Show I THE WORLD GROWS VETTED Tell me not In your doleful way that the world < grows over worso That We cannot escape from the drear od sway of the drear old primal curse Tell me not that there Is no hope except In the grace of God For thouGh It lie true He sets that grace In the veriest human clod Tho world < la sweeter than oer It was I read not far or deep Till I know that out of tho sloUGh of sin the multitudes upward creep Our eight may be dim wlillo we walk our tlmo on this misty earthly shore But wo clearer see what tho right must bo than over man saw before The world Is better aye better far than It was In the < lay of eld When they might take who Imd the power pow-er and they might keep who held When tho belted knights rode to and fro their cruel will to do And tho king was lord of his subjects Ifhenba and een of his Ithingoto woman name was n Then a womans name was ft thing to toast and her virtue a thin to own When a serf and a bondsman bore the I mark of the tyrant upon tho throne Ah SIGh f1 you will for the good old days the fabulous days < f yore nut we clearer sco what tho rht mus t be than ever man saw be ore I know now that arc the sore problems to our errant tha view ua But weve gained the sight rs weve gained the might that our grandsires grand-sires never knew We havo swung from the day when might was right to the day when High reveals Some rpnftof her face divinely fair to the veriest clod who feels Through the long slow aeonp weve upward up-ward pressed as ever our God hath willed And here has the night been Wrong been there kinK hasr there haa the Wrong been stilled much to do hero s much U There win for the uses have taught their w2rcWrer the right mute what see But We e earer man tsawebefore ever b e than ever mall la betore A J Waterhouse ance with Boston second Chicago third and Cleveland fourth National League News Matthowson admits that curve pitchIng pitch-Ing is severe on the arm Second baseman Billy Gilbert of the Giants has become a regular golf player Good exercise As Frank Dunn has failed to purchase pur-chase the Boston club Herman Longs dream of becoming a National League manager has faded Walter Frantz the pitcher drafted by St Louis from Kansas City has announced that he will desert baseball base-ball to enter the ministry According to Stanley Robison Manager Man-ager Edward Hanlon still has under consideration a G000 offer to manage man-age the Cardinals next season Manager Frank Bancroft of Cincinnati Cincin-nati Is of opinion that Manager Frank of New Orleans discriminates against National clubs In favor of American clubs In spring dates I Fred Tenney says It Is far harder to secure good outfielders than good jlnflelders from the minor leagues for the reason that hard hltttng outfielders outfield-ers are the rarest thing in minor leagues i Tho Chicago National players will each be given a solid gold watch charm with R diamond set In the i center as their reward for winning the championship of the Windy City from the American Leaguers President Pulliam denies tho report that several of his staff of umpires have signified their Intention of quitting quit-ting tho business I can have everyman every-man on the staff again next season If I want him said the League chief Chicago critics point out that Frank Chancp who Is to manage the Chicago Chi-cago Cubs next year was considered a secondclass player for many years and only by sheer dint of hard work and perseverance fought his way to the top It keeps Garry Herrmann president Mike Kelley declared in Cincinnati the other day that ho would make an effort to get hold of the Minneapolis franchise This looks as If he had about given up the idea of Joining forces with Grillo Ex magnate Charley Strobel has purchased a onehalf Interest in the IngersollHopklns Company owners of Luna Park Pittsburg and the firm will produce shows In the future under the name of Ingersoll Hopkins 6c Strobel Billy Clingman writes Im a colt compared to Charley Nichols Jako Beckley Kid Gleason and a host of others Mo retire from baseball Say It not As long as my soupbone holds out Wlllio will take tho magnates money Southern League Infielder Charley Babb late of tho Brooklyn Club Is negotiating for tho Memphis management Ed Lynch Llttlo Rocks catcher of 1901 and 1902 has been asked for terms to manage tho 190G Travelers Louis Whistler has resigned tho Memphis management and returned to his homo In St Louis It is thought Bob Gilks of Shreveport will manage man-age Memphis next season Sam Dungan has announced his retirement re-tirement Dungan Is wintering in San Jose and has built a homo with money saved from many years of dutiful toll He declares ho will never play baseball base-ball again Breitensteins 1900 contract with tho I New Orleans Club has been promulgated promul-gated by Secretary Furrell and the southpaw will be with Charlie Frank I another season Ho escaped selection by a major league or class A club and tho danger Is past Eddie Beecher the Memphis third baseman for two years has been drafted draft-ed by the Baltimore Club In tho Eastern East-ern League Bocchor has declared that he will play ball on tho Pacific coast nest season but the Maryland era will have first call on hip service r1 r |