Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-10-04
OUTDOOR SPORTS.
SOME oLp-r,MERs.


 baseball enthusiasm, and in the ranks are men who owe their present positions in the Government service to the fact that once upon Q time they were identi- lied with professional ball playing at the Nations Capital.
 Senator Arthur P. Gornan, of Mary land, is probably the most conspicuous retired ball player in existence to-day. His salary as United States Senator is five thousand dollars per annum. In the closing days of the sixties Senator German guarded left field for the old Nationals and played first base. He was a general utility man. and could play in almost any position from pitcher to right field.
 George Fox was one of the Senator's associates on the old National team, and 1t was he who had the reputation of swinging the longest bat and being the strongest hitter in the United States For his skillfun play at third base he wSs rewarded with a position in the Treasury Department, and subsequent l ly became an inspector of customs, with headquarters at the suspension bridge | across Niagara Falls
 Another baseball colleague of Sena- tor Germans was Harry Berthong, who is now a successful artist in Boston. He makes 3 speciality of portrait painting. For several years he was an employe in the Treasury Department while playing behind the bat for the Nationals. He was the champion base-runner of his day, and his tour of the bases has never been equalled. Clerical life, however, has no charms for Berthong, and he re- signed S1, 400 position to go back to his home in Boston.
 When the Nationals made their fa- nous tour of the United States in 1867 the task of guarding first base was as- signed to ", F, Hodges, a fast-running, heavy-batting New JeEseyman. After leaving the ball field Hodges became 8 clerk in the Quartermaster-Gener office in Washington, and is still draw ing Q salary of $1,eoO per year.
 It would be like g play of Hamlet" minus the central figure. to write of the Nationals of 1867 and neglect Billy Williams, the famous pitcher, who first astonished the baseball world with his remarkably swift pitching. His only rival ia those days was Dick Mcbride, of the Philadelphia Athletics. Owing to peculiar style of delivery, Billy in- iured himself in such manner as to prevent his playing ball after 1869, and he went into the Treasury Department. He is now assistant teller in the cash room, which Is the United States bank, and his salary is placed in the Blue Book at S2,250 per annum. He is one of the best story-tellers in America, and he has an inexhaustible stock of baseball anecdotes.
 Upstairs, in the same building with Williams, is the office of the director of United States hints, the presiding gen. jus of which is Edward O. Leech, an- other famous ball player. He was pitch CT of the Olympios of Washington, and there was great rivalry between that organization and the Nationals, espe- ciallY in 1869, when excitement was at fever heat in local base ball circles. As director of the mint bureau Mir. Leech is in receipt of an annual stipend of $4,- 800, besides his travelling expenses.
 In the Olympic ranks at the same time with Pitcher Leech was the president of the National League, N. E. Young, who was shortstop and outf1elder. Nick was Q base-runner of no mean proportion, and 1t is said that he was second only to Harry Berthrong on the base lines. It is for this reason that MT. Young takes such an interest in base-running, and does so much to make that one of the conspicuous features of the game to-day. President Young draws annually from Uncle Sam's cash-box $1, 500 as clerk in the Second Auditors office of the Treas ury Department, having been appointed from the great State of New York in 1869.
 Lewis G. Martin, now Q special agent of the Treasury Department stationed at Baltimore, was for several years left
 fielder of the Olympics, and his connec- tion with that organization led to his appointment under the Government at a compensation of eight dollars per day. Lew was a heavy batsman and an active base-runner, and a model ball-player from temperance standpoint.
 Visitors to the White lot south of the Presidents house, in the early days of baseball in that vicinity, will not for get Harry Mclean, who used to 1ooh after center-held and play change catcher for the Nationals. He has .
 knack of capturing long hits close tc the ground while on dead run, and tc his agility the Nationals owe many ( victory. Life is pretty easy for Harry in these days as chief clerk of the of1ot of the supervising architect of the Treas
 ury at Q salary of $3,6o0. In addition
 to being . good ball-plAyer, Mclean en
 joys the distinction of being the bes amateur billiard-plAyer among the ball , tossers of his day.
 When the first professional ball tean made Its tour of the United States il : 1889, the star catcher of that period wal , Douglass Allison, of the Cincinnati Ret
 Stockings. A year or two lates he wa . Itempted to come to Washingt6a alonI 2 with Asa BrainRrd, Fred Waterman ; Sam Swasey. Andy Leonard, Charlie l Gould and others. Since that tim
 "Doug" has made Washington his home
 and for awhile he was employed in tn Government printing office. Now h keeps Q chair warm at the Nationa 8 Museum, watching the curiosities, fo
 which he receives seven hundred an, | A~H