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Show T Many Players Show One Flash of Brilliant Form By TOMMY CLARK. Ill fFHERE Is a risk about doing the sen- BU satlonal thing In baseball. Though El It Is the proper aim of every player In the game to do the unusual and re-B re-B markable, enough deadly Instances A could be furnished of notable achlovc-H achlovc-H ment followed by oblivion to make dia-H dia-H mond workmen strive to keep out of H the limelight all the time mn A case Is furnished In Neal Ball, who HI in now in the minors Two years ago MS Ball was idolized, but ho did not last. Wy. Ho had performed tho remarkable l ' feat of making a triple ply unassisted, Jj The town turned out to do him honor. jf A medal was presented to the short- jn stop on a day set apart as "Neal Bnll II day," NowspaporB and magazines tho R owntry over printed his pictures and told tho story' of the play ' But It waa his finish. The New York j Americans let him go. Lost season the Cleveland Naps signed him, For a timo ho played well. Recently ho was i chased to the minors. i ' In the world's series of 1906 the Chl- j oago White Sox won because at timely ' stages Third Baseman Rohe, playing as a substitute for Tannehlll, lot loose two triples. Chicago hailed Rohe a3 ono of tho great men of basoball, but a year later found him playing third base on the New Orleans team in the j Southern league. Bill Harris of. Boston had the honor of pitching twenty-four Innings, the I longest contest in tho history of base- i ball, in the memorable gamo In which Jack Coombs beat Boston In 1906. Bill looked like another phenom to take the place of Dlneen, whom he somewhat resembled In appearanco and movements, move-ments, but the twenty-four inning game was the last Important piece of work to the credit of Harris, and ho shot back to the minors tho next year. "Babe" Adams climbed the very summit sum-mit of baseball fame when ho took three games fi;om Dotrolt in 1900 and won the world's championship for the Plraten. But "Babe" has not done any-Ejt any-Ejt thing wonderful since. He twirls fair- Bl ly good ball, but It would not be sur- VI prising to sco Pittsburgh part with Rid him any time. nj Covalcskl was another man who had If a great fall. The big Pole, who had f been signed by the Phillies In 1907, only Plkjgd a samo or two and was sent tUml Lancaster to get a little more JjBco. Ho came to the PhlHlcs Hu of the year whllo New York jHkg terrific battle for the Reague pennant. Tho largo H5f games tho Phillies had to jHRno Giants in the closing days of VKeason put them in a position to Bpde whether or not the ponnnnt tmould go to New York, After Corri- . don and McQuillan had mysteriously i failed to show their usual effectiveness jjg acalnxt Now York Covaleakl was tried on a chance. Ho pitched amazing ball and beat the Giants three times In a scries, thereby putting them out of the n race. He Is now In the minors. QNE of the factorB which give Wal-lex Wal-lex Johnson. Washington's great Pltch.cr. his groat effectiveness Is hls cross Arc delivery. While Johnson's almcut unparallolcd speed would make him a wonderful pitcher, though he did not possess another attribute except AtUtrAl. it Id the manner In which he crafche ball across tho plate that FrAK him moro to ba dreaded by the feajtora. It has often been wondered f " - - zl why Jnckson and Cobb, two left hand hitters who scarcely eer hit at a ball not oer, are continually swinging at balls both Inside and outsldo of the plate straight balls, too, with not a semblance of a curve on them. The reason has been mentioned. The cross flro which Johnson uses sends the ball across the plate at such a varying angle It is impossible to Judge It accurately ac-curately all the time. Johnson stands on the extreme right end of the pitcher's pitch-er's olab whllo pitching and when ho TV . V Pnoto by American Press Assoclfltlon. WALTER JOHNSON. winds up takes a step toward the third baso line and with his exceptionally long arm swings tho ball toward tho plate, not directly, no most pitchers do, but at an angle which Is very deceptive decep-tive to tho man at bat, Johnson varies the anglo and at times cuts the ball looso two or three times in succession so that it will go three or four Inches insldo of the plate from a wldo anglo and yet cause the batter to think that It Is coming over. Consequently he takes a -swing at It and realizes his mistake after he haH nils Bed. Then Johnson will shoot fast one directly toward tho outside corner of tho plate, with the result that tho batter takes another Ineffectual Ineffec-tual swing at It, It being almost Impossible Impos-sible for him to gauge where tho ball Is going to cross the plate In front of him. VA7HEN o. ball team reaches that stage where Its only Interest lies in the sharing of tho world's series receipts It becomes a hard task for tho man In charge to keep up its spirit When players havo had a couple of thousand dollars handed them nftir tho season is over they lose Intoiest as soon as they see this prize slipping away from them. They reallro that they aie drawing draw-ing as big salaries as It Is possible for them to get, and thero remains no incentive in-centive for them to hustle It Is this condition which Is said to be responsiblo for the rather disappointing disap-pointing showing which tho Athletics have made this season. There are too many players on Connlo Mack's tcim who possess automobiles and other forms of amusement, while the playing of games Is considered more of an annoyance an-noyance than the pleasure It used to be. TLLLY M'CARNEY has a number of good stories on tap concerning his now white hope. Luther McCarty. One of them Refers to his first ring battle, McCarty."" although only twenty-one years old, ha3 traveled the world over. He walked Into Springfield, Mo,, less than a year ago and found a town bully named Cox was beating overy one at a local athletic club that could be dug up. Approaching McCarney, Luther asked him to get him a bout with Cox. On tho night of the battle the announcer an-nouncer climbed Into tho ring and addressed ad-dressed the audience thusly: "Gentlemen. I don't know anything abou this guy McCarty, but If it's a bum bout wo will refund your money" McCarney went to McCarty's dressing dress-ing room and found him whistling 'Alexander's Ragtlmo Band." He Informed In-formed Luther of the announcement. Winking at Billy, Luther asked. "Do you want me to kill him In the first round?" "Win as quickly as you can. Luther," replied BI1L Luther did. Ho knocked Cox out In tho first round Then there was a rloL Somo ono claimed Luther was a ringer and none other than Tony Ross. After a freo for all battle Luther put several more away and succeeded In convincing convinc-ing the management ho was the only and original Luther McCarty and collected col-lected his coin. |