| Show OI 1 b REMINISCENCES lv I 0 t OF A BA BASEBALL S MANAGER R i iHAS 11 r J C HAS 10 SAY t I o A m i ti beat t national game am Is II today in If Oua O bad shay both bolh financially and in III suns other or ways Whether W this lion k II b by the of 01 the I players I f say eay but It seems to ml me that It the rules ruIN ire strictly lived I liP up to and the chief ot of umpires and bl his taft staff did their dut duty the game rame would soon lOOn climb back to the to high plane that It once occupied Where Brooklyn ought i to draw drw crowds crowd at least leut people not half balf that number pa pass the gates on ordinal ordinary da days This falling llIn oft off offIn In la I certainly not the fault fult of Manager Manar Ed Hanlon who has baa lOt got together a superb team I le my mr ideal or of a baseball manager mur HI Hie euc uc rB at t Baltimore and Brooklyn rooklyn prow prove tint hi hie methods are right He I ii pop popular ular with the players an and the public and Inti he well deltrY deserves aU all tb the h he has haM achieved All As I have been for tor man many years art artI a manager ot or t teams b 1 can an speak peak I with some ome authority on theS object Th re le III something wrong with affairs In the Ihl National league loque It I is not 1101 that I the public is II tired ot of the ram game If tb the major I league iu were t managed with tb the and good sense that char ehr I the conduct ot of thin things In the Eastern league learue over which my friend I T Powers holds na sway the tbt mar mag marIi Ii notes of the national association would make money u as their brethren In the smaller art are doing i Jut Just at al present I am not managing i ii i any ny club but am connected with one ot of otI I h he beet hour hoult tn In the I 1 man maD I oar 1 however to keep I touch with the i I lort ort and hope In 11 tb the not distant fu I tore ture to b be In once more Wr My 1 club was II that ot of Horwich of the State Ie league which I took hold or of when It war in III bad shape I 1 recently gave v way sway tilt the trail fran I 11 It was u era ft Its feet rett I only left it loll because a ue I 1 could do bet better In my mr present LUBin Im I am proud of the fat that w whenever I ba have taken hold ot of a ct club b bI I hue have made money DOlle tOIl for the and Ita have done It la in a war to my ow owa respect 5 d of Uw the publiC and m my employers When i 1 Ant started playing baseball man many years Carl ago 01 the game Ime w was Vf very from rom what It now I But to III all allI I ls te changes by bJ of which it has bu buh h been n made the faItt sad d moat scion of outdoor sports 1 have always Ia to abreast of t the times an and well of everything that pertains to the pate I In m my young da daye 1 i was the Uti only kind known knon I have noted the malty changes ban l that lease taken Ja the me aad am to bp be able abl to say lat that m most at ot of ott th t hm m Ita have been for tor the good of tb the until now tIM the rut rules cover cor almost every Pry point that caa an a arise t no odor or man has baa brought out so 10 many pia players u J I have bavI mainly J I always hamad have made It a point to be oil the lookout f for new blood b by means mean ot of which I could Improve my testis tana Title TIll constant cont watching or of pia play ore 11 h has enabled m me to toll tell a green IrD player who has tile the material I la him to make th the National league attar after watching him pl play but a short bort time I think I 1 may claim without any OM as III my that 1 have turned out and pd sold 1014 to the NU National aside MI other I I mm mere players who b have t proved to be than any other man Ity Ing Robert Winchester and nd dicky Welsh WIh two old timers were Ands or of mini mine while laugh Jennings Roger Connor Conner Jimmy Collins Hofer Howell and maa many oU others too numerous to mention In tb the maJor and minor mtnor lulU leagues were wre developed 11 by my myself U Jennings when I 1 found fouad him wu was a catcher on a tem team at Lehighton Pa I Intended to use UN him u a utility man In that position Uon Ole dy day how however eyer m my Ant a player named Taylor Tylor was wa ill and I put Jennings In to till All hi his plus His RI work astonished me