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Show I fitars of the olds day bad'a shade on the flashiest 'of today. OLTFIELDERSWERE BETTER YEARS AGO (By Sam Crane.) New YoTk. July 20. The outfield playing of today is hardly up to what It was in tho earlier days of baseball. base-ball. In the Inlleld the present day tyle Is faster, for they have more fperd boys now than formerly, and also the great advantage that goes with the fielders' glove-. But th" liHst Individual fielders of today are no better. If as good, as those of a ijuartcr of a century ngc. Ed Williamson. Jerry Denny, Jack Glasscock. Fred Pfeffer, Danny Rlch-ardhon, Rlch-ardhon, Chub Sullivan. Charley Co-mlskey, Co-mlskey, Arlle La tit am and other crack Inflelders of 23 years past vrnrc possibly superior In many ways to the , stars of today In the same positions Williamson has never been surpassed In the all around ability that goes to make a crackerjack shortstop, and neither has Jack Glasscock. "Pebby .lack," who. although he wore a No. 1 cap. was all there when It was up to him to piny baseball. Jerry Denny was the best third baseman of bis day. He was a two-handed two-handed player, and. mind you, neve-wore neve-wore a glove when ho was at his best. Either to the right or left he was just as good and his overhand "scoops" and of hot grounders were rnmous. Thre was Tommy Burns, too, who was Just aR good a third baseman as tnero is playing ball today. Johnny Evens or Eddie Collins never had anything on Trod Pfeffer or Dannie Richard or Fred Dunlap in fielding the second base position, o' In head work either, and Evers Is J considered one of the brainiest play- j t rs today and he Is. Hats Of.' to Chase. I As to first hast-men. all hats must romc nff to Hal Chase of the New York Americans. He has never been . approached In playing the initial bag. 1 I'.ut there were crea: nrst basemen in , Charley Coinlskey. who first made . first base a fielding position, "Long John" R-Illy, Al McKlnnon and "Chub' Sullivan. Dan I'.routhers, Itoger Connor and "Cap" Anson were lirsl basemen, but not great fielders. But. my, how they could wallop the ball! One does not see many batsmen bats-men ol their caliber nowadays, and the pitcher's box in the days when , thfct big trio of hitters were in their prime was tnly IT. feel away from the home plate. Now it is 55." 1 But it was In the outfield that the old timers showed the greatest superiority su-periority over tho present guardians of the outer pleasure. There are Ty Cobbs now and Chiss Speakers and Jack Wheats, but In the days 2f years ngo there were the Fred McAleera. the Curt Welchs, the Charle;y Fergu-fons, Fergu-fons, the Joe Hornungs. tho Tommy 1 McCarthys, the Hugbey Dutfys. the Sam Thompsons, the Ned Hanlons. the George Woods nnd others, who, if they didn't thro.- nut one or two ninncr al the hump plate in every game, didn't think they were earning their salaries, and they were getting just us big stipHjuls In those days as players are today. Whoever hears nowadays of outfielders pulling off Kuch shrewd tricks in the outfield as thote "heavenly twins," Tom McCarthy Mc-Carthy and Hughey Duffy, used to do right alejng. I saw McCarthy "trap" two fly balls In one game and double-up double-up runners both tlme-s. The games are faster at present than a quarter of a century ago. perhaps per-haps because there are more fast plasers. but as all around ball players In batting, fielding ami running the |