, 1891-09-15
WESTERN CRACKS.
There Are Many of Them in
the Baseball World.
YOUNG AND OLD CHANGE PLACES.

PlhCcs nhNt Dttn ulltu Dy DldYeTS whose
lives of usefulness in the League and Ameri-
can association had endeve. The young
sters have fallen heir to the shoes dis
carded by old timers who, welcomed for
the sake of past good deeds, nave found
themselves In congenial company able to
hold their own. The procession to and
fro continues. League and Association
today both have men on their rolls whose
early work was done In the Western asso-
citation 1t has proved a grand training
school, and has given 100 diplomas to
graduates who now rank high in Al
company. OF the Leagues eight short
stops three came from that circuit. Her
man Long, over whom all Boston raves,
used to coach in German at Kansas City.
Little Cooney, who uses a bat as big as
himself, wore Omaha's colors before he
was captured and ~transplanted at Chicago.
Pittsburg sent a missionary to Mime
apolis only a few weeks ago and corralled
Shugart. Beckley, of the Smoky City, and
Harry Staley, of Boston. were chums once
with the st. Lou Whites. Cincinnati
discovered Bug Holiday out at Des
Moines in 1888. and aided by Charles 81.
Morton struggled him out of Iowato Pork
opolis right under the nose of Colonel John
|. Rogers agent, who coveted him for use
In Philadelphia The "Bug' did 30 well
that the Reds journeyed out the same way
MS car " = klkh ntiucT anu secured W..
f. Halligan from Omaha. McAlesr and
Tebeau, of Cleveland, are both western
products, and good ones at that. William
Hamilton, who is likely to gain the title of
champion base INT of the League his
year, was obtained from Kansas City by
the Phillies. C~hicago's box mainstay-
Hutchfnson-was another Des Moines re-
cruit, and Boston blesses the day that
Nichols emigrated to Massachusetts, from
flrxaha nl-- Ls r. -. -
serve to show what an important part the
Western association has taken In the de-
velopment Of League ball.
The Association, too, has pro1ted to no
small degree. The Washingtons of today,
with a few exceptions, is almost an exclu-
sively western aggregation. Milwaukee
gained in j.. E. Canavan one of the ''com-
ers." st. Louis has just gladly received an
invoice of talent from Minneapolis. The
coming champions at Boston accepted
Griffith, an old Milwaukee favorite. Co
lumbus folks are SO proud of Jack Crooke
that they call that ex-Omaha boy THE
King" and think he Is in the same class as
a second baseman with Richardson, Pfef-
fer and McPhee. Third base is now guard
ed for the Buckeyes by Tim O'Rourke, who
was rescued from the wreck OF the Minnies.
All these changes brought more financial
balm to the players who migrated from
the west.
The Western association has been called
upon to weather many storms, but never
such a cyclone OF Ill luck as that which
has all but wiped out the organization this
season. At the peace congress last Novem-
Der the Western was received into full fell
lowship as a party to the national agree
ment. with a membership just as dignifed
as that of the National league and the
American association. The history of the
instruction of the latter body and the
breaking up Of the little family tea party
need not be related here. Mismanagement
and treachery were two evils that encom-
passed the overthrow of a body that start
ed out joyfully, but carrying a burden in
the shape of exorbitant salary rolls that
would have wrought disaster in a circuit
so per cent. stronger.
st. Paul died first, but Duluth accepted
franchise, players and percentage. Omaha
was betrayed by its own president, but the
break there was patched up. Milwaukee's
desertion and the death of Minneapolis,
Lincoln and Duluth were events that
quickly followed one another, and today
four of the original eight LUX are pluckily
battling for the pennant and playing out a
new schedule. Over a score of players
have been thrown on the market by the
late upheaval. Denver, Sioux City, Omaha
and Kansas City harbor many who nave
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diamonds. There is a Toledo colony at
Sioux City where Ed Swartwood. Van
Dyke, Scheibeck and "Parson" Nicholson
are all enrolled. Billy Earle, whose work
on the trip around the world was a dis
tinctively brilliant feature; Will Hart,
once with the Athletic and C~incinnatis,
and Billy Traffley, another ex-Cincin-
NATHAN, are also in that team. Omaha,
crippled to a superlative degree, opened its
arms fn aDnpv Smith fha old Dittohrro
INT Boston second baseman; Mcclellan,
the fielder; Jocko Fields, a Brotherhood
catcher, and Flanagan, the veteran first
baseman, whose cognomen SLEEPY" is a
better trade mark than his given name.
Kansas City has almost an entire team
of famous vets. No less than three of
them were once with the Cincinnati Reds.
Danny Stearns, their first baseman, aided
Cincinn att in taking the first and only
championship flag ever possessed In the
Queen City. That was away back In the
infancy Of the Association, in 1882. "Hick"
Carpenter who played in the Cincinnati
League club In 1880 and began with the new
Reds, continuing in the harness in Pork
opolis during eight campaigns, is still
hailed as one of the best third basemen
in the west. Elmer Smith is the last Of
the trio, and at one time he was considered
the greatest south paw in the land Jack
nv SoftAo a. NV Aahoo Sib1o
and Captain Manning, "a globe trotter."
is in command.
The last of the neutrality-suspicious.
no less that three old Cincinnati players,
George Tebeau, Oliver Perry Beard and
Jack O'Connor. Joe Werrick, once Louis
ville's third baseman; 'Chippy'' McGarr,
who played for Boston the best third base
of any man in the League last year, and
Jack Brennan. of the Cleveland Brother
hood, are also numbered among the Noun
tain Lions.
The chameleon holds the worlds record
for lightning changes but the baseball sit
uation comes in now with a close rub for
first choice. The Bostonians have SEEM
ingly buckled down for a fierce finish and
they will fight Chicago inch by inch
to the end. New York has fallen away,
while the brilliant squirt of Philadelphia
has ended Cincinnati and Pittsburg
have made a mutual exchange of place.
They have played "see-saw" all year, and
1t would be hard 20 predict to which club
''the eight hole" will finally be bequeathed.
RRN MULFoRD. ia.
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Used one box Of Usage Pills previous to
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