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Show TIIE. SUNDAY STANDARD: Of, DEN. VTA1I, SUNDAY, MAY 2fi, 1907, MODERN BASEBALL PLAYERS OLD VERSUS THE TIMERS ' Tim Humane Draws the Proper Distinctions In Dispute as to Merits irtumnu hv been going round of the ne spapeis Isle kb to Dm relative merit modern nnd old time aee. Mil playing. Vnrioue eld player elate tbut the old timer were aa good in hII eoeltlone ns are the star of toduy, and X Jk only natural that they should itand by their former associate, aee no one player of present note ran out themselves as the raaleel thing" hat over happened in the nutlonal game, and the reason for their opinion ar fcluo evident. tint Tim H. Mu mane, the eminent Ihwton authority, one of the ablest writer on ball today, ha made eoine liimtnrHun that probably ael forth the artaal truth of the nutter. Humane admit that the pitcher are jioeaibly more arientiflc today than in the puet; that they know more about curve, etc. but he claim that in litany other reepect the preeent day expert ar no better than the old LIVELY timer. He Hay In part: u Men threw trone and accurately . thirty year ago as they d at the pres- ent time, klen ran ll:c iia- -, , ua well twenty year ag.-- m. they d uuw, and the catcher threw jut as well to second, Nat llliks. win died recently at Ms old honte in llulo-keii- . was a grand throwing catch, r fir t:ie New York Mutuals In the early vexeallea. No nun of the piK-eday had on this perfect athlete when It anything cam to ball ch.wn to second. dancing the W her can you tind any catcher of the present time who c..uld out throw Mike Eurk Kelly. Ewing. Charlie l(tnni-u- . Charley Hnyder. Kmil 5 loss. Old Homs Klint, John t'lai. MiLe McUeary, Doug Allison or i'harley Gunztl? I have yet to see a shortstop who could outthrow George Wright In hi prime over thirty y, ur ago. 1 played with him one whole season without noting one puor throw, and he wuuld throw from any iwudtlon In which he got the lull, unless he lud ocean of time. No third baseman ha ever displayed more furm than ICira Button In throwing from third. Amlievr Leonard could oulhrow any outfielder the gain has produced for long rang accuracy as well aa sliced. Jake Evans has never been approached as a remarkable thrower from light Held to Aral and i m Tom Italy, by tl.e w.iywa one of the best catchers 1 ever saw, while Autos Ruie was tin: groatest piu her that ever stood in a box. That O'Brian-Bur- n Match. The recent tight In Los Angeles between Tommy Burt t whose correct name ts Nuah Iiruo) and Phlladel- - tesulied in a sprinting exhiiition. wish Uric-setung l lie pu.e nuomiig pace ) Burn cuuidn t li.nc ail the- way. caught up with the Quaker at any time wiluout the aid of a ) air ur tw a of il,e mysterious seven leiimir" li'iuti. AuJ if he had lead these be is and hu.l overtaken O'Brien. tbe Pm! .ilWphiun would u probably have yanked them nif Banin' A to Generalship. It seems, however, that Murnano might have added truthfully that In a few re peels team generalship i Improved today over that of the past. There Is more actual science now probadvanced ably In getting runner around tbe base, etivthat is, there ha been progress in what ha become known a inside ball. . 1 . . that by losing through a knockout he would queer himself badly, but that ly kcep'iig tis.iy from Burns he would gel a draw or lose on pohits. In either of llie.--e lasl cases lie wuuld have good dim- - e to get a let urn match with Hm us or else secure a match with some oilier good man. At any rate, iiiiiien did not stay meal' Burn long enough lo allow t lie latter to land any very heavy blow, and he did not stay near enough to him to rnabl himself get in any real blow. (ilrieii) ufto this sort, of the O'Hrieii Fighting lip tap. touch and go, touch me not school, is ull right in a girls' boarding school. It is all right in a throe round Y. M. C. A. bantam bout fur an amateur athletic union medal. It la all tight as au exhibition before an International pence conference, hut such a light is nut a tight in politics, in