OCR Text |
Show BASEBALL JOTTINGS OF OLDER " DAYS ARE INTERESTING NOW Time Laughs as He Turns Sport Pages and Finds Fal- lacy of Some Remarks t . About Rookies Who Later J Proved Stars. OINO beck about twenty-five years I 'we recently dug up some baseball VJT gems of the nasf that In the light of history take on unusual Interest. Inter-est. Items which then were Jotted down as Idle gossip, to be forgotten the next lUy. make more Interest Inr reading today to-day than accounts of modern pitching duels or sluR-ging matches. . We find at one time that Billy 8un- day, the big league evangelist, confided ,to some buddies that when he got -.. through playing hatftban he would start ) a pool and billiard parlor. We slew find old Hsnkus Pankus O !ay , grumbling at the umpires, who never : gave him a eounre deU and Hank al- j 't ways pulled rough stuff on Ihem. A lit- , tie gulp says what Hank thinks of the I Mwnor to we es. siat,- it perhaps i cheers Hanks oid days to know that during the last dozen years many worthy sthtetes have felt the same way toward S him. 1 And then we find the paragrapher taking tak-ing a whack at John Kinley Tener for giving up an easy Job which netted him anywheie from $1M0 to $2000. But J. j Kinley just kept plunging along, became ; a bank president, director in numerous ; corporations, member of congress, gover- ' nor of Pennsylvania and finally president j of the National league. BAN JOHNSON'S HUGE JOKE. ' We also find that Ban Johnson rejoiced O when the Brotherhood collapsed and wrote in his baafball column In the-Cincinnati Commercial Gusette that the smash tip of the brotherhood meant that never again would there be an attempt to I . establish a second major league. Then old Charley Comiskey is accused of being a "sucker" at least for any Fiitcher who fed him a high curve on the nslde, but just the same Charley owns one of the finest baseball parks In the United 8tstes and next to the Giants has the higgeet following. The worst knock Is aimed at poor old Connie Mack. Connie, the only manager In the game who ever won alx league Innants And three world's pennants. Is It always spoken of as having been a wise old bird behind the piste In his younger days. But this scribe of the '0e didn't think so. While conceding Connie could throw the bull around a bit, he accused , him of larking generalship, but still through there waa a littla hope for him. He expresses an opinion that Manager Huckenberger, of Pitttburg, might teach Connie to think a bit if he worked htm hard enough. That sure is poking a few . at the astute Cornelius, now known as ? the shrewdest man in basebalL KEELER TOO LIGHT FOR MAJORS. Then we bear of such kids ss Muggsy McOraw and Willie Keeler breaking In. McOraw is admitted to be a good prospect, pros-pect, but poor Keeler Is paseed over as being too light for fast company. After S pitching two years, Cy Young's failure -already waa predicted. He waa curving them too much and only two more aea-sons aea-sons were given aa his limit. Yet Cy s lived to pitch until he waa 43 and twirled r' his third no hit game In !'. Lave Crosa, who played on the Brooklyn Brook-lyn champions of lft&u snd lino and captained cap-tained Mack's Athletic champions of 1K2 snd 1905, during which years he ranked I with the greatest third basemen In baseball, base-ball, was bema shipped to the minora In. the middle 'Ma |