The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-27

BASEBALL IN THE OLD DAYS.
The Great Players or the Past-The
Amateur OF Today

AhatsHrS Oh To-Day.
There are lots OF people IN Seattle who
have come TO the Paclae coast from the
East since fss9. and no lnconslderable per-
eentage Of them have brought fondest
reeoi5ections nf fhs way baseball was
played In those old DAYS and OF their in
dvidual favorites among the splendid co.,
lection OF players. Baseball has always
been more popular IN the East than on
the Pacific coast, perhaps because there
are more people to make Il popular "a a
sport. but with frequent, intermittent
periods or enthusiasm. regaia ted by the
stock and cereal markets and the ther-
mometer OF prosperity generally the game
has been made much of at times out here.
albeit the present year proved disastrous
TO the projectors OF baseball in the North
west.
Ii is almost impossible for a group OF
lovers OF the game 10 get together and
discuss the national pastime without ref
erenee to that galaxy Of stars OF the viii
i0w who nourlshed in iSss and since. and
some Information as 20 the small portion
of them left before the public cannot help
being interesting. In the year referred 20
there were liz players in the big league.
and OF that entire number Just thirty
three are siili holding the honors that
they then achieved says an exchange.
Twenty-nine are now In the minor leagues.
Mike Kelly. Jimmy Fogarty. Martin
William o. Rrien. KID Madden. Silver
Flint and ed" Williams are dead. Char
lev Bennett Is a cripple. The rest. except
ingArthur Irwin and NED Hsnl0n. who
are now League managers. have retired
into private iife. mostly fall OF years AMI
houors, and are said 10 be nearly all pros
porous.
Jim o'Rourke. Dan" and "Hardie'
richardson. John Ward. Jerry Denny
ars
whitney, .'Ed' Andrews. John GARRISON.
ben" Sanders. John Tener, I'd" BufiinS-
ton. Mickey WEIGH. Dell Darling.
Charley" Radbourne. John Merrill. Tim
Kaefc. Jimmy Calvin. Ia Morris ana
Charley" snyder are among those VINO
have ieft tho diamond since iSSs, and are
all supposed :. be getting on well, except
ing Keafc and Snyder. who persist "a
EXPOSING their lives IN the pursuit OF I'm
plrlng
In the American Association that year
there were Is players or this number
twenty-elght sre IN The service o. the o.s
league at present. and thiriy-tNo are N
minor leagues. ..,.,..
...rin'' q Neil. Darby o'Bren. hub
Collins. nd" Daily, "Ed'' puftee. fail
T,unev John Ewing and ED" Bligh are
,lata Among the retired ones best known
tv he aast are Harry" Stovey. Dave
orr fparalvzed for iifss. Blonde" PuretH'
palph johnson. Long john Reilly.
..pon'. CorkhIl. ''ffick' Carpenter. Seofse
plnknev. Joe Hornung. jim keenan,.
s.tIld'' BALDWIN. Paul Cook. Elton t,nan-
terlafn. sam Barkley. I'd sa@afa'
ssfoa'' RushsnE and TOAD" Ramsey
Incidental 20 baseball the strictly anna
tear games OF the present year are an
that sre served. and Is might b said .hSt
,he quality ~ not always calculated %
s4rkle the palate % sn cpic0re OF a critic
~ real good things. There hiss. however
been <eTne good hall pnt up. and TIE ar
sen, ones have gone 90 al manner q sN-
trenes 20 satisfy their cravings Tor thinSs
IN that tine.
.o,tnra from raen-of-war have attracted
as+ensfo1 when they have been pit5f@
r~ninst one another on the diamond, the
rrst,lt being generally 20 the disaaF ahtage
sa rhe recent game af f"tt
Angeles. between She o3vmpics. q tHe sub
- loan tha straits. an3 aine made up
s~.r, re crew OF ths Philadelphia, was
"a ~xespsfen 20 the rale. the score. sent
- ~, Post-Insesligencer being o5y a'paes
:, .f,hlnies" J. Labor day promises Soo<l
gsrrs l,rtvern the oEsals. o. taIs city. sri
she pasards which csnno; aclp os'ns Ven
attended.