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Show VbI Many Lawyers Among Stars Of The 1?? f &J Game Who Are Now Tossing Black- ifj ! Oh, the jingle of the tingle, Sets our baseball nerves a-tingle As it zipB beyond the shortstop And scoots on towards the seats. Where the hooting and the tooting Shows the whole sun bunch is rooting, root-ing, And we'd rather be there daily Than be seated at our eats! Oh, it's clannish to he fannish And our blue thoughts all do vanish As that single clips the daisies And sends m the run that wins; For it's winner, not big dinners. That are craved by baseball sinners And we sacrifice our suppers For a face of happy grins! C. J. McS. The certain thing about baseball which makes it so successful a sport is its uncertainties, which is not an Irish bull, at all. at all. Forever there are turning up all kinds of new plays which prove this, and aB Charlie Comiskey said back iu the early eighties when he was captain and first Backer of the Von der Ahe Browns: "The game isn't over until the last man is out in tho last inning " Even when the sporting editors are hard put to it to tupply the hungry hun-gry fans with fanfest fodder, there are funny things turning up. Take an observant glance around you right now and see what you can see. There are ball players who have become so permeated wilh law ever since the Federal League took their troubles into court that they are preparing to go into the legal game at the close of this baseball season instead of taking to the va- rlety stage as hitherto they did. And whj should not the hardy 6on of the base bit lake to law? Hughie Jennings, the grass-eating chief of the Detroit Tigers, Davey Fultz. chief of the ball play ers' union, and Harry Sullivan, former pitcher of the St Louis Cardinarls, arc lawyers. law-yers. If they can put a few bingles ov r on a learned judge and make the jury bobble a couple of complicated twisters they are as entitled to the money for It as If they were slamming slam-ming homers up against the center-field center-field fence or spearing liners out of the sky nine feet over their heads, The baseball player is a versatile genius in that he can align himself with any sort of industry, calling or following and make a living at it, save digging Bewers and carrying hods. They have been making good on the stage for years. Arlle Latham and Adrian C. Anson began the theatrical the-atrical trick more than twenty years ago, and ever since all conditions of tosBers have been climbing back of the footlights to knock out several sev-eral hundred dollars a week chewing chew-ing scenery and falling down on their cues. Many of the diamond heroes are writers of some ability and one, Dc-maree. Dc-maree. the popular pitcher of the' New York Giants, is a very clever cartoonist. He not only draws a juicy Balary. the ire of the umpires and the goat of the opposing batsmen, bats-men, bul also draws a series of pictures pic-tures iu the winter which he syndicates syndi-cates to newspapers and draws down several more hundreds of dollars dol-lars therefor. AD THBH C0XE8 VAUDEVILLE. Stage stars arc said to be the most egotistical class of public characters charac-ters on earth, but they haven't a a great deal on prize fighters and ball players. One Is as likely to get a swelled head over a lusty lunge to another man's jaw or a weighty wallop to the fence as is the matinee idol to crack a few more hearts when he poses under the calcium. Fighters love to have a mob follow fol-low them around, be it in a barroom, bar-room, hotel or on the street. Baseball Base-ball men would not play uuk-ss there was a crowd to look on. They do not figure, either, that the crowd is there to see the game, but to see just them, particularly if the day before they had a big day at bat and in the field. But then again this may be as much pride as enlarged cranium, for even friend wife will crow about the biscuits she made and has hot for us If we only get home early enough from the thirteen-inning game to enjoy the biscuits. Spring training for baseball clubs has got so that world trips are mere Jaunts. The St. Louis Federals this season got a great at j i t at conditioning condition-ing by going to salubrious Cuba If heavenly Havana they began on the jump to play at top speed bei the air there at this time ot year la tho same as it is in St Louis or the rest of the big league circuits In July. Tho Chicago White Sox again went to California, where the have been going for the last several years These far-away trips prove most exhilarating ex-hilarating to