Show CHANCE SAYS SPIKES SHOULD B BE Y ABOLISHED Champions' Champions Captain Plays Clean Baseball Even L Losing sing Runs by It I Frank Chance hance leader of the worlds world's champion Cubs lIa says s 's baseball spikes should be abolished The peerless lender leader gave a demonstration tion of this truth in the last game pame Pitts Pitta- bur bun played in an Chicago when he ho re rl refrained re- re I horn from hitting the tho d dirt rt and going into the tIme plate feet first because he ho might spike Catcher Gibson Had Chance been blen like many another player he be would not have given iven the tho question of injury a thought but would have thrown himself upon the ground and slipped over th the plate Po Possibly sibly his steel shod hoofs would have ripped open Gibsons Gibson's anatomy but the run would have been scored But Chance who is admittedly one of the greatest players in the time game tame does dots not believe it if if necessary to put a good goodman j man out of the game that his own I I team teams team's S 'S chances may be improved ed Every baseball critic who saw Chanco Chance go to into Gibson standing agreed that he ho would have been safe had ho he hit tIme the dirt because the throw to the plate was high and a run would have won tho the game But they also pointed out that had Chance slid he lie would in all aU probability have spiked the catcher Now ow that's decent lecent baseball Unquestionably one of the tho most spectacular spectacular spec spec- and thoroughly enjoyable features fea fea- tures of the national game is a base stolen after a well executed side in which the cleverness s of the runner earns the base But let the runners go po in head first or if they must slide feet first let them besides besides be be- 1 m u use e something sides the steel spikes something spikes something that be I will not maim and cripple I No one realizes more keenly than do dothe dothe dothe the players the tho danger dantrer they they run nm from spikes so the they do everything possible to prevent bl blood od poisoning The stockings they wear are footless Instead of feet they have a narrow strap which fit fits the ball ban of the tIme foot leavin leaving the foot uncovered As a foot eo covering they wear generally white linen IlDen socks under tho the stocks so that should they be spiked the heavy colored colored col col- ored stocking will not be forced into th their ir flesh and add to tIme tho danger daner of the time sp spikes kes |