The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-10-27
THE COLOR LINE AGAIN.
Trcadway's Case Caused Some
thing Of a Sensation.
THE MUTE M!LTONS or BASEBALL

No Opportunity to DO SO.
Some people talk as if they thought good |
baseball players grow Oh trees or can be
chased out of the bushes like rabbits. That
II a great mistake. Good baseball players. |
like good poets, are born, not made, and
born at long Intervals too. Perhaps n lack
of opportunity smothers many Ewings,
AnsOns, DuiIys, Rusirs, IIamiltOns aud
Pfci1crs. Could some modern Poet Gray
visit country churChyard and let his muse
out TO the length of the tethcr, he might be-
constrained to tell how these unknown
baseball stars died and We're buried with
out u chance TO develop their latent gifts.
Tho applause Of yelling rootcrs 70 command,
The threats Of fines BY urIpirrs to dCspi.r.
To scatter home runs o'cr Il grassy land
And read their greatness ia their best ejrl's
eyes.
MIA constrained TO indulge in the above
hOml!y hy the apparent failure of the many
managers in the National league TO secure
SAT- factory material among the rising
young players with which to patch up nu.
strengthen their Weakening mines. Comis-
keys experience in this work has bcCu
more extensive n at the same time less
satisfactory than that Of almost any other
League manager. lie has had SO players
under contract during the season and even
now has team that annot make Il bid
for n desirable place in the race. Arson
has also suffered from the player famine.
When Arson cannot get together n winning
team, YOU may rest assured there is u lack
Of material on the market. The Old Man
has swept the country over with the search
light of his discerning eyes, and in all the
broad laud he cannot find Young players
enough to make his team Il formidable on.
ponent to the BostonS, composed almost
cntirclyof stars whose reputati ion was made
before this season.
From every Guy where a National icrguc
club holds a franchise goes up the cry:
Strengthen! Why don't you strengthen
the ninc:' ItiS easy To advise, but diff
cult to point the way.
am more than ever convinced that the
time and opportunity are near for the open
ing Of u baseball training school. i man
like Arson ought to make II fortune nj thaG
venture. Such an institution would not be
a~ntagonistrn to the theory that baseball
players are born, not made. Aueon's duty
would DE to develop the inherent talents
uf young men who otherwise would re
main "mltc, InglOriotIs Miltous' Of the
profession. Ia this age, when Il good ball
player can command 4 larger salary for his
services per month than is made 10y thou
sands Of the lawyers of the land, there
should be no lack Of pupils when sucl n
training school opens. Then, too, IL club
need take no chances in the engagement Of
a new player. All chat would be nrc,lpdtD
assure the quality of the goods delivered
would be an 60 r. or 'Al' stamp from
Professor Anspn. The idea OF II training
school for bail players is not entirely Il
new one, bat it is my own, and the time
seems ripe for the launching of he venture
At the time ! am writing the CHICAGO
club has nine pitchers under CONTRACT
viz, McGill, Hutchinson, Dounclly, Abbey.
iiduailry, 'Illncu, Griffith, Mauck aud
Luby. In the nine llulrhi-on alone la.
been ut -olId worth to the club for any
length oi time. Mr',iil would be aynlu
able luH" " we j., habits good. IN CIaDmu
the club r,uH,lo u1ycsrcUrrd Hgcm. E.i.
pitching almost inyincihlr ball for Ai.-ou.
ClalI~vn dat good Uor, for the Columns
club Of thr western ,r!&ur last year up 10
the time the lc-rlr iirh#ud,d. lie Then
sign"d with the I.oui,>l!ioe, but was cut
alrilt Ni,h,uJ "a '.ir tiial. it. was only by
r3,.", t,.' .1l-,r -,t1" til" Young ,uHH Il
ciu3lrr auG A. .ni iiu q i",rrt without n
ngN,.
Au exciting controversy r~~ccutly ago-o
over I@rradway Of baltimore. The young
man, curly coal black hair, dark SKIN,
peculiar gait and southern maunyr Of talk.
inH started the Irimor that he had negro
hiood III his WINS. IN investigation proved
the ruloor to b." false. But thpoubjrcL wus
Interesting for the reason that no negro
or part I"@rp ever played in u National
league club, Sonr years ago Arson crea' ed
i national sensation by refusing to permit
the Chicago team TO play against II nine in
Ohio which possv>~r,l 4 negro catcher.
Negro Jockeys have the call in the east,
but COlorcd men have never attained prOMi-
hence on the bali field. The Cuban Giant,
and the Germans, two clubs which play IN
and about New York city, comprise about
all the coIotrd bail players Of any promi-
ncnCc in the | uitcd State. Both clubs
have been IN existence for ~umr Yeas, yet
ncitErr ha, turNcu out q player who vuu,d
De able TO lp!d a itl'"r n',H MAJ iuuHl lragu.
nine rvrn Al jn'Ir s. "- Uo p%rcjuIr" AGAINST
him.
Waite lAr r..Ip,, Aa,r never attained II
standing ~ uruic>a!uu"i baseball, the ma
lioual;ty which iiHtr"uil,- with them the
least of all The taUC".iHn family occupies
the majority of prominent p.aCCS on the
big mines. | refer - the Irish or tn" Irish
American class. ! believe that half the
players OF the National league are of Irish
extraction. The Irish through ages have
had a reputation for excellence in games
and athletic sports. No one but II true
lrishmm, too, can understand what i
pleasure it is to badger an umpire.
Many of the brilliant stars of II few year
ago whose lights have gone out forever
might now be occupying the positions in
the National league, which are weak for
want Of competent players, had they hls-
banded their talents and let riotouS living
alone. Drink has promaturcly retired more
players of brilliant than Of mediocre quail
ties. The latter knew they must walk
straight or lose their means of competence;
the former grew daring through the belief
in their Importance. Few of them ever re-.
gained their prrslI.e after il had once been
lost. Denny Is one of the few. He for
swurc hi folly, started out to climb to the
top again and succeeded. In Il game re-
Gently played by the Luuioyiilcs in Brook
Iva Denny accepted 10 chances out Of 2l-
some very difficult plays nj that and made
three HIT. t. seemed to he the Denny of
1881