St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-10

III a Tie, the score standing l to |, when
The game was called at the end of the
seventeenth inning ON account of rain.
WORK, SENSE, ORGANIZATION.
The Secret of the Success of the
Chicago Team.
In two years the Chicago Base Ball
club has made more money from the
sale of players than its capital stock
amounts to, writes New York World
correspondent. For two years it has
gone into the struggle for the pennant
without the men who were sup
posed to give it strength, yet to
all appearances as strong as
ever. Last year, after selling Kelly,
Gore, Mccormick and Dalrymple, and
filling the gaps with unhnowns, the
team ended second and came wonder
fully near ending first. This year,
after selling Clarkson. Hoover and Sun
day, the club is again in the lead and
defeats the best of its competitors with
ease. 1t is stronger without Clarkson
and Kelly than Boston is with them.
1t is stronger with raw pitchers from
Oshkosh and unheard of catchers from
Baraboo than New York is with the
best talent money can buy. Why is it?
The Chicago club picks up an I'M
known man from the WildS of Califor-
MIA, puts him in the box against the best
batterS of the Boston club, and 10! he
shuts them all out, strikes out the oldest
and strongest among them, and wins a
game by Ii to 0. There comes an awk-
ward, stumbling country boy up to the
base. He hasn't been heard of outside
OF some Northwestern league of remote
Int hoe
him somehow or other. He picks up
the bat, and the people laugh and Won
der what he will do with it. Radbourn,
the most skillful pitcher in the league,
sends him a ball that winds around like
twisted rope, and the country boy
lifts the bat and lams the ball away over
the fence.
1t is wonderful. How does Chicago
do it? What is the reason that New
York, paying more money for base ball
than any other two cities in America,
and willing to give anything for Win
ming team, cannot do it? Some people
say that it Is ChicagO'S wonderful luck.
Some say it is merely liberal expendi-
ture of money in finding and hiring the
best young players. Some say it is An
sons genius as captain, and some that
it is Spaulding's ability as a manager.
1t is none Of these. 1t is nothing but
hard work, common sense and OrganiZa-
ton.
In the Chicago team base ball is made
matter of great and weighty business.
Elsewhere it is sport. In the Chicago
team the will of one man dominates
every player, rules him on and off the
ball field, influences him in his recrea-
ton, preScribes his diet, regulates his
coming and going and inspires his
yNrh thnrn infi
influences in club management, and the
player does pretty much as he pleases.
In the Chicago team every man must do
his best for the clubs success. Else
where men can play for their own rec
Ords. In the Chicago team there are nine
men playing as one. Elsewhere there is
team playing as nine men. In Chicago
every bad play brings certain punish
ment, and Indifference is an unpardon-
able crime. Elsewhere favorite players
can make costly errors with impunity,
and play without effort whenever they
feel that way.
That is all there is to it. In the
Chicago team the discipline is sharp,
stern, memorable, certain. No horse
play, no tomfoolery, no dissension-
grave, earnest, deliberate business.
Every morning that it does not rain, at
10 o'clock the team must present
itself for practice. No toying with
the ball nor lolling on the
benches. Hard work. Two sharp
eyes are watching every play and not
ing every error. 1t is diligent, patient
training day after day by the man who
knows more about playing ball to win
games than any other man in the bust
ness. That man is a. G. Arson.
Arson is dictator to the Chicago
team. His word is law. If any member
has any kicking to do he goes Off and
does it by himself in solitude. Cheer
full, willing obedience is the rule on the
ball grounds. A well-trained soldier
would just as soon think Of disput-
ing with his general as Chicago
player of questioning an order from
Arson. He is iraScible, the terror of
umpires, kicks out of all conscience
whenever there is ghost of a chance,
but he has the confidence and exact
obedience of every man on the team.
The team is worked hard in fielding.
Every one who has watched them at
tentively has probably noticed that
Chicago player never heSitateS for an
instant where he shall field q ball. He
thinks that all out before he gets the
ball. and when his hands are on it it
goes like lightning to the right place.
The result is that the ChicagOS make
more double plays than any other team.
Whoever has watched Arson drilling
his men will understand why this is.
He imagineS every situation that arises
in actual play, then coaches each man
in it over and over again with unwearied
patience, day after day, until he is. as
actors would say, 'dead letter perfect"
in it.
This is the daily programme from the
time the season opens until it ends. Is
it any wonder that Chicago wins with
green farm hands, and other clubs lose
with $4,000 players? Chicago people
believe Arson could take nine healthy
young men who never saw base ball
in their lives, put them under his sys-
TEN of regular habits, careful training
and daily practice. and in six months
they could beat any team in the league.