Show r 1 GOSSIP ABOUT romu SHOWN nY Ill I VARIOUS r BASEBALL CLUBS IX IN Till r 0 0 0 0 l the National league learue A baseball IOD I le not very rOot at advanced ello games pm hate h e beta played for tor a Ilse to be drawn to toone one to make u ao come com of the team Some of the tho ran fans ranJ J PS hen daring enough to predict the they y tall or of the clubs at al the end of the ther r 1 There Then seems Im to W be a vel very gen 1 opinion and Dd this le II shared to a grail extent by the players pia themselves Shat the Brooklyn team hat hie the beet t 11 to In ig tor the pennant tr 1 a player on OD some other team tam tami c i will tell 1111 you rou that h hie dub clUb le II bound to tAl tobe tAlt r be drel allt when the autumn leaves leave tall raU t t epee more mare but It Ir you uk ask him which r I lain will wUI be second tb the Invariable re reply ply p Brooklyn thus showing that theM ther the M a from the Ibe City of ChurchIn ChUrch r I In 11 I the h one the they aU all tar fair I most 1 n ri fl trams Iam are an so 10 mo more evenly owing to the roe re p rash fl hp thie uon I In n of the circuit from 12 to le clubs 1 J I t I th rams am are so eo much more fierce r ty Ir that the percentage or of the thet t t H l ra ate are separated by fewer point than In former yeah rII The Tbt result of a rv tm J JI M 1 T J I I b ci i 1 Ir Irm I w H m In It 1 1 1 1 b J n 0 nl If u M RAW lJ r Q 1 1 E e Qt V 1 sr It o e lle ll fl h hip j jo rJ ip i THE FIVE HEAVIEST BATSMEN IN THE NATIONAL LEAGUE n nt Q BURKETT I it V VI J I I v Vj J S t it A 1 I t tt Il n n 1 t thle be that dropping of a few games ceil mo more or 1 lees at t the tag far end of n tilt may ma make a material differ a J erne ence In the of a club The players on the Brooklyn team r that the they will wUl win the pennant wi h Philadelphia and t Louie Loula 1 third thid TheN are lots lot of people howe how e r willing to bet on the cha chances of oft I 1 t th the to land In Ant place I I havi ha a talked recently with several veral of I Ithe the old timers of the green diamond se 18 sewell well as I with others who ho have five watched d i ithe the growth or of the game rame with keen In from the grand stands and It Cn rna to be the general opinion among amone n these th men that there then have been n no new baseball trick invented this year ear It Itu was u thought at the beginning of the Son that the game would be so 10 rut fast end and III an hotly contested that the layers lave have to resort to II new devisee to 0 their rivals rival But this deet not appear to he be the lie case lieC C Old tricks have been brought fore tor foreward ward ard sometime considerably ed though still recognisable but It rema u as It the brainy player plarl of the days a gone one by had bad pretty prett well exhausted the possible lIt list of startling pia plays Nev It must not be imagined that tbt because they work worle In tb the old ruts rut the oJ 1 do not bestir The Thea min a are ball better than ever Th They do not dare a the be careless for far tb the circuit reduction hu bas thrown a ai aC i C ned gad man many pl player on tM the market markel and nd j tiler are re lot lots of rood good teen tI ready to take the pia place of say one Ofte who allows lIow a of yellow ello to appear In bl his work t 1 The rearranging of the clubs club owing to te tM the of 01 the circuit caused must t of the man manager to pay par more nt to the batting department A Aa As Asa 1 a result mull there then never MIr w were such urh gallons or of hard hanl bitten and aDd sick wield ors IN a are re now DOW In tb the eight ma ilia maSir Sir jer league uniforms Just before the of the season Huon Buck Ewing the UIe aid time tim catcher and pr present ent mane man alter of the Nw New York Tork tm team mid uld in III a peel that hi he AM not think the theor rs or of today trl ay we wen a any better atter than thanN N t or of a d cede k eI or more ago alO tiny mn me riot higher percent percentages ages but at the sash time It must a be that batting I is nowadays pratI prattled to in an extent tnt never nver nevert of t ten In vests ago The t baa tua In III tilt the came me Gm Ia eves 1111 more than the bitting t dt n who wr were m mII Aral II lire days d gone 1011 b by would nowa noa Ia lay bp blued out of tU the boa la In 2 set t of If ten tenn the n teem of tills this Mi g tilt the hell 11 ton ft t all the men tor the improvement In battler to be Th Then will m however hardly lit be any dissent t from the statement that the tho hi Ave men inen led the batting battin list lilt at tM the end ot of left lat season a are better atter la fA every err way war to In their lIy than UJ any aggregation or of old timers E J the wonderful lel lift Helder of the hart bard hitting Philadelphia team led tb the Ibl last lut anti to do 40 doso so eo had to eclipse all 11 his hla previous He started