Show 01 0 I 1 1 4 4 1 1 F I 1 OF BASEBALL i 4 the tile powers of I 1 captain adrian C anson I 1 I 1 THE OLD MAN DEFIES i I 1 I 1 0 F r castor contribute contributes a column of 0 i 1 bacy racy comment on the national game I 1 surprises of the season abe ciuba clubs are unevenly Ina lanced i P T A I 1 N ANSON AINSON M tho the bis dis of baseball is not a superstition superstitious man baseball I 1 W pi players ayers as a I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 class clas believe in hoodoos voodoos hoo doos mascots mascote I 1 1 cli charms arms spells and signs with a bin sin 11 I 1 11 1 verity which it 1 I 1 otherwise fwise applied 1 1 e 11 would make them 4 N all rich but th I 1 patriarch of the I 1 I 1 national game las has I 1 e 2 just shown lia his v utter contempt for the most terrible bugaboo in ili tho the whole category ot of superstition he lie it Is playing ball with thirteen men in ills team and he lie won tb thi lr iteen tell fcc ucc ivo victories tic with those tb thirteen arten men having thus defied tho the evil powers supposed to be ho he is prepared to lly fly into the face of every other alleged baseball spook 1 I have no doubt lie passes a funeral while I 1 on liis his way to the grounds with not the least foreboding sees a lo 10 load ad of empty barrels without giving them any credit for helping liel ping him win tho the next game looks a crosa cross eyed girl squarely in the eyes aa as I 1 squarely ns the circumstance of the crosa cross will permit with no concern for the morrow and care a cigarette alg irette whether he sees the new moon over his right shoulder left shoulder or through a mulberry tre mr aft anson plays playa ball on a scientific plan and that li Is why ho be usually a ily plays it with so much success A anson Is without any question the greatest general the national game has e ever er produced not excepting harry wright this I 1 credit has been set down to his ills account BO so often that it may at first thought seem superfluous to repeat it now dow but he lie has bas just g given iven aloft r notable proof of the fact and the world never tires of praise bestowed where it is well ivell deserved there Is no one to dispute the fact that in the indianapolis deal last winter an sons club was not fairly treated when the assignment of the late association players wili made lie ile wanted and seemed to be entitled to the services of hugh duffy and charley farrell two of his old players lut but tie be got neit ner add to the loss of those two strong desirable players the defection of fer lilt his great second base imse kanand man and ha wis left wilha team lame lamentably nt ably weak ayt by t anson citver knew it time when lie was wils discouraged or with without lout assurance as wide and dep deep AS av lake michigan lie ile entered the se season asti with a whipped up team and while he was wit welding his material together ho he kept losing gamo game after game at the same thuie the chicago public refusing to profit from the many an lessins of the past figuratively showered shower etl bricks of abuse abue and missiles of decayed vegetables at al him fiant every bide the grand old man alan during it all buffered suffered in lit hallence and sawed wood with a dogged ic le termination that boded ill for hla his slandering fellows finally ho he got his team to pull with equal tension on all fill the traces and things thing up his way began to rip with a sound of execution which paralyzed the sarcastic tongues of lil iii retainers detainers deta def iners amers those thirteen victories whereby ho lie went shoving liis his triumphant way through the procession from tenth place to third turned shouts of derision into cheers of admiration one secret of ansons success in training winning baseball teams is 14 of course bis his quick recognition of a new players faults or strength but there is more than this to make up his measure a os a successful captain besides being swift B ift to gauge a players capacities he never wastes wates time in 1 trying to bung out qualities which the tile man does not possess nor will lie keep a payer pla er a day after his usefulness begins to decline such great players in their day as goldsmith corcoran flint quest peters barnes and gore were all quietly alven permission to hunt fame and fortune in lit other cities as soon as anson noted their I 1 start down the other bide of the hill lastly a pl player ayer who is rebellious or refuses to put his bear into his work cannot remain in lit ansons team een even though his abilities may bo be unquestioned just now ansons name is once more on the I 1 lips of every lover of the great national sport and tho the above homily seems to be i I 1 most apropos tho the boston club