thiunce, in wotnrn's dulw or in pugi- the player representing the Hawaiian hotel the Chinese leant won by the aeort of to (. The Une-u- p of th CM-neteam ts a follows: F. Ton, catcher; Chang Yen. pitcher; X. Htieiig. hist base; Ah Yap, second base; Yuan Chaw, third base. Hat Ming, shortstup; Ho Tong, right Acid. Ah Sam, ccuter field; liung Nyam. left field. ae ARCHIE HAHN TO COACH. Archie Hahn ha run hi last rare. Th great dash man, probably the beat and most ronaisteM sprinter this country ha ever produced, announce Ilia retirement from ihe cinder path. In a letter received by Walter H. I.igiager. cliairmun of the athletic committee of th Milwaukee Athlelie club. Hahn says he ha decided to take th position of (Hatch of th I'nlversliy of Oregon track team. Tlie announcement will not rauae much nurprixe among follower of track athletic, who liav been ekictiiig Ills retirement for om time. a rule wa pawed which requires each home club at the beginning cf every guniq to provide the umpire with eighteen new balls The umpire will also be provided with a satchel and will keep tlie balls In the valise, using them ae occasion requires. if n hull 1 knocked over ihe fence It is out of commission for th balance of the gam and a new one will be taken from the supply of I'nder the old rule n maneighteen. ager could throw out nny ball he and aa, th opposing players seldom looked at them closely, often ball which In baseball parlanu wer Chicago d, "dead'' would be worked off. According to President O'lirlen thl nulsanc will be done wy with by th new ROWING Our New Tork Dramatia Correspondent. wtcherlt of has made her debut In n play written by her husband, Bayard Velller, who waa at on time ssaoclnted with Henry Miller at the Princess theater In n managerial way. The title cf the play Is The Primrose Path, and It I a tragedy of studio life, morbid, at times realistic, and, aa a whole, det pressing. now i a nbllity pho It would seem, secured, n foothold on the slippery stairway that lend to dramatic fame. She recently opened at the Majestic theater a s full grown, full blown star, and although there la A Comparison. a striking difference of opinion a to the merit of tho play Itself, yet keen Miss Wycherly, It must be admitted, observers them era who claim Miss ta more successful aa an actress than her husband la aa n dramatist. Wycherly has made a hit. For several years Mina Wycherly has Caroline Harris, In a dual role, shone been playing Important roles, and She In support of Mlaa Wycherly. Mlsa Margaret ' CY SEYMOUR, SENSATIONAL NEW YORK phla Jack O'Brien for ihe light heavyweight or heavy welterweight or near heavyweight near championship, was a ludicrous exposition of all method th evil of latter day-rinthat I. it was ludicrous to all but thoaa who paid the admission pric. What wa announced a a priieflght Harris played racy. BATSMAN AND NATIONALS. OUTFIELDER, feet and have thrown them over the CHINESE BASEBALL TEAM IN HONOLULU. rope, leaving Burns as badly off as ever. Although Chinese baseball players . are mighty scarce In this country, over . Tlie manner In which O'Brien conducted himself showed plainly that Ilia In Honolulu Ihere la a team composed resolve waa not to try to win anil to exclusively of Chinese, and (hey play take not the vllghlystjcliance uf loalng j good basebgll. Tha team 1 called the Us probably argued i Chinese Alobaa. In a recent gun with by a knockout, 8try f th play. The story. In skeleton form, of the play Is one that relates how an artist' beguiles away from her Devonshire home a young girl who knows little uf the world outside her. simple rural English birthplace. The artist takes her to Paris, promising to marry her as soon as his pictures bring In money sufficient for the purpose,. But time passes and ha does not marry her. Finally, when he la lying ill and destitute In his room, the girl, hearing the doctor say her lover cannot live without nourishing food, wines and medicine, forma a desperate resolve to go out and get money In nny way she can. She thus save Ills life, after making terrible