The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-31

| come VINO nave dropped On the Dl2
mond-High Salaries and Good worl
Don't Always Go Together-Bradiey't
Expansive Smirk and Radbourne'.
Scowl.
There are good many famous old ha:
beens among those on the retired list tai.
season. Dickey Johnston, Mike Slattery
Charley Radbourne, Bob Clark, Loui:
Rogers Browning and Long John Reilly
are few Of the ball playing corps who arf
not on the pay rolls Of the major league
and a majority of them have failed to az
| filiate with the powers that control the
destinies Of the little fellows in the game
AS the campaign wears on this list will bt
| increased rather than decreased. Wash,
ington has given one veteran of the old linf
a passport into the ranks of the talent al
| liberty-George Wood. In this array arr
men who have marched to pennaDt music
| in more than one championship race.
Father Time has chalked the hats OF some
Of them, and they have bowed to the inev-
! liable and given way to more active play
ers. If the opening games of the clubs in
| the Western league can be taken as any
| criterion, the cities in that circuit are
OOuA4O W SIC SOA4S Vel " tdOlG Dd1l ere Tie
| leaves begin to turn. When the Western
| adopted the deadline in the game and es-
| tablishe1 salary limit, there were doubt
ing Thomases who predicted that there
would not be enough players in the bust
ness to fill the quota Of ninety-six at the
shrunken fgures-ccmpared of course TO
| those that obtained when good business
sense was a small ingredient in the make
up Of minor magnate. The false prophets
have gone out of the profession.
Bob Clark, who helped win flag for
Atlanta in the Southern league and later
on aided Brooklyn in its bunting win
nings in 1889 and 1890, dropped into the
press quarters at Cincinnati during the
recent series with the westerners from the
Buckeye State capital He could have
found a refuge in that class had he been
on the lookout for berth.
Il was fooled" said he, 'for l didn't
think the clubs would all I'LL with the cut
rate in salaries. When you come TO think
about it Columbus cannot afford to pay
any more than that team COSTS Column
bus with its 81 200 team under Captain
Campau made Captain Comiskey's S6, 600
beauties stir their stumps to beat them in
both contests that took place in Porkopo-
lis. II would be absurd to claim that Gin
cinnati played five times better ball than
their opponents. If the article of ball
could be measured by the size of the roll
disbursed at the captains Office on the 1st
and 18th Of each month such a difference
might confidently be expected. Salaries,
however, cut no figure in the case The
cheapest salaried team Cincinnati ever lad
won the only championship bunting that
ever foated in the Mill Greek valley
breezes and split even with Chicago in q
series before the birth of the worlds cham
piOnship idea.
Last year the highest salaried group of
players who had worn the red managed to
boost poor old Pittsburg into last place,
after they had occupied it all season. There
will have to be some very clever ball play
ing done to keep Columbus from a success
full Irritation with Miss Victory when the
time comes for her to smile upon the
favored one in the west. In Clausen and
Stevens the Buckeyes have pair of pitch
ers it will do to watch. There are some
who sincerely mourn over one phase of the
recent lottery, and in the little coterie of
the sorrowful is Charles II. Cushman. the
chief OF the Brewers. He had his mana
gerial hooks well fastened upon both Clau-
sen and Hughey, and neither of them was
in his net after he had pulled it out of the
Chicago fish pond.
ut was tough luck to lose both of
them,' said he to me. Columbus got
Clausen and Kansas City has Hughey.
They will both make their mark in the
Western"
Gossiping about the situation in that
circuit he said: Il think Milwaukee has
got the baldest man in the business. The
first time | met the boys saw one in the
group with a conk that would have wor-
ried a nearsighted billiardist Come to
fiDd out he was one of my young blood
pitchers Henry Jones. Pop Corkhill and
little Jack Munyan could act as under
studies for Paderewski compared to my
fndr'
Another one of the ''outs" this year is
Ferd Schmitt, the pitcher with Father
land accent. Schmitt was as queer gen
Jus as ever twirled a ball. He used TO
keep books" between innings. While his
team was at bat he spent his time entering
the weaknesses of the opposing batsmen
on little memorandum slip. Schmitt is
in Pittsburg doing some long distance
knocking at the doors of minor clubs.
Il got the bookkeeper' berth once"
declared Manager Cushman. ''He wrote
TO me for a place with the Milwaukees,
but had no room. l turned his letter
over to Manager Watkins. however, with
the recommendation, 'Watty, here is
man who ought TO do you some good
Well. sir, the next afternoon Schmitt ap-
peared in the box for St. Paul. and he beat
US to ? He was tickled TO death. and as
hn rlT off rba fold ka Sbnr,-.I 70,
Mr.. Gushman, dot vos gradiduder"
One of Cushman's old twirlers-Thcrn.
with the Phillies, where he has
earned the new title of the The Mysterious
Bowman" One day he is ''invincsble,"
and the next afternoon he is as easy TO hit
as a settler lemonade with the mercury n
20 dogs. Fair. Both Thornton and Elton
are pitchers, declared Mr..
Cushman. likely 10 impress crowd with
the idea that they are indifferent. They
chat the batters and smile all through the
game. I've seen Thornton's smile on the !
field change to a stormy scowl after s de-
feat as soon as the clubhouse was reached. /
In that mood he grows mad enough 70
fight. That is behind the scenes. The F,
crowd that has gone out sore gains the idea I
that he doesn't care a rap This example /
proves that there are cases Of 'Oh-what-a-
ifference-in-the-clubho
The reference 10 the smilers Of the box
stirs up memories of the old DAYS when
George Washington Bradley had a grin
hat needed no protection by copyright. !
No one before ever had such a tantalizipg
,mirk. and none Of the modern detachment /.
las given evidence that they can success !
'ully initiate ii, That diminutive speci- i