Show MY BUSH IS BEST if k 4 OWNIE BUSH II 11 11 EVERY play er on the detroit team could play ball like ty cobb and ownie bush the tigers shortstop there would be no doubt who would win the american league champion ship this year but jennings isn fortunate enough to have a team of cobbs and bushes consequently there la is some doubt whether he will be able to overcome the lead philadel phia has on him at present fans are figuring however that the tigers w 11 finish as good as second bush has been a great help to the tigers ever since he be donned the de uniform some of the experts say he is the greatest shortstop in the american league iles he e a sensational player and covers a world ot of ground nothing seems too fast tor for him to at least get his hands on and the bats bat men of opposing teams I 1 ave had many a safe hit spoiled by his work bush a worth as a fielder doesn doean show in the averages hi reaches and break down so many I 1 its that an other shortstop would never get near that he Is charged with many errors his all around ability makes him the star shortstop he ile ls Is a good hit ter one of the best men in the league on the bases and klavs the bag well in addition to his marvelous fielding ability sheriff M illen of navasota Nava sota texas was ft as the mos obstinate club owner I 1 hai hae e ever met says jimmy oilman gilman there are people I 1 am sorry to sa right here in cleveland who actually doubt the full and absolute truth if borne some of the stories I 1 have been tell ing about the curious and wonderful things that happened in the baseball fields down in the big state but every ever resident of old navasota Nava sota will swear to what I 1 am about to tell you now ted st ellvan sent us down from dallas to navasota Nava sota one day to phy sheriff mi ali lien ilen s team we had been guaranteed and as all our ext benses were to b be paid we took along or 01 ly two new league balls the na artas came oa on the field with only one making three altogether the outfield in navasota Nava sota was sim ply one big pasture where sheriff mul lens ten s horses pigs cows and sheep grazed at will among the animals was a pet broncho and I 1 noticed while we va were ere at pi practise aclise that this bron broncho chr vi 0 I 1 11 I 1 start in mad pursuit of eveaj ever ball batted out near where he was broI browsing rg he ile chewed up tw two 0 or three old balls used in the warming up period and I 1 began to get s spi clous please cake take that paltry to the sta ble and loch leek him lip ip I 1 said to the na apotas owner not on your life mullen sal I 1 he ile s got a as much right here as the umpire or you houi yourself elf moreover the home team makes its own ground r les down in this section of the state don t forget that no sir air broncho stays right where here he is it meant extra tor for us if we won the garre but there was nothing tor for us to do but to abide by the home club s rules so far as the game itself was con berned it t was a cinch from the start and we had them 17 to 5 at the end of the second inning ml NII this time the broncho had been nibbling grass out biear the fence and paying but little attention to the play era ere in the third inning virgil garvin the Navas otas pitcher hit a fly that was muffed by our the ball rolled out by the fence where it was immediately gobbled up by the broncho another new ball was put into pla play and the next batter up for navasota Nava sota drova three bagger to left center my outfielders had no chance to re trieve the ball tor for the broncho was after it as soon as it left the bat and had chewed it into a shapeless mass ten seconds after it struck the ground AA the umpire called it a home run and we let it go at that we were still tar far ahead of th the home team but I 1 had forgotten that we had but one more ball in th next inning there was another long drive to left center and once more mor the broncho pounced on the ball the outfielders seized the and tried to wrest the ball from itt ite mouth but the sphere had already been well masticated and was bayone redemption the game bad to be called beton five innings bad had been completed be cause there were no more balls the fans demanded their mone money back because they hadn haan t seen a ful game but we afterwards learned thai that this was wai just a little bit of stag stage put on for the purpose of fooling us the umpire declared it no game and we finally compromised by accept ing instead of our guarantee and our extra money and all be cause I 1 could find nothing in the bholi of rules to prevent a club owner from pasturing a ball eating broncho in hi own outfield it wis a full year before I 1 had a chance to get even partially even then one day we played the nava sotis in texarkana Tex arkana our half of the ball park was in texas and the other half in arkansas one of sheriff mul len a players got rough with one ol 01 my men and was arrested i 1 tried to get his player acquitted on th grounds that the assault was corn com bitted in n texas and that there was no law on the statute books of that state biking the assault a misdemeanor I 1 got a surveyor to take measure ments and he found that the assaul assault really occurred in arkansas and mul I 1 n had to pay a 10 fine five times in the history of baseball has a f arst baseman gone through a gme game without having a put out ir 11 tr tae contest between pittsburg and chi bigo recently hofman of the cuba cubs did not have a put out his ills only chance was a throw from tinker and he cropped dropped that it was w as the first timp in tl e history ot of the game that thit wit th it record has been hung up here are the other tour four marks july 21 1861 in ew york city hist p 1 r t basen an M 1 duals in a game with w ith alpine august 6 1891 Nie mccauley Cauley first base man of the washington american ai clation so team in a game with colum coluni b s 0 club qt k 1 may alay 23 1906 jigs jiggs donahue of the chicago white box in a game with the new york II 11 phlanders gh landers august 12 first baseman of the monson ma s team in a game with the stamford conn c club lub bill dinneen who at one time was a star ditc pitcher her for the bo ton club more recently with st louis and now one of ban johnson johnsons s umpires Is making good at that job dinneen Is right on top of all the plays and there ne never v er will be any overruling of deci while he is at work with tom connolly they both work together very well dinneen has been going along so well that the american league has boosted his salary in view of the fact fat that the new home of the white cox in chicago Is very large and it will be possible to hit a home run to any field inside the fences it Is believed that they will ie i e at a disadvantage for it has been some time since chicago had a home run hitter of the caliber of harry davis sam crawford stanage engle jake stahl and others hughey duffy however says that he intends to rem edy that fault next sea beaton seaon on having in the scouts to sign up nothing ut home run hitters of the home run haggerty and swat milligan stripe |