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Show BASE BALL MATTEKS. CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES OF THE GAME. Tha Collra-o Man In I'rorra.lonal lull. fleorga mm.ra li,)a Tliy Airni llrttrr Than llraitaatra of !! "Common" "Com-mon" t ullln. Hi. Iil.al ( aoluln. A (Jl IHt MIX I I'. With Iuik ami Moniii on flmt and second, a prelty mix-up resulted In Hie hase-riinnlUK ImikIihkh. Morn II vision must have liven temporarily linpalied, n lie started to run I.onn off sei ond. and got too fur atonic to turn buck In safety, ('atelier Warner had 111 ' bull, and Inimeilliitely went rhimliiK Morau, who stopped short half way to second. After finally closing in on Mornn. l.onx was on third liefnie the (Unlit could stop him. 1 u rl ii k all this time the home plate was left without a iiuardlan and when renched third there was nothing to prevent him from scoring; scor-ing; but the l in -eyed Van Hiiltren, who was In tho party that gathered around erond, spied tho opportunity and hastened to the plnte. While the players: were trying to regain their bearings, lmg attempted to lake advantage ad-vantage of Taylor, tho deaf mute, by stealing homo when the latter, with back turned, waa walking bark to his box. Taylor's baseball sense told him something was hapiirnlng, and he turned turn-ed around In time to rateh easily the ambitious llostniilnn. Iloston l'oat. FAVOHH l OI.I.IXlK I'l.AVKIIH. Tbero aeems to be more college players play-ers entering profcalonal baaelmll every ev-ery year, and my limited experience In the buslnras has convlured mo thnt the game offers many excellent opportunities oppor-tunities to a young man, provided be can make good, wrltea Oeorge Winters of the Iloston American Lentigo club. Moreover, I believe that there la much bettor chnnco for a college playor to make good than la timially thought. Th wonderful Christy Mntthowson la perhaps the best example of tho successful suc-cessful college pitcher In profemlonul baseball. Ills ability makes him an exception to the general rule, of course, and few of us can hope to equal his phenomenal record. Plunk of the Philadelphia Phil-adelphia American League tenm. a college col-lege nuilo of mine, Is another example. While these and others are exceptional excep-tional stars and through their ability aro bound to arhlcvu unusual auccesa. I bellevo hard work and roiwtant appll-I appll-I cation will enable many with less ' genius tn at least make good. In my own case, I know that I owe more to the excellent support of my tenm mates and tho wonderful coaching coach-ing of Jimmy Collins than to any ability abil-ity of my own. Collins Is an Ideal captain, and, wltb him oa a aide partner part-ner any pltchor la bound to do his best. In close gunio or a bad inning his coaching has been of wonderful assistance assist-ance to me. It la this that shows the vital difference differ-ence between amateur and professional ball. When pitching In col lego I usually usual-ly tried to "fool" the batsmen, and It ran be done, but In the league It Is dif ferent. Yon ran" fool,the old timers, and It has been my experience thnt In the league It Is better to Just keep pegging at It, putting them "over the cornera" and depend on your support. Control seems to be the grontent asset a pltrbei can have, and If he has that, follows the coachliiK of his catcher and captain a good team behind hi in will often "ti the rest." In college I always trained enrefu'ly during the' season, and I believe In i5t. lug the same thing now. In Iiii.hcI;, aa In everything clue, one must be n good condition to do Justice, mill I try to keep In trim all the year rouM Many contend that tho temptations which a young mini meets on tho road are dangerous and provided one' ha tilts ti-lts are well formed, that la undoubtedly undoubt-edly true. If one keeps In training, howevei, and spends bis leisure In trying to get GI'XiKUK WINTKI18. the boRt results out of bis travel. I believe be-lieve professional baseball will prove n benefit to Bny young man who enjoys the sport of active competition. For myself, I enjoy a game of luuehull mm the Rnme way that 1 did when I first played It In grumnuir school. While playing I undoubtedly keep myself In better phvslrnl rndltloii than I v. in. hi In buslncHs, und I am (Irmly convinced that m few seasons on the diamond will prova beneficial to me or to any other jro"iog mau In my position. BONANZA KIK A WINNKH. It la a Bhame that some moneyed man doesn't see what a bonanza there Is In a winning team here In Washington, Washing-ton, writes "M. C." to Kportlug News. I really believe the season through it Is the best city In the lengue. The people here are lietter paid than ar