sacrifice. transpire that the ample are still to it un- married and thut the artist has just been made a flattering offer by a wealthy art rstron who lisa bought one of his pictures, "The Primrose Path, that, it Is suggested, is the one that leads to the grave. Tlie girl posed fur the chief figure in the painting. This art patron make the artist head of a great school of painting and drawing. Ha falls In lore with the daughter of his r Outfielder Danny Hoffman lend New York Americans In batting, Bobby Wallace la the $G,0U aborUloF of BL Louis Americana. . TO FAME IN THE Lowrie'a unique performance aa the gooae girl In "The Free Dance ! won praise all over the country, She made her first hit in The Wlxaid r ox II : ground. . . i , ERMETE NOVELLI. Signor Erniete Kovelll routes of noble fumily, hla father being Count Novelll of Venice. Hlgnor Noveill la a very wee I thy man and raaidsa it Venice, where hla Rialto palace I on of the most magnificent In the Queer of the Adriatic. He has been upor the stage for upward of forty years or since a small boy. Hlgnor NoveHI'i son, whose pseudonym fa Yainbo, h one of the famous cartoonists of Italy. took In Mexico. My rubber, said Mr. Goodwin, was a strong man, n very strong man. H laid me on a slab and prodded and kneaded and punched and hammered me in a most emphatic way. At the end, after I had got up, he came behind me before ray sheet wa adjusted and gave me on the bare back four resounding whacks with the palm of hi enormous hand. What on earth did you do that for? I punted, staggering. No offense, boss,' said the man. waa only to let the office know I was ready for the next bather. You see, the bell's out of order In this room.' om-- CALVE IN CARMEN." lime. Calve created quite a enatlon by deciding lo come to America laal season and sing in Carmen" ar Hammeratelns new Manhattan Opera House, New Tork. and it i now belleveu that she will again appear In her favorite role of the Spanish girl clgarmaker next season. "The Prince of Pllsen" has been heard Also he avers a follows: An actor Is known not a o much by In every slate in the Union, In England the company nr keep as tha company and South Africa, and It will soon be Introduced In France and Australia. he keeps In The Merry Widow Is the latest "When an ad gel to be a big gun he then expects to hear reports about English title for Die Luxtlge WHwe." the German musical comedy success himself. All the wotl '? a stage, but all those that la now being aung In no less than on it are not actors, eighteen cities on th continent. Because flowers are showered on an A Frisco PreteeL actor la no sign that bo ia a dead one. A Ran Francisco admirer of Comedian More Wilstaehisma It has alRaymond Hitchcock rays: Stag Items. Frank Wllstach. the epigrammatic crusade for grand ways been considered a Joke on tho A determined press agent of the Shubert staff, writes, were unA bad play is Ilka a young cabbage-- all opera In English ha been started by New roik critic that they able to discover tha comedy talent of the London Truth. leave. -- HAS RISEN FREE LANCE." "Th Right of Way. Guy Standing, now chief support of Mm. Alla Nnslmovii' In "Vomit-saat the BIJOU theater,' 'will Coquette star next season In a dramatisation of the ' successful "The Right of Way novel by Sir Gilbert Parker. ' Eugene W. Prexbny wrote the stage version Klaw A that Mr. Standing Erisnger will produce It at 'the New Amsterdam theater early in the fall. THE HUMAN BELL. the actor, described at a dinner a Turkish bath that he Barious Bid af Comedy. or more corned Inns Frank Daniels. Louis Mann, George Colian, Eddie Foy. et al. have been writing a series of interviews for a leading eastern newspc per on The Herious Hide of WHO which had not been seen In London before. Moot of the audience found II tlrnunne, but for the work of Mirth!' and Marlon only praise won heard. They were called out seven times aflrt the second act and were cheered.' It hae IwpotiM n custom in London foi those who dislike a theatrical performance to boo, but no dissenters war heard. Tha