the men and as it osta them nothing herein is seen one of the reasons why . so many boys yearn to became ball players. In the old days there were no junketing trips to Texas, Florida, the Bermudas and Cuba. The old-timers old-timers had to show up in trim 01 not play, and of course they showi d about half-way in shape, which is bad for the tosser and bad for hia boss With American teams going OUl of the country to tiaiu it would not be surprising when the war is over to see soccer and rugby teams from merrle England come over here to get in condition for the long season at home. NOTES or TH 1 SPORT. Sunday baseball is a coming thing fr all pails of these generous United Unit-ed States. While there are amateur games played q and around New York, they do not permit professional profession-al games, which is not just to the working man who does not get his half holiday Saturday as do the bankers, clerks aud so on in commercial com-mercial houeo". Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N Y.. has a great, magnificent parade ground which is wasted on Sunday-There Sunday-There are no bouses near enough to endanger windows from long drives or wild fouls, yet this beautiful sweep of green turf, numbering about twenty full Bized diamonds, is closed to the amateurs on the sabbath sab-bath Man of the giuat old-timers of the game were graduated from teams which played on the Prospect Park grounds, some of whom are jacklitsch, the catcher, "Adonis' Bill Terry, who died a few weeks ago, "Brooklyn Tommy" Sullivan, who also is a boxer. Dave Orr. George TMmckney. Dr. Jimmy Casey. Jake Daubertj "Silent John" Hum- mel and many more. Ith referees In the prize ring appearing ap-pearing in full evening dress It will r i i be surprising if the umpires in !hc big baseball leagues strut forth in Palm Beach rigs this up-to-date season. What would be neater than to sec the lithe and blithesome Imp dancing danc-ing about In a cool and breezy linen lin-en suit, the Palm Beach which be- ame such an instant favorite last ear? Of course we. as the paying public, pub-lic, pay all these big salaries the ball tossers go to court to get and the great bulging purses which the white and smoked prise fighters jump around the land to corral, but really wc don't care who gets the money if he or they give us some sort of run for it. Everybody admires a winner, no matter even if he is a crook. The bigger the haul the big crook makes from a bank or in a hold-up. we Americans are incliucd to give nun credit for it because he got "big cush." That's why we don't care how much Ty Cobb or Trls Speaker or Hans Wagner or Walter Johnson get for their two-hours a day bit of n n They give us what we pav those great salaries to see. To be sure, you or I may make only our little 116 a week, but we squeal like Utile good fellows when we get "out there" of a sunny day and pay our two, four or six bit3 lo see those bloated Doddle Orabbors get it at the gate. Oh, wc all love a winner. Being a winner, of course, entitles the tltleholdcivto grab all he can while the grabbing is good. The Hebrew in the fighting gams has got all our really truly Yankee scrappers backed out of the ropes. He knows how to get the best end of the purse, he knows how to keep from losing a championship once S he acquires it and, best of all. he U knows how lo adopt an Irish name A and please the public, which insists that the best fighters must have Seventeenth of Ireland labels. . The encroachment of the jitney auto car in all parts of the country is keeping pace with the inroads amateur baseball is making into the business of the reserved seat grounds With three league teams in several of the larger cities it does seem that the owners really ought to cut the bleacher price to at lca.st fifteen cents to the school kiddies: but wc have not yet heard of them doing this The theaters long ago found out that the gallery filled at ten and fif- jfji teen cents was making more money j than the gallery a third full at twenty-five cents. The baseball men should wake up and see the moral of this. They very evidently are not taking tak-ing seriously the advance of the amateur am-ateur game in the public and open parks of St. Louis, Cleveland and Chicago, where tens of thousands see the games every Sunday, whilo there are acres and acres of empty seals in the bleacher sections of I the big league grounds. As What's the moral here? Cut the Ofi prices, give free score cards ami y rain checks which will admit uny 'imp in the season after the postponement post-ponement of a game by a shower. |