I v like rlaiees In any other city In tha circuit ,and moat of them ean attend without losing any time from tbelr, employment. The same people would go to every game the season through. Some make that a practice even now.1 and with a winning team the nuinlnr could be multiplied by a good flgurii This la no pipe dream, but It Is a fad( that la patent to all conversant with mo baaelmll altilatlon here. How long I oh. how long must we wait for tin j winners?" It Is possible we may get! litem next year, and they may come, ling and bngKnge. from Brooklyn. Han- I Ion snyri It Is rooll.ih lo talk such j stuff. Wi II. perhaps II Is. As things stand now, one of two thlnus Is pretty certain to hnppn. and this you may charge to my account: Kit her the lioitgets will have llrooklyn or the' Olnnta will quit the National I .can lie A blind man ran easily guess which horn of this dliemma a majority of the magnates would choose; and. with the Kodgera leaving llrooklyn, where will they find a better beith than here In Washington? A t l.KVKH MTTHII1 ltd TVtlltl.Klt. Pittsburg's splendid corps of pitch-era pitch-era lias contributed much toward placing plac-ing that tenm In the commanding P- JOHN D. CHKSlinO. sltlon which It now occupies in the National league race. One of tbs youngsters who has pitched the Pirates to victory on many occasions Is John I. Cheshro, a North Adams (Mass.) boy, cheshro Is 25 years old and learned learn-ed the game nt his home In North Adams. Ad-ams. He first played ball professionally profession-ally with the BpilnituVId club In tho Kuatcrn lengue In IK'.i'i. Ho vaa with the Koanoke team In the Virginia lengue In IhWI. Later he waa with the Itlchmond club, which resigned 1U membership from the Virginia league and In 18D7 joined the Atlantic learuo. He remained with lllclimnud dut.rg 197. 1898 and part of 1899, when the the Pittsburg club purchased him, and he haa since remained with that team. He did well from the start in league company and bus steadily Improved In his work. Hla twirling this season baa been of the gilt-edged ordor. A VCTKIl.tXH TALK. John C Chapman, the veteran maoa. ger, wrltea aa follows: "The Donovans come and go In the base bull buil-neaa buil-neaa and while thrre are to good 'tins' In the National league at present in Hill and Pat. there la one playing In the New York State League who la coming very fast. He has few equals aa an outfielder In any of tho minor leugutw, and hla hitting la far better than many of Uumc now playing In tht major leaguea and he Is a good base runner. Ho was brought out by tits lute Tommy Calilll, when he managed the Troy Knstorn League club. He captained cap-tained the Merlden club, of the Connecticut Con-necticut Htate l'ugue, In 1NU7, when they won the pennuut and besides playing play-ing outfield lie won 19 out of tho 21 guinea he pitched. Ho haa been knocked about the past few seasons li the minor leagues, but ulways kept bit end up. I coimlder blin good enottgl fur fuster company, and where lit would undoubtedly do still better work If bandied by a competent manager." IIIAMONII I1I.INTM. Kniinet Heldrlch, the grent Ht. Louis flelder, reconsidered tils deelalon to quit the game. He returned to hla old team Monday and made four bit. Chicago seems to have the Inside track of Iloston In tho light for the American league championship. The White Kox have three good pltchora to rely upon (Irllllth, Callahan and Patterson Patter-son while the lleiinltes have been one stnr twlrler the veteran "Cy" Young. There aro many bacball fans wbo would be pleas (I mightily to see the Phillies capture the National leagus penuutit. Hlnco Jennings' advent to the team they have taken a tremendous tremen-dous spurt, and It la within the pale of possibility that they will win at the post. liiiHehall has been ollii-lully recognized recog-nized and Indorsed by th French government, gov-ernment, and la to be hiado a part of the schoolboy's education In France. This la evidenced by the eugiigemunt as Instructors of Albert Hopkins of Italtlmorn und Harry Alexuuder of New York, by M. I yques, minister of public Instruction. It will ho tho duty of the Americans to teach bnseball to young Frenchmen. Hoy Patterson, of the Chicago American Am-erican League team, innilo tho best pitching record one day recently that has ever been credited to a profesnional slabman. Detroit made two hits off of him, and these, two men were the only onus to reach llrst basu during the game. In nil tho no lilt games previously pre-viously pitched occasional liases on balls or errors by the winning club have allowed from three to six bast runners to touch first, and Patterson's record of two must stand as absolutely unrivaled. |