u as well as al everybody else ele who saw w It Another dy day I played him at short Ibort and nd bl his work there wu was again a delight though he hd had never played the position Jn Jen Jennings is Ia a bright fellow always tries to do his beat for hi bee team I rail nn across Jimmy Collins Collin the now famous third bias man or of the Boston Bolton Leaguers when he was wa playing In the CH City league leAll club of Buffalo I saw that lIa he lied bad In him the making mallin of a great ret player and 4 at once signed ed him to pia play with me for tor I w was thin then manager of tb the Buffalo Sutern league tem team Collins Collin at tbt time was playing in the outfield but I thought he would make a success on third base bale ud sad put him In charge of nr that ba Later In the season MUOn we wa were ere playing an n exhibition game me with the Boston teen team and I told Bel Belie that I would like hint him to take a look at Cui Col Ilse Owing to rain we only played three innings and ad when I asked allied Belie 8 lee what bat b he thought of my find he replied In his bl quiet w way that hi he seen enough to jud judge b by But It seems Item that what he saw W w was sufficient for later In Inthe Inthe the season MOD he drafted him Three yarn ago aro harry Howell now of tM the Brooklyn club came eam to me and asked me to give him a trial I did so 10 and found that he hd had speed peed and curves to burn bum but bat that he w was very verT wild I tried him out and aad cached him careful carefully I ly for tor some time Then I put him In a game ame and b he did much better than I had bd expected and nd that year ear was Wat the tar star pitcher of the Co Connecticut State league Talking of the Nutmeg Blatt Blase league learue reminds me of old Jim the owner owne and mana manager of t the h Bridgeport club and also catcher on Ute the team I uw saw a phot photograph ph tile the other day ot of the famous Boston Bolton Red Stockings of 1171 1071 ot of which team wu was a member H He has bat changed somewhat lt III the in 10 years since that picture wa was tk taken but although iii fO years year or more of age Jim JimIs Is II still playing good b bill ll H He throw well hits hit well 11 and It Its a treat to see him at steal bases buea even ye no now Besides being a good ball player is Ie a first clue cl lawyer And Is II a very rich richman mn man manDo Do you oa Udall think baseball has baa Improved muck much I In the UIe put past f Sew years tartT Is II a pies qu lion often put punt in in 11 T 1 nn nm Compelled 1 to reply la bI ill the negative Tim players player ef t 10 and it 11 yeah ean ago were just as teat fut tricky and welt in III the game as those thoe of today tody Old tricks are being lOn on scantly brought out aid II lets of people think tilt they are nw new but It would be al 1 I mom moat ass an to te spring a sit alt bo i D new play on the diamond to today I Ida da day And besides In those days then w was no ouch II ha al aI mOlt moat every game m I is with now although the players were jut just u as tg and anxious to win Baseball nowadays I is played proba probably bl bly more mON than ever ver Ink fore specially this teas elites 1101 the reduction In the major league learue hu has md made those teams team so 10 much stronger At As a matter of fact I 1 think this scientific playing is I carried too far Then Thenis is too 00 much bunting buntin done What the spectators went want to gee I le lots loti of hitting ud and running and u as th they make malle the games me a possibility their wishes should be ret O There are lot bb of batten bI who can oan put their sticks In front of tb the ball and bunt It but what hat we want le leto I Ito to develop mo more hard hitters like flits the players on tile the Philadelphia team I Years ego the ball used to 10 ha have two arid and ounces ounce ot of rubber In It wll whereas now DOW there is II only on one ounce net This nl reduction h has made the sphere phere 1 less nI anti mI consequently l easier fuler to field It 11 b has also lessened the number of out outfield field hits n The men are N also 10 no now liar har harnessed almost Ilk like football players with gloves 0 pads multi masks and other paraphernalia We tb those so ao I lit In the old d days