appears appear well anchored as the public favorite tor for the winner in the first champt championship division the quality of their playing rather than their uncertain lead in inho he raco race at this early date I 1 gives a public confidence in fix their ability to 4 pw the midsummer wire first yet the I 1 and Chi cagos at least will sec see to I 1 that the depre representatives of the city 0 of f cazire cr bocc te zire shall not have a canter down the indeed there may be much using of the whip before that inte interesting 9 I 1 place in to the race is readied reached the greatest surprise in the twelve club league thus far has been furnished by tho the I 1 BO so called giants glants of newyork new york gianta giants they may bo be physically but professionally I 1 they seem to be of the nature of that nation about which the celebrated traveler 1 and a n 1 l liar mr gulliver tells us in his lits book 1 I 1 the new yorka yorks certainly hae have in their team the heaviest batters of the IA league ague I 1 collectively considered cc but for some cause thet e heavy batters are not batting such men as its E wing tiernan goro coro and lyons are doing practically nothing with their ints and as the new york club never did lia bave e a it good fielding team and as its the present team Is no exception to the rule th the 0 I 1 natural result lias has been the loss of more I 1 games than victories I 1 the pitching is good and when the batters strike their guit gait and bat out their measure of runs the team will begin to move 1310 up buethe but tile jump thus far is so no great that there seems to bo be nothing possible tor for the giants in the first championship except perhaps a place should they ex amplify tho the old adage that every team reaches its average level la in baiting batting before t the season ends they should prove ft A trouble boine some combination to the clubs which have aspirations for first place in tho the second championship division the st louis fortunes and juls misfortunes fortunes have already settled the question of co s real worth to the buccey aei of the club in that uty city tho the present bt st i louis team has la in it element 3 of strength I 1 superior bu to some teams with which comia comis ley won the championship but they i how show the lack of a head moreover they I 1 1 how bow the burden of the disturbing hand of I 1 president von der ahe abe that functionary may bo be ft a shrewd baseball financier but he be i b la is no more fitted to control a baseball team I 1 I 1 than your shanghai rooster is qualified flea to I 1 chaperon a brood of young ducks what i mr von der aho ahe know about managing a baseball team would if it were prepared for publication keep a fast press I 1 running day and night for a month there has already been developed a most I 1 1 deplorable unevenness in the strength of I 1 I 1 the twelve league teams st louis louls louisville r if baltimore and washington it seems 1 14 to me will lia lie found in the end to be a class ay themselves and out of sight might as a viewed 1 tiam rpm over tho the shoulders of the leaders I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 t I 1 I 1 1 az k I 1 I 1 4 r i 1 n there c la of to course wit about ba ut go some 0 or alf 1 stronger cluba chipping in lit ft a few clinic 1 z collections e 0 I 1 cf ef strong players to these I 1 brethren but there Is al alv s some gossip occasionally of men like jay gould cornelius vanderbilt and willi n waldorf valdorf astor giving away their wealth to their frienda bi and neighbors when a successful bumball biss bue bill ball magnate maK nate contributes a player to a more unfortunate club it IV will I 1 I 1 I 1 do no h harin inn to look carefully into the affair nid and learn what it is that causes the successful ul and 01 overgenerous magnates desire to ret get that player off his salary list baseball Bi as it is carried on 01 just now is not an eleemosynary in institution tho the death of colllns collins of the brooklyn team and one of the best players in the profession from typhoid fever last week is a sad lesson it shows the cruelty of forcing ball players to play champion ship rallies games in the dangerous dau berous M weather of april while collins gave up his life by reason of exposure to wet and cold upon the ball field m many any more pla players era have at the same time laid the seeds of disease in fit their systems which will bear serious fruit in the near autu ro the 1 st of may Is birly enough to ask these young men to take up their profet slon on the diamond or to tempt spectators to expose themselves to the elements for the sale sake of cn joyin the tile sport they lov love next to their lives and frequently ly to their wives 0 P C kyron |