keynote of tha criticism appearing In the London papers la regret that Sothern and Miss Marlowe should hav chosen so Ineffective a play for thsil London debut. For thl reason must of the psiera devoted themselves to Criticising the piece, eusfiendlng judgment on the newcomer' acting until there li a inoro eallefactory onMirtunlty to form an opinion. All. however, gave a hearty welcome to the visitors ' on persona! X. C. Goodwin, A doxen Funmaklng. They relate In detail the troubles that assail the comic artist in hla career aa a laugh promoter. It always seemed to me, however, that the serious side of funmaklng le better known by the theatrical managers whs spend their hundreds of dollars In staging some of the comedies, so called, written by some of our latter day huIf these' managers morous author. could be prevailed on to describe heir experiences in a series of articles entitled How Sad Is Comedy 1 think the horror portrayed would drive a large flock of stage writers back to the blacksmith shops from which they wer evidently recruited. Gossip Hitchcock during tha year that ba pluyed as principal comedian of tbo Castle Square Opera company at th American theater. It waa not until Manager Ravage raised the price of admission to $1 and sent Hitchcock lo Italy's theater. New Tork, that tha learned reviewers were aid to aea him.' Ruch la tha fatuity of rrlticlsm. It has never been known to discover alage talent until th price of a ticket to lh show commands respect. The foregoing writer evidently forgets that th principal thing Hitchcock had to do when with tlia Castle Square company waa to sing real music. It was not until songs were written down to Hllchcocka vole that h could get people to pay tha price of a straw hat to hear and see him. will-use- wealthy backer and eventually marries her, leaving the one time Devonshire girl to the kind treatment of fate, a treatment kind, one might assume. In that It does not prolong life nor does it Induce a craving for life. LOWRIE, OP TITUB. . with ease tad accu- Scene Shifts ta New York. In the next act the action Is moved New York, in a chesp flat. Here JEANNETTE PLANS Constance R Titus, who la to compete In England and (leriminy next July, will leave New York shortly, goA Flagrant Injustice! ing direct to Henley, where he will row Hut slay, hut stop! I have done the for tlie diamond scull. which reprevu!i:iii i) Hrh-- an 10101110. He did do sent the championship sculling event besides He did. DEAD BALLS TABOOED. Hcmclliing sprinting. for nmateur in Ureal Uriuin. lie will li What was fell it? Why honestly. Wily baseball manager will hav litroniete for the kaiser's cup In th into about forty-sluclinches, thus tle If any opportunity of working off Hamburg regatta. He will take two the uf horrors the unseemly had ball on opposing batsmen In the shells with him. It will he hi third mitigating affray, Clinches ar the life saver of American association thl season At trip to tbe Thame In search of th n O'Uri-of the sort. th last runaway tighter meeting of th league held In diamond scull. They are tha nvttng place that enable them to get new wind and real their weary leg. TWO MAJOR LEAGUE BALL PLAYERS NOW IN PUBLIC EYE. Finally, in the last of th twenty round. Burn could hold hi patience no longer, and he stood still In th middle of tlie ring, hi hand down at litss rides, aud yelled to U'Hrirn, Hay, why don't you corn on and fight? Imaging Jiin Jeffrie or Jhn Corbett or Hob Fitsslininoii or Kid McCoy or Rattling Nelson or Joe Uana or any other real Aghter rif tho past or present allowing an opponent a chance to stand 1111 In the middle of tho ring, hancla down, in the Inal round, and to call out a challenge like thul ! If acme of the slate legislator that have put Hie ban on Aghtlng should watch O'Brien perform in any of hi bout they would readily agree that Hie manly art i tho innat kittenish, must ladylike, most Innocuous pastime that was ever let Into this country by the Immigration authorltle. They would say: Pugilism, O beauteous floweret, more milder art thou than