yet I clot dont I think lea Ibe fielding I is muCh improved If any chan change be made In tb this pitch pitchIng I Ing d should hould be to reduce It If the pitchers had to throw bro the bill ball five ave feel I less It would take all an immense strain off their arms rm AS AI a result a club Instead or of having eight or nine pitchers on It Its pay a roll would be able bl to get t along just JUit u well with tour four or ave One of the chief factors In keeping baseball tiP up to It its high standard Is II that everybody knows know that the pmt game is II absolutely on the square You never hear har of a roan man nuking a book on a baseball game Ame as they do on U the rae race tricks Doth Both men have an equal chance ellanee to win a baseball bet and theres thell no percentage for tb the house In crooked games A Away wy back baek In the then w was some betting bettin done but It n 11 In IUt such and talk of thrown games m that tM the practice has baa never tl been revived When n I was manager of the Louis Lollis Louisville ville club I had bad tour four men of my own Craver and nd Devlin pat out oat of at tb the League because they ther were aught throwing a game me That w was tb the first time such a thin thing had ever occurred and It caused a great senu nu lion at the time I wu was ones onee asked keel to put a club In lb the Polo grounds at Nw New York but re refused fused thinking th there was wal no money In It Jim Mutrie then the took up the fran I chile And rot got John II 11 1 a now chief of umpires and two other othera to go 10 In with him Th Tile owners split up lie be between tween them as the of on ens tan MA tanson MAlOn son lOn two years later What a dUt difference nee between that um gum and th the losses that t e New Hw York club will have to stand Bland Blandt at t tb the end ot of the present summer Whit the bl Giants need I ii to have a capable manager at t their head beal one who is II not a player because Meau a mn man caR can con control control a team tum much better MUir from the bench noh lie He should ha have v entire lIb liberty ty to ma buy what players h he needs and make what hat changes II he thine lire are beet beat In Mat filet he h should have entire control of the team tea without which the Giants wilt never be successful If that were wrt dose doot baseball would boom In New NewYork York and the th result would be VI very ben an all over the country I am afraid It will not be done however while the president now at the head ead h has anything to do with tb the club Whether Mr Freedman understands the ram game or not notI I 1 dont doat know U as I 1 have never had the pleasure of oC meeting m him but I Judge not lIot from the wa way thing have been conducted In the New York club for the put few years The Th recent death of William has baa deprived baseball of one ot of tM the best belt men the game ever had u Ile ha lira rh the was 11 on one of the U t m 11 sty 1 1 sal td b with the I nuee camu camo a U tl h was Willi a 11 ball I tad and his he I the Ule ahll amateur t and aad mar r m 0 I h I death h has nII 1 I I I the great rI risks a all r tunA lr t I rl I undergo la In ell 10 nil his hat Ii the th county I have haYe aI i In this lb Umes Tn I r rh I I manager of the old I I u WI we played at t I I I tart for tor Cincinnati ti Ih ro r had the Uti tickets bought fr f r r t lb the I I 1 t of steamer Patrick I Ile q r T people r UI na to tAr over a day t h I While on ber er way war up tho th I 1 boat w was blamed amed to Ih ti 1 I r I I I std and 10 people 8 I 1 I In 1171 1117 I was r t vIII rule club and after II a t R T I I I burg we were to leave on Ih a l We decided I n e I to toone one oue and nd It was U well We 1111 dI l n I w we had bad Intended taking r q h o and the i r n and ad ill Ilia la It II killed Many an years ago J i mn to take a club oft off th the Ii a i game ame wu was over I l a m at t II I Im gams m 1 to 1 In cur rl ril I umpire seemed to III h r I against nit the tho Louisville I anger ner I took look my men t f had I 1 done so In I do down In III torrent and n I I had to ate r step an anyway r f ref referred to the UIt It to he bt played over ar i run to t chit bat was a the Ir I i 1 my mr men mell the be Add dula dUJ ill j 1 1 f i r 1 I I |