out to In great t making 25 bits bite In the lIt Ant 10 games m and 4 hits hILI In 2 21 games pm rte made live Ave Include In Ing a double and tel a home run out of six times al t the bat Ave times hi he malt maAs tour hits bite tn In one game and I 21 times nude mad th three hits Its made mad U I doubles 10 home hom rune run during Ih tt I le a record Second Oft on tM the lIt list ot of batt batten came J Seem Burkitt it f It t Lout Loul Burkett made 21 I hits hit In bl his first 10 gamu aul am and 10 hits In 11 Samoa NI Nine times In III the season b he made four hits In a game and nd I ii time th three hits n tie stand acoNe 20 10 done dolt bIN tel 6 and 1 home run rime hI n playing a stretch of 31 games without an error McGraw is III Many r belt stealer tealer and run getter ol of the Legu He was third In the batting order last year and reached first we base basemore more often than un any other player De Be Besides sides his great record at the bat hI he at third bass bra In games he made but on one error and andIn In another stretch of 30 00 games made butt but butto two to In 1167 and tits Dilly healer Keeler led the ha batsmen or of the League but the change In location last lut Muon Masan worked III with him though at that he was wall fourth lIe Ile made JO 20 hits In hi his first Allt nine games ADI and batted safely lArel In 14 straIght game It lie was welly the finest out outfielder lder In Inthe inthe the League hi his percent percentage being 17 18 In hie first 18 l gamer he did not make matee an error and In 42 41 pm games made but one From Jul July ri 11 to Sept JO O he took part In n 47 straight games without an error and hla hie lat last II 6 games amM were purred by but one a hard to duplicate or of Philadelphia did wonderful work a as usual last lut season landing In fifth place among amen the batten often otten makes hits bUll which play havoc with Uh leis 1111 percentage but help out tk the team lie hit safely In N Ie out of his lint 17 11 games In three consecutive pm games hf he made mad 11 hits hils During the reason he made 10 S 2 triples and 6 hone runs run Ille fielding was waR NO MO Although Freeman of th the Boston DOlton team who last lut year pled played with the Senators was wat on th the list r f batter batten he la Is undoubtedly the hard bard hardt set t hitter In the maJor league 11 Free Freemans mans man specialty la fa home runs ills reo rec record ord last year rear was wa nothing short of phe phenomenal ph nominal comprising as It did 37 17 home hom rung It 24 triples and 16 dou doubles le lie made extra bases buill against 1 for tor and for Williams though outranks Williams William at as he was at bat at fewer Ume than the Pitts Pitt Pittsburg burg player Four time m Freeman Preeman made mad three thIM heal hom run rm In five games and twice made three home hom rune runa In six ram games WOODSON no better than the shoes would Jim rule Michael was called the Midget because hd lacked the inches to be any anything anything thing II else Ie Fred Titus In his popular days doys was known as Marble Heart he cau cause he rode an Individual race with without out to an any other rider John Lawson La Mn Is known as The Terrible Swede because or of his nationality and the fact that he was terrible II ht a sprint Jay Eaton wean on hi his name or of Indoor by inaugurating II a speed In In Indoor indoor door races poa possible to no other rider was called allM the Dayton Darton Dumpling because he cited from Dayton The latter fatter parrot the name Is Ie said to have been given him by a wo ro woman roman man who was wal much taken with hi his ue efforts at t II a race most milt one ene day and who was wa Impressed by his hie dl di diminutive stature and his hll plumpness Tom Cooper last lut years r champion was called King Kin Cooper because or of his ability to defeat other riders There is II one man who won his title In a ver very peculiar manner n It wu was give giveen en n to him In the manner of a slurring criticism but today h he wears wear It In aU all honor being the onlY man In the world who hat has ever ridden 1 a tulle mill faster tuter than thana II a Mil Mlle a Minute Murphy all as other rider call Charles M Murphy wu Wal regarded alt as a sort of mild crank or boaster because he promised to ride a mile mil In a minute behind a railway rail mU wa way train Murphy got gat no end Ind ot of aa ale out of his proposed attempt but It did him no Rood good People pointed out that other ride riders who had defeated Murphy on the track were vere better fitted to any such performance one knows know hoW Murphy demonstrated that he was wall the one on tilted for this teat feat lie had what Ilat other riders cour courage age of his hll convictions a truly wonder wonderful rill ful nerve and the ability to pedal with lightning speed where there wu was no wind Ind resistance |