the spring eihyr of Calyiwo'a enchanted tale! More gentler art thou Ilian th blushing nmlds of sunny Italy, and how inoro lesser to be feared titan the lobbyist, that gaunt specter of the night, or th reform governor that klclceth our repuBEN TAVUL tations full of holes, The Primrose Path and Other Dramatic Topics; Margaret Wycherly When Comedy Is Serious (From ' regulation. m dt in Players Pugilistic Talk lism. home. "Men stopped ground balls a well twenty years ago as they do at the present time, and without the use of gloves; for Instance, lilg Ed Williamson and Fred Pfeifer of Chicago, Bid McPhee of Cincinnati. Iianny Richardson of New York, John Burdock of Bouton, Kred Dunlap of Detroit and score of others. Who could brat Danny Richardson, Bid McPhee, Pied Pfeifer Fred Dunlap, John Farrell or Joe tfer-haron pivot work in a double play? Verdict of Veteran Kittrodge. One of the old timer who Van't nee the sometime vaunted claim of suMahu-Ji- l periority of star of today Klttredge, the new manager of the Montreal team, who mid the other day that the baseball of today I not the game of old, Ve ml tlie great hitler of tit pant like Connor. Rrouther. Ewing, Mike Kelly, Orr, Delrhunty and Hardie Richardson, said the veteran catcher. "We do not see so many lung drive made by nowaday as wer HARRY LEWIS, CRACK PHILA- those old star. frequently Then, again, the DELPHIA LIGHTWEIGHT. catchers of today are not like Bennett, ha Ewing, Tom Italy, Ounsel, Buckley, By hi faat ring work. Lewi run iia unification a topnotrher, a Mike Kelly, Clement and Morgan i Murphy, muting lightweight champion. of 1 to It IN MARLOWE AND LONDON. The first appearance of E. H. Seth-er- a and. Julia Marlowe on th English stage waa a triumph for both. They appeared recently in the Waldorf before a great audience, composed largely cf persons prominent In English society and representative of th American colony. A more friendly welcome than that given to the star would have been ACTIVE SARAH BERNHARDT, Impossible. STAR AT AGE OF SIXTY-FOUThe play wa Tho Sunken Bell," BOTHERN Mayo's To mark the one hundred and fiftieth for hi own productions and for road Margaret to appear before acting rights Ing their names to the publicity de- she was comman-l-TOPICS. on dramatisation of Mrs. Humphry Word's time of the comedian's big success, attraction. Ellen Terry, who has been making a partment of Kelth'a theater, Phila- the king ir. Sandringham palaceMile. Caught In the Ruin." souvenirs were mailed free of Queen Alexandra's novel, "The Marriage of William Ashe." birthday. Wallace Hopper is considered over a million dollars. Edna Wallace delphia. The paper is women present. These short American tour, has sailed for to will all the th given that play It expected and Dnxie wa personally congratulated by "f ihe wealthiest actresses on tha Hopper was the original Widow in tho rh: rge. were in the shape of a hr. If open um- England. London. The Danse Americalne," which Mile. King Edward, and ! wa presented be produced In American stage. It has been said that tHt. The only Imitation In which Cecilia an a hatpin holder. hunone brella In waa hla Collier William a valuable with brooch, offer In "Advanced Vaudete was by the queen fifteen Loft us fulled waa that of Maude Adams a taken has E. The Keith News will be published Dsxie will In GarCharles the Blaney financially Interested In the rainstorm fiftieth and with dred for her royal approbation showing ostrich plumes studded "Florodora production, which throughout the summer. Perrons de- ville." won Square thea- In The Little Minister." Mis Loftua rick theater. New Tork, recently, and, year lease of the Lincoln She was playing an diamonds ai- - In tho will use tha theater declared Miss Adams was too elusive. Tork. He New three years It played In siring to receive copies of the paper- last year In London, outside. waa ter, it raining Palace theater, and Reeve Smith has secured the English appropriately, in the different may be enrolled aa subscribers by end- engagement at the STAGE 1 "ti-o- Ani-r- ha companies I |