Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-04-26

used to break me up. But ! soon learned
20 know him"
beneath his roughuess Jack h . good
fellow, and can give some OF his detractors
roipts ON msnliness lie In good friend
and bitter enemy have seen him when
hc appeared 10 be In bad temper, when
knew he was just the reverse. When Jack
was made the velvet was left OF. Hence
he cannot gild his words like some other
men, whose hearts could not be seen II
placed alongside Of his.
Giasscock Is the most enthusiastic base
ball player ever knew. His peculiar tenn
permanent hides much Of II. He is the ball
PLAYER aud nothing else when on the field.
lie is tricky--all great ball players are-to
the verge OF unfairness, and his anxiety to
win, as Il the case with Ewing, Kelly, An
son, Ward and others, often leads him be-
yond III he seldom lets a point escape him;
he has very little use for what he calls
'smiIdncss' in baseball; he believes In win
ming fairly II you can, unfairly II you must
and can get away with the umpire, but win,
no matter how; a hard man to manage, and
yet a good man TO manage Others; driver
always, and seldom persuader; during
game lost TO nll but the thought Of win
ming and the methods for doing 30. Such
Is John Glasscock on the field. Away from
not always agreeable, but on the whole an
every day, decent sort OF fellow. gentleman
ly and fairly entertaining.
Glasscock Is resident Of Wheeling, w.
Va, having lived In that city since young
man. He Is now about "a years Of age
As u ball player he came into prominence
when playing short stop and second base
for the famous gilt edged" Cleveland
team In the years 1881 and 1882. Previous
TO this he played with numerous minor or
ganizations, none Of which were OF any
prominence. With the Cleveland team he
was Immediately recognized as superior
fielder in the above positions, and 1t was
here that he gained the title Of King OF
Short Stops" His famous jump from the
Cleveland team to the Cincinnati Unions Is
still fresh In the minds Of baseball cranks
With the Cincinnatis he played only for
few months, being transferred from that
club to Henry v. Lucas famous aggrega-
ton in st. Louis. This club was known rs
the Maroons, and under this name, in 1885,
was taken into the League.
In 1886 Glasscock was transferred to In
dianapolis, where he has since remained.
Last season during the closing months he
was manager Of the Hoosiers and got bet
ter work out OF them than any one had
ever been able to do previously He now
captain and short stop for the New York
League team.
Glasscock's punishment for his Cleveland
Jump was "A fine of 81 600 and the necessity
of playing for tail enders ever since at
less salary than other men not half his
equal were earning elsewhere. Surely he
expiated that offense, which has always
been the regret OF his life. Glasscock Is
not ungrateful. He knew ho was wrong
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ed him with great leniency. He hesitated
when the Players league scheme was pre-
sented to him. Finally he decided to re-
main with the League
Glasscock and the Players league men
differ materially in their stories Of his re-
lation with the Brotherhood. Ward and
others contradict him. They say he lies,
and Glasscock returns the compliment.
Among batsmen he stands foremost. He
has always been well up in the averages,
and generally stood quite as well from u
utility and reliability standpoint, In 1856
he stood sixth with 1926. In 1887, the year
when "ghost hits" were in vogue, he stood
twenty ninth, but in actual base hits he
was up near the top. He was twenty-sixth
in 1883 and second in 1889 with 1863, having
made the largest number of hits, 2O9, made
by nny player for many years; and finally,
ulasScOck, during MS eleven seiisons Vi
League service, has played 1,OS6 games,
been 4, 4,43l times at bat, made ,29S base hits,
has grand average Of .270 and stands six
teenth among the League veterans.
Glasscock's attitude at the bat is charac-
teristic of the intensity with which he plays
ball He stands in slightly crouching
attitude, so much SO that he appears round
shouldered; he favors his left foot some
thing as IA horse does who has a SPAWN
under his hoof, and he swings his stick
clear of his body with sort of menace that
makes pitcher hate to give him ball that
he can hit. When no hits it square the ball
goes to the field like u shot, and the man
who gets in front of it is often ''sorry for
what he has done" Glasscock, with his
heart in his work as it was last year, as it Is
this year, ranks with Anson, Ewing, Brou-
thers, Kelly, Ticrnan, II. Richardson and
Connor as giant with the stick. He is n
more scientific hitter than any barring An
son and Ewing, and fully the equal Of
either. His worst enemies admit that as a
ball player he is king. In my estimation
he is the equal if not the superior of any in
the land. w. !. HARRIS.