The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-03
Personnel Of the Men Engaged
in the Game.
INTERCHANGEABLE CONTESTS
Famous Games Between the Cincin-
natl Reds and Boston and Chicago.
Great Number of Fielding Chances
and 81 Batsmen Faced the Two
Pitchers in Twenty Inning battle.

| has arisen: Has the baseball player de.
| geDerated?'' and a Chicago critic rises to
/ answer, No"
Every baseball manager In TIE country,
| since the Tehcau affair, has testified hat
| the morals OF the professional bail pla yer
.iiave steadily improved. There was a
! time when IL sUmtd that the first re-
| quiremcDt OF a iall player was TO be
| dead tough sport" Tie men who tcn-
| hhc'efi =. cinseives properly were the cx-
| 'ccption to the rulo-and that in TO dis
| para cement of the Harry wnghts. the
| Il. SraldDgs and the A. {. Ansons That
| per!od was followed 10y Tie ella tf high
salaries and consequent excessive dis
| sipauoD. Baseball stars were atiired in
| tie fines. Of raiment diamonds he
| spangied t..eir persons from lead to fcot
and suppiaBtcd beer GSs steady
beverage. lie hish salaries. The cnan:-
paGBe ..:id tie IN e hours proved the death
81 many popular player but check came
with the ulAas,rous brotherhood vIr which
Killed ur goose that haichpd the golden
| eagles and caused salaries 10 lie materially
reduced.
-keircBchment followed: diamonds dis
appeared finn baseball shirt fronts and
once more the local BTc weTieS were called
np Ia furnish the liluid refreshments in
place OF the vine presses of France. The
,,alcyIl 'i;yi wers over All sliar,cs who's.
ma gritude made United states Senators
blush fer very shame for the paltriness
of their remuneration were Known 10
more.
BETTER HABITS AND TASTES.
Bat the era of unlimited money was
not without benefit To Iosterity The
more pay tse bail players received the
higher I'se their tastes. Tney took more
pride Ia their personal appearance: they
rub5sd Gp against men of higher class:
they insisted open better food and iolg-
inSs; they demanded higher class If
aniusrurn,s. their TASTE FOR pleasure
became more elevate ami refined: they
stopped talking ''a.,op'' entirely and pald
attention To- politics and the drama, ani
even the arts ana sc!cnces came ia for Il
share uf their discussions The Tuupner
and darker sides Of life were forgotten
! for the things that are brighter. In.
general tnuchiBs-1p process was M. binder
ed checked by the entrance intu the
baseball world Of scores o. cole - mcr.
who. fond cr athletic, and experts them
selves. saw IN baseball Il pleasant WIZ
Of making living These highly educated.
polished young fellows UnCo ihtcGiy III
fiuenced The men with whom they came
! in daily contact. They took TO small.
part IN leaNenng the base ball bread dni
making II p1iatabe AMI Wholesome.
To-Day the average baseball player *
much the same as tie average Young man
OF fair means. He dresses well. Is
sCrupuiously neat in person. has full
appreciation OF the benefits OF hypicne.
sanitation. an toGily SyfTdsc. and studies
current events closely as the lawyer,
the minister. or tic politician. To lie sGc-
cessful IN his work he Knows that he must
Ice sober aud healthy. Horrible examples
of the result Of dissipation and rict"us
living have passed lciure his eyes and
he has learned much from personal cx-
perience- So that now the baseball player
who drinks liquor immoderHtely is thu
exception IL the rule: the 6rrrkard is a
rarity. An unusually large nunlber of
bail players. when compared with other
professions gnh occupati, ms. are total alb
stainers.
THE GAME Is AN EDUCATOR.
When IL is considered thai tie majority
o! t:sll players Were torn into poor families
and that some 81 them c. NE from the very
slunIs. IL mast he couo eted that baseball is
an educator. The men who play il zee
the worlI and rub up against il, and the
Rough edges arc worn Off ny the fricticn.
A trip with the Chicago Club when il
goes abroad will demonstrate that base
ball p'a yers are not rOwdies. Ii is the
desire OF President Hart and Capt. An
son that the men shall conduct themselves
as gentlemen and be treated as snch In
turn. They accomplish this by travelling
in the best style and living at the best
hotels. In Washington the members of
the Chicago Club find for table compan-
ions at the Arlington United States Sen
ators, officers OF the Army and Navy and
high officials in the government; i'll New
York. at the Fifth Avenue. they are
elbow TO elbow with financiers and club
men, and they have acquaintance and
friends i'll all these classes.
The young ball player who has had no
advantages in early life, IL he travels
with the Chicagos, finds his turbulent
spirits 'uncOBsciously Subdued, without
being aware OF it his language is chas-
tened, and ut the end of The season there
is as much difference in his behavior as
there is in the cut or his clothes. At the
end of two seasons he can preside over :
IA social function without raucherie.
Tebeauism is not general, and with
Tebeau it is an affectation. He thinks
he can win games by his bulldozing
methods. Though not gifted with special
graces he is. Off the field, quiet, una.-
sumin:- fellow. His course, however. is
n mistaken one.
But bail players are not ruffians. They
are geD,lemanly a lot can he found
in any other walk OF life. and many of
them mended their ways and became gen.
tlemen after they had joined professional
club. and all the education they have was
attained from and after that time.
TWO FAMOUS GAMES RECALLED.
Tie present prominence OF the Cincir-
natl club serves To recall two remarkable
games played by that team in 1899. On
May OF that year Boston pla we'd with the
Reds on the Cincinnati grounds Il fourteen
inning tie game, in which neither side
scored. John Garrison pitched for Boston.
and Chamberlain for Cincinnati, the Bostons
making three hits and the Reds four. 1t
was II pitchers contest and many sensa-
tfonal plays were made in the field. At the
end the fourteenth inning Umpire Sheridan
called the game because the setting sun
dazzled the eyes of the batters.
Another game almost as remarkable
as theabcv took place on the same grounds
between Cincinnati and Chicago less than
a month later. Twenty innings were
played without result, the game being
stopped by darkness. In the first five
innings both Mullane and Gumbert were
batted freely. From that time on both
steadied down. The fielding on both
Chicago's left fielder, four times saving
his club from defeat. Cincinnati should
have won in the fourteenth inning. Brown
ing led off with q hit, but was caught off
second.
ANSON'S GREAT BATTING.
The batting of Arson and DUNCAN and
the fielding of Comiskey, Wilmot, and
Cooney were the features OF this remarkable
game. Comiskey accepted twenty-seven
chances at first without an error. The
most peculiar thing about the game was
that both pitchers were hit hard during
the early innings, but after the fifth
when each club had scored seven runs
neither side scored for fifteen consecutive
innings.
In the three hours and twenty minutes
during which the game lasted there were
all of which were accepted but ten, Gin
cinuati having six errors. Chica % four