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Show BEST BASE STEALER IN NATIONAL LEAGUE Max Carey of Pittsburgh Pirates Holds High Record. Buccaneer Outfielder Overshadows Frank! Frlaoh When It Comes to Pilfering Honors Has 51 Thefts to His Credit Drape a New York uniform around some guy's portly chest and let him sit and bask In the Idolatry of the Manhattan fans and the wide, wide world Is informed that he is about the last word In his chosen profession, writes Gordon Mackay In the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Inquirer. For Instance. The newspapers that cater to the highly spiced and lowly-trained lowly-trained intellects of Gotham have been raring about the Fordham Flash. Otherwise the F. F. is Frnnkle Frlsch, which make it F, F. any way you choose to write your ticket One reading the very ornate and dashing items regarding the Giants, would imagine that Francis, of Ford-ham, Ford-ham, was a dare-devil of the diamond, a Wefers of the spiked class and an Arthur Duffy, of the base lines. Well, we propone at this stage of the game to wield the hammer and knock some of this dope Into a cocked 0 ' Max Carey. cbapeaa. If yon will consult the very elaborate statistics furnished by the Sphinx of Baseball, Al Monro Ellas, you will find that Frlsch had stolen exactly 31 bases this year. That's the record of the Fordham Flash. Now let us hop the rattler end alight amid the dust the grime and the smoke of Pittsburgh, and what do we see once we have wiped the bltum- Inous from our aching eyesT We behold be-hold one Maximilian CanaMus, better known as Max Carey, as the leading base stealer of the league. He has had 51 thefts, which makes the record of the Fordham Flash look 'anemic and pallid. Carey, toe, has been In the majors for more than 10 years and his record for stealing bases has alwavs been elaborate. He gleans bo medals for his performances, but you ask any catcher 1b the National league the name ef the best base stealer and hell say Carey so quick that yon will think be never saw Frlsch. Be while Manhattan is raving over F. T. well string along with the old statistics and reveal Maximilian Can-arlns Can-arlns as the real speed boy of the National Na-tional league. |
