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Show J THE SALT LAKE'' TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY , By Tribune Special Sport Service CHICAGO, May 21 The passing of McLean, the tallest player In base-'bal- l, and the way of his passing Is the way other bright light professional baseball players have passed on bofore lhelr time. McLean had a funny old career.' He was with the Cincinnati team when the eagle eye of John J the Giants' manager, got a glimpse of him. McLean's stature caught McOraw. The latter has alwavg loved tall catchers, felloe who could reach away up to the sky and pull them down. Nearly all of McOraws catchers of re-cent years have been rangy fellows McLean was one of that sort, and lassooed him for the Giants There were' some who advised McOraw that Mac was a had actor. But the 'little Napoleon told of how he ate up had actors, and. good or bad, they all looked alike to him But the New York manager was mistaken when It came to handling McLean. It was at the fashionable Buckingham hotel, opposite Forest park, in 8t. Louis, and McLean had their first that McOraw out-- falling - ft- - happened 4fl mldsmmer-tnd9ic- - a time of great heat In St. Louis, and at a time when certain of the baseball players had to pour Ice cold lager down their throats to keep from melting MoGraw, Idck Kin sella, then the scout of the Giants, and others were seated In front of the Buckingham the night that McLean came along The fine guests In the hotel were nearly asleep and In bed, and when McLean n came roaring like a and loaded with lager, McGraw and Klnsella for obvious reasons, set out to quiet him. Instead of obeying orders McLean ruahed at the little Napoleon like a mad bull and would have perhaps annihilated him then and there but that Klnsella and a couple of players came to his rescue McLean was about to scatter the whole crowd in a mad rush when Dick Klnsella hit him over the head with a heavy chair This calmed the big catcher, and es Klnsella grabbed the leg of the broken chair and went after him again, Larry fled hopped on the running board of a and much to the conpassing automobile sternation of its occupants, ordered them to drive him to safety He rode eeveral blocks, hopped off end disappeared. He tried to patch up hie troubles with the next day. but the manager of the Giants would have no more to do with him, and he was hot allowed to rejoin the team. After a wild time In CL Louis he finally departed for the east and engaged himself with a eemipro ball club playing around Philadelphia. his' run-i- n But long-befwith and hts banishment from the major the rows McLean were had leagues talked about. MoLean was of monarch all Generally, he surveyed In these battles, for he was i wonderfully large and powerful man, standing t feet 2 inches In height, and weighing, when playing, around 225 pounds At the time of hts death It was said he neighed 2i0 pounds However, he was never known to hurt anyone, and hie Usual method when getting Into a quarrel was to grab his antagonist and hold him at arm s length untlLthe fight fever 22, 1921r McGraw Benton and It the worlds series that interest ,, the moyf That la the aerie which Chicago won from New York by Collin beating Zlnh merman In a race to the home plate. . Zimmerman was charged with at the time, but, according to McGraw, there was really method in bis madress. It will be news to many to hear that de1917 blgb-steppl- w sea-lio- w ore w north and south diamonds. Onequa school and Cummings field, Bonneville field. Fort Douglas south dlamond. West Side park and East high school diamond No 2 will be used by the boys on Thursday night On Friday, practices may be held at Bonneville field. East high school No. 1 and 2 and Riverside park. In the Commercial Sunday games s, league will be played on alternate beginning today, on the following No. 22, groundsSunday.. May municipal school. West Side park, , Riverside Fort Douglas north and Sugarhouse, alternating each week with the following listed grounds Municipal No. 2, Bonneville, fair grounds. Fort Douglas south and Sugarhouse Trolley league games will be placed on alternate weeks on the following grounds, Municipal beginning Sunda), May .22 No 1, Riverside school and West Side park, and alternating on municipal No. 2, fair grounds and Bonneville field Trolley league practices will be held Monday afternoons at W est Side park. East high No. 2, Fort Douglas south, Thirteenth avenue. East high and Riverside park, on Thursday on municipal No 2 Fort Douglas north. Riverside park and Cummings field, and on Friday at Wasatch school and the fair grounds City Amateur league games will be played on Tuesday on municipal diamonds Nos 1 and 2, West Side park and Practices will be held Bonneville field on Friday at Cummings field, Thirteenth school and - W'est Side avenue, Onequa park, and -- on Saturday at- Gumming field, East high No 2, West Side park and the fair ground The Twilight division of the Commercial league will plav on Wednesday aft ternoons on municipal diamonds No and 2, West Side park and Bonneville field Practices will be held Saturdays on East high "No 1, Riverside park, Onequa school and Thirteenth avenue diamonds and on Mondhvs at munielpal No 2 and Bonneville field The Bankers' league will play Saturdays on municipal