP'eatet right-hander that 'flR? entailing runners off first. jPHL: .v ,,,a cn motion a HHHQP made them hug the biifiep. fljH'0 goiuu lo pay that the 2K5yerc" better than Itio stars RKjtt H mo tell you that no JEHra, lived with greater speed Badbourne.. And then JRjK-t'PTed Goldsmith, the moet Pnmster of control that ever XjUUmitli flj,in t iavo HpCCg tut i3HK.-0l,rvcF 1;1,e control. thnt Goldsmith whf,n HH'cnTve a ball through a frjx-FKMr,lirjo5 frjx-FKMr,lirjo5 in five. Sli's BVop Ball. IfiR1 ,er hoar of Charlie Buf-HH'''i Buf-HH'''i iP-'J51011 pUcher, master IMrovangelist laughed heartily lBf'" alealing in iho K? ?u"1ton made his sign finer instead of the vice versa ho continued. "Somehow IH Chicago crowd detected it. 10 ""'rstand that if IHLiTif ni,tMl.tl1 j"5f- 11 Iriflo bo-Wl,1) bo-Wl,1) delivery we could ox-SHp ox-SHp dJqp. Jf ho cloBofl' it rouia expect a fast one; And oh, how Anse and the rest of us would crack that fast one." The Jlox. Mr. Sunday recalled his days in Nevada, la., and Marshalltown, Ja!, where ho mado the start of his baseball career. "Around the little town of Nevada T had made a roputation. as a player and the folks in Marshalltown, home town of tho Anson s, sent for me. Cap Anson, you know, was tho first white child born in that; county. His father was still oue of the boys around there. They got mo to play ou the team and fored IJIQ UP TvitP- a- job in the .furniture .furni-ture store 'of the town. The furniture man also was the undertaker andi one of my jobs was to drive the hearse. " fed tho cattle and hogs, helped to make furniture, cleaned out the place, drove the hearse and played ball for a week. Des Moines had a crackorjack team those days and one time they challenged us to a game. ; A jMarshalltown inau named McFarland I posted $500 against a similar amount put up by the Dos Moines people. "We were to play for that sum and the entire gate receipts. "Wo boat Des Moines Jo to 5, and J scored five runs. "An aunt of Cap Anson then, told the great star of his day about rao. She said to him;: 'Adrian, this boy "Bill is fast and he might mako a. good ball player. ' Anson spent his winters at Marshalltown and I remember when the big fellow gave ma 1113' first tryout. Ho took me .over to a field and fun-goed fun-goed long and short drives at me. Then he b them on the ground and then up in the air again. Ilo had mo coming com-ing in and going back, but I nailed them to his complete satisfaction, 1 "When I asked him if T would do ho only grunted and said he would see. Then he loft and; returned to Chicago. Chi-cago. But I did not wait long until a telegram reached me to come on., My good friend in tho country Btore let me 6tand him off for a $7 suit of clothes, two white collars and a necktie neck-tie that cost a quarter. I had, 'never seen tho inside of a Pullman and would not sleep in a berth mainly because I had to double up with a stranger. "Tired and weary, I reached .Chicago the noxt morning, I wont to the hotel whore the players lived- Tho first man I met was Abner Dalrymple. Oh, how happy and proud I was to meet him. He was very kind to mo, thougn. I confess con-fess I was 'badly in need of a haircut and may have looked out of place among those slickly dressed stars of that day. "Dalrymple took me to the clubhouse. club-house. There I met Kelly King Kelly. My, but ho was a corking dresser. Tn his double-breasted tailor-made suit, his high collar, swell shoes and diamonds i sparkling on his fingers and in his phirt front, ho certainly was a man to attract attention. Kelly also was kind to me. One by one I met them all Burns, Pfcffor, Williamson and all tho others. Bloven mon represented a great team in thoso days, where in this age it is customary for a club to carry eleven pitchers "on the southern training trip. "By and by Auson came around. He said, ''Got anv money. Bill?' I said, 'Oh, ves, I ha"vc a dollar.' With that old Anse snorted and said, 'Dollar,, humph. That ain't no monoy. "Here, take this.' And with that ho gave me a $20 gold pioce. Then X know where my haircut would come from. In the club house Auson said 'to me, 'Bill, you might think you're fast, but we have a fast chap 011 our club, too, T reckon.' The man ho referred to was Fred Pfef-fer, Pfef-fer, one of the fastest of his day. Wo arranged a race. T was givon a uniform uni-form and they stepped off 100 yards. I beat Pfcffor, I guess, by about twenty feet. "Do you see this little trophy?" asked the evangelist, holding up a baseball base-ball made of solid silver and with golden gold-en stitches all around it. "I threw dice for Unit thine only time T ever threw dieo in my life. In 1835 when tho Chicago Colts won the championship champion-ship Nat Goodwin gave this to tho Chicago Chi-cago club for r trophy. It was suggested sug-gested that it be given Auson for final disposition, but. some of tljo boys disagreed, dis-agreed, believing that we all should got a chnnco at possession. To settle the thing tljov decided to throw dice. I remomber King Kelly threw 3S, but I won by throwing 42. Some dice-throwiug, dice-throwiug, eh?" |