Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-08-15

to get full credit. am perfectly sat
isied with the playing OF the team. I
am not discouraged and still feel con-
fdent that they will yet attain high
position. My pitchers have been
batted hard. but many other good ones
have been knocked out of the box. 1t
is the young pitchers who are getting
some more youngsters to put in. I
feel confident that the New Yorks will
beat out many teams and regain the
confidence of local enthusiasts. have
never made public statement in re-
gard to Rusie's case. / have allowed
myself TO be severely and unjustly crit
icised. knowing that / will be upheld
when the matter is fully understood.
] am much pleased over the letters I
have received complimenting me on
the stand I have taken. The club
stands In the same position with Rusie
now as 1t has from the first. II will
not recede from its stand one iota. The
question of money does not figure; 1t
is the principle am fighting for"
The Peoria Qll) Herald has offered
a prize cup TO be contested for by two
of the clubs of the Western association
OF baseball teams at the end OF the reg
ular season. The clubs to contest are
the two highest, and series of games
will be arranged between them. The
cup, picture OF which is given here. is
OF silver, beautifully engraved. and is
to be contested for at the end Of
each season
A correspondent writes to ask again
question which has puzzled the base
ball authorities since first the national
game began. He wants to know
which are. according TO history, the
best baseball players. fat men. lean
men. tall men or short mem" A brief
and appropriate answer to the question
might well be: "All OF them, for men
of every size and type have played ball
In the National League with vast sue
cess. IL may be remarked, however,
that with just one exception the great
men OF baseball have been physical
| giants as well as playing maryels
Their have been four men In baseball
whose names will ever be placed on Q
pinnacle above all the rest of the
throughout men who tower pre-emi-
nently above the common herd. and
those four men were Arson, Kelly
Ward and Ewing. Kelly is dead
Ward has left the game. Ewing has
sunk far from his old time glory. An.
son Is aged and declining toward re
tirement. But nowhere In the base.
ball world OF today are their successors
10 be found-nowhere In all the list Of
players are such men. such generals
such masters Of the game as they wert
In their prime. And Of these foul
three were physical giants. Ward
alone Is OF but medium size, although
compact and well knit in every line
Arson is gigantic. Kelly was big and
heavy. Ewing must weigh 200 pounds
These three big men. be 1t noted. were
heavy and chunky in proportion to
their stature. Old chronicles of TWEEN
ty-five years ago record the fact that
Arson. then but youth. weighed 1S5
pounds. and none can recall a time
when Ewing or Kelly was sylphlike in
his proportions. OF course there have
been many cases of slender men be.
coming fat and heavy under the bene.
fetal outdoor exercise and the.good liv.
ing OF the profession. Amos Rusis
was slim Hoosier boy when he threw
his first National League ball across
the plate down in Indianapolis sever
years ago. Amos weighed 265 pounds
the other day. When Bill Brown, the
catcher, came east from California, he
was as slender as the proverbial rail
when Bill Brown said farewell to the
big league forever he was a moving
mountain. aaB
Among the players of the present
season who are OF remarkable bulk
height, weight and grit all considered
Cartwright of Washington is away the
most gigantic. Yet he is a great base
runner and extremely agile. Other.
who are along the six-foot line and We
broad and bulky are Arson. Thornton
Lange and Everitt OF Chicago. Farrell
Zearfoss. w. Clark. and Meekin of New
York. Connor of st. Louis. La Chance
OF Brooklyn, Tucker and Stivetts Of
Boston. Brouthers and Thompson o.
Philadelphia and Beckley of Pittsburg
In the olden days the great batters
were always of this class; latterl,
shorter men have led the batting, like
Burkett and Duffy. OF tall.slendei
men there are Terry and Donahue. Chi.
cago: Hasamaear. Louisville; Seymour
New York: PARROT, st. Louis: Foutz
Brooklyn. and Mains and Berger, Bos