Show VETERANS PASS AS 1917 SEASON I APPROACHES i I IThe The baseball season of or 1916 saw the passing of or five hc of oC the Ule games game's greatest stars Will 1917 herald the passing of or three other oilier veterans who have endeared themselves to followers ers of or the game pame In Mathewson Miner Brown Drown Nap Hucker Larry Lajoie and Rhody Wallace Vallace hung up their thell uniforms never ne again to don them in the big hie leagues And in 1917 opens the shadow of or time rests rents gloomily on Honus Wagner ner Eddie Plank and aud Sam Crawford three giants of or the tho game of or giants No o year in baseball history saw the retirement of so many man idols as did 1916 It was a fit fil It and antl dramatic finale to two dramatic careers that Christy Ma Ma- and his most formidable rial rival ri ri ri- val al Miner Brown the three fingered wizard of the old Cubs should have bave closed their major mayor league baseball playing days in a n pitching duel due Lajoie closed his bh bi big league days day i In fn a game ame at Cleveland where he had played and managed teams for years prior to goIng to the tho Athletics He I did not finish the season on account of an injury in tn that game I Rucker and und Wallace finished out th season Three of or the old timers limer are left Wa Wagner ner came camo to the big leagues i il ii 1895 the tho same year Wallace Joined tl old C Cleveland Nationals Crawfor bobbed up at Cincinnati In 1900 th th tb I Isam same sam year veal Matty joined the Ule Giants an 1 I l I Eddie Plank broke into select company company com coin pany patty the next yea year I Crawford whose le legs s mode him an uncertain proposition in 1916 1915 was relegated relegated rele rele- i gated to pinch hitting bittIng last year and reports from Pittsburg Indic indicate te ragner Wagner Wag Tag I ner ncr will be removed tram front the tho short i field to first base hase in 1917 |