Show I ALL IMPORTANT SPORTS FROM FRO R HEAVY VY ANSWER It Gets Both Fame and Fortune Fortune Fortune For For- tune for Napoleon Lajoie SOMETHING OF HIS LIFE Rise to Heights of Fame Due to Ability to Hit the Ball BY fly BOZEMAN I. BULGER Baseball players often otten attain national fame tame In a da day One s swing win FT of or a n bat batrO frequently rO lu a city worshipping at ot the cot of or u a L player In a n few years ears the ragged urchin o of the back l ts can rise to tho the heights of or glor glory I The rise of or a 0 baseball player Ihler to tho the dazzling heights of fame tamo Is la usually lue ue to his ability to hit the ball Lall That appeals to the thC spectator more than any other feature of ot the tho game Wo ro can canay ay y what we JUn may about science but l the wallop ii Is 18 what appeals to the r r- fan tan As an Illustration of this Idea Ideo I J will attempt to give ghe tho history of the th rise of or Napoleon Lajoie onto of tho the moat spectacular figures that baseball has lias over known Whenever It camo came to a showdown i and Woonsocket ha had to wIn a D. h hurry hurry- up call was sent for apoleon Napoleon Lajoie known to er e every lad In the town as a S the cabby cabb with the wallon An And what hat that Fr Frenchman could do o a a. piece of or white ash Is a tale to this day handed down from the father t tc the son on Heroine An Au II Thus It was that tho tim prowess ol ot the lithe Frenchman got noised aboul about and ho jumped down from his perch nn da day discarded his plug hat hal Rn and I brass buttons and became a n re regular infielder on the tho Fall Pall River professional league club with a fixed salar salary of ot a month and antl a sleeping Bleeping car berth when he lie traveled at night In two weeks from the da day that the tho Woonsocket Woon Woon- socket folk saw him off on the train was setting lettIng tho the grass afire with hot line drives and was the big noise In the tho New ew England league When a- a newspaper reporter report or C came mo to Interview intervIew interview Inter inter- view him he ho actually blushed Tell mo asked ed the reporter how t U Is It it Mr Lajoie that you are able to mako make so mun many long drives What hat Is la the real secret Well Ill I'll tell you replied tho the Frenchman who has a sense of oC humor I 1 learned to make those while ing toJ a cab In While the reporter didn't relish the tho Idea of or being kidded ho had to acknowledge acknowledge ac ac- ac- ac knowledge o himself beaten In this first lire of or wit Even en after ho lie reached ranched the bl big circuIt circuit cir cir- cir cir- cult never ol lost his lovo for a atilt atilt L tilt with tho the men who made him fa a- a Soon after aCtor his arrival In fast tast I company a n metropolitan writer asked his opinion as to the tho best place to hit Jilt u a ball I Larry very ory promptly replied 1 Where tho aint t. t I j t 1 big le team came caine to Fall I niver H hirer ono cnn tilL day to play an exhibition I T game h e with tho minors Another arrival who came camo along to fee ec the fun on that I occasion was vas Arthur ATthur Irwin formerly I manager of the tho Now lew Gin Giants He Ic was cos touring tou around the brush bruah leagues looking for fOl talent Get Ct u Il Quiet Tip hi We havo have 0 a fellow v here a a. fan confided con con- faed to Irwin before tho ho game that will make mako good on nn any team an and you I ou ought ht to grab him while you ou have a n chance That line lino of ot talk was not new to smiled In a n IrwIn ln and ho hI simply knowing knowing- wa way Being a 0 scout cout for the tho Now Y York rk club ho he heard the same sarno tiring thinS everywhere he ho went In the second Inning lr ln s e eyes es of or his head as he nearly poppe popped out b bat t. t aw Faw tho budding hero walk to the tl no concern tim the kid Wu With apparently met the major league ea s curve squarely on Oil the tho nose and antl sent it whis whis- whis whistling tUng over oyer right Held field fence for a 8 homo home rU When n. n hen Fall River wont went to the field LajoIe took his place at second cc baseL base A L bl big league runner reached first on ona a a. single le Now tho the scout would have havea chance chalice to see seo what tho the Fall River I a that do tho the defensive hero could on would t tell ll th the tale Irwin knew lenew that I the next batter would bunt the tho ball so as ns to advance the runner but lut he ho wondered It If Lajoie knew It He Ito was looking for tor men who knew something as well as those who could hit lilt True to form the ball was dumped toward first The Tho first baseman came In lii for It ft and as Ir ln thought left lert tho the bag uncovered uncovered exactly exactly what the tho big bIg- Jea leaguers hn had figured on The rhe scout fell back In his lila seat and S gasped a 0 moment later Tho The Frenchman Frenchman Frenchman French French- man dashed over to first took tho the ball from tho the first baseman and in a 0 flash hind had whipped It to the tho shortstop who covered cre second and retired both runners runners runners run run- I ners In the tho fastest double play pInyon on record rec tee I ord oril Hustling to the tho telegraph office after he lie ha had talked with the Fall FaU man man- I ng Irwin wired to Now York Can get a player named Lajoie for or 1000 Ho lIo is i tho goods Answer quick The TJ-ie management at New York thought It part or of the tho same Bamo old stor story nn ant and mado no haste linsto to reply Later Lator on the tho matt matter r was forgotten Two months thereafter tho the Philadel Philadelphia phia National league club clubS had tho ho bIG bier Frenchmans Frenchman's namo signed to a contract con contract con con- t tract and he was a a. sensation from tho the start New ew York hud had lost loat tho the golden goldon opportunity to get Ket ct the greatest drawIng drawIng drawing draw- draw Ing card In the tho business Fortune In That was ton ten years ears ago ngo Today the cabman Is one of tho the most talked of baseball players In the world Ho has gotten together a a. Ud tidy for tor- tune His Ills salary solan as manager of or the tho Cleveland club of or the tho American lea league c amounts to something like 1000 for six months lIe He rl rides es In his own rl rig now In Cleveland Clevelan where he lie was mar married ned ried the great grent batter has built builL a homo of or his o own and Is looked upon as 08 ono one of the leading citizens Frequently he heIs heIs heis Is called upon to become tho the temporary sporting editor of a dally daily paper Impel for forthe tho the profits that mn may b be derived through the tho use of or his namo name He is tho the author of or a 0 book on baseball which has brought him handsome returns All of ot this came caine about through the natural ability of ot a man to hit lilt a baso- baso ball on the nose Ho Ito struck while whilo the tho Iron was hot And Antl that Is 18 how they thc all got get a 0 start Without the tho real go goods ds they thoy never novel get 0 away wa from the post |