diamonds Nos 1 end Riverside 3 and on Fort Douglas north. Practices school and Bonneville fields on on will be held municipal Thursday No 1 Thirteenth avenue, fair grounds. East high No 1, Onequa school. Sugar-hous- e Emerson school Riverside school and port Douglas parade ground. The Telephone league will play league games Friday and Monday on municipal Practices will be held diamond No 1 W'ednesdsvs on fair grounds Thirteenth sventie. Riverside school and East high No clubs There sre a total of forty-thrthe city Any plating In six lagues of proposed changes that are suggested for the playing and practice schedule should be approved by the central officer of the parks and public playgrounds department In order that barmonv may rule between the varloui organisations H i.f Sun-dai- Agreement,It IsBelieved, Eliminate Squabble for Use of Grounds. Will Assignment of grounds for the forty odd baseball clubs of theclty has at last been completed. Through the direction of city authorities, - The diamonds on which certain clubs- may play and practice have been definitely assigned, and It Is believed there will be no more petty squabbles about wbo plays who and where Representatives 'of the six leagues of the city met with G. O. Romney at the Deseret gymnasium and. after what was said, to havf been grthetStormJL session, came to a final and definite agreement. According to the terms of ths allotment, clubs of the Commercial league on Sunday morning division will practiceRivMondaya on the following grounds. erside school, Cummings field, Fort Douglas north diamond, fair grounds, On Onequa school and Sugarhouse Tuesdave they will practice on the Rest high school, diamonds Nos 1 and 2, Cummings field and Fort Douglas north. On Wednesday, practices will be held on Fort Douglas the following grounds started in a saloon In Boston the night before he met his death. John J Connor the saloon manager who shot and killed McLean and per- haps fatslly wounded his champion, ona man named McCarthy, said McLean the night before hie death had made a disturbance in the saloon and had run a bartender out of the place- - With McCarthy, the big catcher returned early the next morning and started another row that ended in the manager of the cooled Borne of McLean's friends say he never place shooting the two men In so he alleges started a fight on his own account ex- McLean, after being shot, staggered out cept when perhaps In a saloon and drinkto lhagtreet.atiL-fgll.Ila- . Avne, flc.id.be: ins-- r I The battle which ended hie career fore he could be taen to a hopaltai. e, r Kkuff, Toney and keep his ball club together la upholding to la making a goat out of me." la the statement In relation to - o r. 1 1 ee Romney - Satisfied With Records ' for His Teams of Last Season. '." - Coach affairs. At various times the A C. was handicapped, but the mentor la not strong for alibis, so he only plan to do better in the future In basketball, the Aggies f nlshed In the cellar, b ,t the teams were-al- l more evenly matched than they haa been for Tears, and the difference between champions an cellar champions waa not a great deal Had all the basIn school been out fot ketball shark the team, the tesiilt would have been vastly different, thinks Coach Romney i ogan has had extremelv bad luck In spring athletics In ths last two years on account of bad weather No traik work was possible until very late this Three Named tear end last season, also but when the Farmers d d get a chance, the development was fast. The A C baseball team Affidavit got little chance .to work out, but the aggregation was one of the best colleSacker. by giate baseball teams ever seen In the state, though they failed to do better them a tie- with- - the t tfvh. Football prospects at toe A C are y AL SPINK. very bright for the 1021 season tine of the biggest features of the fall campaign By Trlhune Special Sports Service la the Thanksgiving dav to CHICAGO, be May 21 The baseball fans game, plaved with the V ' In Logan an event of Chit ago are still talking about the local sportsmen have clamored for for a sensational story told by Heine ZimmerThe A. C has also other man, the old third baseman of the New long time good games slated for the home field, York Giants. In, this story Zimmerman, who, in an and this alwavs adds greatly to the interest In school activities during the affidavit charged Benny Kauff Fred year Toney and Rube Benton of the New With Louis Falck to lead the A C. Yorks with orookednesa, also said Since McGraw had me banished from grlddera, both as captain and quarter- j hack he has accused me of throwing winning the majority of games baseball seems all the more probable, Falck haa the 1917 world a aeries to the White Sox. been an all conference selection for the He has declared that 1 deliberately last two years. Hackfleld material la chased Eddie Collins home with the winIn run final line will the be plentiful, while the strong ning ' But with me nowgame out of the game. also, by the addition of a number of new men who are all good Most of the letter men of this vear will return and many others who have been In the game lege. The standing of the tah Agricultural college with these large schools la nough to be familiar with Its fundamentals are gong to plav on ths squad very good, and Coach Romney yet hopes The