The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-12

GRIM DEATHAl THE BAT
Rem Milford Writes of Players
Forever Struck Out.
THEY SOON PASS FROM MEMORY.
1t Is Baseball and Not the Men Who
Play 1t That Is Enshrined in the
Hearts of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Win
ter Gossip.

ter Gossip.
Grim death is always at bat Not until
the sound of the last trump is heard viii
he get his release Fleet OF foot all ball
PLAYERS may not be, but there is one slide
they must take--that final one into eter
pitv In the rayages that the reaper or
mankind has made upon the diamond re
Gently lesson is revealed. 1t is not IN in
dividuality alone that lies the secret ct
popular interest in the national sport.
Players come and players go, but the en-
thusiasts while not banishing the retired
TO utter oblivion, gladly turn to cheer new
idols. 1t is the game that has become en-
shrined in the affections of the American
| heart. The players are simply the guar
dams of national pride-the modern
gladiators who battle for the sporting
honor of the city they represent That is
the story of baseball's hold upon the people
told as concisely as words can put it, The
favo,ites of the past over whom bitter legal
squabbles have taken place are all but for
gotten. Sam Barley and Fred Dunlap
were once in as great demand as Fred
| Pfeffer and Tom Brown are today. Now
! their works are food for Renaissance.
The neurological record of 1892 promises
to cut no little figure in the affairs of the
| baseball world if the ratio of the early
| months is continued. Although still upon
! the threshold of the new year the ele-
! ments of tragedy are not wanting. George
! Kittle the Texas Lacquer, was sent to his
! grave by a siren named Hattie Tyree, who
! fired q leaden messenger of death into him
/ at Waco. That murder was cold blooded.
! From Scranton comes the tale that Mike
/ Logan, the Pennsylvania league catcher,
/ while running after some roughs who had
/ stoned him. stumbled over the edge of a
/ stone bridge on the Delaware and Lacka-
/ wanna and fell headlOng to his death into
! the gully beneath Owen f. Clark, who
played with Washington in 1889 and in
| Buffalo the following season, passed away
at Brooklyn about the same time that Ed
I die Glenn. who once played with Pittsburg,
was called ''out" forever at Richmond
| Year before last, while Glenn was playing
| in the field for Sioux City, he and 'Reddy"
! Hannahan colIided while after a fly.
Glenn suffered terribly. Two of his ribs
were broken, and the jagged bone, pene-
| trating his lung, left the wound that at
| last proved fatal. To this roster of the
| dead of the new year must be added the
name of Frank S. Flint.
| The stormy year of 1891 was also prolific
of deaths, and during that period there
were dropped from the roll of the living
such erstwhile famous players as James
| q. Fogarty, James Z. Whitney ('Grass-
hopper Jim''), Larry Corcoran. w. B.
Smalley and Ed NJ. Daley.
The record is burdened with startling
| chronicle of murder, suicide and accidental
| death. Frank Bell, the old Brooklyn
[ catcher, was shot and killed in Cincinnati
John Reeves, an umpire in the nlinois-Iowa
league, while in Respondent mood, shot
himself at Ottumwa for the love of wife
who had forgiven his faults and had
planned a reconciliation. Fred Brokaw,
| Princeton's hero, lost his life at Long
| Branch white saving girl from drowning.
John King, known in the western country,
was shot and killed during quarrel at
Las Vegas. And thus runs the world
away.
To turn to topics less grave is agreeable.
| For a time this winter it looked as If New
York was to be robbed of one of its pitch
ing jewels-.Iohn Ewing. He has had a
hot fight but has won the victory. The
Giants, however, will not have the benefit
of his good arm until the month of roses
is well under way He expects to rest and
recover his strength until June arrives
The grip which attacked him may prove q
serious handicap to New York in its first
series. Last year the Giants started OF
with the pace of pennant winners. There
was one youngster in the box who sur
prised the natives Jack Sharrott was fast
gaining a rank second only TO Amos Rusie
Then his arm mysteriously snapped ano
the Giants lost one of their main stays.
The claim is now made that Sharrott il
all right. Ii he is, Ewings illness may not
prove such a fearful misfortune provided
he can step To the front in the balmy june
DAYS and hold his own. Chicago is a bi
worried over the illness of the Big boy
Major Arson has hurried on from Mar
shalltown and taken his baby home 70,
fresh air. Captain A. c. Arson has beer
quite i'll, and he, too. has been a victim o
the grip. If he should be weakened tn
effect upon the Chicagos cannot well b
estimated.
March | the League hosts will commence
to arrive in New York and the Fifth Ave
nue. will once more swarm with magnates
The framing of new national agreemen
is one of the most important duties tina
will face the delegates The minor league
deserve to be fostered. but the original draf
sent out from Philadelphia is likely to b
materially amended.
There are half dozen very warm gentle
men who are putting on the gloves tor
little scientific sparring contest for players
: 1t is a singular coincidence that four of tn
major teams have not settled the queStiol
of the guardianship of second base. Ne'
York and Washington both count on ia
: Richardson. The League is not likely I
stultifv itself by reversing the allotmen
made at indianapolis which will make
Senator out of the Elmira boy The Giant
!; may sign John Mack-that Bisonic morris
known as "Red"-if the case goes agaln>
them. Chicago has the Michigander Pip
slated for second, but If the Louisvilles gt
| Fred Pfeffer. Jimmie Caravan Will Ekel
|. be his successor in Chicago
= The Giants. with Captain Ewing at frs
would present an entire native Cincinna
!, infield if the plan to corral Mack shout
= materialize. for Fuller and Lyons are ais
> porkopolitans While this scramble fo
. second basemen is in progress. one OF th
best little men in the land is raising chlcs
ems and collecting eggs Al Cleveland Nj
. Jonathaa SJrlcker-called CUB, on ~
/ count OF h> size-was allotted 10 =
Louis a. Jhe Browns seem 10 prefer y &C
q Crooks. the ij5sic man With the muSts1ch
D that looks like he ti}{>ine>s ead OF a hlac,
ing brush. Viii ~ tarown m the i.east
9 pool He will need uo life preserved al
II Mr. Richardson should decide "a - ini
u retirement rather thap proceed 20 Nas'
: ington and help Nr Barn!e and Nr. Tia
= rison run the government, then the us'I
!, of Stricker VIII he printed ~ that style {
!. leads TO which sporting reference has be-
!. made a. stud boss type
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