| Show TIM MURNANE O 0 N NATIONAL GAME Teams of Major Leagues More Evenly Matched Than Ever THE WINNERS OF LAST YEAR Havo JIlin o no Iii Cinch Clock i on 1111 u the limo 1 ih I IrA h Season Sa Some Are Arc rl Showing 11 Db t t Signs Already Tim Thin the well ssell Known bliss ban h ball writer of Boston writes an as fol tot follows follows lows concerning the tho outlook for the Ih national game gamo In tho tiro hag big leagues Already It Is plain to sea neo e that the lh th teams tennis of at tho the major leagues morn more notched matched than ever before The Tho Thee e championship c will IIi be bo carried ll oft oaf this enson fR on by II the tho thoIN team 11 having a fair break bicak of luck lu k and UI date aggress aggressive sire sive management The Tho pennant winners whiners of ot last Int you yew CU have havo no nn cinch on tho the honors this season as ns tho line Athletics will moles miss Lato Cross and the New York giants have mv already all shown h I Ik II ILS of ut distress with without out the rho grout great In N 1 la laY I P Tim T lit t Cleveland Ia club b IR I not moot Miro 1 Y I o ot t T La A 1 jole will miss Joe Id hus already missed IIII Lou Jou sv d Cl t hn has missed all I Iho tho 1 l rr Beaumont Rumont Thero 11 Ise t nun chime t In III one hundred that players con can hn ba found to 1111 Mil till the places of th Ih the ri n named above nho J Beaumont and tutu rigor pony may 1110 nil all 11 tu to I their nod and help 11 out oaf but bill gluey wilt will bo In lost loft and other teams gim to ov s bottler bolder unlit tho Cho complexion of things all around President Charley Chari Murphy should Lo be i happy Ho 11 Is III tho only man nele br a n victory over a n local 10 11 rival by b floating foaling to lo tile Iu breeze a n pennant TIr lh American league clubs of ut Boston Roston lon Hi St StLouis Louis and Philadelphia Ph w won on tho salter honors only to enjoy their victories In Ina Inn inn n a modest way wn Rut But then Mr olt Murphy Is I a R good gnu advertiser er mill and naturally en ell enjoys enJoys joys rubbing t It Into tho Iho old 01 chief although the tho latter has bus hn won wen honors enough In III baseball to load a freight cat car with ith Tho tans fans should not mint look for tor to 10 ton much front from the players although nil all rove orr In iii earnest nod do their best hest but hul often a I scratch hit will win rein n a 1111 for COl sonic omo lucky club eluh flood sport n to what t the limn of ot tho gamo I tinn bo h he satisfied with for tOl the Ihl work work fIk of u o thi the visiting teams tennis Is a I treat tI t when titer thov Ih I play fast 1 hall ball AH As the tho th boys hos become mo o to tho tiro spit ball hero thele will bo be more batting IJ anti and I be bellevo thin tho batting averages title this yon n 1 I will bo lie 20 per cent bolter nil all around a 1 III III than last year LOYAL TO OLD ml I 5 Capt apt Collins and his hi American league club picked out rho most II u weather for tor A r their homo home games gables playing to tl people actual neWal count countIn 1 In three days do which Is la I certainly tin tho re to record cord 1 for tor baseball hll games inn cR for fur r three tho ero sl u e nays days Then our National I league keys boys returned to find cold and small crowds lH although conning coming back lutek In III he the lend lead After Auer Aft witnessing the work of ut Ten nerR ue R boys bays nt at Brooklyn III In lw two t 10 0 samei I wrote my illy opinion ns tu to w hero they would n land this sensor fm ami rani failed to place the tho locals locale In tho limo first division lon For this ibis crime I was nits called 1 to ac nc II count chant by II some limle Pittsburg writer w who nho to know where my III loyalty t In time the hums hume club w tl aa mill and then thon remarked that I favored the American league 11 ue which to be 1 a crime with some somo om people but not net With the tho masse maRSeN ir In Pittsburg No Nu writer has hils any show hoW of ot p pleasing casing the time public If It hn considers loy 10 ally alty a It to In a n club before loyalty to tn his hie reader who demand tinned honest reports report It R Is s not hat to lo roust roast roil III but Wig why wi tell your OUI readers that the town lias has a 11 great ir lIt ball team when you OU know differently just to please tho the club owners I believe bellove In ht loyal loal to I the old player who ho lucre have merle made goon tun nna may bo lot a n f little but hut I refuse to 11 tout lout us CiS phenomenon until they make good Loyalty to 10 th the players Is I one IIno thing and loyalty to the th Ih club owners Is another chase Dhane hlll e of or the tho business altogether The Th man writing baseball can enn help a R dub wonderfully on by b calling attention to weakness n In pry II the tram ami am a 0 a good word orrl for tin tha th morn men who try hard criticism will never hurt hut and nd Ice when hell you nu ore capable of ot It if can do no harm The private affairs of ot the players should newer never bl rh n in tho ihn baseball columns A man may bo 10 a n for tor leadership std and yet et fall tall down as ns th the result of or n a tenor that has hils no UFO ore for UI or him as 11 the result rosult of at some somo mean act lIt that the tho players end t nd passed Ia sl around Here In Boiton Ito ton Captain Collins Collin Is U admired by b his ply p play ers while hll Captain Tonney Tenney 1 is III disliked by h his liU men noon ol o 0 the league And yet ol both loth mon coon mire quiet and ly b Tenney could never neer win a n pen mint while Collins has hll already shown that blunt ho le can mil turn the tho trick LAJOIE AND WAGNER Tho The critics and fans never tire lire of ot comparing the two great crent CI lt players JI Ln Jole jolo and and very tery cr often otten who compare these theBo men lava hav no to see Reo both bolh during a season Tho Thu two players have different styles It 1 joie Jole graceful IrR with no movement for tor effect while Wagner will swing his hIso arm o and kick up UI the dust In making the simplest kind of ot a n play piny In th the field To time the average spectator Wag VIIi ner would take lake the prize III In u 1 earlier The ball player and close CIOE observer would vl pick k Wagner Wallner will fumble and make mako wild wIM throws Is dead deall onto th tM the marlc mark had seldom tumbles fumbles He gets gels A ball away much quicker than limn Wagner and while It may ma seem that Wagner can run bases banes IJa el Niter better I ller than tho the French Frenchman l Frenchman man the Cite Ih fact l is s that only oily takes Inke chances when called for tor and gets there fast faRt and n 11 fine In slider works work all spread out aul while keeps well welt together until tM play pia Is called when he shoots out as all If it by L tits tho fores torce ores of ut hidden springs LA Ed Jole Is n a sure lIure catch with either hand hani handIn In n any an position timing tho the hall ball to per perfection ler lerI I and making no fuss fUll what whatever whatever ever eor while Wagner Wallner will ate step about i and swing his hU arms and give the im fa impression pre lon that the play piny Is most dim difU difficult dimI I cult I |
