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Show GLORY IS FLEET ON BALL DIAMOND Net a Member of 1921 Champion Giants Remains. nusebull glory passee rupldly. Fans see Id the Yankees one of the great eat pennant-winning aggregations ever presented on the dluinond, but they don't stop to think thut of the team tliut won the Yankees' first pennant In 1021, only three men remain Iluth, Meusel and HoyL Gone are all the others. You may retail that the Yankees won the first two gumus of the ID'Jl series and then lost five of the nest Nil pimcs to a team thut would not he denied the New York Wants. That performance ranked the Slants us even greuter than the Yanks, but now the glory of these 19U1 (Slants has t-'one with the snows of yesteryear, writes Ed Hang In the Cleveland New?. Today not a single Giant of WJ1 continues In a Mcdraw uniform. Krlsch, lliineroft, Karl Smith and Art Nehf are still lu the National leugue, but they ure ugalnnt and not for the Giants. The pennants of NCI) were won by Cleveland und Brooklyn. Today only four of those Cleveland Indians continue con-tinue on Cleveland's pay roll Horns, Joe Sowell, Jninleson and Utile. More sweeping still are the changes that have taken place In Brooklyn. Look over Uncle Hobble's pay roll and you will tlud not a single player who helped Brooklyn to Its pennant of eight years ago. Washington lias today only nine of the twenty-one players who participated partici-pated In the world series of 1U-4 and Pittsburgh retains but seven of the eighteen men who took part In the series of I'.rjft three years ago. The survivors are Grantham, Traynor, Wright, Barnhart, Smith, Meadows and Kreiner. Evidently big league managers are convinced that the way to win pennants pen-nants Is to provide a steady Infusion of new blood. This new blood cods a lot of money and more often It falls than succeeds, but bnsebull is a business busi-ness now and the crowds evidently tire of old faces In the same old uniforms. uni-forms. Things were different In the pioneer days. From 1880 to 1880 Inclusive, Anson's Chkogoes won five pennants In seven years, and In that period Anse had practically the same team. In 1880 his lineup reud this wuy: Anson, first base; Quest, second base; Williamson, third base; Hums, short-ftop; short-ftop; Uulrytnple and Gore, outllelders; Kelly nnd Fliut, catchers and outlield- ers; Corcoran und Goldsmith, pitchers. In 1880, Pfeffer hud replaced Quest at second base. Jimmy Ityun und Billy Sunday lyul been udded us outllelders. while Flint und Kelly devoted themselves them-selves to catching exclusively. Clark-son Clark-son und McCormlek were doing the pitching. Thus In seven years, three men hud retired and five new men had been added. Moreover, Anson's entire pay roll cost a great deal le? per year than Is now paid Babe Ruth Individually. Yet when It . Is all said und done, Anson's team did as much In its time ns the Yankees have done In later years. 1. e.. won five pennants In seven years |