possibility of playing a Mg school to cement relations more solidly In the of the northwest Is getting to he a future. Th s winter and spring the A C probability, as Coach Romnev has re- was urged to play a game with either ceived Invitations and Inquiries from Creighton or Nebraska at Omaha bene many schools asking for games In foot- Nebraska- - Institutions both offered the ball Nothing hut the financial considAggies very good terms and seemed t6 erations has held up the plaring of. a be more than anxious to play a game, game with the either the University of but Coach Romney declined, on account Washington, the Oregon Aggies Gonzaga St h? .Interference with the regular confrmyrslty Of thy Washington State co- - ference echedUle of thAggifg 1 gpiclsl to The Tribune With the awarding LOGAN, May 21 of letters and election of captains of the track and baseball teams for 1922 at the Agricultural college this week, the athletic activities of the year were officially ended and Coach Romney hae begun work for next year, when he hopes to maka an exceptionally good record in all the branches of major sport at the institution It was hoped that the Aggies would send two or three track men to the conference meet in Boulder, Colo , but the athlette eouncii did wot- - review the finances of the student body and discover that funds were there for the expenses of this trip until It was too late, and the athletes had broken training rules In the event that the Utah Agg es were to have been represented at the conference meet, Louis Ballif sprinter, Len Jack Croft, Andrus, Javelin thrower, hurdler, and Chick Hart, distance runner, would have been the likely men Ballif chosen by Coach Romney to go would undoubtedly have made a great won In he as the dash, showing easily In ths state and dual meets here Andrus broke the state record on thy javelin, while Croft is coming to the front fast, and could have showed up well In the high hurdles, although this spring Is his first attempt at this department. Hart would have done well In the half-mirace, having won this event in the state meet and having also beaten Kerr e of Utah twice out of three races that the two, have participated In Is Coach Romnev however Next year, going to send all first and second place winners In the Utah Intercollegiate state meet to the conference meet In Colorado So far as the whole year In athletics has resulted. Coach Rnmney has no regrets Although the Aggies won only ths state championship in football and tied for the baseball title. Romnev Is thoroughly satisfied wTt h thy result of plf 100-ya- le half-mil- Giants Sensational Former Third Filed -- 1 1 CbU.-goa- ns McGraw charges Zimmerman with liberately throwing away the deciding game of that 1917 series to Chicago. It was the sixth game of that memor-at- V .. ; aeries that Is referred to. Up to the flaying of that game the 2 In 2 to favor of series stood games tor New York to win thla Chicago sixth game was to even the score Tv lose It meant the loss of the eerie. U was in fact the crucial game of the aeries and meant everything, to both clubs. Thla sixth and deciding game resulted In a victory for Chicago by the ecore of 4 to 2, in spite of the fact that not a sum was earned by theChicago club, In Chicagos half of the fourth inatnc Zimmerman made a bad throw to firstJ base and E. Collins ran to second Jackson made an easy fly to Robertson, who dropped th ball. E. Collins Felsch batted to Benrunning to third ton, who took the hall and ran to the third base line turning E. Collins back to third base and eventually throwing to Zimmerman In the meantime, Rarl-de- n had advanced up the line from home plate, leaving It unprotected, and no one filled In behind him. , Zimmerman foolishly ran th runner toward home and too late, found there was no one to w horn he could throw Uie ball He chased E Collins all the way into the heme plate, fading to touch , him. Jackson mot ed to third base and Felsch to second on the plav A moment later Gandil singled to right field, scoring both of them He tried to make second are, but was thrown out Burn caught Weaver out St ha lk singled to left field and Faber wee given a base on boHe. Fletcher threw out J. Collin and that ended It. Tills run of Collins, which gave the lead to Chhago by a score of S to 1. settled the game, as New York never In the ninth inning scored afterward Chicago scored again and the final score was 4 to 2, being Chicago fourth victory and the dev idlng one of the series to New York S two wins. - Th plav of Zimmerman wa the talk of New York that night and for days afterward. When he appeared on the field later he waa hooted by the fans and the term "bonehead" waa often applied to him Then there came a change over the baseball mob and there were manv who done agreed that Zimmerman had really the right thing in chasing Collins all as the home Inasmuch the way home. plate wa uncovered at theHlme Then the btame was shifted to Catcher Rsriden and to other of the New York player for not lacking up th play and not guarding the home plate, whkh should never be left without a guardian. Other cases of the same sort were cited, but before th oontrov erwy ended sentiment shifted again and Zimmerman play waa put down as a bonehead plav comparing with ther Merkle and hundreds 1 4 broth ef'TbnghrTT-pn-n. ' |